The Washington Bee Newspaper, December 28, 1895, Page 1

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. J FIRESIDE COMPANION. It is true if you see it in THE BEE. BORROW THIS PAYrER SRR ie Che Bee GREAT ADVERTISING MEDIUM. TRY iT: Do you want reliable news? Do you want a fearless race advocate? Do you want colored Read and advertise in THE BEE! NOT DISTURBED IN MIND. DEc. 21, 1895. Epiror oF Ture BEE: The “Negro | Solicitor” in referring to me as being “disturbed in mind about the possi- | bility of Prof. Washington becoming | the leader of the Negro race as was his father,” is very much mistaken. No word of mine, written or spoken, can be pointed to, that even under the most liberal construction, will bear out | any such statement. I have never dis- a ee my peers fig in the light of ‘. res SET leadership in my life, neither have I *RASMI HUKM.* drawn any comparisons between him and others. We have leaders enough. IMPERTAL RASMI TADABIR.* Our trouble is that we have no fol- lowers. My father was a friend of Ata ons - My I = end o a ee | Booker T. Washington and also a N.S. a® friend of his work, and I am the same, ‘obility ofthe Mystic Skane? To but I do not indorse his Atlanta speech nor some of his subsequent utterances, and that is all there is in my opposition to him. CHAS. R. DOUGLASS, 318 Astreet, N. E., Washington, D. C. * TusKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE, ul Der Gr r the y Grand Potentates, | d Potentates _and| Domain of the Cres- | imperial Ayalat of North ca, Whose Mosque is | ve basis of Chicago, | y's, that a few rebellious | within the basis of} Badiyah. D. C. and vi-! ‘ jake donning in aioe TUSKEGEE ALA., Dec. 23, 1895. ites and Ashraf to runin |. .Tuskegee has received through the N.S. A., whose Agha is | kindne s of a number of the leading is John G. Jones, 33°, Most | Gairies of the North, a donation of a Grand Potentate. Piease pay | complete set of dairying apparatus to ,ihis Rasmi Hukm, Abad, |teplace the set which we lost in the dience to Imperial De-|Teceat fire of the 23r@ ult., at which | r Mosque, basis, Wash-|time, our barn, with contents was | , District of Columbia, | burned. Vibe 1313 A, HH.) Prof. John. W. Hoffman, Ph. D., in eee a ee > of the Departments of Agricul- | fees Jtt- charg ial G.C.,R 1 (ee . : 4 = rial G. C., Recorder. jtural Chemistry and Biology of th ve -RICAN TEAC te | School, has resumed his food inve: iit aided ee LEAGUE, gation among the people cf the vicinity. | ar ‘R’S AND MANAGERS’ ap-|_ Mr Victoria Earle Matthews, of | DRESS. New York City, is visiting Mrs. Booker | ae ‘ Washington. Mrs. Matthews is an ac- | time The Bree has taken|tive worker inthe movement for the kin negro journalism in | advancement of colored women. The, n pecially this city, | main object of her visit here is to talk | ienced by the indorsements | over plans with Mrs. Wa shington for} om the many organiza- | the National Federation of Afro-Ameri- . : | can women. of the Executive Com-! Tu | ‘ -American Employes! . 44S 2 . nong other sine, ‘i | visit from Mr. Wm. j. Schieffelin and | W.c se said that the organi-| also from Mr. McAniny, both of New| cratulated on. its | York cit: Mr. Schieftelin is Treasurer | and its success of| of the C ivil Service Reform League of | E. that city and Mr. McAniny is Sectre-} sand Anglo-saxons|tary of tie same or The | } ave given | Object of their visit was to perfect | .ciation handsome | P! for the transportation of our ex-| hibits from the Atlanta Exposition to New York city. | Isaac FisHer. kegee has been honored by aj siness ly Mr. Chase, to speak a chnson Brothers on ver who are you men in the races € t vertiser in The BE CITY BREVITIES. who believe in aiding ea that been ad- e white m 1 to the negro is all *¢, who is opposed they give and worthy Afro- other class of V r d_ the < on Afro-American Em- ll be surprised to reat merchants of the city he efor the negro, : \t the conclusion of Mr. Chase’s ad- dress ug r Cameron spoke in complimentary terms of merchants 1 he had callei and ured ominittee that he would give them 1 oe in the souvenir ition of The Brt CONFIDENCE IN HIM. Horton & Bros., proprietors of two fine stores in this city have in their em- ploy Mr. 1. H. Cook, an Afro-Ameri- can, who is engaged as a drummer. The vere are young business character, and believe in they can for the negro. k, from all reports, is a Tin the northwest, he is known asa man who attends to his business. All groes have to do, is for him a show pabilities and he will be s'ven a chance with our business men. WILLIAM SCOTT. Mr. William Scott, the hattera 606 D Sitect, n. w., is prepared to repair all kinds of hats at the shortest notice. FUR THER REDUCED RATE MICKETS TO ATLANTA EX- POSITION VIA SOQUTH- ERN RAILWAY. ion to Tuesdays arti Thurs- ich week, the Southern Rail il ten tickets from sin Virginia to during the continuance of sition. Tickets on sale at Ss, 511 and 1300 Pennsylva- ‘venue and Pennsylvania Station. Dec. 7-4t. q wanted at once, for \| the best selling Hair preparation | Lotion in the count $5.00 per day easily 1325 6th St. N. W., , i a | s Calendar for 1896 is out and est yet panel with a stylish gold the background and pad are harmomious brown tints. ukable growth of the editions i's Calendars from one million lew years ago to over thir- ons for 1896 is only paralleled ouderful advance in favor of arseparilia, which is now the “lvtrue blocd purifier prominently the public eye. < - erch ints in the | 1 in this city doing | and Skin} imired, Many pronounce | r It consists of of a beautiful young woman | souvenir edi | appear in January. The Police Court reception on Thurs- day morning was composed of crap- i ion of The Bre will | | | | | shooters, razor carriers, counterfitters, | jand check raisers. There are Bailey Clubs being organ- ed throughout the city. There are over 22 Bailey Clubs or- ganized, There were lots of assaults mitted on Christmas day. com- Send in your advertisements for the souvenir number of The BEE. There should be a colored President and Secretary at Howard University. _The Afro-American had better open his eyes as Howard University is fast passing out of his hand A SURPRISE. | Miss K. V. Alexander, principal of the Patterson School and her corp_ of teachers, surprised their janitor, Mr. | S. A. McKinney with great many valu-} able gifts on Christmas day. Among} which was turkeys and eatables of all kinds, wearing apparels and a good sum or money. Mr. McKinney feels very grateful to the ladies for the same. | C. MAURICE SMITH. | Chairman Carter could not appoint a better man as judge, than Mr. C.} Maurice Smith. He is a gentleman | and a true republican. | Hon. T. T. Allain, of Chicga, form- 'erly of Louisiana, has been appointed | mailing clerk in the House of Repre- | sentatives. | The Bee willhave more to say of | him in the souvenir edition. | The interesting and instructive Sur- | gical Clinics which were inaugurated | | and conducted by Dr. Dan’l H. Wil-; | liams, Surgeon-in-chief of Freedman’s | | Hospital last winter will be resumed} j again by him this winter, beginning | Sunday Jan. 5th. lon the Captain of Alonzo Lee, 11th! | street wharf. H | TOO MUCH CHRISTMAS. | | j | | | 1 | | | | i | | | | | MApAME SISSIERETTA JONES, | BORROWING A TITLE. Madame Sissieretta Jones sang at the Metropolitan Church Chrisunas eve night to a large audience. Some of the best known people in society went to hear he Mrs. Jones who has wona repu as a singerhas been stylcdthbe ‘I Patti”? in contradistinct'on to white Patti; and has been so regarded wherever she has been. Not satisfied with the title that she || crowned man, with man as had already obtained, she was by a committee of gent ton. B. K. Bruce as spok QUEEN OF SONG. atitle and honor that has been won TELEGRAMS IN BRIER, THE NEWS OF THE WORLD FOR | A WEEK CONDENSED FUR BUSY READERS. Zeitoun is reported captured by the Turks. A fire in the Richie block in Den- ver, Colo., did $168,000 damage. The case of H. H. Holmes has been appealed to the Supreme Court. Floods in Central Missouri destroyed property that was worth $4,000,000. Mrs. Ida Straube, aged sixty-five, was suffocated in a fire in Chicago. Seven prisoners escaped from thé Louisville (Ky.) jail Christmas Day. A dozen persons had a narrow ¢8- cape from death in a sweat shop fire in New York city. Burgiars chloroformed Mrs. James Dunn and her sister in bed at Wood- bridge, N. J. Fire destroyed one-half of the busi- ness portion of Vienna, Ill. Loss, $90,- 000. Incendiarism is suspected. Miss Ruby Bennett, a Bridgeport heiress, ran away with Frank Katety, a painter, who was frescoing her house. There is much complaint of the char- actet of the text-books on alcohol and narcotics required by the new school law. A Christmas tree in Baltimore was trimmed with mice, jugs of milk, raw beef and catnip for invited high-tone¢ cats. The Supreme Court, General Term. upheld the Fayerweather will, which distributes $5,150,000 among twenty colleges. Nelson Driggs, the most famous counterfeiter of his time, died at his country home at Dayton, O., agec eighty-six. Elmer E. Williams, a member of ar old Hackensack (N. J.) family, shot and mortally wounded a. farm hané named Molon. Capt. McLaren, of a New York har- bor tug, dove into the icy water off the Battery and rescued two men from 3 | capsized yacht. Mrs. Oliver Kenworthy, an aged wo- man of Middlebury, Vt., was burned to death by an explosion of kerosene while kindling a fire. John S. Spaulding, seventy years old, a peddler, residing at Lewis, N. Y., was instantly killed at Elizabethtown by his cart overturning. James Valeto and George Deshaute, two Italians, living at Mechanicville N. ¥., were killed by a D. & H. train three miles south of that place. Congressman Black, of New York, has introduced a bill to pension Mrs Mary Gould Carr, widow of the late Gen. Joseph B. Carr, at $50 a month. The Rev. Dr. Joseph F. Johnson, rec- tor of Christ Church, Detroit, Mich., has been elected Bishop of the new Episcopal diocese of Southern Califor- nia. os Fifty thousand children of the poor received presents from the seven mon- | Ster Evening World Christmas trees ir New York city, Brooklyn and Jersey Citv.. and bestowed upon Miss Flora Batson | Ber, There is but one “Queen o: | country among Afr: singers and that one i -en of Song,” M itis unfair to Miss Batson and an position on the public. It is to be regretted that the gentle- men wi ged the affair should! hemselves to be duped a title upon oie to an ther. n of Song” wa om cy the leadir political press the Queen of England. nal Queen of Song will be soon. in this city ——_—_—_—_—_—__====-=__ | the train. | steamship Columbia for Genoa. Mrs | millionaire, and has cabled his wife sss. While a passenger train on the Si- berian Railway was running at a high rate of speed the carriage in which Count Golovine was traveling with his wife and two children caught fire. Ths fire spread so -apidly that the Coun- tess and her two children were unable to escape an? burred to death. The Count saved his life by jumping from Henry J. Newton, a well-known mer- chant of New York city, was run over and killed by a cable car in that city. Miss Anna Hayden Webster, of Hav- erhill, Mass., has been arrested upon! complaint of her family, who will at- ; tempt to have her sent to an insane asylum. The woman, who styles her- self “The Bride of Christ,” has gained a few believers in that city and it is reported that they will contest the pro- ceedings. Mrs. Francis L. Higgtnson, aged forty, wife of the famous Boston bank- er and a social favorite, has forsaken her home and family, leaving no word behind her, and eloped with James Wheatland Smith, aged twenty-six, . lawyer. They took passage on the Higginson’s friends think she is of un- sound mind. Mr. Higginson is a multi- $100,000, remarking: “‘Why, things will starve.” the poor THE MONROE DOCTRINE. A Meeting of American Republics Pro- posed to Adopt It. Washington, Dec. 24.—Representative Beach, of Ohio, to-day introduced in the House a bill authorizing the Presi- dent of the United States to invite the governments of the other American re- publics to appoint plenipotentiaries with full powers to meet in conference in the city of Washington within one year from the approval of the act, for the formal acceptance and declaration of international law. The bill names the Secretary of State as the plenipo- tentiary for the United States and ap- propriates $5,000 for the expenses of the eonference. He also introduced a bill providing for the reciprocal interchange of pro- ducts between the United States and) other nations. It reads: “The duties imposed by the tariff laws of the Unit- ed States shall not apply to food pro- | ducts and raw materials imported from} such nations as may make equivalent reciprocal concessions in favor of mer- chandise imported from the United | States. The President of the United States, after the passage of this act , Shall, through the proper diplomatic The sirlxing mud locked-out clothing) agents of the Government, negotiate makers invtew York city will begin) commercial arrangements upon such actions for damages against the con.| basis with any and all foreign govern- tractors fer violating signed agr ments. Caracas University students march- ed to President Crespo’s residence an¢ asked that all male Venezuelans be enrolled in the army for immediate service. Gen. Moses B. Walker, the hero of Chickamauga, died of paralysis at Kenton, O. He was born in 1819. He was the last man that left the field of Chickamauga. The Irish National Alliance of Amer-| ica has issued a manifesto offering to place at the disposal of the President of the United States, without delay, 100,000 soldiers. Four men have been arrested at Buf- falo on suspicion of wrecking the D., L. & W. train at Preble. They were sent to the penitentiary until their records can be looked into. Lord Dunraven arrived on the Teu- tonic. The Defender’s crew has been summoned to New York. The investi- gation as to Lord Dunraven’s charges} will be begun at once. Ministers of New York and Brook- lyn deprecate the possibility of War. Ir Philadelphia, Chicago and Pittsburg tne ministers were more favorably dis- posed towards the President’s action. Mine Boss Perry Watkins was knock- ed down in a fight in the Ishkooda mine near Birmingham, Ala., whereupon he killed Columbus Madden and Louis Smith, Jr., and wounded Louis Smith, Sr. Speaker Reed has announced his com- mittees. Mr, Dingley, of Maine, heads the Ways and Means Committee. Rob- ert P. Hitt, of Illinois, is made chair- man of the Committee on Foreign Af- fairs. Republican leaders in the House de- cide to at once pass a tariff bill in- creasing the revenue by $40,000,000 or $50,000,000, and a bill for a 3 per cent. bond issue. It is also decided not to re- tire the greenbacks. Mrs. Irene Mosar, aged thirty-one, of St. Louis, Mo., was assaulted by a man| supposed to be her husband, from whom) she had been divorced. She was stab-/| bed through the heart and fell dead. Mosar has disappeared. Joseph T. Jenkins, a gambler, stab- bed W. B. Macklin in a Chicago cable ear, Macklin fell against Jenkins in getting up to give his seat to a lady, a quarrel ensued and the stabbing fol- lowed. Macklin will die. Henry George’s anti-war meeting in) Cooper Union, New York, was made very noisy. When resolutions praiging| President Cleveland were presented the} lights were turned off and the mover of them was put out. Policemen had diffi- culty in keeping order. A passenger train »n the Adirondack} and St. Lawrence Railroad collided) with a light engine at Horseshoe Fond, | and Engineer William C. Brassel, of the passenger train, a resident of Utica,| was killed. A number of persons were ments. The provisicns of this act shall not apply to any articie upon which an ‘export tax is imposed.” { Railroad Hold-U p in Peru. | Lima, Peru, Dec. .—For the first | time in Peru a train has been held up The spikes of the rails were removed | on the line between Pisco and Ica, and | the train went off the track. As the} speed is not great on these railroads, no harm was done, A party of eight highwaymen then appeared, who force¢ the seventy-four passengers to leave | the train and to dispose themselves. face downward, on the plain to facili- tate the search for valuables, after which they broke open trunks ané mail bags, hunting for booty. The |amount of it secured is not known. The passengers were taken on to Ica by the engine, which had not left the track. The authorities are making every effort to catch the robbers, but | up this time have not succeeded. Shot in a Car. Chicago, Dec. 26.—John Winehart, an insane man, boarded the Monon ex- press at 8 p. m. yesterday and was fol- lowed by Detective McQuaid, who,no- ticed his queer actions. Winehart drew | @ revolver and shot McQuaid. The lat- ter returned the fire and wounded Winehart. A boy was also shot in the | head. Winehart ran through the train shooting at lamps and windows. Pas- sengers dodged under the seats and in the closets. The maniac was subdued |; at Englewood and arrested. Henry Nietzchulz called on Annie Berman, at No. 523 Canal street and disembowele1 himself. She had reject- ed him. Cremated in Mid-Air. Pittsburg, Dec. 24.—Fred Loar, Phil- lip Bouman, William Mooney and] Michael Kelly were roasted alive yes- terday at the top of one of Shoenber- ger’s blast furnaces. With three other men they were repairing the furnaces | seventy-five feet from the ground Without any warning the bell of the furnace lighted, allowing the flames) and deadly gases to shoot to the top.) Those not badly burned at the start} | tried in vain to beat out the fire on the clothes of the others with their bare) hands. Wounded While Looking at the Pistol. Lambertville, N. J., Dec. 24.—Dennis Leary, of Boycott, Pa., about six miles! across the river, in Bucks County, was! seriously, if not fatally, wounded yes- terday afternoon, while he and F. N. Townsend were examining a revolver. It was accidentally discharged, and the ball entered Leary’s stomach. | Theodore N. Lambert, the young ne- | who shot and killed William G tairer, a baker, while robbing hi: house in December, 1893, was hanged more or less injured. Dr. D. M. B. Thom, a medical mis- sionary in Eastern Turkey, who was il- legally detained at Alexandretta by Turkish officials until the arrival of the United States cruiser Marblehead, has reached New York. Three native companions were not released, ____ at Camden. N. J. { John F. Sullivan, a lawyer and just’ of the peace of Saratoga, N. Y., co itted suicide by ooting hims | runkenness and dissipation made } “ospondent. He was twenty-nine y od, and leaves a widow and two 1. sone | | RAILWAY COMPANY WINS. The Ruinous Strike in Philadelphis Brought to a Close. Philadelphia, Dec. 24.—After lasting n days the ruinous strike of the metormen and conductors of the Union Traction Company came to an end last night by the employes accepting the | terms of the company. The men struck for a working day of ten hours, $2 per day and the recognition of the Amal- gamated Association of Street Railway Employes. The settlement of the strike is tht result of numerous conferences betwees the executive committee of the striks ers and Union Traction Company offi- cials. Propositions and counter propo- sitions were made by each side until the agreement decided upon was finally reached. Throughout all these confer- ences the Union Traction Company resolutely refused to recognize any one in the negotiations but its own em- ployes, and the officers of the Amalga- mated Association were not permitted to be present at any time. The victory is with the company. The company has all along publicly stated that it was willing at any time to grant a respectful hearing to any grievances that its own men might have, but that it would recognize no association. The only point partially gained by the men was the unofficial recognition of their association. On the other points for which they struck they have gained nothing, and are | Worse off by a week’s salary and the occupation of the places of 1,900 of them. These 1,900 new employes will have the preference in the runs of the cars and the old men will have to act as “‘trippers.” All of the 1,900 new men will not remain here, as a majority of them were simply supplied during the strike by contractors. Still some two or three hundred of the new men will remain here permanently. At a mass meeting of the strikers last night the agreement entered into by their executive committee with the Traction officers was ratified. The con- clusion of the strike will be greeted with joy by all classes of citizens. The Christmas shopping trade was killed, and directly and indirectly it is a fair estimate that the seven days’ strike cost the Traction Company, its employes and the merchants of Phila- delphia $2,000,000. SERGIUS STEPNIAK DEAD. The Great Intellectual Leader of the Nihilists Killed by a Train. London, Dee. 24. ergius Stepniak was killed at Chiswick by a railroad train while crossing the track yester- Sergius Michael Dragomanoff Step- niak—his psuedonym in full—the mosi feared Nihilist in the world, dies car- rying the secret of his identity to the grave. For twenty-five years one of the best-known men,in Europe, yet none knew him. He was the recognized leader of the Nihilists, but was not manager of the bomb-throwing cam- paigns. His efforts were along the line of moral persuasion and appeal to the intellect. His whole life was enshroud- ed in mystery and none, save perhaps | a very few, could say whether he ever participated in physical force plots, al- though often suspected. But it is cer- tain that in later years he looked with less favor upon radical measures, an¢ frequently spoke against it. Yet he did not disguise his sympathy for the slayer of the late Czar. Alive After Being Hanged. Dayton, Wash., Dec. 24.—Henry Math. er, of Pomeroy, came here on Friday and declared that Charles Myers, wh« was hanged at Pomeroy for murder was still alive. Mather said that after the hanging an old man who had tak en charge of the body after it had beer refused by relatives applied simpic remedies and resuscitated the appar- ently dead man. Since that time Myers has been in hiding. District Attorney Green, of Pomeroy, says that officers of Garfield and Columbia Counties were present when Myers’s body was inter- red in potter’s field. But two other men from Pomeroy have corroborate¢ Mather’s statement. They assert thai they have seen Myers alive within the past week, but refuse to disclose where and under what circumstances. The story has created a sensation and az official investigation will be made, Contracts for Battle-Ships. Washington, Dec. 24—The Board of Naval Bureau Chiefs, after carefully considering for several weeks the bids submitted for building battleships Nos. 5 and 6, has recommended to Secretary Herbert the acceptance of the bid oi the Newport News Dry-Dock and Ship- Building Company, of Virginia, to con- struct both ships on the plans of the Navy Department for $2,250,000 for each. In the event, however, that the Union Iron Works, of San Francisco, the next lowest bidder, at $2,740,000, shall scale down their bid so as to leave only a reasonable difference between | their figures and the $2,350,000 asked by | the Newport News Company for one ship, it is recommended that each of these companies be awarded the con- tract for building one vessel. Yale’s Great Wealth. New Haven, Dec. 24—A recent esti- mate of the wealth of Yale University places the sum at $5,500,000. Most of this is in buildings and real estate, of which Vanderbilt Dormitory is valued ; at $1,000,000. The Campus lot is esti- mated to be worth $500,000, while the remaining land occupied by outside buildings is placed at half that sum. The buildings of the Scientific School, together with the equipment and sur- rounding real estate, are valued at $500,000. Yale Field is rated at $70,000, and other real estate at various loca tions at $100,000, ———————