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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-20
THE MESSIAH CRAZE.
it Originated. Ascordipr to Mr.. Petrrusa
Prom u piute's Preaching.

it Originated. Ascordipr to Mr.. Peter~sa
Prom fiutc's Preaching.
Mr.. Peter Peterson OF Fort Bidwen. Ca,
who. II may he remembered. recently made an
argument before the Secretary Of War on be-
half OF the lndisns Of northeastern California
and southern Oregon, and also for the re-cs-
tnhlishment Of the military post at Fort
Bidwell. has returned 60 the city after a trip 10
Ohio 20 visit the scenes of his boyhood, and
now proposes 20 carry on a vigorous camr,aign
in this city. He shys that the Indians ~
TINS region, Che Piutes, Bannocks
Pint rivers are in "a deplorabe condition and
may be CALLED into an outbreak at any time Nv
the encroachments Of the settlers ON the lands
that they have occupied for years back
They are the only Indians in
ON 9 0"n rSs,rva wno are re not oi,os either
some way by the government. and Mr. Peter
son H. here a. n representative of the people IL
the adjoining corncre Of the states Of Calitor-
ma, Nevada and Oregon. that some steps he
taken TO place the Indians I'm The reach Of some
ciyilizing influences. There are altogether 3. 400
souls IN the three tribes, and probably 100 war
riors.
ORIGIN OF THE MESSIAH CRAZE
Mr.. Peterson has information from home 70
the effect that the entire Messiah craze has
been traced TO the preaching Of one Of the main
medicine men of the piute tribe. Koitstsou
by name, "a Wild and Unframed savage
speaking very little English and p leader in ali
OF the great incantations and dances in this
vicinity. He has been at work Oh this line for
about two years and has spread his doctrine hy
sending out emissaries to the ether India-s
who have Travelled thousands Of miles carr =
the word. IL IL thought at Port lBdw, tuat
johnson Lides one of koits;sow's mes
sengers. Mr.. Peterson intends to confer
] Ina a Il.
of the three states o. urge some sort
OF action. but nothing definite can De- done
until the War Department has received the re-
port of Capt. Lee, who was sent cut to induire
into the condition of these Indians. IL is uu-
derstood thai he has teleGmphod the purport
of has findings Ia the effect that Fort Gidw, n
should he maintained. Mr. Peterson is stop
ping while in the city at 1sI9 Q street
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-20
A RELIGIOUS CEREMONY,
Seminarians Ordained by the Cardinal Mt the
Baltimore Cathedral.

Seminarians Ordaired by the Cardinal at the
Baltimore Cathedral.
BALTIMORE. Nh, Dec. 20.-Early this morn
ing st. Mary's senIinGrians marched to the
cathedral and at clock the mass Of ordina-
ton was begun. Rev. DIR. Magnien. president
of st. Mary's Seminary; Very Rev. P. J. Dona-
hue. chancellor Of the archdiocese; Dr.
Leo, rector of the cathedral, and other
clergymen assisted the cardinal in the Office of
ordination. The names of the gentlemen. the
dg3lty conferred and the diocese to which the
gentlemen belong are follows: Ton
-ure. Henry Aloysius Prodigy, Baltimore:
Joseph Thomas Mahon. do; Joseph Mat
thew Walter. do: William Joseph Fam
ming, Hartford, Conn; John Aloysius
Gull. San Francisco. Cal; Geo. John Maurer
Detroit. Mich: John August Kessler. do;
Euseaene Cullcmene, do; Edward Alphonsus
. Reilly, Scranton. Pa; Michael Francis
O hosrke. do; Edward James Flood. do:
Francis William kirwan. do; Ernest Joseph
Campeau, Burlington, Vt; Napoleon John
BaT tiste Iachance. do: John Joseph Code,
Chicago. ILL.,; Louis Thomas McGrann. Brook
lyn: John Andrew Graham. Trenton. Nj;
Patrick pooley, st. Louis. Mo-: Denis Stanis-
iaus Kelley. To the orders of porter and
hector: Thomas Michael Burke. Chicago;
Michael Edward Hanley, Springfield, Mass.
10 the four minor orders: John Joseph Cas-
sldy. Davenport, Iowa; Joseph Michael Glea-
son. San Francisco. Cal: Miles Joseph McManUs,
Wilmington, Del: John Patrick Campbell,
Brooklyn, NY: James Edward Malone, do;
Joseph Sylvester Nelly. Peoria, ILL.,; Joseph
Matthew Walter. Baltimore.
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RACING WITH THE WIND.
Adventurous Experience of u Iinernan ON q
Railroad Tricycle..

From the 81 Paul Go,e
James De Zoe, lmeman employed by the
Great Northern Railway Company, accom-
plished feat last night which. while IL was TO
a great extent involuntary. L. no less remark
able. DE Doe is furnished by the comranv
with one of those tricycles 10 constructed as 10
run on the regular railway tracks. The ma
chine works with a hand lever and a speed IL
ten miles or more an hour is quite commonly
attained. DE Doe last night accomplished the
extraordinary feat of keeping mp with short
line train running thirty miles am hour for a
distance of over two miles. Ne wouldn't do
* again. he saws, for $4,000 He was
waiting in the yards TOR the 7aO
train TO Minneapolis 10 pass him. he train
passed all right and stopped for few seconds
with the tail coach close 10 where DE Boo stood
with his machine. That gentleman conceived
| a brilliant idea. He would take a turn with
a section Of No. wire on one Of the coach
buffers make the other end fast 10 his wheel
and save labor. The connection was made i'm
such way that he calculated he could release
himself by cutting the wire when the speed was
too high. He chucklcd when the train started
up To think what snap he war going Ia have
In getting Co Como. The train wac a fraction
OF a minute late. though. and the speed ran up
70 twenty miles in no time. DE Doe saw with
alarm that the little wheel on the other track
was jumping foot clea- Of tho ran every few
seconds. lie determined "a cut the wire. and
reached round behind for his pliers.
They were gone. The unusual motion had
jerked them out of the tool lox. The speed
was mp 20 twenty-five miles an hour now aud
the tricycle. wac spinning along two wheels,
with the beam carrying the third tanning the
air like a kitetail.
DE Doe was working hard TO unwind the con-
nection with his fingers. when there Was a
gigantic plunge A telegraph lueman shot
through the air like n meteor and landed IN a
sand bank beside the track. railroad tricycle.
kept going and lighted thirty feet farther on,
a badly wrecked vehicle.
The concern had run of the track.
That DE Doe WAS not killed il q miracle. He
was at home last evening. however. at his re,i-
dence on Como avenue and only n few scratches
told the story of his thrilling experience. lie
has decided to furnish his own motive rover
in future.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-20
SCCCI'S LAST FAST DAY.
He Has Lost Over Forty-two Pounds Sine
He Tasted Food.

He Tasted Food.
New YORK. Dec. 2O.-SignOr Succi will end
his forty-hve-,iav fast at $40 o'clock this even
in.;. He said this morning he could fast nj
least fifteen DAYS longer. but the physicians
who have been watching him say be could
rot live i've DAYS lonG-r without food.
Succi looks like cOrIse today. He
iay in bed this morning hd,s dressed with
bed clothes piled on his EN- ciated. shivering
form, fi- eyes half closed and his voice weak
and qurrGlOUs. He said he would never fast
ag.rIn for such length OF time. Today he will
dr- IL tepi,. water. Tine physicians are rather
anxious IS To- the effect his first meal will have
On him. SUcci weighed 1915 pounds this
morning. = loss of Az pounds since lie began
fasting
SCcci arOse al half past o'clock this morn
Ing aT,i We weighed. showing los of one
pour. since Yesterday. His pulse was sixty.
fuil AID strong; general condition good. though
slightly inclined toward nervousness. As sOon
a. SJcci vaS weighed lie Etturne, 20 his bed,
wherv lac remained during the morning.
LDrigf'. when the last j. completed Succi
viii ..rInk a cup of cocoa. followed by others
during the night and tomorrow. This IL j. ex-
Fecte'.. vi. prepare his stomach Tor thc feast
that d" vii lake tomorrow at 4 O'Clock. thus
t.r tho sIgHOr has drank twcniy-one quarts
and Oae-.slf ounce Of mineral Sater and nine
And oEe-is-is quarts of crOtOn water.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-20
THE EYRAUD MURDER,
The Public Prosecutor Begins His Summing
Up of the Case.

The Public Prosecutor Begins His Summing
Up of the Case.
PARIS, Dec. 20.-Today the room in which is
sitting the court trying the case of Michael Ey-
raud and Gabrielle Dompard was again thrown
open to the public. large crowd of dis
hnguished people were present. as has been the
case on each day of the trial with the exception
of yesterday, when DR.. Liegeois of
Nancy, the hypnotic expert, availed him
self of his rirh: under the code to
give his testimony in the presence of the court
and jury alone. When brought into court to-
DAY both prisoners gave unmistakable evidence
OF fatigue and growing anxiety. The woman
Gabrielle Bompard, appeared particularly
nervons and apprchensions were entertained
that before the day was over she might have a
recurrence OF hysteria.
The public prosecutor. rs soon as the court
was seated. arose and began his summing up of
the case for the people. He opened his remarks
by stating that he world confne himself 70
proving the defendants Eyraud and Bompar6
TO have been guilty of the crime of murder and
robbery. He then earnestly begged the jury
to dismiss from their minds not bearing on
the case all that irrelevant testimony which
had been injected into it regarding hypnotism.
The public prosecutor then referred to the
testimony yesterday given by Dir. LieGois and
scathingly denounced the theories Of Nancy
school, No operator, he asserted, could
buy subject so absolutely under control
as to force him or her to commission of
crime. If the theories Of the Nancy school
were once admitted all personal responsibility
ended and tine laws wherein society depends
for it's protection must disappear in anarchy.
CiaDrille Dompard. lac commended was not
mentally weak, but she was dcpraved intellec-
tnally. Both defendants were equally guilty.
They had alike partieipa ted in arranging
the .prelminaries for the hanging of their
victim. The prosecutor urged upon the
members Of the jury that it was their sworn
duty to reject the story which had been told in
court by the woman Bompard. She was every
way as culpable as the other defendant. Michael
Eyraud who admits his guilt Gabrilie Bom-
pard had delivered the victim to her lover. 1t
was with her girdle that the unfor-
tunate man had been strangled.
Eyraud only awaiting its adjustment and
a favorable moment to draw the cord. The
public prosecutor then demanded that the ex-
treme penalty of the law be melted out to
Mic hazel Eyraud nor would he ask that any in
diligence be extended to Gabrile Bompard. his
acting accompiice in most terrible crime. 1t
was. he said, for the jury to consider whether
any grounds existed for the excavation of that
crime.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-20
A TRAIN ON FIRE.
Explosion of n Heater Ignites q Car-Se
eral Persons Injured.

Explosion of n Heater Ignites o Car-Sev.
eral Persons Injured.
BATTLE CREEK, MICH. Dec. 2O.--The heater
in a frst-class coach of the Chicago and Grand
Trunk westbound passenger train passing
through the city early this morning. exploded
filling the car with live Goals and gas. The Goals
fell over the passengers. badly burning several
and setting fire to the seats and woodwork
The windows we're broken out to get air, and
two men who jumped through them were
severely cut. German family named Fritze,
going from Jersey City to San Francisco, lost
its clothing and two children and the mother
was badly burned. William D. Isaac =
family of Somerset. England, lost all
their clothing and two of the children
were badly burned. A. &. Fowler, en- route to
Chicago, had his arm cut and another man and
his wife were burned. The injured passengers
were transferred to other cars and, after re-
ceiving medical attention here. went OH west.
The car was badly damaged before the fire was
OK tinguished.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-20
NO FINANCIAL LEGISLATION.
An Impression ut the Capitol That NOTHING
Will He Done With the Bill This Session.

OPPOSITION TO THE SENATE Caucus BrLL-A DIE
POSITION TO LET THINGS DRIFT ALoSG-ArrI-
TuDE OF THE TREASURY pKPARTHxNr-sEcRx-
TARY WINDOWS PLAN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-20

REWARD FOR ARMY DEsERTERs DOUBLED
Secretary Proctor today directed that double
the present reward for the arrest of deserters
be offered and every effort be made to punish
descrtcrs. The present standing reward Of so
per head has been increased to $50. This re-
ward will be paid for the arrest of any soldier
who deserted subsequent to December 81,
1888. The increased standing reward for de-
serters will. it is thought. deter soldiers from
deserving and stimulate civil officers in arrest
ing offenders. In this connection an order was
also issued today directing department COM
manders to report September / annually the
number of assertions which have occurred
within their commands during the year with
an expression of their views as to the causes
and measures which should be taken to prevent
their recurrence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-20
THE RAILROAD BILL.
Mr.. Vest Objects to Omittinr the Provision
for a Commission.


for a Commission.
The conference report on the Atkinson bin
did not slide through the Senate today. II was
expected to make the trip without noise or
friction, but il now waits another
opportunity - some other day. Senator
Mcmillan presented the report ard
when the Vice President said "The question is
on agreeing to the report Of the conference
committee" Senator Vest arose and remarked
Il understand that to be the conference re-
port or what is known as the Atkinson bill
i have not had time 90 examine it, II was
made yesterday in another branch of Congress
and would prefer that the report should be
printed in order that We may understand it,"
That is faiT." said Senator Edmunds. 1T
Is privileged report anyhow"
WHY Mr.. VEST OBJECTS.
Mr.. Vest said: Il have the impression from
the newspapers and from what / see in the
Congressional Record that one feature of the
bill as il came to the Senate from the House
and as we sent it back to the House
refer to the provision for a
commission to consider these matters in differ
erence between the citizens of this District and
the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company
has been stricken out. i will say very FRANKLY
that never would have renamed silent when
that bill passed the Senate but for
tfiat feature IN II. anu n that has
been stricken out then. in my Judgment.
though have not had time to examine the bill
as IL now stands. ii is entirely ex parte mat
ter. all the provisions being on the side Of the
railroad company and none on the side of the
citizens"
MR.. HARRIS REPLIES.
Senator Harris, one OF the conferees, said il
was true that that provision was stricken
out and then he added "But
will state in addition that when stricken out
it was considered by the con-
ferees upon the part of the two
houses that the proper thing TO
do instead of creating such commission as
was provided for was to raise joint select
committee clothed with ample power to take
into consideration all OF the questions that were
proposed to be referred TO such commission.
Whatever the suggestion is worth, that was the
view."
us that provision in the bill?" asked Mr..
Vest.
1T is not" said Mr.. Harris. 1T will rest
upon an independent resolution"
Nj. Edmunds said he believed the conferees
had done wisely. but the report should be
printed. The report was then ordered printed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-20
Shoe Backing and Cold Feet

From Shoe and Leather Facts.
when the leather in your shoes becomes
old and begrimed with backing. you viii ascer-
tain that the feet viii be cold" remarked the
old-time shoe seller. ''Then it is time to cas-,
aside the shoes and use them to wear beneath
keep your shoes in good condition you should
use vaseline on them often. The life will be
kept in the leather, and, il rightly applied, you
can shine the footwear just wen as if the
preparation had never been used. Put il on al
night when taking off the shoes. There ID
castor and like oil. ALSO that will as well serve
the purpose, and keep your shoes and boots in
good shape, imparting much greater warmth
to the feet than if you allow backing and the
ike to eat up all the life in the leather, wher
backing commences to cake on the shoes, wasl
them with plain water, no SOAP"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-20
BRIDGING THE NIAGARA.
Two schemes That VIII he Submitted to
the Canadian Parliament.

OTTAWA, OsT., Dec. 20.-Two additional Nj
agara bridge schemes are afioat. The Buffalo
anu Fort Erie Bridge Company gives notice in
the official Gaze'te today that application viii
be made 10 the Dominion parliament during
the approaching session for power TO build a
suspension bridge across the Niagara river
from Buffalo to Fort Erie, two main towers to
stand one on each side of the river and the
structure to be 10 feet clear above the wafer.
The whirlpool bridge Company will also APP
ply for charter to construct {, steel bridge
across the Niagara at or near lhomPsOn's Point.
below the Whirlpool. THIS bridge. it is pro-
rosed shall be used for electric or steam rail-
way purposes only.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-20
KOCH's FIRST STEP TOWARD FAME
The Young fellow From Posen Who Lee
tured on BacteriolOgy.

The Young fellow From POsen Who Lee
tured on Bacteriology.
The first step Of DIR. Robert Koch into the
light Of publicity, gays the New York Sun, took
place in the laboratory of the bacteriologist,
Privy Councillor Cohn. who announced one
day years ago to the students under his super
| vision that on the next morning "a young fell
low from Posen would be on hand to show some
preparations" What the young fellows name
was the privy councillor had forgotten. OF his
preparations he equally ignorant.
At the appointed hour the students had as
| sembled and were trying vainly to learn just
how little the coming man knew Of bacteriol-
| ogy. The door opened, and a little man in
| simple black garments slipped in. He had
great, unsophisticated blue eyes, such as only
German men have, a big, clear forehead. and
a small, stiff moustache. The students smiled
| as he bowed deeply and introduced himself as
Robert Koch. He addressed his simple COM
pliments to the mighty Herr Geheimrath."
and then opened the boxes he had brought un-
der his arm.
Every one ceased smiling as he laid out his
| wonderful little glass slides, which are ia
miiar to the eye of the medical students and
professors of Germany. Preparation after pre-
paration of the most wonderful Sort obtained
with infinite pains. study and intelligence and
preserved in fashion pitiably economical, vet
| thoroughly scientific. was spread out by the
| silent small man. together with sets of ire
BY him: and by him alone, away of in the ham
let of Wollstein in Posen. When the exhibit
was finished there WIS dead silence for
minute or two. Then Privy Councillor Cohn
said:
Sir YOU should remain in Breslau. II is
not fitting that man of your genius should go
back to Wollstein in Posen."
Koch was willing enough TO remain i'm Bres-
lau. for his life in Wollstein had been joylessly
poor according to the views of most men,
although he had found comfort i'm his remark
able work. Il am anxious to remain, but
have no money!" he answered.
Two days later the Judicial court doctor of
the Nicolai district died. His place was poor
enough and almost without fees but it was a
foothold and as such Cohn secured il for Koch.
The young Posener took up his residence in
Breslau and continued his studies. He found.
however. little profitable employment. After
three months in which he earned Just Sc. he
announced that well AS he enjoyed his Off
cial honors he could not see his way to living
with them any longer. He resigned his place
and went back to Wollstein. His three months
| in Breslau, however, had made him known to
the world and not long afterward he WAS called
to Berlin to take Q place in Bismarck's new
health bureau.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-20
STANLEY's FEMALE RIVAL.
A Woman Who Proposes to Explore the In
terror Of Africa.

A Woman Who Proposes to Explore the In
terror of Africa.
Mrs. May French sheldon, who expects to
head an expedition into Africa soon, has ont
lined her plans for her remarkable trip. She
ia, in short, going almost alone into the heart
Of Africa.
Mrs. Sheldon is the wife of E. L. Sheldon,
who is the representative in London of the
Jarvis-Conklin Mortgage Trust Company. She
has been great student of African affairs
and is greatly interested in African explorers
and their work. For q long time her home in
London has been the Mecca of these people.
She is an intimate friend Of Henry II. Stanley,
and came to this country with him. She is to
return home shortly, and in February will
start on her trip. She goes to Zanzibar, theme
to Mombassa, which will be practically her
point of departure for the most pcrilous por-
ton OF her trip. She goes in the interest of
no association or cause. but simply on her own
hook.
Men, she says, have learned some things
nbou: the dark continent, but many things
they have not learned, notably the home life Of
the natives. OF this she will make q study.
She will take phonOgraph and will bring back
actual specimens Of their spoken language. A
female stengorapher will accompany her, prob
ably to Mombassa, but from there on she will
be the only white woman Of the party.
She has planned and viii command the ex-
petition herself, and win have. she thinks,
about fifteen or twenty people with her, includ-
ing three or four black women and several
Arabian attendants. She expects to penetrate
500 miles inland and to be gone Ave months.
When ,he returns she will put in book form
what she learns. As she goes at her own ex-
pense, she's says she viii be entirely at liberty 10
tell the truth about what she sees.
Mrs. Sheldon is well known in the literary
world as a writer and translator Of stories. Fer
most pretentious work is Herbert Severance"
which she wrote last year. She il rich. cul-
tured and refined, and charming woman,
2 obably forty years old.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-20
A METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE.

Hydrophobia and Tuberculosis tn Be Treated
According tn Pasteur and Koch.
NV YORK. Dec. 20.-The New York Bacterio-
logical Institute has filed articles of incorpora-
ton. which were approved today by Judge An
drevs of the supreme court. The purposes of
the institute are for 1.-THE study and gratuitous
treatment of contagious diseases, comprising a
Pas:eur and Koch department for the treatment
of hydroPhobia and tuberculosis" Among the
incurporators Fredk Il. Coudert. Hector de
Castro. FlOrian Grosjean, R.Graxton and Henry
and Theron L. Csrman. The trustees DIR.
Paul Gibier. Maurice kahIi. DIR. A. +. Leontard
L A. Nezeshrmer and j. W. Stemmler.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-20

ISDiASaroLIs. M. Dee zO.-Mr Stanley lee
sured here last night and intended TO leave for
st. Louis after the lecture. but owing to cir
eumstanees over which he had 70 control he
will wait awhile. His box office receipts were
attached and the party must be supplied with
money before 1t can proceed. Some wears ago
one of Maj j. j. Ponds attractions ran again :;
breakers and his friend Maurice .. Smith
helped him ont Of town with a loan of 1900.
Sanee Maj Pond has become famous and pros
porous as manager Of lectures he has forgot
ten Smiths existence until Last nights re-
hinder. The great explorer took the situation
eoeAly and hos gone into camp at the hotel