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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-24
Name. o. C. Name. o.
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Washington STOCK Exchange,

Government Bonds-C. s. AIS, 1891. reg stored,
l04K bid, los asked U. 5: AIS, 1891. coupon,
1907, 126 bid, 126H asked. U. 3. Is coupon,
| 1907, 127 bid, 1271 askeI
District OF Columbia Bonds-Per imp. ss. 1891,
coin, lo5H bid, lo64 asked Per imp. rs, 1901,
currency, 107 bid, 100 asked. Market stock
Is, 1892, currency. los bid, ITO asked. 2O-year
fund. Us, 1882 gold, I97 bid 100 asked. 2O-yeaI
currency. l3l Did. soy fund, Us. gold, 1902, l2l
bid. Water stock, rs, currency, 1908 LIS bid
3-61s, 1924, fund, currency, 1885, bid.
Miscellaneous Bonds-U. 8. sc rio Light bonds
lst u.s. 100 bid U. ). Electric Light bonds, I'd It's,
log bid, l05 asked: Washing on and George
Washington and Georgetown Convertible bonds.
Us, 100 bid. Masonic Hall Association 5s 1898 lOs
bid, ia asked. Washington Market Company
Market company bonds, imp. is. la4 bid. is5X
| asked. Washington Light Infantry first mort
sSi ntanry foads iS "a bid
100 asked. Washington Gas Light Company
bonds, series A, 81, III bid, 1921 asked Wash
ington Gas Light Company bonds. series b. Us,
National Bank Stocks - Bank Of Washington
645 bid. Bank OF Republic, $50 bid: Met.
| Second. $50 bid. Farmers and Mechanics. 100
bid, 200 asked. Citizens l65 bid. Columbia, lS4
bid. Capital. liz bid.
railroad Stocks - Washington and Georgetown.
$50 bid, TIN asked. Metropolitan. 14s bid, l65
asked. Columbia, 53% bid. SO asked. Capitol and
North Street. 81 BID 5ss asked lexington
Insurance Stocks-Firemens, a bid. Franklin,
So bid. Metropolitan, "a bid, 80 asked. National
Union 20& bid, u n asked Arlington, IT'S bid, lS5
| asked. Corcoran, 90 bid, 20 asked. Columbia
10 bid, 161S asked. German-American,1 $50 bid.
Potomac, "a bid, 100 asked. Riggs, So bid, 81
asked. Peoples, 81 bid
Title Insurance Stocks-Reai Estate Title, 122
bid. 100 asked Columbia little, 6H bid, " asked.
Gas and Electric Light Stocks-Washington Gas,
43 bid, AN asked. Georgetown Gas, AZ bid.
U. 8. Electric Light, 81 bid, l0lK asked.
Telephone Stocks - Pennsylvania 23 bid, SO
asked. American Graphophone Company, l6A bid,
IL asked
Miscellaneou Stocks-Washington Market Com
pany 10 bid, 20 asked. Washington Brick Ma
chine Company, $50 bid. Great Falls Ice Company,
1S5 bid, 200 asked. Bull Run Panorama, % bid.
National Safe Deposit Company, $40 bid, 255
asked. Washington Safe Deposit Company, LOO
bid. Washington Loan and Trust Company, AZ
bid, 81 asked. Pneumatic Gun Carriage, u bid,
x asked,
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DfEn

BIRCH; On Monday. December %. 1889. KATE
LOUISE BIRCH. beloved wife Of p. I, Birch
Funeral from Mt Oliyet church AT 2p.m Wedns<-
day. Friends and relatives invited
FIJI SIS. suddenly of heart rupture on eundsv
December 22 1859, at IL O'Clock p. m, r. MILAN
EIikss. ssrd thirty three years
denee lOOs sixth street northwest At O'Clock pm.
Relatives and Trends are respectfully invited 70 at
tend.
HALBERT; On Monday. December %, 1850. st
Haibert.
Funeral from the residence Of Mr.. Louis NJ Paxton,
1918 North Capitol street Wednesday afternoon al
O'Clock. Friends invited to attend.
HUGHES. On Monday. December %, 1889 Of 80
am, after lingering Illness, Mrs hEBECCk
HUGHES In the eighty second year of her sge
$3.50 O'Clock from her late residence 1917 twenty
ninth street northwest. Friends and relatives invited
70 attend
MAHAGAN. On Tuesday, December "a, 1889. ss
de4ughter of Win. ID. aud Marion I. Mahas.n, Ned
three years three months and thirteen days
Bertha, darling, now has left uA
And her little self IL stillod
But on In there nune prsciouA
BIZ an uxc1x
Funeral from the residence Of her parenta l22o
Fourth street northwest Thursday, December 20, -
2:oO Relatives and friends invited attend
POTTER. On Sunday, December %, 1859, q o
pm. HENRY w. POTTER
lDterment Petersburg, Va
ROSS. On Monday morning. December %, 1850
year OF her age.
Dearest mother. thou hast len as;
But tits God that has bereft IA
De can al our sorrows heal.
BIZ HER NouNeEsT pAuGHrkn AID rH1 Rest %
HER CHILDREN.
west. on wednesday at O'Clock pm Fnsnds are
invited.
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Wall Street Today.

NEW YoRK, Dec. A-In the stock market this
morning there was an extremely small attend
ance upon the floor, and intense dullness and a
firm tone we're the general features Of the
trading though the market was entirely devoid
of movement of importance. The opening was
steady, though Burlington was down q per
cent and some others smaller fractions, but the
firm tone appeared Immediately and prices
rose all over the list. Missouri Pacific and
sugar were, as usual, the most active stocks
importance, cotton oil showing the most
strength, with a rise of % per cent. There
was absolutely no further feature, and at II
O'Clock the market was dull aud strong at the
best prices reached.
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MANTwILL'S MURDERER.
Supposed to be an Insane Tramp who
Carried q Knife.

CHICAGO, Dec 24.-The police are working
on Q new clew and it 10 now thought that Mant-
will was murdered by an insane man. man
who goes by the name of Dankspeigal is sus-
pected to have some guilty knowledge Of the
murder. He is of Polish descent and is de-
scribed as a powerful man, weighing over 200
pounds. He is known to have been in the
neighborhood where the murder was COM
mitted for several days previous to the tragedy.
Dankspeigal has bad record. He has no home
and is known as a tramp. His mind is affected
and he makes it habit to sleep in Easements.
In his belt he always carries huge knife and
1t is said he delights in using it.
1t is now thought by Capt. Schuetter and his
men that Dankspeigal went into the basement
Of the Mantwill house to sleep and that poor
Mantwill happened to step on him while gath
ering the clothes from the line and was then
assaulted by the man and murdered. They ex-
pect to have Dankspeigal under arrest before
evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-24
A Green Christmas.

"a green Christmas maketh fat graveyard. ~
so saith the antient sage. This Christmas falls
under this rather melancholy category, for to-
day is as fair and bright and the grass 10 a.
crisp and green as was ever Christmas grass
before. And there is no prospect Of snow be-
fore morning to ward off the gruesome warn
ing. But majority Of people are quite content
to take the good weather along with the
danger. There are some. of course, who pre-
fer plenty OF snow at Chsstmas time. spark
ling frost and merry sleigh bells as accompaui-
ments to the Christmas turkey and the holly
branch.
THE PROSPECT FOR FAIR WEATHER TOMORROW
is good. The legend on the corner Of the
weather map this morning was as follows: A
storm Of slight intensity is this morning central
in Western Minnesota. The rain area in adj
vance of it has extended as far ut western New
York and western Pennsylvania. Rain fell
last night in the upper lake region and
continues this morning. There has been a
shght fall in temperature in all districts on the
Atlantic coast and a rise of from 10 TO 20 de
grees in the lake regions, the upper Mississippi
Missouri and Ohio valleys and in Arkansas aud
Texas.
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Marriage Licenses.

Marriage licenses have been issued by the
clerk of the court to James Hopkins and Dixie
Robinson; John E. Wiltshire of Front Royal,
Va, and Melissa Clark; Matthew Fell and Katie
Bernstine, both Of Baltimore, Nd; Leonard b.
Logan and Jude c. Wright. both of Surrey
county, Va; John W. Jackson Of Lynchburg.
Va, and Helen NJ. Moten; VIM. Davis and
Annie c. Snipe, both of Cambria, Pa; James
A. Slade and Anna NJ. Lee of Baltimore; Chas.
H. Johnson and Caroline Waters; Samuel Lee
and Jane Braxton: Z. w. Downey of Wiltshire
Pa, and Anna v. Throckmorton; Charles E.
Church and Eletha Thomas; W. Gersdorf and
Estelle Byron; VIM. Brown and Eliza Proctor;
Simon Booker and Ella Smith; Vim. Gutehall
and Estelle ]. Byron; Charles Clark and Ange-
lima Harris; Thos. j. Scott of Somerset, o., and
Margaret A. Greenwich; John Schraumm and
Minnie Esher; Kit Cooper and Lena Ford.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-24
THE RUSSIAN INFLUENZA.
The Health Office Will Not Hear Of II
Unless Some One Dies.

Clerk McGinn Of the health Office when
asked by STAR reporter today if he had heard
of any cases Of the grip or influenza in this
city said he had not, and the health Office by
the present regulation would not hear OF
any zymotio disease until somebody died
OF it. 1T has been one Of the questions" said
Mr.. McGinn, (Which has held place in every
health report since 1873. Every year there is
an effort to get authority to prevent disease.
There may be ten cases of Russian influenza,
or dlphtheria, or scarlet fever,
or any catching disease on q square,
but the health department will know nothing
about it until somebody dies, and it il matter
which should be remedied at once. We should
be allowed the authority OF search, which
might prevent such diseases"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-24
A RUSH AT THE POST OFFICE
Hundreds Of Sacks Of Christmas Mai
Matter.

Business at the city post Office looked up
considerably today and when . SrAR re-
porter went to find Superintendent Springer,
OF the mailing division this afternoon,
hundreds OF sacks Of mail matter not
only obscured vision but seriously numbered 10
comotion. The limited space ID more than
crowded and by this evening there
will probably be from 500 to 600
sacks Of mail piled up on that floor. Tho
necessity for more room was never more thor
oughly emphasized than now. In the
money order department the rush
has been tremendous, exceeding
anything In the past. The crowd is more easily
handled now, however, for Mr.. II. L. johnson
had had the room rearrsnged. The old counter
has once more been shifted around and another
addition has been made to it. There are now
three windows instead Of two and as . result
the money-order or cash-seeking public
gets what il ID entitled TO without unnecessary
delay. Superintendent Bell Of the city
delivery division says his men are get
ting the tremendous amount OF mail
out far more rapidly thsn he thought possible.
Yesterday was Q big day in the registry divi-
sion. Superintendent Peachy says his men re-
ceived more than LOCO packages during the
dN.
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Robberies Reported.

This morning about 40 o'clock burglars en-
tered the store Of James Everick on 9th street
southwest and carried off quantity OF Christ
mas goods.-George NJ. Jones reports the
larceny of some clothing and s27 in CASH
Mrs. Eva Fries Of No. 9O9 sth street northwest
states that her pocket was picked yesterday OF
pocket book containing $40 in none and
note for slo0.--An old bicycle was stolen
from I. ID. Seaton's wood shed last night
Mrs. Jas. p. Wallace of Georgetown renorts
that her house was entered yesterday and robbed
OF $3.50 and some clothing.-J. w. Selby
complains of the larceny of an overcoat
Mrs. A. Jones, No 1927 New Jersey avenue, re-
ports that her pocket was picked Of Is yester-
day:--Mrs. NJ. A. Wood also states that her
pocket was picked yesterday of s5 or &C.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-24
I'd EDITION.
Latest T6legIals to The Star.
THE GRAND CENTRAL
The Northern Pacific and Wisconsin Cen.
trail to Consolidate.

CHICAGO, Dec. 24.-It is announced that on
January the Wisconsin Central and Northern
Pacific railroads will be consolidated under one
management, and the company will be called
the Grand Central J. NJ. Hannaford will be
general freight and traffic manager and C. 8.
Fee will be general passenger manager with r.
H. Arson assistant. General traffic manager
Barlow will go to the Illinois Central as general
manager, and will take with him Mr.. Cava.
naugh of the freight department
DESIAL-TAKE YOUR CHOICE.
New YoRK. Dec. 24-The officials Of the Wis.
consin Central road and directors of the North
ern Pacific company deny the telegraphed
statements that the two roads will be CONSOLE
dated and they assert that there is no truth
whatever In the report.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-24
Baltimore Markets /,

BALTIMORE. Dec. 24-Cotton quiet-midd1ing,
1oJsalo5s. Flour dull-Howard street and west
ern super, 2.25a2.G5; do. extra, 2.90aa60; do.
do. family, 3.9Oa4.40 City mills, Rio brands,
extra, 4.37a45O; winter wheat patent, 4e0a4. 80;
spring do. do, 5.00a5.2o dodo. straight 425a4 75
do. do extra. 3.60a4.0O. Wheat-southern dun;
Fultz, 73aS'; Longberry, 74a84; No. 2, S0aS0x;
steamer, 76aT1; western easier; No. winter
red, spot. 79ha79x; December. 79ka79x; Jan
nary. s0AaS05s; February, S2aS2A; May, SO "a
Soy. COrn-sOuthern quiet white, new, lass;
yellow, new, 31a36; western easy; mixed spot,
42h; new spot, 80; year, 3Ska 39 January, IS;
February, 80; March, 3SHa3sA; April, 39s39al
Oats-southern and Pennsylvania, 2Sa3i: western
white, 30a31: do. mixed, .osa29jS; graded No. e
white. 81. Rye inactive-prime 70 choice 8 TACO.
Hay dull-prime to choice timothy, l300al3.50.
PROVISIONS quiet and unchanged-mess pork.
ll.S0; 6uls-meats, loose shoulders, 81; long
dsrs, ~; sngar;cured smoked shoulders, 6S;
Western packed, l4al0; best roll. 17al9: cream
cry. 2la26. Eggs steady-western, :2a22 Coffee
dull-Rio cargoes fair, 19kal9x. Sugar quiet
soft. 81. Copper 1rm-rehned, 14a16. Whisky
unchanged-l.l0.ii Freights to Liverpool per
steamer nrm-dour per ton In Sacks 2la22A;
grain per bushel, Cd. Cork for order-asDd.
ssiss-wheat 335. 900 bushels; corn, 10000 BUSH
els.
BALTIMORE. Dec 24-Baltmore and Ohio
stock, looalolH; Northern Central, -; cincin-
natl, Washington and baltimore, nrsf certin-
Gates, o8 do second certificates, 81 do third GER
tncetes, 81; consolidated gas bonds. l1bk; do.
stock. A6ka46.
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FRENZIED BY MURDER.
A Posse Trying to Catch a Party of Burg
lars and Murderers.

PIrrsBuRa, Pa, Dec. PA dispatch from
Garentown, Pa, says: The excitement over
the robbery Of Paul Ruttert's jeweiry store
and the brutal murder of Mrs. Ruttert last
night has not abated. Armed posses were out
all night securing the country for the three
murderers, but with very little success. One
man named Clouts was found secreted in some
bushes near Tarentown and taken to the lock-
found on his person. He protested his inno-
cence, but the feeling was SO intense that he
barely escaped lynching. The Knights OF
Pythias, of which order Ruttert is a member,
has offered a reward of $500 for the capture OF
the murderers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-24
A kindergarten Christmas.

The national kindergarten and school gave
Christmas entertainment this afternoon in the
lecture room of All Souls church to the pupils
Of the Pensoara free kindergarten. There
were a number of pleasant features which
made it delightful afternoon for the little
ones, Christmas carols were sung, there we're
marches and tableaux and q small Santa Claus
appeared drawing the Christmas angel, who
distributed picture books to the boys and dolls
to the girls. Mrs. Pollock had charge Of the
entertainment and she was assisted by the
Misses Pratt, Freeman, Nichols, Dorman, Nc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-24
ola GRIPPE IN RUSSIA.


TIE czAl AND HD FAMILY AMoHo rHE su1y1a-
xns-H1sroHY OF TIE H1rp.,no-No yArAI
cAsEs-rHI AyTEl EYyEoTs UNRL1AsAwz-H0z
APlxcu1sol OF cHoLx1A.
The Secretary Of State has received an inter.
esting report from the charge d'adaires ct St
Petersburg, Russia, regarding the prevalence
Of the influenza or La Grippe" in that
country. He says that certain foreign journals
have circulated greatly exaggerated reports Of
the epidemic which has swept and IL still rag
ing at St Petersburg. In the middle Of
November public attention was called to the
large number Of persons falling i'll with much
the same
Fever, several pains in the head, back and
limbs. For lack Of better name tho malsdy
was called influenza, but it shows signs Of a
typhoid character. though not of Q malignant
nature, and up to the date Of the report, De-
cember 5, no fatal cases had been reported. In
the generality Of cases the illness is very light
and over in few days, leaving all persons who
have been touched by it in great debility and
depression Of spirits, the =
AFTER KFYrors
in their lasting longer, being rather more IN
pleasant than the complaint itself. The cause
OF the epidemic, the report continues, has NOT
been satisfactorily explained nor whence it
has come. Most persons ascribe it to the alb
normally warm weather of the past month, but
that would not account for its appearance
in Siberia, where 1t has burst out
in several places, the weather there having
been as cold as usual at this season. Now thai
winter seems to have fairly set in here it IL ex-
pected that the malady will disappear, but
meanwhile the whole town is invaded.
Two-TBIRDs OF THE POPULATION SICK.
There is no exaggeration in putting down
the number Of sick in this epidemic as fully
two-thirds of the population of st. Petersburg.
Certainly not house has escaped its vista
ton. 1t has attacked the highest as we'll q
the most humble in social station The emperor
was very i'll with it for several days and scarcely
member OF the imperial family has
been free from it. Almost all the
diplomatic corps has suffered. More
than 10000 cases have been medically au-
thenticated. Factories have been temporarily
stopped for want of hands. Apprehension is
felt lest this complaint is
PRECURSOR OF CHOLERA,
which has already broken out in Persia, or of q
malignant typhus, but medical authority of
the city has published report intended to
calm this feeling of uneasiness. It states that
in the years 1882, 1888, 1885, 1888, 1855,
and 1857 this same epidemic prevailed at st
Petersburg without being followed by any
other malady, and that the influenza has
always come from the northeast, whereas the
cholera has always been brought from the
southeast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-24
Railroad Accident.

WATERBURY,, CoSN., Dec. 24.-The engine Of
a construction train ran into the rear end of q
passenger train on the New Haven and Derby
railroad this morning at 7:30 o'clock, making
a complete wreck of the rear car. The several
passengers in the car sustained painful bruises.
The accident happened about three miles out
of New Haven. The construction train was
loaded with Italian laborers who we're badly
shaken nm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-24
The Case Of Mrs. Coles House.

In reference to the decision Of the Court in
General Term yesterday requiring the removal
Of the extension Of Mrs. Coles house, 90 far a.
it occupies public space east Of the apex Of the
lot, Mr.. Coyle, assistant United States district
attorney, said to day that decree win be pre-
pared in accordance with the opinion of the
court and be presented for signature on Satur-
day. This viii fix the time in which the OBJ
structions will be ordered to be removed II is,
however, thought that Mrs. Coles counsel will
appeal, and, In that case, on giving satisfactory
bond, all proceedings will be stayed. Mr.. A. A.
Birney, the junior counsel in the case, was the
only one seen today, and he said they had had
no conference since the decision. He was quite
certain that an appeal viii be entered when the
decree il siRned
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-24
THE GREATEST NUMBER YET.
More Patents Issued In 1889 than In Any
Preceding Year.


THE rScRxAsKD NunBka OF INVENTIONS pkHAHpa
MORE ROOM AND a LARoKn Foscn Fon TEEN
ooSsIDERrIoS-raK WHOLE nrnalol pEpAnr-
HKST BUILDING NEkpkp Eoa PArKxr BusNKsa.
A larger number Of patents we're Issued
daring the past year than ever before in The
history Of the patent once. The total number
issued was q. $50. In 1855 the issue was within
20 patents OF being as large. Last year there
were ls,5sS patents issued An interesting
statement has been prepared at the patent
once showing the number Of patents issued
each year from lsS6 Fifty-thres years aSo the
number OK patents issued in one year was Zoe,
and from that time down TO the present nearly
each year shows an increase in the number Of
patents issued a. compared with the previsus
year.
NOT ROOM ENOUGH
This increase in the business Of the once @
well as the fact that all the examining divisions
Of the office are behind with their work from
i've months to one month, owing IL is claimed
In great measure to the inadeo uats force
and the lack of proper room. will be used - an
argument TO induce Congress TO adopt some
measure for the relief Of the patent office.
THE PROPOSED REMEDI.
1t is pr opposed by some that new building
be erected for the use of the Post Office depart
ment and that all the bureaus OF the Interior
department occupying the Interior department
building, with the exception of the patent Of
nee, DE removed 70 the Post Office department.
building. The patent Office will thus be
enabled to spread out over the entire buildin z
which 1t now occupies as a joint tenant Both
the Secretary of the Interior and the Postmaster
General IN their annual reports urged that
some action be taken toward providing their
respective departments with the needed 40
commodations. II is said that strong effort
Will be made at the present session 20 no.
complish something in this direction
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-24
Russian Diphtheria.

ABERDEEN, Sd, Dec. 2A-The superin-
tendent Of the state board OF health has gone
to Eureka, the center of the great Russian set
Element Of Edmunds and Mcpherson counties,
to take measures for the suppression of malig-
nant dipththeria now raging among the Rus
slams. The disease WAS brought to the settle
meLt BY family of Russians who recently
cana over, losing two children en- route.
Thirty deaths have alrsady occurred
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-24
Death OF a Chicago Millionaire.

CHICAGO, Dec. 24-Mr. H. W. Austin,
prominent citizen of Oak Park and man well
known in Chicago and Illinois, died early this
morning at his suburban home Of neralgia of
the heart. Mr.. Austin left large fortune,
which ia estimated az being between 81, 600, 600
and 81. 500, 900. The deceased was about sixty
years Of age and leaves Q widow and two
grown-up children.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-24
Other Lands Than Ours.

STRIKE THREATENED.
VIENNA, Dec. A-The journeymen masons
in this city threaten to strike unless granted
an increase of wages and shorter hours. 1.-THE
strike occurs %, coo men will go out
'.IT."
BRussELs, Dec. 4.-The influenza is rapidly
spreading in this city. Thirty per cent Of the
school children of the city are suffering from
the disease and the schools have been closed
in consequence Of the epidemic. The disease
has spread to all the government offices and q
number Of officials are Frustrated.
SERIOUS RESULTS OF INFLUENZA.
VIENNA, Dec. ga frequent sequel to cases
Of influenza here is an attack of Inflammation
Of the lungs. A number Of persons in the
hospital who had been suffering from influenza
were stricken with Inflammation of the lungs,
and several of them have died.