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Evening star., 1897-03-09
Roughest Passage I'm Years.

NEW YORK. March 9.-Captain Rupe OF
the French steamship La Bretagne. which
arrived from Havre today several DAYS
overdue, said that the trip just con-
cluded was the worst he had experienced
in his thirty-four years on the Atlantic.
The entire passage was remarkable for
strong weather. In a single hour the ves-
sci encountered head seas and winds. hail.
snow and rain. La Bretagne suffered no
damage. Among the passengers was ex-
President Carriilas of Central America and
Colonel Bailly Blanchard of New Orleans
The remains of William III. Stewart of
Philadelphia, who died on February H.
after a residence of over thirty years in
Paris, also arrived on La Bretagne.
Evening star., 1897-03-09
THE LAkE7FRONT CASE
The Expensive qaim to a Rich Part Of
Chicago.
Judge Lamoreu9 Supposed to Have
Favored 1t, hit Has Gone Home
to Wi.ssoisin Sick.

1t is not likely tiiat Judge silas W. La
moreux, commissiape9 of the general land
office, who went home to Wisconsin early
last week. will retarnErto he duties of mis-
office For a fortnight before leaving,
Washington he had been sick abed with
nervous prostration. and 1t was with great
trouble, he was able to make the journey
horne.
Much has been said in regard to Judge
Lamoreuxs retirement and the decision of
the Chicago lake front%ease. This is the
claim brought by Matthias Benner and
Harvey M. Lafollette who bought a few
years ago for $37,o9O piece of scrip issued
by Congress to man named Mckee, and
row seek to file 1t onsf603 acres of land in
Chicago This scrip has the peculiar value
that 1t can be filed on any unoccupied gov
ernment land. A decision sustaining the
ground taken by the claimants would not
only give the 160 acres. but nearly all the
North Side up as far as Lincoln Park.
This land Is now worth, it is said, $780,
100000, and owners of Valentine scrip are
ready to file on it If the present title is
upset Among counsel for Benner and
Lafolette Is John G. Carlisle, late Sec
retary OF the Treasury. Judge Lamoreux,
Judge Emory F. Best OF the Secretary s
office and Mr.. Shaw of the lands and rail-
roads division sat together in hearing the
case, and it is known that they did not
Judge Best taking a view at variance with
Judge Lamoreux.
Yesterday Secretary Bliss directed that
an order by Secretary Francis February
Y be made public. This order is as follows:
The Commissioner of the General Land Of
flee:
Sir: L direct you to suspend judgment in
the matter of Matthias Benner and Har-
vey NJ Lafollette applicants to locate Nc
kee strip, on what Is known as the Chi
cago lake front, VS.. N. X. Fairbanks ct
al, protestants. until further orders OF
this department.
The magnitude Of the interests involved
and the need of an immediate and final dis
position of the matter by this department
after the judgment of your Office shall
nave been announced require a postpone
ment Of action until my successor shall
have been appointed and qualified. My
own tenure of office will now be too short
to allow OF my personal consideration OF
| the case. Very respectfully,
D. R. FRANCIS. Secretary.
This means that the arguments for the
claim will in all probability be heard again
by new commissioner of the land office,
| and that Secretary Bliss will himself make
& decision in the matter. 1t is understood
that land office officials regard the title TO
the land in question doubtful Judge
Lamoreux is quoted as saying that the
land has always been In the government
and is yet. The 100 acres to which claim
| Is made includes property belonging to Pot
ter Palmer H. II. kohlsaat, General Nc
| Clurg, Allan Marvel, Mrs. M. d. Ogden
the estate of the late Rev. David Swing,
Robert T. Lincolna Franklin McVeagh and
other prominent Chicago people.
Evening star., 1897-03-09
Washington stock Exchange.

Sales-resular call-12 O'Clock m.-West End Ma
tionsI Bank, Oat 106k Pneumatic Gun Carriage,
% at 70 cents; y at 70 cents. Lanston Monotype,
80 at s3s.
District of Columbia Bonds.-2O- year fund Sc. 103
bid 30year fund 6s, gold, ITO bid. Water stock
Il, 1901 currency, III bid. Water stock Is. 1903,
currency. I11A bid 3.65s, funding, currency, lO9
bid, 1l2 asked.
miscellaneous Bonds.-Metropolitan Railroad So,
lily bid. Metropolitan Railroad conv. 6s, 113ls
of Indebtedness, lis bid. 100 asked Belt Railroad
5s, 80 asked lexington Railroad 6s. so bid. 100
asked Columbia Rafiroad @, li5 bid. Washing
ton Gas Company 6s series A. lib bid. Washing
ton Gns Company es, series Z, ii4 bid chesapeake
surity and Trust s., f. and A., 100 A BID American
ingtOn Market Company 1st 6s. 108 bid Wash
fngtOn MaEket Company imp &c, i06 bid. Wash
ingt0n Market Company ext. 6s, los bid Masonic
Hall Association Sc. f04 bid. Washington Light
Infantry 1st q, IS ia
National Bang StocKs.-Bank Of Washington. $50
bid. 100 asked. Bank OF the Republic, 300 bid, 30
ASKED Metropolitan, rs bid. $40 asked Central
263 bid. 275 asked. Farmers and Aecimnics, l15
bid. $50 asked. Second, l33 bid. Cittsen'. 11s
bid. Columbia, 126 bid. Capital. 40 bid. 100
asked. West End, 106 bid, ITO asked. Traders,
90 bid 8 6asked. Lincoln, lee bid fO4h asked.
Safe Deposit and Trust Companies. National Safe
Deposit and Trust. l12H bid. 115 esked Washins-
ton Lsan and Trust, l19H Md. Ia asked. Amor
ican 6eeurity ard Trust, 141 bid, l43 asked. wash
Railroad ssocks.ICspital Tnctisa Company. "a
Evening star., 1897-03-09
ARRESTED IN BALTIMORE.
Three Washington Men Who Came to
Grief.
;pltch to The Evening Star.


Special Dispatch The Evening Star.
BALTIMORE. Md, March ?.-Thomas
Sweeney, 4 dealer in bicycles and sundries
at G6 H street northwest, Washington, d.
c., spent last night in cell at the central
station on the charge of impersonaing a
police officer and disturbing the peace. He
vas arrested on Baltimore street near
Harrison. in company with Otto Pearson
and Joseph Brand also of Washington.
All three were locked up over night to
await hearing this morning.
When they were arraigned before Justice
Suitzer of the central police court Sweeney
was found to be wearing badge of The
metropolitan police department of Wash
irgton, and the two men who had been ar
rested with him were placed on the stand
They testified they were in the saloon play
irg pool, when Sweeney came in and ex-
hibted his badge.
He said he was an officer from Wash
ipgton. and told them they were wanted
In that city for stealing two bicycles He
placed them under arrest. but they defied
him and he ran out. They pursued him in
to a house, where he was found hidden
an officer and had him arrested The same
officer took them also into custody When
asked TO explain where he got the badge
Sweeney said it belonged to a private de-
tective of Washington, who is in Balti-
more trying to locate a married woman
Who has eloped from Washington
All three prisoners were released but the
badge Is in the keeping of the police de-
partment.
Evening star., 1897-03-09
JOHN sTETsON's WIDOWs
Trial Begun in Boston to Determine
Adah RichmOnd's Clnim.

BOSTON, March "a trial tc determine
the question whether Adah Richmond is
the lawful widow of John Stetson, the
wealthy theatrical manager and real
estate owner. which will deny or establish
her right to contest Mr.. Stetson's will,
which gives his whole estate to Kate
stokes-Stetson. wa; begun in the supreme
court today.
r. NJ. Merle, counsel for Miss Richmond
(or Mrs. Stetson), in his opening argument,
stated he would show that after persistent
refusals Adah Richmond accepted an offer
of marriage from Mr.. Stetson, and that pa
pers and agreements were drawn up by
which Mr.. StetSon was to give her $4,000
After that the parties went to Catholic
priest in this city to be married. but the
priest declined to marry them without a
license and unless their intended marriage
was published. according to the rules of
counsel, proposed to her that they go to
Providence, where 1t was much easier to
get married, and they went there and were
married.
The Providence minister gave Miss Rich
mond a certificate of marriage, ii is claim
ed, and Stetson proclaimed her his wife and
caused a notice of their marriage to be
published in the newspapers. The certifi-
cate was signed by Luther N. Hanson.
They lived together in Boston after that
for three or four years and that she bore
two children to StetSon.
Evening star., 1897-03-09
WORKING F9R TRUEsDELL.
Those Who WnntetO See Him Reap
pointed dComlnissfoner.

Those Who Wan6stO See Him Reap
pointed Com issiOner.
President Mckinley does not propose 10
hurry in the matter of appointing Commits
sioners for the District of Columbia to
succeed Messrs. Ross and Truesdell.
A prominent citfzen of the District had
talk with Mr.. Mckinley on this subject
Saturday and was told by Mr. Mckinley
that he proposed to deliberately consider
all applicants for fhef efcommissionership and
that it would be some little time before he
would be prepared to'make an appointment.
1t is understood that Mr.. Mckinley win
dispose of a good deal Of urgent business
before he turns his attention to the District
of Columbia. His time is row being taken
up almost exclusively in giving audiences
to his callers and he has but little opportu-
| Hity TO do work that requires careful con-
Sideration.
A delegation called at the Capitol yester-
day. consisting of Messrs John Joy Edison.
S.W Woodward and r. w. Tyler to see Mr.
McMilian, chairman OF the Senate commit
| tee on the District of Columbia, in the in
| terest of the reappointment of Mr.. Trues-
| dell as Commissioner of the District of
Columbia. 1t was stated to Mr.. Mcmillan
| that Mr.. Truesdell has been blamed for
| much for which he is not responsible These
| gentlemen declared their confidence in Mr..
| Truesdell as a faithful Commissioner one
who brought to his work not only con-
| business and executive ability
| There Is not a very strong opposition to
| Mr.. Truesdell in the Senate committee OH
| the District of Columbia. to which commit
| tee his nomination. if made, would be sent
| by the Senate, there being only few mem
bers of 1t who are regarded as strongly an
| tagonistic to the Commissioner The chief
| opposition In the Senate which would be
| met by the nomination of Mr.. Truesdell
| would be found in the committee on an
| propriations. 1t is believed by Mr.. Trues-
| delFs friends that a clear statement of the
| case relating to the electric light contro-
| versy will cause senators who have severe
| ly criticised Mr.. Truesdells course to re-
! frain from bitter opposition to him should
Mr.. Mckinley see fit to renominate him.
Mr.. Myron M. Parker was also at the
Capitol in company with Mr.. Chaplin
Brown. Mr.. Parker introduced Mr.. Brown
| 10 number of senators. and endeavored
| to secure what influence he could for Mr.
| Browns nomination as Commissioner of
the District of Columbia. 1t is understood
that Senator Proctor of Vermont. who is
one of the original Mckinley men in the
| New England states. will champion the
cause of Mr. Brown Mr. Proctor is looked
upon as being very close to President Nc
| kinley.
Evening star., 1897-03-09
Sensational Statement of Chicago
Thief.

CHICAGO. March 9.-Joseph Gordon,
VINO. before Judge Tuthill. entered a pea
of guilty TO rcbbing Christopher Schrage,
a miser, of a large amount of valuable
bonds. has made sensational statement,
in which he charges prominent citizens
with being implicated in the robbery.
Gordon's alle cations Were made to Chief
of Police Badenoch. States Attorney Den
ard Judge Tuthll. These officials ques-
TONED Gordon closely. but failed to break
him down in any particular of the charges.
and 1t is now probable that another
ScErage investigation will be necessary.
The officials, when seen, refused to give
out any names of the prominent men i'm
plicated. They take little stock in the
story. but at the same time they say that
account Of the good reputation of the
men who are drawn into the affair by Cor
dCn's statement, a thorough investigation
will have to be made This investigation
may or may not result in sensational de-
velopmentS.
Evening star., 1897-03-09
D1ssENsloNs OF PoPuLIsTs.
Milton Park Sends "a Significant Lett
to Sennf0r Halter.

Milton Park Sends "a Significant Letter
to Senator Butler.
ST LOUIS, Mo-, March "a special from
Dallas, Texas. says:
Milton Park. populist leader, acting as
chairman of a special committee appointed
for the purpose at the recent Memphis
r.aeting of the National Reform Press As
sociati ton. has mailed to Senator Marion
Butler of North Carolina. national chair
man of the populist party. a letter demand
ing a meeting of the executive committee
on a date not later than May I. 1897 Mr..
Park declines to give the letter out for pub
licat'on at this time, but said:
The letter was written after careful de-
liberation on the part of the Reform Press
Leagues. who are the exponents of he
best thoughts of the party. 1t is respectful
in tone, but positive in statement. Mr.. But
Ter cannot fail to comprehend it's motive.
Its publication. however, at this time would
create widespread discussion. criticism IA
vorable and unfavorable and possibly dis
count or curtail its intended purposes. If
Mr.. Butler does not heed its request we
shall publish it broadcast
The letter is said to be in effect decla-
ration of war on Chairman Buffers policy
and determination 10 fight what is known
as the Bryan democratic element of the
peoples party.
Evening star., 1897-03-09
LEHIGH VALLEY FINANCES.
Drexel & Co. Have Agreed to Make q
General REIMBURSEMENT.

Drexel & Co. Have Agreed to Make q
General Readjustment.
PHILADELPHIA, March 9.-It is Off
cially announced by the trustees of the
Packer estate today that they have ar
ranged with Drexel & Co. to fund for a
period of years the entire Indebtedness of
the estate.
In connection with this transaction Drex-
el & Co. are given the voting power on all
the Lehigh Valley stock controlled by
the estate.
An equally important announcement is
that the Lehigh Valley railroad has con-
tracted with the same firm for a general
re adjustment of the railroads finances 1t
has agreed to create a series of 5000, 600
five per cent bonds. to be secured by ample
urincumbered assets now held by it. OF
these bonds s5OO0,OOO are to he issued
now, and have been sold by Drexef & Co.
and S3.OD,O0O may be issued as needed In
the next two or three years. The company
reserves the right to increase the amount
of the mortgage after 1899 by $l,O0OO O0O
annually for seven years, these last men,
toned bonds to be used to acquire new
property. &C.. all to be subject to the mort
gage.
The $5OO6,OO0 now sold are expected not
Only to pay the entire floating debt of the
railroad company, but also to leave it a
substantial working capital.
Evening star., 1897-03-09
TICKETS OF ADMISSION.
Senator MltchelTs Report as to the
Number aad Disposition.

Senator AI1tehelPs Report as to the
Number and Disposition.
The Senate committee of arrangements
for the Inauguration of the President and
Vice President has made a report relative
to the auditing of tickets for admission to
the Senate galleries on March 4th. The
report made by Senator Mitchell Of Oregon
follows:.
Having been appointed by the commit
tee of arrangements for the Inauguration
of the President and Vice President as a
subcommittee to audit the tickets OF ad-
mission to the Senate galleries delivered to
you by the bureau of engraving and print
ing and by you distributed upon the orders
Of said committee. l hereby certify that
have personally examined the tickets re-
naming and find as follows:
First. There were 100 tickets of admis-
sion to the diplomatic gallery Of the Senate
received by you. You hold the receipt of
the Secretary of State for 60 of these, / was
Cancelled and used at the door of the diplo-
matte gallery as sample on the day of
the inauguration and l find in your pos
session. as they came from the bureau, the
remaining 80.
Second. There were 900 tickets Of ad-
mission to the Senate reserve gallery re-
ceived by you. You hold receipts from the
12a persons designated by the committee
to receive them, l was Cancelled for use at
the door of said gallery, and YOU have in
were received from the bureau.
Third. Fifteen hundred tickets of ad-
mission to the other galleries were received
by you. You were ordered by the commit
tee to distribute 1.1S1 of these. You hold
receipts for LIT of these, and the tickets
allotted to Senator-elect Harris of Kansas.
are in your possession, as he did not arrive
in Washington until after the conclusion of
the ceremonies and sent you no order for
the disposition of the tickets assigned TO
him. Eleven of these tickets were used,
after being cancelled. as samples for use of
the ticket takers at the nine doors of these
galleries and at the two doors Of the Sen
ate wing of the Capitol, and find in your
possession the remaining 30S tickets, as
they were received by you from the bureau
of engraving and printing.
Before the arrangements were finally
determined upon two outside stands in the
Capitol grounds were contemplated by the
committee, each to seat $500 persons, and
tickets were prepared before 1t was found
impracticable to erect these stands. l find
in your possession these 5000 tickets, and
as they are beautiful specimens of the en-
graver's art and much desired as souvenirs.
suggest that you bring the matter to the
attention of the committee on printing, that
they may be adopted as public document
in order that they may be distributed be-
tween the two houses Of Congress in the
usual proportion"
Evening star., 1897-03-09
,Ia. IS asked. MetropolItan. 1oau h,d. llog

bid IS asked, Metropolitan. Ioen hid. itoa
asked. Columbia, Il hid
Gas and Electric I.ighf Stocks. .-washinston Gas.
4}a bid. ssis asked. Georgetown Gas. ~ bid q.
:. Electric Light. Ss,,id. Ss,s asked
Insurance stocks.-Firemea's, - lid. Franklin,
~ bid. Metropolitan 6s hid Corcoran, ss hid
Potomac. 6s hid. Arlington. l2s hid German
American; lss hid. National UnIon iois hid. IL
asked Columbia. llR hid. i3 asked Rls.s ~,
bid. Peoples. 81 hid. asked Isncoln 81. hid
Commercial. Az hid. 5ia asked
Title Insurance Stocks.-Raal Estate Title ~
bid. lo7 asked. Columbia Title. = hid. q asked
Washington Title, asked. District Tf-ie \
asked
Telephone Stocks. Pennsylvania. - bid 30 asked
Chesapeake and Potomac, ~ hid. 6s asked Amer
lean Graphophone, SA bid. ~ asked American
Graphophone. preferred. hid. II asked Pp.si-
matte Gun Carriage, .6s hid. 80 asked.
Miscellaneous -Mergenihal"r Linotype, Iss
bid. f26 asked. l.anston Munotype. hid ~ +,
asked Washington Market 10 bid. Great Falls
Ice, l25 asked.
Evening star., 1897-03-09
THE MAVERICK BANK CASE.
District Attorney Sherman HOar
Brought 1t to an End.

D1SlF1ct Attorney ShermHn HOar
Brought 1t to an End.
BOSTON, March 9.-District Attorney
Sherman Hoar apparently has brought to
an end the famous Maverick Bank case of
six years ago by placing on file the in
dictments found by the United States
grand jury in 1891 against Asa P. Potter,
president of the defunct bank. and Austin
b. Tobey, Irving A. Evans and VIM. S.
Bliss directors of the institution. The in
dictments. it is claimed. were defective
ard every attempt to press them has been
unsuccessful.
The disposition of them by Mr.. Hoar is
merely formal Moreover. ex-President
Potter is now a resident Of New York, and
Evans, who was the head of the State
Street Banking House Of Irving A. Evans
& Co.. which collapsed in the wake of the
Maverick Bank, is dead. having blown out
his braiRs soon after the crash came.
Judge Aldridge of the United States
court has decided to allow an indictment
against VIM. H. Mcneil, ex-president of
the Lancaster National Bank of Clinton,
to stand. Mcneil was charged with rob-
bing the bank in 1885, and, it Is supposed,
fled to Canada.
Evening star., 1897-03-09
RIVERS IN GALEyA STREETS.
Effect of Rains and the Melting o
the SNOW.

CALENA. ILL.,, March ?.-For the third
time in a year the streets in this town
have been turned into rivers. Heavy and
warm rains have melted SHOWS and made
thousands of riyulets feed treacherous
streams The electric Egnt plant which
furnished street illumination and several
manufactures are inundated. The Chicago
and Northwestern railway is blcckaded.
The water is still rising.
DEsS MONIES. Iowa. March Both
rivers have been rising rapidly since last
night. and low lands above the city are
now flooded. The rains still falling in
northern Iowa The ice in the rivers is
at least eighteen inches thick, and IL is
expected that 1t will begin TO move to-
night. II IL does, much damage will Ger
tainly be done to dams and bridges and in
case of gorges the lower parts of the city
would be flooded.
Evening star., 1897-03-09

u New
Prince George CT Greece. second son of
the King of the Hellenes. is said to be in
many respects remarkable young man.
The comniaadant of the Greek torpedo flo
tilla, whose movements on the coast of
Crete are now beirg watched with uni
versal interest. Is not yet thirty years of
age He stands nearly six feet i've inches
and is broad in proportion to his height
Although he weighs some nineteen stone
and is of massive build. his activity is that
of a trained athlete. and many stories are
told of his muscular achievements His
fCndness for wrestling induced him some
years ago. when visiting Russia. to have
a friendly bout with the late car, who
was then In the prime of a splendid man.
hood The emperor found in him pow
erful and resoiute opponent. and ultimately
was forced to yield TO Prince Georges su-
perior strength. His royal highness is de-
voted to the navy. in which he Is at pres
ent taking prominent place. and in pri-
vate life Is a man of quiet. retiring and
stC6ious disposition
Evening star., 1897-03-09
VALUE OF CORN FOR FUEL.
At Nine Cents Bushel II is Chea per
Than Coal at IS a Ton.

A press bulletin of the University of Ne
braska agricultural experiment station
says: The present abundance of corn and
its low price have occasioned much specu-
lation to its fuel value. There is such a
diversity of opinion and little actual
knowledge regarding the profitabeness of
buying corn instead of coal that 1t seemed
desirable to conduct a comparative test
that would show the relative heating power
of the two materials. Whether ii would
pay to raise corn for fuel is a question
not contemplated ip this investigation, but
the interests of the large number of people
living in the region of cheap corn call for
the determination of its most profitable use
after it is upon the market.
To make the test, a good grade of yellow
dent corn. on the ear, of this years crop,
and not thoroughly dry. was burned under
the boiler used to supply power for the de-
partment of practical mechanics. and the
amount of water evaporated by the burning
of known quantity Of corn was noted.
The test lasted nine and one-half hours,
and : 2,32 pounds of corn and cob were con-
Sumed. The next day the same boiler was
heated with screened Rock Springs nut coal
for five hours. burning 1.SSS pounds of coal.
and the amount Of water evaporated was
recorded.
The data thus obtained show that ono
pound of coal evaporated 10 times much
water as one pound of corn In other
words 10 times as much heat was liber-
dteu III DuTHlHs out podiiu VI Codl Us III
burning one pound of corn Several caiori-
meter tests were made, which agreed very
closely with these results.
The coal used cost at Lincoln s6.65 per
ton With coal selling at this price, and
worth 19 times much for fuel as an
equal weight of corn. the fuel value of the
latter would be $3.50 per ton. or 12.2 cents
per bushel. The following table shows how
much coal Is worth per ton when its heat
ing power Is the same that used in the
experiment, and when corn is selling at q
certain price per bushel: