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The morning times., 1896-02-20
Sxo\vS Shoes
Her APRON CAUGHT FIRE
Seven Year-0ld Adeline Clayton
Terribly Burned.
Her Aged Grandmother Subdued the
Flames by Dashing Water Over
the AgOnized Child

Adeline Clayton, colored, seven years OF
age, living at COL Clicks alley northwest,
was severely burned about the head, arms,
| ing, as the result OF her apron gniting while
| she was in the act of fixing fire.
| She was removed in No. patrol TO Freed
mans Hospital, where her injuries were
| treated and dressed, after which she was
| carried back home. Her condition proved
| to be serious, and yesterday afternoon her
removal to the Children's Hospital was found
necessary. She was taken there in tue
police ambulance and her burns are re-
| garded as serious, although her recovery is
expected.
Adeline is a pupil at the Garnett school,
but on last Tuesday remained home to
help her aged grandmother, Mrs. Emile
| Carter, in some household duties. The
| day was rather cold, and the fire con-
sumed lots of coal The stove from which
she met with the accident is in the front
room, and has an open fire CRATE. About
| IL O'Clock she went to feed the fire, which
| had gotten very low.
/ She stepped upon the lower protruding
| section of the stove and lifted the lid from
the top. While she was pouring the coal
| through the hole her apron came in con-
| tact with the few hot Goals remaining in
the CRATE, and in a second she was one
mass of fire. She rushed toward the bed
! in the opposite part of the room, and the
sheets and quilts quickly took fire, but
| burned slowly.
| Wild with fright and agony, she dashed
| through the house and met her grand
| mother. The latter retained her presence
OF mind and Immediately seized bucket
| of water. AS the child. with the flames
reaching several feet above her head,
| made a mad plunge toward the staircase
| Mrs. Carter threw the water over her and
] partly subdued the blaze.
Upon second watery application the
| fire was thoroughly extinguished, but not
before the girl bad sustained many severe
| and painful injuries. Her face ard neck
We're terribly burned while her arms and
| several parts of her body suffered almost
| as badly.
The morning times., 1896-02-20
DEATH RATE GOES UP
Three Fatal Cases of Measles Re
ported TO the Authorities

Three Fatal Cases OF Measles Re-
ported TO the Authorities.
A slight increase in the mortality of the
city took place during the past week. Ac-
cording to reports received at the health de-
partment there were eleven deaths with an
annual death rate of 2l.13.
In the corresponding period OF last year
the deaths numbered IO3, with rate OF
1913. Acute lung diseases continue as the
principal cause of death. pneumonia being
the most frequent. An increase in The
prevalence OF grippe is shown by the
occurrence OF five fatal cases.
A marked increase IS manifested, too, in
diseases of the heart. twelve deaths hav-
ing occurred during the past week, and but
four during the week preceding. Two
deaths were reported as due to typhoid
fever.
There were in the District at the close of
the week twenty premises placarded on ac-
count OF diphtheria. During the week two
deaths occurred from this disease; twenty
one cases were discharged from quarantine
and eleven new cases were reported.
Nineteen premises were placardcd for
Scarlet fever. twelve cases were discharged
from quarantine, and four new cases re-
ported. There were no deaths.
In the absence of any compulsory report
to the health department ofcases Of measles
the extent 10 which this disease prevails
cannot be accurately determined. Either
al unusual prevalence of this disease or its
presence in unusually severe type is. how
ever indicated by the occurrence Of three
deaths during the past week and during
the week preceding.
The morning times., 1896-02-20
THEYhUST COON RECORD
Continued From First Page.

sacrifice for the benefitofthe Iaw-protected
denzens of the Division.
Mrs. Pratt cited two cases in which
the tatement was made to her that tribute
was paid to the police.
Mrs. Barrett directed attention again
TO the fact OF the order being issued forthe
vacation of two houses on Tenth street by
their occupants and their apparent defiance
of the authorities or the unwilIingness Of
the police authorities to execute its own
laws.
There must be, she said, source of au-
this she thought the committee 10 visit
the Commissioners might determine for the
benefit of the next meeting.
1t was brought out that the citizens
of the Division who object toits la awlessness
| and even its existence have become disheart-
ened by the attitude of the police powers
toward it, but that they were actively
engaged again in making their voice heard
and felt. They will ask the authorities
for some excuse, If there be any. for the inn
position OF the scandals Of the place upon
them day and night.
1t will be the object of the committee
| above named to try and have hearing be
fore the Commissioners on Tuesday morn
ing next. Dr.. Newman Will ask for this
hearing on behalf OF the committee and viii
notify the other members OF the reply OF the
Commissioners.
The meeting then discussed the SHgges-
ton that the President be written to for
his views on the agitation. After discus
sion. it was determined to include the cabi-
net and supreme court judges and on motion
| of Mrs. Barrett resolution was passed
directing the chairman Of the meeting 10
| write the President and the others named,
asking for an expression of their views.
The next business was the plans for the
mass meeting. This will be held after the
next meeting at which it is expected that
the committee to the Commissioners will
report and letters or a declination to ex-
press themselves will have been received
from the President and the others named
PLANS FOR A MASS MEETING.
DR.. Newman moved. and it was carried,
that a preliminary committee be ap-
pointed to consider the holding OF mass
meeting and to report their suggestions at
the next meeting; and also to nominate a
working committee therefor" The COM
mittee was constituted of Mr.. BFuen, DR..
of the Anti-Saloon League.
The meeting then adjourned, TO meet
again at the same time aud place on next
Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Barrett has had printed a small
| map showing the location and extent of
the Division, with some statistics, for the
benefit of all those agencies that VIII help
to make the movement a success. The
ladies aGd gentlemen have now no doubt
of the ultimate success of the movement,
and they propose to put great many
people on record whose opinions ought to
be known to the public whose interests
are in their keeping. There will be no
escape from the conclusions OF the public
on their utterances or their silence.
Mrs. Barrett, as the evangelist fthe gospel
of determination, is receiving such atten-
ton from the people at large that her en-
thuslasm, she says, is only prophecy of
the success that must attend the uCder-
taking.
The morning times., 1896-02-20
MISS DUSE IN A NEW PLAY
Diamond Robbery Worked by the
Fine Italian Hand.
Three Burglars, COIOred Boy and
Plot In IA Dark Ailey-Are Good
American Ads.

Nine Duse, the Italian actress. has been
confronted quite early in the dramatic
game with the dire necessity of either being
burned out of house. home and Jewels. or
being robbed of some twenty-five thousand
dollars worth or diamonds There is some
danger in confla grafton. and hence Duse
has apparently elected to submit to the
diamond robbery which is an attachment
OF all great dramatic careers.
Just when the public had began to believe
that there was at least one star in the
firmament proof against the seduction
of Yankee tricks, news reached the police
station that this actress had been saved
from immense loss OF diamonds by the
provideBtial interpositioH Of a CClored man,
who, in the shades OF an alley Iightedby the
dim religious light Of the Washington Gas
Light Company, heard three men say some
thing about gettingfn a window, gettingon
the stage, thence into the dressing room OF
Camille in Paris, and abstracting all the
diamonds thatbappencd to be lying around
This is how the police station at No.
1 precinct was jollied on this nefarious
plot: On Monday night a celored man
happened to be in the alley on the north
side of Lafayette Square Theater. This
man, who is also reported as being a boy,
distinctly overheard three burglars dis
cussing their intention OF getting through
the window and carrying off the Duse
diamonds.
The boy Kept all this to himself Monday
night and even on Tuesday night. Last
night, however, he unbOsOmed himself, and
sure enough, when Detective Sutton went
up to inspect the alley, man ran out OF
it and made his escape in the jungIes OF
Lafayette Square. Then another ona
came out and he was captured in a walk''
down at FIfteenth street and PennsyIva MA
avenue. This man was sent to the station
He is Mr. Frank Mcdonald, a brick fayer,
and is twenty-five years of age. The
other cOnspiTatorS are at large.
The burglars could rot get the diamonds
Of Camille last night, any way, as Magda
was played and she does not wear the
Camille diamonds One Of the naive in
cidentS OF the story is that Duse did not
know thing about the plot until she was
informed of it by thepolice. The diamond
incident in dramatic careers must be fairly
well known in Italy because the siguorina
knows that they have an adage over there
about these little affairs. which says, 'St
non yero e ben trovato."
The morning times., 1896-02-20
GROUND HOG WAS NO LIAR
Weather Men Stick By Him and
Send Another Cold Wave.
It VIII Hover About Freezing by Dark
Today and Jack Frost VIII
Seal the Ponds

The Oldest inhabitant went horne and
hid his head under the bed clothes yester-
day. Well might he. for he couldn't hit the
weather problem at all.
The night before he sat by the fire and
told what sort OF day the morrow was TO
be. He missed il mile.
Looking out in the morning he saw the
sun rise in a sepulchral bank Of dark gray
ish clouds and struggle for recognition. The
wind had mournful tone. The oldest in
habitant's clear day prophecy had suf-
fered a silver bin fate. TO all intents and pur-
poses.
In a few hours his discontinue reached Il
climax. The dismal tone OF the wind
changed to a piercing whistle and 1.-THE
beautiful' fell upon the just and The un-
Just. in spasmodic, catchy siftings that were
totally unreliable as To whether there was
TO be a really genuine snow storm or not.
After a time the sun came out bright and
clear, and giared at Washington through a
steely blne vista, without one cloud 10 dun
his rays. ana not the tiniest fleece OF vapor
could beseen. Some one told theinhabitant
to come out. of course, for the sun was
shining. He wouldn't believe il. He had
been fooled too badly once that day.
School girls said, Isn't it perfectly
lovely?' and the answer came, "oh, just
beautiful" And il was, for probably
an hour. Then that vault OF gray en-.
yeloped Solomon and his short-liveu glory
and made one OF those evenings which are
called and most faithfully, nasty. 1t was
cold, and dark, and damp, and dismal,
and dreary, and all the rest OF it.
The air was thick and moist and people
didn't go out unless they had TO. 1t didn't
rain, il didn't SHOW. 1t was just disagree
able.
-Four kinds Of weather in one day was
an assortment not easy to beat. There
was nothing about it to be proud OF, but
it was here, just the same.
And then those shrewd specialists at
the Weather Bureau. who seemed to de-
light hugely in the kind of weather they
were giving US, sent down. about 4
O'clock, the audacious message that "the
temperature VIII fall 16 to 20 degrees by
Thursday, and viii probably reach about
10 degrees above zero in Washington by
Thursday night.
This prophecy began TO be verified be-
fore sundown. The wind rose, il gre W
cold, and the vanguard Of the wave had
arrived before Washington turned over
under the bed clothes and went to sleep.
The morning times., 1896-02-20
SINGLE TAKERS ASK QUESTIONS
List Prepared for Business Men at
Last Nights Meeting

At the Single Tax Club meeting in
Typographical Hall last night. D. Webster
Groh spoke on THE Single Tax and the
Business Man." Hon. Jerry Simpson, on
Single Tax News from Delaware j.
l.. McCreery, on '"The Social Question" and
Charles Newburg, on Shifting Taxes"
on motion of Mr.. Groh, the club unani-
mously voted to address the following
questions to Washington business men,
Il. If taxing dogs, whisky, and saloons
diminishes them, does not taxing industry,
goods, a nd factories likewise diminish them?
Should we not rather tax monopoly to
diminish that?
.'2. II, because they are thought benefit
cent, churches are exempt from taxation,
ought not beneficent factories and their
products be likewise exempt?
80. Would not a heavier tax on vacant
CITY lots force more of them into use and
increase building, thus simultaneously low
ering rent and raising wages?
~. BY thus increa sing the net earnings
of labor, leaving 1aborers more spending
money, would not your business be like
wise eproportionately benefited?"
The morning times., 1896-02-20
LADIES WITH SKATES ON.
Hundreds Who Secured the Rink
Prizes Daily Try Them

9rIZeS Daily Try Incm-
Convention Hall has been a lively scene
these last two days. Six hundred and
thirty-two ladies' received each a Fair OF
skates as souvenir at the rink Tuesday.
aud they have literally taken possession
OF 1t in order to try their new acquisitions.
Some Of those who received the souvenirs
were not proficient at all in their use.
and these Immediately joined the morning
classes for instruction. Others were more
advanced. and did not wait long to give
their property a test.
The morning classes have turned out
some fine skaters. who are now to be seen
nearly every afternoon practicing more
advanced steps. The attendance at all
of the sessions is of the most satisfactory
character. and bears out the continued
popularity of the rink as a place of health
full exercise and amusement.
The game of hockey viii probably draw
a large crowd to the rink Saturday evening
The game viii be played between the
Columbia Athletic Club team and that
representing the Maryland College, and a
hard-fought contest is looked for, as both
teams are evenly matched.
The c. A c. boys have been putting in
the hardest kind of work, and are now
prepared to uphold their prestige in other
circles on the ice. The Maryland College
team comes with n strong recommendation
for good playing, and it is likely some hard
falls viii take place before the terml-
nation of the game. Ii VIII be called at
O'Clock, and spectators viii be allowed
the use of the ice in twenty-five minutes
from that time.
The morning times., 1896-02-20
PROTECTING cATTLE1NTEREsTs-
Dealers Ask That Foreign Restric-
tiOns he Remedted

VIII. Thompson, jr., ,ofC Chicago, president
of the National Live Stock Association.
w. j. Broderick of st. Louis, j. c. Mccoy
OF Kansas City, and others, were before the
Senate Committee on A Agriculture yesterday
for the purpose of seeking relief against
the determinations practiced against Am
erican cattle and meat shipmentsb by foreign
governments.
The various speakers took the ground
that this discrimination was not due TO a
diseased condition of American meat, but
that this was only subterfuge. They did
not know just exactly what they wanted
but suggested some sort OF reciprocal legis-
lation that would commend itself TO both
governments. The matter was referred
to a subcommittee consisting OF AIessrs.
Warren, Gear and George.
The morning times., 1896-02-20
SUPREME COURT LIBRARY.
Mr.. Curtis Shows the Need for 6
Complete Catalogue.

Mr. Curtis Shows the Need for
Complete Catalogue.
at is the vG-iest nonsense to advance
the argument that complete subject cat
aiogue of the Supreme Court Law Library
can be prepared and issued for from $4,000
to ST ,50o," said Librarian George F. Cur
It's to The Times reporter.
''The Law Library now comprises more
than 100 900 volumes and in each instance
from two to six cards would be necessary.
1t cost just SIT ,000 to print the catalogues
of the Peabody Library at Baltimore, and
they embrace but two volumes.
'The only index we have is that printed
in 1869. This has been cut up and pasted
in large books with marginal notes written
to indicate works added since that time,
but the whole is incomplete and unsatis-
factory. q
Theurgent necessity for new catalogue
cannot be overestimated. The sum of $30,-
900 asked in the pending bill is not exees-
sive and the Library committee of both tue
House and Senate reported the bill favor
ably. Three volumes at SO COO each would
be cheap and She benefits derived from the
expenditure would be far in excess OF any
mere monetary consideration
The morning times., 1896-02-20
HAD TWO Big SCHEMES
Ancient cox Called TO See
Senator Sherman.
OHIoAGo-NEW YORK BRIDGE
Wants to Build Unique Elevated
Railroad Between Those Cities
Also Has Ideas on the Nicaragua
Canal Project-Clever1y Headed Off
by an Officer of the Capitol.

Lafayette F. Nelson of Troy, N. Y, went
to totheCapitol yesterday to see SenatorSher-
man OF Ohio, concerning scheme he has
for tightening the burdens OF the oppressed
and downtrodden people of the United
States.
Nelson is a crank. The particular wheel
in his Uranium that revolyes with greater
rapidity than the Others Is On idea that
the Vanderbilts own every railroad in the
country and are charging excessive rates
for carrying people from city to city across
the American continent.
He makes the statement that in 184S he
went from New York city TO Camden, N. j.,
and paid but four cents for his passage.
His object in coming to see Senator
Sherman was to ascertain IL something
cannot be done toward lowering the pres
ent charges for railroad travel.
Incidentally he-has several other little
schemes, among them being plan for
putting the Nicaragua aCanalthrough without
the assistance of any foreign power OF
English capital.
AN ELEVATED RAILROAD.
Then, as an outlet for his superfluous
thought, he has evolved little plan for
from New York to Chicago. In connec-
tion with this, Nelson wished to see
Senators Quay and voorhees,. he thinks
he has perfected an arrangement whereby
the immense quantities of grain grown
in the inland States can be conveyed to
the seaboard in a remarkably short space
OF time.
Mr.. Nelson is a tall, spare man, with
iron grey hair and an erect military bear
ing. He claims to be eighty-seven years
old. but looks twenty years younger.
When he entered the Senate wing of the
capitol yesterday the first person he ran
against was asSergeant-at-Arms Bright. When
the stranger asked for Senator Sherman,
Col. Bright inquired his business with the
Ohio statesman.
The man said be had written to the Sen
ator and having received no reply had
come on to talk the matter over.
HIS TCLEyER TRAP.
Col Dick extended the glad hand OF
friendship; he was always glad to see a
friend of Mr. sherman. Then he led
the ancient Trojan into an ante room and
telephoned for the police.
The blue coats came and took Mr.. Nelson
10 NO. stdllOn hOuse, Nuele Ae spehe
last night
man OF such noble impulses who would
sacrifice so mach for his country's good,
could not be deffled by occupying cell,
so they placed him in witness room, where
there was fire and gave him some supper.
Mr.. Nelson refused to eat however, and
when a reporter went up to see him he
began to explain again his scheme for re-
ducing railroad tariffs, and the building OF a
canal mile wide across Nicaragua.
A doctor examined him later in the
evening and today he will be sent back 10
his home inTroy, or perhaps to the govern
ment asylum for the insane at st. Eliza beth's.
The morning times., 1896-02-20
CoNFEREEs HAVE AGREED.
Urgent Deficiency Bill Reported With
Slight Changes.

Slight Changes.
The Conferees on the urgent deficiency bill
agreed yesterday afternoon and the agree
ment was reported to both houses. Almost
all of The Senate amendments are kept in
the bill, including the large items for the
department OF justice, marshals and wit
ness fees, etc.
The Senate yields the five thousand in
crease in the item for the boundary commits
sion between this country and Mexico, and
strikes out the SO, 600 appropriated for the
report of DR.. E. A. Mearns, L. s. A, on
the natural history of the region covered by
the survey.
Thepurchase of horses for the cavalry and
artillery is reduced from $50, 600 to $780,
O00, and the appropriation of $4,000 for
additional coaling sheds at the Key West
naval station and continuing the avail
ability of the previous $4,000 appropri-
alton for the same purpose is yielded by the
Senate. The expenses OF the Puyallup res
ervation commission is reduced from $10,-
eco to So, 500, and with the exception OF
one or two minor matters all other Senate
amendments were kept intact.
The morning times., 1896-02-20
Aiexa naria,saNew Policemen.

The city couhcil at it's last meeting passed
an ordinance adding four new men to the
police force and increasing it to twenty
one members. Atthe meeting of the board
OF police commissioners last night the full
board was present. Thirty names were
before the meeting for the four new po-
sitions, and Messrs. John Proctor and
William Lyles, who have been readymen on
the force for the past two years, and Charles
Z. Goods and John T. Roberts were sc.
lected as members OF the force. They will
report for duty on the 1st of March, when
it's understood the town will be redristricted
to suit the increase.
The morning times., 1896-02-20
COLORED Y. NJ. c. A. FAIR.
Worthy Object Is to Equip the Gym
nasium of the Association.

nasium of the Association.
Beginning February 24 and continuing
two weeks, a fair will be held at Odd
Fellows Hall, NJ street, which will be
for the purpose OF completing the equip
ment of the gymnasium and reading room
OF the colored Y. III. c. A, at Nos. 1907
and 1909 Eleventh street, which has al
ready had such an auspicious beginning.
Donations for the fair are in order from
ali those who wish to see the good work
OF instilling into the young colored men
OF the city the principles OF Christian ity
and morality. Contributions OF money
or merchandise will be thankfully received
at the associations rooms.
The object is to make provision for
place in which the young men may spend
their leisure moments in physical, mental,
and moral advancement. The associa-
tion has many things yet to buy-books,
maga zines, calisthenic appliances, and
other things yet needed to make the equip
ment OF the place complete.
The morning times., 1896-02-20
Hung Himself With a Chain.

Atlanta. Ga, Feb. 19.-E- j HyIands. from
Plainfleld. H., committed suicide here to-
day in cell at the police station He
fastened chain about his neck and choked
himself to death. He was unbalanced
mentally. Last week he came South to
buy land. nc said. He seemed 10 be all
right then but yesterday 1t was noticed that
something was wrong with him. After
being locked up he committed suicide.
The morning times., 1896-02-20
Navy Courts-NIartiaI.

Secretary Herbert has issued a circular
advising courts-martial in passing sentence
on officers, not to decree periods of sus-
pension with loss of the advantage of pro-
motions occurring during those periods,
but to provide that officers convicted shall
be sentenced to lose definite number of
files in the grades to which they belong.
Secretary Herbert thinks that such sem
tences would he of greater effect.
The morning times., 1896-02-20
MANY BURNED TO DEATH
Fearful Fire During the Carnival In
a Spanish Town

Lisbon, Feb. 19.-During the progress
of a masked ban given by the Artists
Club of Santarem, town fifty miles from
Lisbon, last night. at the close of the car
nivaI there, fire broke out in the building
and the flames spread with frightful
rapidity.
terrible panic ensued and many of the
dancers and several outsiders who went to
their rescue were either burned to death
or fatally crushed and tFampled in the
rush to escape from the burning building.
Forty bodies have been recovered.