The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 30, 1899, Page 3

THE SEATTLE AR, and every fifth day theroafte: For further information folder, The company reserves the right to change, without previous notice, steamers, sailing date, and hours of J. F. TROWBRIDGE, Puget 84, Supt., Ocean Dk, Seattle, Uptown ticket oMfce, 618 First av., Seattle; Goodall, Perkins & Co., Gen, Agents, San Francisco, Washington & Alaska STEAMSHIP COMPANY. Alaska Lightning Express STEAMER CITY OF SEATTLE Sails from Yesler Wharf Monday, April 3d, at 1o o'clock p. m. FoR -— Skagway and Dyea DIRECT ‘Subsequent Sailings, April 1202, 224, and May 24. G. F. THORNDIKE, Pomme Main 470, 116 YOSLER WAY MILES FOR - Seattle Sta 1S AN em, Evening Newspaper Containing all of the \ Jews ~~ Wor PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, March 20.—Quite a boom has been started In favor of Major-General Nelson A. Miles as a Presidential candidate for the Dem- ocratic party in 1900, Miles has now ecored a great victory over Alger, and i is urged that since his charg 8 against rotten beef have been conclusively proven, an tesue might thus be made out of the conduct of the war with Spa: Miles would have considerable Mugwump support, He will be con- sidered & compromise candidate upon which all factions of Democra- ey, including Tammany hall the Bryan wing of the party can unite. @o long as Alger remains in Presi- dent MeKinley’s cabinet, after the scandalous disclosures before war investigating committees the ad- Directness of Statement ministration ts bound to suffer at noticead ture. the hands of the people. be the bree: ane a = It is said by close friends of the . ay pa resident that Alger’s persistence in graphing finds increasing favor in| staying in the cabinet, when he in these days, as to the old: | aware of the fact that he is embar- time fashion of ous ‘‘write- |Tansing “he administration, is wor- ol and edi utterances, |"7!"¢ ™ Kinley. By many who have HE STAR will have the interest of the renomination ¢ |the President at heart, it is assert- led that If Alger sticks in the cabin- et Tom Reed or some other prom- nent Republican is sure to become a candidate for the Republican nom- (As well an the “REAL ESTATE TRANSFE Don'tdoubtitforone minute. The| Real estate transfers filed in the paper will not claim to be the best | county auditor's office yesterday are on earth with the ‘largest circula- |“* folow* we —* ae |iration next year. Heir to a Fortune. EAST CLALLAM, Wash., March %.—Harvey Lesure, it is report ‘has fallen heir to a considerable tate leave to take possession. and) in Wisconsin and will shortly | Smith to W. J. Cross, lot 6) ate Woodruff, who has been in jail there many monthe. These two wives were the only ones the police could use as witness The remaining wives are eith not to be found or are averse {ifying, owing to the unpl publicity (hat would result, fort has beon made to find the several score of wives that he has deserted in the larger cities, but the endeavor has been unavailing It je known that Woodrutt been married at least 50 times. has admitted It. nt An ef. He He has wives in every large city went of Buffalo, and he confesses that he would not know them if they were lined up tn front of him. Woodruff ta 0 years, faded and shabby In appearanpe, but he has a cination that tx note cht. For many years he made luffalo his headquar- ters, but his wives became so nu- merous that he had to move. ‘The police thought that to ap- prise the two wives who had been counted as witnesses that Woodruff was wooing each of them would have the effect of causing them to turn aganinat the polygamist. But in this they were mistaken. The women atickh to Woodruff. Each ts conf- dent that when the man ts libergted he will take her back. He has mac promises to them both. The Buffalo police are greatly chagrined. SCRAPS.” ‘The Earl of Aberdeen owne a 63,000 acres of land In @cotiand. out ‘The cultivation of the camphor tree has proved a success in Florida. ‘Three thousand marriages are performed every day all over the world, About 1,600,000 persons are em- ployed im the coal mines of the workd, Senator Hoar will be 1 years of age when his term in the United | States wena’ expires in 1901. The President of France te fond} of walking about the streets of the city of Parts, his son being his daily companion. Archbishop Ireland Is a man of many tastes, chief among which in that for law, which study he has pursced for several years. A New York lawyer charged a counsel fee of $20 and a bondsman fee of $80 to defend a boy who was jheld for the larceny of 30 cent worth of groceries. A member of parliament once roe [in hie place and solemnly said: “Mr » 1 cannot sit still here and | keep silent without rising and ray-| }ing a few words | | When Sir Rudolf Biatin visited [Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle, it te said that he presented her with @ plece of wooden post to which he had Deon Chained when a captive tn Soudan. A Black Noness has been lately added to the collection of animals in the Jardin des Plantes in Paria Lions of thie color are found only In the Interior of the Sahara, and are scarce even there. James Ren All Hag@in, the mil jlionaire Callfornia turfman, gets his unusual name from his mother, who was the daugter of Ibraham fen oMcer of high |rank in Constantinople. Admiral Schley is @ mathemat! clan who can do most of his work 4 of his paper. In Liv nome years ago, he trium phantly bested a professional “light another “Down in La tht to get out engine: The latest idea in photographs in h Who Was of the olnadl ok that t and lead the London Tit-Bita, — gold ring while bathing. A reward | was offered and all the boys of the As Ho Rotated It to Officer Ellis in Biter raked the whole ehore up in | " h for it Hut it was never dis- | Seattlo.Wis Trip te the jeovered. The next year the lady Far West. |reading on the «i! never looking or to have # pleture taken of one's} |for the ring or thinking of it, she amile, It is taken tnwtantaneously |turned it up accidentally with her to get the right expression, What ta parasol more bewitching th a sudden, A tramp sat resting his back) A woman out riding lost a Jeweled bright, natural emile-the parted lips @&4!nst @ Second avenue lumber pile. scarfpin, which #he much valued and dimplea cheek, white teeth? It Police’ Rilig passed She did not mise it till the end of in indescribable. That in what the #irl has been told, and so she takes a hint and has herself photographed in the act of smiling, from the first sugKestion down perfect end. to the final ‘The photograph is sent to the best young man, who can re- mind himeelf how prett tieular girl looks when at the thought of him Journal y ® that y amit: pare “New York nt of the fifteen bright ween in there latituc on February evenings. fh the order of brightness, Cirus te a Uroeyon, Be Al Pollux and Regu- lus, Add to this Het the Mars, also visible now wise dimmed by pany, 1 it will be pruary is a very impor jim thy ily planet which ts in such t iMustrious neon t at pt month calendar of the amateur as- ite eight tetlar located The | | planet's ruddy light and steady glow |make it the most notable object high in the northeast Washington Times. after nightfall. | The London World says that dur- Ing the winter months the little ex ony of © or TO English Teheran organise concerts another amusement, dance now and then at the legat there is a people for at one and on Christmas night every Eng- aman in the place is a guest of Sir Mortimer and Lady Durand, When the weather ia cold, of urne there is skating. Skating in the «reatest |marvel of al! to the Peral A few years ago the late Shah, Naer-t Din, saw twenty akaters twirling ly on the He thought it wonderful he sent to the he made his mininte and attempt to skits the palace grounds ters were terribly legation and rowed « dowen pair of skater. * put them on on the lake in ‘The poor mint Aiscomfted. and curiing and spinning graceful- was amused; The next day he Then but it wan twice as much as thelr heads were worth to refuse Hils majeaty wan more amused than ever, and he nearly had an apoplect laughing te DR. BRIGGS TO PREACH AGAIN Will Take Orders in the Epis- copal Church. from NEW YORK, March 30.—Professor Chartes Driggs, D. D., of the facul- ty of the Union Theological semin- ary (Preabyterian), this city, will soon be ordained to the priesthood fn the Protestant Episcopal church by Bishop Potter. Shortly after last ' Dr: Brigge was rece communteant Into the church, having left the Presbyterian church, to which he had previously belonged and tn which he had & for muny years a distingu preacher and theologian as, however, had been the n authorith he and en of the of the history funet al wh suspen: in oun that denomin de h was the try WHERE 1S GUSTAFSON? ” | tion”’—-that is, not yet awhile, but |p 5 of Francis R. Day's Lal ping calculator” who was exhibit the effort will be made to steadily Grande add., #165. ling there. Chief of Police Reed hat received improve it. In the meanwhile) Sheriff A. T. Van De Vanter to es a letter from th © of Vancouv please remember that news ‘tips’ |G*eree A. Emery, lot 12 bik 2 in| More than 300 propositions have °r Bi. ¢ hin asaintance tn honed to the office (Pike | Lewin & man’s add., $1600. been submitted to the retary of | locating 7 — ho telephone ice (Pike 150) | “sheriff A. T. Van De Vanter to\the navy for raising the battleship *erted his wi children will be much appreciated; also | George A. Emery, ne % of sw % of Maine, which was blown up in Ha- years ago. ¢ mn is suppose subscribers. It only costs jne % sec 30 tp 25.n FS e, containing |vana harbor February 15, 1898. The ' Pe ® cook 4 f the steamers the 10 acres, $203.75 Joffers come from various sources all PI¥ing between here and San Fran Sheriff A. T. Van De Vanter tolover the country chime His wife wants him locate mo- W. H. Young, lot 2 bik 26, D. T, Den-| n order that he may be come “all- ny’s third add. to North Seattle.) ‘Tests have been made in Finland [0 ass her in support he | $851.24. Ito decide the comparat value of | Children i | Sheriff A. T. Van De Vanter to W. |jron and aluminum as material for msg OE Hy” Nea pd | J. Carsar, lot 9 bik 27 of D. T. Den-| horse shoes. After #ix weeks’ use Hollanders in Oregon. rode |ny’# add. to North Seattle, $3000. |by the cavaity the aluminum shoes!) owpaRro, Oo ae aa ‘ 2 di- e | Lockwood A. Kinnear and Martha| in all cages proved to be in better REA. OTe See , 9. Set ome, B J. Kinnear to W. H. Parlin, lot 7 bik | condition than the others. Pop oid taht iy ler 1 |, Summit add., $1750, . r ras 3 over the country carefully, are bet point | W. J. Driscoll and Tillie Driscoll! Joseph Choate, when studying for tor pleased with prospects here than f to David C. Maxwell, lots 1. 2 and|the bar, once said to Gen. Benjamin tye noch “ef fully | roe be hey expected, and th ult is that was 6 and we% of ne % of nec 4 tp 22), Hutler that he was better ac- tne colony to be located here have - ry |n of r 6 @ of Willamette meridian, |quainted with the statutes than With ooured opt as RAAaaY Gated voice Sarai 75 be a ope 8. De | MRY other branch of his work. “"You tracts of land, and have Alenified G. B. De Stelgner ie ary ei must remedy that, for what's t ae tater pr steals tana rsa To secure The Star for letotiner to Tonaubs Mayniban, lotl preverit 's fool legislature from re- | (eit intention of locating & larg gives 38 bik 19, Gilman add,, first subdivi-| pealing all you know?" Ree ene eee en Caen cranes maf af | W. W. Tucker to Mary Vernon, lot] pyerman Berger, of Patterson, No A dep ge : “rll Rasevtey Mary M. Buckman, to Mra. Mary|city the other day when a stranger |NAving Deon pall to the n Vernon, lot# 9, 10, 11 and 12 bik 58] made nome inquiries of him regara- POTtAn’ ARTIOWTNN lin ¢ » park, according to platling the street cars. After a f lef section 11 and 12 tp 2% on ofriae minutes’ conversation Herman Aint Pay of Lawmakers. — ;w. M., 4 that he was talking to hia. “The law makers In Austria and W. H. Vernon and Mary Vernon to r Carl, whom he had not seen | France are paid $5 a day; In Greece ISponcer Hawley, lot 9 bik 58 Gilman|{n 22 yoars, Cart renides in Port- th nators get $100 a month and park, $200 land, Me the deputies $50; In Germany mem | Maggie Peppler and Clarence Pep- - b f both h ve about RY 1 | pier to J. C. Mestergard and Anna! There are four men of Amer $2.50 a day; In Denmark the mem \estergard, lot 6 bik 7 of Kaufman's! pirth or training tn t of the landsthing each re ve add., $1699 house of comm They « ¢ at ' lay: in Belgium each | P. Stowe und Elinora Stone to] sq y, who Was brought up in of the chamber of repre | Bailey, beginning we cor lot] jew Orleans; F. A. Channing, son t# $85 a month; in Por 6 tik 9 Edgewater add, thence # 901 of the Rev. N. H. Channing, of Bo: peers and mmons ar |feet, thence W 224. feet. thence Alten; Sir Kil Ashmead iam) amo #um, which 4 ut | fewt, thence ¢ % foot to place) way born im Brooklyn in 149, t year; in Spain the member &, lef beginning, $499. his brother, the poet, W. A ur- of the cort ure not pald for thetr | menecy T. Caritic to Zamen Rumell| qett-Coutts, who was born in Ply rvices, but enjoy many advant * | reed ket 7 bIk MS wecond addition! mouth, Maes, in 1851 ind Immunities; in Switzerland 4 off A A, Denny and W. N. Be! the members of the nattonal coun « , situated corner One cause for the great increase cil met $2.50 a day, and the council treets, $4000. in England's recent wheat imports of states, the lower house, $1.50. In peo from the United States has been the Italy the senators and deputies are THE STAR PUBLISHERS contend) decrease in shipments to England not paid at all, but are allowed thetr that this pay i medivmlrrom Fusgia. Inthe last two months | traveling exper England is the TING by the board of trade returns, Rus-/only country where members of par- Aba ' @\ria nent to England only $257,000; Hament are not pald and have no Onn Jor West Washington, Dex) worth of wheat, against ,500 | special rights or privileges. idl ional 1 eT eae i. ‘Get out of that!” “Can't yer honor,” tramp, "I'm euft sions of the spine “What's that ye growled he. responded the rin’ from dissen- her journey, and as she had to ride 20 miles the prospect of finding it ap- peared small. She, however, gave notice of her lons to the police. On her retu: journey, when about a mile from her home, she puctured the tire of her machine, and on din- mounting to discover the cause, found the pin sticking In the tre I've been a- ' rides, eh?” i was takin’ in a home- * excursion to Seattle, There — ~ a » many plow people and , othe yolks hie “Mt SOLDIERS’ REMAINS. tastes of a Boston man, so I rode on trucks, I've traveled all my Eee ae life, but I never struck such mean luck before.” “How's that “Well, you see, about a week ago I found the Jumping Frog ratiroad. It runs about south of Montana. I'd never met this railroad before, so I didn't know it had a tough nam All the other roads in that re were trying to get along smooth as possible through the world, but the Jumping Frog wasn't that kind. It had cantankerous ways and tried to ride over everything and everybody It always would climb aver a potato hill rat than go around it itd there was a job,lot of odd-siged ties The Government Will Return Bodies From Manilla. Major Long, department quarter- master at San Francisco, yerterday sent a communication to Capt. Rob- inson, of the quartermaster depart- ment in this city, requesting that parties having relatives in the s«r- viee of the United States who have died in the Philippines, shall notify Major Long of their wishes in the matter of the disposition of the bodies, so that arrangements can be made accordingty. if partis for sale anywhere in the country want the bodies sent home the go’ t Jumping Frog bought ‘em up ernment will bear all of the expen and tried to run o ‘em, Idah saplin’s and Wyoming sawlogs w all jumbled up together, an’ you can guess how the retis lay on top of ‘em. “I didn’t know these things when I got aboard the train, but I found ut noon afterw It wan & o'clock at night when we pulled out STRUCK FOR Railroad Laborers Get Pastry of the station, The train was an hour late. My pard and I wae sit- ree = tin’ on the forard brake truck of Th Times a Day the ladies’ car an’ hangin’ onto the brake-roda with @ tiaht grip. I've traveled considerable under coaches, its my observation that wheel trucks are the best for pans. engers. trucks are four- wheet and too bobby, you see. “When the train gave its good-by hina at the station brake shoes let loose, w take jong to get ote full tilt. 1 noticed pretty quick the section fore- “It was the queerist strike I ever ‘heard about,” said the ratiroad man. It took place in °Michigan some years ago. The manager of a rail- road out there had to put a lot of men at work cleaning up a certain ltract of timber land. There being no boarding houses handy, it was found necessary to feed the members of the gang. “To do this it w . of course, nec- man hadn't been tendin’ to business, casary to establish a boarding hous, an’ the road was awfully scalloped. and the railroad authorities had one The carload of farmers over my started up at once, placing it in head tumbled and rocked a horible manner, It was ens jecare the pew-holdera, to say noth- in’ of the citizens ridin’ beneath. held onto the brake-rod like © death, expectin’ every minute to be knocked off an’ hurt. The shocks when the wheels hit the track were awiul, Big ties and little thes whiaged by under our Ie 0 & minute, an’ the sand flew up in great clouds an’ fillet our eyes. I fot scared. There were ditches on both sides of the track an’ I felt sure the engineer would dump the whole outfit, As we cleared the next prospect hol Hold on there!" roared the police- man, breaking In on the story. “Do you mean to tell me that this road ran over prospect holes Sure’s I'm livin’, it did,” replied the tramp gravely, n’ that wasn't the worst of it either. We struck an open switch five minutes later an’ charge of a competent and experi- enced man. But there was trouble right away. All the men struck |inside of a week, and the manager hastened to ask if they were dissat- isfied with their wages or thelr hours, ‘The answer was prompt and explicit ‘The wages and hours were satisfac- tory, and so was their general tr a ing house, where they got ple only once @ day, They wanted mince pie three times—at breakfast, dinner and supper — and they proposed to have it. The manager hastened to take counsel with the boarding house man ‘Give ‘em all the ple they want,’ was the manager's order. ‘Tf one piece imn’t enough, give ‘em another Sweeten it wll, te They want ft and we'll give It to them.” “This sulted the boarding house man down to the ground. Sugar ts a good deal cheaper than meat, and went tearin’ off over the country, | mince je is one of the least ex- pin’ ditches, knockin’ down corn- | pensive foods known to the cook. ike an’ wreckin’ wire fences. The After that there was no trouble whatever with that gang of men."— New York Press. ineer didn't seem to care a cent aps it was a short ent across country an’ he could make up reer time. As we thundered along over) The Pig as a Social Factor. the felds I yelled to my pard an’ The mania for unique ideas in en- tertainment has developed a new fad in Omaha—the city that is am- bitious to be a pork-packing center Pig parties are the latest the metropolis of while they may not be have won the distinction of being characterized by the soctety editors as “charmingly novel The guests at the pig parties are given stic of chewing gum. After solemnly tasting the gum they are request to model p from the plastic ma terial. ‘The guest exhibiting the most lifelike figure recetves an ap propriate prize—a stiver pig with a tape measure coiled inside of him, asked him tf he'd ever traveled such a before, He was answerin when we atruck a new p ‘ed field n’ the bownein’ grew #o bad that his conversation got mixed upside down.” road . and, policeman looked puzzled Then asked, “Does a man’s talk really get tangled up under a car?" a ‘ responded the tramp. times the adjectives get so badly mixed up with the adverbs that th sno sorting them « . I've known my pronouns to turn head over heels under a car and reach my pard right side up. It's strange.’ | “So T should think,” responded the m é . or an illustrated edition of “ Th iceman. “If that western road | rite Pig That Went to Market f your's Jangen up. tang sh talk #0) phe advent of Lent wi!l doubtless badly, it will make the passengers | cairo a coasation e! jon of these poreine tongue-tied by the by. You said ote functions that may possibly be troduced in Chicago among the East ler festivities, something, too, about the cars leav- ing the track,and striking off thro’ the fields. Do you think I'm from na to swallow such a bloody | amaker's Profits. le? It's a fact, though,” declared the! A business man of Philadelphia tramp, looking agarieved, “I'm giv-|said the other day that Mr, Wana- in’ you straight goods, We didn’t) maker's ofits from his Philade run long over the meadows, though. | phia store last year was over $ The conductor gw mad, pulled the 0,000 and that those from his New | bell rope and twisted down the York establishment will run clo: brak Then he fumped off to to that figure. The Saturday b ore 'the ground, ran up to the engineer Christmas, says the New sland an’ jawed him for leavin’ the right | Magazine, the receipts in New York way an’ steamin’ away with the | were en greater than thom in Philadelphia, and exceeded 1H), 000, The New York store has paid a pro- fit from the very day It was opened, blazed ang- “You're from Chicago, aren't|although two firms which upled you?" he demanded roughly. the establishment since 4 Stew Yea, I was born there.” art's death have failed, The r a “T thought #0, Now, Ul give youlof Mr. Wanamaker's great success Just one minute to pick yourself up |in New York and Philadelphia, ts snd hustle away for the Great iful and extensive advertis- Northern track, Don't you stop/ing. It has been his rule to con trottin’ (1 you reach home, either!” fine his advertising to newspapers I'm off, your honor, Tr and magazines, on which he has thought, though, that tellin’ a little |spent annually more than $300,000 in Philadelphia of his New » Advertising bills York establishment ex- was con attle. ¥ trary to the getting awful strict out here, 'specl- ceeded even that sum last year. aliy on week days!" <seeennaneienansipsnensaaniiet And with this parting shot the) One of the most sv “s tramp ambled away, jlish breeders of cats says that fre- quent changes of diet benefits tt animals, Boneless fish and rice are good for them; so Is condensed milk, and in warm wea vegetables should be freely mixed with their Queer Coincidences. This is a Uttle world In which we live and the people most certain of jthis are those who have experienced | food, * * } £ ni r was at Long Branch again and while | MORE PIE ment; their trouble was in the board- | thing in} {to a handkerchief, , | worth th the same period of 1808 | «trange coineidenc hich nee -| . cific Coast Steamship Company| CHARLES WAS iuiste’tat!ons esl (ars il PING earmark LAK CAVE 4 - Jaent three times as much of Indian | graph relates some cases which for San Francisco A MESMERIST en am of wheat \e i are authentic, Harry Bradshaw, the | MAW U b d executive librarian of the Cam The company's ele | President Dreher, of Toanoke col | bridge university brary, had a very gant wr teenenine eiioietinms a lewe, saya that Edward Austin, ot \ 1 siraame aAyontage ina Hari bvaTy Al een, alla, Hoaton, once met emide Biiet, 0 | pon! 4 a on ei a and. Umatilia leave] Deserted Wives Would Not y).)0 0/00) {y\) Tiemluent elt or sl aeatioy acd Met’ rasan reine yi a rowtsea eet ote via Testify Against Him. | follow in ‘nvervation took places | ° @ lover to see ft he could discover it. | " | hat is the next building you need Search wae fruitless though the j » wae fru hough th 8, 10, 18, 20, 30, April 4. 814, 1% 36) ee, LOUIE, Mo, March 30.—A ape- nibriy “A law achool,” -_ lwae strong presumption na to the ume Rica) pe He pale a every y cial from Ruttal rs ehlg emorhs ate lawyers, but what will] part of the brary where it would ; s ing states that Charles W. Wood About $70,000, perhaps hi ’ be found, He stood one day in one B II ill W a San Francisco frit, the mort succumtulbienrie Me! ss Would $100,000, d07" Yon.” | Icago ramp SLX- ot the recesses of the Mbrary, de eleviile oman s For Seattle 10 a, m., via Victoria and lever arrested in New York state, and day Ar. Aun went the nek the Serasinin ° “aeual’ the Seine pert Pewnsend, Maton & ¥, 9% it, Shonen bade ao tec ee ane | day Me. 4 A went the choc re ° he librarian, “about the height, April 4, 6, 11 it, M, May't, andl one wife in St. Louis, has woord , ih | citin ime thin aad Ws lata ete aes arrow Scape. every fifth Gay thereation voy a ag hoy rg ae ney were : aiking about the re-| . this,” said he, taking a book out FOR ALASKA caused his arrest, So comp hae this fioF ome of ey geo Biniin ae eee i 4's train stop msepineesemennetoen | It was the missing book | i Tho elegant steamships Cottage basetneie te uae th iy half mile on its way to the city, the The stories of strange coincidences City, City of Topeka and Al-KI leave | > ely to testify against him, o thick that it was tm- | . 1 in the m of the recovery ont WA OP 7 . Seattle 9 a.m, March 1, 6, 11, 16, 26, Hg ae @ reault the police of Huff ithe of the ‘patiwatk ONA HOME-SBEKERS’ EXCL RMON my sabi phgnties "T c Mil ph WAS FIRED AT WN THE DARK 31, April 5, 10, 15, 20, 28, 30, May 6,/al0 admit they will have to liber “Oh, that’s nothing!” said | a lady staying at Long Branch lost @ ses to Know Who Did the Shooting But Will Not Toll Her 8T. LOUIS, Mo, March 120. iron lock on the dining roorh door \ her house saved the life of Mra. Ar nie Wasem, wife of a Belleville pc liceman, living at No. 12 Sout Spring street. A bullet was fire at her by a woman, but was de flected from its course by the meta on the door. The police worked the greater portion of yesterday on thr ~, and way that they have a very strong clew as to the identity of the would-be assas#in y Mrs, Waser had apranged a light ltunch for herself and two of her children about o'clock at night The other four were asleep in an ad- joining room. The dining room door is fitted with glass panels aad opens toward Spring street. While Mrs Wasem was cutting bread, her at- directed by one of her tention wa. ehildren a dark figure standing jnear the sidewalk but in the shade of # tree, The policeman’s wife partly raised herself from her chair and leoked out of the dining room door. The same instant a shot rang out, which was closely followed by a@ crash of an. Mrs. Wasem shrieked and fell over on a couch. The noise roused the sleeping children, and they rushed screaming to thelr mother's side, Water used in lberal quantities, and Mrs. Wasem was revived about the time neighbors, who heard the shot and outery rived in the house. The woman again lapsed in- to uneonsciousnens. An examination of the door show- ed that the bullet had struck the lock and glanced. ‘The oldest of the children told the inquiring neighbors about the dark fixure which had stood in front of the house and of the shot. Mra. Wa- nem was closely questioned later in the event but refused to say any- thing about who fired the shot. She declared that all she sew was the ‘fash of fire, ax the revolver, which was pointes directly at her, was dis- | charged. Henry Wasem, the woman's hus- band, is employed all night and did not hear of the narrow escape of his | wife from death or serious injury juntil he arrived home yesterday mornin He hurriedly gleaned all that his wife knew and laid tits tn- formation before Chief of Police F. | Obst. Two men were detailed on the WHITE DOVE OF PEACE Will Flutter Over England on | Easter Day. | LONDON, March 30.—England ap- proaches Easter week with more | peaceful surroundings than she has known fn five years. A year ago, when Lord Sallsbury went to seek |his health on the shores of the Med- iterranean, the foreign situation #0 excited the Chronicle that it descrtb- ed him as “a coward skutking on the Riviera.” He has gone to the Ri- viera again this week, and a chorus of “well-earned holld: is heard, The same week has seen the pub- cation of the fact that there has |been an Anglo-French final agree- ment in Central Afriea and an An- |gio-Russian provisional agreement lin China, It fs wu “as to discuss either yet. A Times writer describes |the African settlement thus: | “Materfal for a careful estimate lof the probable economic value of |the states affected is largely want- ing. The agreement itself bears mony to our meegfr knowledge f the geography of the central Sou- }dan, for tt only affects a rough ai- | vision, leaving to a mixed commis- \sion the task of tracing out the fron- tier.” ‘There Is even less data for judg- ing the China arfangement, excent that the British semi-official state- |ment describes the settlement of the Niu-Chwang question as being “completely tisfactory.” and promises a convention which will deal with the spheres of influence of | Pngland and Russia in China. Eng- lishmen are entirely skeptical of the good faith of Russia, but Lord Salisbury's prestige has been #0 much restored that they are willing to believe that his policy is the most jexpedient at the present time. ‘A TRAMP WHO WAS GRATEFUL Came Back After Five Years to Pay for a “Hand-Out CHESTER, F March %0.—The | kindness bestowed upon a tramp 5 years ago by the family of Harry Johnson, of Edgmont avenue, thi elty, was r lied this week when a stranger made himself known to Mrs. Johnson and said he came to y her for the food she had given him at that time, Mrs. Johnson had forgotten the circumstance, but as he spoke of it she remembered the tramp, who had sald he was looking for work, and said that he would call jon her if he ever returned to Ches- ter, The stranger's money was re- jected kindly, and he left, profuse with thanks, A newspaper in Madrid is seeking popularity by printing its columns nm linen, and with an ink which eas- | ily washes out, so that the rea af- ter perusing the journal may apply soap and water and convert it in-