Evening Star Newspaper, November 21, 1896, Page 11

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Wefers has the distinction of hold- ing more world’s records than any other man in athletie circles, and more than this, he has made and broken more world’s rec- ords than any other individual. J. Owen, jr., at the amateur athletic meet held on Analostan Island, October 11, 1800, ran 100 yards in 9 4-5 seconds. This record stood for over six years, and though equaled a number of times by Wefers, it has never been lowered until the fall invi- tation meet at Georgetown Coliege held just a fortnight ago. At this same meet Wefers succeeded in breaking his own world’s record for 200 yards, running the distance in 30 2-5 seconds, clipping a fifth of a second off of the former record. In both of these instances the reduction was very slight, and though a fifth of a second is less than the blinking of an eye, it means considerable when a record is at stake. Wefers has the faculty of running off his set distances, whether in condition or not, in record-breaking time. He has been known to have entered in races for which he had not trained at all, and succeeded in equaiing some of his best attempts. Then, Career of le Young Bernard J. Wefers. again, with the elements against him, he has made remarkably fast time. Though a straightaway course is regarded as the speedier course by far, he has succeeded in making records for the same distance on a curved track. His record for America, and for the world, for 220 yards, is 21 3-5 seconds, made on a straightaway course, yet on the track at Georgetown University he has succeeded in equaling this time, with two turns to make. Wefers, although he looks much older, is only twenty-two years of age, his birthday occurring last February. He was born at Lawrence, Mass., where his mother resides. He is about five feet eleven inches tall and when in condition he weighs 17 pounds. His normal weight is about 190 pounds, and at the recent meet, when he broke the two world’s records, he weighed about 185 pcunds. He is under the care of Trainer William Foley, who looks cure- fully after his interests while at George- town College. : ‘The first time Wefers ever stepped into a pair of running shoes was on October 19; 1893, at the dual meet of the Holy Cross and Boston colleges, he being a student at the latter institution. He entered four events, and won all of them. He covered the fifty yards in 5% seccnds, and ran the 100 yards in 10 3-5 seconds. In the 440-yard run he made the good time of 54 seconds, and in the 120-yard hurdle he came in in the lead in 17 seconds. Though the run- ning shoes were a novelty to him, he took to their use, and entered the races without any preliminary training whatever. The first open event in which -he com- peted was in March of the next year, when he entered in the championship events -of New England, held in Boston under the auspices of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He entered the 75-yard run and won, in the fast time of 74-5 seconds. ‘This established his reputation as a sprint- er, and he suffered thereby, to some extent, for in a good many events he subsequently entered, including all of the handfcap events, he was made the scratch man. But | his ability asserted itself, and he won every one. There is one thing that can be said of him, and that is he never entered a han- dicap race in which he was placed apy- where but on the scratch. In the summer, fall and winter of 1594 he entered a num- ber of events. in all of which he came cft victorious. It was at the games of the E letic Association, April 19, 1895, that he ran a hundred yards for the-tirst time in 10 seconds. In June of the same year he cn- tered several handicap events, all of which he won. July 4, at Newton Center, Mass., at the Newton Athletic Club games, he ran the hundred yards, and beating the pistol, a yard was added by the official, placing his time at 10 1-5. On the afternoon of the same day, at Worcester, Mass., at the games held by the Worcester Athletic Club, he ran two heats, each 120 yards, nis time being @2 seconds for each heat, with the rain and win in his face. It was his splendid performance in this race that attracted the attention of the New York Athletic Club. M. C. Murphy, then trainer at Yale, and handling the team of the New York Athletic Club se- lected to meet the English athietes, wit- nessed his speed. Murphy, who, Wefers says, is without doubt the premier trainer of the country, is now with the University of Pennsylvania. Among the other men picked up by Murphy were T. R. Lee, who then held the world’s record for 2 ya and C. H. Stage, who won two world’s championship records at the world’s fair. Wefers was pitted against these two in a trial race for fifty yards, which he won in 5 2-5 seconds. The result was gratifying, and he received the first training in his life. He well remembers the rigid disc! pline and the restrictions that were placed upon him. His first competition under the trainership of Murphy was at the St. George athletic games in New Jersey, on Ath- where he was placed on the scratch with irst Tom Lee, and ran 220 yards for the time in his life. His time was 1 onds. i On Labor day of the same year, at Ber- gen Point, N. J. he met J. V. Crum, who held the intercollegiate championship for 190 and 220 yards. Crum was the crack of the country, and had never been beaten. More than that, he was a favorite, and everybody predicted a walkover for him. Goodwin of Louisville, the Kentucky won- der; Stage and Lee were in the race, a 100- yard invitation run. Wefers won the :irst heat i, 10 1-5 seconds, with Crum second. In the final Crum managed to win out by a foot, his time being the same as that made by Wefers in the trial heat. This was the first of the trial for the composition of the all American team. On the following Saturday, at Manhat- tan field, the second trial came off. We- fers ran the 100 yards in ten seconds, beat- ing Crum by one and a half yards, with Lee third and Goodwin fourth. On the fol- lowing Saturday, September 14, the Ameri- can championships were run off under the auspices of the Amateur Athletic Union at the same place. Wefers ran the 100 yards in 10 seconds, beating Crum by over a yard, and the 220 yards in 21 4-5 seconds, equaling the world’s record. His performance at this race placed him first man on the all American team. The competition with the English ath- letes came off on the afternoon of Septem- ber 1 at Manhattan field, where Wefers met C. A. Bradley and Stevenson, both English cracks, and managed to win all of the events in which he entered. His per- formance placed him before the whole country, and his name was published in al- most every newspaper in this country and in England. He came to Georgetown University Oc- tober 12 of last year, and his main work of the fall of that year was at the field day meet held last November. He won the 100 and 220-yard runs, and also practically won the relay race against the team from the University of Pennsylvania. It was at the American-English games that he ran 100 yards in 9 4-5 seconds, equaling the world’s record for the first time. He finished first, with. Bradley second and Crum third. In the 220 yards he made the fast time of 21 3-5. seconds, establishing a world’s record. | The following week, under the auspices of the.New York Athletic Club, on Manhattan field, he ran for the world’s record for 200 yards, which was 31 2-5 seconds. He suc- ceeded tn clipping off a fifth of a second from this record. Subsequently he suc- ceeded in covering the distance in 20 3-5 secénds at Travers Island, N. Y. This was on September 26 of this year, and at the fleld day meet of the Georgetown Univer- sity on November 7 he succeeded in break- ing this record by a fifth of a second. , After the English games he went to his home, where he was given a royal recep- ‘A magnificent assortment of the very latest effects—from the Just the proper sort to keep the tables company—cane and up- A dining room isn’t furnished that hasn't one, and we can show you how ttle a good one will cost—you'll be surprised. Ours Not all Iuxury—a good deal of convenience and safety in having Folks imagine they're costly—you won't think so when you hear our prices. Appropriateness must be observed in the selection of Window Let us show you some that we Good judgment, too, Bear this in mind— Whatever you buy at Hoeke’s is guaranteed to be the best pos- sible value at the least possible price for such value. HOEKE, Furniture, Carpets, Draperies. Pa. Ave and 8th Street. COMMER AOA = - ogh slid Oak Siteboard— 411 Imches wide, with shelf above and below mbzor, one lined dager. Gtoor Soula Oak Ta- ble. »; @ Handsome “Oak Cane-seat Chairs, al complete: for only _ 919.75 No. 2. Solid Oak Sideboard, 44. inches wide, two swéll-front top drawers, one ined for sliver, laxge linen drawer, fine _plate mirror and upper shelf, “e-foot Oak” Tabie— 44-Irch top. 6 Cane Chafrs. All complete tion. His town people welcomed him home like a hero, met him at_the station with a brass band, gave a banquet in his honor, and performed various other tokens of their esteem. Although not in striet training at the present t'me, he keeps regular hours ard looks after himself. He arises at 6 o'clock, breakfasts at 7:30, and at 9 o'clock enters the class oom. At noon he goes out on the track for about fifteen or twenty min- utes, taking about five minutes’ actual ex- ercise. After a rub-down, he lu es at 2:45, and returns to his classes until 5 o'clock, when he comes out on the track again for fifteen or twenty minutes, and undergoes the.same exercise as at noon He takes his supper at 6 o'clock, and tires at a seasonable hour. He is practically always at the training table, where pastry, york, ham, corn beef and various other meats are unknown. He makes a meal of roast beef, or porterhouse steak, bread, coffee and plenty of milk. No hot bread is allowed, but toast Is per. missible. Wefers is not a vegetarian, and he avoids garden truck of all kinds, such having a tendency to fatten him. Though his weight in condition is 175 pounds, he has not reached that figure this year.’ He says he has practically not had any train- ing sinc» September 15, though since then he won three races at Philadelphia, three more held under the auspices of the New York Athletic Club, two at Baltimore, and three moze and the rupning broad jump at the recent field meet; He has decided to discontinue jumping, as,that exercise is apt to injure his legs. fis hard training will begin next year aboyt the middle of April, six or seven weeks before the inter- collegiate zames at Berkeley oval, or Man- hattan field, but after,,these he will do Nts tle hard work. Larger iy Known, roflts From the London ‘Times. A return has been made by trade giving statistical tables relatmg to the sea fisheries of the ‘united kingdom. The statistics relate ‘tainly to fish landed on the Soasts of England and Wales, but summarized statements are also’ give fish landed on the Scoteh and Irs nett For purposes of compatison tie statist are given of the sea fis v Holland, France a England and Wa! fish landed was the board of value of the 438,000. ‘The correspond. and 1894 were respectively. For d the total value was £1,880,000, and for tree land £209,000. In Scotland, during the year 1895, there has been a slight decrease in the quantity and an increase in the value of the fish landed as compared with 1x4 In Ireland there was a decrease both in quantity and value, The aggregate value for the united king- dom during the year 185 is ¢Ta3ty compared with a total value of ¢7 in 184. The figures for other countries during 1s are not at hand, hut for 188. the values were: Norway, 11,272,000; Holt land, not accurately known, but’ probably less than Norway; France, £4,681,000, and Canadian dominion, £4,817,000.. More’ than half of the total weight of fish landed in England and Wales consisted of haddocks and herrings. But their value was less than a third of the total value, viz., fl. 604,000 out of 45,120,000. The more Costly Kinds of fish—soles, turbots and. pla are, it appears, decreasing slightly in quan- tity and Increasing in value. As regards the value of all fish, however, the average value per hundredweight has slightly in- reased during the last three years. AS re- helitish, the figures in ISM and 1895 are very si: lar, but oysters show a con- inuous decline, ‘the numbers landed being WO in 1800 0) In 1894 and 25,— 6,000 in 1895. Grimsby steadily maintains s position as the leading port, with @ total of S3,XW) tons, Next in order tollow London, with 52,0 tons; Hull, with 46,000 tons; Lowestoft, with 31,000 tons, and Yar- mouth, with 28,000 tons, +o+ PENNS FIRST CONSTITUTION. His Far-Sighted Statesmanship Shown in Its Provisions. From the Philadelphia Inquirer. It is with peculiar appropriateness that there is printed in the October number of The Pennsylvania Magazine of History, for the first time, an earlier attempt than his “Frame of Government,” by Penn to draft @ constitution for his colony. This paper is well werth careful study by the older pupils and teachers in the schools. It shows what care Penn gave to his colony. In it are to be found phraseg that are now fa- mous and that have reappeared in the pres- ent presidential contest, as they have reap- peared in nearly every other political cam- paign. Penn says “the people of any coun- try should be consenting to the laws they are to be governed by,’? and therefore he would establish an assembly. He provided for commissioners of education, whose duty it should be ‘to inspect ‘the breeding of youth as to schools, masters, books and the way and method of cyltiyating science, sc that successive generations might be se- cured against slavery, Wéggary and the wrath of God. $e. ip It is not the least pust of Penn's claims upon posterity that he should have seen, what so many well-meaning people even today fail to see, the teal cure for poverty and crime to conaist ‘of pfeventive meas- ures, not of penal and: charitable institu- tions. The young person “who is properly equipped for the racetof fife is not likely to fall into the classds which have to be carried along. As a commibnwealth we al- ways have before us!2the‘ question as to whether money shalf« be:!expended upon education or upon chdrityx: Perhaps more liberal expenditures for sducation would make charitable expahditures less neces- sary. abo Pano Reese Li Hung’s Bust: of Grant. From the New York Times: - Li Hung Chang was given an ivory bust of General Grant, his old friend, when he was in New York, and he was so delighted tkat his couzitryman, Yu Shi Yi, consul of China for Cuba, who gave it to him, has Fad a group of Bismarck, Li Hung Chang and Gladstone carved. by the sculptor: of the Grant bust, and is now on his way to China to present it to. the great-viceroy in the name of the Chinese in, the western hemisphere. The work is done according to purely Chinese ideas, showing three w'n- dows of a railed balcony, with a statesman in each window and Li;Hung Chang in the middle, and “the shoulders, arms and hands of each, as well as the face—for that is Chinese etiquette,” said Yu Shi Yl. The sculptor is F. R. Kaldenberg, who thus has the distinction of being represented in China in a class of art wherein very little is done outside of that country and Japan. FUTURE OF ‘SILVER Moreton Frewen Makes Some Re- markable Stgzestions. VIEWS OF AN ENGLISH BIMEPALLIS? The Mexican Dollar Might Be a Blessing to the West. A SUFFICIENT CURRENCY Moreton Frewen, the well-known English bimetallist, who came to this country some | time ago to work quietly for the election of Bryan, is in the city, a guest of Senator | Cameron. Mr. Frewen is the acknowledg- ed head of European bimetallists, and is a man of world-wide note. He was seen by a Star reporter teday, and discussed the question. He talked of the Russian cur- rency reform proposals, the Indian famine and the Kansas proposal to give currency to the Mexican dollar. ‘The latter question was gone into at some length by Mr. Frewen. Mr. Frewen makes some startling pro- posals, one of them being that silver states could use all the silver they wanted and gold states stick by gold. Asked where he thought the defeat of Bryan left silver, Mr. Frewen said: “Much where it has been, I suppose, at any time during the past twenty years. Every nation waiting for every other na- tion. The position of the metal itself at the present moment shows the hopeless mess into which the world’s exenang: have drifted. No one can tell whecher in the coming six months we shall have a great fall, or, on the other hand, a great rise, in silver. The Russian curreacy re- forms reauire that Russia shall pay out gold for some three hundred million o:mces of silver in order to cancel five hundred million small rouble notes and to issue in their place five hundred miilion coined sil- er roubles. Such a demand mignt keep lver at or near {ts old par for year come, On the other hand, India is ened with a very serious famine, ©: may depress silver terribly. India and Silver. : “What is the exact relation between a famine in India and cheaper silver? You see, if India has plenty of produce to export —wheat, cotton, jute and other things—the balance of trade is favorable, so that India is a large customer for her money metal, silver. As matters stand, however, India is importing wheat, and therefore exporting silver to pay for the wheat. If the famine is serious, as I fear, it may affect the ex- changes, not only with India, but with China and Japan; the cheaper rates for sil- ver greatly stimulating the exports of both these countries. With the Japanese yen exchanging, as today, for about ten for one sovereign, instead of five for one, the posi tion of Japan as a manufacturing country is immensely strengthened. You here will require a very high tariff, indeed, against Japan—Japanese silks, bicycles, umbrellas, coal—a thousand things, if your dollar, which used to give the Japanese exporter to San Francisco one yen only, and which now gives him two yen in exchange, is presently to give him three yen. It is not possible that manufacturing industries can be built up on your Pacific coast, no matter how high your tariff, so long as the present cheapness of silver gives a bonus of 100 per cent on every export across the Pz cific from Japan, China and the Malay Pe- ninsula.”” Proposal of Kansas Populints. Mr. Frewen’s opinion of the proposal cf the Kansas populist legislature to legalize the Mexican silver dollar was asked, and his reply was: “Would it be constitutional? I don’t But without attempting to make Mexicans legal tender, I have sometimes thought that if your twenty-two ‘silver states’ chose to make the Mexican dollar current within their states, by general agreement, such a silver currency might be very useful. If the state legislature in states eccupled by perhaps thirty millions of your people said, “We will take our local revenues, and will also pay our employes at the rate of three Mexican dollars for two standard dollars,’ then, if the bimetallic theory 1s correct, the ratio of Mexican dol- lars to standard dollars, today as two to one, might probably rise to three to t ‘the increased use of and demand for silv would raise its price, just as its ‘outlawry as poor Dana Horton used to call it, has reduced {ts price.” “But two separate currencies in a single state, say Missouri, would be very incon- venient, would it net?” Not very, I think. The inconvenienc would be only temporary; it would last while Mexicans wre moving in and stand- ard dollars were being displaced. Skop- keepers would quote prices still in stand- ard dollars and add one-half in ease the buyer tendered Mexicans. Bankers in the same way would keep a second set of en- tries for their depositors.” “But would Mexican dollars find a footing if they were not expressly enacted legal tender? “Oh, yes; if the several states accepted them and if the sentiment in the locality was strong behind them. Money finds a footing less because of law perhaps than lecause of custom. Remember, the Mex- ican dellar is the money of a great part cf China and of Malaysia already. The In- dian rupee again is the money of Singa- pore, of Ceylon and of the east coast of Africa; not because such coins are legal tender, for they are not. The same is the case with the Englisa sovereign abroad. If you had Mexicans current in the south and west there would ve plenty of cur- rency for your gold standard states in the east, and prices in those states would rise. In fact, you would have exactly the same currency system which we today Fave in the British empire—a system which I un- derstand come of our New York friends greatly admire, namely, silver in the greater porticn and gold in the smaller—a system this, not of monometallism, but of ‘unrated’ bimetallism—a system, too, that at least does not hurt the silver-using por- tion. know. ‘Thinks It Would Work Here. Mr. Frewen was asked if he thought such a scheme would work in this country —-silver states to use silver and gold states to use gold. His answer was: “I do not know; perhaps it would work; yes, I think it might. It does better work as between England and India than gold monometallism would, and if Colorado and Texas become, as it were, states of Mexico, for currency purposes, vsing the open mint of Mexico to coin their silver for them, they can rave ‘free silver’ and cease to worry New York. And if Mexico and Japan and India get, as I believe they do gei, a great advantage in exporting to gold Sandard coin oy Doceuse’ of iow silver exchanges, then equally Colorado and Missouri and Louisiana would benefit in exporting not only to gold standard Europe, but to New York or to Chicago. “In any case the project would remove the gerows objection in the past to ‘free silver.” It could hurt po creditor; it could involve no gold premium, such as most People fear In the case of free coinage here. It would on the other hand raise the Price of silver by enlarging the monetary us2 of silver, and in doing this would raise the exchange rates with Asia and South America, thereby stimulating the exports of your country as a whole, and tending to impreve your balance of trade. The one and only trouble today with this great country is that cheaper silver helps the Asiatic exporter, and thereby cuts into your cxports. If silver were but fifty per cent higher—if the rupee, that is, were at twelve to the sovereign, instead’ of eigh- teen—then it seems to me prosperity would clotke you at once.” ——_——__o.__ Hll-Health Caused Suicide, Henry Sherwood, title examiner of the St. Louis Trust-Company, committed svi- cide at his home at St. Louis yesterday by shooting himself with a revolver. ii health is thought to have been the cause. —+ e+ ____ A Distinguished Prussti Dead. Prince Othon von Stollberg-Wernigerode, died Thursday evening at Wernigerode, Germany. He was born in 1837, was head of the house of Stollberg-Wernigerode,pres- ident of the Prussian diet and a general.of Prussian cavalry. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. ae a Mass Meeting and the Business ‘Transacted. A mass meeting of Christian Endeavor societies in the District Union was held last evening in the Gay Street Baptist Church, corner of 31st and N streets. The subject of the meeting was “The Duty and Privilege of the Active Member.” The meeting was the first of a series of sec- tional meetings, and was spect planned for the benefit of Endeavorers in West Washington. A song service, under the direction of Mr. Page L. Zimmerman, preceded the devo- tional exercises, which were conducted by the pastor of the church, Rev. W. S. O. Thomas. President Shand made an an- nouncement relative to the fifth annual convention of the local union, which is to be held in January, preparations for which will soon be commenced. Three local pastors made brief addresses, in which valuable suggestions of practical utility were advanced. “The Duty and Privilege of the Active Member in the Christian Endeavor Prayer Meeting” was the subject of the remarks of Rev. Charles Alvin Smith, pastor of the Peck Memorial Chapel; “As Committee Members” was told by Rev. Adam Reoch, pastor of the Fifth Congregational Church, and “In the Church” was the phase of the topic to which Rev. Edward Warren, pastor of Faith Chapel, devoted himself. President Shend supplemented these remarks by a short talk on “The Duty and Privilege of the Asvociate Member.” The meeting was one of interest and profit to all those in at- tendance, — —__ TWO ACCIDENTS. om. J. Fritz Badly Injured by Two Kinds of Trains. Thomas J. Fritz, thirty-two years old, a brakeman on the Baltimore and Potomac railroad, who was injured in Alexandria, was breught here on a freight train this afternoon. His right leg had been crushed under a train and his side was frightfully cut. He became unconscious from lors of blood soon after he reached here, and on his way to the hospital the ambulance in which he was being taien was uck by an electric car. The wagon was damaged and the patient was badly shak A telephone me Officer Frank w: answered by se ambulance to the freight depot on Vir- ginia avenue, and the driver started to Providence Hospital to reach th » if pos- sible, before the injured man died. He was driving at a lively rate of speed when the 414 and C street crossing w: reached, and was ringing his bell, but car 1s came along just at the wrong time and struck the moving ambulance. The top of the vehicle was badly k Fortunately, there w y Hittle de caused by the cecident, for the badly jured man was soon in the hospital. —_ NORTH CAROLINA'S SENATOR. The Lively Fight Mr. Butler is Mak- ing on Pritchard, The fight in North Carolina over the 1 tion of a successor to Senator Pritchard assumes national interest in view of the calculations of many prominent men that it will take the vote of Senator Pritchard to give the gold men a majority in the next Senate. A good deal is being published on the subject, but The Star has given the correct information, exclusively, of the real position of Senator Builer toward his colleague. The Star's news that Senator Butler would fight Senator Pritchard is borne out by an open letter of the populist Serator, addressed to Senator Pritchard, reply to one addressed to Senator But Senator Butler's letter involves a to the finish” between the two men. is what Senator Butler says “Who shall be Senator is a matter to be determined by a majority of the members of the next legislature, but if 1 were a member I would vote for no mau for Sena- tor who favored. the gold standard or whose position on the financial question (so vital io the welfare of our pcopi-) was unce: tain or equivocal. “When you were «lected two years ago you were as outspoken for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to 1 as ary one. You condemned the gold stand- ard as one of the greatest curses to our people. But now John Sherman, arch leader of the British gold conspiracy, wants to elect Carlisle from Kentucky and you from North Carolina. Therefore I take it you are no longer for free coinage, but if you are, Mark Hanna and Sherman are deceived as to your position. Besides, in speeches, you admit you have radically changed your views on the all-iaportant and vital financial question, and you had published an article saying you wouid vote for free coinage until Maren 4 next, but after that would be a sound money man. “Thus, it seems clear you have decided the money power. pger any half-way or straddling £1 in this contest. If this is your position no man not a gold bug can vote to return you to the Senate. You certainly cannot expect the vote of any populist or silve> republican. You would not nt the sentiments and interest of Nor:h Carolin- ians any more than Senatur Ransom did. It is necessary for North Carolina 10 send a free coi and anii-monopoly man to A Delegate From the Indian Territory Good effects from the recent elections in the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indian na- tions in Indian territory, which resulted favorably to the friends of allotment, are predicted in the annual report made to the Indian bureau by Agent Wisdom, in charge of Union agency, embracing the five civ- ilized tribes. He says the results cannot do otherwise than materially affect public sen- timent in the other tribes, al! of them hav- ing heretyfore stood solid against the al- lotment of their lands. A similar result, it is predicted, could be obtained in the Cher- okee nation if a fair vote could be had and the full-bloods were allowed to express their real sentiments and wishes at the polls. The agent says that many people of the Indian territory, both citizens and non- citizens, now advocate the election of a del- egate to Congress, who could profitably ex- plain existing conditions and secure reme- lial legislation. This question doubtle will be presented to the next Congress. The report arraigns the action of pasi Con- gresses. ska Post Office. Another of the rare post offices in Alaska has been established by the creation of the office of Dyea, with Samuel J. Heron as postmaster. The office is twenty-eight miles north of Chiikat and one hundred miles southeast of Juneau. —— +--+ ____ Abigall Adams Society. Abigail Adams Society, Children of the American Revolution, held an open meeting at the: home of the president, Miss Jessie 8. Adams, 1435 S str Friday evening. An interesting program was well rendered, consisting of instrumental solos by Misses Ball and Smith, addresses by Vice Presi- dent General Mrs. Alexander, C. A. 5 Secretary General Mrs. Foote and Miss Lilian Pike, regent Martha Washington Chapter, D.'A. R.; patriotic recitations by Miss Bessie Andrews, vocal solos by Little Edna Brenner, paper on Abigail Adams by Miss Annie French and vocal solos by Miss Renekert, with violin accompaniment by Prof. Renekert. An original poem by Miss Mary Virginia Agnew on George Washing- ton was also read, and letters of greeting from Mrs. Rosa Wright Smith, regent gen- eral, C. A. R., and other national offtcers, SSIES He Wan Robbed. An old man named Dugald McColl, who was visiting here from Youngstown, Ohio, yesterday got an overdose of Washington whisky, and late in the afternoon he called at police headquarters and made inquiries concerning the wheveabouts of his valise. He had given it to a colored man to de- liver for him. In addition to the loss of his satc%el’he complained that he had lost $45 from his pockets. He telegraphed home and got money: to buy himeelf a return ticket qnd pay his board. " ——__ Foot Ba’ The first victimr of a foot ball game haul- ed to a hospital by the police this season was taken from the Deaf and Dumb Asy- lum yesterday. Robert R. Mackey ts his name. He is‘ machinist, twenty-two years old, and was engaged in a game, being on the side playing against the deaf mutes. His left shoulder was dislocated, and he was taken to the Garfield Hospitai. 1 s Kidneys) .. a that for more than an hour the Ce EMMA KAISER'S MURDER, Suspicion That She Was K jed for Charles O. Kai en held to an- wer for the murder of his wife, Emma P. Kaiser, who was sho, and instantly Milled a lonely road near Bridgeport, Pa. night of October 28. The ve ered by the jury hold responsible for her and adds he was alded by unknown sons heme to defraud insurance Saiser was committed to prison, cember 7 has been fixed for his When the murder was commitied the couple were driving home from Gu!f Mills, a village near Bridgeport, where (vey been delivering crayon portraits trem th store in Norristown. The first news of the by Frank Mancill, reper, who found about the road, sho in the carriage nearby lay the corpse of his a bullet in the head. aiser’s that the murder had been com- rohas & coroner's death, in mp ar and ial De- had r crime was obtained Norristown hotel iser madly circling ander!” while rd by highwaymen, who rob‘ed them of valuab! and money. Next day, however, the goods were found hidden un- der stones along the road, and was directed toward the hust and Subsequent developments picion that wed the woman’s life had re Leon insured in a number of companies for ner hus- d's benefit, for an aggregate sum of 3), and that the couple had not lived wpily together. A mysterious man and woman, known to have been intimates associated with Kaise re implicated They had a meeting with him some days before the murder, and were in the vicinity of the spot where nearly the same tim Detectives are searching for them, and the case bids fair to be rich in -tertling revelations, The team in which Kaiser and his wife rode has been titled one stolen from ex. or Jackson of Glou- \. J. It was hired September 5 the mysterious woman, and never returned, The inquest was begun yesteriay n- ing, and the evidence addu rms a strong circumstantial chain around Kaiser. It is said that, while denying his own guilt, Kaiser has admfted to dete s that hi knows the murderer, but will not reveal his idenut it urred at PREPARING FOR MARCH 4. xue of Republican ve Committee Mees. ant enthu- The » Clubs’ A large attendan and abt slasm marked the m ef the National League of Republican Clubs’ executive committee at the Auditorium Hotel head- quarters, in Chicago, yesterday. The main subject before the commit was the presidential inaugural ceremon next March, and the part which the leagu shall take in them. The league as a body has never participated in inauguratious, but this time it is intended to make a great demonstration of the league's numerical stre th and party pride esident Wood- manset Kinley’s state is particularly anxious tha league shall make a fine showing A committee of tive, of which the presi- dent will be chairman, was ordered ap: pointed vo correspond with Chairman Hlan- na and the inaugural committee at Wa ington lo ase ain what position the | will have ‘ the ceremomes, and Uh especially. President Wooumanse ed as bh Stalf officers Lor the rhe 2 EXeCULIVE one from each staiv. It is proposed to provide a league escort, composed of meinbe from the di mt States, for Major McKiniey from Canion to Washington. It ts expected that 50,000 members of th league and clubs afhiiated with it can be assembled for the inaugural par It was decided to keep the headquarters in Chicago, although Washington, Cincin- nati and New York were proposed. — é Bryan’s Coming Lecture Tour. Mr. V. E. McBee of Norfolk, who has heretofore been reticent concerning the press dispatches relating to Mr. Bryan's reported lecturing tour, yesterday staied that he had just received the agreement properly signed. Mr. McBee was yesterd offered by representatives of a New York syndicate the sum of $25,000 to turn over the agreement for the lecture tour. —_+0-+— Snake Hunting With From the Springtield Republican, John R. Bardwell, a Belchertown farmer living in the Holyoke district, will go to the Massachusetts General Hospital at Bos- ton today in the hopes that the X-rays will disclose the identity of some foreign substance in his stomach, which has both- ered him since last August. While drink- ing from a spring he drew something into bis mouth that slipped down his throat be- fcre he could prevent it. At the time he feared that he had swallowed some live object, and told his wife so when he reach- ed home. For some weeks no bad results followed, although he was sensible that there was something foreign in his stom- ach, but for the past five or six weeks the commotion in his stomach has steadily in- creased until it has become very uncom- fortable. He claims that he can feel what- ever it may be come up to his throat, and if asleep it wakes him. He obtains relief by drinking salt and water, and has no Pp being from Maj. Mic! uh appoimt- inauguration commits Rays. dcubt that he swallowed either a small snake cr lizard. ————or- An Altered © ne. From Pack. Magistrate—“‘Do you mean to say such a physical wreck as he is gave you that black eye?” Complaining Wife—"Shure, yer honor, ive wasn’t a physical wreck til. after he give me th’ black eye.” eae ee How the Row Began. From Puck. “Gentlemen,” remarked the man who holds the century recordeof the Scorer Club, “I have plan that beats Bryan all hollow. He wanted gold and silver kept at parity by law. I want Congress to pass a law declaring all bicycles at parity; then there will be no more quarreling over which is the best. They will all be the best.” “For a moment there was silence; then a new member, who had not yet bought a wheel, asked: “But which shall be the best bicycle to which all the others shall t equal? We must have a standard, you know.” It was the replies to this query that start- ed the row that resulted in the disruption of the club.