Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1896, Page 9

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Complaints are made that the electric lighting in Georgetown has become ex- tremely bad of late, and that some nights there are are lamps which fail to illumin- ate. Other lights for some reason, it is as- serted, fail te work in the early part of the evening, a time when most needed by the general public. This state of affairs is orly of recent date. For St. Ann's Church. ‘The sacred concert which will be held to- morrow evening at the Lafayette Square Opera House, under the auspices of St. Ann’s Aid Society, for the benefit of St. Arn’s Church of Tenleytown, promises to be a great success, and much credit is due to Mr. Charles Stohiman, who has had charge of the matter. The musical portion of the program will be under Prof. Mariano Maina, who leads the chorus of seventy volees, representing the best talent in the church choirs of the city. The soloists in- clude Miss Mary Helen Howe, Mrs. Pauline Maina, Miss Rosa Cayce, Miss Blanche Mattingly, Miss Jennie Masterson, Miss Mamie Donnelly, Mr. W. D. McFarland, Mr. Bernard A. Ryan, Mr. Joseph C. Mur- ray, Mr. A. L. Denison, Mr. George O'Con- nor and Mr. Charles Goodchild. Notes. Rev. Dr. Alexander of the West Street Presbyterian Church exchanges pulpits to- torrow morning with Rev. Dr. Luccock of the Metropolitan Church, 4th and B streets southeast. Mr. Richard Edmonston of 3144 Dumbar- ton avenue is confined to his home on ac- count of sickness. Mr. Charles H. Fickling has been ap- pointed a notary public for Georgetown, to fill the vacancy caused by the absence of Mr. Jerry Fickiing, his brother. The dinner given last evening by the ladies of the Improvement Society of the Dumbarton Avenue Church was a very successful affair, and a good sum was add- ed to the building fund. ie two-night fair at Linthicum Hall given by the iadies of Christ Church closed last evening. —_—__ STRINGING WIRES. Another Lineman Brought Into Court Fe Edwin Aldrich, a lineman in the employ of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, was in Judge Kimball's court today, charged with stringing overhead wires on Massachusetts avenue northeast in violation of law. Policemen Lynch and Creagh, who witnessed the alleged violation of law, did not make the arerst at that time, but got out a warrant and then noti- fied the lineman to appear. He failed to appear, and last night he ‘was arrested. Lawyer Jere Wilson, who was in court as the company’s counsel, said he hoped po- licemen would be more careful in the fu- ture in making arrests. Aldrich, he com- plained, was taken from his home last night. Policeman Lynch explained that the ar- rest was rendered necessary because of the man's failure to respond to a request to appear in court for trial. The charge was that the stringing of the wires amounted to an occupation of the Public streets for private e Counsel explained that no additional wires were put up. New wires, he said, were strung to take the place of old ones. This work, he claimed, was provided for in a permit issued some time since by the Dis- trict es Prosecuting Attorney Pugh examined the permi:, and said he was satisfied that the law had not been violated. Judge Kimball was of the same opinion, and Mr. Pugh nolle prossed the charge. THE NATIONAL GUARD Savannah Drill Probably Not for the Championship, | TIME LIMIT FOR CHALLENGE EXPIRED Leaders ‘in the Series of Rifle Matches. SHAM BATTLES AT CAMP It is now established beyond any probabil- ity of change that the only company of the District of Columbia National Guard to at- tend the interstate drill at Savannah, Ga., May 11-16, will be the Morton Cadets. Company C of the Washingtgn Light In- fantry Corps dropped out of the list of Possibilities a week ago,and Tuesday evening last, at a special meeting the Emmet Guard, which had prior thereto practically con- cluded to engage in the competition, de- cided adversely on the proposition, for the stated reason that should the company visit Georgia it would be with no assurances of atteading with full ranks the brigade encampment of the District Guard at Fort Washington next July. It would not be very surprising if the Morton Cadets should remain at home, for Capt. Shilling is not over pleased with the progress of his drill team up to date, and a few evenings ago announced that unless a marked tmprove- ment is shown by the close of next week, the drills will come to a sudden termina- tion, he being determined that his team shall not leave the city unless in the pink of condition. The announcement that the National Fencibles will protest against the Galveston semi-centennial championship cup being placed in competition at Savannah,and that they are determined to use every effort possible to have the protest sustained, even if it be necesssary to resort to the courts, has added interest to the situation, as has also the reported statement that the Thurs- ton Rifles would decline to surrender the cup. Adjutant General Mabry of Texas, the custodian of the cup, has formally recog- nized the Savannah interstate drill, and ordered that the cup be placed in competi- tion there, with the understanding tbat none but regularly organized companies, so recognized by the militia laws of their re- spective states, will be elected to compete for the cup. Col. William Garrard, presi- dent of the Military Interstate Association of Savannah, has guaranteed that the com- peting companies shall only be such as stipulated by Adjutant General Mabry. Rules Governing the Cup. The suggested protest regarding the cup has called forth many expressions on the subject, demonstrating general ignorance as to the conditions governing the cup. The rules stipulate that the title to the cup shall be in the adjutant general of Texas, as trustee, and that it is subject to chal- lenge by ary white volunteer military or- ganizatiors of the United States, to be competed for at any interstate military drill and encampment held in any state of the Union. The adjutant general of Texas, it is provided, shall determine what consti- tutes such drill and encampment. The company holding the cup must be Prepared to defead the possession and cus- tody thereof upon receiving a challenge to that effect, not more than fifteen days after the announcement of the interstate drill and encampment at which it is proposed to compete fcr the cup; and in case the com- pany holding the same shall fail to appear at the time and place designated, it shall immediately forfeit the possession of the cup, and the adjutant general of Texas shall take steps to take possession thereof and deliver it to the management of the interstate drill and encampment, to be com- peted for and held in accerdancee with the rules. The adjutant general of Texas is vested with power ard authority to obtain possession. of the cup whenever the stipur lated rules have, in bis opinion, been vio- lated, or it becomes, in his judgment, nec- essary for him to do so. At a meeting of the National Fencibles Several days ago the board of governors was authorized by the company to proceed in any manner deemed advisabie to prevent the cup going to Savannah if the Kencibles are barred from the contest. Formal ap- plication for entry has been forwarded by Capt. Domer, he as yet not having received |, any announcement that his company has been barred. Capt. Domer holds, however, an invitation extended to the Fencibles to compete, and since its receipt no communi- cation on the subject has taken place. Trophy to Remain at Omaha. It would seem that in spite of the position assumed by the adjutant general of Texas and the Savanneh drill management regard- ing “independent” companies, the Galves- ton cup, after all, will not be placed in com- petition, so say those in a position to know, under one of the rules gov- erning the possession of the cup— that relating to the time limit in which challenge shall be issued. Hither the ‘Thurston Rifles or the Fencibles, it is a certainty, wi raise the point that the Thurston Rifles were not challenged within fifteen days after the announcement of the drill, as is required, and it is not clear how such a contention can be overruled. The first announcement of the Savannah drill, in this city, was through a press dispatch published February 27, and the challenge of Capt. Shilling of the Morton Cadets to the Thurston Rifles to compete for the cup at Savannah was dated March 28. The Fencibles claim they are prepared to emter the drill and compete for the cup, if permitted to do so. If they are barred out, they declare the cup will also be conspicu- cus by its absence. The Governors Guari and the Neeley Guard Zouaves, both of Memphis, Tenn., have decided to enter the Savannah drill, end some little amusement was occasioned locally by the announcement that the former would compete for both the maiden and free-for-all prizes. As a maiden com- pany the Governor's Guard is a little over- ripe, in the opinion of the District drill sharps. The company took third place and a cash prize at Little Rock in 1994 and drilled in all three classes at Memphis last year. The Morton Cadets say they will be pleased to meet the Governor’s Guard again at Savannah. There is some talk of the Engineer Corps sending a rifle team to Savannah, but the proposition has not assumed tangible pro- portions as yet. Company Match Scores, Company A, engineer corps, came out ahead in the company match shot Thurs- day evening last. The scores in detail are as follows: Sixth battalion, company A—Capt. Simon- son, 49; Sergt. McClain, 48; Sergt. Groome, 48; Corporal Whitacre, 47; Corporal Wilcox, 43, Total, 235. Company B—Sergt. Davenport, 41; Cor- poral Bristow, 45; Private Buell, 48; Pri- vate Pile, 45; Lieut. Kirk, 43. Total, 222. Company C—Private Garner, 12; Private Sweeny, 32; Private Hayes, Pri yatinecDile, 19; Private Presnell, First separate battalion, company A— Sergt. Wells, 32; Private Gibson, 31; Pri- vate Thomas, 41; Private Sedden, 40; Pri- vate Snowden, 40. Total, 184. Company B—Sergt. Addison, 24; Sergt. Thomas, 41; Lieut. Piper, 31; Private Jack- son, 28; Private Henson, 30. Total, 154. Company C—Private Ennis, 26; Private Brooks, 26; Private Nelson, 38; Private Davis, 42; Private Johnson, 10. Total, 142. Company D—Lieut. Johnson, 34; Sergt. Collins, 28; Corporal Murry, 35; Sergt. Stewart, 36; Private Gaskins, 25. Total, 158. Engineer ‘corps, company A—Corporai Carleton, 46; Private Albertie, 49; Privaie Birney, 48; Private Williams, 50; Sergt. Mc- Laughlin, 46. Total, 239. Company B—Private Edwards, 45; Capt. Holt, 50; Private Owen, 43; Private Terry, 83; Sergt. Miller, 44. Total, 215. Company C—Lieut. Johnson, 43; Corporal | Wright, 44; Private Lamson, 45; Private ees Private Trueworthy, 45. Total, First separate company—Trumpeter Cat- roll, 44; ite P. Scharf, 87; Private W. J. Scharf, 27; Private Lanham, 37; Private Boyer, 40. Total, 185, nd separate company—Sergt. Gibson, ; Sergt, Sorrells, 34; Corporal Eckstein, 46: Private Willis, 81; Private Campbell, 13. Total, 164 Lieut. F. E. Gibson, inspector of rifle practice of the third battalion, who acted as range officer for the company, shoot Thursday evening, demonstrated his ability =) . Total, to see that orders are out as in- tended. In securing a detail, con- sisting of Sergt. De Groot and Privates Rollins, Streets, De Groot and Brown, from company D of the third, and strictly en- forcing the rules regarding visitors and good order in the gallery, Lieut. Gibson did no more than was expected of him, but the fact was noticeable that the match gt 600 yards was the only one of the seriea mark- ed by such a condition of affairs. Standing of the Rifle Teams. ‘With the conclusion of-thp, rifle matches at 600 yards the pending series in the gal- lery will be brought to a olése. Owing to lack of funds, no trophies for the winners have as yet been procuféd,’ but those who finish at the head of the list in the re- spective classes will nél unrewarded. Up to the matches at 600 yards company A, engineer corps, led in the company match, with a total of 664 Company A, sixth battalion, stood second, with 656; company B, second battalion, third, with ; company B, sixth hattalion, fourth, with 645; company B, engineer corps, fifth, with 610, and company A, third battalion, sixth, with 596. In the battalion match the sixth battal- fon leads, with 1,301; engineer corps, sec- ond, with 1,293; ' second battalion, third, with 1,288; third battalion, fourth, with 1,248, and the fifth battalion fifth, with 1,243. The second regiment leads in the regi- mental match, with a total of 1,344, the score of the first.regiment-being 1,330. From the records of the 200, 300 and 500 yards matches the number of men having @ chance to try for the Burkart medal are twenty-two in number. However, as cer- tain of these must score as high as 50, 49 and 48 in the matches at 000 yagds, it is likely that the number to enter the final contest will be twelve. The eligibles at the end of March were:*Lieut. G. C. Shaw, Pri- vate Wells, Trumpeter Carroll, Private G. W. Albertie, Private Bairstow, Sergt. Mc- Laughlin, Private McIntosh, Private Col- laday, Private Groome, Private Williams, Sergt: A. 8. McLain, Private Crist, Capt. Shilling, Private Pyle, Private Wright, Pri- vate Dubois, Private Lamson, Private Ly- man, Sergt. Whitacre, Lieut. Kirk and Sergt. Maj. Lanham. That Flag Incident Ended. It seems that the incident which was the outcome of the communication .to a local newspaper by Major Otto L. Suess of the fifth battalion, complaining of the general lack of patriotism apparent in this city, and intimating that several officers of the army had failed to salute the flag during a parade of the second regiment, Washing- ton’s birthday, has been disposed of to the entire satisfaction of all the parties con- cerned, and is now merely .a matter of his- tory. The communication of Lieut. Reichman to the »djutant general of the army, ex- plaining that that officer did pay proper homage to the national colors, it is stated, was promptly forwarded to Major Suess and returned by that officer through mili- tary channels with equal: celerity. Major Suess, it is understood, in his reply inclosed a clipping that he had published, to the effect that his first communication was the result of an error on his part, and express- ed a regret at the course followed by lim- self. It is also sald that the commanding general of the District militia commended Major Suess for his conduct after-receiving the communication inclosing the cxplana- tion of Lieut. Reichman, and that all the Papers pertaining to the incident are now filed away at the War Department. Gen. Ruggles, so the story goes, was not con- cerned personally in the Suess matter what- soever. His reported connection with the flag was during the parade in the after- noon, February 22, of organizations in dis- tinctive uniforms. The Fifth Battalion in Competition. “In summing up the result of the compe- tition Monday last,” said’ Maj. Suess to a Star reporter, “I cannot ‘refrain from ex- pressing my gratification,,and pleasure at the very fair showing made on that occa- sion by all the compantesiof the battalion. I feel toward my companies something like the fabled Kentuckian doés toward waisky, ‘All good, only some’s better than oth- ers.’ They persevered under circum- stances that I believe should merit ap- preciation if nothing more. Next year the inspection, which is bound to be more or less monotonous, willbe entirely eliminated from the annual drill, for the red each company will be ins} month, upon which their based. The official percentag were: Company D, 54.80 pany 1, 77.93; company A, For battalion dritf, thé” battalion’ lined ith 154 officers and men in ranks out 2 who appear on the last roster. “I will state, however, that the battalion could not do itself justice in battalion drill, owing, first, to the crowd, and, second, the noise, that made the most perfectly vocal- ized command almost unintelligible along the long line, which was stretched from one end of the rink inclosure to the other. However, I do not wish to make an excuse forthe two.errore that were made Jn gain: through almost. the entire school of the ‘battalion, and if-all commands “were™-pre- scribed on the bugle, ever those would not have happened.” S It is understocd that Mr. John F. Burk- art will offer a cup next year, valued at about $2), to be competed for by battalions of the D. C. N. G., under such rules and regulations as may be provided from bri- gade headquarters, provided the permission to make such an offer can be obtained. Program of the Camp. Although the House of Representati has not yet acted on the District appropria- tion bill, it is practically a certainty that the guard will go into camp at Fort Wash- ington during July, the camp probably be- ginning July 18. The possibility exists that when the bill reaches the Senate the appro- priation for camp may be made immediately available, in which event the outing would take placa in June. The program to be followed at camp has not been thought of, but it may be an- nounced that work in extended order, main- ly, will be required of the troops. One or more field days, including sham battles and the use of blank cartridges, may also be expected. Appronching Annual Inspection. ‘The approaching annual inspection is causing quite a noticeable stir about the armory and company commanders are growing active in getting things in shape. Muster roll blanks have been sent out and their return is due at headquarters not later than April 30. The adjutant general will issue an order about April 17 covering the matter of inspections and announcing the dates fer the same, which will probably oc- cupy the first two weeks of May. An ef- fort will be made to formally present, at the time of the inspections, the marksmen's buttons and sharpshooters’ crosses to those men whose rifle practice record for the seasons of 1894-95 entitle them to the dec- orations. Second Regiment Appointments. Col. Clay has appointed Robert E. Fugitt quartermaster sergeant and George F. D. Rollings commissary sergeant on the non- commissioned staff of the second regiment. Capt. Parmenter, the quartermaster of the regiment, expresses himself as happy in se- curing the services of such able assistants, as Mr. Fugitt is a quartermaster clerk of long experience and Mr. Rollings has served in the guard a number of years, at one time holding commission as captain in the or- iginal second battalion.. i Discharges Honorable ai Otherwise. Qn their own applications, honorable dis- charges have been grastedWirst Sergt. P. Egbert Stevens, company; C, engineer corps; Private George JA; *edhead, com- pany A, second battalion, and Private Geo. A. Adkins, company B, fifth battalion. Because of expulsioryfrgm their com- pany, Privates Oliver Sgerd, Charles W. Grigsby and ‘Edgar Blackman, company B, fifth battalion, have beey dishonorably dis- charged. Notes. 5) Tne resignation of Fifst Lieut. William Garrett, company C, aixth.-battalion, has been accepted. Second Lieut. James M. Fairly, company A, sixth battalion, has tendered his resig- nation. In general orders No. 1 from headquar- ters announcement is made of the death of Second Lieut. John E. Waters, third sepa- rate company, which occurred in this city January 5 last. : No official action has as yet been taken as regards the charges preferred by Capt. 8. H. Wiggin against First Weut. Frank P. Libbey, goth of the second separate com- pany. Capt. E. C. Edwards announces that the members of the National Guard Athletic Association who fail to make payment of the first installment calfed for some time ago prior to the 15th- instant will be dropped from the rolls: The association will meet Monday evening next. The court of inquiry in the Gfbson- Tralles matter held a session Tuesday evening last, and heard .the case of the HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS Points from am Address Delivered by George Alfred Townsend. ‘Western Maryland to the Front in the Life of the State—Inspiration From the Mou: ‘The Conocochesgue Club, the first social erterprise of the kind in western Mary- land, occupies Judge Louis McComas” res- idence there, and takes its name from the Ccnocecheague settlement along the creek of that name, which empties into the Po- tcmac at Williamspcrt, a spot once affirma- tively considered by Congress for the American capital. “We are to go,” wro:e John Adams, “to the place up the Potomac with the long name.” Last Tuesday night the first literary reception of the Conoco- cheague Club was held, and Mr. George Alfred Townsend, by invitation for the ac- casion, delivered an address, which con- cluded as follows: “A thousand years to a state are but as a day. Still in the throes of development like a growing boy, America perfects char- acter and completes institutions indifferent- ly well. Like the English in South Africa, we must overrun some other place, in- stead of halting where we were. “But stability also has its defects. Na- ture is a vast convulsion of horrid suns consuming worlds and giving forth beauty, like the caterpillars which eat the trees to transform them into silk. “Pleasurable existence, earthly satisfac- tion, the joy of the appetite, rejection of thought ss so much care, do not fill the high conditions of a society. “There must be ideals, and among them are cultivation, appreciaticn, honor and the pursuits which lead to fame. “Animal success should follow some law of progress, and there is a public spirit greater than politics. “As we look upon Hagerstown the mind pauses at the influence of a woman so gen- tly potent with her husband that he en- dows a church and creates a hotel where she was korn. The hotel stimulates our chief public man to equal or surpass it, and Hagerstown exalts its character by its ho- tels. The next flower of this public Instinct is a club, where ideas shall have a market and a manrerly forum. The fourth projec- tion might be a library apd its kindred classes for mutual or competitive Improve- ment. “If cities drain the rural regions it is be- cause they minister to the higher tastes. Ideals Lead to Truth. “I saw In Paris the pleasing, confident pictures of Ridgway Knight, one of the great painters there. He began to paint in Chambersburg, but what could detain him there when he can corquer in Paris? “Yet I heard a self-taught artist in Get- tysburg, Mr. Young, say Ridgway Knight painted too much for the price, and followed reture less than the rvarket. “Thus all ideals lead to truth, and truth is both consolation and strength. “A very young place is Hagerstown, but : I the city, the energy of western Mary land. “These narrow counties in one congres- sional district have obtaired the new gov- ernor and the new Senator of Maryland. The eastern shore law gives way to free career. Something has brought western Maryland to the front. The streaming cur- /rent of health and hope from the public schools, of discipline at the factories, is the ng life of western Maryland. ‘There has been stagnation enough. There are enough ruined towns. To me the most discouraging picture in Maryland is some old slave-halted town, with its two institutions of a pair of saloons and a pair of old conventicles surveying each other acress a muddy street like immemorial starveling chum: Theology, which has ae growth, exists on the eastern shore aw. “The mighty Influence of Europe, the smallest, least of continents, upon the rest is due to her material scientific spirit. Japan has taken up Europe's torch and waved it over China. A century of won- ders is to end in a match of economies and discipline to exceed each other in the practical arts. “The power of Asia is to be ina superior artistic feeling, which is here dulled by too much avarice. The man who lives on the least has the least weight upon his nature. “No man knows what the future life of the larger world is to be. The most in- | telligent nation which controls its waste- ful tendencies the hest is to be the fittest and survive. Hitherto America has con- i tested well. | “Our weak spot is cut party politics. It | obscures our view. Alas! the importance of Harties is in attempting to be eye servants of the people. The people may them- selves be the tyrants over their governors. |! Dogmatism is good for nobody. The Amer- ican press Js full of it. Government is a Weautiful eligine not to be handled by the } spectators. “The hardest of all tasks is self govern- ment, and that America has assumed to do. An Historic Event. “The civii war was a mighty educator, its utility greater than any instrument except the Federal Constitution in our history. The very cemeteries of its dead grow into sculpture and literature. Abraham Lin- coin, the Martin Luther and Shakespeare of our composite race, made sacred text of Gettysburg’s dedication, and on the great battlefield of Maryland rvminated upon the jemancipation of his southern race from delegating man’s best blessing, labor, to those who earned not its rewards. “Yet at Gettysburg the souvenirs in por- celain and purchased to commemorate that battle were made in Germany. “Awake again the spirit in the colonial potter's wheel and turn us back from a ration of pattern automatons to be artists in our neighborhood. The soldier in gran- Ite who presides over Antietam was fash- ioned by a forcign hand. “Gentlemen, our history is to be. Ideas are to be our highest priced grain. One chapter, the first In the New Testament, I never heard a.sermon thrown away upon, but an irreverent friend once quoted it to me thus: ‘Abraham forgot Isaac, and Isaac forgot Jacoh, and Jacob forgot fourteen generation z “This is as far as our history has come. The mountain forms around us only now begin to take the expression of inhabitancy and architecture. They were the first mountains I ever saw when I came from the eastern shore to live at Wright's old ferry, or Columbia, where the German pil- grim fathers of Maryland and the farther scuth crossed the Susquehanna. There I heard the dirges and guns in 1846, when Major Ringgold was brought home from Mexico. “It was almost forty years before I re- newed acquaintance with these mountain forms, and in the interval America had been remodeled under their wand of blue, ry pass in them become a romance. “I love to imagine them the contour of another Greece, inclosing a civilization without which Rome would have been a history of savages. I love thelr inspiration im the tender green of May, the cool blue tint of summer, in autumnal purple and the mountain fire at night, and, most of all, I love them in the parian nudity of snow. “Like marble statuary ‘The noble landscapes stand In one grand cemetery Above @ hero land: “Of old Antietam's story ‘The sculptor of the snow Carves out the allegory, Like Michael Angelo. ‘These bars of alabaster Entomb the scene of peace, Where Pollux fought with Cast And Freedom came to Greece.” _————— ‘WANTED IN ALEXANDRIA, Otto Borg is Charged With Passing Worthless Checks There Also. Otto A. Borg, who was arrested yesterday by Detective Sutton, to answer the charge of giving bogus checks, and locked up at the first precinct station, will probably be taken to Alexandria this afternoon, as it is alleged he is wanted there on a similar charge. His offenses in Washington consisted, it is said, of giving a false check to the Riggs House for board, amounting to $20, and also a check to Mr. August Petersen, vice consul for Sweden and Norway, for $20, which the latter cashed to oblige Borg. The accused claims that he did not know that it was un- latter. Another session, it is said, will be | lawful in this country to give a check on a held this evening. in which he had no money, THE CRAIG FURNITURE CO., 13th aid F Sts. Craig & Harding's Old Stand. A NEW STORE. A new store with new sto k and new ideas about business The cause of most failures s high prices. The lower the prices the largér the quantity that will be sold and the greater will be the aggregate profit in he’end. This is the principle upon which we shall do business. We shall sell jeverything lower than the same a.#-le could be bought for the same price in America. Opening Monday & Tuesday With extraordinary bargains toc. Silkoline, sc. °° 5,000 yards Best Quality Yard-wide * * Silkolines, usual price, 10c. Our price. Table Covers, 39c. Six-quarter Mottled Chenille Table * * Covers, 6¥c. value. Opening price... $1 Table Covers, 69c. * * Six-quarter Chenille Table Covers, attract- * * Ive desi b. rice, $1. pen- * lag aey pase ONE $25 Chamber Suites, $15.75 oe: 25 Solid Oak 3-piece Chamber Suites, polish * * finished, 24x30 beveled glass. * * Usual $25 value. Opening day price $15-75 $90 Suites, $45. fortunate enough to secure Very 5c. 39¢. ne Massive © Oak Chamber Suites, extra large * * size, high foot board, high swell top burean, * * immense 39 by 34-in. French beveled plate ** mirror. The iaakers Intended these Cham- * * ber Suites to sell for $90. Opening eae ee = * $45 China Closets, $9.75. — 10 Solid Oak China Closets, shaped beveled = * mirror top, giass front. neatly carv- ** ed) $15 value. Opening day price... $9.75 $9 Couches, $5.25. oe We closed ont from a maker 9 Fine Silk Tapestry and Brocatelle Couches, sik plush * trimmed, heavy fringe, 12 to 15 different * ings. Regular value ®. $5.28 * * Opening day price. Parlor Suites, $25. . 26 Handsome 5-plece Overstuffed Silk Tapes- * try Parlor Suites, spring edge, attractive col- * orings and look fally worth $50. = \Onestog day erie... 2" $25 $1 Screens, 39c. od 100 Silkeline Mounted Fire Screens, with ** solid oak frames. The old firm sold the * sume Screens for $1. Opening di 2 * 396 $75 Suites, $48.50. The failure of a leading Parlor Suite mann- facturer threw our way 40 Superb Inlaid Mar- quetrie Mahoxany-finished Parlor . Suites, stered In fancy damasks, beautiful work handsome enough to grace any parlor. Wer: intended to sell for $75. Op. $48. 50 day price. : $15 Sideboards, $10.90. > We call them $15 Sidebourdk, because that * © is the price they were made to sell for. ‘The °° are solid oak, in. long, beveled plate mir- a8 st brass trimmed 2 t Sao, 90 neatly carvea. Opening day price Book Cases, $19.75. ** 5 Hands Solid Oak Combination Secreta- ries and Bookcases, 45 in. long, finished with * large French plate mirrer. Bookcase has * shaped front glass, and the plece is withal very handsome and looks fully worth $28. Opening day price DUQ-7S Mattings, $3.90. Big Matting Department and over 100 if- ferent patterns and kinds. As an opening at- traction we will sell full 40-yard pieces of fine China Matting, in attractive patterns, eeeee eooee Rockers, 58c._ °° Special job lot of 250 Rattan Rock- 2° em. Parlor Tables, 43c. oe 58c. Immense purchase of 1,000 Execlent 16-in. * * Solid Oak Paclor Tables, beaded edge. Low- * * est price formerly named by any one ** has been Ode. Opening day price.... 43* Oak Chiffoniers, $4.75. ** Handsome Solid Oak 6-drawer Chiffoniers, °° polish finished. Other stores ask += $10. Opening day prices. 9407S Hall Stands, $5.75. => 20 Fine Solid Oak Hall Stands, box seat, 4 double hat prongs, French beveled mit ** Good val at $10. Opening day SP pres rorceertiectinnrsrs ee ED Ice Chests, $2.95. ** 50 Solid Oak Tce Chests, galvanized iron * * Mned, double cover, echarcorl filled. S= wbpaing cy mrt A: $2.95 $6.50 Rugs, $3.90. - Big Rug stock, embracing all kinds. G to sell them all lower than any one Here's a sample: 100 36 Bugs. ng size Best Grade Smyrna 12-ft. Jute Rug, in Japanese pattern, ise disiens. Cot you $15 S1Q Eo Opening day price Curtains. + * Curigins and Draperies will be a feature of ++ the store. Big stock of them, and all low ** priced. During the Opening Daye we shell * © offer the following specials: o. rs Fine Large Nottingham Lace Our- oe nd ecru. $4 values. Open Go oe » sold during the Opening at half price, as follows: $s Curtains, $2.50. $6 Curtains, $3. $8 Curtains, $4. $10 Curtains, $5. $12 Curtains, $6. $15 Curtains, $7.50. TheCrai gy FurnitureCo. Wm. Craig, Mgr. (Craig & Harding’s Old Stand,) 13th and F Streets. GARBAGE CA REQUIRED. Many Caves of Viola: Court. 5 The garbage question was fully aired in the Police Court this morning, when a number of citizens were called upon to answer charges of violating the law. About twenty cases, brought by the dif- ferent inspectors of the health department, were tried or nolle prossed. In the prose- cution of these cases the excuses given in court were almost as numerous as were the cases. Judge Kimball said that the notices from the health cffice had been sent to every house in the city, and that there was no excus> at this late day, when the required cans are not on all premises. The measure is yurely a sanitary one, and he oped that before the hot weather sets in everybody would have a metallic receptacle with a tight cover. Several fines of $ were imposed and many cases dismissed. The will of the late Rev. Thomas G. Ad- dison, rector of Trinity Church, dated March 21, 1896, and witnessed by James A. Clarridge, William C. Field and W. Meyer Lewin, was filed this afternoon for probate. His entire estate is bequeathed to his wife, Maria E. Addison, who is named as ex- ecutrix. —_——.__. MUSICIANS ELECT OFFICERS. Next Year's Convention Wi in Kansas City. The National League of Musicians has -elected officers for the ensuing year as fol- lows: President, Alexander Bremer of New York; vice presidents, George Nachman of Baltimore, J. H. Eschman of Minneapolis and F. Arrico of Birmirgham, Ala.; sec- retary, Jacob Beck of Philadelphia; treas- urer, George Schath of Cincinnati; trustees, H. Asmus of Buffalo, C. H. William Ruhe of Pittsburg, J. Schmalz of Cincinnati, E. A. Drach of Chicago, M. Christensen of Salt Lake. Mr. Ruhe was elected chairman of the board. Kansas City, Mo., was selected as the place of the next meeting, and it was de- cided that the convention shall assemble in May instead of April. —_. WHITE RIBBON CONVENTION. it Be Held Miss Frances E. Willard to Make an ‘Address Tomorrow Afternoon. Miss Frances E. Willard, president of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, will deliver an addrss at the meet- ing of the White Ribbon Convocation, to be held tomorrow afternoon at the First Congregational Church. Mrs. M. B. Platt, the president of the District W. C. T. U., will preside. Mrs. Albert Houghton will give a vocal solo, and there will also be music by the vested ¥. choir, with Miss Abbie Power as organist. —.—__ Bequeathed to the Family. The late Mary M. Frisby, by her will, deted April 6, 1896, and filed for probate this afternoon, names Charles W. Handy and Catharine McSweeney executors. The estate of the deceased ds bequeathed to surviving members of the family. SS Fell From a Telegraph Pole. ‘Wm. Kelly, a lineman, fell from a tele- graph pole near the south end of the Long bridge yesterday. His left arm was broken, and he was badly bruised about the head and body. He was at work stringing wires, and losing his balance he fell from the cross-arm to the ground. He was taken to the Emergency Hospital, -and this morn- ing was resting easy. He is about thirty years old, and his home is in New York. Up to a late hour this afternoon there had been no new developments in the Hall murder, nor have-any tangtble clues been found. It begins to look as though the case would remain a mystery, for the more the police investigate it the less there seems to go upon. The two men who were locked up yesterday on suspicion have been released, as it was evident they had nuth- ing to do with the killing of the old hunch- back and knew nothing «bout it. Last evening the police of the eighth precinct brought in several men against whom there was some suspicion, but they were not held. Detective Lacey and Policemen Barrett and Owens are following up every suggestion or rumor in a thorough and painstaking manner, but so far each thread has led to absolutely nothing. They have no one under arrest this afternoon, and confess that they are as far from the so- lution of the mystery as they were in the beginning. — POINTED TOE SHOES AND WHISKY. They Led to Trouble for Francis Ruckle, an Elevator Boy. Francis Ruckle was given a trial in the Police Court today on a charge of theft. It was claimed that while employed as elevatcr boy in an apartment house near New York avenue and -I5th street he en- tered the studio of Gilbert Munger and stole $30. The young man made no dp- fense. To Detectives Boyd and Helan he admitted his guilt, and said he had sp the money for pointed toe shoes, whi and in the “Division.” Judge Miller read him a severe lecture about his conduct, and ordered that he make restitution or go down for sixty days, and that he pay a fine of $25 or thirty days. a LUCAS SENTENCED. The Slayer of Ollie Taylor Must Serve Five Years at Alban: Judge Cole today overruled a motion for @ pew trial in the case of John Lucas, con- victed recently of manslaughter, in caus- ing the death of Olife Taylor, and sen- tenced the convicted man to five years’ imprisonment in the Albany penitentiary. —_—_—_ A Pickpocket Pleads Gulity. John Holmes, colored, who was arrested yesterday by Detectives Horne and Wee- don for picking the pocket of Isaac Mala- wista at an auction recm on Louisiana avenue, pleaded guilty of petit larceny in tke Police Court today, and was sentenced to thirty days in jail. fiven a Divorce. Judge Hagne this afternoon signed a de- cree divorcing Sadie Estella Leffingwell from William Albion Leffingwell. Mrs, Lef- fingwell claimed that she was married to the defendant, her maiden name being Fridley, February 18, 1886, and that he de- serted her October 4, 181, and is now in Augusta, Ga., where he has lived in open adultery with one Amy Peterson. —~-___ Instructed for McKinley. The Oregon republican state convention at Portland yesterday afternoon elected dele- gates to the national! convention, and unan- imously instructed them to vote for Mc- Kinley for President. ——— --+0< Housebreakers Sentenced, John Wilson, alias Jerry Gray, colored, cervicted of housebreaking, was sentenced to three years in the Albany penitentiary today by Judge Cole. Frederick Robin- scn, recently convicted of the same charge, was given ninety in jail. Mra. Lefingwell