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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-16
Mine Workers Express Confidence
in Mcbride.
TEE INVESTIGATION EIONERATES HIlt
Mark Wild, His Accuser, Forced
to Leave the Hall. .'
OFFICERS ARE INDICATED

COLUMBUS, Ohio, February 16.--John
Mcbride TODAY, by the unanimous report of
the committee of fifteen, was reported to
have been not guilty of the charges of cor
ruption In connection with the Hooking
Valley RAJ lroad strike. The committed s
report sail that Mark Wild, the railroad
man who preferred the charges, is Il dema-
gogue and self-confessed corruptionist
Thereupon a resolution was adopted by the
United Mine Workers convention extend
ing vote of confidence to john Mcbride
and ordering Mark Wild to leave the hail.
Mr.. Wild endeavored to obtain the floor,
but the demonstrations against him We're
so pronounced that the presiding ofii,er
advised him to withdraw Immediately, and
he did so.
Mr.. Lewis, in making the report relative
to Mcbride, said the committee believed
he had been indiScreet in the handling of
the money.
The vote on the report was 100 to f. The
vote on Wild leaving the hall was DIG to
731s.
The contention then elected p Fl. Penna
of Indiana, president: Cameron Miller of
Ohio. vice president, and reelected Patrick
Mcbride secretary and treasurer. These
elections were a complete vindication of
the men who acted on behalf of the miners
in the settlement of the strike last summer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-16
URGED by WOMEN.
COngl ess Asked to Pass the Bill for
Sewer Extension.

Congl ess Asked to Pass the Bill for
Sewer Extension.
The committee appointed by the meeting
at the Washington Club last Monday to
represent the women of Washington in the
movement to secure for the capital the
much-needed improved sewerage system,
has addressed to every member Of the Sen
ate a personal letter, as follows:
1.-THE imperative necessity for an in
creased and improved sewerage system for
Washington, which is alike demanded by
the increasing area and population and by
the prevalence of diseases due to the de-
fects in the present system, has resulted
in a large meeting Of the representative
women of Washington, which appointed
the undersigned committee and charged
them with the duty of urging on you the
necessity of immediate action by Congress
in passing the bill for sewer extension now
before them. The committee presents the
subject to your attention as one of grave
necessity and Importance, which should
be acted on at once, each days delay
only increases the existing dangers"
The letter is signed by Mrs. Archibald
Hopkins, as chairman. and Mrs. J. G. s.
Ashton, Mrs. F. B. Loring, Mrs. Chatard,
Mrs Ffoulke, Mrs ]. Y. Taylor Mrs. VIM.
Reyburn and Miss Kate Field, as members
of the committee.
Arrangements have been made to secure
the signatures of women to a petition to
Congress urging the proposed improve
mentS.
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JAPANEsE IN POSSESSION.
The Island In Wei-Haf-Wei HarbOr
Gives Up.

We
wEI-Hk I-WEI, China, February 16-The
japanese forces are now In complete oc-
cupation Of the Island of Liuh-kung-Tao
in the bay here, the forts on which We're
the last to hold out against the victorious
japanese forces.
CHEFOb. February 16-All the foreign
ers who were serving with the Chinese
forces at Wei-Hai-Wei. except the Ameri-
can, John Wilde. alias HOWE, or Harvie.
have been set free. Wilde is the man who
was arres ted by the Japanese authorities
at Kobe. aboard the French steamer sgd
Eey. with Cham Taa Moore, formerly in
terpreter for the Chinese legation at Wash
ington, and an EngliShman named Cam
eron, on d charge of being engaged in a
plot to destroy Japanese warships by the
means of torpedoes. He and his two COM
panions were released on taking oaths to
do nothing to assist China during the
war.
1t is reported that Ii Hung Chang. one of
the new Chinese peace ENJOYS, is on his
way to Pbrt Arthur. where he is to meet
ENJOYS appointed by Japan and arrange
terms fort the cessation of the war.
III is said here that Russia and England
will offer to mediate {. peace between China
and Japan. \ report is also in circulation
here that the foreign representatives at
Pckin are again apprehensive of trouble
and have ordered guards to he brought up
from their respective war ships at Tien-
Tsin for tho protection of the legations.
LONDON, February 16.-This afternoons
Pail Mali Gazette prints dispatch from
Chefoo repeating the statement that Ad-
miral Ting, the Chinese naval commander
at Wei-Hai-Wei, has committed suicide on
account of the reverses to the Chinese
forces
The dis batch adds that Commodore Liu
and Gen. Chang have also taken their own
lives for the same reason.
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THE MEXICAN MISSION.
Many Applicants for the Vacancy
Made by MIR. Gray's Death.

Made by MIR. Gray's Death.
The excitement and furry of gossip
which the death of Minister Gray has
caused among the democratic statesmen at
the Capitol shows how strongly the pangs
of hunger are already Selling hold of the
in ards of those who feel themselves about
to be deprived of the government proven
der. There is hardly defeated democrat
in Congress whose relations with Cleye-
red in the face and look guilty if the death
of Gray is mentioned in his presence. The
candidates for the vacant mission are
rushing to the front with matchless eager
ness. OF course, every man whose name
Is mentioned is not actually seeking the
place, and it will probably go to some one
who has kept quiet about any ambition in
that direction he might have. 1t is more
apt to go to some such man as Wilson or
Senator Butler of South Carolina than to
any of the great number who are already
eager for it.
land contemplates doing something hand
some for Mr.. Springer of Illinois, whom he
regards as one of the most useful men in
public life, but it will probably be a Judi
cial appointment that the IllinoiSan will
get. The Mexican mission is regarded as
the most attractive of all the foreign mis-
sions to man who does not possess indie
pendent means. The salary is as high as
is paid in the service. 1t is paid in our own
money, of course, and is convertible into
about double the amount in Mexican mon
ey The salary is. therefore, equivalent in
Mexico to nearly thirty-five thousand
year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-16
TIE CARRIAGE PROBLEM.
The Contractors Must Alter Thicr
Methods. Say the commissioners


For some time past the health office OF
the District has been deluged with COM
plants of non-collection of garbage. These
have come from citizens in all parts of the
city, and have recently become so numer-
Gus that the authorities realize that some
thing must be done, and at once knowing
that If the matter was allowed to run
along until warm weather it would become
an actual menace to health.
The subject has been called to the atten-
ton of the Commissioners time and time
again, and today they decided to take some
definite action in the matter. Late this
afternoon it developed at the District
building that the Commissioners had had
the matter under adviSement and had de-
clded to urge stricter attention to business
upon the contractors Deputy Health
Ohicer Mclean was notified today to in
form Mr. S. c. Bailey of the National San
1tary Company that unless there was a
marked Improvement in the work of col
lecting garbage throughout the city with
out delay the District would annul the con-
tract and would undertake the task itself
The new condition of affairs must go into
effect next Monday, for the Commissioners
are in earnest and will brook no delay or
neglect.
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Washington Stock Exchange.

Sales-regular call-12 O'Clock m.-Coumbia Rail.
road, Is at g. L. S. Electric Light, 10 at 1872
Government Bonds.-U. S. As, registered, lIOIl
bid, Ill asked u. S. As, coupon, 110A bid, Iii
asked. L. 5. S. 115 bid.
District of Columbia Bonds.--20-year fund 5s, LOG
bid. 80 year fund Us. gold, ia bid. Water stock
IS, 1901, currency. lis bid Water stock as, 1903,
bid. 1884, asked. 3r4s. registered, 21Os 100 bid.
Miscellaneous Bonds Washington and George
town Railroad 6s. list, 1877 bid. Washington
and Georgetown Railroad conr. Is, ID, 1871 bid.
Metropolitan Railroad Is. 95A bid, 9Sla asked.
Belt railroad IS, 81 bid. S5l4 asked. lexington
Railroad Is, 102 bid, los asked. Columbia Railroad
Is, 1893. bid. Washington Gas Company Us, Sc
ries Il. ia bid Washington Gas Company conv
6s, 13o bid u. $. Electric Light cow IS, 100 bid
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone 5s, 100 bid
103 asked American Security and Trust 5s. F.
and A. 100 bid American Security and Trust 5s
A and o., 100 bid Washington Market Company
LIST q 10 bid. Washington Market Company imp
6s. 10 bid. Washington Market Company ext. 6s
107 bid. Masonic Hall Association 5s. los bid
Washington Light Infantry LIST 6s. 1Ol bid. Wash
ington light Infantry I'd IS 100 bid
National Bank Stocks.-Bank of Washington, 2S5
bid 300 asked. Bank of the Republic, 25O bid.
275 asked Metropolitan $50 bid, 297 asked. Cen
trail, 260 bid. Farmers and Mechanics 1S5 bid.
200 asked Second, 1916 bid. ZIG asked. Citizens,
100 bid. Columbia, 100 bid. Capital. lis bid.
West End. ITO bid 11212 asked. Traders, 1O3
bid, 112 asked. Lincoln, 031a bid, 105 asked. Ohio,
20 bid
Safe Deposit and Trust Companies. -National Safe
Deposit and Trust, 120 bid, 125 asked. Washing
ton Loan and Trust, 11s bid. 100 asked. American
Security and Trust. 1874 bid 1851 asked. Washing
ton Safe Deposit, 100 asked.
I Railroad Observation-Disclosures and Georgetown,
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ROCK CREEK PARK.
Becinntng the Work of Assessing
Benefits on Property.

Judge COX having refused to restrain the
Rock Creek Park commission from pro-
ceeding 20 assess the benefits accruing or
sr,posed to have accrued to adjacent prop
e,tv bedause of the establishment and
maintenance of the park, the commission
ront at the city hall a o'clock this after
room for such purpose. Prof. s. L. Langley,
Cen. III. " Boynton and Mr.. r. Ross Perry
we're the only members present, and, in
the absence of Gen. Casey, Mr.. Perry was
made chairman pro tenn. A number of
owners of adjacent land were present. some
re pre- scented by counsel. Mr.. Hugh t. Tag
CART repG esented The government.
Calling the commission to order Mr. Per-
ry explained that the commission had de-
termined to at once proceed to take testi-
mony and had invited the District board
of asses sors to be present, it being the
Commissi Ions intention to first take their
statements. But, said Mr.. Perry. the COM
mission was not empowered to administer
oaths, nor had it power to subpoena wit
nesses. Therefore witnesses could only be
requested or invited to attend and make
their statements.
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A LarEe Estate.

A suit for partition. involving about
$500 600 worth of real estate in the District.
has been filed by Leo Simmons. as solicI-
tor for various heirs Of Sophia S. Kali,
late of this city.
Mrs. Kali, the former owner of the prop
erty, had, for almost half a century before
her death, lived in the old Kali mansion,
owned by herself, situated at the head of
22d street and Connecticut avenue. The
grounds surrounding the home contain
about ten acres, and have become very
valuable of late for building sites, being
surrounded by Kalorama and Washington
Heights. The city property consists or
four large houses in the northwest, two
on 18th street, on 18th just above
Pennsylvania avenue, and the fourth on
H street, next door to the Shoreham Hotel.
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DISTRICT GOVERNMENT,
Their Idea.

The Commissioners today returned to
| Chairman Heard House bill STA, ITO in
corporate the Capital Railway Company"
| with the report that they would prefer that
| the second part of the route should be
| more definitely stated, and that an issue Of
bonds should not be authorized.
The description of the route referred TO,
they say, should be as follows: From the
intersection of Monroe and Harrison streets,
Anacostia, along Harrison street, Good
Hope road, and such further route TO and
toward the District line as may be APP
proved by the District Commissioners, and
returning over the same route to the point
of beginning.
The Transfer Bill.
The Commissioners this morning received
House bill SS53, which provides for general
transfer arrangements of all of the roads
Of the city by am ending the charters of
the Washington and Georgetown and the
Metropolitan Railroad companies, whereby
the corporations are required to arrange
transfers with all other roads that cross.
connect or unite with theirs. According to
the bill the arrangement must be COM
pleted within two months of the passage
of the act Transfers issued by other
reads than the Washington and George
town and the Metropolitan are redeemed
by the issuing company at 1 cent each, but
where the Washington and Georgetown or
the Metropolitan road gives transfers they
are to be redeemed at cents each. The
only exception to this rule is where the
bill provides for the transfer with the belt
roads Of the city, and there the division Is
equal each road receiving IL cents. The
transfers are redeemable by the issuing
companies once every month.
He Approves.
The attorney for the District has report
ed to the Commissioners that House bill
5773, ITO provide for the corporation and
regulation of medical colleges In the Dis
trct of Columbia" is in good form and the
object a good one. He says there can be
no doubt that a due regard for public
health requires that medical colleges in
this District should be Incorporated. reg
istered and licensed to grant diplomas.
The bill, he says, should be favorably rec
commended to Congress.
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To Prevent the Bond Issue.
MORE SNOW PROMISED.
Unpleasant Prospect for This Even
inE's Weather.

ing's Weather.
Snow is prophesied by the weather bu-
reau for the District of Columbia this
afternoon. with indications that 1t will
clear away and be fair by midnight. A
fair day tomorrow is promised, with north
eastery, shifting to northwesterly, winds.
The storm in southern Florida has moved
to the middle Atlantic coast, increasing
slightly in Intensity. This Is the Storm
which is coming. A second storm has de-
veloped to the north of Montana. The
area of high pressure has moved from
western Nebraska to Utah. Rain has
fallen In Florida and snow in the middle
guilt and south Atlantic states. The tenn
perature has fallen in New England. the
lower lake region and in Florida; it has
made decided rise in the northwest and
has remained nearly stationary elsewhere
Extremely cold weather continues In
Texas, San Antonio reporting minimum
temperature of Ii degrees above, Abilene
minus two, and Corpus Christi and Gal
weston 20 degrees above each, which are,
respectively, Is degrees, II degrees Ii de-
grees and degrees lower than the lowest
temperature recorded at these stations in
any previous year during the second de-
cade of February.
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WIRE TAPPING CASE.
Judge Cole Overrules the Objections
of the Defense.


Judge Cole today disposed of the objec-
tons urged to the Indictment against
Palmer z. Babcock and re1erck J. Owens,
who are charged with tapping the wires Of
the Western Union Telegraph Company
last fall. The technical charge against
the accused is conspiracy, and their coun-
sci moved to quash the indictment on the
ground that it does not charge or describe
any offenSe indctable here and because it
does not charge any conspiracy, counsel
for the defendants explaining in connection
with the second objection that the wires
alleged to have been tapped were conveying
racing odds and other like informatio
and. bookmaking being unlawful here, the
alleged conspiracy not, therefore
against any lawful right of the company.
Referring to the alleged unlawful bus
mess of the telegraph company and to the
contention of the defendants that no lawful
right of the company was violated, Judge
Cole held that there was nothing in it.
The fact that racing messages may have
been sent did not mend matters; the fact
remained that 1T was commercial wire
If the wires Of the company had been
tapped by officers of the law to prevent and
punish an unlawful thing, Judge Cole init
mated, it would be another and perhaps a
different case. The objections to the in
dictment. he said, were not well taken, and
the motion to quash would, therefore, be
oyerruled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-16
GIFT TO MISS ANTHONY.
A Handsome Annuity the Gift of Her
Sisters in Suffrage Work.


| One Of the most notable events of this
| woman month took place yesterday at the
Ebbitt House, where a cheerful gathering
| of forty-five representative women well
coined Miss Susan b. Anthony, the be
| loved leader the dear apostle the
great general of the woman suffrage
movement.
The banquet tables were spread in a pri-
waite dining room, and decorated with
roses. At each plate was knot of yellow
ribboE-the emblem of suffrage. At the
head of the table sat. Miss Anthony, with
Rev. Anna Shaw at her right and Mrs.
Ketcham of Michigan on her left; and at
the foot, Mrs. May w. Sewell, president Of
the National Council. and Rachel Foster
Avery "self-constituted master Of cere-
monies" and a master in very truth.
After justice to the dinner, amid anil
mated conversation, Mrs. Avery called for
speeches, all of which were impromptu, and
made cumulative evidence of the readiness
of women as after-dinner orators. Rev.
Anna Shaw was the first speaker and was
followed by Mrs. Ketcham of Michigan,
Mrs. Taylor of Utah, Mrs. Mary S. Lock-
wood of the District, Mrs. John Davis OF
Kansas Mrs. Ruth G. d. Havens and
Mrs. Jennette NJ. Bradley Of Connecticut,
Mrs. EmeIine Wells of Utah, Mrs. Annie
Digges of Kansas, Miss Emily Rowland
of New York. Mrs. May w. Sewen OF In
diana, Mrs. Gray of California, MISS 1ateS
of Maine, Miss Emma NJ. Gillett of Penn
svlvania Ali these speakers showed the
tenderest appreciation of Miss Anthony
faithful and loving work for women
The great event of the day followed In
Mrs. Avery's speech, in which she told
Aunt Susan of the effort inaugurated
six months ago. which now eliminated in
the gift to Miss Anthony of an annuity for
life of $500 a year and free rental oil -her
home.
Miss Anthony, for the first time in her
life fell victim to a feminine attack or
.'stage fright" She who had faced every
SORT of audience. and had brayed ridicuie
and missiles and bullets, serene. unfiinch-
ing and unfearing, was speeches. when
she was called upon for the closing re-
marks. Mrs. Avery, with great tact, rose
and made another speech in order to give
Miss Anthony time TO gather her thoughts
about the general subject under considera-
ton. Yet when Miss Anthony rose she
halted with Now, girls, don't know what
to saw" But then she forgot herself and
talked eloquently of the labors Of Eliza
beth Cady Stanton, claiming to have been
only 1.-The hands for the great brain of
her leader. and asking that Mrs. Stanton's
eightieth birthday be fittingly celebrated.
And so, with thoughts of the absent pi-
oneer, the Susan dinner ended. Besides
the ladies mentioned, there We're present
Mrs. Henrietta Banker of Brooklyn. Miss
Eliza Titus Ward. Mrs. Osborne of Chica-
Mrs. Alice NJ. Goodwin, Mrs. Martha P.
Vincent. Mrs. Mary Phelps, Miss Katherine
Garst, the Misses Brill, Miss Cock, Miss
Low, Miss Cora B. Thomas, Miss Mary H.
Williams. Miss Lucy Anthony, Mrs. E. f.
Sherwood.
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CALLED HIM A LIAR,
Another Exciting Scene In the Ala
bama Legislature.

Special Dispatch to The Evening s:ar.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. February 16-At
late no ur last night Gov. Oates sent in
a message vetoing the alien railroad bill.
1t was charged the bill was lobbied
through the legislature by one in the in
terest of another corporation. The cor
porations interested were the Great South
ern and the Queen and Crescent system,
and would have placed the disputed control
of the latter in the hands of the former.
The veto message is a lengthy one. but the
strong point in it is that the bill discrmi-
mates against alien owners of property
contrary to the state constitution.
When the veto message was received IL
created intense excitement and heated
discussion arose.
Representative O'Brien of JEFFERSON called
populist member q liar. He retorted in
kind ana asked meeting on the outside of
the hall. Friends prevented further trouble.
The veto message was sustained.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-16

union grew to be strong power. Mrs. La
Fetra possesses rare executive ability. She
was for years president of the Ladies' AS
ISOLATION of the Metropolitan NJ. E. Church,
is now president of the Women's Foreign
Missionary Society of that church and
branch of the Loyal Women of American
Liberty, and vice president Of the national
society. She Is practical business Wo-
man and a determined believer in woman
suffrage.
General. Discussions.
Mrs. Haslup of Maryland. Mrs. Barker
of Cxicago, Mrs. O'Neil, and Mrs. Hammer
of Pennsylvania, Mrs. Griffith of Washing
ton. and Mrs. Denman of New Jersey, took
part in the general discussion of the needs
of the District w. c. 4. L. Mrs Bankers
speech was directed to the subject of leg
islation on the age of consent, a subject
which had been alluded to as one of the
questions of local distress.
She started a hearty cheer when she
mentioned that women would raise the
age of consent when once they have the
power. as the women in the !egisla ture of
Colorado were now trying to do by making
twenty-one the age of legal protection.
4 vote Of thanks to the press was passed
on motion of three or four ladies all at
once, the whole congregation expressing
their approval by rising.
Local Needs.
Miss Newman, who. though now living in
the west. formerly resided in Washington,
ard for three years worked most actively
in the temperance cause here, spoke at
me length on the need of work here
among various classes--the soldiers. Sailors
visitors and transient population-who were
SO obviously exposed to temptation.
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NOT SERIOUSLY REGARDED.
silver Mems Alleged Intention to
Rlake Mexican Coins.

MENIC0 CITY, Mex, February 16.-The
general opinion is that the attempt of the
free silvet. men OF the United States to
reach free coinage by the channel of Mex
lean coins is not worthy of serious consid-
GRAFTON. IL is doubtful If it could be sue
cessfully Operative under any circum-
stances, but aside from this is the fact CT
which the free silver men seem to be ig-
norant, that the Mexican minis are no
longer colnng silver currency of the de-
nominations named. The dies have been
destroyed, and the quarter, eighth and six
teenths OF a dollar have been withdrawn
from circulation to such an extent that
row the only piece of the old issue at all
common is the peseta, or 25c. piece.
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275 bid, 2S5 asked Metropolitan, as asked CO.
iumbia, Go bid, 30 asked. Belt, 80 asked. L, X
1nSton 30 bid. Georgetown and Tennallytown, 80
Gas and Electric Light Stocks Washington Gas,
% bid 5Qia asked. Georgetown Gas. so bid. L. S.
Electric Light, 1914 bid. 1921 asked.
INSURANCE Stocks..Firemens 30 bid. Franklin,
10 bid. % asked Metropolitan, 40 bid. Corcoran
asked German. American 1e8 bid. National
anion, II bid, ID asked. Columbia, 10 bid. 151a
bid: 59s asked Lineon: bid so asked.
Title Insurance Stocks.-Real Estate Title, 10s
District Title, 10 bid IA asked.
Telephone Stocks.-Pennsylrania 30 bid. Chesa-
peake and Potomac. 55Is bid. 81 asked. American
Graphophone;; ~ bid, asked. Pneumatic Gun
Miscellaneous Stocks.-Washington Market Is
bid Great Falls Ice. 1870 bid. Bull Run Piano.
rama, u bid 20 asked. Lincoln Hall, 81 bid In
ter-ocean building, 30 asked. Mergenthaler Limo
type, $50 bid.