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The times., 1898-12-26
AN ACRoBATIC CHASE.
A Hotel Empioyc Locked Up on the
Charge of Housebreakfng.

David Dorsey, aged forty years and
house man at the Hotel Gordon. at the
corner of Sixteenth and X Streets north
west, is a prisoner at the Third precinct
police station as the result of n strange
combination of suspicious circumstances.
Dorsey was arrested last Saturday
night by Policeman Barry, of the First
precinct station, having been captured by
Proprietor Keenan, and Night Clerk AL
len after a lively chase through various
parts Of the .arge hotel building
During the supper hour he entered the
room of one of the hotel guests, a prom
inent railroad man from the
North. and president of one of
the New England systems. He had
a pass or skeleton key which would
open the door of the apartment
and in that manner secured entrance.
Just how long he was in the room is not
known. When the occupant of the apart
ment and his daughters returned after
supper. they discovered the negro. The
burly stranger did not tarry, but. pull
ing down one of the windows, made a
hasty exit. simultaneously there was
crash as of broken crockery and a sec
ond later the cooks and steward in the
kitchen were almost thunderstruck by
the appearance of Dorsey in their midst
tumbling from above. The man had jump
ed from a second story window of the
hotel into n narrow archway and had
passed through plate glass skylght into
the kitchen below, landing on the fly
wheel of an ice cream machine.
In his fall ne had not only descended
twenty-five feet, but had completely de-
molished a skylight and bent one of the
heavy iron framework in which the large
plates of glass were held. The employees
thought that Dorsey had fallen as the re-
suit of an accident, and giving him glass
of water made no attempt TO hold him. He
was apparently unhurt and only slightly
scratched as the result of his daring. He
left the kitchen hurriedly and entering the
baggage elevator on the ground floor be-
took himself to the attic floor of the hotel
building. Proprietor Keenan,, after a
search. found Dorsey in one of the upper
corridors and ushered him to the ground
floor of the hotel turned him over to Pc
liceman Barry. who had put in an appear
ance by that time.
Dorsey has been employed at the hotel
since its opening and was believed to be
honest and trustworthy. He lives at 1122
Twenty-sixth Street northwest, is mar
ried and the father of a family. He will
be charged with house-breakng in the Po-
lice Court.
The times., 1898-12-26

allowed to make himself bracket and
10 decorate his walls with any pictures
be may happen TO acquire. In Winter he
Will get up before daylight and will go
TO bed At nightfall. There are no lights
in the cells. During The night his othes
Will he removed from his cell to prevent
any attempt at escape. During the day
he will work IN the workshops, unless he
prefers to work in his cell, which he will
be permitted to do. He will work ut car
pontry, bookbindlng. making boots or
wooden shoes. sorting coffee grains. etc,
according to the aptitude he may show.
but without speaking word to anyone,
except to his jailer when his work re-
quires 1t. He VIII receive a small portion
of what is gained by his work.
His meals will consist of coffee and
milk in the morning, vegetable with
boiled potatoes in the middle OF the day,
soup in the evening, with 5i5 grams Ct
bread a day. On Thursdays and Sundays
the vegetable will be rep aced by 80
grams CT meat"
The times., 1898-12-26
UNDERTiKERs.
FELL AND BROKE HIS NECK.
An Intoxicated Stranger Meets
Death MT n Lodging House.

An Intoxicated Stranger Meets
Death mt n Lodging House.
on the slab at the Sixth precinct
morgue lies the body of Charles Foster.
white, forty years old. who was prac-
tically stranger in the city. He lost
his life shortly before O'Clock yester-
day afternoon, as the result of a fall
down a fight of four steps in a drunken
stagger.
The accident occurred in the rear of
a cheap lodging house at No. 213 Second
Street northwest. where the man had
been stopping for several days. He left
the place early in the day, and did not
return until about O'Clock IN the after
noon. He was intoxicated when he en-
tered the sitting-room of the lodging
house and fell upon n settee-
In a comparatively short space of time
he inquired the way to the rear of the
building and was directed to pass along
the corridor to door in the back part
of the dwelling house. The other dodgers
were eating at the time. Shortly after
Foster left the sitting-room they heard
the sounds of a fall in the yard. accom-
panied by groan. Rushing to the spot
they found that the man had fallen down
the back steps and broken his neck The
police were notified and the injured man
taken to the Eastern Dispensary Hospital
In a patrol wagon. He died on the way
and was taken back to the Sixth precinct
morgue. Coroner Carr was notified
The times., 1898-12-26
A PACIFIC CABLE FIGHT.
Two New York Companies Are After
Governmental Concessions.

Two New York Companies Are After
Governmental Concessions.
New York, Dec. ga fight is beirg
waged between two corporations to So
cure governmental concessions for ca
bles connecting Hawaii. Guam and the
Philippines. and incidentally Japan.
One corporation is the Pacific Cable
Company of New York, the other is the
Pacific Gable Company of New Jersey.
The New York company is cap
italized at sl0OO0,OGO. and its chief stock
Bowdoin. ]. Kennedy Tod. James A.
Scrymser. Edmund l.. Baylies, Herman
S. Leroy and Charles D. Wetmore.
The New Jersey corporation is COM
posed of Abram s. Hewitt, Darius O..
Mills, Gen. G. Dodge. Gen. Fred ID.
Grant, Gen. Wager Swayne. James ].
Hill, president of the Great Northern
Railroad; H. S. Spaiding, of San Francis
co. and John II. Browning and Mason w.
Tyler, of New Jersey.
The active man in the New York COM
pany is James A Scrymser. He is presi-
dent of two cable companies, which, to-
gether operate 14.0c0 miles of cable in the
West Indies, Central America and Mex
leo.
Col. z. S. Spalding is the active man in
the New Jersey company. He served in
the civil war and afterward emigrated to
Hawaii. where he amassed fortune of
81. 500. .OC3.
In December of 1895 Col Spalding
formed his company. and in the follow
ing May had a bill introduced in the
Senate authorizing the Postmaster Gem
eral to advertise for sealed proposals for
a cable from San Francisco to Homo
lulu to be finished by January l, 1899, and
to Japan by July /, 1900.
The Scrymser Company had Il bill in
troduced in the House asking for Gov
ernment grant to build a cable over prac-
tically similar route.
Matters hung in this shape until early
last Summer. Then the Scrymser COM
pany sent agents to Hawaii, and In the
dying days of that government ii secured
a concession by which 1t was given the
exclusive right for twenty years to lay
and operate cables from Honolulu TO
Japan. Mr.. Scrymser Is now In Japan.
arranging for concessions for a cable
to the Philippines.
In the concession from Hawaii there
was one clause which the opposing COM
pany believes may cause its cancellation.
This clause provides that the contract
shall not take effect If at any time with
in the next six months from the date of
its granting the United States State De-
partment shall express its disapproval.
Secretary Hay has until January to
decide whether the contract shall be al
lowed to stand.
Considerable pressure IS being brought
to bear on him to cancel the contract on
the ground that the United States should
lay, own and operate the cable system
which viii connect it with its far-distant
islands.
The times., 1898-12-26
THE CANADIAN TARIFF.
Statistics Show That Exports From
the United States Are Increasing.


The new Canadian tariff does not ap-
pear to have disadvantageously affected
exports from the United States to the
Dominion. That measure enacted in 1897
provided that goods entering Canada
from Great Britain and her colonies
should enjoy a tariff rate 25 per cent less
than that collected on goods from other
countries, one-half of that reduction go
ing into effect on August /, 1881, and the
remainder on August l. 1895. The ex-
portation from the United States to Can
ada has, therefore. since August l, 1895.
been made under whatever of disadvan-
tage the new discriminating rates of that
tariff afford.
1t is, therefore, interesting to compare
the figures of the exports to Canada since
that date both with those of the CORE
spending months of 1897, in which only
one-half of the discriminating rate was
in operation, and with those of 1895 in
which no discriminating rate existed.
The figures of the Treasury bureau of
statistics. covering the details of the ex-
port trade, are now available for the
months of August September and Oc-
tober.
They show that during those three
months of 1888 in which the full % per
cent tariff reduction in favor of Great
Britain and her colonies was in opera
tion exports from the United States to
Canada were larger than in any corre-
spending three months in the history of
our commerce with that country. In
fact, the exports from the United States
to Canada have never shown more rapid
gains than since the enactment of the
new Canadian tariff giving to imports
from Great Britain and her colonies ad-
yantages over those from the United
States.
ton in 1897. in which the discrimination
in favor of goods from Great Britain
was but IL 1-2 per cent, exports from
the United States to Canada increased
nearly s4,0O0,000 compared with the cor
responding months of 1896, against an av-
erage gain of $500, 900 in corresponding
periods of earlier years. In August, Sep
tember, and October, 1898, however. which
were under the full operation of the new
law, the increase over the corresponding
months of 1897 is more than 900. The
total exports from the United States to
Canada in August, September, and Oc-
tober of the present year, under what
ever of disadvantage the new law in its
full operation affords. are nearly so per
cent in excess of the corresponding
months of 1895, and practically double
those of the corresponding months OF
1894.
The times., 1898-12-26
SLAYER OF AN EMPRESS.
How Luccheni VIE Spend His LIf
in LEY s.c!ls. Priron

How Luccheni VIE Spend His Life
in LEV ecEe Prison.
Paris, Dec. 25.-Earious accounts have
appeared in continental and British jour
mails of the treatment which Luccheni,
the cowardly murderer Of the Empress
of Austria, viii receive in prison at GEN
eva. According to one statement he was
TO be immU:ed In damp subterraaean
vault. where the light OF day could not
penetrate. he was 10 have no change,
10 exercise, and the barest possible diet
But such stories have no foundation IN
fact The following description Of the
prison and prison treatment may be
taken as correct. inasmuch rs II was
written by n de Meuron, Il member of
the Grand Council. and of the committee
which regularly visits the prisoner:
The prison OF L'Eveche at Geneva. in
which Luccheni is row undergoing his
sentence, was built about fifty years ago.
Designed originally as place of deten-
ton for prisoners awaiting their trial, It
has recently been appropriated for de-
finite terms of Imprisonment At the
period at which it was constructed it was
considered model prison. Today, no
doubt. il is not up TO the last improve
ments, but, nevertheless, it is superior
to the majority of prisons in Switzerland
and in many other countries. The prison.
ers in LEyeche pass the night al cells
built on three ficors and opening on 10
the inside galleries. During the day they
work together in workshops.
"Luccheni viii be subjected to the
treatment common to all prisoners con-
demned to penal servitude for life. His
cell. like all the other cells, will be about
s l-2 meters In length. 2 meters in width
and IL in height. The daylight enters
by a longitudinal opening protected by
iron bars and a slanting shutter, which
allows him only TO see the sky.
His furniture will consist of a bed COM
posed OF straw mattress. sheet and COW
erlet and table and stool; he VIII be
The times., 1898-12-26
Major Sylvester III,

Major Richard Sylvester, the chief of
police. is very sick at his residence, at No.
llG1 Rhode Island Avenue northwest with
the grip. He was unable to attend to his
duties at police headquarters yesterday.
During the day his temperature reached
1G3 degrees.
The times., 1898-12-26

Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and DIar.
rhoea Remedy can always be depended
upon and is pleasant and safe to take.
Sold by Henry Evans. Wholesale and Re-
tail Druggists, e3S F Street northwest and
Connecticut Avenue and Street north.
west and 1923 Maryland Avenue northeast.
The times., 1898-12-26

No one has to suppose which is the
best beer, for Heurich's in competition
with all others leads Heurich's is always
the same, pure and wholesome Phone
634, Arlington Bottling Co., for a case.
The times., 1898-12-26
HotrI Jobnxon Cafes.

Lynn Haven Bay. Cherrystone and York
River oysters. choice game. New York
meats, fine fruits, etc Meals la Carte.
Midday lunch. Table d'hote dinner.
de24, IT
The times., 1898-12-26
Fell npa Broke HI. wr,ut

Robert Burns. of the police force, de-
tailed at police headquarters. slipped at
the corner Of Sixth Street and Pennsyl-
yania Avenue yesterday and shattered
the bones in his wrist.
The times., 1898-12-26
S3-S

sSS Isa
WALTERS HEADACHE POWDERS.
A positive cue for headache. powders.
doses, cures 10 cents Sold BY all drugyista
no5p2mo
The times., 1898-12-26

There is nothine injurious in
DIR. Henry's Cougi- syrup, but it
will positively cure cough in one
day. All druggists, 15c.
The times., 1898-12-26
Txpcwriters Cleaned.

Oiled. delivered, 81. Send postal 1905 F.
The Typewriter Exchange. des-1mo
The times., 1898-12-26

DIED.
MeELRoY-Entered into the rest OF paradise
on Sunday, December ., ISIS. II j. III. at
her late residence. No. 6s2 Maryland Avenue
southwest, AGNES McELROT, in the seventy
ninta year Of her sge. widow Of the late Lee
.McElroy Of Westusinster, Nd.
Notice of funeral hereafter.
Sleep, blessed sleep,
From which none ever wakes to weep. 1t
The times., 1898-12-26
SPECIAL NOTICE.

A MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLDERS
of the Capital Traction Company for
the election of Directors will be held at
the office of the company. Union Pas
senger Station, on WEDNESDAY, the
ilth Of January. 1899.
The polls will be opened at 10 a m and
closed at l:SO p. m. G.. I. DUNLOP.
President.
c. N. KooNES. Secretary.
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SPECIAL NOTICE-MaIta Hall, 90 Pa.
ave.-All companions of Constantine
Commandery, No. 2Is, A. and I. o. h OF
NJ, will meet at hall u O'CLOCK SHARP
MONDAY. to attend funeral OF our late
Captain General John d. Hyer. Compan-
ions OF sister commanderies earnestly re-
quested to be present and attend the
funeral. By order OF
JOHN S. DEWEY. Commander.
Attest: c. T. RoDERICK, Recorder.
The times., 1898-12-26

SPECIAL NOTICE.. James H. Isaac.
will not be responsible for any debts
contracted by my wife from this date
deZi-3t
The times., 1898-12-26

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN-PIeas
take notice that the undersigned have
severed their connection as directors with
the Peoples Business Union ard Supply
Company. trading at 1901 L Street north
west, Washington, d. c.: James II. Wins
low. Joseph II. Stewart A. t. Pride. Jer-
~ B. Christian, c. L. Marshall, Charles
II. Marshall.
Washington, d. C.. October IS. 1898.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-15
WILL TAKE $4,000 MEN
To Capture Havana Says an English
Correspondent

London, June 15.-The Standard pub
fishes a dispatch from Kingston, ia
Tnaica from Mr.. II. j. Whigham, who
has arrived at Kingston on the British
cruiser Talbot from Havana, where he
was recently temporarily in custody on
charge of being a spy, until he had sat
isfied the authorities in Cuba that he
Whigham says:
The garrison at Havana, including
the volunteers, numbers $4,000 men,
while recruits are enrolling daily. There
IS prospect of starvation for some
time to come, as meat is selling at only
Is cents a pound, and while flour is
scarce, there is plenty of corn meal and
rice.
The supply of coal may, however,
give out within month CWhfgham left
Havana on June 81 and leave the city
in darkness. AS yet there are $4,000 tons
in sight and it is reported that is, 600
tons may be available.
According to my own observations,
the temper of the Spanish troops is ex-
cellent and their health good, while
large numbers OF Cubans are veering
an insurgent leader has even raised a
thousand men to assist the Spanish
troops.
The defenses of the town have been
greatly strengthened since the war be-
gan. Two hundred guns have been
mounted on the shore batteries, includ-
ing six Pinch cannon In short Ha-
provided the Spaniards make a good
fight. Two lines of defense have been
completed inland in the last month or
two. 1t is believed that the capture of
the city will require at least $4,000
American troops.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-15
SOLDIERS REJOICE
Over the Report That Is Regi-
ments are to Leave Camp
Thomas.

Chickamauga-Cha National
Military Park, Ga, June 15-The report
| that fifteen regiments are to leave
| Camp Thomas for Tampa during the
next few days is the main subject OF
| interest in the camp today and it is
| being eagerly discussed by both officers
! and men, 1t is impossible to confirm
| the report as the army officials refuse
to discuss it but nearly every man in
camp now believes it.
When the news of a move gained
circulation there was general rejoicing
among the soldiers.
The greater portion of them have
been very anxious to go to the front
of a large number of regiments leaving
the boys are all anxious to know Just
who Will be included in the order. This
is not known and Will not be made pub
lie until Major General Brooke issues
an order. It is understood that the
Eighth, Ninth, Twelfth and Fifteenth
New York and Third and Fifth Illinois,
First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth and Six
teenth Pennsylvania, Fourth Ohio and
Eighth Massachusetts, will be among
the first to be ordered to the front. In
addition to these regiments, there are
many others which lack only a small
amount of equipment and which could
be equipped for operation without
much trouble.
1IP rams which nave fallen since
Sunday have added materially to the
comfort of army life and afforded an
excellent opportunity for active work.
Today every regiment is drilling and
maneuvering and the held is covered
with them.
The First Mississippi infantry is to-
day being suppliedwith Springfield ri
fies. Two troops of Kentucky cavalry
secured their horses this morning.
Major Bradley of the Second Wiscon-
sin took charge of the First division,
First corps hospital. succeeding DR..
Wakeman. There are a number of
sick in this hospital, but none of the
cases is very serious.
Capt. 7. P. Young, who has been act
ing as assistant to Chief Quartermaster
Low this morning took charge of sup
ply work in the city succeeding Major
w. K. Wright, who goes to Camp Alger.
Major Nye. depot comKnissary of
subsistence of the volunteer army has
just completed a general inspection of
the various warehouses located in the
says there is an abundance of good and
wholesome food on hand in the depart
ment of subsistence
He says that there have been very
few consignments that have been re
jected-
1t is only occasionally that a portion
of carload of such goods as canned
tomatoes is rejected, OF possibly a con-
signment of potatoes.
The Y. NJ. c. a. authorities here have
ordered four more large brigade tents
of the week every man in the army will
be supplied with a hymn book by these
workers. a supply of As 900 books has
been received.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-15
GETTING WAR NEWS.
Difficulties Encountered by the Cuban
War Correspondents.

Corresponding of Associated Press.)
On Board the Associated Press
Dispatch boat Wanda, in Kingston
HarbOr, Jamaica, West indies, June T.
The city of Kingston with it's narrow
streets and picturesque people has
population of 10000 and of that number
only 5000 are white. The women fill
the places of horses and wheels by car
rying most of the city's supplies on
their heads The buzzards are the
scavengers and aid the street cleaning
department. Back of the city the noun
tains tower and beyond the mountains
lies the interior with its ancient viii
lagos and simple people, every inch of
it interesting and historic. 1t is an
ideal place for dreaming and If the
American fleet were not lowering about
Santiago de Cuba, only $50 miles dis
tant, one would be content to forget the
modern world and study for months
this picturesque corner of early Amer
lean history. But the outside world is
waiting for news and that is the one
fact that the native Jamaican cannot
understand. He cannot comprehend
why there should be such a delirious
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-15
MORE BOMBARDING.
Simpsons Ships Fire a Few
More Shots at Santiago
Forts.

Copyright, 1898, by the Associated Press.)
Havana, June 14.-This morning (Tues-
day. two American cruisers and one dis
patch boat opened fire against the batter
les at the entrance to the harbor at San
tiago de Cuba discharging between 80 and
60 shots.
The batteries at Castillo del MORO and
Castillo de la Socopa answered the fire
and the American warships retired.
At the Socopa battery three men were
slightly wounded.
Last evening (Monday) about Il O'Clock
the batteries at the entrance to Santiago
which had approached too near the har-
Dor mouth. Five shots were fired by the
batteries which were answered by two
shots from the American warship.
Yesterday (IOnday) about noon what
appeared to be merchantmen was sight
ed off Cienfuegos about ten miles from
shore. The Spanish boat Diego Velas-
When the stranger was within a distance
of five miles it was seen that she was a
cruiser. She hOisted the American flag
and opened fire on the Spaniards and the
latter replied. At the same moment the
lean cruiser to retreat, apparently dam
aged. The Diego Veiasquez was Slight
Today an American gunboat appeared
off Havana harbor with a flag of truce.
of the fort lieutenant Colonel Ramos, on
board the Spanish gunboat Flecha, went
This Correspondent understands the
Americans proposed an exchange of pris-
Spanish steamer Argonaut, for prisoners
taken at Santiago de Cuba at the sinking
of the collier Merrimac.
General Blanco, it is understood. gave
no definite answer to the American pro-
posal. alleging that he had received no
Instructions from the Madrid government
on the subject
The Spanish troops have destroyed an
insurgent camp at Pala, having overtaken
bands of insurgents in the district of Fan
gua5 de Cuyamas. They took the insur-
gent position after hard fight, dispensing
the insurgents, who left ten dead on the
field. The Spanish captured number of
rifles, 1900 cartridges and the clothing and
other effects of the insurgents. The Span
ish loss was one killed and a lieutenant
and ten soldiers wounded
Herr Falk, the German consul general,
accompanied by the civil governor of Ha-
vana, has visited the Fosos district and
informed himself personally of the con-
dition of the poor in the asylum there
The British stea mer AdouIa will leave
Cienfuegos on Thursday, June &C. for Vera
Cruz.
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STRIKERS ENJOINED.
Conspiracy Charge is Entertained
Against Them

Denver, June 15-Judge Palmer, in
the district court today issued an in
Junction against the striking coal min
ers in the northern district Of the state.
restraining them from interfering with
men employed by the Northern Coal
company, OF in any way deterring the
operation OF the mines. The strikers
who number about 1,1O0. have refused
to do even work enough to protect the
machinery at the mines and the mine
owners, in their petition for an injun-
ton, alleged that the strikers have en-
gagged in an unlawful conspiracy and
threatened to damage the property of
the petitioners. The injunction is the
first OF the kind ever issued in Color
ado