Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1898, Page 12

13 The Busy Corner, 8th and Market Space. S. Kann,Sons&Co. Your Money Has great purchasing powers for the next three days—that is what we promised in our advertisements which appeared in Saturday’s Star and the different Sunday papers of yesterday. Every item mentioned holds good until closing time Wednesday, March 2. Remnants Are Now On the Second Floor. Permanent questers fixcd up for them, right among the Domestics and_Wash Goods. Evergthiog is better there for their proper display. We havey't time ted: two ffems as good as gold dus 2 cases of Fast-color Lawns-<« t styles of the year; clean snd fresh, just exactly like tomer at.. 5 Eee setae age ESS “Ted Star? Perenles are the best low-priced percales, ings of Ked Star Percales; new dark ground lots of th more than this.. = lawns at other stores, one paitern to one Goodlight, more perfect, store-room -and:grenter case” of to prepare much of an ad.—everything so disturbed, but here are every yard is crisp and cus- A%e. \d we have the choicest pick- immasvrably 5 34c. effects — werth Sale of Sample Portieres. company matings at a spectal pr others soft basket weaves; fer couch covers. some shot through with tinse Worth in psirs as high as $5. Cholce— strips only. But what values they are! Over a hundred of them—no two alike. Tomorrow Any number of effects among them. Some damask; wide enough for single doors and splendid 79¢. a piece. TRITIMINGS. We'll make the announcement of our new trimming stock in 1 few days. In the meanwhile we want to make room to display it as properly rs auch a fine assemblage of style deserves. Some shelf reom that we want fs teken up with a miscellany of stuff of which the following items are fair samples, and the advertised prices the way we're going to sell them all: A lot of fine Silk jobair B. Worth Se., Se. and 10 Colored Military Loop Sets—3, 4 and 5 loops to a set. ids, inch wide, in pieces running from 6 to 12 Fards We'll sell any piece you may fancy at 10c. Worth 39¢. and 50c..... A, miscellaneous lot of Buttons—can't begin to tell how many bundred kinds there are. Every ed. size known to the trad from 1c. to So-. a doz Closing Sale of r under the sky in ‘They're worth 10c. card Winter Wraps and Jackets. We have decided to hold a grand wind-up sale of the balance of our stock of Wiuter Jackets, Capes and Wraps. that Is a mere trifle of their worth. sirable in every way. LOT NO. 1—Consists of x lot of plain and velvet collars; silk faced Rave been $5.98, $6. LOT NO. 2-Lot of fine Black Cheviot Iain sil Been $8.76, $10.00, $11.98. Marked to close... LOT NO. 3—Ladies’ nd silk ‘lined throughout ; 3 15.00. 12.50, $13.75 and $1 Marked to close at Domestics. These four ttems are good at their advertised price—only until Wednesday. In many instances direct loss is incurred—not only is the department ‘the largest in the south, but with such leaders a3 these it Is the lowest-priced om the American con- nt: 5 cases Yard-wide Bleached Muslin, made by the eejebrated New York mills. Much finer than Fruit the Loom in—worth at least 2: if Stta'‘more then either one of these brands, Ses . orders filled . , 100 jemstitched Pillow Cases, full pmade “in the best manner. Worth 9 JZ ¢, Ibe. « ee j 1 case AI inghams, good styles, rem berated s- 2 cases Best er ) Made—styles the cholee of the sea- 3% ¥ , 20D «. - oe i f t ‘ Kersey Tailor-made Jacke satin and satin rhadame: lap seams and silk-stitched Finest Tailor-made Jackets of Kersey and Cheviots, the finest goods shown this season. We have made them into three different lots and marked ‘em at a price These goods are all cf this season's make, and are de- fine Plain Black and Navy Kersey and Rongh Cloth Jackets; itched goods int $2.47 each ined 580 ee with sages. Have $3.50 each handsomely satin 4.50 each Have been Notions. Little straws which show how strongly the trade winds Mow abwut this great department of small things: Box Solid Head Black Toilet Pins ¥-pound bolt iw 32 dozen Hatry 3@o-vard Spool King’ ik lle. Rubber Hairpin: + Sc. Stove Cleaning Mitten and, c. Hose Supporters German-made Scissors. 10-inch “‘Calve" Hair Wavers. dozen cards of Chadwick's Mei ir of Kid-covered Side Steels Pair of Rubber Corset Lacers. S. KANN, SONS & CU., 8th and Market Space. THE SOUTH OLD SOLDIERS. What the yt Former Confederate States re Doing for Them. Gen. Marcus G. Wright in the Nashville Bannan he great interest which is now existing YA regard to the pension list of the govern- gent may lead to a desire to know what the former confederate states are doing for j the support of their indigent soldiers and their widows. I will take the southern States in alphabetical order and give briefly }‘an acount of the provisions made by each I for its soldiers. By an act of the legislature of Alabama ot February 13, 1801, amended by & subse- Ecent act of February 18, 1895, any soldier F Ge sailor, being @ resident of the state, Is | entitled to receive a pension, if he has lost jan arm or leg or recetved such wound in the service of the confederate states as to render him unable physically to procure @ livelihood by labor, or from any other | cause, such as protracted fllness or old age, } Ja rendered unable to make a living. Proot [of service and inability is made before the probate judge of the county in which the applicant resides. A widow may also re- 'esive a pension whose husband was killed | or died of disease during the war or with- lin five years after the close of the war, ‘provided she has not since remarried. ‘Those owning property exceeding the value ) or an income of that amount, or wives having a separate estate of $500, are ynot entitled to receive pensions. To carry out the provisions of the law a special tax of one-half of one mill on each dollar of taxable property is assessed and collected as other taxes, and the total amount thus collected is prorated among the total num- ber of applicants passed upon, and $1,200 of the tax is set apart for blind pensioners For the year 1892, 4,956 soldiers and wid- ows received $26.50 each per annum, and 38 blind, $21.57 each. In 1803 there were 5,201 sfoners, including widows. In 1898 the mber had increased to 8,969. For Arkansas the provisions are very similar to those of Alabama, and there are now 1,130 pensioners on the list, including vidows. On the death of a pensioner the vidow succeeds to the pension during her widowhood. The amount of pensions range from $25 to $10) per annum, according to Arkansas also has a home for ind!gent i disabled confederate soldiers, which is } at Little Rock. It is supported by and has now in it thirty-five sol- ‘The Georgia pension law is very similar to that of Arkansas. In 1897 there were 3,381 names on the roll, and the sum of ».00 was paid for pensions and artifi- mbs. laws relating to widows i of Arkansas. averaging about $100 per annum, to 58% persons, and also has a home at Jacksonville, supported by the state, an allowance of $100 each being given to each occupant. The widows otf confederate soldiers get $150 per annum, while the widow of a pensioner receives the sum to which the pensioner was en- tit Louisiana gives no pension, but furnishes art 1 limbs and pays for their repatr, and has 2 home at New Orleans, which is supported by the state, which now has 1% inmates. The state also donates one- quarter section of her public lands to any soldier making application, or to the wid- ow of a soldier, if she be unmarried. Maryland grants no peusions, but has a home at Pikesville, supported by the state in part and also by private contributions. The home now has 101 inmates. Mississippi pensions her confederate sol- iers and their widows and indigent serv- ants of soldiers. For 1897 there were on the list 4.109 pensioners, for whom $75,000 was appropriated. Missouri gives no pensions, but has a at Higginsville. for the support of 1 the state grants $12,000 per annum. It_now has 158 inmates. North Carolina gives pensions, ranging from S25 to $1) per annum, to confederate Boldicrs and their widows, and there are Now on the rolls 5,420 names, and the total Gisbusrements for pensions since 1879 have Deen $5165.16 ‘There is also a home at Raleigh, to which the state contributes $8,009 per annum, and the present number of inmates Is 9 The legislature of South Carolina grants pensions to indigent soldiers and their Widows, und pubifshes yearly a list of the names, residences and amount received and reasen for granting pensions. Indigent confederate soldiers and their widows receive pensions in Tennessee, and there is a soldiers’ home on the Hermitage lands, the former residence of Gencral An- drew Jackson. The legislature granted for the purpose of the home 475 acres of land and grants $8,500 per annum for its sup- port. There are now 106 inmates of the home. The constitution of the state of Texas Prohibits the legislature from granting pensions, but there was established by pri- vate subscription a home at Austin in 1884, but in 1801 the legislature assumed control and has since made liberal provision for the home. It now has 185 inmates. Virginia provides liberal pensions for her indigent confederate soldiers and their eiiows: — pevimitoe ome, at Richmond, control o! ee Camp, Conf Veterans, with 242 inmates. - aoe It will be seen that all of the southern states provide either pensions or homes (and some both) for their soldiers, except the state of Kentucky. As a general rule the execution of the pension business is left to the county offi- cers, and there is very small expense in- curred in salaries. In fact, in most of the states the work ts done by members of the confederate societies, without compensa- tion and without the interventioi = sion attorneys. ES oo—___ Why Weyler’s Portrait Sold Well. From the New York Times. It is customary in Madrid when a new cabinet goes into power to have the por- traits of the ministers done in chromo- lithographs and placed on sale at the shops. The Spanish chromo-lithograph 1s brilliant in colering and is printed in watsr colors, the surface being varnished to prevent the pigments from rubbing. An ingenious Span- jard had taken advantage of the Process to make a fortune in a peculiar way, and, at the same tim>, dealing the reigning house asevere blow. When the Sagasta ministry came in the chromo portraits of its mem- bers habe hath a on sale, but with small success. Then Gen. Weylar retu: Cuba, and his pictures sold Frersyacines first, but the demand for these, too, dropped off. Suddenly it revived. And so many of his portraits were sold that the government dreaded his popularity. Several pictures were confiscated, and, with the discovery that Weyler’s popularity was a hoax, came the knowledg> of the tndubitable popularity | of another personage. It was noticed that the Weyler portraits were unvarnished; on applying a wet sponge to the surface, col- ors and features quickly disappear>, and in their place were seen the heavy head, full beard and piercing eyes of Don Carles, pereont grimly through a thick coat of var- Had a Long and Hungry Look. From the Atlanta Journal. He was a tall, shaggy countryman from the regions beyond Bellwood, and he car- ried across his shoulder a long oak stick, on the end of which rested a big fat "pos- sum, whose tail was s2curely fastened in a split in the stick. Strolling down Marictta street with his peculiar charge, just be- fore noon, the countryman attracted the attention of all the passers-by, At Folsom’s restaurant he tried to s211 the animal, which he stated was caught last night, but as the offer he received was unsatisfactory he moved on to Decatur street. A negro barb$r offered ibe “paesone him a quarter for but the cou! Gocente: ‘ntryman wanted “Wal, suh,” said the barber, yeu de quarter an’ Cp caer le give a good fat ‘possum fur a E cut!” exclaimed the countryman. aeou ee ta2 throwin’ away money like The rext offer he had wal from a res- taurant keeper, who offered him a cup of coffce, 20 cents and six fried eggs for the Pe Make “Make it a full dinn>r—all I kin eat—an’ We'll trade,” said the countryman. es ,The restaurant man looked him over closely, and shook his head doubtfully. ‘I am afeerd to try dat,” sald the res- taurant man, “you looks too long an’ mal, if 1 S 5 can’t git whut my "; um’s wuth I kin take him back home,” said the countryman, and he mov:d on sorrowfully down the street “I'll give er nice slick hair-cut for Z os ‘ It matters little what it is that you want —whether a situation or a servant—a “want” ad. in The Star will reach the Pxrson who can fill your need. ——<— THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1896-16 PAGES. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE|FEARED THE STRIKERS Captain Sampson's Report of the Blowing Up of the Patapsco. An Explosion During the Late War Similar to That of the Maine. It appears that Capt. Sampson, the presi- dent of the naval board of inquiry on the Maine disaster, was bimself a victim of a torpedo explosion at one time. The result of that explosion was similar in many re- spects to the effect of the Maine explosion. In the archives of Congress is a report setting forth the detatis of Capt. Sampson's. sthriliing experience.- It occurred while ho was a Heutenart in the navy, aboard the eld monitor Patapsco, which was blown up and sunk by a torpedo in Charleston har- bor, January 15, 1865, drowning sixty-two officers and men in their bunks. Lieut. Sampson’s report of the affair through his superior officer gives the de- tails of the disaster. The report is as fol- low: Licut. Sampson's Report. “Upon me, as one of the fortunate, de- volved the sad duty of reporting to you the destruction by a large torpedo of the mon- itor Patapsco while on picket duty (in Charlesten Roads, South Carolina). The Patapsco, on the night of the 15th instant, was rounded to at the usual station of the advance monitor, but not anchored. Two or three picket boats, with what grapnels could be obtained from the Patapsco and Lehigh, were sent up the channel to drag for torpedoes, and, if possible, learn the nature and position of any obstruction placed in the channel by the rebels. To pro- tect the bouts while thus engaged the Pa- tapsco was allowed to drift up the chan- nel, taking the precaution to keep her head to the strong flood tide, that she might be under better command in case our move- ments drew the rebel fire. “To avoid unnecessary risk of life, the picket and scout boats not engaged in dragging were ordered by you to pull off on either heam and quarter, but remain in sight of the vessel. The two tugboats, for the same reason, were ordered to keep down channel of us, but near at hand. The Patapsco drifted up the west side of the channel, going ahead slowly at times to keep her stream to the tide and in the chennel. When we had reached a point between Sumter and Moultrie, and about 500 yards from the former, we steamed down channel under one bell until we had passed the Lehigh buoy, placed on the ex- treme end of the point making off from Morris Island. * * * How the Vessel Was Struck. “We again steamed down channe}, and were going four bells when the vessel struck the torpedo and sank in about fif- teen seconds. The last cast of the lead, given a moment before she struck, was five fathoms. We were then about 300 yards to the north of the Lehigh buoy. “The torpedo struck the vessel on the port side, just abreast the butts, and ap- peared to raise the deck, through which the smoke {ssued. My first impression on heacing the report was that a shot had struck the overhang just below the water, but the column of smoke and wacer which immediately shot upward convinced me of real nature of the explosion. he order to start the pumps was im- tely given by you down through the turret. So impracticable did the execution of the order appear the next instant that 1 did not repeat it. You immediately after- ward gave the order to man the boats. Al- though these orders were given in rapid succession, only the officer of the deck, who stepped from the turret into the boat, and one man, had time to obey the lest order before the boat was efloat «t the davits. “Owing to the wise precaution of having the picket boxts near at nan?, all those who were on deck at the time were saved. None escaped from below except the en- gineer and fireman on watch and one man who passed from the berth deck through into the fire room and up the hatch. From my position on top of the turret I was able to form a correct opinion of the move- ment and position of the vessel the whole time.”” Admiral Dahigren’s Comment. Rear Admiral Dahlgren, commanding the squadron of which :he Patapsco was a member, in maxing a repo:t to the Secre- tary of the Navy upon the disaster, said: “From such accounts as I can gather in so short a time as has elapsed, it would seem that the explosion occurred on the port side, under the ward room, blowing it up, 80 as to drive up the table and three: officers who were sitting about it. The spar deck was not blown througi, but the lookout.on the port side and some ten feet from the edge of the deck was thrown up suddenly and fell back wita such force as to be nearly senseless. “It appears also that there ~as no dis- rupture of the vessel at the berth deck nor further aft; that no water came in there, save at the hatches, as the Patapsco settled in the sea, and that her bow went down first, throwing the stern high up for an instant, so that a man standing there had to grasp something to keep upright. It is believed that the berth deck ladder was dislodged by the shock, and in the panic could not be replaced. Hence no men there were saved except those who rushed aft into the fire room.” Lieut. Commander Quackenbush, who had charge of the Patapsco, in a report to the admiral, said: “The cool intrepidity displayed by’ Lieut. Sampson, my cxecutive officer, and Acting Ensign Dashford, the only two officers belonging to the ship who came under my notice, deserved the high- est praise. I have since been informed that Third Assistant Engineer D. C. Davis re- mained nobly at his post when the ship went down.” ———__+-e+—___ GEORGETOWN ELECTRIC CARS. President Crosby's Statement About Available Power. Tomorrow will end the first week of the running of the curs on the 14th street line of the Traction Company from 15th street and New York avenue to the terminus of the ne by the recently installed under- ground system. The power is being fur- rished by the Potcmac Electric Power Company, and today Mr. O. T. Crosby, the president of the company, said to a Star reporter that his company was also able to supply the current to run the cars on the Georgetown branch from’ Georgetown to 15th street, and at the same time continue the 14th street service. He said there was ample current for operating both of these sections of the Capital Traction road. it is stated the Georgetown section is now fuliy equipped, with the exception of the electric current, but it has been an- nounced by the management of the road thet horse cars are to be continued in use on the Georgetown section until the power house now being built and equipped by the company is finished. It 1s not expected that this will be done before the ist of April. President Crosby’s statement, “however, that his company has the available power seems to point to a prospect of having rapid transit on the Georgetown branch at an earlier date than has been expected by the patrons of the line. ————— SALE OF FLOWERS. Views of President Wilson of Indus- trial Home School, A letter has been addressed by the Dis- trict Commissioners to Chairman Babcock of the House District committee, transmit- ting a letter from President J. O. Wilson of the Industrial Home School of the Dis-, trict, expressing the views of the trustees of the school against the passage of House bill 6360, to reguldte the disposal of the products of. government greenhouses and grounds in the District in its present form. Mr, Wilson says the bill would prevent the sale of the products of the school’s greenhouses and grounds and deprive it of @ revenue yielding from $1,500 to $2,000 a year, which is now applied to its support, and would also destroy its most important Une of industrial training. It is explained that the plants and flowers are not sold be- w — ‘Witnesses for the Dafhase Testify in the Mar- tin Trial, Stephen Guttenmifier Says He Saw a Deputy "Stierif® Kick a ‘Wounded Man. 2 23 WILKBESBARRE, -Pa., February 28.—The first witness to@ay in the Sheriff Martin trial, Mies Cora Hentbach, who lives at Lattimer, testified that on September 10, the day of the shooting, she heard a woman who was running past her house call out that the strikers from Harwood were com- ing and.that she was going to find her hus- band-and make him hide. “‘I--was afraid they would blow up the town,” continued the witness, “so I ran to the school house and asked the teacher, Miss Coyle, to ex- cuse my little sister, as I knew she would be safer at home. She did so and I hurried home with the little girl. We were all going upstairs to hide in the garret when the shooting commenced. There were a few single shots and then a volley. I did not hear any shots after the volley.” Stephen Guttenmiller gave the first evi- dence to substantiate the assertion of the defense that a man stood behind the line of deputies and urged the strikers on. He seid: “I was driving from West Hazleton to Lattimer and got there just as the dep- uties lined up along the roagside. I stood some little distance behind them and saw the strikers come up. As they approached I saw a man standing behind the deputies. He was a big fellow and had no coat on. I saw him wave his arm and beckon the strikers to ccme on. They did so. After stepping a moment with the sheriff they pushed past him and on toward the dep- uties. They were close to them when the shooting commenced.” Witness said that after the volley there was no shccting. On cross-examination, he said many men were lying dead and wounded in the road and he geaw one of the latter trying to rise, whereupon two men, who he thought were deputies, kicked him. Jonn Wolfe, a conductor the trolley read, said he saw the strikefs near Har- ley's Hotel, just at the entrance to Latti- mer. They were armed with clubs, some large, others small. George Mane of Hazleton was at Latti- mer on the day of the shooting and heard the firing. He described it as “a single shot, then two, then a lot like the roll of a drum, ending with a few scattered shots. It lasted about half a minute.” : Mr. Mane said that he was with the sheriff at Crystal Ridge a few days be- fore the shooting, and saw the sheriff dis- Perse a number of strikers. As they went away one cried: ‘We'll come back tonight to burn the breaker.’ Mrs. Katharine Craig, whose house is near the spot where the shooting occurred at Lattimer, saw the sheriff advance. to stop the strikers. “They pushed and pulled him around,” she said, “and crowded past him and went toward the deputies. Then I became fright- ened and ran into the house with my two boys. One of them ran to the window and cried: ‘Oh, mamma, they are killing the sheriff!’ The shooting commenced about that time. There were a few scattered shots, then a volley. When it was allover the deputies came to my house for water and linen for the wounded men. That night we heard the strikers were coming to burn or blow up the town, and _ nearly everybody left the town. Our family walk- ed to Milnesville at 2 o'clock in the morn- ing.” —_—~+ GORDO: CAPT. BARN BURNS. Neighbors Save the Dwelling House and Live Stock. Special Dispatch taThe Evening Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., February A large barn on the premises of Capt. Chas. G. Gordon, United States army, iate candi- dvte for the state senate, took fire in a mysterious manner shortly after 12 o'clock tcday and burned to. the ground. At the time that the fire was discovered no one was cn the place except Mrs. Gordon and a servant. The latter gave the alarm, and the neighbors quickly responded. The horses were blindfolded and led from the burning building and several vehicles saved. Considerable difficulty was experienced in preventing the house, which is located near the barn, from taking fire from the sparks aid burning debris. A large amount of corn and hay was consumed. It is stated that the building was insured. The prem- ises adjcin the estate of the late Benjamin O. Lowndes. Several months ago the fine old homestead on this latter place, once the residence of the late Bishop Pinkney, was totally destroyed by fire. eS ee Transfers of Real Estate. No. 1703 10th street 1crthwest—Mahlon Ashford et al., trustees, to Charlotte Dail- ey, lot 128, square 368; $3.3: American University Heights—John D. Croissant et ux. to L. R. Danforth, lot 67, block 4; $700. Douglas—Kdgar R. Jackson Israel] S. Lee, lot 147; $10. ‘Addition to Brookland—Jane S$. Morrow to Mary A. Bates, lot 9, biock 48; $10. Seventh street road—Lceon Tobriner et al., trustees, to Salomon Sugenh2imer, part of Mt. Pleasant, containing three acres and seventeen perches; $10. Salomon Sugen- heimer conveys same to Leon Tobriner and Jno. H. F. Glick, trusteez, for $10. Dougla: chariah Waters et ux. to Is- rael 8. Lee, lot 148; $10. Connecticut Avenue Heights—Benaiah L. Whitman et ux. to James B, Wimer, part lots 4 and 5, square 15,000. Washington Heights—James B. Wimer et to Benaiah L. Whitman, part lot 99; $12,993. New Hampshire avenue northwest be- tween Q and R streets—Chas. W. Simpson et_ux. to David S. Hendrick, lot 144, square 28. et ux. to Thirteenth street northeast between G and H streets—Allen C. Clark et ux. to George Colton, part original lot 12, square 1027; $100. Fourteenth strect southeast between B and C streets—Geo. Y. Worthington et ux. to Lucy V. Beale, north one-half original lot 8, square 1039; $10. Grant place between 9th and 10th streets —Woodbury Wheeler, trustee, to Chas. 8. Wheeler, lot %, square 375; $6,098.12. Fourth street southeast between E and G streets—Rebecca F. Webster to Joseph A. Jennings, pert original lot 5, square 822; $10. Sixth street northeast between G and H streets—Wm. DeC. Raverel et ux. to Jno. 8. Scheuch, lot 79, square 859; $2,450. I street scuthwest between 4% and 6th streets—Jas. H. Stewart et ux. to Mary Green, east cne-half original lot 2, square 408; $10. North Capitol street northeast between M and N streets—Jna. $) Rich et ux. to F. Pen- rese Smith, lot 207, square 672; $10. West Brookland,. Pyrk—Samuel Ross et ux. to Ovide Ste.Marie, lot 15, blk. 2; $1,350. pee Widow's Mite—Wm.,H. Gottlieb et ux. to Oliver McHhenny, Jpt.119; $10. ‘V street northwest;between 9th and 10th streets—Ann E. Sommers to Chas. B. and John P. Garrett, Jot 7, sq. 350; $10. ‘Tenth street northwest between P and Q streets—Andrew Wilson et ux to Herbert L. Shepard, part lots 96 and 97, sq. 365; $10. Q street northwest hetween 17th and 18th ot 2c to Jno, A. Massie, lot oT A. Massie conveys fustine R. Hill; 9100. £q. 70; $4,200. een 13th and 14th at ux. to Wm. Rup- Frank Meyers, lot V street north’ streets—Geo. W.. pert, lot 62, sq. 298: 5 —r Sewage Pumping Station. ‘The District Commissioners today trans- mitted to the Senate committee on appro- priaticns 2n amendment to the~ District appropriation bili providing the sum of $25,000 for the purchase or condemnation o2 land for the building of a sewage pump- ing station The amendment authorizes the Commissioners to enter into contracts for building the station, supplying ma- sluice gates and chinery and gonstructing other. appurtenances necessary, under the approved profect for sewer in the District, at a $630,000. cost not to ex oe Commission Revoked. + ‘The commission of Clark L. Farr, as an additional private on the police force, has revoked by the District Commission- fe Te Cs EER, WE lal Ht yal oo Announcement Extraordinary. Tomorrow we'll give away 500 paid-up yearly subscriptions to that. magnificent _monthly—THE AMERICAN QUEEN, To every tenth purchaser we'll present a paid-up year’s subscription free!! Bon [larche, “Your Store,” 314-316 Seventh Street. First Showing of Spring Hats. The new Laces & Trimmings.| The tide of new Spring goods has set in, and the showing in the various departments has every promise mark. The house never looked brighter or prettier. Especially true this of the NEW SPRING MILLINERY. This is easily the handsomest showing of Spring styles in Women’s Headwear we've ever made to our public. An array of hat pretti- ness and bonnet loveliness such as will delight the eye of every qual- ity-knowing woman. We extend a cordial invitation to every lady to visit this department of ours tomorrow. ~The New Laces and the new Nets—such as the New Seguin Nets, in black and black and steel—also such as are used for dress garniture, in Rus- sian Brussels and Croquelin. 1 lot of Torchon Laces and Insertion, 1% to 8 inches wide. Regular price. 10 and 12c. yard. F 7c. a yard. 1 lot of Val. Laces, 1 inch wide, 12 yards in a piece. Regular price, S0c. a piece. 25c. a piece. 1 lot Embroidertes, in cambric, nalnsook insertions and cdges. 2 'to 5 inches wide. Regular price, 10 and i2ige. yard. 8c. a yard. swiss and The new Silk Nets for covering waists, in Russian and Brussele, 48 inches wide. Reg- ular price, $1.00 yard. 69c. a yard. of touching high-water And the Trimmings. An attractive showing of all the new styles in garnitures, yokes, | blouses, girdles and fourgiers, in | silk and jet, as well as the irides- | cent trimmings. 1 lot of Military Frog Sets. for dress trim- ming, in black and colors. Regular price, 98c. 69c. a set. | _1) lot of All-over Embroidery, 20 inches wide, in cambric and swiss. Regular price, Sc. yard. 37c. a yard. 1 lot of 15¢. Embroideries, in cambric, swiss and nainsook, in edges and insertions, 3 to 6 inches wide. | llc. a yard. 1 lot of Val. Lace, 12-yard pieces. Regular ice, 30c. plece. in Lot of the New Mohair Loop Braids, and Diack and colors. Regular price, 25c. “7 19c. a yard. 18c. a piece. | (4 lot of Warwick Ruling. ready made for use in nainsook, with lace edge. Regular price, ‘30c. yard. 16c. a yard. Special Lining Items To- morrow. 12%c. Fancy Striped Perca Silk......8t¢. ya. 12\%c. Black and Colored Percaline. Se. ya. lOc. Black and Colored Silesias..... 6g. ya. Sc. Black and Colored Rastle Percaline—36 in, wide.......... : . Bee. yd, : : Be. yd. 12sec. Figured Percaline, 36 in. wide. .Be. yd. Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton, 100 yards... 2c, All sizes Steel Scisso:e—guaranteed 23e. Dr. Warner's Children’s Hose Supporters—all sizes—best black or white ++ ++ Oe, I5e. Ladies’ Black and White Cotton Belt Hose Supporters. ee Te. 45c. Silk Garter Elastic. - Me. strip 7, 8, 9-inch Shears. Be. Munsey’s Maga- zine for larch. Ready Tomorrow, 8 G. Sc. Another lot of those magnificent Portrait Photo Engravings, size 20x28. Sold at art stores for $1.00. Heres snc cestestecccee +15. Washington-——_ Lincoln Bon llarche, “Your Store,” 314-16 Seventh. WANT TO EXAMINE BOOKS. Telephone Subscribers Accept an Of- fer Made by Mr. Bryan. There was a meeting of the executive committee of the Telephone Subscribers’ Association this morning and the members appeared before the Senate committee hav- ing the matter in hand. Mr. Bryan, presi- dent of the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele- phone Company, also appeared before :he committee. During the discussion of the subject Mr. Bryan stated that nis company was p2rfectly willing to waive any corsti- tutional right as to the examination of the books of the company, and would be glad to have them examined at any tim: The Telephone Subscribers’ Ass has addressed a letter to Mr. Bryan calling his att2ntion to this statement made be- fore the Senate committee, and asking that the association be allowed to send one of its expert accountants to go over the books of the telephone company for th: period between 1592 and 189%, inclusive, s0 as to see just exactly how the company stands in regard to profits. SHeRe for The Star had a talk with Mr. Henry F. Woodard this afternoon in regard to the matter. ; “The Telephone Subscribers’ Associa- tion,” said Mr. Woodard, “is anxious to as- certain if there is any reason for higher rates in the District of Columbia than in other places where there is competitic: Attorneys A. A. Birney, J. J. Hemphill and E. H. Thomas, representing the Tele- phone Subscribers’ Association, appeared before the Senate committee this mornins. They called the attention of the commi:tce to a report made by the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company February 25, 1892, in which it appeared that the com- pany had received a total revenue for the year of $418,942.12. Out of this amount $67,152. cut for general expenses, $41,500.13 fer op- erating, $81,045.56 for maintenance, $74,- 478.14 for royalties. $3,908.02 for real es- tate expenses, and as interest $32,850.62, leaving a net profit of $116,304.01, in addi- tion to the large net profit which, it is claimed by the Telephone Subscribers’ As- sociation, would have been the outcome of @ competitive telephone systcm. it is stated that when the report of the Telephone Company for 1892 was submitted Mr. Bryan, the president of the company, stated that it would be unfair to read it, Lut when questioned as to its accuracy ad- 8 was paid mitted that it was correct. It is d to be the intention of the Telephone Sub- scribers’ Association to push this matter to the end. —__ Charged With Embezzlement. Detective Baur arrested Graham L. Gor- don this afternoon and locked him up on a charge of embezzlement. The arrest was made on complaint of Robert W. Test, and the amount charged in the warrant is $2. It is alleged that the defendant was an agent for the Aetna Co-operative Society, and that he failed to make returns of col- lections, He is held for a hearing tomor- row. ————— Driver Injured. Benjamin Wallace, colored, driver for the Mount Vernon livery stables, had a fit and fell from his carriage near Massachusetts avenue and 7th street today. He was taken to the Emergency Hospital, where he was attended by Dr. Juenemann. The doctor found that the driver's head had been painfully injured. After his injuries were dressed he was able to go home. eae eee Verdict for Pla: A jury in Criminal Court No. holding @ session for the transaction of civil bus- iness, today reported a sealed verdict awarding William S. Van Sciver $80 in a suit instituted by him against Joseph Ro- senthal of New York. Van Sciver sought to recover $120 for 4,000 bird wings furnished by him to the defendant. The wings, it was sclaimed, were placed in cold storage instead of be- ing treated chemically. _ Rosenthal main- tained that when he received the wings they were unfit for use, and, therefore, he refused to pay for them. ci. 2. os Found No Poison. Dr. Hird, District chemist, who has been for some time examining the samples of the ‘sausage soup” which caused sickness at a boarding house at 215 East Capitol street recently, this afternoon reported that he had found no poison. ‘Dr. Hird is of the opinion now that the illness of those who partook of the soup was due to the any character of the sausage used in —_—_>——_ Claim for $20,000. Hearing was begun today before Judge McComas and e jury, m Circuit Court No. 2, of a suit at law instituted by Leila V. Lieberman against Edward BE. Cady, to recover damages in the sum of $20,000. Miss Lieberman alleges that, December 18, 1895, Cady was the head of a dental as- sociation doing business in this city. On KILLED WITH A HATPIN. Strange Case of a Parisian Drummer im Chicago. CHICAGO, February 28.—It is almost a certainty that Bartholomew Brandt Brad- ner, the Parisian drummer who died at the Pelmer House Saturday afternoon, wat murcered with a woman's hatpin. Tne autopsy shows not only concussion of the brain, but a small puncture, which began near the corner of the left eye and extend- ed far into the interior of the skull. It was not of greater diameter than the lead in a pencil. Four deiectives have been detailed on the case. They believe that after he was stabbed he was struck on the head with a bottle. Bradrer came to the hotel more than a week ago. On Sunday night, Feb- ruary 20, he entered the hotel at a late hour, bleedirg profusely, and fell to the flcor. He was unconscious for two days, and al- theugh ne lived a week, cid not become en- tirely reticnal. He told Dr. Evans, the house physician, in one of his nearly ration- al moments, however, that he had entered a saloon cn State street and had taken a drink end remembered nothing more. At other times he talked ramblingly about a strange man endeavoring to force an ac- queintance with him. There was little in- Gication of alcohol in the stomach, and the physicians do not believe that he was drunk when assaulted.| Thomas Bradner and wife, father and mother of the dead man, have arrived in the city and made arrangements to take the body to New Orleans for interment. Soi kee REINDEER FOR KLONDIKE. Steamer Manitoban Brings 537, All in Good Condition. NEW YORK, February 28.—The reindeer cbtained in Laplaid by the United States government to be used in carrying a relief expedition into the Klondike arrived on the Allan line steamship Manitoban this mcrning. There are 537 deer, all in good condition. There was a big crowd of people at the dcck to see the deer and the Laplanders who hac them in charge. Deputy Quarter- master General Amos Samuel Kimbatl, U.S.A., was on the dock when the Mani- toban was made fast, and he is superin- terding the work of transferring the deer to the cars in which they will be shipped west. The deer will go via Chicago 2nd St. Paul to Seattle. From Seattle the outfit will be forwarded to Skaguay and Dawson City and thence distributed to the government relief stations. For the transportation thirty stock ani mote than that number of box cars will be used. The deer will be taken west in two sections, and the Laplanders who ar- rived with the deer will accompany them, compartments having been fitted up for them and their families. SSS DARLEY ‘ITED HERE. Chicago Man Who Has Discovered a High Explosive. CHICAGO, February 28.—The Chronicle says: “William S. Darley of Chicago, in- ventor of ‘mirex,’ one of the most powerful explosives known to naval warfare, has been invited to visit Washington and demonstrate the powers of the product to Secretary Long and his associates. “Fifty pounds of ‘mirex’ are said to be as effective as five times that amount of gun cotton. Mr. Darley first attracted the attention of naval experts two months ago by his experiments in Chicago harbor. The new explosive only serves the purpose of its invention when it is thrown into water. On land it is harmless and cannot be ex- pieded.” — Fire at Hanover, Pa. HANOVER, Pa., February 28.—The large [ Flavine dyewood and chemical works of the John S. Youngs Company were de- stroyed by fire yesterday, entailing a loss of $40,000; insurance, $26,000. The plant consisted of five large buildings, together with stocks and valuable machinery, all of which was a total loss. The fire is sup- posed to have been of incendiary origin. a A Bread Riots at Gallipoli. CONSTANTINOPLE, February 28.—S2- ricus bread riots have taken place at Galli- poll, where a mcb has attempted to burn the government offices. The police made thirty-six arrests. ——— Death of Richard Holland. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. DICKERSON, M4., February 28.—Mr. Richard Waters Holland, a retired and re- Gibson Bill Reported. The invalids peneions committee has agreed on and favorably reported the Gib- aon: bill, extending the benefits of the June 27, 1890, act to men wie served less than six months in the confederete army end who joined the Union army before Se; tember 1, 1864, and did not enlist out ofa prison in a northern state. This provoked an animated discussion, but was finally agreed on by a vote of 8 to 4. —_——+.-___ Co-Operative Society Incorporated. The Aetna Co-operative Society was in- corporated late this afternoon. The object of the soviety is stated to be to advertise and promote the trade of merchants who re signed contracts with the society, and by the trade cards of the society to bene- fit customers dealing with the merchants. The incorporators are F. R. Rynex, J. C. Ellis. W. A. Brodie, Robert W. Test and M. D. Robinson. Forfeit of Bonds Ordered. Bonds were forfeited by order of Chie? Jvetice Bingham in three cases today, the defendents being called for arraignment in Criminal Court No. 1 and failing to re- spend. Bench warrants were ordered to issue in each of the three which were: William De Witt, indicted for grand lar- ceny; Frank T. Evans surety in the sum of $500, Otto P. ca c Smith, alias Isha Otto Makel, alias Ameil J. Julius, Indicted for false pretenses; Lewis 8. Smith surety in the sum of $500. William P. Colburn, indicted for false pretenses; William H. Horseman surety in the sum of $200, a ENGLAND'S PROFITLESS FARMING, It ts Largely Due to Want of Diversi- fication. From the Yale Review. Despite the general readjustment of rent- als, occupiers have suffered, hardly less than owners, from the continuous fall in profits and the accompanying depreciation in the value of farm stock ard diminution of agricultural profits. In the eastern and in some of the southern counties of Eng- land the position of tenant farmers must, with few exceptions, be described as a crit- ical one. Many have been obliged to give up their farms in spite of considerable re- ductions of rents, while most of these who have weathered the storm have been left with a heavy burden of cebt or with in- sufficient capital for the management of their farms. A compilation of the 100 farm accounts collected by the assistant commis: stoners, representing “conditions more fa- yorable than the average,” Ciscloses the fact that for the past twenty years profits have averaged only sixty per cent of the erdinary rate in the period preceding. The position of occupying cwners, both yeomen farming considerable estates and small freebolders, is on the whole worse!’ than that of tenant farmers, Such proper- | ties, whether inherited or purchased, heve, as a rulc, become charged with mortgages, ! the interest upon which, with declining prices, now forms an intolerable burden. Thus, in the arable counties, where difi- culty is experienced in effecting any change in the system of cultivation, the large farms have suffered less; whereas, in locel- ities where truck and similar farming haa” been possible, the smaller farms are the more prosperous. — ——+ee______ TEARS ON A WEDDING GOWN. And the Owner of It Proved Herscift Brutally Superstitious. Frem the Chicago Times-Heral A young woman of this city who is about to be married had a call recently which was in the nature of a surprise, and affscted her unpleasantly, like a decree of fate. She was summoned to the parlor, where a young woman of her own age awaited | her, but who was evidently very differ- ently situated in life, and who was now weeping scftly. “I have called to make an apology. the girl between her sobs. “I am a