Evening Star Newspaper, August 24, 1897, Page 1

THE EVENING ee PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDiNGS, 3101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. 11th St., by The Evening Star Newspaper Com ce ees ae New York Ofice, 49 Potter Building. ‘The Evening Star ts served to subscribers in the y carriers, on thelr ow eck, or 44 cents per o ts each. By 1 anywhere in the or Cenada—postage prepaid—50 eents - Quintuple Sheet Star, $1 per year, with © adiied. $3.00. at Washington, D. C., st he paid in advance, known on application. Che Zvening Stat. No. 13,878. WASHINGTON, D. ©. TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1897—TEN PAGES TWO CENTS BEFORE GRAND JURY 2. The Deanewood Disaster to Be Rig- idly Investigated. VIEWS OF U. 8. ATTORNEY TAGGART Strict Justice to Be Meted Out to the Guilty Party. NOW JURY IN VACATION The Custis at the Deanewood cro ning will be I when that bod killing of Judge Claughton and Miss ng last Fri- d before the grand embles after the day « jur: usual summer recess, the 15th of next me so stated today Assistant District Attorney Hugh T. Taggart, who is acting as district attorney in the absence of Dis- trict Attorney Henry E. Davis. And.” explained Mr. Taggart to a Star reporter, “whoeve ponsible for the eeath of Judge Claughton and Miss Custis, whether he holds a humble or exalted position, will he called to account for that nee which appe of the disaster.” le iz to have use re: Who the on may be, ¢ <i Mr. ‘aggart, may be some difficult to determine. but he stated that the grand jury's inquiry will be a most sear ne, and he has no doubt that perhaps several persons, may be i for manstlav Th hter. Case Intric continued Mr. Taggart, “is and many perplexin; tedly ar But some- uestionably responsible, for anning the road, cne who it to supply employes and applianc sh the result of op- te. tricate on ns will wi un iy some ¢ is require: nec eratin: ad tr cting the com- pany’s H with that degree of kill, prudence and care required by law. Now, it appears that that degree of skill und care was not a und to be at ve to answer.” erved ault, high or art explained that while thi mpany might be indicted for maintaining dangerous nuisance at Deanewooud, and nished, if found guilty, by the sequestra- on of its property, i ation, be ind nough c ployes laughier, if found to be criminally re- ng the result of the col- ion to be first determined ry who to blame said Mr. Ta that wh¢re a railw: he right: in ed in law a must, of ¢ But the f. nt inst plained from th a de 3 trav- yield the right of -t that the company in the had the right of vy did “not_ relie ibility of exerci prudence and care dangerous condition ng in of skill, to the ng. Reasonable Care. id Mr. Taggart, “what is rable care and pruden 2 depends upon umstances of each particular case, quote an eminent authority, ‘When peculiarity of construction of the on account of the conformation land, steepness of grade or sharp- curve nger is augmented, © cire S peculiariy within nowle mpany; and im- nal care on the » the compan wood cross- indeed, the by placing bound to Kill ay the public. would n, and it is re- and the employe or em- f negligence are responsible om of Pessibilities Suggested. continued Mr. Taggart, » for passing the cross- f speed. The tele- ble for fail- ing to lowe his superior offi- be responsible for placing upon ies which caused him to neglect of lowering the gates or made it e for him to lower them in time. the other hand, it employe high official or officials be. Then, again, wat where one ‘« at such ph £ rate respon: of the company not be forgotten to do that whic Marine Hospits ports to the United States marine ice from the various part te a general of ernicious fevers in the island * corresponding increase of yellow fever. Dr. Brunner inspector at Havena, says in t that the on of the jon of affairs is de- he says, “of all these condi- which are supposed to favor ad of yellow fever, it would appear y table in this report that is decreast The appe previous report, Yr are being ab- Ase reai. As stated in a ths from yellow fev "y those credited to other diseases. tary hospitals are filled with pa- and it is a well-known prought to the hospitals in and d the city suffering from some other . Will invariably develop yellow fever ion if there is not a his- a previous tack. noticed from the mortality table © deaths from enteric fever and per- fever are, together, In excess of oceurring from yellow fever, while tal or paludal fever caused’ seven The mortality from all causes ch week a steady increase and cor- respondingly increased ratio per 1,000. zo, Dr. Caminero, re- ports the héaith conditions as slightly ‘m- proved at that place, but he predicts that “the arrival ef fresh troops will certainly revive the destructive work of the y r Dr. Caminero also states th 2 reliable Information that “the sickness mortality in the village near Santiago are appalling. Cristo, with a population of 2.0), has from three to five deaths daily.” He adds, “Yellow fever among the soldiers is causing many deaths.” , Recent Navy Orders. Orders issued at the Navy Department tcday are as follews: J. Brooks, appoint- €d pay clerk on the Indiana; Andrew Gaft- rey, pay clerk on the Texas; appointment of Pay Clerk J. Direkinck on the Indiana revoked: Passed Assistant Engineer G. W. McElroy, detailed to the Clemson Agricul- tural College, at Fort Hill, S. C: ct that pa- | JERSEY SWEPT BY FLOODS Serious Damage to Railroads at Many Points in the State. Washouts Cause Delays on Nearly All Lines—Salamander Brick Works Seriously Injured. NEW YORK, August 24—A terrific rain storm between 2 and 3 o'clock this mo ing caused considerable damage in New Jersey. In many secticns it was the heav- iest rain in years. There were several serious washouts along the main line of the ie railroad. Trains were delayed from various points, and arrived in the Jersey City depot nearly an hour late. At Carl- stadt the water from the hills washed sand and gravel on the tracks of the New Jer- sey and New York railroad. Trains were staled until the gravel and mud were re- moved. Fer a time only the west-bound tracks could be used. The tracks on the meadows between Carlstadt and Jersey City were submerged, and the trains had to run very slcwly. The tracks west of the Bergen tunnel were also partly under water, and at one time several of the inward-bound trains were stalled there. At Passaic the streets in many places were flooded. There was a bad washout on the Erie railroad near the Passaic bridge. The tracks were carried away, and there were no trains between 5:40 and 8:30 between Rutherford and Passaic. ‘The Rahway river rose eight feet higher than the high water mark, and was four feet higher than when the big storm oc- curred four weeks ago. The lowland about Rahway were flooded, and conside ble damage was done. There were fears that the Irving street bridge at Rahway would be carried away, but it stood the strain. Boats were in use to cross streets in the lower section of Rahway, where in places the water was four and five feet deep. People living in the streets near the iver were ta of the second floors of their resid . as the water was in some pl. higher than the middle of the front doors. x The water from the river backed up to Irvington and Hamilton streets to a depth of fifteen feet. Water in the Reg'na Music 3ox Company building was four ine higher than the main floor, where much stock was kept. ; At Atwood bridge, four miles from Rah- way, the Salamander brick works were fleoded. The water undermined the large kiln and caused a loss of $50,000. —— AR ADULTERATION. A Matter That Promises to Develop Considerable Interest. Apropos the investigatio which the chemist of the District has begun to de- termine whether impure foods are being sold by merchants of the city, officials of the general government are interested in a fight going on in Ohio. The government has already had something to say in the . So has the Netherlands government. Three grocers of Columbus, Ohio, were recently arrested and are soon to be tried on the charge of selling Dutch sugar al- leged to be adulterated with ultramarine blue. The arrests were made at the in- nee of the pure food commissioner of the state. These sugass enter in- to competition with the product of the American Sugar Refining Company. A New York firm of importers of Dutch sugar complained to the charge d'affaires of the Netherlands gevernment that the prosecutions were instigated by the sugar trust with a view of driviag Dutch sugars ALLEGED SU out of the market. The Netherlands government last month «asked the State De} t to investigate the matter, if pos ant Seer Adee commu- nicated to the gove that a United S: permitted to assis of the sugars cla: After consider tween the pure food comm! sioner of Ohio on one hand and the State and Treasury Department on the o' Nether- lands government ur for the sugars from that count Ohio com- nt samples to At the same missioner Department. commissione however, treasury chemists might act in ihe interest of the sugar importers of New York, and stated that he had five competent chemists under him. Of the two samples which wer® sent here, one was turned over to the Department of Agriculture to be examined by its chemist - other was sent io the government is ached to the office of the United S appraiser at the port of New York. ‘he Ohio commissioner has insisted on a ‘Treasury me the Ohio ninted that the mpt report being made, and this bas en promised. Should the reports of the chemists be adverse to the sugar the mat- ter will be referred griculture, who ha: ps looking to the to the Secretary of © power to take destraction of fcod products known to contam matter in- jurious to the public health. A report favorable to the sugars may not end the matter, as the importe’s of Dutch sugars and the sugar trust ippear to be ready to fight each other to the hitter end. The representative of the Netherlands views the matter with deep concern, as he ean- not afford to have the trade of his country injured. ——_-e+-__ WILL NOT BE MOVED. Internat Revenue Collector's to Remain at Richmond. The office of the internal revenue collec- tor of the second district of Virginia will not be removed from Richmond to Peters- burg unless the Treasury Department changes its mind. The treasury officials ay that the office is not an article to be arted around at the pleasure of anybody, and anaounce that there will be no re- mo Office ince the appointment of Gen. Brady as collector of the second district there has na great deal of talk about moving » office to Petersburg, the home of Gen. ‘ady. Delegations from both cities have ited on the treasury officials, either urging a change or talking against it. Gen. Brady is in the city today. He will take | Bente of the office about the Ist of Sep- tember. He sald to a Star reporter today that he had made ro recommendation on the subjec and did not know that he would make any, Gen. Brady was collector of the second district for’ twelve years, eight years pre- vious to the first Cleveland administration and four under the administration of Presi- dent Harrison. During his three terms he maintained the office at Petersburg. The democrats who served under each o¥ the Cleveland administrations moved the office to Richmond. The Richmond people claim that the bulk of the business in the office fs done in that elty, and that there is no legitimate reason why the office should go to Peters- burg. —__—__ -+0+_____. Secretary Wilson in Demand. Many invitations addressed to Secretary Wilson to visit state and county fairs dur- ing the approaching autumn are being re- ceived at the Agricultural Department, a large number of them being from the southern states. The invitations from that section express a desire to have the Sec- retary inspect the agricultural conditions and to have the benefit of his advice as a practical farmer after such inspection. As the Secretary is absent from the city, no definite reply can be made, but it is known that he expects to go to Naskviile curing the fall, and it is considered able that he may so time his visit there as te take in some of the fairs in the ncigh- boring states. COULD NOT AGREE Nothing Accomplished by the Joint Conference at Pittsburg. FALL OUT OVER PENDING RATE Operators Offered 61 1-2 Cents, Which. Was Rejected. QUIET AT STRIKERS’ CAMPS PITTSBURG, Pa., August 24.—The joint conference of coal cperators and miners broke up at roon without reaching an agreement. The iiners’ officials refused to recede from their position and demanded 69 cents per ton pending a settlement by arbitration, and the operators would not concede more than 613% cents. A general meeting of operators has been called for 2 o'clock this afternoon to hear the report of their committee. The mem- bers of the committee refusel to make any prediction as to the probable action that would be taken this afternoon. When the conference Letween the ccal operators’ committee and miners’ officials resumed this morning the operators pre- sented a propesition to submit the ques- tion to arbitration and pending the ce- cision of the arbitrators they would con- cede 7% cents per ton, making the rate Gt cents. President Ratchford refused this, and firmly maintained his stand for the payment of the Gc. rate until the ques- tion w ttled by arbitration. He sug- gested President McKinl2y and Wm. J. Bryan as arbitrator: The operators stated that ment was not reached they their mines at once with new Quiet at Strikers’ Camps. Quiet prevails at the strikers’ camps about the De Armitt mines. Both sides are waiting for the decision of the court in the cases of the five men arrested on Saturday morning. The sheriff does not want to go on mak- s until he is sure the court will sustain him, and the strikers don't want to be rested if the court “will si sheriff in making the arresis. So a § truce has come about. There was no agree ment of any kind. The strikers main their claim of the right to go out in small groups, by moving about qutstly, so as to not attract the attention of the deputies if they can help it, and the deputies main- tain their position of not allowing the strikers to march by not seeing any of them who do march, and failing to recog- nize them as strikers ‘f they must see them. This morning the campers did not even go out in smail groups, on account of a drizzling rain. They remained under shel- ter and passed an ufeventful day, awaiting news of the conference between the op- erators and miners’ officiais in session at Pittsburg. No Evictions at Plum Creek. The threatened evictions at Plum Creek will not take place this week, as :he com- pany discovered an error in the papers served on the tenants, which made them illegal. New papers are being prepared, however, and the evictions will be made as soon as they can be served. Anticipating the evic- if an _agres- would start men. tions, several of the strikers who cecupied company houses have moved out. Yesterday was pay day at the Plum Creek mine, and about 200 of the men re- ceived their money. Pay was withheld from about 150 men on account of the strike. The total amount held back amounted to about $1,000. A number of the miners threatened to enter suit for the amount due them. ‘ Called Ratchford Hard Names. At the afternoon session at Pittsburg yesterday there were present on behalf of the miners National President M. D,. Ratchford, National Secretary-treasurer W. C. Pearce, District President Patrick Dolan, First Vice President Edward Mc- Kay and Secretary William Warner. Pres- ident Ratchford made a statement of the case. He said on former occasions the miners went to the operators, when, with crocodile tears, the conditions were deplor- ed by the operators. Now, he said, it was different, the operators had come to the miners. He expressed himself in favor of arbitration at a living rate of Wages. ‘This brought Col. W. P. Rend to his feet. He said that there could be no ar- bitration on the lines as laid down by Ratchford. He referred to the meeting at St. Louis, and Ratchford estimated that a universal strike und a demand for an eight-hour day and a readjustment of the Wage questicn would be the result of the St. Louis conventiou. Colonel Rend replied by calling Ratchford a villain, traitor, blackguard ard an anarchist. With em_ phasis he told him that seven anarchists had been hung in Chicago, and all were better than he; that if he precipitated an insurrection in this country he would be hung, and when he was hung he (Rend) wanted to pull the rope. Colonel Rend left the conference in a rage. Rochester and London Miners Strike. DUBOIS, Pa., August 24.—The Rochester and London mines, at this place, quit work this morning, notwithstanding that they de- cided at a meeting held last night to con- tinue. The agitators from the Pittsburg region had been working unceasingly for a week to get the men out and have succeed- ed, in the face of the fact that a majority were opposed to striking. DEBS SUGGESTS WAR. Appeal to Social Democracy to At- tend St. Louis Convention. A special to the New York Journal from Terre Haute, Ind., under date of August 23, says: Eugene Debs today issued a call for the St. Louis conference, which, he says, will be one of the most significant events in the history of the country, and which may lead to very important if not sensational results. The call is as fol- lows: “Terre Haute, Ind., August 23, 1897. “To the Social Democracy and All Lovers of Liberty and Fair Play, Greeting: “A mags convention will be held at St. Louis Monday, August 30, in the interest of the striking, starving coal miners. The official call has been issued by the execu- tive board of the United Mine Workers and indorsed by the executive heads of the American Federation of Labor and the Knights of Labor. “I understand that this convention is called, not to pass idle resolutions, but to take prompt, vigorous and united action, and this being the case, I appeal to the social democracy and to all lovers of lib- erty and humanity to meet at St. Louis on the day named to lend a hand to the stricken, suffering miners of the country. Constitutional Liberty Bludgeoned. “The injunction has again done its dead- ly work. Constitutional liberty has been bludgeoned to death and labor bound and gagged for the perpetual exploitation of corporate capital. There is no relief in the fottom to the top, and they are all agatnne bottom to ie top, y are labor. So far as I am concerned, we will e@ppeal to them no more. We will now eS peal to the American people. Judges, creatures of the plutocracy, rule the coun- try_by injunction. “From the justice of the peace to the justice of the Supreme Court the injunc- tion has full sway. American citizens are forbidden to open their fips or walk on public highways. Sheriffs, marshals and Gther petty officers issue proclamations and then proceed to shoot and club working- men if they are not as servile and obedient as if they were so many savages off their reservation. That there have been. no vio- ience and bloodshed in the miners’ strike is simply because the judges and sheriffs and deputies have been unable to provoke an outbreak. Miners Have Been Patient. “The miners have patiently, meekly cub- mitted to the most flagrant insults and abuse. The hour has struck to call a halt. ‘The cowardly, brutal and wholly un-Ameri- can reign of injunctional government has got to end. A vast army of miners ere famishing, their wives and children are dying. The calamity cries to heaven. We do not ask the courts or the authorities to help these perishing toilers, but we do de- mand that they take their cruel clutches from the throats of workingmen and allow them to help themselves in lawful ways. “The Pittsburg operators have declured that they will open their mines if they have got to do it with Gatling guns. No injunction has been issued, and no soldier has been called out to restrain them from executing their murderous designs. In- junctions, soldiers, marshals, ‘leputies, thugs and jails are for the exclusive bene- fit cf the workingman. Under the rule of the money power, labor is plundered until the starvation point is reached, and then its emaciated body is shot full of holes. It is notoriously true ihat the American miners have been robbed: in countless Ways, and now that they are hungry, it is proposed to murder them. American Manhood Revolts. “The horrors of Siberia are not of greater enormity. Every atom of American man- hood revolts against the spectacie. Judges, by the usurpation of power and playing the role of tyrants, have annihilated the Constitution, abrogated the right of trial by jury, forbidden free speech, suppressed peaceable assemblages and transformed our republic into an absolute despotism. They are guilty of judicial treason and should be made to answer at the bar of an outraged people. “The issue has been forced upoa us, and we have retreated before it to the verge of slaver: Let us now meet it as it would have been met by the patriozs of 1776. “EUGENE V. DEBS.” —— MR. GEORGE'S SUCCESSOR The Expectation is That Senator-Elect Money Will Be Appointed. Several Other Names Are Mentioned as Having Been Brought torthe Governor’s Attentfon, The expectation is that Senator-ciect Money will be appointed by the governor of Mississippi to fill the yaeancy in the United States Senate caused by the death of Senator George. Mr. Money was elected to the Senate to succeed Mr. George at the expiration of his term on the 4th of March, 1900, but the death of Mr. Georgé leaves an unexpired term of nearly two years to be filled. A number of prominent’ Mississivpi demo- crats are spoken of as suitable men from whom the governor might make a selec- tion, but the impression seems to be that inasmuch as Mr. Meney has already been elected by the legislature to sw to the regular term, he might as well be giveri the seat at once. Should the governor ap- point some other to the place he would not be sure of retaining his seat longer than until next winter, when the leg lature which elected Mr. Money meets and will elect for the remainder of the unex- pired term. The chances are that unless the govern- or’s cppointee, not being Money himself, were a friend of Money's, the legislature would make another change. The tmpres- sion is that the death of Mr. George will simply hasten the time of Mr. Money tak- ing his seat, and will not lead to the tem- porary elevation of a new man, However, a number. of men are either candidates or are being strongly recom- mended by their friends for the appoiat- ment. Among these are ex-Representative Stockdale, Judge Cutrar, ex-Governor Robt. Lowry and Patrick Henry, at present dis- trict attorney. The names of Representa- tives Allen and Williams also are men- tioned, but it is not thought that either of them would be willing to give up a seat in the House, with the probability of a long tenure, to go to the Senate for a short time, with the successor already elected, particularly when the legislature might cut the term of the appointee of this winter. eo —____ GRASS FOR THE PLAINS. The Agricultural Department to Ex- periment With Russian Seed. The Agricultural Department is preparing to make an experiment with a new forage plant which is thought to be adapted to the semi-arid regiors of the west. It is the Bromus Inermis, a grass which is in- digenous to the Russian steppes, An order for two tons of the seed of the plant has been wired to Moscow in response to a telegram from Professor Hanson, the de- partment’s agent, that he could secure this quantity by taking {t immédiately. The grass is said to thrive in lands which are too dry for the ordinary forage plants. It is a tall, nutritious plant and it is hoped will prove to be adapted to the plains re- gion along the bases of the Rocky moun- tains. Professor Hanson, through whom this order has been placed, is a resident of South Dakota, He is making a special in- vestigation of the grasses and other forage vegetation of Siberia for the department with the view of securing plants adapted to the soil and climate of the plains re- gion, and this order is the first fruit of his labor. He will make @ very complete in- vestigation. which may result in the intro- duction of many new plants, whieh it is hoped can be’ grown on the elevated pla- teaus. - ‘ The dispatching of Professor Haimson on this mission has-had the effect apparently of creating the ircpression that ‘the de- partment is making especial tnqufry into the agricultural possibilities ‘of thie coun- try which will be traversed by themew Si- peren amed: ee the view of aera ing fore! the prone bis ze cease character of competition the American farmer will have to encounter frém that quarter. The department is #ecet¥ing nu- merous newspaper statements: crediting it with having such a commissi@n in the field. The officials say, however, that there is no truth in the report and they know of no foundation for it outside of Mr. Hanson’s misson. ‘ a New Railway in Sam Domingo. Consul Grimke at Santo Dom! informs the State Department of the pletion of @ railroad from Puerte Plata fo Santiago, about forty miles, over two, mountain ranges. American and British capital is inverted in the road, and sev American . > engineers have been ing. laneous, $14,222. ceived today for BOOM IN THE WEST Effect of Improved Conditions on Po- litical Parties, HARDLY A POPULIST IN WASHINGTON Impressions of Assistant Secretary S. H. Perkins. | ee WHEAT AND GOLD FINDS Among those who have recently returned from the west is Colonel S. H. Perkins, assistant secretary of the national rep:1bli- can committee and private secretary. to Mr. Hanna. Mr. Perkins has been for the last four wecks on the Pacific coast, es- pecially in his native state of Washington, and comes back full of the prosperous conditions in that country and wonderful stories of the Klondike piigrims. Mr. Per- kins left Washington a day or two after Congress adjourned, and went to Tacoma, over the Northern Pacific route, and he says that as he went along he noticed the improvement in the country, and by the time he reached Washington the boom was already on. Then came the Klondike discovery and the rise in wheat, and now he says it is almost impossible to find a populist in Washington, and if an election were to be held there this fall it would go overwhelmingly republican. And be added that even in Montana the change was remarkable, and the state would be back in its old republican ine state again. He remarked that this time last year it hard to find a republican in these far northwestern states, for then every one was talking silver. ow that wheat was on the boom the farmers’ eyes were opened and the free silver fallacy ex- posed. Mr. Perkins said that in talking to one of the largest ranchers in that part of the country who last year was a rabid silver man, he confessed that he had been labor- ing under false representations in regard to wheat and rT, for he then believed that wheat and silver had to go together, but the present fact of their separating, wheat going up and silver soing down, was enough to convince him of the fal of the silver cause. This man conf that he would hereafter go back to bis old love, the republican party, and that ne was only one of many who woud do likewise. Throughout Washington id Oregon, Mr. erkins , the farmers are all doing well, and the best part of it all is that prosperity 1s going to continue, for there are still $80,000,000 worth of wh. to be disposed of in those states at present, for the farmers have held on to their crops and will benefit by so doing. Mr. Perkins says that the return of prosperity is not alone confined to the Pacifie coast: states, but throughout the west. Everything is booming, and it reminds one of the old fimes of 1880-1881. Of course the Klondike excitement has a great deal to do with the activity on the coast, but this is but one of the elements which has gore to make up the general return of pros- berous times. Mr. Perkins says that, not- withstanding the warnings and advice to the men who are going to Alaska, the rush continues as great, if not greater, than ever and the whole coast is aflame with the gold excitement. Tacoma, especially, is reaping a rich harvest from this exodus, and her factories are running night and day. As an example, on the Saturday before he left for the east, one well-known firm of Klondike outfitters took in $200,000 on that day alone in fitting out prospectors. Tacoma is espe- cially fitted for this purpose, because she has one of the largest woolen mills in the country, where the blankets, mittens, caps and underwear are made, while her can- ning factories are putting up meats and fish and other provisions at the rate of hundreds of thousands of cans a day. These factories, together with the other industries interested in the Klondike outfits, are row running night and day, with three shifts of men, all working at high wages, and plenty of places for more. In fact, it is hard to get labor on the coast at present, because is seems as if every one has the gold fever, and has gone or is going to the Klondike. Speaking in this regard, Mr. Perkins says that all along the wharves can be seen signs reading “Men wanted,” and there is no need for any one being idle or out of work. Tacoma is catching the boom both ways. The greatest shipping to Alaska is being carried on in that port, while the returning crowds are landing there. Besides this, nearly all the wheat of that great region is being exported from Tacoma, and all of this naturally makes money plentiful and business brisk. ‘The only thing I have to say to future prospectors who contemplate going to the Klondike,” says Mr. Perkins, “is that they wait until next spring. There is no doubt that there is plenty of gold in Alaska, but this is not the time to go after it.” “Everybody feels encouraged and the situation is greatly improved,” said Gen- eral Spaulding, assistant secretary of te treasury, who has just returned from Michi- gan, to a Star reporter. “There was no need to ask anybody whether better had arrived. You could feel it in the There has been a remarkable chan the last two weeks, and it is noticeable among all classes. The feling of confidence comes from the new business condition: which, it is believed, will give prosperity.” a TO FORWARD HONEST TRADE. Pe Object of New Regulations Regard- ing Bonded Warehouses. Assistant Secretary Howell has issued a modification of the regulations hitherto in force for the government bonded manufac- turing warehouses. By this amendment the proprietor of any such bonded ware- hcuse is required to file with the Secretary of the Treasury a list of all the articles in- tended to be manufactured, giving the spe- cific names under which they are to be ex- ported, and under which they will be known to the trade. He also is required to name the ingredients entering into the manufacture, with the qualities of such in- gredients -r materials as may be dutiable or taxable. A strict conformity to this rule is required, and in no instance will an article be permitted to be manufactured in or withdrawn from the warehouse which does not contain all the ingredients and in the quantities specified. Articles manu- factured for export are required to he marked in strict accordance with the for- mulas and with the trade name of the gcods, and shall bear no other designation. ‘The purpose of the regulations is to pre- vent the exportation of spurious wines and other articles under names which misrep- resent their true character, and so tend to injure the sale abroad of the genuine ar ticle. ——_—_—2+___ Gen. Gary Signing Appointments, Postmaster General Gary was in his office in the Post Office Department today. He was kept busy signing about 2,000 appoint- ments of posimasters made during his absence, and in looking over departmental ‘mail that has accumulated since he left the city. He has not yet had-time to ex- amine thé report of the commission ap- pointed to look into the matter of the con- saan of i Morph ee Sears on that matter. DIVISION OF DAVIS ESTATE Heirs of Montana Millionaire Settle Their Long Contest, Something Like a Mi jon and a Half to Be Distributed Among Them. BUTTE, Mont., August 24.—The long fight over the estate of Andrew J. Davis is practically settled. A petition was filed in the district court dropping the contest to the alleged forged will and agreeing to the distribution. When Davis died in 1890 his estate was valued at eight millions. Of this Andrew J. Davis, jr., a nephew of the dead million- aire, was given stock of the First National Rank of Butte valued at two millions by an alleged deathbed bequest. The stock of the Butte and Boston Mining Company, valued then at two and a half millions, has since been sold to the reorganization of that company for $180,000. An inventory filed with the petition gives the amount of cash in the administrator's hards as $972,000; real estate, $200,000: notes, $110,000; property in the hands of the auxiliary administrator in Boston, $450,- 000. Total, $1,732,000. The debts of the estate are $185,000; expenses of the admin- istration, $110,000; bequest in will, $4,000— total, $299,000—leaving $1,463,000, of which $670,000 is ready for distribution now. The court is asked to allow this to be distrib- uted right away. In the agreement droppiag the contest all the blood relatives of the dead m: aire are taken care of but Diana and Er sister and brother. former is barred by the stature of limita- tion, never having been ? to the Erwin Davis is also Larred for reason, besides ag indebted to The agrement divides the estate into eleven-hundredths. The heirs of John A. Davis, brother of the dead million Henry F. f , H. John G. Cornue, nieces and ne} ly get 250 eleven-hundredt Sheffield, the sister, and H. phew, jointly get 40 e za Bowdoin and H of Calvin P. Davis, hundredths cach, and E 3 eleven-hund: eleven-hundrecths, go. under agreement, A. J. Davis, H. Palmer, for purposes not supposed to be for future believed that Erwin Da fight. He already claims one k stock awarded to y. Davis, of the Andrew ag —_—_———__ SHIPPING SEACOAST ORDNANCE. Where the Responsibility of the Quartermaster’s Department Ends. The controller of the treasury has de- cided a question arising in the War De- partment, raised by the acting chief of engineers, as to the responsibility of the quartermaster’s department for the trans- pertation of seacoast ordnance—whether the responsibility terminates at the sites of the batteries or at the nearest wharf or 1ailroad terminus. The controller, in the following decision, 's thatthe responsi- bility ends at the nearest and most avai!- able water point, the engincer department doing the balance: - “I am of the opinion that the practice heretofore prevailing of requiring the quartermaster’s department to transport the guns and gun carriages for these new fortifications and bear the cost of the same myst be continued, and it is only necessary to decide at what point the re- sponsibility of the quartermaster’s depart- nt ceases, While it is difficult to lay down ny rule, in view of the controlling effect which the circumstances in each case must have, it seems that at least it may be Cetermined—that the quartermas: all deliver, at the point near- est to the battery that it is possible for it to reach by ordinary means of trans- portation, all armament of th tions: ordinary transportation in conn: tion with this rule being defined as suc transportation as may be obtained through the channels general'y used by the quarter master’s department, such as railrowis, steamboats and lighters, but not to include movement by specially organized hauling, cr by such special appiiances as more prop. erly fall within the field of engineering. When these latter are required in the movement of this ordnance, the responsi- bility of the quartermaster’s depariment ceases and that of the engineer depart- ment begins, and the appropriations made for these respective purposes become lable in accordance therewith. “As to the case specifically presented, to wit, the hauling cf a mortar carriage from the landing at North Point, Md, to the battery in that vicinity, a distance of about a half mile, I am of the opinion, upon the facts as presented to me. that the same is payable out of the appropriation for the construction of that battery, and that the quartermaster’s department is not, in such a case, responsible for its delivery or the payment therefor.” o——____, A NORTH SIBERIA TRADER. Has an Extensive Business, but Never Sees Money. Away up rear the arctic circle lives an old man who is very rich, and yet he never Sees a dollar or any kind of money or rep- resentative of money. Some time ago Dr. Sheldon Jackscen, general agent of the bu- reau of education for Alaska, on board the Bear, toucted at Indian Point, Siberia. There he found the principal native of the village, Koharri by name, a trader noted all along the coast. Writing of this old trader, Mr. Jackson says: “He has a little frame whale house filled from floor to ceiling with tobacco, flour and looking glasses, which he has obtain- ed from the whalers, and from which he supplies the country for hundreds of miles around. This man has been known to have as much as $75,000 worth of whalebone in his storehouse at one time. He does a bus- iness of probably $100,000 a year, and yet not a single coin of gold or silver nor a single bank note or bank check is used, nor are any books kept. All transactions are by barter, furs and whalebones being exchanged for tobacco, flour and whisky. This wholesale merchant of the north Si- berian coast can neither read nor write, nor can any one associated with him. Al though so wealthy, he lives in an ordinary tent and sleeps on the ground on a pile of reindeer skins.” : Personal Mention. Archbishop Keane has gone to Brooklyn to visit a cousin who is dangerovsly ill. He will be gone until the middle of September, visiting meantime seashore ard mountain resorts. Assistant Secretary Davis,, is in Steubenville, Ohio, will return & Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow was at his office today. Mrs. Susie R. gentry Bae sees has gone to lo to atten e oor pees Wm. W. Dungan of 1106 13th street northwest has been quite. sick for three ‘weeks past with bilious typhoid fever, but is now improving, though still confined to his room. Archbishop Ireland, who has been in @t the G. A. R. banquet. ° The regular permanent family circulation of The Evening 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. IT ENDS IN DEATH Unknown Assassin Responsible for Murder of John Marshall. UNSOLVED FIPTH PRECINCT MYSTERY ae Nee Suspected Negro Now in Custody of the Police. —- OFFICERS WITHOUT A CLUE — John D. Marshall, the victim of yestor- morning’s my fous shooting, near the Pennsylvania avenue bridge over the Anacostia river. died at Previdence Hos- pital about 8 o'clock the effects of the this rning from ous wound described in yesterday's Star, and the police have another fugitive murderer added to their list. “This will remain an cinct mystery, I'm afreid,” remarked one of the offic er’s death. “There ts absolutely no clue to the rs when he heard of the farm- iden- tity or whereabouts of the murderer,” add- ed the off 1, “and now that the victim ts dead and there is no means of identifica- tion the case is made all the more diffi, cult.” Detectives Weedon and Lacey, who were assigned to the case by Inspector Mat- tingly, made ort yesterday after- noon to get som t » of t highway- man, but this morning they said they had obtained nothing that Id help them in the investigatlo: » was an arrest about clock . a colored man, made on the Li this morning, the having in his po a revolver, from which one shot nad nf 1. Policemen Bassford and Vermillion made the arrest, and when Inspector Mattingly learned of the case he sent to the Police Court for the prisoner and had a lengthy interview with kim. 1t happened that the officers were near 14th street and Maryland avenue, near the bridge, wi they first saw the negro. rting in that direction, the officers no- that the man became alarmed a also moved aking him on hastened his foot ter, and succes the bridge. x “Say, mister, “deed I done nothin’ wrong,” pleaded the young man, who said his name was Frank Johnson. When the %s-caliber ‘bull-dog” revolver w: found on nim, the s informed him that the carrying of pons was a violation of law. A pers Story. In conversation with the officers, the prisoner said he had lived in St. Louis, but had left there some time ago and had been in a number of large cities since. Several nights ago, he told them, he was in Ana- ecstia, and two nights ago he said he slept in the Monument lot, and also spent some of his time about the market. = To a Star reporter the prisoner said he had lived at No. Morgan street, St Louis, with his aunt, Mrs. Harriet Moore. His mother, he said, lives in Nashvill Tenn., where she ts in service in a house on Cedar street. About four years ago, he said, he left his aunt’s house in St. Louis, and about three wee ago he reached this teps. Th ied in ov Was unabl e in which to tell any ho’ ad slept since he reached here, that he spent one night in the (¢ Union Mission. st of his nights, he he has spent about the market and in parks. Last night he was about the maarket until a late hour, and when he left he started to go across the river, intend to go south. Qu ioned concerning the weapon, Johnson sald he purchased the re- volver in St. Louis, and had carried it for more than four years. He discharged the one shot, he said, about three weeks ago, just outside the city ct Baltimore. Makes a Break. To Inspector Mattingly the re- lated the story of his visit here and the officer noticed that he was careful to put himself far away from the scene of the shooting at the time of its occurrer While Johnson pretended he knew noth- ing of Anacostia, he admitted, later in the conversation, that he knew of the location of Anacostia beca on the railroad he py soner luspector Mattingly cner rather closely Louis, and he was fully satistied that Johnson's residence there was only for a short tim: If the suspect is not the man who fi the fatal snot the inspector is satis- fied that he is a good man to have in cus- tody. When the detectives finished wit him, Johnson was taken he to the Po- lice Court and judge Kimball sentenced him to four months in jail. He will be visited in jail this afternoon or tomorrow morning and interviewed by the detectives at work on the case. It was thought yesterday that the wo had been m: de by 2 small bullet—perhaps of 22-caliber—in which event the wound could not have been inilicted with weapon found on Johnson; but the showed that the bullet was muc! than was at first supposed. It is nounced to be unquestionably a 38-caliber, the size of the balls used in. Johnson's “Bulldog” revolver. This increases the’ suspicion against the prisoner, and In- spector Mattingly is of the impression that he is the guilty man. May Hi. Been Fou Special Officer Brockenborough, who has deen so active in the search for Dorsey Foultz, the escaped murderer, who has deen missing since May 31, called at police headquarters this morning and suggested | that Dorsey had probably done the shoot- ing yesterday. The work, he said, was done very much in the manner of the Foultz murder, Foultz being a man of very few werds; and when the shooting was done yesterday morning the conversation be- tween the murderer and his victim was brief. While the headquarters detectives are at work on the case the precinct policemen are by no means idle. Four mounted men —Policemen Green, Marr, Stevens and Dyer—have been especially detailed to ald in_unraveling the mystery. They started out early yesterday, and had not been long upon the case before they learned that a suspicious-appearing colored man had been seen loitering about this end of the bridge for several days. About a week ago, they ascertained, the man made an attempt to “hold up” a wo- man near the bridge, but her screams attracted assistance, and the man was frightened off. m Searched a Stable. During the night the officers searched a stable not far from the bridge. They knew that a number of tramps and suspicious persons had been in the habit of sleeping in the building, but last night it was empty. Before Mr. Marshall died, his wife, broth- er and other relatives had called and seen him. He was fully conscious when they called, but was rather weak, and it was with considerable difficu'ty that he was able to talk to them. Such was his condition when he conversed with a Star reporter yesterday afternoon. While it is ly supposed that rob- bery, om, the aedserere soutve, Share, te uothing ‘8 tectives to show any motive. The colored man, he informed the detectives, said noth- irg to him about robbery, nor did he even attempt to rob him. As stated in yesterday's Star, Marshall asked the colored man for a match. The ‘@ (Continued on Eighth Page.)