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Evening star., 1896-10-27
DEFIEs CONJECTURE.
Henry F. Wingert's Comment on til
Situation In Washington County.

Henry F. Wingert's Comment on the
Situation In Washington County.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
BALTIMORE, Nd, October 27.-Mr.
Henry F. Wingert, member OF the demo-
cratic campaign committee for the sixth
district, was caller at the democratic
headquarters this morning. In speaking of
the political situation in his own county
he said: while 1 believe Mr.. Elair Lee
will carry Washington county this year.
would not care to make a bold assertion
to that effect, as 1t is next to impossible
to predict how the farmers and working
men are going to vote They have one
answer for gold advocates and another for
silver. and many of my republican friends
agree with NE that the situation ill our
county defies conjecture.
Col L. Victor Baughman of Frederick
was also visitor. When asked what he
thought of the outlook he replied: Il am
not thinking anything
Democrats generally repudiate Chairman
Wellingtons claim that Mckinley will
carry Baltimore by $1,000. They still as
sert 500 was the true result of the recent
republican poll. and that Mr.. Wellington
raised il to more imposing dimensions by
tacking on an additional cipher. Demo-
Gratis are preparing for a rousing mass
meeting at the Music Hall Saturday night.
The orator will be Senator John W. Daniel.
Evening star., 1896-10-27
ADDRESS TO woRkINGMEN.
Chief Arthur and Others Declare
Themselves Against Free Silver.

Themselves Against Free Silver.
PEORIA. ILL.,. October 27-The following
circular was issued today:
To the working1nen of the United States
To refute false statement, We sincerely
believe 1t to be, and correct an impression
that our friends and acquaintances may
have formed concerning our signatures to a
campaign document going the rounds Of the
press and circulated broadcast on the
streets, entitled, Proclamation in which
We are made to appear that we are in
favor of free silver at any ratio. and SUBJ
stantially the establishment OF two stand
ards of money, contradictory as the terms
may be, we wish to be recorded by all who
are interested in our position as being en-
phatically and unequivocally against any
such measures, but are for the sound
money plank promulgated by the repubIi
can convention at St Louis.
'.Onr signatures were obtained nearly
three years ago to a document pretending
TO be a memorial to Congress. then in
session. in our belief and memory a much
milder paper than in the proclamation
referred to. And no matter what our opin-
ions may have been on the money question
at the time of our signing the memorial,
nearly three years ago, We have learned
enough since on the subject to warrant US
in denouncing the attempt at free coinage
of silver at 16 to I, believing 1T to be di-
rectly against the interests of labor and
also believing that under a condition Of
free coinage this country will be subjected
to one of the most frightful panics that any
country in this world has ever seen. Our
belief in this statement is strengthened by
an admission made by William j. Bryan
candidate for President. in a recent speech
in the northwest, wherein he is reported to
have said that he thought that a free silver
condition would bring, for the present,
stagnation ard panic, but from which, In
four years. We would recover.
We do not believe that this country can
stand an additional four years of misery
and distress, and are therefore opposed to
the s-ntiments contained in the aforesaid
proclamation
Respectfully. signed, P. NJ. Arthur grand
chief brotherhood Locomotive Engineers;
F. 2. Sargent, grand master Brotherhood CT
Locomotive Firemen; F. w. Arnold, grand
secretary and treasurer Brotherhood of I.o-
coInotive Firemen."
Evening star., 1896-10-27
Warrington Stock Exchange,

Sales-reguar call-12 o'clock m.-Lanston Mono
District Of Columbia Bonds-aoyear fund IS. 1Ol
bid. 30-year fund 6s, gold HOY bid. Water stock
rs; 1901, oq55ency 9 S 1le I'D Water stock 7s 19
Miscellaneous Bends-Metropolitan Railroad Is.
edness, 1o5ts bid. Belt Railroad IS, Is asked.
road ss, l07 bid. liz asked washington GAS Gas
Company g. series series 11S Is Washinstcn Gas
and Trust IS. F. and A. 100 bid, los asked
ieS % sna 1 je
6. 1o7 M bid. Washington Market Company imp.
g. g. lSf ~ sd did, xssaae Mss,
National Bank s;ocks;.Bank Of Washington, 20
a s.ns g afpps osns 40 sS p pms4
ssssd s1s 1Ss b,s bid seso1d 20 bid
IS BID asses oho s. asked 90 asked
Safe Deposit and Trust Companies. tionnl Safe
eurity and Trust, las bid 14s asked. ~ washington ton
bid, e5 asked. Metropolitan. s5 bid. t Belt, p p
ass and Light saockswasnncton Cas-
40 bid, 4a asked. Georgetown Gas, 10 bid. U.
ss 80 ss s. sstfs 3D. xetropo
tan, s. bid. POTOMAC. SO hid. Arlington. 1so bid
Il asked Ss ksss bia Sa0n
pies, bid Lincoln. ~ bid. 81 asked. Com
TitIe Insurance stocks-Real Estate Title. 10
asked Columbia Title. asked. Washington Title,
isksd Ds1st ps 10 nsasS "a ii,
1s % s s'S sS
Tas r:ase, 10 bid. Is asked. e'n'A''e 'ah Gar
1S sa sspsd snsea sstg s
Ice: 1870 asked. Lincoln Hall. 90 asked >N' = "''
Evening star., 1896-10-27
Tapping the Wires.

According to complaint made to the DO
lice, seaSebody has been tapping the wires
of the United States Electric Light Com
pany. Just what the prosecuting officers
will be able to do in the matter has not
yet been determined. Prosecuting Attorney
Mullowny has made an Investigation Of the
complaint, and 1t Is his intention to 2refer
a charge Of stealing certain number CT
volts of electricity. Several years ago, he
says, ne maintained similar prosecution
for tapping gas main. and he does not
see why a prosecution for alleged theft of
electricity should not hold good. He says,
however, that he expects to have a legal
battle when the case is presented
This afternoon complaint was made to
police headquarters by the same company
that wire had been stolen. This wire was
taken from the streets where repairing
was being done. The copper wire Is val
liable, and the detectives expect to recover
some Of 1t where 1t has been sold.
Evening star., 1896-10-27
PARLIAMENT REAssEMBkEs.

President BrissOn ElOQuently Refers
to the Russian Alliance.
Copyrighted, 1896, by the Associated Press)
PARIS, October 27.-The parliament of
France, senate and chamber of deputies,
reassembled today. The sessions of both
chambers were merely formal, and lasted
only an hour. The presidents Of the two
chambers. in their opening addresses, al
luded in strong and sympathetic terms to
the recent visit of the czar and czarina to
France. 70 -
NJ. Brisson. president of the deputies, re-
marked: After the manifestations at
Cronstadt and Toulon, the days of October
have welded the souls of the two great and
proud nations. Poets artists and the en-
tire people celebrated with one accord the
institutions of democratic France, which
had in union and constancy proved their
continuity of design" -,
Evening star., 1896-10-27
VexatiOn for HOusekeepers.

To the Editor of The Evening Star:
There is no more vexed question of tho
present day to housekeepers than that OK
servants or help" I think much of the
misery might be obviated if housekeepers
would insist on having a personal refer
ence from the last employer, and taking the
trouble to investigate same themselves. As
it is now a cook (as happened to me today.
and has been happening every two or three
weeks for some time pasO is discharged
for total incompetency-she applies for an.
other place Gas she did to mel with a first
class Recommendation from an intelligence
office, and her own panegyric Of self
talks Of never having worked for less than
SIS or $50 a month, but will come as a great
favor for SIG IL 1 won't pay more. i agree
and very soon find she is a most incompe-
tent, coarse and dirty cook 1 have actu-
ally had better for SO month. Naturally
the oftener the servants change their
places the better the intelligence offices
thrive-if they held their situations as they
did with our grandparents the offices would
have to close their business. I think the
housekeepers should make an effort to get
the upper hand, which, for a rng time
past, the servants have undoubtedly had
and held. May beg you to insert this
letter and oblige
A WORRIED HoUsEKEEPER.
Evening star., 1896-10-27
Court of Claim. is Final.

The chief Justice Of the Supreme Court
has handed down an opinion prepared by
Justice Peckham in the case of the United
states, appellant, VS.. Charles G. Galliat
administrator Of Thomas Galliat. The
Suprem Court has decided that the
decision Of the Court Of Claims in cases
involving French spoliation claims is final
and conclusive under the act of 1894.
The case was dismissed on motion of
Gilliats counsel, the court remarking that
1t was undoubtedly the intention of Con-
gress to refer to the Court Of Claims sim
ply the ascertainment of the proper per-
son to te paid the sum which 1t had al
ready acknowledged to be due the repre-
sentatives OF the original sufferers from
the spoliation, and 1t was not intended that
the decision which the Court of Claims
might arrive at should be the subject of
an appeal to the Supreme Court
Evening star., 1896-10-27
STAND READY TO HELP
Russia and Japan Also Desire Protection for
the Seals.
The Asiatic Power Especially Real
ises the Necessity for Preservation
and Would Suppress Pirating.

It is stated by officials that the United
States will have the cooperation and sup
port Of both Russia and Japan In the ap-
preaching issue over establishing adequate
protection for the fur seals Of the North
Pacific ocean. The question Is about to be
brought forward, as two commissions. one
American and one British, have returned
after an investigation Of the conditions in
Bering sea. Aside from the Information
they have secured Assistant Secretary Of
the Treasury Hamlin has recently made a
report. after personal inspection Of the seal
islands. stating that If notifications of
the Paris award regulations were not
agreed to "the fur seal within one or two
seasons will be commercially extinct"
'T'+ Japan Will Stand BY.
The Japanese government stands ready
to join the United States in any plan Of
seal protection. and Is desirous. also, of
including sea otters. which are being ex-
terminated from the Japanese islands. The
cooperation Of Japan is said to be of mucn
importance to the United States. as the
seal poachers and pirates have fitted out
mainly at Japanese ports.
A large trade with them has been built
up at Yokohama and Nagasaki. Notwith-
standing this. Japan feels it to her interest
to suppress the pirating. Many of the Ca
madam poachefS so TO Japanese ports, ana
either ship under the japanese flag or take
out sealing permits frcln the British con-
suls there. The Japanese government
wants the prohibitions made far reaching,
So that no doubt will exist as to the per-
manent preservation of the seals and OF
tiers.
Russia's Policy.
The Russian government also. IT can be
stated authoritatively, will welcome an ex-
tension of the protection to the seals. 1t
is pointed out that while Russia owned
Alaska and the seal islands now attached
to the United States there was complete
protection to the seals. and that the de.
began under American manage
ment. Tho policy of Run sia continues to be
to protect the seals on the Russian islands
CT the North Pacific. and there will be full
cooperation with the United States toward
any concerted action to that end.
Evening star., 1896-10-27

literature today, and says Kansas Is be-
yond the slightest doubt certain for Nc
Kinley.
National Committeeman Kittredge, Sioux
Falls. s. D., writes that his state will give
Mckinley not less than 5000, and probably
above 15.O0O. while the legislature will. be-
ycnd the slightest doubt, elect a straight
sound money republican to succeed Kyle
Free Silver Populist Secretary Tams Blk
by writes from st. Paul that 1t Is safe to
wager on Mckinley winning the state by a
safe majority.
Alex Mckenzie wires that North Dakota
Is certain to be for Mckinley. and will
elect a republican United States Senator
this winter.
Bets are now being made that Michigan's
plurality for Mckinley will exceed 10000.
Iowa is expected by the republicans to roll
up 10000 for Mckinley.
Evening star., 1896-10-27

To the Editor OF The Evening star:
Now that politics are engrcssing public
attention / see that women, trusting. no
doubt, so insignificant % a subject will
be forgotten, continue to inflict on visitors
at the theaters complete barriers to any
view Of the play, in the shape of high
hats. Saturday evening, In front Of the
seat I occupied, was an aggregation Of
ribbons and feathers that / well know
marred the pleasure of those who were so
unfortunate as to sit behind the owner. Is
this not the supremest form Of selfshnessf
Frankly, ladies, what would you say il q
gentleman kept a plug hat" on Zone Of
these high beavers during the play? Have
some little consideration for others, please,
Just a little.
1 suggest that our local theater man.
ayers insert in their programs the very
proper request which i find in some of the
New York theater play bills, and copy Of
which / inclose.
Yours, TULIP SHADE.
October 26, 1896
The management earnestly requests Ia
dies whose hats are of dimensions likely
to obstruct the view, to remove their hats
while in the theater, as those seated back
of them are entitled to an unobstructed
view Of the stage.
Evening star., 1896-10-27
Marriage Licenses.

Marriage licenses have been issued to the
following: White-George Scharf and jean
ME S. Sheriff; Charles F. Rose and sallie
p. Denham; Edwin L. Wilhite of Brooklyn.
N. Y. and Catharine Klinedinst of this
city; Frank c. Mold and Maud White, both
of Chesterfield county, Va; James R. Ham
ilton and Virginia Peters; George T. Has
lam and Mary M. Herold.
Colored-Wm. 8. Young and Bessie Toll
liver; Henry Edmunds and Lizzie Young;
Thomas Porter and Ef1e Fields; Henry
Young and Anna Simms; Charles Ander-
son and Emma Waddy; James H. Jackson
and Lily Colbert.
Evening star., 1896-10-27

sales. 5000 bushels-southern wheat by sample
12a74; do. ON grade, esJsaT3J Corn wcak-spot
and month 2sAa2s; November and December. new
steamer mixed, 264.a27-receipts. 81 .ssa bushels;
exports bSoio bushels; stock, ,25S ,s45 bushels
Oats quiet but firm-No. 2 white. 20 bid: No ?
mi.ed Iln 2sa2Sls.reeepts. e4o5s bushels: exports
weak-No. nearby. 4oa4l; western 42a43-re-
eeiPts 6oo2 bushels; exports, none stock, 11s l67
bushels Hay steady 10 frm-choice timothy,
$500 bid. Grain freghts stoady-stram 10 Liver
pool per bushel, Sd. January; Cork for orders per
quarter, 4sh November and December; Is Sd
January. Sugar steady. unchanged Butter ard
eggs hrm unchanged Cheese firm and active un-
changed Whisky unchanged
Evening star., 1896-10-27
FAIRCHILD LEFT OFF,
Printing of Election ballots In New
York begins Tomorrow.

NEW YORK, October 2I.-Police Com
missioner Andrews said today that tomor-
row the printing of the election ballots
would begin and that the name of William
L. Ward would be printed on the official
ballots for Congress from the sixteenth dis
trict. and that the name of Benjamin l..
Fairchild would be left off the tickets.
Fairchild was nominated by the Platt fac
tion. while Ward was nominated by the
faction headed by ex-Judge Robertson Of
the republican organization. This is in
conformity with the decision yesterday by
Judge Dykman of the supreme court Of
Westchester county and ignores the order
Issued on the same day by Judge Gaynor,
restraining the county clerk Of Westches-
ter and the New York police commissioners
from printing the ballots for the coming
election until the decision of the appellat te
division was had.
Evening star., 1896-10-27

The will Of the late John 8. Moran, dated
February 4, 1896. and naming Ann Walsh
as executrix, was filed today. To James
Moran. brother. a gold watch and guard
are given, and 10 Harry Moran, a brother,
personal effects and scarf pin. To Ann
Walsh, the testator's aunt, his shares in
the Corcoran Fire Insurance Company and
the Equitable Building Association are
given, together with a diamond ring and
amount on deposit in the Washington Loan
and Trust Company: She is to pay there
from all debts of the estate and expend
the residue for masses for the repose of
the testator's SOUL
Evening star., 1896-10-27

Alexander and Edward Day, brothers.
living near Cassville, Wis. quarreled over
trivial matter, and Edward shot Alexan-
der dead. The murderer was arrested
The twenty-fourth annual convention of
the American Gas Light Association met
at ST. Louis. with about 200 delegates pres
ent. c. j. r. Humphreys of Lawrence
Mass, the president, called the convention
to order.
Evening star., 1896-10-27
Silver and EGGS,

To the Editor Of The Evening Star:
The free silverites. being confronted by
the rise Of wheat. with the price of silver
at a low mark. should grasp the opportuni-
ty afforded by the reception which Sec
retary of the Treasury Carlisle received at
Covington, KY, to prove that silver influ-
enees the rise and fall Of eggs at least.
May the advocates of silver allow fair play
ard rest their cause with the people as I
believe the gold people try to do. Then.
and only then, will the people be satisfied.
SUBSCRIBER
Evening star., 1896-10-27

To the Editor of The Evening Star:
l noticed In Saturdays Star a statement
with reference to the taking of personal
bonds in the Police Court. Personal bonds
are taken in cases where the evidence sus-
the attention of the court calling for leni-
ency, as, that a mother has very young
or sick child at home needing her care and
she has no money to pay her fine, or that
the man is a hard-working man with q sick
wife needing his wages, or that the defend
ant never has been arrested before and
bears an excellent reputation, or any other
of numberless grounds of appeal to the
mercy of the judge. In such cases the
charge cannot be dismissed for the defend
ant is clearly guilty, but mercy ought to be
exercised and the personal bonds are taken.
Quite a large number of cases arise under
the health laws. where there is failure af-
ter notice to abate some nuisance and the
party is brought into court, and shows
his neglect to abate has been caused by
poverty or sickness. and that he has been
" holly unable to abate ii before, or that
in such cases have always believed it was
to the best interests CT the community to
secure the abatement of the nuisance rath-
er tfan to impose a fine and lock the de-
fendant up in the work house, and have,
upon promise TO abate, taken a personal
bond, aEd 1 do not remember case where
the party has not abated.
where the judge, in the exercise of sound
discretion, believes the best interests OF
community are to be served by the taking
of the defendants personal bond.
L. G. KIMBALL.
Judge Police Court.
Evening star., 1896-10-27
Jubilee Services Close.

The jubilee services which began Sunday
morning at the German Catholic Church
Of st. Mary, Mother Of eGod, in honor Of
the fiftieth anniversary-of the parish, were
concluded last evening with a vesper serv-
ice, attended by large congregation. The
sermon was preached by Rev. William
Tappert Of Covington, Ky, in the German
language, and Cardinal Gibbons made a
brief address, after which he pronounced
the benediction.
Evening star., 1896-10-27
BULL FIGHTER KILLED.
Excitement at NOgales Caused by
Tragedy In the Arena,

H"Scuy HI tHc AFeuH.
NOGALES. Ariz., October ga bull
fight with fatal results occurred at NogaIes
Sonora. yesterday and for a short time
caused panic in the audience. One of the
bulls becoming more enraged than usual
rushed about the arena, goring everything
within its reach. A picador, jose AnguIo,
in an attempt to place a thorn in the side
of the wild animal was caught on one OF
its long horns, which pierced him like
sword. He was tossed and fell to the
ground, bleeding and mangled, where the
beast rolled him beneath his horn and chit
and paved him. He was frfghtfulIy In
jured and died a few minutes later.
There was intense excitement in the audi
ence and at one time it was on the verge
of a panic. but was quieted by the killing
of the bull
Evening star., 1896-10-27
Electoral Fusion i'm North Carolina.

Electoral Fusion in North Carolina.
The following telegram was sent from
Raleigh. N. c., last night by Populist
Chairman Aver and Democratic Chairman
Manly to Daniel ]. Campau, chairman, Chi
cago, ILL.,:
Electoral fusion between populists, DEM
ocrats and silver republicans Is complete
In North Carolina, which assures Bryan a
majority of at least 10000 in this state
The basis upon which this fusion was
agreed to was five democrats, five populists
and one national silver man.
Evening star., 1896-10-27
Assessors Time Extended,

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
ANNAPOLIS. Md. October 27-Gov.
Lowndes has extended the time of the as
SCISSORS for the second and third districts of
Prince Georges county to November 80.
The fourth district has been completed.
The first district of Montgomery has been
extended to November 30.
Evening star., 1896-10-27
Farm and City.
To the Editor of The Evening Star:


In the opinion of many of our ablest
publicists-thinkers who have made careful
and exhaustive study Of our social and
Industrial condition as a people and Of orr
political future a nation, the greatest
present danger hat menaces the perpet tuity
OF our institutions is the rapid and ever-in-
creasing absorption of our farming popu-
lation by the cities. To stop this drift from
country to town-to induce some per cent
OF our urban population to again tenant the
farms We must render IL possible for The
farmer to receive sufficient remuneration
Tor unremitting toll to secure for himself
and family food, raiment and shelter
The lamentable condition of farm values
was brought to my notice recently in a let
ter received from a friend-a retired min
lister of the NJ. K. Church-who writing
from one OF the southern counties OF Penn
sylvania. says: The price Of real estate
here is pitiable. You cannot sell a farm
here for the cost of improvements. At a
sale last week, when a farm of 211 acres
was offered. one hundred acres I'm wood
land. the balance under a high state oi
cultivation, improved by two houses and q
fire. large stone barn, but one bidder ap-
peared. and his bid was s. an acre. He
was spoke manufacturer, after the hick-
ory trees yet standing on the uncleared
portion This paints a dark picture, when
we know that this farm was not in the
bleak Dakotas nor in wind-swept Kansas
nor on the trackless mountain slopes of
West Virginia, but in one OF the richest
agricultural sections Of the old keystone
state within fifty miles of Baltimore and
one hundred miles of Washington and
Philadelphia.
Can we expect to stay this tide Of hu-
manity flowing from farm house to tene-
ment. when the products OF 217 acres OF
arabic land lying within one hundred miles
OF a home market OF over one million con-
sumers will not produce revenue sufficient
to pay an interest upon sl,iU to Justify
such Investment? WM. Nick. CLAYTON.
Evening star., 1896-10-27
Foot Boil In the West.

COLUMBIA. Mo-. October 27.-The Mis-
souri, University eleven was defeated by
Nebraska here yesterday In the presence
of 5000 people. The score was to 4.
Missouri was badly handicapped, owing to
the disability Of Captain Shawman, who
fractured a rib in the recent game with
Illinois.
Evening star., 1896-10-27
Attempted Bank Robbery Failed.

BUFFALO. N. Y. October 27.-A special
to the Evening News from Ttusville, Pa,
says: At 2 o'clock this morning an attempt
was made to rob the Farmers Bank at
Townville The msrauders were discover
ed. and mounted horses and rode of in the
direction of Oil City, with posse of armed
Vile, Cory and other surrounding towns
were Immediately wired to be on the look
out.
Evening star., 1896-10-27
Has BeenS. !.

To the Editor of The Evening Star:
When Second Lieut.. Joseph r. Binns,
Company D, 1st Infantry, wakes up We'd
nesday morning Of next week he will be
surprised tc find he belongs to the great
regiment Of has-Binns. o. W. w.
Evening star., 1896-10-27
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

Tho following arc the opening the highest
and the lowest and the closing prices OF the
New York stock market today. Cd reported
by Corson & Mccartney, members New
York stock exchange. Correspondents,