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The Washington bee., 1897-10-30
THE MATRON,

Mrs. Mary J. Brown is Washington
nian and a lady of refinement, who
should be recognized next to the sur
geon-ln-chief, no mention is made of
her, nor does she occupy single line
as to what she has done as matron of
the hospital.
Miss Sarah c. Ebersole, superintend-
ent of the training school, which is not
recognized by Congress, occupies five
pages in the chiefs report, which could
have been made in one. She starts off
by telling the number of persons who
have made application, the number
rejected, and concludes with long set
OF rules and regulations
Just why white woman, called a
superintendent of the training school,
that is not recognized by Congress,
should cover five pages in preference
to the real head Of the hospital, the
matron, the BEE is unable to state.
This was no doubt an oversight of
the surgeop-in-chief that will, no
doubt, be corrected in his supplement-
ary report to the Secretary of the Inte-
rior. The BEE is confident that DR..
Williams does not mean for the public
to infer that an unauthorized officer
should be placed over one who is rec.
ognized by Congress. 1t is not be-
lieved that DR.. Williams is aware that
the unauthorized superintendent of the
training school is very distasteful tc
the colored nurses and colored physi
clans who visit the hospital, and thai
her manner towards the colored nurse:
is not at all refined. The BEE is con.
fident that the surgeon-in-chief mean:
to make his colored help, who is supe'
rior to his white superintendent of the
training school, subordinate to wo
man whose position is not recognized
by Congress. In speaking of
THE INTERNEs,
the doctor says, "These officers, con
sisting of capable young graduate:
from the various medical schools O
the country, have greatly aided in the
work of the hospital, relieving the
surgeon-in-chief of many lighter du
ties which would otherwise have de
manded time greatly needed in the
discharge of the executive affairs o.
the institution"
If reports are true, DR.. Williams Is
being imposed upon, and while he Is
doing all he can to help the young ply
sicians, he ought to know that the live:
of the patients are too precious to bs
practiced on by inexperienced young
men.who have or are studying the pro
fession.
The Washington bee., 1897-10-30
HE FREEDMEN'S HOSPITAL.

THE SUPERINTENDENT OF TRAINED
NURSES OCCUPIES FIVE PAGES,
WHILE THE MATRoN is NOT NO.
TICED-A WHITE WOMAN IN A BLACK
INSTITUTION PLACED AT THE HEAD.
The report of the superintendent of
the Freedmen's Hospital, which the
BEE failed to state last week, contains
the following statement concerning the
training school for nurses
"The training school for nurses, un-
der the management of its efficient
head, has rendered excellent service
during the year in the care of the sick
and in looking after the wards"
During the year there have been
4Ie surgical operations of various kinds
performed, ETC., with mortality of
2.I4 per cent.
The Washington bee., 1897-10-30

l.. v,dge Over was appointed as
Is5ist .s5 81 in the Recorders office last
E: 535''''
l., william Evans who has been
/ ls, =, some time is improving.
|-..,sisa new candidate in the field
u.s., D'o..o,arintendent of the colored
ools.
l.. rnmored marriage of DR.. Daniel
TIliams. of.the Freedmen's Hos
/. is the social talk.
!. lanes Hunt, of AS X street n. W,
a'' ':5opnricted in the police court
E,,,Jsy. charged with selling whis-
4 aitbout a license. Lawyer t. l..
made an eloquent and logical
I'm, in defense of his client, and
t-rf Attorney Pugh was equally
sdire.
f. Phil. B. Brooks will leave for
imore, Nd, to-day.
II, l. H. Harris, of South Washing
/ Eeens Cne of the best drug stores
That section.
The Washington bee., 1897-10-30

Ii siore the issuance of another BEE,
Fl vinians will be called on to exercise
nght of franchise again. We hope
yWill do so according to the die
of their own good judgment.
reyer, the democrats, as usual, Will
nph, and as long as the hungry
seekers and employment hunters
smpt to run the State, regardless OF
wishes and actions of the regular
,bican organization, the democrats
ii win in Virginia. While it is, and
avs was, a hopeless task to do any
n rg in the State of Virginia outside
4 he regular republican organization,
to those who expect anything OF
n great and grand political pageant
Easarted at LynChburg on the 5th OF
|to5er, and that will forever conclude
@Ea the defeat on November I'd, are
ssy mistaken indeed, from the fact
Ii the administration will certainly
Ind BY those who stood by them,
Emghwe did not carry Virginia for
Chlnley.
The regular republican organization
b afford to, and Justly afford, to con-
dd the firm supporters of the Lynch
. .ug convention Inimical to the inter
Is Of republicans of Virginia, and to
\ that it is becoming to republicans
SyWhere in the old mother State to
81 their ballots for the legislative
Slildates who will vote against the
aOzious election law, known as the
alton law, regardless of politics, is
\ voice the sentiment of all good re-
1iCanS of the Old Dominion.
Rev. Alexander Truatt will preach a
tdal sermon to the Evening Star
lbto-morrow Sunday evening.
The educational meeting of the Shi-
Baptist Church Wednesday even
twas success in every sense of the
I'm. Addresses were delivered by
x !, NJ. Hopkins, Mr.. E. J. Webster,
u Daniel Lane, Rev. George Dixon,
q Rev. II. II. Waring, pastor of the
fgrCh.
Nj: Daniel Spriggs, who has been
Aior some time, is much improved.
Amovement is on foot to change the
.lsItutlon of the First Baptist Church
F'hday School.
g339Ce-SeekerS are very numerous,
u lev are being landed.
lue hallowell School is very much,
proved \. under the principalship o
FcS ~ L. K. Cabaniss. the wife of DR..
soanlSS, and praises are numerous
va parents and pupils.
= ne First Baptist Church and Rob-
~ Nhapel NJ. E. Church will COM
''Oe revlyaiS in the near future.
,a Mss Lilly Truatt will leave for Char
,.S9ie ,..ssylIie soon to resume her work as
'|leF In that vicinity.
,,... another minister is about to give
,i ,,i daughter here. This is GER
+, ,'! n very fortunate place for minis
g.,s, s@no have daughters, and also min
5r;5 H. negro, as usual in Alexandria,
~'loed politically.
,,,oru. ,, Mn' A. Mcdowell is home on
'''ant Of sickness.
asei.5sa ! sss fair; under the auspices of the
4 cislor cio Club, at Odd Fellows Hall,
Z, Used: Used The success, financially,
n oo1.s oroa1u.sslactory. This organization
Is C.'unue 1oAunue their efforts to raise the
tsf,f =! n LI'lent on the pews given to Ro-
N"dpel NJ. E. Church..
s5e mort to locate the subscribers
h bonoEE nEE viii be commenced Monday.
aS.ci5Se nose who are favorable to a
'Ghon,s sS race journal will subscribe
The Washington bee., 1897-10-30

E. Murray, al oOo and Coz sd street
southwest is the best Afro-American
confectioner in the city and equal to
all others. His cream cannot be sur
passed. Mr.. Murray has every facility
or making good cream and cakes.
The Washington bee., 1897-10-30

If you want frst-class fried oysters
don't fail to go to the Holmes Hotel
333 Virginia avenue S. W. Mr.. Holme
IS one Of the best known men in thi
CITY. Everything first-claSs.
The Washington bee., 1897-10-30

Mr.. G. w. SANFORD, dealer in all
kinds of fresh fish, can be found IN the
Center Market, stands 42S to 432. He
is one of the jollIest men in the busl-
ness and one of the most reasonable
The Washington bee., 1897-10-30

Mr.. ]. R. Cow, the shoe man, at
1888 14th street, northwest, is no doubt
the best and cheapest place in that
section of the city. Ifyou want cheap
and good shoes, don't fail to call at
his place of business.
The Washington bee., 1897-10-30
GOOD WORK DONE.
From the Weekly Express.1

From the Weekly Express.l
The Colored American and WASH
INGToN BEE have made a long-range
fight for republican triumph in Mary
land and Ohio, which has attracted the
attention of the country. The Express
pulls its hat to the warriors. Noble
fellows.
The Washington bee., 1897-10-30
ALEXANDRIA NEWS.

h. A. Carter, Agent and Cores
nondent of WASHINGTON BEE.
627 South Asaph St.
Ian orders for advertisements, job
|r,ing. or news notes will be care
II attended to, if sent to the above
|iress.)
The Washington bee., 1897-10-30

Mr.. James Ryan at 331 c street
southwest is we'll known in the South
west. Mr.. Ryan is very much liked on
account of his liberality to the poor
people.
The Washington bee., 1897-10-30

DR.. Brooks is the most eminent col
ored physician in South Washington,
and who has larger practice than any
other physician in that section.
The Washington bee., 1897-10-30
KEEP COOL BY TAKING
A LAKE TRIP

Visit Picturesque Mackinac, the is
land of cool breezes. Travel 0ia the
ID. & {. Coast Line. Send 2 cents for
illustrated pamphlet. Address
A. A. Schantz. Detroit, Mich.
The Washington bee., 1897-10-30

Chr. Xander is at $50 Mass. avenue
and 9o9 9TH street, n. W.
The Washington bee., 1897-10-30

John H. Gates who keeps at NO. I225
nth street southeast is where the boys
go to get good beer, wines and WINS,
kies. Mr. Gates is man much l1keo
by all classes.
The Washington bee., 1897-10-30

The BEE will expose wrong where
ever found.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-01-12
The Nations Capital.

The president has signed the act re-
Gently passed relative to dramatic ana
musical copyrights.
Secretary Herbert of the navy de-
partment has decided to increase the
present naval corps of inspectors OF
steel used in the construction OF naval
vessels of the United States by the APP
pointment of number of expert civil
ianS.
Senatod Hale presented to the senate
a memorandum on the method OF
recognition of foreign governments and
foreign states by the government OF the
United States from 1870 to 1897,
which Notwithstanding the document
makes no such claim, is unquestionably
intended to bear upon the question or
the recognition of Cuba.
Scott Wike, assistant secretary of
the treasury, has returned to Washing
ton after ten days absence in Florida.
Mr. Wike says that outside of a num-
Der of the leading cigar manufacturers
in Tampa the sentiment throughout
Florida, both among Americans and
native Cubans, is almost entirely with
the insurgents, and that on this ac-
count the government officials find it
extremely difficult to make much head
way in their efforts to suppress filibus-
tering expeditions.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-01-12

Washington, Jan. 12.-The arrange
ments for the inauguration of Presl-
dent-elect Mckinley are progressing III
a manner very satisfactory to the COM
mittees having them in charge, and 1t
is believed that the decorations, IL
Nominations and ceremonies incident TO
this event will at least equal in
beauty and impressiveness those OF
any former Inauguration. At meet
ing of the executive committee Chair
man Wright, of the committee OH pub
lie comfort. reported that he will be
able to furnish lodgings for 100, 900 per-
sons if necessary. He has already reg
istered 9,100 places where meals can be
obtained, and Ill windows and num-
Der of balconies from which the pa
rade may be witnessed. Gen. Clay,
from the committee on military organ
iZatiOnS, reported that there would be
in the parade one entire division from
Pennsylvania, consisting of the gov
ernor and his staff, and 5000 men in
ALL Maryland will send her entire
national guard, and large bodies of
troops are expected from New York,
New Jersey, Ohio. RhOle Island, Mas
sachusettS and other states. The ca
diets from the United States military
academy at West Point and from the
United States naval academy at Ann
apoliS also will be in line, as we'll as a
large number of crack military organi-
cations from different parts of the
country.
The inaugural ball promises to be an
exceptionally brilliant affair." A mill
tary band of sixty-tive pieces and an
orchestra of 125 pieces will furnish the
music from separate stands. The COM
mittCe of civic organizations contem-
plates the erection Of information
booths along tile line of the parade and
in the business portion of the city to
be manned by the members of the
Washington high school cadets. The
usual reductions in railroad rates from
all parts of the country are expected.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-01-12
Crimes and Criminals.

Letters containing large sums of
money have been rified of their con-
tents in New York and thrown into the
bay.
n. A. Neidenhoff, clerk of the district
court of Silver Bow county, Mont, is
dead in Salt Lake City under circum
stances which point strongly to sui
eide.
Kate Dunn, % years old, a servant,
living at 11S East Twenty-siXth street,
New York city, was shot in the head
by Michael Minneter, a laborer. Min
meter then shot himself in the head.
The arrest of japanese, S, Kire-
gaya. on complaint of a young Japan
csc girl at Butte, Mont, developed the
fact that several Japanese in that city
carried on a regular slave traffic in the
purchase and sale of Japanese girls.
The United States secret service Off
GERS at Detroit, Mich, have arrested Al
Soper, the third man charged with i'm.
plication in the forgeries of notes of
the National Bank of Commerce of
New York and the Union National
Bank of Detroit.
James Anderson, ex-under sheriff of
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-01-12
PeODIe Talked About.

Miss Lansing Rowan, who achieved
notoriety by challenging J. ]. Corbett
to a boxing bout, will soon become the
wife of Maurice DeyritZ, the operate
baritone, who is now in New York
Michael McGrath, the manager of
the Wall street bureau of the AssOci-
ated Press, died at his home in Brook
lyn of Bright's disease, aged forty eight
years.
Rev. N. J. Stroh of Mount Morris,
ILL.,, is dead. Father Stroh, as he was
commonly called, was the oldest Lu-
theran minister in the United States.
He was widely known all over his sec
ton.
Lieut.. Col John w. Newell died at
his home in Brunswick, n. j., after a
long illness. He was paymaster Of the
army of the Potomac during the war.
Col Newell was born in Franklin, o.,
in 1920.
Oliver Allen, an eccentric bachelor
who died near Clinton, Mich, at the
age of seventy-nine, bequeathed his en-
tire estate, worth $4,000, to the Meth
odist church, one-half to go to the
board of superannuated ministers, and
the rest to the board of ministerial ed
ucatiOn.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-01-12
Otherwise.

It is accidentally discovered in Next
co that honey and water Will cure
smallpox.
J. G. Bailess, commission merchant
of Cincinnati, has assigned. Assets,
$21, 900; liabilities, $37, 900.
At Little Rock, Ark, default judg-
ment was entered in favor of the
Thomson-H Houston Electric company
for $22,582 against the street railway
company.
John w. Doan has retired from the
presidency of the Merchants Loan and
Trust company of Chicago. He was
reelected president, but has telegraph
ed from Omaha declining to serve.
In the California assembly Belshaw
has introduced a resolution instructing
California's delegation in congress to
work against all Pacific railroad re-
funding bills.
The Western Paper Bag company,
one of the Van Nortwick plants, at Ba-
tavia, ILL.,, was placed in the hands OF
a receiver. Judge Grosscup, of the
United States court, appointed William
G. Stevens receiver.
A receiver has been appointed for the
pany of Cleveland, In the person Of E.
E. Strong. Cognoyit judgments aggre-
eating $4,000 were previously taken
against the company.
officers at Perry, O. r., began eject
ing people from claims of the o. lines
of the Ponca, Otoe and Missouri and
Usage Indian reservations, in accord
ance with the decision of Secretary Of
the Interior Francis. 1t is feared that
trouble will result.
Andrew Freedman was appointed re-
ceiver for Oscar Hammerstein at New
York, pending the trial of the suit
brough by A. NJ. Byers & Co. of Pitts
burg to set aside the conveyance made
by Mammerstein ON all his property to
his wife, Halvina, and his sons, Ar
thur and William.
What promises to be stubborn
strike was inaugnrated by the coal
miners in the Massilon district. The
convention of independent miners
which assembled at Massillon repre-.
scented 1900 men. Resolutions We're
adopted refusing to accept the 10 cents
a ton reduction ordered by the operal
ors few days ago.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-01-12

Altoona county, Mich, and a well
known farmer, was shot and instantly
killed by Mrs. Robert Dobson OF
Haynes township. Anderson, it is al
legged, had slandered the woman and
she became enraged at his refusals to
retract.
A man named James McCue, a
wears old, whose home is at JohnstoWn,
Pa, entered the sheriff's office at
Akron, Ohio. and voluntarily confessed
to the murder of Dick Spencer, who
was found with his skull crushed at
East Akron. McCue says that about
two years ago Spencer did him an in
jury.
Under instructions of Judge Butler,
who said the evidence was insufficient
to conyice, the jury in the district court
returned verdict of not guilty in the
case of Frank Atkins, president OF the
Colorado Savings bank, indicted on a
charges of having received deposits
when he knew the bank was insolvent.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-01-12
Accidental Happenings.

A disastrous fire occurred at Vera
Cruz, Mex. destroying factories ana
business blocks to the value Of 100000.
A violent wind storm in Louisiana
caused the death of four children at
Moorings Port Several persons were
seriously injured.
Willie, Maud, Hall and an infant,
sons and daughters of Jesse Goodman,
were killed outright in a train wreck
at Mooringhouse, La.
A freight train on the Missouri Pa
cific was derailed on a bridge at New
Haven, a station siXty-seven miles west
of st. Louis, and thrown into the river.
Three trainmen were killed.
William Langthorne, a boy OF
Adrian, Mich, while loading a gun to
shoot sparrows, SCATTERING the right leg
of Edna Swift aged Is. The leg was
amputated, but the girl died from shock
and loss of blood.
Mrs. Clara Freeman of Denmark,
Iowa, aged 65, who was at Quincy, ILL.,,
on a visit. attended service at Elm
Street Baptist chuch. When the clos
ing hymn was being sung Mrs. Free
man, who sang with the congregation,
fell back in her seat dead. Heart fail
IRE aggravated by religious excitement
caused death.
Five miners, Martin Royan and Joe
Cox, white; Tom Curry, William Bish-
Old and Simon Pity, colored, were in
stantly killed in a mine explosion at
Anderson, l. T. The explosion is sup
posed to have been caused by the fire
boss unscrewing his safety lamp, which
ignited the gas. No damage was done
to the property
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-01-12
ClOugh's Appointments.

st. Paul, Jan. 12.-Gov. Clough has
made four more appointments of state
officials. They are Berndt Anderson,
state dairy and food commissioner;
Charles E. Rose, janitor of the state
capitol; Alexander Nicoll, Jr., chief en-
gineer of the capitol; DR.. John E. Saw
yer of ST. Paul member Of the state
board of medical examiners. The ap-
pointments are all reappointments with
the exception of DR.. Sawyer. He is APP
pointed in the place f DR.. H. NJ. Luf-
kin, also of st. Paul.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-01-12
Foreign Gossip.


The steamer Belgique, while bound
from Antwerp to Bayonne, was wreck
ed. Fifteen persons of the eighteen
on board were drowned
Capt. Morlies, a member of the war
council and president of the court be-
fore which the Barcelona anarchists
were tried, has committed suicide in
Spain. The cause for lf-destruction
is not known.
1t is stated that the British admit
rally intends to introduce new class
of torpedo destroyers of Il minimum
speed of thirty-three knots. Twenty
vessels, it seems, will be ordered I'M
mediately Of this class.
Statistics just published show that
the number of duels in Germany has
doubled since 1889 land whereas in
1891 60 sentences were imposed for
dueling, 107 sentences for the same
offense were imposed in 1895 in various
parts of Germany.
Wilfred Laurier, prime minister of
the Dominion Of Canada, was asked il
he would accept knighthOOd were it Of
fered to him, and declined the honor.
Alexander Mckenzie, when prime min
hood, as did Edward Blake.
1t appears that the ambassadors of
the powers, in addition to considering
the treatment of Christians in the
Turkish empire, are discussing meas
ures to ameliorate the position of the
MuSselmanS.
A Bombay dispatch to the London
Daily Mail reports that all OF the lead
ing journals there describe the famine
as the most widespread of the present
century. 1t is the general opinion that
the vicerOy errs in refusing English aid
While hunting with the Maynell
hounds Right Hon. Henry Chaplin,
formerly president of the board of ag-
riculture, who was one of the prince OF
Wales party at the duke of Suthef-
lands seat at Tfentham hall, was
thrown from his horse and seriously in
jured.
The mill operatives and their fam
lilies are quitting the city of Bombay
en- masse, thus adding a quarter of Il
million unemployed to the county dis
tricts. 1t is now estimated that $780,
600 persons have fed from the city as
a result of the spread of the bubonio
plague.
The Brazilian treasury delegate
writes to the London Times with refer
ence to the sale at Hamburg of $4,000
bags of Brazilian coffee which, it was
reported, were believed to be consign-
ment of the Brazilian government to
the Rothschil(o of London i'll lieu OF
bills to pay the interest on the Brazil
ian debt The treasury delegate writes
that the f thschilds already had suffi-
cient funds to pay for the coupons on
the external debts.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-01-12
SIOUX FOR SULTAN.
A Present for the Turk From the
Smithsonian.

Smithsonian.
Washington, JAN S.-The Smithson-
ian institution has decided to make the
sultan of Turkey a present of life
size figure of a Sioux Indian chief. The
figure will represent a chief arrayed
for war dance, in war blanket and
moccaSins, with his costume decorated
with a profuSion of beads. II the sui
tan had picked a war chief at the
height of his glory from the band i'll
Dakota he would not have a more
realistic specimen than the one pre-
pared for him at the Smithsonian in
Stitution.
When Secretary Langley, of this in
stitution, made trip to Turkey in the
summer of 1895 he was accompanied
by DR.. Cyrus Adler, the famous ORR
entalist. The sultan presented them
with several albums of magnificent
photographs, and intimated that he
would be only too glad to send a con-
tribution to the national museum.
1t was naturally thought proper that
these courtesies should be reciprocated,
and Secretary Langley came to the
conclusion that there could be no more
appropriate gift than one that would
be typical of the aboriginal life of this
country. Orders were given to con-
struct the figure of Sioux chief, and
this has just been completed. The
figure will be boxed and shipped to the
sultan this week. 1t will be accom-
panied by a number of articles used in
domestic and martial life by the Sioux.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-01-12
The sultan Planning a Massacre.

Brussels, Jan. 12.-The Turkish Re-
form League has issued an appeal to
the people of Europe declaring that
the sultan has planned a massacre to
take place during the approaching
Ramazan fasts and imploring the pow
ers to interfere, depose the sultan and
proclaim Rechad Btfendi, younger
brother Of the sultan and heir pre-
sumptive, his successor with a council
OF state made up of equal numbers of
Moslems, Christians and Europeans.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-01-12
Honors for bishop Keane.

Rome, Jan. II. 1t is now certain
that Bishop Keane, formerly of Wash
ington, will be nominated as bishop as
sistant at the pontificial throne though
the nomination has not yet been Of
ficially made. The pope will also NOM
mate him at titular archbishop and
canon of the Patriarchal Basilica and
adviser to some Roman congregations.
Hence, Bishop Keane will make his
stay here in order to render services
to the Vatican in American religious
matters.