Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1896, Page 3

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Interesting information regarding the an- ual amount of money expended by the District of Columbia will be found on page 13 of The Star’s Almanac for 1896. 25¢c. Der copy. For sale at all news stands and* et The Star office counting rooms. AN ALLEGED FENCE Police Make a Raid and Recover Property. MOTHER SOLOMON'S QUEER HOUSE Believed That Much Stolen Prop- erty Has Been Stored There. THE SILVERWARE FOUND An alleged “fence” for the reception of stolen goods was raided by the police-yes- terday afternoon and property of various kinds, including silverware and watches, valued at nearly $100 was taken. Mrs. Clara Solomon, an elderly woman, was ar- rested as the keeper of the supposed “fence,” which was located at No. 502 1ith street. More than two years ago Alexan- der Hamilton, colored, who was known as one of the most expert local thieves, gave information about this place, but the “tip” thus given was not taken advantage of by the police. Last week Detectives Lacy and Like sivase. Helan arrested Alexander Hamilton and a companion named Thomas Jackson. They had come over here from Baltimore, where they are now residing, and the arrest of Hamilton at this time, when so many rob- beries are being committed, revived interest in the story of the alleged “fence.” Pre- cinct Detective Sutton, who had long sus- oected that Mrs. Solomon was doing busi- ness with thieves, had watched the place very closely. Night before last he saw a colored man go in there with a bundle and he then concluded that he would get a search warrant for the place and make a thorovgh investigation of the premises. This official document was <worn out in i a Meal itliy i TN o PUL ee fist ill Hu fis i i A » Ht | i areas of high and low barometer. pre) ti thine TT 0 ! : ie ! H i A) h a i, HW an gy} mS fh ° EXPLANATORY NOTE: Observations taken at $ a.m., 75th: meridiaa time, Solfd lines are 15> bars or lines of equal alr pressure, drawn for each tenth cf ar inch. nes of equal -emperature, drawn for each ten degrees, Shaded areas aro regions where rain oF snow has fallen during preceding twelve hours. The words ‘High’ Small arrows fly with the wind. Dotted Mnes are isotherms or and “Low” show location of 2 FAIR TOMORROW, Bat Inereasing Cloudiness at Night is Predicted—Warmer Weather, Forecast till 8 p.m, Friday.—For the Dis- trict of Columbia, Delaware and Maryland, fair tonight anc Friday, followed by in- creasing cloudiness Friday night; warmer tonight; southerly winds, For Virginia and North Carolina, fair and warmer tonight; Friday, fair in east- ern and rain in western portions; variable winds, becoming southerly. Weather conditions and general forecast. —Tbe pressure is relatively high in dis- tricts east cf the Mississippi river and in the northern Rocky mountain districts, and it is low on the southern Rocky mountain plateau and slope. There is no well-defined storm center within the region of observa- tion. The barometer has fallen generaliy in the Atlantic and gulf states, and risen in all the other districts. It is warmer in New England, the lower lake region, and the middle Atlantic and gulf states; elsewhere it has remaind near- ly stationary. Rain or snow has fallen In the lower Mis- sippi valley and on the Rocky mountain e from Montana to Texas. Tke following heavy precipitation (in inches) was reported: During the past twenty-four hours—Pal- estine, 1.14. Threatening weather with light rain or snow is Indicated for northern New Eng- land and northern New York tonight. The rain area in the southwest will probably extend into the Oh!o valley and east gult states by Friday night. Fair and slightly Warmer weather is incicated for the middle Atlantic states. Condition of the Water. Temrerattre and condition of water at 8 a.m.: eat Falls, temperature, 34; condi- tion, Receiving reservoir, tmperature, 37; cendition at north connection, 5; condi- tion at south connection, 2. Distributing reserveir, temperature, 36; condition at in- fluent gats house, 3; eflivent gate house,3. Tide Table. Today—Low tide, 1:50 a.m. and 2:09 p.m.; high tide, 7:40 a.m. and 8:03 p.m. ‘Tomorrow—Low tide, am. and 2:58 p.m.; high tide, 8:30 a.m. and 8:52 p.m. The Sun and Moon. Sun rises, 7:11; sun sets, 5:16. Moon is full at 3:55 a.m.; rises, 5:49 p.m. today; sets, 7 a.m, tomorrow. The Bicycle Lamps. The new pollce regulaticns require that all cycles, bicycles and tricycles in motion after dark shall carry a suitable light. The City Lights. Gas lamps all lighted by p.m.; ex- tinguishing begun at 6:00 a.m. The light- ing is begun- one hour before the time named. If clear less lighting may be or- dered. Naphtha lamps all lighted by 6:29 p.m.; extinguishing begun et,6:15. The naphtha lamps burn fifteen mfnutes later in the morning that the gas lamps, and the moon schedule does not apply to them. Public arc lamps are lighted at 5:59 p.m. and extinguished at 6:45 a.m. Range of the Thermometer. The following were the readings of tite thermometer at the weather bureau today: 8 am., 36; 2 p.m., 58; maximum, 58; min- imum, 30. No. 1. THE WEATHER FORECASTS BY FLAG SIGNALS, No. 2, No. 8. “No. 4, No. 5. Clear or fair Local rain ‘Tempersture Cold wave. weather. or snow. signal proper weather fag. the temperature will remain stationary. . The temperature fag, when placed above numbers 1, 2 or 3, indicates ‘warmer weather: placed below numbers 1, 2 or 3, indicates colder weather; when not displayed, ‘the indications are thar 1 Explanation of the Flags. ‘The flags are ho!sted cach day upon tbe fesne of the morning weather map and float until dark. “They indicate the weather that may be expected during the following thirty-six hours, but more par- ticularly the last twenty-four hours of that period. downward. If more than one kind of weather 13 predicted for the period from, 8 p.m. corditions first named, in the forecast will be represented by the wppermest flag. of + “cold wave" is included In the-forecast message, the cold-wave flag wil be displayed below the They are to be read from the top of the staff to 8 p.m. the When a .warning when Am Aged Lodger. the Police Court yesterday afternoon and some time after 4 o'clock Detective Sutton valled in Detectives Helan and Lacy and had them go with him? Mrs. Solomon keeps a small candy and grocery store at place mentioned, and has lived there about twenty years. ‘Once before she was arrested, but not far lucting a “fence.” She came here from France more than twenty-ive ycacs in soon after the death of her husband, who was a horse trader in that country. The House. The house f{n which she has lived and kept store for so many years is a three- story frame structure, being on lith street below the avenue. In addition to conducting the little store on the ground floor, she rented rooms on the two upper floors, her roomers being two French waiters and an oid blind man. This blind man did not remain at home much during the day, but spent most of his time on the streets, and the other room- ers spent very little time in the house, so that if the old woman dealt in stolen goods ‘Where the Plate Was Found. to any extent there was no one about there to watch her or see with whom she trans- acted her business. Children in the neighborhood had been making purchares of candy and small toys in the place, and they knew the old French woman as “Mother” Solomon. Then, too, she did a small business in the grocery line, 2nd always seemed to get along well. The Search. Yester@ay the proprietress stood at the end of the counter in the little store when Castoria For Infants and Children. CASTORIA PROMOTES DIGESTION, and ove comes Flatulency, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoca and Feverlshnes. Thus’ the child is rendered healthy and its sleep NATURAL. CAs- TORIA contalms no morphine or other narcotic property. “CASTORIA {s so well adapted ebildren that I recommend it as superior to any prescription known to me." HH. A. ARCHER, M.D., 11. So. Oxford st., Brooklyn, N. Y, “For several years I haxe recommended ‘Casto- ria," and shall always continue to do s0, as it has invariably produced beneficial results.’ EDWIN F. PARDEE, M.D., | 125th st. and 7th eve., New York city, the officers entered, and Precinct Detective Sutton, taking the iegal writ from his pock- et and showing it to her, informed her that he wanted to investigate the premises. She did. not make any objections to the Investi- gation, although she moved bout the lcuse while the search was being made in a manner which retarded the progress of the officers. When the place had been searched and the proprietress arrested the officers got to- gether ine articles and sent them to police headquarters. An inventory of the proper- ty showed the follo Old gold watch, two silver watches, Chinese money box of olive wood, with silver ornaments; solid sil- A Corner of the Speak-Easy. ver spoons, marked “I. M. S.;" solid silver F.;" soild silver spoons, F. L.;" table spoons, marked i. Le ”’ solid silver dessert spoon, bcught from Goldsmith; five solid silver dessert spoons and one silver fork, one sil- ver cup, plated tea set, initlala scratched off; antique wine set, three pieces; plated scup tureen, “Jack;” heavy plated card re- ceiver, jewel case, antique plated ware; two dozen plated knives, forks and spoons, four lap robes, one white bed spread, one pair embroidered portieres, and four silk-lined overcoats, lady’s diamond breastpin and a satin lambrequin, solid silver berry spoon. All this property is old, and most of it so badly battered that it is of little value ex- cept as metal. The plated ware is of good quality. The solid silver berry spoon was purchased at Galt’s probably a number of yearS ago. Monograms have been erased from a number of the articles. in the bed room the officers found a num- ber of new blankets and bed spreads, but as they were not marked in any way they were left in the house. When Mrs. Solo- mon reached the police station and was searched the officers were surprised to find that nothing in the shape of stolen prop- erty was found on her, She had only about $34 in money. - Released and Arrested. As tho officers had found no property there which was known to have been stolen the old woman was released, but about 11 o’clock the police made the dis- covery that the old gold watch had been stolen from Frank Smith of No. 2120 9th gtreet, and they returned to the house and locked her up on suspicion. . A number of the spoons bore the name “Shoreham,” and it is thought they were taken {rom the Shoreham Hotel from time to time by persons employed there, but the hotel proprietor has not yet identified them. This morning Detective Sutton returned to the house and.made another search. He found a number of old coins, among them a heart-shaped silver medal, bearing the name, “Mary E. Kely, Washington, D. ©.” _‘There was also in the house a copy of McCauley’s History of England, and a sil- ver cup, on which the name “Arthur” was engraved. “Mother” Solomon, who is held in the room set apart for females in the first precinct, is extremely nervous, and re- peats her claim that most of the property taken by the police was brought here from France. The old gold watch, she says, she bought from a colored man. She has very little to say about herself or about her business. She is being held at the first Police station while the officers are con- tinuing their investigation. The property taken from the place is being held at police headquarters for iden- tification. | their authority, it will be SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. Arrangements the Convention to Be Held Here in May. J. B. Morton, national commander, Regu- lar Army and Navy Unton, has Issued a general order in reference to the convention to be held here in May, which says: “As directed by the national corps at its last session, held at Chicago, Ill, the next convention will be held at Washington, D. C., on the third Monday of May next (18th) at 10 o'clock a.m. National headquarters will be established at the Hotel Vendome, corner 3d street and Penusylvaala avenue. The Elks’ Hall at the corner of Sth street and Pennsylvania avenue has been secured as a meeting place for the convention. Representation will be allowed as fixed Ly section 3 of the constitution. In this con- rection all garrisons are enjoined as to the importance of having a delegate to repre- sent them at this session, as it will no doubt be the most important one held since the union was organized. As two years will elapse before another regular meeting is held, and definite measures will be pro- pesed to fix the status of national officers, fully defining their duties and the scope of t well and for the interests of all concerned that we have as large a representation as possible. In the past, garrisons who failed to send delegates have expressed dissatisfaction, but It must be remembered that unless they make their wishes known by representation they should cheerfully abide by the action deter- mined on by those who have spared neith- er time nor expense to attain the results arrived at. Washington, during the month of May, is at its best in appearance. The weather fs generally perfect, and as Con- gress will be in session, comrades vill have an opportunity to see this di: o body at work. Sac “Delegates, upon their arr! to the adjutant general, who Hotel Vendome, on May 17, the day before the convention meets, in order that those Properly accredited can be noted i ik Deonerly acer ted in making val, will report be at the ———.—__ Assignments Made. The following assignments were filed to- day: George A. O'Hare, 1420 7th street, groceries, to John J. Dolan; assets,$2,004,52, and Nabilities, $4,823.55; Sylvester F, Smith, 3120 M street, dry goods, to Fendall BE Alexander; assets, $6,523.48, and Habilities, $5,447.78, and Richard L. Brown of Rich- mond, Va., to Hugh A. McCurdy. The lla- bilitles and assets are not given in the last assignment, it being filed here to cover District property, thirteen acres of ground on the east side of Tenleytown read, and sixty-five acres on the west si Foun’ ie side of that Gfanted a Divorce. Judge Hagner today:granted Mary L. Rus- sell a divorce fronf‘Engene Russell, and Frances V. Polkinhdrn’ one from Charles R. Polkinhorn, Mrs, Polkinhorn being grant- ed the custody of her child and permission to resume her maiden name of Parry. The Sround in each case) was desertion. Se His wift ‘Filed. The will of the late David Henry Porter Brown, one of thos# injured in the Ford’s Theater disaster, was filed today. It is dated at Minneapolis"Minn., January 7, 1895. Stating that He whs made a physical wreck by Injuries réceived in the disaster, the deceased makes,his cousin, Mrs. Geor- giana R. Baldwin, sole beneficiary, and she is authorized to present and collect a claim to Congress of $3,000 based on the testator’s injuries. s —— Mr. Cable Not a Candidate. The frierds of Ben T. Cable, the Illinois national democratic committeeman, deny the story that Mr. Cable is here as a can- didate for the late Ambassador Runyon’s place. They declare he is not a candidate for anything. He could, they say, have had the French mission at the beginning of the administration had he wanted it. But he stated then that he wanted nothing for himself. No change has come over him since then, save that he has established and is pushing the werk of a sound money bureau in Illinois, and is the chief engineer of the Morrison bcom for. President. More- over, he is not in town. He hes not beem here since Monday, when he arrived In the morning from New York and left on the next train for Kentucky. GIVEN TO THE WAVE Laanch of Helena and Grand Duchesse, GREAT OCCASION AT NEWPORT NEWS Assistant Secretary McAdoo Rep- resented the Navy. MONTANA OUT IN FORCE NEWPORT NEWS, Va.,January 30.—The third warship constructed by a private southern shipyard since the war, and also the largest merchant steamer built in this country, with the exception of the two American transatlantic Mners built by the Cramps, were launched successfully here by the Newport News Shipbuilding Com- pany at high tide this morning in the pres- ence of a distinguished party from Wash- ington, members of the House naval af- fairs committee, Admiral Brown, command- ing the Norfolk navy yard, and a large con- course of people (estimated at 5,000) from adjacent towns. - There were present also representatives from Admiral Bunce’s great fleet in Hamp- ton roads, Senators Carter and Mantle of Montana and Assistant Secretary McAdoo, who represented the Navy Department in the absence of Secretary Herbert. To add’ to the spectacular effect produced by num- bers of steamers and sailing vessels which had gathered here for the occasion, was the The Helena. battle ship Indiana, which came up from Fort Monroe this morning to load coal, pending her departure later for Port Royal. Both vessels are the finest type of their class ever turned out by this yard, which soon begins the construction of the mam- moth battle ships Kentucky and Kearsarge, authorized by the last Congress. Teok Advantage of Flood Tide. In order to take advantage of the flood tide, the launch of the vessels took place before 11 o'clock, one following the other as fast as the workmen could knock away the shores and wedge up their keels. The first to take the water was the merchant vessel, whose name had been kept a secret unul she began to slide down the ways, when Miss Nellie S. Eldridge of Boston broke the usual bottle of wine and chris- tened her the Grand Duchesse. As the stern of the great hull caught the water the shrill whistles of the steamers, several for- eign ships at the yard, and the hoarse steam siren of the battle ship Indiana gave greetings,while thousands of people showed their appreciation by prolonged cheers for the Newport News shipbuilding yard and Cc. P. Huntington as its founder. Oa the christening platform were Mr. Plant, president of the ine for which the vessel was constructed; President Calvin B. Oreutt of the Newport News Company, Representatives Hart and Haley of the House, and the Washington party. Helena Slightly Hesitated. Thirty minutes after the Grand Duchesse entered the water and had been towed out of the way fox the new warship, the Helena was ready to take to her natural element and with at first a slight hesitation, due to lack of sufficient tallow, and with state- ly precision she glided off into the James as Miss Agnes Belle Steele, daughter of Mayor Steele of Heliena,smashed the cham- pagne bottle and named her in honor of Montana’s capital city. Senators Carter and Mantle, Mayor Steele and a party of eighteen from Montana, Capt. Glass of the Texas, and Admiral Brown were on the platform. The Indiana greeted the new addition to the service with deep blasts from her steam whistle and the tugs and other ships added to the din. At the conclusion of the ceremonies Presiden® Orcutt entertained the visitors at a banquet, where the ships und the company were toasted by the Sen- ators, Representatives and others. ‘The keels of the two new battle ships will be laid near the spot where the two ships were launched today. This evening the Washington visitors will return home. OF PECULIAR DESIGN. ‘The Sister of the Helenn Was Launch- ed in October, The gunboat Helena is one of two ships of peculiar design built for the navy by the Newport News Company, her sister ship, the Wilmington, having been launched last October. The purpose was to secure an efficient type of vessel for the navigation of shallow and shifting rivers, such as are found in China, which might still possess seagoing qualities sufficicnt to insure safe passages from the United States to foreign stations, and also to enable them to be used in carrying the United States flag into the many ports of South and Central America, which are now inaccessible to our warships cwing to shoal water. So the Helena when complete, with all stores aboard, will draw only nine feet of water, and may go where any schooner able to navigate the seas can enter, and while rota tattle ship in the sense of not possess- ing armor and big guns, will carry eight four-inch rifles, guns quite large enough to meet anything short of armored craft and beayy fortifications, and a number of small- er machine guns so mounted as to afford an extremely destructive fire upon mobs or troops on shore, or a boarding party. To enable the Helena to make her way up and down narrow and crooked channels, she kas double rudders, giving great turning power, and these are so shielded that the stern may be run into a soft bank and the bow swept around by the current, as is customary in some of our Florida rivers. To give the screws sufficient water to work in, and at the same time to protect them from snags and drift in the freshet streams, they are placed in two tunnels worked in the bottom of the boat. The gen- eral lines of the boat above water are broad, and this results in giving much more than the usual allotment of space for berthing, so that the boat will be peculiarly fitted for service in the tropics, and will be also able to give refuge to many people in time of stress, S Thére will be no sails upon this vessel; and ter one mast is a big steel tube, large enovgh to permit of a spiral staircase inside giving eccess from the deck to the top, where four machine guns are placed to sweep the shores, and the steersmen may sit in safety forty feet above the water and thus Icok clear over the narrow bends in Chinese rivers. The Helena is 250 feet 9 inches long by 40 feet 1 inch broad, with a speed of thirteen knots and will carry 170 efficers and men. She is built of steel throughout and is launched just two years after the award of the contract for building her to the Newport News Shipbuilding Company, at $280,000; although the appropriation for the ship was rot to exceed $100,000. In her construction every device calculated to give efficiency and ccrrfort has been placed. She has a double bottom as a guard against collision and groundings, and is believed to be a model gunboat for the special services she was de- signed to meet. Tho other vessel is a merchant steamer, built for the Plant line, and destined to run between Tampa and the Bahamas; but as she is built in strict accordance with the requirements of the subsidy act she is sub- ject to call by the government at any time to serve as a vessel of the auxiliary navy, She fs fully half as big again as the Helena Beecham’s Pills for con- stipation, toc. and 25c Get the book at your drug- gist’s and go by it. ‘Annual Sales More Than 6,000,000 Boxes, FOR RENT (Offices) FOR RENT (Rooms). WR RENT (Stables). AMUSEMENTS . ~Page 12 -Page 4 -Page 5 -Page 9 -Page 4 -Page 4 Page 12 COMMISSIONERS OF DEEDS. -Page 4 COUNTRY REAL ESTATE. -Page 4 -Page 7 -Page 4 -Page 5 -Page 12 -Page 8 -Page 4 -Page 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 MANICURB MARRIAGES . MEDICAL PIANOS POTOMAC RIVER BOA' PROPOSALS RAILROADS SPECIAL NOTICES. STORAGE . SUBURBAD UNDEI PROPERTY. TAKERS WANTED (Miscellaneous). WANTED (Situations) |e een MOBO RaL OMA and is finished throughout in the highest style of the shipwright’s art, with elegantly ~{urnished and appointed saloons and state rooms and every appliance for the safety and comfort of the passengers. She is 44 feet long by 47 feet 9 inches beam, and she is'37 fect 4 inches deep from the top of the deck to the base line. She has double bot- toms, water-tight compartments, tubulous boilers, deck observatories, fire alarm sys- tem, electric lights, twin screws, carries 300 first-class and 400 second-class’ passengers and is built of steel throughout. phos eee PRISONERS ROUGHLY TREATED. John Hays Hammond Said to Have Been Trampled On. NEW YORK, January 30.—A dispatch to the World from Cape Town, South Africa, says: The Werld’s correspondent at Pretoria writes that the Reform Union prisoners were set upon in the streets of the Transvaal capital while on their way to the prison there. They were roughly treated and obliged to run to the jail to escape being torn to pieces. One of the American prisoners, apparently John Hays Hammond, was flung down, trampled upen and bruised amid the yells of the armed Boers. The aggressors were rot airested. The prisoners were allowed rothing more in jail than ordinary crim- inals are. The heat of the burning sun to men accustomed to luxury, and the risk of typhoid fever from lack of sanitation, are owful. They had to eat their food off the ground at first. A dispatch to the World from London says: The Pretoria jail in which John Hays Hammond and four other leading men of Johannesburg are confined is described as a wretched structure of red brick, with a standing gallows always in plain view from the cell windows. Mr. Werner, the head of the great diamond house of Werner, Beit & Co., whose partner, Lionel Phillips, is one of the five prisoners, tells me there is no danger of the death penalty being inflicted upon any of the accused, but that under the ‘Transvaal laws almost any other penalty is Possible. Under a special law applying to “pro- claimed mining lands," which applies to Johannesburg, and therefore to the ac- cused, all their property may be confiscated in addition to any physical punishment. Friends of the accused Americans warmly approve the suggestion that a United States warship be sent to Cape Town or Delagoa bay and that her captain be instructed to go to Pretoria and represent the American government there. Recent private advices from the Transvaal report that President Kruger and the other authorities are disposed to be much more severe with the Johannesburg civilians than at the time of the release of Dr. Jameson and his followers. 3 ——_—_ OHIO’S “BIG FOUR” DELEGATES. Announcement of the Slate Arranged at Cleveland. Special Dispatch to ‘The Evening Star. CLEVELAND, Ohio, January 580.—The result of the recent conference between Chairman Kurtz of the republican state committee, Col. Conger of Akron, M. A. Hanna, James H. Hoyt and Col. Myron T. Herrick of this city, which was held here Monday, has been that the slate as now arranged is composed of Foraker, Bush- nell, Grosvenor and Hoyt, as Ohio's big four at the St. Louis convention. James A. Hoyt and not M. A. Hanna will be northern Ohio's representative on the big four ticket. Some say this is due to the fact that Mr. Hanna wanted to see his friends, 8. 'T. Everett and Col. M. T. Her- rick, chosen to represent the twenty-first congressional district, and as he also wants Mr. Hoyt to be present as a delegate, the only way out of the difficulty was for him to withdraw and place Hoyt, who comes from the twenty-first, on the big four list and then he himself will try for a. place en_the twentieth congressional delegation. ‘This may be true, but there are some, and a very large “some,” who are unkind enough to affirm openly that the arrange- ment is not a voluntary one, but that he, Mc§inley’s chief henchman, cannot go on the big four ticket because the Forakerites object, and that it is a case of “Hobson's choice” with him. It is now conceded that the mission of Messrs. Kurtz and Conger to the city w: to inform Mr. Hanna of Mr. Forake final “decision. This is a bitter fate for Mr. Herna, who ts closer to Gov. McKin- ley then is any other man in the countr; It also demonstrates that the party ma- chinery in Ohio is absolutely in the hands of Senator-elect Foraker. Foraker and Bushnell will be on the big four list. The fourth man will be Con- gressman Grosvenor, 89 say those who pre- tend to know, and there is certainly some- thing to support their claims, Grosvenor was mentioned by both Messrs. Kurtz and Ccrger as a probable choize, showing that he is not entirely unthought of; but besides this there is a far stronger reason, which developed yesterday, Mr. Grosvenor is cown in Washington, but Tuesday he had time enough to be interviewed by a news- paper man in regard to the slate for the big four, and he announced positively that the slate was arranged; that he knew who was on_it, and that Foraker was one of them. Some question Mr. Grosvenor’s loy- alty to McKinley, for the reason that he owes his place on the ways and means com- mittee to Reed, and it is said he might therefore favor the Maine man for the presidential chair. This is not considered as reasonable in the face of the fact that Mr. Reed merely followed precegent when he named Mr. Grosvenor as a member of the chief committee. While the Ohio delegation to St. Louis will be controlled by Foraker, it is not be- Leved that it will be disloyal to McKinley, ———.—__ Germany Warns Venezucla, LONDON, January 30.—A dispatch from Berlin to the Times says: “A sem!-ofiicial statement has been published warning President Crespo of Venezuela that he can- not count upon the help of the United States to enable him to shirk his obliga- tions, supposing Germany takes measures to enforce the payment of the railway claim. The Monroe doctrine may, perhaps, be applied to territorial disputes, the state- ment says, but it cannot be invoked to pro- tect defaulting debtors against the claims of the European states.” —_>—- The Foyle is Floated. NEW YORK, January 30.—The British ship Foyle, Capt. 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