Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1897, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. > PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsyivania Avenue, Cor. 11th St, by The Even'ng Star Ne Company, 8H. KAUFFMA! N Pres New York Ofce, 49 Petter Building, The Evening Star is served to subscribers in the city by carriers, on their own account, at 10 cents Der week, or 44 cents per wionth. | Copies at the counter 2 cents each. By mail—anywhere im the United States or Canada—postage prepald—60 cents ber month. Seater Stetepse eee Star, $i per veer with ditea, $8.00. foreign postage a (Entered at the Post Omice at Washington, D. O., as second-class mail matter.) TF All mall subscriptions must be paid In advance, Rates of advertising inade known on application. SCHOONER WRECKED Went Ashore ans eis Long Island, Early This Morning. ALL ON BOARD PROBABLY LOST The Vessel Went to Pieces Pound- ing on the Sands. LIFE SAVERS UNABLETOSAVE er NEW YORK, January 21.—The schooner Nahum Chapin of Rockland, Me., went ashore near Quogue, L.I., this morning at 4:30. Quogue life saving station reports that six men were seen clinging to the foremast rigging and three others on the jibboom. As the vessel went to pieces all hands were carried into the sea and pre- sumably were drowned. Owing to the heavy surf and strong wind the crew were unable to launch the lifeboat to render as- sistance. The name of the schooner was learned from pteces of wreckage which were washed on the beach. A dispatch received from Fire Island says that the storm which struck the Long Island shore yesterday afternoon was the severest of the winter. The schooner Na- hum Chapin was first seen on the outer bar about 4 o'clock by a patrolman from the Quogue life saving station. About § o'clock the vessel began to break up, parts of her coming ashore, and in less than four hours from the time she struck she went to pieces, the masts falling into the sea, rrying along the crew, who were clinging to tnem. The life saving crew are patrolling the beach lookirg for dead bodies, and thus far have found two, which came ashore near where the vessel stranded. The bodies Were taken to the life saving station. They have not been identified. The Nahum Chapin sailed from Hampton Reads January 17 for Boston. Quogue is situated about thirty-five miles east of Fire Island, and it Is the first point where th3 ocean touches the mainland ve- yond the Great South bay. The Nahtm Chapin was a three-masted schooner, built at Rockland, Me., in 18s2. She registered 567 tons, and was 145 feet long, 35 feet beam and 15% feet deep. BOSTON, January 21.—The _ principal owners of the schooner Nahum Chapin, re- ported to have been lest with her crew off Quogue, L. 1, this morring were Peter McIntyre & Co. of this city. Capt. S. E. Arey, who commanded the vessel, was a part owner. The crew of the schooner, nine in number, were shipped here last November. The names follow: S. E. Arey, captain, Malden, Mass.; A. E. Davis, f mate, Malden, Mass.; L. A. Maddock, sec- ond mate, Cambri er, Albert Lowe, R. O. Anderson, Vic- Stracken, Oscar Oscar, Antonio’ Auc- yanich. The residences of the latter are not known. Capt. Arey leaves a widow and three children residing in Malden. Mate Davis Second Mate Maddock each leave a and one child. Z The schooner was loaded with ‘about ) tons of bitum!nous coal consigned to West End Street Railway Company. cargo was valued at $3,400; the 1 the The schooner at $15,000. Both were partially in ured. —_»___. TRE CORRESPONDENCE PUBLISHED. Powers Willing That Force Be Used With Turkey. LONDON, January 21—Offictal corre- spondence between Great Britain and Rus- sia, published here today, shows that the Marquis of Salfsbury October 20 proposed that the ambassadors at Constantinople should formulate reforms to be enforced by the powers. M. Shiskine, then the act- ing Russian minister for foreign affairs, replied November 18, saying that the czar had decided that it was impossible to agree to coercive measures against the sulian. But November 25 there was a further com- munication to the effect that the czar had agreed to the Marquis of Salisbury's pro- pesal and would not object to advising the Russian ambassador relative to coercion should the sultan prove recalcitrant and refuse to adopt the reforms unanimously recommended by the ambassadors. At the end of December France consented to the proposals of the Marquis of Saiis- bury, to which Germany, Austria and Italy had previously agreed. BUILT THE C. AND 0. CANAL. Death of Col. J. B. Moulton, the Civil Engineer. . LOUIS, January 21.—Col. J. B. Moul- one of the most prominent civil en- ers in the west, is dead, aged eighty- seven years. Col. Moulton was born in Boston, Mass., in 1810. In 1828 he entere West Point as a cadet. He there comple his studies and became engineer of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, constructed on the left bank of the Potomac from George- a town to Cumberland, this being the first and most !mportant canal built in this country. In 1886 Col. Moulton constructed the Lex ington an@ Frankfort railroad, of which Henry Clay was then president. He was afterward chief engineer of the Iron Moun- tain railroad, now @ part of the Wabash system. He located and constructed the northern branch in Iowa to the city, which bears hig name. About twenty years ago Col. Moulton retired from the active prac- tice of his professton. —>—___ BIG FIRE IN BOSTON. Charles E. Wholesale Grocery Burned. BOSTON, Mass., January 21.—The whole- sale grocery establishment of Charles E. Moody & Co. a six-story granite ware- house on Commercial street, was burned out at 2 o'clock this morning, at a loss cf nearly $100,000. Moody & Co. carried an extensive stock nd that part of it which was not dam. aged by fire was ruined by smoke ard water. The contents of the adjoining seo- tions of the butlding. occupied by J. Baker & Co., cord: on One side, and Isaac W. Monroe & Co., wholesale grocers, on the other, were greatly damaged by fire. Joseph Enos, a fireman, was badly burned and seriously injured internally by being thrown from a ladder by flames bursting through one of the windows on the thinl floor, completely enveloping him. ———_>-—__ SPAIN DISMAYED. Mr. Olney’s Reported Determination to Drop the Cuban Question. LONDON, January 21.—The correspond- ent at Paris of the Daily News says: “During the negotiations with the United States, last week, Senor Canovas, the Span- ish premier, was surprised and dismayed to recetve an intimation from Washington that Secretary Olney would have no time to settle the Cuban question, and that he woyld leave President McKinley’s hands freé to deal with it. Two days later Senor Canovas issued an official denial that nego- boy were proceeding. “Tt @ great blow to Senor vi who has no confidence in General Wweplers ability to suppress the rebellion. He ts ¢redited with an intention to resign if Gen ‘Weyler has not given a death blow to the revolution by the beginning of the rainy season.” No. 13,694. WASHINGTON, D. ©. THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1897-TWELVE PAGES. TWO CENTS. HOUSEBREAKERS CAUGHT Trio of Burglars Captured With Goods in Their Hands, Part of the Army of Tramps—Held for the Grand Jory. Rucker Bros.’ grocery store, corner of 2d and D streets northwest, was visited by burglars last night, and the alleged bur- siars, who are strangers in the city, were soon apprehended by Policemen Bateman and Brady, who were given valuable assist- ance by citizens. William Henderson, alias Johnson, nineteen years; Charles V. Miller, twenty-three years, and Martin McCarthy, thirty-nine years, were the names and ages given by the prisoners. Two of them sre fakirs, who, it is said, have been in the habit of coming here during winter seasons and living in cheap lodging houses and hanging about saloons. The three men have been here for some time, according to their stories, and, in the language of one of them, they “went broke” last night and had to take a “trick.” During the day they had been drinking, and they showed the effects of their debauch when the police arrested them last night. It was during the severest of the storm that they visited the store and effected an entrance by smashing the glass from the front door. The rain was making quite a noise at the time, but the smashing of the glass was heard py a citizen, who hurried through the rain to the baltimore and Ohio depot, where he informed Policeman Brady of what had happened. Policeman Bateman was summoned, and the two olilcers, with several citizens, hurried to the store and found that the burglars nad gone. But a citizen who had waited there in the pour- ing rain told the officers the direction in which the midnight visitors to the store had gone. ‘The officers went down 2d street and overtcok the three men, who were burdened with groceries taken from the store. They had a ham, some SRUSAES: a package of relled oats, sce canned to- matces and a sack of flour. Miller had in his pocket 48 pennies, the amount that had been left in the money drawer last night. ‘The money drawer had been broken open and emptied. At the police station some of the officers recognized the prisoners, having seen them about the drinking places where so mary of the strangers gf the tramp order spend their time and what little money they manage to get. Their state- ments were thet they were hungry and were forced to break into the store. This morning they were measured and photo- graphed for the gallery and were then taken to court on a charge of burglary. Henderson, Miller and McCarthy plead guilty when arraigned this afternoon in the Police Court. They were held by Judge Miller for the action of the grand jury in $1,000 bonds each. ——— THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS. An Interesting Relic Displayed in the Navy Department. An interesting relic of the battle of New Orleans of January 8, 1814, was displayed at the Navy Department today by Mr. W G. McAdoo, now of Yonkers, N. Y., but formerly a resident of Nashville, Tenn. It is a pistol taken from the dead body of Gen. Packenham, who commanded the British forces in that celebrated engage- ment, and who was killed in the charge on the Americans under Gen. Jackson be- hind cotton bales. The weapon is in a good state of preservation, and is an excellent specimen of the small arms of the early century. It is a double barrel, flint lock affair, heavily mounted with ‘silver, and bearing the Packenham crest in embossed sliver on the butt. This relic has been in the possession of the McAdoo family for sixty-two years, but was missing for sev- eral years during the civil war. During that period the history of the relic is in- complete, and the owner has come to this city to authenticate its identity, if possi- ble, from the records of the government. Pending this investigation, it 1s probable that the weapon will be placed on tem- porary exhibition in the National Museum. ———e BARON FAVA CALLS. His Business Too Pressing to Take a Leave of Absence. Baron Fava. the Italian ambassador, was among Secretary Oiney’s callers today at the State Department, to the surprise of some officials who supposed that the am- bassador had sailed for Europe last week. As a matter of fact, while he has secured leave of absence from his government, with permission to return to Italy with the re- mains of his son, he has been prevented from availing himself of the privilege by an unexpected press of vusiness. Hence he has come to Washington from New York and taken up his quarters for a short time at the Metropolitan Club. This being diplomatic day, Secretary Ol- ney had an unusually large number of call- ers, among them being the ministers of Spain, Kussia, Japan, Venezuela, Chile and the Greater Republic of Central America. ——_—__-e-—____ Personal Mention. Capt. P. F. Harrington, commanding the monitor Terror, is visiting friends at 816 18th street on leave of absence. Mr. Walter Stetson has returned from a short visit to New York, Senator Matt. S. Quay and party of dis- tinguished friends from Pennsylvania left Washington at 11:15 this morning on the fast mall of the Southern railway for St. Lucien, Fla., in private car Pickwick. Capt. Stehman Forney of the United States coast and geodetic survey and a member of the Brazos river board have returned to the city. Tom Wheeler, son of Gen. Wheeler of Alabama, is critically ill with pneumont: at 2230 N street. General Passenger and Ticket Agent H. M. Emerson of the Atlantic Coast Line, who was in Washington yesterday, has re- turned to Wilmington, N. C. Commander John Perry is at the Army and Navy Club on leave of absence. Chief Engineer George E. Tower has re- ported at the Navy Department for ex- amination for retirement. He is at 1012 13th street. oe Executive Clemency. The President has pardoned Bud Creek, sentenced in Arkansas in 1893 to three years’ imprisonment for selling HMquor to Indians, and R. H. Freeman, convicted in Tennessee of failure to erase marks on spirit bottles. The sentence of: three months’ imprisonment and $200 fine im- posed in West Virginia upon Lewis Now- lin, for removing spirits Illegally, has beer” commuted so as to remit the fine and costs. Applications for pardon have been denied in the cases of Frank L. Turner of Kan- sas, counterfeiting; Thomas A. Robbins, Missouri, conspiracy; Hiram Amerson, Tex- as, selling liquor without license; Wm. W. Waite, Virginia, assault; Andrew J.Penning- ton, Indiana, counterfeit; Jas. A. and Elle: Reffert, Kentucky, pension frauds. In re- gard to this last case, the President said: “These who. through a prostitution of the persion laws and by forgery seek to de- fraud the government and abuse its be- nevolent intentions toward old soldiers need not expect to easily obtain clemency at my hands.” —<—_—_—_-e—_____ Naval Movement. The cruiser Minneapolis sailed ‘from Alexanéretta this morning for Mersine. MR. HILL CONTINUES He Again Argues for the Potomac Power Company. ELECTRIC LIGHT FIGHT STILL ON Senator. Bacon Corrects Some Statements Made. THE SUBWAY SYSTEM ae There was a continuance in the Senate today of the fight over electric light mat- ters in the District of Columbia. Mr. Cock- rell called up his joint resolution in rela- tion to electric subways, and Mr. Hill at once arose to ask if it was the wish, as he understood, of Mr. Gallinger to speak on the joint resolution today. Mr. Gallinger replied that he would rather vote than to speak on the joint res- olution, and if Mr. Hill wished to do so he could conclude his remarks. Mr. Hill Continues His Speech. Mr. Hill then continued his speech begun on Tuesday. He said much light had been thrown on the electric lighting controversy, and it had not all been electric light. He said he had learned since he last spoke on the joint resolution that Senators Bacon, Proctor and Martin, members of the Senate committee on the District of Columbia, dis- sent from the report on the Cockrell joint resolution, which had come from that com- mittee. Mr. Hill said he regretted that the ques- tions he had put to Mr. Faulkner had been answered with a fullness of speech, but not with that directness that he had de- sired. “He alluded to a great subway system, which he hopes to realize in the sweet by and by, but he fails to give definite in- formation,” said Mr. Hill. . “] start out with the proposition,” he continued, ‘‘that we did find a few years ago that the legislature had been so ma- nipulated, if I may use such an expression (and if it is a harsh one I will withdraw it), that no company other than the United States company could possibly get into the District of Columbia without some legisla- tion in its behalf.” Believes in Competition. He continued to say that until public opinion forces competition it is resisted. A trust was simply a monopoly, and in such enterprises there were found the best elements, the people in the best society, members of the church, and the arguments of all trusts are that they are formed to benefit the people in the end. But the peo- ple look with alarm on aggregations of capital that are found in all parts of the country. But when the operations of trusts are antagonized there is a cry that it will disturb the business interests of the coun- try; it will interfere with some plan we have formed. When the proposition was made to allow two electric lighting com- panies to operate in the District of Co- lumbia it was opposed. “We are allowed to have two eyes, two ears, a dozen hired girls if we want them, but there can be but one electric hght com- pany here. I remember when I was a young member of the legislature of New York ard I was inclined then to fight monopolies. There was a bill introduced to have a railroad company to extend its tracks. They said the company was re- garded as against an extension; they sim- ply would not extend. § of Course voted fer that bill, but afterward I learned that the company wanted it, and the whole repre- sentation was merely a blind. The senator from West Virginia told us yesterday that Congress had made the Metropolitan com- pany extend its tracks as an instance cf the way these corporations are made to do the will of the people.” Incorporation of the Two Companies. Mr. Hill reminded Mr. Faulkner that yes- terday he had asked him in what state the United States Electric Lighting Company was incorporated. He said that Mr. Faulk- ner had replied that he didn’t know. Mr. Hill said that the company was incorpor- ated in the state of West Virginia, which Was the state represented by Mr. Faulkner. He could see no special reason for its in- corporation in that state, except to escape taxation in the District of Columbia. The Potomac company, he said, had been in- corporated in the District of Columbia, and yet Colonel Britton had argued before the committee on the District of Columbia that they should keep out outsiders in the form of the Potomac company, “The United States company,” he said, “pays taxes on $15,000, while its stock goes without taxation, and this is the company for the protection of which the most ex- traordinary rebolution has been brought before the Senate, in order to continue its monopoly by keeping out of the District of Columbia the little Potomac company that has honored the District of Columbia by being incorporated under its laws. Need I remind the Senate that there was no legal reason why the United States company should not have been incorporat- ed in the District of Columbia? The Subway System. “Not only is it plain that the passage of this resolution would stop electric lighting in the streets of this city, but it would stop electric lighting by the War Depart- ment. The theory is that this favored United States company has a monopoly for doing this work under existing law, while Congress is getting ready its splen- did subway system. It will be years be- fore you see any system of subways in this city unless this discussion hurries it up. I am not so sure that a subway sys- tem is necessary. Of course the Commis- sioners would like to have it. I have never yet seen Commissioners who would not like to expend five millions of dollars. There are greater cities than this that have no subway system. Of course we have this grand subway system placed before us as a possibility while they sustain this monopoly.”” Mr. Bacon inquired if he could ask the Senator from New York a question, but Mr. Hill declined, saying he was making a connected argument, and would hear from the senator from Georgia later, as that senator had said he would content him- self with voting on the proposition. As he was proceeding Mr. Bacon interposed to say that he simply wished to call the at- tention of the senator from New York to the fact that eight or ten bills had been introduced in Congress on the subway sys- tem, and that there was no proposition to have the District of Columbia spend the millions that had been referred to, but it Was proposed to have that work under- taken by a company. It was not proposed to have the District of Columbia provide the money to build ‘the subways. Mr. Hill continued to say that the com- petition brought into the District of Co- lumbia by the Potomac company had re- duced the price of arc lamps from $138 to $100 per year, and yet, when he had asked Mr. Faulkner what the saving would be he had replied $100 a year. Mr. Faulkner said he had simply referred to the seven arc lights in Lincoln Park, for which three miles of conduits had to be laid. Giving Work to Idle Men, Mr. Hill continued to say that the work of the Potomac company was resulting in expending from $2,000 to $3,000 per day in the District of Columbia, gfting to laboring men an opportunity to earn a living, while otherwise they would be subjects of chari- ty_on the part of the District. 5 He then sent to the table a mem allopted on the 18th instant by the Cen- tral Labor Union of the District of Co- lumbia, praying that the Potomac com- pany be not stopped from doing its work, which was opposed by a monopoly, and which was giving many {dle men employ- ment. Mr. Hill said that memorial reflected public opinion in the District of Columbia. He said he knew something about the sub- way problem, as he, as governor of New York, had signed a subway bill, and Mayor Hugh J. Grant had sent his men out and cut the poles of the telegraph companies down in order to make them put their wires underground, as they maintained they could not and would not do it, “‘and that is the only way to deal with these corporations,” he said. The joint resolution introduced by Mr. Cockreil was simply meant to reverse a decision of the legal courts of the District of Columbia, and as a lawyer he did not approve of its adoption. He always liked to sustain the reports of Senate commit- tees, especially when they were unanimous, but this resolution had nut been reported unanimously. Three thembers cf the com- mittee had dissented from it. ‘The hour of 2 o'clock having arrived Mr. Hill suspended his remarks. The joint resolution will again be called up tomorrow for further discussion. CULLOM AND THE TREASURY His Friends Think He May Be Selected to Head That Department. An Interesting Story About Senator Wolcott—Burrows Gone ‘in Alger’s Behalf. Senator Cullom’s friends think that the election of Mason to the Senate insures Mr. Cullom’s selection as Secretary of the Treasury. It is said that representations were made to the Illinois legislature that if a McKinley man were elected to the Senate Cullom would be appointed Secre- tary of the Treasury, and thereupon Ma- son was agreed on and resolutions indors- ing Cullom for the cabinet were adopted. Nothing on the subject has been heard from Canton. A Story About Wolcott. A report was started today that the ob- Ject in sending Hilands of Cleveland as a special messenger to England to confer with Senator Wolcott was to sound the Senator on the subject of his availability for appointment as Secretary of the Treas- ury. Mr. Wolcott, though formerly a sil- ver leader, stood on the St. Léuis plat- form, and it is said that it was disclosed at his interview with Mr. McKinley at Can- ton just prior to his departure for Europe that he was in full accord with the party as to the policy to be followed on the money question. He is said to hold that. the gold standard should be maintained until @n international agreement has been reacted. The story goes that Wolcott, holding, such views, could be trusted to carry out the well- understood policy of Mr. McKinley, and that his selection would contusion into the silver camp. No ane disputes Wokcctt’s being..competent to “fill the po- sition, if he were prepared to stand on the gold side of the,fight. Some days ago Mr. Hilands started’ for Euurape to consult with Mr. Wolcott as » special messenge> from Mr. Hanna. The rest of the story is given for what it may be worth. A mem- ber of the Senate today: made a bet that Wolcott would be Secretary of the ‘Treas- ury. Gone in Aiger’s Behalf. Senator Burrows left for Canton last eveiing to have ancther conference with Mr. McKinley in behalf of Gen. Alger as Secretary of War. Before leaving he had a conference with somé of the eastern senators, and he conveys to Mr. McKinley their approval of the selection, The Michi- gan people regard it as practically certain that Gen. Alger will go into the cabinet. Representative Barthold says today that he thinks the prospects good for the selec- tion of Charles Parsons of St. Louis, pres- ident of tke National Bankers’ Associa- tion, as Secretary of the Treasury. There is no general belief that this selection is probable. Some importance ig attached to the suggestion that Mr. Dingley might be induced to reconsider his ‘declination. To Indorse Representative Sherman. The New York delegation in the House held a conference this afternoon at the Capitol for the purpose of endeavoring to agree upon a unanimous indorsemen: by the delegation of Representative Sherman of New York ror a place in the cabinet, probably the position of Postmaster Ge eral. It was the idea of Mr. Sherman's friends in the delegation that if a solid front could bg presented he would prova- bly be selected. ———_——_-e_______ TO RETIRE GOVERNMENT OLERKS. Another Bill for That Purpose Intro- duced by Mr. Hurley. There is quite a movement on foot among members of the House to provide a retired Met for civil employes of the government. Mr. Brostus of Pennsylvania introduced a bill two weeks ago for the retirement of civil employes who reach sixty years of age, or who shall have become physically disabled after twenty years of service. These retired employes shall receive pay at the rate of 75 per cent of their active- duty salaries. To provide for the pay thus authorized it is proposed to assess all who are to be benefited 2 per cent of their an- nual salaries, Today Mr. Hurley of New York introduced another bill of similar import, but differ- ing radically in detail. It provides that the assessments shall be. divided into four classes. Class A, composed of employes five years in service or less, are to be as- sessed 1 per cent; class B, who have serv- ed five to ten years, 2 at, and 1 per cent additional for euch period of 5 years up to class H, employes of twenty years or over. ‘ Several reasons for retirement are pro- posed in the bill, but the pay of the retired list 1s limited to 50 per cent of the salary received at the time of retirement. It is also provided that an.employe who shall be dismissed shall be entitled to draw out his total assessments, with 4 per cent interest. No action is likely in the present Con- gress, but as the government is not to be put to additional expense it is believed that some such plan as that proposed today may be eventually adopted... ———__--2+____ TO FIGHT THE WIRES. The Commissioners Deeide Upon In- junction Proceedings. ‘The Commissioners are after the United States Electric Lighting Company agatn. This afternoon they decided to file a man- datory injunction to prevent the use and compel the removal of two wires on C street between 6th and 7th streets north- west. The Commissioners set forth that these wires were illegally erected, and pray that the injunction be granted. Maj. Powell followed up this action, by moving that the United iStates Electric Company be directed to remove at once an itegal wire running-gnto the West End National Bank, | ; Launch of the Manning Postponed. BOSTON, January 24.—The launching of the new revenue cutter Manning, which was to take place at east Boston today, has been. itponed on account of unfavor- able weather ‘The boat will ie pat into the 5 first fine day. HE INHALED GAS, Frank H. G, White Found Deadin His Bed. SUICIDE DURING THE NIGHT Rubber Tube Used and the Result Was Certain. THE DEAD ele ae ‘When Mrs. Annie White received a tele- gram from he: sister Georgie in New York a week ago, announcing the serious illness of her mother, Mrs. Ann Fields, and hur- ried to the bedside of her mother, she did not expect to return here a widow. But such proved to be the case, for her hus- band, Frank H. G. White, committed sui- cide last night by taking illuminating gas. It was about 11 o'clock this morning when his dead body ws discovered, and then the police of the third precinct were called to the house. Mr. White and his wife, who formerly lived in Georgetown, had occu- pied a room in the house of Col. Rosen- crans, Ne. 708 19th street northwest, for only abcut a month, and as already stated the wife had been called to New York about a week ago. The husband was not feeling well when she left, but so far as she knew there was nothing serious the matter with him, and she had no reason to believe that she would find him even in a serious condition when she returned. But the man was really ill, although he did not tell his wife so, for he did not want his condition to add to her mental] suffer- ings, which were already so great. She went away, and soon after she had gone he found it necessary to go to bed. He had a severe cold, and was threatened with an attack of pneumonia. And suffering as he did he did not send word to his sister, Mrs. Henry P. Waggaman, but remained alone in his room. Most of the week he has been in bed, having dressed and gone out only twice since Saturday. He was out for a short time yesterday, and when he re- turned home he retired. Last night some friends called and re- mained in his room until nearly 11 o'clock. At midnight there was still a light in his rcom, but soon afterward the rcom was in darkness and nothing more was heard from him. At dinner time he told Ellen Parker, the colored servant, not to bring his breakfast to him early this morning, evidently fearing she would find him before life was extMmct and he would not be per- mitted to die. Ellen did as she was told, and it was nearly 11 o’clock when she had his breakfast prepared and was ready to wait on him. Mrs. Rosencrans saw her about this time and reminded her of the fact that White had not been served. "ve got his breakfast on the waite: was Elien’s reply, and up the steps she started. MAN Found the Body. Just what was actually the matter Ellen could hardly tell when she entered the room, and she ran screaming to Mrs. Ros-_ encrans and her daughter, who was visit- ing her mother, and they hurricd her off to the police station, leaving the gas flow- ing from the rubber tube into the mouth of the man, whose life had left him sev- eral hours before. “Say, mister,” gasped Ellen, when she reached the police station. Then she man- aged to say that there was a dead man and some gas in a room in Mrs. Rosen- crans’ house, and concluded by saying that there was something the matter. ,‘Dead?” queried one of the, officors. Yes,” answered Ellen. “I think he's ‘The poor girl was so completely excited and frightened that she could hardly tell what was really the matter, so Lieut. Boyle seut Policemen Burrows and Bren- nan to the house to make an investigation. When they arrived at the houge they found Mrs. Rosencrans and her daughter very much excited. The ghastly find had made them nervous, and as Mrs. Rosencrans suf- fers from heart disease, she had been afraid of the exertion which would have followed her ascending the steps, and had remained in the parlor. Reaching the front room on the third floor, the smell of gas was almost bad Soe their breaths, but they rushed in the room, cut off the flow and hoisted the windows. omserens: Manner of Death. The manner in which the unfortunate man had ended his life made it evident that the act was committed after mature de- Uberation, for he had used a gas tube taken oa a@ small stove that had been used in the room. The condition of the rubbe: tubing made it appear that he had pur chased it for the purpose of this use, for the people in the house did not remember of ever having seen it in the room before. This tube he bad attached to one of the Jets of the chandelier hanging from the middle of the ceiling, and by means ofa piece of cord he had secured it so that it Would drop directly over the foot of the bed. When he had reversed his Position in the bed and dressed in his bath robe he retired. His position was such that he could hold the end of the tube in his mouth without fear of its dropping, and drawing the cover over him he lay there to be claimed by death. Soon after the Police reached the house they summoned two physicians, who could only Say that he was dead, and the temperature of his body indicated that he had been dead several hours. There was nv letter found in the room. Mr. Waggamen, the dead man’s brother- in-law, was sent for, and he made arrange- ments for taking care of the body, and sent a telegram to Mrs. White in New York announcing to her the act of her hus- bend which had made her a widow. The Dead Man. The deceased was a native of England, and was thirty-two years old. He left Eng- land when he was fifteen years old und came to this country. During the past few years of his life he traveled extensively, and for some time He lived in Africa, where he was interested in mining operations, and where he also owned an immense hennery, in which he had a great number of incu- bators. Returning to New York, he met Miss Annie Fields, and in Aprii of last year they were married. In New York, as Well as in this city, he dabbled in stocks. When Coroner Hammett gives a certificate of death Undertaker Speare will prepare the body for burial, and await the arrival of Mrs. White from New York. It is thought that the body will be taken to New York for burial. ———— , Longevity Allowances. The House committee on war claims has authorized a favorable report on a bill to authorize the readjustment of accounts of army officers, who, by a misconstruction of the law. were deprived of longevity al- lowances. It was held that this allowance could be computed only on the period of service in the regular army. This bill makes mandatory the law as construed by the Supreme Court in the cases of Captains Morton and Watson, when it was held that the time served by an officer as a cadet at West Point should be.included in the allowance of increase of pay for every five years in the service. stp ot —_o+_____ Pushing Work on the Post Office. _An'effort will be made by the treasury of- ficials to push work on the second-floor front of the Washington city post office, in crder to have it available as a view point of the inaugural procession March 4, If you want today’s news today you can find it only in The Star. MR. PRITCHARD'S ELECTION The Significance of That Event From a National View Point. Butler Routed by the Middle-of-the- Rond Element of Hi Party. So far as the populistic feature of the Senatorial fight just ended in North Caro- lina is considered, the result is regarded as a triumph for the Watson wing of the party. Senator Butler was defeated on both local and national grounds. His pres- tige at home has been weakened, and his management of the populist national cam- paign repudiated. His next move is awaited with much interest. The feeling of the Watson people against Mr. Butler is described as being very bitter. It has been voiced by Mr. Watson himseif at home, and by his lieutenants in nearly every section of the country. He is ac- Senator J. C. Pritchard. cused of having fused away the whole populist case last fall, and then of attempt- ing to put down those in the party who were frank enough to express to him the'r opinion of his mismanagement. For these reasons the Watson people have been eager ever since then to challenge his power, and the Pritchard contest gave them their op- portunity. The Challenge Accepted. Mr. Butler promptly accepted the chal- lenge, and after an engagement of some length and much earnestness he has lost. Both sides pulled every string within reach in the state and out of it. Mr. Butler called to his aid the influence of such popu- lists living at a distance as agreed with him, and his opponents followed suit. His opponents, it is said, were greatly aided and encouraged by the assurance that the middle-of-the-road_ brethren everywhere were with them in sympathy. This sym- pathy grew out of no especial interest in Mr. Pritchard, but out of a desire to see Mr. Butler turned down. The St. Louis convention and its attendant maneuvering were recalled, and the cry arose for Mr. Butler's scalp. in the caucussing at Raleigh much stress was laid on Mr. Pritehard’s attitude as to Silver. Mr. Butler charged that in effect Mr. Pritchard was an enemy of silver, that, for that reason aione, the populists ought not to support him. Silyer should be the supreme test. The populists should assist in sending no man to the Senate who would not pledge himself to put that issue ahead of all others. Mr. Pritchard declared him- self to be a friend of silver, but also de- clared that being a republican and a pro- tectionist he would not vote to make silver an obstruction to a tariff bill. Being in favor of a revision of the tariff, he would dc nothing to hinder the accomplishment of that end by Congress. Silver, as a sep- arate issue, brought forward on its merits, he would support. Not an Easy Path. This, it is recognized, will make Mr. Pritchard’s path no easy one to travel during the next year or two. He will have an opportunity to vote fora tariff bill, but then will come the silver question. The all-for-silver leaders are not going to let that question rest. In some form, and maybe in many forms, they will bring it before Congress and oblige the making of new records by the members of both houses. It is true, however, that Mr. Pritchard has company in his party in the attitude he announces that he will take. Com- mitted as he is to silver, he stands with Mr. Thurston, Mr. Wolcott, Mr. Hansbrough, Mr. Mitchell of Oregon; if he shall return, and others. They are for silver, but not to the extent of using it as a club or sledge for breaking up the re- publican party. The bill, or the maneuver, that would embarrass him would equally embarrass them. He returns to the Senate under conditions that will make him an interesting member of that body. —_____+=9.___ THAT NAVAL DEMONSTRATION. Nothing Known of It at the Navy De- partment. There is evidently something wrong in the published announcement of a proposed demonstration by the United States and British fleets on the Pacific station at San Diego, Cal., February 22 next. The story is that the demonstration will include a grand street parade of 5,000 English and American bluejackets and an international naval review. The occasion to be thus commemorated is the alleged retirement of Admiral Beardslee, commanding the United States squadron. Nothing is known of the affair at the Navy Department, and the impression ob- tains that the story is nothing but a shrewd advertisement for a California win- ter resort. The vessels of Admiral Beards- lee’s fleet are now on thtir way to Aca- pulco, Mexico, where it is Intended to put them through a series of exercises. The flagship Philadelphia recently sailed from Callao, Peru, for that port, where she will be joined by the battle ship Oregon from San Francisco. Admiral Beardslee will be regularly retired in February, 1898, and un- less he elects to the contrary he will re- main in active service until that date. He has about completed the regulation term of continuous duty at sea, however, and consequently will be relieved of his present command in a short time. No date has been set for his relief, and his successor is as yet unnamed. It would be rather sin- gular if the British Pacific fleet was to be assembled at any port, simply to honor a routine change in the navy of another country. ——_-e-____ DELAWARE’S SENATOR. Both Addicks and Kenney Now in the City. Both Mr. Addicks and Mr. Kenney arrived in Washington today to present their cre dentials as chosen representatives of the THE OHIO FACTIONS oN eee Not Likely to Be Trouble Over Mr. Sherman's Successor, LOCAL CONDITIONS DEMAND UNION Democrats Getting Ready for the Election Next Fall. FOR THE HANNA SENATE The acceptance by Mr. Sherman of the secretaryship of state has started afresh all of those stories recently in circulation about the republican factions in Ohio, and the liability of an outbreak at any time. The ouzbreak is promised now for a,cer- tainty. Mr. Foraker is represented as be- ing opposed to the proposition to make Mr. Hanna a senator by appointment, and as maturing a plan by which he can secure a colleague entirely acceptable to himself This sort of talk proceeds, of course, upo' the-assumption that Governor Bushnell wi co-operate with Mr. Foraker in he may decide to pursue. But confidently and frequently stories are repeated, they are reje some of the best informed Ohio republicans in Washington. The explanations th men give of the situation, and the tions they make on the whole matter in an entirely di They believe that so far from th bec oming complicated as the res course Sherman’s retirement from the Senate, it will be simplified, and that the harmony that prevailed in last fall’s campaign will prevail again in the campaign of next fall. They predict Mr. Hanna's appointment to the Senate by Governor Bushnell upon these grounds. Good Reasoning Grounds. (1). Governor Bushnell could not afford to ignore the known, if unex d, wishes of Mr. McKinley on the subj. If Mr McKinley wants Mr. Hanna added to the number of his friends in office in Washing- ton he is entitled to have his way about the matter. As President he will be carry- ing a heavy burden, and, at the outset, particularly, he will have the right to com and should receive, the cordial sup- t of all his party friends. The appointment wiil strength: party in Ohio for next fall's campo Both factions will then have a stake in the game, and both will exert themselves all the more because of that fact. A full State ticket ar a legislative a to hb elected, and the legislature will choose be for the unexpired term of Mr. Sherman in the Senate, and for the full term, which will begin March 4, 18%. Mr. Hanna will be a candidate for both the unexpired and the full term. Governor Bushnell aspires to @ second term in his office, and his sup- porters will thus be brought enthus ally into the campaign. The Democratic Leaders. @). It will be necessary for the republi- cans to be united and alert in order to win. Some lukewarmness will necessarily follow the distribution of the federal patronage. Then the democrats will be aggressive and well led. Their candidate for gov- ernor will probably be ex-Congressman Sorg, a very wealthy man and a good poll- lician. Their candidate for senator will be John R. McLean, another very wealthy man, and a politician of national renown. Mr. McLean has the whole machinery of his party in the state in his own hands, and his desire to be elected to the Senate will lead him to make the most thorough and complete campaign of his life. Two such men as Sorg and Mclean, working together, will need watching, and nothing but a solid front on the part of the repub- licans will suffice to defeat them. Any serious contention whatever between the Hannaites and the Fora would be almost certain to result in giving victory in the siate to the democrats. Hanna’s Appointment Predicted. And so it is that some well-informed Ohio republicans—friends of Mr. Foraker and Gov. Bushnell, and in ordinary circum- stances not likely to be found on the Hanna side of a local question—in the circum- stances that exist, and which they thus de- tail, favor and predict the appointment of Mr. Hanna to the Senate. THE VENEZUELA BOUNDARY, Minister Andrade Will Not Talk Mach About the Treaty. Minister Andrade of Venezuela had an interview with Secretary Olney at tne State Department in regard to the pro- posed arbitration of the Venezuelan boun- dary dispute with a special view to hear- ing the latest developments in the nego- tiations between Great Britain and the United States. As he was leaving the department he told a reporter, who ques- tiored him on the subject, that there was no truth in the report that the treaty had been amended so as to provide for the appoirtinent of a representative of Ven- ezuela as a member of the arbitration tn- bunal. He declined -to discuss (he matter further, however, and consequently it was impossible to asceriain from him the exact status of the negotiations. Notwithsiand- ing the minister's statement, it is reported from London that Lord Salisbury has agr2ed to the appointment of Chief Justice Fuller as the Venezuelan representative on the board of arbitration. Secretary Ol- ney refuses to say anything on the sub je2t one way or the other. eed ea eee RIVERS AND HARBORS. Members of the House Commitice Going to New Orle: The members of the river and harbor committee of the House will leave Wash- ington Sunday morning for a trip of a few days to New Orleans. They go to per- scnally inspect the crevasse in the Missis- sippi river at the Pas L'outre, which the commercial bodies in the Mississippi valley are anxious to have stopped. There is « 'fference of opinion among the members whether the repairs need to be made im- mediately, or whether they can safely be deferred to be provided for in the river and harbor bill of the next Congress. The com- mittee today considered a bill introduced by Representative Minor of Michigan, for an appropriation for Green Bay, Mich. In the last river and harbor bill the House provided $25,000 for this harbor, and the Senate raised the amount to $),000. In conference the Senate amendment was agreed to, but through a clerical error the item was omitted from the bill. The ques- tion was referred to a subcommittee. fe —_— a To Be a Medical Director. Surgeon General James R. Tryon of the navy, who is a medical inspector in grade, will be premoted a medical director, the ighest grade in the department, in conse- ners Of the retirement of Medical Di- rector H. M. Wells today on account of age. Dr. Wells is stationed at New York city. ——————————— Presidential Nominations. ‘The President today sent the following nominations to the Senate: ‘War—Second leutenants to be first liev- tenants—Samuel Burkhardt, jr., 25th In- fantry; J. E. Normoyie, 234 Infantry; Rob- ert Alexander, 7th Infantry.