Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1896, Page 2

2 LATE NEWS BY WIRE Purport of Lord Dunraven’s Latest "Letters. ; HE EAS NOT SENT AN APOLOGY Still Clings to His Belief Regarding the Defender. i -_ GRATEFUL FOR COURTESIES es LONDON, February 15.—The purport of .ord Dunraven’s mailed replies to the New Yacht Club were obtained by the t Press this afternoon. In a let- 1 to Mr. George L. Rives of ht Club, Lord Dunraven wledges receipt of the report and expresses hi shown him duri charges which hk proce for the ¢ is the mest im- il the finding of wey is offered to ilure of his lord- charges brougnt to the eviden: mmittee of the 2 he = ASHORE ON FIRE ISLAND. The Wiisen Line Steamer Otranto foes Aground, ISL. », L. 1, February 15:—The at this place reports that the line stearmér Otranto went ashore was The crew are A wrecking ems mabié to night, ‘The weather t time. 1 steim Eet to the € er Otranto lies head on about ch and about a quar- -saving station. She ition. There was not iS morning. pi. Hube: for Ne York. Sb steamer of 1.914 to was built at Huil in 1st sailed from is to the life-saving vitish steamer Ow; Island bar, New York. off has been sent for. crew is said to be in no danger. —_ RS BADLY HURT. bureau soline in the Yards at Pitisburg. RG, Pa., February 15. ine in the Pullman sleeper pat nooh, demolished the in- Ci badly damaged Pu nd New England, and seriously Their names ar years, and James porter, of Cincinnati, aged ying in the Pennsylv were cleaning ti line, from the The women and urned and aly die. DEPOSITGRS WERE ANGRY. Police CxNed Out to Hroken Bank. t Protect ors, mosti FIRED ON BRITISH FLAGS. Freseh s an Uprising in ahitl CISCO, February 15.—L. Paris reur und prosecuting government zt 3 news of a seriou place th between firing t to bear the British ft nd pol . There w: or harm the natives vere thrown. n with com- ANOTHER Blackburn Polled More Votes Than Hunter. LOUISVILI A spe- cial to The H for th owed 1 the ft Dr. aiker wifo ndve with the pai ve Bt DEUMMOND LIGHT. Wit THE Another Discovery Made Regarding Cathode Rays. Md., February 15. —J. & prominent electrician, has t the Drummond or Iime results similar te the In the first experiment which ed with calcivm light he forged igh a board one-eighth of through an ord.nary pho- cover made cf a paper entirely unzifected by BALTIMO? strated will ght cath prac a ordinary rays of light. — The Arizona Republicans. PHOENIX, Ariz, February 15.--An- nt has been made , Judge J. ¥ of the territory r publican com- tee that he will in a few days issue a formal call for the territorial convention to be held in Phoenix, April 29. The con- vention will not enly select the six dele- getes and six alternates to the national convention, but will chocse the party’s candidate for delegate to Congress. ee Thomas H. Hinckley Dead. BOSTON, Mass., February 15.—Thomas Hewes Hinckley. an artist of wide fame, @ied at his home in Milton today, aged eighty-three years. ——__ Had to Be Sent Home. Representative Howard of Alabama was removed from the floor of the House yes- terday afternoon and sent home in a cab. His friends said he has been ill, suffering from overwork, and that the effort of at: tending the session of the House to yote on the bond bill was too much for him., THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, BONA-FIDE CIRCULATION. A reference to the statement be- low will show that the circulation sworn to is a bona fide one. It is easily possible for a news- Paper with an elastic conselence to swell its legitimate circulation enor- mously, in order te deceive adver- tisers, by sending out thousands of papers to newsstaids, which are re- turnable, and which are in fact re- turned, but nevertheless are in- cluded in what purports to be an honest statenfent of circulation. Intelligent advertisers, however, judge by results, and bogus circula- tions don’t give them. The circulation of The Star is many théusands In excess of any other Washington paper and is be- lieved to be fully five times that of any afternoon contemporary. z Cireulation of The “Evening Str.” SATURDAY, Feb. 8, 1936. £u,536 MONDAY, Feb. 10, 1596 eeeees 189,286 31,547 vt six secular days end- e—th: is, the nuin- sold, delivered, furnished © consideration, to bona tide vs, and thet none of. the are returnable to or remain in or mailed, for vatuab purchasers o subs copies sv connie: the office unsold. J. WHIT. HERRON, Cashier Evening Star Newspaper Co. Subscribed and sworn to before me this j fifteenth day of February, A. D. 1836. FE. E. RAMEY, Notary Public, D.C. FIVE RARE COINS Received at the Treasury in Payment of Bounds. Five rare coins were seceived at the Treasury Department today in payment of a small allotment of the recently issued 4 per cent bonds. They are five-dollar gold pieces, dated from 1812 to 18%% and are stamped with a “D. the mark of the oid Dahlonega mint in Georgia. This mint was seized by the confederates at the outbreak. of the war, in ‘61, and gold coin to the amount of $27,000 was confiscated. The five pieces eceived today were bright and new and of ful ndard weight, showing no si have evident ever § have been in general circulation. > sible they formed part of the gold conit: cated by: the confederates in 1861. Ahihough the Dahlonega mint was in op- eration from 1838 to 1861, and 1 rutput of $6,000,000 in gold, very few of its coins are in circulation, and the present instaliment is the first that ached the Treasury Department for many years. ———— W TRIAL. As t on, Poli million Up Agai Counsel for John Early, Richard Hurley and Maurice Davis, convicted s id ago of assault and Battery’ on Poticer: Vermillion the mber, the occasion of the thy Demp- sey by the officer, leavored to move Judze Cox to t asi . FOR } . of Case ae DISTRICT IN CONGH A Highway Bilt ardson of Tenne: Min the He Commissioners to prepare a p extension of a perm ways,over all that p not included ington or Ge be made as near! street pian of We sioners may d not to be less 1G) feet wi highway: A Board of Trate Uearing.(" Mr. John B. Wight, of the WasHingion board of t has written 2 letter to Mr. McMillan, chairman, of the Senate committee on the D st of Co- lumbia, requesting that the committee: on Mr. Rich: duced a has Intro- directing the y the railroads of the board of trade be given | @ hearing on Senate by providing for the abolition of in’ the District of Coium| consisting of Mr. > and Mr. Faulkner, will hear the on this subject at 2 0" : da: Favors a Railroad on I7th Sireet. Mr. Herman D. Walb a letter to Senator Mf proposed railroad e the northwest section to the Zoological and Roex C Mr. Walbridge states that he Is ar owner of propert street, and that he no money interest in any street railroad in Washington. He says that there is no tion of the Di trict where a street rail: so much needed as betw Mik and Con- necticut avenue and H and the parks. He s: 3 17th street is the most direct, fe natural street railroad route to Meridian Hill, Mt. Plea Zoological Park. ’ And he car cates that an extension ef this str permitted. C0 ee Examining Sargeons for Promotion. A board of officers of the United States marine hospital service, consisting of Sur- geons George Purviance, chairman; R. H. Carter, recorder, and H. W. Austin, has been in session this. week for examination of t officers for premotion to the grade of pa assistant surgeons and for the of candidates for appointment to The following assistant surgeons were ca: didates for promotion: Dr. C. H. Gardner of Washington, son of Surgeon W. H. Gardner, United States army; J. W. Nydceger of Maryland and W. S. J. Stewart of Virgini ‘The examination for promotion closed yes- terday. The examination for candidates will close today. The candidates for promo- tion were guests of the board at dinner at the Arlington last evenihg. Bids for the City Post Office. Bids were opened at the Treasury Depart- ment yesterday afternoon for constructing flcor arches of the new Washingten city post office. The lowest bid was that of Hae Johnson & Co. of Chicago, at $49,- FAMILY PATRONAGE is what everybody engaged in reputable business desires to ob- tain. There is no agency so potent in securing this as The Star’s advertising columns. The Star-has a larger and better cir- culation than any other paper in Washington. It is placed in the hands of over 31,000 readers every cay, and goes to 82} per cent of all the occupied houses in Washington. This is a phe- nomenal position in journalism, —one that no other newspaper has ever reached. {STREET EXTENSION Authorities Have Prepared Second Section of Street Extension. —-—>—_—_—_ UNDISMAYED BY LEGAL DECISION The Changes in the Streets as Laid Out. OTHER LOCAL NEWS ‘The decision of Judge Cox which declared the highway act unconstitutional has not acted as a stay to the Commissioners in the matter of preparing the plans of the other sections of the street extension map. Today Major Powell announced the com- pletion of the second section. This com- prises*all the suburbs and rural parks of the northeast, betweeen North Capicol street extended and the Eastern branch; covering an area of about 6,500 atres, or a iittle more than the entire area of the city proper. Few subdivisions were met with in the profongation of the streets, and so little obstruction was offered. ‘The subdivisions under the law of 1883 nomber about fifteen, and the plan of their extensions, together with the extensions of the cliy streets and avenues, form a system that will require but few details of study when compared with the section just completed. The configuration of the ground is well adapted {o straight-line extensions, the onlyercal rough parts being in the vicinity of Fort Toiten, northeast of Soldiers’ Home, and the parts between Bladensburg road and the Eestern branch. g The second section is well dotted with cemeteries, seven in number, which, if al- lowed to retain their present boundar! will seriousiy interfere with any complete | or well-planned system of highways. ‘The meteries as well as parks and publ institutions should be bounded by line harmony with the plan of extensions. ‘The locations of north and south sireets are guided, with few exceptions, by the extensions of such streets from the cit: ‘The east and west streets are controiled in location by the city strees from Hi to W. Above W_ the existing subdivisions and the plan of section No. 1 ure inade io determine the relative positions of all east and west highways. The subdivisions of ‘Trinidad and Took land, although not conforming to the system, have been improved to suck an & tent and are so situated that ft wa# deemed best to make no radical changes in them. Trinidad befng next to the grounds of th Deaf and Dumb Institute, it was consideré vnw to extend the city streets into th: subdivision, and have ‘them blocked by the institute's grounds. This takes for granted, of course, that the grounds of the institute being owned by the United States, are per- manent either for an ins’ park. In the case of Brook is continued north to the Bunker Hill outh to Rhode Queen's Chapel roa’ tan branch of in thode avenus, New York avenue, De r nue, Maryland avenue and North avenue, Rhode Island avenue is direct from the city to the Me Itimore and Ohio r light bend to the south to ree with the South Brookland subdivision, raight from the Baltimore ad to lith street, bend! hon account of a be tion, and runn ine. Its ci 1 throughout. st dth of 130 fee New York avenue extended the city azimuth and width from Florida avenue to the reform school ground De ged in dire: at to include Brent : street, being direct to the ¢ avenue and 1 duced at Flori width to city h Carolin = to the Be € led in S along Banker road to 15th str ‘Pwo avi 1) feet in width lo- eated to run in the ral direc of Florida avenue and f line, ou lines of easy = One of these form park to Eastern uch boulevard and rd of the fi the tion along strict line is also coutinued in this. | ther avenue leading fr it of the rection of th ‘, an excellent grade, is ecntemplate the jonment of the tracks of and 0. railroad tracks from Monte n outline Is shown on th’ tern part of the Severat 5 at the intersections of principal and ave on, east of Blader « hil, north of Bunker (dill and Toit Totten, t of Soidi Home, . all Sor pul le preclu treets over thet the been completed, the direct their ntion to fi hird section, | h hes been deration for | seme time, and can be with fe wi . ‘y will then 8 fourth section, and by the time completed th expect to have ot pees ation from Co: be in a "po: maining sections to the highy sion. Would Be Desirable. While the Commissioners do not the construction of a bridge acro: Eastern branch in line with Massa: avenue necessery, th think such a bridge would be desirable. This is substantially the report of the Comm: sioners upon House bill 4956, templates the building of ‘such a bridge. They also recommend a survey of the proaches on the Washington sid recommend further that the pill be re to the Secretary of War. Commissioner Truesdell U1. Commissioner Truesdell ts still iil, be confined to his bed with a severe cold. Commissioner Ross, who has also been sick, is reported much improved today. s No Vivisection. Superintendent Powell of the p: schools, in a letter to the Commissioners teday, denies that vivisection is practiced in the public schools of the city. He in- closes a copy of a letter from Prinainal Lane of the High School upon the subject, who says “neither teachef nor pupil thes | ever engaged in vivisection as a part of school work since the establishment of this department (zoology).”” Concluding his letter, Superintendent Powell says: “Dissection of eyes, hearis, lurgs, joints and brains is common, hecau this is our plan of teaching, but these ob- iccts are bought or begged at the markets, where the flesh of these same animals is sold and eaten by the same children and |contest over their fe their parents. No vivisection whate er is practiced, Favorable Action. The Commissioners have recommended favorable action on Senate bill 1761, which has for its object the incorporation of the National University. — The Lincoln League of Detroit held its first annual banquet Thursday night. About £00 republicans, mostly supporters of Mayor Pingree for governor, participated. Etienne Chatelaine, a pensioner of the war of 1812, died at Cornwall, Ont., Wed- nesday, aged one hundred and nine years. His widow is over ninety-five years of age. He had two hundred and seventy-five living descendants, # HELD FOR MURDER. Young Man Kitiea With a Base Bill Bat. colored, was assaulted with a base ball ‘bat yesterday morning by’ Grant Smith, colored, in the Virginia Blue Base Ball Clubj house, on the Columbia road, near Arlingt6n Heights, and fatally hurt. It appears that Thursday night Smith, who is a tough character, went to the club house akd began cursing and abusing Johnson, at the same time catch- ing him by the throat. Johnson struck him several times, and Smith ran, saying that he would get even before nforning. Johnson and several ocer “olored men were asleep in the club house when Smith came back, about 5 in the morning. They therefore did not see him when he picked up a base ball bat and struck Johnson over the head with it, completely crushing the skull, + The nofse made by the striking of the blow awoke the other men, and they saw Smith as he ran out of the door. A man named Samuel Minor immediately secured a wagon and carried Johnson to the Emer- gency -Hospital, where he died yesterday John Johnsoi evening at 0 o'clock. The deceased was twenty-three years of age. Smith is a well-known tough character, having served a term in the Virginia penitentiary for a murderous assault on a woman sev- eral years ago. Isaac Green, constable, arrested him at his home yesterday morn- ing and took him before Justice Lane, who committed him to jail to await the result of Johnson's injury. —_-___— Talk to High School Siudents. A large and appreciative audience of pupils of the Colored [igh School gathered yesterday afternoon in the hall of the school, on M street, to hear a lecture by Prof. Les- ter F. Ward of the Smithsonian Institute. The parents of inany of the pupils and the teachers in the difterent departments were also in the audience. On the platform were ed Superintendent Powell, Supervising Principal Cook and ex-Senator B. K. Bruce. Mr. Bruce introduced the lecturer, who took for his subject “He Di lity vs. Opportunity Prof. Ward, in a clear and entertaining man- ner, pointed out the relative value of the tw conditions that make for cess. or He expressed the belief that hered- ity is not such a hampering element as some us belie’ but that in a free and d country like this every young t in his power to car in this life. He specialy urged young colored men to strive for success in spite of obstacles, assuring them that they had as good a chance as any one else in the field of competition. Se Must Be Kept Intact. In disallowing the account of Zebulon Rhodes, guardian of his four children, Judge Haguer, in the Probate Court yes- terday, held that the property left them by thelr mother must be kept intact as far as possible for them during their minority. For instance, said the court, medical at- tendance for their mother, Sarah A.Rhodes, ‘e his way to her funeral expenses, schooling and cost of # monument could not be charged up against the children’s account. The judge did not charge Mr. Rhodes y wrongdoing, and di make oul the account, a For a Rehearing. -A. motion for a rehearing has been 1 by Judge Hagner to Sarah and Kate Cruikshank, daughters of the late Rickard Cruikshank, in the matter of the | her's will. The daugh- m that about $7,000 yerth of bonds helonete-them, notwithstanding that th th intentional ted the register to brothers in Uiat the wil in i id. Judge Hogner so held 2 Y it is upon chat decision that a i fon that ull will not be ready for u: Columbia Native Mutehes. m rifle match nal Guard Ar- last: placed it the head of Phe company mate won by Whose team last me eom- ever, tttalion, 10 tended Sth the kindly ed in the k Will Viled. ne.,Will,.of Oliver P. a, Who “ateit | inesd: was filed today. The i i ment is dated April 1 and N y Cc. Donn Metzger and Robert Dinwiddie New Yo: are nted ecuLors. worth ong the about four which is divited the J no were #pp9 equity Court. Denn The of Jchn, aligs Patsy Harris, who w e ye for the mur- der of Matth Spruell, was taken to fter the execution by and kept at h M street. This is in the Harr corpse, fternoon ing the remat: ence of Charle ervices being conducted by nder, a colored 23 t ment will be at Mt. ed L n Endenvorcrs. A mass nweting of the Lutheran Chris- tian Endeavorers 1s to be Feld next Tues- day evening, the 18th, in the Luther Place Memorial Church. Dr. J. W. Graham, president of the Y. P. S. G. B. of Zion's Prais ; doxolozy conducted by stor of St. Paul's A 5 er, pastor ler Memtorial Church; wo of the prog devotion respon! Rey. Dr. Church; pri of the Ki welcome, Rev. Dr.'3. G. Butler, pastor of the morialy Chureh; five-minute ad- dresses (a), “The Christian Endeavorer in the English Lutheran Churches, Ww. . Parson, pastor of the Church of the Reformation; (b) “Christian HEndeavorers in thé German’ Lutheran Churches,” Rey. A. Homrighaus, pastor of Zion’s Church: (©) “The Denomfnation in the Christian Bn. deavor,” Rev. ‘W. ‘H. Gotwald, D.D., for- merly pastor of St. 'Mark’s Church; address, “Our Wants Met Ii Christian Endeavor,” Rev. G W.-Miller, D.D., of the Second Lutheran Church ‘of Baltimore; prayer, Rev. D. E. Wiseman of the Church of Our Redeemer, and Mizpah benediction, fol- lowed with apostolic benediction by Rev. Stanley Billheimer, pastor of the West Washington Lutheran Church, eS Publication Distribution. With a view to facilitating the distribu- tion of official military publications, the Secretary of War has ordered that when- ever a general distribution of any publica- tion is to be made the bureau or office to which the publication pertains will tempo- rarily detail one or more of its employes, as in the judgment of the chief signal officer may necessary, to assist in the work of distribution. Whenever such assistance may be required, the chief signal officer will notify the proper head of bureau or office, desigrating the number of employes whose services are necessary for the work. ; of the 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. FOR COAST DEFENSE Practical Use for Great Magnets in Modern. Warfare. EXPERIMENTS AT WILLET'S POINT Effect of a Battleship Entering a Harbor. VIEWS OF A SCIENTIST + So many people have been talking and thinking within the pest few weeks, and even nervous about the ways and means of defending the coasts of the United States against attacks by a foreign power, that the progress of electrical experiments in this matter may be of interest. Out of what was at first mere idle cu- riosity, I took the trouble to find out how far electricity can be relied upon as an aid, or a single factor, in defending our coasts and harbors, and the result is here given. In November, 1894, Col. W. R. King, then commanding engineer at the United States engineering school at Willet’s Point, on Loag Island, tried to see how powerful a magnet he conld make, and of what use it would be. He took the largest steel cannon he had (of which it is unnecessary to give the dimensions here), plugged up the muz- zie with soft metal, then wrapped the bar- rel with copper wire, thereby making an in- strument that could be greatly magnetized by a current of electricity. When the cur- rent was turned on, all small pieces of iron ing near the cannon began to leave their places and cling to the great magnet, A anan took a dinner tray loaded with pieces of scrap iron weighing n ounce to a pound, and when he was within one hun- dred feet of the magnet the pieces began to leave the tray and cling to the cannon,und a litile nearer the platter was as $ that of Jack Sprat and hi: were through cating. Next a crowbar weighing tweaty-tive pounds was taken near the cannon, It flew out of the ma hand and stuck with such force that strong mei. were required to pull it away, and this covld be done then only by a sud- den jerk. -It was noticed also that the magnetic compasses in the immediate neighborhood were appreciably depieted by this, the greatest magnet in the world. Some nh paper reports at the time quoted Col. King as saying that a ship's compass could be deflected s miles at sea, but this was an injustice the colonel, and herewith ute letter w ten by him at the time, to show what was really done, After deprecating the wrong statements by certain newspapers, Col. King wrote: . “It may be of interest to you to know ex- actly what the effect is on the needle, a this I had carefully ted just before your ne, viz, at a d ce of 50, 109, 15) and 200 feet. In a line nearly east and west through the deflectior 16 degree shows the to given an extract from a pri sand 2 t which t also be interested in some tures re Uy taken, showing the r holding up five how the force w I stand cause | out from hi ‘ike q n the fretful porcupi ‘The a number <¢ To ilustr force in t? w York and ot ait of a talk with Pr the department of natural ph bk 4 nm to the combination of these great m have upon b: and ¢ : OE The magnet. not be mag ‘bor several m under w. ance, take t on land. nee to New couid be droy nel a few hun tere ar one which cou rily by a curr 2 throuzh the ca A per- manent mar or one retafning constant power, hardly be made lars or lin be magnet @, and the c s quickly. ‘I ctive in a min be shut oif power of the x et the h of the cui a batt nto New a:most en The line ¢f gre nd across 1's headway erfully zed, When two huni ce the shore would p the ship, or the mesnet would be dragged along the keel until it would strike the prop; hich would be done with such force « them. “In case the first magnet should not be strong enough, and the ship should cross a second, the second would seek the end of the ship opp: peles and ship. for the ship's It would y little to try this first on one of n battleships entering the harbo and little harm could be done, for the cur- rent irom the shore could be shut off im- ately at a signal from the s to the deffection of the com} the shtp, when one of these magnets should strike the Keel, the compass could be made to whirl like a school boy’s top, for it would be an almost direct contact with the mag- stigating the subject thus far, one of my own wild ideas is that, in a sud- den emergency, the submarine cable con- necting these deep-sea _ magnets with the shore could be connected with a trolley car power house, and the magnetie power could quickly be run away up to the top of the alphabet, and a battleship would hardly realize what had struck it. Ss He Was Unconscious. Quite a little excitement wes caused in the vicinity of 7th and H streets this morning by the gathering of a large crowd around a man who lay unconscious on the sidewalk. It was stated that he had fallen from a cable car and also that he had been run over. The Emergency Hospital ambu- lance quickly carried the man to that in- stitution, where an examination showed no trace of injury, and the physicians were inclined to think that the case was one of alcholism. The patient was identified as John Jacob Shaeffer of Beartown, Pa. He is a German, sixty-four years of age und a shoemaker by trade. He reached this city yesterday. WARRANT FOR DR. PARKER. Charged With Issuing a False Medi- eal Certiiicate. Tae police have in their possession a warrant for Dr. Joseph M. Parker, charg- ing him with making a false certificate under the act of 1890, which Is intended to prevent the spread of contagious dis- eases. Dr. Parker lives at No. 435 7th street southwest, and it is alleged that he sent to Mrs. Reabody, a public school teacher, a certificate to the effect that there was no diphtheria in the family of Mrs. Burger, when, it is charged, there was a case of the disease in tho famfly. Dr. James E. Walsh of the health depart- ment, who has -charge of the contagious disease bureau of the department, swore out the warrant. It is said that this is the first case brought under the act, and when the warrant is served, Judge Miller will hear the testimony on both sides. After the certificate was given the health office official made an investigation, and the analysis of the culture taken from the sick member of the family, it is charged, showed that the sickness was the result of an at- tack of the contagious disease mentioned. it is likely that the warrant will be served this eveniig or tomorrow, and the case heard early next week. NO NEW TRIAL, Judge Cole Overrnlexs Motion in the Culp Case, Judge Cole today overruled the motion for a new trial in the case of John A. Culp, convicted the 29th of last month of man- slaughter, in kicking Jeremiah A. Dough- erty, a small boy, io death the 12th of last September. The defendant will probably be sentenced Mond — — CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY, The Charge Agninst Dwyer and Can- ninghant, Charles Moriis, alias Mason, allas “Bos- ton Charley,” whose arrest on a charge of complicity: in the attempt to obtain $250 from the wife of Judge James M. Lindsey ie, Tex., was so anxiously de- » 28 publis n yester- not apprehended in Cin- X-pogilist trainer, ham were held vi nd in the afternoon nry ©. Bolden be- thesum of $200, and terday a colored man named { came Dwyer’ in i 2: Ss taken to court and Dwyer appeured there f . Pre- | cinct ctive Suite the arrest, 1 th to Prosecuting Attorney y the res: was that a werrant for alleged crirainal con- Spiracy was filed. Mr. Mullowny Judge Miller to the Dwyer’s bond be iner his motion was granted, the court z his security | at $00. ——— CONTRACT FOR HEADSTONES. How the Graves of Union Soldiers Are Marked. The quar er general of the army has contracted with William H. Gross of Lee, Mass., fer 10,009 headstones, to mark the graves of soldiers and sailors whose remains rpose in national cemeteries, Thus are remembered the men who received an honorable discharge and whose fr s de application after their death for a rt of the r appropriation made to fitly mark the g1 of t ation’ diers and sail The he ones provid- the government are no means tentious, Their ay ost of Ss been about twe dollars price the coming ct 10,000, ini ution mar anh t provid ayority l by of ce end infantry; nireteen’ Lieut. Col. ¢ h infantr infantry, to Kan., on of preparing th ulations of infa mit its report to t army not later thar Bz per, = mporary nar of the urth ©: sor of mi own Univ Pr geon, have be le: ene month, or nt of Capt. ees ak A Sunday School Institute. An Institute was held at the Metho Church in Tenleytown ts the au S of the § of the Di per on ome Our Recent ing and clo: 1. lesson for tom: the audience a: prices. Grain pts sho dull, unchanged. Sugar very strong—zranulated, 5.08 per 10) pounds. Butter steady, unchanged. Exzgs d. f Cheese steady, unchanged. Whisky tachanged. By Wednesday's fire in Guayaquil, Ecua- dor, one hundred and thirty houses were destroyed and a thousand persons were ieft homeless, i f | Texas Pacific. 1 | bid, 114 asked. vi FINANCE AND TRADE Fractional Concessions Throughout the Stock List, YEP HIGHER PRICES ARE LOOKED FOR Influence of Anti-Silver Legislation Expected. GENERAL MARKET REPORTS Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, February 15.—In attempting to market stocks this morning the profe sional trading element disclosed the signiti- cant fact that the buying power decreased in direct proportion to the increase in the realizing tendency. Fractional essions were consequently almost general through- out the active list, but not to such an ex- tent as to materially influence sentiment. On the theory that the real significance of the defeat of silver legislation will sooner or later be recogaized in foreign money centers, and that owners of securities will demand considerably hicher prices Tor their holdings, the trading clement is confident of its ability to force a higher level of vaiues. The market will be less « late, however, and reactions frequent, but ultimate re: te will libe compensa paticnt holders. of the trregularity, which during the week Manhattan and Missouri sided than of will be more al cific are the more con: and dem- onstrate the fact that wre di posed to discriminate between securities on the basis of ear ‘The ompany for uarter ending D reflects surplus after chart » as con h ous competition of surface roads and evidences of liberal sales of long wheneyer-the market will absorb the s have combined in attractir tive selling movement to this ling movement is perh ed in value by memories of wit once was, but these who have sentiment are no longer ¢ optimistic friends of the cline of 312 per cent thi complished on @ relativ tradin overcome among the y. The de- ng Was 2c- amount of re, profit-taking on th having no effect on the pri The prospects for a mo teri property have seldom, if ever, fying as at present. Tne company is £ a good n 2 coming from ali ether p ther preferr pposed to im yank statement j the week’s oper i payments. apt of gold withdrawn for paymer subir wes > A gain of nearly four milli 8 is attributed to ament depc aracter The of this deposited coin aware & Hudson... - AR, Grande, Ph Dis. & Caitie F y wetion. . attan Blevated Michigan Centrai Missouri Pacis X Northern Pacific, Pf North Ame ewiing nan Fal. Car rhiia. Tract nu. US bie rest nd ‘Trast 1 ask nd Trast 119 bid, ¢ Light Stocks,—Washin: “4.4 ectric 1 pictin, BS Wid, ran, 50 1 bid, t, 125 t 3 Title, 107 Columbia ‘Tide . 7% asked. .—Penrsylvan! Potomac, St asked. Lanston bid, 2 bi asked. “Washington Mark, oat Falls Tce, 120 Wid, 190 asked. Norfolk and Washington Sicamboat, 90 bid. Lincoln Hall, 90 asked.