The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 20, 1899, Page 2

THE SEATTLE STAR BH. WELLS & CO, Penusters. Every afternoon except @unday,_ ®t. WELLS Kprron. | BF. CHASE Hosrnnes MaNacen ‘One cent per Coy ot twenty-five by carrion, always ih advance, coples. py] Bix Gents per week, * per month delivered No free Telephone Pike 15 Offices No. 1107 ~ - Third Avenve Pntered at the postoffive at Seattio, Washing. tom, as second-class matter ———— California stands disgraced today before all of the people of the United States, by reason of the brasen- faced action of its legislature, which refused to elect a United States sen- ator because the members could not agree on a suitable rascal, D. M, Burns, the nominee of the Southern Pacific railway, one of the mowt notorious men in California, divid ed hon rs on the final ballot with U, 8 Grant jr. whose manager, Milt Green, admitted during the progress of the contest that he had expend- ed large sums of Grant's money in} securing the election of certain mem.- bers of the legislature, Grant did not deny contributing $20,000, but said that it was given with the stipulation that it “should be honest- ly used.” California would do well to-give its horde of politicians “thir- ————__--- There is no disguising the fact that trusts wil! play an important part in polities In the near future, It ts quite Mkely that the trusts would prefer to keep out of politics, but the people will not have It that way. ‘The feeling against these comDina- tions is growing throughout and any political party which re- fuses to array Itself against them will sound its own death knell. es The Manila Pacific cable will take two or three years to lay at be: and it ts a serious loss to the coun- try that the appropriation for the cable has failed, postponing action a year. A careful survey of the Pact- fle, however, from Honolulu west, still remains to be made, and it ought to be possible to carry this out with a navy vessel before the next Congress meets. Cyclones continue to devastate the southern states. A few years ago these storms were comparatively un- known beyond the borders of ‘Western prairies, but conditions be- ginto show a marked change. The “prairie twister” frequently gets off its reservation, and nobody in the south or east feels secure from one of its sudden onslaughts. —X—K—XS= President McKinley and Speaker Reed are scheduled to extend the glad hand to each other today at Jekyll Island, way down in Georgia. ‘These two leaders have never en- thused together to any noticeable extent, and the public will wait curiously to see what results will follow. Jury Law Unconstitutional. NEW YORK, March %.—Con- gressman William D. Daly and aw- yer Joseph M. Noonan, counsel for James K. Brown, who was conviet- e4 of the murder of Policeman Geb- hard in Hoboken, have decided to take an appeal to the United States supreme court from the decision of the New Jersey qoort of errors af- firming the constitutionality of a conviction for murder by a struck jury. The lawyers contend that the struck jury law violates the provi- sion of the United States constitu- tion which guarantees equal protec- tion to all citizens. A similar ap- peal will be made tn behalf of Ed- 4, the murderer of Supt. ‘William FE. Wattson, of the West Shore road. —_————— Mock Terrapins From Maryland. With the passing of the damond back terrapin from local waters and {ts general scarcity, the business of developing jiders” and “red-belly” terrapins has begun in the waters of Kent county. These terapins are now in winter quarters by the thou sands in the marshes, and are in their best condition. ‘The slider often attainas extremely large propor- tions, weighing as much as twenty pounds or over. a smaller species. ‘The larger variety “ sometimes sells so high as $2.4 apiece, though the average price is from 75 cents to $1.50. ‘The smaller variety sella for from 75 cents to $1.50 per dozen. The diamond-back has been almost entirely superseded by the “slide and “red-belly.” Baltimore Sun. Reward for Bravery. LONDON, Mareh 2.—~The Ham- ‘burg-American Steamship company has donated £600 to be divided among the officers and crew of the British steamer Weehawken, which recently landed 2% of the passengers of the Hamburg-American liner Bulgaria at Ponto Delgada, which at the time was thought to be sink- ing. The Tabernacle Trouble. NEW YORK, March 2.—A motion | of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church to compel the Tabernacle Baptist church on Second avenue to allow an inspection of the Tabernacle books, in the action of the Taber- nacie to recover $3800 stock divi- dends, was denied yesterday by Jus- tice Beach of the supreme court. In 1891 the Tabernacle held a hundred years’ lease of property adjoining Its church, and it was arranged that the lease should be surrendered to the Fifth Avenue Baptist church under an agreement by which John D. Rockefeller was to bulld a church house for the Tabernacle. Mr. Rock efeller built the house and gay tain stock of the Railway company in trust to the Fitth Avenue Baptist church under an agreement by which the income from the stock was to be paid to the Tabernacle to be used for certain church work. The complaint states that the railway company paid divi- dends of 5 per cent. for two yearn after the arrangernent and then it ceased to pay any dividends, Sub cer sequently the railway got on a pay?! ing basis, but the Fifth Avenue Baptist church did not resume pay- ing dividends to the Tabernacle the | Jength and breadth of the country, | The “red-belly” ts) Northern Pacific | TH defense ia that the Tabernacle has not lived up to tte agreement, and did not, during the two years it | recelved dividends, disburre them ax the agreemont required. In order to ahow how the divi- dends were disbursed the Fifth Ave- nue Haptiat church moved to compel | the Inspection of the Tabernacte books, ‘The ‘Tabernacle agreed to | present tts books for inspection by the defendant at the trial, but not before that time, Justice Beach held that the inspection at the trial was | sufficient. |Race T ick Men Fighting TRENTON, N March 20.—Thi court of errors and ap heard ar- | gument today in the case of Bott va, Wurtz, secretary of state, in which an effort is being made to have the titutional amendment made | against gambling in New Jersey vet aside as not properly adopted by | the people at Ure special election | held on September 26, 1897. Allan L. McDermott appeared for the prose- eutors, He held that the act au- thoriaing the election was unconastt- tutional, because it did not provide for ballota by which a person could | vote for one or more of the three | proposed amendments without vot- | ing for all of them, Attorney Gen- eral Grey, representing the state, [held that the act In question was | constitutional and the election legal. Anyway, he declared, the court could | not go back on the return of the state board of canvassers. A deci- sion Will soon be handed down, Deceived by Her Lover. NEW YORK, Mareh Ayres, aged 21, committed suicide |last night by taking carbolic acid | because she found that Martin Bar- | ton, of Stratford place, Newark, to | whom ashe was engaged to be mar- | red, was a married man. She lived jat 4% Waverley avenue, Newark, and was a ughter of Andrew Bf. Ayres, 4 traveling salesman. Bar- tom attended the Montgomery M. E. chureh, and there made her acquain- tance a year ago. ‘The affair was encouraged by the Ayres family until rumors were heard that he was a married man He admitted that he had been mar- ried but that a decree for divorce had been granted in Trenton and had not been made public. The girl wrote @ letter to him and then went to her room and took the poison. He Left $60,000. NEW YORK, March 2.—Police Captain Stephen Martin of the Clas- son avenue station, in Brooklyn, who died last week, was well off financt- ally, and his estate, it te sald, ex- ceeded 160,000. More than $1500 was found in his pockets after his death. He was unmarried, and the bulk of his property will probably go to his married sister and a married niece, nis only surviving relatives. He has been @ policeman more than thirty | years. Wickedness in Cranbury. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.. March if the congregation 4id not under- take to stamp out certain cases of adultery which were going on among ite members he would make It @ matter and prosecute the offenders. There have been one or two cases of scanda! talked about In the village for sometime, but no one tor has in mind. The Rev. Mr. Tay- Jor has only had his present charge for two years and it is bis first pas- torate, He was formerly an assist- ant pastor in Jersey City and was once active In work in the slums of New York. Mr. Tayldr announced | that he and his wife would speak on | the same question at a mothers’ | meeting to be held on Tuesday night | next, March 21. A Queer Workshop. NEW YORK, March 2.~As a re- sult of @ small fire in the cellar of | the tenement at 146 Wert Seven teenth street yesterday afternoon, the police arrested Frank Fritz and locked him up on the charge of be- ing a suapicious person. Fritz occu- ples rooms in the house and also | rents the rear of the cellar in which the fire started. He is suspected of running an {ilelt still on a small scale, . A tenant discovered the fire and called Policeman Helmke, who gave the alarm. The fire was tn what seemed to be a woodshed tn the rear of the cellar. To get to it the fire- | men had to force a padlocked doc | The interior of the shed was filled | with dense amoke. The only light came from a gas stove, burning at full foree, which had evidently been over-heated and had set fire to the woodwork. When the flames had been extin- culphed Battalion Chief Gooderson made an examination. On top of the gas stove he found a milk can filled with some liquid. In the lower part lot the can was a faucet and the top ended In @ funnel-like contriv- ance which tapered gradually untit it was screwed on to a lead pipe. A dozen coils of this pipe were fitted In a beer keg which stood on one end near the stove. Strewn about the woodshed were a dozen demijohns and as many whisky and beer bot- |tles. The woodshed was doubdle- boarded as if to deaden all sound ‘and a window looking into the air shaft was securely boarded up. | ‘The Internal revenue officers were | notified of Fritz’s arrest and asked to take charge of his cane. He told the police that he was going to man- ufacture extracts, such as vanila, | but when he hired his cellar work- |ahop he told the landlord that he was going to bottle beer. The po- lice took possession of his outfit. | Aided to Kill Mer Lover. BRUPFALO, March 20.—Mra. Ro- sina Barone was today sentenced to Auburn prison for fifteen years, by Justice Lambert, for at: « her hus band, Antonio Barone, to kill Philip | Forestino, her lover. She pleaded guilty to manstaughter. Her hus: band ts now tn Auburn prison, sen- tenaed to death. After killing For- estino the Barones cut his body up, packed it In a trunk, and threw it | into the canal, A Consul Kills Himself. GUADALAJARA, Mex., March 20. Advices have reached here of the suicide of Charles Woolrich, British consul at Mazatlan. The act was Ane to i health 20.—Fannie | professes to know Just who the pas- | a The Sacred Heart Catholle church, | in charge of the Redemptriet Fath er, was deatroyed by fire early Bun. day mornin, The church was a Jarge briek structure, and was aitu. on the corner of Sixth avenue and Bell street, and was valued at $30,000, Fiames were noticed breaking out of the rear of the butlding about 3 o'clock by the patrotman on the beat The Battery street fire de partment was promptly notified, but by the time tt arrived all hopesot ehureh were abandoned, one Wan notified by tele church, whieh is used by the priests, | phone, and upon bis arrival, order- ed the firemen to turn their atten-| tion to saving adjoining buildings, | Wis Skull Broken. NBPW YORK, Maroh 20.-—-Carmento Haibo, 38 years old, proprietor of a saloon at Marion place and West side avenue, Jersey City, was as- saulted yeaterday afternoon by two ff his Italian customers and in in the elty hospital with a fractured | | squil and In a eritical condition. The | men, who were strangere to HMulb were playing pool and got into dimpute with him about payment of| drinks, One of them buried a pe j Dail at him and it struck him be-| tween the eyes, knocking him down, | ‘The other beat him on the head with the butt end of a cue, Then they ran out of the galoom and disappear ed, About two hours later Pietre Ferrara was picked up at Palisade and Newark avenues and was ident- | ied as one of Balbo's assailants. He in held to await the result of Baibo's| injuries. | Made Sure of Arrest. NEW YORK, March 2.—A tall negro, apparently about 30 years old, and looking thin and hungry, walk ed into the West Thirtleth street po- lice station last night and addressed Sergt. Conboy. “My name ts Albert Thomas,” he said, “and I'm 16 years old. I come from Chickamauga. I'm broke and I want to be locked up. If you will not do it TH go out and break a window." With some difficulty the sermeant at last induced the youth to depart He walked to Thirtieth street and Broadway and waited until he saw a woman richly dressed and wearing plenty of diamonds come along. He grabbed her pocketbook and ran 20 feet and returned don't want your purse, mad- am,” he said, “but I do want to be arrested. Won't you come to the station house and make a complaint against mer Policeman Gshibies appeared at this juncture. He took Thomas to the station, the woman following be sent to him tcked up on a charge of vagrancy. Then he pur- chased food for the negro, which he ate ravenousty. ee |To Reconstruct Wer Wt LONDON, March 2—The Madrid correspondent of the Chronicie as- | leribes to Admiral Gomes Imaz, th | minister of marine, « statement tha: the government proposes to recon struct the navy. The correspondent adds “Thin depends, however. on the | condition of thé country. Time be- | ling precious, Veasels must be pur- chased abroad, otherwise they might be built at home. New Japanese Battleship QUASGOW, March. 2.—The Jap- | anese battleship Asanp! was launch- ed from the Clydebank shipyard to- | day. She te % feet long, of 15,200 | tons displacement, and 15,000 Indi- cated horsepower and Is to develop & apeed of 19 knots. She will be armed with 12-inch guna in two bar-) bettes and with # large number of quick -firera, The ship was named by Mme. Kato, wife of the Japanese minister, |And They Were Married. NPW YORK, March 20.—Just as | Magistrate Wentworth was about to ve the Essex Market police court yesterday moring for luncheon a young man and woman asked per- | mission to see him. The woman held jon to the young man's arm, eigzied and bit her finger natle, The man shifted hia hat around in his hand | uncomfortably as he said: “Please, air, we want to get married.” “Why, with pleasure,” said magistrate. The man desribed himaelf as John 7T. Honkine of Troy. The woman said she was Bertha Banko, © ser vant, of 10 @econd avenue. Honkins was honorably discharged from the | Seventh United Staten artillery 10 | days ago and went to live In th house where the girl was employed, and they fell in love with each oth- er at first sight. | ‘The magistrate performed the cer lemony in his private room. ‘The | bridegroom had no regular wedding ring, but used instead one made cut of a horseshoe nail, Magist, Wentworth refused to kiss the bride | remarking that he considered hirn | aelf too old. Clerk Mera gallantly! took the magistrate’s place the |Like Everything American. | WASHINGTON, March 20.—A let ter to the state department from Ponape, Caroline Islands, says: “The people of Ponape Just love and adore the American people; in fact, they like everything that Is American.” They are hoping and praying, he ways, that the Americans will take possession of all the Islands, and /i¢ not all, at least of the Island of | Ponape: | ane ceearlpmeceietiatte Proud of the French. | PARIS, March 20.—The Matin says \that the transformation of the | French artillery has been complet ed “Thanks to the new arrangement {and the powerful guns which have been procured,” the paper says, “the French artillery {s now unrivaled the worl Se } to procure ‘There in meargely a doubt that the fire was of Incendiary origin it in sald that three previous attempts had been made to Yestroy the chureh, A heavy lose was suffered In th destruction of the la vegtment pipe organ nd other ar n by the priests were also burned or ruined by water, ‘The residence bullding adjoining — the was damaged. A statement has beer » to the liee that early yesterday a buggy containing two men stopped near the church, It was there for only @ short time, and as soon as tt dis appeared, the flames were discover- ed The firemen assert that when they ict’s Thief Palms. WICH, Conn., March ®. Justice of the Brush has dis missed a suit by a New Rochelle florist Seabright against 1 ¥ Iilenb er, Commo. Poave brought named dore BE. C, Benedict's gardener, to get possension of two thief palms in Mr. Benedict's greenhouses at In- dian harbor, When Mr, Benedict erected his greenhouses Mr, Seabright sold him between 86000 and $8000 worth of plants, among them a thief palm. Mr. Bendiet desired some m the palma, and directed the gard them tf pomsible from de Seabright, ae he had had a misunderstanding with him in regard to the price of cer- tain plants, Dlenberger did so. Mr Seabright learned that Mr. Benedict had two more thief palms and went someone else to Indian harbor to see them, be- cause he asserts that he t# the only dealer in this part of the country who handles such palma, and he had not sold any lately. He did not see Mr. De fee's new thief palms be cause Hienberger hid them. This fact and things which Foreman Stumpf told him added to his suspt- cion that the plants b been ob- tained surreptitiously. Mr, Seabright testified that he had never see nthe two plants alleged to be in Mr. Benedict's possession, but had seen marks on the stand where Mr. Stumpf told him the pote had stood, Justice Brush concluded that as Mr. Geabright had not seen the plants at Mr. Benedict's he lacked proof of thelr being his, and so dis- missed the case. ‘The thief palm wi cause it w Botanical Gardens just after it hy been discovered and before botanists had settled upon a name for it. so named be- . Mareh 20.—The American School Furniture com- pany was incorporated here toda with @ capital stock of $10,000,000, The company will manufacture all kinds of school and church furniture. ‘The incorporators are Samuel FE Lawrence, Robert P. Barry. ir. John B, Summerfield, George F. Spencer, Henry M. Haviland, 1 dell, Armitage Matthews and Leay- itt J, Hunt, all of New York, and James C. Young, of Jersey City NEWBURG, March 20.-—-A car of the Newburg and Orange Lake trot- ley line was struck by lightning last night near Bandes's switch. Twenty persons were in the car, but, strange to say, none were Injured. A farm or said that he had seen & ball of fire strike the trolley’ wire and chase the car. The car was “burned out,” land the tron work was so hot that he hand could not be held to it. The ron dashboard had a hole meited in it, and a relief car from had to be sent out to bring the dis- bled car in Highor Pay for Puddiers. HARRISHUG, Pa., March 20.-—The | puddiers of the Harrisburg rolling milla have received notice of an ad vance of 25 cents a ton on and after April 1, Other employes of the mill will recetve an increase in wages in proport MINING NEWS. The Old Dominion Mining com- Ever, THE SACRED HEART CHURCH DESTROYE arrived, one window, the jnot damaged, was found raised about | three feet. The current of alr which passed through prevented the glass from being melted, although pther windows were ruined Arrangements are being made to rebuild the chureh George Hikgins, @ young man who lives at 2206 Bighth avenue, was coming home from a dance Sunday morning, and ng the church, noticed a disturbance inside; he | Matened and heard glass falling, He suld there were three distinct knocks | before the gl tell. He supposed some of the members were employ~ ed in preparing for the morning services, and passed on home, Missing Girl Foun NEW YORK, March 20. por Frances Weiss, the lb-ye old school girl who disappeared last Fri- day from the home of her aunt, Mra, Mary Johnson, at 37% Weat 123d street, was und yesterday. She had got @ place at @ house in West 106th street as a chambermaid, but her mistress, recognizing her from the description in the newspapers, turned her over to the pol lier father, John Weiss, of Trenton, N. 4 took her to the Harlem police court yesterday, On his statement that his daughter was incorrigibie, M strate Brann committed her to the House of the Good Shepherd. They Stole Sheep. NEW YORK, March 2.--Thomas Eisen, Edward Doyle and Michael Anderson pleaded not guilty yester- day in the general se me to an ine dictment charging them with ateal- Ing a sheep on the west side. They were remanded to the Tombs for | trtal. Tossed by a Bull. OYS8TPR BAY, L. 1, March 20.—! R. EB. Kennedy, manager of the untry place of Colgate Hoyt on | Center island, is suffering from se- | vere wounds received from being |gored by a bull. He was in one of | the large fields on Saturday and the | bull charged upon him. Before he mild escape the animal tossed him in the air, When he fell the bull at- tacked him again, Mr. Kennedy | saved himeelf from worse injuries by rolling over and over quickly @ number of times, He was rescued by other employes, Dr. Hall was summoned to attend him. He found the flesh on Mr, Kennedy's stomach lacerated in several places. There were a number of bruises on his bedy and other external injuries. ‘The bull has been condemned to death by the owner. To Demand Eight Mours. | NEW YORK, March 20.~The local | untons of the United Brotherhood of | Carpenters in Jersey Cityf Elizabeth and Trenton, N. J., and in New Ro- chelle, N. Y., have decided to make a demand for the eight-hour work day on June 1 Strikes will be or- dered wherever the demand is re- fused. The Brotherhood carpenters in New York and Brooklyn have been working under the eight-hour workday rule for several years. A Bequest for Vale. NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 2.— The Yale corporation will devote the $50,000 bequeathed by the late Her- bert Steward, of New York, to the foundation of a scholarship fund in the sefentific department of the unt- versity. In the disposition of the money young men from New Lon- don county are, according to the wish of Mr. Stewart, to be especi- ally favored. His early home was in New London. He Was Fined $3. NPW YORK, March 20.—-A middle- aged negro, describing himself as Charles Jones, a farmer of Albany, was 4 prisoner yesterday in the Es- sex Market police court, charged with being intoxicated on the Bow- ery : "What excuse do you offer?” said Magistrate Wentworth. “I really believe that I labored un- der the delecterious effects of too much whisky, sah,” answered Jones “Where was your farm?” question- pany in producing over 40,000 pounds! ed the magistrate. of cor dally A monthly dividend of 3 per cent., payable March 20, has been declared | neighbors till a by the Parrott company, which ts largely owned in Connectieut. There is a surplus of $1,700,000 in the treas- ury and it is claimed that the net earnings for this year will exceed $2,000, 000. The Montana Ore Purchasing com- pany has declared an extra dividend of $1 per share, payable March 20. In cleaning out the shaft of the fouth Sunbeam, Silver City, Utah, which was abandoned 20 years ago, a vein of native copper haa been din covered. At a depth of 72 feet in the weat cable, Mereur, a lodge h been atruck assaying 187 ounces silver and $5 gold. Fnecouraging reports ar coming from prospectors in the Ce: rich dar mountain district, where veins of copper have been discov- ered. ‘The Natalie, of Col, ot wide, car has run Into a vein 1d, sliver and rying good values in copper. At Eldora a large concen- tration plant has bi enterprise, Village . mines alone will be able to “eep it fully occupied. Belmont Col., noon Condition The Chemung near Central City up well and will steady producer Alps on Quarts hill, where a large force hans been employed, are also favorable, and regular shipments are being made. Letters from Cripple Creek confirm the reports of a rich strike on the! Pinnacle company’s property Miack manganese rock, showing a width of two feet, has been encountered In a drift on the Lansing claim at a depth of 40 feet, which runs $2000 to the ton Jealdes the high grade | streak there two feet of o As saying from $40 to $150 per ton, Wages Advanced. SYRACUSE, N. Y., March 20.—The Syracuse Tube company, which em ploys 200 operatives, today posted a potice that wages of all employes would be advanced 10 per cent., be ginning immediately 1 has an annual output of 2600 tons, “Right | Roont just next to Wolfert's Me. and Senator Hill wus hort time ago,” re- | plied the negro. paper up there once said that Senator Hill had me hid under the wood {n his woodpile. It was a lie.” He was fined $3. NEW YORK, March 20.—The new school house at Murray hill, Queens, waa not opened yesterday by the board of education, as had been an- |nounced last week. ‘This school |house and another at Whitestone were bullt by John Simmons, a Flushing contractor, There is a bal- ance of $5000 due on the bulldings and contractor Simmons locked them |up several days ago and said he | would not surrender the keys until jhe was paid. Simmons said yerter- day that he had received axsuranices from the comptrolier’s office that his | bill would be paid in the near fu- |ture, but what he was after was cash. It was sald at the office of the | school board that Mr. Simmons | would be paid off and the school j opened next Monday. A Museum Appropriation. Ww YORK, March 2.—The mayor gave @ hearing yesterday on Senator Plunkett's bill passed by the legislature, increasing the approprt- ation of the Museum of Natural His- tory from $90,000 to $10,000 a year. Senator Plunkett and Prof, Albert 8. Bickmore spoke in favor of the mea sure, and no one opposed it. Th mayor did not announce his decision, A Persecuted Teacher. NEW HAVIN, Conn., March 29. Miss Maud Hauff, teacher in a Mt Carmel ungraded school, is in a ert | tical condition at the residence of Selectman Andrews of that pl in consequence of what Is described as She went to teach in persecution |the Mt, Carmel school last fall, Last January she complained of a man | who, she sald, was forcing his at- her. Later stories tentions upon | were circulated attacking her char- or ne learned of these stories two weeks ago and has been in a hys- | tertc al condition since then, Last Thursday the school committee put | nc nly one | | the) | in the whole day vinjting her school prostrated, she says, in f the questions #he to answer, On the evening she became delirious was put under gu Friday and severh! times attempted to #ul- ide, ¥ day she escaped from nd clad In her nighteown through the snow. She a by th en of her gown which she had torn and thrown away, She wae finally found uncon us in a drift of anow, Her life 4, but she ts still in a ert-) Mr. Mudie pastor of the Mt. Carmel chureh, bas | preferred charges against the man she accused ran & was trac Wanamaker’ NEW YORK, 20. —The members of the Fourth Preabyter! church held a congregational necting last night to call a pastor to ucceed the Kev, Joseph B. Kerr The committee of seven to which the matter had been referred reported through the chairman, James A Craig, that it had selected the Re | James Wilbur Chapman, pastor of the Methany byterian church of Philadelphia, The Bethany ehurch has over 4000 members and is on of the largest chufches of the | nomination in the country. Among | the pewholders is John Wanamaker. | By @ unanimous vote the congre-| gation decided to call Dr. Chapman) and continued the committee of! seven, giving them power to make | full arrangements as to salary, pro- | vided the amount did not exceed | 96000 © year. | It is not known whether or not Dr. | Chapman will accept the call, | Abducted a Young Girl. NEW YORK, March 20.—Malcolm >) Dickerson, the electrician who was) rested on the charge of abducting 15-year-old Norah Gaville of North- ampton, Pa., was held yesterday in #2500 ball for trial. The girl will re- | main in the custody of the Gerry | clety, Agent King, of the society, | who arrested Dickerson, says that Dickerson has two wives living, and efforts will be made to gather evi- dence for hia prosecution for big | far aw possible the Fowls Fly North. MIDDLWTOWN, N. ¥., March 20. —~Thousands of ducks and geese are | passing over this town, bound north, during the past two or three days, ‘The ice has gone out of Basha's Kill and Goose Pond, near Wesbrookville, and hunters have had splend™ suc- coms thr large flocks of ducks hav- ing settled there & it and feed. A. B. Hilton’s Income. NEW YORK, March 20.—Mra, Al- bert B. Hilton was examined in her husband's bankruptcy proceecings before Referee endleton at 44 Liroad- way yesterday afternoon, In reply to questions she sald that she was indirectly engaged in the real estate business at 280 Broadway. Her hus- band was her agent, but she paid him no salary. “How do you arrange as to the in- come from your business?” she was anked “There 1# no income; not enough to pay clerk hire,” replied the wit- ness. “How do you know? “I have given money to pay ex- “Ien't it a fact, Mrs. Hilton, that you khow nothing of this business, and that, as a matter of fact. your husband simply uses your name?” ‘es, that is @ fact.” | “And you never get any money ‘rom the business?” “None at all. Mrs, Hilton wan then excused. A letalm of $3100 made by W. J. R. Frutchey was allowed against Mr. Hilton. —— Against $ importers. NEW YORK, March 20.—A decl- sion of the United States board of general apprainers of importance to the sugar trade was made public yesterday It overrules the protest of Bartram Brothers, B. H. Howell, fon & Co., and the American Sugar Refining company agninst the tarift rates assessed up on sugar according to the polariscope test under the su- | gar schedule of the tariff act of July | 24, 1897. The importers maintained lthat the tests were defective, and that the term “tested by the polari- scope” found In the tariff law, must be construced to mean the usual commercial polariscope test re- cognized and accepted In the trade prior to the passage of the act. For Maval Apprentices. WASHINGTON, March 20.-/To provide accommodations for the ad- ditional naval apprentices authoriz- ed under the last naval appropria- tion bill, which increased their num- ber from 1500 to 2600, the navy de- partment will soon award contracts for the construction of immense bar- racks on Coaster’s island, Newport, capable Gf quartering over 1000 boys. There is an appropriation available of $125,000 with which the project will be carried out, and it is propos- ed to erect large, substantial struc- tures of graceful design and equip- ped with all appliances for caring properly for the young men. FPx- perience has shown that the appren- tiee boys make the best class of seamen in the navy. A Clothing Trust. NEW YORK, March 20.—A eloth- Ing trust is In process of formation in this city, It will be Incorporated under New Jersey laws as the Am- \erican Clothing Manufacturing com- | pany, with a capital ste ck of $100, 000,000, part of 7 per cent. preferred and the balance common stock, Out of the fifty clothing manufacturing rns in Cincinnatl, a dozen are d to join the combine at e. There will be 150 different firms in the United States represented out of |the 700. Last year these firms pro- duced about $10,000,000 worth of lelothing thelr annual output | amounting to about $8,000,000 or $40,- | 900,000 of capital represented, Immense economics are antici from this combine, including 000,000 in selling expenses, $10,000, 000 in the purchase of supplies, and |ag much mare in the maintenance of regular prices, and aggregating over | $20,000,000 annually. | Members Bloom the firm of Mayer, & Co, are local me promoting committee. and Scheuer, of vheuer, Offner abers of the | plies: | Farmer (with wife and two chil- |aren)—How much fer tickets for the | young uns? Railway Ticket Seller—Between 5 | and 12, half fare. Farmer—Gos darn it! Mandy, we'll lhev tew walt till termorrer—it's half | past 12 now!—Brooklyn Lite. | WL COUNT THE CUBANS U. S. Will Take a Census Soon. GET THE NUMBER OF VOTERS Preliminary Step Taken’ for the Future Government of the and. t WASHINGTON, March 20.—The The war department has decided to take a census of the population of Cuba, with the object of ascertain- ing the number of male citizens who qualified to vote at a general tion. This step ix preparatory to action that might be taken by con- gress authorizing the settlement of the question of the future govern- ment of the island by popular vote, or directing th establishment of « legislative mbly while Cuba re- mains under American control As island will lessen military rule in the island in favor more liberal form of govern- . largely civil in character, The » have not recognized am | the so-called Cuban assembly and do not intend to do wo. Any action that may be taken by the government in regard to the exere of civil auth- jority in Cuba will be instituted with. out reference to the present assem= bly, which, as Gen. Gqmez said in his letter accepting the action of the assembly in deposing him from the command of the Cuban forces, is a military and not a civil body, having been elected by the army of lbera- tion. 4 American Grave in Carolines. ‘The following epitaph is over a grave in the Caroline islands, which German diplomacy was trying to wrest from Spain. It would seem to show that the United States had pre-empted the soll i Sacred to Wilm, Collis Boat Steerer of the SHIP SaiNt george of New BED ford who By the Will of Almighty god. , was siviriliery injered by @ BULL WAALE Off this and on 18 March 1860 also to Pedro Sabanas of Guam 4th MaTe drouwned on the SAME Date his Back broken by WHALE NEW YORK, March 20.—Mra. E Schauk, % years old, of & Bast Houston street, killed herself last night at her home by taking Paris the widow of a theater. She was known along the Bowery as “Big Lou.” Schauk died four weeks ago, Regret over his death caused the widow's attempt at sul- cide. She left four letters to various relatives explaining the motive for her act, and asking them to take care of her four children. She was hurried in an ambulance to Bellevue hospital, but died there a short time after almisston, In the room of Mrs. Schauk when she took poison was a pet water spaniel, He began to bark and seratch at the door as she writhed there in pain alone. This attracted the attention of neighbors who sum- moned the police. Cecil Rhod Suecess. BERLAN, March 2.—There is tea- son to believe that Mr. Cecil Rhodes, the South African financier, will succeed in his negotiations with the Emperor for permission to construct the Cape Town-Cairo railway by the route through German East Afri- ca. Mr. Rhodes wil! have another audience with his majesty tomorrow. The Emperor, Chancellor von Ho- henlohe, Herr von Buelow, minister of foreign affairs, and Mr. Rhodeg wil! be the guests of Sir Frank Las- celles, the British ambassador, at @ dinner tomorrow evening — Happy Combination. Price, Quality, Pattern. The Man Who Buys TROUSERS Always looks for this combination, The ex- perienced buyers know that this store combines these three factors in every single pair of its TROUSERS J. REDELSHEIMER & Co Top Coat Mouse in tho State, » eer, Columbia oon