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relieve situations which might and would have led to far greater disasters if they had not been so promptly met and so skillfully handled. “From these facts in regard to the Ddanking situation, it would seem but a fair conclusion that the acute bank trou- bie is past: that payments may be and in are being resumed so rapidly that oe at conditions of payment and re- mittences may be now assured. ‘This does not mean, however, that busi- ness will at once revive, or that we are yet over the danger line. The panic ts over and the worst is past, but we have a long period of readjustment and recup- eration before us. Values of all kinds will have to be rearranged. We shal have more industrial and commercial fa! ‘ures, and probably some more bank fa ures. Many people who have been impru- @ent, will have to suffer the penalty of it. Dut ‘these will be individual cases, the results of particular conditions, and not @ue to the general conditfon of panic, when even solvent concerns are unable to secure funds to meet their payments We shall have to go through a period of retrenchment and liquidation, but there is reason to believe it will not be so long or trying as it has been at other times. Economy and self-denial are not pleasant, Dut they are most wholesome and salu- tary for a country as well as an individ- ual. We have been going too fast. in Business, and all classes of people have Been Itving-too extravagantly. It will be good for all of us to check this, as we shall now have to do. The period of readjustment should, however, be shorter and lees severe than it hes been after other panics. We have had a money panic as bad as 1893, but the fundamental strength of conditions has enabled us to stand the curtailment of credits and dis- of domestic exchanges, with far less disastrous results than in 1893. We have imported $100,000.000 of gold on commercial bills, without the aid of any finance bills whieh could not be sold at all. Our exports have paid for this great infusion of the life's blood into our arter- fes of commerce. The underlying sub- stantial wealth of our industrial and agri- cultural classes has saved us from a worse pante and will bring us out of the indus- trial depression which will follow as soon as-we have atoned for our financial, com- mercial and industrial sins. In due time this will be brought about. It will not come suddenly nor in the form of another boom in stocks and securi- t ‘but after we have paid our debts and reduced our expenses, the great re- sources of the land will revive our busi- ness, Jet us hope on a more sound and enduring basis than ever before.”’ /RULING OF JUDGE LEWIS —_—_ ‘WHAT IS SAID AT THE GEN- ERAL LAND OFFICE. AT THE WHITE HOUSE Hughes May Not Get Indorse- ment for Presidency. PARSONS IS IN CONTROL Woodruff Also Stands With Him for Brooklyn Organization. PLEASED WITH TAFT'S SPEECH President Believes It Will Do Tre- mendous Good in Strengthening Him Throughout Country. The inference of some words dropped at the White House today by Répre- sentative Bennet of New York is that Gov. Hughes will probably not get an indorsement for the presidency at the next meeting of the republican cémmit- tee of New York county the 16th of January. It was this committee, headed by Representative Herbert Parsons, that deferred action on any resolution of in- dorsement until the January meeting. Mr. Bennet, who is regarded as one. of the closest persona} friends and political lieutenants of Mr. Parsons, parried.prac- tically all questions relating to the po- litical situation in. New York, except to say, when pressed for an answér as to what the committee would probably do: “Mr. Parsons will have as many friends at the next meeting of the committée as he did at the last, and whatever he wants done will be done.” A It was strongly inferred that Mr. Par- sons is not ready to permit the Hughes beom to receive an indorsement. At arty rate the boom will not be indorsed on any demand from the Hughes peoplé. If Mr. Parsons considers that the time is ripe for such an indorsement, he will put through such a resolution as he desires and will sidetrack all resolutions fathered by Hughes’ admirers on the committee. All of which is supposed to demonstrate that Representative Parsons is stronger with the organization in New York than Gov. Hughes. The best information ts that “Mr. ‘Par- sons has rTeactied no conch as to what line of action he will pursué at. the next meeting, when the Hughes people will again attempt to force through a resolution of indorsement for their man. Mr. Parsons is understood to be busily engaged sounding the members of the committee to see what they will stand for. Personally he is a Taft man. and will Cases in Question Not Prosecuted by the Representatives of the In- terior Department. The commissioner of the general land office said today that his department hed not initiated the land fraud cases which heve come before Federal Judge Lewis at Denver, and which have, save in a few in-| Chairmen ‘Mmothy wWoeduit need ae stances, been dismissed by him. Although | the ocklyn organization, dislikes tho land office is co-operating in every possible way with the Department of Jus- tite im -bfinging fraudulent entrymen to justice, the Interior Department had noth- ing to do with bringing the indictments which have been quashed, and there are Intimations that the latter department pertially agrees with Judge Lewis in his Puling that the persons accused of ille- gally acquiring lands cannot be held under ‘the indictments as drawn, at least as they eppiy to violations of the timber and stone act. It 4s understeod that the land je about ready to call from sixty to ity violations of the land laws in the do region to thé attention of the jury. Some these may in- as ees ‘hersons whom judge wis ischarged. ‘Commissioner ged ey that it is id sean’, the. act of 1878 el of must make a Soyies et the ¢! of application that not take the lands for the benefit of any 0 ‘ther person. = Uhder the statute he does not have to Tepeat this at the time of proof, although with Mr. Parsons, privately at least, for Taft. The district leaders in both New York and Kings counties are with Parsons and Woodruff, but the two leaders do not know how quick they may be deserted by their men. and for that reason shy are proceeding with cautfon. The klyn organization holds a monthly meeting in a@ short time, and will have to confront Hughes resolutions also. 5 & : Mr. Bennet said he called at the White House in behalf of a constituent who wants a job. “At the beginning of every Congress I send letters to the 40,000 voters of my district asking them to call upon me for whatever I can do,” said Mr. Bennet, “and this’ case is one of them.” “Was there only one man wanting a “Nd there were 3,000.” n Appeal to Be Taken. At the Inst cabidet theeting of the yéar 1007, held today, the decision was reached by the President and Attorney General Bonaparte that the government ‘will yse every means in its power to bring about, } WB the depertment callg for 2 showing of this|in the higher courts, disapproyal of the at the tlme of progf, in order to obtain | decision rendered in Colorado by Judge ail_vidence possiblp indicating the good| Lewis that there is no law against citi- e of application. In id that a man may to the disposition of ‘s to obtain from the cases/which the land officers ly built on perjury and tions as to character of lunds. officer/of the land office is busily at Denver on these cases and is ependently of the De- faith at the a te te zens agreeing in advance to purchase coal or other public lands that may be ac- quired by others under what is known as the dummy entryman system. Attor- ney General Bonaparte said after the cabinet meeting that it was fortunate thet Congress last year passed a law giving the government the right to appeal in criminal cases, as undoubtedly the gov- ernment Would appeal to ite fullest extent against a decision quashing Indicfménts against men charged with illegally ac- quiring coal Jands. 5 Pleased With Taft’s Speech. in regard to the coal entry cases . jch have just been dismissed, but he p ode, his rtment had noth- | The speech of Secretary Taft fh Boston figetto With the prosecutions. yesterday wes pleasing to Présidétit = Roosevelt and those of his cabinet officers who are in sympathy with the can- @idacy for the presidency. The‘ Presi- dent believes that the speech of the #ec- 0 JUDGES ARE ILL SRS Ie Nesteneting™ hn QoS parte Oe si in ING IN GAS CONTROVERSY |!3, st7enethening him f west and forth: SPosTPONED. west, where a continuation 6f Roose- . velt policies is thought to be in demand. —_ Got Him Into Trouble. “Yes, Mr. President,” said a visitor to- dey. “I was a delegate from Connécticut at the Philadelphia convention and helped nominate you for Vice President. “Well, you don't know how much trou- ble you got me into,” was the quick reply of the President. F The visitor was Fi. H. Bridgeman of Norfolk, Conn., and he was one of three men who saw the President before the cabinet met. Today’s Cabinet Meeting. The desire of the governménté of France and the United States to conctude a par- celg post convention, whereby parcéls may be sent through the malls between the two countries. was one of the considerations of the cabinet session today. Postmaster General Meyer made the explanation that the reply of France to the initial proposi- tion of the United States had beén re- The “Bearing scheduled for Thursday next in the District Court of Appeals on the rule issued against Justice Ashley M. Gould and the Washington Gas Light Company, to show cause why a writ of prohibition should not issue against them, has been continued until Monday, Janu- ary & . The continuance is made necessary by the illness of Chief Justice Shepard and Associate Justice Van Ors- gel, both of whom are confined to their hemes with the grip. It is expected, however, that they will be able to attend court next Monday. Attorneys R. Ross Perry & Son, R. H. and Lambert & Mclean, on Behalf of the Washington Gas Light Com- pany. wil] file next Thursday the answer ‘t the rule to show cause, in which they will attempt to sustain the attion of Jus- tice Gould fm declarin= that the District Supreme Court has jurisdiction to hear and determine the apnlication of the gas company for the ascertat ceived, and was today rererred to Secre- cash of the canmeeys ae — Root, who will indicate to tne They will ask that the rule be dis- wherein the sugges- French tions of his government will make neéc- essary a variation in the ihiform conven- tions which the United States has'in forcé with all other Buropean countries x: Italy. Mr. Meyer would not go so far as say that the suggestions of France could not be complied with, but indicated that ‘bie for a convincing is to the desirability of adopting the uniform convention. —— WANTED HIS GAS BILL BACK. Sanche Got Only $250,000 From the Havana Company. NAPLES, December 31.—The extradition to New York of Jose Sanche was arranged of Columbia Commissioners { ‘writ of prohibition to prevent the farther of the company’s application ented. It is expected Justice Gould will file a formal return to the rule to show catse, but gg counse] for the gas com- pany argument of the == ‘eu law question Corporation Counsel Thomes will repre- sent the District of Columbia jon- ers wt the hearing next Monday, and will urge the court to prohibit further pro- in connection with gas com- Deny’s application to increase its capital — pode a, that the Equity Court LJ let! to entertaii ntertain the Prp- to America. Sanche was arrested here last June in company with his wife, at the re- quest of the authorities of Cuba. He is wanted on a charge of theft from the gas company at Havana. The couple, it Is alleged, got away with a large sum of money, sald to be not less than $250,- 000. were pursued from Havana to New York and thence to this city. ———e VALE JOHN BARLEYCORN. Prohibition Law Gees Into Effect in Alabama at Midnight. BIRMINGHAM, Ala, December 31.— At midnight the existence of saloons in Birmingham and Jefferson county, the largest county in the state, will terminate. It is estimated more than 250 estadlish- ments are affected. At many pieces today brandies and —_——_— WASHINGTON NAVY YARD. _—_— ‘Wage Scale Temporarily Postponed by Aseistant Secretary. Although Assistant Secretary Newberry acted finally in the matter of the scale of wares for 1908 for all the other navy ‘yards and stations, he found himself un- able to pass finally upon the wage sca'e rerorted for the mechanics and emploves of the Washington navy yard. He had @ conference on that subject during the Yerenoon with Mr. Curtis, eh'ef clerk of the department. and also gave a hearing to Messrs. Adams and Tucker of the loca! loser wnton, as @ result of which he t---=--==tly postponed action on Wile the scale as prepared by the ‘wage board of the local yard makes Nght inereases in the pay of two or three elaises of mechanics, it is sald to be not entirely satisfactory to certain other classes. It is possible that Mr. Newberry will find time to settle this question this afternoon or tomorrow. At any rate, the Beale of wages will take effect from to- oon regardiess of the exact date upon hich the order is signed. The matter The atsence ot Mr. ‘Newberry during a of ir. jewberry Ohristmas week. and even cheaper. Many vans of liquor have been délivered to and stocks on hand wi small. The nui larger dest saloon locations in the heart yesterday and the prisoner will soon go/ news of champsgnes were selling at “halt price | Of ii ae OPERATION TO WHICH DR. BTAFFORD WAS SUBJECTED. Prominent Medical Men Undertake a Delicate Piece of Surgery With Satisfactory Results. Rev. Father D. J. Stafford, pastor of 8t. Patrick's Church, who has been ill for trany months, was operated upon at Providence Hospital at 11 o'clock this morning. Those in authority at the hospit- al gave out a ‘statement that the operation Was successfully pérformed ‘and that br. Stafford is doing as well as can be ex- pected. The operation occupied twenty-six min- utés It was a very delicate and unusual one, and was performed by Dr. George Tulley Vaughan, assistant surgeon gen- éral_of the United States public health &nd marine hospital, service, assisted by Dr. George Emerson Brewer of the Roose- velt Hospital, New York; Dr. L. F. Barker of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore; Dr. James F. Mitchell. of this city, and Dr. iSnclatr Bowen and Dr. George N. Acker. Dr. John B. Biscoe administered the anesthetic, assisted by Dr. Rozier Bayly of this city. e The array of surgical and médical talent mentioned was brought together by Dr. Sinclair Bowen, who has had charge of -Dr. Stafford’s case during his long illness. LIEUT. LAHM REPORTS WILL GIVE ADVICE REGARDING AERIAL NAVIGATION. —_—_——_ Lieut. Frank P. Lahm, the young signal officer who has Attained ‘international fame as a long-distance aetorfaut, having made the record flight over Europe about & year ago, arrived in Washington today and reported for duty to Gen. Allen, the chief signal officer. Lieut. Lahm was for- merly’ attached to the cavalry branch of the army. but. his interest in aerial navi- Bation led him to seek and procure a transfer to the signal corps, which is charged with the maintenance of military balloons, The officer will remain in Wash- ingtén on duty at the signal office for a time in order to give the behefit of his expert advice to the officials in the ¢on- sideration of the plans which have been invited for dirigible balloons and heavier- ‘than-air machines. While in Paris Lieut. Lahm: was fortu- fate enough to be able to attend some of the exceedingly interesting, experi- just | mental flights that were being attempted by Santos-Dumont and other.pioneers in aerial navigation, and he had an r= tunity to see the aeroplane upon which yesterday Henry Farman made the re- markable world’s récord on an open course of one kilometer over a circular course, which, if he is able to repeat today, be- fore the judges appointed for that pur- pose, wi!l_win for him. the long contested Deutsch prize of $16,000. FREER’S \ BIBLE ‘ FIND oO DISCOVERY MUST: BE-HANDLED —~ WITH DIGNITY,™. DETROIT, Mich., December 31.—Charteg L.. Freer of this city, who. digcavered the Egyptian biblical 5 smounced yesterday in Chicago by Prof: Henry A. Sanders, said today that he found the manuscripts in a little Egyptian. shop Where he was bunting for-treasures in pottery. Mr. Freer would not describe the location of the sbop, as he said it was possible there were stifl other treas- urés to be found there. H€ added that Tough estimates led to the opinion that thé documents will be found to belong to a date somewhere from the third to the geventh century. “We expect.” said Mr. Freer, “that the entire substance of the manvscript will be given to the world and managed with the same dignity that characterize the production of scientific discoveries in Eu- Tope. The subject of the Bible should fet be handled with anything but dig- Nity, and the sayings of Jesus with any- thing but the utmost reverence.” ——- NURSE TOOK POISON BODY OF THE MISSING WOMAN FOUND IN A FIELD. -WHITE PLAINS, December ‘31.—Alice Maud Harvey, the trained nurse who disappeared on Christmas ! afternoon from the home of Mrs. J. 0; Hobby in Prospeet street, here, and who. it was yet ab at first. might prové to be the trl found murdered in a pond in Har- ‘igon, N. J., on Christmas night, was ‘ound last night dead in a feld be- ‘een this place and Mamaroneck. Be- side the girl lay an empty bottle that had contained carbolic acid. . +A newspaper clipping found beside the girl's body, and events in her life that came to the knowledge of. the police tonight, prove beyond doubt that the girl killed herself because she feared SEEost, on_a charge of adultery under he New Jersey law. i. ‘The clipping, cut from a NeWark news- paper of recent Gate, told the story of the atrest in Manhattan December 21 of Dr. J.-A. Taff, whose wife, Nettie, charged him with abandonment. The story told ftow ‘the wife had traced Dr: Taff to a poarding Mouse in Washington street, Newark, N. J., where she had found him living with a trained nurse, who was nm to Others in the house as his wife. mn a piece of white notepaper, to which this clipping was pinned, were scribbled the words in penelil: *“Tam this woman.” The White Plains police communicated with the police of Newark and learned that Mrs. Taff had applied for and re- ¢eived a wartant for the arrést of Alice Maud Harvey for adultery three weeks of. The warrant was issue by Judge lowell, but was never served, for within @ day or so after its issue Miss Harvey left New Jersey to take the position with Mrs. Hobby. Disappeared Christmas Day. The git! remained with Mrs. Hobby until Christmas Gay, when, in the afternoon, she announced that she was going for a walk. She was never seen again until) found dead last night. Miss Harvey re- gives @ letter by special Geltvery on hristmas morning, and it is row believed by, the police that this letter contained the warrant having beén isued. They believe that Miss Harvéy left New Jersey without knowing that there was a Warrant for her afrest. It was remarked by abet of the Hobby family that Miss Harvey appeared after the receipt of, the letter. hecame very nervous and depressed, Josing the spirits that had made her an ideal rutee. When she announced that she was going for a walk the girl was her nurse’s costume, and this she did not change. Mrs. Hobby believed that she ‘ntended to return shortly. Her failure to co so caused the Hob- pe to appeal to the police on Christmas ot finer ‘On the following day’ the body r her. following day the body the aurdeee’ woman was found in the rrisoh swamp, and thet afternoon two en who refused their names visited r in company with a Manhattan jective to try and identify the body as that of Miss Harvey. \ All trace of the girl was Jost, how: ever, until last night, when George Purdy “Rosedale, the small settlement be- ‘ween this place and Mamaroneck, came the girl's body in a field near "3 woods, about 300 feét from the ttolley line between this place and Mamaroneck. A conductor bi this line viewed the body and said he thought thi @irl had ridden out on his car about 5:3 o'clock Christmas Sabnba It ig prob- able that she killed herself op that day. PRONOUNCED TO BE SUCCESS|CHANCELLOR TO HUGHES /CALLS NEGROES INCAPABLE SUPERINTENDENT REVOKES AUTHORITY GIVEN ASSISTANT. Review of the Latest Controversy Affecting the Public Schools. Views of Attorney. Dr. William E. Chancellor, superin- tendent of public schools, has sent an- other letter and added another chapter to his fight with the board of education. This letter is directed to Percy M. Hughes, assistant superintendent for white schools, and revokes authority given to Mr. Hughes during absences from the District of the school head. Mr. Hughes will advise Dr. Chancellor, it is understood, that he will accept the revocation of authority so far as the let- ter of the superintendent covers it. The letter from the superintendent of Schools to the assistant follows: “Dear Sir—Authority was delegated to you by me at some time prior to the summer vacation to exercise certain | 5) powers of the superintendent of schools, not statutory, and when nécessary,-dur- ing my proposed absence or absences from the District of Columbia for con- siderable perlods of time. “Such authority, whether explicit or implicit, is hereby revoked, of which revocation this is notice.” Powers of Superintendent. The letter is along the same line as that sent to Harry O. Hine, secretary of the board of education, several days ago, in which Dr. Chancellor gave Mr. Hine au- thority to exercise the powers of superin- tendent, not statutory, during his absence, and in which he revokes any similar au- thority ho hed given to any one else Dr. Chancellor was informed that his or- der was illegal. under the rules of the board of education. It was maintained at that time that he had given the powérs he wished to confer on Mr. Hine to Asst. Supt. Hughes. The letter of revocation re- ceived today by Mr. Hughes !s a result. While the letter {s regarded as indicat- ing that an-estrangement exists between the superintendent and the as#istant su- perintendent, it is said to be more of a slap at the board of education. This par- ticular controversy started with the meet- ing of the board December 20. at which it approved requisitions for text books on the signature of P. M. Hughes, assistant superintendent. Dr. Chancellor objected to some of the text books calted for, it is decJared, andghe, in a letter to the Com- mm ers, maintained that the action was illegal, on the ground that Mr. Hughes had no authority to sign the req- ulsitions. Mr. Hughes said that he had letters of authority from the superintend- ent and the board paid no attention to the protest of the superintendent. Declined to Honor Order. ‘When Dr. Chancélior tried to delegate his powers to Secretary Hine and revoke those given to Mr. Hughes the board re- fused to honor the order of the superin- tendent, and dointed out that: their rules placed Mr. Hughes in the position of act- ing superintendent. He had further authority, the board maintained, in letters from the super- intendent. Therefore, the letter of revocation today is understood as di- rected ugainst the board, with tie view of preventing it from. giving Mr. Hughes the power of superintendent during the absence of Dr. Chancellor and m approving of more requisi- tions on Mr. Hughes’ signature. Stuart McNamata, counse) for the board, stated today that he has found that the acts of Mr. Hughes since the illness of Dr. Chancellor have been within his authority as assistant su- perintendent, even without any letters from Dr. Chancellor granting addition- al authority. Mr. icNamara also stated that Mr. Hughes, assistant su- perintendent, may sign requisitions for articles needed in the schools, notwith- standing the letter today irom Dr. REARREST OF HAYES BANK TELLER BEFORE vu & COMMISSIONER. anomas G. Hayes, formerly receiving teller of the American National Bank, who was arrested December 21 upon a warrant alleging the embezzlement of $535.32 of the bank’s funds, and who was subsequently released on $2,500 bail pend- ing a hearing, was rearrested this morn- ing at his apartment in the Champlain, 1424 K = street northwest by Deputy United States Marsnal Wilkerson. The ar- rest was made upon a warrant issued last evening by United States Commissioner Anson 8. Taylor, alleging that Hayes, in two instances, violated section 5209 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, em- bracing part of the laws known a8 the na- tional banking act. The warrant was sworn to by Owen T. Reeves, jr.. the national bank ex- aminer who has been Investigating thé books of the American Nations! Bank since a short time before Hayes was first arrested. Two Charges Specified. The examinér alleges that Hayes, on November 14, 1907, while acting as re- ceiving teller of the bank, made a false entry, showing that the W. F. Brenizer Company had deposited $2,756.65 on that day, when the money actually had been deposited November 9, 1007. The second charge is that, on December 11, 1907, the teller embezzled certain checks amounting to $4,780.62 of the bank’s funds. Shortly after noon Hayes appeared at Commissioner Taylor's of- fice in company with his attorney, Jackson Ralston, and Deputy Marshal Wilkerson. The government was rep- resented by Assistant District Attorney Jesse Adkins. The warrant Wus pro- duced and read to Hayes, whd declared that he was nog guilty. Attorney iston explained that Hayes is under a bohd of $2,500 to ap- pear in the Police Court whén lis case is called upon a charge of embeszie- ment, and that he hoped the additiona] bond would be made as light us possi- ble in view of the fact that his client would have to pay for the additional bond, where in the first instance the bondsman was a personal friend of the defendant. Mr. Adkins asked for a bond in the sum of $5,000, and in case this amount was futnished to have the bond in the Police Court canceled. It was stated by Mr. Ralston that his client desired an addi- tional bond smaller than $2,500, and as the assistant district attorney would not agree to a total bond of less than 85,000, Commissioner Taylor fixed the additional amount at $2,500. Dr. W. W. Stewart was offered as surety by the defendant and accepted. . Accused Was Nervous. After @ short deliberation a decision was reached to hold the preliminary hearing December 8, at 10 o'clock. Hayes appeared very nervous today. Once, when Dr. Adkins explained to the commissioner that entries had been erased from the receiving teller’s ledger, the de- fendant interrupted him for a moment with the remark that this book was at- tended to by one of the other clerks of the bank and no entry was ever made by the receiving teller. ——— Bomb Factory Unearthed. SEVASTOPOL, Russia, December 31.— One of the most complete bomb factories ever discovered in Russia hag been un- earthed at a farmhouse twenty miles from heré. It consisted of a complete apparatus for the manufacture of high explosives. Twenty-seven loaded ot the most destructive t. and 120 such implements in unfinis! condition were seized and three men arrested at the farmhouse. : FORCIBLE ADDRESS DELIVERED BY SOUTHERN JUDGE. Bx-Senator Norwood Says the Mu- latto Is the Cause of Both Races. Proposed Legislation. SAVANNAH, Ga., December 31.—Thos, M. Norwood, former representative and ex-United Stetes senator from Georgie, delivered a remarkable address upon thé race question today, the occasion being his retirement from the bench of thé city court, a place he had occupied for twelvé years. The judge said that after investigation and long contact with the negro as & defendant in his court he had reachéd the conclusion that the black is incapable of receiving and using more than the rudi- ments of an education. The negro, as 4 slave, was cared for by the white man, hée said, but the present generation is retro- grading to the status of the savage and his rule by force. This is shown by the constant disregard of laws, repeated re- stance of arrest and shooting down of white men who attempt to contro! them. The mulatto is the curse of both the white and negro race in the south, said Judge Norwood. They stir the others to deeds of violence and create discord. I!- Ueit miscegenation, hé held, should be repressed by the most vigorous laws. It should be made a capital offense, the guilty man hanged and the woman sent to the penitentiary for life. ——— DEATH COMES QUICKLY JOHN 8 ANDERSON DIES ON WAY TO OFFICE. John S. Anderson, sixty years of age, who was employed as a clerk in the ‘Treasury Department, died suddenly this morning while on his way to his office. He had not complained of sicknéss before leaving his home, 2106 Ward place, but when the street car upon whieh he was & passenger reaehed Pennsylvania avenue and 18th street he became ill. He was assisted to the establishment of N. E. Besson, Pennsylvania avenue and 18th streét, where he died before médical as- sistance could reach him. A call was sent to the Emergency Hospital for assistance, but death claimed the eldérly man be- fore th¢ arrival of the physician in charge of the vehicle. The body was rémoved to the hospital and the coroner was notified. Coroner Nevitt decided that death was due to heart failure, and gave a certificate accordingly. - The néws of the sudden déath of Mr. Anderson was a great shock to hit fellow- employes and friends in the Treasury. He was One of thé oldest clerks in thé treas- urer’s office, having entered that service in 1866—over forty-one years—ago. He was in the division of loans. Mr. Ander- son was born in 1848 and was in his six- tieth year. He was a native of the Dis- trict. His wife has been dead for sév- eral years and he had no children. So far as known in the treasurer's office Mr. Anderson had been in good health. BIG DROP IN REVENUE GOVERNMENT'S FISCAL SHOW- ING FoR THE PAST MONTH. The forthcoming report of the govérn- ment rectipts and expenditures for tie month ending today will show a decrease in the receipts, as compared with Decem- ber of last year, of $8,520,152 afd af in- crease in expenditures of $0,381,414, mak- ing the net difference $17,910,508. The largest decreaee in the recéfpts is frém customs, where the loss is $6,885,068. in- ternal revenue shows a decrease Of $2,- 768,645 and miscellaneous receipts an in- creasé of $1,135,452. The several items of éxpehditure show an increase in civil and miscellaneous of $3,500,000; jn war, an incréase of $1,500,000; in navy, an increase of nearly $4,000,000, For pensions there was an increase of $2,400,000. For public works the expenditures for the month were nearly double those for December, 1906, the increase being from $4,843,711 to $8,899,000. The receipts and expenditures during the last few days of the present month do not show any material improve- ment wher: compared with those for the earlier days in the month. STOESSEL'S SURRENDER FORTRESS MUST HAVE sOON FALLEN. itt ST. PETHRSBURG, December 31.—The trial by court-martial of Lieut. Gen. Stoessel, for the surrender of thé Port Arthur fortress to the Japanese, entered upon its final stage today. ‘The court heard evidence upon the coun- cil of war of December 29, when the mem- bers of the council refused to entertain the suggestion of surrender, and the ac- tual capitulation. The prosecution intro- duced the estimate of Gen. Smirnoff that thé resistance could have been prolonged for six weeks more. Several witnesses testified to the indig- nation with which the proposal to capitu- late was received by the council of war, but certain officers from the firing line gave contradictory evidence, and intimated that the boldest counsels against sur- render were given by, those who were sta- tioned farthest from the enemy. The troops were dispirited and sick, almost to @ man, with scurvy, it was declared, and if the capitulation had been delayéd the fortress would have fallen before the first vigorous attack of the Japanese. —_—— OFFICIAL DROPPED DEAD. Apoplexy Carries Off French Minis- ter of Justice. PARIS, December 3t.—Jean Francois Edmond Guyot-Dessaigne, the French minister of justice, dropped dead of apo- plexy during this morning's session of the senate. M. Guyot-Dessaigne was in an entee- bled condition, worn out with his par- Naméntary labors. Parliamént has been working under high pressure tirough- out the holidays, sitting night and day in an effort to finish the budget before the new year. The principal point at issue has been the new plan proposed by the chamber of deputies for the valuation of incomes derived from land, which is de- signed to prepare the way fot the early enactment of an income tax law. On account of the death of’ M. Guyot- Déssaigne, the reguler New Yeer day re- ception of President Fallieres at the Elysee Palace and other official receptions have been canceled. M. Guyot-Dessaigne was born in 1833. He entered the public service tn 1863; In- 1885 he was élécted to the chamber of deputies and in 1880 was appointed minis- ter of justice in the Floquet cabinet, His present tenure of office dates from Oc- tober 23, 1906. He was a memiber of the Legion of Honor. 5 —___—_—_——_ Veteran Physician Burned to Death. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., December 31.—Dr. Thomas BE. Williams, a veteran physician of Hanover county, near here, was burned to death in his. home this morning while attempting to go back into the burning dwelling to save & watch. His s6n and daughter tried to save him, and reachéd hia prostrate body by crawling on Aheir hands an@ knees. They were severely burned, but will recover. The aged doc- tor’s bedy was found in the débris of the burned dwelling this morning. He, was seventy-two years old. The house,-one of the handsomest thereabouts, was a total; loss. oped into pneumonia. He leaves a widow. two ters and a son. The son, Charles, ts a senior in the academic de- partment of Yale and ts manager of the unt crew. He was recovering from &@ severe attack of typhoid fever when the father was stricken. . Seymour was born in Hudson. Ohio, in 1848 He was graduated from Weetern College in 1870, contin- uing his studies later tm Leipsig and Ber- tn. From 1872 to 1880 he occupied the chair of Greek at Western Reserve. leav- fing, there in the latter year to accept a professorship at Yale. From 1887 to 1907. he was chairman of the Amertean School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece. At the time of his death he was pres- ident of the Archeological Institute of America, which recently held its annual meeting tn Chicago. He was American editor of the Classical Review (Glasgow). | coeditor of the coliege series of Greek authors, and an associate fellow of the Ameriéan Academy of Arts and Sciences. At uthor of text books Prof. Sey- Mour’s accomplishments were consider- able. In his specialty, the study of the Homeric writings and times, he produced @ number of monographs and only a few months his magnum opera appeared, entitled ‘Life in the Homeric Age.” See SUCCESSOR TO BROWNSON. Choice May Not Be Made Before Thursday. It was expected that promptly upon the President's return, and certainly follow- ing the first cabinet meeting thereafter, somé announcement would be made as to the successor of Rear Admiral Brownson as chief of the bureau of navigation. It was said, however, this_afternoon, that |the matter had not been decided at the cabinet today, and that possibly a choice might not be made before Thursday. The tatter statement is understood to, mean that the Navy Department is in communication relative to tne succession ‘with some officer or officers not now in thig city. It was stated this afternoon that the or- dérs for Surgeon Stokes to take command ANGRY MOTHERS RISE Will Try to Break Up Girls’ Greek Letter Society. NERVE-RACKING TERRORS One Girl Falls Unconicious After Her Initiation. : DRINKING FROM .A . SKULL Clammy Hand Grasp, - Branding With Ice and Nauseating Drink. Neophytes Half Stripped. = a NEW YORK, December 31.—The netve- racking, éven though fancied, terrors of | an initiation, into @ Gréek létter society of girls, students in private and prépara- tory schools in the city, catisef a meeting of twenty angry mothers at the home of Mrs. Elisabeth Moore, No. 2884 Broadway, yesterday afternoon. Their fitst purpose ts to break up the local organisation of the Sigma Gamma Soctety, and thatt séc ond ts to start a campatgn throughout the country against secret societies among school girls. It was the story of Julia MMjs, not yét seventeen, as told by her to her mother, that caused Mrs. Mills to teke the first steps against what she considers a dan- gerous organization. There are twenty- six members of the local chapter 6¢ the society. Miss Josephine Mooré, daughtér | of the naval hospital ship Relief had not Of Mrs. Elza¥eth Moore. is the high|been issued by Secretary Metcalf. who priestess of the ordeft. Julia Mills was Bee fad the matter werore him for several lay’ The girl staggered home, half hysterical, and Mrs. Mille demanded an éxpianation. of the mothers. : The initiation was held at the Moore ADMIRAL EVANS’ FLEET. “Initiated” Saturday night. 4 ARRIVE AT MAGDALENA BAY Fattly burning with indignation, she re- Staggered Home Half Hysterical. peated the story yesterday at the meeting | scoyp CRUISERS PRECEDING home. ed ste according Bed her story, was a a of Ad mmoned to appear there last Saturday. els Under Command o: ° When she was ushered in she was idee deed into & dimly lighted room. Between-two| miral Dayton Will Engage in columns of black-robed, biack-masked fig- ures ashe was led up fo the high priest- Target Practice. obs. —_—_—__—= to prove ‘yourscrt At {9 become, © sister d Q id 7 ie a sister! The arrival of the armored cruisers Ten- i, en ony cane neasee and Washington, commanded by * she answered, and was led to| Rear Admiral Sebree, at Magdalena bay an antéfoom. At a signel ‘sie was led | practically completes the present cruise back to the assembi and told .that| of those vessels over the same course ae this first test there could be né| now being followed by the battleship baa Diet fiset and the tornedo flotilla. The two Test of Fortitude. big cruisers have now arrived within the “This will be a test Of your fortitude, | ome of the Pacific fleet command, and ot your fitness to be a. sister. You are| t#ke their place with the Callfornia and ordered to thrust your hand'into a small | Suth Dakota in the second division of caldron of molten lead which you sée be- | the first squadron of the Pacfic fleet, un- fore you. Ready! Obey orders!” der Rear Admiral Dayton. Miss Mills dashed her hand into the| The West Virginia, Colorado, Maryland uid and sank to hér knees tr fright. and- Pennsylvania, constituting the firet After she recovered her composute in| division of the fieet. have sailed under Part she was surprised to note that the| command of Admiral Dayton from San Spidron was filled with pyeroety: Again | Francisco for the rendezvous for target she Was led from the room. ‘hen she | work, to join the Washington and Ten- returned shé was told té step ovér some | nésseé. This will be the first te: prat lows to the top of some blocks. | tice for any of the shi The California ‘hile she was maintaining her balance | @nd South Dakota will shortly be ready foe the priestess told her that the pil-| for sea service, and will be sent to Mag- ws Rid a trap door and she’ must drop | daléna bay to make up the actual line out of sight. formation of the second division. With Suddenly the lights -wént out. two full divisions Admiral Dayton will ié felt the blocks givé way ath | thén conduct a series of manéuvers and er and she felt Herself down, down— | battle tactics on the lines of the work and then land on the Bhoee A rope led out in the Atlantic fleet for the ha@ been tied to the lowest block and a bred time off the Virginie capes lest Au- st. ee ee ee ‘The Tennessee and Washington le Test of the Clamiiy Hand. Hampton roads October 12, and made “a Oneé again she was ted into the ante-| Voyage to Magdalena bay in two months room and brought back blindfolded. A | ® 4 eighteen deys. The schedule of the droning voice told of a dattleship fi¢et allows full three months severed, clammy | for the same voyage, the excess being aes which each of the beloved sisters | made up by secae wet enet oe es Srasped before becoming o jean ports. All the vessels of the Pacific order A priestess was ordeeta wo wrine | fleet, under Rear Admiral Dayton, will peieny N€ | have. completed their target practice and @ tray thé hand. have left Magdalena bay before the At- ‘The candidate was ordéred to grasp the | lantic ficet, commanded by Rear Admiral hand, for which she could only feel. Shud- | Evans, arrives there, but it is expected dering, she involuntarily drew back her | that both fleets will be together at San oe when she felt the clammy fingers. Francisco later in the summer. fie Mott tacorent or fae iftto the —_—_—— a] 5 orant 0: 6 fact that she WHISKY AND uSibed oe eee ns nes sand, an & huma: ‘ d man hand. | wermen George Gets Thirty Days for Assault. Herman George. a laborer, was sent ,Again she was led forth, this time to fink a nauseating liq out of a skull. which liquid “would servé to make her of one blood with her ether-prospective sis- ters.” Revolting at each gulp, she was | to jail for thirty days today. in default compelled to drain the . 86 ti.3 netve- | Of $10 fine for assaulting Tinimie Mc- racking tests went on. ally the voice| Farland, a newsboy, at Pennsylvania of the priéstess was heard to sdy: Final Supreme Tést. _ _ “Now for the final supreme test. Gather all your remaining courage —which by this time was & minus quantity=“and pre- avenue and 9th street yesterday after- noon. Policeman Groff of the first pre- einct station testified he saw the ac- cused first knock a small girl over, thén ¢ross the street and assault the boy. The child was badly bruised, and a large bundle of papers thrown into the mud and made unsalable. “What wus the trouble?” asked Judge Kimball, as the fptonte took the stand in his own behalf. “Whisky and quinine for the grip,” answered George. “Too bad, too bad,” replied the court. “The pharmaceut'! compound was ev- idently not properly balanced. Guilty.” ——e—_—_——_——. URGE CIVIL SERVICE. District Commissioners Have For- pare for the most severe test df all. Faith- ful guardians, lead the candidate to an ante-toom, strip her to the waist, birid her arms behind her and then: bring her back.” In a few moments thé girl, now almost hysterical, was brought back. Then the same droning voice went on: “In order that this ceremony be indelibly Placed on your mind, it is necéssaty that the létters of our beloved fraternity be burned your back in acid. Guardians, brand the candidate.” At the first touch Miss Mills sank sense- jess to the floor. When she had been re- vived it was explained to her that the warded Bill to Congress. bgaea had “been done with a piece of! the Commissioners have forwarded to The initiators then took off-thelr robes, | Chairman Smith of the House District congratulated the ‘worn-out | committes a bill providing that the civil er) Sec Cue eee eee and counter- | service law be amended so as to cover the Os municipal government of the District. Poy Se nee enitakeion webiad _ The measure provides that no person érs who belong to college fraternities. shall be employed or promoted in the serv- en ee ice of the District government except ELOPERS. TO RETURN. upon competitive examinations, as pro- vided for and required for entrance to the Rev. Cooke and Companion Will| service of the United States. Come East to Marry. In the letter to Chairman Smith for- BAN FRANCISCO, December 31.-The | W#*8ing the proposed bill the Commts- Rev. Jere Knode Cocke, who disappearea | *ioners say in explanation: from his residence when his identification | “The Commissioners are deeply im- became known, together with his young pressed with the necessity for the pro- companion, Floretta Whaley, and their] Poted lestslation, which also hes the ap- baby, was located here against last night. proval of the Unted States civil service He is staying at the home of @ friend,|commission. In their judgment the of where he and his companion aré comfort- Sans ot On Dipistet aytermntet anos ably situated. conducted on the principles applicable to ' Cooke those governing the successful conduct of Prestiaptik oy paylines he bait other latge business interests. These con- urn east a8 Boon as hé can Bet | sigerations apply in even higher degree to enough money together to travel, and a8/ the District service than to that of other soon as matters can be arranged he will| municipalities, because its government is marry Miss Whaley. non-partisan in character. The Commis- sioners have maintained a merit system, Xe ie “exbected XHEt the srantubrocr ot fneluding competitive examinations, in the young lady will send her the funds | certain cases, the results of which have necessary to return east. * Déen Of such @ satisfactory character as The head of a San Francisco detective | to confirm them in their belief in the em- agency named in connection with the - | ciency of that course, and to satisfy them sibie ‘arrest of Cooke stated last night | that the enactment of a law of the kind that they had not received any instruc-| herein recommended would result in the tions from the east concerning Cooke; | betterment of every branch of the Dis- that so far as they knéw thefe wa no / trict government.” pir Shap for his aie ig © they, Mb id Se spittle arty Rigokee trot John Mitchell Recuperating. ss nothing to 6 Cooke from . where he Dinased. ana they were not évén |, EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo., December Ln pe | trace of him. % 81.+John Mitchell of Indianapolis, pres- e police ere not locking for Cedke, gl ligent of the United Mine Workers of Seopa eee a eateat for the er Atuerica, is here to enjoy a period of rest, preachér’s arrest on the charge of juc-| which, according to present plans, will tion, and that the local authorities will be | extend over a period of about three weeks. asked to find and hold the fugitive. Mr. Mitchell reached here yesterday, ac- nied by his brother, David Mitchell, ener compa’ THOMAS D. SEYMOUR DEAD. | #74. pacccetvots secretary. He has gained sincs his recent recurrence of Yale Professor and ” mess atid today said he felt no bad ef- Foremeat | fects trom the trip from Indienepolis. Homeric Scholar-in- America. Special Dispatch to The Star. engine Sale in Southeast. “NEW HAVEN, December 31.—Thomas| Stone & Fairfax, real estate corporation, Day Seymour, professor of Greek in Yale report another sale near Lincoln Park, as University and the foremest Homeric] they fecently sold the two-story brick scholar in America, died this morning at ee th sptionae Pr eeeaach ce: his home in this city, after an illnéss of | A-. t. less than three weeks. Prof. Seymour|&n¢ age} a ee ee was takén with a severe-attick Of grip] nis future home. ‘He waa te $5,800 | early in December, which rapidly devél-|in the ion, j 4 4