Evening Star Newspaper, May 14, 1897, Page 1

—_ THE EVENING STAR. SS Se PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Penney!van's Avezue, Cor. 11th &t., by ‘The Star Jewapaper Company, 8. B. KAUFMANN, Pres't. Few York Offce, 49 Petter Euildizg. The Evening Star ts served to subscribers in the city by carriers, on thelr own account. at 10 cents = week, or 44 cents per wouth. Copies at the ee Star. No. 13,791. WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1897-SEXTEEN PAGES. TWO CENTS. The regular permanent family circulation of The Evering Star is more than double that of any other paper in Washington, whether published in the morn- ing or in the afternoon. As a medium for unobjec- tionable advertisements it there- fore stands unequaled and un- approachable. ounter 2 cents each. By mai here in the turday Quintupie Shect Star, $1 per year, with cless wall matter.) United States or Cauada—postaze prepaid—5O cents = oot ibtleced at the Post Ofce at Wash'agtoo, D. TP All wail subseriptions must be paid in advance. Rates of ertising made known on application. The President Not Satisfied With the Senate Measure. HAS HO IDEA THAT If WILL PASS Spee Would Veto the Sugar Schedule if It Should Go Through. CONFIDENCE IN THE RESULY Numerors statements have been made throughout the -ountry about the positioa of the President on the tariff bil as turned committee. These state- conflicting and leave in h doubt what he really thinks. muc! Information which is beyond dispute is that the President is far frem satisfied with the Senate bill. He was much better pleased with the House bill, which is thougct to have been drawn in some part according to his informally expressed de- sires. The President has no idea that the Senate bill will pess Congress and is confident of it that he is not in the least disturbed at the possibility of having to oficiaily give it his disapproval. ‘The President is opposed to the bill in general, not that he finds something to cempiain of in every feature, but that in the main It fs unsatisfactory. He is under- stcod to regard the sugar schedule with Geepest disapproval. If the bill should go through Congress with that schedule he would veto it. The President has not talked to many congressmen on the subject of the bill. He has net considered it necessary to freely give his opinion. He has confidence that the bill as it stands will not get through, and that is sufficient for him. It is doub €d if he has talked about the bill to ov, twenty congressmen. The vast majority of republican leaders who go to the White House are consulted on offices and their opinion on the tariff bill is not asked. SSE CES GES / FORSYTH RETIRED. Vacancy Created in the List of Major Generals. Gen. James W. Forsyth was confirmed by the Senate yesterday as major general of the army, vice Gen. Wheaton, retired for age. Today he was himself placed on the retired Hst of the army on his own ap- Diication, under the forty years’ service ciause. The vacancy thus created is to be filled by the nomination next week of Brig. Gen. Z. R. Bliss, commanding the Depart- ment of Texas, with the understanding that he will also apply for retirement under the forty years’ service clause immediately following his confirmation as major gen- eral. It is possible that the same course w: be followed in the case of Brig. Gen. E. 8. Gus, commanding the Department of th Columbia, but there is some doubt on this poin:. He is eligible for retirement, like the other two, under the service clause, and is in the same category in all essential re- spects, The next and final move in this transae- contemplates the promotion of Gen. R. Brooke, commanding the department ef the Missouri, to the grade of major gen- eral, and nis retention jn active service in that capacity yatil his-retirement for age in 1901. Gens.. Forsyth, Bliss and Otis are merely promoted in. order to-enable them to retire with the higher rank, which car- ries with it about $1,400 a year more com- pensation than they would otherwise re- ceive. Their promotion and _ retirement makes three vacancies in the list of briga- dier generals, to be filled by selection from the colonels of the line, and these appoint- ments will im turn make the same number ef promotions in each grade of the line down to second lieutenants. Gen. Forsyth’s retirement vacates the command of the department of the Call- fornia, at San Francisco. Telegrapnic orders were today sent to Gen. Shafter, who has just been promoted a brigadier general, to take command of that depart- ment until a permanent assignment sha| have Been made. Gen. Shafter was under erders to take command of the department of the Columbia, at Vancouver, but these orders have been temporarily ‘suspended, and Col. Anderson of the infantry, the senior officer in that department, wili con- tinue in command for the time being. eee PRINCIPAL EXAMINERS. NEW Changes in the Patent and Pension Offices. The following official charges have been made In the Department of the Interior: Patent office. Resignation—Eugene M. principal examiner, $2,500). Josiah MeRoberts of Illinois, 1 examiner, $2,500, from first assist- aminer, $1,800; Thomas C. Tipson of Nebraska, first assistant examiner, $1,800, from fourth assistant examiner, $1,200; John B. Davis of District of Columbia, fou assistant examiner, $1,200, from » $00 sion office. Promotions—John H. Ben- ton of District of Columbia, principal ex- from assistant chief of di- James A. Compton of Ohio, al miner, $2,000, from clerk, $1,s William Hatton of New Jersey, cl@rk, $1,500, from $1,600; Lew! Williams ef New Jersey, clerk, $1,600, from $1,200), Miss Ada B. Klum of Indiana, clerk, $1,600, from $1,400; Fletcher White of Ohio, Samuel M. Arnell, jr., of Tennessee and Mi- chael E. Jenks of Pennsylvania, clerks, ; Leonard Bradiey of New ‘an Dusen of New York and walt of Indiana, clerks, ial examiners, $1,300; Will- clerk, $1,000, from copyist, $0. Mr. Harmon is a brother of ex-Attorney General Harmon. Mr. Tipton, who has been promoted to be first a nt examiner, formerly occupied that position, and ts regarded as one of the best informed and most able paten yers of the office. He is an ex-Union soldier, nia fine record for se and during last administration reduced. sou of ex-Senator Tipton of Nebraska, has been in the patent office for many : McRoberts, promoted to be princi- pal examiner, has been acting in that ca- pacity for several years, thoush receiving the salary of a first assistant examiner. Se TERAN GOES BACK. ement of Chidrles L. Patton the War Departm the recommendation of Col. Ains- the record and pension office of the War Department, Secretary Alger as directed the reinstatement of Charies L. Patton to a’ $1,000 clerkship in thst office. Mr. Patton is a veteran of the war, with a good record, and lost his place. in the heavy discharge of a year ago. The existence of a vacancy im the class Indi- eeted permitte? his appointment without necessitating any change in the force of the cffice. There are four more cases of this kind, which, it is expected, Secretary Alger will act upon favorably in a few @ays. The main difficulty in the reinstate- ment of veteraus is that each case usualiy necessitates the removal of another clerk or his reduction in salary. On werth, chief of SENTENCED TO DISMISSAL Findings in the Court-Martial of Captain Romeyn. Papers in the Case Reached the War Department Todsy—President May Exercise Clemency. ‘The record of the court-martial in the case of Capt. Henry.Romeyn, 5th Cavalry, who was recently tried at Fort McPherson, Ga., on charges founded on a personal as- sault upon Lieut. M. J. O’Brien of his regiment, reached the War Department to- Gay from Gen. Merritt at New York. _ ‘The fact that Gen. Merritt found it neces- sary to send the papers to Washington Is an indication that the court has sentenced Capt. Romeyn to dismissal from the army. In fact, it is said at the department that if he was found guilty of the one charge of conduct unbecom:ng an officer and a gen- tleman the court had no recourse in the matter, the sentence being prescrived in the regulations as dismissal. The papers are now in the nands of Judge Advocate General Lieber, who ts charged with a careful scrutiny of all of the recorded proceedings to ascertain their regularity. If this is found to be the case they will go to the President for his ac- tion, for it will require his approval of the ‘proceedings of the court before Capt. Romeyn can be dismissed. The officer would have been retired June 1 jn the nat- vral order of things, and it may be that in view of that fact and his war record clem- ency will be extended to him by ihe Presi- dent. It 1s understood that the court recom- mended clemency, but that the vote to that effect was not unanimous, but a bare majority. It is said that Capt. Romeyn’s charges against Lieut. O’Brien contained about twenty counts—some of them of a very serious nature—and that on a brief and surface investigation there appeared to be a sufficient amount of corroboratory evidence to justify the submission of the case to a court-martial. But, in view of the notoriety that had been given to the Romeyn trial and the scandal occasioned thereby, Gen. Merritt decided not to wash ary more of the army’s soiled linen in public, and he refused to order a court for the trial of Capt. Romeyn’s accuser. - GONE TO PHILADELPHIA. Departure of the President, With Most of the Cabinet. President McKinley, Vice President Ho- bart and the members of the cabinet, with the exception of Secretaries Sherman and Long, left Washington at 12:45 afclock to- day over the Pennsyivania railroad for Philadelphia to attend the exercises in con- nection with the dedication of the Wash- irgton monument in Fairmount Park to- morrow. Representative Grosvenor of Ohio, Representative Bailey of Texas und Sécre- tary Porter accompanied them. Mrs. Mc- Kinley did not go, and the cabinet mem- bers were not accompanied by their wives. The private car of President Thomson of the Pennsylvania road was again at the disposal of the President and was occupied by him. Vice President Hobart and the members of the cabinet went in the private car of Vice President Pugh of the Pennsyl- vania. The party was in charge of Assist- ane General Passenger Agent Boyd. The President and a portion of the members of the cabinet will be the guests of the Wal- ton Hotel, while the Vice President and the other cabinet officers will be at the Continental. ‘They will attend”a reception given by the Union League. Club tonight. After the ceremonies tomorrow, at which Mr. McKinley will make a brief addre: the party will return to Washington, lea ing Philadelphia at 9 o'clock in the even- ing. AT THE WHITE HOUSE. Ex-Secretary Herbert and Recorder Cheatham Among the Callers. Ex-Sécretary of the Navy Herbert paid his respects to President McKinley this mornii This was his first call. Ex-Representative Cheatham, the new re- corder of deeds of the District, called upon the President to thank him for his appoint- ment Representative Hicks of -Pennslyvania visited the White House with John W. Blake of Altoona, known as “the black- smith orator.” Mr. Hicks will see the President next week and present Mr. Blake's name for a position. ———e MARBLEHEAD AT PUERTO CORTEZ. lees as to the Whereabouts of Other Vessels of the Navy. ‘The Secretary of the Navy has received a cable message from Commander Elmer, commanding the cruiser Marblehead, an- nouncing the arrival of that vessel at Puerto Cortez, Honduras, yesterday in obedience to orders from the Navy Depart- ment. The dispatch said nothing in re- gard to the condition of affairs, so it is assumed that it is not specially serious. The Marblekead was sent from Key West early this week for Honduras, while the revolution was in progress, for the pro- tection of American interests. Since her departure, Corsul Little at Tegucigalpa cabled the State Department that the re- voit in Honduras was at an end, and Senor Rodiguez, the minister of the Greater Re- public of Central America, has also ad- vised the Secretary of State to the same effect. No official Information has been recelved touching the reported death of Commercial Agent Alger at Puerto Cortez, or of the alleged firing upon an American merchant vessel near that port. The gunboat Wilmington was placed in commission at the Norfolk navy yard yes- terday. Ad A telegram was received at the Navy De- partment today announcing the arrival at Bermuda of the cruiser Detroit, on her way home from China by way of the Suez canal. ee STOPPED WORK. Strike of Workmen Employed at New , City Post Office. Fourteen colored laborers employed by the Philadelphia Steam Heating Company in excavating for the heating machinery of the new city post office went on strike this morning. Subsequently three of the strik- ers returned and asked to be re-employed and were taken back, but will not be put, to work until Monday, as their services will not, it is said, be needed until that time. The excavating ‘force, according to the who has charge of the work, consists of thirty-three statement of Foreman Kinsey, men, most of whom were working for $1 per day. cemanded of Mr. Kinsey. About 9 o'clock this morning fourteen of them decided that in future they ought to receive $1.25 per day, and so He refused to Z salaries are in excess of $1,400 per annum {atble SENTENCE T0-BEGIN Mr. Chapman Will Go to Jail on Monday. NO ESPECIAL PRIVILEGES ALLOWED Will Have a Double Cell and-See Visitors in Corridor. * THE OTHER TRIALS oe Mr. Elverton R. Chapman, convicted January 18, 1896, in the District Criminal Court of refusing to answer certain ques- tiens asked him by the Senate sugar trust investigating committee, and sentenced by Judge Cole to pay a fine of $100 and be impriscaed one month in the District jail, will surrender himself to Marshal Wilson at 3 o'clock next Monday afternoon, pre- pared to submit to the enforcement of the Sentence. Mr. Chapman is expected to reach this city some time tomorrow, but by an agres- ment made today between District Attorney Davis and Mr. Jere M. W'Ison of Mr. Chapman's counsel he will not enter upon his term of imprisorment unttl Monday afternoon. Mr. Davis tcday informed Mr. Wiison, in reply to the latter's inquiries, that he would not object to Mr. Chapman surrendering himself to tae marshal at 3 instead of 10 o'clock Monday, and Mr. Wil- sor then assured Mr. Davis that the con- vieted man will faithfully obey the agree- ment made today. To Serve His Term. Mr. Davis stated to a Star reporter this afternoon that he has secured from the United States Supreme Court the required commitment papers, and has placed them in Marshal Wilson’s hands, so that when Mr. Chapman surrenders himself Monday afternoon there will be no delay whatever in his transfer to the custody of Warden Lecnard of the District jail. So, within an hour or so after his surrender, Mr. Chapman will have entered upon his term of imprisonment. Mr. Davis is of the opinion that Mr. Chapman will serve out his term, uot an- ticipating favorable action by the Presi- dent upon his proposed application for par- don. Mr. Davis positively refused to state what recommendation, if any, he would make, should the application for pardon be referred to him; but it is generally believed that he would recommend that the applica- tion be denied. There is Mttle doubt that ex-District Attorney A. A. Birney, who prosecuted Mr. Chapman, would also rec- ommend a rejection of the application, should it be referred to him. At the Jail.” ics Warden Leonard told a Star reporter this afternoon that he has not and will net make any unusual preparations for the re- ception and iacarceration of Mr. Chap- man. Mr. Chapman, said the warden, will be received and treated like every other priscrer, and will be granted only such privileges as are not inconsistent with the rules cf the prison. He will be given one of tke double cells in the south wing of the jail, and will be permitted to furnish tt with everything to make it as ‘comfort- able as possible. These double cells are 8 by 10 feet, with a ten-foot ceiling. The single door is a narrow one of open iron work, and the one window, narrow and heavily barred, opens out-on a wide ‘corridor. The cells ‘are at the end of the three tiers of the wing, two on each iter, facing, respectively, east and west. The south wing of the prison is used for the confinement of prisonera awaiting trial for serious offenses as well as for those awaiting execution or trins- portation to the penitentiary. Such will, therefore, be Mr. Chapman's immediate fellow prisoners. Warden Leonard will, of course, allow Mr. Chapman to engage his own cook or have his meals prepared outside and sent into. him, as he may prefer. The rules of the prison, said the warden, do not allow the use of hquor by prison2rs unless for medicinal purposes, and it is more than probable that if Mr. Chapman wishes to indulge in them he wilt have to ennvince the warden that his health, or rather his ll health, requires their use. Mr. Chapman will be permitted to re- ceive visitors in the rotunda of the prison, but, as there is no ticker or special wire in the jail, he will have to depend on the tele- phone for market reports. Under the rules of the prison he will receive a deduction of five days for good behavior while in- carcerated, and, if not sooner pardoned, will have to serve but twenty-five days, a month being reckoned at thirty days. After he once enters the prison Mr. Chap- man will not be allowed to leave it even for an hour until his time shall expire or he is pardoned, except by an express order of the Criminal Court. istrict Attorney Davis said today that he is fully prepared to proceed Monday with the trial of President Henry O. Have- meyer of thé American Sugar Refining Company. He says that he can compiete the government's case in half an hour. He anticipates a request by Havemeyer’s coun- sel for a postponement, but is confident that Judge Bradley will require an un- usually strong reason to be advanced be- fere he will grant a postponement. If one is permitted Mr. Davis believes it will be but for a few days. Mr. Nathaniel Wilson, of counsel for Mr. Havemeyer and Mr. Searles, denied today that they visited Baltimore yesterday for the purpose of consulting with their at- torneys. Mr. Wilson declined to discuss the cases against his clients. ————— MAIL BAG REPAIR SHOP. Report of the Investigating Com- mittee Being Prepared. ‘The investigation into various charges of frregularities in the mail bag repair shop has been closed, and the committee is pre- paring its report, which will shortly be submitted to Second Assistant Postmaster General Shallenberger. While this investi gation was ordered largely because of per- gonal charges made, the scope of the in- vestigation has been extended so as to in- clude every feature of the conduct of the office. The question of material of which mail bags should be mace has been con- sidered in view of the cpinions of large numbers of experts who have been before the committee, so that the greatest econo- my might be secured in the adnunistration of the department. ——-o-______ SERVICE IN THE FIELD. Clerks With Over $1,400 Salary Will Not Be Sent Out. Ccmmissioner of Pensions Evans today issued the following order to chief of divi- sions in his bureau: “Hereafter details for fleld service will not be made of clerks receiving a salary in excess of $1,400 per annum.” will gradually be called in, and any one. ~who desires to continue will Ly THE POSTAL CONGRESS Committee Work Gexftintes on Propositions : That Have Béga ‘Bubniitted. An Excursion te Mount Yernon and Trip to Pert -Mosree. ee - The questions: relating td! postal parcels Were gone over today by the commission of the postal congress. having it under consideration, but. no -defizite. understan:d- ing-had been reachéd-at the hour the mid- day recess was taken. The delegates are visiting Mount Vernon an@. Marshall Hall this afternoon, having gene down at 3 o'clock on the steamer River Queen. After being shown the home and burial place of Washington they witl be given a planked shad ditrer at Marshall. Hall. The proposition tg, secure a universal Postage stamp hes been defeated, as in- dicated heretofore in’‘The Star, on account of the complications of accounts between nations that would necessarily result from {ts adoption. There was ‘no apparent pos- sibility of arranging an equitabieisystem of exchange. The English delegates hay attempt made, unsuccessftitly, five years ago at the Vienna cx $0,secure more yetes than they now cast.At Vienna the English claimed that the ¥oting privilege should be extended t0:delégates from each of the colonies in Adstralasia. This was refused, and but one Fote wes given to all the colonies in the. Pacifi The endeavor. is“now Eolas aeade to give the colonies in South Africa: that vicin- ity a consolidated vote, but this extension of power in the affairs of the postal union 1s antagonized by a re tatives of the other great powers, which are not as prolific in. outlying dépendencies as Great Britain, as well as by: the delegates from the less important: nations. It will proba- bly be defeated as the similar effort was at Vienna. Lier The feasibility of Zmaking post offices agencies for the collction of money, as s for its disburse- they are now age: ment, was under discussion, and the adop- tion of a plan by whieh persons subscribing for newspapers printgé-at-a distance may pay their subscriptio! Jat. their qwn post Offices will be considered tomorrow. ‘The delegates will be givén-ar excursion te Fortress Monroe by way of Baltimore Friday, May 21. They will bg taken thence as the guests of a-eteam! company to Old Point Comfort, ‘end ‘wpend the night there at the Hotel Chamberlin. The arrangements for tie len party at Mrs. Brice’s tomorrow afterncon are said to be upon the scale for which the Brices have been famous ever wince their appearence as entertainers, a the occa. sion is expected to afford the legates cn enviable oppartunity to: ju the lavish character of the hospitality wittch Ameri- C&M society extends to digtin guished for- t tenewed the eignérs, , TOBE AdSistaNT SBORETaRY, Frank A. Yandériip to Bp §enociated With Secretary Snake ‘The President today signed nomina- tion of Mr. Frank A. Vandetlig-of Illinois to be assistant sectptar} of the treasury, vice Mr. Scott Wie of Uftnoig, resigned, and it will go te the Senate when that body reconvenes next Monday. This appoint- ment was predicted in these columns sev- eral days ago, so that \t was not entirely unexpected. «. ;- Pe d Aseistant Secretary Wike, the democratic incumbent, tendered Ais resignation soon after the thhfige’of administration, but has continued on duty at the Treasury Depart- ment at the requestxof Secretary Gage, petiding the selection af his suctessor. Mr. Vanderlip now filis the office: of. pri- vate secretary to Seeretary Gage. Al- though his service in this city has been brief, it has been long enough to stamp him as a most efficient/offger. The duties he has been called on to pefform were of a delicate. and. most trying: character. Among newspaper men in particular he bears the reputation of being the best pri- vate secretary in official life for many years .past. His. populerity was attested today by the number gnd eharacter of the people who called to congratulate him, and by ie floral testimonials that covered his desk. z Born at Aurora, Ill,,. in 1864, Aesistant Secretary Vanderlip is, now in his thirty- second year. He was raised in the country and calls himself e. farm bey. He attended the public schools in Avrera and Oswego, Ill, and finished hts“education at the Uni- versity of Illinois.an@ the University of Chicago. At tkese institutions he made a specialty of finance and palitical economy, which have slways’ beep his favorite studies. Later in lifé’he made two trips to Europe, in which be adfed to his gel eral stare of knowledge of those subject In 1888 he obtained employment as reporter on the Chicago Tritime, and socn there- after was made its’ cial editor. He served inthis position eight years, and then became amsacia' a ‘the publi- was re- pelitie During the last ten ye Venderlip has been~e h finance and political ¢co: In his new office ha will” adviser of the Secretary, tribution of the duties of ant secretaries Mr. Van special cherge of the Unit the bureau of ettecaying divisions of public on and. warrants, loang ‘ahd mails and files. a new duties as soon as the Senate. His successor ry has not yet been deokded epee. ' A Vessel to Take. Foed to India, Secretary Long expects: Ang! it Secre- tary Roosevelt, who {x 3 New York PORTE ASKS FOR TIME |JERSEY Licy IS NOW FREE Will Reply to the Note of the Powers After Sunday. MEANTIME THE TURKS ARE ADVANCING Greek Deserters Report Domokos Almost Deserted by Hellenes. RUSSIA PLAYS DIPLOMACY a CONSTANTINOPLE, May 14.—The Turk- ish government, in its reply to the note of the ambassadors of the powers, offering mediation, between Turkey. and Greece. says the sultan will be in a position to dis- cuss mediation after the greater Bairam festival, which began yesterday and ends Sunday night. Tarks Preparing for an Attack. ATHENS, May 14.—Advices received to- day from the headquarters of the Greek army at Domokos announce that the Turk- ish forces are executing movements which are believed to foreshadow 4n attack upon the Greek positions. It is reported that the Turkish left wing has evacuated Almyros and is moving to- ward Pharsalos, to the right rear of that place, and it is further stated that Gen. Smolenski, commanding the Greek right wing, has reoccupied Almyros, and has restored telegraphic communication with the Greek headquarters. Unless the rear- ward mevement of the Turks is the result of the action of the powers, it 1s believed to indicate that the Turkish commander- in-chief, Edhem Pasha, is again concen- trating his troops, preparatory to making a general attack upon the main Greek stronghold. Tarks May Keep Thessaly. ST. PETERSBURG, May 14.—The im- Portant semi-official announcement was made today that in well-informed Russian quarters (evidently the foreign office here) the belief prevails that it will be difficult, if not impossible, to prevent the forces of the sultan of Turkey from continuing the occupation of Thessaly after peace be- tween Turkey and Greece shall have been concluded. This declaration may possibly be only put forward as a feeler, leading up to m later intimation that Russia may not be opposed to the permanent annexation of Thessaly to the Turkish empire. Turks Near Domokon. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 14.—Official dispatches reeelved here from Larissa, )dated yesterday, say that the Turkish divisions which are marching upon Do- mokos, the Greek headquarters, have oc- cupled the villages of Hadjiomar (Hadzi Amar), Bekriler, Karajar, Pounar and Var- dali. Vardali is only about five and one- half miles north of Domokos, and Bekriler 1s situated about seven and one-half miles north of Dortiokos, and a little to the west- ward of Vardali. Consequently today the Turkish forces should now be *before Do- mokos. Eleven Greek sailing vessels, which, with their crews, have been captured by Turkish war vessels, have been brought into the Dardanelles. Headquarters of the Turkish Army in “Thessaly, Pharsalos, May 13 (delayed in tvansmizsion).—The concentration of Turk- ish troops at Trikhais and Kalamabaka, northwest of Trikhala, to which places fourteen battalions are marching, is in- tended to baffie a possible revival of in- surgent incursions into Maeedonia. Deserters from the Greek camp at Do- mckos. who have reached here say that there are only three regiments of Greek troops and two field picces at Domokos. If this is true it will appear that only the Greek advance guard remains at Domokos and that the main body has retreated on Lamie and possibly on Thermopylae. Greeks Capture Nikopol! PARIS, May 14.—A dispatch from Athens this mcrning announces that the Greeks have captured Nikopolis, the site of the Turkish fortress on the peninsula upon which Prevesa is situated. Eighty Turks were killed in the engagement. The Greek troops, the dispatch adds, have reoccupied Suloura without opposi- tion. Germany Urges Moderation. PARIS, May 14.—It is believed here there is no doubt Germany is urging moderation upon the Sulten of Turkey. The powers, it is scmi-officially intimated, do not intend to press Greece to surrender her ficet as payment of the war indemnity whieh Tur- key will probably demand. Greece, in this respect, will be allowed full libert, The powers are trying to make arrangements to enable Greece to mevt the demands of Turkey without Injury to the previous creditors of Greece. —_————_ NEW PLEA FOR DURRANT. Confesses That He Killed Blanche Lament. SAN FRANCISCO, May 14.—Theodore Durrant, through his attorneys, will ask Gov. Budd today to pardon him, on the ground that the real murderer of Blanche Lamont has at last confessed his crime. The lawyers declare that they have not been hoaxed, nor is it their purpose to im- pose on the executive. They insist that in the person of John Rosenberg, a convict at San Quentin prison, they have discovered the man who is guilty of the horrors of Emanuel Church. Rosenberg has made a sworn confession before a notary public and in the presence of several witnesses that he killed Blanche Lamont at the instigation of a stranger, and in consideration of the payment of $700 for his bloody work. It is with this seni tion that the attorneys will strengthen their case at Sacramento today. The story and its details is one of the most remark- able that has developed in the long case. Rosenberg is a Russian sailor, and ar- rived in this city on a sailing vessel from Hamburg, Germany, during the last week of March or on the Ist day of April, 1895. He is now serving a term for horse steal- ing, and appears to be sane. Conviet ——— ‘Virginia Republican Convention. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. STAUNTON, Va., May. 14.—Leading re- publicans say that already a sufficient num- ter of the republican state committeemen have expressed themselves favorable to Securesa Divorve in Lake County, California, Superior Court. In Her Deposition She Declares She Had Always Treated Her Hus- band With Affectton. SAN FRANCISCO, Mcy 14.—Mrs. Lang- try, the fair English actress, is a single woman. The superior court of Lake coun- ty, California, where she has her legal home, has granted her a divorce. There was no contest. The case of the plaintiff was presented on depositions taken in London, in which desertion was alleged. After considering the case a few hours the judge at Lake Port, granted the de- cree sought. Mrs. Langtry’s Story. Mrs. Langtry’s deposition was to the ef- fect that she married Mr. Langtry on the Isle of Jersey in 1876, and that the mar- riage certificate gave evidence that the lady was twenty years of age and Lang- try was .wenty-feur. The defendant gave as his place of birth Scotland, while Mrs. Langtry satd she was born in Jersey, the witnesses. of the ceremony being Mr. and Mrs.- LeBreton, the lady’s parents. Mr. LeBreton, who was a minister of the Church of England, officiated. During their marriage a daughter was born and named Jeanne. At the time of the taking of the deposition in 1896 this child was fifteen years of age, and has always resided with her mother. Mrs. Langtry testified that her husband had deserted her a num- ber of ycars ago. From this time to date, the iady testified, he has not furnished her nor her child with any means of sup- Port, but, to emphasize his desertion, has declared on a number of occasions that he would not return to his wife. Thus thrown on her resources, she had taken to the stage for a livelihood, had been pursuing that occupation for a number of years past. Came to California in 1886. In 1886 she came to California, and tak- ing a fancy to the climate, procured a house in San Francisco fer a year, in order that she might have time to select a loca- tion for a permanent home. She finally se- cured a large tract of land near Middle- town, in the southeastern part of Lake county, and took up her residence there. She spent a portion of the money she made von the stage for improvements. From this legal and financial showing the lady re- turns to her matrimonial experiences, say- ing in one sentence: “I have always treat- ed Mr. Langtry with affection, never giving him cause to disregard his duty toward me as my busband.” In conclusion she asked that the custody of the daughter, Jeanne, be awarded to her. Sir George Lewis, Mr. Jatles W. Smyth Pigot, Capt. A. W. Withan:eon, Emily Da- vis LeBreton and Clement LeBreten, the mother and father, testified on the point of cesertion by Mr. Largtry, and as to her being a resident of Califcrnia. Judge Crump Signs the Decree. Immediately on the conclusion of the hearing of the motion of Attorney McPike all the papers in the case were sealed, in accordance with the law respecting di- vorce cases. For seven hours Judge Crump studied over the points of the hearing in the retirement of his chambers. Then he signed the decree, finding that Edward Langtry had been duly served with the summons, had failed to answer and was in default: es EX-SENATOR COKE DEAD. Faneral Will Take Pluce Sunday Un- der State Auspices. WACO, Tex., Mey 14.—Former United States Senator Rickard Coke died at 1:50 a.m. His remains will be embalmed and lie in state at the mansicn until Sunday at 10 a.m., when the funeral will take piace. It will be a state funeral. Senators Milis and Chilton and Congressman Henry were notified; so also were Gov. Culberson and ex-Gov. Hogg. Mr. Coke was a Virginian by nativity, born at Williamsburg in 1829. He was ed- ucated at old William and Mary College, where he studied law, and was admitted to the bar when twenty-cne years of age. He went to Texas in 1850 and was one of the pioneers of Waco, where he has resided since he moved there. He entered the von- federate army as a private, and was pro- moted to captain. He was elected judge of the state supreme court in 185, but was re- noved after one year’s service by Gen. idan as “an impediment to reconstruc- He was twice elected governor of Texas, and in 1877 came to the Senate of the United States, where he served until March 3, 1895. LIEUT. FARROW NOT GUILTY. Matual Reserve Fund Life Associa- tiom to Pay .Trinl Costs. PITTSBURG, Pa., May 14.—Lieut. Ed- ward 8. Farrow of New York, who was tried In criminal court yesterday for an alleged violation of the insurance laws of the state, was found not guilty. The jury returned a sealed verdict last night in about fifteen minutes after retir- ing, and it was opened in court this morn- ing. The prosecutor, C. F. Harper, of the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association of New York, was ordered to pay the costs. ——— STATE TAKES AN APPEAL. Status of Olcomargarine Case From Soldiers’ Home, Dayton. CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 14.—The oleo- margarine case from the Soidiers’ Home at Dayton, Ohio, has been appealed to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. General J.-B. Thomas was tried and dis- missed on habeas corpus proceedings in the circuit court before Judge Taft. 8. H. Bosler and David L. Sleeper, at- torneys for the state, have now filed an appeal stating that the court erred in granting a writ of habeas corpus, and holding that the state had no jurisdiction. abe is SS LUCANIA BREAKS THE RECORD. Scores an Average of 21.80 Knots on Her Latest Trip. QUEENSTOWN, May 14.—The Cunard Line steamship Lucania, Captain McKay) which left New York May 8, clearing Sandy Hook lightship at 11:55 a.m. that day, arrived here at 7:24 a.m. today, after @ passage of five days, fourteen hours and fifty-four minutes, during which, over the A MESSAGE ON CUBA Not Decided Whether One Will Be Sent to the Senate Monday, WAS CONSIDERED BY THE CABINET — Largely Depends on Expected Ad- vices From the Island. SENATORS WILL ACT ANYWAY —— It has not been definitely decided that the President will, Monday, send a message to Congress recommending that en appropria- tion be made for the purchase of food and clething for destitute Americans in Cuba. The matter is under consideration by the President and was under consideration at today’s cabinet meeting. It is understood that the sending of a message will depend largely on information received from Cuba between now and Monday. This informa- tion will come from Consul General Lee and W. J. Calhoun. Whatever Mr. €al- houn sends will be greatly relied upon by the President, and may be considered as determining what steps aré to be taken. It is thought that something was expected from Mr. Calhoun today, but if he sent anything it was not as full as the President wanted, und more is looked for. The cabinet began its session this morn- Ing before 10:30 o'clock. This was not be- cause there was anything of such a grave ature as to call it together earlier th: usual, but because the President was heduled to leave for Philadelphia at 12 o'clock. All callers were turned away. Ta! cabinet was at work for over two hours, and the Cuban situation was the principal topic discussed. Other matters were sidered, but that was the topic upon wi.ich every member seemed the most interested. Dixcussing the Sending of a Ship. It 1s learned that the question of the gen- eral policy of the administration toward Cuba and Spain was not directly toucaed upon, the matter under consideration being that of sending a ship to Cuba. This was Icoked at in all its phases. Secretary Sherman was ay important figure in the discussions. He went early to the White House, carrying with him a bundle of pa- pers. Some time after his arrival Assietant Secretary Day went to the White Mouse with further papers, merely handing them to the President and cabinet and leaving. The President had uo: started yesterday to write a messaze to Congress, as is al- leged. He has not yet Jone so. He will not do so before Monday inorniiir at the earii- est. He will return from Philadelphia Sat- urday night about 9:30 o'clock, and is not lUkely to then feel like wriling an important document. It is his custom not to werk Sunday. He would probably deiay the writing of a message until the last ‘soment So as to get the benefit of the latest Infor- nation. Alleged Conference With Minister De Lom It is denied at the White House that Min- ister DeLome has been there in his official capacity. It is particularly dented that he was invited there by the President to ascer- tain whether his government would be of- fended at the sending of food to Cuba by this country. If Minister Delome has been consulted it has been at the State Depart- ment, and his opinion has been communt- cated to the President through the Becre+ tary of State. While in Philadelphia the President will keep posted as to the situation. He will be constantly in touch with the State Depart- ment here, and will receive any messages of importance from Cuba or elsewhere. Mr. Atkyns Criticined. The efforts of Mr. Atkyns of Boston, the Cuban sugar planter, in his long talk with the President yesterday, were, it Is a serted, directed toward inducing the Presi- dent to change his determination to send relief to American citizens in Cuba and to protect them against the barbarities of the Spanish authorities. Considerable in- dignation was expressed this morning by senators at the course of Mr. Atkyns in trying to instill his prejudices into the mind of the President, and to enforce a view of the case which is narrow and may be no more than mercenary. It is understood that Mr. Atkyns was Mr. Olney’s principal informant as to Cuban affairs, and that it was his influence large- ly which was responsible for the policy of the last administration. It is asserted that the message expected from the President in Congress would have been sent yesterday, but for the plea of delay presented by Secretary Long until Mr. Atkyns could be heard. It is not known how much, if at all, Mr. McKinley } was influenced by what the Boston gentle- man said to him. It is not regarded as possible, however, that, in the face of the official reports which were disclosed to the Senate foreign relations committee, any- thing Mr. Atkyns might have said would change the President’s determination. A message is expected Monday setting forth the situation in Cuba, with such of the details as it is tho.ght to be safe to make public, and asking for an appropri tion for relief of American citizens starv- ing in Cuba. Senate Committce Will Act Anyway. The President was plain enough in what he said to the members of the foreign re- laticns committee, who conferred with him, and there was a thorough understanding between them that immediate action had been determiied upon. If the message is sent Monday it will be sent to Congress immediately upon the two houses assem- bling, but whether the message comes or not it is the intention of the foreign re- lations committee to press for immediate action ir the Senate. By the unanimous consent given yesterday, the Morgan reso- lution is made the regular order after 2 o'clock, and cannot be displaced except by unanimous consent or by a vote of the Senate, and it is intended, even if the President should not ask it in a formal message, to pass an additional resolution appropriating money for the relief of the starving Americans In Cuba. It is not believed that under the existing circumstances and in light of the facts rep- resented in the official reports that even Senator Hale will seck to obstruct action, though it is understood that Mr. Hale, together with Mr. Atkyns, is working ou the President to prevent a too vigorous course being pursued by the administra- tion. Spain’s Attitude. Minister de Lome is quoted as announc- ing that the Spanish authorities would wel-