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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-04
WHAT LI.HUNG CHANG MEANS
He Serves Notice on Germany That
China Has Allies.

Cs1iin HIS AiltSs
Ii Hung Chang, the viceroy ?f
China, said i'm an interview puoilsned
yesterday ini New York some very sig-
nificant things about the troubles
which literally confront his country.
He said that the forcible occupation n1
Kiao Chou by the Germans was III
rect violation of existing treaties ana
of national law. The Germans, aceord-
ing to the Chinase statesman's view.
seized the territory on the preteXt OF
avenging the murder of two mission
aries for which act the Chinese gov
eminent offered full and immediate
redress which was to include the pun
ishment of the criminals, the dismissal
of the officials, and indemnity IL re-
quired.
.Viceroy Ii Hung Chang says that the
Chinese government withdrew lts
troops from Kiao Chou simply 10 aVoin
conflict, although the popular leeIlIIs
was, and is, for resistance ne coh
siders the act of occupation as one OF
injustice upon nation just reco'ei'e
from q great disaster.
The Chinese minister in this city fuiiy
indorses the position of Ii Hung Chang
and commends the viceroys statements
assuming them to be authentic.
The diplomats here are not comment
ing on the events that are taxing Pidce
on the coast of China. one OF theiii,
however. said that the significant part
of the statement of Ii Hung Chang was
not that he made protest against 'he
occupation by Germany OF part OF
Chinese territory, because that goes
without saying, but that the Chlhese
did not resist the taking or the terri
tory 1t shows that at the time OF the
occupation Ii Hung Chang knew noun
ing whatever of the present compina-
lions. He might have resisted Germa-
nv had he known that there was pow
er 10 keep Japan in check, but that he
did not know.
China at the time Of the occupation
had no friend except America, so far as
Ii Hung Chang knew, but he has since
discovered that Japan, an unfrienoiy
power, has made a combination win
england. The fact of this combination
has brought Russia to the front ana
there was nothing for the car 10 40
but to resist England and Japan, his al
Iy and base of operations being emma.
He can count too on the assistance OF
France IL it should ever come 10
a war an France should be called on by
Russia as an ally by reason OF the
treaty which is supposed to exist pc
tween them You will see, said thls
diplomat. that ii has been the deVel-
opment of events which made Ii hung
chang bold TO speak out his mind as 10
German perfidy and violation OF treaty
He would have remained silent yet out
for the patent fact that China has made
her alliances The war IL II Is to come
will be begun by a Chinese attack TO re-
take the lost territory from the Ter
mans.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-04
SEVEN TIMES PRESIDENT.
DIR. Samuel &. Busey Reelected by
the Medical Society.

The semiannual meeting Of the Medical
Society or the District OF Columbia, held
last night at the Georgetown law depart
ment building, resulted In the reelection
of DR.. SAMUEL G. Busey as president by an
overwhelming vote. The meeting was one
OF the largest held by the society for some
time all OF Or. Busey's friends among the
profession attending in fun force, in order
to stand by him In tn, fight that was being
made against his reelection by few OF
the younger doctors Of the city.
The trouble grew out of tie annual ad-
dress OF DR.. Busey, in which he outlined the
duties OF physicians to the profession and
their relation to the medical charities OF
the District, aud iu which he attacked the
special claim Of the Columbia Hospital
to- Exemption from allowing the members
of the Medical A ssociati0n To attend
private patients occupying private ROOMS
in that institution.
He said that figures showed the greater
popularity and usefulness OF an institution
that offers 10 other surgeons the opTor-
tunities OF well equipped hospital, aud
that they failed To show the exclusive
and extraordinary proficiency Of the staff
of an institution that closes It's rooms TO
competition aud enterprise.
Tie physicians of Columbia Hospital
took offense at the general tenor OF the
address Of Dr. Busey, and determined 10
oppose his nOmin alton for election as
president of the society.
The name of DR.. BuSey was presented 10y
DR.. j. Ford TEoIGpson, and seconded by
DR.. W. W. johnson. In presenting the
name Dr. ThOSIpson made an eloquent adj
dress, in which he referred incidentally 10
the long and useful Seryi3e Of nr. BusPy as
president OF the sOc.ety. He was first
elected TO that position about twenty
five years ago, ana filled the place with
credit to himself aud @ the society. After
a lapse of more than decade he was
again elected five years ago. He has
since served five successive tertds.
Among the others who made eu!og iStic
Sernarks were Or. W. W. Johnson and Dr.
W. p. Compton. The result was a clean
sweep for the Busey men. the vote for
president being OG for Or. Busev out of
a total OF III votes. This Ouly left five
votes for the opposing candidate. The
meeting was held beh ind closed doors,
aud after adjournment the secretary and
members maintained = cIamIike silence to-
ward reporters when quest ioned as to the
name or the opposing candidate.
The other officers chosen Were: ice
presidents, DR.. c. W. Richardson and DR..
George NJ. kober; corresponding secretary,
DIR. Thomas c. Smith: recording secret arr.
Or. $. $. Adams; treasurer DR.. c. W. Fran
zoni: librarian Or. f. l.. Morgan board OF
census, Drs. G.. W. Richardson {. II. A.
Kleinschmidt. William B. French, John
L. Winter and George n. Acker.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-04

The splendid prosperity promised To
suit Of the Dingley trust and monopoly
tariff does not appear to have arrived.
There are uncomfortable probabilities
that a great strike of the New Eng
land weaVers and spinners will be
declared before many days. 1t is
worthy of note that some of the East
ern shoe factories are making heavy
cuts in wages, and there are reasons
to fear that other manufacturing in
d1,s+1-i4-, .ss.nrs.-i-.s from the mobility
OF the people TO buy, viii resort TO
wage reduction as the readiest way
out Of their difficulties. Every such
movement. of course, whether defen
sible in individual cases or not, is
boomerang. because il still further re-
duces the purchasing capacity of the
community at large. We wonder how
long ii viii take the manufacturing
interest to find out that by the time
the gold and bond syndicates through
the Republican party. have reduced the
American people to the condition Of an
Irish peasantry. there will be no one TO
buy their productions? Every addi-
tional year of gold standard contrac-
ton will more and more diminish the
power of the masses TO absorb the out
put Of American mills and factories.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-04

Although there is not much visible
Improvement in the Oriental situation.
the fact that there was nothing in the
report alleging that a British warship
had fired upon a Russian cruiser re-
lieves it of the certainty of immediate
hostilities. Lord Salisbury appears to
have taken a new position in regard to
the European occupation of Chinese
ports and territory. 1t is reported i'm
the Manchester Guardian that the
British government viii demand the
naturalization of all the places seized.
IL Germany is to have territorial con-
cessions at Kiao Chou, England will
demand a strip Of land there. and if
Port Arthur is to- be open TO Russia it
must also be open to Great Britain.
Lord Salisbury's contention is that any
part of China opened to one European
power must be open to all upon equal
terms, and for this he rests upon the
most-favored-nation clause in Great
Britain's treaties with China His
own country's long and exclusive pos
session of Hong Kong would seem TO
weaken the force OF the position, and
as to other things to which objection
is made, as, for example, the para-
mount influence being exercised by
Russia in Korea. England. in former
years. has occupied exactly the same
kind of relations to China.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-04

tor, when a young wife complains of being
nervous. fretful, respondent and troubled
with headaches, pains in the back and sides
and abdomen and shooting pains, - attrib-
utes these bad feelings to stomach, liver or
heart trouble II, by lucky chance, he
hits upon the right cause, which is most fire.
ouently weakness or disease of the feiui-
nine organism, he will insist upon the
offensive examinations and local treatment
from which every modest woman shrinks.
When a woman suffers i'll this way she
should consult in person or by letter, some
eminent physician who has the wisdom and
experience to know that these troubles are
easily cured by the right remedy. without
offence to nodesty. DIR. r. V. Pierce has
been for thirty years chief consulting ply
stefan to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical
Institute, at Buffalo. ~. V, one of the lead
ing medical institutions in the world.
Many thousands of women have used his
Favorite Prescription who were physi-
cal wrecks and who are now happy wives
with happy husbands. Honest druggists
will not offer something else in place of
the famous 'Favorite Prescription"
After having been married nine years, having
good health generally. and no children. con-
suited YOU in regard TO my case writes Mrs
Virginia A. Thornton of Halioca. Chattahoochee
Co. Ca. =. I received prompt reply with direc-
tons for using Your medicines which followed.
After taking t.r bottles of Dr.. Pierce's FavofIse
Prescription. happily found myself IN an ex-
pectant 4 &c and IN d:c time gave birth TO fine
baby girl. She Is two years and a-haif old now,
and is healthy and fat
Constipation Biliousness"f That
means danger ahead" DR.. Pierce's Pleas
ant Pellets are sure cure.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-04
CURFEw LAW IN CHICAGO.
Alderman Coughliu Would stop
Crime nv lis Ena ctment

i Nv It's
Chicago, Jan. At Alderman Cough
lin. of the First Ward, has his way
Chicago will resemble a New England
village after 8 o'clock every night. The
Alderman has decided to introduce a
curfew ordinance in the city council at
the next meeting, and it will then be in
order for the city fathers to say wheth
er EVanston's freak law shall be APP
piled in the western metropolis.
Alderman Coughlin has obtained a
COPY of the Evanston curfew law and is
drafting his bill from it. In Evanston
the law drives everybody indoors at 9
o'clock except the policemen and they
would as we'll be i'm bed. for there is
nothing for them to do. The alderman
said today:
"Robberies, hold-ups, pocket picking.
panel games, craps, poker, 'can-rush-
ing must go. / am going to end this
epidemic of crime, the reign of terror,
this revel of robbery and all the other
things everybody is talking about. The
aIl-night saloons might just as well
Quit business. Chicago is to have a
curfew law, and John J. Coughlin is the
boy who will give it. | am going to in
troduce the ordinance at the next meet
ing of the council"
Alderman Coughlin brands as a. ma
IivivJss5 roIsehood the report chat his or
dinance would apply to all wards ex-
cept the first. He intends to fix the
hour for disappearing from the streets
at o'clock. The measure will also APP
ply to adults.
Mayor Harrison said that curfew
ordinance could not pass the council.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-04
TUESDAY. JANUARY i, 1898.
Notes of the Day.

IL really begins to look as If Marcus
Aurelius Hanna had met his match
out in Columbus, and the prospects for
his return TO the Senate are not near
IN as bright as they were four ana
twenty hours ago. The Ohio legisla-
ture is stacked against him, and it viii
take a kings ransom to alter the sit
uation enough to elect him. He and
all his chief priests and centurions are
as mad as hornets, and it is more than
suspected that since they cannot rule
they will try TO ruin. Rather than al
low Bushnell to win. there is proba-
bflity that Hanna would make sacri-
fees to divert enough Democratic votes
10 create a deadlock, and SO leave Ohio
one seat and the Administration an
other vote short in the Senate. The
Bushnell Kurtz combine people are
confident of the future arguing that
tIrvrI- s,,s,,>.s., In organizing the legisla-
ture is evidence that the once domi-
mating power and influence Of Hanna
is broken. and that. with his prestige
gone. il viii not be difficult TO put him
in a back seat and bring TO the front
"some other good Ohio man.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-04
TEIxEIRA FREE TO WED.
The Brazilian Croesus Divorced ~
a Soutn Dakota Court.

q SOutU ldhotd SVoss'
New York, JAN 4.-Don Eugene
Teixeira, the Brazilian of fabulous
wealth who recently came to this city
procured a decree of divorce from his
wife in South Dakota, yesterday, on the
grounds of desertion.
When the Don first arrived IN TOWN.
with his mother, Maria Louisa IeiA-
EZRA, and three children, 1t was gener-
ally understood that he was a WIDOW
er. IL was then said that his wffe nad
died two years ago. The death OF MS
wife was advanced by his friends as
the reason of his pilgrimage with ms
mother and children to this country
in the hope that the diversion OF Tor
eign travel would lessen his trouble;
A year ago last October they arrived
in this country, and until few months
back lived in a fine cottage at Elber-
on, n. j.
Their presence in this city was not
made known until the mother began
buying large blocks of upper west side
realty, and then il was noised about
that she intended investing S5,OO0,0 600
in real estate of that class. Later the
Don, who is but thirty-two years OF
age, secured an abundance of notorle-
ty by the alleged efforts of William b.
Turnbull and Elford Gould to black
mail nm OUT Oh Il dblt
1t was said that the two men tried
TO extort the money as the price of sup
preston of a story rejecting upon the
Don.
The Teixeiras-mother son and chill
dren-lived in magnificent house on
the southeast corner of West END aV-
enue The house is to have its own
electric plant, and the entire first floor
is to be converted into private muse
um and a theater. In the latter plays
and operas are to be presented by am
ateurs and the best professional sing
ers and actors in the stage world.
The interior remodeling has been go
ing on under the personal supervision
of the Don, who has achieved consid-
cradle fame as a painter and art lover.
The wealth of the Teixeira family
springs from the wonderful Pircania
gold mines in Naranon, Brazil. Nego-
tiations are now pending for the sale
of portion of these mines to a Lon
don syndicate. The Don's mother is
said to be the richest woman in the
world, her wealth running into nine
figures. All of this wealth, it is said,
will descend to the son. No particulars
concerning the divorce or the circum-
stances attending the desertion were
obtainabe last night.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-04

other troubles assail the Admins
tration Its adhesion TO Secretary
Cages greenback destruction and gold
standard conspiracy against the mon
ey of the Constitution is certain TO
lead to a Republican revolt both'in and
outside of the Congress. When old
line party men like Senator Chandler
get ready to take off their coats and
defy the ruling element of the party
on a vital question like the currency.
it cannot be doubted that sensational
developments are at hand. Mr. Chand-
Ter IS out in a card, in which he de-
clares that the present depressed con
dition Of American labor. and the re-
duction Of factory wages in New Eng
land. are due solely to the demonetiza-
ton OF silver which has doubled the
purchasing power Of gold and reduc-
ed by One-half the value Of labor and
all commodities in exchange for it. He
calls upon the producing and laboring
classes to start in and fight against
the schemes of their oppressors to fas-
ten this curse permanently upon their
necl1s.. Ii is good advice. but the trou-
bile is that bimetallist Republicans can
not adopt il without jumping over the
fence into the camp OF Democracy.
where all bimetallists belong. just as
all gold men belong in the Republican
party. From all the indications we
find il impossible to predict duh ses-
sion. On the contrary. beginning with
tomorrow, we expect to see plenty of
fun uDon the Hin. Senator Chandler
is not the only person in the Capitol
who has something up his sleeve for
the Administration.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-04
TERRORS OF WHITE PASS TRAIL.
"a wfuI" weather Conditions Re-
ported by a Police Inspector

Ottawa, Ont, Jan. A letter from
Inspector Wood of the Dominion
mounted police at Skaguay. dated De-
cember IS, has just been received at
official headquarters here. The hotel
men there. he says, are hard put 10
find accommodations for the persons
crowding into Skaguay. The weather
there is described as awful
Words cannot picture the state Of
the White Pass trail. Heavy frosts
and thaWs, alternating, made il a.
glare OF ice which the snow covered
to the depth Of a foot or more. Six
police started TO take some forty
pound toboggans over to Bennett They
would, with great labor. nearly reach
the top Of one Of the numerous hills
on the trail, only to slide back at
breakneck pace to the bottom again.
Finally the inspector left the trail
and took to the ice on the Skaguay
River. but found it very dangerous,
open water in many places and then
ice in others, and very rough where
the ice was safe. Creepers were pro-
CURED next day aIA the toboggans
taken to the summit.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-04

While the patriot army in Cuba is
gathering for a descent upon. Havana
province. and the Spaniards are butch
ering the reconcentrados in order TO
get rid of them and to have CUBAN
corpses to show for their military OPP
erations." the autonomy farce rs sun
being played in Havana, Madrid and
Washington. Ii is reported that MI
Mckinley has dispatched his friend
Smith, Of the Bureau of American Re
publics. TO Cuba, in order to report up
on the workings" of the Sagasta-Han-
ma scheme. There is a cold-blooded
impassiveness about the way in which
the Administration continues to bolster
this autonomy humbug, which
would be astonishing in any other out
fit of public men i'm this or any other
country. Mr.. Mckinley is completely
aware that the plan itself is without
legality and can have none until ii has
been passed upon by the Cortes, which
viii not be elected until March. He
also knows that autonomy" has been
Indignantly spurned by the whole Gu
ban people, and that its pretended APP
plicaticn is confined to Spaniards with
in the few fortified posts remaining in
Spanish hands. And yet he goes on
acting as if it were a matter as to
which the people of the island have.
and are to have, nothing to say, but
must accept the fraud and oppression
exactly as imposed by the joint pow
ers of Madrid and Washington. II
amounts to an added piece of nation
al shame and infamy.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-04
SUED BY A SPINSTER.
Rich Mr.. Jennings Is Asked to Pay
Miss Myers $4,000.


Fulton, y. Y, Jan 4.-Miss Carrie Myers
a spinster of forty. does not propose to be
courted for nothing.
stephen Jennings o wealthy farmer,
came to this village from the eastern part
of the county last spring to live with his
son. Miss NJ yers, who is a not unattractive
woma n, passed the house daily. The factwas
noted 10y the elderly Mr.. Jennings, who
lost no time in making her acquaintance,
and followed the matter up briskIy with
proposal of marriage. 1t was blithely ac-
cepted.
Miss Myers bad her wedding trousseau
prepared, while MIR. Jennings was look
ing around fora suitable house, because,
as he said to q friend, II do not want
q bird until l have cage to put her
in" In September he went to Canasotta
to visit another son. and thence wrote
to his fiancee that their enga cement must
come TO an end.
Miss Myers replied by sending him
summons in suit for $4,000 Dana ges,
which will be tried in the supreme court
next week.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-04
AN OKLAHOMA WIDOWS SUICIDE
Driven Frantic by Seeing Her Lover
KISS Another Woman.

Perry. O. r, Jan. Mrs. Christine
Points. a widow living near Cushion
east of here coTfimitted suicide while
attending church5 She attended pail
and said she caught her lover Kissing
another girl.i
This drove her frantic, ana WINE SIT
ting in church by the side OF her hoth,
or she swallowed a deadly drug and
was taken to herlhome in a dying con
dition
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-04
CRIME AS A DISEASE.
Science TO Extirrate the Brain AT
flicted With It.

flicted with It.
If what Professor Elmer Gates, OF
the Smithsonian Institution, asserts, Is
true crime will soon be thing OF the
past. Professor Gates has spent years
in scientific investigation of the sub
iect. and he now declares that medical
science will treat crime in the future,
and>that 1t will be extirpated from the
human mind, the same as any other
disease.
This is the calm judgment of a deep
ly learned man, who has devoted ms
life TO research. Professor Gates an
nounces, not as a possibility, but as
fact, that the murder in a mans brain
can be removed by the surgeons knite-
If a man is naturally a thief, his brain
can be cut and treated so that all de-
sire to steal shall disappear.
No matter what criminal tendency Is
developed, ii can be cured. III is NOT
question of building up will power, OF
terrifying moral sense. 1t is SIMPLY
question of surgical and meuicai
science. The only difficulty, and 1t is
one that exists in all disease, is In trac-
ing the trouble TO its seat
Professor Gates explains the process
scientifically with the employment OF
many technical words that are more
or less confusing to laymen, but the
principle is simple enough.
The brain is the directing power Oh
the body. 1t does not act as whoie'
because If IL did a man could not 90
two things at once. he coului VAIN
and think at the same time
If II were divided up into compart-
ments. for instance, cell NO. L might
rule the arm, cell No. the eyes. and SO
on. IL the relation between the eyes
and cell No. be established. and
means of keeping IL under observation
be found, il would be possible to deter
mine the influence of sight upon cell
No. 3.
1t is very much the same with reSard
to the muscular system If a man
makes a certain number OF movements
daily with a dumb-bell, the develop
ment of the muscles of the arm can be
measured exactly. And, relatively the
part OF the brain governing the action
of the arm becomes larger.
When a person has committed
crime he will be placed in a jail until
he can be examined by experts. VINO
will determine the form Of his disease.
the cause, and trace IL to the part OF
the brain which is affected. The brain
will be laid bare, and the malgrowth
cut away. Or, If il is discovered that
the trouble is the result of decay OF
that part of the brain, IL will be bullt
up and made normal.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-04
GOWN READY FOR DUTY.

New Autonomist Minister Prena r.
ing to Leave for Cuba
Atlanta, Ga, Jan. 4.-Senor Gown,
the recently appointed minister of the
interior of Cuba, will leave Atlanta
within the next few days to enter up
on his duties.
The Cuban denies himself to all Wis
itors, refuses to be interviewed by the
newspaper reporters and viii give out
nothing regarding his plans for the flu
ture. 1t is certain, however, that Senior
Gown and his wife and daughters are
making preparations for immediate de-
parture.