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2 LATE NEWS BY WIRE Mrs. Eches of Fredonia., 0, T., Poi- soned by a Jealous Girl. —_+—__—_. DRUG INTENDED FOR HER DAUGHTER Two School Teachers Were Rivals for a Man's Affections. set Se POISON PUT IN FOOD Sw es is under 2 Miss Phronix dead. h same man. Allen tried to revented. Th teachers. Miss Alle Miss Eches ly prempted in love wi being arres e. but chool ttempted to Saturday Inst. She ree lowing night Miss Allen ma tempt, poisening her food. the stuff instead and die¢ —_—- + STOCK WAN CASE DROPPE th sule poison om red, and the fol- another at- Mrs. Eches ate ND, Ohio, 16—It is un » that the pckman contempt n practically setth duc mn advised to let the cas tinst the weather forecaster drop. M Stockman failed to obey bpoena in the common pl time 3 and he Was arrested on an attachment iss the instigatien of Judge Ong. taken before the judge he explained tha he hi 1 to in th morning and ¢ athe man said his offi betore 1 the subpoen ot believe th amd costs. Mr. Steckman has not paid the fine. This justment of the case would seem to indi- that a servant of the United States the state court ent. _e INDICTED AT RICHWOND. FIFE arcged With Two Attempts Rape Whi He in ¢ t Special Dixpateh to The Evening Star. t1CHMOND, Joseph Fife, who attempted to assault two ladies in this city on Wednesday, was today indicted by the special grand jury. His trial is set for tomorrow, but it is hardly prob- able that a jury can be secur J Young, sro who zi pted to rob Mr. Bosquet drawer, and who assaulted the propriete wife when discovered, was tried today the hastings court and given years tn the penitent y. atter in eighteen STREET DUEL IN PARIS, KY. bhman Kills Tw and is Mortnliy Wounded al Pispateh to The Ev Ky., July 1 here thi Louisville Spee PARIS, street relly, a and Nashville rail 1. Shot and killed Hock Ma ex-convict, after having himself rtally wounded Prior to the duc killed a negro, wie Ville been had shot and - here from Mays- on an excursion train. WH July aw Reid, spe- voy of th to the dia- Mond jubik changed hi Plans us to the date of returning to New sail J E Un}. formerly United States ambas- to Germany, is a 4 ager on the qannia, waic ‘Ss REFUSED. Bound Christtan ‘Transports Cal, July 16— the ¥W SAN FRANCISCO, aldwell, chairman of senger Association. has arrived in this He will try to straighten out the tang! which the different lines hi + Rot ove Mr. Caldwell y difficulty, as Said he did not anticipate the lines through Ogden 2 nd the lines of the associaticn of Colorado + oints had de- pt ony exeursi tickets ed selling and had ins to their a leavor ¢ bound excursion with st privileges. He exy - co-operaiion ¢f the Southern P, in the earry- ing out of the tions of the contra between the roads and anticipated an ami- » adjustment of the difficulty. al agents do m hat Mr. Caldwell will 1 Plish anythirg. He week, and the outce: of his visit. will Brobably determine whether an agreement entered into by the Western Passenger As- sociation is of ar value. Miners Who Struck. WHEELING, W. Va., July 16.—The ad- vantages this morning are all on the Strikers’ side. None of the miners have Feturned to work. The idle mines are com- paratively small, aggregating 400 men. While the strikes are more on account of local disaffection than sympathy for the movement. the strikers are aiding the agi- lators greatly. Fairmount is problemat leans toward strike, and ern fs sympathetic. The op deavor te keep all hands werking Satur- day 2 of reach of the organizers. stern Ohio ts quiet. 2 = se CONNECTICUT RIVER OVERFLOWS. Kanawha ted That £50,000 Damage Has Been Done oO € a SPSOR LOCKS, Conn., July 16.—The river at this point is higher z at any time during the present year. The water sta t aleve he normal he fleld that th by the heavy 3 from n_ don Ir Ss of young to- NDS IN CONTROL. HANVS Fri MeK tame aunty Kinet! 2 yahowe Forced Oat. Special Dispatch to ‘Tue Eveut: CLEVELAND, Ohio, July Hanna ts now supreme In the p. agement of Cuyahe panty. afternoon the old McKisson committee of fifteen gave way to the new r ceenty committee, with Mr. Silvester T. Everett The fight has been a“ long t tious ained defeats ‘port from Nash of minal manag Columbus of the republican campaign in Ohio, though he will be little more than Maj. Dick's mouthpiece. THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1897-12 PAGES. LEAGUERS FAVOR WASHINGTON. rong Sentiment in Favor of Holding Next Convention Here. iat frem a Staff Correspondent, TORONTO, Ont., July 16.—A meeting. of the iniernational Epworth League cabinet for the purpose of considering, among oth- er things, a place for the next meeting of the international Epworth League conven- tien is in session here this afternoon. The meeting is held behind closed doors, but a nember of the cabinet fs authority for the Statement that Washington, D. C., is by leng odds the favorite. A tremendous contest for the honor Is, vever, being waged by large delegations om Indianapolis, Omaha and ttle. New York city has been » sted as a comp but the proposition does noi meet with much favor, of Washington in hance ndeavor convention last r being With much effectiveness, and it is slieved will in having worth League go next year to the place, viz. volts and Om:h for handling a conven- ton as that now in session re bei feemed inadequate, and that the question of a selection will be referred back to thc cabinet for final determination at a mecting to be held by it some time in the future, and after the present cenve Journed. MARTIN THORN IV COURT. Murderer of Guldensuppe Tries n Habeas Writ. NEW YORK, July 16.—Martin Thorn, the lesed murderer of William Guldensu 8 brought before Judge Truax, in supreme court today, on a writ of hd alleging that he has been irre irly held by the authorities of this coun- ty. Counsel orpu: for Thorn asserted that their it had been denied the right to face his and that the indictment char roeusers the commission of a crime outside th iy efs were submitted by cou Thorn and by the prosecutin= attor Judge ‘Truax reserved jon until he ud read them. Meanwhile ‘Thorn was n back to the Tombs. > PLANS MARRED BY RAIN. envy Downpour at Chattanooga L terferes W the Rapt CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., July lownpour of rain for several hours early this morning interfered considerably with the pleasures of the thousands of Baptist visitors In the city. The sunrise prayer meeting In Lookout Mountain was abandoned, and a number of prayer meet- ings held at local churches at 6 o'clock were only slightly attended. The weather cleared up about 9 o'clock, and the h morn- ing session of the convention was weil at- tended. the usual service, after which Dr. 5. 5. Hunt of Toledo, Ohio, chairman of the board of manage called the to order convention as the presiding officer of the day. At the conclusion of the devotional cises Dr. Hunt announced that the re ling committees were in or: nominating committee made it through its chairman, Rev. O. lace. “The report of the committer cepted ¥ ‘instructed report Wal- ithout discussion, and the s cast to the ballet same, while the remaining one 1 to a cer- tain extent. Th sted wer John nic Rev Lee Laws, osburg, De: nald, Ambur eretary, Rev. H. W. Re urer, Frank Moc d of man- trles S. Burton, Hlinois; Rev. M. ‘se, Ph.D.. Hlinois. >—— xtigation WHT Nothing After AML LONDON, July 16.—In the house of mons today Mr, Balfour, the om- ernment leader, said in reply to a question on the subject that the government did not in- tend to i any prosecutions as a result of the Africa committ t of the select South replying peaker Gully to Mr. Lah chere, ruled that as the committee had no reported the contumacy of Mr. Hawke the attor of Cecil Rhodes, for refus to produce certain telesrams, at the time the © as committed, the question of summonirs him to the bar of the house ef commons could not now be raised. SAN FRANCISCO SINKS A YACHT. States Warship Lands W of the Boat at tiand. LONDON, July 16—A dispatch from Portland says that the United States war- s rancisco has landed there tt crew of the yacht Dysillo, with which she came in collision off Gedner point. » yacht sank almost immedi; San Francisco apparently sustaine dama; . The Dysilio was a wood yacht, cutter- rigged, of 36 tons, owned by Jos.” Moseley of Beaumaris. She was built in 1879. pa ae W. D. FELTS’ PROPOSED F' he but ne iGHT. Will Try to Sail From Pike's Peak to Colorado Springs. COLORADO SPRINGS,Col., July 16.—The announcement fs made authoritatively that Wm. D. Felts will make an aerial excur- sion from the summit of Pike's Peak to Celorado Springs, a distance of ten miles in an air line, and a drop of 8,000 feet. In making the flight Mr. Felts will use a series of rigid aeroplanes, modeled after ‘the wings of a condor, the great South erican bird. of the voyager will hang sus- n an easy harne In order to ‘er the apparatus, Felts has provided a movable vane, which will be operated at ; will of the navigator. . Felts announced today that he would alight on Cameron's cone, a distance of five miles, and a drop of 4,000 feet. From there, he said, he would make a descent of 4,000 feet more to Colorado Springs, where he would alight. oe Malster Man Appointed. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. BALTIMORE, Md., July Ir. Goo. R. Gaither, jr., has been appointed counsel to beard in place of Mr. Bernard whose resignation was accepte yesterday. Mr. Gaither is a close friend of Commissioner Heddingers, and his ap- pointnient strengthens the report that the ‘dis favorable to Mr. William T. Mal- 'S mayoralty boom ——__ Jobn €. Welty Axpires to Senate. Dispatch to The Evening Star. SVELAD, Ohio, July 16.--It is under- ! stood that John C. Welty of Canton will enter the senatorial against John R. At Canton this morning Mr. Welty would neither affirm nor deny that > Nas aspirations in that direction. He t it was too soon to say whom he support or to talk about senator. —s»—__. Peary'’s Bark Ready. BOSTON, July 16.—The steam bark Hope, which is to take the Peary expedition to Greenland, arrived at this port today. he work of putting supplies on board the sxel will commence at once. It ts Lieut. > BOMBS EXPLODED. TWO DYNAMIT Several Persons Killed and Wounded jm Spanish City. MADRID. July 16.—Two dynamite bombs were exploded yesterday of Guadajajara, capital of the province of that New Castile. Several and others were seri Peary's intention to leave here Saturday afternoon. ————— Kansas Women Carry Their Point. KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 16—Women prisoners are not to be put to work on the rock piles with men in Kansas City, Kan. The board of police commissioners, who decided iast week that this should be done, have rescinded their order in deference to pepular opinion. WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS Potition Filed in Behalf of Pearl Maltby This Afternoon, Judge Cole Grants the Petition—Re- ‘turnable Before Him Tomor- row at 10 O'Clock. Attorneys R. Newton Donaldson and Faward L, Gier late this afteznoon filed the fellowing petition for a writ of habeas vorpus in the case of Miss Pearl Maltby, ing forth, in substance, the followin That on the 15t y of July, 189 about the hour of — p.m., she, not being suilty of any offense against the laws of the United States or of the District of Colum) where she has always resided, was “apprehended, arrested and taken into stody by one Virginia constable, nam Gaines, and was b; constable forcibly detained and taken across said bridge and delivered into the custody of an officer of the metropolitan police force of the Dis- irtet of Columbia, and your petitioner was ¥ said officer taken to the seventh metro inet of the District of Colum and from thence to the first metropoli- ian precinct of the District of Columbia, where she now remains in unlawful deten- tion and custody of said officer.” No Proper Charge Made. That no affidavit or proper accusation of any criminality whateyer has been made inst her, so far as she has been able to learn; and she has been informed, and be- fieves, that Mr. Henry E. Davis, United tes attorney for the District of Colum- has advised the police authorities that d that she should be released, but nite such counsel and advice from attorney, I stor Holiinber c police force of sald District has an- sunced his determination to hold your itioner. Unjustly Meld. That she fs improperly, and unjustly held in custody, |, con- fired and imprisoned, to the outrage of her d against her right of the United Stat cted to the a She 5 writ Unite States marshal of the District of Columpia, be by him served upon the officers of the said. first preci and upon any other officer or per ioner so held . confinement an. quiring seid officers duce the body of your p before this honorabl t, to be dealt ith according to law, and that your pe- titioner may be discharged from, her said prisonment and restored to her liberty may such other and ief as the nature of the case itioner immediate Judge Cole this ued returnable 2 Ww wat 10 ¢ +. He ix Believed Large Measure ¢ M. believed ng with a large measure of success in Foster ‘retary is to be his efforts to s ernment ure from the British gov- additional measures of protection for the seals in Bering sea. While he has not yet reported that the British have formally consented to participate in an in- ternational conference, with this object in the unofficial advices indicate that is about to be accomplishe retary has secured from the great London skin- ers, who handle of the kins taken in the North Pacific and Bering sea re them, “an be nowhere powerful is regarded as 7 very able to strengthening Gen, much, when, as he ri Department, the of the conclusions pert Jordan, of the State those Canadian between these expe . Shortly is whether or not the seals are be- ing exterminated under existing regula- tion: the American finding in the .firmative Gereral Fe aved way for an international t the seals he has secured the of the demands made by our goy- but there is still no evidence that h government is willing to enter save the seals talking of such a 1 that was, It nce to most on ernment, the 4 into is going on, s said here, one of the most important ob- jects of his mission. a REWARDS OF ANTRY. Medals of Honor Awarded for Brave Deeds. Medals of honor have been awarded as follows: . Geo, Kretsinger of St. of Vicksburg, Mi was one of a party of voluntes and one of the pieces of his bat- difficult ground in face of the enemy quite to the ditch of the enemy's work, and fired this piece repeatedly through an embrasure, disabling one of the 33) guns that was ready to be dis- charged. Capt. EF lan J. Swift of Buffalo. “At the mine explosion near Petersburg, Va., July , 1864, this officer, then a second lieuten- ant of Company H, 2d New York Mounted solai¢ mo tery ove Rifles, having advanced with his regiment and captured the enemy's line, saw four of the enemy retiring toward their second line of works. He advanced upon them alone. compelled their surrender and regained his iment with the four prisoners.” harles Day of Wellsboro, Pa. “At Hatcher's Run, Va., February 6, 1865, this soldier, then a private in Company K, 210th Pennsylvania Volunteers, seized the colors nother regiment of the brigade, the iment having been thrown into contu- nd the color bearer killed, and bore said colors throughout the remainder of the engagement. Gen. Meade mentioned Pri- vate Day in orders for gallantry in action.” -—_—___—+ e+ —_____ WANTS STRONG TIONAL POLICY. dopted by Trans-Missis- ret sion jutto sipp SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 16.—The trans-Mississippi congress has adopted res- olutions as follows Favoring the ann jon of Hawali; fa- voring the construction of the Nicaraguan nal; recommending recognition 0° Cuba a nation; providing for a national board arbitration and for fostering the beet industry. of SUy > Be py Yukon Miners. NCOUVER, B. C., July 16—A party of Vanconverites have chartered the steamer Capitano and intend to ship 75 to 100 oxen to the Klondyk, in the Yukon country, where beef fetches fabulous prices. Ex- ports from the Vancouver consular dis- trict to the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, amounted to $2,501,439, the largest on record, being over $00,000 more than lest year. eS tee Pan-Americans at Ningara Fi NIAGARA FALLS, N, Y., July 16—The members of the Pan-American party were up and about carly this morning. At 9 o'clock they took special cars on the Gorge road for a view of the rapids. They will go to Lewiston, where they will cross the river to Queenston and take the trolley read to Chippewa. The remainder of the day will be spent in inspecting Cayuga Island, the site of the proposed Pan-Amer- ican exposition in 1899, and the various industrial establishments. es Col. Crocker’s Condition Hopelens. SAN MATEO, Cal., July 16—The condi- tion of Col. C. F. Crocker has been gradu- ally growing less hopeful, and his physt- cians have given up all hopé of his recov- ery. Dr. Gardner forwarded a dispatch to Geo. Crocker, who has been speeding hither from New York by special train, that if he wished to see his brother alive it was im- perative that he reach San Mateo tonight. ARMOR PLATES’ COST Senate Rofages to Yield to the House on the Subject. THE DEFICIENCY BILL ay Fy The Harris Pacific Railway Reso- lution Taken Up. a A NOVEL POINT ee RAISED The conference report on the deficlency appropriation bill was consilered as soon as the Senate met today. Mr. Hale, in charge of the bill, stated that the price of'armor plat2 was not in- cluded in the report. Nothing had been done on that subjcet, except that the Sen- ate conferees. had stated positively that the Senate would net consider any sum over $00 for armor. The report was agreed to and a further conference ordered, Mr. Quay (Pa.) moved that when the Senate adjourn {t be until Monday. There were objections from those advocating the Harris resolution relating to the Union Pacifie railroad, and Mr. Morgan (Ala.) de- manded a roll call. The motion to adjourn over was lost -25 Mr. Hawley (Conn.), rising to a question of privilege, good-naturedly protested against published statements accusing him of senatorial discourtesy in connection wi editorials appearing in the Hartford Cour- ant. He stated that his active connection with the paper ended twenty years ago, nd that he was in no way respon s editorial utterance: His only conn with the paper, he said, was the one of “editing its quarterly di- Mr. Mor ecured the adoption of a resohition Ing the President for in- formation as to the arrest of Alfred O. H. Hugnet, a citizen of the Unite ates, by Spanish authorities at Havana on Sep- nber 6, 1806, Mr. Morgan briefly recited the circum- stances in the case, and stated that he d sired to test the power of Spain arbitrarily to banish a United States citizen doing business in Cuba without trial or evic . of hi ticipation in the rebellion. The resolution was agreed to without division. On motion of Mr. Pettigrew (S. D.) the bill was passed to give the consent of Con- gees to a compact entered into between the states of South Dakota and Nebraska respecting the boundary hetween said states. ‘The Harris resolution relating to the sale of the government Interests in the Union Pacific railroad was then taken up, and Mr. Allen (Neb.) continued his speech in support of the resolution. After discussing the legai points involved Mr. Alien declared that {f Congress lecied at this time to stay the sale of government intetests, Involving 2 loss of 350,000,000, it would be the greatest blot and stain upon this government that had heen de in all the years of our national existence. Mr. Thurston (Neb.) interrupted to state most $70 that the railroad debt was at 000,000, while the gitu 000,000, so that at lost the loss could not 000.000. ° f& spifited discussion at one point in Mr.;Allen’s remarks, when Mr. Warren of Wyoming, sought to call att tlon to the abgence. pf a quorum. Mr. len gleclined td yielf for this purpose, the “presiding ‘6ffice# was in doubt as to the right of a Senator to call attention to the absence of a quorum when the senator on the floor degline, to yield. Mr. Hale said it was a most unusual pro- cedure. 4 Warren finally proceeded. withdrew his point, When he ‘TATIV HOUSE OF REPRE: When the .House resumed its session to- . after thy recess from yesterday, Mr. Cannon stated’ that th» conferees on the deficiency appropriation bill had agreed upon a partial report. As the report musi first be acted upon by the Senate, and as assurances had been given that it would be immediately disposed of there, a recess was taken until 1:30 p.m. on motion of Mr. Bri Senate resolution direc’ cretary of War ne 1,000 ts for the use of the Grand Army mpment at Leavenworta, Kan., next Ov the adoptes nnon then called up the con. ence report on the general deficienc: which in the meantime had been agreed to by the Senate Mr. Cannon explained the report and the items on which an agreement had been reached, after which the report was agreed to. H They Have n Hard Time to Avoid Sus- and Keep Quiet. The tariff conferees have a guilty air alout them. They show a consciousness that they may be placed under suspicion, and they are afflicted with the furtive eye. What have they done? Why, nothing, of course. They have committed no crime, nor are they in a conspiracy to commit one. They are simply trying to preserve the secrets of the conference and, indl- vidually, to avoid the suspicion of being r= sponsible for any information which may by any posstbility leak out. There is not about the Capitol a moze hunted and uncomfortable looking man than a tariff conferee on his way to lunch. The trials he has to endure while laboring in the conference are but trifling compared with the anxiety and mental suffering he endures during the brief revesses for breathing spells between the rounds of the conference contest. After three or four hours’ debilitating work about three-quar- ters of an hour is deemed necessary in the middle of the day for lunch and relaxation. Then begins his real trials. His recess is his longest three-quarters of an hour in the day. When the time for lunch ap- proaches he begins to look uneasily at the door of the conference room, Then the re- cess occurs; he hestitates for an instant, and makes a plunge like a swimmer diving for the first time into cold water. Still I'ke the small boy at the bathing beach, h will not take the plunge alone, but waits ‘for the others, and they all go together. ‘Through the line: of seekers of secrets hanging about the corridors they rush, «ach supporting the other, and ft ts with a sigh of relief that they reach the lune’ room, where !several of them seated to: gether, with ahe walters about, they are comparatively ,safe.,, -When a conferee gets caught alone in the corridors & painful expression of anx- jety comes upon ni countenance. He is liable to be jolnel by some newspxper man, cr, what 1s ‘orse, by some person employed by fiterested parties to pry into the secrets ofithe conference. The conferee Sel that for him to be seen walking ‘thro’ ibn the corridors with cne of these inquisitive persons might place him urder suspicion if any facts with re- lation to the confeaence should happen to leak out. Itymay,be that the man who would join him would be one he would not cure to treat discourteously. What can he do? If he stops, to Indicate his not want- ing company tn a walk, that will not end the conversation aruptly, and all eyes will be on him ang his questions. If he draws his compantioy aside where they will not be so much o¥served, he cannot en- tirely escape observation, and this action will only intensify the suspicion. The un- fortunate conferee is brusque when he can be, and is helpless if he feels compelled to be courteous. All the difficulties of the conference are nat confined to the settle- ment cf schedules, SS Navy Department Appointment Clerk. Mr. Crofton is acting chief clerk of the Navy Department in the absence of Mr. Peters, and Mr. Curtis is facting appoint- ment clerk of the same department, pend- ing the filling of @ vacancy which has existed since the present administration came into power. It is expected that Mr. Curtis will eventually be made appoint- ment clerk in order that he may receive the pay of the office while performing the duties appertaining to it. PROPOSED SHIP CANAL Preliminary Examination Made by Major Symons, Connecting the Great Lakes With the Hudson River—The Best Route—Ea- Jarging Present Facilities, The Secretary of War today transmit- ted to Congress the report of the chief of engineers on the pretiminary examination made by Major T. W. Symons of the Corps of Engineers of a ship canal from the great lakes to the Hudson river. The work was done in aecordance with a provision in the last river and harbor bill directing the examination and estimates of the cost of construction of the most practicable route of such a canal, wholly within the United States, of sufficient capacity to transport the tonnage of the lxkes to the sea. Gen. Wilson, chief of engineers, says in the report that it {s the opinion of the Iccal officer that the best route for a ship cunal is that by way of Niagara river, Lake Ontario, Oswego, Oneida lake and Mchawk and Hudson rivers, and that this wculd cost at @ rough estimate $20,000,000, But the local officer expresses the apinion that the construction of such a ship canal is not a project worthy of being undertaken by the goverament. But Major Symons ts also of opinion that the Erie canal, when enlarged under the existing plans ‘of the state of New York, would, if the restrictions imposed Ly the state upen its use be remove Bive commercial advantag tically equal to the commercial advant iges of a ship canal. If this canal be further improved by en- largement to a size sufficient for 1,000-ton barges, making the necessary alterations in its alignment, so as to give a continuously descending canal all the way from Lake Irie to the Hudson, and canulizing the Mo- hawk river, Major Symons says, such an improved canal, navigated by barges, would enable freight to be transported between the east and west at a lo te than by ship canal navigated by large sels, and he states that ment of the Erie E everything adopted to transport the ton- nage of the lake is a project worthy of be- ing undertaken by the general government, as the benefits derived would be commen- svrate with the cost, which is estimated ap- proximately at one-fourth chat of a ship canal. General Wilson says that owing to the insufficiency of the appropriation only the crdinary preliminary examination was made. He says Major Symovs, who made the examination, found three possible routes for a chip canal, wholly within the United States. The first extends from I.ake Erie via the upper Niagara to the vicintty of Tonawan- da or Lake Salle; thence by canal with locks to the lower Niagara at or near Lewiston or some point on Lake Ontario, thence through Lake Ontario to Oswego; thence up the Oswego and Oneida rivers to Onemia lake, through Oneida lake; thence across the divide to the Mohawk and down the Mohawk to the Hudson at Troy. This 1s designated as the Oswego route and the one Major Symons thinks the most prac- ticabl The second route follows the line of the Erie canal from Lake Erie and the Niagara river to the Hudson. The third coincides with the first from Lake EB Lake On- tario, running thence through Ontario to the St. Lawrence ri and down the St Lawrence to some point near Ogdensburg; thence crossing the state of New York to Lake Champlain and up said lake to its head, and thence following in general the route of the Champlain canal to the Hud- son at Troy. While Mejor Symons me ticns this as a possible route, he is cpinion that it Is not a practicable on Allusion is also made in the report to still another route-tne St. Lawrence, Champlain route—all of which except a small portion is in the United States. ‘The rough $200,000,000 estimate covers any of the possible routes mentioned. But this estImate depends to a very great exteat upon the action of the state of New York ss rd to J; reservoirs, of ete. operate the locks, kes tc., would cost at a re AW a year. Sveh a canal 01 s would, the repor: sa lue. “Maj. Symons »pinion,” says the report, “that the construction ‘of such a canal is not a project worthy of | n by the gene soverument, nefits to be derived therefrom would properly commensurate with the surveys for a along the Niagara-Oswego rout imated at $190,000, an entirely inde- pendent survey for the enlargement of the Erie $125,000; a combined survey of both, $250,000, In transmitting Maj. Symon’s report, the division engineer, Col. G. L. Gillespie says: “The subject of transporting the tornage of the lakes to the sea is exha tively treated in this report, and the facts stated and the arguments thereon relative to the methods to be followed are worthy of the closest study by Congress.” No definite conclusions or recommenda- tions can be given relative to the location and methods of construction, he says, un- ul after the suggested surveys have been made. re COMPETITION WITH SMAL |. ARMS. General Order Insued by the Secretary of War. The Secretary of War has fssued a gen- eral order for the government of the cav- alry competitions with small arms for the present year. The competitions, preceded by two days’ preliminary practice, will commence Septemb: They will be held as follows: For the departments of the east and the Missouri at Fort Sheridan, Ti; for the departments of Dakota, the Piatte and the Colimbla, at Fort Robin- son, Neb.; for the departments of the Colo- rado, Texas and California, at Fort Win- gate, N. M. The officers to conduct the competitions will be designated by the commanding generals of the departments 01 the Missouri, the Platte and the Colorado, who are also charged with the arrange- ment of all necessary details during the meeting of the cavalry teams. One rite competition only will be held for the de- partments of Callfornia and the Columbia. ——_2._______ A New Chief of Division. E. C. Johnson, chief clerk of the internal revenue bureau, Treasury Department, has heen transferred to the position of chief of the stamp division, vice H. C. Boyd of Kentucky, resigned. Alfred G. Bliss, an 31,800 clerk fm the internal revenue bu- reau, has been appointed chief clerk, vice Johnson, transferred. Mr. Bliss passed the required civil service examination, re- ceiving a marking of 97.32 per cent out of a possible 100. He entered the Treas- ury Department many years ago at the lowest grade and hus attained his present position by successive promotions. He served three years in the 19th Connecticut Infantry, and afterward in the 2d Heavy Artillery. Amanda’s Plan Failed. An elderly colored man named William Johnson made complaint in the Police Court this afternoon against a colored woman, Amanda Price, for alleged forcible entry and detainer. It was charged that she moved in a house in rear of 212 G street without having been given permission to do so. She said the house was in a filthy condition when she went there and she cleaned it. She thought when Mr. Johnson called and saw the im- provements she had made he would be delighted, but he had her arrested instead. Amanda promised the judge she would move out of the house, and her personal bonds were taken. ——— Sixth Auditor's Office Changes, The following promotions have been made in the office of the auditor for’the Post Office Department: Mrs. D. J. Appleby, as- sorter of class E; D. L. Pitcher, assortei Annie R. Story, reinstated and promoted ere at $720; M. J. Foote, assorter, at ——-o+__ An Ex-Soldier Reinstated. BE. C. Dougherty, Miinois, an ex-soldier, has been reinstated at $1,000, supervising architect's office. = APPORTION THE FUND. Commissioners Distribute the Money for Contingent Expenses. The Commissioners today ordered the fol- lowing apportionments to be made of the ’ppropriations for the current fiscal year for contingent expenses: Executive office, $2,620; charities, $150; assessor: detection of frauds, $1 ant assessors, $20): s FINANCE AND TRADE Sugar Stock Was the Feature of Wall uperintendent of Street Today. ottice, including -—_—.—__. e “fewesment | UIMTLE AFFECTED BY TARIFF NEWS sessment di- vision, $75; collector's office, $700; auditor's Office, $270; sinking fund, Si —— office, Uoner: $360; coroner's office, including sta- y, books, blanks and other contingent | Granger Shares Also Received Mod ; markets, repair, $600; mar- erate Share of Attention. ntingent expenses, $1N0; engineer department, including ‘eyor’s office and for mainteiance and rm irs of laboratory he inspector eee Al pur-| gp > rae eet chases from this apportionment to the en-] GENERAL MARKET REPORT. gineer department all be mad by the superintendent of property of said de ment. Health office apportionment, tnelud- ‘e a _- = Special Mapateh to The Evening Star, NEW YORK, July 16.—Yosterday’s bond sale and a hicher range of prices in Lon- Jon encouraged further confidence in an improving speculative situation this morn- ing. No material Improvement in the ¥ ume of local business was 1 ing horseshoeing and repairs to pound and Police vehicies, $2430, harbor master, $25 Court, inclusive of pay of tempora 3 superintendent of street sw seales of weights and measures, $275: ellaneous expenses, including priming books, stationery, printing, bind- binding, repair and preservation of , damages, care of horses ne the provided for, horseshoeing, fuel, ic gas, repairs and insur: ble, and © che settlement of The heads of the offices mentioned under | Washington dispatches continue tom: this apportionment will be held personatly | rcpotize atten ae SoU anne ere eee [ae ae attention, ut in many’ instances expenses of their respective offices in ex-] 00" 7 jon they contain is received cess of the amount so apportioned. with distrest. ieee ited Conditions are reported to exist which DIDN'T CARE FOR HEARERS. fail entirely tion in the pri ats cvrities. The situation in the con: Fr Allen Would Rather Talk + Empty Seats Than Some Senator: Senator Allen of Nebraska frequently makes known his feeling of utter tnde- pendence of the rest of the Senate and his committee would forced a W per ¢ reaction in Sugar at almost it Was followed by sufficient to force the price up Mg Indifference as to the sentiments of cer-] The high level of a few medic ved tain of his colleagues. While he was talk- | "0t been 1, but stock is ing this morning there was a great scar- | S'0008IY Supported at the previous high city of senators In the chamber. Pelee te Con en grmination to held the Mr. Warren presently suggested that | 17! : Hyon on all sides, and there was not a quorum present. There | 5), “s put aside hae of Was a Httle sparring between senators | jive coun purchasing the stock on the question, and Mr. Warren then | the pubite . bl is Mc) et Chere is a well-established precedent of eens BS “enebe Teal facts ‘of the cane Traut the eouakoe toe that the day the sugar sched vl upon in the House ection thi wid thought he would lik the « probably senators here to listen to him.”* snator, “Iam obliged to the replied Mr. If of its « a a es per cent on the Allen. “I'd rath alk to empty seats than] other With this assuran the stock was to some senators. worth m thine in years, and ——— SUIT DISMISSED. rsp ded to « Avestment public to this view. nyert lexis- Mins Platts Claim Against rles J. @ surplus of fifteen or twenty mil- Hell Not Sustained. and enormous profits from 1 G 3 raw sugars destroyed all the sentiment in Judge Cole today sustained the demurrer | (he situation and invited purchasers or the filed by the defendant in the case of Ella | bosis of value alon: The Granger shares were strong ing of a fair character, and the low spectaltics were in good demand by the in- terests originally identified with the cam- isn in securities of this class. The passing of Su: ern into the hands of I 1 Hudson interests is now regarded as certain. The entire situation is relied upon show further improvemen M. Platt against Charles J. Bell, and dis- missed the suit. is is the case in which Miss Platt claimed $1,200. She left with Mr. Bell last lanuary, when he was chairman of the tn- augural committee, an autograph photo- graph of President McKinley, so she al- leged. She stated her occupation to be that of dW to an artist, and claimed that Mr. Bell re- — tained the photograph so long that shq FIVANCIAL aw MMERCIAL, Icst_ the opportunity to execute several ie profitable orders for portraits from it. a tbs The following are the opening, the highest and the lowest and the closin; AMERICAN FLAG PULLED DoW) New York stock market Corson & : Ultra Britisher Tears Down the En- | York = stock h - Correspondents, sign Over Epworth Lengue i Messrs. Moore & Schley, No. 8 Broadway TORONTO, Ont., July 16.-An American er 5 a1 flag flying at the city hall in honor of the visiting delegates to the Epworth League ccnvention was torn down by an ultra- British artisan today. The man was at once arrested and locked up. KELD FoR CHI nu Tobacco... can Cotton Oil, ‘S MURDER. Man and Wife Who Were Found Dy- ing on a Raft. “INNATI, Ohio, July 16.—One week cR ago George and Lettie Jacobson were found nay, in a dying condition and the body of their | (Make Cas bend babe was lying near them. It dev: Cla. —_ that they had for some time contemplated | getting rid of tne baby and thereafter com- | CRC St = mit suicide together. The laudanum did] pel Lack.& W ‘ not have the desired effect, and then they | | d themselves with a razor, but were before they died, -Both the parents are now re The coroner has ren da verdict, ing them with murdering their ch’ t night the couple were arre transferred from the hospital to the ice station. Is Central... Lake Shore... Louisville & > Michigan ¢ Missouri Pac oS Dowling Brought &900, PADUCAH, Ky., July 16.—Pete Dowling, the pitcher for the Paducah base ball club, was sold to the Louisville club for $900. of the Lou given to ucah team. SS Valuable Fruit Crop. pid. ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 16—The Republic | Phila. Traction ee s today: The fruit crop of Missourl this | pCxas Parties... --.- hee year Is roughly estimated to be worth £2), 000,000, and many who ought to know what they are talking about say the figures are too low. The importance of the crop may be understood when it is stated that it worth more than the wheat crops of Illinois Union 9 CLs. Lear Wabash, pid. Westeru Uni and Missouri combined, with the cotton crop of Missouri thrown in for good measure. at ————— at 10% nia, 1 Wealthy Tennesseenn Fatally Shot. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 16.—W. L. Ledford, a wealthy and prominent citizen of Charleston, Tenn., was shot and fatally wounded in an affray between himself and Walter and Leather Wolf, two of his rent- ers. Ledford was shot five times. Neither of the Wolfs was injured. No arrests have been made. strepelitan Railroad x, ilroad conv. Rallread Ga,” 116 bid. re A, Gs, 111 bid. Bikes. LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 16.—Ernest R. Taylor and Will. H. Tolbert of Los An- Amerie: . 100 bid. Al and 0., 100} geles have started on a cycling trip around int Ge.” 100. the world from this city. They will be Imp. &, 106 bid. | Washington without funds, and undertake to return in Gs, 106 bid.” Masonic Mall eighteen months. ——— y ss Sult Involving $30,000,000. DENVER, Colo., July 16.— A suit involv- ing $30,000,000 is In progress in the United States court here, and arguments are 1 heard on the demurrer of the amended bill. ‘The plaintiffs are Leonard S. Bailou and Association 5 Xatfonal 200 bid. Bank of Washingt i Cen Did, 310 asked. |. 17 bid. West End, . 102 Wid, 106 asked. mpanies. —X; . 107 a fe Deponst and Trust Alexander McLay of New York. The de- Stocks. Capital Traction fendants are Clinton B. Keed, John F. Metr-potitan, IHS bid. Columbine Campion and others interested in the Ibex Mi 30 asked Mining Company of Lead Us ees Identified as Barney McCoy. BORDENTOWN, N. J., July 16—The body of the man found drowned in Black’s creek here on Wednesday has been identi- fled as Barney MeCoy, who :erved in Com- pany C, 9th Regiment, New Jersey Volun- teers. He was a pensioner, and is thought to have been féully dealt with. An iny tigation is in progress. ————— Rich Gold Strike in Cali da. JAMESTOWN, Cal., July 16.—This town and the entire country is excited on a: count of the rich strike in the Tansy min; operated under the lease by Colby & Be with. The mine is located on the Mother lode, just this side of Sonora. The work- men struck # pocket, and in ten hours they had taken $41,000 in’ gold from the pocket, id, mm 30" bid” 40 asked, Metropolitan, 65 bid, 80 asked. Potomac, 68 bid. 190 bid. Columbia, 12 Insurance Stocks. Franklin, 38. bi Real Estate bid, 6 asked. Mergenthaler Linotype, |. Lanston Honutype, 14% td aston Market, 10° Wid. Great 125 asked. . div. - _- Government Bonds, Quotations reported by Corson & Macart- ney, bankers. and there is more to follow. b iper anti pene ~ eo - 4 Ber cents couayaon of Hin ie per cents, re e eee sheers snExete, 4 per conte, coupon ef 23.0000. eee EALTIMORE, Md, Flour firmer, un. | 4 per cents) registersd of 1935.00. 12Rt changed—receipts, 8,326 xports, 7,421 bar- | 5 per cents, coupon of 1004, 2 1a rels; sales, 600 barrels. Wheat strung and’ bigher— | 5 per cents. tered of 19042... 118% spot and month, 76%a7644; August aud September, rreney 6 per cents of T8O8.... 101 7444—receipts, 70,190 exports, nome, 6 per cents of I8W.... 104) stock, "513,810 bushels; 128,000 brushein— southern wheat by sample, 3 do. on grade, Tat, Corn tim—spot and month, 30%a20\: August, “3014n30%; September, 3 i: wtemer Milaed, ” 26%a27—receipts, 22.43 eaports, 210,000 bushel tock, 621,730 buslels; sales, 3,000 Grain and C Furnished by W. B Hibbs & Co., bankers and brokers, 1427 F st., members w York stock exchange, correspondents Messrs. Ladenburg, Thalmans & Co., New York. GRAIN bushels—southern white corn, 34035. mixed, none; Oats tirm—No. 2 white, 25340264; 230234 receipts, 68,583 busiiels: ck, 149,118 bustels, Rye strong and o.,2 pearuy. 40%; No. 2 western, aime bushels; exports, none; stock, at) Hay firm ‘for the’ best " grades—cholce $14. Grain freights sti ushels. quiet, unchanged. steady—fancy New York, large, 9: do., 9%; do., vmall, 9%. Whisky unchanged. —_.—_ If you want anything, try an ad. in The Star. If anybody has what you wish, you will get an answer.