Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1896, Page 3

————_— : : THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 38, 1896—TWELVE PAGES; SPECIAL NOTICES. AN ANNOUNCEMENT. This will inform my friends and the public that I am now associated with the Home.Life Insurance Company, as Gencral Manager. In addition to its superior life polfeles, this company sells deferred or Immediate Aunuity Bonds—a safe investment, paying from seven to eighteen per cent, according to age. For full particulars spply to T. M. TYSSOWSKI, 910 G st. m QfcGIll_bullding.) SOUTHERN JURISDICTION OF THE hras Lodge of Perfection will Ing on TUESDAY, February gek p.im., at the Cathedral of Gost. uw. Work, 4th and 32 1007 the Rite, No. Sth degres AUGUSTUS B. COOLIDE W. HARRY OLCOTT, 15°, Ven. Master. fe3-2t TO SAY WELL , IS GOOD,—TO DO WELL is better,— and to call on A. H. GIBBS, General Agent Con- neeticut Mutual Life Insurance Co., 918 F st. n.w.—Washington, D. C.,—aml take a policy of the best insurance ever devised by man, is the best of all. 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Let us furnish you with an estimate of the work. We can do it better and cheaper than any one else! If we conldn't, do you suppose we would do the largest business in the city? Afraid not! Our Paints, Oils and Varnishes are lhe everything else we sell—the BEST! Chas. E. Hodgkin, 913 7th, aRrEsE HANDLER OF PLATE GLASS.”" fel need a tonic, but don’t know = M Need = avs jo take. Physicians wh what i they have such a case prescribe a tonic? ing Tharp’s “Berkeley” Whisky. $1 full qt. James Tharp, 812 FSt.NW. COAL! COAL! ” people sometimes feel as if Rye COALI Pa. Pea Coal at $4.00. Ckestnut 2 $5.00 a ton delivered. = Say ei JOHN MILLER & CO., ja2t-2w ot! and F sts. n. in any form positively and perma- Cancer Sav Ste, wird aa es treatment; city ferences. ©. H. ENGLISH, M. ‘n08-3m 1107 oy qauan A laxative, refreshing fruit lozenser, very agreeable to take for CONSTIPATION, hemerrholds, bile, loss of appetite, gastrie and intestinal troubles and headache arising from them. F. GRILLON. 38 Rue des Archives, Pars. So'd by all Druggists. INDIEN GRILLON, apis-mi5m 3p Webster's Presence of Mind. From the San Franeiseo Argonaut. Once, when Danlel Webster was address- ing a political meeting in Faneuil Hall, the standing multitude within the hall, pressed by those who were endeavoring to enter from without, began to sway to and fro, a solid mass of human bodies, as helpless to courteract the movement as if Faneuil Hall were being rocked ‘by an earthquake. The orator was in the midst of a stirring appeal, urging the necessity of individual exertion and unflinching patriotism to avert the dan- gers that threatened the political party whose principles he espoused, when he per- ceived the terrible swaying of the packed assembly and the imminent danger that might ensue. Webster stopped short in the middie of a sentence, advanced to the edge of the platform, extended his arm in an authoritative attitude, and In a stentorian voice of command c1 out: “Let each man stand firm!" The effect was instan- taneous. Each man stood firm; the great heaving mass of humanity regained its equilibrium and, save the long breath of re- Mef that filled the air, perfect stillness en- sued. “That.” exclaimed the gre: orator, is what ~~ -all self-government’ se The Grant Zufall Murder. Lewis Peaccck, jr., and John James have been placed on trial at Cumberland, Ma., charged with perjury in swearing that they saw Richard D. Johnson, jr, kin Grant W. Zufall December 24, 1894. A con- fession from Peacock was read, in which he charged James with Killing Zufall. ———+e+_____ Chairman Harrity when asked at Chicago concerning the declaration of Senator Gor- Chicago convention ead ahat no ad coke vention t he had - ing to say about politics, = THE BIDS FOR BONDS A Busy Scene Expected .at Their Opening Next Wednesday. ANTICIPATIONS OF TREASURY OFFICIALS A New Experiment That Will Be Watched With Interest. NATIONALBANK CIRCULATION A busy scene will be witnessed in the private office of Secretary Carlisle next Wednesday morning, when the bids are opened for the new 4 per cent loan. Bid- ders, newspaper correspondents and promi- nent financiers will be allowed to witness the opening, so far as the accommodations of the big room at the south end of the Treasury Department will permit. The work of opening and classifying the bids ts likely to take several hours, under the most perfect arrangements. There were nearly three hundred bids submitted for the second loan of 1894, when much less attention was attracted to the subject, and it was generally believed that the bends would be obtained by a powerful syndicate. The bids thus far received for the new loan have not been counted, but they are known to number several thou- sand, and the number reaching the treas- ury probably be larger during the time remaining before Wednesday noon than it has yet been. Assistant Secretary Curtis has been endeavoring to perfect the ar- rangement§ for announcing the bids, with the amounts and the prices offered, but he has hesitated to order the opening and tabulation of the offers before Wednesday for fear that the average prices offered might leak out and benefit late bidders. Mr. Huntington, the experienced head of the loans division, issued a circular some time ago showing the prices which should be offered to secure the bonds at certain annual rates of return. A subscriber will- ing to receive only 2% per cent on his in- vestment will bid 130.8749; a subscriber willing to accept 3 per cent will bid 11 one desiring 3% per cent will bid 109. S56; and one unwilling to loan his money for less than 3% per cent will bid only 104.- 482. A subscriber expecting to earn 4 per cent will, of course, bid only 100, while one desiring to earn more will bid below par. It is not expecied that any bids below par will be submitted or that they will be ac- cepted if received. The general impresston among financiers appears to be that the bids will run between 3 and 4 per cent at an average price of perhaps 109. Printing the New Bonds. The present loans of the United States are very far from being »f a popular char- acter in the sense of being held in small blocks. The new bonds are being printed as usual, in the denominations of $50, $100, $500 and $1,000 for the coupon bonds, and these denominations, with additional ones of $5,000 and $10,000 for the registered bonds. Only a few hundred bonds, either csoupon or registered, are outstanding be- low the denomination of $5@, and the great majority are in denominations of $1,000 and larger. The national banks usually deposit the largest denominations as a pledge for circulation, because of their greater convenience in counting and hardling. The bureau of engraving and printing has been at work for some time on the new bonds and a much larger edi- tion than usual has been ordered of the denominations of $50 and $100, In anticip2- tion of the popular subscriptions. It is supposed that the small denominations will be taken more largely in coupon bonds than is the case with the outstanding is- which included on December 31 last $608,308,700 in registered bonds and 3139,- 002,950 in coupon bonds. The law per- mits the exchange of coupon for regis- tered bonds at the treasury, but does not permit the exchange back again from registered to coupon. Anticipations of Treasury Officials. The treasury officials are counting upon the effect of the new loan, not only to sup- ply them with a large working balance, but to contract the currency to a point which will prevent the persistent export of gold. The general cash balance, which stocd on January 21 at $180,021,329, will be increased by $10,000,000 by the proceeds of tle bond sale, and will stand above $285,000,000. This wiil permit the accumu- lation in the treasury of nearly half the volume of legal tender notes outstand- ing. The treasury has already locked up. by means of its present balance, $73,800,563 in United States notes and $25,252,670 in Sherman treasury notes. If the entire proceeds of the bond sale should be in greenbacas instead of gold the amount locked up in the treasury would rise to $208,000,000, and the amount outstan would be reduced from $483,000,000 to 000,000. This would be $70,000,000 less than the volume of the old greenbacks and, it is claimed, would give the Secre- tary of the Treasury much better control of the money market than he now enjoys. It is not expected at the treasury that the net proceeds of the bond sale will be either entirely in gcld or entirely in green- backs at the end of the period set by Sec- retary Carlisle for the payments. Pay- ment is neminally required in gold, but the spreading of the payments over four months, in order to prevent undue con- traction of the money market, will permit some of the gold to pay the installments to be drawn from the treasury, while other amounts will be drawn for exports or will be paid through the New York clearing house in settlement of balances against the subtreasury. If half the proceeds of the bonded sale remain in the treasury in gold at the close of the period for making payments, and the other half is replaced by greenbacks, the gold reserve will stand. at $105,000,000 and the greenbacks and Sherman notes in the treasury will be $154,000,000, Trying an Experiment. The contraction of the circulating medium in order to arrest gold exports !s the cus- tomary device of the great European banks in times of stringency, and one of the means of accomplishing it Is the increase in the rate of discount. The treasury has no direct power to raise the discount rate, because it is not a lender of money, but It Is hoped that the withdrawal of a redundant mass of paper from the circulation will compel the New York banks to raise their discount rates, and Mr. J. P. Morgan was understood to contemplate an agrecinent for this pur- pose when he was organizing the syndicate which was recently dissolved. The United States are thus trying .n experiment in finance, which 13 likely to attract as much attention among students of the subject as the different experirient tried in the bond contract of February 8, 1895. The agree- ment then made by the syndicate managers, to protect the treasury by the control of for- eign exchange, was executed by an effort to corner exchange. All the dealers in foreign bills and gold-shipping houses were brought into the combination, and would-be remit- ters were compelled to purchase exchange of the syndicate at a cent or more above the usual rates. The experiment, it is said, worked admirably in accomplishing the de- sired result until the corner produced the same effect as in merchandise transactions in bringing competitors into the market. A leading coffee house found that they could ship gold at a lower cost than they could buy bills of exchange, and, having accom- plished it for their own remittances, began to sell bills and make shipments for other parties. The experiment now tried is of a somewhat less artificial character, and it is hoped will have more permanent results. Increasing National Bank Currency. The national banks are alrzady preparing to guard against any tendency to undue con- traction which may follow the placement of the bonds. The circulation during Janu- ary decreased $220,286, and stands at $213,- 407,585, but this is not an indication of the correspondence which has been reachin; Controller Eckels regarding new circulee tion, All the orders for new currency which have been suggested or inquired about at the controller’s offize would foot up nearly $30,000,000, and would swell the circulation at a bound to $249,000,000. This is the high- est point reached since the spring of 1889. The actual orders for printing new notes, however, which have been sent to the bureau 6f engraving and printing have been only about $11,000,000. _ Controller Eckels in- stituted a rule seme months ago that banks ordering new circulation must pay for it, whether they finally decided to take it or| . J. Peck THE OFFICIAL WEATHER MAP. EXPLANATORY NOTE: Observations taken at 8 a.m., 75th meridian time, bars or lines of equal air pressure, drawn for each tenth of an inch, Dotted lin Unes of equal temperature, drawn for each ten degrees. The Small arrows fly wi snow has fallen during preceding twelve hours, areas of high and low-barometer. Solid lines are iso- are isotherms or Shaded areas ore regiors where rain or rds ‘High’? and ‘Low’ show location of the wind. UMBRELLA WEATHER. It Will Rain Today and Tonight— Cleacing Tomorrow. Forecast till § p.m. Tuesday: For the District of Columbia, Delaware and Marylind, rain and warmer tonight; Tuesday, clearing; northeasterly winds, high on the coast today and tonight, shift- lag to westerly on Tuesday. For Virginia, rain and warmer tonight; clearing and colder Tuesday; northeasterly winds, high on the coast today and to- night, becoming westerly Tuesday. Weather conditions and general forecast. The storm central in the lower Mississippi valley on Sunday morning has moved northward into the Ohio valley, attended by rain and snow in the Ohio and middle Mississippi valleys and the middle At- lantic states. It will extend eastward to the middle states and New England tonight and Tuesday, and rain or snow may be ex- pected in those districts. A secondary storm appears to be developing on the North Carolina coast, and it may cause northeast gales from Nantucket to Hat- teras this afternoon and tonight. The pressure {s relatively high in New England and on the Pacific coast. The barometer has risen in New England and the lower Mississipi valley and in the ex- treme northwest; if has fallen in the lake regions and the Ohio valley and on the middle Atlantic coast. It is warmer in New England, the At- lantic and east gulf states. The weather will probably clear in the Obio valley and the middle Atlantic states by Tuesday, and fair weather is indicated for the gulf states, It will be warmer in New England, with slight changes in temperature in the At- lantic and gulf states. The following heavy precipitation Inches) was reported: During the past twenty-four hours—Chi- cago, 1.92; Louisville, 1.02. The Ohio river has risen 5.7 feet at Pitts- burg, the Cumberland 6.2 at Nashville and the Tennessee 3.8 feet at Chattanooga. The heavy rainfalls of the past two or three days in the Ohio and central and lower Mississippi valleys and east gulf states will probably cause floods in the smaller streams, and marked rises in the rivers in those districts. Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of water at 8 a.m.: Great Falls, temperature, 40; condi- tion, 7. Receiving reservoir, temperature, 39; condition at north connection, 6; condi- tion at south connection, 4. . Distributing reservoir, temperature, 40; condition at in- fluent gate house, 4; effluent gate house, 3. Tide Table. Today—Low tide, 4:50 a.m. and 5:26 p.m.; high tide, 10:55 a.m. and 11:12 p.m. Tomorrow—Low tide, 5:39 a.m. and 6:20 p.m.; high tide, 11:45 a.m. The Sun and Moon. Sun rises, 5; sun sets, 5:23, rises, 10:33 p.m. today. The City Lights, Gas lamps all lighted by 6:33 p.m.; ex- tinguishing begun at 7 am. The light- ing is begun one hour before the time nam- ed. If clear less lighting may be ordered. Naphtha lamps all lighted by 6:33 .p.m.; extinguishing begun at 6:12. The moon schedule does not apply to these lamps. Public are lamps lighted at 6:03 p.m. and extinguished at 6:42 a.m. Range of the Thermometer. dn Moon The fallowing were the readings of the thermometer at the weather bureau today: 8 a.m. imum, 2 p.m., 32; maximum, 38; min- THE WEATHER FORECASTS BY FLAG SIGNALS, No. 1. No. 2. No. 8. Xo. 4 No. 5. Clear or fate Rain or Local rata ‘Tempersture weather. snow. or snow. igual. race Explanation of the Flags. ‘The fings are ho!sted each day upon the fesne of the morning wei They indicate the weatter that may be expected during the fol ticularly the last twenty-four hours of that period. ather map and float nntil dark. lowing thirty-six hours, but more par- They are to be read from the top of the staff downward. If more than one kind of weather 4s predivted for the period from 8 p.m. to 8 p.m. the corditions first named in the forecast will be represented by the uppermost flag. of s “cold wave’ is included in the forecast mestage, proper weather flag. ‘The temperature flag, when placed above numbers 1, 2 or 3, Indies When a warning the cold-wave flag will be displayed below the es. warmer weather; when placed below numbers 1, 2 or 3, indicates colder weather; whea not displayed, the indications are that the temperature will remain stationary. not. The charge for printing the notes is $50 per 1,000 sheets, or about $12.50 per thous- and notes, without regard to the denomina- ion. : Ugume of the banks have intimated that they ‘will file large orders as soon as they know whether they are to obtain the new bonds. It is not-absolutely necessary that they should be successful bidders Wednes- day in order to obtain them, for they may be able to buy at a small premium the op- tion to take the bonds acquired by some of the bidders. If requests for nearly $30,- 000,000 “of new circulation have already been received, itis believed that still larger amounts will be called for after the bonds have been actually awarded, by banks which have not seen fit to communicate with the controller's office in advance of the award. The present holdings of bonds by the national banks as security for cir- culation are $212,655,300, and these include $14,849,500 of the 4 per cant loan taken by the syndicate last year and $14,475,350 of the two 5 per cent loans of 1804. The present bonded debt of the United States is $747,- 361,960, and if the banks should obtain a proportion of the new issue no larger than they hold of existing issues, they would hardiy secure more than $30,000,000. Banks as Bidders. It is expected, however, that the banks will be among the largest bidders for the new issue and that they will be able to ob- tain $40,000,000 to $50,000,000 of the bonds,if they desire. The question how large a pro- portion they deposit to secure circulation will depend upon the degree of pressure in, the money market and the interest rates which they can earn with the new notes. If they should carry the present circulation upward to $250,000,000, it would reach a point which has not been attained since tne summer of 1888, nearly eight years ago. The fact that this capacity for ex- pansion exists and that the installments for the bonds are to be distributed over four months are regarded as sufficient guarantees by the Treasury Department against an undue contraction of the cur- rency. + THE COURTS. of Appeals—Present, the chlef jus- courte: Mr. Justice Morris and Mr. Justice Shepard. Thos. H. Anderson and Robert E. Doan were admitted to practice. No. 521, Craig- hill et al. agt. Van Riswick et al.; set for Monday, February 17. No. 442, District of Columbia agt. Metropolitan Railroad Com- passed. No. Ohio National Bank agt. R. D. Hopkins; motion to vacate and set aside order docketing and dismissing appeal submitted by E. H. Thomas granted with costs, upon filing stipulation. No. 517, Arrick agt. Fry; argument commenced by ¥. D. McKenney for appellant, continued by J. J. Darlington for appellee, and concluded by F. D. McKenney for appellant. No. 523, Murray agt. Hilton; argument commenced by F. H. Mackey for appellant. Equity Court No. 1—Chief Justic2 Bingham. Sayer agt. Saytr; divorce granted. Whit- aker agt. Whitaker; do. Robertson agt. Reid; sale decreed. Warwick agt. Warwick sale decreed, with H. W. Sohon trustee to sell. Janrey agt. Webb; decree of January 17 amended. Hentz agt. Hayes; time to take testimony limited to seventy days. In re Elijah W. Coombs and Thos. J. Graves, elleged lunatics; writs de lunatico in- quirendo ordered to issue. Zehlman Glass Company agt. Augenstein; motion for in- junction and receiver deuied. Conlin agt. Conlin; leave to file cross bill granted. Betts agt. James; Sarah C. Scott appointed guardian ad litem. In re Robt. S. Town- send; decree legalizing adoption by Wm. W. and Charlotte P. Townsend. Muddiman agt. Stewart; Isaac M. Long allowed to in- tervéne. Lazarus agt. Augenstein; sale ratified nisl. Stewart agt. Thomas; C. A. Erandenburg substituted as trustee. Circuit Court No. 1.—Judge Bradley. Christian G. Schneider agt. American Se- evrity and Trust Company; judgment for plaintiff for £26.80, Wra. M. Galt & Co. sgt. Cincinnati Brewing Company; verdict for plaintiff for $66.27. Robinson Glass Ccm- pany agt. Augenstein; judgment by default. Heilbrun et al. agt. same; do. Portage En- try Quarries Company agt. McLeod; judg- ment by default. Robt. Ruffin agt. Amos Crounse; on trial. Crowley agt. Hewett; motion for new trial overruled and judg- ment on verdict for plaintiff. Smith agt. Lincoln National Bank; do. Circuit Court No. 2—Judge McCom1s. Moore agt. Barbour; on trial. Clark agt. Harmer; motion for new trial overruled; judgment on verdict for defendant. Criminal Court No- 1—Judge Cole. et al, trs., agt. Daniel B ert- ERTISEMENTS, INDEX TO ADV FOR RENT (Plats) FOR RENT (Hous FOR RENT (Misceilai FOR RENT (tiers). FOR RENT (tooms) FOR RENT (Stables) FOR RENT (Stores) FOR BENT (Warehoui FOR SALD (Bicye a FOR SALB (Houses) FOR SALE (Lots). FOR SALE (Miscellaneous)... HORSES AND VEHICLES, HOTELS LECTURES LEGAL NOTIC LOCAL MENTIO: LOST AND FOU} MANICURE MARRIAGES, MEDICAL . ae MONEY WANTED A PERSONAL .. es PIANOS AND ORGANS, POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. RAILROADS ... N PROPERTY UNDERTAKERS, WANTED (Help). WANTED (Houses). WANTED (Miscellaneous) WANTED (Rooms) WANTED (Situations). well; bill of exceptions filed ai 5 Rateliffe, Darr & Co. agt J's paeories: motion for a new trial filed, M. Loeb; on trial, ee Crirainal Court No. 2—Judge Cox pronited States agt. John Early, Richard urley and Maurice Davis; on trial. ——— Dr. Deustrow Guilty of Murder. Dr. Arthur Deustrow, a millionaire, charged with the murder of his wife and child, in St. Louis, was found guilty of mur- der in the first degree by a jury at Union, Mo., Saturday. The crime of which Dr. Deustrow was found guilty was-committed in February, 1894. One day that month his wife and child were at home awaiting his coming to take a driv® When he camé into the house Dr. Deustrow, who had been drinking, be. gan‘to abuse his wife and finally shot her Gown. He then picked up his three-year-old boy, @ beautiful child, and, holding it at arm's length, killed it with a pistol shot eorolien thie head. His wife lingered for trial the jury disagreed. “© Ou the first ———.0- She Was Warm. From Life. vn, Darling,” said Mr. McBride, solicitously, I am afraid you are not dressed warmly enough.” “Do I look “Yes; “Then you.” stylish, dear?” asked his wife. perfectly stunning.” I am very comfortable, thank —— —+e+—_____ Much Needed. From Farper's Bazar, “I hear,” said old lady Spriggins, “that young men study to be civil engineers. I think it would be more to the point if they had civil brakemen.. Why, only the other day a brakeman was real pert like to me, just because I asked him if he was sure the train wouldn’t run off the track.’ 2o+ The annual banquet of the Ohio Society was held at Chicago last week, the principal speaker being Gov. Asa Bushnell. His sub- ject was ‘‘Ohio,” and the address was large- ly of a political nature. AFFAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA ‘Mysterious Movements of Miss Mary Eliza- beth Ricker. Attempted Robbery of a Depot—Man Terribly Scalded—Other Local Notes of General Interes! Saturday night Mrs. Robert Ricker of No. 80 G street northeast, Washington, D. C., came to the station house and requested the officers to help her find her daughter, Mary Elizabeth Ricker, whom she sup- posed was in this city. Officer Smith was detailed upon the case, and in a short while located the girl at the house of Mrs. Dick- inson, No. 230 North Alfred street. A Star reporter called at the house yesterday af- ternoon, but the girl had left that morning on the 6:43 local train for Washington. Mrs. Dickinson, however, made the follow- ing statement to The Star man: She said that she had first met her husband, James Dickinson, in Fredericksburg, Va., and that they were married in Washington un the 10th of September, 1890. They have two children. Shortly after his marriage he began to pay devoted attention to different young ladies, pretending that he was a single man, and had only been prevented from marrying one of them by her finding out in time his intentions. She said that her husband had met Miss Ricker, who works at the Ebbitt House in Washington, about two years ago, and that about four months ago he betrayed her under promise of marriage. Mrs. Dickinson, who is very anxious to secure a divorce from her hus- band, went to Washington last Monday end went to see the young lady and persuaded her to return to Alexandria with her, which she did. When -asked by The Star man why she brought the girl to her house she replied that she desired to use the girl's testimony in securing a divorce. Dickinson is a man about twenty-nine years of eze and dresses well. He is a mazhinist and was employed by Doremus & Just. After being accused of the act by Mr. Robert Ricker, father of the unfortunate young girl, Dickinson fled to New Yori, but re- turned to Washington in a few days. Mr. Ricker came to this city this morn- ing in search of his daughter. The Star mun told him that she had left Alexandria yesterday, morning on an early train for ashington. He said that she had net been home. Officer Smith went with him to the house of Mrs. Dickinson on North Alfred street, and there he was told that his daughter had left yesterday. Miss Ricker stated to Officer Smith Sat- urday night that she knew Dickinson was a married man, but that he had told her that he had never lived with his wife and that as soon as he could secure a divorce from his wife he would marry her. Miss Ricker is quite an attractive-looking girl about twenty years of age. Police Court. The police on duty last night report the night as being mild and cloudy, with seven prisoners and sixteen lodgers at the sta- tion house, Mayor Thompson this morn- ing disposed of the following cases: Wm. Arrington and James Sullivan, arrested by Special Officer Park, charged with attempt- ing to break in the freight depot of the Washington Southern railway; sent on to the grand jury. Theo. Beach, Wm. West, James Reed and Wm. A. Joly, arrested by Officers Ticer and Sherwood, charge drunk aod disorderly and defacing property of Kate Fisher; Reed and Beach dismissed and West fined $11.50 and Joly $. James Miner, colcred, arrested by Offi- cer Sherwood, charge assault on Robert Garrett, colored, with a stick, was fined $12. Sallie Bouraguard, arrested by Officer Ferguson, charge disorderly conduct, dis- missed. Edward O’Brien, arrested by Officer Young, charge selling liquor on Sunday, decision reserved. Edward O'Brien, arrested by Officer Young, charge allowing gambling on his premises, dismissed for want of evidence. A Disorderly Crowd. Saturday night about 11:45 Kate Fisher, one of the demi-monde of this city, came to the station house and reported to Capt. Webster that a crowd of young men had come to her house drunk on South Lee street and demanded admittance, but were refused, whereupon one of them threw a half of a brick through the pane of glass in the door. Officers Ticer and Sherwood proceeded to the scene and found Messrs. Willam West, William A. Joly, James Reed and Theo. Beach and placed them under arrest, and took them to the sta- tion house and placed them behind the bars. About an hour afterward a friend left $15 collateral for West and Joly to appear this morning, and Mayor Thompson fined West $11.50 and Joly $5 and dismissed the others. Attempted Robbery. Saturday night about 11 o'clock Mr. J. B. Arnold, night clerk at the Washington Southern railway freight office, at the cor- ner of Cameron and Fayette streets, heard a noise which sounded as if some one was attempting to get In the depot. He made an investigation and soon located the noise at the middle door on the north side of the building. He sneaked out of the place and went to the local depot, about half a square off, and notified Special Officer Parks and Mr. R. M. Colvin, telegraph operator, of what was going on. They proceeded to the scene and caught Wm. Arrington and James Sullivan in the act of breaking into the depot. With a wire or knife they had succeeded in getting the bolt about half undone, and had Mr. Arnold not heard them they would have soon secured an en- trance. Mayor Thompson after hearing tae evidence this morning sent them on to the grand jury. Fatally Scalded. Mr. John H. Hunt, who is employed at the Hydraulic Press Brick Company’s plant at Waterloo, was fatally scalded by falling into a vat of boiling swill Saturday after- ncon about 4 o'clock. It appears that Hunt and a fellow-laborer were engaged in pour- ing a barrei_ of swill into the vat when his foot slipped and he fell head foremost into the vat, which is about three feet deep. He managed to get out and was carried to lis home in Waterloo. and everything done for his comfort that was possible. He was literally roasted from the waist down. Po- lice Officer Wilkerson was notified of-the accident by telephone about 7:30 o'clock Saturday night, and, with Dr. T. Marshall Jones of this city, went to Waterloo. Dr. Jcnes stated to The Star reporter that he did not think that the young man could Fessibly live. Hunt is twenty-three years of age, and married a sister of Officer Wil- kerson, and has two children. He is well known in this city. Nerrow Esenpe. The alarm of fire at 4 o'clock yesterday morning was caused by the partial burning of a frame house on North Royal street. Tha house was occupied by “Col.” Nelson and was used as a bar room. Thomas Brent, who occupied a sécond story room, very narrowly escaped by jumping out of the second story window. The origin of the fire is unknown, but it is supposed to have been set on fire. The stock and fix- tures are a complete loss, as there was no insurance upon them. The house belongs to the Harlow estate and was insured for Property Sales, Messrs. O'Neal and Lunt, auctioneers, Saturday sold for Mr. J. M. Johnson, trus- tee, a lot of ground, situated at the corner of Gibbon and Columbus streets, to Mr. C. A. Strangman, for $925; also for Mr. J. T. Johnson, trustee, a lot of ground and im- provements thereon at the southeast corner of Oronoco and Royal streets, to Mr. C. A. Strangman, for $300. Elizabeth H. Lamb has sold to Mary J. Hautzmon a house and lot on the west side of Patrick street, be- tween Cameron and Oronoco, for $1,500. The Reinicker Lecture. The third Reinicker lecture of this ses- sion will be delivered tomorrow at noon in Whittle Hall Theological Seminary, near this city. The lecturer will be Rev. John 8. Linasay, D. D., of St. Paul’s Church, Boston. The clergy of Washington, this city and all others interested in the lecture are invited to attend. The Howard Cassard Sold. Capt. R. F. Knox Saturday sold at pub- lic auction for Mr. Lew's B. Barnie, trus- tee, the iron steamship Howard Cassard, to George Franke of Baltimore, for the sum of $15,000. The Cassard is still lying at the ghip yard in this city, where she has been for some time, FINANCIAL. ARE YOU INSCKED AGAINST FIRE? should be, on both sour bousea, and. furalters Feprosent the beat ‘ity and Lowest rates, N Le noZ3-3m F and 5th sts. n.w. WE TAKE AS COLLATERAL ANY 11 or bend in any city of the United States; also old line iife insurance syndicate certif- cates, warehouse recelj real estate mortgages and trusts. YERKES & BAKER, 40 to 40 Mets- erort building. no25-tf HILL & JOHNSTON, By vanin avenue. MONI 6 PER CENT aND 6 PEG CENT, Oa sarees real estate in the District of Columbia. MR. PARTRIDGE’S APPEAL. ord-te A Protest Against the Action of the Sherman Statue Committee. The Sherman monument controversy, which has been slumbering for several days past, has been revived by the action of Mr. William Ordway Partridge of New York, one of the competing -sculptors. Acting upoa the advice of prominent friends that gentleman has made a formal protest to the Secretary of War, who with Maj. Gen. Miles, were ex officio members of the gen- €ral committee which selected the success- ful competitors. In his letter Mr. Partridge says: “You have no doubt heard that there is great dissatisfaction in art circles in New York, Boston and Washington because the name of a member of the National Sculp- ture Society and the Architectural League was stricken off the list elected by a jury of eminent sculptors and architects, chosen from these societies to select four designs from the lst of twenty-three comprised in the late Sherman competition. That name Was my own. Aside from the criticisms of the press (which did not begin with me) there is the just criticism of a body of men of too much dignity and importance to be overlooked. “Many months ago I wrote Gen. Dodge. asking him if he would consider my name among the competitors for the proposed Sherman statue. He replied in the aflirma- tive. I then asked him if I might submit a large model, say life size, so as to demon- strate to the committee and to the public how I could handle a large piece of sculp- ture. Gen. Dodge replied, telling me to pro- ceed and make my large model for the com- petition. Then in June he issued the cir- cular indorsed by the Sculpture Seziety, limiting the models to the small scale of one inch to the foot. “I wrote him, asking him if he would ad- mit the large model I had constructed at a great deal of expense, time and energy. He answered that I must now abide by the decision of the circular indorsed by the Sculpture Society, or words to that effect. “I believe that I am the only competing sculptor who can show a large and serious model for this work. In view of this fact, and because I was selected the third inan among the competitors by the jury from the above mentioned societies (and their opinion has been echoed by the larger voice of the public), I respectfully request that I be allowed, with the other artists selected, to enlarge and amplify my designs and pre- sent them in the second competition for the Sherman statue. Finally, I ask this as a simple. matter of justice and fair play and because my work has won this right for itself.” Criticism on the Committce’s Action. There is considerable criticism over the action of the committee of the Society of the Army-of the Tennessee in overriding the de- cision of the art committee specially charged with the selection of the best designs from an artistic standpoint. This committee con- sisted of five members of the National Sculp- ture Society—Augustus St. Gaudens, Olin Warner, Daniel C. French, J. Q. A. Ward and Bruce Price—and George F. Post of the Architectural League. ‘his committee chose four from the twenty-three models submitted in the com- and instructed the artists who sub- them to prepare enlarged models, ‘ich a final d ion would he made. The four models selected were by P. W. Bartlett of Paris, C. H. Nichaus of New York (two), and William Ordway Partridge of New York. Bush Browne was awarded a prize of $1,000, but was not permitted to enter the final competition. The military committee, of which Gen. Dodge is chairman, announced that they were not bound by the decision of the art committee, and changed it by dropping Mr. Partridge’s design and that of Mr. Niehaus, and substituting for them the designs of Mr. Carl Rohl Smith of Chicago ard Mr. J. Mas- sey Rhind of New York. The disappointed artists boldly charge Gen. Dodge with hay- Ing acted in bad faith in ignoring the ver- dict of the art committees, and it is alleged that Smith’s design was selected simply because its execution will take but $25,000 of the fund of $00,000 at the disposal of the committee. It is extremely doubtful if Sec- retary Lamont will interfere in the matter, inasmuch as he has held all through the controversy that the selection of the design of the monument was controlled entirely by the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, and that the responsibilities of Gen. Miles and himself in the matter ended with the selection of the site and the erection of the pedestal for the statue. Secretary Lamont Refuses to Talk. Secretary Lamont wes seen by a Star re- porter this afternoon, but he refused to say anything for publication about the contro- versy. It is understood that he takes the ground that himself and Gen. Miles are cM&rged merely with the selection of a site for the statue and the erection of a pedestal for the statue, and that they have no juris- diction in the mattter of the statue itself, that being a question solely within the con- trol of the statue committee of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee. A friend of Secretary Lamont says it is a mistake to suppose that he has any authority to revise or reconsider the decision of the Tennessee committee, or that he actually had anything to do with deciding the competition beyond the casting of a single vote. He was invited to attend the meeting of the statue committee of the Society of the Tennessee, and followed their wishes in the selection of the successful designs. The same is true of General Miles. Neith- er of them had any legal standing in the ol beyond what has been already indi- cated. So far as the committee is concerned, it is stated that their report was merely visory, and in no wise binding on the mil: ‘y committee charged with the set- tlement of the question. General Dodge, chairman of the Tennes- see committee, is not in the city at pres- ent, and so far as can be learned the other committeemen are all absent from the city. ——-——_—_ Why He Was Glad. From the Philadelphia Record. Hoax—“The building committee has just met, aid we are going to have a new story at our club. Joax—‘Good! I’ve worked the old club stories so much my wife don’t believe them any more. Why He Knew. From the Atlanta Constitution. “Any amusement in this town tonight?” asked the stranger. “I reckon there’s going to be a lectur: replied the groceryman. “I’ve been sellin’ eggs all day.” ———+e+ Clarence Murphy, alias C. F. Clark, was arrested at San Francisco last week. He is wanted at Salem, Moss., for alleged embez- zlement cf $60,000 two years ago from the Salem Savings Bank. 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