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2 ed with the knife, pistol and bomb; but the fair, delicate-looking girl who succeed- ed William IV is now the senior mon- arch of the world, and has survived during her regal career three emperors of Russia, one of whom was dynamited. Her first aspiration at the age of ten; on learn- ing that she was to succeed her Uncle William, was “‘to be good.” She repeated to her governess, “I will be good,” and she has kept this vow, which time has shown embodied the highest political wisdom. Surely the date of her sixtieth anniversary should be an object lesson of the highest import to the czar and his gentle young wife, and especially now that the moral sense of mankind is shocked with the re- peated massacres of Armenian Christians— massacres for which the czar’s late chan- cellor, Prince Lobanoff, and his representa- tive at Constantinople, M. Nelidoff, are greatly answerable in the eyes of history, and, what is more important, in the eyes of God. A Lesson of the Past. The date that coincides with the land- ing in France of Nichelas and Alexandra is the hundred and seventh anniversary of the march of the market women of Paris on the palace of Versailles to brink back the king, queen and their children hostages of the revolution. Their capture was ef- fected next day, October 6, 1789, on the anniversary of which the czar enters Paris for the first time and with that spectacular show which the French are so skilled in arranging. The blind worms now in power here are doing what they can to divest the date of its true significance. The severe lesson that it should inculcate Is being hidden away. Despotic monarchs are, humanly speak- ing, assured of impunity. The power that shapes the ends of na- tions as of individual men and women catches up such potentates in their pos- terity and often the seemingly innocent are made to pay for the guilty, as in the case of Lows XVI and Marie Antoinette. This lesson should ai the present time, when, with the tacit complicity of France aad Ressia, Armenians are being mas- sacred and extled in tens of thousands, come home wich awesome force to the minds of Nicholas and Alexandra and make them tremble for themselves and for their infant daughter, the darl.ng of their hearts. The only daughter of Louis and Marie Antoinette was apyarently born to the mest brillant lot of any princess of her time. Yet she was fated to see be- fcre she was thirteen years old her fa- ther, mother and aunt led out to execution, to be a solitary prisoner during four years, to witress in the course of her life three revcluticus in France, and to die in exile with cheeks furrowed with the iears that had flowed during sixty-three years. ‘The czar and czarina will not be escorted to France by Russian warships. The French government was most anxious that they should do so and give an object les- son in the roads of Cherbourg of the na- val strergth of Franch and Russia united. But Nicholas was too much the gentle man to lend himself to that game of brag, which doubtless would have been most gratifying to the president, who wants to figure in the eyes of .Europe as the sea king and head of the French army. Grand Naval Spectacle. To make up for this disappointment (for Prince Lebanoff had come into the idea of a Franco-Russian review at Cherbourg) M. Felix Faure, whose vanity grows on what it feeds, caused a part of the Atlan- tic and Toulon squadrons to be ordered round to Cherbourg. There will be, there- fore, a grand naval spectacle in honor of the imperial visitors. M. Faure has, however, been able to se- cure tne presence of the czar, in company with himself, at a review of 70,000 soldiers at the Camp of Chalons. He tries, on the one side, to revive the glories of Versailles (of which more presently), and on the other to revive the military glories of the em- pire of Chalons, where the Emperor Na- poleon III annually “held,” as the French used to say, “Prussia and the Germanic ccr federation in respect.” The mam:moth imperial train proved un- marageable and dangerous. In going round the Girdle railway, from Vaugirard to Passy Green, where the imperial party are to alight, it flattened out the rails and ran Had it not been going at a off them. snail's pace there would have a grave, not to say fatal, accident. There is a chapel in the regular impertal train, with Icons of the Virgin and Child, of St. Alexander Newsky, St. Olga and St. Nicholas, ‘the ezar’s patron saint, and also the patron of little children. In Russia he is regarded as a sort of Father Christmas. The nursery compartments will be missed In the French jally arranged train. On the other hand, M. Faure will have the in- tense joy of acting as host to the imperial visitors all the way from Cherbourg to Paris, and of giving them more than the eight hours of his company and conversa- tion than they had agreed to put up with at Cherbourg. The original arrangement was that they should travel in their own train, he in his, a short distance be- fore them. Mme. Faure Ignored. He is to meet them at Cherbourg without Madame Faure, and is also to meet them unaccompanied by the ladies of his family at the palace 6f Versailles the day they go there. Madame Faure has no national or international rank, and the president's many journalistic enemies, whose envy he is constantly arousing, haye made it ! possible for the empress to ignore a black Page of the good lady’s family history. About a fortnight ago they-returned to the charge, and published the sentence by de- fault passed on M. Bellnot, her father, a lawyer by profession, with the contract of marriage of his daughter and a journey- man tanner, who is now president of the republic. The first document recorded twenty years of penal service on Bellnot, who had fled to Spain, then out of the reach of extradition, for robbing a client by a forged paper; the second showed that M. Felix Faure got as a dowry 100,000 francs out of the assets Bellnot left in dying. This exposure was mean and spiteful. But the court of Russia had to take it into ac- count. The empress, accordingly, is not to ass! with Madame Faure ‘in public. She ts only to see her when she calls at the Elysee and dines there. M. Faure will await them at the Francais and Opera House. They have arranged to go by them- selves to the former and to Versailles, The road thither has a central pavement of cobble stones, thirteen miles long. It is to be thickly ‘sanded the whole way to make it smooth for the imperial carriage. The whole garrison of Paris are to be un- der arms and posted algng the road. Levee at Versailles. An imperial levee will be held in the Gal- lery of Mirrors, which has been furnished as in the time of Louis XI But physiog- nomies and the costumes will be so differ- ent, and, alas! the manners, too. Ambas- sadors in the eighteenth century were never professional diplomats, affectedly re- served, but men born to great stations and chosen for their social gifts, as well as for their clear heads, bright wits and insight and readiness. They dressed magniticently and had a grand air. The corps diplomat- ique which will present their homages to the czar and czarina at Versailles wiil con- tain no such diplomats as Lord Stair, the Duke of Portland, the Earl of Albemarle, the Conde de Haro, the Duke Osuna. The grand bodies of the state will also be re- ceived. They are formed of men who have pushed their way on and up and are ready to show themselves in all but restraint of manner utter courtiers. Fountains and basins have been repaired; a fleet of eighteenth century royal barzes furbished up to take the imperial visitors by the canal in the gardens facing the west front of the palace to the Trianoas. This excursion is to follow a lunch in the gallery of battles and a long rest of the imperial v:sitors in his suite of small rooms fitted up by Marie Antoinette as a private resi- dence. They are poky little rooms and all look out on dingy, narrow courtyards. But they are different from the state rooms, the grandeur of which was wearisome and his discomfort dreadful. The small roo.ns are a bath room, salon and reading room; they look like a doll’s house. Fluted bro- cade or satin of tender and yet lively shades ccver the walls. The furniture 8 dainzy, but it is in the style affected by mercenary beauties of the corps du baliet toward the end of the last century. Old courtiers were skocked at the frivolous prettiness of these rooms. In the blue room or saion there is a dainty sofa in sky blue with gilt frame in a niche set round with mirrors. The lovely queen whose fate was so tragical lilted to see her beautiful head in front, in profile and vanishing profile. She ordered in three mirrors to be set at right angles. But, the first time she went to survey herscif in them at one of the corners she beheld— what?—a headless body, and sank fainting on the sofa. She was constantly meeting with incidents and facing catastrophes -hat seemed presages of coming woes. Experience of Csar and Czarina. In this report Nicholas and Alexandra resembie her. Their wedding was on the morrow of his father’s funeral. The first year of their reign was blackened by the first set of Armenian massacres, in which 100,000 people perished. Their coronation was marked by the appalling catastrophe of Moscow; and the day they reached Vien- na the first news they recelved was that fresh massacres had taken place. Then, on their return journey from Vienna, Prince Lobanoff, whom history must find guilty of complicity with the sultan, @ied as they were stepping out of the train to stretch their legs. When they were enjoying rest at the patriarchal court of Denmark the family circle there was appalled to learn of the dynamite conspiracy. Providence seems to have warned them that long life, pros- perity and universal love and esteem may be won by following the example of Vizto- ria, but, that disaster must in the long run catch up with those monarchs whose yrand political schemes are executed through int- quity. Balmoral and Versailles, September 23 and October 5 and 6, inculcate this warning. EMILY CRAWFORD. ——— EVERYTHING WENT SMOOTHLY. Electric Motors Tried on 2 New York Elevated Road. NEW YORK, October 5.—An electric motor made its first public trip this morn- ing on the Third avenue elevated road, on the branch running down 34th street from 3d avenue to the Long Island City ferry. The first train was started at 9 o’clock, and from that time on the trips were made regularly. Apparently, everything went smoothly and the cars carried passengers regularly. The motor itself is a box eight feet high, made of wood, eighteen feet long, and in the middle of it is a small. square com- partment, where the motorman staads, with four windows in the front and four in the rear. This is the highest part of the motor. At the ends are compartments sloping toward the ends, where they are only three feet high. These compartments contain the storage battery. Of the 25ti storage cells, of two volts each, to be used, 56 are now in the motor and 200 in four bexes standing on the middle rail of the track near the far end, and connected with the third rail of the track on which the motor runs. This rail stands just be- yond the regular raifi further from the platform, ten inches above it, and it feeds trom the power house into the storage bat- tery. When it becomes necessary to draw more electricity than there is on storage on the motor, it will draw throvgh the third rail. The rail is exposed and is to a certain ex- tent dangerous. A man can walk on it without injury, but if he should touch the outer guard rail or otherwise make a connection at the same time he was stand- ing on this third rail he would receive a severe shock. The connection is made hy two steel shoes reaching from the lower edge of the motor and clasping the rail. The motor wiil be used on this branch alcne until its success is assured, before it is put on the main line. —_—__ DEFRAUDING THE GOVERNMENT. Conspiracy to Evade the Duty on Tobacco. DETROIT, Mich., October 5.—The mys- terious “Johnson,” charged by Alfred Ber- cham with being the principal in a tobacco smuggling scheme uncovered in Detrott, en June 4 last, was arrested by Special Agent of the Treasury F. O. Wood and brought to Detroit. There is positive evi- dence that the man fs a part of a con- spiracy of large proportions to defraud the United States out of duty on Sumatra leaf tobacco. He is known to have brought about 10,000 pounds to this country, duty free, a loss to the revenue department of $1.50 per pound, or $15,000. Johnson and his accomplice, Bercham, were arraigned before Commissioner Graves today and remanded to jail pending an investigation by the grand jury. Se SERAFIV SANCHEZ KILLED. The Well-Known Cuban Insurgent Leader Falls. HAVANA, October 5.—An important en- sagement, in which General Serafin San- chez, the well-known insurgent leader, was killed, has been fought at the Reserva plantation, province of Matanzas. Serafin Sanchez was one of the most widely known of the Cuban leaders. He served under Maximo Gomez in the pre- vious Cuban insurrection. After the capit- ulation of the Cubans in Zanjor Sanches reappeared in Las Villas at the head of a large body of men, but he was finally al- lowed by the Spanish government to™leave Cuba. In June, 1895, he landed in Cuba, with the George W. Childs expedition, under General Roloff, and has. since been active in the insurrectionist cause. He recently crossed the trocha from Pinar del Rio and entered the province of Matanzas. — SAILED FOR NEW YORK. Kearney and Haines Put on an Ocean Steamer. ROTTERDAM, October 5—Ten minutes before the Netherlands line steamship Werkendam sailed for New York Saturday, a carriage containing four_men—Kearney and Haines, the Irish-American suspects, and two police officers in plain clothes— drcve up to the dock, and the party board- ed the steamer. Kearney and‘Haines were taken to a state room, where they remain- ed until the Werkendam left port. The two suspects were shipped under fresh aliases. The French police at Boulogne were noti- fied, and strict orders were given to the police of Rotterdam to keep the affair from the reporters, and for this purpose an offi- clal statement to the effect that the sus- pects had been conducted to the frontier was given out. SS BUDA PESTH’S TOURNEY. Opening the Chess Matches Between the Experts. BUDA PESTH, October 5.—Alapin has declined to play in the international chess tournament. This necessitated a new bal- lcting, which resulted in the following ar- rangement of players for today’s games, the first round of the tournament: Janowski vs. Noa; Tschigorin vs. Popiel; Walbrodt vs. Maroczy; Charousek vs. Schlechter; Pillsbury vs. Albin; Winawer vs. Tarrasch; Marco a bye. At the time of adjournment only one game was finished, Maroczy having beaten Walbrodt in a Philidor defense, after thir- ty-six moves. —_~>—____ . PRESIDENT SPENCER’S DENIAL. Says That the Southern is Not After the 8. A. L. NEW YORK, October 5.—President Sam- uel Spencer of the Southern Railway Com- pany, who arrived in town today, says: “There is no foundation for the report that negotiations are going on in behalf of the Southern Railway Company for the pur- chase or acquisition or control, either di- rectly or indirectly, of the Seaboard Air Line.”* ——— GRIEVANCES OF MAGNATES. The National Base Ball League Arbi- trators Meet. NEW YORK, October 5.—The board of arbitration of the National Base Ball League is in session here today, behind closed doors. The forenoon sitting, it is understood, was mainly taken up in con- sideration of a grievance of the Western League, the details of which have not been ascertained. Henry Powers of the Southern League also has a grievance which President Young preceeded to place before the board during the day. Mr. Powers’ troubles relgte to Atlanta, which has lately been absorbed by the new Southeastern League. Since the organization in 1892 of the Southern League, which includes New Or- leans, Memphis, Birmingham, Mobile,Mont- gomery, Nashville and Coiumbus, Ga., At- Janta has also been a part of the territory. During the past season Atlanta disbanded and is about to reorganize and become a member of the Southeastern League, with Savannah, Augusta, Macon, Columbia, Charlotte and Charleston. Mr. Powers claims a prior supervision over Atlanta and believes his chances for gaining the disputed city are good. ——— >. District Commissions Revoked. The President has revoked the commis- sions of Rudoiph B. Schwickardi and Gliver P. Johnson, justices of the peace of the District of Columbia, upon evidence iend- ing to show that these parties antedated pension certificates contrary to !aw. THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1896-TWELVE PAGES, %:=—=——.-__ APPEALS TO CLASS Street Corner Harangues Common -in Baltimore. RESULT OF A DEMOCRATIC “POLL Both Sides Holding Big Meetings in Reserve. SOME RECENT NOMINATIONS Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. BALTIMORE, October 3, 1896. Now that both parties have practicaily completed their lists of candidates, specula- tion as to the outcome in November has undisputed sway. The democrats nominated their congres- sional candidates in the third and fourth districts this week, their candidate for judge of the supreme bench, and filled out their councilmanic ticket. The nominattons of Messrs. Thomas C. Weeks and William J. Ogden in the third and fourth districts, respectively, were brought about with the utmost dispatch and both gentlemen are entirely satisfactory to the regulars, who have accepted the Chicago platform and are now scarcely to be distinguished from silverites of less recent conversion. Mr. Weeks has been identified as a bimetallist for some time prior to the nomination of Bryan and Sewall, while Mr. Ogden has displayed great energy in addressing free coinage gatherings during the last two months. The nomination of Mr. Weeks 1s particularly gratifying to the silver men, as they belleve that he will easily defeat his opponent, Dr. William S. Booze, and a joint debate on the money question 13 being avW@ited by them with considerable complacency. xi Of the election of Mr. Ogden regular democrats are by no means sanguine, al- though their assertions bear every mark of confidence. Geld Democrat Defection. It is believed that the gold standard de- fection will be stronger here than else- where in the state, and in addition the re- publicans have in Mr. W. W. McIntyre @ candiuate whose personal popularity would under any conditions win him sub- stantial stpport beyond his own party. The republicans recognize a strong” can: didate in Mr. Weeks, but are confident that both he and Mr. Ogden are destined for overwhelming defeat. tones In the case of Mr. Alexander H. Robert- son, the democratic nominee for judge of the supreme bench, and of the democratic candidates for city council, a peculiar situ- ation is revealed, in that those who have been more or less allied with the reform organizations and have heretofore sup- Ported the rational ticket and cut the local tickets, are this year supporting the latter, while they propose either to vote for McKinley outright or cast thtir “bal- lots for Palmer and Buckner. Mr. Robert- son during his canvass for the nomination was backed by a strong majority of the democratic members of the Baltimore bar. He is a warm personal friend of Mr. John K. Cowen, and is the brother-in-law of Judge William A. Fisher and consequently ls assured of the support of the band of ‘independents’ these gentlemen have led during recent campaigns. Moreover, Mr. Robertson has the backing of the sound money press, which has been waging an unremitting war on ex-Congressman Henry Stockbriage, the republican nominee, who has been closely identified with the republi- can machine politics. In the fight for con- trol of the city council the democratic ticket occupies the unique position of be- ing the “reform ticket,” and both the sil- ver and gold factions of the party aré pre- pared to support it. There is a prospect of this ticket receiving support from some of the independent republicans as well, as their ticket has been chosen in the in- terests of the combine which opposed the efforts of Mayor Hooper to insure a re- form administration of the city govern- ment. The election of this ticket is highly essential to the life of the republican ring, and rumors have not been lacking that the local managers are not unwilling to turn the state over to Bryan if they can keep the council. Registration. Only two registration days remain—Tues- day and Wednesday of next week. The registration has been remarkably heavy, and during the five days’ sittings of the boards of registry in Baltimore { | have been enrolled on the books, and there is every indication that the full vote of] the city will be registered. The effect of Senator Gorman’s prodding of the demo- cratic politicians has beer revealed in the large increase of democrats who have qualified since last week, and the number of citizens who have reglected to regis- ter during past years, but who are “pré- pared to vote this fall is strong evidence of | the intense interest felt in this election. Both parties are holding some big meet- ings in reserve, and the conclading days.) of the campaign will be marked by the pt- mest activity and enthusiasm. The re} licans expect to have Senators Hale and Frye here later in the month, and Chair- man Rusk of the democratic city commit- tee expects to have Senator Faulkner of West Virginia, Senator Gorman and cone or two other democrats of national reputa- tion. Next Monday night Mr. Thomas C. Weeks, the democratic nominee in the third district, is to address a large meet- ing in East Baltimore, and local spell- binders of both parties will be heard con- tinually in and about the city up to elec- tion day. Labor and Free Silver. The democratic managers are delighted at the publication of a partial canvass of the labor vote of the city, which indicates that the sentiment of the laboring men of the city favors Bryan and free silver, | They have contended all along that there is a strong undercurrent in favor of free | coirage. and in this canvass find a cor- } roboration of their belief. The repubii- cans declare that this is not significant, but Mr. Wellington has privately admitted ‘ the possibility of such an inclination exist- ing, and the difficulty of changing it. Tens of documents have been sent out from poth headquarters, but if they have been read there is no warrant for the as- sumption that the “campaign of educa- tion” has been particularly successful, as, in the majority of known instarces, the voters now hold the, same views they enter- tained on the currency question at the outset of the campaign. Republicans and democrats here alike be- ‘Vieve that Congressman Miles will be his own successor in the first district, but Dr. Isaac A. Barber, the republican nominee, appears to have no doubt of his election. Dr. Barber was in town today and reports himself as being entirely satisfied with the situation cn the eastern shore. He says the republicans will poll their full party vote, and, in addition, expect to receive large accessions from the democrats—a he- lef which fs not shared by conservative judges in that district. In the Fifth District. Considerable concern is expressed by re- publicans over the situation in the fifth district. Mr. Sydney E. Mudd, their con- gressional candidate, is being vigorously opposed by the A. P. A., and is a target for the Methodist ministers in that sec- tion as well. Moreover, southern Mary- land is a stronghold of silver sentiment, and there is reason to believe that a num- ber of republic::ns have come out for the Chicago platform, and will support ex- Senator Robert Moss. In Calvert county alone there is a free silver organization in which there is enrolled over forty repub- leans, three of whom are county officials elected on the republican ticket last year. How Business Men Stand. One fact here is doing the McKinley cause more harm with some voters than all other things put together, and that is_ that nearly all the leading business men and capitalists are openly working for Me-: Kinley. As an illustration of this feeling, yesterday when The Star correspondent. was standing in a prominent bank a gen- tleman there said to one of the officials: “Of course your men here are all going t vote for McKinley.” “Yes,” was the reply. “We are all for McKinley, although we are democrats to a tnan.”* “And that ts the very reason why all of I. us working men, although we are many of us republicans, are going to voté for Bry- an,” said a mechanic who was waiting to get a check ca: anes. He continued: “I am & republican and have always voted the republican ticket, but this year I am going to vote for, Bryan. When I find all the capitalists, Corporation offelals and money sharkq_oD one side the working people ought to be on the other.” st ** ‘Arraying Classes: : . The real.truth is, the democrats who fa- vor the free silver ticket here’ dre-ustis their greatest efforts to: make-this a class contest, and arejdoing all they can to ar- Tay one section;.of society "against the other. On every stump-you hear this put out where the free silver orators hoid forth, and agitators along Battimar® street are holding meetings every night inflam- Ing the people who stop to hear them with the free silver theories of the west. The working people and the-wage earners gen- erally are being urged “to assert their rights and vote against the combined capi- talistic thugs and xcobbers—the money sharks and agents of Wall street.” Sach language as that just quoted is mild com- pared with some statements I have heard from the Hps of the pavement orators, who hold forth nightly wherever they can get a crowd together. One night this week in a walk of six blocks along Baltimore street I passed three street gatherings of this sort, and hundreds of people of the wage-earning class were the listeners. One speaker was ™mounted-on a barrel at the corger of Light and Baltimore streets, and he waved hi: arms In the air denouncing “the bloodsuck- ers and leeches and the capitalistic press’ and advising his hearers to vote for Bryan. The crowd wildly applauded these senti- ments. THe other speeches were of a simi- lar character. Baltimore always has been given to wild ways during campaigns, and this year the wildness and energy displayed by enthu- slasts seem to exceed all former records. — BOSTONIANS WANT TO PAY. Bat Baltimoreans Say That It wil Not He Permitted. BALTIMORE, Md., October 5.—Secretary Henry F. New of the city council commit- tee on the entertainment of the Boston Ar- tillery has received the following letter from Capt. Henry Walker of the company: “Armory Anctent and Honorable “Artillery Company of Massachusetts, ‘Faneuil Hall, Boston, Mass., Oct. 3, 1896. ‘Henry F. New, esq., Secretary, &c.: “I telegraphed you that the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company desired that no appropriation be made for its entertain- ment during its coming visit to Baltimore. This was done in a most kindly spirit, to relieve your city government from a seem- ing very embarrassing position. The com- pany each year visits some city, generally outside of Massachusetts, always declining, as far as possible, municipal hospitality, so as nyt to prove a burden to amy one. It would ’sinéerely regret to be a cause of dif- ference between the citizens of any place it might visit. Your generous and hearty: offers tempted it to depart from its usual custom, and if it now retufns to it I assure you it is. wt for want of gratitude for those offers, and that nothing that has occurred can lessen the kindly feeling which mem- bers of the company have for your city and its people. The company will come to Baltimore, as proposed; wiil gladly meet and welcome to its table as many as possi- ble of {ts citizens. 3 ape “Yours, very respectfully, 3: HENRY WALKER, - ft » Gaptain A. and H. A. Company.” All arrangements have been completed for the entertainment of the guests, and the expenses incurred by the committee will certainly bei-paid. There never has been any doubt about it, the only question being as to what fund it should come from. Capt. Walker's letter is supposed to, con: tain the information that the Bosion Ar- tillery Company would pay all of the ex- penses incurred for the company during its visit, but meqnbers of the council commit- tee state that the visitors will not be per- mitted to pay one dollar of the bills con- tracted by the council committee and’ that the expenses will be paid by the city through an ordinance to be drawn in con- formity with the mayor's wishes and to be passed. at ,the next meeting of the ci! fathers, be Saal i PROSPECTS IN NEW JERSEY. Republicans Caleninting on Over = 46,000 Majority. TRENTON, N. J., October 5.—The repub- lean state committee held an important conference here today with the chairmen of the. different county committées through- out the state. The reports received were most satisfactory, except in one or two instances, and Secretary Jokn Y. Foster said that a calculation of the conserva: tive reports showed that McKinley and Hobart will carry the state by over 46,000. The. exceptions were in Salem and Cumber- land counties, where, the. county chairmen report, there ts considerable silver senti- ment among the republican farmers. ‘The reports from the fourth congres- sional district, through which Mr. Bryan pessed a few days ago, and which the dem- ocrats are claiming will give 10,000 for Mr. Cutler, were decidedly of a different nature. According to the figures presented today, Congressman -Pitney (rep.) is fairly sure of re-election. 3 The reports from Essex county give Me- Kinley 16,000 plurality, and. in Hudson county the lowest estimates give McKinley at least 2,000, An effort was made to keep the meeting secret and a resolution was passed provid- ing that the information concerning it should only be given out through Secretary Foster. All the counties of thé state were repre- sented except Hudson, where there is a county ¢onvntion today. In addition to the members of the state committee and the county chairmen there were present many prominent republicans, including United States Senator Sewall, State Chair- man Franklin Murphy, Vice Chairman E. J, Anderson And _ex-Representative John Kean. ee HOTEL GUESTS ALARMED. Fire at Indinnapolixn Put Out With Small Loans. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., October 5.—At o'clock this morning 4 fire in the base- ment of the Circle Park Hotel, in Monu- ment: place, was extinguished with small loss. Fire Chief J. H. Webster and Fire- man Buck Stahlman, who were the first to enter the basement, were seriously injured by an explosion caused by a melted natural gas pipe. The right stde of Chief Web- ster’s head was badly burned and Stahl- man’s face was burned to a blister and his hair burned off. Both will recover. There was some excitement among the guests, but no one -was injured. A serious conflagration was prevented by the stop- page of a draft through the elevator shaft. LETROIT, Mich., October 5.—The five- story building at the corner of Larned and Shelby streets, formerly occupied by the Free Press, is on'fire and will be complete- ly gutted. It is occupied by a number of job je eee indery and stereotyp- ing firms. loss will be heavy. a FATAL “CARRIAGE ACCIDENT. Denth of Henr}' Byron Reed, Member of the Brifish Parlinment. LONDON, Qctober 6.—Henry Byron Reed, conservativey member of parliament for the eastern division of Bradford and a well- known lectUyer atid speaker’ on church and political subjects, {s dead. His death was the result of a carriage accident. He was at one time chairman of the National Union of Conservafive Agsoctations.- = 2 “Fortcited Collateral. A number of wheelmen : forfeited epl- lateral in thé Polf¥e Court today for viola- “ttons'‘of ‘ thie “bicycle regulations. In one case the Cefendant appeared on a charge of coasting. Judge Kimball said he was tired of explaining to wheelmen the objects of the Iaw, and fined him five dollars. Houses of Refuge Discontinued. ‘ ‘The! Secretary of the Treasury has order- ed the discontignance of the Chester Shoal, Bethel Creek and Orange Grove houses of refuge on: the eastern coast of Florida. These houses were built many years ago when there were only ‘three or four human habitations accessible for over 250 miles of beach. Within the same térritory, how- ever, there are now about 10,000 people, and hence these Houses of refuge are re- garded as no longer necessary to com- merce or for: thé interests’ of humanity. ‘These houses never were intended as ular life-savirig’ stations, but only to afford relief to persons cast ashore and Hable to perish of hunter and thirst. THE NAVAL ACADEMY| Eeport to Secretary of the Navy by the Board r. of Visitors, a A Change in the Method of Salute jaggested—Other Recom- mendations Made. The board of visitors to the Naval Acad- emy, of which Representative J. B. Robin- son is president, has made a report to the Secretary of the Navy in regard to the organization and administration of that institution. Whe most interesting chapter of the report is devoted to a consideration of the rule of the academy which forbids the officers and cadets to remove their caps in saluting ladies. The Matter of Salute. “We have noticed with some surprise,” Says the board, “that the officers and ca- dets of the academy do not saluie the colors by removing their caps, but simply touch them after a formal fashion appar- ently medeled on foreign customs. La- dies are also saluted in the same way and not by uncovering the head. These prac- tices are prescribed by orders. Believing that any marked departure from recog- nized ‘military and social customs and man- ners is unwise, the board recommends, first, that the national colors be saluted by uncovering the head; second, thaw la- dies be recognized in the manner usual among gentlemen. It is obvious that a mili- tary salute 1s entirely inappropriate when rerdered to a lady, who can not hold mili- tary rark nor return the salute in the same manner.” Improvements Recommended. The beara also submitted a series of recommendations for the improvement of the administration of the academy, of which the following are the most import- ant: That the age for admission to the academy be fixed at from fifteen to eigh- teen years; that the course of study be re- duced from six to four years; that the re- quirements for admission to the acudemy be increased by the addition of the sub- jects of plane and solid geometry and of plane trigonometry; that permanent heads be appointed to the department of mechan- ics, mathematics, pi ics, English, lan- guages; that a part, at least, of every examination be oral; that a complete and modern system of sewerage be pro- vided for the academy; that ihe sea wall be exiended so as to take in all of the low land of the northerly and easterly sides, und that the space so in- closed be filled In; the building of two sail- ing practice vessels for the use of the ca- dets; that one of the most modern cruisers be ordered to Annapolis from time to time; the construction of a iew and thoroughly equipped building for the use of the depart- ment of ordnance; that a full supply of mcdern guns be furnished to the academy; th» construction of a new observatory building; that officers ordered to the Naval Academy for duty as instructors be retain- ed for three years if their work is satis- factory, ard that the estimates for the mainterance of the United States Naval Academy be annually incorporated in @ separate Dill. A Continuous Board Suggested. The members of the board are satisfied that the appointment of the board of visit- ors has produced results fully warranting the continuation of such appointments. They are deeply impressed that the ad- vanced requirements in all branches of the naval service make it necessary that there shall be a forward movement involving the expenditure of money at the Naval Academy to provide facilities in the way of accommodations and appliances. They therefere recommend a continuous board, to consist of fourteen members, two of whom shali he appointed annually by the President of the Senate, three of whom shall be appointed annually by the Speaker of the House of Represetatives, and nine of whom shall be appointed by the Presi- dent from civil life. i In conclusion, the visitors say, with pleasure, that the excellent condition of af- fairs at the academy reilects the greatest credit upon the executive capacity of the superintendent, of the commandant of cadets, and of the corps of officers in gen- eral. —_____+e SUES FOR DAMAGES. Mr. Handler's Son Killed by a Live Electric Wire. Overhead electric wires figured in a suit filed teday by Francis A. Handler, admin- istrator of the late Edward M. Handler, against the United States Electric Lighting Company, in which $10,000 damages are asked because of the death of the plain- uff's son the 6th of last July. The boy, it will be remembered, was killed on the day in question by coming in contact with one of the company’s wires while playing on the commons in the vicinity of P between 24th and 25th streets. Mr. Handler charges that the accident was due to the stringing of the wire on poies which had become so rotten and old that they were unable to hold it up out of the way, and that the wire thereby fell to the ground, being concealed by grass. Messrs. L. Fugitt and W. P. Williamson are the attorneys of Mr. Hand!er. THIEVES ARE ACTIVE. Large Number of Robberies Reported to the Police. Thieves are being released from jafl al- most every day, and some of them find it necessary to return to their bad habits in order to prevent suffering from the cool weather and hunger, unless they go to work. There are those who object to work- ing for their livelihood, and it naturally follows that the fall stealing has com- menced. Although the thieves are active, and there is plenty of stealing being done, the detective force is badly crippled, be- cause of sickness and leaves of absence. Yesterday and today reports of thefts of various kinds were received, including a mule, bicycle, horses, clothing and jewelry. Yesterday the saloon corner of 12th and E_ streets was visited by some thief, who was acquainted with the prem- ises, and a good haul was made. The en- trance to the bar was effected by going through the cellar and forcing open the trap decor. The cash register was then opened and robbed of about $50. ‘ The police are looking for “Jack” Kelly and two horses belonging to James A. Sea- man, who lives at Sharpsburg, Md. Satur- day afternoon, according to the complaint made by Inspector Hollinberger yesterday, “Jack’’ Kelly was hired to drive two horses from the gas company’s works, in South- east Washington, to Winship’s wharf, in Georgetown, but this morning nothing had been heard of the animals or driver. Col. Perry Carson's horse and buggy dis- appeared Saturday night. The colonel ex- pected some guests from a distance, and when he went to the depot to meet them he left the team where he thought it would be secure. But when he came out with his friends and was ready to start home he made the discovery that while he was gone some other person had been there and had gone for a drive. A mule disappeared from a pasture on Massachusetts avenue Saturday. The owner tioes not know whether the animal strayed or was stolen. Three sacks of potatoes were stolen from the wagon of George Smith Saturday. Mr. Smith lives in Beltsville, and the potatoes were stolen from the wagon between his home and the Center Market. Saturday a sneak thief entered house No. 03 13th street and carried off a gold watch and chain, the property of Miss Jessie Al- brittain. H. L. Johnson has requested the assist- ance of the polige in his efforts to recover his scarfpin, wAich was stolen two weeks ago. WN silk quilt valued at about $75 was stolen from Mrs. Watson Tolson’s buggy on O street Saturday. Mrs. Tolson lives at Terra Cotta. Elijah Gray complains. of the theft of a silver watch from 213 4% street. Yesterday an overcoat and other articles of clothing. were stolen from the house of ‘W. E. Dobson, No. 53 Quincy street north- east. A bicycle belonging to Joseph Patterson, Nb. 1127 12th street, was stolen Saturday night from on the street, where the owner had left it. G. A. Erwin’s bicycle saddle was stolen from his wheel Saturday night. A push cart belonging to L. W. Timmons was stole: from the cornar of 34 street and , Missouri avenue Saturday night, and until the cart is recovered. Timmons will take @ vacation, Mrs. Davis of 928 Florida avenue went to market Saturday. While there she was re- Heved of her pocket book. which contained about $2.50. Saturday night sneak thieves stole some clothing from Mrs. Hardy's country wagon at the O street market. While so many thefts were being investi- gated this morning three prisoners, charged with theft, were heard in court. One of the prisoners was a colored man named Samuel Tinney, who has been jani- tor of the building at 11th and F streets for five years. He has been stealing cases of perfumery from Mertz’s drug store and selling them to barbers. Detectives Helan, Boyd and Lacy arrest- ed him and recovered some of the per- fumery. Tinney has many friends. A plea of guilty was entered, and a sen- tence of thirty days imposed. George Jones and H. Ware pleaded guilty to charges of petty theft and were sent down for two months. ——___ BATTLE LOOKED FoR. Quarreling Indians May Be Suppress- ed by Troops. CHICAGO, October 5.—A special to the Herald from Tuskahoma, I. T., says: The trouble which has been brewing for some months between the full bloods and squaw men of the Choctaw nation, has broken out mcre violently than ever, and unless indications fail there will be a serious bloodshed. The full bloods, who have obtained con- trol of the council, passed laws cutting the Squaw men off from their landed property and made provision for evicting them. When the first attempt at eviction was made a few wecks ago, there was a clash in the streets of this city, in which several Squaw men were killed and many on both sides more or less injured. Then comparative quiet reigned for a time, but when the attempt to evict the squaw men was renewed this week trouble broke out again. There have been a number of conflicts during the past few days, and ar unknown number on both sides have been injured, and it 1s reported that sev- eral have been killed. Both sides have been gathering their forces during the week and are preparing for a pitched battle, which jis expected today or tomorrow. cl ns of the town ppe the federal authorities, and troons. “nil be sent at once. There are several troops of cavalry from Fort Reno in camp on Pond creek, forty or fifty miles from here, and they ure expected in time to in the disturbance. Beers aan ———_>—__ Asks a Divorce. Helen Wilson today petitioned for di- vorce from Wm. H. Wilson, to whom she was married here July 26, 1881. She charges that her husband, who fs a 14th street bar- ber, has cruelly treated and abused her, and that he deserted and abandoned her two years ago. She says that he has been fined for brutally treating her, and that last month he was required to give bonds te keep the peace. She asks for alimony and counse] fees, and also the custody of the children. She is represented by At- torney Thos. L. Jones. ———.__ Executing Her Will. Messrs. B. P. Snyder and Mahlon Ash- ford, executors and trustees under the will of the late Anna Wolcott, have rendered their first account to the Home for In- curables, having charge of the Lolie Wol- cott ward, provided for by Mrs. Wolcott's will as a memorial to her deceased daugh- ter. The report shows that there is left in the hands of said trustees, after payment of all debts and legacies, real and personal estate estimated at over $73,000, applicable to the support of the memorial referred to. The amount specifically bequeathed for the purpose is $41,000, but it is said that the will provides that all the residue of the estate, after the payment of debts and legacies, should be added to that sum. —__.—__ Line to Bay Ridge. A meeting of the directors of the Wash- ington, Annapolis and Bay Ridge Railroad Company will be held this afternoon at their office, No. 1216 F street northwest. The company has just completed surveys of everal proposed routes between the points named, end a selection wiil, it is said, be made at the meeting. It is claimed that the construction of the new line will reduce the distance between Washington and the other two places named fully one-half, thus bringing Bay Ridge within twenty- two miles of Washington. —-.> His Hands Cut. C. G. Brown, a druggist, who resides at 219 3d street southeast, was quite badly injured this. afterroon while in the Ebbitt House drug store. Mr. Brown was handling a bottle when it broke, and the fragments caused several lacerated wounds ef both hands. The cuts were dressed by Dr. Law- rence at the Emergency Hospital. i Fell From a Ladder. Thomas McCann, an electrician, of 726 New Jersey avenue, fell from a ladder this afternoon and sustained a fractured shoulder. The injury was attended the Emergency Hospital. aie — Appointed Mrs. Murray. The Court in General Term today ap- pointed Mrs. Margaret Murray, widow of the late Robert J. Murray, a member of bar, an examiner in chancery. 7 SS An Incorporation, _The Owners’ Mutual Live Stock Associa- tion was incorporated today by articles filed by James M. McCauley, president; Notley J. Dutton, vice president; A. Brad. Bau- mann, secretary; Granville Riding, treas- pret, and Edwin C. Dutton, assistant secre- ary. The purpose of the association is to fur- nish veterinary service when stock of mem- bers ts disabled, and, in case of death of stock, to furnish funds to replace them. Sees Mr. Mergenthaler Appeals. Ottmar Mergenthaler, inventor of ‘the Mergenthaler typesetting machine, has ap- pealed from the decision of Commissioner Seymour in awarding priority of invention to certain important improvements of the machine to W. S. Scudder. There are two cases, in both of which the commissioner of patents decided in favor of Scudder. ‘The appeal is to the United States Court of Ap- peals of the District of Columbia. 2 oe Baltimore Markets. RALTIMORE, October 5.—Flour super, $2.25a$2.45; do. extra, $2.70a83. 8. 3 wheat patent, sprit wheat Tals; “exports, Wheat 1 iy 3 sales, sample, 69a73; do. on grad steady—spot and month, ‘2se: December, mew and old, 28a: voverber and 3 January, 2s! mixed, 2622614 --receipts, 144 Iashels; ‘stock, 1,18! 0 bushela—sonthern ‘whi Oats steady to firm x mixed, 21a21%—receipts, 14.- i rts, nor Tye steady No, 2 nearbs, 3a46: 42—receipts, 3,523 bushels; expor 81, Hay qui dice timo- thy, $12.50a$13.00. in freights rather quiet, demand less urgent—sieam to Liverpool per bushel” 4atiqd. Nevember and December; Cork for orde per quarter, 4s.a4s.3d. October. granalated, "4.33 per 100 pounds. fancy creamery, 16a17; do. imitation, ladle, 12; good ladle,’ 10ai1; store Exes’ firm—fresh, 154g; cold storage, 14 firm—fancy New’ York, 6 Opounds, al ‘steamer ye white, 25 764 19 bushels. do. pounds, 10a10%; do. 22 pounds, i010. " Whisky —$1.30a$1.31 gallon for finished goods in loads; $1-31a§132 per 3 a see per gallon for Jobbing lots. Grain and Cotton Markets. Furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co., 1421 F street, members New York stock exchange, correspondents Messrs. Ladenburg, Thal- mann & Co., New York, Se —— FINANCE AND TRADE | Effect of a Slight Reaction in Political Sentiment, ? x RENEWED GOLD IMPORTS EXPECTED -* Big Houses Do Not Look forLarge onsignments- —~ GENERAL MARKET trPORTS anor Special Dispatch to The Evening Star, ~~" ~~ ~~ NEW YORK, October 5.—London's fail- ure to respond to the more pacific political outlook in eastern Europe, and a slight reaction in local political sentiment, had a depressing influence on values during the early trading this morning. The character of the selling, while indicating moderate realizing, was not generally regarded as being either significant or permanent. Buy- ing orders came in from commission houses at the decline, and in many in- stances good buying restored early prices. The weakness. of foreign exchange was largely responsible for the midday re- covery, the possibility of renewed gold im- ports encouraging purchases. An increase in the supply of commercial drawings and a decrease in the demand from remitters necessitated a reduction in rates in order to attract business. Judged from the latter standpoint, however, the declining move- ment was not entirely satisfactory. Fur- ther weakness in exchange rates might at- tract some additional gold from abroad, but the majority of the larger foreign houses don't anticipate immediate consign- ments of more than nominal amounts. The manipulation in Manhattan was again a feature of the transactions in rail- road shares, an early decline of 1 per cent being followed by a sharp recovery of 24 per cent. Possible changes in motive power whereby a material saving will be effected in op-rating expenses were credited wil supplying the incentive fer the advance. A reduction tn all grades of domestic sugars caused some selling of the stock of the American company. Realizing sales were especially noticeable in this property dur- ing the early trading. A_ well-distributed impression that a re- action must intervene prior to the clec- tions, while based on no tangible grounds, is responsible for practically all of the con- fidence in lower prices. The short account is rarely employed; as the result of this belief, however, profit-taking and tem- porary inactivity being preferable to risks taken in opposition to sentiment. Earn- ings and the continued withholding of an outside demand are not encouraging to higher prices. Investors are not sufficient- ly concerned with the prospects for the immediate future to part with present holdings, and sellers of securities in a ma- jority of instances repurchase at an un- profitable advance. The four weeks of political doubt yet remaining are likely to be full of contradictory and wholly ir- reconcilable forecasts. Prices cannot, in consequence, be ex- pected to pursue an uninterrupted course, but it is safe to presume from recent de- velopments that it will be an unusual fcare that materially reduces the present average level. A reported reducvion of 4% per cent in exchange rates during the last hcur was followed by the recording of the da; highest level. This reduction should insure gold imports notwithstanding early predictions to the contrary ai aeeiies FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, The following are the opening,the highest and the lowest and the closing prices of the New York stock morket today, as eported by Corson & Macartney, members New York stock exchange. "Correspondents, Messrs. Moore & Schley, No. 8) Broadway. Open. High. Low. Close. American Sugar... 109% Tina lagay American Sugar, Pid... 9 American Tobacco. - American Gotten Oil. Atchison. Baltimore & Ohio. Bay State Gas... jawda Southern.. Canada Pacitic.. Chesapeake & Onio, GC. C.& St Louis”. Chicago, B. & Q... Chicago & Chicago Gas. CM. A St. Pau : CM, &St. Pani. Pd 2 Chicago. Ri. & Pacitic Consolidated Gas, “Del., Lack. & W Delaware & Hudson. | Den. & Rio Grande, Pd. American Spirits. Ene. Generai Fiectri iMinois Central Lactide Gas Lake Shore : Louisvitie & Nashvitie. Metropolitan Traction... Manhattan Elevated. Michigan tral Missouri Pacitle National Lead C : National Lead Co., Pfd. New Jersey Central New York Centrai. orthern Pacific North American Ont. & Western. Pacific Mail. Phila. & Rea Pullman P. Phila. Traction. ‘Texas Pacific. ‘Venn. Coal and iron. Union Pacitic Washington Stock Exchange. Sales—rezular call_12 $50 at luz” Capital Trae ton Gas, 24 at 4g. otype, 35 at Lio. District of Columbia Bonds. o'clock m.—D. om, 10 at After call—Me 2Qhyear fand 5s, bid. ear fund 6s, gold, 110 bid. Wa: 110 Water stock 7 111 bid. 3.65s, funding, curren: Metropolitan Railroad 5s, nlitan Raflroad conv. Gs, 102 bid, Railroad certificates of indebtadne-s, i Rallroad 5 asked. Kekingt Railroad 6s, 95 aske Raliroad ts, 1 a, as Company Gs, series 3 Washington Gas Com Chesapeake and Poton 5 . . | American Security and Trast Se, F. an 100 bid. American Security and Trust ha, A 9.. 100 bid. Washington Market Company Ist 6s, 106 bid. Washing: ‘ompany Linp. 6s, 106 bid. t Company ext. 8, 106 bid Masonic Hall As: National B: 240 bid, Metropolitan, 124 asked. West End, “110. as Lincoin, 101 asked. Deposit a 121 asked. and ‘Trust, 118 asked. American Security and Trust, 145 asked. Washington Rafe Deposit, 50 bid. Ratiroad Stocks.—Cap'tal ‘Traction Company, 63% bid, 65 asked. Metropolitan, 105 asked. 2 asked. E-Kington, 20 asked. Gas and Ele-tric 1 it Ntocks.—Washington Gas, # bid, 41 asked. U.S. Electric Light, 100 asked! Insuranee Stocks.—Franklin, 33 bid.” Metropoll- tan, 60 bid. Potomac, 62 hid. National Union, 14 asked. Riggs, 7 bid, 84 asked. Pepe's, & bid. 6 asked. Title Insurance Stocks.—Real Estate Title, 110 asked. District Title, 10 asked. phone Stocks.—Penpssivania, 36 bid. Chess and Potomac, 57 bid. 6% asked. Amerloan Graphophone, 3% bid. 6% asked. American Graph- » preferred, 114° axkid. “Phenmatie Gun Carriage, .12 bid, .24 asked. Miscellaneons "Stocks.—Mergenthaler Linotype, 109% did, 110 arked. Tanston Monotype, 3 bi. 6 asked. Great Fails Tee, 130 asked. Lincoln Hall, ¥0 asked. ee Government Bond: Quotations reported by Corson & Macer:- ney, bankers. Bid. Asked, 2 per cents, regumege..._ 93 . - 4 per cents, coupon of 1907. 107 4 per cents, registered of 1 107 4 per cents, coupon of 192 116' 4 per cents, registered of 1 116 5 per cents, coupon of 1204 i 3 per cents, registered of 1! il Currency 6 ‘per 2erts of 1897 i Currency 6 per cents of 1898. 102! Currency 6 per cents of 1899. aly ee Allmeny Orderea. “James H. Wardle, whe eevern! fnyx age sued for divorce, was today ordered by Juége Cole to pay his wife, Marianna War- dle, $25 a month as alimony pending the final disposition of the sult, and alse $75 an counsel tees.