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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-30

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day schools in the District of Columbia
Statistical Showing.
You will understand that our statistical
report properly covers only the white
Protestant evangelical schools in other
words. those which are eligible to member
ship in our association.
"One year ago this number was $50. We
now report 154. The number, enrolment.
etc, OF these 154 schools. according to the
tionally. are as follows:
Methodist Episcopal-Schools, 80; officers
and teachers, 1854; scholars 6,612; total en-
rollment, 1916; loss, II; number uniting
schools holding teachers meeting, 4; num-
hsr of schools having home department, q:
number of visitors, Is.
Observation-Disclosures, %; officers and
teachers, Us; scholars, $40; total enroll
ment, 6,577; gain, 1872; number uniting with
church from school, 200; number of schools
holding teachers meeting, Il; number of
schools having home department 2; num-
Der OF visitors, 81; total enrolment in
home department, 1888.
Baptist-Schools, 16; officers and teachers.
ga; scholars, ITO; total enrolment, 5654:
gain. 2SS; number uniting with church from
| school, 115; number of schools holding
| teachers meeting, 81; number Of schools
! having home department, 5; number of WIS.,
| ftorss A; total enrolment in home depart
! ment, 400.
| and teachers, 61I; scholars, 1850; total en-
| rollment, 1851; gain, 1856; number uniting
| with church from school, $50: number OF
| schools holding teachers meeting, Z.
Lutheran Schools. IA; officers and teach
| ers. 2S6; scholars. 2,O33; total enrolment
2,319: gain. 5; number uniting with church
| from school, 106; number of schools holding
| teachers meeting, q.
| OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 4; officers and
| teachers, ia; scholars, 1,164; total enroll
ment, LIS; gain, 151; number of schools
holding teachers meeting, 3; number OF
schools having home department, 2; num-
Der Of visitors, 80; total enrolment in home
department, 285.
Methodist (South)-Schools. 6; officers and
| teachers, 124; scholars. 997; total enroll.
ment, 1,121; gain. 81; number uniting with
| church from school, 80; number of schools
holding teachers meeting, 2; number OF
schools having home department, 1; mum.
| Der Of visitors, 2.
l The Unden0minational
Observation-Disclosures 6: officers and
teachers. 80; scholars, 1872; total enroll.
ment, 922; loss. 50: number Of schools
holding teachers meeting, /; number Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-30

Observation-Disclosures 6: officers and
teachers. 80; scholars. 1872: total enroll
ment, 922; loss, 50: number Of schools
holding teachers meeting, /; number Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-30
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Connecticut western news., 1897-08-19
THE WILSON ROBBERY.
Arrest of Thief May Lead to Discovery oi
 Mrs. VanderbiIt's Traducer.

Mrs. Vanderbilt's Traducer.
 New York, Aug. 18.-Albert V. Sug- den, formerly aValet of Richard T. Will son of 511 Fifth avenue has been ar rested on the charge of stealing $2, COG In money and jewelry from MT. Will sons home on June 24. He has confess ed his crime. The robbery was com mitted, he said, in revenge for MT. Will. sons refusal to fulfill an alleged prom. ise to pay Sugden for certain services.
 These services were the running dowr of the person who last spring wrote a series of anonymous scurrilous letters directed against Mrs. Cornelius Wander bilt, Jr., who was Miss Grace Wilson Sugden claimed $1.030, which, he said MT. Wilson had agreed to pay him. He brought suit, which is still pending.
 More important perhaps than the ar rest of the man who robbed the Wilson house is a possible clew which he has furnished of the writer of the anony- nous letters. Tn Sugden's pockets were found two letters from a convict in the Columbus (OD penitentiary. This man was convited under the name of Rich- ard Proctor, but he signs himself Rich ard Francis Paul Kent. He is convict No. 27,8S1.
 Proctor, or Kent, tells Sugden that the person who attacked Mrs. Vanderbilt Jr., is wealthy man, who, upon learn ing that Kent knew of his crime, prom ised to give him $2O,OO0 and a life posi- ton after his release from prison if he would keep silent. This offer, Kent writes, he will refuse. "I have caught the fish," he says, "and I shall see that he does not get into water deep enough to swim" Thus he wrote on Aug. and concludes his letter with a violent oath that "the slanderer of Mrs. Vanderbilt shall confess his sins before those whom he has injured"
Connecticut western news., 1897-08-19
President Dolan Satisfied.

Pittsburg, Aug. 1S.-The striking min ers' officials express themselves satis- fled with the injunction proceedings. According to the court" said Presi- dent Dolan, "the injunction only re- strains us from doing what we have not done and what we do not intend to do. The camps will be continued and con- ducted as usual until further notice. We have abundant assurance of help, and all the reports that we are destitute have no foundation
 In the opinion of a number of coal operators the uniformity agreement will not receive the support its articles are said to warrant. A canvass of oper- ators shows that they are not rushing to the committee with signed agree ments in their hands. In fact, they are holding back, and each one seems wait ing to see what the other intends to do. The uniformity committee refuses to divulge the names of the operators who have affixed their signatures to that in- strument, and inquiry tends to show that only three firms have made a de- cisive step in the matter and signed the agreement
Connecticut western news., 1897-08-19
WE.ODED A SENATOR.
Authoress Mary Berri Chapman Becomes
 Mrs. Hansbrouch.

New York, Aug. 17.-It was a case of love at first sight with Senator Hans brough of North Dakota when he met Miss Mary Berri Chapman. That was four months ago. Yesterday afternoon they were married quietly at the home of her mother, Mrs. E. s. Chapman In the Burlington, 10 West Thirtieth street.
 The apartments of Miss Chapman's mother at the Burlington were trimmed with flowers. The doors were hung with curtains of green, ropes of smilax caught up with punches of pink asters and white hydrangea. The fireplace in the parlor was hidden behind palms and banked with flowers, and before 1t the bride and bridegroom stood, while the Rev. MT. Bradner of the Church of the Ascension read the simple marriage service of the Episcopal church and pronounced them man and wife.
 Only a few invitations were sent out for the wedding. These were to friends in or near New York who could be de- pended upon to be present. They in- cluded Senator and Mrs. John P. Jones of Nevada, Senator Thomas c. Platt, Lemuel E. Quigg, Dr. Harris, United States commissioner of emigration, and Mrs. Harris, Mir. and Mrs. Richard Watson Glider, Edmund Clarence Sted-
Connecticut western news., 1897-08-19
General Markets.

NEW YORK, Aug. 17.-FLOUR-State and western quiet and steady; city mills patents, s5.50a5.10; winter patents, S4.75a52j; city mills clears, S5.05a5.30; winter straights, s4.+0a4.G0. wHEAT-No. 2 red opened weaker under disappointing cables, local and foreign unload- ing, and ruled quiet all the morningi Sep tember. 9ls9ll2c.; October, eJ1saa03sc.
 RYE Steady; No. western. 4915c., c. 1. f.. Buffalo.
 CORN-No was fairly active and weak un- der better crop news and the decline in wheat; September, S2211st331z zc.; October, J31sc.
 OATS-No. 2 dull and featurelsss; track, white, state, 2}a30c.: track, white, western, 23 aa0c.
 PoRK-Steady; old mess, ss.25as.75; family, S95OalO
 LARD-Quiet; prime western steam, A.so, nominal.
 BUTTER-Firm; state dairy, 9al4ISc.; state creamery, llal6s2c.
 CHEESE-Quiet; large, white, &c.,; small, white, S14aS34c.
 EGGS-Firm; state and Pennsylvania, l4a 16c.; western, 15c.
 SCGAR-Raw firm; fair refining. 3l4c.; cen- trifugal, 96 test, 374c.; refined firm; crushed, 5s5e,; powdered, 514c.
 NOLASSES-Firm; New Orleans, 2,s;slc. RICE-Firn; domestic, 41sa614c.; Japan, 414 a434c.
 TALLow-ouiet; city, 39sc.; country, 3Isa 3ssc-
 HAY Quiet; shippine. 45a55c.i good to choice 70as5c.
 TURPENTINE-Qui at 2sa2s1sc.
Connecticut western news., 1897-08-19
Fatal Quarrel of Deputy Sherifrs.

Pittsburg, Aug. 1.-Two deputies, Robert Kerr and Frank Anderson, em- ployed as guardians of the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal company here, had a sanguinary encounter, and as a result Kerr can live but a short time.
 Anderson is proprietor of a dive on Water street in this city and is known as a bad man. He was in charge of the deputies at Sandy Creek. Kerr, who lives at McKees Rocks, Is a river pilot by occupation. He has served before as deputy during strikes.
 The men met on a bridge crossing Plum creek, and after few words An derson was seen to hit Kerr, who re- taliated, and a rough and tumble fight followed. Anderson succeeded in draw ing his revolver and, placing it close to Kerr's abdomen, fired, the ball tearing through the victims intestines, lodging in his back. The physicians say he will die.
 constable tried to arrest Anderson, but he was prevented by deputies, who said they would hold him until the ar rival of the sheriff.
Connecticut western news., 1897-08-19
Telegraph Lines to KIondIIxe.

Washington, Aug. 1.-The Canadian government has submitted formal pro- posals to this government to establish communication with the Klondike re- zion in Alaska by the construction of a telegraph line from the head of win ter navigation on the Lynn canal into the center of the Klondike district. The proposals have been taken under ad- visement. They have been approved by the British secretary of state for foreign affairs and were forwarded by the governor general of Canada through the British embassy to the state de- partment and referred to the interior department There the papers are lock- ed up pending consideration.
 The proposals, while reserving the rights of either country pending the settlement of the International bound ary line between the United States and Canada south of Mount St gElias. urge the expediency of establishing a per manent roste giving access to the in- terior at all seasons of the year. The most feasible route. in the judgment of the Canadian authorities, would be to start from the head of winter naviga- tion on the Lynn canal, the body of water running from near Juneau up beyond Dyea and Chilkat, forming part of the present overland route, cross the mountains by the White pass or by any other pass which may seem more ac- cessible and proceed northward 10 Fort Selkirk and thence to Klondike.
Connecticut western news., 1897-08-19
MRS. HANSRROUGH.

man. pr. l.. H. French of Washington, Clinton w. Sweet, James s. Seymour and Robert P. Porter.
 Mrs. Hansbrough is only about 25 years old, but she has already made quite reputation for herself in litera- ture. Her volume of Lyrics of Love and Nature has won favorable notice from the critics. She has contributed to the magazines, and in the current num- Der of Harper's has a bright little story called "A Fashionable Hero" She is clever with her pencil as we'll as her pen, and some excellent sketches, signed by her, have appeared from time to time in The Cosmopolitan. In music she Is equally accomplished. Her father, the late Charles Chapman, was a pianist of considerable reputation in Washington some years ago. where he was attached to the patent office.
 Senator Henry Clay Hansbrough was born in Randolph county. Ills. in 1S40. He worked on a farm until he was 16 years old.
Connecticut western news., 1897-08-19
FORCE MAY BE USED.
PENNSYLVANIA COAL MINE OPERA
 TORS TO START WORK.

Hanna's Firm Refuses to Join In the
 Moyement-Crisis Apparently at Hand
 In the Great strike-President Dolan
 Satisfied With the Outlook In PIttsburg.
 Cleveland, Aug. 1S.-The operators of the Pennsylvania coal mines have held a conference in this city, at which about 30 prominent firms were represented. It was determined that mines in the Pittsburg district should be started and operated without further delay on the grounds that the miners have taken a high handed position, that nothing but an unreasonable price for mining will satisfy their demand and that they have been unwilling to treat with the operators on any fair grounds, also that there is no course left open to the operators at this time. It was deter mined that all coal sold at the 54 cent basis of mining this year must be mined at that price. No change in the price of mining will be considered until the contracts made at the 54 cent basis of mining are filled and the uniformity agreement is completed. At least three fourths of the tonnage of the Pittsburg district was represented at the confer ence, and all are unanimous and
  operations, with the exception of M. A. Hanna & Go.
 J. B. Zerb president of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Coal company, explains the motives which led up to this action as follows:
 We have been hoping that President Ratchford would come to his senses and consent to some reasonable settlement of the strike, but it is evident that he will not. He is fooling the public with statements favorable to the miners cause and is leading the miners on in a sort of revival meeting enthusiasm.
 While the men are cheering over the victories exploited by Ratchford they forget that if they close every mine in this country they will never win the strike. The coal operators will never accede to the miners demands. MT. Ratchford ought to know this, and yet he continues to encourage the men with false hopes of victory. He has refused to compromise.
 MT. Rend of Chicago made in the newspapers an offer to compromise, which MT. Ratchford never answered and to which he has paid no atten- tion."
Connecticut western news., 1897-08-19
Ladue Organizes a Company.

Trenton. Aug. 1S.-Artlcles of incor- poration have been filed with the secre- tary of state of S5,000. GOO company for the purpose of operating in the Klondike district. The name of the company is the Joseph Ladue Gold Mining and De- yelopment company. Ladue is the re- ported owner of Dawson City and is the principal shareholder in the company. In the articles of incorporation his resi- dence is given as Plattsburg, N. Y.
 The other members of the company are Elmer Botsford and Albert M. Emery of Plattsburg. N. Y.; Edgar D. Bronson of New York city, Charles c. Lapham of Lapham, N. r., and Willard Brown. a New York city banker.
 The company begin with s1,O00 paid in, which is the amount required for the state fee for filing the papers.
Connecticut western news., 1897-08-19
NEW MINISTER TO RUSSIA.
Nathan A. Hitchcock of St. Louis Is
 Named For That Po.Ition.

Nathan A. Hitchcock of St. Louis Is
 Named For That Position.
 Hotel Champlain, Aug. 16.-The pres ident has selected as minister to Rus sia Nathan A. Hitchcock of St. Louis and Mir. Hitchcock has accepted.
 Nathan Allen Hitchcock is a great grandson of Colonel Ethan Allen, who captured Fort Ticonderoga ''in the name of the Great Jehovah and the continen- tai congress-" He was born in Mobile in 1885. where he remained until 1S40. when the family moved to Tennessee.
 After taking an academic course in New Haven, young Hitchcock went to St. Louis in 1851 and engaged in busi- ness up to 1860, when he went to China to accept employment in the firm of Oliphant & Go.
 Mir. Hitchcock remained fin China for 12 years, returning to St. Louis in 1874. He has since been actively engaged in business in that city as president of several large manufacturing and rail- way corporations, which positions he has resigned to accept this appointment abroad.
Connecticut western news., 1897-08-19
KLONDIKE WAR TALK
CANADIAN OFFICIALS EXCITED OVER ALLEGED CUSTOMS VIOLATIONS.

A British Subject at Comax Calls For n
 That American officers Made an At-
 tempt to Seize a Dominion Steamer.
 Victoria, B. C., Aug. 1s.-The custom
 house officers up at Skaguay have giv-
 en the British lions tail a glorious
 twist That is the substance of the latest news that has reached this point from the pilgrims who have gone north to scramble for nuggets. From Comox,
 a coaling point 150 nIu<s up the coast, came the news that the Canadian Nav igation company's steamer Danube had
 arrived there south bound from Dyea and Skaguay with all on board well. Everything was as serene on the noun
 tain passes as 2.000 or 5000 men could
 make 1t, and every prospect pleased ex-
 cept the American customs officers. An indignant British subject dashed
 up to the Comox telegraph office while
 the vessel was coaling and wired a red
 hot message to the Victoria board of
 trade He was so excited that he forgot to give any details. saying simply: Customs officers attempted to seize
 vessel. Call meeting of board to de-
 nounce action"
 News soon spread about this loyal
 British town and caused much excite | ment and sidewalk war talk. The agent | of the steamer promptly wired Captain Meyer of the Danube for some details, but before the message could reach him the steamer had put to sea, south bound. The assumption was that the steamer would proceed to this port.
 Aside from this suggestion of trouble,
 the news that came from Comox was | that the Danube had met the steamer | Bristol, north bound with treasure chas- | CTS. and all was well. No news had been
 received of the steamer Portland, due soon from St. Michaels and said by the
 prophets to have s4.O0O.000 or s5.O0O, 900 in | gold dust aboard.
 The understanding Is that the trouble | with the customs officers was caused by the Danube landing bonded freight at | Skaguay instead of Dyea, three miles
 away, which Is the official port of entry. Bonded freight to the extent of 75 tons
 was sent up on her from Seattle by the Skaguay Bay Association Trade com pany.
Connecticut western news., 1897-08-19
ORLEANS -TURINDUEL
PRINCE HENRY SEVERELY WOUNDED
 BY COUNT TURIN.

The Italian Prove. Himself !. Superior
 swordsman and Averages the French
 mans Insult to Ills Fellow omcers.
 Emperor William congratuiates Count.
 Paris. Aug. 1e.-The Count of Turin and Prince Henry of Orleans fought a duel with swords at o'clock yesterday morning in the Bois de Marechaux Van cresson. M. Leontiefr acted as umpire. The fighting was most determined and lasted 26 minutes. There were i've en- gagements, of which two were at close quarters. Prince Henry received two serious wounds in the right shoulder and the right side of the abdomen. The Count of Turin was wounded in the right hand. Prince Henri was taken to the residence of the Due de Chartres and received medical attention. A
 The condition of Prince Henri of or- leans was as satisfactory last evening as could be expected. The doctors, aft CT consultation, expressed the opinion that no important organ had been touched, but absolute rest was necesaa- ry for recovery.
 Owing to rumors at Naples and else where the public had not expected the duel to come or. It was therefore quite private.
 The official account furnished by the seconds recites fully the circumstances leading up to the encounter.
 The Count of Turin, considering the letters of Prince Henry of Orleans to The Figaro offensive to the Italian army, wrote him on July demanding retraction. This letter could not be answered until Aug. II, the day of the arrival of Prince Henry In France. The prince replied to the counts demand by telegram, maintaining the right of a traveller to record his experiences.
 The Conditions of the Duel.
 The official account then describes the arrangements for the duel, gives the names of the respective seconds and says that at their frs interview they agreed that the encounter was inevit- able. By common accord the conditions were settled as follows: The weapon to be the dueling sword, each combatant 10 use that of his own country. but the blades 10 be of equal length. either combatant to be at liberty 10 maintain the ground he gains and each to be al- lowed the space of 16 meters within which to advance or retire. each an- sault to continue four minutes. the combat to be resumed In the positions occupied and only to terminate on the decision of the four seconds or the ad- vice of the doctors when one of the ndvcrsaries is manifestly in a state of inferiority; the conduct of the meeting
Connecticut western news., 1897-08-19
Kansas Miners Continue Work.

Pittsburg, Kan, Aug. 17.-After a long conference between the operators and executive board of the miners of Cherokee and Crawford counties action favorable to the men remaining at work has been taken. An agreement making concessions to the miners was drawn up, and each operator in the district will be asked to sign it. Unless the operators sign the men declare they will quit work. However. the impression prevails that the operators will readily agree to the miners demands.
Connecticut western news., 1897-08-19
4 WEE BIT SANG.

When my hert is wac, an I'm like tae greet An a seems bitter that aimee was sweet, An life's road hard tae my weary feet,
 juist sing wee bit sang. Nae laverock for the warld tae hear. Nae lintie tender, nae mavis clear. I can juist gie cheep, but when days are
 drear,
 There's joy in wee bit sang. For, singin, my tears forget tae'fa', An the deid an the changed an the far ava Come back, an the road's no hard at a'-
 Sic help is a wee bit sang. When poortith comes an the cupboard s bare, Whaur there used tae be a thing an tae spare, I talk my crust, an it's dainty fare
 When munched tEe a wee bit sang. When the fowks In braws frae the nearby toun, Scorn my holden gray an my muckle shoon, 1 care nae mair than the man f the moon.
 juist sing wee bit sang. Aye, sing when I'm happy, sing when I'm
 sad. I may my ain cheer when there's nane tae be
 had.
 Life can never be a'thegither bad
 While it leaves me wee bit sang.
 -Torquil Macleod in Boston Transcript.
Connecticut western news., 1897-08-19
Badly Burned by x Raw.

Denver Aug. 1s.-Charles F. La combe, president of the Mountain Elec- trio company of this city, has seriously burned both hands while experimenting with x rays and Is confined to his home. undergoing all the tortures at- tendant upon burns of this nature. Phy- sicians are almost constantly in at- tendance. and everything possible is be- ing done to relieve his sufferings. Ten days had elapsed after the application of the rays before Mir. Lacombe felt any III effects therefrom.
Connecticut western news., 1897-08-19
Meeting of Army of the Potomac.

Troy, N. r., Aug. i6.-The twenty eighth annual meeting of the Army Of the Potomac will be held In this city on Friday and Saturday and is to be an event of more than usual importance because of the presence of President Mckinley, Vice President Hobart, Gov ernor Frank s. Black and Lieutenant Governor Timothy Woodruff. The pa- rade will be a grand demonstration. The list of organizations which will participate is remarkably large, and the showing of the troops win be excellent. It is probable that there will be more than 3.000 men In line.