Evening Star Newspaper, November 30, 1897, Page 2

2 THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1897-16 PAGES. It contains such well-known dogs as George W. Lowell's “Shetaway,” George J. Gould's riough Mike, ‘Ridgeview Comment” and “Ridgeview Chancellor. In the chat- lenge pointer for bitches is entered George W. Lovell’s “Cyrene,” which has taken iwo first prizes. ‘The English setter open class for dogs, first prize $10, second $ and third $3, 18 a fine one. F. G. Taylor's “Admiral Drake" is entered in this. In the Irish set- ter challenge class for dogs are entered Woodbury kennel’s “Pride of Patsy” and Joe Lewis.” also Champion Kildare, a fa- mous dog of great value. ed at 810,000. tn the Irish setter challenge class for bitches is entered Joe Lewis’ Champion “Queen Vie.” valued at $10,000, In the [rish setter open class for dogs, first prize $10, second $% and third $5, Is entered Woodbury kennel’s “Rockwood Lt" winner of three first prizes. The dog is valued ai $10,000. The cocker challenge class for black dogs. first prize $8, second $5, is an excellent une. such well-known dogs as the Swiss © A Little Exercise. Movntain Kennel’s in the «1 ‘Middy"’ being entered. «ker spaniel open class for bitches. her color. first prize and 1 entered Montrose Kennel's ““Rosamone valued at $250. The Riggs the dog. » foxhound open class for dogs. first second $5. is entered A. B. Mc- “Songster.” the winner of four tirst priz: The challenge collie class for i bitches, first prize $10, second $ cellent one. Entered in it is Henry rett's “Wellesbourne Wonder.” There number of other good ones in this re elass. Coming Society Dox. logs, the coming society dog, In the open challenge class nd bitches, first prize 8, second Louis,” of two first prizes; “Napoleon, r of one first prize at Baltimore this nd “Manna,” winner of two first nd one second prize. All three of are valued at a thousand dollars In the t ‘ommy lenge et: SS. second £5, bull terrier class are some excel- specimens. John Lorillard Arden’s Tickle” is entered in the chal- ss for dogs and bitches, first prize This ix said to be one of the bull terriers in the world and was in Albany. A number of other good z= in this class are shown. le tine bi Boston terriers are well represented. In the -‘n bitch class for heavy weights, first prize Sx, second $5, is shown Wiiam G. Kendall's “Fan Tan.” In the Dachshunde class, which is one of the best at the show, there are a num- ber of sood dogs. In the challenge class for dogs and bitches, first prize $8, is en- tered Arthur Froembling’s “Phaenomen- inecke,” valued at $v, a winner of a first prize. es In the open Beagle class for dogs, first prize $5. second $5 and third $3, is en- ed Joe Lewis’ Cherrywood, valued at the winrer of a first prize. The Hassett hound entries contain a number of fine dogs, as does the one of smooth fox terrier. A number in both have taken first prizes. are a number of entries also in the wire-haired fox terriers’ class. In the latter i class for dogs, first prize $s, %, and third $3, is entered G. M. an’s “Cairnsm insman.”" i sh tercier of dogs and d Wilmount irst prize 3s, is ideliffe-3 valued at entries of black and tan terriers, 1 and toy spaniels are complete. In the lass for dogs and bitches, first pri ond ze are shown Roger LATE NEWS BY WIRE|GERMANY AND HAITI Arrest of a Woman Passing as a Pen- sion Agent. CHARGED WITH WHOLESALE FRAUDS res (Continued from First Page.) you could see your way clear to release Mr. Emile Lueders, my government will con- sideer it a friendly act, in the interest of an amicable adjustment to this whole mat- ter, and I can assure you, Mr. Minister, that Mr. Lueders will leave, if released, on the Dutch steamer for New York tomor- row. I trust, Mr. Minister, this will bring about his speedy release, thereby relieving he great tension cxisting, without any . tl Impersonated Widows of Prominent | humiliation to your government, being @ Officers of Army and Navy. See HOW HER SCHEME WORKED nr Special Dispatet! to The Evening Star. CLEVELAND, Ohio, November Examiner Hall yesterday whose right name is believed to be Anna May, and who bas impersonated at different times Mrs. | prison of this city. Pcole, widow of Gen. Poole; Mrs.. Porter, widow ef Admiral Porter; Mrs. Whitaker, widow of Gen. Whitaker, zud ebout dozen other widows of prominent officers. The capture of this woman will be es- pecially interesting in Washington, st which place at one time or another she has cut a wide swath. She is known to Mrs. Cleveland, who, it is thought, unsus- pectingly fell into traps laid by the woman. Other Washington peopte also fell into the woman's trap, and it is fer represent- friendly act on the part of your govern- ment to mine. With :ay personal assur- ance and esteem, I am sir, ete., W. F.’ POWELL. These two letters brought forth the fol- lowing reply: Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Relations, PORT AU PRINCE, October 22, 1897. Mr. Minister: I haye the honor to ac- knowledge the receipt of your two dis- 30.—A | patches, dated the 20th and 2ist instant, in woman was arrested by Special Pension | Which you ve been pleased, in the name of your government and in a spirit of pure | friendship, to request an order of release in favor of Emile Lueders, confined in the His excellency the president of the republic and the council of the secretary of state fully appreciate the motive which has prompted your interven- tion, ard I am asked to convey to you their sincere thanks for this mark of sympathy which you have given, in these days of trial, to a people conscious of their numer- ical weakness, but who wish to remain worthy of those to whom they owe their emancipation and their independence. Ac- cordingly, peneirated solely with the mu- tual feeling of perfect friendship which ex- ists between the republic of Haiti and the noble and grand federal republic, my gov- ernment has decided to entertain favorably ing herself as a special pension examiner | your loyal request, and I beg to assure you that she was arrested. ¥esterdzy Special Pension Examiner Hall of this district learned that the woman was in town, representing herself as an old army nurse. warrant for her arrest, and she is at pres- ent in the county aif Worked the Whole Country. Anna May’s operations were wide in ex- tent—as wide, in fact, as the United States, as she operated in every large town in the country, from Maine to California. Early in 189% William Hohfelder, who at the time owned a farm at La Grange, Ohio, was visited by Mrs. May, she claimed to be the widow of General Poole and said that she has just secured the appointment of | frst to New York and then to special pension examiner. She further stated that Hohfeider, who is an old soldier, was not receiving the proper pension. This, she said, she had noticed while in Washington, and if Hoh- felder desired to advance a sum of mone: she Jd return to the capital immediate- and set the matter straight. Hokf-lder was suspicious, but gave up $150 in addition to paying the woman's railway fare. At the last moment she seemed to relent when Hohfelder told her he would accompany her to Washington with his family, and thus combine business with pleasure. Mrs. May consented to the plan and the party was soon establisn- ed in a Washington hotel. Mrs. May Had Trouble. May. however, seemed to have in €xing Hohfelder’s pension, and compelled to come down with the cash on more than on occasion. Finally funds became exhausted, and, upon learn- ing this, Mrs. May, or Mrs. Whitaker, as she styled herself, left the old soidier and his family and returned to Onto. In a sim- ilar marner Mrs. May succeeded in work- ing mary of the old veterans of the coun- try. ES She seemed to have access to the White House and always spoke of Mrs. Cleveland as ‘France: Examiner Hall, who has the woman's complete history, says that a prominent Washington lawyer was badly duped by the woman, but further than this Mr. Hall will not say: neither will he give the lawyer's name. ESTIMATES. —— SECRETARY GAGE’ He Will Reckon on a Deficit of $20,000,000. Secretary Gage said to a Star reporter today that his estimates to Congress will reckon on a deficit for the fiscal -year ich ends with June, isv8, of about 000,000; certainly not more than $25,- 600,000. This is oygr $15,000,000 less than estimates now being made in various news- pers. The “Secretary is not at all dis- couraged at this. He said that it fs teo early to begin to say that the Dingley bill will be disappointing. He poinied to ihe figures. The customs re- Harrison's “Padah" and “Kito Tottte’ yanese), winners of first prizes. The aneous Class is well filled. Officers and Committees. The show is under the auspices of the City Kennel Club, of which are Idsborough, president; Jo: vice president; J. H. G casurer. nch show committee co EK. Goldsborough, Jos. H. Hunter, Gulick, W. R. Trave H.W. Lacy is judge of mas- thifs, St. Bernards, danes, blood- hounds, Russian wolfhounds, | collies, % bull Dac terriers, terriers, pugs and ttish, Airedale and rhounds, greyhound: h and G glish, Lrish of Bridgeport, Conn. of foxhounds, all spaniels, Irish ye terri nd ian ter . Henry Jac- r Mr. J. A. exhibition by ined dogs is given and nicht. The Ww will continue four days. R. W. WILCOX COMING Milt Join the Delegation of Native Hawaiians. tter received here from Hono- that the notorious Robert W. as been added to the delegation of Hawahans now cn their way to shington to protest against the annexa- Hes of Hawaii. accompany the delegation <t San Francisco a few days ‘as to follow them by the next ‘he original delegates are expect- ch this city early next week, but n hardly join them here for three Their cause is hopeless enough, he prese ef Wilcox is the only: thing possibly that can make it worse. — Smuxgiiag Drugs Did Net Pa em the Medical Record. A young man in Rhode Island, the owner of a yacht, was recently punished for an attempt at smugglin He took his yacht ty Halifax, Nova Scotia, last summer, and wt tnere purchased some $2,000 worth of sulphonal and phenacetin. These he brought to this couniry. and tnen found he could not dispose of them without detec- tien. He finally became apprehensive that the authorities would find him out, so he went to the customs officer and confessed te having the drugs. These were cont cated, and the young man now has con- eluded that crime doesn’t pay. cos It matters little what it ts that you want —whether a situation or a servant—a “want” ad. in The Star will reach the person who can fill your need. f ceipts for the month which ended today Were $0,840,025, againsi $Y, 3860 for the same month last year, when the Wilson bill was in operation. he loss is about $1), The which the customs receipts are making are shown by the fact that for last month, October, the receipts were $0, against $11,105,498 for the same month las year, a loss over the same month of the previous year of about $1,300,000 It wil Ithus be seen that the customs re- ceipts are steadily gaining h month. Assistant Secretary Howell is contident that for the month of December the receipts will exceed the same month of last year. For January he counts on a large in: crease. He thinks the receipts from suga nuary will be about $4,000,000, This rt receipts amount- ed to about $1,000,000 each month. Seeretary Gage thinks that the spring im- ations will heip swell the receipts large- nd show what the Dingley bill will be able to do. ‘The internal revenue receipts continue to show up well. For the months of suly, August, September, October and November of 18M; the total receipts from all sources were $1; O77. For the same five months of this year the total receipts are $129; . a loss of less than a million. The hea’ increase from internal revenue has assisted in pre- venting the loss being greatet ——+ e+ — Not an Official After All. From Tit-Bits. One day & post office official, happening to be pa: through a gov ent office with which he was connected, saw a man standing before a fire reading a newspaper. Hours afterward, returning the same -way, he was shocked to find the same man, legs extended before the same fire, still ab- sorbed in the contents of a newspaper. “Halloa, sir!” cried the indignant head of the department. “What are you doing?” “Cart you see what I am doin; was the answer. “Sir, 1 hours ago 1 return time in t “Very tru to a nicety. Hereupon the head of the department na- turally fired up. “What's your name, sir?” “Well, I don't know that my name is any affair of yours. What is your name?” “Sir, 1 would have you know that I am the so-and-so of the post office! . “Indeed! Well, I am very glad to hear it. I am, sir, simply one of the public, a mere item, who has been waiting here for feur hours for an answer to a simple ques- tion, and I should be much obliged if you would use -your influence to get me at- tended to.” —-——_+e+___.- Paid for His Trouble. From the Philadelphia Record. A guest in a Philadelphia hotel lost a dia- mond stud in the waste pipe of the bath tub the other day. Oa hearing of the loss, the proprietor allowed the pipe to be taken up, at the expense of the loser. A plumber Gid the job for $10, and the guest not only recovered his stud, but also found in the bend of the drain pipe a diamond ring. Be- ing an honest man, he gave the ring to the proprietor, who advertised the find in several newspapers. As no one came to claim the ring, the proprietor, with an equally commendabie sense of honesty, re- turned it to the finder. Needlees to say, the loser of the stud was highly compensated for his trouble, as the ring was valued at $10. The fortunate man gave the plumber a erisp twenty-dollar note extra, as the brilliant find was partly due to that worthy. me through this office four nd found you reading the paper: and you are still wasting your ame manne You have stated the case —_—_—~ee——. It matters little what it is that you want~ whether a situation or a servant—a “want” ad. in The. Star will reach the person who can fill your need. that his excellency the president will issue today an order of release in favor of mmile Lueder: However, while noting the promise of the immediate departure of this prisoner, I Mr. Hall at once secured a | must not leave you to ignore the fact that the government reserves the right to take in every case an official measure of expul- sion, in order to forbid hereafter to Emile Lueders access to this country, which he has disowned. Please receive, Mr. Minis- ter, the assurances of my high considera- tion. SOLON MENOS. To his excellency H. F. Powell, envoy e: traordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America at Port au Prince. The result of this correspondence was the release and expulsion of Luedgrs. He went erlin, where he is at present. In accepting the terms of his. release he reserved all his rights for reparation through the usual diplo- matic channels. The indemnity demanded in his case amounts to $58,000, being at the rate of $1,000 a day for twenty-three days and $5,000 a day for six additional days. Resort to Diplomacy Likely. Whether Germany proposes to enforce the payment of this demand is not known here, but the impression prevails that an effort will first be made to settle the dispute by diplomatic negotiations. Recent advices irom Ber‘in are to the effect that the govern- ment is disposed to deal with Haiti in a liberal spirit, especiaHy as the course of Count Schwerin in the matter does not meet with genéral approval. The official correspondence shows, it is said, that he was overbearing and arbitrary, and did not show proper consideration to the rights of the Haitian government. The »rospects of summary naval inter- vention, which the Haitians apprehended, scems to have passed. Such a demonstra- tion against the feeble island republic would * generally regarded as an act of ovpres- sion ertirely uncalled for, now that Lueders is at liberty and the question of his in- demnity is no longer a pressing one. As stated in yesterday’s Star, the United States ambassador to Germany has been instructed to watch developments in the matter and to impress on the German gov- ernment the natural interest the United tes has in the peaceful settlement of the dispnte with the neighboring republic. According to Mr. Leger, the Haitian min- ister here, the Haitian government will not tamely submit to German cppression in this matter. An indemnity will be promptly und cheerfully paid if Germany, after fully considering all the evidence that Haiti to furnish, determines that her claim is just. Arbitration would seem to be the natural course, but Haiti will not insist at if Germany will consent to x full discussion of ull the sides of the controver: Marblehead to Go to Haiti. ‘The Marblehead, now ats Annapolis, will start for the south as soon as she has con- cluded her work in connection with the trial of the torpedo boat Winglow. She will go to Navassa to look into the condition of the United States citizens who are working en that island. Nothing has been heard trom that piace for some time, and it is deemed proper to leok into the allegations of abuses upon the workmen that it is al- Jeged have been practiced. While engaged in this inspection, the Marblehead will make her headquarters at Port Au Prince, on the west coast of Haiti. She will also be charged with tue protection of American interests generally in that section of the West Indies. Tnat is the statement made by the De- partment of State, and it is taken to mean that Capt. B. F, McCalla, her com- ander, will see that our interests do not suffer in the event that the German gov- «rmment proceeds forcibly to punish Halt! for the arrest of Lueders. The gunboat Wilmington is to be sent southward also later on. She is first to be docked and overhauled, and later will start for the South Atlantic station, spend- ing some time in the West Indies en route touching particularly at Gaudaloupe. The gunboat Annapolis, now transformed into a training ship, ts slated for a trip into the gulf during the winter, with a number of naval cadets aboard, and as the gunboat Newport will have to spend some time in the Caribbean sea, with the Nicaraguan canal commission aboard, the United States navy will be well ‘represented in these waters. oe Shaving a Pursued Bandit. the Louisville Post. I shaved Jesse James, the once noted cutlaw, down in southern Kentucky a long time ago,” said an old gray-haired fellow on the train the other day, “when the man’s life wasn’t worth a penny. Jesse rushed into my little country place, down in the Red river country, one day in the latter part of December and asked me if I wouldn't shave him while he looked after his Colt's revolvers and watched the door. I was nct a barber by trade, but those per- suaders Jesse had induced me to try my hand with a new Wade & Butcher razor I took out of my showcase.~As I shaved, the man of fron nerve sat with a cocked pistol in each hand and told me in a few hurried words that a posse was pursuing him, bent on capturing him, dead or alive, on the charge of robbing a bank at Rus. sellville, a crime, he averred, of which he was not guilty. He wanted his beard shaved off that he might fool his pursuers if they should happen to catch up with him. f finished the job of scraping. The much- wanted individual thanked me, and, mount. ing a horse which had been hitched in the rear of my*store. bade me good evening and rode away. I ‘didn’t know for certain who my visitor was, although I suspected it, until the next day, when I heard that a man in the neighborhood was telling that he had seen the elder James the afternoon before. I suppose that- was the last shave Jesse James got in Kentucky, and I have never seea him since.” oot — OLD OFFICERS MAY BE RETAINED. F Purchasers of Maryland and Columbia Electric Debating the Question. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. BALTIMORE, Md., November 30.—Up to 2 p.m. today the purchasers of the Colum- bia and Maryland and other electric rail- way frachises had held no meeting in Bal- timore, and it seemed to be uncertain whether they would hold a session today. Those interested in the roads referred to say that it has not yet been fully decided whether they will elect new officers or maton. bur Fiat inet oiee: ony oe fer Settled this week. oa ———__. It matters little what it is that you want —whether a situation or a servant—a “want” ad. in The Star will reach the person who can fill your need. eSB Saige 0 EG EL hia basil ia ob Se eee eee IN THE JURY'S HANDS _ Fate Now. HOWE MARES S#RONG CLOSING PLEA ee Attorney Directs His Remarks to Arraignment of Mrs. Nack. —- JURY VISITS WOODSIDE NEW YORK, November 30.—Judge Mad- dox gave the case of Martin Thorn into the hands of the jurors at 2:24 o'clock this af- ternoon, and they immediately retired to the jury room. Martin Thorn walked into the court room in Long Island-Gity today looking none the worse for his ordeat on the witness stand yesterday. Mr. Howe asked that the jurymen be per- mitted to go to the Woodside cottage. “I want them to see,” said he, “how impossi- ble it would: be for: one person alone to cut up the body-as described in a bath tub of the size of the one in the Woodside cot- tage without marking the sides of the tub.” The people's lawyers demurred and the court refused ta.grant Mr. Howe's request. A few minutes later Justice Maddox re- considered his decision and allowed the jury to go to the cottage by special trolley cars. The court admonished the officers attending the jurors not to talk to them in reference to the cas. , Jury Inspected Cottage. The inspection of the cottage occupied but eight minutes of t®e jury’s time. No one was premitted upon the premises dur- ing the time the jurors were in the cot- tage. There is some discussion as to whether a mistake was not made by the court in not sending Thorn to Woodside with the jury. At the time Mr. Howe asked that the jury be sent to Woodside to inspect the cottage he said Thorn would waive his rights to go along with the jury. Lawyers say that the court of appeals has in a number ef capital cases decided that counsel has n9 right to waive any of a prisoner’s rights, and that tne action of Mr. Howe may leave a loophole for a new trial in case Thorn should be convicted. When the party had returned to the court house and Judge Maddox had resumed his seat on the bench, Mr. Howe began ty sum up for the defense. He made mch of Mrs. Nack’s alleged perfidy to the maa she pro- fessed to love, and commented upon the fact that, having had Mrs. Nack en the witness stand in the trial which was ter- minated by the illness of a juror, the prose- cution did not see fit to again take her evi- dence. 3 “God forbid.” he said, “that justice shall ever be administered in this state or county so that a mrerderess may escape and this man,” pointing’ tof the prisoner, “be sub- Jected to even a ten years’ imprisonment.’ Hat ‘frintming Episode. In speaking-of "the evidence in rebuttal, Mr. Howe suid: Gentlemen, you heard witnesses say that Mrs. Nack was seen in her apartments op the afternoon of June 25 trimming & hat: Trimming a hat, gen- tlemen! Just'think of it! Trimming a hat on the evening of the day that she trimmed the dead bedy of her lover, whom she killed in the hornfng.” 4 Gotha was characterized by counsel as a Judas, ready! to betray his miasier or his friend for'dny paltry sum. Mr. Howe said that the jurf must’ have seen tha it was intpossible for’ one! person to do the cu..ing up of the Wody ‘as’ it was accomplished. Mrs. Nack'¥‘Knowtedge of anatomy acquir- ed in her profewsién, stood her in good stead, when she-waé cutting up the corpse of her former lover Guldensuppe. In conclysion,. Mr. Howe insisted that Thorn should be acquitted of the charge which the state has Made against him, and he hoped the jury would not make an cemprentise, as that would be a horri mistake. ; District Attorney. Youngs followed with his final address. LATE WHfTE HOUSE GossIP. MeKenua’s Confirmation Will Not Be Opposed by Elkins, Judge Goff, who is said to prefer the United States Senate to a cabinet position, is expected in the city today. His coming, however, has nothing to do with the va- caney in the cabinet to be made by the promotion of Attorney General McKenna. The friends of Judge Goff continue to at- tempt to induce him to go in the cabinet if a position is again offered him, but it is said that he wil] hear to nothing of the kind. WII Not Oppose McKenna’s Confirma- tion, Senator Elkins pronounces as absurd the storiés that he will oppose the confirma- tion of Mr. McKenna as justice of the Su- preme Court, and says that he thinks high- ly of the Attorney General. The stories in circulation ate to the effect that be- cause of the Attorney General's decision on section 22 of the tariff Senator Elkins had incurred a violent dislike for the California man. This, the senator says, has not thi slightest foundation. soca , Senator Elkins will see the President in a few days, it is sald, about the Charleston post office. S. O. Petty is a candidate for the office to succeed Mrs. Kenna, widow of Senator Kenna. He has the indorsement of Representative Dorr, and Senator Elkins is believed to be supporting Mr. Dorr. On the other hand, it is said, there is a tender place in the heart of the senator which op- poses the removal of Mrs, Kenna. A nums ber of democratic senators, "including Messrs. Gorman jand Jones, are sald to lave asked the President as v Mrs. Kenna be retained. Sav orsthat National Committeeman Scott ri returned from a trip to Europe, cad at once went west, where he has mining in- terests. He seid to a Star reporter today that Cripple Creek, Col, will add $12,000.- G00 this year to the gold output of the world, a large Inérease over iast year. Mr. Scott said he regerds the Cripple Cieck section as the gréatest gold region in the world. “I am surprised,” ke said, “that people rush off to death and danger in the Klondike, when righes are to be obtained so close to than wit out risk of life. Cripple Creek was acatilg ranch in 1802. The city of that name is pow reached by two raii- roads., It has street railroads circling the great gold balt, water works, electric lights and paved streets,3’ y Prititing, the Message. Capt. Bryan, the foreman of the govern- ment printiig “office, was at the White House today, collferring with Secretary Porter abouf thf, printing of the Presi- dent's message. The message is to be put in type earlier than in many years. Witi- in the next 4ew. days the copies which will go to the ousq,and- Senate cn Monday will be made by.dlecretary Pruden. These copies are a}ways written from the original by Assistans Seeretary Pruden, and are taken ie the Coren that gape The original copy of the e writ- Re the President having dictated tt. The government printing office will turn out two or three copies befgre Sunday. The copies for the use of Congress will not be printed until Monday morning, that safe- aes being taken to avoid their becoming ublic. ¥ " Yin years gone-by the government print- irg office bas freqvently not réceived the The President | appointed Paul Fitzsimons to bo a medical inspeticn Passed Assistant Surgeon Frederick J. B. Cordeiro, to be @ surgeon; Assistant Sur- Scsistant surgess. pet HARRIES SELECTED —— (Continued from First Page.) Ordway, father of the District of Columbia National Guard.” Chief Clerk Richard Sylvester of the Police it—“I am not much of a military man, but I am fully acquainted with the general good qualities of Major Harries and believe that he will make the Most excellent recor] in any capacity in which he serves in which the public is interested.” Major Richard A. O'Brien, commanding the 2d Battalion, District National Guard— ‘Major Harries’ first connection with the District National Guard as a commissioned officer, I think, was with the 24 Battalion, so that I am particularly pleased with his elevation to the command of the brigade. In my opinion a better selection could not have been inade. Major Harries possesses the necessary qualifications for the, suiding of a brigad> of volunteer mifli- .dnspector Mattingly, chief of detectives— “So far as I know there is no one living who takes a deeper interest in the District of Columbia National Guard than Major Harries. His characteristic energy in con- nection with everything he undertakes is well known. The appointment should be eminently satisfactory to every one who has the interest of the Naxional Guard of the District at heart.” Auditor J. T. Petty said—“I am delight- ed to hear of the appointment of Major Harries. He is a thoroughly equipped man for the office and will mcasure up grandly to every requirement of the position. ‘The President is to be congratulated and the people as well upon the wisdom of his se- lection.” Col. Clay Reticent. Col. Cecil Clay was asked by a Star re- porter this afternoon what he had to say regarding the appointment of Major Har- ries. He answered that he had nothing to say; that he had not spoken of the matter before the appointment, and that he should not do so now. ‘The New Commander. Gen. Harries has resided in Washington for a number of years and has become identified with some of its most prominent interests. He was born in Wales, but came to America at an early age. He has had many thrilling experiences among the Rockies and on the plains and endured all manner of hardships in frontier campaign- ing. He learned to set type and was a cempositor in the government printing of- fice during the latter portion of the in- cumbency of the late S. P. Rounds as pub- lic printer. When Mr. Rounds went to Omaha and bought the Republican, Mr. Harries went with him and became a _re- porter on that paper. He returned to tais city and was for some time on the staff of the National Republican. When that paper was absorbed by the Post Mr. Harries was the only living asset transferred with the property. He remain- ed on the Post for several months, and then became a member of the reportorial staff of The Evening Star. As such he had a number of important assignmenis, the more notable being the Pan-American exe.-sion in 1889, the Sioux campaign in the vicinity of Pine Ridge in 1590-91, the Homestead strike in 1892 and the railroad riots in Chicago in 1804. in recognition of services rendered during the Siouz campaign he was appointed a member of the Siouz commission which in the summer of 1891 treated with the Ogal- lalas, the Brule and the northern Chey- enne Indians. As a member of the District National Guard General Harries has been extremely active. More than ten years ago, when Geueral Ordway was engaged in the work of securing legislation with which to bring about the organization of :the brigade, there was active co-operation. All the plans were mutually discussed, and then “ommenced relationship of the most inti- mate sort. In 1889—after having severai times de- clined to join the guard—the now brigadier seneral enlisted and was warranted a staff sergeant o nthe general non-commissione. staff. He served as such for about two years, and then, being a very proficient rifle shot, was premoted to a first lieu- tenancy and became inspector ef rifle prac- tice of the 2d Battalion, at that time com- nanded by Major Fred. Brackett. Rifle Practice Fostered. In July, 1892, he was designated in gen- eral orders as assistant inspector general of rifle practice, and in November of the same year was commissioned major and inspector of rifle practice. As a matter of course most of his work has been done in the department of rifle practice. A shooting member of the brigade teams of 18%)-91-92—the first of which captured the Hilton trophy in a great struggle at Creedmoor—he has been captain and in- structor of every brigade team that has since gone into the field from the District of Columbia. Under his leadership the Dis- trict has three times won the Hilion trophy and once captured the great interstate troph: Other honors have also been secured, but the g1 test of them all was the winning of the Hilton trophy in 18%, with a score that smashed the world’s record and set the "pins so high that for many years 10 come it is not likely the new record will be broken. Two years ago he located and surveyed the rifle range now being used by the guard, the old range at the Wash- ington barracks having been completely destroyed by a storm. The fange at Ordway is now one of the most complete and thoroughly equipped in all the United States. Rifle praetice did not, however, occupy the major’s attention to the exclusion of ether important matters relative to the Guard. Possessing the ccmplete confidence of Gen. Ordway, he has been deeply in- terested in every phzse of the situation Iceally and generally, which could possibly concern the citizen ‘soldier here or else- where. For the past three years he has been the legislative agent of the brigade, and, as such, rendered services which earned’ for him ‘the sincere thanks of General Ord- way and of other Washingtonians, to whom the national treasury had long been indebted for morey advanced for the sup- port of the brigade. Military matters have not occupied the entire attention of Gen. Harries. He is and has been for some years a member of the board of school trustees, is a member of the board of managers of the Associated Charities, is a director of the Sanitary Im- provement Company, and is much interest- ed in a number of other organizations and efforts to improve local conditions. For nearly a year he was presidentiof the Metropolitan Railroad Company, and as such achieved a business reputation, which a little while ago was strongly indorsed by mercantile and professional Washington in his election as secretary of the board of trade. Capt. Edgar A. Shilling, commanding Company B, 2d Battalior—the Morton Ca- dets—may be said to repregent the younger element of the District National Guard. “I am delighted with the appointment of Maj. Harries as general,” said Capt. Shil- ling this afternoon. “The members of my company have diecvesed the probable ap- pointment several days past, and all the boys were emphatically in favor of Maj. Harries to succeed Gen. Ordway. “They went so far as to say that, if the matter was left to bared Major moter sould receive the unanimous sup; Byvcompany, From what I know of the feeling among other National Guard ofti- cers with whom I have talked every one will be pleased with oe arnt ied ssitle for any living person to thévefliciency of the local brigade, Major Harries is the man.” intment is a most excellent one. I am sure Gen. Harries will qualify to the satis- faction of all.” —_—— Brakeman Whirled From Car. Hf ing to the main line over the “Y” near % Annotated Editorials From The S$: From the Trentom (N. J.) Gazette. Senator Burrows, who has had a long corgressional experience, will not be sur- prised if the coming session of Congress shall last until August. He takes into ac- count both the state of party divisions in that body and the character of the subjects lukely to engage its attention. He secs in the currency a.one a theme of extended de- bate, even if no action follows. The Washington Star some 4: ago ex- pressed the opinion that Congress should not attempt to hurry through the work of the coming session. Some very important brsiness awaits attention, and all of it calls for care in the handling. The currency question in particular is such as should re ceive thorough consideration. It is prac tically a new question. Phases of it have been presented from time to time, but, taking it as it exists today in connection with the government's experience of the Past four years, it is at once a question of the first importance and of great difficulty. It is worthy of discussion, even if nothing else at the present time can be vouchsafed. The country will at least be informed, for. with the President and the Secretary of the Treasury speaking in their messages to Congress; ine monetary commission, com- posed of representative business men, offer- ing a report to Congress, and members of both houses presenting views in the shape of billy and speeches, every point of in- terest Sught to be, and probably will be, covered. Why should such discussion produce any disquieting effects on business? Those who advise against taking up the question of currency reform see a danger of that kind. Nobody contends that our currency system is what it should be. Nearly everybody who has considered it at all has some sug- gestion to make relative to its improve- ment. The time seems ripe for trying to censtruct a better system; not by doing . but by 4 away entirely with the one in uw: ig it in certain features shown experience to be defective. Meanwhile the different forms of m in circulation are all to remain as good as gold for all essential, practical business purposes. Business is not threatened at any point. The people's money is all to remain good. The cne object in view is to uy to simplify. what through years of patchwork legislation has grown to be a complex and embayrassing currency sitiation. Frem the Scranton (Pa.) Tribune. The Washingion Star, while recognizing the propriety of the public sentiment ad- verse to sheer obstruction in the Senate not an opporture time to agitate for clo- ture. This special reason is the oncoming currency reform issue, Which will, it thinks, need free and full debate. Cloture, however, such as sane senators would order, would never, hout the Sen- ates own wish, operate to abridge genuin debate. The suggestion that the Senate should adopt a ruie empowering a majority of the senators at any time within their Giscretion to fix a fuvure time when debate on a given measure must cease involves no arbitrary curtai-ment of traditional parlia- mentary rights, but merely recognizes, in accordance with obvious justice and com- mon sense, the vitally republican principle of majerity rule. A point which escapes many students of this problem is that conditions in the Sen- ate have undergone material change since unlimited debate was the Senate's proudest beast. twenty-six to ninety, and the volume of business has multiplied over and over. In these busy days of abounding public issues to permit each of ninety senators to talk on, week after week aid month after month, without let or hindrance save the beunds of his own pertinacity, regardless of the interests and wishes of the other eighty-nine, is not freedom of debate but an intolerable tyranny of loquacity. It is wrong upon the Senate and it is a crim against the peopie. Un.ess reasonable clo- ture shall speedily come to the Senate's re- lief, public opinion, as sure as fate, will proceed to enact far more radical and dubious changes in the structure of Con- gress’ upper chamber. From the Dayton (O.) Herald. Wheat has done well in Ohio, but the olive branch crop is a comparative failure. —Washington Star. Our esteemcd contemporary has evidently failed to read the iatest reports. Mr. Han- ra’s senatorial boom is now covered with olive branches that have been Harvested in Ohio during the past few weeks. From the Rochester (N. ) Times, One of the hopeful circumst Tany the opening of Congress is the f President McKinley can usually pended upon for a concisely written mes- The Star will take that all back with a sickening dull thud as soon as the message appears. From the Bridgeport (Coun.) Standard. The. Washington Star, which “bright particular” luminary “the next time Mr. Hanna has a reco: jation with Mr. Foraker he should Insist upon having a date of expiration formally specified.” Twinkle, Twinkle! From the Dubuque (lowa) Telegraph. The esteemed Washington Star has editorial entitled “Great Britain in Indi. There's geography for you. —___++=___ A Wise Mule. From Lippincott’s. Among our pack mules was one who, on a fishing trip several years before, had visited this very locality in which we were encamped; but she had ccme the previous time the straight route over the mountains. What was our amazement one morning to fird this mule gone, and with her two of her comrades, whom she had evidently led astray. Hunt high and hunt low, we could not find them, and after wasting sev- eral days in this fruitless search we set out for home. Upon arrival there we were sur- prised and delighted to find that the mules had preceded us. The old mule had at once recognized her p-evious camping place, changed though it must have been by the severe storms to wi ‘h this region is subject, and had determined in her wise cld head to strike out for home immediate- ly, without waiting for the formality of carrying a pack. And this she and her ccmpanions, ill-advised, but evidently not rrisguided, did; not following the trails, for we had carefully inspected them, but head- ing through the dark and confusing forests, guided by the old mule, as straight as though directed hy the unswerving needle of 2 magnetic compass. —_—__+ e+ —____ . One Cat Made Usefi From the Bengor (Me.) Commercial. An ingenious Augusta boy Fas found a new way of putting in electric wires that deserves to be patented. His mother had given him permission to have an electric Light in his room if he would put in his own wiring. In order to da this it was necessa- ry to carry the wires from one room to an- other. How to do this in a neat and work- munlike manner was a perplexing problem, but the young man was equal to it. He be- thought himself of a pet cat which was greatly devoted to him and would answer readily to his call. A good stout string Was attached to Kitty's tail, and she was put under the flooring and called through from-one room to the other. With the aid of this string the wires were soon in place, and in a manner, too, that would have done credit to the best workman in the Pete hea i $ ut U o a The membership has increased from | contends for a special reason that this is] FINANCE AND TRADE Dullness and Lower Prices Prevailed in Stocks Today. Burlington's Statement Showed In- creased Earnings Again. oe we eee GENERAL MARKET REPORTS Sea ae Saree Special Dispatch to The Evening Stag. NEW YORK, November 30.—The flurry of activity in the stock market of yester- day gave way to a dull listless market to- day, with transactions very small and trading confined principally to the room traders. There was no feature to the mar- ket, and no news of any particular con- sequences. The opening was a little bétter than yes- terday’s closing, and prices in the eariy trading continued to improve on account of the buying orders from London, but these figures did not hold very long, and on con tinued realizing commenced to decline There was not much pressure to sell, how- ever, and after the noon hour the traders commenced to buy back stocks which re- sulted in the recovery of the early decline and an advance for the day. The recent good news as regards Cuban airs has further encouraged the «: jeeling in the street as io the setlement of that question. Sugar, as usual, represen’ activity, and although selling off in the early trading is held very strong, and cl ec with a gain for the day. It ts expected that the decision regarding the Dutch countervailing duty. arguments for whi. are being hea rd now, will be receiv: fem the Treasury Department by the la ter part of this weck. The Burlington statement for Was announced and showed an ir, surplu: ter charges, of $129,312 figures were more favorable than expec and the opinion was expressed that for th. next year this road would earn 8 per cc on its stock. The price of the stock de- ned from 4% to $4, with the rest of the list, but this loss was recovered and a gain recorded above initial quotations. Manhattan came in for itg.usual amount of attention today, and recMbered most of its declines of yesterday. The continued talk of good earnings was the cause of this. The condition of prices at the close we< an improvement for the entire list on the day's transactic The exchange arket continued very strong, with demand quoted at 4.86 and sixty-day bills at about 483@4%. Tie strength of demand is due to the firmness of discount in London. —_—->—__ ANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, "i most of the s- October The following are the opening, the high- est and tne lowest and the closing prices of the New York stock murket today, as re- rted by Corson & Macartney, members New York stock exchange. Correspondents, Messrs. Moore & Schiey, No. 8) Broadway Opa. High. Low. Close. American Sprite... American Spirits. pfa American American American American Atehixon Baltimore i% ago. B&Q. Ago& Northwestern ag Chicago, St. Paal, Mato Consolidated Gas Del. Lack & W Hilinois Lake Store. Louisville & X, Metropolitan M Northern Pacific Northern Pacitte, pid Onl. & Western. . Pacific Man... Phila. & keadiny Puluman U.s. Leatner, p Wabash, pid Western Uni Sliver... Washingt es—resuiar eall— $100 at 11 ‘currency 10 bid. bid, 114% asked, Iscellancous “Bonds, 3.658, funding, curr: Metropolitan Railroad 116 bd. Metropolit: Ratlroed conv. 6 120 bid. 125 asked. Metropolitan Raiiroad certi jes wt edness, A, 125 bid. Metropolitan Railroad Micatos a indebtedness, B, x10 bid. Belt 1 Se, 40 Wid, G5 asked. Eckington Itallrod bid, 100 asked. mbia Railroad Gs, 129 — Washington Gas . NE ashington Gas . 2 x " + 12 bid. Ke 10d bid . and A. 1H American Securt © bid. d. 300 asked. Metrop . tral. 250 bid. Farmers ‘and M: bid, AST% asked. Second, 140 bid. Columbia, 130 bid.” Cay 103 bid, fixked. coln, 106 bid. 110 asked. Safe Deposit and Trost Companies. —Nat! Deposit and Trust, 115 bid, 120 asked. Washi: Loan and Trust, "119% bid, 125 asked. Amr Security and Trust, 1 bid, 148 asked. Was! ton Safe Deposit, 30 bid Railroad Stocks.—Capital Traction, 68 bid, asked. Metropolitan, x119% bid, 120% asked. lumbia, x63 bid. Gas and Eleciric Light Stocks.—Washington Gas, 46 bd, 46% asked. own Gas, 4 bid. asked." U.S. Electric Light, 105% bid, 107 ask Insurance Stocks.—Firem: 30 bid! Frankiiy, 38 bid. Metropolitan. 5 bid. Corcoran, 56 bi Potomac, 63 bid, 68 asked. Arlington, 135 bid. 1 asked. “German-American, 185 bid. Nation: Union, 10 bid, 1 Columbia, 12% hid, asked. Riggs, 7% ask: People’s, Did, 6 asked. "1 10 asked. cial, 4 bid, 414 asked. Title Insurance Stocks.—Real state Title, 90 Wid. Columbia Title, 4% bid. 5% asked. Washington T!- tle, 214 bid. District Title, 3 bid. Me bid, 143% . Monotrp. bid, 19%, asked.” Washington Market, Pails Ter, 108 bide 112 nokea tke ant Wes ington Steamboat, 100 asked. — re Grain, Provisions and Cotton Markets Furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co., bankers — 1427 F st, members seg York 6 exc! lents Usacuvste iimany Cas Rew YOR “oxen ich. ig lowe. PROVISIONS. saree aecacch sy? ra" 1s" S40 30 woS83 GRRE 32