Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1898, Page 2

THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1898-16 PAGES. for the rash act. He had employed for sev: n years, and placed the nce in him, trusting him to xtent. There had been no in the demeanor of Frost of late, so sated, which would serve to hat anything was wrong. Sufferer From Insomnia. cause im A Star reporter called today at the fam- reside 13 14th street, for infor- Mrs. Frost was unable to see the being prostrated by the shock adden calam A person in the who was well acquainted y, informed the reporter that two past Mr. Frost had been from ir This is the igned for the tions were very Little yesterday and se- ion for insermnia. This informed his wife that he felt ! and that he had ept ht. He left his home wn to the Riggs Hou His parting with affectionate. She did ng was + When Mr. Stap for Mr. Frost. med he had employed was very he mes- | left for de. manner a re- that an om the Aque- 1 suicide. Mrs. uch that it might be h she said she had no h belief. When the in- i that the ide iressed and visited She identified the s in some pockets of the any word or in- was informed that a. man, convey . and ove who during his stay had a large vcymaintances here and elsewher years lived at 1464 Rhode Island His first wife died some years ing a grown daughter, who mar- fficer a year or so since and ving in Chicago. About a arried, and since on l4th street. attached to his this afternoon seventh precinct sins and gave a drowning with sui- who to take charge it for interment | E. o. « Dees Some Remari- | able Riding at ‘Fri: | SAN F ANCISCO, November 14.— o. | =8 of the Olympic Wheeimen yes- | reke American cycling rec- } H the standard | h figur ARCHBISH GROSS DEAD. Head ef Catholic Charch in Oregon D in Bate 14.—Will- of Ore; died on, | at St. S215 reh, sick on t he wou ¢ for the worse — CONSPIRACY THEORY. Department Ottici With Butat was DISCR Navy Newport. t the trouble lik the n or- sailing Navy and, e very little vers, the case from the ae upon ui ften been left in boil- R workmen. h has ee of tamy the fact that uffered ve but from t ars she by a lay an thrown down i cars demolis il tank, the collision, A ours cleared ured. ing of strict of S parish hal The en he ad re he pligrimag! om the bishop at juring € clos: —geee Late Naval Orders. z dicott, chief of dd docks, 1g48 to inspect W in progress has been the of been detact rdered to the ‘ly ordered to as ned recently to duty ned res — Hospital Ship Bay State Purchased. ‘The War Department has purchased the ho: Bay from Massachu- She will probably be em- arrying troops to Cuba. an Order to First Regiment. I. Harries late this afternoon tssu2d an order to thelst District of Columbia Regi- ' modore | feel quit | a mile. DRESEL A SUICIDE Naval Lieutenant Shoots Himself in a Baltimore Hotel. eee DESPONDENT OVER AN ASSIGNMENT He Had Been Ordered to the Zafiro at Manila. SURPRISE AT DEPARTMENT ALTIMORE, November 14.—Lieutenant Dresel of the United States navy com- | mitted suicide in the Carrollton Hotel, this city, shortly after 1 o'clock this morning, hooting himself in the head. From papers found on his body it 1s surmised that he killed himself because he had been ordered to Manila to join the United States steamer Zafiro. Lieutenant Dresel, it is thought, reached this city some time this morning and re- paired to the Carrollton. He did not reg- ister, but after lingering about the lobby for a short time went to the toilet room and locked the door behind him. Almost immediately thereafter a pistol shot alarm- ed the employes of the house, and a search revealed the fact that Dresel was dead In one of the pockets of his coat was found an order from Secretary of the Navy Long, dated November 11, detaching the unfortu- nate man from the United States steamer ex and ordering him to go to Hong and thence to Manila to join the A telegram addressed to Lieutenant i hington and signed by was found on the dead man, requested Fales to exchange orders with the writer, and it was evidently the in- tention of Dresel to have sent this. Well-Known at Custom House. Lieutenant Dresel was well known at THE WILMINGTON REFUGEES They Visited the Department of Justice This Morning. Claim They Were Run Oat of the State Because They Were Republicans. Three of the Wilmington, N. C., refuges have arrived in Washington and this morn- ing called at the Department of Justice, where an appointment for a conference with the officials was made for this after- neon. Th>y are R. H. Bunning, United States commissioner and justice of the peace; John R. Melton, ex-chief of police, and C. H. Gilbert, superintendent of city carts. According to their statements, mad» this morning, all were szized without war- rant and escorted to the railroad station by an armed and jeering mob, which shout- ed ali sorts of insulis after them as they marched aiong. “White mggers” appeared to be the least of th» insuiung names with which the crowds gi d them at every step. Once on the train they were told in forctbie language that if ever again they set foot in Wiimington they would be shot on sight. When their train arrived at Newberne it Was boarded. they say, by former Mayor Ehis ani a lawyer named Guyon, and they were informed that it would not be safe for them to remain there any length of time. So they took the first boat to Norfolk. Brown, a negro trom Wilmington, who did not leave Norfolk at the same time with them, they had since heard was set upon by a crowd and terribly beaten in the city post office. At other precincts they were warned not to stop. The three men are at present staying at a small hotel on Pennsylvania avenue, but what they will do or where they will go from here is a serious question with them. They say they dare not return to their homes in Wiiming- ton, as they feel certain that the threats of the mob would be carried out and they would be shot. They plead not guilty to every charge made against them, and in- sist that they were run out of the state ‘or the single reason that they were re- the n pay office in the custom house | publicans and refused at the bidding of an here. No one could assign any cause for | lfresponsible mob to surrender their right E ‘ aithineuen of franchise. the act, except his unwillingness to £0 | “Bunning sald that he spent three days in Manila. He is described a pleasant, | the woods near Wilmington before he was cheerful man, with no known trouble: captured and told to leave. Dresel was thirty-eight or forty ——_———+ e+ —_____ ge. He entered the navy on OLD WILL FOUND. 1876, at Arnapolis, ha J ote from Ohio. On May 4, 189 Last Wishes of Eliza Gallaher, Bear- made a liouterant. During the American war he served on board the Puri- tan. Follo the war he was transferred to the Essex, and it is said the transfer to M ia was mide on acccunt of his value which n tive duty. xu offic continued 4 ed him out for News_at the Department. ws of the suicide of Li Dresel came te the Navy Department in telegrams from the paymaster at Newpert and from Com- | M The department officials blameless in the matter, and the suicide is attributed to melancholia. For » time the officer has been importuning riment to relieve him from duty on x. He had n on this ve: as a training ship. about a month, d was on the monitor Puritan. during the from duty the Zafiro, nds declared that he would be ¢ to the ¢ ntion, it bei Was not to remain permanently on Atiro, which was open to the same ob net being fuil- Admiral Dewey has been the ers of his represented | a better piace was to occupy | cd Surprise, t supposed that the m rily arranged, so it was zreat surprise that a telegram was rec from Dresel early this morning, in w ter with ived h the officer asked that his'‘order to the Za- firo be cancelled and that he be allowed to on is pre- e Zafiro or- nary course it would not ed before nightfall, and e of the suicide of the} He was about thirty- a native of Ohio, and two chiidren, living at wife Annapolis. > BENNING RACES. Slow THE Prack He and Many Special Dispatet BENNING, November 14.—Threat-ning weather reduced the endance at the Genning track this afteynoon, the second Cay of the autumn m & of the Wash- ington Jockey Club. The ck was hea slow, and duced the rst race, five and a half furlo! nd Dalgretti were scratched. it was won by Hanlen (Doggett), 10 to 1: Tinkler (O'Connor), 10 to 1, second, and Degtown (Hamilton), 20 to 1, third. Time, t race teen entries, st ights of a mile, wn—Ruby Lips, ah, Abingdon, 104; iol; Hanwell, Premier, 10); Mt. Washington, awford, 106; Loiterer, Zan. u ¥ Sly ‘Boy, quina, Non- rorist. 107. list, Waterhouse, Sutries for Tomorrow. rdale, Cosmopolitan, Improvident, Sheik, br. Parker, Forsooth, Animus, Com- gne, Deceptive, Judge Magee, Leondor, Spurs, Brahmin, 110. Third? race—Selling, eleven-sixteenths of Dan Rice, Loiterer, Decanter, Dan- 102; Bardella, 107. quarters of mile x drawn)—Tyroshena, y Rose, 111; The Winner, 116; Anitra, Ninety Zanove Tenny : Leando, 88; Gallant, Col. Dora, 100; ouret, 11 Lal- pars old and 100 va *harent Nosey Blueaway son, Banquet If, Decanter, 103; Sen > ‘TION Agricultural Chemists Complete Their Deliberations. The last day's deliberations of-the con- vention of the efficial agricultural chem: in session at the Columbian University commenced at 9:45 this morning. Papers nd reporis were submitted by H. A. Hus- ton, Dr. E. A de Schweinitz, Mr. William Frear and Mr. B. W. Kilgore. Votes of thanks were extended to the Secretary of Agriculture, the Columbian University and the Cosmos Club for cour- tesies received, and to retiring President Winton, and Secretary Wiley. ‘The new president, Mr. R. C. Kedate, then took the stage and announced ap- potntments for the following year: Delegates to the pure food congress to be held here in January next will be Dr. Wiley, Dr. Wm. Frear, ex-President A. L. Winton, €. D. Woods and W. D. Bigelow: the alternates being H. J. Patterson, A. P. CONV CLOSES. of Volunteers to assemble at Center ket armory Wednesday afternoon at 3 k, whence the m2n will march to nvention Hall to receive their medals, Campaign hats and leggins will be worn. — Gen. Hate’s Health Failin; DENVER, Col., November 14.—From tet- ers just received in Denver, it is learned that the health of Brig. Gen. Irving Hale of this city, now on duty at Manila, ts failing, and that he will be compelled to earn home at once. Peebles, W. O. Atwater, E. F. Grubb and L. L. Van Dyke. Referees were announced as follows: Phosphoric acid, E. G. Runyon; nitrogen, B._L. Hartwell; potash, B. B. Ross. Soils and ash, M. E. Jaffa; dairy products, J. B. Weems; foods and feeding stuffs, G. L. Teller, liquor and food adulteration, H. | ev ing Date July 4, 185 The will of Eliza A. Gallaher, dated July 1, 1857, found its way into the office of the rigister of wills Saturday afternoon through the mails. It came in a plain en- velope, bearing the Washington postmark, but there were no means of ascertaining by whom the document was sendt. Mrs. Gallaher bequeathed all of her prop- erty to her husband, B. Franklin Gallaher of this city, who was also named as ex- ecutor. Mr. Gallaher did not know his wife had r made a will. She died in 15 Tt is believed the instrument was put away by one of the witnes s and was unearthed only recently in a search throuzh some old papers. ‘The proper involved is in Virginia. will is not to be probated in the Dis- trict as the parties live in Virginia and all of the property is in that state. Mr. ¢ laher was expected at the city hall this morning, but had not arrived this after- neon GREAT —_——— DOG TOWN. How a Canine of the Bull Variety Was Initiated at Dawson. A | From the Seattle P elligencer. Dawson is the greatest dog town on earth, and the canines know their worth. The miner can do little without them in winter, and is more than willing to feed them well through the summer for their services dur- ing the cold winters. Consequently the Es- kimo is extremely well kept and hag great pride. This the well-nurtured pups that have been taken gold hunting know to their sorrow. Every one ha: ffered a severe drubbing almost immediately on arrival, and were lucky to get off with one. After that the native dogs, with an air of tolera- tion, allow them to live. a milk-white bulldog was imported into is camp and did a little initiation own account. When Al Bartlett, the speedy packer and rich mine own was w York he got hold of a Bowery pro- duction that was a wonder. The beast was milk white, with m t red eyes and mas- sive jaws which had won him more than one hard fight. After landing from a little up-river steamer rtlett started up the water front h the ugiy bulldog close at his heels Down the street came an old Eskimo dog, fairly bristling for fight. Here was a chance for a conquest. He had never been ainst a bulldog befoi The fish-red na- tive fairly rushed into the fight, but found the milk-white bulldog more than ready to go to work. It was a great fight and soon over with. The bulldog, finding he had something changed holds a dozen times, and with every change brought out the bright red blood. In two minutes the native sulked up the street, hardly able to walk. But the bulldog had not finished yet, for the Dawson dogs are full of re- up the street came the mem- bers of the Clan with the defeated smember trotting along on three legs at their head. They howled with delight when they caught sight of their pr "The bulldog made one grab, catching the wounded leader by the throat. After that he could do nothing but hold on. A dozen dogs grabbed him and dragged him about as if he had been a bone. The fight ended as all fights do. The Eskimo dog which had been looking for trouble was dead. The bulldog was a deep crimson and most of the dye was furnished by his own blood. He had the partial use of three legs, one was almost closed and his close-cropp ear was cropped closer still. The bull had made dog history at Dawson, but at a terrible cost to him- self. for Dawson dogs are clannish, and if your dogs licks one he's got to lick his clan,” as Al Bartlett says in talking abou’ the fight. +02. Condition Favorable. The condition of Mr. J. MeL. Lipscomb, who was accidentally shot in the side by a pistol in his own hands Saturday, was this afternoon considered v favorable. ik was stated at Mr. Li Office Cal From Pearson's Weekly. The day was cold. ry cold, in fact—and the postmaster at Susquaha, a small Cana- dian town, fell asleep over the stove in his easy chair before he had read ~half the posteards. The roisy brushing aside of the reed curtain that served for a door brought him back from dreamland with a start. A strapping six-foot Indian in all the glory of a top hat, stood before him, calmly ma- Jesti Want letter,” impressively coinmanded the dusky caller. “Name, please,” postmaster. “Guahano my name. Want letter. “Sorry, Guahano, but thore’s nothing here for you.” “Want letter.” “Bat there isn’t any for you!” “Inoso got letter!” “Well, somebody wrote hi Me chief! Inoso no chie: “an't help that ,old man. You see, it’s—” Give Inoso letter! No give Guahano let- ter! I fight! I kill! Want letter! “What's the matter here?” cried an old British resident, breaking in at this junc- ture. urbanely inquired the one, then.” gi him: “Pshaw! Just tear off a piece of wrap- ping paper, sprinkle some ink over it and give it to him. You've got to use some tact and judgment in officiating this office, old him a letter when there's none for A. Weber; sugar, Ellin Fulmer; tannin. Onia Carr; insecticudia, E. A. De Schweitz. The convention then adjourned until next year. ' —_— Thousands of situatiens haye been ob- tained through the want columns of The Star. chap.” ‘The dead body of an infant was found in the sewer trap at Maryland avenue and ist. street northeast Saturday afternoon. Robert Sanders, colored, who found the body while cleaning the sewer, had it re- md a to the morgue. Coroner Carr view: ed | ilized canines by the hundred submit- ted to this initiation and suffered in si- lence. Tt was only a few weeks ago that , .] these officers di e's going to kill me because I won't’ THE WAR INQUIRY Former Chief; Medical Officer Huide- kgper Testifios. HARD WORK 1) GET MEDICINES Officers Ignored His Suggestions About Policing Camps. WATER MADE SICKNESS The examination of witn2sses before the war investigating commission was resumed this morning inthe. Lemon building. Ex- Gov. Woodbury, who has been in Vermont during the last two: weeks, returned to the city this morning and was present. Ge: McCook has -reecovsred from the !liness that caused him tocbe confined to his bed for several days and was also there. All other members, with the exception of Capt. Howell, were on hand. Dr. R. S, Huidekoper, lizutenant cclanel of volunteers, chief. surgeon of Gen. Brooke's army corps, was placed on the stand. Dr. Huidekoper has been attacked at various times for his administration of the medical department of his corps and bas been derisively called a “horse doctor.” His medical experience, however, as brought out in the testimony, has been very extensive, a large part of his life Gov. Woodbary. having been devoted to study in this coun- try and abroad. Hé had studied medicine and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1877. He became connect- ed with Dr. D. Hayes Agnew of Phila- delphia and for eighteen years occupied a variety of positions in hospitals and car- ried on private practice besides having vis- ite rope and ‘studied in famous uni- there. He holds a diploma from nch government, having studied at the great medical school in Paris. He had also been connected with the state militia of Pennsylvania. Sin¢é 1893 he has been In- terested in the!manufacture of toxines in Philadelphia. "1 Dr. Huidekoper’s Evidence. Dr. Huidekoper testified that he had hela the position of ehief medical officer of the Ast Army Corps'iat Chmp Thomas, Chicka- mauga Park, ufil Jily 2%, when he went to Porto Rico with Gyaeral Brooke. After he arrived at Camp ‘Biomas, he said, there had been difficulty. im precuring medicines either the supply wak irregular or insut! cient. Such suppliowiis they received wer very quickly used upz’ He said that at first there was diffioultyzin procuring prope blanks, medical chests and saries, so that there was.tr out proper requisitions and in having pray- er plaees in which f:care for the media cines. He: said) thats they could not get opium, catemelsandequipine in sufficient quantities... They -gge Small quantitie: i were constantly.qunniug short. He on the loth of dune, sent a communi other nece: ble in making in writing to the,surgeon general, and he made representations to the depot surgeon regarding th y Dr. 4 of medical supplies hat was the result of e ss—“Sometimes we got an in- Was RE ly shown telegrams that mediebsal supplies were on the way Gen. Dodge. and were slow in coming to the camp. Gen. Brooke received authority at Chickamauga for the purchsse of drugs, and we bought a quantity of them, and so relieved our needs at that time.”” Dr. Huidekoper said that the requisitions were made at the proper time and in the proper forn, He had made visits to the storehouses and found out what suppiies were there, and made requisitions for what he saw he could get. Explains His Actions. The witness said that he had never turn- ed down requisitions sent to him for sup- plies by division commanders of the First Army Corps except it was shown on oc- casions that the things were not there. He had always been able to supply a proper tentage for the hospitals, but had not al- lowed a requisition for flooring on one oc- casion when Gen. Brooke expected to move his command to another locality within a day or two. As they were to move so soon he did not sce the necessity for providing the flooring. He said that in the hospital of his army copps,sick men were not re- quired to sleep, without the shelter of a tent and if theng, was,ever a lack of a tent to place a sick man dn it must have been of extremely short, durqtion. He said that for about a week, thesthird division hospital of the First Army:Gorps was not floored throughout, but-that.floors were provided within a week.) 104 He had visited the hospitals every two days. He said the 2d and 3d Division hospitals were #fwayg clean and well kept. The Ist Division! hespital had suffered by frequent change of afficers, and while the men in that hospital were cared for it was never run with the system that existed in the 2d and 3d Divisiéns. He said all thd hos#itals suffered from a lack of sufficient. sumoer of nurses and other attendants, ang, he gave an account of the difficulties be, had encountered in getting such ajiendgnts because of the antagonism of regimental officers. He said Aotwish to let their men go out of the regiment for such service, but he finally got orders arbitrarily to take the men. : He got some nurses and attendants through special enlistments that had been made for such service, but they were not sufficient for the needs of the hospitals under his charge. The hospitals were con- stantly being enlarged and ambulance ser- vices were being established so that they were always running short of help. The largest number of men in the hospitals while he was at Camp Thomas was on July 20, when 449 men were in the three division hespitals of the lst Army Corps. Policing the Camps, A long series ‘of questions was ask&@ the witness regarding the policing of camps. He said that although constant orders were given regarding the regulations in this re- spect they were not carried out by regi- body and gave a certificate of death { mental officers, He said that frequently their attention was called to the conditions, but the medical officer's duty stopped with making recommendations. At times he would succeed in getting a camp cleaned vp, but it would soon be in a filthy condi- tion again. Dr. Conner—“‘Somebody had power to or- der and to punish if orders were not car- ried out. Whose duty was it to see that that was done?” ‘That I cannot tell. ‘We have been hearing for six weeks that orders were given again and again for the sanitary improvement of camps, and that notwithstanding their is- suance no improvement was made. It seems to me that after orders have b2en —. LZ Col. Denby, issued two or three hundred times some- body should be brought to account for a lack of carrying them out. I want to know whether charges against any officer for re- peated neglect of these sanitary orders were The witness—“Not that I remember.” ‘The witness said that he had often got his requisitions filled by going to the supply depot very early in the morning and being there to make requisition for whatever he tound on hand. Some Unclean Regiments. Dr. Conner—"Do you give us to under- stand that it was necessary for the chief surgeon of an army cofps to personally go to the supply depot in order to get his requi- sitions tilled?” Dr. Huidekoper—“I did it time and again.” Dr. Conner—"Could others have done the same?” br. Huidekoper—“They could ha their share if they had been in time ‘The witness said that on one occasion he heard that new ambulances were coming on a train, and he got his requisitions ready before they arrived. He had horses and harness ready and he ambulances. ‘The supply depot,’ ir, Huidekoper, gotten was run in a very parsimonious way by the purveyor. If the purveyor had ten things to give out he would her give them out one a day than to give them all out at one time.” In teply to a question the witness that the purveyor’s name was Comeg: Testifying further, Dr. Huidekoper said that he had kept track of things that were coming to the supply depot. He had a friend in the quartermaster's depot who id would let him know when medical supplies were about to arrive, and then he would he be on hand to get them. Otherwise, said, he would not have succeeded in s curing supplies. Dr. Conner—“Were requisitions filled in order of receipt or by some haphazard method?” The witness—“Th in order of receipt. Dr. Huidekoper was the chief surgeon of the Porto Rico expedition, and he related the manner in which the’ medical depart- ment was organized and run while in Porto Rico. Contaminated Water. In reply to a question he said that the 3d Wtinois, 158th Indiana and 12th New York regiments had dirtier camps than any other regiments in the army corps. He said that the 3d Illinois regiment had a surgeon who could break the spirit of a law without breaking the letter of the law in almost everything he did. He had had a Breat di of trouble with this regiment. Speaking of the amount of disease in army corps at Camp Thomas he s the reports of a great deal of could not have applied to conditions wh) he was there. The greatest amount y were ordinarily filled of sickness in the Ist Army Corps while at Camp Thomas he said was on July 20, when there were a little more than 1.400 men k in hospital out of a total of over 36,500 sol- die Again referring to the difficulties he had | in securirg hospital nurses and atten@ants, he said that the regimental officers did what they could to prevent their men bei vsed for this service, and that Col. Case of the 4th Pennsylvania, who, he said, was & good officer and his’ personal friend, had objected absolutely to permitting his me: to go as nurses, and, before the men, ¢ clared that those who wanted to go as s were cowards, and only wanted to mt going on the firing line. . Dr. Huidekoper said that the men rished him when the regimental offic ir te hem were the poorest material in the regiment. One man he got was an epi- leptic and another was a drunkard. Yet he said these same officers who prevented him from getting hospital nur: and attend- ants were the ones who w the lo t to complain against any failure on the part of the hospitals to render efficient servic y were the ones, h a, who won for ambulances and complain that could not get them promptly, although bad refused to jaw their own men to serve for such duty. He had secured some good nurses by receiving names of men ho would be in readiness for such auty and then teking them from the regi- ment on the crder of the -neral command- ing the army corps and in spite of the wishes of the regimentil officers. Contaminated Water. In reply to a question by General Dodge, the witness said that he thought typhoid fever at Camp Chickamauga had been spread because of contaminated water. He found cne division having typhoid fever, ile another, using different water, had no phoid fever. They had promptly closed up the well from which the infected regi- ment was supplied. He said he thought the water was all right except that it had heen contaminated from surface drainage. Witness said that he thought a large part of disease at Camp Thomas was the result of men leaving camp and going to town, and also eating pies and auch stuff as was either purchased or sent to them from their bromes. He said the men would receive boxes from home with ples, four or five days old, and they would eat and be made sick. ‘The testimony of the witness was coneludéd at 5 Maj. Knox a Witness, Maj. Thomas. T. Knox, captain of the Ist United States Cavairy, went on the stand at 2 o'clock. He told of his cam- paign at Santiago. He was wounded at La Quasina. He was struck by a bullet jn the small of the back and the doctors said he was shot through the liver, kidney, and lung, and that two ribs were broken. The ball went through him and he had lost a great deal of blood by walking to the hos- pital, 150 yards away. The doctors told him he would die and told him to send any message he wanted to his home. “The doctors now say,” he replied to a question, “that I ought to be dead. Ac- cordistg to the text books, I should be dead.” He laughed as he said it. He said he could not allow his men to fire at La Quasina beeause their situation was such that he was afraid they would fire into American troops. He was going up and down the line of his men, who were ner- veus under fire which they could not re- turn, and while turning he was shot. He said he supposed they had what was to be expected in a field hospital, but there were no surgical instruments. He had shortly afterward been put on the Olivette, and on the trip to New York he had re- ceived good treatment. He had also been well treated at Fort Wadsworth hospital. When asked the condition of his men when they landed at Baiquiri, he said they were in the worst condition he had ever seen troops. This was the result of having been shut up sixteen days on the ship. They had been in excellent condition when they left Florida. They went to Cuba on the Leona, and had fourteen troops, which crowded the shin very much. Gen. Beaver—*What facilities for em- barking did you take on the Leona?” ‘The witness—“We had a boat in tow, but after reaching Baiquiri it was turned over to the chief of engineer: = It pays to read the want columns of The Star. Hundreds of situations are filled through them. Sugar Lost Nearly All of Saturday's Advance Today, GRANGER SHARES WERE STRONG ——_.+____ Market Still Sensitive to Political Situation Abroad. a GENERAL MARKET REPORT Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, November 4.—Opening prices in today’s stock market were main- ly firm around last week's closing parity. London sold some stocks to take profils, and local room traders followed the ample during the greater part of the The foreign political outlook and the pe bilities of the Paris situation were fa of considerable prominence throughout the day. All things consid2red, however, those de- siring to sell found an exceptionally will- ing market, and no significant declines in {the general list are reported. The low-priced securities were taken in round amounts by a certain sp>culative fol- lowing, who believe that the merits of the dividend-paying issues will dim the ds merits of their less fortunate neighbors. ‘The fact that no especial effort has been made to force these low-priced issues into a position of actual leadership also acts as an incentive to the effort. ‘The granger issues were easily advanced for a time, Rock Island, Burlington and St. Paul all being the f buying of the character usually des good. In a few instances, notably in the iron and steel properties, there were evidences of neglect on the part of those heretofore most active in forcing up prices. re- sult is said to be the wishes of t. “t managers and is _prestmably but a temporary condition. The report of Manhattan for the quarter ending September 30 reflects a deficit artir dividend charges of $320,062, as compared with a deficit of $144,880 for the same period last year. The covering of ou = irg short contracts upon the publication cf these figures advanced the price of the stock I per cent. ex- day. Th ntirely in harmony with The trading in American Sugar was of s ensational characte that of ith oppasite re: Open- ld down und » of more t price r cent. s yed all but advane > cha in those An adv sugars was nounced during the day and followed by an advance of 3 per gent from the low level of the morning. Am: per cent of Saturday's nd disclosed the manipu- r of the present movement can Tobacco w active than usual, but the same te y toward realizing and mixed selling was noticable. The movement in these high-priced in- dustrials issues is so thoroughly manipu- lative that it is difficult. to determine from surface conditions just what progress 1s being made toward an adjustment of trade differences. The strength of the railroad list character which may become is of a superior to the influence of the erratic action in tho: industrial properti The continued de- for bonds - invest- ndicat ore than immediate returns are contempla’ Lon- don uouses share the view a pre- dict a demand well up to the bes the new year, ———— FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, inning of New York Stock Market. Open. High. Low. Close American $ 2% 11g American BBy American 1is% Alerican 136% Atchison 15% Atehison, p Atchison Adiustiments - Baltimore & Onto....... Brookiyn Rapid Transit. Canada Southern . Shesapeaxe & Ohid. CC. & St. Louis | Chicago, B & Q.....000, Chicago& Northwestern "Chicago Gas. 5 & St. Paul : Chicago, K. 1. & Pacitic. Chic ot. PM. & 0. thig. & G. Western - Consolidated Gas. Del., Lack & W Delaware & Hua: Den. & Rio Grande, p D is 55%, 58% 58% Erie. 5 5 BY Big Electric, E ese Illinois Central . my Lake snore. 5 Louleville & Nasiville.. Metropolitan Traction... Manhattal Missouri i 86 M.K. & 7., p 3 a vational Lead G: s 85% } ew Jersey Central ew York Central. orthern Pacitic orthern Paci ttc Mai Phila. & Reading Southern Railwa: Southern Ry., pf exas Pacific... Tena. Coal & Ito Union Pacitic Union Pacitic, pi . 5. Leatner, pid. U 8. Rubber Rubber, ptd Wabash, pfd... Western Union 7 Alerican Cotton Oil Federai Steel... . Federal Steel, pfd.... AL. Wire = Am. Steel and Wire pid. *EX-div. 13. a 38D —____ Washington Stock Exchange. Sales—regular call—12 o'clock m. —Capital Traec- tion, 7 at 79%, 20 at a, S at 794, Es at 70%, United States Electric Light, lv at 115, ly at 1 Mergeuthaler Linotype, 10 at IS5%4, 10 at INSy at 1s5%. merican Graphophone, 100 at 1: After call—U. 8. 3s, coupon, $1,400 at 10: Electric Light, 10 at 115, 10 at District of Columbia Bonds. — 100 bid. | Gs, 30-year funding, ie, 1 water stock, 108 lid. 7s, 1803, water stock bid. 8.658, funding, 16 bid. mpatian: iscellaneous Bonds. Metropolitan Railroad 5s, ‘20 bid. | Metropolitan Railrwd conv. 6s, 129 bid, 130 asked. Metropolitar Rai 1i7 i. bid. 5s, 49 bid. Ington € 1 116 Belt Railroad Eckington Railroad 6s, 100 bid. I Wash- s Company, Series A, Gs, LIbiy bid. e 6s, 1 Wash, = imp. a 115 bid. e Sompany extn. Gs, 115 bid. Masoule cla tion Ss, 108 bid. Soa eee National Bank Stocks.—Bank of Washington, 205 bid. Metropolitan, 315 bid. Central, 146" bi Farmers and Mechanies 166 bid Iey gemge. Bl ond, 145 bid. Citizens”, 145. b bid. Capital, 125 bid. West End, SS bid, $0 ask- ed. Traders’, 100 bid. Lincoln, 115 ta. Te asked. Safe Deposit and Trust Companies. Uonal s Deposit und Trust, 111 bid. Washington Loan amd Trust, 125 bid, 128 asked. American Security and ‘Trust, 150 bid. Washington Sate Deposit, 50 bid. Insirance Sto¢ks.—Firemen's, 27 Wid.” Franklin, 38 bid, 45 askea. “Metropolitan, 70 bid. Corcoran, 34 bid. Potomac, 58 bid. Arlington, 120 bid. Ger. 190 bid. National Union, iv Du bid, 6 asked “Thoda son iS Es 6 asked. “Lincoln, 10}, bid, 10% asked. “Commercial, 4 bid, 5 asked Title Insurance Stocks.—Real Estate Title, 75 bi Columbia Title, 4% bid, 5% asked. ree Railroad Stocks.—Capital Traction Company, 79% bid, 79% asked. “Metropolitan, 128% bid, 130 ask ed. Columbia, 65 bid. 75 asked. ‘ington, 17 bid. } through No. 2 mixed, 28%: receipts, ¢ exports, 126.631 bushels. “tye fr: Maye NO. 2 western, STK: rec 264,290 bushels. % rain freights quiet and easy. very little mq steam to Liverpool, per busbel, 4 r for nders, per quarter, 4a. Sd November ga 14; firm 2002 medium, 1 29a 108104; 23 registered . Tegistered of 1908 1928. . COUPER Of 1908-1928 . reKistered of I coupon of 10 regiet 5 per cents, 3 per « ts, Car B per cents of ISN = hemeatt, Grain, Provisions and Cot Furnished by W. B. Hibbs & ( and br 1419 F st.. members New Y. ato age, Correspondents Messrs. La denb: nn & Cc OHICAGO, November Lc: : Open. “High, Low. Close. Wheat — Dec = oe oe cn a Oats cHics Pork Laat Ribs NEW } Decemts A DANGEROUS RIDE. A Woman Shoots the Terrible Horse Rapids in Alaska. From the Portland Oregonian, Miss Laura Evans of Oswego has per- formed the feat of riding tne terrible White White Horse rapi between Dawson City and Bennett, in the Klondike c untry. &§ is in Portland, and, in speaking of her perilous said: he day before I shot the rapids ight boats had been wrecked, and of the | the women, trip, a number es it was blamed entirely on because they got excited, made the men nervous who were rowing, so that they lost control of the boat. Colonel Steel: head of the mounted police, therefore made a rule that no more wor ct should go through. They must by land, as most of the people i > ing right straight along on account of Ui ut peril of the trip. “This new rule was made the day I at rived there on my trip to Dawson from Bennett. When I heard of it L told th Indian pilot to bring the beat down and jand where there was a big eddy this s of Miles canyon, He tied the boat ther: as Thad directed him to do, and I wate! my chance from the brush. When th Was no one looking I jumped into the bust and, though the Canadian police are mighty clever, they are not clever enough to stop a boat after it is started to go over the falls. Besides myself there were two men to row and the Indian pilot. “It would long story to tell of my sensations during the next fifteen or tweu- ty minutes, said Miss Evans, nd her black eyes twinkled with laughter at the remembrance. “After the boat was untic ed along smoothly, then all s snatched from that eddy as t ad been shot from a cannon. The water scemed to be going up and the sky seemed to be comin wn. We were dashed from ide to the other against the rocks his was Miles canyon, and it took us two three minutes to go through it, a dis- 4 a milk another smooth eddy, we were again snatched up in the same way as be- fore, the pilot working over his oars Ike a snake. This is what made one nervous, for it looked as though he had lost control of his boat “The ter passing this nd canyon we struck the quecrest place, bobbing up and down and rolling over sideways, until it seemed as though we would turn a somersault. This was Squaw rapids, the most dangerous place in the White Horse for there were loose bowlders on the bot- tom, which keep turning over, so that if they are safe one day they pre not the next. The pilot never knows whether he is going to get through alive or not. When we passed these rapids the pilot teld us to look at the White Horse. Sure enough, there seemed to be ahead of us a whole herd of w ses, their tails and manes all started to through them the boat tossed and tumbled eve! the waves hed-over us, we were drenched, the boat half filled with water—suddenly the indian threw down his oars and shouted, ‘Look out for your- selves! “The men who were rowing, when they heard this, threw down their oars and gave up completely. One of them crawled under the seat. “But this, it seems, was the part of the Indian, who, like all In- dians, had a queer idea of humor. He knew that if the boat was once started all right over the raplds, it would come fely. He takes pride in telling etly still. The fact is, I was ng just when the wreck would take nly a joke that I RIVER OF LIGHT. Strange Phenomenon Witnessed the Indian Ocean, From the London Mail. In reference to the remarkable non of a “white sea” which was witnessed by some of the crew of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer India during her last homeward voyage, two correspond- ents have addressed us on this subject William Gardner of Dalyeen, Malcolm road, Wimbiedon, says that when he was chief engineer of the British India § Navigation Company’s steamer BE: similar phenomenon to that reported the Daily Meil was witnessed from vessel. It occurred in the year 1SS0. “It happened,” he says, “about 11: starlight night. I was awakened by the junior deck officer on duty, who brought a message to me from the captain, asking why the speed of the ship had been re- duced, as she was now going a good knot less than the speed ordered. At the same time the officer told me of a wonderful sight on the sea. in my pajama and was soon able satisfy the captain that the engines we still going at a rate that should give the speed required, but that I was sure that the condition of the water must have some- thing to do with the speed actually at- tained. “The sea for at least a mile broad and many miles in length was a bright and sil- very whiteness, caused by a brilliant phos- phorescence, so brilliant that although the night was dark it was quite easy to recog- nize each other's faces by the light as we leaned over the rail looking at it. The whole thing was well defined at the edges and seemed like ‘a river of light in-the sea ‘Needless to say, we got all the passen- gers on deck to see the marvelous sight, and the watch below was also called for the same purpose. Being of a somewhat inquiring disposition, I got a bucket of the ‘brightness’ and put it aside Ull daylight, and on examining it then found it was full of little jellified fishes, about one inch long and a quarter of an inch thick, by three- quarters of an inch deep, and these swam phenome- cam Idana a in that Done I jumped out of my bunk to Gas and Electric Light Stocks.—Washington G: 49% old, Si asked. Georgetown Gas, 50 bid. U.S) Blectric’ Light, 114% bid, 115 ee es s. Chesapeake tomac, 51 bid. “Peonsyieuniay 37 bid, Miscellaneous Stocks.—Mergenthaler Linotype, 185% bid, 1854 asked. Lanston Monotype, 13% bid. American Graphophone, 13% bid. 13% asked. Amer: ican Gray preferred, x14 bid, 14l¢ asked. Pneumatic Gun Carriage, .17 bid. Washington Mar- ket, 1244 bid. Great Ice, 114 bid, 121 asked. Nerfollr” and Washington Steamboat, i$ ‘bid, 106 Baltimore Markets. j BALTIMORE, November 14.—Flour dull—: super, $2.25a$2.60; western extra, ‘S200 000 western family, $3.35a$3.60; winter Wheat, patent, merges = wncet patent. ere Wheat, straight, $3.55a§3.80; recel z ee 9,945 barrels, = re on their edges. Each little fish was highly phosphorescent and as they were packed so closely together in the sea, being fully one foot at least deep, the myriads emit- ted a combined light that accounted for the unusual sight we saw and the mass of them had obstructed the passage of the ship on the surface of the water. “Probably the recurrence of this phenom- enon may be ‘accounted for in the same manner. I will only add that the following forenoon was remarkable for the number of whales that were seen at no great dis- tance from the ship, but whether this could be connected with the mass of little fishes we had passed through must be a matter of conjecture.” ——__ e+ —___ His Reason for It. Mother—“Why, Tommy! you don't mean to say you took a second piece of pie when you were visiting, do you? Why did you my —“T just warited to show them was used ’ plenty to eat was at home.”