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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-24
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

The Hungarian cabinet have resigned.
The constitution framed by the people 8
party CT Russia provides for an impendia-
ment composed of elected representatives,
ard diet for each province.
Reuben n. Walters was acquitted at
Reading, Pa. Saturday of the murder OF
his wife. The audience cheered the verdict.
Harry Hayward was arraigned i'm AIinne-
apolis Saturday. charged with instigating
the murder of Catherine Cling. He appear
ed unConcerned.
Gov. Flower has dismissed the charges of
neglect of duty brought against District
Attorney Fellows of New York city.
Peter E. A. Weber, living in the suburbs
of Petersburg, Va, shot himself Saturday.
He had been troubled with dyspepsia.
Fire caused 100000 damage i'm the La
Crosse Dry Goods Company's store at La
Crosse, Wis, Saturday. Hattie Lovejoy, a
milliner, jumped. and was badly injured.
Fifteen persons were killed and many in
jured by collision Saturday between the
Manchester, England. express and a freight
train.
A very heavy gale set in early Saturday
morning, which has ragged with unprece-
denied fury over nearly all of England.
over thirty lives are reported lost.
The seat in Congress of George b. Nc
Clellan of New York city will be contested
by his opponent, Robert A. Cheesbrough
Capt. Dreyfus, the F'renchman charged
with selling military plans TO an enemy,
has been sentenced To Imprisonment for
life, with loss of rank and honor.
Georgetown, ). c., gave President Clevc-
land a hearty reception Saturday on his
return from his ducking trip.
Judge ID. IL. Ballard of Los Angeles, Cal,
has been indicted ut Macon. Mo-, for OBJ
tanning money Under false pretenses from
Oswald Hicks. Ballard made populist
speeches in Missouri during the past cam
paign.
The Minnesota Democratic Association
has issued an address to the party declar-~
ing for free trade.
Harold q. Butt. for two years cashier for
Hammerslough Brothers, New York, has
been arrested. charged with embezzling
$1,000 of the firms money.
The body of Mrs. William Waldorf Aston
who died Saturday at Cliveden, England
will bc taken to New York for burial.
The French line steamship La Bretagne.
which arrived at New York yesterday re-
ports that on December II, during a fresh
westerly wind and high seas, one blade OF
her propeller was lost. Among the Bre-
tagne's passengers was Paul Lefevre. sec
rotary to the French ambassador.
Col. S. ID. Bailey, president Of the Marine
Bank of Bath. Me, and an ex-mayor OF
that city. died yesterday. aged sixty-nlne.
The Sulphurwell Hotel and Sanitarium,
rear San Antonio. Tex. was destroyed by
fire early yesterday morning. Some OF the
guests Ind narrow escapes and mono OF
them saOed any of their effects. Loss,
81 600; fully insured
man named Brown, who lived In Pitts
ton, was fatally shot by Policeman Gal
iagher Of Wilkesbarre. Pa. last night,
while resisting arrest.
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DISTRESS IN NEBR
Farmers Fled, Leaving Their Imple-
ments in the Fields.

A blight of appalling proportions has
fallen on Nebraska. and a correspondent
says that Perkins county is the most DESC
late country he ever saw. There are no
rivers or creeks or a sign of anything that
would give moisture or produce hay. Bat
little stock. could be seen, though what
was there was in good condition. A few
deserted sod huts and frame houses were
seen, and there were signs here and there
that some habtations had been taken
down and removed with the other goods
of the owners when they left.
Farm implements were seen In the fields,
and at a distance substantial granaries
stood, just as their owners had left them.
County Clerk Wilcox id mot less than
600 families. representing about 1900 pei
pIe are in destitute condition. This is
about three-fourths of the county's popula-
ton. We are facing the most desperate
situation in our history"
The suffering here, says the corre-
spondent, rs the most general of any
county | nave yet visited The people who
are destitute will not survive unless sue
Cored soon"
President Mason of the Nebraska state
=, lief commission secured carefully pre-
pared report of the number of destitute
there were crop failures. as follows: Custer
county, 80 families; Chase, 225; Dundy,
100; Hitchcock, 30; Redw illow, 100; Hayes,
300; Frontier 40 Furns 100: Lincoln, 100;
Dawson, ~; Keitn. 300; Deul, 4; Chcrry, (;
Mcpherson, 10; Blaine 20; Boyd, 30. holt,
80; Antelope, 30; Keyapaha, %; Knox, y.
Contributions are coming'in, but hardly as
fast as they should. The commission has
carefully gone Over the field, and none but
the deserving are to be assisted.
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NOVELIST STEVENSON'S DEATH.
1t Came In Samoa With Hardly q
Warming,

Robert Louis Stevenson, the novelist who
died at his beautiful home in Samoa on
the I'd instant, passed away in very sud-
den manner. He had been busy at work UNI
Til o'clock and had written what are said
to be some of his finest passages and mad
left his work for dinner. He had gone into
the kitchen with his wife to prepare some
particular dish which he had a fondness
for, and while there complained of a pain
in the top of his head. He went into mis-
drawing room and almost Immediately fell
back unconscious in chair. Medical adj
vice was obtained, bit 1t was useless as
he never recovered consciousness and died
at o'clock.
The community was greatly affected and
much regret is felt, although Stevenson
met much opposition owing TO his political
views. Socially he was highly esteemed.
Before his death, when in good health, he
had expressed wish to be buried up on
the top of Vacu mountain, in a most TO-
mantle spot, 1,40O feet above level.
known by the name CT the 'Traa-Sooala"
Tor pigeon catching place CT Sooala). and
his interment took place there the Sd
in the presence of the intimate friends OF
the family.
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CHARGES DECLARED FALSE.
statements Made in the Report of the
Dawes Com mis- siOn.

A stan correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press, writing from Muscogee. Creek Ma
uon, Indian territory says regarding the
recent reports of lawlessness in that coun-
try:
The desire of the Dawes commission to
complete the work which ii was sent out to
accomplish has led 1t to make some of the
most outrageously lbelous statements
against the Five Civilized Tribes that 1t is
possible to conceive Of
Absolute untruths. whose criminal men,
dacity could have been proven inside Of
twenty-four hours, had the commissioners
taken the trouble to inquire, appear in the
report submitted by the commission to its
ofhcial chief, Hon. Hoke Smith, Secretary or
the Interior. With the opportunity at hand
TO prove either the truth or falsity of what
they charge, these officials recklessly make
statements which have gone before the
world Villifying and blackening the charac-
ter OF prosper Gus and progressive people.
All the functions of the so-called gov
ernrnents of these five tribes" writes the
commission, have become powerless to
protect the life and property rights of tine
citizen. The courts CT justice have become
helpless or paralyzed. Violence robbery or
murder is almost of daily occurrence and
no effective measures of restraint or pun
lshment are put forth to suppress crime.
sengers robbed within few miles of popu-
lous towns and the plumber carried off with
lmpunity in The very presence of those in
authority. reign of terror exists and
barbarous outrages, almost impossible of
Dellef, are enacted, and the perpetrators
hardly find IL necessary to shun daily in
tercourse with their victims We are now
informed that within the territory of one
OF these tribes there were fifty-three muir
derS during the month of September and
the first twenty-four days of October last,
and not single person brought to trial"
On the authority of Judge Packer, the
United States judge at Fort Smith, where
all the cases Of murder are tried in which
white men are involved in the Indian ter
rltory, ii is stated that in the fifty-four
days referred to by the commisson-the
month of September and the first "a
days of October-there was more than the
usual amount of crime III the Cherokee
Nation. The Indians had but recently re-
ceiVed their money from the government,
and the Cherokee Nation was overrn with
all the bunco men, short-card gamblers
and toughs from Arkansas and Oklahoma.
But, on the authority of Judge Packer, il
can be said that only eight cases of homi-
eide We're reported in the entire Cherokee
Nation in the time specified; that all of the
known, and that only half of this number OF
crimes We're committed by persons with
Cherokee blood in their veins.
The rest of the statement quoted falls
with the proven falsity of the material part
of it. The Dawes commission, with wide
open ears to the traducers of the Indians
and their territory, took no pains to verify
and outrage. Neither did they attempt to
verify The truth or falsity of other matters
equally as vital to their reputation as a
just and impartial commission.
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was appointed, 1t is generally believed
that Msr. Satoll. might have The assistance
of a man who is thoroughly conversant
with the people and the customs Of the
United States.
The appointment of the Rev. DR.. Rocker
is regarded as an Indication that the policy
of the pope Is to develop the church here
along American lines.
The Rev. DR. Rocker was for several
years the vice rector of the American Col
iege at Rome, and has been sent to this
country several times on important mis-
sions. He was spoken of two years ago for
the place of private secretary to Mgr. Sa-
toll. That was before the papal legation
was established here. When Mgr. Satoili
was made the popes representative and
his powers were clearly defined the Rev.
DR.. Papi was sent the secretary OF the
legation.
Upon the resignation of DR.. Papi the pope
sent the name of Dr. Rocker to the con-
gregation, and the young American priest
received his appointment direct from the
Propaganda.
Tall, broad shouldered and of athletic
build is the Rev. DR.. Rocker. His manner
is magnetic, and there is an energetic and
decisive ring in his voice when he talks.
Although he has lived abroad for twelve
years, with an occasional brief visit to this
country. he is as much in touch with az
fairs here as he was years ago, when ne
wrote stories of the doingS of the ieSlsla-
ture for the Press and knickerbocker, the
Albany paper, Of which his father is one
of the editors.
At the Cunard pier Father Rocker was
met by his father, Myron II. Rocker, ana
left shortly afterward for Albany with
the exception of two young priests VINO
were college students there was nobody
else at the pier to meet him. There was no
representative of Archbishop Corrigan.
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HYPNOTISM HIS DEFENSE.
1t Was Successful and Mcdonald Wa
Acquitted of Murder.

Tom Macdonald, farm hand, who has
been for several days on trial at Yelling
ton, Kan, for the murder Of Thomas Pat
ton al Conway Springs in May last, was
acquitted Saturday evening. says the New
York Sun, although he had himself con-
fessed to killing the victim.
There was no question that his confes-
sion was true. The theory upon which the
defense WAS made and the verdict of ac-
auttal arrived at was that Macdonald
was under hypnotic influence when he
killed Patton and that the influence was
that produced by the operation of the
stronger mind of Anderson Gray. Gray
was MacDonald's employer and is now
under sentence of death for his share in
the murder.
Patton was a witness against Gray in
an important lawsuit. Gray, the defense
maintained, by his superior will power
forced Macdonald TO lie in wait for Patton
and shoot him down from ambush
Gray is A man of commanding presence
and dictatorial manner. Macdonald, while
perfectly sane is OF weak, vacilIating
disposition.
This is the first time that this plea was
ever successful I'm a murder case. 1t was
set up for the first time in the Gouffe muir
der trial i'm Paris a few years ago. Gouffe's
mistress claimed that he had hypnotized
her and forced her to murder a wealthy
EngliShman,
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY
Uiedmont Air Line.)
Schedule In effect November Is. Is

-
Schedule In effect November 1s, 1894.
ALI trains arrive and leave at Pennsylvania
- Passenger Station
800 A.M.-Daly-Local for Danville. Connects
and at Lynchburg with the Norfolk and Western.
daily.
11:Ol A.M.-Daiiy Tn. UNITED STATES FAST
MAIL. carries Pullman Buffet Sleepers New York
lotte with Pullman Sleeper for Augusta; also Pull
man Sleeper New York to Montgomery with con-
nection for New Orleans: connects at Atlanta with
Pullman Sleeper for Birmingham, Ala, Memphis,
Tenn. and Kansas City.
Aus Pm, daily for Cha rlottesvlIle and through
train for Strashurg. daily, except Sunday
1905 P.'.Daily-NEW YORK AND FLORIDA
SHORT LINE LIMITED Pullman Sieppers New
York and Washington to Augusta and Tampa and
Pullman Double Drawing Room Compartment Car
New York to St Augustine. First-cass day coaches
Washington TO st. Augustine without change.
1913 ilv-WASHINGTON AND SOUTH
WESTERN VESTIBULED LIMITED. composed Of
Pullman S.eepers New York to Ashevie and Hot
Springs. \. c., ria Salisbury New York to Mem
phs via Birmingham and New York to New Orleans
via Atlanta and Montgomery. Dining Car from
TRAINS on WASHINGTON AND OHIO III.
VISION leave Washington $40 AM daily, 4:32
PM. daily, except Sunday and G33 P.M Sundays
only. for Round Hill. and 6:33 PM daily for Hem
don. Returning, arrive at Washington 1874 4 NJ;
and 300 PM. daily from Round Hill. and 1902
A. N. daily. except Sunday, from Herndon only.
Through trains from the South arrive at Washing
daily Manassas Division. 1928 AN. daily. except
Sunday. and 1923 AN daily from Charlie, tesvillc.
Tickets. Sleeping Car reservation and informatlo
furnished at offices, 81 and 1900 Pennsylvania
nue.. and at Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Sta
Genera! Manage General Passenger Agent.
Mo L. S. BROWN. Gen. Agt. Pass. Dept.
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COL. BACHELOR DEAD.
Well known Rs the Historian Of the
Battle of Gcttysbury.

Col. J. b. Bachelor, United States gov
eminent Gettysburg historian, died Satur-
day morning at his home in Hyde Park
Mass, Of pneumonia. He has been i'll but
a short time.
Col. j. b. Bachelor was known through
out the United States as the government
historian of the battle of Gettysburg. Be
fore the smoke had hardly cleared away
frCm that battle, he went on the field by
order of the United States authorities and
began what has proved his life work, for
he has ever since been collating the facts
and writing out the history of this con-
fiicl 1t fills thousands of pages, and is UNI
finished.
His work IL planning for the many mon
uments which have been erected at Gcttys-
burg has claimed much of his time and
energy i'm the latter period of mis- life.
He was born a. CINNAMON, n. H., in Sep
TENDER, 1928, and spent his early life there
Besides being historian, he was an artist
of ability. Col. Bachelor has resided in
Hyde Park about twenty years. and was
one of the park commissioners there.
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BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD.

BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD.
Schedule in effect November Is, 1894.
Leave Washington from station corner Of New
Jersey avenue and street.
For Chicago and Northwest. vestibuled Limited
For Cincinnati. ST. Louis ard Indianapolis vesti-
buled Limited. 1870 pm; express, 1901 night.
For Pittsbnrg and Cleveland, express daily, ll:3o
For Lexington aud staun,on. 1880 am.
For R SatS and TS t dS 80 p
Chattanooga. Memphis and New orleaus. IL 20
p daily sleeping cars through.
,7:io. Ia:so, 500 IS minutes $50 1850. Go0S
45 mnuteJ ,s:25 IS 4:si g 90 45-mnutes IS o5
1890, 5:35, x620, $780, 1900, s:I5. x9:OO XII 20
And III sS pm sundays 44So 80 ego
600 600 % :s minutes, s25 AL 800 4S,minutes.
For Annapolis. 7:Io and $50 am. I2:l5 ind
4:2s pm. Sundays, $50 am, 4:3I PIN.
For Frederick. b3:Oo, ali 80 am. bI:i5. a.:ao.
For Boyd and way points. '1:O5 pm.
and a4 ssy P9as 1850 ssS
asSo pm G1p aea T trains p0 stopping at
Rk15ei ssaiGns 9nly al 80 az 80 pm &opx AMI
For Philadelphia New York, Boston and the east.
T Tses d bnIns 40 500 de:SS nm DlRa; car
III 80 pm Sleeping Car. open at 1000 o'clock).
S Sa Zoo Sn1r BDs Car G$0s
Car. open for passengers 1000 pm
Eur Euiet i rar9r Cars S on all day trains
1900 n aoa"t sDS Gy 20 an 1890 o m and
aEAcept SUNDAY Daily; bSunday only.
residences by Union Transfer Co. orders left at
ticket offices. 6l9 Pa. ave-. New York ave. and 18th
RRi;gs b. cA aai MI cHAs. o; scuLL. .
hIo Cen Manager. Gen. Pass. ASt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-24
TEN THOUSAND CHINESE ROUTED.
Gen. Sung's Forces Put to Flight After
the Japanese Had Made Four Assaults

Gen Kasaura on December 10, attacked
Gen. Sung's position, seven miles west Oh
Halt Cheng. The position was defended by
10000 Chinese, who were routed after four
assaults
dispatch from Antong says that the
Japanese force consisted of four regiments
of infantry and FIVE batteries Of artillery.
The latter bombarded the Chinese, who
had established themselves in the village Of
Kung Wasai.
The infantry then thrice charged through
the Chinese lines The fighting was stub
born, the combatants meeting hand to
hand. The fight was the tercest that has
yet taken place. The Chinese loss is esti-
mated at 500 killed wounded. The Jap
anese also suffered severely.
A London Times dispatch from Kobe,
Japan, says that thousands of Tonghaks
defeated the Corean garrison of three hum
dred soldiers at Challado and then burned
the houses. The inhabitants of the town
fed. 1t Is reported that a number of Chi
nese were among the Tonghaks
Advices received at Toxic confirm the re-
port of the defeat of Gen. Sung after hard
lighting that lasted five hours. The Japan
csc are now about ten miles from New
Chwang, which 1T was expected would be
reached yesterday.
Chang-Yin-Houan, member of the
Tsung- L-Yamen. and haoyeolien, late gov
ernor of Formosa, have been appointed inn
peral commissioners to treat for peace
with Japan.
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RELIEF FOR RHEUMATISM

This iutormation,' aad u vel! Xxi own physician
to a corr s,,uude1t OF the TELEGRAM, may save
MANY lives any rate, il viii prove an Invaluable
boo To .Jpi. suffering FROM rheun tisn any
fo.m.
..Rhsumarism is cansed by acidiy Of tine blood.
1t should never he neglected This remedy,
know 10y long practice, is very ctGcarious and II
is as SIM /" as II is powerful.
Here IL is,' lie added When rheuma ic
twiige is experienced, the patient should buy "a
bottle OF D-. David Kennedy. Fayorite Remedy,
and take teaspoo i;dl in l,lIlk water 10 suit
the action Of the bowels three times d day, and
continue daily until the last ycstige OF the InaiIdy
has disappeared. That's all; but II taken
have pr, scrihsd it viii save many doctors bills. to
say nothing CT paius, aches and swellings. I've
known 1t 20 !aji." Albany N. ~ Tele-
gram
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GOOD NEVN

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standing and wasting diseases should lose time
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cialist In the treatment Of all disorders OF the
brain and nervous system. DR.. Walker has de-
voted himself during the past twenty years to the
study and treatment of disease OF this character,
and his remarkable success has gained for him the
highest reputation both in Europe and America.
His treatment strikes at the very foundation Of
the trouble in all cases. and the result is inyari-
ably a quick AMI permanent cure. Dr. Walker IL
permanently located 1T 14I1 Pennsylvania avenue.
adjoining Willarjs Hotel, where he may he con-
suited frcm 10 am to pm. Charges very low.
aad consultation at Office or by mail free. Wednes-
day and Saturday evenings, to g. Sunday, 10 to
L. See testimonials of In Post, Times and
News. All interviews sacredly confidential and
names never published except by owners consent.
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RAILROADS
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
Station corner OF 9Th and Ii SITS.

ID
safSt RS SGEsTSsr E Il fa;
and 'a TSsSs Saass fa19 Can
~ io; 20, A;M FAST LHE5Pullm.n sune. Par
I 8r Car to Harrisburg. Parior and Dining Cars.
$40 PM CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS
R nr man Buff, Pa.lor Car e
I:iS Pm. WESTERN EX SPishsSi Sleep
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1910 PM PAciFic E K SsspnPa1 Sleep
and 1' Sox AM ri pr KnGe
7;l9 . NJ for williamson, Rochester BUFFALO and
,d ing Car Washington to Rochester.
1G fa1o PM M for Erie CanaGdagua Rochester But
W WASHINGTON TO Enira, and. Saturdays only.
40 IN ISSGRE sS 5S!t '1 fM III h all
@ New c York ds, D0 r a wask sT.
c yGc 1850 s pD9 4 Gag GAG snd iodG 90 and Drs55
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depaia only. Fast Express $50 a pi week days
For Boston without change. 75o am week days
and 3:15 pm. daily
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1000, 1920, ii 90 and ii 80 am 1918. 2:0l,
BIB, $40 400 Limited, 400. 4:36, $40. sos,
Gao; 7:lo. 1000 1910, rs and IS pm. On
an, 12:l5, LIS. 2:01. 1915. $40 400 Limited.
40. 5:4o, 605 6:40 7:10, 10:0O 1910 and IL :35
m
,, For popes Greek Line 7:2o an and 4:ss pm.
For Annapolis 7;2o, 300 and II 80 am and
20 Pm daily except Sunday Sundays. 900
Atlantic coas. Line Express for Richmond.
JaGksonyille and Tampa. 4:3O am, 1870 p IN.
daily. Richmond ond Atlanta. $40 PIN. daily.
Richmond only, 1881 am. week days.
Acc ommodatioE for QuautIco, 7:45 am. daily
and 4:25 pm. week days
For Alexandria, 40 6:s5 7:is, $40, s:4s,
1927 Il 80 Am; l2;oo 40 800. 40. 500:
at at $50, 7:4S 9:4o a.n. z:4o, 6:l5. SO. and
Leave Alexandria for Washington. sos. CAB,
LOO, 800, 9:lO 1918, 1928 am. 100, 2:13,
300, 3:S, 300 30 G:lS, 700. 1870, 9lO, 1882
and HOS pm. On Sunday at 6:+3, 9:1O, 10:2S
an, 2:15. 500, 700, 7:20, 0:10 and 1852 Pun.
Ticket offices, northeast corner of 18th street and
Pennsylvania avenue and at the station, 9th and
b streets. where orders be left for the cheek.
residences.
S. NJ. PROVOST, ]. II. WOOD,
General Manager. General Passenger Agent
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SATOLLPS NEW SECRETARY.
Rev. Frederick T.. Rocker VIII Come
After Christmas.

Rev. Frederick u. Rocker, the new secre-
tary of the papal legation in this city, ar
rived by steamer at New York Saturday.
He will report to Mgr. Satolli. the head Of
the legation, on January /, in this city. He
brought news from Rome that Mgr. Sa-
TOLL would certainly be made a cardinal,
and announced that the pope's encyclical
was nearly ready.
Father Rocker will succeed the Rev. DR..
Pspi, who offered his resignation as secre-
tary several months ago that ne might join
the JeSuits. The new secretary is Ameri-
can born, says tie New York Herald, and