Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1897, Page 2

2 THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1897—12 PAGES, LATE NEWS BY WIRE|SER!OUSLY IN Philadelphia Lawyers on the Rail- way Pool Decision. {0 NOT HOLD PREVAILING OPINION Claim that the Joint Traffic Asso- ciation is Not Involved. AT CHICAGO ACTION TAKEN > PHILADELPHIA, March 24.—Railroad lawyers in this city do not share the pre- vailing impression that the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of the Trans-Missouri Freight Association settles the question of the legality of the Joint Traffic Association and will compel its dissolution. Several railroad lawyers who have followed the cases against both the Trans-Missour! and the Joint Traffle ation, while admitting that the de- cision as reported seems to be that the Missourt Association violated the Id that the case and that the mother matter. which will who has c said tion orney, Asso¢ pints of object and carefu fully finally ided that will preve ‘Traffic from being sustained by the Supreme urt when this case is heard Approaching Dissolution. CHICAGO, March wery western freight pe sociation and associa having headquarters In Chicago is appur- Mtion approaching dissolution f the decision of the federal t declaring all such pools to Sherman anti-trust upreme ( he in violation of the ect One railro: Sa’ the Atchison, Topeka and - has taken quick action and ser of withdrawal from all the freigh of which it has : Western Freight A: rm Traffic Assuciation, tion, Transcontinental Trans-Missouri Rate Commit (general is in New mm tee, Seaboard r seaboard points these associations ha Great Westerr fd to hi of withdrawal the applies to the the frefeht a the entire today gave 1 from both the Western tion and the West- ern Pi on. Notice of with- » subori part of & after the wit stem, will b all the western roads. i and Milwaukee and St Xpected to withdraw by ‘se, means the disruption of but will not nec In fact, appointed Chairman tern Passenger Asso- clation to handle its mileage tickets and to Issue clergymen’s permits, which 's re- garded as a ‘St step toward & reorganiza- ern Passenger Association, ssarily on diffrent Hnes. ——___ N RAILWAY DEAL. tion of the W although ne: WESTE! Exchanges Effected by the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe. SAN FRANCISCO, March 24—The Chroni- le A great railroad deal, the ac- mplishment of which is near at hand, impites volution in transcontinental opening of the west coast » to California in general ncisco tn particula~ says and to San Fi parties t © arrangement are the Southern Pa Company and the Atchi- “ka and Santa Fe, and the deal c the exchange in owner- & and important streten>s ‘onsummation the South- ssion of ornia to tracks into in ren- ley railroad, ding, souch from Fres- arrives with 5 t m Pacitic omnection at Henson, Ariz., ew Mexico and Arizona raii- and from that point by City of Guayamas. = T PHILADELPHIA. #& Unroofed and the Storm for New Jersey. PHILADELPHIA, Pa, March severe wi hail BORDENTOW) J... March severe wind, r: and storm passed ever this section of New Jersey this orning. Fenees were torn down, trees octed and * roofs wer, town from e ee : Mrs. Maybrick’s Case Cited. LONDON, March 24—During the discus- ston of the court of criminal appeal tn the heuse of commons today Edward H. Pick- eregill, liberal, In supporting the measure, cited the case of Mrs. Fiorence Maybrick, the Ameri-sn woman undergoing imprison— ment for life, after having been convited of poisoning her husband with arsenic, as idence of the necessity of such a court of appeals. INTENDED The Fight That Has Been Started on the Civil Service Reform System. Mr. Cleveland's Alleged Partisan Ex. tensions the Cause of the Out-— - brenk in Congress. The fight that has been started on the civil service reform system 1s serfouslp intended. It is hardly probable that the existence of the institution of civil service reform is seriously threatened, but the sentiment of oppesition appears stronger just now than it has been at any time for years, and it is expected that there may be some amendments to tke law. To some eatent the hunger after office which de- velops with the incoming of every new administration is responsible for the sud- den agitation, but if that were che only thing most of the antagonism in Congress would not be sincere. There are very few men in Congress who really want to have the responsibility for the distribution of patronage, as of old, thrown back upon them. Most of them are well satisfied to get behind the civil service reform law for protection from the thousands of of- fice “rs. The classified service is a great protection to them. ‘Phe present outourst of hostility is explained as due to a widespread conviction that civil serv- refortn has been made a cloak for par- » by the Cleveland administracion: Investigation. to make tae investigation Senate very broad and and it is declared by those who movement in charge that it ounding system of fa artisan trickery und virtue Withm the or i ng, the ion of law or ar But it is charged that i adjus places the s of Mr. Cleveland's administra- persons who have always opposed I servic: tem, but have been J to face pu ntiment which ns the system, now find the opportun! ake an attack with some show of jus- tification. The Real Feeling in Congress. ‘The outburst in the Senate yesterday was rot entirely for the purpose of winning ap- plause from the throng of office seekers row in Washington, but represents a real feeling in Congress and means determined effort to in some way amend the law so as The to Hmit and define its operations. protest, it Is explained, is against the tem of admitting persons to the Service without reference to the civil service re- form principle and then extending the eperation ef the law to protect th _ TODAY'S APPLICATIOS Additions to the List at the Treasury Dep: ment. Applications for appointments were filed at the Treasury Department today as fol- lows: Auditor for the Navy Department out of Paoli, Ind., and Arthur Stab! Sandy Spring, Md. Deputy auditor for the War Department T. J. Donovan of Washington, D. C., and anley of Takoma, D. C. s ng inspector of steam vessels at Cincinnat!, Ohio—D. W. C. Carroll of Pitts- burg. Pa. 1 officer at New York—Andrew w York. W. Jackson of Cleveland, H. C. Williams of Cin- at Cincinnati. of customs—R. P. McClure of Mo., at Louis; T. D. Hyait of Brooklyn, at New York; R. John of Philadeiphia, at Philadelphia. ors of customs—I. M. Hopstad of Alaska, at Sitka; L. A. Sheldon of a: at Los Angi ic, Fe : unswick, Ga.. and T. W. Holmes of Darien, Ga.. at Brunswick; L. amara of Prophetstown, Ul, at Chi J. H. Raymond of Bath, Me., at Bath: Andrew Harris of Otisville, 3 Port ; James H. Cronley, N. C., Beaufort, N. Hart of Charleston, S. C., at Charleston: J. Q. Hanna of Olga, Texas, at El Paso. Collectors of internal revenu - Left- wich of Montgomery, Ala., and T. B. Mar- tin of Fayette, Ala. at Birmingham Fornoff of Logansport, Ind., at Laure: burg; W. J. Deboe of Mosier, Ky., Owensboro, Ky.; A. L. Miller of New York elty, at New York; W. M. Tageart of Philadelphia, at Philadelphia; G. E. Price of Myerstown, P at Baltimore; A. 0. Cooley of Fredericksburg, Texas, at Aus- tin, Texas; U.S. Marshall of Fort Worth, Texas, at Dallas, Texas; Webb Greene of Mt. Pleasant, Utah, at Helena, Mont. ——___ ~~ HUDSO: CAPT. 'S GRIEVANCE. Why He Turned State's Evidence in the Woodall Filibustering Cane. BALTIMORE, March 24.—The second day of the trial of Dr. Joseph Luiz in the United States circuit court failed to de- velop anything of consequence. Captain Hudson's — cross-examination brought out ance against as ISSO, and that fitting out of fact that he had a griev- Roloff as long aro en he undertook the sel he did not know w that itoloif was be in it. He also stated he had been prot d that if ferred the Woodali he would be m employment, and_ the: nent for turning state's evi- fireman in ¢ stain Hud- though now 10 k son's out of w from a st the y Spanish government a fireman on the Woodall ire trip from Baltimore 1 niil ached N rans, and testi- mon nin & h was ren fied to the landing of men, ammunition, ete., in Cub The court took a recess until 1:20 o'cloe - A MASSACRE a Tennessee Farmer With the Inmate: SHVILLE, Tenn, March 23.—News reached the city today that the residence of Jacob Ade, fifteen miles from che city, on Paradise ridge. burned last night. The bodies of Jacob Ade, Mrs. Ade, Lizzie Ade d twenty years, their daughter, and Kosa Morirer, aged ten years, who was visiting the family, were found in the ruins of the building. Henry Ade, aged thirteen rs, is missing. Ade was a well-to-do former. It is supposed that family Were murdered and the house burned to conceal the crime. The authorities are in- vestigating the case. Later.—Searchers in the ruins of the house this morning found the body of th burned to a crisp. r preceded the fire is gr yal evidence leading to t et that though the girl © was only siigktly burned, the beck of her head was missing. It 1s thought that she was struck by some such insirument as an ax. he heads of two of the bodies were not nd Mr. Ade was over sixty years old, and was considered a rich tian by the truck gardeners and small farmers among whom he lived. There is no clue to the possible murderer. A roll of money, partially burn- ed, was found in an oyster can in the ruins. OTTUMWA, Ia., March 24.—The dwell- ing of Frank Penrod, at Laddsdale, burned last night, and his five children were burned to death. The oldest was twelve and the youngest two years of age. The origin of the fire is unknown. pi Se Workingmen’s Clu Dr. Robert Reyburn will give an illus- trated lecture before the Workingmen's Club, 2105 Pennsylvania avenue, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock: subject, ‘The Human Eye; Its Uses, Care, Etec.” The lecture ts free, and in such hands as Dr. Reyburn’s will be very interesting. SPECTED. fe THE HOPPING TEST It is Only Bequired in the Railway Mail Bervice. Some Applicants for the Government Printing Office by Error, and Some by Choice, Teok the Test. The “hop, skip and jump” argument against civil service examinations caused a ood deal of merriment at the civil service building today. “It is one on us,” said Commissioner Har- low, with a twinkle in his eye. ‘‘We know what the facts are, and that the charge is ludicrously wrong, but still it goes. The way the thing happered was this: We print one blank for departmental and govern- ment printing office applicants. “In the railway mail service the physical requirements are strict, and a medical ex- amination is required. For the use of ap- plicants for this branch of the service we have a series of questions on the blank. There are nineteen questions asked, and question 13 is ‘State the frequency of the action of the applicant's heart: When sit- ung; when standing; when standing after brief exercise (the applicant should be re- quired to hop on one foot the distance of it twelve feet).” hat 1s the ‘hop-skip-and-jump’ ques- tion. It is required only of applicants for the railway mail service, and on the blanks that we are now using that fact is stated clearly and conspicuously. On some of the old blanks, however, it was not so clearly printed, and by error some applican' thouxht that they were obliged to go through this medical examination for the departmental service. “Some printers also choose to take this examination, and pay $5 for it to make their es all the reau. Let me add, also, that there is reason for the hop-skip-and-jump au tronger with the bu- a tion in the fact that the railway mail serv- is one of great strain upon the phy- sigue, and the govern to have men who are 7 and equal to its requirements Commissioner Rice langhed when hi ate tention was called to the matter, anc “There is a reason for everythiny, there is a reason for the questions in the cal examination of railway maii ap- Flicants. In the first place, tae commission is not responsible for all the reqnirements set forth in that list of au The railway mail officials ask that their em- should be physically sound. have told us that we may examine a man who is less feet four inches in height, but 1 never appoint such a man. ‘They have also told us that we cau certify much as we please a man weighing ! than 125 pounds, but they will never ap- point such an applicant. They insist uyon these requirements because the cases into which mail has to be thrown are of a cer- the tain height in order to accommoilte great number of classitications ne and a man must be high enougn to with them. “They insist upon his haying sufficient weight to be steady cn his feet and equal to the severe work of sorting mail on a train under full headway and throwing him about from side to side and end to end of a railway mail car. “In no other examination ts the hopping requirement thought of and in this one instance it is only suggested in order to give the physician a chance to judge of the applicant’s heart. It might bh “equured that the applicant run around the block, but the hopping a short distance serves the purpos: “There have been not a few instances where applicants for places outside of the railway mail service have taken this m cal examination supposing they were oblig- ed to, and there have been some who have taken it with the idea that it would in prove their chances for appointment just the same as if a man being required to show that he is guod for $1,000 bail should prcve that he is worth $100,000. —. WENT ASHORE IN THE Hie NIGHT, Two Schooners Went Aground in the Fos. NEW YORK, March 24.—Capj. Mulligan of life saving station No. 4, at Monmouth beach, reported this morning that the ner Emily E. Johnson, from Balti- more for Cambridge, Mass., with a cargo of oyster shells, went ashore near Sea- bright last night during the fog. She is pounding very heavily on the beach, and it seems probable she will become a total wreck. All the crew have been saved. Some of them managed to get ashore before assistance could be given them, The re- mainder were taken off the stranded vessel by the breeches buoy. All are comfortably housed at the station. cho A dispatch received this morning from the marine observer at Fire Island says that there is a three-masted schooner ashore at Jones’ inlet on the bar. A dispatch from Fire Island states that the name of the schooner at Fire Island is the Wandrian. She has a cargo of mo- s. She is commanded by Captain and comes from St. Thomas sind other ports in the West Indies. The ves- sel is in good cundilion, and is not leaking. The crew refused to leave but are attempting to get the schooner afloat. ‘The wrecking steamer Wm, E. Chapman has a hawser attacned to the schooner and is pulling on it. The Wandrian is a British Schooner, buiit at Parrsboro, Nova in 1SS%." She registers “11. tons, owned by E. Db. Wood of Parrsboro, her hailing port. Supt. Havens of the fe-saving station at Point Pleasant, telegraphs that a steam- er reported ashore eight mil outh of Barnegat inlet between Long Beach and Shipbottom life-saving stations is Clyde liner Saginaw from Haytien for New York. She has a cargo of ¢ legwood and cotton, and has a cre thirty-five men. The el lies ea is in good condition. The crew are beard. She is comma son. The Saginaw regi is a half brig rige of iron, the ports am and row, England, in 1SS3, is owned by Wm. P. Clyde & €o., of New York, her hailing port. ent indications 1 be floated at the 1 py a wre investigation, stated apparently t ssel was unharmed Were seme passengers on the they have been taken off. ‘The crew ashore. the There and $0 >— BICYCLE WORKS BURNED. Large Plant at Rending, Pa., Destroy- ed by Fire. READING, Pa., March --The large plant of the Acme Bicycle works was de- stroyed by fire early this morning. The fire originated In the enameling room,which was filled with coloring fluids. Owing to the inflammable nature of the stock the big four-story brick building was soon a mass of flames. All the valuable machinery was destroyed, making the total loss about $75,000; cover- ed by insurance. The building contai -d material for fully 5,000 bicycles. About 500 men and boys were employed at the works, about one-half of them being at work at the time the flames broke out. The works will be rebuilt at once. et EARTHQUAKE IN CANADA. Shock Extended From Three Rivers to Morrisburg. MONTREAL, Quebec, March 24.—A dis- tinct earthquake shock was felt here at 6 o'clock last evening. The movement ap- Parently extended from east to west, and lasted about fifteen seconds. It was vio- lent enough to shake windows and crock- ery, and @ number of chimneys were dam- aged. Reports from outside points show that the shock extended from Three Rivers, ninety miles east of Montreal, to Morrisburg, 110 miles west. The movement of the shock Was accurately traced on the selsmograph - the Physics building of McGill Universi- y. The —_—— What Mr. Merry Wants, Among the numerous applications on file in the State Department is that of Mr. Wm. L. Merry of California for the office of United States minister to the Greater Republic of Central America, IN CONGRESS TODAY aii inetendiatas Restart ~ House, ONE APPPROPRIATION BILL REPORTED 2 . Several Representatives Make Speeches. on the Tariff. PRIZE FIGHT PICTURES The first of the appropriation bills—the agricultural—was reported to the Senate to- day by Mr. Cullém (11), who gave notice that he would ask the Senate to take it up at an early day. As a sequel to the civil service debate yes- terday, Mr. Alleh (Neb.) introduced a bill to repeal the civil service law and all sup- plementary acts, and also to annul all executive orders based on these laws. The bill further directs the head of every gov- ernment department to establish rules rela- tive to appointments, with reference to the special fitness of applicants for the services required, and not with reference to educa- tional standards. It is expressly provided that the lack of a university, college or academic education shall in “no ¢as qualify an applicant. ‘The bill the purpose of restoring to all United States ns equal rights to appointment. Hoar (Mass.) introduced a bill pro- ng ‘the shipment of kinctoscope pic- ‘Mr. nnels of interstate commerce: p.m. the Senate went into ecu- THE HOUSE. Mr. Fox (Miss.) opened the third day of the tariff debate in the House with a fif- teen-minute speech against the general theory of protection. Mr. Williams (Miss.) devoted his attention to exposing the al- leged inconsistencies in the republican ar- gument. He said it was absurd to charg the present depression to the invasion of the home market by foreign goods when the treasury figures showed that last year the importations were less by $16,000,006 than in the last year of the McKinley law, itself a year of restricted importations. He centended that the existing era of depres- sicn and low prices was due to the appre- clating value of money under the gold standard. After some brief remarks by Mr. Sims (Tenn) and Mr. (Ark.), Mr. Sayers (Tex.) addressed himself to the proposition that if the anticipations of the majority were realized and this bill increased the revenues $113,000,000 per annum it would breed the most reckless and profligate ex- travagance. Mr. Johnson's Argument. Mr. Johnson (N.D.), a member of the v and means committee, was then rec- nized for an kour. He directgd his attention chiefly logy of the prospective benefits would follow: therenactment of the agri- cultural schdule’tf the bill. He was met by a fusillade of qgestions from the demo- crats and populisis, The old controversy as to whether the foreigner or the con- sumer paid the tax was fought over with great pertinacity, Mr. Johnson, of course, to a which teking the yiew’ that the foreigner sub stantially pa And his adversaries that it was paid by the consumer. —¢ When they Wilson bill was under consid- eration Mr. Johnson said he predicted that age -would be more fatal to the p industry than the ravages of dogs wolves, scatrand foot rot for twenty and he chaenged any one to s criptures gad tind,a prophecy which had been more truly 6nifiled than that. In reply to a question, Mrz Johnson de- jared that ag the-people of the south would pledge theirjloyalty to the doctrine of pro- tection the republican. party would be glad ecord to* cotton, th protection to wheat, corn, potatoes and other agricultural products of the north. In his district last year he said there were pro- duced 67,000,000 bushels. of wheat, one- seventh of the entire product of the United Sta Considering the cost of production, there never was a time when the price of wheat was so high as during the last year of republican ascendancy. Mr. McMillin (Tenn.), who followed Mr. Johnson, was given a round of applause by his democratic colleagues as he took the floor. His speech will ve found elsewhere in The Star. Mr. McMillin's speech was very well re- ceived by his democratic colleagues, who appiauded him frequently. Mr. Dingley challenged Mr. McMillin’s statement that the pending measure gave to the refiner of sugar a differential of more than one- eighth cent per pound. Mr. McMillin gave an claborate calculation in support of his statements, but Mr. Dingley repudiated the caiculations, contending that they were based on the supposition that 100 pounds of law sugar testing ® degrees polariscove would produce 109 pounds of refined sugar. Mr. MeMillin spoke about an hour and a half, and when he concluded was warmly congratulated Mr. Grosvenor (Ohio) was then recogniz- Tl republicans gave him a cordial re- His speech will be found in an- other column of The Star. His Bill. In the course of his remarks Mr. Gros- venor referred to Mr. McMillin'’s state- ment that Mr. McKinley had been over- whelmed with defeat after the passage of the Inll which bere his name. It was true, he said, that Mr. McKinley had been de- election, but in a gerryman- normally democrati McKinley and and all the power of 2gainst him, as David B. “then a de Hill .” on the stump, he was 400, ‘The next” y governor by a plurali fall he had cartic largest. majority presidential year. eee WHY RONAVALON LED. Conspiracy Was Isiand Discovered on the of Madagascar. PORT LUIS, Island of Mauritius, March According to advices received here from Madagascar, the exile of the Queen of Madagascas, Ronavalona III, to the Island of Reunion, was due to the discovery of a conspiracy against the life of Gen Gallieni. The inquiry intc the matter is in progress, and many*tmor~ arrests have been made. The missiofaries tre said to have been im- plicated in the plot. The silver palace was searched, and in at was found the s1 of 000 frases.’ The French officials’ also seized in the palace a number of -secret papers relative to the intervention of foreigners jy the.febellon, — GOLR_;STAYDARD JAPAN, The Bill Awalts the Signature of the te . peror, LONDON,’ March 21.—The bill adopting the gold signdard has passed the house of peers of Japan and only awaits the sig- nature of the emperor to become a law. The demasti forekold on Japanese account continues in the gparket here. steep od ens Against Discpimination in Rates. CHICAGO, March 24.—The board of trade of this city has degided to begin a eru- sade against .violaters--of the interstate ecommerce law, not only those who dis- erlminate in the givins Of rates, but also against those who accept them. At a meeting the transportation committee was authorized to begin this work and in- structed to prosecute ft diligently. Tents for Flood Sufferers. At 3 o'clock this afternoon the President signed the joint resolution’ passed by Con- gresa yesterday directing the Seoretary of War to furnish-tents 10 the Mississippi tiver ficod sufferers. Ses It matters lHttie what it is that you’want whether a situation or a servant—a “want” ad. in The Star will reach the Derecn who can fit your need. STORY OF MRS. BISCHOFF’S SACQUE. DOG OWNERS ARE MAD The Mam Who Pawned It Acquitted of Theft. Alexander 8. Groves, alias Alexander H. Gray, a respectable appearing and stylishly attired young man, was placed on trial be- fore Judge Bradley in Criminal Court No. 1 this afternoon, charged with the theft of a $300 sealskin sacque from Mrs. Mary Bisch- aff, the divorced wife of Professor John W. Bischoff, the well-known blind organ- ist, the 9th of this month. District Attor- ney Davis prosecuted the case, the de- fendant being represented by Mr. Thos. C. ‘Taylor. In stating the case to the jury, Mr, Davis sald he expected to show that the defendant was a friend of Mrs. Bischoff; that he took the sacque and pawned it, and then left the city for Norfolk, Va., where he was ar- rested upona bench warrant, after ‘ils in- dictment here. Mr. Taylor, on behalf of the defendaat, told the jury that there was no theft of the sacque; that he had been authorized to pawn it, and that he did not flee from the clty. Jchn Fowler, colored, employed by Mrs Bischoff at the time, testified that the de- fendant lived at Mrs. Bischoff's house, and that he came to the house 813 K street, about noon on the day in question. He went upstaits, and subsequently left with a large box. ‘A large box, containing the sacque, was identified as the one he saw the defendant take out of the house. The defendant, he safd, told him to say nothing to Mrs. Bischoff. 1 c Hartstall testified to the defendant pawning the sacque with him for 340 March %, giving his name as Gray and hi i: dence as S17 K street, 2 number 1 Barnes, the next witness, testified does not exist. Mr. Davis next called Mrs. Bischoff, who that the defendant ¥ in her bouse. She saw him th of March when in the custody of t Virgini and since then at her heu ‘que she vaiued at $300, and he did net discover its loss until after he ieft. Not knowing who had taken it, she requested Detectiv s to find it. She stated th the sacaue w. found she swore out a warrant a defendant at the request of the detectis To Mr. Taylor Mr “hoff admitted th if left to he i not have sworn out the wa Imitted, toc, that she had in st authorized him to pawn the an authority which she never rev 5 © insisted, however, that the ‘th of this month he took the Sacque without her issi but she explained that after he defendant returned the pawn ticket to her and that he would see her in a few rote a letter ty District Attorney Davis, stating that she had acied under a misapprehension, and that she wished to stop the prosecution of the de- fendant. She also so told Detective Barnes. Mrs. Bischoff stated to Mr. Taylor that the defendant has been living at her house for the past thre or four years, and nas been living there since his release on bail. To Mr. Davis, upon her redirect examina- tion, Mrs. Bischoff said it was the 26th of December and not the 19th of January that she authorized him to pawn the sacqui Mr. T: jor having objected to that line of testimony, Mr. Davis said: “I will be blunt in the matter. This sacque was stolea by the defendant, and not until after the inte view between him and Mrs. Bischoff wa: this alleged authority to pawn the sacque breught forward.” Mr. Davis then endeavored to show Mrs. Bischoff that the coat was taken w out her knowledge and against her censent, but mueh to the surprise of coungel of boih the government and defendant, she stated that she authorized him to pawn it two weeks before he took it. Mr. Davis then annoanesd that he bad no further testimony to offer, when Mr. Taylor asked Bradley to instruct the jury a sndant, a request Mr. Davis : anything in this replied Judge Bradl I do not think case but detective,” sharply. “There is nuthing in it but the of this detective to make a case. s told by the prosecuting witness that she did not believe that the defendant stele the coat, and that she net wish him pros There is rething in the testimony tain a verdict of guilty, and the jury will return a verdict of not guilty. Tnat the jury did, when the defendant was released from custody, Mr. Davis U not to blame in the matter. Mrs. Biseh: wore |b p the grand jury, it is. claimed by the office, that the defendant stole the garment Judge Bradley his office Diplomatic Commissions Signed. The President today signed the commis- sions of Col. Hay, ambassador to England; Gen. Porter, ambassador to France, and Mr. H. C. White, secretary of embassy a Lendon. Mr. White went over to the State Department today and qualified for his post. He is under instructions to proceed at once to London, bearing a letter to the Marquis of Salisbury, the British premier, accrediting him as charge d'affaires ad interim of the United States embassy there. The reason for the adoption of this course is that Mr. Bayard is at present traveling in the south of Europe, and Mr. Hay, his successor, will not arrive in London until early in May. It is, therefore, regarded as necessary that an experienced secretary be placed in charge of the embassy at the earliest possible moment to tide over the period until Mr. Hay’s assumption of office. Against Prize Fight Pictares, Senator Hoar of Massachusetts today in- troduced in the Senate a bill to prohibit the reproduction in the District of Colum- bia or the territories by kinetoseope or any kindred device a pugtitsiic encounter end to forbid the transportation of the mate- rials of such exhibitions by maul or inter- state commerce. ‘The bill specifies ihat the prize tight shall not be reproduced by means of the ph, vilascope, kineto- scope or any kindred device or machine. The violation of the provisions is made a misdemeanor subject to a fine of not le: than $50) nor more than A Degree for Capt. Lemly. Captain Sam C. Lemly, judge advosate general of the navy, has gone to Pittsburg to receive the honorary degree of doctor of laws from the Western University of Pennsylvania, which is to be conferred upon him in recognition of the high order of professional attainments he has shown in the discharge of the legal duties of bis place. = Making a Search, Inspired by the offer of a reward of $800 the local police today began a wide awake lookout for the regro man who assaulted Mrs. Mary I. Godwin, Friday, February 19, last at De Corse’s, or Baker's branch, Kent county, Md. The governor of Mary- land .will pay $500 of the amount men- tioned, and the commissioners cf Kent county $300, for the arrest and conviction of the man. Mrs. Godwin describes her assailant as a copper-colored individual, not as bright as a mulatto, about five feet ten inches tall, and seemed to be strongly built, Ile had no beard, unless it was a slight mustache. He wore a blue and white striped shirt,and had a gruff voice. The assailant is sup- posed to be Samuel Schotield. a Se A Place for Gen. Curtis. It is now said that Gen. Curtis of New York, instead of being made assistant sec- retary of war, is to be appointed the civil- fan member of the board of ordnance and fortifications, the compensation of which is $5,000 a year and traveling expenses. The place is now held by ex-Representative Outhwaite of Ohio, whose term does not expire for two years yet. He was appoint- ed by President Cleveland, and may, or may not, be allowed to fill cut his term. Sa ES Government Receipts. National bank notes received today for redemption, $296,544. Government receipts from internal revenue, $265,872; customs, $265,341; miscellaneous, $5,274. —_—__-2-____—_ To Purchase a Steam Launch. Representative Russell of Connecticut to- day introduced a bill to authorize the pur- chase of a steam launch for use in the customs collection district of ‘New London, Conn., the cost of which shall not exceed ‘$3,000, ——_—_—_—_~o-+__ ~The Yorktown. The cruiser Yorktown ‘has sailed from Chinkiang for Wuhu. - Over a Reoemt Order Made by the Health Officer. To Impound All Dogs Without Tags— Receipts for Dog Taxes Not te Be Considered. According to an order just issued by Health Officer Woodward all dogs running at large without a tag shall be taken up, and before the same are released a fee of $2 must be paid, without respect to the Pessession of a license receipt showing that the license fee had already been paid. This order has called out considerable pro- test from dog owners. Several cases have been brought to the attention of the Commissioners, Yesterday an old colored woman appeared before Commissioner Ross and burst out crying because her dog had been taken up by the poundmaster, and was to be put to death unless she paid a tine of #2. She explained that she had already paid the license fee and in proof exhibited a receipt from the collector of taxes certifying there- to. Commissioner Ross sent for the health officer and inquired into the matter, and meanwhile ordered a stay of execution. It seems the health officer has resur: the old law of 1 referring to the k and licensing of dogs, the paragraph revat- ig to the order in question read: WS: ‘The poundmaster of the Di: lumbia shall during the ent year seize running at large without the tax issued by the collector afor , and shall impound the sam within forty-eight hours, the same a: pemed by the owners thereof by the nt of two dollars the pall be so! royed, ndmaster may (i m advisable, and any sales made by vir hereof shall be deemed valid to all- intents and pur the courts of the Dis- trict of Heretofore it has been the policy of the pourdmaster to take up all dogs found running at large without a tag, but they were promptly released when the own at the pound and exhibited the int. The poundmaster argued unjust to compel an owner w already paid the licens again. This has been the since the passage of the law. This morning an owner of a dog that had been caught appeared at the health office and asked for an order releasing his prop- erty. He exhibited a license receipt sho’ ing the deg was legally lcensed, but the health officer refused to release the dog. Thereupon the owner became angry and warned him not to destroy his property or he would sue him. He added further that he was not going to pay anything for the release of his dog. A sufferer by reason of the order this afternoon said: This order is preposterous. officer has resurrected that old law, whi by a fair interpretation, means just the 7 verse of what he has ordered. He had bet- ter by far be attending to the filthy alleys and poor garbage service of the There is no justice, no equity, in che order, and I cannot understand how the Commission could permit such a farce to be ena tax to pay it custom ever The health h, Why, take my ca: I paid my fee of $2 and securely fi dog's neck. Several days ago the tag was lost or stolen, and a day or so afterward my dog was taken up. I we the pound and found him th the receipt for the tag, that 1 would have to se adding, ment of s make courts. There such a proc is ding, AMERI > TAN REPUBLICS, of the Exceutive Board the Bureau. Meeting on The executive board of the bure uot American republics met at the State De- | partment this afternoon to con: the | question of the appointment of a director of the bureau, vice Mr. Furbish, re: by request. The meeting was a lung one adjourned up to 3 o'clock The tion at issue is whether the c confirm the nomination of Ohio, made by Secretary She tioned on his having the neces cations, or whether the appointment shall be thrown open to general competition. It is said that some of the members of the committee favor the selection of Dr. Rodriguez, now attached to the bureau, for the olfice of director. No effort is beng made for the retention of Mr. Furbish. main ques- nittee will Sinith of an, conudi- ary qualif TS ES GREATER NEW YORK CHARTER. No. Amendments Will Be Adopted by the State Senate. ALBANY, N. Y., March 24.—The Greater New York charter oill which passed house yesterday was taken up in the sen- ate today, sitting as committee of the whole. It will probably be advanced to third reading before the senate adjourns. No amendments will be adopted. The Famous Blythe Cane. The way for the famous Blythe will case to reach the United States Supreme Court was opened today by the action of Justice Field in allowing a writ of error directed to the supreme court of California bringing the case to this court. The case involves the estate of the late Thomas H. Blythe of California, amounting to about $4,000,000, He died without a will and his daugyter, Florence Blythe Hingley, made clain. to the property as the only heir. Her claims were contested, but were finally sustained by the state courts and the property turi ed over to Mrs. Hinkley. Her contestan ask to bring the case into the Unite Supreme Court en the ground that she is an alien and that federal and not state au- thority is necessary to adjust her rights. No stay of proceedings was granted as usual In such cases because the property had already been passed to Mrs. Hinkley. The petition for the writ is in the name of H. T. Biythe, and was presented by Mr. Jeff Chandler. ———— Grain and Cotton Markets. Furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co., bankers and brokers, 1427 F st., members New York stock exchange, correspondents Messrs. Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., New York. [recent expe FINANCE AND TRADE The Anti-Trust Law Charged With Decline in Values. ADVICES FROM RAILWAY OFFICIALS Bad Effect of the Floods in the West. GENERAL MARKET REPORTS Special Dispatch to ‘The Evening Star. NEW YORK, March 24.—The faltering tendency so conspicuous in the stock mar- ket during the last two days gave way to decided weakness this morning. Liquida- tion of both speculative and investment holdings was especially noticeable during the active periods. The opening level re- flected concessions varying from \ to 1 per cent, and from this point the line ex- tended to more substaatlal prop The granger shares were almost wholly lacking in support, 2 per cent leclines be ing recorded without significant oppost- tion. The Industrial shares were co spondingly weak under determine pres- sure The resurrection of the Shermaa anti- trust law long after its supposed death is credited with the responsthility for the setback in what mised to ve a uoyant market That Monday's decision is filled with six- nifican “by thor famil thoug? airs t of vials in the in the determinatic without question sage of a pool The necessity for s creased two-fold since the week, but the pr have not changed m: In view of the almost general admission of the serious consequences of the revival of what the corporations regarded as a for- gctten law, and the extreme doubt as t the passage of a pooling bill, it is not un natural that today’s decline should have occurred. It is possible, however, that the de has been made a natural weakn the full extent west ‘iston. pegoat to cover up the of a market advanced to % power. The public has come into the situa. tion only so far as geod management and attractive funding sc mes have pry ad an atiray The whi room operations. now the incentive t establis a more accurate reflection of actual tions ard should do more to exten market along national lines than any of the pas ft a ta undertaking once outs’ brought to bear upon it is consideraty he pe: turps bill in many profitable before the pending mies rains and floods in he general react! ome ances have vy the we during shor the covering of Ny all of the suy In > contracts, be note eing superio in the tx was in ed and traders n oper wit NANCIAL AND MMERCIAL, The following the opentng, the highest and the lowest and the closing prices of New York stock market tode: by Corson & Macartney, York steck exci.2nge. ' Correspondent Messrs. Mcore & Schiry, No. 89 Broadway Open. High. Low. Close. American Spirits... 12-2412 TB American Spirits, pta Bt B15, Big BL American Sugar...°° V2 MB” IN Liat American Sugar, pid... Wai vay laa 12g American Tobacco . Wy 55 American Cotton@il ia 1336 Bay State Gas... .- 10% Canada Southern. 45 Chesapeake & Ohio. C..C.€, & St. Lous. &Q ortnwestern. i Paul... M. & >t. Paul, pta icagy, RL. & Paci Chicago, St. Paul, Consolidated Gas Del.. Lack. & W Delaware & Hudson. Den. & Rio Grande, pfd TGR: General Etectric Mlinots Central Lake Shore poittan ‘Traction... Mahattan Elevated... - Michigan Central...) Missouri Pac : Nationa! Lead Co. National Lead Co., pi New Jersey Central Dew York Norihern Pacitte, pid & Western. Pacific Mai 5 Phila. & Reading. Puliman FP. ©. Co Southern Ry., pid U.s. Leather, Wabash, pfd Western U nic Silver. = 10 at Sy; of Columbia Bonds. 20-year Fi 30-year Fund. gold ts, eucy 7s, 1y0l, 111 bid. lone. rency 7s, 1903, 111% bid. Fund. oe, ol hg ey lw bid, 112 asked. 1% 42 1% Tin Misceilancous Fonds.—Metropolitan Railroad 5s, Dat 245 2am ert 120 bid, 112 asked. Metropolitan Kathrond. . Be Sass, 250%, Be 6s, 112" pid. Metropolitan Itaiiroad ay ing “a7 Indebtedness, 113 Md, 116 asked. Belt Railroad 3s, ‘Sst iste 18 62 bid, sv asked. Eckington Railroad 6s, 82 bid, 870 8. 865 BT 92 ask, Columbia Railroad ts, 117 bid. 852 890 875 Soo | ington Gas Company, ser. A, Gs, 114 bid) Wash- 4200 4:25 420 425 | ington Gas Company, ser. By 6s, 115 bid. Chena- 432 435 430 435 peake aud Potomac Telephone Ss, 101 bid. Ameri- tes L280 ESB bean Security’ and Truxt Ss, F. and A. tl tid. 470 472 465 472 American 5 rity nad Trust 5s, and ©, 101 COTTON. | = ™ 4 wlmwnge es Market Rong Ist Gs, 105 bid. a Vashington jarket Compas 6s, 108 bid, i 4 Goss. | Washington Market Company. exten, ‘Gx. 105 bid. 2 FO TOD ESS TRB | Masonte tan Assoctation 5s, 104 bid. "Washi ygton = "4 " r Light Infantry ist 9 bid 1 06 706 696 698 (oie ee 2 + 710 710 7.00 7.02 | a 280 asked. Bank of ‘Repub 210 _—— Sy oe a 3 4 utral, bid. Farmers lecuanics’, 4 bid, aoe i asked. Second, 133 bid. Citizens’, 115 bid oRALTIMORE, (Ma. March 24. Flour dull. un- | lumpia. 133. tid. Capital, ‘Tis 130 hanged—receipts, 7,808 barrels; exports, 315 bar- | West End, 196% bid. 110 naked, 5s rels; sales, 900 barrels. Wheat dull and easy spot, “4 a 900 . S64 asked: May. 79% asked—receipts, 9,249 bush els: exports, 20,000 bushels; stock, 593,876 bushels 100 asked. Lincoln,’ 102 bid, 104 asked. bid, 100 asked. ‘Safe Deposit and Trust Com r southern wheat sample, S7aS8. Corn steady — Deposit and Trust, 114 bid, 1147 Sag sind mom, Tae: Ari, Br iaBS May. 28x | tom Loan and Trust, vay bid ey : June, 3" July. steamer | can Sectrity and ‘Trus! Vasiingt mixed, “25%{—receipts, "335,513 bushels: exports, 33. bid. eo 161,39 ‘bushels; stock, 1,052,374 bushels: males, Miroad Stocks. Capital Traction Company, *52 40.600 bushels—southern white corm, 25\029; do. | bid, 54 asked. Metropolitan, 108 Ud. lose anes low, 2734028. Oats firm—No. 2 white, 25ia26; | Columbia, 51 bid. = 2 No. 2 ‘mixed, 22%4023—ree 11,533 bushels; ex: , none; moe 13,912 bushels Ree steady \ 402401; ‘western, —recel, iii Ei tl 44 bid, 45 asked. Georgeti States’ Electric “87 Ut tes Light, Ad, Gas and Electric Light Stocks.—Washington own Gas, 43 bide Catal Sty axked — —Firemen’s, f bid, 36 asked. Gi 33 Met litan, 68 bid. or -oran, freights 2 , unchanged. Sugar and | 53 Potomac, 67 bid. Arlt 13 bid, 100 batter “arm, unchanged ‘weak, asked. German-American, 186 > : : ay unchanged. Jn, 5 Nationa