Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1897, Page 1

THE EVENING sTAR.~ PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT UNDAY. _AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 3 capia Avene, Gor. llth &t., by The Erenin Star Newspaper Company 4 EEE: RAGEEMANN Pres’t. ge Se New York Ofice, 49 Potter Building. soning Star is served to subeccfbers fa the per week, or a4 cents per tonth. Copies at the fcunter 2 cents each. By. mail—anywhere in the United States or Conada—fostage prepaid—50 cents Saterday Quintaple Shaet Star, A per sear, with foreign postage added, $3.09. 4 «Entered at the Post Office at Washingtoa, D. C., rust be paid fn advance. as eecend-class mil matter.) Rates of advertising made known on application. EF All mall subscript i t Che x Evening Star. W. ASHINGTON, D. G TALKING ABOUT CUBA} > Consul General Lee Confers With State Department Officials. ——————— CONDITION OF AFFAIRS - REVIEWED No Significance in His Visit at This Time. AS Ez GONE TO VIRGINIA ee Consul General Lee had an extended con- ference at the State Department today with Seeretary Sherman and Judge Day, assistant secretary of state, during which the entire range of Cuban affairs was gone over. The consul general submitted no written report, but made a verbal state- ment in regard to the numerous questions which have arisen in connection with the insurrection. Secretary Sherman desired that General Lee should see the President, who is expected back tonight. It was felt, however, that the President would be ed with his journey, and would not care to take up Cuban affairs after his ar- rival tonight. The cabinet meeting was hkely to occupy his attention tomorrow. For these reasons it was arranged that Lee should proceed to Virginia it his family, holding himself in to return on a telegraphic order t was convenient for the President to see him. General Lee accordingly left here this afternoon for Covington, Va. near the Hot Springs, where Mrs. Lee and daughter and a son are spending the sum- mer. ‘The conference at the State Department began shortly after 1) o'clock, and lasted a full hour and a half. General Lee first called en Judge Day, and, accompanied by him, went to the Secretary's office. All parties concerned declined afterward to say anything as to the subjects dis- cussed. It is learned, however, that it de- veloped no new or startling phases of the Cuban situation, but was rather in the nature of a general review of the entire situation up to the time Gen. Lee left the island. He was able to present this mat- ter mtch better through a personal talk than through the medium of official com- munications, such as he has sent from time to time. General Subjects Discussed. The subjects covered included the condi- tion of the Competitor prisoners and other Americans held in Spanis& prisons; the dis- position of the fund of $50,000 appropriated by Congress for the relief of Americans destitute on the island; the present status of the rebellion, recent hostillities, etc. One f Gen. Lee's Staff visited the Competitor soners the Saturday hefore the consul general left for Washington, and reported that Ona Melton and the others were in fairly good condition. Their case is at present “sub jue a legal condition which prevents anything being done until further advance is made. Aside from these larger questions, the interrogatories of Secretary Sherman ani Assistant Secretary Day led to a general iscussion of all the recent developments on the island. The prevailing sickness on the island was touched upon. Both yellow fever and smallpox are carrying off many soldiers and cit'zens at Havana, and throushout the interior, and the week bhe- fore Gen. Lee left there were thirty deaths trom yellow fever at Havana, of which by far the greater number was among the troops. This is the wet season in Cu- ba, with alternate periods of rain and ex- treme h-at, filling the air with miasma, and carrying death among those unaccus- tomed to the climate. Gen. Lee's Return to Cuba. Concerning Gen. Lee's return to Cuba no definite information could be secured. It is said to depend much on circumstances which have not yet fully developed, and it is probable that neither the consul gen- eral or the officials are as yet certain con- cerning his future movements. As the cab- inet meeting will be held tomorrow, it is thought prebable that Gen. Lee will not be atiel back to Washington before Wed- sday at the e: Assistant special sig in this count: leave there is no n Gen. Lee's presence at this time. He asked for f absence and it was granted him. me home of his own volition, and so far as known, not in consequence of any ortant developments in the situation in Cuba. Although no one in authority the impression is s ret return to Cub: tative Aldrich will 3 Havana early tn October after the clo: the yellow fever season. ‘The General in Exe en. Li ays hy 1 that one of the lent Spirits. lient health, reasons for a pri h » coming was to his wife and family. He looks strong and rugged, and seems to have taken on flesh. The onl r noticeable change in his appearance due to the removal of the imperial, which was formerly one of his inguishing excelient ot divulge newspaper men during the any state s to the who dogged his footsteps he treated them all with eration. When closely pres: tion on topics he did not S, he would shrug his t jers and say, with an engaging smile, “No puedo de cia,” remarking significantly at the same time that that was Spanish for “Il am un- able to sa He invariably used this ex- pression when asked if he was likely to return to Havana or how he thought the truggie in Cuba would terminate, and when. Presentation of Minister Woodford. rtment say that there is ne reason to expect any important news from San Sebastian today in conse- quence of the presentation of Minister diseu: Woodford to the queen regent. It was plained that that was a purely format function, end that Minister Woodfore would hardly consider it the time or place to bi ng up matters of business. The ar- ment for the minister's reception by bastian in advance of urn of the court to Madrid is de- offi- astian, and sevy- ed where diplomatic ntatives of foreign governments have been denied that privilege. In with diplo: * rules ani sted that Minister Wood- 1] addre: expres- sions of friet ‘teem, and will re- serve all matters of business for future communication to the Duke of Tetuan, the tinister of state for foreign affairs. inister Woodford is vested with con- able discretion in the execution of his tructions, especially m the matter of time, but there is reason for the belief that there will he no great delay :n the official communication of the President's desire for the speedy termination of hostilities in Cuba and the amelioration of the deplorable conditions on the islands. Although the officials of the State Depart- ment are silent on the subject, it is pretty understood in diplomatic circles that Minister Weodford’s instructions involve no important change im the poiicy ef the United States in regard to the Cuban ques- tiom and are not likely to cause any sever- ance of the diplomatic relations between the Un'‘ted States and Spain. will be immediately opened for a prompt and peaceful settlement of the Cul tion, but it Is not likely that undue haste will be observed. than in years. still subject, Negotiations n ques- —___-e+—_____ WAS THE LAST TO LEAVE. Chief Engiacer Edwards Sealded in the Rodgers Explesion. The accident to the torpedo beat Rodgers Saturday on her trial trip will not prevent the organization of the torpedo boat flo- tilla, as origir i to the craft cannot be made in mu than two months. Meanwhile, the other boats, five in number—the Dupont, Porter, Ericsson, Foote and Cushing—will leave Tompkinsville the first week In Oc for tae south, begining the cruise, whic it is expected will take them into the gulf of Mexico, and finally up the Mississippi. Acting Secretary Roosevelt is by no means discouraged in the execution of -he program he laid down for the boats by the Rodgers’ mishap. He recalled the fact that when the British government recently un- dertook to send three of its torpedo-boat destroyers, a class of boat larger than our torpedo boats, to foreign stations, all of beats broke down in their machinery, and were obliged to return to port. It is the purpose of the Navy Department, in planning the flotilla operations, to develop the weak points of our boats, and sift them out, so that the deiicate craft may be depended upon in time of need. Members of the trial board returning to the city from Baltiniore are of the opinion that the accident resulted from the break- ing of a crank pin, something that might Auppened to any craft, and, so far known, a defect that is not capable ct discovery by any inspection. This on the low pre engine. The result was to smash th tire engine and to burst the ste: connecting the high and intermediate ¢ inders. The observers on the bow of the boat heard a great crash, and then saw vast cloud of steam burst from the engine hatch. Scemingly, every one in the engine room was killed. It happened, fortunately, that the pipe burst upward, letiing the steam escape in that direction, and the men below were enabled to make their way through the furward engine room to the deck forward. thief Engineer Edwards He stocd in the engine the last man had made his pe, and con- sequently he was himself scalded badly on rms, while the men escaped without harm. It is believed that Mr. Ed- w injuries are confined ts the loss ot his skin on the arms, unless he has in- haled steam, which is not now believed to be the ie. As the boat is not yet the property of ike governmen, there will be no court of in- quiry. e shaft of the port en- acted like room un ss RD IT AS A “FEELER.” Treasury Officials om the “Silver Re- serve” Story From London. Treasury officials today regard with more interest than Saturday the story about the Bank of England and its silver reserve. The latest developments, the officials think, point to the story having been sent out a feeler. This is what lends interest to the matter now. The publication of the story has brought out the opinions of England as well as the opinions of the other coun- tries of Europe. With the English senti- ment the treasury officials have no care, but it is the sentiment of the rest of Eu- repe they are watching. They believe that RE beginning of an understanding on the sub- ject of international bimetallism. Some of the officials now expect to hear something official from France, Russia, Germany and ria, indicating what they think on the With the co-operation of those the Bank of England might not ate to at once agree to keeping one- fth of its reserve in silver. Concessions all around to the white metal are regard at the treasury as certain to raise the pri of silver a stablish it more firm!y too, would be regarded as a victory for the republican party, be- cause its accomplishment could be credited United States Treasurer Roberts, talking question to a Star reporter today, It begins to look as if it was a ten- i made to meet the bi- joners of the United . It is one of the factors the Bank ef England is willing to put in to bring about international bimetallism. If the proposition is followed elsewhere it would certainly bring about approximate bimeta!- lism. After all this may be the method adopted by the Bank of England of letting the English government know it will go co France is more inclined to lism than any of the other European >untries it would be no surprise here to € seme announcement from that country as to what it would propose in the event the other Eurepean countries could be in- duced to go into an arrangement. ees ANCHORED OFF FORT: MONROE. The North Atlantic With Its sels of the North Atlantic squad- tron engaged in evolutions fifty miles out from the Virginia capes came inside y terday and anchored off Fort Monroe. They are the New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Iowa, Indiana, Texas and Puritan. The Porter has arrived at Newport. The train- ing ship Lancaster has sailed from Rio Janeiro for Bahia. The Castine left Monte- video today for Buenos Ayres. ed URUGUAY, quadron Through volutions, The vi PEACE Insurgents and Government Repre- sentatives Agree Upen Terms. A cipher cable message was received at the Navy Department today from Com- mander Perry, commanding the gunboat Castine, dated at Montevideo, saying that cemmissioners representing the govern- ment of Uruguay and the insurgents have agreed upon terms of peace, which are however, to the ratification of the chambers of congress. Commander Perry says there is very Httle doubt of legislative approval of the terme of peace agreed upon, and consequently ne proposed to sail on the Castine for Buenos Ayres. ns A Message From the Sea. Commercial Agent Steer at St. Pierre, Miquelon, W. L, reports to the State De- partment that the agent of the French barkentine Lizette handed him a piece of paper which the captain of the Lizette says he found in a bottle afloat on the Grand Banks about the end of July, On the paper is written: “Edward Barnwell, Woburn, went a¢rift July 20, 1897. His end was peace.” It 1s understood that Woburn, Mass., is meant and that Barnwell died from exposure. —___o-____— Bids for Paving at Buenos Ayres, United States Minister Buchanan at Bue- nos Ayres reports to the State Department that bids are to be asked for in the United States, England and France by the city of Buenos Ayres for paving 150 blocks with asphalt. The specications and forms of proposals for this work will be forwarded to the Argentine legation in this city. Death of Lieut. Kimball. Adjutent General Breck Was notified this morning that First Lieut. Frederick C. Kimball, quartermaster, 5th Infantry, died at Fort McPherson, Ga., of peritonitis on = Poon = nt the en of Maine, ard was graduated at tl . Academy July 1, 188%. He: grade of first liestenant April 4, 1833, Teuched “the. President McKinley to Return This Afternoon. a THE CABINET WILL MEET TOMORROW | Disputes Over Patronage to Be Seitled. PUBLIC MATTERS OF NOTE Word was received at the White House this morning from Somerset, Pa., that the President and Attorney General McKenna will arrive in Washington at 5:30 o’ciock this afternoon over the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Everything at the White Hou: is in readiness for the President’s return, ard he will find his apartments there as attractive and as comfortable as they can be made under present climatic conditions. As has been already stated in The S the President’s sojourn in the capital will be brief. His stay will be limited to the demands of public business and will not last over two or three days, when he will go away again, probably to New England, to remain until the Ist of October. Re- turning to the city at that time, he will re- main throughout the fall and until Con~ gress adjourns next summer. A meeting of the cabinet will be held at the White House tomorro beginning at 11 o'clock, at which several important quesiions will be considered with a view to prompt action. Among the matters ex- pected to be settled by the President and his advisers this week, is the application of section 22 of the tariff law to goods im- ported through Canada, and the San Pedro harbor improvement controversy. The Cuban and Hawaiian complicatiors wil also receive thorough consideration. Representative Pierce of St. Louis, who is In the city, will invite the President to go to that city to attend the fai Sauabble Over Alabama Offices. A lively time among the Alabama office- seekers is promised on the President's re- turn. A lot of tiem are on hand, await- ing his arrival. is much pmbarr: ttional Committeeman Young- shan, the chairman of the tate commitice, and Dr. J. W. Hnghes are looked upon as direciors in the distribution of patronag Mr. Young- blocd is third auditer, Mr. Vaugnin is col. lector of internal revenue In Alabama, and Dr. Hughes is aster of Birminghain. All three are here, as are Julian Lingham, J. A. Binguam, C. A. Alexaader and ex- Representative Aldrich, who are interested in settling the squabble over the offi Others are expected. It appears that the terms of the four marshals and a number of presidential postmasters have long since expired and that the President and Attorney General are realy to make the appointment of republicans to the places, but that the democratic holders of the ‘offices still re- tain their grip because of the failure of Youngblood, Vaugnan and Hughes to agree upon the appointe Youngblood wants Long appointed marshal for the northern district and Hughes and Vaughan want Judge Steele appointed. The several candidat ship of the seventh di: ber—all claim that they have the support of Youngblood, and there is said to be a very scrappy feeling among them. Rival candidates for other offices, it is said, claim cach to have the powerful support of the national committeeman and the state chair- man, and it is said that they now intend to mble for a general reckoning on the President's return. The fact that the three leaders to whom the rest are looking to secure their xp- pointments have themseives been in office since cariy in the administration is said to add to the irritation of those who are kept out. A lively scramble and consider- able heat is expected. The New Orleans Collectorsh: The Louisiana fight over th There and serivus complications situ, for the marshal- rict—five in num- collector- ship of the port of New Orleans Is still go- ing m>rrily on, and all parties are prepa’ ing to see the President as early as pe: ble to present what they have to say. J. L. Joubert, the se retary of the state committee of which Mr. Herwig {s chair- man, is said to be here claiming to have a statqment from the state committee to the President as to the distribution of patron- i age. Inasmuch as this statement is hostile to Captain Wimberly for collector of tne port the Wimberly people say that Jou- bert’s pi pers are watered; that the state committee has given no authority to any one to represent it in this fight. wig elected state chairman by the Wim- berly people, and been supposed to be friendly to Wimberly, but sume of the ps2 Wimberly people now doubt how he stands. The Wimberly people have been expecting Senator Hanna to throw himseif into the fight for their man, but if he has done so it is not known, and that is causing the anti-Wimberly faction to take heart. PRESIDENT EN ROUTE HOME. Friends See Him Off From Somerset This Morning. SOMERSET, Pa., September 13.—A great many people gathered around the Endsley residence this morning to bid the Presi- deni good-bye, as he decided last night to leave here about 10 o'clock this morning. At that time the President and Mrs. Mc- Kinley came down the steps leading from the porch and -entered a carriage. Before stepping int> the carriage both turned and kissed their niece, Miss Mabel McKinley. On the front seat of the President's car- riaxe rode Mr. and Mrs. Abner McKinley. The President bowed frequently to pe ple on the way to the train, and Mrs. Mc- Kinley waved her handkerchief. Attorney Géneral McKenna rode to the train with Miss Mabel McKinley, behind her team of Kentucky ponies. The presidential party bound for Washington consists of the President and Mrs. McKinley, Attorney General McKenna, Executive Clerk Coriel- you and Miss Kittie Endsley. The train is a through special, and one of the finest on the Baltimore and Ohio, consisting of two private cars and a baggage car. When the train pulled out a large crowd cheered and the President stood in the rear door bow- ing until the train was out of sight. —_—__—_——_— Will Be Sent Back to Germany. It has been represented to the State De- partment that the board of supervisors of Kossuth county, Iowa, has reported that Karl Kruger and wife, Germans, who im- migrated to this country within the past year, were public charges of that county. ‘The case was investigated by the Treasury Department, and, it being found that the report was true, it was directed that the two persons be deported to Germany at the expense of the immigrant’ fund, they having become public charges within one year af- ter landing trom causes existing subsequent thereto. —_—_——_—+- e+ —______ Americans Arrested as Smugglers. Acting Consul Bernhard at Tegucigaipa, Honduras, reports that the jAmeriean schooner “Alice Vane” has been confiscated ond her crew imprisoned -for vat the port of Omoa, on the west 5 auras. The consul says he is watching the Many The Evening Star is the only afternoon paper in Washington that receives the dispatches of Associated therefore the only one in which the reader can fird the complete news of the world, directly trans- mitted by telegraph, up to the moment of going to press. , MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1897-TWELVE PAGES. STILL A MYSTERY Doctors Disagree as to Sex of Laurel TWO CEN each in a raffle for a plate that I man “Both Mr. and Mrs. peatedly that they had once been wealt) and that they had a house holm street in Baltimore in Mrs. name, but that it was heavily mortgag They invited me to co} DISCUSS SESAMOID BONES BURYING THEIR DEAD Funeral of Men Shot at Lattimer At- tended by Thousands. MILITARY PREVENT DEMONSTRATIONS Drown told me re on Little Stock- Expert Witness in Luetgert Trial Astounds Defendant's Attorney. e and visit them e going to the men saying employment days before brought a woman to the Pp na She stayed in the room wit She was working o: they made use Som of the Defendant Will the Vat and Degs on the Road. DROWN'S CONNECTION 1S CLOSE) them all the tim small tent which I supp of in wandering Coleman wom: He Was Undoubtedly Near by the GHiGheoeaerne ast imae an a Gen. Gobin Issues Orders Against cigar and smiling in’ a manner which be- tokened contentmént, Adolph L. Luetgert this morning appeared before: Judge Tut- hill to begin the fourth week of his t for alleged wife murder. The court pro- ceedings began with the cross-examination of Prof. Geo. V. Bailey, and it was not long before Attorney Vincent and the professor were involved in a dispute over the use of a technical term which called fer the in- terference of the court. A small piece of bone was handed to the witness and he was asked to name it. “That is a sesamoid,” promptly asserted the professor. “Has it ever been boiled?” about that time a Marchers Wearing Swords. a MURDER OR SUICIDE? Coleman woman, noti tor would have to leave. packed up their things and left. the last I ever saw of them, but from th of the man and what I nature and disposi: killed his wife. According to Mrs. trousers and coat of heavy mater: the description of the Drown as furnished b who talked with him 1. The coat js of the same qu tern as that found in the gravey Laurel, containing the drug book Was inscribed the name Mark A. Mrs. Baker noticed ticularly because his losing $10 while drunk, Mrs. bro ing rather forcibly that her have purchased clothing w If Drown and his wife, ac the Coleman woman, left the into the country about the Ist of June it would have bee reached Wheele: Drown that UNION PROTESTS n, I am confident th The second week of the investigation by newspaper reporters of the mystery rounding the finding in Kellogg’s woods, near Laurel, Md., cf the decomposed re- mains of a human Some who have been following the case more or less thoughtfully tne conclusion that the body was that of a man, and that in life he ecial From a Staff Correspondent. HAZLETON, Drown wore black cutaway lazleton is, “Why this over- show of mili “) members of the N. began today. June near Sa have reached are located with a rey sition, which cow! if a state of war existed a battery of artil! queried At- was known a Clift,.a Norfolk drug clerk, since August 1. jd not be mo: the man’s clothing par- Wife upbraided him for wn explain- “Might not alkali water poured on a bone produce the same effect?” “It might in time. ing and a softness after aJong time.” Witness Sharply Qaestioned. Attorney Vincent eros: Bailey sharply on the point of sesamoids, and wanted to know if tHe witness could tell the difference between ‘@ sesamoid bone of a human being and a similar bone upon an animal. : The question seemed to worry the wit- who was warm and nervous ed that a bruise or injury might pro- a sesamoid and said he sesamoid bones on the toes of animals. The examination of P: 11:30 o'clock. startled Attorney Vincent by the that he Fad discovered six sesamoid bones in a single hand while a student in the Attorney Vincent je- clered that surgical history contained 1o refcrence to more than two sesamoids he- ing found upon a hand or foot. replied he kr-ew that fact, and ke: scovery. secret because he was w ing a book on the subject. fused 10 1aake a statement as to the prob- able original location handed him until he had an opportunity He was granted until who has been missing Medical experis from Baltimore have vis- examined the remaiay after they have been lying for a week in a tigntly closcd town hail. borne in mind that prior to removal to the hall the body had been exposed to the ele- ments and buzzards for a month in the woods, had then been buried and next dis- interred. These medical men, afier an ex- amination of i 5 attached some putrid flesh, in their opinion, {t would cause scald- ited Laurei ading to Hazler and patrolled. intrenched. exists upon nme prevails in entire service questioned Prof- strictest mil fy surveillanc them to have | Wheeler's farm and gone to work there picking peas toward the end of the Same month, as was the case. mps, and th casual observer, in view of apparent This Man Knew Drown and His Wife attered over a wide ari not believed th armed, to any extent, at lex odd men who were of surrounding Special From a Staff Correspondent. ABERDEEN, M¢ Who exam- ined the body a week ago, declared posi- is the body of 2 woma: They still hoid to that stateme ems to be an instance of doctors dis- September 13, 1897.—A new link in the chain of evidence that would seem to prove that the body discoy- ered last week at Laurel, Md., was that of the berry picker, Mrs. Drown, and that she Was murdered by her husband, was dis ered near here to2Zay. AS announced in The Star a few days ago, a man by the name of James A. Cole- man and his wife, Elizabeth Coleman, were employed by Nathaniel Wheeler to pick peas at Savage, Md., at the same time that the latter employed Drown and his wife for the same purpose. Shortly after Drown left Wheeler's place and went to Baltimore, Coleman also left and had his effects ship- He did not go there direct, however, but stayed in Baltimore until July 8. He then went to Bel Ai has been employed about eight miles from there since then in a canning factory. Coleman was traced from Savage to his piece of employment by a Star rter, who saw him today at Churchville, and secured from him the following tinued until picked up dead, dying ay had bui one pistol among them, The wife of Clift identifies some discovered about thre mile from the resting place of the remains in Kellogg’s woods, n Ives seem utterly cowe the ililing of their comrades, . Gobin Explains. In view of these conditions, } bin, the commander-in explain the words to the question why this military strength? “I know mo: University of Paris. belonging to her The parents of Clift have been shown a chart of the teeth cf the skeleton y that the teeth of the skull found in the woods are decayed in a man- ilar to the teeth of their son, as they remember them. No one has been found who saw Clift in the vicinity of Laurel. dence of his having been in the locality ex- cept the finding of an old coat in whic’ was a drug book containing some bills an the name, “Mark A. G. Cuft.” nian, who was twent The witness ri in his own sesamoid bones © of the situation than the to examine them. he said to The Star corre- tcmorrow morning. Juror Becomés TR. At 11:30 this morning Jurer John E. Fowles was taken suddenly if, and court acjourned until 1 o'cleck p.m. Juror Fow- ler fs suffering from malaria and a fever. Tomorrow Frank Biilk and Frank Od9- €d to establish the There is no ev ped to Bel Air, Md. The young ven years of age, not seen approaching or departing from Laurel. In view of all the Drown is produced and he produces his wife, those who have been studiously in- vestigating every feature of the m: the finding of the body must decline beyond dispute the deciai that the body was that of a man and th the man committed suicide. The Chain Links. William Drown and his wife were seen In Laurel Friday, August 6. reling. Drown and hi. Kellogg’s woods August 7. The man was heard to speak harshly to the woman and shove her back in the grass, ‘gently, as whe attempicd to rise on tu> ap- proath of a resident of Laur: lowing day Drown ty. years of age, w spot. The next d much agitated, vi and asked for a drink of water. morning he Beltsville, about six miles fr named Stansfield asked for a ride to Washington. quest was granted. When Drown required here. vil rule, but Intimidation can exist under circumstances, going about the oc days, using will be re motive for the alleced murder. it is asserted, testify to having seen Mary Siemering visit Luetgert in the saus: factory at night. Will Exhibit the Center Vat. Arnold Luetgert, with the famous wenter vat and his father’s four Great is planning to tour the country at the cor.- clusion of the sausage. riaker's trial. The history of the wooden tank, young [Luet- gert says, he will recite to the crowds he The dogs will be put done this in a w utterly unlawfal, “They ompellgd men, parcel in their doings, unlawful practices, those who ; men who w were proceeding in violation of anioa manner, who wanted “I have known Drcwn and his wife near- Up to four years ago he on Little Stockholm street in Baltimore. and always m: to do a pretty fair bus: % Was in business there about thirty He has a sister in the old woman's home in Baltimore and a grown son, who is an engineer on the Big Four railroad. had no child with him while he was in ly all my life. They were quar- wife were seen in have been attew pts to Keep up th ae tice of intimid egies ll einee ation even after the arrived, and no later than last ni; men, who were dragged an unoffending enginee- in running the from flooding, expects’ to attract. in as a sort of side sho U. Luetgert’s arrest the Great Dan Buarded the factory and the family home against intruders, the front porch of the residence and two others patrolling the factory. Besides’ the vat and dogs, Arnold Zuet- gert is preparing to take many other “Fel- ics" brought into prominence by the trial of his father for alleged wife murger. dcors which covered the vat during the al- disintegration found beside the vi scme of the caustic potash and a num! of views of the interior and exterlor. of the factory will be exhibited. Arnold Luetgert expects the family. name and his connection with the will attract crowds to his exhibit. eer es eeanee FIRST GAME A DRAW. by no means “After he left Wheeler's place Drow: went to Baltimore, telling me that he was going to stey there a short time, and then make for Washington on foot, trying to work his way along. His wife also made the same statement to Mrs. Coleman. was in Baltimore, I know, up to Juiy 8. I left Baltimcre at that time and when 1 left he was still there, staying at a hotel “The Rabbit,’ corner of Eutaw and Camden streets. “Drown had one of the worst tempers I have ever seen a man exhibit. times he has picked up a knife or some and I thought he woull puraps to Keep the mine from his bed and brutally. “I am inform them lying on violence on ed of numerous threats of Drown, very ready robbed a powder house ‘oring house of a quantity but for what of dynamite, to be used I do not know. tore this community to a con- ace and order s intend to re dition where where the civil authority utterly disregarded, can be to do this these military steps are neces- plain soldier, and » = any rate, the road near ich has been: rinstated, and He had with him a and his wife urel August 6, two dogs, other weapen, surely do her inju €d able to control himself in time. not a drinking maz him take one or two glasse: never, to my knowledge, was under the in- fluence of liquor. Coleman stated that trouble all the time between Drown ana his wife. because of her persistent nagging and quarreling tendencies. She said thought it likely that he nad struck he a fit of extreme auger. Coleman and his wife seemed not in the least surprised when told by kad probably pis er especially seemed to passed through i a black dog and a yeilow do; About that time the y serted the couple and made with a colored man living a short distance from Kellogg's woods. Wide publicity has been given to all the details in connection with the finding of Descriptions of the supposei murderer and the supposed victim appeared in a majori of the east. The movements of Drown ani been traced from Wheler's farm, near Savage, Md., where they were employd picking peas last June, to Baiti- more, and back again to Laurel. Drown has been traced to this city and through several of the streets to a lodging He left the latter es- shortly after daylight morning of August 11, and all knowledee of him ends there. If Drown is not the murderer and if the body woods was not that of his wife, the prob- abilities are that the couple would have been seen ere this, and that Drown would have co:ne to the front to prove that he had no connection with the alleged crime As stated, unless Drown and his wife are produced, it would be utterly beyond all reason to eliminate them entirely from the case and jump at the conclusion that the body found was that of a suicide, Mark A. G. Clift, merely because Clift has dis- appeared and a book with his name written therein has been found some distance from the spot where the body was discovered. They Lived Here. Some developments of a fecided!y inter- esting nature, so far as Drown and his wife are concerned, were securcd ¢ is af- ternoon as the result of the investigations of a Star reporter. The latter le: Drown and his wife resided in this city 1896, to the latter part of They were neither sentiment nor sym: thing to do with my duty which is cl low dog ce- famous cuse although I have scen ‘of beer, but he ly defined, namel; upon propert thority in th 1 Resist Arrest of Deputies. “I shali not permit the arres: of any of the deputies or members of the sheriff's force as long as the militia trol. Civil warrants may be serv them after civil-authority supers tal rule. T shall not allow any marching of miners from place to place. more formal funeral sions to march. These proc the purpose of exciting the sympathy of the People and working upon their fe The Star correspondent his personal knowledge that Ge nd-to restore the civil au- she foresaw Opening of the International Chess ‘Tournament at Lerlin, BERLIN, September 13.—The first round of the international chess tournament was played at the Architect building in this city today. The pairmg was as follows: Cohn, Metger vs. y of the newspapers remain in con- his wife hav that Drown wife, and the form take it as a matter of cour: bound to come sooner or later. uid that Mrs. Drown had a skirt called brilliantine, which was either black or a very dark’ green had also a black coat, evidently intende: Mrs. Drown had these, how ever, before she returned to Baltimore, end it ig not known what clothing she took with her when the couple set out for Wash- ington on foot. Upon obtat Bardeleben, permit any Blackburne, Tschigoran vs. Schiffers, Wal- brodt vs. Charousek, Burn vs. Alapin, Caro vs. vs. Schlechter. At 1 o'clock, the time for the first ad journment, only one game was concluded— Metger and Bardeleben had drawn. Play will be resumed at-4 o'clock. a SAVED THEIR COMRADES. Albin, Zink! Wikawer, Suechting ions are for tablishment of a materia for winter. Gobin is in poss: which he hol to be important exough to 00 inhabitants and there are hamlets within six or cight miles containing 1 000 more. It is as 4 ess of Drown’s stopping place while he was in Baltimore lime the reporter for The Star ved thither and found additional evi- dence there. he Rabbit,” as it is called, is a resort with 2 questionabie ing the add Medals of Honor Awarded by the Government. Medals of honor have been awarded as late and forbidding imagined. Around the city of g:gantic fortifications, ar of mining refuse, © Interspersed between excavations, in the ground. with a deposit of coal slack, w. by the rains, and the streams are black. and sluggish, bordered by oozy mud. At intervals in this cheerless landscape are the mining settlements. The “breakers.” éreat frame structures, 200 feet high and very narrow, surmount the heaps of mine refuse, studded with #nd around them are scattered the wretch- ties of the miners. Everywhere is dust, Mr. Wilson Vance of 113 West 38th street, mense heaps New York, N. Y. At Stone rivér, Tenn., December 31, 1862, this soldier, a private 21st Qhio Voluntcers, orderly to the commandér of a brigade that was falling back under the enemy’s attack, saw a wounded and helpless comrade in im- minent perll of death or capture. d very heavy fire and without orders, Vance went to. the help of the wounded man, whom he placed upon his own horse, sent him into the Union lines, and om foot n:ade his own escape. Capt. Wm. R. Parnell, U.S.A, retired, liv- ing at 2023 Broadway Street, Cal. ‘At White Bird eanon, idaho, June 1 1877, this officer, the Cavalry, saved the life of a soldier. troop was retreating through the canon, pursued by @ largely superior force of In- dians, and -while crossing a marsh a trcop- er’s horse was k-lled and its rider left in the tule swamp. Lieut. Parnell with a few men, in the face of @ very heavy fire and at imminent peril, reeurned, extricated the man and rescued hint, ‘The loss in ‘Troop H was fourteen killed and cne wounded cut of fifty-four officers;and meg taken into OS PersonabiMentien. Mr. Edward N. Burns, who for several ‘vears has been ut thehead of the Washing- ton office of the New:Hngland Mutual Life Insurance Company, has entered the ser- vice of the Columbia “Phonegraph Com- pany. He will he manager of the depart- ment of traveling salesmen and make his headquarters in N®w: York. “ , ‘private’'secretary to the com- missi tee Pensions, has ett for a short , at Buffalo, N. Y. wy reported Phe Baltimore de- es have repeatedly tried to gain in- formation of Drown here, but have always © forming great pits: Company. ..B, The low lands aeHgLte the It was learned that Drown was well known about the place, and had not only there while in Baltimore in July, ad also made the place his headquar- ters in times past, especially just before going to Savage to obtain emplayment un- It was stated here by Mrs. Clements that Drown was a bed man, and that he was a man who could not be said to possess one All in the house agreed that Mrs. Drown drark hard, but outside of that was a good-hearted, amiable woman. She_ and her husband had frequent quar- rels there. It was also learned that Drown and his wife stayed there until near the latter part of July, and that he told sev- eral persons in the house that he was g0- ing from there to Washington. This would allow him ample time in which to make Laurel, trying as he went to pick up a few pemnies mending umbrellas and picking berries and vegetables. Outside of the fact that he was a hard character not much in- formation could be gained about Drown, and this leads to the belief that he was not all right as regards his relations with the the house had seen him more than once or twice, and yet they knew of his hard character. ing to talk of Mrs. Drown, but both the proprietor of the hotel and her associates evidently feared that any information about Drown would lead to some ingviry avout It was also stated that Drown was a pensioner. No surprise was expressed at the fact that Drown had made way with his wife, aud those questioned seemed to regard it as @ most natural corsequence to her method of obtaining money from him for drink and his terrible temper fits. OHIO SILVERITES DEMAND FUNDS. Chairman McConville of the Demo- crats Receives an Ultimatum. Spccial Dispatch to The Evening Star. CLEVELAND, Ohio, September 13.—It is stated on excelient authority here that un- Jess Chairman McConville of the state dem- der Mr. Wheeler. gaunt smokestacks, from December, May or early lecated at 342 Pennsylvania lodging house conducted by Mi They occupied a front room in the attic, and obtained a livelihood by means of umbrella mending. All that Mrs. Moore knows concerning the couple is that they answer in every particular the descripzions published of the man and woman seen in the woods. near Laurel. They paid their rent promnptly and departed for the coun:- try about June 1. She Knew Them. Information of greater significance, how- ever, was obained from Mrs. Mary J. Ba- ker, who occupies a room in the attic of Mrs. Mcore’s house, adjoining that occu- pied by Mr. and Mrs. Drown. Mrs. Ba- ker wds intimately acquainted with the couple, and she stated to the reporter with- out reserve the opinion th: found at Laurel was unquesiionably Mrs. Drown, and that she was murdered by her good characteristic. dirt, Poverty and One is not+surprised at never see- ing a smiling, cheerful face in ihe midst of The people are princi- jan Francisco, first lieutenant, Ist such surroundings. pally foreigners. At a miners ‘meetin, 700 men, the speaker of six interpreters to conv. to all of his auditors. mainly of the Slavonic ling of Italians and Ger jook ignorant rather than vicious. There is more despair in their The women their superiors in intellige: 2 ter, and as a rule are neai in ¢! i attended by about required the services ey his meaning The people are races, with a sprink- rmans. The men expressions than of menace. are apparently pelice. No one in Cling to Foreign Castoms. The language, cvstoms and habits of their native lands cling to men and women, and the different nationalities do not amalga- Strange, old-world costumes are worn by the women, and those from the south of Europe affect bright colors. wear head coveri All were will- “Mr. Drown said to me on one occasion just before he and his wife departed from the city that he was going to have me for his next wife,” Mrs. Raker informed the reporter. “I told him that he was looking too far ahead, for he already had a wife. To that he answered, dead before she knov ngs of brilliantly ay>2 clcth, and are innocent of hats and bon- nets. The little children jabber in foreign tongues, and stare vacantly when address- The incidents attending the funeral yes- terday of four of the miners killed by the thetic and impressive in ey were impressive from their simplicity and had a noticeable effect thousands who were witnesses. Iners and their wives gathered at ithe ‘Navy Department t at the Navy par’ ination by the naval retiring board. Capt. P, M. B. Travis, 11th Infantry, is at_the Raleigh on:leave.of abgence. | - Capt. Ogden Rafferty, assistant surgeon, has been granted an extension of leave of absence for one month... “Yes, but she'll be it. During their stay in this city Drown and his wife would go out every morning to pursue their calling of umbrella mending. ‘The man would do what work there was in a mechanical way, while the woman looked after the coverings and any sewing that might be necessary. said Mrs. Baker, the extreme. # i : MH ebee8 i Hl a,