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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-18
Washington Stock Exchange.

ssles-Regular caii-I2 O'Clock M: Metropolitan
Railroad, at ITO. Washington Gas, Is at 49,;
Government Bonds-U.s. Is, registered, 1901, lls1
Old ll1x asked U. g. Is, 1901 1l6S bid, 1iIA asked
District OF Columbia Bonds-2o-year fund. e.,
gold 1o5N bid, asked. Water stock, 7s 1901, cur
rency. l26 bid, - asked. S0.year fund, 6, gold,
1902 1s ~ od asked: Water stock Is currency
rency. Ill bidllsA asked. sAs reg 2-l0s lsss-lsOl
l0z bid. - asked.
Miscellaneous Bonds-washingron ana GEORGE
ington and Georgetown Railroad Convertible Gs,
LIS bid, = asked. Masonic Hall Association.
9, 1905 1os bid. 1Os asked. Washington Market
ington Market Company imp. Is, Iisk bid, asked
American Security and Trust Company, IS, 100 bid,
- asked. Washington Light Infantry I'd. Is, 1904.
series A, Is, la7H bid, = asked. Washington Gas
Company, series B, IS, 1851 bid, asked. Wash
ington Gas Company Convertible os, l29k
bid. - asked. lexington Railroad 6s. 99sS bid -
asked. Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone is,
mortgage S. l0l Il bid LOG asked. Capitol and North
o street Railroad LIST mortgage o., los bid, Ito
bid. 100 asked. U. 5. Electric Light, IOs bid, -
asked.
Narional Bank Stocks-Bank Of Washington. xao
Metropolitan. 800 bid, $50 asked. Central. 500 bd -
asked Second. $50 bid, - asked Farmers and
Mechanics. 1870 bid. - asked. Citizens. 40 bid
100 bid. - asked. West End, 81 bid. - asked.
Traders. ia bid. 1870 asleI. Lincoln, 80 bid,
- asked.
Railroad Stocks-Washington and Georgetown,
PA bid. $40 asked. Metropolitan, 100 bid lis asked
Columbia, = bid, Il asked. Capitol and North o
Street, Sc bid, AZ asked. Georgetown and Tenley.
town, 6Sh bid, 63X asked.
Insurance Stocks - Franklin, 81 bid, "a asked.
National Union, 16x bid, asked. Airing
ton. 40 bid, - asked. Columbia, is bid l6x
asked. Riggs, 81 bid, - asked Peoples, s biI
- asked Lincoln. bid, - asked.
Title Insurance stocks-Columbla Title. OK bid,
81 asked.
Gas and Electric Light Washington Gas.
48k bid, ~ asked. Georgetown Cas- so bid -
asked. US. Electric Light, Jas bid, l65 asked.
Telephone Sfocks-American Graphophone, AZ
bid. asked.
Miscellaneous Stocks-W ashington Market Com.
pany, Is bid, 1s asked. Great Falls Ice Company.-
bid, l6s asked Bun Run Panorama Company, Is
bid, 30 asked.
Safe Deposit and Trust Companies-W ashinRrou
Loan and Trust Company, - bid, 80 asked
American Security and Trust Company, o. bid
% asked.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-18
TOOK THE BLACK VEIL.
Thirty three Noyices Participate In the Cere-
muny at Baltimore.

BALTIMORE, Nd, August 1s.-Thirty-three
young novices we're invested with the black
veil in the order Of the Sisters Of Notre Dame
at the Convent of Notre Dame in this city yes
terday. The names Of the young ladies and
their homes are as follows:
Theresa Hook, Baltimore; Barbara Support,
New York; Clara Muller, Philadelphia; Jo-
sephine Schmitt, Pittsburg; Lizzie Gedbauer,
New York; Anna Schliefer, Baltimore; Clara
Wiling, New York; Martha Achutt, Rochester;
Barbara Saelwachter. Rochester: Amanda Raab,
Philadelphia; Margaret Dietrich, Buffalo; Jen-
ME Dugan, Philadelphia; Bridget Lynch, ver-
mont; Appalonia Leichte, Rochester; Margaret
Dietrich, Baltimore; Eva Lutz, Brooklyn;
Mary Kraeger, Philadelphia; Mary Karzehus,
Buffalo; Henrietta Moesch, Buffalo, Barbara
Schmitt, Baltimore; Elizabeth Dechsner, Roch-
ester; Anna Schmitt, Philadelphia; Mary Refill,
Baltimore; Bridget McIntire. New York. Anna
Stalder, Pittsburg; Kate Graef, Philadelphia;
Mary Dick, Rochester; Mary Kolb, Rochester;
Frances Busch, Buffalo; Mary Ann Laubacher,
New York; L. Singer. Pittsburg; Barbara Ever
son, New York; Augusta Rodden, Baltimore.
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HIS PLEDGE DULY RECORDED.
A Man Who swore on aud Wanted to Make
Il Sure.

Yesterday afternoon the recorder Of deeds
received letter asking If on the books Of his
Office an affidavit TO forego the use OF liquor
could be recorded. A reply was sent express
ing doubts as to the legality of the record there.
At noon today thewriter. afineIookine gen.
tleman, called and told the deputy that he
would feel so much safer IL he knew that the
paper was duly recorded and il Was accepted
for record.
1t is as follows (the names being omitted):
/, - -, of Washington, ID. c., do SOL
EMMY promise and declare that I will not
under any circumstances, unless ordered and
prescribed by a physician. taste any alcoholic
liquor during the remainder OF my life,
and do further solemnly promise and declare
that should break the aforesaid promise and
declaration alter my marriage (soon 60 take
place. to Miss - =, also OF Washington,
ID. C., that she may then il she 90 desires, leave
my bed and board, and that I will support
her thereafter financially far as my means
may admit of. }" Ii is signed and dated August
l, and attached is the iurat Of Seth A Terry,
notary public.
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OTHER PAPERS.
ALEXANDRIA.
A GEOGRAPHICAL QUESTION.

AoEo6hAPHlCAL QUESTION.
The normal school institute now in session
here is not without its humor. Among the
teachers who have been in constant attendance
is a colored woman from Falls Church distric,
with e dark skin, but a bright intellect
who comes to the institute every day on horse
back. In the geography normal few days
since the instructor, Richmond col
ored teacher, who was illustrating the use
OF different words to designate the seacoast and
the river shore, asked his class: What do you
call the edge of riverg' The bank" re-
sponded the teacher from Falls Church. The
question was passed. and The shore" said
another. Correct" replied the teacher. There
came from Falls Church on horseback the mex.
morning besides the teacher Webster Diction-
airy and a score Of geographical manuals &c
show that the edge of the river is '.the bank, -
and if the teachers are no. now fully ccnversau,
with all the English words that lie on tho edge
OK the waters 1t has not been for want of dis
cussion.
ASSAULT ON COUNTY JUSTICE.
Two negro ruffians murderously assaulted
Justice j. ID. Nauck of the county and his son.
about seventeen years old, last Sunday evening
about $50 o'clock while they were returning
home from a neighbours. The two negroes
who waylaid Mr.. Nauck and son came up from
under a bank on the side of the street. One
while passing said, How do you you do, Mr.
him back of the head with heavy stone The
son hearing the blow turned to look, when he
was also struck with large stone. Both were
badly hurt about the head. The negroes then
ran toward Washington and escaped.
TO BE RELEASED.
Edward Schiller, now in Jail here, charged in
connection with Poss and HUMPHREYS with the
larceny of a watch, &C., from William Foler q,
Burnett's saloon last week, viii be brought Out
of Jail and released on bail.
SCHOOL TRANSLATION.
Superintendent Feebry Of the Alexandria
county public schools will hold an examination
Of applicants for teachers certificates at Ball.
ston on the Goth instant
NOTES.
Rev. DR.. J. l. Vance, pastor Of the Second
Presbyterian Church of this city, whose call
10 the First Presbyterian Church Of Norfolk
has been already mentioned, will leave the city
at the close Of next month for his new charge.
Henry Garthe of shepherds reports TO the
police that he was robbed of his watch while
drinking here last Saturday night.
John Holland has bought for $3.50 q lot of
ground on Alfred street near Curtis,
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THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.
The Final Meeting Today-ProS. Richardson
Talk on Asphalt

The Final Meeting Today-Prof. Richardson's
Talk on Asphalt
The American Chemical Society held its final
general session today in the lecture hall OF
columbian University, q final adjournment
peing taken in time for the meeting Of the
conference Of chemists at . o'clock. The first
paper read was densely technical one on the
subject OF Identification Of Arsenic and Anti
mony, by DR.. James T. Anderson.
II dealt with new chemical methods for Sep
erauhg tnese two elements, Prof. II. Ende-
mann read a paper on "Acid Sulphate Of
Lime, and Gluten" both relating in
tion Of baking powder The paper on .!Ssln-
ten" described the effect of some baking powder
impurities on bread, diminishing its aigesti-
bility by its effect on the gluten.
PROF. RICHARDSON on ASPHALT.
Prof. Clifford Richardson. District chemist.
next read an interesting and lengthy paper on
''Tbe Nature and Origin OF Asphalt from the
Island Of Trinidad" He said that long ago his
attention had been attracted TO the presence
Of water in the crude asphalt, which his
official position Of necessity made him very
familiar with. He had found this water present
in such nearly uniform quantities that the
theory Of its accidental sdmixture was unten-
able. He analysed many samples of this water
which he had obtained from cargoes brought
AAcie Aof ose ih paving tne eiTeeis hno " loubO
In every sample about the same quantity
and about the same chemical composition.
The water was intimately mixed with
the bitumen that IL could only be
separated by heat. He exhibited several large
black Jumps Of crude asphalt to illustrate his
paper, aud they were passed from ono TO an
other OF the chemists for examination. His con-
ciusion from his investigations was that the
water must have been formed at the same
time as the bitumen and then mixed with it.
This, he went on, sis confirmed by other
facts In the middle Of the deposit the asphalt
u stu yelling up and adding to the supply,
although the excavations of wears have made
no impression upon it, At this point however,
the bitumen is so soft as to fow readily.
1T only hardens after some: Exposure, and
with the evolution Of gas and the re-
suiting honeycomb structure YOU have
seen." The professor answered many ques-
tons. saying that he was convinced OF
the volcanic origin of asphalt and also Of its
practical inexhaustibility. At the close
he said that where asphalt existed in
many parts Of the word the Trinidad
beds were by far of the creates,
feasibility. The asphalt from other beds was
also very apt to be deterioratcd by an admix.
ture of limestone, which made 1t much less
valuable.
OTHER PAPERS.
'Some characteristics of Pinite," by Prof n.
". Wiley, was read by title only, the author
being absent. In his closing address Presiden,
Caldwell took occasion to speak encouragingly
OF the proposed organization of a national
chemical society and TO congratulate the
American Chemical Society on the work accom-.
pushed at the general meeting just closing.
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DISTRICT GOVERN MENr.
BIDS roR SEWER MAINS.

BIDS fok SEWER MAINS
BIDS for the construction Of three sizes Of
sewer mains were opened in the board room 40
the District buildings at noon today. They
were for 2,22S linear feet Of Is-inch nine. i.6s0
feet 2l-iuch pipe ard 4,270 feet 4-inch pipe
There were four bids as follows: O. r. Gam.
ls-lnch. sl5O per foot; 2l-inch, si.75 per foot;
24-inch. sI.y5 per foot L. L. B.rnes ls-inch,
sl.2. per foot; 2l-inch, sl.69 per foot; 24-inch,
Si.ss per foot. p. Brennan. ls-inch, q. IS per
foot; 2l-inch, sl.75 per foot; 24-inch. e. 30 per
foot Jas McCandlish. ls-inch. Si.35 per foot,
2l-inch, sl.65 per foot; 2i-inch. Sl.gS
The bids also included proposals for excavat-
ing and refilling, brick and concrete masonry
and rock excavation.
TO REGISTER TRAFFIC
An officer from the police force has been
detailed TO register traffic on the James creek
canal during the continuance OF the dredging
operations there. the officer 10 be under the
supervision and control of the hnrb0r master.
CONTRACT REVOKED.
The order of the Commissioners awarding
the contract for furnishing vitrifiod brick 10 ].
A. Hayden was today revoked, and the
proposal Of John ". Mock TO furnish such
brick at $3.50 per thousand was accepted
BUILDING PERNrrs-
Building permits were issued today ms fol-
lows: S. Carr, brick dwelling. 604 L street
northeast. g., 200; L, C. orndorf. brick DWELL
ing, 40 New York avenue, $4,000; Mary \.
Reed, frame dwelling. Birney street. Fort Reno,
s5OO; Ernest McCobb, frame dwelling. nirnsy
street near Tenloytown, sI.000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-18

Marriage licenses have been issued by the
clerk OF the co3rt to the following, Irwin G.
Baird and Roberta N. Duckett: William G..
Lanham of Alexandria, Va, and Ada L. Geewn
OF westmoreland county. Va; Edward McBar-
ritz and Catharine &. Tobler: James " illiam
Howard, jr., of Butte City, Mont, and Martha
Esther Boggs; Robert Z. Beckham and NJ. Eva
Oliver of Salem, Nj; Tecumseh Hart aud
Nancy Williams, both Of Prince Georges
county, Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-18

Arrangements are about completed for the
reception OF the old-time and military teIcs-
raphers and for the holding Of the convention
here tomorrow and Thursday.
There were few arrivals during the day and
number, besides thoee who reside in Wash
ington and vicinity, have been here for several
days The whole delegation will arrive be-
tween now and tomorrow morning.
AN INTERESTING CONVENTION.
The convention will be one Of very great in
terest and it is expected that there will be an
attendance of about zoo Mr. Howe Young,
who has been in charge Of the press work at
the Capitol since 1853, ALMOST the beginning Of
the use OF telegraphy in newspaper work, was
at work today having wires put in the National
Rifles, Armory, where the reception will be
held Thursday night.
This hall will be connected With every part
OF the country where wires are stretched and
messages Of congratulation, &c, will be ex-
changed with oil points, demonstrating the
immense growth of the system Of telegraphy.
When Mr.. Young took charge Of the work at
the Capitol the press dispatches did not amount
to more than 1000 words q day. The average
10 now about *, 600 and ON great occasions the
press dispatches from Washington run up into
the hundreds Of Thousands Of words.
TO RLEcr OFFICERS TOMORROW.
The otd-timcs will hold a meeting in the red
parlor Of the Ebbitt House at 10 O'Clock
tomorrow. They will elect officers.
hear some papers that are to be
read and make arrangements 20 enlarge the
collection of relics of telegraphy now at the
National Museum. In the afternoon the mill
tary telegraphers, who served during the war,
will hold a brief meeting.
They will then look about the city and in the
evening hold another meeting. Thursday
morning all the visitors will Re taken
apfn 4,~x~ s-A. &.
and about Washington. Thursday
night reception will be held at National
Rifles Hall. Speeches will be made by Assist
ant Secretary Nettleton and Postmaster
General Wanamaker. A number OF
very interesting papers of considerable
historic value will be read and speeches will be
made by old telegraphers and some correspond
emit will be chosen to speak on the subject of
telegraphy and the press.
The occasion on Thursday night will be
chiefly social, but these events and the general
exchange OF "reminiscences will add an unusual
interest.
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FOR LITTLE BARBARA'S MURDER.
Hanging Of o Criminal Who Protested HI
Was Innocent


Was Innocent
LEEDS, August 1S-Wm Turner. the MIR
derer of little Barbara waterhouse, was hanged
here this morning. Turner protested his inno-
cence to the last.
On June of the present year Barbara Water
house, a child only five years Of age, the daugh-
ter Of a 9uarryman living at Leeds, myste-
riously disappeared from her home and was
not found until midnight on June 10.
At that hour a policeman found little Bar
bara's baby wrapped in u bundle and lying in q
street close to the town hall The child's alb
domen had been ripped open SO that the intes-
tines protruded and the legs and arms had
almost been severed from the body. In
addition the child's limbs were covered with
deep gashes.
1t was evident that the child's clothes had
been replaced on its body after the murder had
been committed. Vim. Turner, the man hanged
today, was subsequently arrested and convicted
OF the crime
LONDON, August 18.-At Chelmsford this
morning Sadler, the man who stabbed and
killed the husband Of his paramour, suffered
the death penalty for his crime.
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JUMPED THE BLUFF.
A Freight Train Leaves the Track and Goe
Into the Pacific.

Freight Train Leaves the Track and Goes
Into the Pacific.
CHICAGO, August ia Globe special from
San Francisco says: A train, consisting of an
engine and twenty-five cars, on the Greenwood
railway, in Mendocino county. jumped the
track on bluff and disappeared in the Pacific
ocean. The crew escaped by jumping. At the
point where the train went over the road runs
along the side of cliff, from which there
is sheer descent Of about fifty feet
into the water. Tbs track is per-
fectly secu-a and the trains run over
it at good speed at all times. The Inflated one
which yesterday was Lost is not heavier than
those which daily make the trip nor was it run
ming at greater rate Of speed. The cars we're
loaded and sank rapidly, being completely
swallowed up. The men, who had barely saved
their lives walked TO the nearest station to wait
for train and have their wounds dressed.
Some suffer from scratches and bruises, but
none are badly injured. The railroad company
at once began preparations to draw out the
engine and cars. as they expect to save much
of the merchandise. Divers have been sent
from this city and wrscking apparatus is being
forwarded to the scene of the peculiar disaster.
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THE CHEMISTS UNITING.
A Conference This Afternoon Which May
Result in a National Association.

A Conference This Afternoon Which May
Result in q National Association.
For three years the chemists of America have
been trying to effect national organization of
that class OF scientists, and at 2 o'clock this
afternoon there began in one of the class
rooms Of the Columbian University a conference
that, unless something should 60 amiss, will
result in the formation Of such an association
This conference is the third Of a series
Of three, the first Of which was
held Monday evening. At each Of these
meetings an agreement was more nearly
reached and this morning when the conference
adjourned, short while before noon, it was
assured that one more meeting would probably
result in the formation Of plan OF national or
ganization that would be acceptable to-all the
conferees.
ASSOCIATIONS REPRESENTED.
The associations represented in these confer
ences are as follows:
American Chemical Society-Professor A. A.
Breneman, chairman; Professors G. c. Cald-
well. G. F. Barker, H. II. Nicholson, Dr. Durand
Woodman, r. W. Hall.
Washington Chemical Society-Prof +. W.
Clarke, Prof. Dewey, PROF. Edgar Richards.
Association OF Official Agricultural Chemists
Prot. H. W. Wiley, Prof. william Frear, Prof.
N. T. Lupton, Prof. c. W. Stubbs.
Cincinnati Chemical society-Prof. A. A.
Brooklyn 1nstitute-H. W. II. Kent and DR..
Elias BARLEY.
Franklin Institute-Mr. Henry Pember-
ton.
Association Of Manufacturing Chemists-Mr.
Henry Bower Of New York.
Louisiana Association OF Sugar Chemists
Prof. Z. A. Champion OF the Agricultural De-
partment.
these gentlemen are empowered simply to
discuss and agree upon plan of organization,
which they shall report back to the asso-
Citations they represent for their ratification.
Tho conferees, however, express no doubt
that any plan they may agree to will meet
the approval of the bodies represented in the
conference and the prospect for the formation
OF the much-desired national association is
really rosy.
THE MAIN DIFFICULTY REMOVED.
The difficulty has been in great measure
that the existing American Chemical Society
was rather in the way, it being already organ
lied, with some branch societies in various
places. The Washington and num-
Der Of other independent societies did
not wish to become branches of
the American society as now organized with
headquarters in New York. At this morn
ings meeting, however. the New Workers
said that their organization was willing to be-
come the New York branch Of o national chemi-
cal society, and since this was conceded it has
been plain sailing SO far.
The name American Chemical Society," will
be retained, the present society of that name
plan is carried out. New officers and
an entire new organization are to
be expected. 1t was suggested that the new
general organization call itself the National
Chemical Society,"" but as this does not indicate
what nation the suggestion was voted down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-18
MEETING or THE corNcrr.


Members Elected.
At the meeting OF the council today tho
papers submitted 10 be read at the va
riors meetings were referred 90 the sec
tionsl committees for examination and report
The recommendations Of the committees vii
be r,ade TO the council at the meeting tonor-
row. and ihen the lists OF papers to Dc road VIII
be raade out
The following were elected TO membership;
Pro-. Edwin W. Doran, Agricultural College.
College Park, Nd; Samuel Wagenhals.
Fort Wayne. Ind; Herbert Wilson, geo
logical survey. Washington; Thomas
NJ. Talbot, Washington; Alfred Doontile.
Bethlehem, Pa: Prof. Charles A. Harper, Cin-
einnati, Ohio; Prof. J. NJ. Francis, Tuscaloosa.
Ala, ID. c. Sutton. Norcrosse, Fla; DR.. h Won
Herr. Washington.
Members will be elected at the daily meet
ings held by the council Tho total member
ship is nov 2,2I5.
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Killed While I'm loading Logs.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
FREDERICK, ND. August 1S.-while engaged
with other workmen yesterday afternoon in
unloading heavy logs ut Biggs' mill near Rocky
Ridge, this county, Frederick Endenbrecht, Q
young German, was struck on the head by Q
log that slipped from his shoulder and was In
stantly killed. Ho leaves . wife, who IL Q
daughter OF Thomas Eyler Of this county, and
two children.
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To Contest Mrs. Hopkins-searics. VIII.

SAN FRAScIsco, August 1S.-Mr. John A.
Boalt. the attorney who will act in conjunction
with Mr.. RusseIlJ. Wilson in contesting the will
Of the late Mrs. Hopkins-Searles, left for the
east last night.
SALEM. Mass. August 1e.-Just what action
Mr.. Timothy Hopkins Of San Francisco may
take regarding the will of his adopted mother
is not definitely known, but he canno. enter an
appeal from the decision Of the probate court
until september 7, as tie will will not be pro-
bated until that date. 1t is reported that he
will allow the will to be ppobated and then
of the most interesting will contests OF recent
years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-18

LONDON, August ls.-The Prince Of Wales
started for Homburg today. He viii remain
there until the beginning Of september, whsn
he will leave for Copenhagen to meet the prin-
cess and Join the family party assembled there,
which will include the car and czarina. The
latter are about starting for Copenhagen now,
on visit TO the cxaripa's royal paSenta
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The Raina In California.

SAN BxaSAsDixo, CAL, August la-Ths red
places yesterday by the heavy storm which 90
Cured in tho mountains east Of here. Il IL
now generally accepted a. Q fact that these con-
tinusd storms and the suitry weather which has
lasted since July has been the result of the
flooding Of the Colorado desert. II tho storms
continue the summer climate will Be Iess pleas.
ant but II viii b better for irrigation.