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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-10-11
THE U. s. SUPREME COURT.
Important Petitions in Regard ia
MHrdeIcrs Under Death Sentence

Important Petitions in Regard to
MurdeIcrs Under Death Sentence.
In the United States Supreme Court to-
day Mr.. Samuel D. Truitt and Mr.. Tracy
L. Jeffords, attorneys for William NJ.
Strafher. submitted motion and petition for
leave to proceed in forma pauperis TO Sc
cure writ of certiorari to the District of
Columbia Court Of Appeals
Messrs. F. s. K. Smith and Chapin
Brown for Edward Smith and Messrs c.
H. Turner and George Kearney for Charles
Winston submitted same.
Ihese three men are under sentence to be
hung. The object of the writ is to cause
the cases to be reviewed by the Supreme
court. as there, is no right of appeal or
other way to reach this court. The uUes-
tloh involved is construction of act of jan
uary 10, 1897, 20 abolish capital punish
ment. and affects all federal Jurisdictions
where the act has been differently con-
strued every time administered. The judges
OF the Court of Appeals disagreed about
the matter, and did not agree with other
judges.
The Attorney General is assisting TO have
thls contention determined by the court of
iast resort, and is not opposing the petit
TONERS. This question carried to this court
VIII Keep the six or eight or more now in
Jall awaiting trial for murder from a trial
DAY TIL after the Supreme Court decision,
winch Will probably defer such cases till
after Christmas.
Mr. Tracy l.. Jeffords submitted petit
ton In the case of Jesse l.. MacDan.eI, con-
Victed in Baltimore of using the mails for
lottery purposes
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possession of Havana until this country has
Tshhqulshed claim to the Philippines and
that Sagasta has so instructed Gen Blanco
ara advised the Spanish commissioners at
Fafis OF the decision. is rot received with
cI1uehce by the administration here In
the hrSt place, it is an absurd even an in
50 ne attitude for Spain to assume. and in
the second place it is disputed by the pro-
SreSs CT events. Spain, in signing the
protocol, reiinquished her sovereignty over
Cuoa ana Porto Rico, without any rcserva-
uon as TO the conclusion TO be reached
with respect to the Philippines Her soy
efelgnty over these islands actually ceased
When the protocol was signed. The eyacua-
uoh OF Cuba Is in progress. and is expected
10 proceed without interruption. and must
pe 1uliy accomplished by the LIST Of Decern-
Der. III Spain contemplated a move of thu.
sort indicated in the Paris dispatch she
Could not hope to strengthen her position
py permitting the transportation of troops
from Cuba to Spain, which is now in pro-
gfeSS. Moreover. the Spanish government
iuIly reallzes that this government is in a
better position to enforce its demands al
thls time than II was when the protocol
was signed. When hCstilities ceased IL was
fully understood by the Spanish govern
ment that Spanish sovereignty over thu
fhlllpplnes was seriously threatened and
Nruid probably have to be relinuuis he'd
or SaSdsta to assume the attitude ascrth-
ca TO him would be to invite disaster. The
ldea that there is q possibility of a re-
IeWal OF hoStlitieS is not entertained here
Ihere Is no apprehension that Spain car
resist any demands made by this govern
ment.
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THE GREAT TEMI'LAR PARADE.
Twenty-Five Thousand Sir Knip1,ts
in Line at PittsIpurr

Twenty-Five Thousand Sir KNIGHTS
in Line at Pittsburg.
PlTTSBCRG, Pa, October 11.-What
Jerusalem was to the crusaders almost a
thousand years ago this city is TODAY to
the knights Templar. All night and earlv
TINS morning every railroad leading into
the city, every street car line entering from
the surrounding suburbs, came in loaded
with cars, holding thousands and thousands
OF people. The railroads, anticipatinp the
rush, had made every preparation to con-
Vey all comers to the Mecca" of modern
pilgrims, and from a radius of several hum
dred miles the towns, hamlets and villages
literally poured their population into Pitts
burg.
There could not have been more beautf-
iui day Tor parade Not a cloud was to
be seen anywhere, while soft zephyr-like
sun.
The hour of the parade was set for 10
m, and from early dawn everybody and
everything was aStir at the various head
quarters OF the different commanderies
preparing for the march,
Seats had been erected all along the line
OF march to accommodate 29O 900 peoula.
ana long before the parade began to move
all tnese seats We're occupied, In fact, every
available foot of space along the linz of
march was filed with men. women and
children, while windows and even roofs
We're also swarmed with anxious sightseers.
1t is estimated that the parade proper
was mada up Of inward of %. .O0o uniformed
knights, and there were at least a million
spectators lined along the route of the
parade, which was seven miles long,
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Ihis morning President Proctor, Commits
sloners Brewer and Har4oE Of the civil
service commission listened TO an argument
by Attorneys Jas. H. Hayes and Jno Clin-
ton' 1r., upon petition fled at the in
stance of the Central Rep lblfcan League
and the city republican com nittee of Rich
mond, Va. After reading ana discussing the
petition, charges and affida Wits, the COM
mission Immediately ordere,i an investiga-
ton which will probably. begin in Rich
mCnd next week.
The charges allege bribery, use of official
lEhuence and authority to affect the result
OF the approaching congre ssional election
IN the Richmond district, and the violation
OF the civil service laws by leyying and
collecting political assessmmts In the rev.
enue and post Office departments at Rich
mond, IN May and September.
The Treasury and Post Onice Depart
ments will also be called Upon to aid in this
Investigation. as there are charges which,
under the head of violati IN of executive
orders, come under the juri 3diction of these
departments.
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Personal Mention.

Maj. Jas. Albert Clark has been elected
president of the Theosophical Society, to
succeed Mr.. G. NJ. Coffin, recently called to
the Phoenix Bank, New York
Mr.. Willis L. Moore chief of the weather
bureau, has gene to Omaha, where ne VIII
open the convention of weather bureau Of
fic:als which will convene there tomorrow.
H. A. Hazen, E. B. Garriott and Chief
Moore, all of this CITY, are among those
who win read papers.
DIR. Brosius has returned, after a months
vacation on the coast of Massachusetts
DIR. Grace Roberts has returned from A.
lantic City and on the coast of Maine.
Col. c. Ward, Sth Ohio United States Vol
uEteers, is registered at the Raleigh Hotel
Mr.. Samuel A. Campbell of III p street
northwest has been quite i'll, but is now
ccnvalescing.
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HOUSE OF DEPUTIES.
Joint Session with Bishops in the
Board of Missions.

When the house of deputies met this
morning Mr. Morris W. Seymour of Con-
necticut announced the death at New Lon
don last night of Mr.. Benjamin Stark one
of the lay deputies from Connecticut. and
paid high tribute to the exalted character
of the deceased, and it was unanimously
resolved that the committee on memorials
TO deceased members be directed to take
appropriate action. After committees
were called and memorials asked for
Rev. Robt. c. Foute of California extand-
ed an invitation to the general convention
40 hold its next meeting in San Francisco
In 1901, and introduced resolution provid-
ing Tor such action which was referred to
the committee on place of holding next con-
ventien appointed yesterday Rev DR..
Hodges of Massachusetts introduced a
resolution. which was appropriately re-
ferred, recitins that as next Whitsunday
would mark the 350th anniversary of the
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WARSHIPS TO BE ON VIEW.
Will BE Seen During the Celebration.
at hiLadclphia and CharIcstnn

Ihe Secretary of the Navy has yielded to
the opportunities of the citizens of PhiIa-
delphia and has given orders for the at
at the peace jubilee to be held in that city
on the 9TH instant. The vessels selected
have all seen the hardest kind of saryice
during the war, and included in the list is
the now famous Texas, sister ship almost
to the Maine, on which will be Commodore
tie of July 3, when thu Spanish squadron
was destroyed. The other vessels have
each and all been connected with some i'm
pCrtant action. They are the New Or
leans, the Marblehead. the Topeka, the
leans is now at San Juan de Porto Rico
but orders have heen sent to her to come
hCme. She will first connect with the New
ark, the Cincinnati and any other warshfps
on the station which have aboard naval
miiitiamen from Illinois, and these aboard
for return TO the United States, whera they
will be honorably disc harged
The people of Charleston are also to have
an opportunity to some of the warshins
for at the instance of Repra sentative FL
lott OF South Carolina, Secretary Long to-
day gave orders for four of the ships to go
to Charleston to participate in the jubilee
exercises there on the 1tth instant. The
vessels selected have also made honorable
records during the war. They are the VIII
mineton. which was in the fight at Car
0enas when Bagl2. was killed: the Nash
vile, which fought at Cienfuegos; the Mont
gCmery, which took part in the lombard
nent of the Santiago forts, and the Prince
ton, which rendered good service in Cuba.
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cral conference, and he visits them in per-
son or by delegate.
With reference to the memorial from the
to the Protestant Episcopal Church in
America the bishops today adopted reSOiu
tions setting forth that We gratefully wit
ness the earnest missionary labors of the
Swedish clergy of our church among those
speaking their language in this land more
than one million in number. and we com
mend their cause to the pIayerful sym
p5thy and generous aid of the people of
this church"
The discussion of the proposed new cam
of marriage and divorce, begun yeSter-
day. WAS in allegiance today, and will not
receive immediate consideration or decision.
On Marriage and Divorce.
An indication of the sentiment among
the church leaders concerning the proposed
canon on marriage and divorce is given by
declaration and it's signers, printed
below. 1t was sent in July last to all the
clergy the United States. over 1900 have
replied. 1t i; as follows:
I'VE, the Undersigned. bishops and clergy
of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the
United States, being persuaded that any
canon of our church on the question of
marriage and divorce ought to be con-
sstent with the words the priest must use
when he solemnizes holy matrimony ac-
Cordirg to the service contained in the
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YELLOW FEVER'S SPREAD.
Reports show That the Disease Is
Steadily Increasing.

The reports to the marine hospital service
today show that the yellow fever in the
south is steadily increasing The officials
state the increase in the fever list is likely
to be continued until cold weather. and
this is thought to be at least thre. weeks
eff IN the region most affected. The dis
patches received here report the total num-
Der of cases in Mississippi up to date to be
SO. with thirty-six deaths, since the epi-
demic broke out
Yellow fever was reported to have oc-
CURED at Lake Charles. La. in a dispatch
from DR.. Edmond Shushan OF New Orleans
AT Franklin, La, there are twenty-eight
new cases and no deaths. Following are the
Mississippi reports of new cases for today:
jackson, white cases. / negro. total 3:
Canton, 4; Crystal Springs. 1 Madison. 5
white, 10 negroes, total Il; HARRISON, H.
making 50 in all now under treatment;
Ridgeland. l. Warwood, new cases, l
death; oxford, l case. Camp Hutton. the
new fever detention point at Arandale near
New Orleans. with capacity of about $50
patients, was opened today.
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SENATOR FORAKER,
Thinks Democrats Will Make No
Gains I'm Ohio.

Senator ForakaG. who was in Washington
today, oppressed the opinion TO Star re-
porter that the democrats would make no
gains in Congress from Ohio this year
The campaign, he said. was extremely
quiet. The people have got SO used to
excitement, he said, that nothing but an
explosion or a battle will arouse their in
terest. l do not think We are going to lose
any district in Ohio and L think We shall
mold the next House in Congress by
good majority. At this time OF course. a
good deal is guess work, but the outlook is
good for the republicans"
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OVER A THOUSAND SICK.
Gen. Woods Report of the Army's
Condition at Santiago.

zen. Woods Report of the ArMy's
Condition at Santiago.
The adjutant general has received the
following telegram from General Wood,
commanding at Santiago de Cuba, dated
yesterday:
October 9-Fever cases. all kinds. 7O5;
total sickness. 1,005. 3 October 10-Fever
cases, all kinds. 600; total sickness, 1000.
Deaths-Louis Jones, private, E. 9th United
States Volunteer Infantry; bilious fever;
october s. Benjamin Ware, private, NJ,
5th United States Volunteer Infantry; ty-
phoid pneumonia; October 8. T. B. Den
worth, civilian: malariai renifttent fever
October 8. William Powell, private L,
larial remittent fever and acute dysentery
october D. Hardy l.. Burg IN, private, A.
9th United States Infantry; chronic dysen-
terry; october 10. Joseph Ayo, sergeant, L,
9tn United States VOLUNTEER Infantry; ty-
phoid fever: October o."
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NO REGIMENT CHOSEN.
Individual Soldiers in Nebraska
Troops to He Mustered Out,

The War Department will conform to the
request Of Governor Holcomb in relation
to the muster out of the two Nebraska
regiments, the 1st in Manila and the Sd,
Colonel Bryan's regiment, now at Jackson
vile, but destined to go to Cuba with Cen
eral Lee. Governor Holcomb suggested
that the strength of each company be re-
duced to the minimum of eighty-one SOL
diers, which would allow a number of dis
charges from both regiments of soldiers
who are sick or unable to participate in
the campaign. This will keep both regi-
ments in the service
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South Dakota Prelate Receives
a Loving Cup.
PAPER ON MARRIAGE And DIVORCE
Responses Received From Fifteen
Hundred CIergymen.
THE PROCEEDINGS TO-DAY
The house of bishops was in session from

The house of bishops was in session from
10 till II o'clock this morning and then ad
journed TO sit with the house of deputies
as the board of missions. AT the conclusion
of the joint meeting at noon the bishops
again went into separate session and at l
o'clock took the usual recess.
The bishops agreed to the recommended
tions contained in the report of Rev. DR..
Samuel Hart, the custodian of the Standard
Prayer Book. They ordered two changes
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TRADESMENS' BANK.

Appointment of Receiver to BE
Postponed for Week.
Controller Dawes of the treasury has con-
sented to postpone for a week the appoint
ment Of receiver for the Tradesmans
National Bank of New York, to give the
officials chance to show that the affairs
of the institution are in such shape as TO
be put into voluntary liquidation The off,
cials OF the bank are expected in the city
some time this week and will endeavor TO
show that the bank is in condition for vol
untary liquidation.
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FOR A GIFT TO FRANCE.
Controller Dawes Receives COntribu
tfOns for the Lafayette Monument.

controller Dawes Receives COntribu-
tfOns for the Lafayette Monument.
Mr.. Charles G. Dawes. the controller of
the currency, is the treasurer of the La
fayette Monument Association. which will
erect monument to Lafayette and present
it to the French government during the
Paris exposition. 1t is proposed to build
the monument largely by subscriptions
from school children of the United States,
and the 18th of this month was fixed as the
day for the children throughout the couu-
try to make their subscriptions.
Some of the children, however, have al
ready been at work Mr. Dawes has re-
ceived subscription of sos from the
public school at Ryan, Iowa. This is the
first subscription of school children. The
second subscription came later from the
high school at Bristol, VT, and was for
$3.50. Subscriptions are expected frequent
ly from now on.
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to be made in the prayer book. Dr. Hart
having discovered nlisprint. and also the
omission of comma.
The Standard Prayer Book is the result
of the labOrs of a commission appointed to
prepare it. 1t was issued in 1892 the stand
ard copy being a square folio printed on
vellum, with borders ruled in red ink, and
sumptuously bound. 1t was formally ac-
cepted and adopted by the Episcopal
Church and delivered into the custody Of
Dr. Hart. who keeps it in safe in the
Church Mission House in New York city
where he has his office.
Recently the custodian discovered that on
page 2t3, under the caption Baptism for
those or ripper years. the word minister
begins a sentence. and is obviously an er-
TOR, the word question being the proper
one to be used. on the next page a comma
between the words heirs and saying
slipped out during the process of publica-
tiOn.
DR. Hart was authorized to make the cor
recuOnS, the last general convention fivinlc
considered the subject and the present
body having confirmed the original action
according to the rule requiring the ap-
lroNal OF two general conventions in The
matter of changes in the PRAYER book The
Custodian VIII very likely print another
rage and lay that in the book at the right
place.
Standard Bible.
From the plates used in printing the
standard Bible about 800 copies were struck
off and the plates destroyed. These copie
were distributed. one 10 each diocese for
preservation, and other copies were sent
To leading church and educational insti-
tuuons. The bishops today ordered the Gus
todian TO send a copy to the University Of
Virginia and to Rutgers College New
Jersey. OF those remaining vas or
oered TO be sold to a bishop who lost his
copy by fire and the others are to be sent
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OPEN CUBAN FORTS.

Places Where Supplies for the Desti-
tute Can BE Landed.
The War Department today received the
following dispatch:
HAVANA October 10, 1898
Assistant Secretary of War:
United States can land free of duty sup
plies for destitute at ports of Bahia Honda,
Carbairen and Matanzas.
WADE, Major General
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If you want to buy, sell
lease property or rent
rooms, want a situation or
want help, it will pay you
to announce the fact in the
advertising columns OF The
Star. They are closely
studied by more than three
times as many people as
read any other paper.
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20 new dioceses. These Bibles are very
handsome. having black and white illumi-
nat=d borders.
Another interesting change in the Biale
was ordered. The golden numbers. which
assist IN determining the Ienten sesson
are to be changed. This is done but eight
lmSs IN 2.'@o years, dating from the tine
OF Pope Gregory in ;he seventeenth con-
tury- These numbers are placed alongside
the calendar for the months of March am,
April. and by means OF them the beginnfr,
and the end Of Lent are found. This chanoe
goes into effect January l. 1850 A D. 10 re
main intil the year 22UO \. D., when they
must be shifted again.
Committees Named.
The bishops named the bishops of Albany
Pennsylvania and Kentucky to act on the
Joint committee of both houses having the
Lambeth conference resolutions under con-
sideration.
Ihey also appointed five members on the
committee on the memorial from the con-
vocation of the American Churches on the
continent of Europe. The committee is:
Bishops of Albany. Pennsylvania Delaware
ana ONO and the coadjutor bishop of
Rhode Island The American epscopafe
has five churches in various European
cities These are under the control of the
bishop Of Ohio. by appointment of the gen.
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AFRICAN CHIEFS CONVICTED.
They Had Participated in Massacre
Of American Missionaries.

SIERRA LEONE, West Coast of Africa
October 11-Native chiefs to the number OF
100 have been arrested and are awaiting
trial at Freetown, capital of the British
colony of Sierra Leone, for the murder of
American and other missionaries at KwelI
in May last. A number of the chiefs inn
plicated have already been convicted
The massacre of the missionaries of tha
west coast OF Africa grew out of the rebel
lion OF the natives against the imposition
of the hut tax. In the Sherbro district
where the headquarters of the American
missionaries, members of the United States
!brolhernooa OF Christ, were located. the
insurgents burned the mission houses and
murdered a number of the American mis-
sionaries. including Mr.. and Mrs Cain and
the Misses Archer. Hatfield and Schenck =
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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-05-12

The English papers call this the
" Yanko Spanish War.
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nut-colored coat and vest. "But I'd heap
rather wear mustard plaster. It'd be a
heap comfortabler"
81 amt myself finicky about Clothes" an
swered Shorty. q amt no swell-never
was. Bot somehow I've got prejudice in
favor of blue as color, and agin gray and
brown. l only like gray and brown on a
corpse. They make purity grave clothes
always like to bury man what has butter
nut clothes on"
"Vhat are you doing nit dem tirty rags,
poys?" asked Rosenbaum, in establishment,
as he surveyed the scene.
"Why, we've got to wear 'em, haven't we,
if we 60 out with you ?" asked ST
"You wear dem When you ko oud NIT me
You tisguise yourselfs," said Rosenbaum,
with fine seorn. You'd blay ter teffel in
tisguise. You can't tisguise your tongues
OATS de worst. Anypody'd catch on to dat
Intianny lingo Wrist thing. You've got tc
sbeak like an etchucated man-sbeak like
do-to keep Peoples vrom Winding oud where
you're from. sbeak correct English alfays
NOBODY gan dell where Pm vrom'
The boys had hard work controlling theil
risibles over Mr.. Rosenbaum's selfcompla.
cency.
"What clothes are we to wear, then %
asked 81, much puzzled.