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2 THE EVENING. STAR, MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 189¢-TWELVE PAGES. LATE NEWS BY WIRE|MATTER OF MAJORITY/CLOSING THE DEAL Political-Schemes That Are Being Hatched in the West. LAYING ASIDE THE SILVER ISSUE Democratic Managers Credited With a New Plan. ,CAMPAIGN CANARDS es Spectal Dispatch to The Evening Star. CHICAGO, October 19.—Silver as the is- sue h2s been dropped by the Bryan man- agers, so republican leaders affirm. All efforts are being concentrated toward the arrayirg of employes against employers. Almost daily until the close of the cam- paign, it is said, sensations are to be sprung all bearing upon the iabor question. These sensations are to grow in boldness with the approach of eleczion day. The jatest reached the republican national headquarters from Denver today. It is in the form of a letter written by Samuel T. Presley, an alleged gold advocate of Bos- ton, to Geo. F. Patrick of Pueblo, Col. Af- ter a statement about “a Mc-Kin- ley corruption fund,” the writer says that Cka:rman Hanna is authority for the statement that after McKinley's election the standing army will be increased to 250,000 men, and that force will be used to prevent strikes and ricts, and that labor is to be regulated by the regular army. Mr. Hanua does not Know of such a per- son as Presley and says that the statement is a lie out of whole cloth; that he not only never made such a statement, or an intima- tion that could be distorted into such a statement, but such an idea never entered his mind. No Financial Claim on MeKinley. The first report of this charaeter was that Chairman Hanna had a mortgage of $118,- 600 on McKinley, growing out of a security debt several years ago, which security was liquidated by popular subscription, and with which Mr. Hanna's friends say he had noth:ng to do more than several hun- dred other c.tizens who contributed to the fund. Mr. Hanna has no financial claim against Major McKinley. There are no nctes in evidence, and never Were, on account of the extinguishment of this obligation, which was paid by volun- tary subscription. The notes became the property of and were destroyed by the per- sons throughout the country who con- tributed to the fund. —_+>—_ ROOF CRUSHED IN. ‘Two Men Killed at the University of Virginian. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., October 19.— The fir-proof cement roof to one of the lecture rogms in course of construction, ad- joining the rotunda, of, the Lipirersity of Vir- ginia, fell in at 12 o'clogk today, killing two carpenters, Eugene Bunch and George Tucker; ahd injuting three “éthers. Joseph Lamb was taken out badly injured. He has a sealp wound and his spine prob- ably is fractured. He. is not expected ta live. Lorenzo Bowen was cut about the head and left arm, but has recovered suffi- ciently to go home. S. V. Chambers’ skull was probably fractured and his arm was broken and his face cut badly. He prob- ably will die. Tucker was from Greens- boro, N. C., and was foreman of the car- penters. The accident is supposed tobe due to the fact that the supports were taken out be- fore the work hed become thoroughly set, but as yet the matter has not been in- vestigated. The structure was one of the four new wings to the old rotunda. All of the work upon the buildings has been suspended for the day and the injured are receiving the best care possible. SS VETERAN JOURNALIST DEAD. © Horace Rublee, for Thirty-Two Years an Editor in Wisconsin. MILWAUKEE, Wis., October 19.—Horace Rublee, editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel,” died last night. He had been suffering for two years from a tumorous disease develop- ed from tuberculosis. Mr. Rublee was bern at Berkshire, Vt., in 182), and came to Wisconsin in his eleventh year. He resided in this state con- tinuously, with the exception of a year, as editor of the Boston’ Advertiser, and eight years minister to Switzerland during Presi- ent Grant's administration. He served for many years as chairman of the republican State committee, was editor of the Wiscon- sin State Journal at Madison for sixteen years, and in 1880 came to. Milwaukee, and for a like period was in confrol of the Sen- tinel. NO PRESENT BRARIVG. Archbishop Walsh's Views Regard- ing Bimetallivm. DUBLIN, October 19.—Archbishop Walsh has been in receipt recently of consider- atle correspondence by mail and wire re~ garding his pamphlet on bimetallism, which has been reprinted in the United States. He says he is not surprised that it has been sought to turn it to account for politi- cal purposes, but, he adds, no one reading it with even ordinary care can fail to see that nothing he has said about bimetallism has any rea! bearing upon the question now being so warmly discussed in the United States. —— J. Hampton Hoge to Withdraw. Special Dispatch to The Evening Sta: RICHMOND, Va., October 19—It is un- derstocd from perfectly authentic sources that J. Hampton Hoge will withdraw Wed- nesday from the contest fer Congress in the sixth district, in favor of Duval Radford, the sound money democrat. Peter J. Otey is the silver candidate, and he will have, ac- cording to this arfangement, the solid op- position of the republican and the sound money democrats, which will in all proba- bility defeat him. Se Ambassador Bayard’s Efforts. LONDON, October 19.—In an editorial on the election and the campaign in the United States, the Times expresses the fear that the efforts of Ambassador Buyard in be- half of Palmer and Buckner, however well intended, will be “less successful than they deserve to be.” ————___ Spanish Success in the Philippines. MANILLA, Phillippine Islands, October i9.—General Juramillo, the Spanish com- mander, has captured Nasugdu. The in- surgents left 114 dead on the field. Two Spanish soldiers were killed and twenty- three were wounded during the engagement. S25 The Kaiser’s Movements, DARMSTADT, Germany, October 19.— Emperor William of Germany will arrive here this afternoon on a visit to the czar. The Paris in Port. The American Line steamship Parts, from New York, October 7, reached her dock at Southampton, England, yesterday morning. She reports that at 9 o'clock a.m. on Octo- ber 8, in latitude 40.45 north, and in longi- tude 67 west, while going at a moderate Tate of speed and in calm water, her star- board tailshaft broke. The engines were imediately stopped and a boat lowered and an examination made, from which it was ascertained that the propeller had been jammed and broken. The shaft was se- cured and the ship proceeded with one en- gine. There was not the slightest uneasi- ness among the passengers over the turn of a and the officers were all perfectly ccol. ———_+ e+____ Private information received from Mem- phis =< that Senator Isham G. Harris is very fi A Brief Review of the Situation in Ohio. A Large Democratic Bolt Expected— Increased Registration fn UCleve-- land—What Republicans Claim. Special Correspondence of The Kvening Star. CLEVELAND, Ohio, October 17, 1896. The campaign in Ohio is having a hot finish. Both partics are making an effort. The republicans are seeking to swell Mc- Kinley’s majority as near to the 100,000 mark as possible, and the democrats claim to have a fighting chance, and many con- servative members of the party profess believe that the buckeye state will be taken frem the republican ranks. The past week has been a most lively one in political circles and ended with the presence here of Carl Schurz, who addressed a large meeting of German republicans in Music Hail, and Senator Stewart, who spoke to the demo- crats in Red Cross Rink. The coming week will be marked by an aggressive fight on the part of the republicans on the western reserve. Gen. Alger and party will ad- dress a dozen meetings in this section early next week. Bryan to Speak. Followirg the advent of the Union gen- erals upon the reserve will come Mr. Bry- an, who will speak at Akron October 20. Preparations for a big meeting have been made, and excursions from every city with- in a radius of one hundred miles will be run into Akron. Thus, it is apparent that northern Ohio is ablaze with political en- thusizsm. Careful an@ thoughtful republicans say there are no reasons to believe that the democratic claims in this state have any reasonable basis. The elements, which en- ter into the contest are briefly stated. (1) There is a strong democratic disaf- fection. It is estimated that half éf this vote will be cast for. Palmer and Buckner, and the other half for McKiniey. The friends of the gold standard democrati> ticket claim they will have 15,000 votes. In’ case their prediction is verified Major Mc- Kinley will have 15,000 more at least, who ordinarily would vote for the democratic. cancidate. This makes a bolt of 30,000 from the democratic ranks. There will no doubt be many democrats, too, whose an- tlpathy to the democratic candidate is not sufficient to caise them to bolt, but who will stay at home. (2) To counteract the democratic disaf- fecticn, there is a block of about 50,000 populists and prohibitionists who will nec- essarily vote for the Bryan presidential electors. (3) The personal popularity of Major Mc- Kinley in Ohio, it is predicted, will bring out a full republican yote. i Fall Republican: Vote: If the republicans of this,state are out in full force, there is no reasonable doubt that Ohio will go republican. In the light of the foregoing promise, con- servative republicans contend that Maj McKinley will carry Ohio, by, a little more than the normal plurality of between 50,000 and 79,000. .Tke.regular- republican vote will be somewhat larger than usual, and the regular democratic vote will also be slightly increased, The populist vote as a party vote will be wiped out entirely. Last year Gov. Bushnell had a_ plurality of 97,000. The republicans hardly expect to exceed this record. The registration in this city has been phenomenal. If the present ratio of gains continues on the next two days of regis- tration the-vote -of Clevelan@*will-be over 70,000. The city is a republican city, and the increased registration is regarded as an indication of republican gains. The gains have been most noticeable in the republi- can wards of the East End. . E. Burton is making an aggressive fight for Congress as against L, A. Russell, democrat. Mr. Russell has succeeded in arraying the entire religious element of the city against himself, and many of the more conservative people will also oppose him. ‘The populists have refused to fuse with the democrats, and their candidate, Dr. L. B. Tuckermen, will poll from 1,000 to 1,500 votes, which will render Mr. Russell’s elec- tion impossible. . ———— COOL DARING. Attempt to Steal a Mail Bag Frus- trated. KANSAS CITY, Mo., October 19.—A dar- ing robber of the mails has been arrested here by the postal authorities. ‘The culprit is C. H. Hamilton, alias Wallace, and is sald to have a criminal record, Last even- i.g Hamilton appeared at the union depot wearing the trass buttons and uniform of @ railway mail agent.’ Hé stepped boldly up to a truck’ that Was’standing under the depot shede loaded with, mailsacks and pulled down a letter pouch, throwing it “cross his arm and stepping into a wailing room. There-he placed the pouch under an overcoat that..hung upon his arm and walked Into. the street, not. knowing that he hai been “shadowed.” 3 A short time afterward Hamilton was ar- rested at his hoteh:He hed ‘eatiopen the sack and was going through the letters which it contained when the oMcers broke into his room. He had already. extracted several small sums of money. SSE ces WENT TO WEST GREENLAND. Nothing Heard for Several Months of Three Vessels. PHILADELPHIA, Pa.,October 19.—Fears are entertained in this city for the safety of the barks Argenta, Silicon and Serene, which sailed several months ago for Green- land to load cryolite for Philadeiphia. Whether they have been crushed by the ice floes that have drifted down from the far north or not is not known. The Argenta sailed from Cadiz on May 21, for Ivigtut, the loading point on the west coast of Greenland. She was com- manded by Captain Smith. He was for- merly in coarge of a whaler, and has had Many years’ expertence in the ice. He had with him a crew of seventeen men, shipped mostiy in Philadelphia prior to the vessel's departure for Cadiz. The Silicon left Stockholm on June 5, and the Serene left Havan: on April 2, both for Ivigiut. Captain Houghton is new to the ice, while the others have had ex- perieuce before, assuming command as mates aud in other subordinate positions. ee Taking His Future Bride Home. GETTINGE, Monteregro, October 19.— The Crown Prince of Naples and the Prin- cess Helen of Montenegro started for Italy today, accompanied by the prominent membera of the Montenegrain family who will be present at their marriage. The route to the station was lined by the army, @ royal salute was and the prince ind princess were enthusiastically cheered. —————s German Recruits Cheered France. LONDON, October 19.—The Daily News has a Berlin dispatch which says that a batch of Alsacian recruits, who were trav- eling on the railway, mutinied and wrecked the railway ca and shouted, “Har- rah for France.” This is supposed to indi- cate a revival of Chauvinism since the czar’s visit. > Rumor of Death by Poison. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. RICHMOND, Va., October 19.—W. J. Ford, living five miles from Richmond, died suddenly under suspicious circumstances last Wednesday. It has been rumored that he was poisoned. The Henrico authorities have gone to the grave to dig up the body and have it examined. —— An Old Frederick Citizen. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. FREDERICK, M4d., October 19.—John L. Doll died at the home of his son, Chas. D. Doll, this morning, of dropsy, in his seven- ty-second year. He was a native of Fred- erick, and was for many years in the cigar and tobacco business here. He leaves two sons and a daughter, all of this city. His wife died twenty years ago. —— Ocean Steamship Arrived. NEW YORK, October 19.—Arrived, Mas- sachusetts, London. Outoome of the Meeting Hero Today TRANSFER OF THE SEABOARD CONTROL It is Said a New System Will Be Formed. : AS TO THE PRESIDENCY Arrangements have been completed so that it is expected during today the abso- lute control of the Seaboard and Roanoke Ratlroad Company will pass to the. Gill- Ryan-Thomas syndicate, which jus® pre- vious to the recent annual meeting of the stockholders at Portsmouth, Va., secured an option on the majority of the stock, and that while the new owners are not nomi- nally, at least, the Southern Railway_Com- pany, they are so closely identified with the Morgan syndicate, the owners of that system, that there will be no rate wars be- tween the two lines in future, President R. Curzon Hoffman of the Sea- board has been in conference all day with certain parties, whose names an inquiry. at the office of the company failed to discover, but who are understood to be representa- tives of the Gill-Ryan-Thomas syndicate, and it is stated that an agreement has becn reached by which Mr. Hoffman will trans- fer to the syndicate the block of stock held by himself, Moncure Robinson, Judge L. R. Watts and Louis McLane, amounting to several ‘thousand shares, thus selling- the road outright to the syndicate. It is un- derstood that the price to be paid is $110, and that the entire sum necessary to buy the whole common stock of the company, and aggregating between $1,300,000 and $1,400,000, will be paid today. \, Mr. Ryan of the syndicate reached Ralti- more Saturday night, and was, it is Said, in frequent consultation with Mr. Hoffman nearly ever since that time. When the syndicate secured a majority of, the stock of the road they, for a few days, were entirely satisfied that they had ob- tained ail that was necessary to make them masters of the situation, but it was developed in the course of the investigation of the history of the Seaboard and Roan- gke road that when the charter was grant- ed a provision was inserted that while the holder of one share was entitled to one vote, the holder of 100 shares was only allowed seventy-five votes, the object of this being apparently to keep the big stock- helders from freezing out the smaller ones if the former should take a notion to do so. It was then determined that it would ve necessary to buy the holdings of Mr. Hoff. man and his friends, and an attempi was. made to do so. Mr. Hoffman was, how. ever, obdurate, and it was not until:tedey- that the syndicate has been able to fully command the situation. Mr. Hoffman was asked today whether he would remain with the Seaboard as presi- dent after he had sold his stock in the Jine, and he replied that he did not know. Efforts are, it is understood, being made. to complete all the details necessary to the transfer of the entire stock today,,as the option for the shares previously secured by the syndicate expires at 12 o'clock ‘to- night. It is also generally understood that if the Gill-Thomas-Ryan people secure the actual ecntrol of the Seatoard and Roanoke it will not be nominally at least consolidated with the Southern system, but that a new-sys- tem will be formed to comprise the Sea- board Air Line, Port Royal and Augusta end Carolina and Western reads, with | sibly the addition of the Central of Georgia and the Cape Fear and Yadkin Yalley. The letter rad is now in the hands of Gen. Gill of the syndicate as receiver, and the impression prevails that he would be made president of the new system if ne would accept the position. As receiver of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Gen. Gill is sald:to have develop2d remarkable ability in railway management, and it is believed’ he would be equally ‘as successful as the head of a big railway system such as the new consolidation would make. President Samuel Spencer of the Southern Railway Company has been invited by the Georgia railway commissioners to appear before them this week and enlighten them as to what the Southern proposes to do about various railway questions so far-as’ Georgia is concerned. At 3 o'clock Mr. Hoffman and the’ dtiidt* railway men were still in conference, and. it was stated they would not complete their business for several hours. Se SECURITIES IN SHEETS. Report of the Chief of the Bureniti of Engraving and Printing. Claude M. Jobnson, director of the b Teau of engraving and printing, in his an- nual report shows the production of se curities in sheets during the year to have been as follows: United States notes, bonds and certificates, 14,130,819; rational cur- Tency, 2,053,396; internal revenue stamps, 36,044,732; customs stamps, 214,000; postage stamps, 30,647,771; checks, &c., 1,59,877,: making a total of 85,050,595, at a cost of $1,460,358, or $17.27 per thousand sheets, as cempared with $20.30 for the year 1895, $23.73 fer the eee 1894, and $25.35 for the year 1803. THe average amount of work done by each employe is shown to have largely increased during the same time, the total amount being over 36,000,000 sheets in excess of 1898. During the year postage stamps were delivéted to post- masters in the following amounts: Ordi- nary stan ps, 3,025,481,467; special delivery, 4,466,270; postage due stamps, 19,348,714: newspaper, &c., 5,505,672; total number," 3,054,302,123. A saving for the year 1806 is shown of $25,124 in the cost of the pro- duction of postage stamps. On the sub- ject of the new issue of silver certificates, the director says they have met with unt- vérsal commendation by the public. These notes, he says, have demorstrated the pos- sibility of fine art being utilized to advan- tage in the production of bank notes, and will result in the most perfect security against counterfeiting. oo Pensions Allowed. District of Columbia—Original, Abraham Silverstein, Soldiers’ Home; restoration and reissue, Charles B. Haring; increase, Ed- ward T. Avery; reissue, John T. Hatta: original widows, etc., Mary J. Nokes; orig- inal widows, etc., minor of James H. Gor- don. Virginia—Original, Harrison Cole, Water- fall, Prince William; Palmer W. Niles, Qaklet, Norfolk; Eligins Helfer, National Soldiers’ Home, Elizabeth City.’ Increase, Mathias Emeneker, National Soldiers’ Home, Elizateth City. Original widows, Mary M. Cannon, Portsmouth, Norfolk. Reissue, iomas J. Thompson, National Soldiers’ Home, Elizabeth City. Maryland—Original (special, October 10), Henry A. Jones, Baltimore. ‘Original wid- ows, etc., Sarah I. Titlow, Florence How- ard, Susan Young, Guilford Howard, Mary Douglass, Baltimore; Georglanna Rhodes, Hanoverville, Howard. —_—_-e. Typographical Unt The regular monthly meeting of Colum- bia Typographical Unicn was held yes- terday afternoon, with President J. .D. Kehoe in the chair and Mr. C. M. R®bin- son, secretary. The attendance was tke smallest in a long time and only routine business was transacted. s —— Appointed Administratrix. Judge Hagner today appointed Alice B. Winlock, widow of William C. Win- lock, administratrix of the estate, fixing her bond at $1,200. Mr. Winlock died in- testate. os ‘Thrown From a Wagon. August Brille of 716 41-2 street south- west, a driver by occupation, was thrown from a wagon this afternoon and sustained @ coatused and lacerated wound of the scalp. Brille was removed to the Emer- gency Hospital,, where Dr. Turner ren- dered surgical assistance. — Major McKinley shows no signs of fatigue from his great week’s work, and is appar- ently as strong and robust as when the | campaign opened. # PRESSING THE PORTE. The United. States Said to Be Secking Admission ef a Dispatch Boat. LONDON, sOctober 19.—The Times’ Con- spondent says it is true ates legation there is for the admission of « ft of ‘the Dally News at aphe.ito-his paper as follows: “It seems le that the entry of the United States Steamship Bancpott into. the Dardanel! ranged for before she left New Y we Br a any ». ‘This corr pondeht also siptes that Sec- retary Olney has.gele pl pol bis thenke for dteperminsion accorded, te Armenian women and chiidren whose hus- bends and fathers are in the United States to proceed to America. ~~ = a The Marblehead Leaves Smyrna: : The only.change that has occurred in the movements of the,American fleet, ren- dezvoused in the harbor of Smyrna; is the departure today of the cruiser Marblehead for home with all the short term men on the station on board,- Word of her departure was received at the’ Navy Department to- day in a telegram from Admiral Selfridge, commanding the fleet, saying simply and briefly that she had sailed for Gibraltar. She will’ take on coal and provisions at that port and then proceed on ner voyage across the Atlantic. Her movements are in accord with instructions from Washington and involve n> change in the number of vessels regularly attached to the European squacron. Her’ olaze is taken by the cruiser Cincinnati, which arrived at Smyrna. iu company with the little battle- ship Bancroft a few days ago. Sensational Stories Disproved. ‘The departure of the Marblehead is sig- nificant, however, in that it effectually dis- Proves the sensativnal stories current a short time ago to the effect that the United States was con¢entrating its naval forces at Smyrna for the purpose of making a hos- tile demonstration against the Turkisn gov- ernment, at least to the extent of assist- ing the Bancroft to force the passage of the Dandanelles. It is not concelvable that the fighting strength of the fleet would be reduced if any warlike movements were in contemplation. There are ‘nd new developments today concerning the Bancroft or her mission to Tork It is’ supposed that ehe is now quietly taking’ on ‘coal and provisions at Smyrna preparatory to the execution of the special service ‘for which she was sent to the Levant, There seems to be no doubt that she is destized to duty as an Amert- can guardship at the Ottoman capital, and that she will proceed there as soon as «ll the necessary arrangements shall have been made. : Force Was Never Thought Of. There ir not now and never was any purpose of héving this miniature warship attempt to force a passage of the Darda- nelles, and {f she makes the trip to the olden Horn it may be.gepepted as, a cer- tainty that she does so with the full knowl- ‘edie Shd Consent of the’ siibitme porte an: the slenatary, powers to the Berlin agree- ent. Minister Terreli has received satisfac- tory assurances on this point, it is said, and it s therefore not improbable that the Ban- croft will statt for Constantinople before many days have passed. The Strait. A alee. talow of the situation is suffi- ‘Aeht t3'shde'the toity*er the report that @ vessel of the gamparative weakness of the Bancroft would attempt to force its way to the Turkish capital. The strategic key to therTurkish empire is the Strait of Dardenelles, a narrow passage con- necting’ thé ‘Kereali‘sea and the Sea of Mar- jmcra. Tha, sity of Constantinop.e Les at its eastern end. It is about forty-five | miles long and varies in width, its great- est breadth being about four miles. With this narrow‘passdge closed, Constantinople remains unapproachable from the Mediter- ranean. : The Turks have always realized the strat- egic importance of the Dardanelles, and |, centuries ago‘took steps to fortify their position there. Four castles and! a line: of coast batteries now. defend the entrance to the strait. The castles of Kum Kale, on the Asiatic shcre, and Sed-fl-Bahr, on the European shore, were built in 1669 by Ma- homet IV to. protect his empire from the fleets of the Venetians. East of them, where the.strait is but 800 yards wide,stand on efther shore the castles pf Tcbanak Kales amt: Kale Bahr,’ with ‘a'line of coast batteries. This point.ia: one: of; the: most historic in Europe. Here Leander is sal to have swum the strait, the Hellespont, | as f€" Was’ fhe called; here Darius, in the year 500 B. C.,. joined Buttpe and Asta by @ pontoon bridge; here. Byron swam the strait in 1810 with Lieut. Eckenhead. Rights of the Porte. ‘As early as 1909 England recognized the - porte’s right to exclude warships, but not until 1841 did the otheysgreat powers join with her. _Féarful Jan influence in }the Ottewmmr-empire.” England, France, Prussia aid Apstria béegitfito take an ac- tive intergst.in the eastern situation, and the r (of their intervention was a treaty Bet them, Turkey and Russia, drawn:ip if 2840.and 1841. “All the powers agreed to obseryé the right oft tae’ porte to Hexclude“fr@the Dardauelies and the Bos- phorus the ,pasships =e fo) nations, ! This principe was reaffirmed bythe treaty. |of Paris ip 1856, and Tiaé'béen Yeafirmed by the powers In every treaty drawn up between’ them sirce. : —__+e.______ FOR. PLAYING. POKER. Se A Little Game Which Was Not Fin- ished. This afternoon in. Judge Miller’s court a number of faces familiar about poker rooms were seen in the audience when Prosecuting Attogney Mullowry called for triul the case of Thomas Miller, charged with setting up a gaming table in the Hotel Regent, corner of Pernsylvania avenue and 15th street. It is alleged that a game of poker was in progress iri the recom about 2 o'clock yesterday morning when Sergt. Ac- ton and Policemen Schuyler, Hollinberger, Kilmartin and Simpson called and notified those in the room that they were under arrest. The poker players were very much surprised, but they went to the station with the officers without any trouble. Lawyer A. A. Lipscomb appeared as coun- sel in the case, and claimed that it was a case of a few gentlemen indulging in a friendly game of poker. Those who were in the game that was raided got their chips from Miller. Mr. Lipscomb, in arguing the case, ask- ed why the authorities did not stop these crime-creating and suicide-breeding places —sto>k brokers’ offices and bucket shops. People rob and embezzle to feed these Places, and yet the authorities bring into court only the pegple who have a sociable game of ca : “We had 6 them here last year,” said the co} ‘What became of them? sent them fo te. grand jury.” “We couldp’t twelve men who would convict,” 3 t, Mullowny. Miller was field the grand jury; bonds, $300. g aS Bank! "prvfdends Declared. The contrafier of the currency has de- clared dividéads fit favor of insolvent na- tional banks as féllows: A first divfilend, 20 per cent, in favor of the creditord of thé First National Bank of Bedford City, V&, on claims proved, amounting €¥ $88, $84.12. A first dividend, 20 per cent, in favor of the creditors of the Kearney National Bank of Kearaey, Neb:, on claims proved,amount- ing to $91,434.93. : 4 A first dividend, 20 per cent, in favor of the creditors of the First National Bank of Port Angeles, Wash., on claims proved,. amounting. to $5.426.37. : d_dividend, 15 per tent, in favor reditors of the Farmers’ National of Portsmouth, Ohio, making in all 40 per cent on claims proved, amounting fo $295,772.47. A fourth dividend,'10 per cent, in favor of the creditors of the First National Bank of North Manchester; Ind., making in cent on, claims proved, amou 081.56, A final dividend, 10% per cent, in favor the creditors of ‘the Coi £ final dividend, 4% per the creditors of the City National Hastings, Neb., in all on claims proved, amounting THE HIGHWAY CASES Supreme Court Today Asked to Give Their Early Consideration. STATEMENT SUBMITED BY COUNSEL District Commissioners Point Out the Evils of Delay. ACTION OF THE COURT In the Supreme Court of the United States tcday a motion was made that the court advance the District of Columbia highway extension cases on the docket, and set them Gown for oral argument at an early day. These are cases No. 633 and 634. The mo- tion was made by Mr. A. S. Worthington, attorney for the Commissioners, and Mr. W. L. Cole, attorney for the appellees. The solicitor general on behalf of the United States concurred in the motion. The papers were submitted, and the court will take the motion under consideration. In the papers that were submitted to the court in support of the motion to advance it is stated: “These are cross appeals in a case arising under an act of Congress, en- titled ‘An act to provide a permanent sys- tem of highways in that part of the Dis- trict of Columbia lying outside of cities~ approved March 2, 1693 (27 Stat., 532). “Af- ter quoting from the act in question, the following comment ts made: “The condemnation proceedings as to the subdivision involved in this case were the first that were had under the statute in question. Certain questions as to the con- stitutionality of the act of March 2, 1893, and of several parts thereof, arose, and have been passed upon by Mr. Justice Cox, holding the special term of the Supreme Court of the District, and by the Court of Appeals of the District. The case is now brought here in order that all these ques- tions may be finally determined by this court for the government of the court be- low in this case, and in all future proceed- ings under the act. “Some of these questions are: “First. Whether section 11 of the act is unconstitutional in providing that where a Fart unly of a parcel of land is condemned there shall be deducted from the value of the part taken, the venefit the purpose for which it is taken may be to the owner of the tract by enhancing the value of the part Pot taken. “Second. Whether the law is invalid be- cause there is no provision for the payment of the damages whcn ascertained by the court, and because the act provides that if Congress, at the end of the time fixed by section 18, has not made an appropria- tion for such payment, the proceedings 4 shall be void. “Third. Whether the assessment of bene- fits provided for by section 15 is constitu- tional. “Fourth. Whether, if the act is unconsti- tutional in any of the respects above men- tioned, the whole law falls or only the parts that are invalid. Record of the Cases. “Mr. Justice Cox held section 11 of the act to be unconstitutional, and further held that on that ground the whole law was invalid. “A majority of the Court of Appeals (Mr. Chief Justice Alvey dissenting) also held that section 11 is unconstitutional. That court further held, unanimously, that sec- tion 15 of the act is invalid, but that the invalidity of sections 11 and 15 did not affect the rest of the law. The case was accordingly remanded to the special term, where a final judgment was entered in fa- vor of the land owners for the value of the land actually taken, as ascertained by the jury, without deduction of benefits in any case, and without any assessment for bene- fits, The Commissioners of the District and Butler F, Abbott, one of the land owners interested, appealed from this final judg- ment to the Court of Appeals, where the judgment was affirmed upon the opinion rendered when the case was in that court in the first instance. “The Commissioners of the District of Columbia have appealed to this court, claiming that the law is in all its parts constitutional. Butler F. Abbot, one of the land owners, bas alsa appealed, claiming that the entire statute is unconstitutional and void. The other land owners have not appeaied, but all unite in this motion. * A Speedy Settlemen: “Upon this statement of the case it will be obvious to the court that the law con- templates, and the public interest, as well as the private interests of the parties whose land is affected, requires that the constitu- tional questions involved should be speedily determined by this court. Until such de- termination all proceedings under the act are necessarily stayed. As to the public interest, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia rsepectfully submit: ““First—That the delay which will follow if the cases are not advanced will result in @ great increase of the cost of the land to be condemned. “‘Second—Plans relating to the sewerage of that portion of the District lying with- out the city of Washington are necessarily held in abeyarce until it shall have been determined where the streets are to go. “Third—No further subdivision of land within the territory covered by the map of section one.can be admitted to record as long as it is doubtful whether the plan to fhich such subdivision must conform is legal. “ourth—Grades of existing highways in the region affected cannot be established till the general plan of highways in that vicinity is determined upon. “Fifth—No legislation in aid, or modifica- tion of, the plan contemplated by the act in question can be obtained until this court shall have determined the constitutional questions involved. Position of Land Owners. “The land owners. who are partles to these cases, in support of this motion on their part, respectfully submit: That these condemnation proceedings put a cloud upon the title to their property, which practi- cally deprives them of their right to sell, mortgage or improve it. By the provisions of section 18 of the act, Congress is not required to determine whether it will pay the judgments which have been entered in thelr favor for many months. If there is added to this the further delay which will result from waiting for these causes to be reached on the calendar of this court, the land owners interested in this case wiil all be seriously injured,and to many of them the loss will be érreparable, and this argument applies to the owners of land in all the remaining forty-two subdivisions embr.ced in the map ef section 1, for condemnation proceedings have been instituted as to ell of them.” This statement is signed by S. T. Thom2s, A. B. Duvall, Samuel Maddox and A. Worthington, attorneys for John W. George Truesdell and Charles F. Powell, Commissioners of the District of Columbia; Nathaniel Wilson, attorney for appellant, B. F. Abbot; W. L. Cole, Chas. H. Armes, ‘attorneys for appellee, Mary B. Armes. — A Poll in Kansas. Chairman Babcock has received the re- port of a careful poll, which has been sub- Jected to a critical revision before being submitted, showing the condition in the six counties of Rawlins, Cheyenne, Norton, Thomas, Sheridan and Graham, in the sixth district of Kansas. This poll shows the following results: Republicans, 3,062; Populi: 2,968; democrats, 407; prohibi- tonists, 22. Total, 6,449. The vote in these same counties on Con- gressmen was as follows: Republicans, 2,- 13; populists, 3,088; democrats, 623; prohi- bitionists, 57. Total, 6,681. This shows that the republicans gain 139 and the populists lose 120. The present poll shows a republican plurality of §4, while in the same counties two years ago the populists had a plurality of 175, thus indicating a republican gain of 259, ———_-e-_____ Commander Glass Exonernted. The report of the naval court of inquiry which ited the circumstances sur- ro the grounding of the Texas in Newport harbor about the ist of last month has been approved by the Secretary of the navy. The captain of the ship, Command- ee ia is completely exonerated by the co : to Co! it peech Me: ay. iy - May. December all | February October 4. 73; a? do., $4. 8. | rel Wh Sod pa sales, bern og, 3 Ts 83033! 30a80%, 72102 busudls low corn, ‘firmer—No. white, Scart: Ne bush t id. orde firm—tanc: 2 $ Bay State Gas iri. Erie... g eral ropolitan Trac Miasou National Pacific Pacifi 82% 7 Tracti : . 8. Leat Wabash, Pra: . oss lee. rong a. ‘yea: = 2588450; | spri - <a ts rong—spot and exporte, pone; ‘Sass ‘22a: xports, No. 108,552 “gt 5d. January on r 08% ON MR. BRYAN’S TRAIL __ Through Michigan Conditions im the Wolverine state, Where Both Sides Seem to Be ConSdént of Victory. Correspordence vf ‘The’ Evening Star. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, October 15, 1896. The political combing in this state has a lively row on its hands. Fred. A. Baker of Detroit, chairman of the democratic end of it, was made chairman of the joint execu- tive committee and manager of the cam- paign. He is still nominally at the head of affairs, but George F. Richardson, secre- tary of the silver committee, is the man really in charge. Mr. Baker gives as the reason for his virtual retirement the press of legal business, but a row with the popu- lists and silverites is the real reason. Chair- man Dan. T. Campau of the national exec- utive committee recently sent some money into the state to relieve the stringency, but, instead of bettering conditions, it aggra- vated the unhappy situation in which Mr. Baker was. The allies were modest in their demands for sustenance and encourage- ment, knowing that funds were low; but as soon as it became known that some money had teen received from the national com- mittee everybody jumped for a share of it, and none more emphatically than the pop- ulists, who had not contributed a picayune. Mr. Baker,’aside from this, was in an un- pleasant position, owing to the constant criticisms and fault-findings of the allies, and he finally threw up his job in disgust— at least the active management of the cam- paign. Mr. Richardson’s Political Record. Mr. Richardson, who succeeds him, was a former republican, then a greenbacker, and finally a democrat. He early embraced the populist faith as a leader in the Patrons of Industry movement, and was elected to Congress by the democrats and populists combined. He has been at the head of the free silver movement since his retirement from Congress, and it is thought his former affiliations with the populists will harmo- nize difficulties which Mr. Baker found it impossible to overcome. Bryan’s Trip Through the State. Mr. Bryan made his tour through the state this week. He was favored with good weather, and big crowds turned out every- where to ace and hear him. The combine is hopeful that his tour will stir up the en- thusiasm of the people, but the republi- cans are not at all apprehensive of the ef- fect. In none of his speeches did he a vance any argument for silver, but con- fined himself to ringing the changes on his later-day speeches as given in Minnesota and Dakota. Lest some voters should be garried away, however, the republicans and Sound money democrats will put speakers on his trail to counteract any influence he may have exerted. The combine will also Send but speakers to make longer speeches than Bryan was able to make, and going more into detail. Williams of Massachu- setts, Vice President Adlai Stevenson and “Coin” .Harvey will be the heavy-weights in Bryan's wake. ‘Pingree anil the Campaign. The*Yépublicans claim to have the elec- tien .already, safely, won for the national election, and are now concentrating efforts upon the doubtful congressional districts. The state committee is not wasting any lime or energy in behalf of Mayor Pingree, and the course he has pursued in the cam- paign:has been such that the committee could hardly be expected to hustle very hard. Mr. Pingree has not once called at republican state headquarters, and in his campaigning tours has repeatedly made in- discreet remarks on the financial question as well as written letters that handicapped the republican sound money campaign. Mr. Pingree will be extensively cut on election day, and in many quarters, and if the elec- tion should prove at all close, it is more than probable he will fall by the wayside. It is needless 'y, perhaps, that there would not be much grief among many of Prominent republicans if he should fail election, eee Seeretuty Herbert to Take the Stum: According to his present plan, Secretary Herbert will, leave Washington Tuesday evemiiit' 6f next week for Alabama to make ‘several. campaign speeches in his old dis- trict in support-of the canvass of Thomas H. Clark, the chairman of the democratic sound” money committee of the state, who is a ‘candidate tor Congress. Thursday, Friday. and Saturday following Secretary Herbert will speak in Evergreen, Troy and Montgomery, reSpectively, and if opportu- nity ts had" he’ wilt also deliver a brief si in. Greenville. SS , Issmcd an Attachment. In:a ‘suit filed today by Hathaway, Soule & Harrington, ‘a Massachusetts firm, against Messrs. Havenuer & Davis, also a Massachusetts corporation, engaged in the shoe ibusiness‘heré, it Is said, on F street, to recover the sum of $9,076.19, alleged to be due on account, an attachment was is- suéd against the defendants. An attachment for $1,798.50 was also is- sued against the same defendants in a suit for that amount, filed against them b; Geo. E. Barnard. ai Fourth-Class Postmasters. M. J. Boisseau was appointed postmaster at Prince George, in Prince George's coun- ty, Md., today, vice F. D. Waymack, re- signed. There were thirty-six fourth-class post- masters appointed today ,of which six were to fill vacancies caused by removals. ——-o-____ Grain and Cotton Markets. Furnished by W. B. Hibbs a Co., 1421 F street, members New York siock exchange, correspondents Mersrs. Ladenburg, Thal- mann & Co., New York, GRAIN, Be Ent 30% ie a FI iJ tas} *. Se Bees . mm oe BS be ceeney Bane SRa88 Fy gee S38 : ; prenges esse ogee gaan! shez: gases SSSe | Baltimore Markets. aiguer=oresterk an 3a2.136 do. ee 310 r—western rT, $2. > do. extra, It ee, do. em, Soags.to; wittee ae Pea ent, $4.50a34.7 2.0 $4.00; ing wheat straigh . .15—recel; $ 4 t straight, $4.4 ipts, 13,851 bar. hi t and 95; steamer No. 2 FINANCE AND TRADE Stocks Sold Saturday Were Repur- “chased This Morning, EFFECT OF THE ADVANCE IN WHEAT Awaiting the Result of the National Elections. GENERAL MARKET REPORTS Special Dispatch to ‘The Evening Star. NEW YORK, October 19.—The stocks sold during the tight money scare which followed the publication of Saturday's bank statement were repurchased during the early trading this morning. The sharp advance tn wheat, coupled with increasing optimism as to the future course of this commodity, counteracted the influences of a pessible money stringency. The subse- quent weakness of the foreign exchange market added impetus to the advance in security prices and inspired renewed confi- dence in further substantial additions to the aggregate gold importations, Call money advanced to 10 per cent to- ward noon, and prices yielded slightly in consequence. The ccncessions from this cause were confined within extremely nar- row limits, and in no instance were they the restit of significant selling. The vol- ume of business decreased noticeably, how- ever, and sixty-day contracts became con- spicuous features of the trading. Buyers’ options at prices ranging from 1-4 to 3-4 per cent in advance of the last regular sale were neticeable in all of the more active issues. The willingness to trade on contracts of this character “is direct evidence of the prevailing confidence in the outcome of the political contest and the temporary scarc- ity of borrowatle funds. If securities are to be bought at all at this time the provision for carrying them over a probable ante-eleciion money strin- gency is extremely wise. The develop- ments which must be recorded on Novem- ~ ber 3 in order to vindicate the wisdom of present stock accumulation will release hoarded funds and dispose of the present embarrassing strength of interest rates. The professional narrowness of the mor- ket is also indicated by the efforts to make transactions on this basis. The volume of commission business has dwindled to in- s‘gnificant proportions, and clients in many instances have been advised to wait unzil conditions supplant theories as a basis for investment enterprises. The strength of the grain-carrying roads needs no special analysis in view of the action of the cereals, from which the bulk of their revenue is derived. The advance in wheat is sympathetically advancing corn, and the size of the latter crop insures profit= able results to the roads favored with its transportation. For this reason it is not illogical to pre- sume that conditions may change so as to give the Speculative preference to the corn- carrying reads. The scarcity of tonnage for export purposes and the continued de- manf from abroad are factors indicating a continuation of activity in the market for breadatuffs, The coal and fron industries are regarded as being among the probable leaders of future activity in both the commerciai and speculative sense. Politics must be elim- inated from the field of doubt before any- thing of unusual significance is undertaken in enterprises involving the expenditure cf large sums of mone; American sugar attracted the bulk of the trading in the industrial department, the price being bid up sharply for a gain of 2 per cent. At the advance some realizing on early purchases was recorded, out the price was said to be well supported by the manipulative interest. The professional character of the market destroys confidence in its ability to main- tain its present level during the two weeks of political uncertainty ahead. The pre- dictions of conservative judges, based on similar reasoning, has failed repeatedly of late, and logical results may again fail of materialization. ee FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. The following are the ing,the highest and the lowest and the Prices Corson & Macartney, York stock exchan; Messrs. Moore & ‘Schley, Correspondents, No. 80 Broadway. . High. Low. Close. America Sugar... ‘Ameriead Sugar, Pid American Tobacoo. American Michigan Central. MI mri Pauific e Wheeling & L. Erie Wheeling& L. Erie,Pia. ... . we Union Tel Silver. Washington Stock Exchange. ar call—12 o'clock m—Lincoln | Na- Sales—regul tonal Bank, 5 at 98. Washington Gas, 25 at 41%; 20 at 41%." After call--Mergenthaler Linotype, 6 ai 5 District of Columbia Bonds.—29-year fund fs. |. 30-year ‘Zs, 1901, currency, 111 bid. 101 fund 68, gold, 110% bid. Water stock 110 bid) Water stock 3.658, funding, currenc: ancous Bonds.—Metropolitan Railroad Ss, . Metropolitan Raflrosd conv. 6s, 105% bid, 109% asked. Metropolitan Ratlrond certifientes of indebtedness, 168% bid. Belt Railroad 5s. 77 asked. Eckington Railroad 6s. 95 asked. Coinm- bia Railroad €s, 113 arked. Washinzton Gas Com. pany Gs, series A, 108 bid. Washington Com- Gs, series B, 109 asked. Chesapeake and Po- tomac Telephone "Ss, 100 bid. American Security and Trust Gs, F. and A., 100 bid, 105 asked. American Security aud Trust Ss, 4. ‘and ©. 100 bid, 105 asked. “Washington Market Company Ist S101 pany Washington Market Company Simp. 107 bid. | Washington Market Company ext. tion Ss, 100 bid. 300 asked. 170 bid. Capital, 112 ‘Traders’, 100 asked. 120 bid. 10 asked. Ohio, 95. kate Depot and Trost panion. —Nath 1 Rate fe a Companies. — National le ‘fn ; eo it and Trost, 12 Oarked. Washington Loan ‘ew York, and Trust, 110 bid, 120 asked. American Security 10%510%; do. 35 pounds, 10%.a10%; do. 22 and Trest, 165 asked. ‘ie ~ | Raflroad Stocks.—Capital Traction Company, 63 Io goat tn Sie hone gr abegL ES Seats | Wed eS aaned itera an oe ti oT ee lots. Government Bonds. Quotations reported by Corson & Macart- ney, bankel per cents, cou x 1 115) 1 . ——— Tuesday, W and Thursday the American Institute of Architects will hold its 30th annual convention at Nashville. Belt, 16 asked. Eckington, 16 Gas and Electric Light Stocks.—Washington Gar, S41 bid, 43 asked. Georgetown Gas, 40 bid. U. S. Hlectric Light. 8% bid, 98 asked. asked. Columbia, 50 bid. asked. Insurance Stocks.—Franklin, 83 bid. Metropoli- tan, 65 bid. Potomac. 63 bid. Arlington. 125 bid: 3 American, 150 bid. National Uulon, 14 7 bid. ‘Peo- asked. Columbia, 14 asked. Riggs, ple's, 5 bid, 6 asked. Lincoln, 7 bid, 8 asked. Title Insurance Stocks.—Real Estate Title, 110 asked. Columbia Title, 7 asked. Weshington Ti te, 5 asked. District Title, ced. Te \e Stocks.—Pennayivi 36 bid. Cheaa- 63 merican phone, *5% bi ered. 18, 2 asked. lianeous Sto-ks.—' ithaler JAnotype. 117 pa, Ti aad, damon ema 8 gy Sige ray ieee — i, 90 asked. °Ex. iv.