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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14
EVA MANN RESTRAINED.
she Is Legally Enjoined From Claim
ing the Hamilton Estate.

New York, May 14-By a decision n
the supreme court yesterday the efforts
OF Eva l.. Steele, or Mann, or Gall, who
claimed to he the widow of Robert Ray
Hamilton, have, IL is believed, been sup
pressed for all time Justice Andrews
granted an Injunction restraining her from
asserting any claim as the wido " OF
Ray Hamilton during the pending Of a
suit of Gilbert NJ. Spier and Edmund L.
Raylies against her TO determine her legal
right to bring any such suit.
The injunction also prohibited the defend
art from bringing any suit for che adj
measurement OF dover III any real estate
oWred by Robert Ray Hamilton in his
lifetime and from further prosecuting
tie suit now pending in tile supreme court.
Although the woman was declared by he
surrogate's court not to be Hamilton's
widow. she instituted several suits claim
ing dover. Finally she accepted $1,000
in lieu of all claims, but subsequently
brought suit against the estate several
months ago.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14

In connection with the delicate transit
tariff question before the Postal Congress,
that it would be a violation of every prec-
edent to allow the American delegates to
vote in contrayeptiono of the wishes Of Great
Britain. 1t would look especially bad so
soon after an exhibition of American ten
denotes to resist British control in the
United States Senate,
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14

MI Mckinley should remember the in
spired dictuIn which declares that there
are othersl" He is indignant at Congress
sional fiscal delay, and the country is
eXasperated by Executive delay in the
cuban matter How would he feel If a
strong party OF Senators were to tell hun
that they would allow nothing to be cone
about the tariff until after the recog-
nition of Cuba9'
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14
Evacuation IF Dounokos.

According to the latest adyices, the Greek
troaps are leaving Domokos. 1t is said
they are doing 50 under the impression
that tie war is over. A better theory
woUId be that discipline is AT an end, and
the authorities are unable to feed tie
defenders ~ the place IL was only a few
days ago that Prince Constantine grandilo-
uuently addressed his army ana congratu-
lated it upon its being an invincible force
in an i1apregnable position We then pre-
dicted an early retirement from Domokos
From al appearances, one is led to con-
clude that the army Of the Crown Prinoeis
disaTgamzed and resolved into a disordeny
mob
Meantime, Edhem Pasta has orders TO
continue in business and finish up his
Greek arlued resistance before the Sultan
VIII listen 70 talk OF peace. Intervention
Of any practical sort seems as far of as
ever There stll is ground for suspicion
that Turkey means further and greater
mischief, and is being backed UP by one
OF the great Concert" powers European
Diplomacy is at sea, and courts aud cabi-
nets. outside OF the three Emperors'
s'sphere Of Influence" are mutually timor-
GUS and suspicious. Probably there is
something sensational in the wind, but its
actual nature orly can be guessed. The
European situation atIerge is fraught with
peril to more states than Greece, and the
one in the most delicate position of all is
Great Rritaiu
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14
MEXICO SHIPPING COTTON.
The High Rate of Exchange Favors
Her Products.

Mexico City, May 14.-Mexico is now
shipping cotton in certain forms to the
United states, thus reversing what has
heretofore been the rule This is partic-
ularly true Of cotton waste, which, at pres
ent, is being bought in large quantities by
America Trims. There are seventy cotton
factories in the republic, and the total
available amount Of waste from them per
month is about $4,000 pounds, which is
handled here almost exclusively by one
man He, by the high rate of exchange at
present prevailing, is shipping large con-
signments OF tins commodity to the United
States.
TwolargeIo lots, thefirst Of 400 600 pounds
and the second of zoe, 900 pounds, have
already gone forward.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14
THEY BURIED THE RATCHET.
The Local Carpenters Agree to Work
In Harmony.

Tt can be truthfully said that members
of the different local organizations of car
penters have ''buried the hatchet,' and
will n the future work in harmony for the
advancement of the members Of the craft,
individually and collectively.
This conclusion was practically reached
last night at a conference of delegates
representing the four local carpenters
orga niZations, who agreed to pool their in
terests and formulate rules for the gov
eminent of all the bodies represented
The organizations represented were the
Society of Amalgamated Carpenters, in
tcrnationaIly affiliated; Union No. 190, OF
the Brotherhood of Carpenters; Union No.
1, independent local, and Assembly 179S,
Knights of Labor.
Each organization was represented by
five delegates and the meeting was exceed
ingly harmonious. The rules agreed on
are simple, and, 1t is, said by members OF
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14

In the Illinois legislature the famous,
or infamous, Humphrey bill, which no
vlded for fastening the street railways
of Chicago n the grasp or the 1erkeS
syndicate for fifty years, with a 5-cent
fare, mas been killed, after hard struggle.
side and corruption by the hundreds Of
thousands on the other But the press ard
the people won.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14
OLD BROWN GOT a JOB.
For Fifteen Days He VIII Work on
the Chain Gang.

old john Brown came here yesterday to
get a job" as he expressed it. Instead
of getting Job Brown proceeded 10 get
drunk He sat on the curbsJone Oh Al
street, GeoTgetown, ana by his Erotesque
actions and oathS succeeded in attractn Z
Il large crowd of lntn and boys. Policeman
L. W Brown came along and arrested him.
In the Police court today the prisoner
stateG that ne was unconscious Of his per
formanCe on the Georgetown curbstOne.
II came here, your majesty, to get job, y
he testified Ia his own behalf.
You adopted d good way TO get a job, =
commented Judge Mills.
Yes. and he got one" remarked Frose-
cutoT Pugn.
F,7 the next fifteen Gays Brown will fill a
Job at the workhouse, where, with pick
and shovel, he will assist in beauttfyiGg the
east end of the Capital City
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14
Double Christening.

An interesting double christening took
place at the residence of MT. Charles J.
Huter, No 212 Fourteenth street south
west, last Wednesday. The officiating
minister was Rev. John c, Bowers, Of st.
Mark Lutheran Church, on C, between
Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. The ben
eficiaries of the ceremony were Charles
Andrew Huter and Mary Virginia Gordon
The occasion was enlivened by music and
a repast that a large company of friends
enjoyed
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14

all the organizations, fair to all As a
matter of fact it is said that they were
unanimously agreed to.
The rules will be submitted to each Of
the carpenters organizations at the next
meeting forindorsementer rejection There
is hardly any doubt but that they wall he
accepted by al the local bodies as a
whole There may by some amendments
offered, but they will not be Of such a
nature as to cause any friction or in any
way endanger the final completion Of the
new council.
1t will possibly be two or three weeks
before all the organizations will have taken
final action and be ready to report to the
conference committee.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14

The crisis in Cuban affairs being the one
great topic of interest this morning the
Washington Post contained learned edf
porials on Church Music, IAN Old Fa-
IniIiar Deiusion, The Seal OF Massacbu-
setts'' and Preaching on Boston Com
mon" Even the joke puncher was silent.
1t is a painful thing to have to walk
Snanish every day.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14

When hordes of starving peasants are
the Spanish authorities are exciting the
mob against our representative and all
Americans In the city, does not the neces-
sty present itself for the presence OF
some United States war vessels in the
harbor OF Havana?
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14
IMPOSING UPON CHARITY.
\ Fellow Who Gets Aims by Telling
a Tale of Woe.

The police have learned that the swindler
who has been visiting generous persons
in the eastern section of the city, falsely
representing that his wife had just died
and soliciting money to pay her funeral
expenses, is not a resident of this city
but lives in Maryland, about half mile
beyond Hyattsville. He is Pole, but
speaks good English, and comes to Wash
ington in his own team. It is believed
he has collected quite sum of money by
his false representations during the past
week.
When applying for aid and telling the
story of bis wife's suffering and death, the
fellow sheds tears profusely Hets known
and will be arrestedif he comes here again,
and the charge Of false pretenses entered
against him.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14
Mr.. Simon Wolf Resi- gns,

Mr. Simon Wolf has for business reasons
rendered his resignation as a member OF
the board of Children's Guardians. The
resignation will come before the board
at it's next meeting, the last Saturday Of
this month, and will have to be accepted,
as there is no other alternative.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14

Alfred Laborde, Of New Orleans, late
master of the schooner Competitor, is
likely to he murdered by the Spaniards to
resent American sympathy for the starving
citizens of this nation in Cuba. Could lot
we spare ship from the Spanish patrol to
look after this case?
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14
1t .. ]. BARRETT, Trustee.


SOJsN ~ INtI IRIS LII > "a LII Or bA 1
WINDOW BRICK HOUSE, CONIAI+t-
INC SEVEN ROOMS, NUMBERED 432
TENTH STREET NORTHEAST.
by virtue OF a deed or trust duly TcCy Tdrd
IN LDer No. 1876, at folio 29O ct seq.
one Gf Jhe land records Oi Blie District Or
Columbia, We viii sell. iE Font OF the
premises, On FRIDAY, THE E1ST DA
OF MA I, a. ID. 1897, AT O'CLOCK p.
u, tHe iOiiJWinS -deScrDed real estate, sit
o@te IN the ciJy Of " ashIngLOn, u e, %
wiz. All that certain piece OF parcel OF
ran anu premises kaOWn as lot SlNty-JhTee
th3J- la Charles A. Shields s4edn Vision or
t4ts IN square nine hundred and thirty seven
lS3fJ, as per plat recorded IN LIDeT No.
IL, folio la, OF the records Of the sur
veyOf office of the District of Column
Ola, subject, however, u a right OF way
over Tie rear three feet Of said lot FOR
alley purposes, together with all and sin
guar the improvements. ways, easements,
rights and privileges 10 Jlie- same belong
ing or in ANY wise appertaIuins-
Terms OF sale One-bniru CaSu. balance in
one and two years at 8 per cent per annuTu,
interest payable Sefni-anuualy, secured BY
deed Of trust on the property sold. or
all cash, at the option or JHc purchaser.
A deposit Of 500 required at time Of sale.
ConNeyanClng, etc, at purchaser cost
Terms OF sale 70 be complied with in INF
teen days from date Of sale. otherwise the
trustee reserves the night To resell at the
risk and cost OF the defaulting purchaser
after five days advertisement OF such re-
sale IN some newspaper published in " ash
lngton, ID. q. JOSEPH Z. JOHNSON,
nyl 2-d&ds Surviving Trustee
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14

The Eastern situation is once moro COM
plicated by serious insurrection in Mace
1T may form the pretext for Austrian IN
reference. and that would involve trou-
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14
Countess caste,lane.s FiiiaI Piety,

Paris. May lathe Gaulois is authority
for the statement that the Countess Cas-
teIlane, formerly Miss Anna Gould, of
New York, has decided, in memory OF her
mother, to erect building for charitable
uses at cost Of ,0eo,oe franco
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14
SUSPECTED OF RATE-CUTTING.
Alleged violation of Joint Traffic
Association Agreement.

New York. May f. AT yesterday meet
ing of the board Of control OF the Joint
Traffic Association there was more plain
talk about rate-cuttiDg
While rates are fairly well maintained,
there are indisputable evidences that the
Joint Traffic Association agreement has not
been strictly adhered &c, and practically
all lines except the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western are suspected Of manipulating
rataS
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14
AUCTION SALES.
RADCLIFFE, SUTTON & co, AUcts.,
$50 Penna ave. NV

TRUSTEES SALE OF HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE, PIANO, ETC.
BY virtue OF chattel deed Of trust
duly recorded in LbeT 1915, folio 80
ct seq, one of the land records OF the
District Of Columbia, and al the request
OF the party secured thereby, L Will sell
within the rooms OF katclifIe, Sutton *
Co, go Peuna. ave, on SATURDAY,
TIE FIFTEENTH DAY OF May. 1e97,
AT TEN O'CLOCK A ", the goods and
Cndttets mentioned III schedule Il" at
tdcded 60 said trust
Terms cash
1t o. J. BARRETT, Trustee
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14

Condition OF Chicago's Postmaster.
Postmaster Gordon, of Chicago, who
was last Wednesday removed from the
Arlington Hotel to Providence Hospital
suffering with what the physicians at the
hospital say is scarlet fever, is reported as
much better.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14

Do you know that you can hare the Morn
ing, Euenirg and Sunday Times delivered at
pour residence for Jifty cents MONTH
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14

To members and others who were III the
House yesterday, it was amusingly wi
Cent that there also was present "a Reed
shaken by the wind from Kansas
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14

Do uou Eno,c that you can haze the Morn
inc, Evening and Sunday Times delirered at
uour residence for fifty cents month";
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14
PCsTOFFICE NOTICE.

Should be read daily, as changes may
occur at any time.
FUREIGN MAILS for the week ending
May Is, close promptly at THIS OffiCe as
follows:
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14

bic with Servia, Bulgaria and Montenegro.
Europe is in terribly inflammable condi-
ton, and this Macedonian spark might set
1T ablaze
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-14

For Cooking and heating
GAS STOVES.
GAS APPLIANCE ENIE ANGIE
1424 New York Ave.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-14
A $1,000 WORD.
Two Papers at the Price Of One and
a Chance at 81, 900, Additional.

The Third Missing Word Contest Of
The Atlanta Weekly Constitution,
In Which $1,000 Will Be Distrib-
uted to Successful Contestants on
the 1st of May.
The Atlanta Weekly Constitution has
inaugurated its third consecutive "miss-
ing word" contest, which began on the
1st of March and close on the lst Of May
sixty days.
It publishes the cashiers receipt for
the special deposit account of 81 900 to be
paid to the person, or persons, VINO, In
subscribing to The Weekly Constitution,
names correctly the missing word in the
following sentence:
1.-THE Right Of '--' is the very
essence of the constitution
The sentence is taken from historical
publication, and the sentiment to which
it gives expression is that OF an eminent
writer.
By special arrangement with The Week.
| ly Constitution, that great paper and
THE ENQUIRER can be obtained for one
year at almost the price of one paper.
Not only that; but under our arrange
ment with The Weekly Constitution
every person who takes advantage Of this
clubbing proposition, subscribing for
both papers, will be entitled to guess at
the missing word. All clubbing subscrip-
tions should be sent to The ENQUIRER
with each subscribers guess at the miss
ing word plainly written. The guess and
the name and address of each subscriber
will be forwarded by us to The Consti-
tuition.
The Constitutions frs" "missing word
contest" closed on the lst of January, and
hardworking school teacher, guessed the
missing word, receiving therefor check
for 81 900. Its second contest closed on
the 1st Of March, and The Weekly Con-
stitution of Monday, March 9Th, will con-
tain the announcement of the awards in
which 1000 in cash is to be distributed
among the successful guessers in that
contest,
The readers of THE ENQUIRER who
subscribe jointly to it and to The Weekly
Constitution have free access into the
third contest, just opened and it may be
that some of them will get the 81 900 to be
distributed on the lst of May.
The only condition Of the contest is that
every guesser must be subscriber and
taking advantage of The CONSTITUTIONS
offer we present this opportunity to all who
wish to subscribe to both papers. Every
person should have his county paper and
one great general newspaper; and The
Weekly Constitution, with circulation
of 156, 900, occupies the unique distinction
of being the the greatest American week.
ly newspaper.
p@ THE ENQUIRER and The Con-
stitution will be furnished one year
for $3.50.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-14

EXTRAORDINARY MEDICAL SKILL
One stormy night, when the roads
were well-nigh impossible, a son oi
Erin came into a doctors office and
desired the dispenser of physic to 60
to see friend who was '.jist a-dyin'.'
He would not take no for an answer
so, putting the saddle-bags upon his
horse, the physician started out upon
his journey. AS soon as he saw the
sick man he knew it was nearly over
with him, and remarked to the courier
"Peter, you told the truth; your
friend is just at the point of death"
"Can't We do anything for heem ?''
replied Peter.
"No; it is too late"
"But, docthor, amt We goin' to give
heem anything at all, at ALP"
sit will do no good"
"But, docther, we have come so far
it would be too bad to go back without
doin' anything"
For the peace of Peters mind, the
doctor now took a small quantity Of
sugar from phial, and placed it upon
the dying mans tongue just as he was
drawing his last breath.
Peter seeing his friends head drop
back, looked up to the doctor with big
eyes, and said, half in whisper, "Oh
docthor, an didn't We do it quick ?"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-14

HIS UNHAPPY FRIEND.-A young
man, who was to make his first politi-
cal speech arranged with friend in
the audience that, at the first indica-
tion Of embarrassment on the part of
the speaker, he should pretend to have
a fit, so that during the excitement
created the speaker should have time
to recover. The night came. The
young speaker began to stammer.
The chum, sitting in the second row
of the audience, started twitching
of face and jerking of muscles that
was a very good imitation of man
about to fall in a fit. But it happened
that next to the pretended sick man
sat a doctor. He at once began an
examination, and, within two minutes,
rising angrily to his feet, he said to
the curious crowd:
"Gentlemen, this man is no more
sick than you are. His illness is
wholly pretended, and doubtless is
simulated for the express purpose of
preventing our bright young FRIEND"
pointing to the man on the platform,
':from finishing his speech"
The crowd got mad. They ham,
mered him, and pounded him, tore
his clothes, and threw him down two
flights of stairs to the street.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-14
SCHOOL A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

Agnes Reppler thus describes in St.
Nicholas the schooling of century
ago:
Mary Fairfax was born over 100
years ago, and afterward become Mrs.
Summerville, and one of the most
learned women in England. Mary
was fortunate enough to live the first
10 years of her life by the seashore,
the happiest, widest, shyest child that
ever played all day long on the yellow
sands, and made huge collections OF
shells, and weeds, and pebbles and
other treasures brought her as play
things by the waves. When it rained
and her mother would not permit her
to run out, she read over and over
again the three books which formed
her library-"The Arabian Nights"
Robinson Crusoe," and "Pilgrim's
Progress" Now and then her father,
who was an officer in the English navy,
came home from sea and finding bis
little daughter as ignorant as a child
could be, he made her read aloud to
him every morning q chapter OF
Hume's "History of England"
This was all her education until she
was 10 years old, when her parents
sent her to boarding school, a small
and very expensive school, kept by
Miss Primrose, who was so stately and
so severe that her pupils used to say
they never saw her smile. Thanks to
healthy outdoor life she had always
led, little Mary was straight and strong
as a young Indian, but that did not
save her from the ingenious tortures
designed for STOPPING children, and
which she describes for us in her me-
moirs:
"a few days after my arrival, l was
enclosed in stiff stays with a steel busk
in front, while, above my frock, bands
drew my shoulders back till the
shoulder blades met. Then steel
rod, with a semi-circle which under
the chin, was clasped to the steel busk
in my stays. In this constrained state
1, and most of the younger children,
had to prepare our lessons"
Think of it, you luxurious little peo.
pie who prepare your lessons lolling
on rocking chairs, nesting in soft cor
ners, or lying comfortably on warm
hearth rugs before cheerful fires !!
Think of studying whole page of
Johnson's dictionary every day, spell
ing, definitions, even the very position
of each word in the long columns, and
all the while unable to lean backward
or forward, or turn your heads from
one side to another-unable even to
see what the girl next to you was do
ing And the worst of it was, she
learned so little at Miss Primrose's
school that, when she escaped for her
first holidays, she covered herself with
disgrace by writing bank-knot, for
bank-note, and was severely scolded
for being so idle, and wasting such
golden opportunities.
She was taught to sew, however,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-14

G~ America is becoming a nation of
teetotalers, says writer in The Index.
An observer says that if one does not
believe it, let him look at the list of
states where the citizens have formal
ly voted that way. We find this list
quoted from the bill of fare of Pull
man dining car. A note on the card
says: "Wines and liquors will not be
sold in Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
Iowa, Indian Territory, Kansas, Mis-
sissippi, Maine, New Jersey, Ohio,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and
Wyoming. No wines or liquors to be
sold on Sunday in any states having
the prohibitory Sunday laws"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-14

A MAN BEHIND HIM.-He was
going home to his wife and family
1t was growing dark. His road from
the station was a lonely one, and he
was getting along as fast as he could
when he suddenly suspected that q
man behind him was following him
purposely. The faster he went, the
faster the man went, until they came
to a churchyard. "Now," he said to
himself, "I'll find out if he's after me, "
and he entered the churchyard. The
man followed him. Vague visions ot
revolvers and garroters grew upon
him. He made detour of splendid
mausoleum. Still the man was after
him, round and round. At last he
turned to the fellow and asked, "What
the dickens do you want? What are
you following me for ?"
"Well, sir, do you always go home
like this? I'm going up to Mr.. Fitz.
browns house with a parcel, and the
porter at the station told me that if I'd
follow you I'd find the place, as you
live next door. Are you going home
at all tonight?"