Evening Star Newspaper, September 9, 1897, Page 2

9° PHE EVENING sTadts THPRSDAY, censolidated exchange within sixty days. | having run as high 4s 9,00) to 10,0 shares & 5 of stock daily. About £20,000 Owed Here. = The Washington branch at one time did # very iarge business, but latterly some of | Miners’ Convention at Pittsburg Di- s shrewdes yatrons wind of he . re es snag eeulent Fim, and witha vided on Settling the Strike. shaky condition of the firm, and withdtew STRONG SENTIMENT OPPOSING If The liabilities here are believed to be about $2 Surprise in Philadelph ‘The failure was a great surprise to pa- trens in Philadelphia, as the branch Was only opened a few weeks ago. ‘The * . a . vicsing of other “bucket shops” ia the city | lllinois and Indiana Delegates Sore provided Willard & Company with a large clientele, many of the traders being women. The firm fitted up handsome offices at 1031 Chestnut street in the rge building oc- ares ac eT cup in part by the Postal Telegraph at the Pittsburg People. Company EFFECT ON PRICE OF COAL The public flocked to the plice and thou- sands of dollars were paid over the coun- SS ees ter daily. This morning the crowl of traders, when they reac - oftics, were nfronted by the # ment of th: failure posted on the door. There was much excitement, and a kz awl gath- red, but the police soon cleared the street. No statement of the amount of mo involved in the failure in Philadelp! could be obtained, but it is not belli $25,000, Net a Fall Return. ‘The marshal has not yet made a full re- COLUMB! Ohie, September 9.—The national convention of United Mine Workers has struck a snag. Among the delegates has grown a feeling that even were the strike settled, Ohio and Pennsvl- vania would be the beneficiaries. There are men of this belief in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia, the .two first, states being practically unanimous. President Knight and Secretary Kennedy. turn in the n of the attachment of Indiana bel'eve a settlement on the nst Silsby & Co. in the proposed would adjust matters in 312.3 tuted by Duffy & Co. | Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and eastern A return by ational Metropoli Iilinois, but would have little or no effect eS ee ee in northern Illinois. These men are sub- Se eT meat cere : 5 stantially in favor of a continuance of the LiCl SoS strike. The delegates from. Ilino!s and A TIE OF satey rem Ge Indiana. so far as can be learned, as the Wm. 0. Klausman. m: session i= being neld with closed doors, are filed in the recorder of deeds’ office ae tisteel ea eee the considerativa being $2" for ‘ertain Ohio delegates are standing by office furniture and effects at 6L3 rginia, as a settlement without advantage to that section from the miners’ : 53 yoint of view would be tantamount to the ine Cans oe nea tee cease Can ines an ion losing the ground it has gare tae eee ottice. one | some indian and Illinois delegates feel sd bigest 1 five tele, | {Mat they have been made the cat's paw ee bays iatals teatee ‘one type- | f the movement. They say they have ume and Gece tevekeing chats nd again struck at ihe request of -other . districts, and when such districts gained The Same Cosrae. mat they wanted the centest would be de- Lappin & Davis, who transact the'r stock | Gared off, leaving Indiana and Illinois and grain brokerage business in the second ple SET agit . Pate east corner of ith and F streets. and who | ment as proposed. “They cae the ieeues have placed their orders through Silsby & | wages they have been paid was st cents Co., adopted the same course this morning | per ton, and a settlement at the proposed as that followed by the latter firm. A copy | sittshurg rate of 65 cents would only in- of the notice posted in Silsby & Co.'s office | crease the Massillon rate 2 cents per ton. sued ye was also called to the attention of patrons | ‘They want a differential of 5 cents be. ef Lappin & Davis. New accounts were | tween the Massillon and Hocking Valley opened, however, and the day's business | fields. transacted as usual. ” —>-— will stay UPS AND powys. settled or not. ts Pittsburg made a fight today for addi- Present Weather a Radical Change | tional delegates. and it is understood the From That in August. proposition was grante Excursion weather still continues, and| 4 Pittsburg delegate says a settlement | will be reached. He is a newspaper man the prospects are it will continue for some] som the Press, but has credentials, and little time. as the fickle mercury regis-]is on the floor as a delegat>. tered two degrees Bigher at noon today than it did at the same hour vesterday. ‘The reading then was S7 degrees, while it was SO t n of north Illinois says it whether the strike is MERCURY RISE. PRICE OF COAL W Sen © Hanna’s Manager Makes an - important Announcement. The oyster is beginning to think tha! it | special Dispatch to Th ng Star. made a mistake in getting ripe so LAND, Ohio, September 9.—If the vd the straw hat laughs mockingly proposition of M. A. Hanna & Co. is ac- w fall derby, and says, Hike the nia | cepted by the miners at Columbus today on st to the hero who has been | jr will result in a rise in the price of soft foiled at fast, “Ha! ha! ha coul throughout the country. Mr. T. S. not arrived vet. It Young, manager for M. A. Hanna, is au- A to the Klondike, who, | thority for this statement, and says that of August. had a] the public must remember that the opera- might exvect up near] tor will be compelled to ask more of an beginning to srow | advance than the simple difference be- ap sarae tween the old rate of mining and the new mublees Wieeati id for with the advance given the miners advances for the other employes of « subdued desire with some of this we which must be taken into consid- it their persons, to brin Prospective visito euring the cool taste of the aretic enthusiastic will make eratio! of emerg Before the strike run-of-mine steam coal ather sk gled t was quoted at $145 in this city. Itis much what higher now on unt of the strike, but and what extraordin: if the mi ers a the pro their officials to work for Pittsburg district for the remainder of the year, the price of ceal will of necessity be ure for degrees, while | advanced about ismarck, N. D., got the marble with 100 — rees marked on it, and Phoenix was two points behiud. made as its highest AID PROMISED TO SPAIN. 2 pass was a drop of 30 —— — Enxgiand and France Will Help Carb comparatively comfortable in) New York BEG LEA COL whe degre the mercury registered | ST. LOUIS, September 9.—Comte Henri : de Penalooza, who has been visiting indieaticns are for continued high temperature, fair weather and variable | {"end* in St. Louis for a few days, said a : that the rumor of an unGerstanding be- —_—o——_ tween Spain and other Europeen nations BILL FOR DIVORCE. looking to a check upcn American inter- ference with Cuba was confirmed by in- fcrmauion which came to’ him from high authority. He said:_, ‘Some time last September, when the Cuban question was so much = cosas agitated in the United Stites, even to the Gladmon, Sirs. Gladmon charging her hus- | Vine cf suiishing plinks to the declara. band with desertion and infidelity. tion of presidential conventions, Senor Through Attorney Campbell Carrington, | Canoves del Castillo, then premier of Mrs. Gladmon states that they were mar- amy rece es eeearences cron one ber , 1884, three children be- | lish and French governments, throug! = their representatives in Madrid, that the: ee Dorn, to) theny; {Wo (or wham boys: ofl. Salas oe nerinlt) ang iactions Ganthe mee eleven and seven years of age, survive and | of th: United States, ovher than a very ere with her. She charges that her husband | yerfunctory recognition of the belligerency until about a year ago, when he became | f the insurgents acquainted with one Laura J. Weimer, was | “On August 5, before leaving Paris, I & good husband and father, but that he | l€#rned from trustworthy sources that this has become infatuated with the said Laurt e had been ‘renewed. Gen: J. Weimer, and deserted his wife, February & has receive Isov, for no other cause than to obtain | French and English sadors, who ra’s companionship. have once more assured Spain of the sym- rs. Gladmon further charges that her | kathy of their governments and of thei hustand has the sald woman now living | Willingness to give her their ‘diplomatic in the » house with him at 248 Delawar a r that during the past ses re at the Fauquier White | LAYMEN WANTS REPRESENTATION. Va., for a week, and at aS month for several days, | Prospect nd Laura were Ieoked upon a2 man meek en Chareh pon asman |) CHICAGO, September 9.—The Times- former patient of | Herald says: “Re>ellion has broken out ia ys Mrs. Gladmon, informed | the Methodist Episcopal Church. The lay- rio toe aaainomnse bee = men demand equal repre: a ee Be for his alleged. companionship | Ministers in the great quadrennial legisla Her husband and the said Laura | ture of the church. The ministers have J. Weimer, says Mrs. Gladmon, are al- | voted three times on the question and de- stantly together, in his carriage. | feated it, and the laymen have lost pa- nd night, and that hesfrequent!y | tionee. petitioner's si " " rday Be Grove be nee kant | “The church will he brought face to face said Laura J. next week with a revolt that will prob- ther in deri ably overshadow the wutstion of women delegates in the general conference. Rep- resentatives of Pennsylvania and New Jer- sey conferences issued an address for the change. Leading laymen of Indiana called = 2 state convention to meet at Indianapolis Gladmon prays that she be allowed | next Wednesday to consider the question. to retain the custody and guardianship of | 4 lay convention, representing the Cincin. the children. and that she be allowed reas- | nasi conference, sent greetings last week onable alimony and counsel fe to the Indiana convention and urged the ES calling of a national convention. HAD HIS LEG BROKEN. ‘The laymen of the central Mitnois con- ference have called a convention to mee Frederick Plant Seriously Injured by | at Canton, September 17, and that mect- Fall of a Scaffold. ing will probably take action in the mat- derick Pla : vith | ter. Anether big lay convention will be Mr. Frederick Pianta patter, met with: 42 Sueno ie eS content wut te @ serious acc:dent this afternoon between | fcrestalled by the Tndianapolis convention, 1 and 2 o'clock, while at work on the | it is expected to issue a cal! for a nationai building of Mr. an H. Tucker, corner of ntion of Methodist laymen to make J ¥ streets northeast. The fall of a s to bring the ministers into line.” swinging sc:ffold precipitated him to the : ai aoweos ground, 4 distance of ten or fifteen feet, betes ee ae cee tnd among other Injuries he sustained was | peg » break of the left les above the ankle. Race Al Comers. Mr. Plant, who is about sixty years old, ae . cate a - Was assisting « fellow-workmran to change | PENVER, Col, September 9—The di. the position of the seatfold. When the | Tectors of the Festival of Mountain and Swinging ladder had been hoisted the | Plain have signed a contract with the Den- = sengiw te foe on the a of the | ver Wheel Club for a fifty-mile relay race, building called to him to fasten the rope. 7 This he attempted to do, but did not suc- | t© Pe Tun by ten members of the club, and teed in fastening it securely, and the scaf- | te? amateur riders outside the club's mem- fold fell im consequence. In the absence | bership. The challenge is open to the of @ physician the injured man’s fellow- | world. verkers constructed a temporary bandage | The race will occur on the night of Mon- and spiints. The patient was later treated | day, October 4, at D. W. C. traek, which 4< Emergency Hospital. He lives at 724| will be illuminated by thirty arc lights. €d street northeast, and has no family. ‘The details of the affair hav> ‘been placed -——>——_ in the hands of E. R. Perkins, secretary Sheriff Pritchard Was Not Killea. | of a —- Clubs of Den- 7 > ve ul ppose Col. J. E. Boyd, republican national com- | the’ De W. G. tea The Hee Tepes mitteeman of North Carolina and assistant’ | will give a gold medal to the winning teain attorney general, has received a letter | and several prizés to individual riders. from Senator Pritchard, stating that Sheriff Se ee George W. Pritchard, his brother, was not ppiajsinain jae oy gsm, usin a killed recently by a desperado, as stated, | CHILLICOTHE, Mo., September 9.—Pro- but was seriously injured. The senator re- | fessor Bozart, the aeronaut, whe.made the — — lene pense he yop is much | balloon ascension at the fair grounds, was. | improved, ai that he will probably sur- | fatally injured by the fallare of his para- Vive. Sheriff Pritchard is the sheriff of | chute to open readily. He was abcut 300 Mitchell county, N. C., and in-attempting | fect in the air when he cut loose, and be- to arrest a desperado he was shot. The | fcre his parachute opened he wos less than desperado was killed by the deputy who | fifty feet from the ground. His injuries accompanied the sheriff. ere probably fatal. dwin Gladmon Defendant in s for Separatio: Dr. Edwin Gladmon was made the de- fendant today im a suit for divorce from bed and board, filed by Margaret B. the new premie - Dissensions in at whi and wi to her from a ad. Ist a Members of Denver Club Witll neglige shirt, a pencil and a book. The clothes were in a terrible condition and seemed as if fit to fall to pieces. More importance would have tached to the find had it been made in the woods instead of the old cemetery. The spot in which they were located has been for some time a fayorite resting place RUSH TO ALASKA ‘STILL ON) SEARCHING THE CITY Tis Lane pO ght Df Here Gold Seekers Undeterred by Discouraging, Reports of Prospectors, southern white corn, 37; de. firm No. 2 white, kas : 85.027 Wuinbels; . mune Sree cg Mee STONE amd Migher—No. F nearin. Ba 3 No. 2 western, 54% hid. recetpts, 3.821 ports, none: stock. BAATI bushels. Hay This Was a Red Letter Day in Stock Market. Steamer Queen Takes Out 110 Pas- 3 ar AND TRADE eto Sugar strong — Back Than Expected. oS Se « - ~ for tramps, and any one of them might ‘hoice timothy, eee. Z in _ ight have left this bundle behind them. im te Liverpeal, por sengers—Leas Gold Coming |. /¢P PH RY PLC BWA Wy ca eis cece nee cee soumee Cork,” for orders, per ua ALMOST THE ENTIRE LIST ADVAN were found in the debris of a fire, which Ratter dull, SS had evidently been Kindied for the pur- SSS pose of obliterating these evi mees of a crime. PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, September | Local Police ‘Have No Official In- The book had on the fy leat the name of Dividends Were the Supporting malay eee 9.—The steamer Queen has sailed for Alas- CR pete : A. Go Cutt. It ts a medical dictionary, is- Ca St. Paul’ 3 == 2 : sued by the drug store of McDonald, in use--St. Paul’s Good Showing. Quotations reporiea by Corson & Macart- ka, and nothwithstanding the fact that on fagmation, ed ee area 2 Be [Repnerecen her return from the north only four days S : hames, ‘a number of bilis to be collected. mere Ss se i Asko ago she brought thirty-five disgusted men ma ‘These bills were made out in the name of 3 per conte, ‘iv from Skaguay, she carried north 110 bound] THE “HUNT IN~ LAUREL dul eee Novrolk. oe Scott. |GBNERAL MARKET REPORTS $ per cents, for the Klondike via Dyea. The clothes were placed in the custody Oe Ee i pareene cae Had They all expressed themselves as confi- Fr gf the Justice at Laurel. No further evi. ; lies dent cf their ability to cross the pass and| If the facts devéloped yestetda¥, tending | ences of the crime or anything that will Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. 1a Feach Dawson City this fall. Fhe stories | to prove that the supposed murderer of the | {en7,t0, throw, Hight upon the Sdentity of | “New yoRK, september _.—Opening 7 of the miserable condition of the pass ap- | woman whose decomposed remains were.| the search was given up shortly before 12 | prices this morning reflected adva ps porn pear to have no influence with the people'| found Sunday morning last in. Kelloxs | clock. pars ine Seona\'S (to a0 pis: cba =e ake Cotton Markets, In their mad rush for the gold fields. While | woods, near Laurel, came to this city, were SS ES ine Rouse of Mr. | ter for Dilinois Central on the publication peered Oph, Hibs & Co. bankers at h h 7 ubjected e =" . | Nathaniel eeler, wo lives about three . , | 2nd brokers, 1427 F st. members New York hered that Mr. Wheeler employed (or Drown) and his wife about the frcettonalily higher, and foreign houses 9 xc dated | bovght moderately in the local market Part of June to pick peas. Mr. Wheeler'| in sympathy with the continued evidences Pr eta se ee one ami | Of Prosperity and the subsideace of the were gererally reticent about their condi- | Yellow fever scare. tion. althuugh the woman let some few.| Shortly after the opening hour realizing yore drop cae gO to ghow ines Pee: sales became conspicuous in the trading as the same ont that was ‘seen in Laurel. & J a % Wheeler said that he had seen the couple } *™ a =! Sear oe Ses 3 = in Baltitaore after they left his place about | West and some doubt as to St. Paul's next the last of June. Cividend. For a time the selling of the The Description Tallies. stock named was regarded as conclusive His descrintion of the man tallies with | ¢vidence against the popular theory that an that of other persons who have seen him | increased disbursement was assured. cabinistyicinites A reaction of more than 1 per cent was He said that the woman had marks on| Tecorded just prior to th» noon hour, but her face, as though it had been scratched. | the sudden recognition of the fact that the She alsu had a bone felon on each hand. | tying had been superior to the selling She was hard of hearing. The man told] forced a sharp recovery. Rumors that the To ae hat his name was Drown, | Meeting had been called for September 18 Fee eae nen a roc” washiwown’ | lcatean tot tblaylecrvea to chermteks ant Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., New York. cers in quest of contraband intoxicants,,but, pre ee! Dacor! nas nothing of that character was found. All ships sailing from this port for Alaska: will hereafter be carefully searched before clearing. rine Amount of Gold Dwindle: EUREKA, Caf, September 9.—J. F. Rals- ton, one of three Klondikers who arriVea in-this city-on the steamer National, City, states that the Excelsior would probabl not bring down over a quarter of a million dollars, while on the Cleveland there. will be less, as the Cleveland did not obiain nearly so many passengers as the Exccl- sior. KR. B. Lamb, another of the National City’s passengers, has changed his state- ment as to the amount of treasuré“the Weare started down the river with, and instead of $1,500,000, it is estimated” that there was only between $50,000 and $100,- 000. gation of a Stat repdrter- After searching the records of the municipal lodging hous, the Central Union Mission and the sanitary office of the police department without suc- cess; a round was mide of ali the saloons ant chéap Todging héuses in the neighbor- hood of ist'and PB streets, where tramps, hoboes and iridividuals ‘of a like’ Character usually wend their way on coming to this city, . The officials at the municipal ‘lodging house: stated. positively Uiat ne man an- swering the description of Brown or Drown was accemmodated there during -Augusi.or at any other time recently. At the Central Union Mission the record shows -the- name -William Brown, several times. on the list of guests between the 10th and 20th of August. But those connected. with the institution and who scrutinize the High. Tow. Coxe. Wi BRT we Sy January PERSISTENT PRESIDENT PHILLIPS. Falls Charch Railroad Trouble tm the War Departme Today. nt Phillips of the Washington, andra and Falls Church Railway guests as they arrive are sure that the! mender, and had worked in Baltimore at] Situation. Subsequently the reports of a] Compary, who was arrested vestery for Mr. Lamb also states he saw no cases, of | supposed Laurel murderer did not apply | pis trade. He said he had also worked in| @torum in xctual session were announced | secking to exzend the tracks of that itwe scurvy among any of the peonle he met. | for fodd’cr lodging at the mission. Baltimore with his wife preparing fruits | 3nd the net buying inspired thereby forced | pon the Aqarduct bridwe witheu nevtnce Several cases were reported, however. He} Sanitary Officer Frank has delved into} for canning. the price up to par. thinks there was danger of typhoid fever and starvation. Will Investigate the “Blockade. SAN FRANCISCO, September 9.—Among the passei.gers who sailed for the north on the steamer Umatilla from this port were Capt. W. B. Rogers and James Evans, the commissioners appointed by the State De- partment at Washington to investicaie and report the best means of reli ing the blockade at the south of the Yukon and preventing the threatened famine in the Klondike old mining region. passe alam INTERPRETING THE TARIF sion or authority, was at the War De- partment today, but did rot secure an ecdience with Secretary Alger. He did, however, se Chief Cl rk Tweedale and Juage Advocate General Liever. His purpose was to secure copies of the records of the War Department relating to the ex- tension of his railroad to the Aquedu-t bridge for use in the hearing of the case in the Police Court. He was promised the use of the orixinals when needed. The last license issued was accompanied by blue prints, shcwing the exact lines covered by the license. There is nothing in the records to show that permiss given to cross the Aqueduct bridge. Under date of December IS, 184 tary Eamont gratted a revocable li to the Washingten, Ariington and Falis Church Railway Company “to exten track to the south end of the Aqueds bridge. in Alexandria county, Vi er engineering lines, from its p minus near said bridge to and along east side ef the present sidewalk, on the appraach to the bridg Certain conditions are prescribe of which is that in case of the re every nook and recess of his capacious memory, but fails to recall a visit from the much-desired stranger. If the man was without money and desired to leave the city he would very likely have applied to the sanitary. officer for assistance in the event that he was not sufficiently quick- witted. to avoid. police headquarters. All the saloons along Pennsylvania avenue from 4! street to Ist street were visited and the bar tenders and proprietors questicned. They were sure that the man with the long sandy mustache and pompa- dour hair had not been in their places. ‘They all agreed that had the man been an ordinary tramp or bum he would have cer- tainly put in an apparance, attracted by the generous free Tunch that is supplied at these places. Clue Discovered. All the ledging houses along 1st street were ignorant. of the murderer, but just around the corner on B street the reporter met with a degree of success. A man nzmed Hall corducts a cheap lodging house at 104 B street, where a bed may be secured for a night upon the payment of 2U cents. Hall. yemembereg,, when the mat- ter was explained to him, that about a month ago 4.man visited,iris place eariy one merning and applied for lodging. Hy arrived about 1 or 2 o'clock in the morn- ing. The strerger had a long reddish mu: tache and a. growth of whiskers abou weeks (ld. He wore his hair pompadou afta his tcse'\was rather crooked. He c. ried a satch#! and a bunifle wrappet¥ in newspepers. qiwhe.snan’sppnt the night, or the. nemo incer, of jt, at the house, and de- parted :eme. time, after daylight. A colored man, employed a! Hall's plac: remembered the visit of this man distin= ald afd’ particular atrass:-on the fact that. the. lodger 5carried a. valise and 2 bundle, and jeoked as thous’ he was from the country,-@3oth Hall aal the colore{ men were able tb’ recall the occasion of the visit of this men to the house by the fact that heavent to bed without removing his.shoes... Tyat opussion calied for:h com- plaint Icud, long and profane from the hed-fellow of*the Wan. The complaint was unusual: and? thetfore, ‘fixed the incident firmly in the minds of Hall and his cm- ploye. Veer ‘The 2 eporter-next sought Peliceman Cog- hill of the sixth precinct, who was on duty cn the beat in the vicinity of 1st 4 streets the eariy part of August. man ‘Coghill is sure he saw the allege raurderer. Seén by «i- Officer. ono Around this price excellent support was tim steer ney sec ereeer etry ey apparent, and the entire list responded Washington, where they had spent the alent ef In consequence of this winter. The man said he was fifty-two | Tecord St. Paul has conformed almost ex- years of age, while the weman told Mrs. | 2¢tly to the predictions of its friends an Weaver she was but forty-seven. cutstripped Burlington, which has hither- She also said she hed some nite prop pines the advantage of the discrepancy in erty in Baltimore on Little Stockholm 2 z Street. During the dull time of the picking er ae not been per- season Drown or Brown would take his} iia, ahh emanate react a —_ = umbrella mending outfit, which he had} (°mary » ee a ikely ‘to ‘again | tevons with him, according to Mr. Wheeler, and | *hDare adie am egicmeneand Regn journey to Savage, where he would put in is the next member of this d pick few pennies by | 8TOUP to meet the dividend problem, and Bee ihe ud ee ¥ | an increase in its rate is thought to be at mending umbrellas. Mestre bie oe Often Seen in Vicinity. Missouri Pacific was well supported dur- He was cften seen in this vicinity, and] ing the day on the prospects of increased L earnings to be reported tomorrow. The the couple camped on the pike for a couple} tast weekly advance in this particular was of nights for some time seeking work. He | followed by a sharp rise in the price of bought quite a little bit of provisions from | the stock“ he high-priced specialties were William H. Cole, who keeps a store at/#gain in: | demand around top figures. Savage, and his description of the man | ¢COMS0ligu.ed Gas sold at 212 during the first hour, an advance of 5 per cent from tall.es with the now well known descrip-| (he closing price of yesterd: Tennessee tion of the much wanted man. Coal and Iron and Pacific Mail were az.ain At the time that Brown and his wife were | xctive, but somewhat irregular. Moth working for Mr. Whceler_a man by the] properties are making large gains in = name of James Coleman and his wife were | ings, however, and are in good demand by also employed as pickers by Mr. Wheeler. | the believers in the future of the low-priced Coleman was well acauainted with Brown, | issues. and said he had known him all his fe. | “Southern preferred w: Shortly after Brown left Mr. Wheeler, Cole- | gon “and traders on tae, PouEht man had his effects shipped from Jessups | Creased traffic receipts durime ihe to Belair, the other side of Baltimore, say- | “Gr the year. ing that he intended to find work there in| “phe entire market is influenced, for the a canning factory. first time in many months, by the actva! eas earning ability of the several active i SUSPECT sues. There is almost -no special cause I hind an advance other than the slow! made by the properties by comparison with the same period in 1S06. The market is on a legitimate basis, and is reflecting actual conditions. There are ho Indications of a sethack to the present forward tendency. Rumors were current on the floor during the final hour that St. Paul had declared an extra dividend of 1 per cent, and the whole list was unusually strong in con- sequence. These rumors may be regarded as absolutely reliable. —<—— FENANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, Ralings on Varioux Sections “by ‘Treasury Officials. The Secretary of the Treasury has de- cided that, under the new tariff act, drugs, ete, which have been advanced from a strictly crude or natural condition by re- fining, grinding, cleansing or purifying process, are liable to duty without under- going such conversion as would bring them within the purview of the term “manufactur 4 The attention of the officers of the cus- toms has been called to the fact that under the new tariff act, the term statuary in- cludes orly such statuary as is cut, carved, cr otherwise wrought by hand from a solid block or mass of marble, stone, or alabaster or from_metal, and as is the professienal productior of a statuary or sculptor only. Under this provision bronze statues or statuary is dutiable at the rate of 45,.per cent ad valorem, under the section relating to manufactures of metal, inasmuch as $ hand from solid 5 tatues or stat- uary is dutiable at the rate of 20 per cent ad valorem, except when they are intended for use in religious or secular schools, , when they are free of duty. retary of the. Treasury ‘has is. sued a circular to customs officers instra ing them, pencing the promulgation of gen- eral regulations governing the sampling end classification of imported sugars, to cause all reiined sugars to be.. subjected. to one track and replace the east sidewalk witn- out expense to the United Suates. Secretary Lamont, under date of Janvary 1897, gracted the company a si license to lay a railw: . in a to the one he government preach to the Aqueduct tion that the company w road for a width of fif side; that the comp plank walk on tre ers from the bridge to the ment, and construct a sv on the west Ene of said walk. Another condition was that the company should make such traffic regulations and time schedules as would furn reason- able conveniences for Fert Myer and Arl- ington, including the sale of single tickets to the garrison and employes and families at_ the cemetery. Secretary Alger has never acted in the tly urged to do sc by President Phillips, end the priviles of the road, so far as the bridge ix cerned, are limited by the Hcenses tssu by_ex-Secretery Lamont. President Phillips tried time and again to get the Secretary to issue an or- der to him cut of hand granting permission to cross the bridge, and has assumed a somewhat aggressive attitude, but without avail, When the Secretary went to Lak Champlain, Phillips wrote asking permis- ‘AMED DROWN. en in Baltimore Seven Weeks Ago. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. BALTIMORE, Md., September 9.—William Drown, not Brown, who formerly Mved on Stockholm street, Baltimore, and who is suspected of the Laurel murder, was last n in Baltimore about seven weeks ago on the corner of Camden and Butaw street: At that time he fs said to have arrived from the farm of James Wheeler of How- ard county, where he had veen employed in June, picking peas. He had a rag and junk shop at 805 Stockholm street, where he liyed for several years. He owned two small houses, on which he borrowed mon- ey, and the property was afterward sold to satisfy the debt. His wiie is said by the neighbors ta have been. an ill-tempered, peevish woman. It west a suitable avy string- id “embank hand rail Wan Last expert exainination, and to report tg the collector whether the same, after being re- fined, have heen tinctured, colored or in any way adulterated. At ports where the The following are the opening, the high- est and the lowest and the closing prices of the New York stock market today, as re- rorted by Corson & Macartney, members New York stcck exchange. Correspondents, Messrs. Moore & Schley, No. 80 Broadway. Open. High. Low. Close. 18%, 18% 13K 33 vernment has no fa: this examination, samples are to be sent te the appraiser at New York. Under. the rew tariff tinctured or colored refined su- gars are assessed a duty of 4 cents a pound tles for making pase! a : “1 was just thinking about this cas¢,” |is alleged they did not get along well to " "os sicn to go there to talk the-case over with Tevea storms one ae walorem whlch in, bes: | (gaa: paitcemdn' Coshilif. 1a rosy to tie Lecter altace thereat as said to hav. MN HE Thay him. ; oa ae : RE + y. “[ -Pead’“aesctiption | been mostly on the woman’s side. Drown ee 1183 ‘The Secretary replied that he would dis- SS Loree et i sera oon | 1slrepresented’as belnpiacmlld: amntableiaoct BX Sx Bi cuss the matter when he returned to UNDER A SPELL last evening in The Star of the man who | 0, "eP! 2 MR of a man, and was generally liked by those who knew him. He was considered a good neighbor, ‘and was popular.” The people in the vicinity who were there when he lived on Stockholm street seem unwilling to believe that he would commit a murder, although they say that his wife was ‘‘aggravating in the extreme.” Neither of the Wheelers was at Hollins market, so could not be seen. ss a THEY WERE MARRIED. Washington. The day of the Secretary's return Phillips called and tried his olf tactics of bluffing and pleading, d was told that the case was too important to be taken up off-hand, and that the matter would be fully inquired into at the Secre- tary’s opportunity. With this statement fresh in his mind he tried to execute a flank movement ani showed his contempt for the War Depart- ment by trying to cross the bridge at night. But this is not all. He secured“a permit to cross the Fort Myer reservation, along a specified route, and deliberately went ahead and surveyed a different route that carried his line across the parade ground. His materials were confiscated, as were the s of a telephone line that was to run alongside uis tracks. He has shown a disposition throughout to bully the Sec- retary and his officials into grant wishes. Wey 164 1B 9 i9y 18 tees nm’ Bt ©.C.C. & St. Lows...) 39% 39%, 29 1s supposed to have committed the Laurel murder, and-I realized at once’ that I had seen that man. After thinking it over I recalled passing the man,., It was. very likety°the’ morning of August 11, or just about that time. It was soon after day- light, and I was going off duty. I was waikimgaiong B street near Ist street when I passed the man. He had evidently just come out of one of the lodging houses that line. the street. > “The man carried a satchel and some- thing wrapped in a newspaper. He looked to me like a farm hand or countryman, and I think he wore overalls. I thought no more of the matter, naturally, until I read the description of the murderer yesterday, and it flashed across my mind at once that the man.I met that morning and the Lau- rel.murderer are identical.” The Star's investigation yesterday brought to..light the fact that the man who was seen In Kellogg's woods with a woman was given a ‘ift” trom Beltsville to this cit August 10 by a farmer named Stansfield. It has since becn learned that the man who left Stansfield's wagon just within the city limits-applie? for work as a brick maker or setter at several brick yards in the vicinity of “Mh and #1 streets north- Least. He was uusuccessfubin his quest for employment, and then begged a few pen- |. nies from tne employes at one of the yards. He entered a small store near by and | bought some buns. That was the last: ween of him in thg neighborhood, This’ samé man was also seen near Ivy ity by_a raiicoad track hand. Both when akout the brick yards and.in. the vivinity “of Ivy City he is said to kaye borne a hitervousyhunted look. ~~ Police Not I ‘Although Laurel is only abcut s2venteen ‘miles ‘from’ this city the Maryland officiais haye as yet made no request c£ the. Wash- | irgton police.to assist them in the inves- ‘tigation of the mysteryy Inspector: Mat+ ;tingly stated to ‘a Stat ‘reporter this ftcr- roon that the only informatton he iad ‘received’ of’ the ‘crime was obtained ‘from the newspapers. He‘ has not: been furnished’ with-a dé scription of the_man,whose name is sup- posed ‘to’ “he"Drown.or Brawn. Now that ‘the Baltimo sie are at work. on Singular Story De ed in a Police Court Case. sees Dr. Frank O. Matthews of No. 1021 Ver- mont avenue was today held in $300 bond by Judge Kimball for a hearing on the charge of obtaining $1 by means of false pretenses from August Norwood of Bright- wood. Although the amount alleged in the in= formation is placed at the’ small sum named, Matthews, according to the staze- ments of Norwood to the police authori- ties, secured $30 from him at different times and under most peculiar circumstances. Norwood, who is a dairyman, was, he said, driving along tke road near his home some time ago when he overtook a friend whom he invited to ride with him. The friend got in. the wagon and the two ex- changed ccmpliments. Norwood told his friend that things had been going badly with him; that he had recently lost iwo horses and his girl had gone back on him. ‘The friend then informed Norwood that if he would call cn Dr. Matthews that gen- tleman could not only tell nim how to get his run of luck changed, but would see that the love of Norwood’s former swest- heart was restored to him. seer Norwood calied on Dr. Matthews and was, he said, given a gitting for whieh he paid the doctor $1. During the sitting the doctor, it is claimed, rubbed his hands ever various parts of Norwood’s body and head, and thereby Norwood said made him feel much better, Some time after this Norwood. was seized with an uncontrollable impulse to see Dr. Matthews, and went to the latter's house At the door he met Dr. Matthews... Th= latter asked Norwood if he bad any money for him, ani Norwood at once put his. hand in his pocket and drew therefrom $15, which he handed to Dr. Matthews.. What followed on this occasion Norwood aid not state, but a few evenings later -he was again seized with an inordinate de- sire to see Dr. Matthews, and again-he started for his house. On the way Nor- wood ret tte doctor, and before a word had been spoken by either of the men Nor- wood handed Matthews a second sum of ‘$15. Information of how Norwood was dispos- ing of his money reached some of the friends of the latter, and they persuaded him to have a warrant sworn out for_Dr, Matthews and arrest him on the charge of obtaining the first dollar on false pre- terses. Yesterday the warrant was given te De- tective Weedon to serve. As the detective took the paper and was about to start for Mattgews’ house Norwood remarked: “There is no use for you to go there now; you won't. find him.” Detective Weedon, however, went to the Matthews house, but did not find the doctor at home. Norwood called at police headquarters this morning, when he met Detective Wee- don and asked him if he still wanted Mat- thews. The detective replied that he did, and Norwood said: “If you go to his house now you will find him.” Detective Weedon took the hint, went to Matthews’ house, where he found the-man. he was looking for, just as Norwood had said, and took him into custody. Norwood is one of the best known and most highly respected citizens of Brigtit<"| wood. Miss May Sammy a Kirby United. It was reported in a Baitimore paper to- day that Miss May Summy, daughter of Mr. O. D. Summy of Takoma, and Mr. James Carroll Kirby of this city, formerly of Front Royal, Va., had been married at Tewnson, just outside of Baltimore, Tues- day night, by Rev. E. C. Gallaher of the M. E. Church there. It was stated that the couple said they had run away to be married, and that the mother of the bride was willing for the marriage to take place, but that the father Was opposed to her marrying any one. Mr, Summy, the father of the bride, who is employed here at the Treasury Denart- ment, said to a Star reporter today that there had been no elopement. Mr. Kirby his been ‘visiting at the home of Mr. Sum- my in Takoma. On Tuesday he and Miss Summy went to Baltimor: for a visit. After reaching there they decided to get n.arried and went to the home cf Mr. Tracey, a friend of the groom. The young people were to have been married Christ- mas, and there was no objection by any- body to their marriage at that time. Mr. Summy thought they ought to have waited until then, but all has been forgiven. Mr. Summy said it was not the intention of the young people, when they left Tues- day, to marry. As stated, they came to that conclusion after reaching Baltimore, and then went to Towson. —_-_+->—_—_ ELECTED PRESIDENT. Mr. James Delaware & Hudson... Den. & Rio Grande, pf Sietropolitan ‘Traction. Mahattan Elevated. Michigan Central. ‘Missouri Pacific ‘ational Lead € ‘ National Leaa Uo.. pid. New Jersey Centrai New York Centrat Northern Pacitie. Northern Pacitte, pf. Ont. & Western. Pacitie Mau. Phila. & Keading. | Puliman P. c. Southern Ky., pfd Phila. Traction ‘Texas Pacific. WILL INCREASE THEIR W AGEs. Will Be Remedica. Assistant Secretary Vanderiip of the Treasury Department has been investigat~ ing the work done by the laborers at the bureau of engraving and printing and the salaries received by them. He found that the sixty-seven men employed as laborers at the bureau were among the hardest worked and mest faithful employes of the government, and that they were receiving less for their work than laborers in othe. departments of the government. He com- municated the facts to Secretary Gage to- day, and after there had been a kind of cabinet meeting of the Searetary and his assistants it was decided to imerease the wages of the laborers to $50 a month, or $600 2 year. They have been receiving a month, or about $470 a year. Mr. Van- derlip says the department has economized in other directions and can afford to make this deserved increase. He says that the laborers in: the Treasury Department proper receive $660 a year. 2 DEMANDS HIS PROFITS. Equlty Salt by Daniel McMurtric Agesinst Canty 4 Co. Herran W. Van Senden and Dennis J. Canty, until recently engaged here in the stock brokerage business as Canty & Co, were sued today by Daniel McMuriric, who claims $4,775, the amount of profits on and including an investment of $1,700 dur- ing last month. A schedule filed by the plaintiff develops the fact that he realized on Chicago, Burlirgton and Quincy, Gen- eral Electric and St. Pavil. He claims that the defendants, without his knowledge or consent, sold all of his stock and received imgtem Stock Exchange. Sales—regular call—12 o'clock m.—Ieal Estate Title Insurance, 5 at 100. American Gray of cotncy 2. Se ito bid, 1 om 3. Miscellaneous Bonds—Met New Honors. for Prof, An Montague. c The trustees 0: Furman Raptist Univer- sity at Greenville, 8. C., have elected Prof. Andrew Montague of the Columbian Uni- versity here president, to succeed Dr. Man- ley, who resigned because the trustees did not wish him to fill a pulpit and the office of president at the same time. Prof. Mon- tague is professtr of Latin at the Colum- bian University, and is dean of the faculty here. He is a University of Virginia grad- uate and a Ph. D. of Johns Hopkins Un!- versity. He 1s forty-three years old, and has a fine reputation as a Latin scholar: ——_—.——_ A Parchase. Mrs. George O. Carr, wife of Dr. Wm. P. Carr, the District coroner, has purchuscd the dwelling at the southeast corner cf Vermont avenue and L street northwest. The property is described as lot 32, in “thie ‘cawé 'th@“polité here ‘may ‘be ‘officially furnished “a déscription of the alleged ‘murderer. It {8 Mat “unlikely that some- time this “gfternoon-or ‘tonight. the local ‘police headquarters will be requested to keen aiookay$ for thessuspected, murderer. : Qutet: ventization. “Although fffey “dre Keeping” Very” quiet “Phe “Star “ripbrte? learned that at ‘least two membefs of’°the Metropolitan police | ‘force are cofiductif€ a private investigation \of- the ease, Be ig that they are on the right track. Mt is*tfle theory 6f these police- men that’ t#® miufderer was in ‘this city this: -week. \Zarthér developments: must be made before ;this phase of the investigation | will. be in thy jones for publication. Tt was devt¢lo} by the reporter that a woman who ‘was Known as Mrs. ‘Ida Brown and who bo@rded/at a house on Ist street, ‘left this. elty-abo@t a month: ago, saying: she was going to Laurel. Nothing was ‘mown here about this woman beyond’ that she has separated from her husband. | She was -about thirty-five years of age, and had small, shapely hands. There are ‘several families by the nanie'of Brown liv- ing in Laurel, but it could not be’ learned., ‘this afternoon whether-or net:a Mrs. Ida {Brown is connegted ‘with any of them. ‘The Post Office Department has decided to discontinue the substation of the city post office at the corner of Pennsylvania ‘avenue and —_--—-- Iith street.