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8 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1898-24 PAGES, “ MOSES .éc F st. cor. 1th. Mattress Factory, Ist and D. Furniture Factory, 12th and B. Storage, 224 & M. Hurrying Out Odd Parlor Pieces. Two hundred and ninety new ar- rivals are clamoring for floor space in our Parlor Furniture Department. That means we must dispose of every p of last spring’s stock without delay. To make the selling as brisk as possible we've cut prices in the fol- lowing manner: Odd Parlor Pieces. $4 Arm Ch hair Thaie chair... heir. $70.00 There is 40 of that gives so I pod porous str “for the money as a ter, such as Carter's he Plasters. TURA RITTERS IS A Dysentery, Ml effects of CHANGES AT SANTIAGO. Police Force to Be Increased and Military Not to Do Patrolling. A dispatch from Santiago last evening states: Important changes in the civil govern- ment relating to schools, police customs and mercantile and harbor regulations are in process of preparation by Gens. Lawton and Wood, and a proclamation carrying them into effect will probably be issued in a few days. The police force is to be in- creased, with a view of enabling the with- drawal of the military from patrol duty. The changes aid the shipping, mer- eantile and industrial interests. The port duties and the salaries of many officials, civil, eccles cal and provincial, will be reduced. The salary of Archbishop Cresp which was formerly $18,000, will be redue: to $6,000. The pro * chang of the better ca morning i s meet with 23. ad a brief Lawton reference of the Cub army. to Mareia this after- he arrangements were not com- The visit excited little demonstra- pleted. tioa, The steamer Orizaba sailed today with pay for the troops at Ponce. Dr. Eugene Wasden of the Marine Hos- pital ¢ has arrived here for the pur- pese of experimenting with the Sardrelli serum for yellow fever. The death rate civilians is increasing, despite the facilities for sanitation. shock of earthquake was ex- about 11:35 o'clock this THE COURTS. Equity Court No. 1—Justice Bradley. John: agt. Merryman; offer of pur- chase finally ratified. Hook agt. Reardon nee to auditor. Court No. 1—Justice Bradley. anufacturing Company agt. Tow- ers et al.; commission ordered to Issue. Paxton agt. Brice; order for return of ten- Ger deposited. White agt. Bramhall; fiat on sci fa. Haynes agt. Washington Gas Light Company (garnishee}; judgment of condemnation: Criminal Court No. 2 United States agt. ¢ H. Bernhardt, viclati section 5480, R. U. 8.; order of discharge. Probate Court—Justice Bradley. Estate of Ernst T. Treiber; account pass- state of Wm. T. Schlosser; will fully Proved. Estate of Fredk. Hannenan; order authorizing administrator to compromise claim. tate of Mary A. Doniphan; ques- tion of counsel fees referred to auditor. Es- tate of Timothy McCarthy; proof of publi- cation. Estate of Fredk. A. Thompson; will dated February 1, 1897, filed. Estate ; T. Schlosser; will dated June 16, 1898, fled. Justice Bradley. s. A. Krause, alias ORDERED TO MOVE Second Army Corps Directed to Abandon Camp Alger. TWO BATTALIONS 10 LEAVE MONDAY The Final Reyiew to Take Place This Afternoon. HOSPITAL TRAIN COMING Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. CAMP ALGER, Va., August 27, 1898. Acting under telegraphic instructions from Major General Graham, now at Camp Meade, Penrsylvania, General Gobin and Adjutant General Strong are making ar- rangements for transportation of the troops here to Middletown, the new camp of the 2d Army Corps. The telegraphic instructions simply state that, beginning with Monday, the troops will be moved as rapidly as practicable. Major Howard, the chief quartermaster of s di n, has notified Captain Brooks, division quartermaster, that he will transportation for two battalions each day until the move- the provide and their bag: ment has been completed. Headquarters is patiently awaiting for an official order to move, so that their jnstruc- tions to the eight regiments here can be formulated. Order of Movements. It has been practically decided that the Ist and 2d Battalions of the 6th New York will be the first to move, and the other regiments wiil go in the following order: 7th Ghio, Ist New York, 12th, 18th and sth Pennsylvania, 1st Connecticut and 3d Vir- ginia. There are twenty-one battalions, one signal company and a division hospital and headquarters to be moved, and at least twelve days will be consumed in vacating the camp here. Pending the movement of the troops to the Pennsylvania camp, the issuing of fur- loughs has been suspended, except in those cases which are proved to the satisfaction Cf the officers to be especially urgent. Actiig under instructions from Gen. Go- bin, Mayor Wright, the division subsist- ence officer, will proceed to Camp Meade Monday with the New York troops and will see that they receive their proper care upon arrival. The issuing of lumber to the various reg- iments wich which to furnish portable floors for the tents in this camp, has been suspended. The lumber will be shipped to the new camp and issued to the troops upon their arrival there. The Proposed Review. If the weather will permit Gen. Gobin will review the Ist Connecticut and 3d Virginia, and the lith Signal Company this after- noon at f o'clock. The former reviews have taken place on the drill field of old Camp Alger. It has been found, however, that the drill field here is sufficiently large to accommodate a brigade, so Gen. Gobin has given irstruetions to hold the review here. The signal men will all be mounted and will prove quite an attraction, as this will be the first time they have taken part in an exhibition parade. Quite a large num- ber of visitors are expected out from Washington to see the soldier boys go through their maneuvers. Headquarters has rot recelved any in- structions as yet relative to the mustering out of any of the regiments of this di- vision. The chances of the different regi- ments being mustered cut fs the source of much cenversation and speculation. All of the men want to go, and the officers want to stay. That is the way the question stands in camp today. A hospital car from the state of Missouri is expected to reach camp tomorrow mor 1- ing to take back to that state fifty-three soldiers of the 2d and 4th Missouri who are patients in the division hospital. The hospital train will be fitted out with Pull- man sleeping and dining cars, and a corps of efficient doctors and nurses will be In attendance to look after the wants of the sick soldiers. SS Philatelic Sons’ Election. The Philatelic Sons of America met in their sixth annual convention at the Grand Union Hotel, New York, yesterday. The result of the election was as follows: Pres- ident, D. E. Hazen, Thonotosassa, Fla.; vice president, Joseph S. Davis, Denver, Col: secretary, Clifford W._ Kissinger, Reading, Pa.; treasurer, B. J. Bishop, Di troit, Mich.; international secretary, T. H. Gafford, Churchill, Md.; Canadian vice president, F. J. Garraty, Richmond, Que- exchange superintendent, F. D. Saw- yer, Otisfield, Gore, Me. 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HARRIS & CO., mies No other organ of the body is more richly sup- plied with nerves or requires such nice adjustment to arm out at length a few minutes sitive eyes work at high pressure, at a comparatively ance, hour after hour, and day after day, under poor light oftentimes, on paper that reflects a flood of light, and in constrained positions, until tion, headache and various nervous diseases are the most frequent results of improper eye strain. And the alarming feature of such disorders lies in the fact that they do not or cannot get cured with- out help, and that help only trained skill can give. On the books of this optical business are recorded up to yesterday something like 14,232 cases. that number about 23 more people called, had their eyes examined and were refused glasses—told that medical treatment was needed. When advice is asked and the examination is opticians who count all callers as so much grist to their mill and recommend glasses quently their wearing is productive of injury! you as to what is exactly needed in your case, COR. 7TH AND D STS. , ae ee a person cannot hold the without suffering of faithful service, his sen- cataract, nervous prostra- Besides There are unscrupulous where very fre- for examining and advising 5 p.m. | TO EXAMINE CAMP THOMAS On Request of the Surgeon General an In- quiry Will Be Made. Statement by Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn Regarding Criticisms of the Meéical Department. Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn of the War Department made the following state- ment to a Star reporter today in regard to the proposed investigation of the medical department: “No complaints from the army as to the condition of the sick.or the conduct of af- fairs pertaining to the medical department have been received by the surgeon general. “Referring te a published statement that the hospitals at Camp George H. Thomas, Chickamanga National Park, Ga., were not supplied with suffic ent blankets, mosquito bars, etc., the surgeon general reports that up to the Sth day of August there had been sent to that camp 3,428 cots and bedsteads, 6,536 gray blankets, 7,309 cotton sheets and 50 mosquito bars. ‘The reports required by regulations and orders and such ocher reports as have been received have not indicated any lack of care or attention by his department. “In view, however, of the statements that ave been pub.ished about Camp Thomas t urgeon general has requesicd that an investigation be made, and it has been or- dered. The investigation will be made by an officer of the inspector general's de- partment, who has not yet been selected.” Nurses in the Camps. Statements made at the War Department today indicate that every effort is being made to alleviate the suffering in the camps. One statement shows the number of nurses which have been provided for the different camps where hospitals are es- tablished, as follows: Statement showing the number of con- tract nurses in service or under orders for duty August 27, 1898—Fort Myer, Virginia, 63; Fort McPherson, Georgia (ten en route), 46; Fort Thomas, Kentucky (five en route), 13; Fort Monroe, Virginia, 38; hospital ship Relief, 61; hospital ship Hudson, hos- Pital ship Missouri, 10; hospital ‘train, 3; at large, 1; Key West, Fla. (three ordered to Huntsville, Ala.), 9; Santiago de Cuba, 179; Leiter, Chickamauga Park, Georgia (ive en route), 38; hospitals at Chickamau- ga Park, Georgia, other than Leiter, en route or on duty, 219; Sheridan Point, Va., 2; Fernandina, Fla., en route or on duty, 20; Camp Alger, Virginia, 10; Camp Wikoft, ontauk Point, N. Y., en route or on duty, . mpa, F 11; Jacksonville, Fla., en route or on duty, 59; Porto Rico, 6. Total, 878. Of this number but 162 are males. In addition to the above list there are ever 6,000 members of the hospital corps whose services are available as nurses. Gov. Black Favors Fire Island. Governor Black of New York was at the War Department for some time today, dis- cussing the condition of the New York troops and the conditions at Montauk. The governor urged Fire Island as a resort for the sick soidiers, saying that the hotel at that place would make a comfortable and ample hospital. Nothing further was dene about the mustering.out of New Yerk troops further than the order issued today regarding the 8th New York. + 0+ HORSEMEN'’S EXHIBIT, Third Anual Event of Prince William Association. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. MANASSAS, Va., August 27, 1898, The third annual exhibition of the Prince William Horsem2n’s Association will be held the 30th and 3ist of this month at Manassas. The list of entries eclipses any of the past exhibitions, and is arranged in thirty-two classes. The prize list includes th@®ughbreds, half-bred colts, heavy and quick draught, ladies’ saddle hors:s, coach horses, green hunters, hackneys, hunters and jumpers, light-weight hunters, half- bred hackneys, gaited saddlers, ponies, high jumpers, heavy-weight hunters and park saddl2rs. One of the features of the show will be class 26, the ladies’ hunters. In this there are nine entries. It is to be ridden by ladies over jumps not to exczed 3% feet, counting performance. The first prize is $25, second $15 and third $b. In class 23 the sporting tandem exhibition premises to attract great interest. This is the first time a class of this kind has ever been attempted here, and the event is looked forward to with much interest. The pair will be first shown as a tandem, and the lead2r will be unharnessed, saddied and shown over the jumps by the driver. The performance over the jumps will count 40 per cent, and the sum of $30 is to be awarded as first prize. The second and third prizes will b2 $15 and $5 respectively. The exhibition will be held at the fair grounds of the association on the outskirts of Manassas. The performances will take piace in an inclosed ring, with a promen- ade ten feet wide around the entire ring. The grand stand, which has been enlarged since the first exhibition, has b2en put in shape for the occasion and faces the prom- enade and tke judges’ stand. The latter will be located this year in the center of the ring, instead of ut the side, as it has been for the past exhibitions. A set of rules and regulations for the ben- efit of the exhibitions has been carefully prepared, and all exhibitors must comply strictly to them. A limited number cf box stalls have been built for the accommodation of animals which are brought from distant points. Mr. Lucien Larkin, the secretary of the asso- arrangements c‘ation, has made ample with the South assas and the fair grounds during the exhibition. The premium list contains cash prizes amounting to nearly $1,300, a large increase over last year. The exhibition will include horses from the state ef Maryland, Wash- irgton, D. C., and Loudoun and Fauquier ecunties in the state of Virginia. ——— Mystic Shriners’ Frole. ‘The Nobles of Almas Temple, Mystic Shrine, will have their annual midsummer frolic at Marshall Hall next Monday even- ing. The frolic is a part of the Shriners’ excursion and an extensive program of amusement has been arranged. The tents of the faithful and their friends will be pitched on the green lawns at half-past 8 o'clock, when the elaborate illumination of the Potomac will,be the signal for the be- ginning of the evening’s fun. A separate program has been provided for each of the two pavilions and the entertainment will consist of fancy costume and military dances, plantation melodies and original Tag-time songs, an old-time negro cake walk, recitations, comic songs, character delineations and vocal and instrumental solos. Such well-known artists as Tragedian Charles B. Hanford, Billy Emerson, Guy Collins, the Ballinger brothers, minstrels; Julius Schultz, French horn player; J. Ed- win Browne of New York, Byron Harlan, one of America’s greatest tenors; the Nea- politans, the Misses Stevens and Divers, original vivandieres, and Haley’s Orchestra have been engaged for the evening. The nobles are preparing for the entertainment of a big crowd of friends and anticipate a more successful excursion than they have ever given. a LIPTON SENDS $10,000. Challenger Offers It to Relieve Sick and Wounded Americans, From the New York Herald, today. From Sir Thomas Lipton. the latest chal- lenger for the America’s cup, there was re- ceived in th's city yesterday a cable mess- age stating that he had contributed $10,000 for relieving the sick and wounded Ameri- can soldiers. This dispatch was received by Edward A. Sumner, a lawyer, of No. 141 Broadway, who some. time ago established intimate friendly reations with Sir Thomas, and it came in answer to a suggestion from Mr. Sumner that such a donation would be gratefully appreciated by the Empire State’ Society of Sons of the American Revolu- tion, which has already made an appropria- tion of $1,000 for the same cause, \ AFFAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA| PETER HOLMES HELD eee Washington Detectives Cause the Arrest of an Alleged Housebreaker. The Officers Resisted by, the Suspect and His Assoeiates—General and Personal News. Evening Star Bureau, No. 727 King St., (Bell Telephone 106), ALEXANDRIA, Va., August 27, 1898. Two detectives from Washington, Messrs. Muller and Bauer, appeared at the police Station yesterday afternoon and asked for the co-operation of the Alexandria police in the arrest of a man named Woltz, who was wanted in Washington, charged with breaking into a canal boat. Officer Fergu- son accompanied the detectives to St. Asaph, where Woltz had been located as an employe in the government stables. The officers found their man working in a gang of twenty-five or thirty stable men. They put him under arrest, but he objected to submitting, and was upheld in this by his fellow laborers, and by one man in particu- lar, who claimed to be “boss.” This man said that the civil authorities had no juris- diction over military employes. He had nearly succeeded in inciting a riot, for the men were well provided with laborers’ im- plements, when Officer Ferguson informed him that his action would be reported to the Washington authorities, whereupon he left, offering no further resistance. Woltz was brought before Mayor Simp- son, who sentenced him to ten days in jail pending the action of the Washington au- thorities, the prisoner haying objected to going with the detectives without requisi- tion papers. When he learned of this sen- tence, however, he consented to go with- out further delay. Police Court Docket. The following cases were disposed of by Mayor Simpson in the police court this morning: Albert Farmer, arrested by Sergeant Smith on a charge of disorderly conduct, was dismissed. Charles Harrison, colored, was arrested by Officer Sherwood, the charge against him being that he had indecentiy exposed his person, for which the mayor imposed a tine of $5. . Charles Quail, James Quail and John H. Underwood were arrested by Officer Hou- son on a charge of assault. Mrs. C Wood was the complainant. She testified that all the boys had been abusive, and that James Quail had struck her.’ The mayor dismissed Underwood and Charles Quail and assessed James $5. Personal and Other Notes. The remains of George Mays, the soldier who died at Thoroughfare Gap a few days since, will be conveyed today by Wm. De- maine & Son to Covington, Tenn., for interment. Residents of Del Ray and vicinity are complaining about the sickening odor that arises frcm the “hog pens” on the road between here and that place. They say it has been a standing evil for years, and that Mt. Vernon avenue, when extended, will pass directly by the spot made unhealthy and, disagreeable by the pens. Mr. James Beach, with a party of ten, has left on the steam yacht Sutton for an excursion down the Potomac. Rev. J. Howard Wells has gone to Bris- tow, Va., to deliver asermon in the place of Dr. Boyd, who was, unable to fill his ap- pointment. _ Miss Fannie B. Smith, who has been visit- ing relatives near Brandy station, has re- turned to her home.on Henry street. Miss Janie Peake has left for an extended visit to friends in Haymarket. “They Make a Graveyed and Call It Peade\” To the Editor of The Evening Star: These were the stinging, burning words of a famous European statesman commenting upon the awful scenes of desojation and death which ensued upon,the partition of unhappy Poland by her rapacious foes. How much more blasting should be the denunciation of the American people as they read day after day and week after week the shameful details of the voyages of the transports which have landed upon our shores the emaciated heroes of Santiago, fever-wasted, thirsty, with their eyes gleam- ing with a fierce glare born of hunger— enforced hunger, because their weakened stomachs refused to retain the moldy hard- tack and greasy hog meat or ancient “salt horse” of the army rations. They ‘come marching home" in skeleton companies, all of them sick nigh unto death, many dying and some dead—wrecks of their former stalwart manhood; half clothed, even to the cency, expecting to return to ‘y’’ and to the arms of grate- ful and cheering friends and fellow citizens. Instead, the Mohawk (appropriate name) discharges them from their worse than cattle pens, starving, burning with fever and perishing with thirst, into the already overgorged and half-fitted camp at Mon- tauk (savage name again!), and one of them, John Hawthorne, son of Julian Hawthorne, and grandson of Nathaniel Hawthorne, is detailed to do guard duty When he is unable to stand, much less walk his beat! He had breasted “the hell of leaden rain” on the deadly slopes of El Caney, as many another brave lad had done with him. He had volunteered to lead a foriorn hope, but the Spanish bullet was Merciless and spared him! Unfortunately, he lived to starve and burn with fever in the foul hold of the Mohawk, penned in like a herd of bullocks for the slaughter, til his mother found him, released him from the clutches of routine officials, who had literally swathed him in knotted red tape as the Lilliputians bound Gulliver. She has given to the world a part of this griev- ous history. But Julian Hawthorne, his father, has the entre to every newspaper and magazine sanctum in the country, and when his virile pen shall embalm this latest horror in “thoughts that breathe and words that burn” the foul brood of harpies, in- competents, martinets, or worse, perhaps— corruptionists—will be consumed by the lightning of public indignation. Napoleon used to shoot such gentry and investigate afterward. No long-winded in- quiry 1s needed now. The “boys” will all be dead befure the remedy can be applied. The presidential ax should get in its work at once. Must it be said that over the gateway of every camp and hospital of our volunteer army there should be inscribed in glaring capitals the awful motto that Dante records he saw over the portals of the inferno—‘Abandon hope, all ye who en- ter here?” AN D. BROCK. ‘August 27, 1898, Mary Washington, D, :A. Corps. To the Editor of The Evebing Star: When Corporal Tannér spoke of the won- derful work of the womenjof the District of Columbia during the war, why was the Mary Washington, D.A. R., Relief Corps ignored? oat In May, when thig committee of six women was appointed from that chapter, no one had thought of the-sick and starv- Ing women and children ofthe brave boys who went to fight for their country. A relief committee was formed to send deli- cacies to the boys, but not one word was Incorporated in their constitution re- lating to the support of the homeless, half-starved families“‘of the heroes who went to the front, ahd yet at that grand mass meeting not omp word was said of their noble work. This committee are now feeding each week twenty-seven families, or seventy- five persons; are paying rental list of over $100 per month; have clothed at least a hundred people, besides sending five fam- ilies to the country and getting work for as many more. This committee has raised by its own exertions over $1,000, but $25 of which was contributed by the District Volunteer Relief Association. With no desire to disp#rage the noble work of others, it is but just that these women who have so unselfishly sacrificed both their home duties and strength, to attend to the necessities of the suffering and starving wives and children, should at least receive a their labors. _ Mrs. SIMON NEWCOMB, Regent of the District of Columbia D.A.R. August 27, 1898. . A Saleh eles, Hoeke’s usual low prices are lower in the Clearing Sate.—Advt, R., Relief eut still x . Margaret Scott’s Death. AN INVESTIGATION MADE TODAY “Bootsey” Ross Will Not Have to Answer to the Charge. THE EVIDENCE TAKEN “Bootsey” Ross, the young colored man who is serving a year in jail for cutting Margaret Scott, will not have to answer for her death. Margaret participated in sev- eral rows between the time she was cut by Ross and the time of her death. It is al- leged that on one of these occasions, Sun- day before last, she was struck on the head with a chair by Charles, alias “Bull” Wil- liams, while cn a former occasion she was assaulted with a stone or brick by Peter Holmes. This affair happened in front of a vacant house in Phillips court. Several other persons, the police learned, had also struck the unfortunate woman, but these blows were inflicted in play. ‘When the result of the autopsy was made known yesterday Lieut. Boyle started an- other investigation of the case. Sergt. Mc- Neeley and Policeman Patrick O’Brien con- ducted the investigation, which resulted in several arrests. At the inquest today the jury heard a number of witnesses, and re- turned a verdict holding Holmes for the action of the grand jury. He was there- upon committed to jail. Dr. Raflin’s Statement. Dr. Ruffin tified that he found the dead woman’s stomach in a chronic ca- tarrhal condition, which was nothing un- common. Her death, he had no doubt, re- sulted from a hemorraage of the brain. Beneath the blood clot there was a soften- ing of the brain. There were three email son the outer part of the head, which were due to blow nt than the blow or trouble tl. the hem- orrhage. Witness found no fracture of the skull. It was possibile, said witness, for such an injury to have been inflicted with- out fracturing the skull. The stomach was congested and there was evidence of the woman having vomi*2d blood. Dr. Collins Cruser, who «ttended the wo- man before her jeath, ws also examined. He told the jury th ted Mar- garet Scott. He last her alive Sat- urday evening bef: She w then very low. Witness not remain with her until,she dicd. first saw the patient early Friday Witness went to her house, at No. 50S 19th street. She was then perfectly conscious, although she was spitting blood. The woman told him she had been spitting blood for four saw ner deatn. ad He morning. , or five days, and the character of the blood indicated that it was from her lungs. Be- cause of wi witness heard of her he though she had been dissipating. They were too poor to buy medicine, they said, and witness wanted her to go to the hos- pital, but she refused. At that time he did not consider her in a critical condition. That evening when he called he found the patient in an almost unconscious condi- tion. Bcth pupils were dilated. The hemorrhage had ceased. Change for the Worse. Saturday morning witness was again sent for and he found a decided change in her condition for the worse. She had been un- conscious all night. “Did you inquire*into her previous his- tory?” the coroner asked. “I did,” was his response. “I was told that she had been cut two months previ- ously, but this wound, I found, had healed.”” “When did you last see her?” “Saturday evening.” Witness gave a certificate of death, giv- ing the immediate cause as suffocation. Peter Holmes Called. “Call in Peter Holmes,” said the coroner to his assistant. Peter is a colored boy, living in Phillips court. He was brought in. He said he is employed as a driver by Mr. Shea. “D.d you know a woman named Margaret Scott?” he was asked. “Yes, sir,” he answered. ‘her for about four months. Witness said he last saw her on the Ist of August. “Tell the jury,” said Dr. Glazebrook, “what trouble you had with her.” “TI never had any trouble with her. I had trouble with Mag Dorsey.” Witness said that on one occasion, several weeks ago, he was fooling with Margaret Scot and he tossed a pebble at her. The pebble struck her on the head, but did not hurt her. He knew of no trouble Margaret Scott had had except the time “Bootsey” Ross cut her. Policeman O'Brien told the jury that he brought Holmes from the jail this morn- ing. He told witness that he and Margaret Scott had been playing and he struck her with a small stone, just as Holmes had told the jury. Witness also arrested Charles Williams and he said he hit her while they were playing. Annie Coagley made a similar statement concerning Margaret Scott and herself. have known Describes a Row. Maria Hughes, colored, testifled that she met Margaret Scott at her cousin’s house nearly two weeks ago. It was a Sunday morning. Bert Beckett, Mary “Snowball,” Lottie Dorsey and a man named Cinger were-also there. “Was Charlic Williams also there?” “Yes, sir.” Witness said there was a row in the house and Charlie Williams picked up a chair to hit Margaret Scott, but witness grabbed it. “What became of the chair?” “It fell over in the corner.” “Did it touch Margaret Scott?” “It only struck her on the head.” “Did Williams appear as if he was angry?” “He looked like he was mad.” Witness said he also tried to kick Mar- garet in the face, but she thought he kicked her in the region of her stomach. “What did he do then?” “He went and sat on the bed, and Mar- garet sat there with him.” Witness said that Margaret laughed at Williams just befure he threw the chair. When the trouble was over Margaret did not seem to be hurt. “She always would laugh at anything funny," said witness. “In whcse house did this happen?” “In my cousin's house, Lottie Hughes, 2490 Phillips court.” Alberta Beckett's Story. Alberta Beckett, also colored, explained to the jury what she saw in the house. She did not know how the trouble started. Soon after she got in the house she heard Chas. Williams curse at Margaret Scott, and saw him throw a chair at her. “Did the chair strike her?” “No, sir. Margaret Hughes caught tho chair. Witness sald she saw Margaret several cae afterward, and she seemed perfectly wel Enters a Dental. Charles Williams was next called, and he- tcld the jury that his home is at 2205 Brightwood avenue. Witness said he was at Lottie Dorsey’s house Sunday before last in the afternoon. Last Sunday he was there about noon. He said he had been sick since June, and had been away from home only three Sundays during this time. He remembered being in Lottie Dorsey’s one Sunday morning about 9 o’clock. The Saturday night previous to this he was with Margaret. When he called Sunday morning he found her face was in a terri- ble conditioa. “She looked Mike somebody had been throwing bricks in her face,” he said. “What did she say to make you mad?" coroner “Nothing,” he answered. He denied that he had any trouble what- ever with Margaret Scott. ‘Did you throw a chair at Margaret?” “No, sir,” he answered. “And I can prove it.” “By whom?” aoe . ee BN sk |e { 24, 926, 928 7th, Coroner’s Jury Believes He Caused | @Q°U"NS through =, to 704-706 K st. t GEOE @ € QOOSSQOS ECE CE less than usual. would keep up the price. Treason. now being made. usual. All-wool Imperial surah in navy, garnet, olive, 27c. yd. serge, myrtle, plam and brown, will be sold for 2-inch Hereules mchalr braid, for trim- ming and ‘Jengthening skirts, the 12¢. quality, to go for ard Genuine pink paper English pins, the usual 0c. sort, to ge for 4c. paper. Smitb’s best English needles for 8c. paper. “The Dependable Store.” 650 silk waists, $1.69. We are enabled by a most judicious purchase to announce the sale Monday morning of 650 ladies’ silk waists, which were made to sell for $3 to $5, for $1.69—really the lowest price ever named for fine high-class waists, made as they are made and finished as they are finished. The lot embraces plaid glace taf- fetas, striped wash silks, fancy dark colored Indias, plaidand vel- vet trimmed, and in all sizes.” They are the most perfect fitting waists to be had, because they were made by one of the best - makers. $1.69 for your choice, and to get the choice ones you better be here promptly Monday morning. $1.98 white India linon waists, 98c. We have secured a lot of 35 dozen ladies’ white India linon waists from a leading manufacturer. quality and styles which we sold earlier for $1.98. They are elaborately trimmed with embroidery, are fresh and clean, not being out of the maker’s stock room but four day your choice of them, and the saving is a dollar, because you cannot buy them even this late for less than $1.98 Breaking hosiery prices. We have bought for less than we usually pay for them a hundred dozen children’s fast black two-thread hose, made with double knees and high spliced heels. which we sell for 13¢. pair and which are excellent values at that. We have never before been able to sell them for less, but in this instance the maker is moving his factory and by taking a hundred dozen pairs of this one number we secured them for Hence they are gc. instead of 13c. Most stores 50 dozen ladies’ fast black full regular made hose, such as we sell usually for 25c. pair, will go for 17c. pair for the same Fall dress goods specials. Introductory prices for the new autumn dress goods are If you are buying the children new dresses for school here is an opportunity to get them for much less than Catch the notion plums. SSSSSS] SSCS ESOS SESS OB 9, 924, 926, 928 7th, <> running through g to 704-706 K te € These are the identical GOlSOSBSHDOOGOO g8c. for ¢ This is the same quality 48-inch all-wool Clagonal serge suit- ings, In every desirable colo” including marine blue, new brown and olive, Will be offered te: SOC . a day at.. a5 bd 0c. and 12c. quality feather-stitched braid for 4¢. piece. All sizes of nickel curling trons for Be. each. All sizes of best nickel safety for 2c. dozen. pins “Ginger.” i. “What is his other name? “I don’t know.” i “Was Alberta Beckett in the room “If she was she was there in a spiritual Witness admitted that Margaret Scott ran behind the door laughing, but at what | she was laughing he did not know. Ignorant of the Facts. Mary Edwards, colored, who was next called, declared that she was not in the house when the trouble occurred. She knew Charles Williams as “Bull” Williams. When further questioned she admitted that she was in the house on the day of the trouble, but she did not see what took place. Says Holmes Struck Her. Mrs. Julia Taylor, colored, was called. “all I know about it,” she said, “is that Peter Holmes struck her in the eye.” “Where did this happen?” “In Phillips court.” “When did It occur?" It was one day this month,” she answer- ed, “but I don’t know just what day it was. I know it was the day of the heavy rain. Witness said that Peter Holmes and Mar- garet Scott were seated in the court nearly an hour before he struck her. She thought he threw something. Witness said that Holmes seemed to be very angry. The woman's eye was cut. a “Do you know Peter Holmes? a I know him by his being in the club.’ ‘The next day, she said, she spoke to him about his conduct. When Margaret struck she stumbled and staggered, but did not fall, Two or three days after this trouble witness saw Margaret Scott riding a bicycle in the court. She seemed to be well at that time. a “What is Peter Holmes’ reputation? “They don’t give him a very good name in the court.” ss “What do they say about him? “That he is impudent.” Other Versions Given. Another colored woman, who gave her name as Annie Cogey, was asked to tell of the trouble she had with Margaret. She said she and Margaret had never had a cross word. They had played “tag” and hit each other while playing the game. Witness heard from a friend that Margaret had said she (witness) had struck her in the face while they were playing. She was certain she did not strike her in the face. Annie Wilson, colored, told the jury that she witnessed the trouble between Peter Holmes and Margaret Scott. Holmes, she said, struck her with his hand and knocked her from him. When she ran he picked up something and struck her on the head with it. Witness thought they were playing un- tll she saw that Margaret's head was cut. Several days afterward, witness said, she saw Margaret with her head tied up. Mar- garet refused to have Peter Holmes ar- rested. She had heard that Margaret be- gan spitting blood soon after this trouble. It was not until after Holmes struck her that she complained of having the head- sh ache. Lottie Dorsey told the jury that she first met Margaret Scott several weeks ‘ago. She was a friend of Peter Holmes. Witness called Holmes out of the house and when she went away he was talking to Margaret. When she returned from a lunch room Mar- garet told her that Peter had struck her with a brick. Several days before her death Margaret told witness she knew she was going to dic. She said her father appeared at night and put his hand on her head. ana she knew that was a sure sign of death. Dolly Lewis, colored, testified that she saw Peter Holmes strike Margaret. The affair, she thought, happened last month. Policeman O’Brien told the jury that Holmes had been arrested for disorderly conduct, assault and larceny, and that his reputation is bad. This closed the testimony and the jury took the case. —_>— ‘Wheat Exportation Forbidden. Minister Angel) at Constantinople, in- forms the State Department that a note from thi hace or Soutark, ta European Turkey, is forbidden untli further notice. | t Zz COLORED EXPOSITION. Making Arrangements for a Proposed National ent. A number of prominent colored men who purpose attending the meeting to be held at Richmond, Va., September 8 and 9, to raake zements for holding a colored sition in 1900, m: f Martin, 5 evening and perfected an selecting W. ( Martin hairman and J. L. Montgomery secretary. Among those who will be present the Richmond meeting and speak on behalf of the District are Messrs. W. C. Martin, J. e, J. D. Baltimore and John L. Smith. lowing prominent colored men from the states are in full sympathy with the District mei, and have signified their pur- pore to smpeby them to Richmond: North Carolin rs. J. L. Montgomery, R. B. Murdock, Thompson; Al na, Mr. Adams; be present at the Richmond me Prof. Booker T. Washington, pr Tuskegee school, Tuskegee, ; liver, Roanoke, V et Prof. € ichm nond, delphia, Pa. The subject of the exposition will be fully discussed, and as the osition is to show the industrial, material, intellectual, me- chanical and agricultural adv, ment made by the colored people in the United States, every one should be interested ia the movement. — WAYWARD WoMA WAR) G. Wants Her Friends in This City and Elsewhere to Take Heed. From the New York Journal Todey. PARIS, August 26.—In the Du Bois Hos- pital lies the widowed Vicomtesse De Hen- riot, who a few nights ago threw herself from a window in Maxim's restaurant, Rue Royale. “T love a man and he does not return my love,” she said. Under the name of Vesta Dore Hastings she will be recognized in New York by many rich young men-about-town and members of the theatrical profession, but Hastings {s only an assumed name. Throughout one of the gayest careers Paris and New York have even seen she carefully kept secret the name of her honored fa- ther, the head of one of the first families of Virginia. More than a dozen years ago she married in Washington, D. C., while very young, the Vicomte de Henriot of Russia, a man much older than she. It was ber first year in so- ciety. Perhaps some Americans will recall the wedding and her right name. Married life was not very pleasant to the young society girl, and the death of her husband six or seven years ago left hr free to enjoy the pleasures of life. Recently she had been living at Maxim’s, noted as the scene of Max Lebaudy’s gay dissipation and extravagances. A few nights ago she gave a dinner par- ty, at which she was the only woman pres- ent. All the guests save ons were Ameri- cans, mostly New Yorkers. The one excep- tion was a Frenchman, whom the Vicom- tesse says she unrequitedly loves. The dinner lasted until very late, and the more inflamed with wine and love the vi- grew the Frenchman. inal renzy of despair she thr2w herself from the win- dow to the pavement below. Her ribs were broken and her skull fractured. She was taken to the hospital, where the pl said today she had not long to liva. As I turned to leave her she faintly said: “Warn my friends in New York, Wash- ington and San Francisco to learn a lesson from my sad fate. I want to die.” SacronCiy SSenel -If you pier gy Sad Boe Star. If anybody has t you wish, will get an answer. _