Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1897, Page 1

—— THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 3101 Fennsylvania Avenze, Cor. 11th Bt, by pee gg es Kew York Ofice, 49 Peter Balding ‘The Evening Star is served to subscribers In the city by carriers, on thelr own account, at 10 ecnts per week, or 44 cents per month. ies at the ceunter 2 cents each. By mail—anywhere in the United States or Conada—postage prepaid—50 ccats Per month. Satvrday Quintuple Sheet Star, $1 per year, with foreizn postage added. (Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as_secend-clase mail matter.) 7 All mail subscriptions must be paid in advance. Rates of advertising made known on application. Che Hen | Star. No. 13,891, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1897-TWELVE PAGES. TWO CENTS. 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. WILL BE PROSECUTED ———_.+—_—_ Warrant for Superinten¢ent Thomas of B. and 0. Company. HELD FOR GRADE CROSSING ACCIDENT Prosecutor Pugh Determines to Thoroughly Investigate. RESULT OF AN INQUIRY The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com- pany has got to make answer in the Police Court in the near future to charges grow- ing out of the accident at the Florida ave- nue grade crossing on the Metropolitan branch of the road Friday night. As stated in The Star at the time, members of the Northeast Washington Citizens’ As- sociation determined to collect evidence and take the case into court, but as this would not haye been done unti! after the next meeting of the association, Lieutenant Kenny of the eighth police precinct di- rected his officers to make an investigation of the affair. Precinct Detective Amiss was selected to make the inquiries and get a warrant in the case. He collected the evidence concerning the affair, which is shown to have ended the life of a horse, smashed a baggy and came near killing the driver, a colored man named George Coleman, and went to the Police Court and laid the matter before Prosecuting Attorney Pugh. Detective Amiss also made a lengthy re- port of the facts obtained, which he sub- mitted to Lieutenant Kenny. , This report contains a diagram of the tracks and road, and the comment concludes with the opi ion that there was a clear and open viola tion of law. Not only did the detective find that the law in respect to the gates had been violated, but he also found that the train was going at a rate of speed which he considered unlawful. When the detective called on the pros- ecuting attorney, Mr. Pugh, the latter re- ferred to the police regulations under which a charge of violation of law must be brought. He found one section of the regulations requiring the grade crossings to be protected. Law in the Case. It reads: “All grade crossings or intersections of any steam railroad tracks with streets, avenues or roads skall be made safe by the comps owning or operating such roads by gates and electric bells, or other means and appliances approved by the Commis- sioners of the District of Columbia. Be- tween sunset and sunrise of each day a headlight or other equivalent reflecting lantern, or 2 hand lantern in the hands of an attendant, to give due warning to per- sons hear or crossing steam railroad tracks of the approach of trains, locomotives or cars, shall be displayed upon the advanc- ing end of every train of steam railroad cars, and of single steam railroad cars and locomotives not in trains, when moving in the District of Columbia. It shall be un- lawful for any person to set in motion, Tun or operate any train of railroad cars, single railroad car or locomotive, without the said display of such lights or lanteins.” Another section, and the one under which Mr. Pugh concluded to prosecute, provides that “the safety gates at every railroad crossing shall be closed during the passage of any train, locomotive or car, and shall be opened immediately after the passage of the same.” Reaches a Conclusion. Mr. Pugh heard the statement of the offi- cer, and, after looking up the law, he reached the conclusion that there had been a violation, and that, in his judgment, the company should be called upon to answer. The only question left was to find the per- son or persons who are responsible, and, in erder to have this passed upon by the court, he decided to prosecute Mr. Jas. G. Thoma: station master and acting general superii tendent of this branch of the road, and Milton Cramer, the watchman at the cross- ing. Accordingly he filed an information against them, charging “that at the cros: ing of the Metropolitan branch of the Bal- timore and Ohio railroad and Florida avenue northeast they did then and there fail and neglect to close the safety gates at said railroad crossing during the pass. age of a certain train, locomotive and car.” ‘The warrant in the case was sent out, and this afternoon the persons whose names figure in the complaint are to be called upon in the Police Court to plead to the charge. Watchman Not on Duty. What defense the defendants will make ‘is not known. The police feel that the charge may not hold, so far as it relates to the watchman at the crossing, for he was not on duty after 9 o'clock on the might of the accident. His duties require him to be at the crossing from 6 o'clock in the morning until 9 o'clock at night. It ts the object of the company to have him there at the time the valley train is scheduled to come in, a few minutes be- fore 9 o'clock, but when this train is late there is no one there to protect the cross- ing. It is said that the general agent will have to disprove his responsibility in order to escape a conviction, and should he do this in court he will probably have to tell who is responsible. In the event of such an ending, additional warrants will in all probability be issued, as Prosecuting At- torney Pugh is determined that the person responsible shall be brought to justice, if possible. It is not probable that a charge of the fast running of the train will be brought, for the reason that the police find it a difficult matter to get convictions in the Police Court in such cases, even when they time the trains with stop watches. Commiasioners to Act. The Commissioners have not yet taken any formal action against the company on account of violations of the regulations which provide for the proper protection of the public at grade crossings. “A memorial is being prepared on the sub- Ject by the Northeast Washington Citizens’ ‘Association, which wili be addressed to the Commissioners. When this is received, the latter will look into the subject thoroughly and then measures will be takea to compel &b observance of the necessities in the case. a Weaving in Japan. A report ‘has been received at the State Department showing to what extent the weaving industry has been followed in Japan. In 1806 there were 949,123 looms with 1,042,865 persons engaged, of which {85,016 were women and girls.’ The value of the textile product for the year w: $6,187,235, made up, in part, as follow: Silk textiles, $46,451,401; silk and cotton, mixed, $10,281,272; cotton, $37,083,757, and hemp, $2,021,467. —_—_—__-o—_____ To Destroy the Microbe. Consul Mecrris, at Ghent, Belgium, has reported to the State Department that a new system has been discovered for retting flax so as to destroy the microbes which are so to the cellulose matter in the flax. It is by a process of beating, and further experiments to perfect the system are being made. ————---—____ Trial of the Wilmington. The Navy Department has fixed the 13th instant for the final trial of the new gun- boat Wilmington off Hampton Roads. MR. FORAKER IS CONFIDENT The Ohio Senator Says There’s No Doubt of Republican Success, Next Saturday the Campaign in Ohio ‘Will Open, With Mectings Ad- dressed by Leaders. Senator Foraker, who is here attending the special meeting of the Senate subcom- mittee on Pacific railroads, speaks most confidently of the probabilities of the suc- cess of the republican party in Ohio this fall. The senator says the situation has changed wonderfully within the last few months, and that while there was some doubt before Congress adjourned of a big republican victory, there is none now. It has been very quiet in the state for some weeks, but next Saturday the campaign will open with’a flourish, and all the prom- inent republicans will speak at various meetings. The talk of an estrangement between Senator Foraker and Senator Hanna is discredited by the fact that both senators will open the campaign at Burton, Ohio, and speak from the same platform, to- gether with ex-Secretary of the Treasury Foster. Senator Foraker will then go into the canypaign and will do much hard work. In speaking about the fight in his state, Senator Foraker says the republicans are in excellent condition, and will go into the campaign full of ecnfidence and harmony. “The republicans are enthusiastic, and we will elect our state ticket and a ma- jority of the legislature,” said Senator For- aker. “That will insure the election of a republican United States senator to succeed Mr. Hanna, and that senator, of course, will be Mr. Hanna himself. The prosper- ous condition of the people in Ohio has greatly changed the situation there, and the republican party is getting the benefit of the boom. “In my travels over the state I have found hardly any free silver sentiment, and, indeed, it seems only to be found in the Cincinnati Enquirer and other demo- cratic papers in OFio. The people are too busy now making money to listen to free silver arguments. The resolutions adopted at the recent county conventions show the change in feeling on this subject. t “I found the same prosperous conditions everywhere, not only among the farmers and business men, but among the rail- roads and other industries. The boom came so suddenly that it caught all the rail- roads unprepared, and there is not a rail- road in the country today that is not short of equipment and rolling stock. These have been obliged to order new cars, and you can see at once the effect. Hundreds of men have found employment, there has been a demand for iron, wood and other materials needed in the construction of cars and building of roads. “This means work and employment for various other trades, and its effect is being felt everywhere. It is not only so with the railroads, but other industries. A great deal has been said in regard to dol- lar wheat. That is not the only product of the farmers that has felt the revival of prosperity, for there has been as great a rise in the price of other things in pro- portion as in the wheat. Take, for in- stance, sheep. The rise in the price in sheep has been far greater than wheat in proportion, and there is not a head of sheep in this country which is not worth double the price it was before the tariff bill was passed. “It is so with corn, oats, barley, as well as potatoes, horses and other products raised by the farmer. One has only to go out into the country to realize all that I have said. The people understand it, and in my state they are not going to be led astray by any free silver talk. Under the circumstances I don’t see why the re- publican victory cannot be made unani- mous in Ohio.” Senator Foraker expects Secretary Sher- man to speak in Ohio this fall, and says great interest is manifested in the speech he expects to make. During his stay in the city, which will end tomorrow, the senator called at the State Department and had a talk with Secretary Sherman, as well as with Assistant Secretary Day. He expects to return to Cincinnati, and will go into the campaign in earnest. ———_——_-e. WILL BE LIVELY IN KANSAS. Senator Harris Speaks of the Political Situntion in His State. Senator Harris of Kansas ts in the city and talked to a Star reporter today upon the political situation in his state. “We have some county campaigns in Kansas this fall,” he said, “‘and politics will be pretty lvely before November. There has been a general fusion of demo- crats, populists and silver republicans against the republicans, and I think the re- form tickets will win. “You see, in our state, the dividing line between the parties is the financial ques- tion, even in local politics. The term gold standard or bimetallist, as applied to a man, is a kind of brand to denote his range. If a man favors the gold standard he is likely to oppose the various kinds of reforms advocated by the man who is a bimetallist. “It is not altogether that a man favors silver coinage, but that his position in that respect is coupled with the advocacy of re- forms of different kinds. . He is likely to be epposed to government by injunction and to be arrayed against legislation granting subsidies to monopolies. All of these things the gold standard man is understood to be lined up with when he trains with the gold standard republican party.” “How are the times in Kansas?” the senator was asked. “Oh, well, there is a great beating of tin pans, blowing of horns and performances on the hew-gag by the republicans, but the people are not overpowered with prosperi- ty. The fact that the farmers are getting SO cents a bushel for their wheat is not so phenomenal, when they ought to be getting 41.25. There is not the abnormal crop of wheat in Kansas that some people think, either. We will probably have 50,000,000 bushels of wheat in the state. The corn crop is not as large as it ought to be. There is some old corn in the hands of speculators, who bought it for 7 and 8 cents a bushel, and they will probably get 25 cents for it this year.” —— —. MR. ROOSEVELT ON THE I0WA. Carrier Pigeons Arrive From Squadron of Evolution. Admiral Matthews, acting secretary of the navy, received two messages from the north Atlantic squadron this morning. ‘They were sent frcm the fleet to the com- mandant of the Norfolk navy yard by carrier pigeors, and then telegraphed to Washington. The first message was as follows: “Ship New York, 3 p.m. September 7, fifty miles from Norfolk. Assistant Sec- retary is on board Iowa engaged in wit- nessing great gun exercise with service charges. Brocklyn and Massachusetts will follow. Subcaliber exercises suspended. Search and other night signal exercises to- nm “Ene secor d message was as follows: “Ship the New York, 9 a.m. September 8, southern aril » fitty miles from Norfolk. Commandant Nerfolk nay yard—The squadron getting urder way evolutions before assistant secretary, who remains on Dolphin. Very successful by lowe and lyn yesterday. Search light ‘ast night and attack on drifting tar- get by six and one-pounders with ald of four search feather NO NEW CASES TODAY Louisiana Health Officers Think Yel- low Fever is Under Control. NEEDS OF OCEAN SPRINGS AND BILOH New Orleans Raises the Quarantine Against Neighboring Towns. GENERAL WYMAN’S NEWS ———— NEW ORLEANS, September 8—The Louisiana board of health is today in full control of the situation. Although perfect arrangements have been made for a prompt report of ejther yellow fever or suspicious cases, up to 10 o'clock today there had not been a single case reported to the board and the authorities frankly declare that any more sickness of virulent type which may occur will be imporied. ‘In spite of New Orleans’ clean bill of health, however, towns in Louisiana and Mississippi continue to declare quarantine. There is infinitely more scare away from from here than there is in this city, where confidence has entirely returned. It is confidently believed, however, that im- munity from yellow jack for eight or ten days will bring Mobile and then Missis- sippi and Louisiana towns to their senses and move them to tear down their bar- riers. Busy Scene at Depot. There was a busy scene at the Louis- ville and Nashville depot this morning when the early trains arrived. The rais- ing of the quarantine against Bay St. Louis and the Pass had the effect of driving hun- dreds into the city, not because they fear- ed the fever, but because they did not care to be held up in those places indefinitly if sporadic cases of fever should appear. Owing to the fact that the operators at coast cities have been greatly overworked and almost smothered with private messa- ges, general news from these points comes in slowly. No advices have been received of the appearance of further cases at Biloxi, but in the immediate vicinity of Point Cadet, it 1s not unlikely that new cases will develop. In the section mentioned the con- ditions are such as to invite an increase in the number of cases. Efforts to Confine the Disease. In the meantime stringent measures are being taken to confine the disease there. An effective cordon will be instituted, there will be general and efficient disinfection and expert yellow fever physicians will apply themselves to the task of treating the sick. Thus far there have been no pressing ap- peals from Mississippi for physicians to aid the local doctors, and unless there is a wide spread of the disease, the present force of physicians at Biloxi and Ocean Springs will be able to handle all existing cases. Both towns, however, are in need of supplies and are appealing to the rail- road company to promptly arrange for the sending to them of necessaries. The mail service was restored to fair shape yesterday. Postmaster Daniels pro- poses to have all mails regularly handled very shortly. There are still some seventy-five people at Ocean Springs from other points, among them several prominent citizens of New Orieans now there. They were caught by the quarantine and unable to get out, and the barriers put up by the board of health are sv strong and so high that even high iniluence is unable to get over them. No New Cases at Biloxi. A dispatch from Biloxi at 10:30 says that the three cases reported last night are the only ones that have so far developed at or around Biloxi. The people there are quiet, and the outlook is for no excitement. Dr. Guiteras, the United States govern- ment expert, arrived in Ocean Springs this morning. Dr. Sheedy, who attended the ‘Tillman case in Ocean Springs, is repertea sick with fever at Perkinston. Illinois Guards Against Fever. SPRINGFIELD, Il, September 8.—Sec- retary Egan of the state board of health last night said he had secured the services of John R. Nealy of Chicago and Dr. Ed- ward Bartlett of this city to proceed to Cairo, IL, to thoroughly inspect all north- bound trains and steamers and quarantine all suspected yellow fever cases. LOOKS MORE HOPEFUL. Surgeon General Wy mon the Yel- low Fever Situation. Surgeon Gereral Wyman says the yellow fever situation looks decidedly more hope- ful tceday. No new cases have beep offi- cially reported to him, although there are newspaper reports of three new cases at Biloxi. He has wired Dr. J. J. Lemon at Biloxi concerning this report. Dr. Guiteras, the yellow fever expert from the University of Pennsylvania, reported his arrival at Ocean Springs this morning. He will investigate the cause and nature of the outbreak. The surgeon general has formelly tendered the aid of the marine hospital service to the state and health authorities of Louisiana and Mississipp! and Dr. Oliphant, president of the Louis- jana board of health, has been requested to telegraph daily the fever situation in New Orleans. No Yellow Fever at New Orleans. He telegraphed this morning the fact of the death at New Orleans yesterday and added that there had been no new case since. “He also thanked the surgeon gen- eral for~his* proffer of assistance. His statement {h the morning papers denying the report that he had telegraphed Dr. Waadin that there were three new cases in New Orleans causes no friction or re- sentment here. Dr. Wasdin's telegram undeq date of September 6, read as fol- lows: “Dr. Oliphant wires one new case of yellow fever dead in New Orleans. Three new cases reported.” There was a misapprehension of the telegram here, it being supposed at first that Dr. Wasdin meant’ Dr. Oliphant re- ported three new cases in New Orleans. It is now believed that Dr. Wasdin meant himself to report three new cases, probably the three at Biloxi. George W. Haines this morning telegraph- ed from Waycross, Ga., that the deten- tion camp outfit at that place had been loaded and shipped by fast freight in ac- cordance with the surgeon general's in- structions to a point about twenty miles east of Ocean Springs, where the camp will be established. The telegram reads as follows: At Camp Detention. “Our special train arrived at Camp De- tention, near Waynesville, at 7 p.m., and with a force of forty men we began ar- ranging and loading without intermission until entire ontfit was londed and fcrward- ed to point twenty miles east of Ocean Springs train. Every effort is tination. Will advise you from Sur General Wyman expects ‘outfit to reach in oa four hours. Stewart who had of camp a under the law and treasury regulations 1s plain. The regulatiors cover just such an emergency. The province of the federal authorities is to prevent the spread of the contagion to ether siates. Under the law the state and municipal authorities are required to enforce ‘the regulattons and the national authorities are to see that they are enforced. But if the states fail or refuse, the national authority ts to be exercised. 4 Every precaution is. being taken by the hospital service to prevent the disease spreading, and -Surgeon* General Wgman has been actively wince bis. re- turn to Washington yesterday afternoon in furthering arrangements to this end. In response to a telegram sent him yes- terday on_the subject by Surgecn General Wyman, Dr. Oliphant responded with the following: ‘NEW ORLEANS, September 8. “Surgeon General Wyman, Washington, D. C.: “One case of yellow fever from Ocean Springs, Miss., died bere yesterday. No case occurred since; will Inform you of further development, ‘Thanks for offer of assistance. 2 “S. R. OLIPHANT, M. D.., “Pres. La, State’ Board of Health.’ The following tel was sent yester- day by Surgeon Genefal Wyman: - “Medical officer in command United States marine hospital service, Savannah, Ga. “Ship immediately by fast freight to Surgeon Muray, Ocean Springs, Miss., portable steam and sulphur disinfectant, and employ at reasonable rates-the engin- eer who recently tested same, to go with them. His traveling expenses will be paid. “WYMAN, Surgeon General.” The following was also sent yesterday: “P. A. Surgeon Wasdin,- marine hospital service, Ocean Springs, Miss.: “Until Murray arrivgg make daily report of total number cases hand, new cases and deaths. Consult fepresentative state board of heatth in chatge, and see that all baggage suspected -an@ clothing suspected of being infected be disinfected before leaving Ocean Springs. It is not safe for you to return to Mabil “WYMAN, irgeon General.” The general government will render all assistance In {ts powe® to check the spread of yellow fever. This -will be done mainly through the agency of the marine hospital service. Dr. Wyman Says that as yet he has no opinion to exp: whether the dis- ease is really yellow féver, although he ad- mits it looks very suspleicus. The pre- cautionary measures he has taken are based entirely on the declaration of the state board of health of, Louisiana in the Celpi case, which was that the discase from which the person had died was yel- low fever. Dr. Wyman says the situation at Ocean Springs is entirely in the hands of the state board of health, which the marine hospital bureau is Going everything possi- ble to assist. Dr. Wyman tas wired the Physician in charge wt Ocean Springs a ccpy of the treasury wegulations relating to the prevention of the spread of epidemic diseases from one state to another. These regulations ‘prescribe @he manner of sur- veillance to be established. over railroad trains coming from the infected district, and give rules for thefsolation of infected Passengers and the @isinfeetion of their baggage. The government 1s felly amd bountitully supplied with money to make a fight in case of the spread of yellew fever. In 1883 Congress made @n appropriation of $1,000,000 to be used foe the suppression of epidemic diseases. The act provided that the money should be msed By the marine hospital service.under:the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Yellow fever started in the south that year, and there was a threatew@d Invasion of cholera. A considerable p®rtion of. the fund has been expended, but there isfon “hand $476,000, every cent of which is avaitatler if neces- sary, for the suppressjon of the @read disease. The marine hospital service stands ready to use~the money, if-necessary. There would be nq“trouble about it being available. If the money is not used ft will remain in thé treasury until it is needed. Surgeon General Wyman called on Secré- tary Gage today. He reported the situation in the south as improved, and exptessed doubt as to whether these had been a case of yellow fever in New Orleans. -. CONGER CALLED DOWN Bumor That Governor Bushnell Has Disci- plined His Staff Officer. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. CLEVELAND, Ohio, ' September 8.--A strong inftvence has been brought to bear upon Governer Bushnell by Senator Hanna to rebuk> Colonel Conger for his recent letter against the senator. It is stated on very good authority that the governor assented, though it is not known that this is absolutely certain. It hardly seems probable. - Nevertheless the statement is mace and the man making it is the man who carried the orders to Gov- ernor Bushnell. z According to his statement, the inter- view was with Private Secretary Rodgers, who acted in this instance in place of the governor. ‘fhe emissary of Mr. Hanna called on Mr. Rodgers and asked if the re- cent statements of Cplorfel Conger mei with the approbation of the governor. Colonel Rodgers was profuse in assurances that Colonel Conger has }been tall without the sanction of the governor, and that the governor had no confrol over the colonel. On the strength of thig interview it is understood here that the governor has agreed to cull Colondl Conger and the rest of the kickers dowm. The Hanna men laugh oyer this fact.! : Colonel Conger wesian aspirant for guber- natorial honors in 1489. He was the slate candidete for govergor in the event that Foraker was elected for the third time, Mr. Foraker would jthen continue his up- ward carder end Mr} Conger would be tle republican candidatg two years later for the same position, {That plan depended, of course on the sgccess of Mr, Foraker in his third campaign for election. No one felt any doubt that}he would be success- ful. Therefore, Col@nel Conger asked for the chatrm: of the campaign com- mittee, ih order to get his:boom well un- der way. This request was granted after considerable delay. i Mr. ‘Foraker was defeated and Colonci Conger fell under the. debris, and now he blames Mr. Hanna his aids-de-camp, not only for Mr. ex's defeat, ~ bu: asp for the nipping im ‘bud of his own lopes. —_— Fersonal i@fention. Dn R. P. Cronin igs returned from a two weeks’ vacation at Beekeley Springs, W. Va. ~ M Dr. James C. McGuige haw returned from Bay Head, where he has dean spending the summer. Among the Washingtoniams who arrived in the Aller was Mr. @V. Hi-Veerhoff, who has during his trip a.visited all the art centers of Europe, ard incidentally at tended the queen's jr = Dr. Hyatt, after two ‘manths’ vacation spent at Beach Haven, N. J.,.and Warm Springs, Va:, has returned to the’ city, but ‘hig family will be away until October 1. W. McNaugh . Cc ton has returned from Chautauqua, N. ¥., where she hes been spending the summer. Secretary Wilson of ‘the IN PENITENT MOOD THE PACIFIC RAILWAYS Meeting of the Special Senate Committee. Hawkins Scarcely Seems to Realize : Gravity of His Crime, TALKS OF SUSPENDED SENTENCE He Wishes to Go South and Be- come a School Teacher. vestigation Provided by Mr. Petti- grew’s Resolution—Conference With the Attorney General. The special committee on Pacific rail- Toads, composed of Senator Foraker of Ohio, Senator Harris of Kansas and Sena- tor Stewart of Nevada, met this morning at the Arlington Hotel and organized. This committee is acting under a resolution of the Senate, proposed by Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota early in the extra session of Congress. Senator Pettigrew’s resolution provided for the appointment of a special committee to investigate and report to the Senate on the issue of patents for lands of the United States to the Pacific railroads and to the California and Oregon railroad. The com- mittee is also directed to investigate and re- port to the Senate the amount due the sinking fund of the Union and Central Pa- cific roads on account of subsidies paid the Pacific Mail Steamship Company by said roads and deducted from their gross earn- ings and charged to the operating «x- perses. The committee is authorized to send for persons and papers and administer oaths. This morning’s meeting was merely a preliminary one, and the matter in hand was but Informally touched upon. Another meeting will be held late this afternoon and the members of the subcommittee will probably confer with the Attorney General tomorrow. The investigation of the land patents will probably not be made until later in the fall. The committee will confer with the At- torney General regarding the sale of the Union Pacisic, which has already been or- dered by the circuit court of the eighth cir- cuit. Senator Foraker says the sale will include the government's interest, which also means the sinking fund, and if the committee makes any investigation of the sinking fund it must be before the sale takes place. It is the understanding of the committee that the sale will take place wit! thirty days after the decree is entered, and it therefore became necessary for the com- mittee to act at once if any action was to be taken. committee could do anything in the matter, the members meeting here more for the purpese of ascertaining just what can be done, if anything. ———_—-+e. NO INTENTION OF RETIRING. MAKES MORE CONFESSIONS Special From a Staff Correspondent. ROCHESTER, N. Y., September 8.—Haw- kins was in a very repentant mood this morning after his night's rest in the Niag- ara Falls jail. Detective Helan travels handcuffed to the prisoner. After leaving Buffalo Hawkins told the full story of the crime to The Star reporter, the outline of which was telegraphed yes- terday. Upon the conclusion of his confes- sion he asked for Collector Davis, and when the latter appeared Hawkins told the following story: “Mr. Davis, I took the money. I opened the safe, and Mr. Collins had nothing what- ever-to do with it. The lawyer in Toronto made me implicate Mr. Collins. He said my chances for getting off would be better. “Now, Mr. Davis, I will repay you every cent you lost if you will only have me con- victed and have semence suspended. “I will go south in the black belt and get a position as school teacher, from my wages I will reimburse you, and give you my note for it. The sentence over my head will keep me to my promise.” “How much money did you give your wife?” asked Mr. Davis. Money for His Wife. “God knows, I thought I gave her my salary, but I must have made a mistake, for when I got to Toronto I found a greater part of salary money in the pocket where I put it. She did not know anything about the matter. When I got home she was down stairs. I handed her a package of money and ran up stairs. There I tore off the binders on the money, threw them down the water closet and made tracks for the train. I did not take a sleeper and no one saw me. “Since then I have been suffering the tor- ments of hell. I could not sleep nor eat— another week and I would have gone crazy.” “Ho kins?’ Commissioner Evans on Good Terms With the Secretary of the Inter! did you get the combination, Haw- interrupted the collector. ou know, Mr. Davis, you always gave me credit for being smart. I have keen sight and hearing, too, but I don’t know how iong I have had it, and don’t think I could work it again. I just happened to drop on it.” Helan’s Clever Ruse. Detective Helan used a clever ruse to bring out the confession of working the combination. He told Hawkins that the District chemist had made-a el a analysis of the combination knob and fount it contained the ‘perspiration of a colored man. “You must have been broken out with a cold perspiration,” suggestéd the de- tevtive. “Yes, ir, I was. Science has certainly advanced, wherra chemist can telf'a colored man’s sweat from a white man’s, and I haye white blood in me, too. Yes, that’s right, it was my sweat. I worked the com- bination. Mr. Collins is as innocent as a new-born baby.” He asked a moment later: ‘They cannot do anything with my wife, when she did not know where I got the money. And my poor baby boy. Oh, what will become of him?" Then he was quiet for a time, and very much brighter, adding, “‘A terrible load has been lifted from me. My life now com- mences anew. God grant it may be honest and honcrable.” J. E. J. retire from the commissionership. pension bureau by Secretary Blis: Hancock if the father-in-law of ex-Gov. Merriam of Minnesota, and the latter in terested himself in getting Mr. made chief of the stationery free silver man. sicn office it was understood that he was and of the general management of that bureau witheut interference from any quarter. It is understood that the incideat has not yet closed, and that Mr. Hancock's case will be further considered. —_—_- 2+-—____. AEE CUTTING DOWN EXPENSES. It is Anxtously Awaited by All Classes Further Changes in the Supervising Architect's ice. Several additioral changes have been made in the office of supervising architect of the Treasury Department and others are looked for. Paul Flynn, chief of the former division of repairs, has been re- duced to assistant chief of the new division of inspection, material and repairs. The reduction in salary is from $2,500 to $2,000. Miss Annie Fauntleroy has lost her place, of Citizens. “Has Varick Hawkins got in yet?” was asked at police headquarters many times today, and this afternoon a number of his colored friends loitered about the pavement in front of police headquarters waiting to get a glance at the man who, for a week, had been quite wealthy. Inspector Mat- tingly had been informed that Hawkins had left Toronto yesterday afternoon, in charge of Detective Helan, but he hed not been advised as to the route taken. It was expected that the officer and his prisorer would get here this morning, and when he did not arrive the officers were disappointed. Vhat time does the next train get in?” the officers wanted to know. According to the schedules, there was a train due at each depot a few minutes be- fore 2 o'clock, but Hawkins did not arrive on either of them. The next train from New York, with a Buffalo connection, is due at the Baltimore and Ohio depot at 3:30 o'clock, while a through train from there is due one hour later. On the Penn- sylvania road there is a train due at about 7:30 o'clock. “No Washingtonian who has been abroad this summer will receive such an en- thusiastic welcome home as Mr. Hawkins will get,” said Commissioner Ross with great good humor to a Star reporter this afternoon, - Commissioner Ross voiced the opinion of every man in the District buildings. Chiefs of departments, heads of bureaus, clerks and messengers, all joined in a universal expression of thankfulness that the dis- honest messenger was coming back speed- ily to the scenes of bis sins. “Ef Verrick gits back in time an's got enny ob dat munny wid ‘im,” said a hanger on around the District building, “I goin’ ter borry er dollar fum ‘im an’ get me er pint tickler an’ go out ter de base ball game.” — WILL BE GEN. BRECK. further cut expenses. The examination for supervising architect been unusually large. ——————2—_____ MAY BE A FILIBUSTER. A Mobile Pilot Boat Lying Of the Florida Coast. telegram expressing the belief that in aiding a filibustering expedition. Smith was recently repaired at Mobile. She left there on the 26th of August, pre- has she is keep an eye on the vessel. —_—_ eo To Examine the McCulloch. Capt. Shoemaker, head of the revenue utter service, left today for Philadelphia to make an examination of the new revenue cutter McCulloch, which is being fitted out Bethe ship yard of the Cramps. The Mc- loch will be ready to sail in about thirty gays, but will not leave for San Francisco tefcre the ist of December. ao eet are Collector Brady Explains. Collector Brady of the second Virginia district called on Secretary Gage today and explained the recent discharges made by him ir his Richmond office. Colonel Brady says he is keeping within the civil service law. His explanations were satis- factory to the Secretary. Secretary Alger Announces Gen. Rug- gles Successor. Capt. H. O. 8. Heistand of the 1ith In- fantry has resumed his duties at the War Department after a month’s absence in New England. He ts booked for appoint- ment as un assistant adjutant general with the rank of major to fill the vacancy which will occur in that grade by the promotions to result from the retirement of Gen. Rug- gles, adjutant general, on the 11th instant. Capt. Helstand has acted as military aid secretary to the President ‘for "several months. Secretary Alger is authority for the statement that Col. Samuel Breck, the standard 24-foot Uhited States ensign that went down with the U. 8. steamship Vandalia in the storm in the port of Apia, Samoa, in 1892, was recently recovered He did not know whether the Commissioner of Pensions Evans, speak- ing to a Star reporter today, made a sweep- ing denial of the rumors that he would re- sign his position as head of the pension bureau. Mr. Evans is on good terms with the Secretary of the Interior and the Presi- dent, and there is no reason why he should The rumor of Mr. Evans’ retirement was brought about because of stories regarding interference with the management of the who, it is said, restored John Hancock as chief of the stationery division of the pension office after he had been deposed by Mr. Evans and assigned to other work. Senator Mark Hanna was largely interested, it is said, in bringing about Mr. Hancock's restora- tion as chief of the stationery division. Mr. jancock division, which pays $2,000 per annum. Mr. Han- cock is said to be a democrat and a strong When Mr. Evans took charge of the pen- to have absolute control of appointments the removal being necessary, it is said, to is still under way at the office of the civil service commission, but will be concluded on Friday. The number of applicants as The Treasury Department has received from one of its officials at Pensacola a the Pilot steamer Somers N. Smith of Mobile is lying around the Florida coast engaged The sumably tor Pensacola. Because nothing seen of her around Pensacola pected of engaging in fillbuster- ing. The authorities have been notified io CLOSING THE NET Laurel Murderer Thought to Be Bill Brown. aici WAS BROUGHT 10 THIS CITY Witnesses Who Saw Him With = His Wife. — THE DOGS IMPORTANT Special From a Staff Correspondent. LAUREL, Md., September 8, 1897. A sort of X-ray was today thrown on Laurel's great murfer mystery, through the unaided efforts of Washington news paper reporters. Unless a strong chain of clues, with very closely cornecting links, unearthed by the reporters, prove to be miraculously weak, the murderer of the wom whose decom- posed remains were discovered Sunday morning in Kelloge’s woods, bore the name, whether real or assumed, of Bill or Jim Brown. The woman, according to the Statement of Brown, was his wife. She Was about thirty-five years of age and both had seen better da: Furthermore, in all probability, the mur- derer is now in Wa He was ‘riven into Washingten Tues George W. Stansfield, a about three miles northeast of ‘Laurel. Stansfield was proceeding aleng the rear Beltsville, about six miles from and thirteen miles from Washinj a man who tallies in every detail with the description of the suppesed murderer ask- ed for a lift. Mr. Stansfield accommodated the stranger, who was rot at all communi- cative. On his face was an express c worry and fear. Just inside the city its of Washington the strenger thanked Mr. Stansfield for the ride and left the wagon, mzking some indistinct about looking up relatives. Seen Better Days. The alleged murderer and his supposed victim, were, if the evidence gathered by the reporters is not entirely unworthy of belief, at one time weil-to-do residents and property owners in Balti- more. Brown, according to his own claim, once owned considerable property on Little Stockholm street, a small, narrow thor- oughfare in South Baltimore, west of Charles str It is in the poorer section of the city, and the houses eccupi =d for the most part by colored people. There was a law suit over the property, so Brown said, and he was reduced to poverty through the rascality of a dishonest law- yer. Brown mentioned the name of this lawyer to the man who repeated the story today to The Star reporter, but the name has slipped from the memory > man Brown and his wife strangers in the vicinity of Laurel. 1 latter part of last June they were empl. August 10, by rier, Who resides Mr. road remark ed for a week to pick peas by Nathaniel and John Wheeler, farmers, on the farm of the latter, in Howard county, Maryland, about two and one-half miles north of Laurel. The same man who talked with Brown and his wife in June saw Brown Frid. Au- gust 6, sitting on the steps leading to the perch of Fuairall’s store in Laurel. He is prepared to make oath that the man he conversed with in June and the man he saw August 6 were one and the same per- son, The descripfions heretofore furnished of the murderer contair.ed 1 peculiarity of the eyes. The man who spent some time in close quarters with Brown says that at a distance the latter has what is termed a “squint eye.” Close scrutiny, however, de- veloped the fact that the lef( eye of Brown Wus entirely missing. Perhaps the most interesting feature of the case is in connection with the finding in the woods near the body of a piece of an old Washington newspaper, on the mar- gin of which was written in lead pencil a word. On this clue the New York ne! papers particularly have been laying great Stress. The word as they read it was “Leeme.” Directories have been searched in the possibility of developments in that direction. The Washington reporters, how- ever, today established a reasonat pgree of certainty that the word written on the per was margin of the news German script. The Y until today mistaken for the English cap- ital L. This is believed to be a most im- portant point in the case. It tends to prove that the couple who were employed in picking peas near Laurel in June last were the Bame who were seen in the Kel- logge woods August 7. It naturally foifows that the murdered woman was the one Brown stated to be his wife. The word on the margin of the plece of newspaper, it is believed, was written by the woman. jentification. Sylvester Smith, a young white man, ts the person from whom perhaps the most valuable information was obtained today by The Star reporter. He is a well-known young man, who resides near Lau “I was reading The Star last evening,” said Mr. Smith, “and in the story about the Laurel murder I perused that portion containing a description of the sy murderer. I immediately satd that I had seen such a man, and then it suddenly occurred to me that while working on the pike several miles from Laurel the latter part of last June with Lewis Haisiett we were forced to take shelter from a heavy storm in an oid shed in one of the fields near the road. About the same time we entered it a man and woman also took refuge there in order to escape the rain, The mar was about forty-five years of age. He wore a Gark coat, and had on a pair of corduroy trousers that had a large patch over the seat. The man wore his hair pom- padour, and had a reddish brown mus- tache sprinkled with gray. His mustache was long on the ends and stubby in front. “On his face was a growth of beard a week or two old. Me had a hooked nose and squinted badly. This was due, I think, to the fact that the left eye was’ missing. The woman was about thirty-five years old. She was fairly well dressed, with hair that fell just to her neck. The man car- ried an cllcloth satchel and the woman a small bundle. I sat directly opposite the woman while we were in the shed, and my | attention was directed to her hands, wh were crossed upon her lap. Th small and shapely, and showed every evi- dence of care and refinement. I am satis- fied that the woman had never done hard work. Her teeth were also even and were clean, apparently as though cared for. Property in Baltimore. “The man was very talkative while we were there,” continued Mr. Smith. “He told me, voluntarily, that he and his wife had been better off until a short time before. He owned quite a iittle property located on Little Stockholm street, Balti- Brown,”