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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-12
WILD BEAST FOR COMPANIONS.
A Young Girls Terrible Night in
a Cave.

Canton, Pa, April ~ -Nettie Williams
aged nineteen years, the daughter of a
woodchopper living in Skunk township, Sui
Iivan county, had thrilling experience
in the woods the OF her night Her father
was at work in the woods several miles
from home. One of the children became
i'll from eating a poisonous root early ia
the afternoon and Nettic's mother sent
her after her father. Nettie failed to find
her father, however, and got lost in the
woods. She kept on until it became dark.
The girl called repeatedly, but there was
no response. She found ledge of rocks
with a cave-like opening beneath.
She lay down here to rest, aud during the
night was awakened by something shifting
her face. In the sem:-larkness she could
discern the form of an animal about aslarge
as good-sized dog; but she lay as quiet as
death, and so, fortunately, had no occasion
to learn the beasts actual character. 1t
might have been either bear or a panther
Whatever it was, it went away, although
Nettie felt as If an eternity were passing
before the brute's departure AT daybreak
the still terrified young woman started to
find her way home. In two hours she dis
covered wagon road, and not long there
after had covered the five miles that lay
between her and home.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-12
A FORGEK's NOVEL DEFENSE.
A Surgical Operation Undergone to
Prove Him Insane.

Cleveland, O., April e. -One of the most
interesting surgical operations ever per-
formed in Cleveland was conducted at st.
Alexis Hospital Saturday. The subject was
R. N. Cunningham, the man who forged
Judge Hamilton name to a check for $780,
O0O
1t has been asserted by the attorneys for
Cunningham and by we'll known physicians
that he was insane when he forged the
check, the insanity being the result of a
skull fracture received years ago.
To determine this point Cunningham was
released on bail and taken TO the hospital
for the operation. DIR. Tuckerman, the chief
operator, after cutting into the skull of
Cunningham, removed the bone over the
depression A complete fracture OF theskull
was plainly in evidence, and on the lower
surface of the skull callous growth had
formed, pressing in the brain for half an
inch
This will result, it is said In the decision
that Cunningham was insane and not re-
sponsible for his acts. Cunningham never
was known TO show any signs of insanity
here. Although never convicted, he mar
rowly escaped conviction On several other
forgery charges in recent years, one Of
which was / n New York.
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the ns-Pacific countries "A year ago
last fall" he says, Wv heat In the Palouse
Valley, south of Spokane, sold for s and
20 cents per bushel. Today the same
wheat brings IS to 20 cents
Mr.. HUI believes that wheat can be
shipped into the Orient at a profit If cur
tariff rates are properly adjusted. 1.-The
province OF Annoy alone he says, w hich
is near the coast, contains over s0,o00,-
600 people, and at twenty pounds Of flour
per capita per annum, would consume the
product of 100000 bushels IF wheat.
The large district OF Tien-Tsin and Shang-
hal, both easily accessible from the sea,
would consume about as much more, as
soon as the trade can be fully opened 1t
is not outside the range Of possibility
that we could ship wheat from Devils
Lake TO the Pacific coast for this trade.
We certainly could at SO cents a tushel
cost for the wheat at Devils Lake or
points West as long as the demand for
flour continues to grow as it has :or the
past six months"
Representations like the foregoing, ilow-
ever convincing, are not likely To ter the
trust wolf from having and enjoying his
full dinner
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-12
CannfbaI Campaign of Education

The legislature of Colorado has opened
the militia service of that great State
to women, and the fact seems to have
rekinded all the old warlike blood in the
veins of Mrs Dominis, formerly cannibal
entertainers of the Sandwich Islands. She
has been here long enough to become some
what imbued with American ideas, and,
while she still feels that she has been
right all along, she has reached the strictly
American political conclusion that ii is
better to be President than to be right
Therefore she wants Mr.. Mckinley 10
undo the revolution in the Hawai coun-
try, nominate her for President, lend her a
'husiness manager" skilled in the ap-
plication OF educational" methods, which
she feels sure Claus Spreckels and othertrust
msgnates would freely contribute, and she
thinks that she could do the rest Evidently
IL is the ardent desire of the dusky Dame
to go backto her late people as the advance
agent OF prosperity" and to put into exc
cution the political reforms which she has
learned were practiced in this country in
the campaign OF 1896.
In the confidence that so reasonable
an aspiration will meet the views Of the
American Executive, we do not doubt
that the Hawaiian prosperity literary bu-
reau already is fully organized and pre-
pared to flood the islands with convinc-
Ing arguments. 1t is easy t. see what an
effective struggle could be made. and,
comparatively, how little it would cost,
when the important trust interests in
volved come to be considered. With the
right business manager there need be-
little question about its success
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Ineonsiderate Americans.

London newspapers finding faut with
the Bradley Martins because they carry
so much baggage. 1t says:
Royalties have been known to arrive
IN England with a clean shirt in and
bag and one attendant, hut yt'nr modern
republican millionaire and wife cannot
tfaNei ~pff'tt hall kl1plC al "a stlvants
and apparel.
But what does this London newspaper
expect? We have no royalties in this
country and cannot be supposed to know
what s what. We have not seen the Prince
of Wales trotting about in a checkered
nor have we seen Her Majesty Queen
Victoria landing from the second-olass
cabin of a steamer, with her maid carry
ing her little satchel containing the crown
jewels We have been brought up. since
the days of our English story books, to
think that kings and queens Jared sump-
tuously every day and travelled with some
sort of retinue; and when We have had
the good fortune to be able to hire reti-
hNOS anu NSdH Sttdn SIliTbs now anu int1l,
we have done so, and have called it
living like a king. Something should be
pardoned to ignorance
The. Bradley-Msrtins probably do have a
good deal Of baggage and a larger num-
Der OF servants and attendants than falls
to the lot of the average family They
have been to England before, and possibly
know a thing or two about the comforts
and conveniences of that country. There
is a tale OF a gentleman about to 20
abroad, who was advised by his friends,
one after another, that the various COM
forts of home would all be lacking in the
countries to which he was going. and
that If he wished 10 return alive he would
have to take with him about half a car
load OF house hold stuff, his entire ward
robe, a small apothecary's shop, and con-
veniences for cooking Perhaps the Brad
ley-Martins mean to be as comfor table in
England as they are at home.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-12
The Supervising Architect.

President Cleveland's extension of the
civil service law is hampering the present
Administration most unoomfortably. At
first it was not 50 bad 70 be able TO tell
the myriads Of officeseekers who were
after positions in the departments that
there was but one posi- ton in each depart
ment, and manifestly they couldn't all
have that; but when it comes to certain
offices which they really want TO fill with
men of their own choice, it is different
One of these positions is that of the
supervising architect Mr.. Gage is anxious
that this shall be taken out from under
the civil service law, so that ne may
select the supervising architect without
being compelled TO prove the present one
incompetent or dishonest His ideal ar
rangement would be 10 have a commission
of architects, representing the best talent
m America, who should decide all matters
relating to public buildings and monu-
ments and award the work 20 those who
that arrangement, which could not at
present be made, he would like to have
the candidates step out and prove what
they can do.
1t is a little curious, this epidemic Of
desire to have this, that and the other
place taken out of politics and put en-
comparison basis. Mr.. Cages idea con-
corning architecture is only a single in
stance. There has always been strong
feeling in the nation as whole against
mixing up the church in politics, and
there has been strong protest at one time
and another against. leaving the public
schools to the mercy of opposing parties.
Politics means fighting; and in a fight
somebody is inevitably going to get hurt
The general feeling seems to be that
matters OF art and sentiment ought TO be
kept out OF reach of the fighters.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-12

During the past few days the ''pacifica-
follows: In MatanZas the Cuban, Gen. Be
tancourt, has defeated and routed a force
OF infantry and cavalry under the Spanish
commander, Zamora. decimating the in
fantry and annihiating the cavalry. In
Pinar del Rio the Cuban, Gen. BermudeZ,
under Gen vergua, and at Seborucaia, near
Placetas, on Friday, the Cubans bombarded
and destroyed the Notifications, killing
half the garrison. Yet some people do not
acknowledge "a state of war" III Cuba!
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-12
LOVE CLAIMS TWO VICTIMS.
Inconsistency of Louis Herwissy
Causes Death and Suicide.

New Brunswick, n j. April 12.-OnAp ril
4 a girl of eighteen years, known as Agnes
Sousa. a domestic servant III the house hold
of Henry Solonan. was found dead in her
room She died of asphyXiation 10y illu-
minating gas. Saturday the dead girl
was identified as Agnes Kapschus, who had
lived in the Swiss colony at Sayreville
Her friends insist that the girl ended her
life for the same reason that she concealed
her identity under an assumed name-dis-
appointment in love.
In June, 1896, Louis Herwissy, work
man in the handkerchief factory at Sayre-
vile, was looked upon as the accepted lover
of Lizzie Farkus. A few months later Her
MISSY ceased his attentions to Miss Farkus
and began counting Agnes Kapschus.
LizZie's brother, Joseph, demanded of Her
MISSY an explanation of his INCONSISTENCY
Themen quarreled and young Farkus struck
Herwissy with q coupling pin, fracturing
his skull. Miss Kapschus, who saw the as
sault, was held as witness, and Young
Farkus was committed to Jail to await the
outcome Of Herwissy's injuries.
Lizzie Farkus, devoted to her former
lover, nursed Her wissy, and upon his re-
covery she became ill and died in Novem-
her. Her par ents said that Lizzie died
of a broken heart, the result of Her wissy's
faithlessness. Young Farkus was per-
nitted to attend his sisters funeral. He
took advantage of the opportunity to es-
cape. Two weeks afterward he was re-
captured. On his trial for attempting to
kill Her MISSY, Agnes Kapschus was the
principal witness for the prosecution, and
fad
two years imprisonment. Miss Kapschus,
who had displaced Miss Farkus in Her
wissy's affections, was herself supplanted
in time, and she left her home three weeks
ago, taking the name of Sousa and find
ing refuge and employment in Mr.. Solo
mans household.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-12
MR.. McINTiRL,s. BEREAv EMENT
Little Daughter bf the Maryland
CONGRESSMAN Killed.

Baltimore, April 12-Miss Mary GUSTS
McIntire, the eight-year-old daughter of
Congressman and Mrs W w. McIntire,
of No. 1905 North Calvert street, was run
over by heayily-ioaded wagon, and al.
most instantly killed about 8 clock Sun
day afternoon The accident occurred al
most under the shadow of the little girls
home. The wagon that crushe out her life
is owned by the Baltimore Traction Com
pany, and was-loaaed with iron. John
Sapp was the driver
Various statements were made in the
excitement that followed the accident, as
to how 1T happened, though it is the belief
that there was no carelessness upon the
part OF the driver. The hetle girl had been
in the strees with her sister and several
playmates,
1t is thought probably she was struck
other stat ement is that she was helping
her sister To mount "a bicycle, and was
Knocked down and run over by the wagon.
Only a few persons witnessed the acct
dent, and they have been summoned TO
tell what they know of 1T at the in
quest this aft ernoon.
One of the wheels of the heavy wagon
ing it. She was picked up unconscious
and carried to her home. physician
was hastily summoned, but she was beyond
human aid and died in u few minutes
after reaching the house.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-12
ADOPTED THEIR OWN CHILD
A Remarkable Story of IA Boys AT
ducti0n and Return.

Akron, Ia, April l2.-In 1876 a care
less nurse deserted the perambulator in
which She was wheeling the two-year-old
son OF NJ. F. Brittcn, at Montreal, Can
ada, while she went for a short walk
with a soldier sweetheart from the local
English garrison. When she returned, her
charge was gone. The Britton family
made every effort 10 recover the little
one, but without avail.
As has recently developed, it was stolen
by man named Myers, in the hope of Sc
curing reward After the crime was
committed, he became SO much alarmed
that he never dared to claim money from
the infants family, and the child reached
the age Of seven years under his care.
In 1888 Myers died, and for year his
wife kept the boy with her. She was
greatly troubled in her conscience, and
finally resolved to devise scme plan OF
returning the lad to his family. She
feared 10 go directly to them with her
story, anG by way OF reaching them, Sc
cured employment as a domestic in their
household
The Brittons were without q child of
their own, and when Mrs. Myers sug-
gested that they adopt her son.
bright lad OF ten AT the time, they readily
fell in with the plan, Mrs Myers soon
afterwari left their employ. She kept
up 4 desultory c1frespondence with them
for several years and finally dropped en-
tirely out Of sight.
In the meantime the Brittons and their
supposedly adopted son removed TO a
farm in northern New York, and after
ward To another near Akron few
days ago they received letter from Mrs
Myers, in England, giving full particulars
of the abduction OF their child twenty-one
years ago and the method she adopted to
return him TO his own father and mother.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-12
BURGLARS CAPTURE A TOWN.
Citizens Held Prisoners While They
Proceeded to Plumber.

Lancaster, Pa, April 12.-This county
was greatly aroused over most daring
outrage by burglars at an early hour yes
terday morning at Leola, seven miles from
Lancaster. on the Lancaster and Downing
town Railroad. Two places were entered,
and an attempt was made to kill two men
The burglars succeeded in making good
their escape, though holly pursued.
Shortly after midnight, as Abram Buck
walter, aged nineteen years, was passing
II. NJ. Stauffer's store, he was ac-
costed by five masked men. One of them
covered him with a revolver, while the
others blew open Stauffer s safe and robbed
it of 500 and stamps, Stauffer being the
postmaster. The burglars then went to
Beiler's jewelry store, taking their pris-
oner with them. Beiier was aroused, and
when he put his head out OF the window the
robbers fired at him. Beiler rang an alarm
bell, and the burglars fled. They were
holly pursued by posse, but escaped.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-12

The school children of New York city have
been forbidden to eat ie-that is, the
anonymous and undated pie of the restau
rant. OF course, this order does not touch
the homemade pie brought in a dinner
pail, because the suppostion is that home
made pieis all right The homemade pieis
supposed to be light, flaky and whole
some, with virtues equal to Patent metli-
cine, and its abolition could never have
been dreamed of. The restaurant pie. on
the contrary, is usually hammered out of
sheetiron and filled up with gum arabic and
chips and can-grown fruit, all ground up
together This pie causes stomach ache
and shattered nerves. This pie must 60
It is oal'ous and murderous fraud. But
its funeral win be celebrated with white
earth candy and green cucumber pickles,
all the same.
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TARIFF BILL SURE TO PASS.
Republicans In the Senate Have Al.
most Votes Enough.

| Republicans In the Senate Have Al
most Votes Enough.
The only Information the Senators who
are revising the tariff bin are giving out
with regard to their work is that they are
going very carefully over the bill, and max
ing such changes as their own wisdom and
the conditions OF business may suggest
The Senator'S are not unwilling to consider
the requests of those interested in tariff
legislation, but they have no time, they
think, in which to give hearings to every
one, and, therefore, insist Chat statements
be made in writing. They are seeing only
members OF the Senate, and receiving from
them suggestions prompted by business
men and others.
In the revision OF the tariff hin it is I'M
derstood the committee is not trying SO
much to correct the errors and inequalities
OF the Dingley bill as to arrange the sched-
ules so rs to make them satisfactory to
the entire Republican membership OF the
Senate, and also to the two or three Pop
ulsts or silver Republicans who have to be
favored in order to secure their support for
the bill
Senator Kyle, as already announced, will
support the bill, and tits now assdmed that
Senator Jones OF Nevada will also votefor
it, Senator Jones Is out OF the city and
may not return until the bill is reported,
but the Democrats and silver men coneede
that he will unquestionably take his po-
sition on the side of protection. With Sena-
tors X yle and Jones the Republicans will
have forty-four votes in favor OF their
bill, and even If there is no election in
Kentucky, can pass their measure with
the vote of the Vice President
1t is probable now the two vacancies in
the Senate, one from Oregon and the other
from X entucky, may continue, so that forty
four Senators is exactly One-half Of the
Senate 1t is thought probable, however,
that other silver Republicans besides Sen
ator Jones may support the bill, SO that
there can be little doubt Of its passage
The margin is very narrow, and the neces-
sity OF satisfying their own members 30
as to give no cause for objection when the
measure is presented to the Senate is,
therefore, obvious.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-12
HILL ON RECENT ELECTIONS.
The ex-senator Warns Democrats OF
Over Condolences.

Il
Confidence.
Albany, April12. -Concerningre cent Dem
ocratic victories in the municipal elections
in this State, the West and South, ex-
United Stat es Senator David B. Hill said
yesterday:
while appreciating all the encourage
ment which these triumphs justly afford
US, IL is to be hoped that our party
friends Will not allow their enthusiasm
to get the better OF their Judgment, and
thereby engender feeling of over-confi-
dence, which may embarrass or imperil
more important successes in the future.
You will judge from reading the reported
comments of some of our over-sdngUine
statesmen, particularly from some parts
of the South and West. that the elections
of 1899 and 1900 were already as good
as won.
There have been only two State cleo
tions held since November last-one in
Michigan, where our opponents carried the
State by about their usual majority, and
the other in Rhode Island, where they
also carried it. These are the real facts,
whether they are welcome or distasteful.
Over-confidence has lost more political bat
ties than any other one cause 1t leads to
partisan excuses. 1t begets Indifference.
1t excites false hopes. 1t induces unwise
experiment.
I'VE should not deceive ourselves. We
are everywhere stronger upon State and
local issues than upon any other, espe-
cially in view of our unfortunate division
our mistakes and blunders relating to
Federal legislation which might well and
easily have been avoided-and augmented
by the utter absence OF esprit de corps in
the Democratic organization pertaining to
national party affairs. The recent cleo
lions were a rehuke to fanaticism and a
triumph of liberalism in municipal af-
fairs
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-12
ST. LOUIS BRIDGE PROBLEM.
A Question of Interest TO Shippe rs
Difficult of Solution

St. Louis, Mo-, April 12.-Negotiations
are pending looking to a kolution OF the
bridge problem, which has SD long yexed
and burdened st. Louis shippers. Several
conferences have been held within the
last Inonth-the last Saturday-at which
the question was carefully discussed by
representatives OF the st. Louis Manu-
facturers' Associa ton and the East Bound
Traffic A ssoCiation.
AS result, the conclusion has been
reached that the fridge arbitrary, which
is a direct tax now being collected on
every freight bin or every shipment
nude from and TO st. Louis to territory
east of st. Louis, can be removed by the
adoption and use of a st. Louis bill Of
lading upon incoming and outgoing freight
At Saturdays conference of members of
East Side lines, the Terminal Association,
Virgins Ferry Company and st. Louis
Transfer Company, the bridge arbitrary
question was referred for solution to
committee.
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They have an ordinance about street mu-

They have an ordinance about street mu-
sicians over in Brooklyn. Each must
clan is compelled to pay ST. for license,
and this may be all right. But when it
comes to including scissors grinders and
umbrella vendors in the category of mu-
sicians, the country is seized with great
establishment at Brooklyn Why should an
umbrella member be called a musician?
Why, we ask? The scissors grinder has a
bell on his rickety little grindstone, which
makes a noise, and musicis noise; there
fore he may be a musician. But an umbrella
mender, in this part of the country, does
not use music in his business Perhaps
they have musical umbrellas in the City
of Churches; and if they do, they ought to
share such a blessing with the surround
ing world. People would flock to Brooklyn
if they knew it.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-12
SEARCHING KNOXVILLE RUINS.
Bones of Victims of the Fire and
Hotel Register Found.

Knoxville, Tenn, April 12.-The work
of clearing the debris of Thursdays fire
here goes on steadily. Rescuers yester-
day found a quantity of bones and regis
ter, believed to be the one SO badly wanted
from the Hotel Knox.
Two of the missing men have been found,
W. w. Marcum, of Marcum, Tenn, and
Fletcher Martin, of Alexandria, N. c. E.
II. Tracey, an invalid from Pittsburg, is
thought to be in the ruins, as there is
much mail and a few kilograms here for
him uncalled for A register was found
yesterday afternoon in the ruins of the
Hotel Knox, but it was badly burned, and
the belief is it was an old one.
Most of thebnrned-outfirms haveresumed
work, and will commence erecting new
business houses at once.
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The floods in Arkansas and Mississinn

The floods in Arkansas and Mississippi
are reported to cover an area of nearly
$4,000 square miles. Flood water FIR ON
the Yazoo delta region is beginning to
flow back into the Mississippi at vicks-
burg, and this may break the opposite
levees and cause an inundatlon of north
eastern Louisiana. But generally the situ-
alton is more hopeful, and it is thought
that the levees at New Orleans and below
will hold out, although that is by no
means certain.