Evening Star Newspaper, August 21, 1897, Page 2

SCENE OF THE ACCIDENT. length of an engine from the crossing. The witness could not say whether the gate was-open or closed. It was open after the train stopped. “Could Mr. Clacghton have driven on the crossing if the gate had been closed?’ asked the coroner. “Not~without breaking it,” was the an- swer. “Were the gates broken?” dren of Mr. Claughton were completely prostrated on hearing of the occurrence. ‘The mother died but a short time ago, and the sudden and terrible taking away of their father was in the nature of a thun- derbolt Word was sent to the residence of Dr. Custis, upon an intimation of the identity of the other victim, and the remains of the young lady were fully identified as those of Miss Villa. Were Intimate Friends. Mr. Claughton, who was nearly seventy | years of age, has been in the habit of driv- ing each evening, when the weather was pleasant. He did this partly for the bene- fit of his health. His family and that of Dr. Custis for years past have been on the most friendly terms, and he was a fre- quent caller at the East Capitol street “Then they must have been open?’ “I think they were.” Continuing, the witness sald that the accident occurred at two minutes past 7 o'clock. It was getting dark. In reply to @ question from a juror, he stated that he could not possibly have stopped the train in time to avert the accident after the time of first seeing the carrtage. The parties in the carriage could see plainly along the track toward Baltimore, but not in the opposite direction without looking behind home. Stopping there shortly before ©} the station. It looked like the horses were o'clock last evening, with a buggy and | going at a pretty good pace. The witness two horses, Mr. Claughton ted Miss | did not have a chance to blow the whistle Villa to take a ride. She readily accepted, + and they drove out the Benning road to a point some distance beyond Benning. On the return trip they proceeded toward Deanewood, with the sad result described. Coroner Carr, who was notified of what had happene the bodies had reached this city ed the a‘fair, so after seeing the vehicle. The land at the crossing is level and no cars were stand- ing on the track. Gates Should Have Been Down. Alfred J. Scott, 3969 Parish street, Phila- delphia, the conductor of the train, testi- fied that the train approached the crossing far as he could, last evening, holding a 4 conference with Station Master Robey. | #t Deanewood at usual speed. The en The coroner decided to noid an inquest singer threw on the emergency brake. The teday at Speare’s undertaking establish- | witness thought that the tower man had ment. Engineer Cockley continued with | suddenly changed the signals, but, looking the train to. New York, but Dispatcher cut, he saw the signal for a clear track. The train stopped, and the witness saw what had happened. Both Mr. Claughton and Miss Custis were unconscious. The witness sent for a physician, superintended the removing of the dead horse from the south track, flagged the south-bound train, and, no physicians having arrived, put the injured on that train and sent ‘them to Washington. continuing, the witness said that the tower men are instructed to have the gates down on the approach of every train. There is a man on duty in the tower at all times, day and night. The witnesses wore satisfied that the gates were open at the time‘of the accident, having been informed by the man on duty in the tower to that effect. No Right to Neglect the Gates. “A man has no right to neglect the gates for the wire, no matter how important a message may be,” declared the witress. “He should operate the gates at all odds. He does not have to leave his seat to oper- Baker was relieved from duty by an oper- ator named Andrews, sent out from this city to take his place at the tower. Miss Custis, who has a large circle of | friends, i ister of Dr. G. B. Custis, who recently left for Canada on a vacation trip. He has been summoned home by telegraph. The family is weil known and aighly con- nected, &@ among the descendants cf George Washington, the first President. A College Instractor. Mr. Claughton was a representative mem- ber of tke District bar. Of late years he has conducted a law partnership with his son, Rudolphe Claughton, their office being on Louisiana avenue, opposite the city hall. He was a typical Virginian, with white, flowing hair, a genial expression of counte- and possessed of a commanding figure. He was a most pleasing talker and Was very popular, both among the lawyers and others of his associates. In the law department of National University he was instructor of the senior class and professor | ate the gate lever. of common law pleading and Cee ae In some cases, so said the witness, the e had been connected with the ; : university for fifteen years. He has served | tWer dispatcher is on duty for tweive counsel in many law cases of note, and | hours straight. The gates should be closed employed as attorney for the claim- | when a train arrives in sight, which is usu- in the well-known Potomac flats liti- | ally half a mile from the station. The road Mr. Claughton was born May 20, | at Deanewood runs diagonally to the track Westmoreland county, Va. As a | and the station there is an obstruction to youth he was energetic, and secured a good | the view of the track. In the opinion of education. When yet a young man he ac-} the witness the man driving the horses did Sompanied Senator Dickson H. Lewis to | not see the train until he was about to be Alabama, ing law there. He went to | struck. St. Marti: st Indies, in 1850, as United | D. M. Reed, the fireman of the train, was States consul, remaining a year, and meet- | on the opposite side of the engine from the ing there the lady who later became his | engineer. He merely saw the horses. fall wife after they had been struck. The engineer sounded the whistle four hundred yards fram the crossing, giving the customury four blasts, two long and two short. The witness rang the bell in the usual manner. The gates were wide open. Towerman Baker's Testimony. Levi T. Baker, the operator in the tow- er, was next called before the jury and was examined at length. His testimony was as follows: “E went on duty at 6:50 o'clock last evening. One train was due at 7.01 and another at 7:02, I was calling the opera- tor at Landover on the wire to get the time that the incoming train passed his station when I heard the train from Wash- ington approaching. I didn‘t hear the whistle. When I heard the noise of the train there was no time to close the gates. The vehicle had approached at a very rapid pace. Had I attempted to lower the gates, when I first heard the train, I would have shut the vehicle in on the tracks. I hal been notified not to keep the gates down long. I worked at Benning some- times and know of a few instances of peo- ple being shut in between the gates. A Very Dangerous Crossing. - “The crossing is a very dangerous place,” continued Baker. “It is too much for one man to look after. In conversation with other operators I have repeatedly zemark- ed that it was only a question of time be- fore somebody would be killed there. The operator is required to be constantly on duty for twelve hours at a stretch. When I first saw the buggy it was forty yrds off and approaching very rapidly. I had no orders to close the gates to the neglect of messages. All the operators of my ac- queintance have expressed the opinion that the work at the Deanewood tower is too nce, Admitied to the Bar. Mr. Claughton subsequently resumed the study of law in Virginia, and in 1854 was admitted to the bar and practiced his pro- fession in Alexandria. At the commence- ment of the civil war he was placed under the supervision of the federal authorities at Washington for some reason not now known, bui was given his liberty on prom- ising to leave the country. He went back to the West Indies and afterward located Demarara. ty at the conclu- sion of his term in the senate, and has re- mained h The deceased was an elder in the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, an earnest worker in church affairs and a teacher of a large class of young ladies. The night before his death he conducted a prayer serv at his church, when he spoke at th regarding the hereafter. Mr. Claughton sat for the photograph, a cut of which is reproduced in The Star, August 9, at the establishment of Mrs. J. D. Merritt, 907 Pennsylvania avenue. On receiving a proof he remarked that the photograph was the best he ever had taken, and left orders for several dozen to be fin- ished today. After the jury had been sworn the re- Mains were reiaoved from the room, and the inquest was adjourned while the jury proceeded to Lee's undertaking establish- ment, on Pennsylvania avenue between 3d and 4's streets. to view and be sworn over the bcdy of Miss Custis. Mr. Franklin H. Mackey was present at the inquest, representing the family of Mr. Claughton. Mr. Willian, chief clerk to the general agent of the Pennsylvania railroad, was also in attendance. Mr. John Ridout was present in the interest of Dr. Custis, and several other attorneys were among the interested listeners to the testi- Seo Sins 3 senna : much for one man. One operator stationed me my ws In WHS STeCORAtE (by aittow OF | seg vec thar eeaipare oor ar eeeeoued An unusual feature of the Inquest was | raise FE spews as the work was so great. the understanding at the commencement Saw the buggy and the train about the same time. Gate's Machinery in Poor Condition. “Had I heard the whistle I would have jumped up immediately. I did not hear the bell. I couldn’t cperate the gates from my seat. In order to do £0 it is necessary to rise and walk three feet. The gates are very unwieldy and have been broken a thousend times, I guess. While the train wes approaching I was occupied in the telegraphing.. The rules require that the tcwer man shall hold the signals with his hends cntil the trains pass. I couldn’t do that and operate the gates also. The facis are I had to receive .wo messages, operate the signals and lower the gates at the same time. “It is customary,” Baker went on to say, “to have two men stationed at such a crosying as the one at Deanewood. There have been several narrow escapes there to my knowledge.” The Story of an Eye-Witnes: Joshua P. Disney, the track foreman, whe resides at Deanewcod, was an eye witness of the occurrence. As Disney wis standing in the yerd in front of his house the vehicle in which was Mr. Claughton end Miss Custis passed. The witness spoke to them, and a mo- ment later heard.a train approaching. hallocd. to them “Look out!" But of the proceedings that ail the witnesses weuld be employes cf the railroad com- pany. The Inquest Commenced. ‘The inquest was commenced today at Speare’s undertaking establishment. After all the available wi $s nad been ex- amined the coroner, at the suggestion of assistant District Attorney Hugh T. Tag- gart, adjourned the hearing until Monday afternoon 1 o'clock in order hat the occurrence may be more fully investigated and more testimony perhaps produced. Mr. Harvey Given of the district attorney's office was also present. Assistant District Attorney Taggart took an active part in the proceedings. Coroner Carr placed jury, the following: W brodt, William $. Gi! heim, George T. Berry, Washington Top- ham and Samuel Bricker. The coffin containing the body of Mr. Claughton was uncovered and the jury sworn directly around the remains: In no sense was the body mangled or disfigured to any extent. Dr. Ruffin” Describes: Wounds. Dr. Sterling Ruffin of 1023 Vermont ave- nue was the first witness. He testified that he had made an examination of the bodies of Mr. Claughton and Miss Custis. Both were considerably bruised. On the remains of Mr. Claughton were found a lacerated wound of the left tem- ple, a slight depression of the skull and bruises on tne cheeks, hands and other por- tions of the body. Below the left ear is a bruise, and back of the ear is an abrasion, beneath which there may possibly be a fracture of the skull. The knees and feet were also injured. The body of Miss Custis was also badly cut and bruised. The cause of death in both cases in the opinion of: the witness was violent shock. Enginer Cockley on the Stand. John A. Cockley of 1635 North avenue, Baltimore, the engineer of the train that struck the vehicle, was next called. The under oath, as a’ viliam Ferdinand Clayton Bern- the Fatal . He they did not heed the warning. Mr. Claughton was driving fast and the gates were open. The witness did not hear the whistle, and he could not state positively whether the bell on the engine was or not. In his opinion the occupants of the vehicle heard the train before reaching the track. . The witness saw the operator in the tower rise and start hurriedly toward the gate lever, but it was then too late. When crossing at Deancwood danger ree wine crossing at news us, the wit- ness replied that, in his “opinion, all rail- road crossings are dangerous, . Adjourned to Monday. Joseph Suell, in charge of the baggage car of the New York train, was positive, so he testified, that the whistle was blown, but he did not hear the bell. heard a bell - He could not state customary point, and his fireman rang the | positively that was train. bell. The witness caught a glimpse of the Fos Ht. Cougte, fi a of the Gain: Seocoen, aftnche ta: tes see ee john, Norwood in of the bag- = ‘ - . the train at that time was just about the |W. smith i wagon dciven; eee THE. EVENING STAR, ‘SATURDAY, ‘AUGUST 21, 1897— AGES. BONA-FIDE CIRCULATION. _ @ reference to the statement be- low will show that the circulation sSwork to ia a bona fide one. - It fs easity possible for a news- paper with an elastic conscience to Swell its legitimate circulation enor+ mously, in order to deceive adver-~ tisers, by sending- out thousands of Papers to newsstands, which are re-_ turnable, and which are in fact re- turned, but nevertheless are in- cluded in what purports_to be an honest statement of circulation. Intelligent advertisers, however, Judge by results, and bogus circula- tions don’t give them. - The family circulation of The Star is many tnousands in excess of any other Washington paper. DE NEWS BY WIRE Presidential Party Baok at Blaff Point? > wc New York. Punishment Meted Out to the Man Who Stole Law Books. Plea Made by the Accused That He ‘Was Out of Work and Hungry. They ‘WilE4G8 to Buffalo Tuesday to G A. R. Reunion. Thomas W. Lloyd, who was arrested yes- terday, today pleaded guilty before Judge Kimball of stealing a law volume from the law_library of Congress, and was given the maximum sentence, eleven months and twenty-nine days in jail. Mr. George F. Curtis, custodian of the lew library, stated that the robberies of books from the Capitol have been going on for a long time, some of the most costly volumes having been taken. In one in- stance a book which cost the government $400, and cannot be replaced because it is now out of print, was stclen, and another one. which cost $90 wzs stolen: The ag- giegate of the thefts would, he said, reach Many thousands of dollars. So annoying had the larcenies become to those in charge that when the congression- al committee investigated the conduct of the library some months ago Mr. Curtis asked that steps be taken to check the leaks, suggesting that each person getting a book from the library give a receipt for it, and when he returned it get back his 1€ceipt. From some cause, however, which cannot b2 clearly explained, the committee took no action on Mr. Curtis’ suggestio, and the depredations continued. Several months ago suspicion began to at- tach to Lloyd, and a watch was set to catch him. He, however, skillfully eluded the net until yesterday, when one of the attaches ot the library noticed that Lloyd when going away from tke building seemed to be of abnormal size about the waist. The matter was at once reported to the officer in charge, who sent Capitol Police- man Adams after Lloyd and arrested him a short distance away. Upon being taken back to the library Mr. Curtis had a talk with Lloyd. The latter confessed, telling where he had left the books for sale, and upon visiting those places several volumes were recovered by Mr. Curtis. Other books which had been stolen by Lloyd were found in his room. . Upon being questioned by Judge Kimball as to his reasons for stealing the books, Lloyd said it was because he could get no employment, and was hungry. Judge Kimball asked Lloyd if he did not lose his position in the library because of drink, and he admitted that such was the case. In passing sentence the court said he re- garded the crime of which Lloyd had pleaded guilty as deserving of the severest punishment, and he then imposed the penalty as above stated. > FILED 4 CAVEAT. a MRS. HOBART IN POORHEALTH BLUFF POINT, N. Y., August 21.—Sec- retary of War Alger came back here with the Pfesident today, and will stay until the party leaves. The President arrived at 7 o'clock this morning, but being fatigued after his trip, remained in the private car until a late hour. Gen. Alger said that the present pro- gram ofthe President is to leave here on Tuesday ‘morning at 2 o'clock and go through to Buffalo on a special train, ar- riving there about 2 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. Dr. Depew’s private car will be reserved for. the use of the President and his immediate party, while a combina- tion car will serve for the other guests. The party will go via Albany instead of by the Saratoga and ScHenectady route. Albany will be reached by 7 a.m., but no stop beyond switching time will be made. Ethan A. Hitchcock of St. Louis, Mo., the newly appoiated minister to Russia, arrived here today. He did not get a chance to see the President until nearly ncon. He said: “I came here as soon as i received my commission to pay my re- sfects to the President and ask his wishes as to my departure.” Mr. Hitchcock’s appointment dates from Avgust 16. Vice President and Mrs. Hobart were Lumbered among the missing when Pre: dent McKinley returned. Mrs. Hobart has for the past few days been in poor health and he: physicians believed she would im- Frove more ravidly at home. Upon this advice it was decided yesterday to return to New Jersey, and the vice presidential party left oa a late afternoon train. It is expected that they will return later to finish out the season. Later the President, Mrs. McKinley, Mrs. Abner McKinley, Miss McKinley, Secre- tary of War Alger, Mrs. Alger and Miss Alger, after witnessing dress parade by the soldiers of the nearby pest, took a special train for Port Henry, to be the guests of Frank Witherbee. —————— GOVERNMENT’S GREAT LOSS. Circulation of The “Eve SATURDAY, August 14, 1897..... MONDAY, August 16, 1897. TUESDAY, August 17, 1897... WEDNESDAY, August 18, 1897. THURSDAY, August 19, 1997 FRIDAY, August 20, 1607... Total... 165,091 Daily average. 27,515 I solemnly swear that the above statement rep- Tesents only the number of coples of THE EVEN- ING STAR circulated during the six secular days ending Friday, August 20, 1897—that is, the num- ber of copies actually ‘sold, delivered, furnish- ed or mailed, for valuable consideration, to bona fide purchasers or subscribers, and that none of the coples so counted are returnable to or remain in the office unsold. J. F. NEWBOLD, Supt. Circulation Evening Star Newspaper Co. Subscribed and sworn to before me this twenty-first day of August, A. D. 1897. fi HENRY E. COOPER, Notary Public, D. C. called, but their testimony had no ma- terial bearing on the facts in the case. At the suggestion of the district attorney the inquest was at this point adjourned until Monday afternoon. An Investigation to Be Made. Assistant District Attorney Taggart ex- plained this afterrcon to a Star reporter tkat he suggested a postponement of the irquest until Morday, in crder to allow more time in wiich to investigate the cause as well as the nature of the aczl- dent. As to whether there will or will not be any criminal prosecuticn, Mr. Taggart said he could not row well say. But, he fur- ther explained, no matter what the ver- dict of the coroner's jury might be, it would not, in any sense, be binding upon or preclude the grand jury from investigating the killing of Judge Claughton and Miss Custis. Mr. Taggart also stated that should it appear that their death was the result of negligence, the person or persons respon- sible therefor would, of course, be prose- cuted. Over Two Hundred Millions on De- precingion of Silver. The loss to this government by reason of. the depreciation in the value of silver since the purchases made under the Bland-Alli- son law of 1878 and the Sherman law of 1890 amounts, it 1s said, to $221,588,178. The total amount of silver bought under the two laws was 450,946,701 ounces, cost- ing $44,210,202. The average price pcr ounce paid-fer the silver was $1.0093. The price of bax; silver in New York is 52% cents pér oumce, thus reducing the present commegtial Walue of the metal bought by Mrs, Annie Lester Proposes to Con- test Her Husband's W Amelia E. Lester today, throvgh her at- torneyz, Messrs. Tallmadge A. and Wil- ton J. Lambert. filed in the Probate Court a caveat to the will of her husband. the late Morgan H. Lester, who died in this city in May last. The caveat alleges that the pretended will is not the real last will and testament of Morgan H. Lester, and that if executed at all was procured by the undue influence, importunities and threats of one Mary E. Williams, or some other person cr persons, at present unknown to the caveator, and prays that the paper writing may be refused probate and that Great Sorrow Among Lawyers. the United States. to $242,622,084.89. ares eo ae an certified No court was in open session today at the | | The difference between this present value | to the Circ Sen Beats “dclo'ane 2: and thé afgount paid for the silver repre- shed Ee 2 city hall, and hence the formal announce- | $70 the, sount Dold for tne Suxet, Tere" | 1s92, and purports to leave the enilre es. ment of judge Claughton’s death was | ment if all‘the silver purchased should be | tate, sald to be worth about $25,000, to not made. His death occasioned great sor- | sold at'the price of silver today. are RUD tei crete la pede row in legal circles, and upon the meeting | ‘There. Sstif{remain in the treasury more | While it is Mege: sen eau Wetec aaoe of court Monday his demise will be an- | than 112000,000 uncoined ounces of silver, | tet Were not married u ‘ebraary, 1897. 3 purchased ufder the act of 1890, at a cost Spear ae aceon’ nounced by Mr. F. H. Mackey, his intl- | 07'sio4-as1,07625. ‘The Jose on this’ bullion WILL BE INVESTIGATED. mate friend for many years. Next month | signe, * t basis of today’s price, is zz President Henry E. Davis of the District ‘ . The Case of a Captain Said to Have Ignored Quarantine Regulations. Surgeon General Wyman has referred to the bureau of navigation the case of the captain of the steamship Romola, said to have entered the capes outside Norfolk without reporting for quarentine inspection. The case will be investigated, and if need be prosecuted. The officer of the quarantine service at Old Point Comfort reports that the ship entered direct from Madiera, but unofficial reports say she first touched at Philadel- phia ,in which case a second quarantine inspection would not be necessary. There is no infection at Madeira, but this is one of the cases in which the marine hospital service enforces the quarantine laws rigidly. 2+ Power of the Western Farmer. Michael G. Mulhall in North American Review. One- hand in the prairie states raises as much food as five can do in the most ad- vanced countries of Europe, and this is evi- dently due in great measure to the use of improved agricultural machinery, for it is a strange fact that the reaping hook is still seen in some parts of England, France and Germany. Nor is this the only advantage pcssessed by the western farmer, for land can be purchased much more cheaply than in the eastern states, and at less than one- third the prices in Europe. Such has been the industry of the western farmers that their wealth has increased ninefold in forty years, the value of farms in the twelve prairie states in 1890 being equal to the agricultural wealth of the Austrian empire. ‘We find. that during the said forty years the average number of persons engaged in farming, according to census reports, was 1,930,000, the increase in farming wealth having been _ $7,596,000,000, or $190,000,000 per annum; that ts to say, each farming bend increased the public wealth by $99 a year. Three prairie farmers possess as much wealth as four French, six German, or thirteen Austrian farmers, while their taxes are much lighter, and they are free from military service. ——_+-e+___ Eugenie’s “Grandson.” From the Philadelphia Record. Ex-Empress Eugenie recently arrived in Perlis, to be present at the examination of her grandson at the Military Academy of St. Cyr. Those who have seen the future officer of ertiliery say that he locks very much like his father, Prince Louis, who was killed in 1879 by the Zulus. The youns man is now nineteen years old, 2nd goes by the name of Wallie Kelly. His history iz interesting. His mother was a daughter of a London tailor, and a teacher by pro- fession. It is clatned that Prince Louis and Miss Kelly were secretly married, but tkere is no proof of this. Miss Kelly sub- sequently becume the wife of a gardener, and ts now living in Australia. Upon the death of her son, the ex-empress placed ber grandson at school in Paris, whither she frequently goes to visit him. —— Spotting Tobacco Leaves. From the Hartford Post. .This summer's tobacco crop in New Eng- land is likely to produce a papery, lght- bedied leaf of smaller size than usual. The buyers ordinarily regard such as unde- sirable and find it difficult to market it Bar Association will call a meeting of the | P€@*l¥ $99,00(,000, association to take appropriate action up- on Judge Claughton’s death. Judge Claughton’s Jewelry Missing. When Undertaker Speare turned over to Coroner Carr the effects of the dead man, he noticed that there was no watch and chain among them, and he also noticed that one of his cuff buttons was missing. The absence of the cuff button was easily ex- plained, for one of the cuffs, too, had dis- appeared. Thinking the body may have been robbed before it was turned over to him, Mr. Speare sent word to Inspector Mattingly of the absence of the articles of jewelry. He could not tell. just how the articles had disappeared, but he made the report because it was a matter for the po- lice to investigate. When Inspector Mattingly received the report he detailed Defectives Rhodes and Horne to make the investigation. The of- ficers went to see the undertaker and after- ward they went out to Deanewood to make a hunt for the missing articles and ascer- tain what they could about the handling of the body. About 3 o'clock this afternoon the de- tectives returned to headquarters and re- ported that they had been unable to find any trace of the missing articles of jewelry. They made a search of the ground aboat the crossing at Deanewood, and also ques- tioned persons who were about there soon after the affair happened. Although they were unable to learn anything this after- noon they have not abandoned the investi- gation, but will do all in their power to find the articles lost. Many Bodies Are Robbed. Undertaker Speare, in conversation with a Star reporter, said that in a large num- ber of cases where death occurs in this way the bodies are robbed, and he cited a robbery of the kind taat occurred in New York only a short time ago. So far as the cuff button was concerned, he did not believe it had been stolen, but he thought it was torn from the sleeve of the shirt when the sad affair happened. And he said it is possible that the watch and chain fared the same fate, and if they are all found in the dirt near the deadly crossing it will not be at all sur- prising. No Report From the Detectives. Inspector Mattingly sald he had not heard from the officers since they started out to make the investigation. He thinks that it is not ‘mprobable that some friend of the deceased took the watch and chain from the body to give it to the family, or he thinks the articles ‘of jewelry may be in the dirt somewhere near the scene cf the killing. He also thinks that it is pos- sible that they were stolen. Until the de- tectives make a report nothing definite will be known. Disposition of the Bodles. The body of Mr. Claughton was removed this afternoon from the undertaker’s to the family residence, 1740 P street. Although the arrangements have not yet been con- sidered very fully, the funeral, in all prob- ability, will take place Monday morning at 11 o'clock. The remains of Miss Custis are still at Lee's undertaking establishment.. No par- ticulars im regard to the funeral have been, arranged. ‘AIN IN THE SERVICE. Sydnor, an v * Army. Nurse. The reinstatement of Miss Ellen F. Syd- nor tq the government priating office is particularly interesting from the fact that it was through the influence brought to bear upon the President by Senators Hoar, Lodge and others that permitted such a- tionc through an amendment of civil serv- ice rule IX, which Mr. McKinley ordered just before leaving the city. ’Fhe rule as amended permits the re- instatement in thé classified service of army nurses on the same terms as ex-sol- diers, Miss Sydnor was a nurse during the war, and as such was stationed at Winchester, Va., her family being stanch unionists during the war, with the result that ‘they lost their home and property through their loyalty. Miss Sydnor was remoyed from the government printing of- fice September 7, 1804. 2 _The Permit Denied. Several days ago application was made to the Commissioners for a permit to dis- pcnse from @ wagon stationed at different points about the streets lunches and eat- ables for the benefit of the all-nighters. The proposition was to keep this wagon on the streets from sunset to sunrise. It has been found, however, that the Commission- ers are without authority to grant suc! permission, because it would amount to th occupancy of public spaces for private pur- poses, and this is denied by the law. ——— 3 Consul General Osborne Here. Judge L. W. Osborn2 of Nebraska, the new consul general to Apia, Samoa, was at the State Department today receiving in- structions. He will leave for his post about September 16. ————o._ One Marringe License Today. A marriage license was issued today to Kennie E. Corban and Florence Taylor, both of Harrisonburg, Va. ~ ——.__. Bail Not Satisfactory. Counsel for Mildred Campbell, the col- ored womancommitted to jail early this month by the coroner to await the action of the grind jury on a charge of having been responsible for the death of Mrs. Abbie Comphoer, through the performance of a criminal operation, yesterday after- noon made another unsuccessful attempt to secure the woman's release on bail. They, offered as .bondsmen Martin Vv. Webb and Wm. H. Horseman in the sum of $2,500, but. they were not satisfactory to the district attorney, and Judge Bradley refused to accept either of them. [= See Breach inthe Satdy Hook Peninsula. Gen. J. M Wilson, chief of engineers, has réturnéd from Seabright, N.J. He went there ‘Thursday afternoon, and yesterday Hel@a public hearing on the ieee ta ae closing the breach in the r Peninsula. Congress appro- printed $9000 to close the breach it 1 oe There will be a meeting of the graduates | thought best by the War ent. Ar- and students of the National University made for and against by | readily for wrapper purposes. As a result Law School Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock will make | “spotting of tobacco” in the field is now guments ca many General Wilson to take appropriate action on the death of | ® Tepgjt. toy le Secretary of War. the late Judge H. O. Claughton. A large orth —— 2 attendance is requested. % Erge Anxicus to Meet Hawkins. NEW YORK, August 2t—Frank’Erne of juffal with a challenge to “Dal” ee i twenty rounds at 128 poungs wi) a Beton’ the lub offering the best induce- ment apes $< ‘The Late Patrick O’Callaghan’s ‘Will. The will of the late Patrick O'Callaghan, dated August 11, 1897, ard naming John J. Dolan as executor, was filed today. To the widow of the testator, Mary B. O’Calla-. ~ ghan, all household effects and stock in aa : the store corner of 224 and I streets’ are’| /Imaustrial School Boys Escape. given. House 501 20th street is given to | _ Superinten Simpson of the Laurel . her for life, and at her death it is to go to | industrial ol, at Glen ‘Allen, Va., noti- the testator’s children, Walter, Matthew, Patrick, William, Martin, John and Eliza |’ as tenants in con-mon. . ~ a | | i Ei H furnished in either ickel-plated, a = ‘move in them can LLOYD COMMITTED TO JAIL }- JUDGE PUGH’S TRIAL DAY. Three Pelleemen Hefore Him on ax Varicty of Charges. There were three cases tried before Judge Pugh today, the first involving charges against Detective B. T. Rhodes. It was alleged tha: he bad given aid and advice to Victor Goyer to the detriment and dis- advantage of Mrs. Dora Weisser. The com- plaint was made by Mrs. Weisser. who keeps 2 boarding house at No. 2924 Bright- Wood avenue. Judge Pugh inquired in what manner the officer's conduct had resulted in any disadvantage to her, and she sald she did not know. “There's nothing in this case,” remarked the judge, and the detective was told that it was not necessary for him to make a statement. The case of Policeman J. W. Burroughs of the third precinct, against whom there was a charge of failure to pay an alleged indebtedness of $40 to Dr. John A. Mc- , a dentist, was next called. “Not guilty” was the surprising plea of the officer, for Judge Pugh held a copy of a judgment against him for the amount mentioned and costs. The policeman thus called upon or an explanation, declared he had paid the bill in full and showed a receipt which so stated. The account, he said, was contracted be- fore he became a member of the police farce, and this, Judge Pugh said, settled the matter, for a debt incurred before he had become a policeman could not be con- sidered. Mounted Policeran William H. West was charged with having failed to pay a debt after making a promise to Major Moore that he would do so. The bill was a balarce of $6.30, and he owed it to a blacksmith for shoeing his horse. He said he had done the best he could with the means at his command. His promise to settle the account next pay day was satisfactory. a LINE AND STAFF DISPUTE. Acting Seeretary Roosevelt is known to be giving consideration to a pian for set- tling the lamertable controversy between the line and staff of the navy. The plan, of course,will have to be adopt- ed by the Navy Depariment and enacted into law by Congress. The proposition, it is said, involves the amalgamation of the line and engineer corps and the ultimate dissolution of the latter. Existing condi- tions, however, will not be changed. The officers at present in the engineer corps, with the possible exception of those who have just entered that branch of t service, will remain as engineers. The same is true of those who are now line oifi- cers, but it is proposed to change the course of study at the Naval Academy sx as to give every cadet a thorough and practical knowledge of steam engineering, which will be equal to that which is now imparted to the engineering cadets. Ther> will be no line or engineering branch, and upon graduation the men will bé assigned below at the engines. There is to be a corps of parsed assistant and chief engi- neers, the members of which shall volun- teer for the duty after having reached the grade of lieutenant, junior grade. ————_e___ Predominant Amerten: From the New York Ti Some interesting testimony to the irre- sistible tendency to race assimilation in American cities is being furnished by New- ark, N. J. Newark has for years been dis- tinguished for its large German population and the tenacity displayed by these resi- dents in holding to their national language and customs. The city supports two Ger- man morning newspapers, and they are the only morning newspapers in the town. ‘Time and again attempts have been made to run an English morning daily, but with- out success. For forty years schools for German children have been supported with ves view to perpetuating Teutonic solidar- There, if anywhere, it would seem as if race distinctions would be preserved. A large German population, with its social circles, German newspapers and German schools, has done all that could be done to keep the younger generation from following after the strange gods cf Americanism. But it is all to no purpose. A force stronger than national pride, family feeling or personal will makes the Newark boy of German parentage an American in speech and habit in spite of his friends or himself. There are still four schools in Newark where Germans may send their children upon payment of a small monthly fee, but these fees are not sufficient to pay their ex- penses. The Newark German Association, which supports one of these schools, held @ meeting the other night, the school teach- er handed in his resignation, and the presi- dent of the association declared that the school must fail unless renewed interest in Teutonism could be aroused. The reasons given for the falling off of interest were the excellence of the public schools. which offered free books and free tuition, and a growing American spirit among the Ger- mans, which steadily overcame the in viduality once so strong among them. The association determined to put forth ex- traordinary effort for its school, though it was recognized that attempts to maintain the old national life must in the end be fruitless in the face of the feeling for American nationality, which becomes more and more predominant in all public and private affairs, —+-o-+___ Low Water Alarm, From Science. An apparatus for sending an electric alarm when the water in a boiler sinks to the danger limit consists of a mercury tube incased in a metal fitting an@ attaca- ed to the boiler by a pipe and elbow in- serted at low water level. Two platinum wire ends are let into the sides of the tube above the normal position of the mercury, one being attached to the fitting and the other to the insulated binding screw at the top, there being thus but one wire to the bell and battery. Se long as the water is high enough it maintains its position in the pipe, and the mercury is kept below the wire ends, but should the water fall be- low the line the pipe fills with steam, the mercury rises above the wire ends, and an electrical circuit is formed and the alarm bell sounds continuously until the water is agair above the danger line. It matters little what it is that you want —whether a situation or a servant—a “want” ed. in The Star will reach the person who can fiil your need. Grain and Cotton Markets. Furnished by W.-B. Hibbs & Co., bankers and brokers, 1427 F st, members New York stock exchange, cerrespondents Messrs. Ledenburg, Thalmann & Co., New York. GRAIN. High. Low. Close. o 1.00 eae fH hE sa 88 kB a! 89T 897 850 8.50 46 470 46 467 430 482 480 — 5.30 587 5.80 30 COTTON, ‘Open. Low. Close. 62 7. Cos 6m 681 6S 68l 684 671 673 66 6.73 G4 675 GTl 67 Sp ESS APES Baltimore Markets. _ i 21.—Floar = FINANCE AND TRADE Bears Make a Concerted Plan to Raid the Stock Market. FRACTIONAL DECLINES Short Interest of Considerable Pro- portions Was Established. GENERAL MARKET REPORTS Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, August 21.—Bfforts to de- press prices and force liquidation w corsplcuous features of the opening hour this morning. Violent fluctuations in the wheat market supplied the incentive to further manipulations in the interest of lower prices. Fractional declines from a steady opening level were all that these efforts accomplished, however, and cl prices were strong at substantial from the final transactions of yesterday. The vague but intensely popular idea that a reaction was due has been paraded during the entire week in the face of most gratifying returns from all commercial and jon from business centers. The rea week's high level may be 1} uted to the withholding of s fluential interasts tn order tha: the pro- fessional element might be free to yield to the popular prejudice against early week prices. Weekly margined holdings have been forced out and a short interest of « siderable proportions established. The buying on a scale down has been tionally good, and this fact, coup probable increases in earnings, prompt a movement against the short in terest. during the coming week, which should restore record price: Fears of overdoing were some circles and realizing wa’ to the extent of insisting on th of overstocked specu fears having been overcome, more take the place of sentiment and 5 wiative forebodings. The quotations for spot wheat the n- exy ticularly those recorded for the option, have reached an obje Y normal corditions should prevail in the wheat market toward the middle 9i the coming week. This return would be beneficial to the s: kets. The weekly trades reports are all en- ecuraging. Railroads report uniform tn- creases in traffic, the cereal export move- ment exceeding in volume the best record for the same period in several rs. and back clearings have been liberal in volume Manufacturing is awakening to the d- n.ands incident to the growing prospert of the farmer. No one seriously doubts the existence of a wheat crop sufficient ‘0 add at least 1 p. ent to the divide: rates of the roads conveying it to the sea- board. That the wheat will be shipped is evi- denced by a glance at the returns from the farming centers of Europe. The coal properties are relied upon to reflect increasing prosperity from now on, and will rival the grangers in popularity Reading issues closed particularly strong, and are believed to be in position to profit by the settlement of the soft coal strike. ‘The leading financial interest is openly working to control the field for coal of both © The bank statement is generally encour- aging, a gain of $2,222,000 in lawfal money and an increase of nearly $3,500,000 in lozns being its special features. The net result 0; all changes, including an tn of $5,407,5% in deposits, is an Increa PS in the reserve, bringing that ite up to $39,753,450. ‘The increase in loaas is believ sent the arrangements, tioned, for time accomm: fons to he in stock market operations. All things coasidercd, the course of prices during the week must be r couraging. Concerted action in the ° tion of improvement has never failed of substantial results,whereas professional at- tacks have been attended wita only irre cu- lar and temporary depression. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. The following are the opening, the h est and the lowest and the closing prices the New York stock market today, as r ported by Corson & Macarine: New York stock exchange. Cor Messrs. Moore & Schley, No. Si Open. High. American Spirits... 34, By American § aes b os a ed American Sugar, pid 165 ye American Tobacco... wy “By Aterican Cotion Ol, - See . Atehison....... 2. 14% 14 Baltimore & Omid. $ Bay State Gas... Delaware & Hudson... Den. & Rio Grande, ptd Generai flectric. Mlinois Central. ¢ Shore... ; Louisville & Nashvilie.. Metropolitan Traction... Manhattan Elevated. . Northern Pacitte, pfd. Ont. & Western. Washington Stock Exchange. Sales—regular call--12 o'clock m.-—Preuma*t Gun Carriage, 100 at 60 cents. Lanstow ye, 1 at 16, 35 at 16, 13 at 1: District of Columbian Bonds. 20-year Pund % 101 bid. 30-year Fund. gold 63, 112 bid. Wi Stock currency 7s, 1901, 113 bid.’ Water Stock 7s, 1908, bid. Fund. ‘carrency Metropolitan ey ru iF nles.--Washingtom American Se- Washinstoa F i f #8 if i i fe A I i a ; a