Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-16
GEORGETOWN.

SALE OF Row OF BRICK HoUsEs.-A large
real estate deal was consummated yesterday in
Georgetown, being the sale to James ManOgue
by Claudius Jewell Of row of five two-stOry
brick dwellings situated on and near the north
west corner Of 30th street and Dunbarton ave.
nue.; also a building lot 20 feet by 60 feet. on
Dunbarton avenue. The price paid was GIG ,0OO
cash. 1t is the intention of Mr.. Manogue to ex-
pend about $4,000 in improving the dwellings
and also to erect an elegant residence on the
vacant lot.
To BE characterization are out for the
marriage of Miss Alice E. King, daughter of
MIR. and Mrs. E. A. King. to James Evans to
take place Wednesday evening, February 20,
at the West Presbyterian church.
PAYING FOR HIS FUN.-Oficer Shanks pro-
cured warrant for the arrest of George Butler,
thirteen-year old colored boy, who annoyed
many people by ringing their door bells night
before last. 1t cost the boys father 81.
ABLE TO BE OUr.-Rev Thomas o. Tongue,
pastor Of Grace church, who has for ten DAYS
been confined to his residence by illness, has
far recovered as to officiate at the service at
this church tomorrow.
Ice was being cut and hauled from Little
river up until about 10 o'clock last night.
DISCUSSING THE CoLoRED SCHOOL QUESTION
Have the Commissioners the power to change
the Wormley school?' was the chosen subject
for debate last night by The West Washington
literary association (colored) at Ebenezer A. NJ.
E. church. Those In the negative were more
numerous and decided than their opponents.
A White Book on Samoa.
DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE DISPUTE LAID BE-
FORE THE GERMAN REICHsTAG.
A ''White Book in reference to the Samoan
matter, presented in the German reichstag
yesterday, comprises forty-four documents,
extending from December 8, 1886, to February
5, 1899. A report of the German consul at
Apia, dated February "a, 1885, describes en-
deavors of the Americans and Englishmen to
provoke conflicts. A dispatch dated Septem-
Der, 1888, deals with the revolt of Mataafa and
the support given to him by Capt Leary, u s.
N. After an account of the attack upon the
Germans on December Is comes a telegram
from Count Herbert Bismarck, dated January
l, 1889, to the German ministers at Washington
and London, directing them to inform Secre-
tary Bayard and Lord Salisbury respecting the
attack and ordering the minister at Washington
to complain to the United States government
that the American Klein was prominent in the
fighting. On January 8 Count Herbert Bis
marck telegraphed to the German consul at
Apia that on account of an agreement with
the United States and Great Britain the an
nexation OF Samoa by Germany was out of the
question.
dispatch sent to the German embassies at
London and Washington on January l3 states
that the object of the military measures
against Mataafa and his partisans was to punish
the murderers OF German soldiers and to Sc
cure to German subjects the possession of their
property.
document dated February 2, which was
sent by Count Herbert Bismarck to Admiral
Baron Won der Colts chief Of the German ad-
miralty, says: Germany is not at war with
Samoa, the term is understood by inter-
national law, but she regards Tamasese as the
rightful ruler and Mataafa as a rebel. against
whom and his followers retaliation must be
enforced"
Count Herbert concludes by declaring that
nothing is changed in the legal position of for
eign subjects in Samoa. The White Book ends
with long report from the German consul at
Apia, dated January 4, and has thirteen appen-
dices. In January, 1889, Prince Bismarck noti-
fied DIR. knappe that reprisals were necessary,
but only such as we're consonant with the trea-
ties with England and America.
MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY IN yIRarNIA.-At Glou-
cester courthouse, Va, Thursday night, George
Hughes was shot while asleep, by his nephew,
Joshua +. Ross, and instantly killed. Hughes
was wealthy Eishman, who settled at Glou-
cester fifteen or twenty years ago. Ross is a
prominent republican politician and once rep
resented the county in the legislature, The
cause of the deed is shrouded in mystery. Ross
confessed to the shooting, but is silent az to its
Roth maj uar for Is 80 ".