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The evening times., 1898-10-17
THE ships OF AMERICA
Statement of Our Merchant
men and Tonnage.
FOREIGN. AND COAST TRADE
The Pncfffc Coast Marine Increased
by the New Alaskan Trade-Ehects
of the War shown fin the Sale of
EIglty-fOur Vessels To Foreign
Persons.

Complete returns show that the docu-
mented American merchant shipping of
June 30. 1898, comprised 22,7O5 vessels of
s749, ,7sS gross tons, compared with 22.GSS
vessels Of 4,769020 tons on the like date
in 1887. The decrease of ,2S2 tons is more
apparent than real, as 1l,OOo tons of this
amount is due TO dropping fractions OF
tonnage in the accounts, and &C. 11S tons
were sold TO the Navy and War Depart
ments TO carry troops, supplies and nro-
visions and have merely changed employ
ers.
The total steam tonnage amounts to
6,72 vessels OF 2S71, ,92S tons compared with
G,59s vessels of 2, ,55S tons for the pre-
vious year The vessels sold to the Gov
ernment were all steam vessels, so the
true increase is greater than the figures
indicate Sailing vessels have decreased
from 900, 1853 tons for 1897 TO l,SS5. s27 tons
for 1895 Documented canal boats and
barees amount to 54l, 9SS tons compared
with SOC 3OS tons for the previous year.
The increase is chiefly in barges which
are superseding sail vessels, especially in
The coal trade.
Tonnage on the Atlantic and Gulf
Coats has dropped from 2,64I, 1876 tons
for 1897. TO 1853. 73g tons for 1898 The
Great Lakes tonnags shows slight in
crease LAB, 500 tons compared with l.
40 lO3 tons The new Alaskan trade has
increased the Pacific Coast marine from
43g 0l2 tons to 1876 767 tons. Western riN-
ers have decreased from 2I2 l09 tons 10
26l 1872 tons New York State retains the
first place with tonnage reduced from
1884, ,74S- TO l,2s9,S25 tons, Michigan is stiil
second with a reduction from 4I16u2 10
ass. 100 tons, and Ohio stands third with
Sg5 GlS tons an increase of about 5000
tons The greatest increase is in WASH
ington, from g7,796 to 152. .I67 tons, and
Alaska from 1884 TO 8, 755 tons. New Eng
land shows a large decrease and the
Gulf States an appreciable increase.
Vessels registered for foreign trade
number lI36, of 737. 709 tons, compared
with 1870, of S05.5S0 tons for 1897. These
figures are the lowest since 1892 The de-
crease is wholly in sail vessels, of which
Log of 100000 tons, or about 20 per cent,
have been lost, laid up or gone into do
mestic trade during the year. Registered
steam vessels have increased from 222. lS6
tons TO 245. .059 tons. Through the greater
efficiency of steam vessels. our feet for
the foreign trade does not show a de-
crease in carrying power.
The effect of the war is shown in the
sale Of eighty-four vessels of 35 al tons
to foreigners, compared with sales
OF s243 tons the previous year.
The sales were chiefly due 10
high premiums on American YES
sells and cargoes, demanded by insurance
companies during the brief period while
mines and torpedoes were being placed in
our harbors. The effect of the war is also
shown in the admission by acts Of Con-
gress OF 21-S tons of foreign vessels &c
American registry. chiefly for transport
purpose. During the preceding eight
years only "a 902 tons were so admitted.
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accepted our papers and gave us re-
ceipt for them. / don't see what more as
surance was needed that they were reg
ularly filed in his office. This sort of
thing this rejection of the whole ticket
now, won't go down.
When asked for an official statement
about the rejection of the silver Depoc-
racy ticket Secretary Of State Palmer
said:
tificate and the comparing papers here
Friday night to file. they admitted that
there was an irregularity about the Ulster
County printing. and agreed to remedy 1t.
They were told il must be done before
midnight, and took the paper away with
them. j supposed that they would at
tend to II at once and was greatly sur
prised when they did not return within
the time limit set by law, about which
they had been warned. I have not heard
from any of the committee and do not
see what can be done about II now. There
can be no appeal. because the time for ap-.
peal has expired"
The defect on which the secretary of
state rules the entire Chicago platform
Democracy's State ticket off the official
ballot was a technical one, and was found
in the jurat attached to the Ulster Coun-
ty petition. The attorney failed to follow
the regular form, and omitted the state
ment that he knew each person 10 be the
individual who had signed the petition.
The error was discovered by clerks in
the secretary of states office, and the
attention of the committee called TO 1t
about half-past II o'clock Friday night.
They took the defective portion away,
and failed to return ii, but now assert
that they supposed il would do at any
time. and that the law had been COM
piled with when the papers were handed
to the secretary of state and receipt
for them given by the clerk in his office.
The executive committee holds this re-
eeipt as evidence that their ticket was
accepted. and on il viii base the fight
which they propose to begin on Monday
if they can do so.
The impression prevails among poll
ticians here that the decision of the sec
retary of state is final and that the sill
Yer ticket will not be found on the ballot
handed TO voters this Fall The failure
TO prepare any one of the papers in legal
form nullifies the whole, and possession
Of receipt cannot affect the decision.
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PRINTED MATTER.
The Postmaster General Proposes
Definitions.

The Postmaster General has caused 10
be issued an order clearly defining that
class of mail which the Pnstoffiee Depart
ment classifies as printed matter.
The order follows:
First All Impressions obtained upon
paper or cardboard by means of printing,
engraving, lithographing> or any other me
chanical process easy TO recognize-except
the typewriter letter-press or manifold
copy-are held to be printed matter, if not
in the nature of an actual and personal
correspondence.
Second. Matter prepared by the type
writer must be regarded as personal cor
respondence and unavailable at the third
class rate of postage; but facsimile cop
les of manuscript or typewriting, obtained
by mechanical process, such as print
ing press, electric pen, mimeograph, HEX
tograph, copygraph, etc. are assimilated
to printing and may be regarded as third
class matter provided they are presented
for mailing al the postoffice windows and
in the minimum number of twenty per-
fectly identical copies. If mailed else
where or in a less number, postage at
the first-class rate must be required
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ALL RECORDS ARE BROKEN
American Exports Reach the
Highest Point in History.
A DECREASE IN IMPORTS
This Calendar Year Shows the Larg-
est Balance I'm American Favor
Ever Recorded i'm the Statistics of
Foreign COmmerce-The Month of
September Has But Two Rivals.

The statement of September exports,
tistics indicates that the calendar
year 1888 will show the largest export
record of any calendar year in the history
of our foreign commerce.
No September save the exceptional
one of 1897 has ever shown as large ex-
ports. and nine months period of the
calendar year has come within s100,000,
900 of the record made by the nine months
ending with September 1888
The exports of the month were $780,
495, ,63S, while no preceding September ex-
cept that of 1897 ever exceeded $50, 900 900,
the average September exports of the
past fifteen years being less than $6S, ,0OO-
600. The average for the nine months OF
the calendar year since 1884 has been $604,
900 900. Thus the September expectations
and those of the entire nine months were
in each case more than 80 per cent in ex-
cess of the average of the corresponding
periods during the past fifteen years
The September expectation of bread
stuffs, while materially less than those
OF September of last year, are 80 per cent
greater than those OF September 1885,
and double those of September, 1885. Pro-
vision exports in September were larger
than those of September, 1897, and for the
quarter exceeded by more than $40, 900 00J
the average of the corresponding period
during the preceding three years
Exports of cotton. while materially less
in September than in the corresponding
months of 1897 and 1886, are for the nine
months much greater in value than those
OF the corresponding nine months of any
or the preceding three years. while min
eral oils for the nine months exceeded
in quantity those of the corresponding
period of any other year. but are slightly
less In value than in 1896 and 1897 by rea-
son of the reduced prices.
The imports of the year present an
equally striking record, the total for the
nine months ending with September be-
ing less than in the corresponding nine
months of any year since 1855, and more
than 600 below the average of the
corresponding period during the past dec
ade. while no September in many years,
except those of 1897 and 1888. showed as
small importations as the one whose rec
ord Is just presented.
The following table shows the imports
and exports of the nine months ending
September 80 during each calendar year
from 1887 To 1898:
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RULED OFF THE TICKET.
New York silver Candidates Indig-
nRHt at Their Treatment.

Albany. n. Y, Oct. 17.-Silver Demo-
Gratis will not have place on the official
ballot for their State ticket, according to
the ruling made by Secretary of State
palmer. Owing to defect in the Ulster
County petition he holds that the certifi-
cate placing the candidates Of the Chi
cago platform Democracy in nomination
is invalid and cannot be received.
When told of this decision Chairman Z.
j. Duggan. of the executive committee
Of the Chicago platform Democracy said:
We viii see whether the secretary Of
state will do as he says about this
We knew some sort of job was being
put up on us, but we did not expect it
Just that way. Just as soon as we get
formal notice of the rejection of our
ticket we will see what the courts will
do about it. A little irregularity in the
Ulster County papers cannot possibly
nullify everything. We viii fight this
thing to the end"
Similar views were expressed by Joseph
McDonough, the silver candidate for
comptroller, who said:
why, the secretary of state formally
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TO SAIL NEXT SUNDAY.
The Resurrected Infanta Maria TIE.
resa Coming North.

Caimanera Cuba, Oct 1.-THE Infanta
Maria Teresa is to sail north next Sun
day, towed by the Vulcan and the Poto-
mac Her drains and bilge pump are
now in good working order.
Several men at work on the Teresa
have been overcome by the intense heat
below, resulting from the exposed steam
pipes.
A transfer of men from the Newark for
the Teresa and three hundred tons of
coal will be necessary for the trip north.
The officers hope that the Teresa will be
sent to New York for repairs, where they
expect there will be a great demonstra-
The evening times., 1898-10-17
Arrest of an Anarchist Forger

London, Oct ia dispatch from vi
emma to the Central News says it was
found that the man Regien, arrested
at Troppau, Austrian Silesia, on Satur-.
day. on the charge of attempting to pass
forged bank of England notes, addressed
a message to a man known as Joski, in
Budapest, who has since been arrested.
Joski's real name is Schwalbea. Forged
bank notes were found in Schwalbea S
rooms, together with engraved plates and
other apparatus for forging notes, let
ter, and an anarchistic paper. 1t Is De-
lieyed that these spurious notes have
been widely circulated through anarch-
lists. A young woman with whom
Schwalbea lived has been arrested as an
accomplice of the forger.
The evening times., 1898-10-17
HOW to Prevent GROUP.

We have two children who are subject
to attacks of Group. Whenever an attack
10 coming on my wife gives them Cham
herlain's Cough Remedy and 1t alwavs
prevents the attack. 1t is a households
necessity in this county and no matter
what else we run out of. it would not do
TO he without Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy. More of it is sold here than of all
other cough medicines combined-J. M.
Nfckle. of Nickle Bros. merchants, Nick
leyille, Pa. For sale by Henry Evans,
wholesale and retail druggist, s3S F Street
northwest, and Connecticut Avenue and
s Street northwest, and 1428 Maryland
Avenue northeast.
The evening times., 1898-10-17
May BE Mrs. Kitchens.

Wheeling, w. Va, Oct. 1.-THE wom-
an now under arrest in New York, for
robbery of Frank L. Herdic answers
perfectly the description of Edna Hitch
ems, wanted here for murder. She left
her husband three years ago with Will
liam Beatty, wealthy oil man. About
a year ago they quarreled in a hotel and
Mrs Kitchens threw bottle of vitriol
over Beatty's head and body. He died
three weeks afterward. The woman was
severely burned about the feet and she
was known to have gone to New York
TO have them treated, but the police
could never locate her.
The evening times., 1898-10-17
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LOST MANHOOD may be conveniently divided
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OUR MEDICAL BOOK and list OF questions
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The evening times., 1898-10-17
&0hiO
Railroad.
Schedule in effect June IS. 1898.


Leave Washington from Station, corner of Nes
Jersey Ave and St.
For Chicago and Northwest, Vestiouled Linn
ited trains II 90, rs A. NJ, sos P. NJ
For Cincinnati, st. Louis, and Indianapolis, Ex-
press. u:25 A. NJ yestibuIed Limited, $40 p.
II. Express HISS P. M.
For Pittsburg and Cleveland. Express daily,
nos A. NJ. and $50 P M
Fer Columbus Toledo end Detroit, 11:55 P N.
For Winchester and points on Valley Branch
300 and TBS A N. and $50 p NJ
tanooga. Knoxville, Bristol and Roanoke. l3:45 P.
NJ, daily; sleeping cars through
For Luray, s:4o P. NJ. daily
For Baltimore week days 66 800 @ $50 "SS
i905 NJ. xI2:I5. II us. x3:0O. 3:2O, "A 80 4:35,
x5:05. x5:1o 1880. N620. $50, xsoo Sis, 19:0o,
1000, HIS. x11:50, P; NJ and MOI night.
SI9o5 90. Kills, x3:OO $40. ABS, x5:Os, x5:lo.
$50. Ks 90. x1o:o9, HIS, xl1:5o P. NJ, zl2;m
night
p NJ. week days $50 A. NJ and ABS r. ~ Sun
oAEs En- Frederick. weekdays. 9;Oc. I1:25 A. NJ.
4:So, $50 P. NJ Sundays, s'oa A. M !:i3 NJ
For Boyd and way points. weekdays. % A NJ,
.,onning onIy at GaIthersburg and Germantown,
40 $50, 7:O5 P. NJ Sundays. 600 A. NJ,
i'IS, For Csithersburg and way points. weekdays.
s.eo NJ; 1850. 500. 4:S3, 5:S5, 1:o5. u:So
NJ. Sundays, 900 A. NJ. Ills, 4:SS. 7:o5.
Fnr Washington Junction and way points (9:o0
N. principal stations west OF Gaitasrshurg
onlyl l:S0, 80 P. n Weekdays; 500 A NJ l:I8
P NJ Sundays
u,yaI Blue Line for New York and
Philadelphia.
All trains illuminated with Pintsch light
For Philadelphia, New York, Boston. and the
r. weeE-dsvs 7:O5. 500, 10 A. NJ. 1905
" I.I5 P NJ TALL foregoing trains have Din
ing Car attached 500 sos Dining CaTl. sO SEQ.
6,niys T.n5 900 A. NJ Q:I5 Dining Carl.
500 15:o5. Dining Carl, s:OO l2O1 night; Sleep
ing Car open at 10 O'Clock
ParIor Cars on all day trains.
For Atlantic City. 1000 A. NJ l2:o5 noon.
lis and 500 P NJ. Weekdays.
For Cape May, 1905 noon
.Fxeept Sunday xExpress trains.
Baggage called fer and checked l. from hotels hotels
it- at ticket offices. 6I9 Pennsylvania avenue
nortbwes.. New York avenue and Fifteenth street.
and at depot
WM NJ. GREENE, d. b. MAHrlS,
Ger Manager Mgr. Pass Traffic.
The evening times., 1898-10-17
Southern Ry.

schedule in effect October Is, 1881
All trains arrive and leave Pennsylvania Pas
$50 A. M-Daily, local for DsuviIle. Char
,otts and wey stations connects at Manassas daily
TO- Strasburg and HarTisonburg, and at Lynch
bnre with the Norfolk and Western daily
NIX A M-Dailv TIE UNITED STATES FAST
uau. carries Pullman Buffet slespers. New To-k
~ Washington to Jacksonville, uniting at SaliE-
hurry with Pullman Sleeper for Asheyille and Hot
Springs. N. c.; Knoxville, Shat'anoGga ana Mem
SInsner for Augusta Pullman Buffet Sleeper,
New y srk to New Orleans uniting at Charlotte
with Pullman Sleeper for birmingham Con-
Pa;iroad for Lexington 6aIly except Sunday, and
Natural Bridge. daily; Solid train, Washington
to New Orleans witho' change sunset person.
an this train every ednesday to San Francisco
without change
".ta s:Ol P. M.-LOcal for Front Royal, strasburs
and Harrisonburg, daily, except sunday.
AL p M.-Daily, local for charlottesville.
Io.a5 P. M-Daily, WASHINGTON AND
soUTHwEsTERS. XEsTIBuLEps J, s,ia LIMITED, com corr
- and Day Coaches. Pullman sleepers, New
Tort to Nashville. Tenn, via Asheville, Knox
vile and Chattan9osa New h0TS and 70 Tampa via
Nv YORK to Memphis, via Birmingham, New
york 70 New Orleans, via Atlanta and Mont
gomery. yestibuled Day Coach, Washington c TO
DOIT TRAINS ON WASHINGTON AND OHIO d.
VISION leave Washington 9:01 A. ~ daily
~ 4.45 p NJ daily except SUNDAY, ana
s.e5 p. NJ Sunday only, for Roand Hill; 4:s2 P.
daily except Sunday for Leesburg, and 6:25
p H. daily for Herndon. Returning, arrive at
Washington s:26 A. NJ. daily and $40 P. NJ Sun
dav oniy, and 2:I5 P. NJ. daily except Sunday
rom Round Hill, and 7:06 A. NJ daily except sun
day. from Herndon, and 1894 y NJ daily except
Sunday from Leeshurg-
Through trains tr~m the South arrive at Wash
fugton 6:42 A. NJ, 2:20 P. NJ and 9:S5 P. NJ
Hsrrisonburg u noon daily, except Sunday, and
s:S5 P. N. daily, and $3.50 A. NJ daily fon
Charlottesville.
Tickets, sleeping car reservation and informs-
tion furnished at offices, 705 18th ST. NV, 81
Passenger Station.
FRANK s. CANNON, Third Vice President and
General Manager.
J. ~ CULP, Traffic Manager.
w. A. TURK. General Passenger Agent.
L. g. BROWN Cen Agt.. Pass Dept.
The evening times., 1898-10-17
Lord SaIisbury,s Lifeguard.

Lord Salisbury generally has powerful
lifeguard at his. side. There is at Hat
field a cherished breed of faithful hounds
of immense strength and bulldog tenacity-
One of these is the premier's close friend,
and ACCOMPANIES him in his walks about
Hatfield So faithful a guardian is he
that Lord Salisbury, with a touch of his
characteristic irony, has called him
Pharaoh because he will not let the
people go. Lord Salisbury's lifeguard
protects his life and Heurich's beer would
protect his health. Heurichs cannot be
euualed as a tonic for 1t Is Invaluable TO
persons who have overtaxed their sys-
tenn. Phone six ethirty-four Arlington
Bottling Co., for a case of Maerzen, Sem
ate, Extra Pale, or Lager.
The evening times., 1898-10-17
SYNDICATES IN JAPAN.
Trusts and Combinations Forming
to Control Trade.

AS indicative of some new features of
the course of trade in Japan, the follow
ing clipping from the Japan Mail is sent
to the State Department by Consul Cen
eral Convey, at Yokohama:
Japan, it seems, will not have to
wait long for her era of trusts rail-
way kings and the other outgrowths of
modern commerce. We have seen how
the cotton-spinning companies are COM
bining TO form a monster association, for
the purpose of reducing production. and
thus maintaining prices. 1t appears that
the cement firms are about TO adopt the
same policy There are ten cement firms
in Japan. Nine of the companies are said
to have agreed to this course
The evening times., 1898-10-17
A COUNCIL OF OHIO WOMEN.
Female Suffragists Meet in Cincin-
nuti Tomorrow,

Cincinnati, Ohio Oct. 1.-THE thir-
teenth annual convention of Ohio Woman
Suffragists will be held here this week,
in Sinton Hall, beginning with an execu-
tive session tomorrow morning, and
regular meeting of delegates and men,
bers in the afternoon at 2 clock.
The meetings will be open to all COM
ers. without fee at the door and without
collection, as the women of Cincinnati
have raised the cost of the meetings. All
the women suffragists Of national note
are eypected
The evening times., 1898-10-17
AdmtrnI schIey Counting Home,

Rear Admiral Schley has informed the
Navy Department that his duties as
member of the Porto Rican Evacuation
Commission, will be completed October
a, and he expects to sail on that date
from San Juan for the United States. He
will visit Washington to submit a re-
port and await further orders.
The evening times., 1898-10-17

The following table shows the Septem-
Der imports and exports since 1857. 1t
will be seen that the exports of the
month are the largest of any September
with the single exception of 1897, and
that the imports are smaller than those
of any September except those of 1897 and
1898:
The evening times., 1898-10-17
Lord Chor,es Beresford i'm China.

Pekin, Oct 17.-Lord Charles Beresford,
who has been entrusted by the British
government with a special mission to
China. arrived here yesterday.
The evening times., 1898-10-17
E.communicated by the Pope.

Buffalo. n. Y, Oct H.-Bishop Quig-
ley has received decree from Rome ex-
communicating the Rev. Stephen Kas-
inski, the so-called bishop of the Inde-
pendent Polish Catholic Church, who
lives in this city.
The evening times., 1898-10-17

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SAFETY AUTOMATIC HiTCHING
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and 81. JOHN B. ESE Ely, 1010 Pa ave.
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STEAMBOATS,.
STEAMBOATS,.
Norfolk and Washington
SteambOatCO

Every day il the year for Fortress Mon
roe, Norfolk, Newport News and all points
South, by the superb, powerful steel palace
steamers. Newport News" 'Norfolk," and
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