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The times., 1898-11-17

The wonderful moving pictures of the
Cuban war are still attracting good au-
diences at Metzerott Hall. next to the
Columbia Theater. One view of bull
fight proves striking feature of the en-
tertainment. A cavalry charge is also
strong and spirited in it's nature, while
many other scenes are much admired.
The wargraph is in its eighth week
The times., 1898-11-17
AMUSEMENTS.
HARVEST HOME FESTIVAL

Given by the
LINCOLN CORPS NO. 6. W. R. C.
and
LINCOLN POST No. 9. C. A R.
AT THE NATIONAL RIFLES ARMoRY,
C Street. near eth. on Wednesday and Thursday
Evenings. November l6 and IL
Lunch served each day from u IN. until D.
m. and Dinner from until P m
DANCING FROM 10 P. NJ UNTIL Il NJ
LADY's GOLD WATCH will be presented to
anyone guessing nearest the number of beans in
jar Admission, 1Oc. noI3-it
The times., 1898-11-17
25c all-wOOl flannel. 19e.

Red medicated all-wool twill flannel
very good quality-such as sells usually
at 25c-will now be offered az 19c
yard.
The times., 1898-11-17

Want to buy or sell horse, carriage,
or any kind of vehicle? If so use The
Times Want columns.
The times., 1898-11-17
&AnuMzqa
"The Dependable Store"
924-e26-92S 9TH ST., running
through to 7o4-6 K St.
Keeping up
the bargain selling.

More special va1ues to bring you
to the doors of "The Dependable
Store Thursday = so great - so
worthy-that we don't see how
any economically inclined person
can remain away. They're such
values as you have come to expect
from us-brought here by clever
buying. Scan the list:
75e black satin ducheSse. soc.
Pinch black satin Duchesse, of the
finest quality extra fine finish, beau
tiful, soft, lustrous sort you have al
ways paid 75c for will go at soc yard
today. You save handsomely on
every yard.
The times., 1898-11-17

The Austrian minister. Mr.. Won Hen
gelmuller and his wife. sailed Tuesday
for home where the minister will spend
a six months leave. Baron Reidl will be
Austrian charge d'affaires during the
minister's absence.
There is little doubt that negotiations
now in progress between this country and
Austria will lead to the accrediting of am
bassadors instead of ministers between
them, and this change, 1t is expected.
may come about before Mr.. Won Hengel-
muller's return.
The times., 1898-11-17
SOCIAL and PERSONAL
Joint High Commissioners En-.
tertained at Dinner.
THE PRESIDENT THE HOST

Marriage Last Night of Mr.. Fairfax
and Miss bowen mt Calvary Bnp-
tist Church - Other Pretty We'd
dinEs-Ten for F0undlinEs Today
The Chiidren's Hospital Ball.
The times., 1898-11-17

Miss Annie Sturgis. daughter of Capt
Sturgis, U. S. A. is the guest of Miss Ma
gruder. of Georgetown.
The times., 1898-11-17

The first of the two marriages solem-
nized yesterday at Calvary Baptist
Church was that of Mrs. Ellinor Morris
Finley and MIR. Frederick Charles Ma
turet of Harrisburg, Pa. The ceremony
was performed by the pastor, DIR. S. II.
Greene.
The times., 1898-11-17

Miss Florence Corder. daughter of M.
and Mrs. Corder, of Southwest Washing
ton and Mr.. John Motley were married
last evening at 1880 o'clock at the parson-
age of Kendall Church, in the presence of
a few relatives and friends. Shortly after
the ceremony Mr.. and Mrs. Motley left for
a tour through the Western States, and
upon their return will be at home to their
friends, after December 10.
The times., 1898-11-17

All Carpets are made. lined
and laid free-no charge for the
waste in matching figures.
Brussels prices begin at 50 cents
yard and Ingrains at 90 cents.
The evening times., 1898-09-02
FERRIS FORTUNE A MYTH.
A Million Dwindles to sixteen Thou
sand Dollars.

New York, Sept. 2.-The much talked
OF wealth of William H Ferris. the an
cient pirate fighter. who died on Tues
day at Mount Vernon from old age. has
proved to be a myth. His beneficiar:es
saw visions OF millions of dollars in god
coins and Government bonds when the
old man died. but when Joseph 5 Clark,
the executor of the will, announced yes
terday that the much sought for wealth
had been found by him. and that it
amounted to only about SIG 90. they were
greatly surprised
MIR. Clark. who is president of the
Eastchester Savings Bank OF Mount
Vernon, said yesterday that two hours
before Mr.. Ferris death the old man con-
fided to him the hiding place OF all papsrs
pertaining to his property.
In box were found six mortgages
covering property in Mount Vernon
worth about 81, COO and a deed of the
homestead, valued al $4,000 The rela-
tives of Mr.. Ferris continue to cling to
the belief that he owned Government
bonds and railroad stocks and that these
securities are hidden away.
The heirs say they fear Mr. Ferris did
not tell Mr.. Clark the whereabouts of
all his property IN answer, Mr. Clark
says that while they were applying res
toratives to Mr.. Ferriss nose a few min
utes before he died he asked him this
question:
Have you told me where all your
property is?" The dying man attempted
to raise his head from the pillow. as
though he had something important to
say. while he pointed his forefnger in
the direction of the ground. Those in
the room leaned forward to catch the
words. but the old man Strengthened out
and was dead in few minutes.
The evening times., 1898-09-02
WHITE ON THE RACE PROBLEM.
Compares Southern Negroes With
Cuhans and FiiiDings

Binghamton, y. Y, Sept. 2--Justice Ed
ward ID. White, who has been named as
one OF the peace commissioners, stopped
in this city for few hours on his way
from Canton, Ohio, to Cooperstown. JUS
tice White when seen declined TO state
the nature OF his interview with Prcsi-
dent Mckinley. or whether he would ac-
cept the position offered. saying he did
not think such disclosures coming from
him at this time would be proper. He
spoke on general topics, however, and re-
ferred to the race problem now agitating
Louisiana, and made u comparison be-
tween the nt groes of the South and OF
Cuba and the Philippines.
Whether or not" said Justice White
the negro has in him the clements that
viii eventually raise him above his
downtrodGen condition and make him
the equal of the Caucasian, / cannot say
If this We're a Spanish country matters
would be much simplified. Spaniards
would intermarry with negroes. and il
they did not elevate the negroes wouid
descend TO their level, thus solving the
race problem This. ! am happy To say,
is impossible with us. on u train COM
ing from the West / overheard a sick
soldier who was returning home say that
he had vowed he would never enlist
again, Dut there was Just one war IN
which he would like 10 go to the 'front.'
and that was against the Cubans. He
said they were lazy, vile and dirty, and
Incapable OF knowing what gratitude is
While Justice White did not touch di-
rect!y On territorial extension in his con-
versation, he intimated that the Fill
pinos, who are of Malay origin, are much
the same as the Cubans. and the United
States no more wanted such citizens than
il did the lower class of negroes in the
South.
The evening times., 1898-09-02
THE KINsHIEU MARU ASHORE
Disastrous Ending of a Record
Breaking Trip.

Port Townsend, Wash. Sept. 2.-The
japanese mail steamship Kinshieu Nfaru
ended record-breaking trip from the
Orient this morning by running on Bish
Point, rocky beach about fifteen miles
up Puget Sound. A dense fog was the
cause of the disaster which means big
loss to the insurance companies concern
ed in the S1,000090 steamer
on board were 100 officers and crew of
the new Japanese cruiser Easagi just
completed at Cramps yard, Philadelphia.
The big liner went on without warning
and the crew of the warship, who were
in the steerage forward, thought she had
struck a sunken rock. They rushed
about like wild men for moment.
The officers were as cool as though
nothing had happened. AS soon as the
bugler could be found he sounded the in
spection call. 1t was wonderful to see
the effect on the frightened sailors. They
lined up forward without hesitation and
helped the crew Of the vessel lower the
boats.
These We're not necessary, however.
After several hours the fog lifted and
disclosed the position of the vessel. The
powerful tugs worked on her and she
foated badly damaged. She has the ORR
entail mail for Europe and a large con-
signment of raw silk for New York. The
naval men will go East on special train
The evening times., 1898-09-02
POLICEMAN RESCUES BOYS.
Twelve Lads Saved From Drowning
by Officer Booths


New YORK, Sept. policeman John
Boo. .heney. Of the Delaney Street STA
tion. t,itablisilod his reputation as a
hero last night by rescuing from the
East River and from possible drowning
twelve young men who were precipitat-
ed into the water by the breaking of d
gangplank connecting The public bath
No ; with the dock at the foot of Jack
son Street.
Many Wno had not been so fortunate
as TO gain admission to the bath stood
on The dock, and a line was formed
along the gangplank waiting an oppor-
tunity 10 enter the bath.
The plank. overloaded with their
weight. broke and the following young
men, ranging from fourteen TO eighteen
years, were thrown into the water: Jacob
Brae. J. Goldberg. Irwin Morlise. Henry
Abenshin. Jacob Cohen. John Horn. Ja-
cob Jat Morris ScIatheim. Samuel Sol
onion, Harris Berkleman. William Ker-
rims and Isaac Wasserman.
Policeman Bootheney was on duty on
th.. dock, and when he heard the crash
of breaking wood and the cries of the
onlookers he ran to the end of il. The
shore end of the broken gangway was
still attached TO the dock. Bootheney
threw himself on his face along it. and
obtaining a hold on the railing with his
feet, devoted himself TO the work of
rescue.
One after another he seized the boys
who were fioundering around in the wa
ter, some helpless, and pulled them up
beside him on the broken gangway. where
they were seized by persons on the dock
and lifted to safety.
Bootheney's work of rescue occupied
half an hour, and when il was cOmplet-
ed he was almost exhausted. His chief
concern. however. was for his ruined
uniform, and after a few minutes res;
he resumed his tour Of duty.
The evening times., 1898-09-02
DIED TRYING TO SAVE OTHERS.
Lieutenant Morgan and Six Soldiers
Drowned at Savannah

Savannah. Ga, Sept. At is reported
that Lieutenant Morgan, of the United
States Engineer Corps. was drowned on
Tybee in the storm Wednesday, with six
regular soldiers. He went out in a yawi
To rescue the sailors of an Italian bark.
The yawl capszed and Morgan and his
men were drowned. Lieutenant Morgan
was a Georgian.
Second Mate Garibaldi, of the Italian
bark Noe, was drowned during the storm.
He was trying to reach shore from his
boat but was blown from the life line.
Nearly all the tents and clothing of the
garrison at Tvbec were blown into the
ocean. All records were lost, and con-
siderable confusion will result when pay
day comes or a muster-Out is ordered.
The men stationed al Tybee are two COM
panes of the Second North Carolina Vol
unteers, under Major w. T. Wilder, and
portion of the First United States Artil-
lery. The damage to property iu and
around Savannah is estimated at S200,ooo.
The evening times., 1898-09-02
wANAMAKER's VIGOROUS WAR
QuRy's Machine Politics Fostered by
Big Corporations.

Phila6elp4lia. Sept. 2.-Fermer Post
master General Wanamaker. who is lead
ing the fight to defeat the reelection OF
Senator Quay, vigorously attacked the
Quay machine in an address before $3.50
persons yesterday at the Grangers' pic
mic, at williams Grove His attack en-
the machine was unusually vigorous.
"a political machine" he said. lis a
place OF power like senator, governor.
State treasurer, and a union or trust ot
all such who hold places close and
secret working together to keep them
selves in and keep out all who will not
divide with them; a confederacy to send
TO the bottomless pit all who interfere
with their holding Office and each office
holder provided with an office. room and
desk for political business at the public
expense, in which TO work during Office
hours. the salary paid by the public
purse, although for days, weeks and even
months the only or principal work done
is for personal or party gain. These men
are at work continually. taking the mon
ey to defeat the peoples will and TO serve
the machine.
''The principal allies of The machine" "
Mr. Wanamaker continued, "are the
corporations. The 15,000 national and
State oficeholders and the thousands
OF other officials connected with State
institutions form a small part of the
whole number of obedient machine men
who are constantly at the command of
Senator Quay. The corporation employees
OF the State, who are controlled for
Quays use, increase the number TO the
proportions of vast army.
1.-The steam railroads of the State en-
ploy S5lI7 men and paw them annually
in wages $40 1000 OF this number the
The evening times., 1898-09-02
PASSING OF THE MONITOR.
Old Coast Guards Retiring on Well
Earned Laurels-


Warships of the monitor type are now
regarded by naval experts as obsolete and
no more Of that class of vessels will be
built for the American navy. This is ad-
mitted by prominent officials in the naval
service. They say Admiral Sampson took
three monitors with him at the first bonn
bardment of San Juan. They delayed the
fleet going there and had TO be towed
back. Admiral Sampson was always in
dread while he had them afoat that
storm would come UP. The monitors are
practically useless without a harbor base
of operations
Another objection to the monitors was
demonstrated when the Navy Department
sent the Monterey and the Monadnock TO
re-enforce Dewey's flear IN Manila Bay.
Both of them were so slow, having such
small coal capacities, that they arrived
long after the necessity for their arrival
had vanished
The monitor will pass away, inasmuch
as that class of vessels was intended for
coast defense. and the Government has
provided for a new and elaborate system
of that particular service
The widening sphere of future American
naval operations demands more cruisers
of the best type. and it is very prObab BILE
that the last monitor has been built 1t
is not probable that any future Congress
will pass any appropriation for the build
ing Of vessels of this powerful but now
comparatively useless type
The Navy Department will devote its
attention to battieships. cruisers. torpedo
boats and torpedo boat destroyers as the
components of the future great navy Of
America.
The evening times., 1898-09-02
THE FUTURE OF CUBA.
4 HaNana Paper Hopes We Will Re-
member the Woes of Cuba

Havana. Sept 2.-The Diario de la Ma
rina in an article yesterday evening on
the future of the government of Cuba.
discusses annexation, Independence, an
American protectorate and a Spanish
protectorate. II says:
That there should be difference of
opinion regarding these various solutions
is not surprising. but that each of them
should have enthusiastic advocates seems
strange TO us. This situation would have
a reasonable explanation in the peri d
successful revolution. but not at the be-
ginning of the new pact. In the former
case to the people belong the right to
substitute for the government over
thrown one of its own choosing; but in
the present case it is the conquerer who
win lay down the law.
1t adds that. while SO far as its infor-
nation goes. the conquerors have inform
ed no one of their intentions, il hopes
they will bear in mind the woes which
have marked the sanguinary drama OF
Cuba.
The insurgent brigadier, Jose Luis Ro-
bau. having been informed that a band
of his followers had assassinated in Sa-
qua a Spanish manufacturer ordered the
arrest of the criminals and sent them
under guard TO the military commander
of Sagua.
Gen. MaXimo Gomez is expected today
at the camp of Major Gen. Francisco
Carrillo.
The insvgent governor, Celestine Ben
como who is encamped near Remedois
says that those who have business inter-
estS to keep them in Cuba are auXi Jus
to resume work and without distinction
Of color to employ all their energies in
restoring and increasing the riches de-
strOyed by the war.
The evening times., 1898-09-02
PLAYED WITH A RATHER.
Fathers Timely Shot Saved His
His Young Daughters Life.

New Egypt, n. J., Sept. 2.-The little
five-year-old daughter Of Caleb Hopkins,
a farmer, living about miles from this
place escaped horrible death in man
ner that recalls strongly the tale of Will
liam Tell and the apple. The little girl
was swinging in low hammock under
some trees. She called 10 her mother to
come and see what a pretty snake she
had found. The mother ran, and there
stretched cut under the hammock, was
an enormous rattlesnake, which the child
was looking at with admiring eyes and
stretching out her hands 10 play with it.
The frightened mother called TO the
child to sit perfectly still and to say moth
ing but the child little understood the
danger she was in and continued to pratt
tie TO the monster The mother hurriedly
called her husband, who snatched his dou-
ble-barreled gun from the rack assured
himself that there was a shell in the
ehoke-bore barrel and ran toward the
hammock.
The little one protested that her father
mustn't kill her pretty snake, and as she
moved about in the hammock in protest
the snake coiled his horrid length to
strike. To the father 1t was a question
whether he was 10 shoot the snake and
run the risk Of hitting his daughter with
the scattering shot. or whether she should
be bitten by the snake-the latter alterna-
tive being sure death. So he took careful
but hurried aim and pulled the trigger
The choke-bore punched the shot, and
his snakeship was blown to fragments
without a shot hitting the little girl. The
tail of the snake was picked up and the
seven rattles and button saved as
souvenir by Farmer Hopkins.
The evening times., 1898-09-02
Woman Scared to Death.

Mt Carmel. Pa. Sept. Mrs. David
Jones died suddenly Wednesday night.
as the result of shock caused by nJfsy
neighbors. and when Chief of Police
Nicholas Morgan attempted to quiet the
disturbance he was struck over the head
with chair and prostrated. Yesterday
Chief Morgan and his assistants made a
raid on Mrs Jones unruIy neighbors
ard nine OF them are now under arrest
Mrs Jones was suffering from cancer
and her family demonstrated with a par
ty of noisy foreigners who lived nearby.
as they were disturbing the sufferer
The foreigners resented the interfere zee
and started to do up the Jones family
During the excitement Mrs. Jones di. d
The evening times., 1898-09-02
DOG SAVES THREE LIVES
Warns His Master of Fire by Lick.
ing His Face.

New York. Sept. Had it not been for
his faithful pointer dog Flora. Charles
Weisheit. of No. 65s East 15sth Street.
and his wife and six-year-old son would
have been burned to death or smoth-
cred early yesterday morning
Weisheit was awakened by the dog.
which was licking his face and whining
loudly. He found the room filled with
smoke, and noticed that it came in dense
volumes from the cellar. He hastily got
his family out of the place. No sooner
had he done this than there was tre-
mendous explosion in the cellar, which
tore down quantities of the plastering
from the ceiling and broke many win
dows. The firemen were summoned and
they kept the flames confined TO the eel
lar and ,he sleeping apartments of the
Weishei;s.
The explosion was caused by two bar
rels of whisky. The fire started in
pile of rubbish in the cellar. The dam
age amounted 10 about sl00.
The evening times., 1898-09-02
INQUIRY BEGUN.
Crand Jury Takes Up Mrs. CordeIia
Hotkin's Case.

r.
@San Francisco, Sept. 2.-YesterGay aft
ernoon the grand jury began tho invesd-
cation into the case of Mrs Cordelia Bot
kin. who is charged with having mailed
a box of poisoned candy to Mrs. John p.
Dunning. of Dover. Chief Lees and De-
tective McVey believe they have evidence
at their command to call for the indict-
ment of the defendant On the action of
the grand jury the final outcome of the
case greatly depends, as it is hardly like
L. that the governor will issue extradi-
tion papers in the event that the inquiry
about to be commenced does not show
Mrs. Botkins probable guilt.
While the exclusive evidence at hand
seems to point to Mrs. Botkin there is
nothing definite upon which the charge
can be based.
News comes from Stockton to the ef-
feet that Gattrall, the clerk who sold the
box of candy supposedly to Mrs. Botkin,
probably made a mistake in arriving at
his conclusions. Yesterday ne was shown
u photograph of the box brought from
Dover by Detective McVey.
Neither the picture of the box nor
the description furnished me correspond
with the box sold over the counter
month ago." he said.
Kuhn the proprietor of the Wave can
dy store. agrees with Gattrall In an in
terview he said that he did not believe
the box would prove to be similar to
those he sold. Chief Lees teiegraphed to
Chief Call of Stockton, requesting that
Frank Gattrall and Raymond Miller.
salesman in the Wave, be sent to this
city to testify in the case. Gattrall and
Miller arrived at o'clock, and were
coseted with the chief of police for a
considerable part of the afternoon.
Should Gattrall fail to identify the box
Mrs. Botkin will score a valuable point
in her favor, of which her attorneys will
make the most.
AS the days pass Mrs. Botkins nerves
are gradually giving way. She appears
sad and depressed and full of vagaries,
which kept her sister, Dora Brown, con-
stantly on the go.
Every attempt of Chief Lees to locate
the station at which the box Of candy
was mailed has proved fruitleSs. All of
4 the stations have been visited. but thus
! far nothing has been found 10 connect
the box with any of them.
The evening times., 1898-09-02
CABLE SPURS IN THE PACIFIC.
A System Connecting With Amer
ica's New Possessions Planned.

A System Connecting With Amer
ica's New Possessions Planned.
New York, Sept2.-Important develop
ments in the plans for an American
cable. connecting the new possessions of
the United States in the Pacific with San
Francisco. and with branches to Japan
and Australia. We're decided upon yes
terday at a meeting OF the Pacific
Cable Company, in the office of J. p
Morgan & Co.
The directors decided to begin work
at once on surveys for this line, and
James A Scrynlssr, president of the
Pacific Cable Company, started last night
for Vancouver. whence he will sail on
September u for Japan.
The object of his trip is to make con-
tracts with the Japanese government and
to obtain from 1t a subsidy of at least
100000, for which in return the govern
ment of Japan will have free telegraph
privileges for twenty years.
A contract, which. however, did not
carry any subsidy with 1t, was signed
by the Hawaiian government on July 2.
and a bill introduced by Representative
Bennett granting, a subsidy of slOO. 900
has progressed to a favorable report in
Congress, and will be regularly pushed
when Congress reassembles-
]. E. l.. Bayies. vice president of the
company. said last night, however. that
he expected at least $250.000 or S2.0. 900
from the American Government, in con-
sideration of the fact that the proposed
cable will touch all the new American
possessions.
The cost of the Sitka and Aleutian ISL
ands branch cannot be determined until
surveys are made but the southern route.
connecting the new island possessions of
the United States, with spurs to Aus
tralia and Japan, will cost about $10,000-
0co. 1t will involve the laying of about
10000 miles of cable.
The Pacific Gable Company was organ
lied three years ago. and incorporated
under the laws of New York State in De-
cember, 1896 Its authorized capital is
slO,0a0OO0. Its officers are James A
Scrymser president; ]. E. L. Baylies.
vice president. and j. Pierpont Morgan,
J. Kennedy Tod and Rear Admiral John
Irwin, directors. Mr.. Scrymser is presi-
dent of the Mexican Telegraph Company
and of the Central and South American
Telegraph Company. Mr.. Baylies is
vice president of the Mexican company.