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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-03
WELL-KNOWN TO THE POLICE.
George Sheldon of Denver Did Time
in san Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 3-George Shell
don. who figured in yesterdays dispatch
from Denver. is well known to San Fran
cisco police On November -, 1891 he
was crested by Detective Egan on two
charges of petty larceny, and on a con-
viction, was sent to the house of cor-ec-
tlOn for eight months.
Shortly after ,he news of the tragedy
reached police headquarters a handsome
woman. who gave her name as "F'lossie
O'BrIen.' visited the Office of Chief Lees
and handed him the following telegram
addressed TO her. "Billy Is dead. Lei me
know what tC do. George sheldon
The woman said that Brien was her
husband. but she denied that he had been
shot. OBrien subsequently visited police
headquarters and llughingly asked that
the report of his tragic death be denied
He was unable 10 account for the teles
sen; 10 his wife. except 10 say ne believed
Sheldon had ConfounGed him with a ma me
sake. who was in this city some months
ago and was known as clever crook
W neither or not he is the dead burglar
. Brien was unable to say.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-03
Congress. of Naval Architects.

Naval Constructor D. w. Taylor, attach
ed to the construction bureau here, has
submitted to the Navy Department report
upon the international congress of naval
architects and marine engineers, which he
attended as the delegate of the Navy De-
partment early last month, in London.
There were represented, besides Great
Britain and the United States, the follow
ing countries: Argentine. Austro- Hungary,
Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, France,
Germany. Holland, Italy, Japan, Norway,
Russia, Spain and Sweden. Mr.. Taylor
says the congress brought together the
leading naval architects and engineers of
all Europe. AS the representative of the
Navy Department he was made to feel that
the officials and members of the institution
of naval architects considered it a COM
pliment that the department should be rep
resented at their congress, and were anx-
ious to show their appreciation by accord
ing him distinguished consideration and
the most hospitable treatment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-03
More Medals of Honor.

medal of honor has been awarded Capt.
Chas. McAnally, Soldiers Home, Virginia.
AT Spottsylvania, Va, May 12 1864, this
oincer' then lieutenant in the 69th Penn
sylVania volunteers, in hand-to-hand en-
counter with the enemy, captured a flag,
being wounded in the act. but continued
on duty until he received a second wound,
and in the official report of this battle he
was mentioned for gallantry by his regf-
mental commander
A medal has also been awarded Col.
smith II. Hastings. At Newby's Cross
Roads, Va, July "a, 1888 this officer, then
captain. 9th Michigan Cavalry. COM
cavalry division. then retiring. before the
advance OF a corps of infantry. was at
tackled by the enemy, and, orders having
been given to abandon the guns of a sec
tion OF field artillery, with the rear guard
fhat sn,. were la. IN imminent danger Of capture
received, aided in repelling the attack and
In saving the guns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-03
HOT AND DRY IN KANSAS.
In Some Sections the Corn Crop fs
burnt Up.

TOPEKA, Kan, Aug 3.-The weekly re-
port of United States Department of Agri-
culture for the Kansas section issued to-
day says: 1t has been a very hot week
all over the state. with temperatures pass
ing the 100 ma rk and hot winds over most
of the state. In many counties, particu-
larly in the middle division of the state.
the corn crop has been greatly reduced and
i'll some is entirely gone.
Barrier county reports that the corn crop
Is almost complete failure.
BLLier-Everything needing rain very
bad ard the corn crop is all but ruined.
HaiNey-Ihe unpreCede ented drought OF
hIty-four days continues: corn is now be-
yono recovery and d failure
haiper-Hottest and driest week of the
season Corn burned up beyond recovery.
ottaTd-Hot winds fer the last three
days have blasted all hopes for a corn
crop IN the central and southern part
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-03
Personal Mention.

Lieutenant F. w. Winston, 9TH Artillery,
is in the city on sick leave Of absence.
Major VIM. p. Hall, assistant adjutant
general, has taken his family to Narragan-
sett for the summei.
Professor S. M. Ely, principal of Van
Buren, public school, Anacostia, has re-
turned from a visit to Watkins Glen and
various other resorts.
Commissioner Forman of the internal
revenue bureau has gone to his home in
East st. Louis, ILL.,, for two or three weeks.
During his absence Deputy Commissioner
Wilson will be in charge of the office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-03
NEGRO SHOT FROM AMBUSH.
Complaint of Lawlessness i'm Baldwin
County, Ala.

Complaint of LawleSsness i'm Baldwin
County, Ala.
MOBILE, Ala, August 3.-Last Thursday
Ransom. Russell, colored mill hand, was
shot from AMBUSH near Stockton, Baldwin
county, Ala, and he alleges his assailant
was a white man named Rome Taylor
Complaint was made to the justice of the
peace of that locality, and he took no no.
tee of the crime, and Sheriff Booth was
also notified, it Is claimed, but he ap-
peared Indifferent Saturday the Christian
Craft Company of this city, for whom the
negro was working, brought letter to the
governor calling his attention to the law
nessness existing in that section of the
&C untry, saying there had been a great deal
OF 1t of late to their detrment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-03
MIR. POWDERLY QUALITIES.
He Assumes Charge Of the Immigra-
tiOn Bureau.


Mr.. Terrence v. Powderly of Pennsyl-
vania, formerly master workman OF the
knights Of Labor. today took the pre-
scribed oath and received his commission
as commissioner general of immigration,
succeeding Mr.. Herman Stump of Mary
land. There were present Mr.. A. w.
Wright, formerly member Of the executive
board, knights Of Labor. and several other
friends of the commissioner general and
officials of the Treasury Department. In
answer to inquiries, Mr.. Powderly said he
had formulated no particular plans or
policy for the administration of his office
impartial Interpretation of our immigration
laws and believed that every proper effort
should be made to keep out all undesira-
BILE classa3. To that end he would use
means to prevent their embarkipg for this
country, thus saving them the needless
expense and hardships Of the trip.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-03
KNIFE WOUND IN HIS HEART.

stephen Caspar Lives Twenty-Four
Hours Under Remarkable Conditions
BETHLEHEM, Pa. August 3.-The post
mortem examination made on the body of
Stephen Gaspar. the Hungarian murdered
by Andrew Smaydo. showed that Gaspar
lived for more than twenty-four hours with
a wound three-eighths of an inch wide in
his heart.
Smaydo's knife went clean through one
of his victims ribs. In the left lung cav
ity there was a clot of blood weig hing
three rounds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-03
BRITISH LOSSES LIGHT.
Six Thousand Tribesmen Were Re-
pulsed i'm Relief of Chakdara.

BOMBAY, August 3.-It is announced in
dispatch from Simla, the summer resi-
dence of the British-Indian government
that the combined casualties of the garri-
son of Fort Chakdara in the Chitral dis
trict, which was relieved yesterday, and
the relieving force under Gen. Blood, only
amounted to Lieutenant Rattray wound
ed, seven native British soldiers killed and
thirty-five wounded.
The loss of the insurgent tribesmen who
were besieging the place is not stated. Six
thousand tribesmen with scaling ladders
were preparing to attack the fort when
they were attacked by the first British col
umn. under Col. Meiklejohn, and completely
routed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-03
MAYOR SCOTT OFF TO ALASKA.
ResiSncd His job at Springfield ts
BecOme Gold Hunter

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal. Aug. 3.-The
steamer Noyo will sail tomorrow morning
with l4o passengers for Dyea. Alaska OF
the passengers already booked ten are
women who will make the journey over the
CbiIkoot Pass TO the KlOndyke gold fields
Two others are Mayor A. c. Scott of
Springfield, H., and bis son. Mayor Scott
has resigned his office to seek fortune
in the frozen nOrth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-03
secretary wil.on,. xacassou.

Secretary Wilson Of the Department of
Agriculture left yesterday on "a three
weeks vacation. accompanied by Miss Will
son, who will spend the month Of August
at Spirit Lake, Iowa. Secretary Wilson
will spend week in Iowa and then will
make trip through the northwest for the
purpose OF personally investigating the
agricultural conditions there, as recently
outlined in The Star
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-03
LUCKY BALDwIN,s BIG MORTGAGE
His Property is Now Incumbcred for
the Total of $2,42O,OOO.

t"c 1Ot1I OI $.,f<U,OOU.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, August Be. ].
Baldwin, better known as Lucky Baldwin,
the millionaire hotel man and race horse
breeder, has executed a mortgage for $50.
600 in favor of the Hibernia Loan Savings
Society.
The mortgage covers Mr. Baldwin's en-
tire estate, including his hotel, ranches
and property of every nature and descrip-
ton. 1t is above and exclusive of all pre-
vious mortgages to the society," which in
the aggregate reaches S2,420,0OO, bearing
6l2 per cent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-03
Discharged for L.cL :. Funa...

Discharged for Lack Of Funds.>
The shortage Of funds in the Department
Of Agriculture has caused the furiough for
an indefinite period OF twenty persons con-
nected with the bureau of statistics and on
the laborers' roll and the discharge of half
a dozen more. These changes took effect
August /. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-03
WILL FLY NEXT SUNDAY.
william Felts Has Tested His Aero
planes on Pixies Peak

planes on Pixies Peak.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, August B.
William B. Felts. who recently made the
statement that he would fly from the sum-
init Of Pixies Peak to Cameron's Cone and
thence 10 Colorado Springs, has made a
thorough test Of his aeroplanes and flying
apparatus. The daring young man had
some doubts as to how the altitude might
anect the working Of his wing-like mech
anism, and to satisfy himself he took his
aeroplanes to the summit of the mountain
for trial. The atmosphere was found to
be of sufficient density to support Mr.
Felts, and he declares that on Sunday he
VIII be able to carry out his promise to the
letter.
The air line distance from Pixies Peak
summit to- Colorado Springs is thirteen
miles. and the proposed trip is regarded as
extremely hazardous.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-03
A. Military profes.or.

BY direction of the President. Lieut. Geo.
W. Cole 9TH Cavalry. has been detailed to
duty as military professor at the Western
Military Academy. Upper Alton, ILL.,, re-
lieving Lieut. William A. Campbell, 22d
Infantry, who is ordered to join his regi-
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-03
REPLY TO THE SHERMAN NOTE.
Mr. Cur.On Says the Foreign once
fs Preparing One.

LONDON, August 3-The parliamentary
secretary for the foreign office, Mr. George
N. Curzon. replying in he house of COM
mons today to question put by Sir Chas.
w. Dixie. advanced radical, as to whether
her majesty's government would at once
publish Secretary Sherman's dispatch of
May 10. and any reply thereto, said papers
were in preparation which would include
the Dispatch mentioned and the reply
madeto it. but, MIR. Curzon added, the gov
ernment did not think 1t desirable to pub
lfsh the two dispatches alone, because they
must be published in conjunction with the
previous correspondence on the same SUBJ
ject.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-03
WHISKY PEDDLER MURDERED.

Make Indians of -.Iaska Supposed to
BE the Perpetrators.
u NEAC, Alaska, July 31.-Per steamer
Queen--News has been received of the
murder of an Illicit whisky seller on Prince
of Wales Island. between Tolska and
Wales bay. His body found in his
cabin and cbse by his slocp lay scuttled
IL Is thought that he was murdered for
MS money by the Indians. The Kdke In
dians live IN the vicinity and are the same
tribe that year or two ago put TO death
a woman for being witch
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-03

Persons leaving the city for any
period can have The Star mailed 70
them 10 any address In the United
States or Canada. by ordering u at
this office. In person or by letter.
Terms: II cents per week: 25 cents
for two weeks. or 80 cents per
month. Invariably In advance Sub
scribers changing their address from
one Post-office to another should
give the last address as well as the
rev one
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-03
COMANCHE CHIEF KILLED.

QuHnnnh Parker Murdered and Rob-
bed by Outlaws i'm oklahoma.
PERRY, o. T, August 3.-News reached
here from Altu, in the extreme southwest
ern portion of Oklahoma, that outlaws kill
ed Quannah Parker. chief of the Comanche
Indians and one of the most noted Indians
of the territory.
Chief Parker was returning from Texas
with 300 members of his tribe and was en-
camped at the mouth of North Fork creek
The chief was engaged in a game of cards
when he was killed by an outlaw and rob-
bed of his money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-03
To Mark Examination Papera.

Secretary Gage has appointed W. s. Stet-
son Of the Office of the auditor for the In
terror Department, J. .. Kern Of the Office
Of the auditor for the War Department,
and George r. Wales of the civil service
commission board to examine and mark
the papers of the candidates who partici-
pated In the competitive examination for
the Office of chief law clerk In the office
Of controller of the treasury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-03
TIRED OF LIFE AT THIRTEEN.
George Young, n Mere Lad, Hangs
Himself ut Akron, Ohio.

AKRON, Ohio, August 3.-Geo. Young.
thirteen-year-oid SON of a respected family
of this city, committed suicide this morn
ing by hanging himself with a rubber hose
The determination of the lad to end his life
was shown by the position in which the
body was found.
The hose was a small one used for filling
bottles, and had stretched; but the boy
pulled up his feet and slowly strangled to
death. No cause has been ascertained why
he took his life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-03
Naval Oraers.

Ensign e. H. Watson has been ordered to
the Detroit. relieving Ensign J. r. Y.
Blakeley, who is ordered home and granted
leave Of absence until September !.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-03

Government Receipts.
National bank notes received today for
redemption. $l44.4 .430 Government receipts
From customs. 1911. III; Internal revenue.
$2OAS49; miscellaneous. S125.42O
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-03
Naval Movements.

The monitor Monadnock has arrived at
Mare Island. Cal. and the torpedo boat
Gushing sailed from New York yesterday
for Newport.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-05-31

reduced. and cuts in wages ranging from
Il 10 % per cent. were announced ABOUT
. o'clock Yesterday workmen on me nrst
floor were called into the office and re
ceived their notices. They hung ABOUT
awhile. Finally it became known tle OF
ders of dismissal were quite general
Each floor and each department. was re-
Heved of a goodly proportion About the
time the men from the hitting dePdIShsh
were being called. some one rushed mo
the fitting department and called OUT:
The ripper is passed.
Everyone wanted 10 know Wneh' ana lle
man yelled out: Just now, down IN the
office" Just al that time several men
from the department. who had then re-
ceived their notices. returned, followed by
about 200 others of the untortunates.
They ran up the stairs and in moment
the big picture of the President was sent
TO the floor. Crash went the glass ne
frame was jerked apart. 2n<,ie Dig PIC
ture was grabbed by hundred hahGs. II
was torn into shreds and cast about on
the floor. simultaneously the picture OF
me advance agent and the smoking rae
tory was pulled down. II met similar
fate. In hardly more time than it takes
10 tell il, all the banners, pictures GIT
emhIems. etc. were jerked from their
fastenings and totally destroyed 1heh
the men dispersed, crying:
Bryan was the real thIng' we were
Now the John Dalzen Republican club
is 10 be transformed into a Democratic
organization.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-05-31
CoIID>,r KNOCK IT OUT.

A contemporary calls attention TO the
strange case of the Rev. T. H. Hanna,
Of Plantsville. Conn, who through a
recent accident has laid the founda-
ton for a new variety of love story.
Mr.. Hanna loved and was beloved by
a modest and pretty girl Of the quiet
Connecticut village of Plantsville,
where the young clergyman had found
his spiritual life-work. One afternoon
some weeks ago, possibly on his way
to his sweetheart, he was thrown from
his buggy to the ground, falling upon
his head. When he recovered con-
sciousness under the ministrations Of
friends who found him senseless by the
roadside, his memory was a blank.
He did not know his parents, he had
forgotten his Bible, reading and writing
were lost arts to him-he is now being
taught again, like a little child.
Even his sweetheart's name and
face had become strange to him, but
it is right here that compensation
came in for the Reverend Mr. Hanna.
When that fair young maiden was
brought before his eyes, he immedi-
ately fell deeply in love with her again,
pathetically ignorant of the fact of his
previous attachment for her. His sec
ond wooing is now under full Roadway,
the strange feature of a strange case,
and the love story of the pair, in its
astounding second edition, is now the
talk of the wondering village wherein
its scene is laid.
Two Yale professors interested in
the case declare that its remarkable
development is due TO the fact that
there was a natural foundation for
Mr. Hanna's love, and that therefore
it readily asserted itself afresh after
The mental lapse" Certain Theoso-
phists equally interested announce
that this second attachment is proof
that "the match was made in heaven
which is about the same as the Yale
verdict. What will chiefly interest the
general public, however, is the fact
of the unusual happiness enjoyed by
the preacher in being enabled to fall
in love twice with the same girl, and
also the proof thereby offered of the
truth of the world-old belief that when
a Young man once gets his mind set on
winning a certain young woman,
there's no use trying to knock that idea
ont of his head-it's there for keeps.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-05-31
THE nlcycLE AND HrALTH.

Reports of deaths from bicycle riding
are getting to be not unusual feature
of the news of the day. Quite fire.
ouentlv of late reports of the sudden
deaths from this cause of prominent
men have come over the wire. Most or
these have been afflicted with heart
disease and have been stricken while
climbing steep grades. OF course, this
has raised in many quarters howls
against the bicycle as a deadly play
thing that only the most robust ath-
letes can safely use. This is quite as
absurd. as the Washington Post points
out. as the notion of the opposite eX-
tremist that the wheel is necessarily
wonderful promoter of health and lon
gevity. Violent exercises Of any kind
&c not good for the average cOnstitu-
ton. Persons who have organic dis
eases of any description should not I'M
dertake TO rush a bicycle up a steep
grade. A person whose heart or lungs
are defective has no reason to hope for
immunity in such exercise. No rep
utable physician would advise or fail
to warn against such a risk.
The truth as TO the wheel and the
health of those who ride it is that it is
good If properly used. In many cases
it has been a substantial aid in the
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-05-31
CHAN MKINLEYIsM a BAR.

Mckinley in his effort 10 distribute
aims instead of justice to the starving
Americans in Cuba will meet as his
strongest opponent his own shadow in
the shane of the fearfully high Cuban
tariff. which will so tax that $4,000
worth of provisions that there will be
little left to distribute to our fellow
citizens in the island. whom Butcher
Weyler is starving to death right I'M
der our noses and in plain violation
of our treaty rights.
If Mckinley had an American back
bone and wasn't owned by the trusts
who are afraid of the effect an Amer
lean policy would have on their stocks,
he would long ago have sent man
of-war to the relief of our citizens in
the island. who are being wrongtull%
denied their rights by the Spanish ty-
rant. That would do more good than
a paltry boatload of provisions, which
NAV be eaten up in taxes at the GUS
tom house, and the good accomplished
would be of a permanent character,
and something which the American
people might be proud OF.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-05-31
DIED..

GA1S-Sunday morning. May 20. 1897,
at 200 o'clock. Mary \. wife Of George
W. Gaus. in her 39Jh year.
Funeral services at family residence
No. a Eighteenth street. on Tuesday af-
ternoon al o'clock Friends of family
respectfully invited to attend. Interment
private at Peninsula cemetery.
PAULUs-sunday MAY 20. 1897; at . p.
m. George Paulus, aged g years, months
and &c days.
Funeral notice hereafter.
FRAZIER-Fridav, May %. 1891 at
o'clock a. m. Maria l.. relict OF the late
Robert Frazier. in the list year OF her age.
Funeral from her late residence. No. 1920
Foff street. Monday afternoon at o'clock.
Interment al Mt. Olivet cemetery. Friends
OF the family invited TO attend.
AUTH-Friday. May %. 1897. at 40
o'clock D. m. Catherine. wife Of the late
Valentine Auth, in her SD year.
Funeral from the residence Of Isadore
Bauman Caldwen's Run. Sunday after
noon at > o'clock. Interment at Mt. Cal
vary cemetery. Friends of the family are
invited 10 attend
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-05-31

A Southern newspaper ventures to
predict that Mr. Bynum's lecture tour
will not pay. Our contemporary is way
of the track. Bynum is being paid
a large. juicy salary as manager Of the
National Democratic" party which is
nothing but a decoy TO draw support
from the regular Democracy in the in
terest of Wall St. which fOots the
bills. Bynum's lecture tour is part Of the
plan 20 split the Democratic party. By
mum poses as a Democrat, but he is sim
ply an agent of Wall Street. He has a
soft thing Of il. BY the way would
it not be more seeming for these gold
Democrats" TO call of Bynum before
they begin 10 talk about harmony?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-05-31
EWING BROS.

development of strength and vitality.
There are scores of men and women
who are healthier and happier, more
useful in their families and in society
than they would have been if the bicycle
had not been invented. They have used
and not abused it. On the other hand
there are men and women and boys
and girls whose health has been SER
iously and. in some instances, irrepar-
ably injured by excessive or injudicious
bicycling. Like all other good things
the wheel may be perverted from
blessing TO a curse.