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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-24
Employees as Stockholders.


The policy Of the Illinois Central Rail-
road Company in encouraging its emploves
10 buy stock of the company paying for
the same in installments, seems to have
proved successful in more ways than one
since the employees were invited to become
stockholders, about four years ago, they
have purchased and paid for nearly 2ooo
shares, and partial payments amounting
TO nearly $4,000 have been made on 162.
additional shares. As the shares were Of
Tered to them at par, and as the stock is
now quoted at about IS above par 1t will
be seen that the employees have made a
paying investment.
But more important than any pecuniary
returns to the employees of the coplpany is
the tact that their ownership of the COM
panyS stock will do more than ANYTHING
else to allay possible irritation between
them and the company. Both employer
and employee will discover that their inter
ests are identical, and that they will b.,
equally benefited by any policy that helms
TO strengthen and enrich the road man
VINO owns stock in a company of which he
is an employe is not likely to consort with
those who falsely denounce that companv
as an oppressor, and. on the other hand. a
business concern whose employees hold n
large block of its stock is net likely to
treat those employees with harshness or in
justice. There is little doubt that if the
employees of all the great railways in the
country had been stockholders also. to
however limited an extent, some of the
most costly and disastrous contests be-
tween railroads and railroad men wo,Ii
have been avoided.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-24
FINANCE AND TRADE
Bear Element in Control of New York
Stock Markets
SUGAR GOES OFF -FOUR POINTS
Entire List Suffers in Sympathy
With This Decline.
GENERAL MARKET REPORTS


Special Dispatch TO The Evening Star
NEW YORK, September 24-Today',
market was more professional In character
than any of its recent predecessors and
lower prices were uniformly recorded in
consequence. The chief element of weak
ness grew out of the establishment of Sugar
In Its old-time position of leader. The enor-
nous advance in these shares had inn
pressed upon the minds of professional wall
street the certainty of a day upon which
short selling would become profitable.
The tagging of the general list OF The
early week liquidation suggested the adj
Visibility Of inauguratirg the long-delayed
attack on Sugar During the opening hour
the most bearish enthusiasm was dampen-
ed by an advance of 2l2 per cent i'm these
shares, but the buying not being OF the
best new courage was inspired, and yester-
days attack was resumed with good re-
suits. From 149le the price was almost
uninterruptedly depressed to 1855
This decline was accomplished in tho
face of the treasury's probable decision TO
make all Holland sugars pay the expor,
bounty as provided in the tariff bill. This
sanctioning of the American monopoly
failed TO invite inside support.
Much was heard of domestic competition
ard Hawaiian annexation as undesirable
factors, but the interests creating the
stories were alone in acting upon them.
A large short interest undoubtedly exists
in Sugar. well in the general market.
as The result of this weeks trading. In
all parts of the list the unfavorable results
of Sugars prominence We're noticeable.
The yellow fever scare was credited with
the weakness in the railroad department.
but the largest losses were In roads entire
iy remote from the quarantine districts.
The real reason for the weakness may he
attributed to selling on a large scale by
traders anxious to dislodge poorly mar
gined holdings. The success of the effort
was admittedly disappointing in view of
railroad reports. Earnings, actual and
prospective. continue to be exceptionally
encouraging, and dividend prospects have
rarely been brighter
These facts will prevail ultimately. but
the present is given over TO active trading
with and in opposition to the facts The
market is not pledged to one movement
only.
The market conformed exactly TO pre-
diction for a period of nearly two months.
aEG-its return to irregularity is now due
to well-organized opposition.
Gold shipments are not likely to set in. in
volume for several weeks yet, but this in
centive is only delayed. The margin OF
proht must increase before such move
ment becomes a matter of daily occur
renee. The gold now in transit, however.
was owed 10 local banks, and its return is
in no Sense artificial. All things considered
the present tendency of the market Is
natural, and should make for ultimate
gCCd.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-24
A Curious Family Incident,


There is William Linck in Jefferson
vile. Ind, and another William Iiaek in
Nashville, the latter a well-known hotel
oWn er. and the strange thing is that these
two men, with the same Christian name
are brothers. 1t was not from lack of
names that the Linoks, father and mother
named both children William, but on ac-
count of pathetic incident of which the
two men are the living memorials. The
parents of the two William Lfncks are
dead, but they were well known, not only
in this city, but in Madison and Indian
apolis Before they came to Indiana they
lived in Virginia. and it was there that
the elder William was born to them. He
grew to young manhood, and one day con-
Guided that he could make a fortune in
the far west. To this his parents were op-
posed. and he slipped away from home.
going to California; He never wrote home
and after waiting many years in the vain
hope of hearing from him the parents gave
MIN UP for dead Another son was horn
to them, and the, mother thinking of her
ilrst born, christened the newcomer Will
lam. But. thirteen years after he had
disappeared. William. Linok, MOI. re-
appeared. and was. welcomed, and there
We're henceforth two Williams in the same
family.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-24
NEW OFFICERS OF U. v. |.
Ae1tEncampment at Williamsport, Pa, Sep.
TENDER, 1893.
Resolutions Adopted Expressing Sym.
pathy With Cuba and President
Urged to Stop the War.

COLUMBUS, Ohio. September 2i-The
national encampment of the Union Vet
eran Legion have elected the following Off
GERS for the ensuing year: National COM
mander, Archibald Blakely, Pittsburg;
senior vice commander Ed Spooner Chi
cago; junior vice commander VIM Baird,
Lewiston, Me-; surgeon general Dr. c. NJ.
savage, Columbus, Ohio: quartermaster
general, Thomas ]. Hubbard. Baltimore,
Nd: chaplain in chief. Rev. Chas l.. Sher-
gar, Welisboro, Pa; executive committee
Edward Donnelly, Jersey City; John w
Baker. Pennsylvania; Jos. B. Knox Mas
sachusetts; John D. Sheppard Kentucky:
A. S. Oliver Ohio
A resolution was adopted upon the pen
sion question. 1t provides the following
scale: All persons who served over ninety
days shall each receive s. month and
L cent day for the time they were II.
service. The widows of officers and en-
listed meE who served three years and
over, 81 month; widows of those serving
over two and under three years, $40 a
month"; widows of those serving over ninety
Gays and under two years. IS month.
Inc date of the encampments of the fu-
ture was changed from the second Wednes-
Gay IN october to the second Wednesday in
september. The next encampment will be
held in the city of Williamsport. Pa
resolution was adopted expressing the
greatest sympathy with the struggling
Cubans. and urging that the President of
the United States take such action as may
De necessary to cause a speedy stoppage
OF the outrages, and that all the aid and
comfort that may be possible under the
dictates of the brotherhood of man and
the law of nations, may be afforded the
insurgents of Cuba, and that right speed
n.y.
resolution was adopted to appoint a
committee to urge the Secretary of War
TO include in the printed war records the
i'll treatment of Union soldiers at Ander-
SonVille by Writ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-24
LATE NEWS BY WIRE
Alarming Reports From India Of
Spread Of Bubonic Plague.
MORE DISASTROUS THAN fHE WAR
Withdrawal of Medical Officers to
the Frontier a Misfortune.
TILAK'S APPEAL REJECTED

BOMBAY. September 24.-The latest
health statistics show that the bubonic
plague is again, active. having crept I'M
observed from hamlet to hamlet, until a
wide arsa is affected.
The newspapers assert that the with
drawal of the Medical officers for service
with the troops on the frontier will entail
consequences infinitely more disastrous
than anything happening ON the frontier.
The appeal of G5tngadhar Tilak, the ma
TIVE member of the legislative council and
partner of Eshoo Madow Bal in publishing
the newspaper Kesarl. has been rejected.
Tilak was sentenced to eighteen months
rigorous Imprisonment on September H. for
irciting the natives to dsaffection
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-24
SALES MUST BE BY WEIGHT
Market Masters Advised of Requirements
IL
Upon Dealers in Potatoes.
Attorney for the District Renders an
Opinion That Sales by Meas-
ure Are Illegal.

Hereafter dealers in potatoes will be re-
cutred to sell by weight and not by meas
ure, as is customary.
Recently this matter was called to the at
tention of the Commissioners by the sealer
OF weights and measures, and the attorney
Tor the District was requested to submit
an opinion as to what the law required in
the sale of potatoes. This opinion, which
was recently submitted, says:
Section of the act of Congress approx
ed May 30, 1896, in regard to weights and
measures, provides that when potatoes are
sold by weight, sixty pounds shall consti-
tute bushel. And an ordinance of the
late corporation of Washington, approved
January II. 1867, provides that potatoes
shall be sold by weight, and that sixty
pounds shall constitute a bushel In nv
opinion potatoes, whether sold by the
bushel or in less quantities, must be sold
by weight. The law does not contemplate
one standard for bushel of potatoes and
different standard for less quantities
than a bushel.''
Upon this opinion the sealer of weights
and measures today addressed the following
letter to the several market masters of the
city:
Il have been directing my attention to
many violations of law in matters that
come under my charge. The one [ now de-
sire to call your attention to is the sale of
potatoes in the District of Columbia. 1
nave before me an opinion from Mr..
Thomas, the attorney for the District, that
potatoes must be sold by weight, by the
bushel or in less quantity and sixty
pounds shall constitute hushel.
Il have been ordered to request you to
notify all the people in and around your
market that they must comply to the letter
of the law in the sale of potatoes. under a
penalty of s. fine i'll the Police Court for
each offense. ] trust that this will meet
with your approval, and YOU will take such
steps as you may deem proper to inform
your people and see that they comply with
the law. A reasonable time will be al
lowed them after your notice to supply
themselves with scales
ANY suggestions you may make in line
with my office will have my earnest atten-
uon and hope our mutual cooperation on
this matter will bring about i stric;er COM
pliance with the law"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-24
PREMATURE BURIAL.
Italian Physicians Are Considering
the Matter.


the Matter.
The subject of premature burial is Just
now attracting great interest in Italy, ac-
cording to a report of United States Con-
sui Mantius at Turin. He says that real
iZing that hare is at present no infallble
test that may be applied to prevent the
terrifying cases of persons buried alive, a
Eumber of prominent physicians and lay
men are at work preparing reports on the
subject. These will be made the striking
feature of the medical department of the
Lational exposition next April at Turin.
Reports of a similar kind are expected
from all over the world, as prizes will be
offered Tor the best solution of the prob
lem, and. the consul says, inestimable good
to the cause will result if the people OF the
United States interest themselves in it.
The city of Panama has contracted fer
modern system of waterworks having up
to this time relied upon rainwater cisterns
and bad wells. A Belgian firm has the
contract, which is already under way, and
Consul General Vifquain at Panama, who
reports the fact to the State Department,
says the necessary tearing UP of the streets
and ancient sewers will probably cause an
epidemic of yellow fever
Consul General Pratt at Singapore re-
ports to the State Department that a loan
has been authorized there, to the amount
OF $o,COO.OO0, to begin the construction of
railway system of about $40 miles in length
In the Malay peninsula. He believes that
this Will be an excellent opportunity for
American steelmakers and car and loco
motive builders to secure orders.
The State Department has been notified.
through Its consuls at Carthagena and
Barranquilla, that the Colombian govern
ment has suspended the export duty on
COFFEE, which amounted to SLIGO per 40
POUNDS, ana was war tax.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-24
Washington Stock Exchange.

sales-regular call-12 o'clock m.-Merrentlaler
Linotype 10 at ll1F.; AFTER call McrseHthaler
District OF Columbia Bonds.-20-year fund rs,
lol5e bid , S9-year fund Is gold, IL bid. Water
III bid.
Miscellaneous Bonds.-Metropclitan Railroad IS.
Metropolitan Railroad Certificate Indebtedness.
ll4 bid. liiA asked, Belt Railroad IS, 40 asked
lexington Railroad cs loo asked. Columbia Rail-
road Is, lis bid: Washington Gas Company Is
series a, 10 bid; Washington Gas Company Gs.
series Is. HOY bid u. 5. Electric Light Deentu-c
Imp: los bid. Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
5s. 1o4 bid. American Security and Trust IS. r
IS. A, and o.. 100 lid. Washington Market Com
psny list 6s ITO bid Washington Market Com
pany ext, Is. ITO bid. Masonic Hall AssocIIti5n
National Bank stocks.-Bank Of Washington. ee5
1872 bid Columbia. 1as lid. Capital. lis bid
West End; lo4 bid lo7 asked. Traders, as asked.
Safe Deposit and Trust Companes.-washinst On
Loan and Trust. III bid, 12o asked. Ameri an Sc
s cnrity and Trust, la bid. Washington safe De-
Railroad stocks.-oapItal Traction, x5e hid. 57s
asked Metropolitan. lis bid, ll9 asked colum-
Gas and Electric Light stocks.-washineton Gas.
- bid U. 5. Electric Light. Kill bid, 112s4
Insurance stocks.-Firemen's. 30 bid. Metropoli.
sn; Sy b'd IA National sron II bid r. asked
Title Insurance stocks..zRea Estate Tide. 1io
ton Title. bid. District Title, asked "'"''s
Telephone Stocks.-Pennsylyania. IS bid Chesa-
Graphophone xsSs bid * asked American GRAPH
o ,S Pr ,s 10 bid Pneumatic Gun Car
Miscellaneous Stocks. = hIergenthaler LINOTYPE
xll7& BID. lis asked. Lanston Monotype, liz
Great FANS iee II. Sa re- MARKET aor 10 bid
washington Steamboat. 1904 asked Lincoln Hall,
% las Rske 80.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-24
MRS. LUETGERT's RINGS.
st tIzLl
photographs Relied on to DisprOve
the CharEe OF. Murder.


Photography will be the means used to
convince the jury that the rings offered in
evidehce by the state are counterfeit Be-
tween two and three years ago the missing
woman had some pictures taken and the
rings We're on her fingers at the time. One
of these photographs is in the possession
of the defense, and it is said to show that
the rings of which, the state has made so
much are not hers In the photograph two
rings are plainly shown and their size is
plainly indicated. iH The important fact
brought out by, the picture is that both
rings worn by Mrs. Lietgert were of the
Same size. The rings produced by the state
are dissimilar in almost every respect and
could not possibly be the rings shown in
the photograph. One Of them is a. .plaip
gold band such as is commonly worn as a
wedding ring. The other is what is known
as a guard ring, or a friendship ring, and
Is supposed to have been worn by Mrs
Luetgert to prevent the wedding ring from
coming off the finger. 1t is simply a small,
thin circlet of gold, and originally had a
milled edge. 80 rebuff this testimony, the
state Cannot offer any evidence to show
that Ms Etiatgert did not wear the same
rings the night she disappeared and at the
me time the photograph was taken.
Louis Luetgert, who was a witness for
the state, swore that for three years his
mothers finger had been so large that it
was impossible for her to get her rings
off. The state felt much satisfaction at
the fact that the rings had been, by this
testimony, securely fastened on the wo-
mans finger for a period dating three
years back. This evidence given by the
son of the missing woman, it was said
proveti Deyohd a doubt that the rings could
not have been left a home by Mrs. Luet-
CERT and put in the vat by some enemy of
her husband, as had been suggested. Ac-
eording to the state, therefore, the rings
Mrs. Luetgert wore at the time she dis
appeared must have been those she had on
FER hand at the time the photograph was
taken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-24
KNIGHTS AS VISITORS.
Supreme Lodge Delegates and Officers
h. of p. in Town.

h. of p. in Town.
Delegates to the third annual session of
the Supreme Lodge of the Improved Order
Knights of Pythias. to the number of 800
are visiting Washington today The Su-
preme Lodge has been in session in Ralti-
more during the week, and on invitation of
the District lodges, decided to spend a day
in sightseeing in the national capital. The
party reached the Baltimore and Ohio depot
at Ills O'Clock this morning and was wei
coined by committee representing the
local lodges, of which Jacob Bruager is
chairman. Headed by drum corps, the
knights marched to the Golden Ea gle Hotel.
at the northwest corner of New Jersey ave-
nue. and b street where some of them reg
istered. while the remainder continued on
to Arion Hall, 40 Sth street Carriages
local knights the visitors are this after
noon seeing all that there is to be seen Of
interest about Washington and vicinity
The local knights will entertain the WISH
tors this evening at d banquet to be held in
Arion Hall. Elaborate preparations to in
sure the greatest possible success and en-
Joyment of the affair were in progress This
afternoon. After bountifui spread of good
things are disposed of remarks will be in
order from the officers of the Supreme
Lodge, as we'll as many of the delegates and
local knights. The visitors will depart from
the city on train leaving this city at
late hour tonight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-24
WORK ON THE wARsHIps.
REPORTS Received by the Navy De-
= partment From the Various Yards.


According to reports received at the
Navy Department from the various ship
yards where naval work is in progress,
with the exception of four torpedo boats
last ordered, good Roadway is being made
with all the ships under construc ton.
These four boats are distributed among
the Herfeshoffs, Harlan & Holdings worth,
Wolff & Zwcker and the Gas Engine and
Power Company, and while the actual
work of construction upon them has not
begun, much has been done in the gather
Ing of material to start the work. OF the
big ships, the battle ships Kearsarge and
Kentucky, at Newport News, are Al per cent
advanced toward completion. The battle
ships Illinois, Alabama and Wisconsin
We're ordered later, and they are not so
for the Illinois, at Newport News; y per
per cent for the Wisconsin, at the Union
iron works.
Only one gunboat is now being built
namely, the Princeton, at Dialogues yard
in Camden, and this is 80 per cent adj
yanced toward the end. The queer sub
marine boat. the Plunger being built at
the Columbian iron works, is going on
slowly. probably because the plans are
entirely novel, and the work is more or
less, experimental. The state of work on
the torpedo boats IS as follows: Rodgers
96 per cent; Winslow, 81 per cent; Rowan,
50 per cent; Dahlgren, per cent; Craven.
per cent: Farragut, 6 per cent; Davis, 80
per cent: Fox, 45 per cent; Talbot, 10 per
cent; Gwin, 10 per cent: Mackenzie 46 per
cent, and Mckee Is per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-24
HAS SAILED FOR ALASKA.
Lieut.. Col. Randall Departs With :,
Detachment for St. Michaefs.


Detachment for st. Michaefs.
A telegram was received at the War De-
partment today from Lieutenant Colonel
Randall, at Seattle, Wash, announcing his
departure on the steamer Humboldt for st.
Michaers at clock last night. The party
consists of thirty-two men, all told, includ-
ing Lieutenant Colonel Randall, First Lieut..
Walker and Second Lieut.. Bell of the Sth
Infantry, and Assistant Surgeon Edie with
three hospital stewards from the Preside,
San Francisco, and twenty-five private sol
diers from Fort d. A Russell, at Chey-
enne. They will establish a temporary
military post at ST. MichaeIs.
All manner of suggestions, mostly more
or less cranky" are coming to the War
Department, looking to the establishment
of winter communication with Dawson.
They include locomotives, patent sleds, ele
waited roads and everything except balloons
that will afford a means of locomotion over
the snowbound Chilkoot pass.
A Boston firm has come forward with an
offer to deliver large quantity of food
supplies at Dawson for lump sum. They
propose to make use of new route, name
ly, via Copper river, which lies well to the
westward of Chilkoot pass, and assert that
this passage is far superior in point of
practicability for horses to any other.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-24
SOLDIERS FOR KLoNDIKE
Colonel Randall and Twenty Five Men to
Sail on Humboldt.
They VIII Establish Camps at st.
bian Frontier to Aid Miners.

SEATTLE, Wash. September 24.--Sol-
diers and civilians mingled together in a
busy crowd on the dock where preparations
were being made for the sailing Of the
steamer Humboldt for st. MichaeFs. Alas
ka. Lieut.. Col. Randall WITH mis- twenty
five men from Fort Russell. looked fit to
cope with the rigors ana nardsnips of the
winter confronting them in the Yukon.
The company had an outfit of $50 tons of
stores and provisions. Besides the baggage
OF the soldiers, the Humboldt carried 400
tens of steamboat machinery and provis-
ions and 10000 feet of lumber.
Lieut.. Col Randall, before leaving, said:
The intention of the American govern
rlent is to aid miners as much as possible,
and If this entire detachment is responsible
for the relief of one worthy American,
shall feel that the mission to the north has
not been without satisfactory results.
AT st. Michaefs the troops will be joined
by Capt. Ray, who has been there several
weeks
A part of the detachment will be sta
toned at St. Michaers, and The rest will
go up the river, being stationed near the
Alaskan British Columbia boundary
In an interview, United States District
Attorney burton +. Bennett of Alaska said /:
Il have been quoted as saying that the
greatest hardshlps to be encountered by
the northern argonautS would he met on
White Pass. when, as d matter CT fact, 1t
Will not porbably occur on he pass be-
cause they will hurry ove- in good wealth
err As matter of fact, 60 not believe
that 10 per cent of Those who so into the
ukon country will ever realize their an
ucipated fortunes. The majority will re-
turn to civilization after having spent
what little money they could get together
and with their constitutions broken"
massachusetts Party for kIondike
CHICAGO. September .X.-Twelve argo-
nauts from Massachusetts left Chicago last
night en- route to the Klondilse C. c. Ell
wood, Il British Columbia mining expert,
is at the head of the gold seekers