Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1897, Page 2

2 LATE NEWS BY WIRE — Expecting to Arrange Terms With the Cuban Insurgents. ood GENERAL ROLOFF'S CASE GOES OVER He Gays Authorities Are Merely } Piaying for Delay. SKIRMISHING IN CUBA —_—_ Ly MADRID, January 30.—The Epoca says words dropped by the minister for Lieut. Gen. Azcarraga, point to the sibility of an arrangement being arrived shortly with the Cuban insurzent Much importance is attached newspepers here to the recent United States Minister Taylor ister fer foreign affairs. The Cuban Reforms. ‘The Spanish premier, Senor Conovas del Castillo, reiterates his statemerft that Spain has not yet revealed the nature of the Cuban reforms to any government. He adds that the reforms are not yet fully de- termined upon, and further says that when a majority of the Cuban provinces are free from rebellion it will be time to apply to a select personage to carry out the reforms. n. Roloft's Case Goes Over. NEW YORK, January 30.—The examina- tion of General Carlos Roloff, secretary of war of the so-called republic of Cuba; En- Tiqve Trujillo, editor of the Cuban junta’ organ in this elty, and Dr. Joseph J. Luis, ali of whom are accused of participation in the Wocdall and Horsa filibustering expe- ditions of 18% was to have been continued befere Commissioner Shields today. Dis- trict Atterney McFarlane asked and was grarted an adjournment for a week on the that war, ye the visit of to the min- ground that the essential witnesses are away from the city. These witnesses, it is understood, are in Baltimore, to which city the trial of the cases against the ac- cused may be transferred. General Koloft alleges Ut States authorities are juggli in the hope that the Cubans cen be ed into accepting the terms of the agreement said to have heen entered into the Madrid and Washington goyern- before ion of President ‘The general professes to believe that, in effect, he is being held as a hostage ‘or whose safety the Cubans may be induced to concede e: sential demands upon the Spanish go ernment. Recent Fighting in Cuba. HAVANA, Januery :0.—Col. San Mart at Javia, province of Pinar del Rio, has been engaged with a band of insurgents, who left cight men killed, a number of arms, a banner and several documents of importance upon the field. The troops had five men killed. A dispatch re the United 5 with these eived here from Matenzas $s the surrender there of sixteen insurgents, and, in addition, the sur- of the insurgent leader Barri otter band of sixteen. During several skirmishes recently in the srov' of Havana and Matanzas the itsurgents lost twenty men Killed. HARVARD STUDENTS FINED. Authorities Not Inclined to m Jurixdiction to the College. CAMERIDGE, Mass.. January 30.—Ther was no small stir in student circles this morrirz when it was learned that four men from Harvard Colleze, two of them being prominent in athletic affairs, had been called into the municipal court for } havirg iilegally, it was alleged, discharged fireerms on the occasion of the recent cele- bration of the close of the college half year. As the students generally engage in the celelration the fact that only four men had been implicated by the authorities, aroused muc ament, as well as did the fact that the police have taken up the case, it being supposed that the ulty of the college would handie it al # the four men were com- in an appearance at court ning, and two of t Bull and of the were se- verely reprimanded by the court and fined. The otner two. who are freshmen, were heid under $100 bail for hearing next Wed- nesday. The students are now wondering whether further arrests will be made or whether the matter will be dropped with the mak- ing of an example of those already ar- rested. ancy TRAGEDIES OF TWO CITL fa Qanrrel Over Cards in | New York. Fr tal E pi Ran- twenty-three years old. living in reet. shot and killed Rocco Desio shortly after midnight this morning. Ran- d Desio's. mother-in-law, Angelo Vrelono, the bullet taking ef- in her face. Randella escaped. The quarrel began over a game of cards, Shot Wife. Then Him DENVER, Col. January Reibe, aged forty years, a fug justice, shot and probably mortally wound ed his wife. aged thirty-seven, at their home at 3 arimer street this morning. and then killed himself. Shot ax a Chicken Thief. —Fred. C. fve_from SWICH, Conn., January 30.—Wm. a German, forty years old, em- ployed by E. C. Benedict, the banker, was shot, probably fatally, at 2 o'clock this mornir:g. by Daniel I proprietor of an ext ive hennery near the Greenwich rail- way statior Lent, who has suffered recently from theft of his chickens, two nights ago eged up a burglar alarm, and this morn- ing it rang out. Lent rushed out, armed with a double-barre! shotgun, loaded with } No. 4 shot. He discov a man and call ed upon Pim to surrender, but the latte who proved to be Klatz, started to mi lent discharged both barrels, and the ntents of the weapon took effect in latz's back and penetrated to his stom- ach. There is almost no hope for his re ry. Lent has not yet been arrested. he aa - ALGER CONGRATUL ATED. He Fo md a Pile Desk on DETROIT, Mich found a large f Telegrams on Hix His Return. Janvary %0.—Gen. Al- | pile of telegrams on h office desk today congratulating him upon his appointment as Secretary of War hairs in the waiting room ozutsic fice were Billed with calle! were some of the persist element The general related the incid: visit to the President-elect satisfaction. | is of- | ng whom | “seeking off nis of his with evident | — Mr. Platt Takes a Rest. NEW YORK, Januar: ‘Thomas C. Platt, United States or-elect, and Mrs. Platt left this city today for a month's acation in Florida. This, Mr. Platt says, is his first vacation in ten years, and while it lasts he will banish all thoughts of busi- hess and polities from his mind. > Indicted at Baltimore. BALTIMORE, Md., January :0.—Gén. ‘arlos Koloff and Dr. Jos. J. Lu's of the ban junta were indicted today by the fed- eval grand jury on the charge of “beginning, Betting on foot and providing. within the eistrict of Maryland, means for a military expedition against the territory of a for- eign prince with whom the United States is at peace, to wit, against the Island of ae Brooklyn Taken Back to Cramps’. PHILADELPHIA, January 30.—The Wnited States cruiser Brooklyn, which has been lying at League Island.navy yard, was moved back to Cramps’ sh‘pyard this afternoon. This step was considered nec- essary on account of the danger to the ship from the heavy floating ice, with which the Delaware river is filled. BONA-FIDE CIRCULATION. ‘A reference to the statement be- low will show that the circulation sworn to is a bona fide one, i It is easily® possible for a news- paper with an clastic conscience to swell its legitimate circulation enor- mously, in order to deceive adver- tisers, by sending out thousands of papers to newsstands, which are re- turnabie, and which are in fact re- turned, but nevertheless are in- cluded in what purports to be an honest statement of circulation. Intelligent advertisers, however, judge by results, and bogus eircula- tions don’t give them. ‘The family circulation of The Star is many thousands in excess of any other Washington paper, and,is be- lieved to be fully five times that of our afternoon contemporary. Circulation of The “Evening Star.” SATURDAY, January 23, 189% 34,977 MONDAY, January 25, 1897. -28,893 ‘TUESDAY, January 26, 1997. 29,184 WEDNESDAY, January 2% 28,977 THURSDAY, January 28, 1897 28,945 FRIDAY, January 29, 1897 29,019 Ota tesa siicaee cocee 179,995 Daily average eee as 29,999 I s6lemnly swear that the above statement rep- resents only the number of copies of. THE EVEN- ING STAR circulate} during the six secular days ending Friday, January 2, 1s%—that 1s, the number of copies actually sold, delivered, furnish- ed or mailed, for valuable consideration, to bona fide purchasers or subscribers, and that none of the copies so counted are returnable to or remain in the office unsold. 3. WHIT. HERRON, Cashier Evening Siar Newspaper Co. Subscribed and sworn to before me this thirtieth day of January, A. D. 1897. JOHN C. ATREY, Notary Public, D. C. OVATION GIVEN DUBOIS. Defeated Senator Washington. BOISE, Idaho, January 30.—Senator Du- bois, accompanied by Secretary Walsh of the democratic national committee, has left for Washington, D. C. He was given a grcat ovation, and his departure was more like that of a conqvering hery than a de- feated candidate. He made a speech to the crowd in the street in front of his hotel, and was called ‘The Leaves for out to address a crowd that surged about the depot platform. He reiterated his he- lief in the paramount character of the financial issue, declaring that pro could not return under the existing gold standard. perity gle A Flag Representative Otey of Virginia today in- treduced the following resolution in tie House: “Resolved, That the committee on the District of Columbia, with a view to protecting life and property, be and are hereby requested to inquire into the ne- cessity of a flagman at the crossings of railways at New York avenue and 14th a Star reporter Repres-ntative Otey that the crossing mentioned in his resolution is one of the most dangerous in the city. Compared to the 7th street and nue crossing, the latter is a perfectly afe affair. Mr. Ctey said he had seen three accidents at this crossing, beside: many narrow escapes. He was sure, h said. that sooner or later a fatal accident would result unless a flagman is stationed at the crossing The employes of the roads crossing there, he said, are not to blame. Mr. Otey wrote to the Commissioners scme time ago, but they have done nothing, he says. Belt Line Railway Report. The annual report of the operations of the Belt Line railroad by W. Kesley hoepf, receiver, w today laid before the Senate. It shows that of 10,000 shares of stock of that company 5,4 are owned by the Central Trust Company of New York, the balance being divided among about 150 shareholders. The bonds of the company are stated to be in the hands of the American Security and Trust Company, the floating debt being $171,732.28 at 5 and 6 per cent intetest. The operating expenses tor the last year amounted to $i, excess of expenses over earnings of $23, There were carried during the year 920,542 pay passengers, 619,043 free trans- engers and 42,316 who traveled on passes, making the total number of passen- gers carried During the year two serious accidents occurred, one neces- sitating the amputation of a leg and a child had its foot cut off, but neither of the injured were passengers on the road. es NAVIGATION STOPPED. Not 2 Boat Moving on the River To- day. There was not a single boat moving through the ice on the river today, and navigation was at & standstill. Not for two days have the ferry boats been able to move between here and Alex- andria. _——— THE ARBITRATION TREATY, » Be Reported Favorably, With Amendments, The Senate committee on foreign rela- ons today agreed by an almost unanimous vote to recommend the ratification of the arbitration treaty with amendments. All but two of these amendments are merely verbal. One of the two which are essen- tial strikes out the cla providing for the selection of King Oscar of Sweden and orway as umpire, leavilig it to the two powers to select an umpire when one ‘s considered necessary. The other important amendment is an addition to artidle 1 of the treaty, and reads as follows: “No question which af- fects the foretgn or domestic policy of either of the contracting parties or the re- lations of either with any other state or power, by treaty or otherwise, shall be subject to arbitration, under this treaty, except by special agreement.” eo Prof. Danicl’s Hine The condition of Prof. Joseph H. Dan- icl, the well-known public school music texcher, who has been {ll with pneumonia for the past tvo weeks, was stated to be more unfavorable this afternoon. je ris Chicago Bank Receiver Appointed. CHICAGO, Janvary 30.—Judge Freeman today appointed Ralph Metcalf receiver for the Dime Savings Bank. ———o Impenching a Judge. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. RALEIGH, N. C., January 30.—In the low- er house of the legislature yesterday a reso- lution was introduced providing for the impeachment of Superior Court Judge Nor- wood for drunkenness, and articles of im- peachment were presented. Norwood is a republican who was elected two years ago. ———— ‘To Annual a Railway Lease, Special Dispatch to The Evening Star, RALEIGH, N. C., January 30,—A bill has been introduced in the house, the purpose of which is to provide for annulment of the lease of the North Carolina railway to the Southern railwa: The Saturday Star By Mail One Year One Dollar. THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1897-24 PAGES. TPIS, DESIGNED FOR THE INAUGURAL BALL TICKET. MONEY FOR AGRICULTURE. The Appropriation Bill Under Discus- sion in the House. ‘The House today resumed consideration of the agricultural appropriation bill. Mr. Dockery (Mo.) made a point of order agairst several increares of salaries to chiefs of divisions in the bureau of antiual industry. The point was sustained. Mr. Wadsworth (N. Y.), chairman of the committee on agriculture, explained that the aggregate of increases was but $2,27 ‘The chiefs in the animal industry bureau, he said, were able, educated, scientific men, and it was simply proposed to put them on a par with men of similar attainments in other departments. Mr. Bromwell (Ohio) referred to the at- tack recently made by Mr. DeArmond (Mo.) on Secretary Morton. He had sup- posed, he began, that some member of the party to which the Secretary of Agricul- ture belonged would speak in his defense, but perhaps democrats thought of Mr. Mor- ton as Daniel Webster had said of Massa- chusetts, that she nceded no defense. He did desire to speak in defense of the statis- tics compiled by the Agrizuliure Depart- ment. They had been of great value in the last campaign in correcting the fallacious theories of free silver men that the prices of agriculture products followed the prices of free silver. Mr. Bell (Col.) protested against interject- ing political debates into discussions cf ap- propriation bills, and argued that prices of wheat and silver ran together. ‘The sliver question was continued by Mr. Morse (Mass.) and Mr. Shafroth (Col.), but both were called to order, and the chair (Mr. Payne, N. Y¥.,) decided that the dis- cussion was out of order. Mr. Tawney offered an amendment con- tinuing fiber experiments, which had been dropped on the ativice of the Sccre- tary of Agriculture, and af‘ev some discu sion the amendment was agreed to, 58—23. 5,000 is appropriated for the experiments. The question of the distribution of seeds by the Secretary of Agriculture was re- vived by an amendment offered to the seeds section by Mr. Bromwell (Ohio), pro- viding that the Secretary should be gov- erned in the distribution by the written in- structions of senaters and representatives. The seed distribution was characterized by Mr. Moody (Mass.) as “the biggest hum- bug of the many humbugs we see in Washington.” . All of his agricultural con- stituents considered it a waste of money, he declared. soo TAKEN INTO COURT. Troubles Over the Pastorate of lem Baptist Church. ‘The Rev. S. Gerlah Lamkins, pastor of Salem Baptist Church, colored, today filed a bill in equity against Thomas F. Carter and the other trustees of the church, pray- ing that they be enjoined from excluding him from the churck or from exercising his pastoral duties. His attorney, Irving Williamson, presented the case to Judge Cox, who granted a temporary restraining order, returnable February 8. Mr. Lamkins claims to have been larly called and elected to the pastorate of the church in June, 1891, and states that his engagement was only to be terminated at the expiration of three months’ notice by the church or by him. He explains that all went along harmoniously until re- cently, when charges were preferred against hin.. He claims that the church, after due investigation, declared them to be unfounded, and they were dismissed. The charges were renewed, he states, and a meeting of church members was called last Wednesday evening, eighty-nine being present. The meeting, he declares, ad- journed without actien, and then a meeding of forty-six members was at once held, and they adopted a moun declaring the pulpit vacant. He claims that this second meet- ing was an illegal one, and therefore asks for the relief prayed. SS MAY LIVE HERE, = Rumor Concerning the Ex-Queen of Hawalil. There is an interesting rumor afloat, which has gained some credence during the last day or two, to the effect that the pres- ent visit of the ex-Queen of Hawaii to Washington may result in her making this city her permanent home. Those who be- eve the rumor point io the fact that she would undoubtedly find Washington a more attractive place of residence than Honolulu, where her surroundings are all such as to remind her of the days that are no more when she was on the throne and ruled the islands with a firm hand. She has never claimed to be reconciled to the new condi- tion of affairs, and should she really be- come satisfied that she has no chance of returning to power it would be only natural if she should choose to separate herself from the scene of her former greatness. Her impressions of Washington have un- doubtedly been very pleasant, and she has had many offers of social attentions, offers that she has so far declined. During the course of her reception last Tuesday she was asked if she did not tind Washington too cold for comfort. She said that, on the contrary, she thought the climate was very bracing and healthful. She is said to have sufficient property in her own right to en- able her to live in comfort: wherever she may choose to reside. It is impossible to have the rumor verified or contradicted, as Mrs. Dominis has persistently refused to make any statemeént as to her plans, and her private secretary, who acts as her mouthpiece, always insists that she has not taken him into her confidence In any way as to her intentions for the future. In the meantime she ts living quietly at the Shore- ham, receiving few people and spending most.of her time with her books and her voluminous correspondence. —_ + Excise Board. ‘The excise board this morning took up for further consideration the case of George Delahay, an applicant for a ‘liquor license, at S01 D strect northwest, opposed by Mrs. Interest Sara A. Spencer. ———_._-— Sad Case. Judge Miller, in the Police Court today, brought a rather sad hearing to a close, when he committed to the care of the board of children’s guardians three little tots named John, Robert and Lottie Con- way. The mother oppozcd the movement to the extent of her ability, but without avail. It seems that there are ten children in the family, the oldest being a girl of eighteen years of age, unmarried, who has a child of her own. The father, a huckster, has been out of work for some months, and. it is claimed, the family has prac- Ucaily been kept alive for years past by the Associated Charities. They have been residing in a little house on Alton street. According to the testimony the mother has been begging lately, and also is in the habit ot drinking. The father also drinks. It was also intimated that the house has been raided on more than one occasion by the police. The children do not attend school, but pass the time running about the streets. Several policemen and others appeared in court and urged that, for their own Board, ‘and. Judge: Miller took the sane a view of the matter. . regu- PROGRESS OF THE PHYSICIAN. President Cleveland Says That He Has Civic Obligations. The occasion of the celebration of the semi-centennial of {he New York Academy of Medicine at Carnegie Hall, New York, last night, was made auspicious by the presence of President Cleveland, who ar- rived in this city early in the evening. The President was invited by Dr. Joseph D. Bryant, president of the Academy of Medi- cine, and Mr. Cleveland's private physician. The feature of the evening was the ad- dress of President Cleveland. Other ad- dresses were madé by President Bryant, Dr. Samuel S. Purple of New York and Dr. Lewis A. Sayre. President Cleveland in the course of his remarks said: “We begin by eonceding heartily and without the least reservation the learning and skill of those now constituting the medical profession, and the wonderful ad- vance that has been made through their untiring labors and investigations in the alleviation of human suffering and the sav- ing of human life. is “It may be this seems to you an ac- knowledgment so much your due as to be hardly worth making. You should, how- ever, value it, because it is sincerely made by those who were not born yesterday, but who hold in lasting and tender mem- ory the ministrations of the village doctor of fifty years ago, and are now the living monument: of his faithful care. He, too, alleviated suffering and saved human life. “We know that it was not given to him to see the bright lights that now mark the path of medicine and surgery, but you can- not remember without abhorrence his ever- ready lancet and the scars of his blood-let- ting found tn every household. We endure with complacency the recollection of his awful medicine case, containing bottles, powders and pills which, whatever might be thought of them now, seemed then to be sufficient for all emergencies. If he was ignorant of many of the remedies and ap- pliances now in use, he in a large measure supplied the deficiency by hard-headed judgment, well-observed experience and careful nursing, Besides, it was in his favor that he ‘@fd not have to bother his head with many of the newly invented and refined diseases that afflict mankind today. “Your ways gre.better than his, but we desire you to feeira this admigsion as all the more valuable because it 1s carved out of our loyalty to our old village doctor. “You have invaded our benighted con- tentment and ted us out into broad fields of scientific discovery. This has inspired us with a new-born spirit of wisdom and criticism, which demands that new and larger fields be, opened to our complacent gaze. You have penetrated the places where the germs’ of disease are hidden. We are quite certain that you should be required to destroy the origin of disease, and ultimately usher in the day when the only escape from the world will be through a passageway marked ‘Old Age Exit.” “We cannotebut think that the discov- eries and improyements-in,. medical prac- tice which we now. enjay; ars dearly bought if the methbers of the profession in their onward march have left'behind them their sense of civic /ebligatiof and their interest in the general public welfare. We cannot accuse you of utter neglect of your duty to the country, and yet we cannot keep out of mind thé suspicion that if your pro- fessional work in exposing evils were more thoroughly supplemented by ‘Yabor-m the field of citizenship, these evitswould be more speedily corrected. “If laws are needed to abolish abuses which your professional investigations have unearthed, your fraternity should not be strangers to the agencies which make the Jaws. If members of your profession were oftener found in our national and state legislative assemblies, ready to advocate the reformatory measures you have demon- strated to be necessary, and to defend your brotherhood against flippant and sneering charges of impracticability, the prospect of your bestowal upon your fellow-man of the ripened results of your professional labor would be brighter and nearer. “Our government was founded in the faith and anticipation that those who loved it most and were-best able to hold it steady would be at its helm, Without this it will surely go astray. Never did patient need your medical treatment more than the body politic now needs the watchful care ee patriotic and disinterested citizen- ship.” Lient. Stone's Resignation. One of the results of the legislation of Congress prohibiting officers of the navy from employment with firms holding con- tracts with the government was the resig- nation today of Lieut. C. A. Stone. Phis officer, who was retired several years ago, is in the employ of the Carnegie Steel Company, and fs an expert in ordnance and armor. gS _ Naval Orders. Assistant Surgeon H. La Motte has been granted six months’ sick leave. Passed Assistant Engineer 0. W. Koester has been detached from the‘Cushing and ordered to the Ericsson. - a gas Taken to Annapolis. The remains of Lieut. Charles H. Lyman of. the navy were yesterday afternoon re- moved to Annapolis for interment. ga, | Unable. to Agree. The House committee on Pacific railroads considered the Harrison plan for a com- mission tcday, but were not able to agree upon it, and adjourned until Wednesday. —_——_— Personal Mention, Rev. Dr. Talmage has returned to the city from a trip through the northwest. Secretary Catlisle. has been invited to appear before th¢! House banking and cur- rency committees ,,at his earliest conven- fence, to give his.views on the pending currency legislation. * Col. Thomas ‘Yates, retired, is on a visit to this city, om Chief Engineer ‘George W. Stivers of the navy has taken up his residence in this etty. iby, Commander JF. Merry has been detach- ed from ordnantesinstruction at the Wash- ington navy yard and ordered home to await orders. >! Mr. W. R. Sifigteton, grand secretary of the Grand Lodge of Masons of the Dis- trict of ColwmbBia; who has been quite ill for some weeks} 48 now pronounced by his physicians to es improving. ——__.___ To Prevent Clilmws Speculation. Senator Vilas, from the committee on ju- diciary, has reported favorably a bill to prevent the purchasing or speculating in claims against the federal government by United States officers. — Lieut. Lyman’s Fancral, Special Dispatch to Thé Evening Star, ANNAPOLIS, Md.,, January 30.—The re- mains of Lieut. Lyman, U. 8. N., were in- terred at the Naval cemetery here today. _— le Successful Work of Burglars. CHICAGO, January 30.--Burglars entered the shop of the A. H. Resves’ Gold Leaf Manufaeturing Company, 158 Sti avenue, some time between midnight and this blew open the safe, securing $8.00 i gold tn varlous stages of manufac- | ALL SPORTSMEN SHOULD ATTEND. CHEAP PAPER. Meeting for the Organizat Fish and Game Protective A mers meeting of all residents. of the District, irrespective of whether they per- marently live here or not, who are inter- ested in. the protection and preservation of game and fish will be held at the Ebbitt Hovse next Wednesday evenirg, February 3, at T:30 o'clock. The meeting will have for its purpose the organization of a club havirg for its object the securing of the adoption cf proper laws by Congress for the complete protection of fish and game in the District and of stringent measures to prevent the illegal sale of fish and birds Liable to FINANCE AND TRADE ete Substantial Improvement Abroad Helps Prices Here. PURCHASES OF NORTHERN PACIFIC The Prussian government ccvered that during the last quarter of a century many of the documents which teil of the greatness of the fatherland have as just dis- teen threatened with complete destruction, cwing to the bad quality of the paper on which they are written. Ten years ago Denmark found that its records were in- burring a [ke fate, while in Italy the re ords of the young kingdom are actually falling to pieces. The bad quality of moi ern paper is responsible for all this decay, for we nowadays no longer make our paper Desire of the Great Northern Man- in the District. A constitution has been | of raw silk or linen rags, but of grass, ement. drawn up, which will be presented for | wood fiber and all sorts of materials, which 38 adortion, and it is earnestly desired that | win) not stand the test of time. ee eee a Ww ee: pet A learned German professor has been e hororable use of the ant analyzing the paper used tn something like |] GENE M <ET REPORTS een Tae at a amiene ee Se a hundred scientific reviews, and has found GENERAL MARKE “ ante gucretary aacal areaurest an asrexe that only six of them could be guaranteed -- 2. _ to last for a long time. The principal in- gredient which does more than anything else to make modern paper perishable is said to be chloride of lime. and it is cal- culated by this German scientist it will cause the paper into whose composition it largely enters to crumble within £ com- paratively few years. It is within the bounds of probability to say that a cen- tury from now only those books and manu- scripts on papers of the finer sort will be decipherable or in existence. Heretofore the- principal enemy to ecutive committee. The association as soon as it is formed, will take immediate steps to carry out its praiseworthy objects, and the influential membership already assured leaves no room for any doubt that they will be quickly attained. ——— GREAT FALLS WATER RIGHTS. Special Dispatch to The Bvening Star, NEW YORK, January 30.—Susiaived in provement in the London market furnishe the incentive to higher prices in all «i partments of the local stock market morning. The volume cf business during the short seasion exceeded the daily age for the full days of the early The short interest gave eviden creasing nervousness, and ts to be Bill for Their Condemnation to Be Favornably Reported. ‘The Ho.se District committee has made of credits the with a considerabie proportion of the de- ria book: red to be a favorable report on the bill introduced | ™terial life of is was considered to be | mand. the bookworm, though in tropizal countries, | ™ITjy1aware and Hudson the searcity of by Mr. Babcock, being a copy of the bill) owing to the climate, it is next to impos-| ao% for covering purposes Was raperialls row pending in the Senate, to authorize | sible to keep books from becoming pulpy | Merked. = 5 the condemnation of the water rights at Great Fall: —————_--»--——___——_ Has Resigned. B. Kennon Peter, librarian of the District Bar Association, today tendered his resig- ration, to accept a confidential position with Mr. Joseph E. Willard. Mr. Peter will also continue to practice law. It-is expect- ed that Assistant Librarian Smith will take masses hardly to be recognized aficr the advent of the rainy’season. oo Pe ity for Not Voting. From the New York Post. In the early days of Maryland each elect- or was required to vote at every election, under penalty of a fine of 100 pounds of tobacco. There is said to have been no ‘The buying of Northern Pacific and Atch- fgen securities was again the most con- spicuous feature of the day's development. It is generally known that the management of the Great Northern has long b 3 sirous of controling the lines of the North- ern Pacitic and that legal obstacles alone interfered with the successful culmination of the desire. ‘The steady accumulation of the various securities by houses in the con- a fidence of the management, as well as Mr. Peter's position as librarian. Sintlar legislation elsewhere in the United | houses with Berlin connections, has revived SSeS tates, although the subject has often been | confidence in the possibility of success in under discussion, until Kansas City adopt- ed, in 1889, a charter provision imposing a tax of $2.50 on each citizen who should fall to vote at a general election. It is this pro- vision which the supreme court of Missouri recently declared unconstitutional. In this decision the court overruled the judgment of a superior court judge, who had taken the ground that “in the enlightenment of the present age it is in the power of the state to compel its voters to exercise the election franchise, and, if the state can do so, the city is invested with the same power.” After enumerating many things of an arbitrary nature that are done to main- tain good municipal government, the judge said that he could see no legal objection to the use of the taxing power for the pur- pose of securing a full and perfect expres- itiment and the election competent worthy men to public offices. The position was an advanced one, he admitted, but not an unreasonable one, in view of the fact that “the highest type of government is attained when every voter casts his vote and that vote is counted just as It is cast.” The supreme court took a broader view. ‘Taxes may be levied.” it said, “in money or in services having a money value to the public, and he who pay in money does not necessarily have to pay more or less than he who pays in services. and vice versa, and it is upon this principle that these taxes are upheld. But who can estimate the money value to the public of a vote? It is degrading to the franchise to associate it with such an idea. The ballot of the humblest in the land m: mold the destiny of the nation for ages.” There ap- pears in this decision a clear distinction be- tween the right to withhold a vote and the duty to vote. the particular mentioned. The reorganization syndicate, no matter what its position on the consolidation pro- ject might be, would undoubtedly encourage an advance in the several clacses of Norih- ern Pacific securities. The failure to pay assessments under the new plan resulted in the syndicate’s being forced into the ownership of a considerable holding of both stock and bonds as the only means of proceeding with the reorganiza- ton. The advance in the common stock during the week bas barely exceeded the full amount of the assessment, whereas a sub- stantial profit is reflected by the movement in the preferred. The character of the buying has been such as to preclude the probability of a mere speculative movement. Imporzant developments are unquestionably pending, the details of which are withheld in order that their success may not be embarrassed. Foreign buying of St. Paul and Nashvilie centinues, the buoyancy in American rails abroad belng especially significant in view of the lack of instance in other securities. The week clones under conditions almost identical with those prevailing a fortnight ago, when, it will be remembered, the most hopeful outlook of the season was present- ed. A concerted effort to convert the coun- try to optimistic beliefs was undertak: through the medium of the regular weekly summaries of the financial markets. The Monday following was devoted to a whole- sale supplying of the out-of-town demand. Concessions were recorded, without signifi- cant rallies, throughout that entire week. It was suggested at that time that an- other of a series of false starts had been recorded. It will mean much to the would- be investor if Monday's market takes all Loud Bill Hearings Concladed. ‘The Senate committee on post offices and pest roads today concluded its hearings on the Loud bill. ——>—_ Reception to the New Pastor. Rev. Asa 8. Fiske, pastor-elect of Gunton ‘Temple Memorial, Church, was tendered a reception by the congregation of that church last evening in the chapel, 14th street near R. The receiving party con- sisted of Mr. W. B. Turpin, George A. Pre- vost, Dr. Warman, Mrs. Caleb C. North, Mrs. George H. Brown and Miss Little. The installation ceremony will take place Friday evening at Gunton Temple. —>—— Sued an Insurance Company. John J. Shipman filed a bill in equity against the Massachusetts Benefit Life Association, praying that the association and its agents be enjoined from collecting what he alleges is an excessive as:essmeni, and from carceling his two policies in the association of $5,000 each aS Judge Wiggins Dead. Mr. W. H. Wiggins, who was familiarly known as “Judge” Wiggins by almost every politician who has come to Washington in the past quarter of a century and who was one of the best-known characters in Washington, was found lying dead in his bed at Smith's Hotel, 922 F street, yester- day. The body was discovered by a servant lying with folded hands, as though peace- fully sleeping. The coroner gave a certifi- cate of death from natural causes, and the —+0o body was removed to an understaking es- What the Pupils “Tought.” Deticn: Wats caution te ka meokooee tablishment, where it was prepared f0r) yo ine Chicago Chronicle. one, and if a more substantial reflection of BER gees Out in Sruth Chicago is a young public | the fact is not already in progress it ts To Stop the Sale of Pistols. school teacher who has learned that it is | UMauestionsbls medrigg ite ao ving. thew AUSTIN, “Texas, January $0.—A: bIR-Ras| not always wise to have her Utiie puplis {thc ome geeaied above, Misch of tor om show off befere strangers. She tried it with poor success last week and has trembled every moment since for fear the assistant been introduced in the house prohibiting the manufacture or sale of pistols in this state and providing a fine of from $100 to $1,000, = ticipated disappointment come to pass, and should be encouraxing. The banks have gained over $2,000,000 in at that time has future intelligence superiatendent who heard her give a lesson | j,wful money during the week, mostly in EERE will feel that she is not a goo’ instrucior. | legal tenders. Loans have been reduced For Divorce. It was near the hour of closing for the day | $1 mw, owing to the absolute stagna- tion of the demand. Practically the entire increave in lawfcl money ‘s reflected in an increased reserve, bringing that item up io $59, 148,250. Leacy G. Leach today applied for divorce from James M. Leach, charging him with cruelty and intoxication. —_———_ Bird Storie: From the London Spectator. It is not fair for cats and dogs to carry when the always dreaded visitor put in an appecrance and tne little ones, after a weary day in school, were longing for the ringing of the dismissal bell. Just before the superintendent the room the young teacher w. to make the little people 24 —_—— FINANCIAL AND COMMER: entered The following are the opening, the highest = 4 d the lowest and the closing prices of the me to tell two | ference between the words and Leite seen ee aoe experience | “learned.” Over and over again she told | New York stock market today, as repor: RtOr1e8 tONt Tay ac Nae ee then Ita simple way the proper use of the | by Corson & Macartney, members New of gratitude in a goose, of humor in a] (WO" U0 Sng gave them severeal ex-|York stock exchange. " Correspondent raven. | was walking one day with a Messrs. Moore & Schley, No. Sv Broadway. friend through his poultry yard, when a goose hurried up to him, fondly rubbed its neck against his trousers, and followed him about everywhere. He told me that he had once rescued it from being done to death by its feathered companions because it had a broken wing. Could any unfeath- ered biped have shown greater affection? May we not say with Wordsworth: “Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.” ‘And now for the raven. I had been tak- ing duty lately in the Tower for my friend, the chaplain, when my slumbers were dis- amples with the words correctly used. She had just finished explaining = difference Actes eounet 6 wor : isiting inspector | 4 ican § * in the words when the visiting P American Spirits, pf American Sugar American Sugar, pfd. American Tobac: American Cotton Atchison ...... Baltimore & Onio. Bay State Gas. Canada Southern Canada Pacific hink you have she said as she ‘ow, little people, I learned your lesson well gave a seat to the visitor. “I will see now if you understand the difference in the words. Willie, give me a sentence with the word ‘taught’ in it.” “I tought it was time for school to let out,” answered ‘the fair haired urchin in the front seat. no,” said the teacher. 2 an example.” “Mamie, y chicago, B.A Q.....00 Chicagoa& Northwestern. give i S “I tcught it was time to go home,” re- a > turbed by the raucous croaking of a ven. . J peo ne. | Chicago Gas.. > é 7 sponded the blue eyed tte one Os bye oy eee ca fines phy aaltsneemerss “You give me a sentence, Frank,” and C.M.& St. Paul, pid... Chicago, RL & Pacitic.: Consolidated Gas. Del., Lack. & W Delaware & Hud Den. & Rio Grande, General Electric Minos Central. Lake Shore. Louisville & Nashvilie. Metropolitan Traction. Mahattan Elevated... Michigan Centrat Missouri Pacitic fonal Lead Go..... 2. ‘ational Lead Co., pfd. New Jersey Central New York Centrat all accounts, By his jaunty hopping about under can- nons and shady trees, he clearly shows that he considers the entire precincts to have been provided for his comfort by a grateful nation. On returning one day from lunching with the governor, to whom I complained of his sleep-destroying noises, I found my gentleman perched on the back of a garden chair. I solemnly admonished him of his offenses against the church. He listened calmly, without sound or move. When I concluded my homily, he turned up his right eye to me and delib- erately winked. I fled. se Popularity of Jade. From the New York Sun, Jade is the latest novelty among fash- fons in jewelry and other ornaments, The idea of utilizing jade originated in England at the time of the recent visit of the Czar of Russia, for jade, like malachite, is a stone highly esteemed in Russia. It is a mineral of variable composition, consisting the teacher ventured the question at the other side of the room, with no better =uc- cess, for Frank answered: “I Vought it was time to go hom ein or SE Made Himself Conifortable. From Youth's Companton. As a_country doctor, the horse is, of course, my constant companion, and I have been carried by him on my visitations many thousand miles, yet I had no special love for the animal, nor yet any high sp- preciation of his intelligence, until a short time ago, when something happened which changed my views. On going out one morning to look after Major, I found that I had accidentally left the chain down behind him. This circum- stance he had taken full advantage of, and had spent a portion of the night in wan- dering about the barn, upsetting every- thing that could be upset and breaking everything that could be broken. Union Pacific. of silica, lime and magnesia, and is | Now, however, he was in his stall, and | U.s Leather, pfd...... adapted for purposes of ornamentation by | looked around at me with his great brown | Wabash, pfid.. its close texture and extreme susceptibil- | eyes, a picture of innocence and content- | Wheeling & L. Erie..... . ity in taking a very fine polish. It is tough, { ment, while under him, carefully spread | Wheeling & L. Eriepfd. . translucent, of nearly the same hardness | out, was a fur robe, the fur side up, and | Western Union ‘et. oa as quariz, and of either a bluish, a light | the cushion of my sleigh. Silver. green or a flesh color. It fuses with great difficulty into a white enamel. It is put to many cf the uses in ornamentation for which malachite is employed, particularly These he must have carried to his stall during the night, thinking, perhaps, that for Christmas night, as It happened to be, straw was not good enough, and that for Washington Stock Exchange. Sales—regular call-12 o'clock m.—Paepmatic Gun rm Carriage, 100 at 74 ce After call for clock anl fan embellishment, for rings | once, at least, he would make his uwa bed | Monotsps, 25 at 6. Metwentinive Lisotyme tat and brooches aid for beautifying the cases | of the best material he could find. 326%; 50’ at 126. Chesapeake and Potonic Tele- of waiches. phone, 10 at Though jade much resembles malachite, District of Columbia Bonds.—20-year fund Ss, 103 — Baltimore Markets. its present popularity is not thougnt likely | BALTIMORE, January 30.—Flour dull,_unch: Ter 1001 curremey, 210'Nd: "Water stock ‘ta, 1903 among jewelers to extend to malachite, | —receipts, 7,183 barrels: exports, 13,377 barrels. | cucrones, 110 bid. 3-658" funding, wasters, 105 for the latter does not possess equal ad. | Wheat strong—spot, 8 bid: May, S84aSt—recelpts, | bi 3 vantages as a workable material, nor does | 4:52 "Oshslsi exhorts, none: stock, $31,574 bushels; | | Aliscellanewus Bonds...Metropolitan Rallraad Sa, 7 sales, 5,000 southern wheat by sample, .. it take a similiar high polish. It is brittle, : ‘ ‘ - 100 bid. _ Metrapaiignn RBallvend capi. Mh, 113% thd, an! the item of expense, too, enters into | ma north, oa, SN, im timer ener | 114% asked. Metropolitan Railroad certitivates of indebtedness, 130 bid, 140 asked. Belt Rallread Bs, G1 bid, SI asked — Eckingtun Railroad @s, 55 wid. Columbla Rallroad @s, 114 ‘bid, 116 the question. ieee ‘April, 274a27%: steamer mixed, 23%a —receipta, 63,803 bushels; exports, 42,857 bush- Gis; stock, "2,480,208 bushels: sales, 682.000 bushels es Humor as It Fltes in Texas. “southern white corn, 22%a27; ao. yellow, 22a2T- jouinasen cine Daigeny as, sates From the New York Evening Sun, Oats ‘ste y- oe i —s = mixed, ‘Chesapeake and any Telephoar 4 c ‘exports, none; merican Secu: 2 Every one knows that Phil Sheridan said 4" bushels. Rye ean x” 00 bide American Security aud Trust of Texas—“If I owned Texas and hell I'd | #} 404%; western, 41%0424— ; stock, Saf Soe pawhelss and O., 100 bid. . 107 wid. WW rent Texas and live in hell.” Possibly out | firm—cboice timothy, $13.50a814.00. Gn, 107 bid. Washington Market Giosnpeny st ee of respect for so great a man the Texan's | {WWict steam to Lit Oe Sa rarue, Maren | ete tneaate, Hall Association Sa, 167 tid. Cork for crlers per quatter, 38.34. Fe>ruary, March, | Washington Light Infantry Ist Gs, 95 bid. answer was suppressed, but it was good, | April. Sugar, butter and ‘e steady, unchanged. National Bank Stocks. “Bank of Washington. 282 just the same. He said with great prompt- | Cheese firm, unchanged. _W ee 312 esked._ Dank of the a ness: “Well, gin’rl, yer know a cuss allers will take up fer the place he cum frum.” ‘The Texan has a strong sense of humor, and it manifests itself in other ways than repartee. The legislator who proposed that all trains running into Texas should be de- tained for ten minutes at the state line and required to whistle three times in acknowl- edgment of the sovereignty of the state, didn’t expect to be taken seriously. He wasn’t, but his colleagues thought it would be such a good joke on the railroads that they made the suggestion a law, and for a time religiously enforced it. Grain and Cotten Markets. 4 ‘The Texas women have their share of | Farnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co., bankers | , insurance, Stocks. a ‘Metropole humor, and they can be sarcastic, too, as | and brokers, 1427 F st., members New York | 3, © bid. ~ Ant e MO the following conversation between ‘the ts 285 Mae” National Calon 9 Wd. 1a maed Cor daughter of a Texas congressman and New Yorker at a Washington ball testifies “You are from Texas?” the New Yorker said, in very much the same tone that he would have used had he asked if she were from Hawaii or some other remote place. “Yes,” she said, smiling sweetly. “Lots of cowboys out there,” he said like aman who knew.