Evening Star Newspaper, October 23, 1897, Page 2

2 Sergeant Brainard Testifies in Ham- mond Court of Inquiry. ee LATE NEWS BY : HE HAD T0 USE FORCE ON PRISONER | Says Captain Lovering Kicked the Man When Down. ae PRODDED HIM WITIL SWORD CHICAGO, October 23.—Sergeant Brain- ard, who was in charge of the guard house on the day of Private Hammond's mutiny, was the first zon of of inquiry jan. Ser- is the man who in his tes nond of holding his inst the door sill as he was » that Captain Lover- erape him” might i witness-at t out. and of “ that he had been Hammond to the summa sr refused pri to move Loy with hi : aw ammond Cap- 1 at- ring swor him mak: witness. Capt. s did Lovering pt to stab him in the y to y court “becanse he re- Lover- ara wered al- that kicked at n pass rate priso USED A RAZOR. George W. Swann Attempts to Take His Own Lite. Swann, a colored resident of eut bis throat with a razor last out 7 ok. bers of the man’s ned when they ore family were great- discovered what he nd a messenger was sent to loctor. few minutes Pyles was at th fe of t evidently me tired of covered that the wound not a dangerous one, owing ion of the razor. id jeft tne pa He dre the wound of his wife d the razor on atient was much pet- an feels certain that corresponden n a strain simi- are wspapers. 1 lares Senator toply la- ave been con- a delibera- jon to the soundn. a that ¢ Bri propo Ss ny alieration of the e-nbsence of result will aise their hands the jingoism ¢ han ever ni be caution: he next time Pre: constrained & end a mon nt silverite pres. commission to his Ceremontes at the Home and Inter- ment in Graceland. uneral services re: The officiat J. Mc er K. Eaton of New the Pullman © great financ! rs fly, the Imperial , and the ea tends and bu car magi Al of the old at Officinis Toi Re-rlected oO. October 23—at th executive board of the last evening the norary vice ment Leavitt, pre Boston. . Onio. Seeretary, Mi k, Ripley, Derbyshire retary, Miss A Rev. Tish, Paris, Providence, SORATIC SUC PREDICTS Db: Senator Welli Situs i October 23.—Senator and was the ion from lo- enator again the campaign in cal dec! Balti . although he was pressed to do x intended to confine hiro es to be delivered in Aliegt Hie ioid 1 Star correspondent he ve- Hieved Williams would be elected mayor of altime that the democratic legisia- had a good chance of election in the first and second districts. —_— Says She ity. Marie I omyn, alias Annie Ryan, the white professional nurse who was yester- day indicted for the larceny of a watch and chain from Clara Ramsburg, was today arraigned before Chief Justice Bingham in Criminal Court No. 1. She pieaded not ilty. and, stating that she was without lends or counsel, the court appointed At- torneys Andrew G. Bradley and George T. Dunlop to defend her. Y | THURSDAY, October 21, 197 Daily average... resents ouly the number of copies of THE EVEN- ending Frid BONA-FIDE CIRCULATION, A reference to the statement be- low will show that the circulation sworn to is a bona fide one. It is easily possible for a news- Paper with an elastic conscience to swell its legitimate circulation enor- mously, in order to deceive adver- tisers, by sending out thousands of papers to newsstands, which are re- turnable, and which are in fact re- turned, but nevertheless are in- “eluded in what purports to be an honest statement of circulation. Intelligent advertisers, however, judge by results, and bogus circula- tions don’t give them. The family circulation of The Star ts many thousands in excess of any other Washington paper. Circulation of The “Evening Star.” SATURDAY, October 16, 1897 MONDAY, October 13, 1397 DAY, October 20, 189% FRIDAY, October 22, 1897. J solemnty swear that the above statement rep- IN ‘AR circulated during the six secular days October 22, 1897—that is, the nuni- ber of copies actually sold, delivered, farnish- edor mailed, for valuable consideration, to bona fide purchasers or subscribers, and that none of the copies so counted are returnabie to or remain in the office unsold. J. WHIT. HERRON, Cashier Evening Star Newspaper Co. Subscribed and sworn to before me this twenty-third day of October, A. D. 1897. INO. C. ATHE Notary Public, D. Cc. THE NAVY. Movements of the Warships —The Newport Sails for New York. The gunboat Newport sailed from Bos- ton yesterday for New York, where she will await the convenience of the Nica- tagua canal commission. She has been placed at their disposal and will convey them to and from the isthmus. It is ex- pected that the commission will sail from New York on the 15th proximo for Grey- town, and that they will consume about four months in making a complete survey of the canal route. Lieutenant G. C. Hanus of the navy, formerly with the coast sur- vey, hi n assigned to duty with the mmission. The monitor Amphitrite left New Bedford ; yx ew York. The Monocacy ar- W. Woods of the Department is at the Ebbitt House. tationed at New York. left Yan’ ing for Montr: turned over to the Michigan naval militia, who will tend her transfer through the cai lakes to Detroit. The Porter, , Dup and Cushing of the torpedo boat flotilla left Norfolk this morning for a practice cruise. Halifax this she will b -—___ THE ARMY, Return of Gen. Wilson—Late Orders and Transfer: Gen. Wilson, chief of engineers, and Capt. Kuhn of his office returned this morning from a visit of inspection to the Engineers’ School of Application at Willets Point, N. ¥., and the engineering work in progress at the Kill Von Kull. Lieut. Col. Charles Smart and Capt. Wm. H. Arthur have been detailed to represent the medical department of the army at the ighth annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, to be held in Philadelphia from October 26 to 29. Post Chaplain D. H. Shields has been cr- dered to temporary duty at Fort Thomas, Kentucky. FALL OF THE SERVIA) CABINET. Wes Due, It is Said, to Failure of a Contract. VIENNA, October 23.—The Neue Freie Presse declares that the sole reason for the Servian crisis is that the Servian ministry, during King Alexander's absence from the country, sent a large order to the Frenct government for rifles intended to be used an army. His majesty, it ap- ignorant of this until his arrival when he was consulted by the French minister for foreign affairs, M. Hanotaux, regarding the difficulties of pay- ing for the rifles, whereupon the contract and the Simitoh cabinet, nat- urally, fell. eed LYNCHING IS EXPECTED. Angry Ohio Mob Looking for William Carter. Special Dispeteh to The Evening Star. XENIA, Onio, October 23.—This city is stirred to its depths today by the cruel and suman ault of Wiliam Carter upon Miss Katie Swabb last night. All night iong there were crowds of angry eltizens, and their mutterings were like the st cf a storm which sht break out at any time. A posse of citizens scoured all the surrounding country in search of A rumor that Carter was ody, and wes being concealed by the intense excitement, but that ‘ly denied by the authorities. The feeling today is interse, and if Car- ter is appreh -<d it will no doubt result in mob viole Carter has served a term in the penitentiary once for the same of- ferse. ee Le i Pensions, Pensions to District residents have been granted as follows: James M. McLaughlin, Daniel Johnson, James Carr, John Lapini, Jobn W. F. Cox, John H. Mitchell. Montgomery County Republicans. The republicans of Montgomery county, Md., held a grand rally and enthuslast® mass meeting at Littansville, near Linden, t night. The voters from all parts of Wheaton district poured in to listen to the speeches. Henry Neuman presided, with the secretary of the Littansville Republi- Club, Wm. Harris, as secretary. Pray- er was offered and the success of the re- publican cause reverently invoked. The kers were the legislative and county sandidates and James W. Poe, J. E. Bowles, A. Raston and Mr. Addison. The speeches were well received. The meeting was closed by singing. — Sues the Railroad. Mr. Rodolphe Claughton, as the admin- istrator of his father, the late Judge H. O. Claughton, who was killed, together with Miss Custis, at the Deanewood crossing the 20th of last August, today filed a suit against the Baltimore and Potomac Rail- read Company, claiming $10,000 damages. Mr. Claughton, who is represented by Attorney Franklin H. Mackey, charg23 that the accident was the result of the company’s failure to properly protect per- sons passing over said CFossing. a Mr. Thompson’s Condition. Mr. John W. Thompson is not so well today. He did not rest well last night, and his condition today shows it. While there has been a change for the worse, his physician, Dr. J. W. Shaw, said today —— Mr. Thompson’s condition is not alarm- ing. THE CUBAN SENORITA ed Reception Tonight to Her and Her Rescuer. THOUSANDS OF PEO LE EXPECTED Miss Cisnero; Made a Call Yesterday a: the White House. INTRODUCED TO PRESIDENT Late breakfast, served in their rooms, was he first order of the day of the party, in- cluding Evangelina Cisneros, quartered at the Arlington Hotel. She gazed out of the windows at the leaden sky, but was in excellent spirits, mevertheless, and fin- ished the meal with a hearty relish. She tnought of the demonstration which will ike place in her honor tonight at Conven- ion Hall, and it kept up her spirits. Socen after 11 o’clock Evangelina, accom- nied by Mrs. Decker, Miss Kaufman and Ir. Goudie, her interpreter, left the hotel to pay a social call on Mrs. John A. Logan, “ho introduced her to President McKinley, h Mrs. Karl Decker, at the public re- ception yesterday afternoon. Only a short visit was made, and the party returned to the Arlington, to receive some visitors in the persons of Miss Marie Studholm and others of the company playing at the New National this week. Miss Cisneros re- urned the compliment this afternoon by attending the matinee at the theater. Then the intention was for her to retire to her room and rest until time for her to start for Convention Hall tonight. Nearly all the details for the escort to he young Cuban exile and her rescuer, and (ie parade in their honor, have been ar- ranged, a few minor ones only having yet to be decided upon. It is expected that Senator John L. Wilson of the state of Washington will preside at the meeting. which will begin at the hall at 8 o’ciock prompt. Spenkers Who Accept. Several well-known speakers have ac- cepted invitations to be present and make addresses, and it {s thought favorable an- swers will be received from others. Those who have accepted are Senators Vest and Bacon, ex-Senator Call, Dr. T. De Witt Tal- mage, “Corporal” Tanner, Judge Fitzgerald of California, Representative Marcus A. Smith of Arizona and A. A. Lipscomb. The vice presidents of the meeting will be Mrs. Anna M. Hamilton, Miss Mary C. Ben- nett, Mrs. Georgia G. Bain, Mrs. Louise Pollock, Mrs. Kate V. Smoot, Miss Daniel, Mrs. Olive Logan, Mrs. E. S. Cromwell, Mrs. H. B. Sperry, Mrs. Mary F. Gist, Mrs. M. N. North, Mrs. F. G. French, Mrs. B. B. Cheshire, Mrs. Ellen Powell ‘Thompson, Mrs. Jennie L. Munroe, Mrs. E. S. Mussey, Mrs. Mero L. Tanner, Mrs. Elliot Coues, Mrs. Henry F. Blount, Mrs. John L. Mitch- ell, Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood, Senators M. 8. Quay, Augustus O. Bacon and John L. Mitchell, Messrs. John W. Ross, John B. Wight, William M. Black, James P. Willett, B. H. Warner, John Joy Edson, Simon Wolf, William Tindall, W. L. Cole, Harri- son Dingman, General W. Henry Browne, Judge Jere Wilson, C. A. Dougiass, Blair Lee, A. B. Brown, T. A. Lambert, J. H. Ralston. Joe Rarnard, John B. Larner, Dr. W. A. Croffut, Campbell Carrington, Sam- uel Maddox, A. S. Worthington. James L. Norris, L. M. Saunders, W. A. Gordon, H. Taggart, J. Shillington, oJhn C. Fay, J. Darlington, R. Ross Perry, William Miller, James L. Pugh, jr,’ Reginald endall, Colonel Robert Christy, Randall sner, Walter D. Davidge, James Ed- rds, A. A. Lipscomb, Charles C. Lancas- ter, William H. Montague, Maurice Smith, C. S. Bundy, Dr. Z 's, Dr. H. L. E. Johnson, Dr. Irving S. Rosse, Berjah Wilkins, John Wilkins, c . T. Sow Noyes, Iter S. Hutchins, Whitman Osgood, Major G. B. West, Jesse Graham, Major Wm. G. Moore, Thos. S. Hopkins, Rev. B.B.Sunderland, Rey. J. J. Muir, Rev. C.C. Meador, J.W. Duf- fy, Rev. Lucien Clark, Rey. H. R. Naylor, Rev. Alex. Kent, Dr. H. M. Haines, General Marcus Wright, General Lomax, General Leiber, Captain O'Neill, Admiral Matthews, Pay: iter General Stewart, Admiral Wal- ker and Admiral Jouett. Expect a Fine Display. Though the local organizations included in the National Guard will not participate oth- ers will do so and a fine display is expected. The High School Cadets have determined to be in line, as Karl Decker was once one of them. The boys will assemble at 13th street and New York avenue at 6:30 o'clock skarp. Haley’s Bani will head the parade and furnish music at the hall. It is probable that Miss Cisneros and Karl Decker will review the parade from one of the front windows of the Arlington. All the organ- izatiors to be represented will assemble at Vermont avenue and I street at 7 o'clock. Col. M. E. Urell will be chief marshal. On his staff will be Capt. James L. Mock and ‘Thomas W. Powers as aids; Major Richard A. O'Brien, Major Otto G. Simonson and Cept. Charles Domer, assistant mar- skals. Leaving Lafayette Square the line of march will be down Pennsylvania ove- nue to 15th street, down 15th street to Pennsylvania avenue, down Pennsylvania avenue to 7th street, up 7th street to New York avenue, down’ New York avenue to Convention Hall. Miss Cisneros will ride in a carriage with ‘Karl Decker and Mrs. Decker. If the night is rainy the start of the parade will prob- ably be delayed. The fireworks, it is fear- ed, must be dispensed with, on account of the dampness. Number of Tickets Distributed. More than 5,000 tickets had been disposed of before 12 o'clock last night, and it is probable that 13,000 will be the whole num- ber given away. The state of the weather™ may do away with the anticipated over- flow meetings, but an opportunity will he given the people on the outside to see the most-talked-of young woman in the coun- try and Karl Decker, her rescuer. Special arrangements have been made by the po- lice for the maintenance of order. It was at first thought that a dozen officers would be sufficient, but this number, in vizw of the demand for tickets, will be increased. Mr. Decker will introduce Evangelina and will make a few remarks. The exercises, it is expected, will last about two hours. There was a special feature of interest yesterday in the visit of Miss Cisneros to the President. Upon being introduced the chief excutive shook hands with her and bowed courteously. At night the party at- tended the Columbia Theater, where Miss Cisneros and Karl Decker received some- thing of an ovation. The young girl had an amusing experi- ence at the Arlington yesterday. She took the elevator to return to her room, and was let out on the floor. There were many rooms in view, but hers was on the opposite side of the house, and she was helpless. As one of the company put it. rescuing party’ had to be sent out, and she was finally returned to her suite. Will Appear for Oregon. Mr. John H. Hall of Oregon is here to appear before the Supreme Court of the United States in the test case of the Ore- gon. mortgage tax law. He will appear for the state of Oregon to uphold the law. Mr. Hall will probably be appointed dis- trict attorney for Oregon, as he has the support of the entire Oregon delegation in Congress for the place. Personal Mention. Mr. V. Baldwin Johnson has returned from a trip to Europe, which was under- taken, in compliance with his physician’s advice, for the benefit of his health. His many friends will be glad to know that he has fully recovered from the indisposition which caused the trip. During his absence he visited various, places in Germany and London and Paris. Government Receipts. Government receipts: From internal reve- nte, $472,614; customs, $254,237; miscella- neous, $19,910. THE HIGHAGRADE MASONS Adjournment of Supreme Council, A. and A. Soottish Rite, Somithern Jurisdictict i = oS; ‘ Correction ‘of Report ofyDissatisfac- tion Over Appointment—Mem- = Their Homes, aS 4 The biennial‘ sésdfon of the Supreme Council for thé southern jurisdiction, An- cient and AccePted Scottish Rite of Free- masonry, was brought to a close at 11 o'clock this morning.*!The council has been working for some time on a révision of the statutes, and the report of the committee having been made and accepted this morn- ing, there was nothing left for the council to consider. a : The majority of those in attendance upon the meeting, either ds active or honorary members, will leave the city for their re- spective homes. thig,afternoon or tonight, although a few will remain here over Sun- day. Secretary General Weber and In- spector General Peiree of California will go Girect from this city to Canada to attend the meeting of the Supreme Council for Canada, which conyenes Wednesday next. Mr. Weber will be Nhe’ representative of the southern jurisdiction at that.meeting. The report that Messrs. Jones and Gold- berg of Wichita, Kan. were dissatisfed with the action of the council-in appoint- ing Mr. M. M. Miller of Topeka as the active member in Kansas, and had with- drawn from the meéting and “gone home, Was emphatically denied at the House of the Temple today. » Messrs. Jones and Goldberg are not oven members of the Supreme Council, which is composed of the inspectors general of the various states, tegether with the exécutive officers of the Scettish Hite, southern jurisdiction, and so have no say in the matter of choosing the inspectors, or any other officer. There are no candidates put up, and there are no delegates to the meeting.: Those who czme here as honorary members of the council merely attended the meeting for the sake of being present at such an import- ant gathering, and are not given the slight- est voice in the proceedings. Messrs. Jones and Goldberg ‘lett for their homes in Wichita last nicht, having been called there by urgent business interests. —— DEATH OF MRS: J. W. FORNEY. She Was Once a Conspicuous Figure in Washington Society. Mrs. Elizabeth Forney, widow of John W. Forney, died yesterday morning at 7:30 o'clock at the family residence, 618 South Washington square, Philadelphia, in her seventy-eighth year. Mrs. Forney was stricken with apoplexy on Wednesday last, and never regained consciousness. During President Pierce's administration, Colonel Forney was one of the leading fig- ures in public life in Washington, and his wife took a prominent part in social af- fairs. She was a woman of strong mental Srasp and was a constant-compantion to her husband in his travels and in his work. Since his death she led a retired life, but was foremost in practical charitable work. Mrs. Forney spent the past summer at Cape May and returned to her Philadelphia home to celebrate het seventy-seventh birthday, Septetpbert, when her vigorous health and spléndid’ spirits were specially noticeable, fe bers Leav AFFAIRS GEORGETOWN. Items.of. News From Vicinity of Aqueduct Bridge. There was a! roll’ call and: social “last evening at the Gay Street Baptist Church. A large-attendance of members marked the occasion. After-roll call a musical and lit- erary program was ‘rendered, in’ which many of the mémbeys gave musical selec- tions and recitations.; Light refreshments and a@ general good -time closed the ¢ven- One ofthe features of the evening in. by, Migs’ Douglass of 280 o’clock Ist eVening’a fire vie About| J discoverad tava eloset' in a Hathe Kok the Conduit road which is occupied by B. W. Johnson. The blaze was extinguished after qa damage of about $90 had been oc- casioned. The origin of the firé could not be ascertaired. The house is ownei by Thomas Ready, and is fully covered by in- surance. Rev. Jaises W. Wightman will occupy the pulpit and deliver. the sermon” tomorrow morning at the 11 o'clock service at West Street” Presbyterian Church. 4 The service. cf the forty hours’ devotion ‘will begin Sunday, October. 31, at St. Ann's Church, Tenleytown, and continue until Tuesday, November 2. = : The ‘students of Georgetown University anda number of invited guests will enter into’ a spiritual retreat next Thursday, which will continue until Monday, Novem- ber 1. : The rosary and services are held every evening during this month at Trinity Catholic Church. There was quite a crowd last evening at Mt. Tabor M. P. Church to witness an en- tertainment and drill given by the young folks of the congregation. The program was arranged through the efforts of Mrs. Hunt. A number of solos were rendered by the young pecple. The main attraction ef the evening was a tambourine drill, in which twenty-five of the young ladies par- ticipated. ——— “RECEIVED WITH BELIEF. Favorable Reports Regarding Japan- exe-Hawaiian Negotiations. Although no official information regard- ing the report in the N.Y. Tribune, printed in another column,that negotiations between Japan and Hawaii are progressing favor- ably, owing to Japanese concessions, has yet been received at the State Department, the Japanese legaticn or the Hawalian le- gation, there is a general disposition at each of the places named to give full cre- dence to the report, for the reason that the conclusion stated is in line with the later official reports of the progress of the nego- tiations. At the State Department it was d that the latest reports showed that the negotia- tions were progressing amicably and satis- factorily, and at the Japanese legation the opinion was expressed that the report sounded extremely probable, for the reison that “Japan was willing to make all honor- able concessions, {n order to secure a peace- ful solution of the disputed questions.” Now a Precinct Detective. Officer Rhodes, who was recently trans- ferred from the detective office to the eighth precinct, has been made precinct detective. He relieved’ Precinct Detective Amiss, who is now dofhg street duty. Change in tive Weather Forecast. The weather byreaurauthorizes the state- ment that ther witli be light rains to- night, but cled¥ing'"weather Sunday, a change from the regtffar forecast as first given out. © = ——— Presbyterian Minwstern’ Association. The Presbyterfan Ministers’ Association of the presbyte: of Washington city will resume its meetiggs Monday at 10 a.m., in the Church of tig Covenant, the topic for consideration being “Vacation Experiences in Their Religions Aspect.” 2 The RespensitiHity Divided. Further invest{gatio? into the matter of the delay in tha constkiction of the engine house on 8th street northwest has developed that the fault was’not entirely with the architect, as heretofore published, but that it was partly because the appropriation nec- essary to complete the structure did not be- come avaliable until late in July. SS A Poster Exhibit. A large audience gathered last evening in the lecture room of the Western Pres- byterian Church as guests of the loca! chapter of the Brotherhood of Andrew and Philip to listen to a lecture by Mr. Fred- erick z seats as etl city on “Post- ers an er. Lore."” eo -3] iltus- trated hia pleasing talk by nearly. 300 post- ers from his private collection. Much in- terest centered around: a strong scarlet and black study, by Mr. James M. Hilton of this city, which was kindly loaned be- fore being sent to the lithographer. THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1897=24~ PAGES. THE COMING SESSION General Inability to Outline Its Policy. FIGHT ON THE CURRENCY QUESTION Representative Eddy Says He Does Not Expect Results. THE ALASKA BOUNDARY ~pese A little more than a month, and Congress will again be in session. Rarely is a sey sion of Congress so close at hand, with as little idea of what is to be its policy as now. Though all the committees of the House have now been appointed, none has had a sitting to outline work. During the extra session members did not know how they would be associated on committees, and it was so well understood that there was to be no general legislation during thac session that there was no considerable ex- change of views. Members, got, in, the habit of having a line of policy marked out for them by those in authority, and there has been very little expression of independent thought. The few representatives who have come to Washington after their sum- mer vacation have generally talked about the approacking session much as if they had no particular responsibility in connec- tion with it, and as if they were waiting for some higher authority to give the word of command. There is good reason to believe, however, that the Fifty-fifth Congress is not going to be a negative quantity for the rest of its existence. Another Congress is to be elected shortly after the close of this com- ing session. No sooner will this year’s work close than will begin the campaign for the new Congress. The shaping of that campaign will depend upon the develop- ments in Congress this winter. The lines for a congressional battle have not yet been drawn. There is likely to be an en- tirely new alignment. If the interest of the session is directed toward the money ques- tion—if there is an attempt at currency legislation of any character, the member- ship of the next Congress is likely to be aistributed differently as to parties from what it is in this. If there is to be any new issue of paramount importance it must develop during this session. If the cur- rency issue is to return its position it will be under different conditions from those existing during the campaign which re- sulted in the election of the present Con- gress. In this Congress there are men elected as democrats who do not in their hearts be- ileve as the democratic party does on the money question. There are also republi- cans who are ioyal to the administration and who recognize the authority of Speak- er Reed, who either are silver men or who- represent districts supposed to be strongly favorable to silver. It is not regarded as at all probable that such a state of things can exist after another congressional elec- tion at which the money question is the issue. Dilemma of Silver Republicans, The failure of the international agree- ment scheme and the suce: of the ad- ministration under a gold standard and a Protective tariff will settle it once for ali that the republican party Is not going to fool around with any pretense of “doing something for silver.” The districts repre- sented by men in the House who, being re- publicans, base their adherence to the ty on the grounds that ‘somethin: silver” is to be done by the repub: will probably be placed in a position they will either have to abandon their fa- vorite silver theories, acknowiedging the wisdom of the republican policy, or will elect to Congress men_pledged to the port of the opposing party. On the o' hand, the so-called democratic districts which do not stand on the doctrines of Bryanism: will. have either to. revise.their opinions or else. elect reppblicans- to Con- gress. The coming session of Congress is. ex- pected to fully develop the situation which will compel this. If an international con- ference were pending the issue would’ not be so sharply drawn ana the choice so im- peratively forced upon republicans repre- senting supposed silver. districts. Though their districts really demanded silver they would still have an excuse for remaining leyal to the republican party. ‘On the other hand, with some other ques- tion uppermost—a question on which they could unite in opposition to the republicans —democrats representing sound money dis- tricts could find an excuse for urging upon their constituents, with some hope of be- ing listened to, that they still retain their allegiance to the democratic party. Sticking to the Old Issue. The failure of the Wolcott commission answers for those who would trim sail on one side, and the success of the present policy of the administration gives sufficient assurance that the republicans will not raise up new issues that would save the democratic party from the division in its lines. As clearly as it is given any one to see, the course of the coming session of Congress will be such as to define more sharply, if possible, the issue on which Mc- Kinley was elected. The controlling ele- ment of the democratic party is as deter- minedly bent upon making up the next congressional campaign along the old lines of the "96 battle, and it may be fairly as- sumed that if the leaders of the two great opposing parties can prevent it nothing will be permitted to divert attention from the pending issue. The gold democrats have given up all hope of the development of a situation which would admit of the two factions of the old party, getting together, and they expect that the next congressional election will result in the selection of a man who will affiliate with the republican party to represent each of the formerly demo- cratic districts where the “sound money” sentiment prevails. ‘The republicans as fully expect districts formerly republican, but which are dominated by the silver sen- timent, to send Bryanites to the next Con- gress. The silver advocates have it all arranged in their own minds what they will do if they can succeed in electing a majority of the members of the Congress to sit during the last two years of President McKinley’s term. Their plan is to get that Congress if they can, and to send to Mr. McKinley a “free-and-unlimited-coinage-of-silver-at-the -ratio-of-sixteen-to-one-without-the-consent -of-any-other-nation-on-earth” bill, so to “put him in a hole,” and so as to “let him veto it if he dares,” ete. Of course, they know he would veto it, but they think that such a veto would be a “great thing in the campaign.” Attempts at Currency Reform. Representative Eddy of Minnesota, who has just arrived in Washington to take up his quarters for the winter, speaking of the prospect of legislation at the coming ses- sion of Congress, said that he supposed an effort would be made to*reform the cur- rency system, but that he did not antici- pate the accomplishment of anything. He said that while he thought it was general- ly conceded that we had too many kinds of paper money and that the sysiem de- manded reform, yet it would be difficult to decide upon some particular method of re- form which would meet general approval. It might be that a suggestion would be made which would strike a majority in the House as just the thing needed, but even then it would probably not be possible to secure legislation in the Senate. The Alaska Boundary. “A subject,” he said, “which will demand attention this winter, and which should be settled, either through the action of Con- gress or perhaps by the State Department, is the question of the adjustment of the Aleska boundary line. This is a very seri- ous matter, more serious than our people generally realize, I think. By next sum- mer, there will be probably 50,000 Ameri- cans in the Klondike region, and if some- thing is not done meanwhile toward set- tling definitely the boundary question, there is Hable to be patie oe yp Sas ening operations are suspended now, ani con- troversy is quieted. But with the influx of thousands of miners next season, the situa- tion threatens to become serious. The Canadian government has undertaken to tax these miners to death; the taxes im- posed are so exorbitant, so outrageous, that the miners will not stand it. Men who go into this region, paying exorbitant du- Ues on all their implements and supplies, and having a heavy license assessed upon them, will not be willing, in addition io this, to surrender to the Canadian govern- ment thirty per cent of the gold they gath- er. “It will be very hard with an American miner who has panned out, say, $100,000 to give $30,000 of that to the Canadian tax collectors, especially when he believes that the very field in which he is working is within the boundary of the United Stat The miners are sure to resist the payment of these heavy assessments, and with 50,- 000 men of the character who will endure all the hardships and privations attend- ing gcld hunting in this regioa resistance means a condition of affairs alongside of which the Riel rebellion will appear but > trifling incident. A very intelligent’ man whom I know very well was the fourth prospector to enter the Klondike region. He began prospecting in Alaska about four years ago, and finally got up into the Klon- dike region. His properties there are of immense value, and he has brought out $200,000 in gold. I have talked with bim about the situation, and he predicts that the output of gold next year will be very far beyond what the most exaggerated re- ports that have been published indicate. He Says that statements of wealth of gold in the Klondike which seem to be wild exag- gerations hardly come up to reality of Nhat is én prospect within the next year. This being the case, it is the duty of this government to take sinps at once to settle the boundary Tine beiween the Canadian and United States posséssicns. The pros- pectors and men who familiar with that country claim that about half of the Klondike gold fields is within he Alaskan boundary line and belongs te the United States.” Changed Conditions of the People. Representative Eddy has made a yery in- telligent study of the business situation in his ewn district, which is interesting, not cniy on acocunt of the situation disclosed in a typical agricuitural district, but dicative of the improvement of business throughout the country. In his district, he says, their principal reliance is on wheat cattle and fiax. A year ago he made a complete tour of his district, and found that there existed an almost universal dis- content. People were complaining of hard times and talking politics. The extent of this discontent was shown by the district giving Bry jority of G00 last fall and the silver candidate for governor 5,000. Mr. Eddy has just completed another tour of his district, ys that he found the people were generally prosperous and con- tented, getting good prices for their pro duets and having scarcesy anything to s on politics. A year ago the silver senti- ment was strong. Now, he says, there « pears to be hardly any that is active. The ith of October a year ago he examined the want column in one of the leading papers of the state. There were about two col- umns of advertisements of persons seek- ing employment, and about three stickfuls of advertisements wanting help. On the same day of the present month he made a similar examination and found mat- ters exactly rev. There were two columns of wanted help” and less than four stickfuls of those “wanted situ- ations.” Th: general conditions in the district, he says, account for this alun- dance of employment. The activity in the lumber camps and the very great increase of the wages paid have given employme to a great many men, many old lum- bermen who had for’ several years aban- doned that occupation on account of small pay have returned to it, the increased pi being from $ to $15 | per month above what it was last year. The farmers in the district are getting 30 cents a bushel more for their wheat, a cent and a half m« a pound for their cattle, and sell their flax for 31 a bushel. The demand for young cattle, he says, is very great. In this the situation in his district is pe ceptionable, he say: the ¢ lowa and ‘North depend ex- upon that locality for their calves and yearlings, and are heavily sow. He says that he new calves sold recently for as much was paid last year for yearling: = SAID BOYS WERE NAUGHTY. as Charge Brought by Benjamin Ather- ton Against Two Youths, In the very freely expressed opinion of Benjamin Atherton, a young man who re- sides at 1613 Marion street, Alphonzo Bir- ney of G15 P. street and Royce Re of OS P street are’ vers naughty boys. Masier Birney and Master Reuss jour- meyed to the Police Court today in obedi- ence to an information, drawn up on oath of Atherton, charging that they “did then and there insult and make rade comme ¥ with Atherton as the target After a hear- ing in the office of Assistant District torney Pugh, which afforded rare entert: ment for a gathering of policemen newspaper reporters, Mr.Pugh nolle prossed the charge with the remark: “Mr, Ather- ton, I fear you are supersensitiy Accerding to Athertun, his grievance is ihe resuit of whisiling and hissing on the part of Bir.ey and. Reuss. .He says he has been annoyed, because, whenever he passes alorg the public highway in the neighvor- hood of his residence, the naughty boys mentioned “whistle at him.” They have been Known, he charges, to refer to him in insulting tcnes, applying the descriptice term, “Slim Jim.” If his memory serves him aright, Atherton believes that he was once called “Rubber Neck.” Amone the other insults offered, according to Ather- ton, was the use of the exclamation, “Ha! ha!” In fact, said to Mr. Pugh, Birney and Reuss _ hi been “giving him the metry ha, Ka. Atherton has been e: avoring for some time to secure a warrant for the arrest of the defendants, even cailing at the dence of the tant district attorne after office hours, for that purpose. Birney and Re denied to Mr. Pugh the accusations. Birney said he was whistling at Reuss, not at Atherton, on the occasion charged in the information.- He added that the term “rubber neck” was intended for Reuss, who was craning his neck in an effort to look through the windew of a house where a card party was in progre: “Do you intend to cease annoying this man?” asked Mr. Pugh of the endant ‘Goodness, yes,” was the repl move off half a mile every time we him_ hereafter. “They have also stared me in the face in a brazen manner,” charged Atherton. e “Go home, all of you,” directed Mr. Pugh. itt “I'll have a case down here yet, see don’t,” said Atherton, as he passed out. —— Baltimore Markets. BALTIMOR! changed —rece rels; sales, red,’ spot, cember, ¥. ceipts, "91.025 stock,’ 1,23: 000 bus! southern “by ‘sample, dh. yn grade, 99%. Corn quiet and mixed ” spot, 313; the month and Novemt ally: ber wer, NEW oF 31a3l%y 31432; steamer ‘mixed, 2941291, rec bushels exports, none? “stock, 629,730 sales, 1.000 bushels—southem white dy. Yellow, 82a33. Oats firm —No. 2a; 3 ui 3 exports, “none: ve active ). 2 westers exports, non’ E dy —eh E eigiets quis to Liverpool per bushe orders per) quart 3s.6d_ Decem! Si ter Steady 16alT; do. 12a13; Yall. “Eggs firm, unchanged. unchanged. Whisky’ unchanged. . -—— Government Bondn, Quotations reported by Corson & Macart- ney, bankers. imitation,” pac ‘Cheese steady, 2 per cents, registered. 4 per cents, coupon of 1607. 4 per cents, rezstered of 1907 4 per cents, coupon of 1925. ed of 1925 5 per cenis, reg! Currency G'per ents of 1898. Currency 6 per rents of 1599. — + — Grain and Cotton Markets. Furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co., banker's and brokers, 1427 F st. members New York stock exchange, correspondents Messrs. Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., New York. GRAIN. 4 ee a Taw. oo oy fu Ho oe 26% Bing 20 ui ws 18: lise 2 is 21 21 2% | lew FINANCE AND TRAD New York Stock Market Shows Gains for the Week, BUSINESS RESTRICTED IN VOLUME Room Traders in Control and Lit- tle Commission. Buying. — GENERAL MARKET REPORTS Special Dispatch to The Bvening Star. NEW YORK, October 23.—Notwiths(and- ing the surface indications of unsatisfac- tory speculative conditions, prices at the close of the week reflect gains varying from 1 to 5 cent. The covering of a considerable iine of short stock and the absence of concerted action in renewing sales of that character have done more to sustain prices tnan actual new buying. On all sides there is a tendency to await the outcome of pending elections, and con- servative buyers hold aloof in the belicf that lower prices wil! precede permanently higher ones. The volume of business has decreased noticeably during the week, today’s sales aggregating only 83,582 shares. The mar- ket is in the hands of the room traders, and this element cannot be regarded as friendly toward improvement. The best features of the situation are not developed to their fullest extent because of the apathy of the larger interests, aud lower prices will pot, therefore, indicate any depreciation in merit The Season of the year, with its multi- plying legislative and judicial contingen- cies, Is against improvement, but the peated evidences of prosperity must sooner or later accumulate sufficient force to bring about the inevitable uriumph of in- trinsje value. There is no reason for relying upon any material change in the direction or volume of business druing the next fortnight. The personnel of the market must change, and much of the doubt on collateral sub: jects must be reduced to a fixed quantity before absolutely good buying is encoun- tered in volume The bank statement was somewhat sur- prising in the two items of loans and cash holding. The former account has been re- duced $6,941,600 during the week, and is thought to reflect the repayment of funds borrowed movement. : The gain in lawful money is represented oy_an at the beginning of the crop inerease of 39,600 In specie and ww in legal tender The latter pro- portion of the increase is attributed to the influx of money from interior points. As the in in de P tion of the British govern- ver to the proposition of France d the United States on the silver ques- tion has had a beneficial influen of the Londo: s. The foreign 1 for our es, however, Is not to a me proportions until by home intere: the foreign markets to ady undertone for all issues Americans, which were \ to ‘ e& York parity. is being made to enlist foreign future stock movement to fol- upon the sett of t Which make imme . indust Chica tone Cons: ay An effort support in h an The and rar be up to the 1, but the railroad of interest, again egard all such re orts, ie <a FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, The following are the opening, the high est and the lowest and the closing prices of the New York stock market today, as re- ported by Corson & Macartney, members New York stock exchange. Correspondents, Messrs. Moore & Sc So Broadway Open. Wigh. Low. Close. ot nu n u American Spirits... American Spirits, pfd American Sugar ia” American Sugar, 15% an Tobac sz American Cotton O11 14 Bay State Gas. BY Canada Southern = Canada Pacific :: i cake & Ohio. 283 ¥, mt. @ St Loum... we sed ago, Bo &Q...0 2. “95 94% hicagoa Northwestern. 12435 14g Chicago Gas. 963, rs ©. M. & St. Paul ‘ CM. & St. Paul. pfa.. Chicago, K.1. & Pacific Chicago, St. Paul, Mut Consolidated « issouri Paciti National Lead Co. Nahonai Leaa Co... pi New Jersey Centrai.. New York Centrat oriern Pacith Norghern Pacitte, pi i. & Western Pacific M. Phila. & ke: Pulunan P. Southern Ky. Phila. Trac: Texas Pacitie ‘Tenn. Coa: & iron. Union Pacific. ash, pid. Western Union Tel. sliver. ‘ Capital Traction. Washington Stock Excha Sales— Railroad =e. lock m —Moetropolitam 100 at 53 19 at 12s. After cali—Mergen- : 5 at 12y. uds.—20-vear fund Ss, 1i2 bid. Water |. Water stock ‘unding, currency, Metropolitan Railroad 5s, Metropolitan Railroad conv. 6s, 118 bid, 12. asked. tropolitan Railroad Certificate bid. Metropolitan Railroad . edness, B, 111 bid, 111g asked. Belt Railroad 9s, 55 bid, 75 asked. Eekington 100" asked. ' Columbia Railroad’ 6s, Washington Gas Coumany €s, series A, Washington Company 6s, series I, U lecttie Light Pehentare imp., 20: cake a tomac Tel os. 104 ‘and Trust Sa'F" apd A., ity and Trust 5a, A. and Wasisington Jompany Ist Gs, Washin M Gs, 100 bid. ©., 100 bid. 1) bid uington, 270 bid. Central, 250 1s) bid. Second, 138 130 bid.” Cs eposit and Trus' Deposit aud Trust, 11 Loan and Trust, x19 bid, 423 Security and ‘Beust, 149 bid, 150 ton Safe Deyosit $0 bd. Kallroad Stocks.—Caplial ‘Traction, 52 Wid, 53 asked, Metropolitan, 119 bid. Columbla, @0 bid. Gas and Electrie Light Stocks. Washington Gas, ieee. “U.S Mose Caer nis ties \ asked. U.S. Electric Light, Iiisirance Stocks —Firen . Metr