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Evening star., 1898-08-27

President Mckinley started on his vaca-
tion at 8 o'clock this morning. He ex-
poets to be absent about one week. He
left on special train at o'clock over
the PENNSYLVANIA railroad, going to Somer-
set, Pa, beyond Middletown. He was ae-
companIed by Mrs. Mckinley, Assistant
Secretary CorteIyou, Mr.. Webb Hayes, a
maid and a steward.
The party Travelled in two Pullman cars,
the Presidents car being one of the privat te
cars of the Pennsylvania railroad. fitted
up with state rooms. bath room and ap-
pliances fo- serving meals.
They are due at Somerset at 7:15 pm.
The President expects to go to Cleveland,
Ohio. next Tuesday, and will remain there
until the end of the week The details of
his proposed visit to Montauk Point have
not been arranged. In his absence Col.
Montgomery will keep in constant COM
munication with him over the telegraph
and telephone lines from the White House.
BY these means it will be possible for men,
bers of the cabinet tc communicate with
him at any time.
Evening star., 1898-08-27

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Evening star., 1898-08-27
wfn.rovv Reaehe. New YORK.

NEW YORK, August 27.-The United
States torpedo boat Winslow, Lieut.. Nib
lack arrived this morning from Key West
via Norfolk and proceeded to the navy
yard.
Evening star., 1898-08-27
The fiIoucester ordered North.

The Gloucester. commanded by Conn
mander Wainwright, has been ordered to
sail from Guantanamo to New York
Evening star., 1898-08-27
TO BE BREvET MAJOR GENERALS.

Anderson, McArthur, Greene and Bah
cock to BE HOnOred.
The President has directed that Brig.
Gems. Anderson, Macarthur, Greene and
Babcock be brevetted major generals of
volunteers for distinguished services dur
ing the war with Spain.
Evening star., 1898-08-27

Circulation of The "EveninE STAR"
SATURDAY, August 20, 1898. .35 ,316
MONDAY, August ss, 1898. ................. 20 334
TUESDAY, August %, 1898. %, ,14S
WEDNESDAY, August "a, 1898. 80 ,O39
THURSDAY, August %, 1898. ............ 29.as3
FRIDAY, August 26, 1898. .29. 50
Total. ........-..........-....... I0I, ,Oo5
Daily average ..3O,Is5
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Der of copies actually sold, delivered furnish
ed OF mailed, for valuable consideration, to bona
fde purchasers or subscribers. and that none OF
the copies 30 counted are returnable to or remain
In the Office unsold.
FINDLAY HARRIS,
For The Evening Star Newspaper Co.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
twenty-seventh day of August, AID. 1898.
GRENvILLE A. whitaker,
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contributions Hcceiyea

The following contributions have b.ar, -o
csiyed by The Star for the inn,e7iato -
lief Of the regiment:
The
Evening star., 1898-08-27

Editor of Evening Star:
thousands of people in the District O
Columbia are cheering The Star today fo
us timely and practical action in arrangin,
Tor Immediate relief to our sick and suffer
ing soldiers upon their arrival at Montauk
Allow me, as one of this deeply interested
and profoundly grateful host, to say. on
OF an oyeTHoWing heart, God bless The Star
and crown with success its noble efforts I,
save the lives and minister to the comfor
OF our feyer-stricken heroes, No worthfe
mission ever claimed support of tongue, pel
o. purse, and its projectors merit the prais
and commendation an appreciative com
murity Is bestowing without stint of meas
ure
Evening star., 1898-08-27

Evening Star Newspaper Company:
The terrible state of affairs existing
among the District volunteers at Montauk.
as pictured in the Post this morning. de-
Hands the immediate and energetic atten-
ton Of our people.
The Post wishes to assist The Star In its
movement so opportunely inaugurated, and
to this end we beg 10 hand you herewith
our check for 800. to be applied in Sc
curing proper food and competent medical
attendance for the District heroes
The times., 1898-01-17
PERJURY CHARGES PREFERRED
Reputed Millionaire Held to Answer
Accusations Against Him

New York, Jan. ia charge of per-
jury was preferred in Center street
police court to-day against Horatio w
Southworth.
Mr. Southworth is said 10 be mill
ionaire. with a large interest in four
paper mills in Springfield and West
Springfield, Mass. He is also presi-
dent of the Garfield Water Company
of New Jersey. The complainant was
Alfred C. Duysters. the former treas
urer of the Garfield Water Company,
and the arrest is only an episode in a
series of rows in that corporation.
On April 10 last SoUthworth made an
affidavit in the supreme court of Ber-
gen county, n. j.. that Duysters had
converted to his own use about $1,000
of the funds of the corporation A
Judgment for the full amount was rem
dered for the complainant in Septem-
Der. In the December term of court
Duysters made an affidavit charging
Southworth with perjury. He alleged
that one of the specific items in the bill
of particulars. which was for s'429,
was false.
He got an Indictment for perjury.
and the warrant was forwarded to this
city. Several OF S6uthworth's friends
we're with him in court, ready TO fur
nish bail, but the magistrate gave the
prisoner into the hands of the New
Jersey police at his own request.
The times., 1898-01-17
PUGILISTIC BRIEFS.

One of the possible features OF the open
ing OF the new America Athletic Associa-
ton, OF Chicago, Tuesday evening, is a
siN-round tout between Billy Stiff and
Joe Choynski.
Parson Davies will manage Jimmie Bar
ry, who has reconsidered his determine
ton to retire from the ring. Barry is open
to fight Leon or any other bantam.
Jim Scanlon and Mike" Creedon ha We
signed articles to box eight rounds before
the Nonpareil Athletic Club, Allegheny
on February g. Each man is TO weigh 90
pounds at the ringside.
For his new club at Coney Island Tom
o'Rourke viii make a match between Sol
Smith and George Dixon. Dixon has said
that Smith was the only man he had ever
met who could punch hard enough TO hurt.
For the life of her, Mrs. Fitzsinrnons
cannot see why Emperor Williams wife
will allow him to go hunting row with
China until China has licked Hayti.-
Wichita Eagle.
The times., 1898-01-17
TURF NOTES.

4 rubber instead of n tanbark runway
is one of the innovations that Allen
Lowe has introduced in his new Boston
sale mart.
Joe Patchen is being logged at Chicago
by Ben Walker, and occasionally driven
on the snow by his owner, c. W. Marks
Like Gentry, Patchen will probably start
in the free-for-alls, if there are any.
Billy HAMILTON, the clever center-fielder
OF the Boston ball team, is an admirer OF
the trotter, and owns quite stable OF
good ones. Two of his horses went
under the hammer at the Hicks sale, in
Boston.
MilIard Saunders does not look for many
successful stake events for the trotters in
the near future. He is quoted by the
Detroit Tribune as saying: Il do not see
where the available material is to come
from. Twas down in Kentucky a few days
ago, and visited the big farms near Louis
vile. i was Informed that in 1896 over
seven hundred colts were foaled, and that
less than forty were foaled in the same
neighborhcod last year,
Star Pointer. 5s IA, will not he
raced until late next season, if at all. His
owner, James A Murphy, has decided to
let the horse make short season in the
stud and then shape i'm up for exhibition
engagements, starting him against time.
In the fall the Pointer horse may take
part in few races if there is anything
in sight that can measure strides with him.
Murphy says Star Pointers injured leg
has gone down TO its normal size, and
that the great horse seems to be in fine
condition for another Campaign.
Three horses, starting at odds of 90 to
or over, won their races at New Orleans
last week. One penciler laid 200 to /
against the chances of one of them, a n d paid
out a acoolthousand to a lucky tyro who had
invested five-dollar bill on the horse
because lie liked the looks" Of the beasts
name Talk about the Klondike! What
is the use OF going TO the frozen North
when in the balrny sub-tropical climate of
New Orleans money may be made SO
fast?
In ten years the yearling trotting record
fas been reduced 8 1-2 seconds. In the
same period the two-year old record for
The times., 1898-01-17
ORGIES IN \ COTTAGE
a Young Bay State Swell Goes SeeIey
One Better.

Gloucester, Mass, Jan. 16.-The grand
orgiez which took place at a cottage at
Wheeler's Point, on Sunday night last,
Sufficient evidence has been secured to
warrant the arrest of Albert s. Coffin a
young man whose father is wealthy and
whose family occupy a high social position.
One case exploited before the jury in
volved the taking of a young woman To
the Coffin cottage, her subsequent drugging
and abuse, her being stripped and painted
red, and the body left in the cottage.
where it was discovered next day.
A friend OF the young woman, knowing
she had gone to the Coffin cottage, and
alarmed for her safety. went there last
Monday and found her unconscious. She
recovered sufficiently to testify.
Among the witnesses were Miss Sadie
GillIs, formerly of this city and now of
Boston, and Miss Reed; Of this city.
Their testimony is said to involve several
prominent young men.
Wheeler's Point is a pretty little place
on the Annisquam River. 1t attracts quite
number of summer cottagers, many of
whom have been annoyed by the reputa-
ton of Coffin's cottage.
1t is asserted that the mother of one of
the local police officers who resides there In
summer. urged he7 son TO enter the place
while a select party was giving one of
their entertainments and threaten to ar
rest the occupants.
The officer declined to enter because he
had no warrant. At this his mother took
the initiative and by her vigorous protests
succeeded in breaking up the party that
night.
The times., 1898-01-17
FROM HAMMER TO GAvEL.
n Horseshoer President of New
York's Board of Aldermen.

York's Board of Aldermen.
New York. Jan. 16.-Thomas F. Woods,
the new president of the board OF alder
men, sprunC into fame on Wednesday, when
wrestlings with the problems stantly
confronting the presiding officer At
that meeting he showed that he was a
new man in politics. for it is one of the
accomplishments of every ward politician
to have at least some slight familiarity
with the methods of procedure or de-
Lucrative body. Yet when he put a mo-
tion and called out III in favor say Aye
Carried not giving the opposition any
opportunity to show their strength, his
ignorance, seemed to suggest acquaintance
with the tactics of Tammany in dealing
with preSumptuous ward meeting minor
ity Early in the meeting he felt himself
entangled in the mire, from which the
clerk time and again extricated him; but
by and by he sank beyond hope of rescue,
and the mass of motions and amendments
and amendments to amendments engulfed
him. rendering him neceSsa rily speechless,
SO that the clerk was obliged to act for
him.
Woods has been a blacksmith all his
life and owned shop on East Thirty
second street. He has now sold it, though
he says that he will not forsake the anvil
because of his new role.
The times., 1898-01-17
CHICAGO NAN SWINDLGD.
Confidence Operators in Mexico Sc
cure $3l, 800 From Him.
They Are in Jail and Public Feel
ing Is against
Them.


City of Mexico, JAM 16.--Four Ameri-
cans and several Mexicans have been
arrested in this city on the charge of
swindling Chicago man out of S31, 800.
Warrants are put sfor two more. A
telegram from Eera Cruz this evening
states that one bf these, railway con-
| ductor named John Eads, has been
caught at that point
The men arrested-are "Al" Whitney,
proprietor of the Iturbide saloon Leo
Clinton, cigar DEALER, and Charles
Christen and RobeEt Mckee, sporting
men. The prisonerg are now incoumu-
nicado in Belenf PRISON. They will not
be allowed to talk or to see lawyers
until Monday night
1t is alleged that these men are prin-
cipals in a confidence band which has
been operating in This city for many
months. during which time visiting
Americans have been swindied out of
many thousands of dollars. The SYM
pathy of the American colony is strong
ly against these men, and so far as
known no efforts will be made in their
pehalf to prevent the Mexican law tax
ing its course
Frederick Henry FRANKIE, who was
swlndled out of $31. 800. came here from
Cii'NoSo iasb JuHe- I1t Jtlt INTO tUt
hands of the band and was induced to
put up his bank roll for crooked monte
and faro games. He was then intro
duced to several Mexicans. alleged to
be millionaires, who bet verbally
against the games and lost, while the
cappers Of the band We're winning
Franke's money
After the men had fieeced FRANKIE
out of $4,000, he was introduced to a
saloon-keeper named Russell, who was
represented as Joseph Day, detective
Day said he had been sent by Chicago
creditors to take FRANKIE back to the
United States, and the band finally
forced $1,000 out of him TO avoid arrest
FRANKIE left the same night in dis
guise for Chicago. but learning there
that he had been imposed on he re-
turned here. The matter was brought
TO the attention of the chief OF police
and the governor of the Federal dis
trict by the Two Republics. a newspa-
per. Within twenty-four hours after
FRANKIE reached this city the authori-
ties had the alleged leaders of the band
of swindlers locked up.
The trial will undoubtedly result in
the conviction of the men, with SEN
tences varying from six to ten years
in the penitentiary or expulsion from
the country. Attachment proceedings
to recover the money which FRANKIE lost
are under way.
The times., 1898-01-17
CYCLE NOTES.

The famous Jallu Brother triplet team
of France will come to America for a
second visit this season. The Jallus
were here in the fall of SO as members
of Tom Eck's record-brea king camp in
the South. 1t was to their paceIna king
that many of the records made on the
Southern trip of johnson and Michael
were made.
Partisan cab drivers during the first
fortnight Of October killed eighteen per
sons and injured I12. During the same
period the cyclists of Paris, who are five
times more numerous, caused but six
accidents. The press ignored the drivers
cases, but is still bowling over the
cruelty" of the wheelmen.
The annual midnight race from New
York to Yonkers on New Years was rid
den through three inches Of snow and
mud. J. II. Thompson, of the Green
witch Wheelmen, won by nearly a mile,
and he attributed his victory as much
to the fact that he sneaked away the day
before and had a gear case put on his
wheel, as he does to the possession of
staying powers. Many OF the contestants
have not finished yet, owing to broken
chains and other breakdowns. A chain
less wheel finished well up in front.
In Philadelphia policemen have long
stood animated guide posts in the
center OF Broad street to warn cyclists
to the right OF the road. They are about
to- be superseded, however, by iron lamp
posts, sixteen feet high, of classical
design and with an ornamental lamp at
the top. and at their base an iron plat
form raised nine inches above the pave
ment, and nine feet long by four and
a half feet broad, which is intended to
afford space for pedestrians or cyclists
who desire a temporary refuge from the
rush of street traffic, while the post
itself marks the dividing line for the
two streams of riders and vehicles.
The times., 1898-01-17
RESCUED FROM DROWNING.

Georgia Williams Prevented From
Committing Suicide in the River.
Georgia Williams. q young color ed
woman, living at No. 1882 Second street
southwest, was rescued from drowning
Yesterday afternoon by Commodore SUIT
ton and Officer Perry, OF the police boat
Vigilant The woman and her husband had
quarreled during the day, because of his
alleged intimacy with another woman.
Late in the Afternoon the Williams woman
was seen going Gown Second street, and
approached the wharf at Water and o
streets. She stood there but a moment and
then plunged into the river.
Archie Carter and George Downey, who
were near by, saw the woman leap Ind sent
word TO the harborInaster for the police
toat. She was removed to the Emergency
Hospital, and will recover,
The times., 1898-01-17
$4,000 REWARD
Offered in the District of
Columbia.
One Name and Address Given i'm
Each Section of the City of Per-
sons Cured by DR.. Shades
Chloridum Discovery
for Consumption.

$4,000 reward offered TO any person or
persons, physician or physicians VINO will
prove that Dr. Shades ahluridum ,,isooy-
cry ipf consumption ias not cured More
ana throat troubles than any other phy-
sltaan or treatment in this country
,,,I,ss seems thaS the people love to be hum
plugged, and cling TO something that does
not cure complicated lung trouble No
nouot tnat enere are hundred or more
.ullg ana throat trouble cases in the Dis
tneir famiiy physician, who are getting
worse day by day; vet they cling T., thniT
idoi WIN UNI inching tenacity, when they
physician las never even pretended To
cure tubercular consumption or larynpeal
phthisis- he Family physician should
not he underestiinated: far from IL. He
should be coDfided in with the utmost
confidence in all ca ses and circumsta noes
except I'm the disease he Dies not claim 10
cure, as in COMPLICATED lung and throat
trouble, consumption, for which he saws
there Is no cure.
Dr, Shade has been located in this city
Tor ELK years, during which tine he has
demonstrated that large rercentaee of
so-catled consumption and complica ted
lung troubles is durable. Nobody will un
derta1e 70 deny tifs assertion il they visit
right in our midst in this city. For con
renienoe, the name and address of one
case OF consumption cured in each sec
ton OF the city will be given, so that
those who Will take the trouble to in
vestigate, can be accommodated without
going out OF his own section OF the city.
Mrs. Laura y. Holderby, sI5 M street
northwest, who had fifteen hemorrha ges
In one year, cured two years ago. Miss
Mary McKiln, 70 Fifth street southeast,
daughter of Dr. McKim. Her mother
died of consumption. Mrs Huphs, 43a
Seventh street southwest, was given mn
as s hopeless consumptive by her family
physicIan- She had hemorrha gcs also
and was cured two years ago. Dr. PAT
terson, 81 street northeast, was Cured
Of tuhercuiar consumption three years
ease. Many other names and addresses
can be secured at Dr.. Shades office. Con
sultatioa free on Monday, Wednesday.
and Friday. Send for booklet and syinp-
tom blank for home treatment Terms
reasonable. 1892 Fourteenth street.
The times., 1898-01-17
WHEEL MEN WANT A DECISION
Legality Of the Recent six-Day Rae
ing still a Question.

New York, JAM 16.-Members of the
l.. A W and racing men feel that de-
cision is overdue on the charges that the
six-day race held in the Madison Square
Garden last month was conducted contrary
to the league rules The failure OF the
racing board to render decision isregarded
as significant. The fact that two Officers
of the l.. A. W. were Identified with the
race has resulted In the circulation of the
report that the investigation Will be a
whitewash of the men implicated.
Unless Chairman Mott renders some salts
factory decision in the course of few days
it is expected that the politicians in the
league will make the matter an issue
against the present administration in the
coming national assembly meeting
The times., 1898-01-17
To Reclaim the Anacostia Flats.

A Joint resolution was on April 6, 1897 :,
introduced in the Senate by Mr.. Mcmillan.
making an appropriation for the improve
inent of the Anacostia River, and the re-
clamation of it's flats. This resolution
was reported to the House on Friday. 1t
provides that the Secretary Of War shall
prepare and submit to, Congress forth
with project for the improvement of the
Anacostia River and the reclamation of
its flats from the District line to the mouth
OF said river, with an estimate of the
cost of The same, and report on the area
and ownership of the land to be reclaimed,
and if any portion of the land is vested
of acquiring it. The sum of $4,000 is APP
propriated for the cost of the survey.
The times., 1898-01-17

trotters has dropped 20 A seconds. The
record for three year-olds has been ili-
proved by 8 ga seconds. The four year
olds are 10 34 seconds nearer the 200
line, while the five year-3lds, have been
able TO make but 4 SECONDS advance. The
past decade shows an advance of q seconds
for the stallion trOtting record, while
that for mares has moved up seconds
A recent return, said to be authorized,
gives the met average value of the
millions and millions OF horses In Russia
at $4-13 per head Certainly this is not
very high, but neither are the Russian
horses; most OF them are. ponies.e
The times., 1898-01-17
The Superiority of American Ma.
chinistS

Mr.. Yarrow, well known English ship
builder, confirms what has been said
many times before as to the superiority
Of America in mechanical skill, as COM
pared with other nations. Such quality
advances American trade, and sends cur
locomotives to Russia and South America
it is the same quality of skill used in
brewing Heurich's beer that advances it to
popular favor. The superior diligence, ap
plcation. and ingenuity taken to brew
Heurich's, makes Heurich's the highest
grade beer in the United States.
The times., 1898-01-17
Gen. Booth Coming.

Gen. William Booth, the founder of the
Salvation Army, will open his third cam
paign in the United States in the New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church, on the
10th and 11th of February, after his
return from Canada, where he went to
see his daughter, Eva, who is in command
of the Salvation Army in that country, a nd
to speak in the large Canadian cities. The
first of Gen. Booths meetings in this city
will be devoted to describing the social, or
phila nthropic, operations of the world
wide organization of which he is the
head, and ex-secretary John W Foster
will preside.
The times., 1898-01-17
DR.. Stafford on Hamlet

At the urgent request of many citizens
who have not heard Rev. DIR. Stafford's
lecture on Hamlet, ''the reverend lecturer
has decided to appear at. the Columbia
Theater next Sunday evening, under the
auspices of the 4 Carroll Institute. DR..
Stafford's Interpretation Of Hamlet is
original, and, to, a majority of modern
critics is considered exceedingly strong,
bringing out as it does many traits in the
character not hitherto tlwelt upon. Already
the demandf for seats assures the usual large
audiences that always. greets the eloquent
speaker. Iqs
The times., 1898-01-17
Accused of Emhezzloment

Isaiah $ Redman. oolored, was arrested
yesterday by the police Of the Fourth
precinct on warrant for the man sworn
out by William Webster. an oyster dealer
at No. S24 Four-and-a- half street. charg-
ing him with embezzlement. Redmap
was formerly employed ny Webster and.
is accused Of appropriating to his own
use a small amount of money which had
been intrusted TO him.
The times., 1898-01-17
CHARGED WITH GRAND LARCENY
Matte Soldouo Causes the Arrest
of Eva Taylor

of Eva Taylor.
Eva Taylor, alias Mary E. Harper a
comely young woman, was arrested on
Saturday by Detectives WeedOn and Lacey
upon the charge of grand larceny, preferred
by Matte Soldono, an Italian shoemaker, at
No. 1 eos Seventh street northwest Soldopo
charges that the young woman has been
living with him as his wife until few
days ago. and that upon returning from D
trip to Baltimore he found that she had
departed and taken with her diamond
stud valued at $50, and a gold ring
ring valued at S12.
The woman AYERS that the jewelry was
given her by SoldOno, and that he has
caused her arrest for the purpose of com
peIling her to return to live with him.
She is locked up at No police station
and the case win be called in police
court today.