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The evening times., 1896-01-12

John Milstead ard three other young
| men broke through while skating on the
river cove near Jones Point. The water
was very shoal and the young men were
enabled to scramble ashore.
Thomas Willis, colored, about thirty
five years OF age, was found lying by
the roadside in Hollands Lane, West End.
yesterday morning about o'clock in
great agony, caused by pains all over his
body. DR.. Miller. the city phyqieian.
was at once summoned and pronounced the
case one of malaria. Willis was removed
TO the Alexandria Iufirmary for treat
ment.
Rev. DR.. KurZer. president of the Mary
land annual conference OF the NJ. Church,
viii conduct services in the NJ. p. Church
today. Rev. DR.. Hoge OF Richmond viii
preach in the Second Presbyterian Church
in the absence OF Rev. Theron H. Rice.
Yesterday was the seventeen birthday
of the venerable James S. Douglas, who
FOR many years past has been the freight
agent of the Washington and Ohio division
of the Southern Railway in this city.
The clerks in his office presented him with
a fine office chair. Mr. John T. Sweeney
made the presentation address in behalf
of his fellow clerks, and Mr. Douglas made
fitting and touching response.
Henry Gampick. William Saunders and
John Howard, all colored, for brutaHy'
assaulting and beating Jerry Dorsey, also
colored, on Christmas Day, were each
fined $40 and sent to the chain gang for
sixty days by the mayor yesterday.
The colored society OF Alexandria has
arranged to give concert and drama
in the opera house, on Thursday, January
16, for the benefit of the Alexandria in
firmary.
A belt, which had slipped from its pulley
in the planning mill of Messrs. j. R.
Smoot & Co., yesterday morning, became
entangled with a circular saw. The saw
was torn from its fastenings and thrown
across the mill. Nobody was injured.
The twenty-second parade committee
met at the hall of the Relief Hook and
Ladder Company last night, and made fur
ther arrangements for collecting the money
nece ssary for the parade.
Douglass NJ. Kidwell yesterday in the
corporation court entered suit for divorce
against Ella j. Kidwell. Capt. X. kemper
is his attorney.
Several cases of scarlet fever are re-
ported as existing among families residing
on Cameron street, in the neighborhood of
st. Asaph. The cases are confined to one
or two families.
The funeral of Mrs. Ellen Murphy took
place at st. Mary's Catholic Church yes
terday morning. Tie Rev. Father Bowler
conducted the services, and intermentnwas
made in st. Mary's Cemetery.
The evening times., 1896-01-12
EMIG GRAT1NG TO LIBERIA.
Negroes Leaving for IA Promised Land
In Africa.

Philad elphia, Jan. 1.-THE Interna-
tional Migration Society of Birmingham,
Ala, today chartered the steamer Laurada
to carry 400 colored people from Savannah
to Monrovia, Liberia. The Laurada will
leave Philadelphia for Savannah with
general cargo of about 500 tons and will
at Savannah take on board the negroes
and sail on February % for Monrovia.
Meantime special train win start from
Memphis and run through the-States of
Arkansas, Mississippi. Ala bania, and G eorgia
to pick up the colored people who desire TO
go to Liberia to live. Men, wcnen, and
children will be taken, but the society will
endeavor to select men who have had ex-
perience in farming. sboeDia King. carpen-
tering, and other mechanical trades.
Landing at Monroyia the men will be
obliged to declare their intentipp 70 beeome
citizens OF the republic, after which Geclara-
ton each family will be given twenty-five
acres OF land. A .teruporsg,y hpGle in Men
rovia will be provided for the immigrants
The evening times., 1896-01-12
REED COUNTED A QUORUM
Democrats Looked Surprised and
the Republicans Cheered.
Mr.. Boatner's Recent Duel That Did
Not Come Off Humorously Re-
ferred to I'm Debate.

For the first time during this session of
a quorum.
The act itself was greeted 10y prolonged
applause from the Republicans, while the
Democrats looked on with mingled expires.
sions of disgust and disapprobation.
The occasion arose when Mr. wauger at
tempted to secure the adoption of an
amendment to the rules permitting news
paper correspondents to have access to
the speakers lobby, the same having been
accorded them in the last Congress.
When the proposition was overwhelmingly
defeated, the point Of no quorum was
raised. Amid the laughterof the members,
Mr.. Reed proceeded to count all those visi
bic and then said, in mild melodious
tones:
'.one hundred and ninety gentlemen
are i'll their seats-a quorum. The noes
have it and the amendment is lost
The only entertainment of the day was
furnished by the discussion of an amend
ment offered 10y Mr.. Curtis. of New York,
abolishing the holding OF memorial serv-
iSs in honor of deceased members. A
lively debate followed, in which every
body sought to take part.
Mr.. Walker raised laugh by recalling
the speech of Mr.. Morse over the late Repre-
sentative O'Neal of Pennsylvania. bach
elor of seventy-five years standing, whom
he described as married man, which
was increased when he humorously chded
Mr.. B0atner for advocating the amendment.
1T was only little while ago." he
said, that we were burning the midnight
oil preparing obituaries Of the gentleman
from Louisiana In anticipation of the
dread outcome of a recent occurrence in
his State"
The amendment was defeated.
The House finished consideration OF the
code of rules with the exception Of the
one with relation to the counting of quo
rum. which went over by request Of Mr..
Henderson until Monday.
AT 3:45 the House adjourned.
The evening times., 1896-01-12
Real EsiMte Ira nsfers.

John H. Berry to c. F. Berry, middle one
third OF lot 4, square S47, being part of lot
| conveyed by deeds in W. B. I0l-l32 and v
c. T. II, 451; SO.
| HoraceS s. Cummings, et ux., to Thomas r.
Patton, The Low GrOuuds," lying between
| thee. y o. canal and the 2 otumac river, con-
| tainlug lac acres, county; SO.
Augustus W. Critlendeu 10 Mary A. Dar-
| ling, lot 6S, block ., Davidsou's sub, West
Eckington,r 5000.
| Cammond Kennedy, part lot IL, square
! 734, ID. orc, tax deed; S30.3S.
Aiice B. Cant 10 Benl..F, Morrison, part lot
/ IA, square 1888; SO.
ThomasJ King, etux., to John W. Thomas,
original lot 10, square 800; SO.
Thomas NJ. Hayes, ct uX., TO Mary C.
Hicks, lot "a, and part lot 80, square SGT,
! subject TO trust $1,000,
Frank L. Harvey, ct uX., to Arthur I.
Flagg, 'lot 25,- block 40, Fristoe's sub,
| Columbia University; S9,S25.
Fanny f. Hawkins, ct vir., Benjamin ID.
to Sally Winfield: lot 66 in Emmons' sub,
Garfield; Si60.
Crammond Kennedy, ct uX., to Elizabeth
NJ. Kicker, north A feet of original lot II, /,
square 734, quit claim; So.
John G. Krohr to George P. Newton, lots
81, 80 and 80, square 1929, iu Wine ct al.
sub, subject to trust; $40.
Andrew A. Lipscomb, trustee, to Frank L.
Hanvey, lot 8, Wyoming Terrace; $6,575.
Henry c. Longnecker, ct ux., to John j.
Mccarthy, lots % and &c, block 8, in Long
Decker' addition to Congress Heights; $500.
Eliza Moss ct vir., John l., to John F.
Donohoe, west part Of lot W. 1 2, square 9O3;
| $40.
MaDche II. Meline, ct vir., Louis D., to
Charles C. Glover, lot 10, block 2, Fairview
Heights; SO.
Same to N. Read johnson, lot 5, block l,
Fairview Heights, subject to trust; 81 900.
Samuel Shellabarger, trustee, to Eliza
beth NJ. Kicker, north A feet, of original lot
IL, square 734; $2,556.
Mary A. Seals to William H. Harris, north
10 feet OF lot 10, square 293, west
| one-half of lot 8, square 2S9, west three feet
of lot IL, square 283, east 10 feet of lot IL,
square 293, and one-third part of lot IL,
square 2s3, quit claim; $40.
Odell S. Smith, ct uX., to Clarence F. Nor
| ment, lots Ga and Go, square 9SS; $40.
Serena B. Williams to william H. Harris,
north 10 feet lot 10, square 293
west one half of original'lot 5, square 2s9,
west 8 feet of lot 12, square 2s3, and east
10 feet of lot IL, square 293, also one
third of lot IL, square 293, quit claim; SO.
GeorgeF. Williams, etux., to Solomon Carr,
loeS3 8 in BealIs SUBJ, block 2, Trinidad, SUBJ
ject to trust; $1,617.
Charles T. Yoder to william NJ Starr,
originall lot 8, square s7S; Sc 900.
The evening times., 1896-01-12
DISCUSSED BY THE LOCALS.
Brewery Lockout the Chief Topic nj
All Meetings.

brewery Lockout the Chief Topic ut
All Meetings.
The differences between the boss brew
ers and Gambrinus Assembly, No. 1349,
X. of l., were last evening again the chief
topic of discussion at the meetings of the
local labor organizations.
As on Friday night the action of the
brewers combine was condemned, and
steps taken to sustain the locked-out men
in the stand they were making against the
bosses.
The several locals were visited by dele
gates from Gambrinus Assembly who Were
accorded an attentive hearing by the men,
bers of the locals visited.
A meeting Of the Journeyman Bakers and
Confectoners' International Union, No.
11S, was held last night. A committee of
the Creamery workers made a report. stat.
ing that the boss brewers had locked them
out for forming a union for the purpose of
upholding each other.
4 resolution was unanimously adopted TO
fine every member Of the union So who is
caught drinking beer manufactured by the
Washington OF Alexandria breweries.
The evening times., 1896-01-12
HUNTED BY BLooDHoUNDS.
Negro Assailant Of Lulu wetherell
VIII be Lynched If Caught.

Negro Assailant of Lulu Wetherell
VIII he Lynched If Caught.
Parkersburg, W. Va, Jan. 1.-THE city
is all excitement over the mysterious as
sault committed by an unknown negro last
night on little Lulu Wetherell daughter
of Thomas Wetherell, the banker, and moth
ing is talked OF but this awful affair.
The city authorities telegraphed ". B.
Kelsey, indianapolis, for two bloodhounds.
They will arrive here tomorrow night.
-Four suspects have been arrested thus far.
One. named Wade Grant, answers the de-
scrlption of the assailant, who wore a
light overcoat.
-,.5 Grant had one of the same color on, but
1t is not bloody. He cannot give very
good account of himself. The Wetherell
child received more serious injuries than
was at first thought. but they are not fatal.
Feeling here is very high over the mat
ter. and the whole coiored population are
in great fear. If the guilty negro is caught
something surely vii. happen.
The evening times., 1896-01-12
HURT IN A RUNAWAY.
George Ford Jumped and May Die
of His Injuries.


George Ford, colored driver for John
r. Ergoods grocery establishment, at No.
14OS Fourteenth street northwest, was
seriously injured in a runaway accident
at Thirteenth aud v streets northwest
about $50 last night.
Ford was driving down Thirteenth street
when the horse suddenly became fright
ened and darled down the street at a
terrific pace, and Ford, thinking TO save
himself, jumped from the wagon. He was
thrown violently upen the ground, land
ing on his head, and sust aiming severe
fracture OF the skull. He was picked Up
unconscious and carried TO Freedmans
Hospital in the patrol OF the Eighth pre-
cinct.
Up 10 late hour last nigtn be ha d not
regained consc:oasn sness, and the doctors
think he is fatally Injured.
The evening times., 1896-01-12

until they are able to start in with their
various pursuits.
The United States minister to Liberia
informs the society that the 200 negroes
taken there on the steamer Horsa in March
last are doing well and that there is q
demand for negroes of mechanical genius
and thrifty habits.
The evening times., 1896-01-12
WHAT THE OWNERS GET.

ANHTU VI DHInHSeS -HHut III SITeeu
Extension Case No. 4I9
The jury, which has for several weeks
been considering the evidence introduced
as to the Dennison and Leighton SUBJ
division in street extension proceedings
under the highway act, returned its verdict
yesterday in District court, Justice Cox
presiding.
The aggregate of the award is $685.
<72.55. The total compensation to owners
for land taken is $1sO, 1926; total for
land damaged by abandonment OF streets,
The evening times., 1896-01-12
STOLE CITY LANTERNS.
Old Man Arrested for Taking Lamps
From Distractions

~ ' 81 iS~'SH ioF ihkinS Lamps
From Obstruct ions.
For the past six months complaints
have been coming into the First precinct
station that lanterns We're missing from
street distractions ana piles of building
material.
Officers Were sent out in citizens clothes
and finally OFFICER sullivan captured the
thief last night. He is Henry Smaiiwood,
an old cc!orcrl man, who has taken the
lanterns 10 sell TO the country people
around the market.
The evening times., 1896-01-12

$7,555.29; aggregate, S1S7.722.55.
The total of the a ward for damages to inl-
provements is S55,7s0.
There was an assessment made for
special benefits amounting 10 81 20, Z 81,
from which should be deducted $40, 1876. so.
awarded as damages, leaving an aggre-
gate of Ss6, ,34G.s7 as lien against the
property under the law.
The evening times., 1896-01-12

Loeb < Hirshs firsr hsl. 1riee sacrifics
sale of clothing coa.n,cnccs z.,h,:ay at s:3(
q. N.
The evening times., 1896-01-12

Loeb. & Hirsi's. halfprice- sale of entire
stock offers $40 suits aud overcoats at So.
The evening times., 1896-01-12
GoRED BY A BUCK.

Joseph Clark Badly Hurt by One of
Blagden's Deer.
Joseph Clarke, colored employe of
Thomas Bladgcn; living at argyle" Four
teenth street extended. was gored by one
of the latter's deer yesterday morning
and badly Injured about the body.
Clark was taken to his home, short
distance away, and DR.. Darling of Bright
wood was summoned aud rendered medical
aid.
The evening times., 1896-01-12

Loeb & Hirsh's hali-price sale of entire
stock offers $40 suits aud overcoats at SO.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-18
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
In the gloomy gorges of the Candelaria,
in Pinar del Rio Cuba, there is man for
whose head the Spanish government would
pay million pesos.
AS he sits under the rain soaked roof OF
his miserable hut, his gaunt face standing
out clearly in the freight, his clothes
ragged and torn by the jungle thorns and
the four gilt stars on his coat faded and
rusted by sun and storm, there is appar-
entity very little about him that would
cause Spaniard to give dollar for. either
his life or death.
All around him in the Pickering darkness
is the champing of horses, the CLEAN OF
high pommelled saddles and the occasional
clank of buckle and bit Over under the
edges of the trees. in long, quiet, lines, like
windrows, lie the Cubans. Half of them
are barefooted and barebreasted. Half OF
them are bound with bloody rags. Half Of
them should be in hospitals, though no
hospitals exist You can see the light OF
white bandages all along the line. But
even the sickest and most desperately
wounded, in their fevered dreams. Still
cling to their machetes.
Hospitals? Not II they know 1t. Not SO
long as they have an arm to WELD or leg
to stand on.
out under the tall palms. in black sill
houettes against the star sown skies, stand
the sentries, silent and alert. The man at
the fire rises to his feet, turns up the nap
of his old. faded hat, and peers earnestly
down the dark wooded ridges OF the mount
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-18

The more power accorded by Gomez to
Maceo the more effective became the fight
ing of the Cubans. Maceo's following was
a blindly devoted one, and his men would
follow wherever he might lead. Soon after
receiving the title of colonel, in 1870, Maceo
had his first brush with Martinez Cam
pos.
With 400 men he fiercely attacked the
Spanish general at Ramos. Campos. by
far the ablest general ever sent by Spain
to Cuba, held his ground, and the fighting
ragged at intervals for thirty days. Scarce
ly day passed that Maceo did not charge
and harass the troops.
Near Monte Oscuro he was fiercely at
tackled by General Valera, at the head of a
thousand Spaniards. With only 400 men he
made stand in strong position, near
Coabas, against the combined forces of
Valera and Campos Maceo quickly saw
that he would have to retreat. Before do
ing so, however, he lured the Spaniards
into a favorable position. and then raised
his favorite cry of "Al Machete! The
slaughter was terrible.
After Maceo's retreat Campos returned
to Santiago, with only a remnant of his
former forces. He was met by Valma-
ceda, the captain general, who said, de-
risively:
"Oh, you pretend that all the glory was
on our side. That may be so, but the losses
were on our side also."
Does your excellency suppose" retorted
Campos, that these Cubans use cotton
bullets?"
Maceo's Hot Work.
Campos was so offended at the reprimand
that he soon afterward returned to Spain.
Since joining the Cuban army Maceo had
grown to like war. In his own way he
was studying it night and day. All his
awkwardness and timidity had worn Off.
He was now a commander of men, sub
jugating all tender instincts and subject
ing mind and body to the severest discip-
line. From the raw, youthful mule driver
he had become stern and unwielding mil
itary leader. His dreams of free Cuba
were growing brighter day by day. The
next noticeable achievement of Maceo was
in the battle of Zarzal, where $500 Span
iards were utterly routed. Later on, at
the battle of Santa Maria de Holguin, he
charged the Spanish line at the head of his
picked followers. and many were cut down
before they could fire a shot.
General Calixto Garcia was in command,
but Maceo led the machete charge. The
Spaniards left 400 dead on the field It was
at this juncture of his military career that
Maceo met the present captain general of
Cuba, Valeriano Weyler. The latter had
been made brigadier, and at the battle
of Guaimaro was sent against Maceo.
The latter had placed his men, with the
keenest sense Of strategy. across steep
ravine in some heavy brush. The Span
iards came tumbling and running up to
the edge of the ravine, and there they
were slaughtered like sheep.
Weyler fed. leaving 500 dead on the field,
He never stopped to look back until he
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-18
ANTONIO MACEO
AND HOW HE HAS GIVEN
HIS LIFE FOR CUBA,
The Last Of Ten Brothers Who Vowed Never
to Cease Warfare Against Spain
While They Lived.

tonic returned to his fathers plantation
from Baracoa with the information that
the Cubans had rebelled. Maceo, the faith
er, being a careful man, at once advised
his family TO remain strictly neutral. An
tonic chaffed under this restraint, but
obeyed. So did his younger brothers.
From time to time news of the war
reached the little plantation at Barajagua.
The Maceos secretly exulted over the sue
cesses of their countrymen in the field,
and it may have been that the Spaniards
obtained an inkling of their sentiments.
At any rate, Spanish spies began to annoy
them, and more than once they were
threatened.
The revolution had been in progress for
some months and the Spaniards were wild
over a series of disasters when there ap-
peared at the Maceo plantation a band of
Spanish guerillas led by Captain Campillo.
Senior Maceo and his older sons were away
with a mule train in the direction oAsSara-
Goa.
They returned at nightfall. As the mules,
with their tinkling bells and heavy pack
saddles, turned bend in the road and the
plantation came in view, a horrifying sight
met the gaze of Maceo and his sons. Where
his home had been there was nothing but
smoldering heap of ashes and embers.
His barns We're burned. his crops destroyed,
his mules, sheep, horses and cattle driven
off. But where are the members of his
family?
Out in the jungle woman screams.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-18

aims toward the east, where other camp
fires are cleaning. Then you may see why
1t is that the Spanish government would
pay a million pesos for the death of this
man.
1t is Antonio Maceo!
You may know him by the fierce eyes,
by the heavy brows,, by the broad shoul-
ders, by the square, bulldog jaw. Just
such men 1t was who stood with shield and
buckler in the arenas among wild beasts in
the olden days and sneered at Hanno and
Nero and the Caesars of Rome.
The campfires to the east are those of the
Spaniards along the trocha, and, as Maceo
watches them, his lips curl with contempt.
They are his hereditary enemies. He has
fought them from his boyhood, and will
fight them until he dies-or Cuba is free.
Why not? The blood of his family stains
the island from end to end. He Is the last
survivor.
Revenge? Perhaps. Many times ere this.
however, Maceo's revengeful feelings have
been glutted with blood. Many times he
has ridden rough shod over fields strewn
like a shambles with dead and dying enc
mics. The dominant feeling in his breast
is a longing for liberty-lberty, the eternal
spirit of the chainless mind, that torture
and time cannot conquer
Twenty-eight years ago Antonio Maceo
and his ten brothers swore never 10 lay
tonic, the eldest, is now the sole fighting
survivor His brothers were all killed or
permanently injured in battle.
In lsis Marcus Maceo lived in the little
palm thatched village of Barajagua, with
his wife, Mariana, and his little son, An
tonic. He owned a comfortable plantation
and kept pack mules for hire. The mules
were driven along the lonely mountain
roads by Antonio In this way the boy
made trips TO Baracoa, TO Guantanamo, to
Santiago and even to Holguin.
Some Early Questions.
He saw the slaves toiling their lives away
in the fields fettered and lashed by over
seers. He saw the red and yellow flag
floating above the fortified towns and came
10 understand il as an emblem of rapacity
cruelty and greed. Young Antonio natur.
ally began to dream of the why's and the
wherefores Why should one people, witt
dissimilar interests and dissimilar lives, bt
forced to pay tribute 10 a king and a peo
ple who cared nothing for them and who
fattened upon them?
Why had God given any nation righi
IN saw TO another nation: I'VE discovered
Won and you are ours. Give us SO much
Of your riches and be thankful that we
allow you to live"
Young Maceo could not understand al
tbis No more could his father. Marcus
In good time and almost with the regu.
Iarity of the years. other children came tc
bless the Maceos until there were clever
sons. stairstepping down from Antonio. the
eldest. a young man of 20. to Jose, tn,
Youngest, but little more than a babe II
arms. ,e.e
Then one early autumn day In 3sS An
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-18
mez smiled as they walked away from his

rez smiled as they walked away from his
hut.
He had asked them IL they could fight.
They smiled and said ''perhaps." Soon
afterward. near St. Augustin, some Spanish
troops were riding leisurely along with an
ammunition train, bound for Guantanamo.
Around the bend of the road, in front.
swept a flying body Of horsemen, with their
machetes glittering in the sun. They were
guerillas of Gomez and at their head rode
the awkward squad" of the Maceos.
But how they did fight! Right into the
heart of the Spanish troops they drove pell
nell, cutting. slashing and striking right
and left. When the fight was ended the
elder Maceo lay dead on the ground. Be
fore the expiration of two months Manuel,
Fernnin and Justice Maceo had been killed
in battle.
Raphael was SO cut up by wounds that he
left the island to die as an exile in Costa
Rica. For six months after the death Of
Justice the remaining members of the Ma
Geo family seemed to bear charmed lives.
The awkward squad" or. rather. the sur
vivors, had become the foremost fighters
under Gomez.
The next death to occur was that Of Mig