The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 15, 1899, Page 2

red THE SEATTLE STAR B. i, WELLS & C0, Publisbers, Kvery afiermoon except sunday, | BF OMAS K 1, WELLS. n Nuwewmas MaANacen Borron, | sik Gents por wee Wetivered No free Gne cent par Copye ty Ove cents per mon! «, alwaye ih aden Telephone Pike 160. < Phird Avenue », Washing OMines No 1107 = Lavored at the pastoifice at Beat! ton, as second olans ¥ ef honor in Kentucky ts dee very similar to the French article—bhaff, bluster, a drop of blood, reconeiliation, and cham- The old American method of « a duel, tteing the left arma with the right hands free pagne ther, to wield butcher knives, ts out of dat The other day at Lexington, wky, Cel, Jack Chinn and State Senstor Bronston went about the str breathing fire and de- fiance from their. nostrils, and threatening to slay each other on sight of the populace took to tall timber and the close frien of belligerent gentlemen greatly exerciaed, When the me mot theyglared at eachother, breath- ed some more fire, and passed on. No shots were fired, and no one was killed, but each had called the were other's bleff, and perhaps each now Easter dress parades. Fringe foun-| knows the other Is afraid. Virginia musiin or cloth pouched lace bloure J 4 | |b img wp behind or on the) | shoulder and under the arm, Many women are buying with thelr mohatr- mualin gowns enough of the goods to have & togue made to miatoh on costume, and they are sitting up in the twisted muslin wings and quillla, colored In pale rose and wedgewood blue, and fastening ail Uve trimming with atlvered or gilded skewers that the milliners have Juat got In stook, nodes Sine wih aannat ie esas EOlled a Rejected Measure. | spring Rridesmaida and even | brides are going to wear it, and the reason is plain enough, (t ts so bril- [Mant and becoming—<allver-white ts |e white that has a sheeny surface, like satin, and then on thin surface | | te woven In cream-white all any /RIVEh AND HARBOR BILL ERROR | form of ornament, from a polka dot to wreaths of flowers. As a result we have a novelty that comes like the spangled net In dress pieces, ready {o put on a foundation and needing no decoration. Some of these tints are made up with over- Employees of the Enrolling De- skirts falling in a series of colum-| bine pointe upon knee-deep knife; Pertment Oousen A | platings, and sometimes the skirt at Washington. acems to open all the way from hip to foot by means. of a series of| apnea, charming litte buttena, | Quite an handsome and fresh to the eye are the spring cloth dreanes, lavishly orned with ik fringe. WASHINGTON, Mareh 15.—One of the unaccountable mistakes that some times ooour in enrojling appro- MIST AKE | five wermih, Now from time to time there has been talk and speculation about fringe, but at the present moment it has arrived and will’ make its presence ornamentally felt In the cen are the desire of every woma' Priation bills under pressure, and which make the law quite different from what wae intended, has just been discovered tn the river and harbor bill, Inetead of appropriat- * Ing $300,000 simply for the _ ment of the Galveston ship channels heart Some hoarding souls have - se rich old fringes twenty years old to where the duello flourishes, and 00W) pring forth from trunks and linen and Buffalo bayou from the fetties at Galveston to the proposed harbor site at Houston, it seeme an if ¢ has long since ceased to de a state) Kontucky bids fair to follow in her| wrappings, and flaunt in their grows had really ado : footsteps. friends’ envious faces. fringes ment for BA an cy lta V—_—_—_—— run from three inches to three feet! so patiently anéd had put the whole ~ Quite recently it was asserted that) In depth, with the tasselly finish to | work under the contract system at a the Filipinos on the Istand of Luson| the open meshed net portion quite) cost of not to exceed $2,000,000, with wore stubborn fighters,and that they | °° | $900,000 to be Immediately avaliable oe wane teal ; sore | The Mil o " wore ugly foes from the fact that} Aluneie 2: witow av. wabinidrenn | wt tac THLE eee tay tee oo they had recefved military train-) Henrietta cloth, silk poplin, of rich | ¢e refused absolut ing under the Spaniards The ex-| mohair, is moat approvedly con- ypegtines <3 Abed emo perience General Wheaton's brigade] treated with black or a shade of| to an addition of to their or- is having just at present makes the| Teen #0 deep it ts termed depth-of-| iginal amount. Mr. threatgned a the-forest green, and here te where | to Mibuster the bili if the cath of every Fillpino seem almost! tne fringe comes tn. You have a te ble amend: like the massacre of a chattering| plain, slightly trained skirt, and you! ment, but report came ol monkey. Although the Fillpinos are) lay your deep of narrow Mounce | for disc on Friday night well armed, and are in greatly su-| round it in two rows from the Knees! he did at all. The bill, perior force, they give wey and seok down, or lay on In pointe, Over your) as Te ihe Pediteat aed as cover from the steady and perstetent | STSt" Waist you place your fringe in| printed temey Gs) law t form, wal a [a pouched front from the bust down, | contains. both . aKreed advance of the comparatively small jetting the tassels fail out about) upon in canference the Milla band of Americans. The Fillptnos| your hips, snd thus arrayed you will) amendment Re follow- are proving treacherous, but not} get your due attention and admira-|ing the other, ting clerks stabborn fighters. ‘They are too| tion from your own observing sex. of the house In some Way Inserted | pas agree the amendment which was stricken much like the Spaniards to make much of a fight If Uncle Sam on|o¢ any progressive modiate, and you Luzon had 100,000 Sioux to fight, in- stead of Filipinos, netther this| and satin evening gowns with white) seen which country nor the combined powers) oF colored fringe, In the mesh of could clean them out except at hor-| Which pearls are which will prosecuting Fible sacrifice to Ufe. ua. | the work. Aue queetion wilt prob- ably be submitted to the attorney ‘The project to build a cruiser to be called the “American Boy,” from) Make your way into the sanctum contributions of school children Prary Mined sary oe weg i Ped throughout the country, has been ’ Boose 4 pA md beg meeting with success, and great! One surprising phase of the con- ne ee et eredit t# due to the originator, W.) tinental interest In Cuba te the num- Rankin Good, a bright Cincinnatt; ber of inquiries that have come from Charges Country Check Jad. But the friends of the enter-| young men who ate looking for) wey a Peg Mareb ane prise who have contributed money) Wives, who wa@t to know what the | ciegring house committer adopted to forward it along, are entitled to Chances are for marriage and a hap- &n accounting. It seems that ro one Lf neune “Sona: Cane te connected with the management of yearnings, the fond knows exactly how much’ a bride tn money has been taken In up to the the language of | following companies were Incorper- | if | stock ts fully paid wp and Mr, Hall- eck owns all but four shares. | Thorne, of | Knox, Frea W | Babylon. Present time. There appears to be Several financial heads to the scheme, and no one general manager. In-| samuch as Seattle Is soon to be Cuban women and Yankee army asked to help swell the “American| Boy” fund, some definite financial Statement concerning It wilt be ap-| preciated. SSD Chieago has another horror. words, thelr chances F THER SEATTLE her index finger, and saw signs of life, She and the doctor then went to t to wave the little was wrapped in. cotte den work fellow in earn Ne wool and pl Amal) portions ¢ were administered and soon George ean, to thrive; so mueh #0, Indeed. that he kept the family awake moat first night with bis erying Ry day the baby had gained In strength, Th doctor then said that he thought George had a fair chance of living and sug Mr, Bar tro that he P vue how pital, where he could be placed tn an bate Yesterday afternoon Mr, fartro prepared for the journey to Molle vue, He took an ordinary # he in Which the nurse had made a bed! of flannel cloths and wool, | and the baby waa ar tucked away in the cotton we Bartro went down town on th jevated, keeping the lide of the satchel slightly open so as to admit air. Everything went well until he boarded a Twenty-elghth street} cross town surface car at Sixth ave- | nue. The father placed the satchel carefully seat beside him, Sixth ave on still keeping lide open. jolting of the awakened the baby, who be ry tuatily, The women paksongers looked first at Rartro and then at the satehe, greatly pussied, apparently, at what they heard ‘The father was em-; barraaned, but tunately Ke soon fell asleep again } Hartro delivered the baby safe and ound to the hospital authorities and George, wan placed In the Marquand pavilic Yew York Sun. Wave of Prosperity. ANY, March 15.—Reports re- from State Factory I O'Leary from his deputies, indicate that the wave of prosperity and improvement tn trade conditions in this state Is still moving along steadily a: y satixfactorily, The report year of the department be- | gins on December 1, and for the months of December, 1898, and Jan- | wary and February, 18, 1 records! filed by the inspectePs #he a total! of 9400 Inxpections made by them. | Of this number 373 were found to be | new firms in businens, and 100 were old firma who had resumed business. Tt was found that 1119 firms in- creased the number of their: em- ployes. The total incroane of em- ployea, froxs all caupes, if 12,252. On- | ly 27 firme are reported as working | overtime, and %@ working double time. The extra hours of labor worked were 11,298 Wew Jersey Corpoaations. TRENTON, N. J.. March ~The ated here today: Park Steel com- pany, capital stock, $10,000,000, form- ed to acquire the plant of Park Bron. | & Limited, of Pittsburg, and to| manufacture iron and steel. Incor- porators—George 1D. Halleck, of; Plainfield; Park B. Heil, Charles C.| Ramecy, Herbert L. Griege and © Pierson, all of New York. The American Prick company, capital stock $10,000,000, of which $8,000,000 in T per cent. non-cumulatiye pre- ferred. Incerporators — Oukteigh Mill Firook; Eaward) Thorne, of Babylon; Raymond C.) Saunders, Charles Hansel, of New York; Edward Mone! of Irvington and John M. Ferrick of “FITZ” IS | poldiers beman to shoot their pistols. STAR. A JOKER He Called on Mayor Harrison. GIVEN A FEW GOOD POIVTERS. He Tells the Mayor in His Coming Political Fight to Consult Siler, CHICAGO, March 15.—Mayor Car- ter H, Harrison and Champion Bob Wiastimmons day in the n each other good luck in their ap- preaching fights, The call wan a friendly one on the part of Fitanim: | mons, who desired to chat with the and the latter was not un- to talk to the champion, as he is @ great lover of boxing, al- | though he would not think of allow- ing prize fights such as the Pitzaim- mons-Jeffries bout will be to take place in this elty. Fitasimmons thought it was a big ‘joke when he wished the mayor good juck In bis approsehing fight, but said he did not think it good Queensberry rules to meet two men atone time, He advined Mayor Harrison to appeal to George Siler for a decision, Fits said it looked too much like a “battle royal” for him to have two opponents, Mayor Harrison tock the sallies good na- turedly and complimented = the champion upon bia healthy appear- ance. Convict to Lecture. ARCOLA, DL, March 15.--William Day, who was releaded from the Cheater penitentiary after serving sontence of twenty years, arrived In this city tonight. He was sentenced | Staten | have | eG Frye, “I think the Unit |should have her share, W large business interests there and) OURNLs tO be Interested In enlarging | our markets wherever possible 1 do not imagine anything of thir wort will happen, however, for we have too many timid, anti-expansioniets | in congress.” “lL hardly think it wise fr government to enter Inte the sug #le in China,” said Mr. Cullom. "We now have about as much on our thands as we can well attend ta, When we have the matters now en | Kroming our attention straighten lout It is time enough fur um to tatk | about going on to the continent of | Ania, Of course we must not let an tunity sip to incre | trade, but this can be done without | our assuming any responsibilities tn connection with the control or man agement of any portion of the Chin- ene empire. al | A Profitable Customer. A atranger dropped into one of the oiward avenue groceries the other day and inquired of the clerk RE IDY FOR SERVICE Warships in Commission. NUMBER OF MEN IN All PPICIENT With Only a Small Appropristio: the Navy Department Will |if he had any nuts, The clerk an- swered in the affirmative "What kind do you want?” he asked, “1 don't know. Jurt name them over to me, will you?” “Well, we have hickory nuts, beech walnuts, almonds, and he rattled off a num- ber of other varieties, but the stranger shook his head “Filberts,” suggested the clerk Worm Along. WASHINGTON, March 15.—-No more warships will be placed out of commission on account of the ree duction of the enlisted strength of the navy to 17,000 nen. This num ber will be sufficient to man all ships now in commission. The enlisted “No, something like that, but not | Mbdert “Butternuts?” ‘The stranger smiled. thank you.” How many do you want?” asked | the clerk. “I don't want any. I've been try- ing to think of the name of that street for an hour, and thought that | would be @ good scheme to help me out. I want to get to Butternut ‘street. What car do I take?—From the Detroit Tribune. A Canine Disturber. NPW YORK, March 15.—There is a rule in the navy yatd in Brooklyn | that afl stray dogs must be killed, and Watchman Connolly has in the past been able to cope with the dogs that have wandered into Uncle fam's territory. Shortly after the | fire in the steam engineering butld- ling @ dog was seen among the ruins. Watchman Connolly has been seek- ing for him since without success. “That's it, when 16 years oid, from Taylorville, | Fach day complaints are made to recollection of the murder. He in preparing «© series of lectures on prison life. Rieteus Colored Soldiers. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., March 15. —The Kighth United States volun- teers, colored, Col, Huggins, were mustered out today at Chickamauga park. As the troop train was pi out for Bt. Loute this afternoon the 'W, W. Hakins, car inspector of the North Carolina and St. Louis road, waa shot In the leg by @ stray bul- A ———-—_— A “Freezing out” Process. ‘The activity In in the far west has had a pecullar Infigence on Montana legisiation, An act has re- in 1872, for ite for the murder Commodore Philip that the howls of ‘4 woman, He claims to have no) the dog make life miserable for the residents of the yard. One night he is heard near the receiving ship Ver- mont, and howls so that the sailors, who are superstitious, have a pre- sentiment that something serious is to happen. The next night he keeps the commodore’s family awake. On Sunday night he -was in the lots tn the rear of the marine barracks, and Col. Huntington strenuously IME Fobjected to the nuisance, Watch- man Connolly, who has a record of Waving killed 175 dogs, said last night that he would patrol the yard all night with his musket, and he felt certain that the dog would not be alive this morning. Life In New Orieans. “The question that confronts the Creole today,” writes Harrydele contly been passed over the govern- lor's veto in that state by whith the | ieans Hallmark of social life in New Or- the March Ladies’ Home United States Electric company, of owners of two-thirds of the stock In! Journal, is, “WI! the money of the New Jersey, to contro! electric light, | & corporation can compel the other! Americans rule the city socially in Cuban wife are excellent. American officials report that society in Havana ts “made up simply of by the jing to lo- to one-quar- ‘The following Giseretionary points, corsa.” War devastated the homes of the rich as well as those of the poor, and now from even the wealth- fest households a father, son. brother In society. ? Where are the young aristocrats jheat and power companies in Ewsex, third to give up their holdings at an/ Hudson, Passate, Bergen and other! appraised valuation, or accept stock counties, capital stock, $20,000,000. in another corporation. This is In-/ Incorporators—Frank M. Stillman of tended to make large combinations | Rahway, Thomas J. George of |eanter to orbaniae, and it has spectal ark and William J. Davis of Harrt-| reference to the operations of the) producers, This fs rather) son. joo ssiilisininecainatitin ‘drastic treatment of the rights of a) Schoolboy View of Poetry. — minority, and is Apkind of legisiation: a Luck school that would hardly be possible in one) has been Of the Eastern states, but in Mon- A letter from rome boys to Emanuel Geibet the beginning of the twentieth cen- | tury? While money rules leas. tn New Orteans than in any other city of its stze in the United States, still a certain amount Is absolutely ne censary for a person to keep up the exterior of a gentleman's position. Yet people of good family and very limited means do hold the best so- ctal positions, because they have learned to give up the chaff and August Becker, a sausage maker, | ho used to set the pace in thin Par- confesses to having cut up his wife is of the Antilles? Many of them | >*!@ and Baltimore. | and bolled her tn a large kettle. The! lie ‘neath the “long grass” in ves j Gope that Becker will be henges| ™mEreee Of many 0 iy of Approval for Bailey. j wealth and fashion, onty las donas) AUSTIN, Tex. March 18—-A spir-| And subsequently burned for a mil-| are jeft. Sad-eyed and composed, a8 | ited discussion toook place in the fiom years, does not, however, alle- if thetr grief were too deep for tears, | house of representatives today on discovered by a contributor to the Padagogieche Keformblatter among the posthumous papers the poet “You are one of the short poets, | esteemed Herr Giebel. Schiller is) about the longest of the poets, but) tana, when they do not find law to| spend their money on the wheat. carry out thelr colonsal schemes,/ again, people of no influence, as they go ahead and make ft. New Orleans counts it, but who have bar Per ye tae 7 | plenty of money, tact and social Exowerated, but Rearrested quaiitcations can obtain and have NEW YORK, March 16.—Coroner obtained good standing. Blood and money together are good; money ¥iate in the slightest degree the sea- sick feelings of the Chicagoese who patronized Becker's sausage shop. FASHION NOTES. In view of the fact that this prom- izes to be a spring dressed in the very brightest tints, and a summer| to follow clad almost exclusively in white, It will be as well to advise! the anxious in favor of batiate and, embroidered muslin, and above all Rpeak « friendly word for white! French flannel. } Patiete is one of the few matert: that has never been vulgariszed, and fn that future, delicious to contem-| plate, of biue esky, ardent sunshine and gay gardens, the loveliest bat- fetes will predominate. Their soft, tnwrinkling quality is what reeom- mends therm, especially to the new tut of skirt, and made up over coarse, awn that has plenty of body they are at once beautiful and very in- expensive dresses, far. far more fashionable than any other cotton | soods of this year. If you can't afford a gray embroid- ¢red musiin in your summer trous- u, then don't betray your poverty oy appearing in any of the fashion- thle resorts. After great care and forethought the manufacturers have are ht out a mualin that is war- to remain ertap in spite of and country dampn have woven a judictous tmount of fire mohair with the mus- én, and have produced an ideal fab-| 4e In consequence, Instead of the! sharp, almost atinging colors used| ‘ant season, they have taken popular) adgncy at it# word and produced the} n variegated list of adorable| crays in thelr mohair muslins, andj} embroidered on the crisp sur- white and black. No woman's heart but must yearn iver & counter full of these beauties| hat are double width and cost frow! cents to $1.26 4 yard. ‘They are} neant for make-up over colored} ‘ips, of course, and the bust modeln wen so far show skirts eut almont| ight to the knees, bristling and bil-| below with a series of five! face in owing © nine small founces below that) yoint. Another commendable treak| ® that of edging muslin frilia with | « very afteta, by row gathered quilling of h ite edges trilled. From Paris coros the advice to they stil! smile; but the smiles are happily he is only learned by the! zucca and « Sury held an inquest | basement the kind that wrinkle the face. And still they sing, for if grief ts a fever it fs Intermittent; but their song is a dirge. But now that the machete has given way to the fan, now that the mantilia has supplanted the eword, the gayety of old may be re- sumed. So light is the heart of the Cuban woman, so far as the world is concerned, so natural is her vivacity and seeming cheerfulness of mind, that. with the coming of the Amer- jeans, she is making Havana as fes- tive as of yore. She is fascinating—as long as you- are content to eltminate the Intellec- tual element. Though well born and well bred, she illustrates the dis- tinction between instruction and ed- ucation. In New York, London and Parts her |Iliteracy would be noticed; in Havana It is accepted as a mark of delightful femininity. As a con- sequence, there is no Cuban woman's literature; no magazine for women in itself exclusively to the vanity of it« subseribers, or when it prints only fashion plates. She inclines to charity, but to the sort least bene- fie! She gives to the beggar, but she will do nothing to raise that poor being out of the slough of self-de- ‘There are only one or two societies of women for the up- lifting of their leas fortunate sisters, One of her great faults is that she persists In lacing too tightly. In the midst of the danza I have seen many lovely women carried from the ball room in @ dead faint—the cause, an unnaturally small waist. Again, the most beautiful women insist upon spoiling her face, neck, shoulders and arms with rice powder to such @ thickness as to give her @ ghastly appearance not unlike that of Pier- rette.4iilson Witlets's Havana let- uccess, except when it devotes | of the course of Congressman J. W, Bailey in try- to unseat Gen. Wheeler and in the question of adopting @ resolution expressing approval representatives. | finally adopted a small majority. ——— Rechefeller’s Taxes. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., March 15. —Judge Barnard, of Poughkeepsie, handed down his decision today in the case of Rockefeller against. the sageasors of Mount Pleasant, reducing the assessments on Rockwood hall, his place at Scar- | borough, which was assensed in 1596 | at $901,469.60 to $127,510, the valua | tion as set by the referee a month jaso. Under thie decision the town lones about $18,000 in taxes and in- | terest. Soundings for a New Bridge NEW YORK, March 15.—Sweeney | & Gray, of Long Island City, who |have a contract for doing #0, are taking soun along the Manhat- tan and Long nd shores for the | propowed bridge feross the Rant riv- jer between Manhattan and Long Int- jand City. The indications are that | the authoritios intend ignoring the | Blackwell's Island crossing. For a | week the contractors have been at | work making soundings the foot | Ninetioth . street, Manhattan. A | bridge from there would cross about | midway between the north end of | Mackwell's island and the south end lof Ward's island, going almost di- | reetly over Figod rock. Hell Gate in just north of the Astoria ferry Other soundings are to be made at the foot of tieth street, Man- | hattan, in ordér to aacertain where | port for Hamburg on January 25, | the best foundations can be found. | ‘The recently purchased tract of land in Astoria bought by John PD. Crim- Tank Steamer Overdue. i= im about three-quarters of a NEW YORK, March 15.—The Ger-| mile from the point where the man oll carrying steamship Mints soundings for the bridge are to be Maybach, which sailed from this| taken on the Aatoria shore. ——— | Baby Weighs Two Pound: A % pound baby was born last I'rt- day morning to the wife of Henry J. Barto, of 2619 Highth avenue, who amigo ip employed in the offices of the |Manhattan Flevated railway. At Killed by a Trolley Cer. {iret it was thought that the tiny NEW YORK, March 15.—Clarence | Infant could not live, #0 feebly did Cargill, & years old, of Samuel and | the spark of life Mutter in the little Bronx stree in the Bronx, was | bedy, and Dr, Thomas F. MeGuire,| knocked down and run over last | the attending physician, ,gave his night by a trolley car of the Union| entire attention to the mother. Tife line, at the corner of Boxton avenue | parents wished to have the’ child | and Woodruff street. Both of his | baptized so Mra. J. Oliver, the nu legs were cut off by the car wheels | baptized him George and placed the and he died half an hour after be- | supposed dead body on a bed. Halt ter in Lestle'n Weekly. and was erroneously reported ar- riving there on February 17, han not been heard from since her depart-| ure. She is 41 days out and it is} feared she has got into trouble. first class. However it is quite! enough hardship to learn your) poems. Elght days ago we were) given your poem, ‘Frublingshott-| nung’ to learn. Five of us have) been put down In the cla being able to say It wit stake, and two of us have a flogging because they could say very little of it. We expect, esteemed Herr Gle- bel, that you did not think of such things when you wrote that poem; Herr Schrer says it is a very beau tiful poem: but there are so many very beautiful poems, and we are obliged to learn them, Therefore, we beg and entreat you, esteemed) Herr Geibel, to make no more beau-} tiful po And, to make it worse, to learn the biography of every poet, what year he was born in and what year he died in, We write to you because you are the only poet that ts still alive, and we wish you a very long life. Struck by Lightnin RIVERHBAD, L. 1, March 6. Lightning partly demolished a do ble house in this village occupied b Mra. Hunter and Clarence Bunce during the rainstorm yesterday. The) lightning entered at t chimney | and shattered the walls of the house as it coursed down and made its exit from the kite Yo one was fn jured, but were badly frightened and fled from the house into the rain. ROSTON, March 15.—At a, mass meeting in Tremont temple today, in the Interest arbitration, BE ward Everett Hale was the principal He predicted that the con ference proposed by the Czar would meet Just an surely as went round. For the first time tn the Nineteenth century a body of 26 men would come together to con- sider que # of perpetual peace he sald,, and he showed the possl bility of universal peace among na tions by re ne to the mple of the United States, Here there are 45 independent Mates which refer all their disputes to one permanent trt- bunal, which decides between them the world on all disturbing questions that may the and what is possible for United States is states of Bu arise, states of the sible for the added Lightning on a Bell Rope. PLYMOUTH, Mass, March 1 William H. Hoxie was struck by Behtnin yesterday, the urrent passing down the bell re at the ‘jury found a yesterday in the case of Eugene Chamberlain, the watehman tn the Erie ratiroad freight yards at 135th street and the Harlem river, who died on February 20 in the Harlem hompital of a fractured skull. The lain’s death was caused by a com- pound fracture of the skull, “caused by a hatchet thrown by William Reirdon while skylarking, with no Intent to kill.” As the jury exonerated Reirdon from biame Coroner Zucea dis- charged him, but he was immedia- tely re-arrested on a warrant from riot attorney's office. A Swindler in Court. NEW YORK, March 15.—Hirsch Koppleman, the man who was ar- ested recently in Chicago while en- gaged in a swindling game, and who had been indicted here with Saul Jacobs for working a gold dust swindle here tn 897, was arraigned yesterday In the general re sto plead to the indictment. Koppleman had made a confession in Chicago to the effect that he was guilty, and that Jacobs was innocent. Jacobs is in Sing Sing, having been con- vieted of the crime. Annie Jacobs, the daughter of the man in Sing Sing, who has been at work for a year to have her father released, presented to District At- torney Gardiner the confession al- leged to have been made by Kopple- man called in court Koppleman had a lawyer present and pleaded not gullty to the eharge against him. | His case was adjourned until Fri- day, Assistant District Attorney Me- Clelland, who prosecuted Jacobs, dict that Chamber-/ Yesterday when the case was | and refinement are not a specially favored condition, as are the two others, for storming New Orleans jeations alone would have a hard time of It. Narrowing it down, it remains that money alone cannot lenter New Orleans society today; re- |finement alone cannot, but biood— | well, it has held and does hold the lead. The atmosphere of New Or- leans society, aa this century draws to a clone, is conspicuously Parisian in manner, ardently American fn loyalty to the old flag, warm-heart- led to the visitor, reserved in its In- | ner life, pleasure-loving and child- like in its gayety. It offers to one, in tts social as well as its physical | ite, the heart of a ripe, red pome- \granate. He who tastes never for- gets the charm. He never forgets the | red-roofed houses, the chimes of the on a guitar, the melodious swing of French votces nor the da ous beauty of the women, Fire in a Tenement. | |eathedral bells, the entresol where | lives la Belle Creole, the folk songs | luxurt | wth of the navy now consists but about 2200 of these rged immediately, as thelr terms of service have expired, The naval appropriation bill pro- vides for four years instead of three years enlistment, as heretofore, and the enlistment officers of the navy department fear that this will make recruiting very slow work, They an- ticipate difficulty in getting suitable men to take the places of those to be discharged. Tax on Croton Water. NEW YORK, March 15.—In a ree cent ralton, comminsioner of the water supply, calls attention to the great waste of water in Maphattan and the Bronx, and says that if it is not checked the combined resources of the Croton, Bronx and Byram rivers will be exhausted tn five years, He recommends that water meters be put in generally and that a charge of ten cents a hundred gallons be made, This system, he believes, would reduce the consumption of water greatly. ‘The Monarch ‘gol4 mining group, located nine miles west of Republic, has been incorporated. The tunnel is now in 445 feet, and Superintend- ent Staight has let an additional con- tract of 0 feet, which he thinks will cut the Monarch vein. So soon as the snow disappears a fores of men will be set to work systematically to prospect the surface of the three pareilel ledges, which run the length of the claims, and to decide the test po'nts for permanent work. The ledges have remarkable wilth on the surface and assays from $2 to $9.90 Hereafter the work will be contiue ous. —_- Considerable attention is being at« tracted to Myers Creek camp, on th¢ reservation, about thirty-five miles northwest of Republic. Butte is the principal claim being worked in the camp. Sinking on the ledge is in progress and it will av~ erage about twenty-four inches, and it is claimed, will give average as- says of $150. It is considered the richest claim In the camp. ‘The tn- cline shaft is now down 90 feet. So far, the principal work has been done by tunnel. Some long tunnela have been run, but these did not get much below the grass roots. The camp will resolve itself into a shaf( proposition hereafter. While there are some wide and extensive work done, there has not been as rapid prokress made for the past few days as at first, owing to the fact that it became necessary to lay new track and ballast it for permanent use, When last I strolled these ways with Grace We chatted of a country place And light expenses; A cottage framed in flower beds, . Yard trees of fir—with close-cropped heads And rustic fences, . The Crystal Then love was ever to be king And all the days with song should ring, : And we would sing them; Or I might play the rustic squire And read the classics by the fire— Jf luck would bring them, A market gardener keeps the cot, | And beets adorn the garden spot— So much for fancies! Grace wedded some two years ago A millionaire she chanced to know ances! NEW YORK, March 15.—An over- heated stove in William Gerhardt’s | grocery at 211 West Sixty-third | street , caused an outbreak of fire yesterday morning that sent the six- teen families in the tenement flying ‘to the roof, The firemen carried’ out | the stove and put the fire out with a pail of water.” A fire in Michael Cooper's wrapper factory, at 139-141 Spring street, caused $10,000 damage. The water did most of It. An elec- tric wire set the butiding on fire, | guilty of the gold dust swindle. | said that he believed both men were | e ant ‘ Found Dead in His Ceti. NEW. YORK, March 15.—-Bennett Effinger, 29 years old, of 541 Four- teenth street, was arrested on First avenue and Twenty-third street on Sunday night for Intoxication and locked up in the East Twenty-sec- ond street station, When the door man went to Effinger's cell yester- day morning he found the man lying on his face, dead. Deputy Coroner | Donlin, found that alcoholism was | the cause of death, Koppleman, he said, would probably | retraet his confession, and for this| reason the police oMfictals of Chicago, | e en to whom Koppleman made the con-| ryt . fession, would be brought on here to testify against Koppleman. Partitioning of China. WASHINGTON, March 15, - The news cabled from London that a be- lief exists that the United States will have something to say in the matter if China is to be partitioned and the pol ‘spheres of influ ence” inaw 1, attracted atten-| tion among senators who were at! the capitol today. The only mem- bers of the foreign relations com- mittee at the capitol w » Senators Frye and Cullom, The »ppo- views. To stop in at the store ar This Store is the only o HIGH ART t and Congregational church while he was “If China is to be divided \p bee J, REDELSHEIMER Biggest in the Who admire a real swell and rich-looking P COAT nd sum up our collection. ne making a specialty of TOP COATS & C0. 1) 8 report to the mayor Willlam® ~ enne fastening any skirts behind , al ae often as not to wear with*ing carried to his home, | an hour later the nurse looked at the| ringing it. tween the nations of the earth, said 800-802 First Ave., Cor, Coltmbia, ° . F Cyaesd Lae m e * id i it alesis aa dit ii ia asi a ii AB be ohne ms se ican gelatin iii alli , e eo