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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-17
ACTING AS SECRETARY.
Gen. Miles Performs Functions of the
Head of the War Department.

There is a decided change in the situation
at the War Department today, and Major
General Miles is performing all the func-
tons of acting secretary of war. just as
though the relations between himself and
Secretary Alger were of the most AMIGA bic
Character. All acquisitions ami other Off
cial documents requiring the signature OF
the Secretary of War OF legal representa-
tive were taken to army headquarters to-
day, and were signed by Gen. Miles as act
ing secretary of war" The mail was very
heavy, including all the outgoing CORE
spondence held up on Saturday, and its con-
sheraton kept Gen. Miles hard at work
at mis- desk all day. 1t was mostly of a
routine and unimportant character how
ever. and the signing was hardly more than
a perfunctOry act.
Probably the only action out of the ordt-
Larry run taken by Acting Secretary Miles
today was the issue OF order relieving
Company c. Battalion of Engineers, from
further duty at Camp Meade, Middietown,
ia. and directing that the company pro-
coed by rail with baggage and equipment to
W1Hets Point, n. Y, reporting on arrival
to the commanding officer. instructions
We're issued by Gen. Miles to the quarter
master general and the commlssary general
the troops on their short trip TO WiIlet' 5
Point, which, by the way, is their regular
station.
Secretary Alger, who is the guest of Vice
President Hobart at Long Branch is ex-
pected TO arrive here tomorrow, in time
TO attend the regular meeting of the cabi-
Let.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-17
LOOKS LIKE MURDER
Indications That Chadwick's Body
is in the Connecticut.
HIS SUPPOSED ASSAILANT INJURED
Tragedy Caused by Jealousy Over
Girls Affections.
DETAILS OF THE AFFAIR

CHESTER, Conn. July Hilary Chad
Britain, came here Saturday night to visit
young lady to whom he was paying at
tention He started for home on his BIZ
cycle last night. and is now missing. Pres
ent indications point strongly to tragedy
which may result in the finding of the
young mans dead body in the Connecticut
river.
Details, which are very meager at this
time, are as follows: For some time Chad
wick has been paying attention to Mary
Smith of this place, and Saturday night ne
came here from his home in New Britain
to spend Sunday. A man named Holgh,
about thirty years old, boarded with the
Smith girls family, and it is said he has
also been paying attention to the young
lady
Chadwick left the Smith house about
1890 o'clock last night on his bicycle, and
ing a ladder was found leaning against the
window of the room occupied by Hough.
There were spots of blood on the ladder,
ana when the mans room was entered he
was found lying on the bed in pool of
blood. He had cut five inches long in his
neck. His bicycle was also found to be
covered with blood, and an investigation
was Immediately started.
In Tylerville, near Clarks Creek, search
ers found the bicycle owned by Chadwick.
and his watch and cuffs. There were sew
eral pools of blood and evidences of strug-
gle.
1t looked as if mans body had been
dragged through potato field nearby and
the path was followed to the river, where
it was found rowboat had been taken.
The river is being dragged for Chadwck's
body. Hough is said to be in a critical
condition, with the chances for his recovery
about even.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-17
Queer Applications Made to the War
Department.
A CONVICT SHOWS His PATRIOTISM
Desires to Fight Against the Fill
ptnos.
OFFER OF A FRENCHMAN

Among the tens of thousands of applica-
tons that have poured in upon the War
Department for commissions and for per
rlisston to enter some branch of the army
there have been some of more than or
binary interest, but not until very recently
mas the suggestion been made that the
penitentiaries be emptied to swell the
American army. Then some quaint appIi-
cations have been received from abroad
that show a greater zeal to enter the army
than knowledge of the idioms of the En-
ghsh language. Two of the applications,
picked from many. are as follows:
Applications From a Prison.
"(Mo. Penitentiary).
"JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-. TIP. 30.
Hon. Russell A Alger
Dear Sir: Although I am an inmate of
penal institution, 1 have not ceased to
love my native land, and 1 wish to offer my
services to my country. l am willing to en-
list in any branch of the army or navy,
ana hope that you grant my request. 1t
Woald be no new thing for you to enlist
che' OF more, regiments out of the differ
ent prisons of the country, In fact l have
fead tnat such thing occurred in this
state curing the war Of the rebellion
nave talked with number of my fell
low prisoners, and they are all eager to
retrieve the past by fighting for their couu-
try. am an able-bodied man, thirty years
olo' and immune from yellow fever / am
serving a ten years sentence for burglary.
ana nave five years and five months yet to
serve Men of my class are as a rule.
brave men. who have faced death TOO often
Sto gain few dollars) to fear risking their
ives In nohler cause, and perhaps their
FORMER instructed energy will prove VAL
uabie IN the present war with the Filipino
insurgents. We are accustomed to strict
discipline, and would not find garrison duty
irksome as compared with our present
status L do not know whether my sugges-
t ion VIII meet with your approval or not
but beg that you will consider the mater
and. II possible, grant my request
Hoping to receive your reply, l remain
your humble servant"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-17
Manual Training in the School,

From the North American Review
To train the hand means to train the
powers of the eye and to bring the muscu-
lar and nervous systems into working ac-
cord. Some kinds of manual training give
the whole body useful exercise. All kinds
rest the brain and relieve the body after
purely intellectual work, while cutivating
them in another fashion and developing the
creative instinct. And they teach direct
hess of purpose. concentration of effort
accuracy of observation, and also mental
and moral precision and honesty. The
teacher, and even the pupil himself may
think that a book lesson has been learned
been mastered when it has been only half
srasped or wholly misunderstood. But this
cannot happen with manual work A tam
gible thing is done, and rightly done, or it
Is not. A stitched seam is straight. leaf
is correctly drawn, carpenters joint is
true. or it is not. Neither deception nor
self-deception Is possible in the workshop
and the spirit of accuracy, system con-
scentiousness( self-reliance and helpful CO.
operation that it develops is carried over
INTO the other class rooms. Moreover, the
workshop may cultivate taste as we'll as
skill; and, although it does not teach trades
II celebrates the dignity of manual labor
aptltudes for 1t. The same is the case with
the lessons in domestic science" given to
girls. They are not taught to be PRO
tessed cooks or dressmakers; but their
fingers, eyes and palates are trained; the
Importance of cleanliness neatness, order
and exactness is impressed upon them: re-
spect Tor household work and interest in ii
are awakened, and these great benefits are
augmented by such instruction In hygien;c
and alimentary laws as could hardly he
made to seem practical and important with
out the help of the cooking stove
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-17
Washington Stock Exchange.

ro SSles s. call 2oelock mColumbia Rail
T Rsnk is ssS99 at iSt Farmers and Mechanics
a .Ss, 70 at g54 10 at o5A. Mergenthaler Limo
TYPE 100 a' at ISL 70 i n5 t is & s Mono
can Graphcphone, 100 at 1871.
District q Columbia Bonds.-Gs 1902, so-year
funding, 1867 bid. IS, 1901, water stock 100 hid
s.e;s s.I Iasi, funding. lis$. bid.
:ndeDt, A, ne bid, lis asked. Metropolitan Rail
IS srs es5t ndss! b, i bid lls asked Columbia
,on t "a mort t! ss is bid 5 asked Washing
C" series B. e loo bid ID iGe sd p Sf S Gas
imp: es lls bid. U. $. Electric Light cert indeSt
u.s. iioks bid l2O asked Chesapeake and Potomac
trust Is, 100 bid. Washington Market Co. list Is
10 bid. Washington Market Co. imp, Is, ITO bid.
Hall Association IS, los bid
NATIONAL Bank siocEs.-Bank Of Washington. $40
l57H asked; Farmers and Ieclanics', 2os bid.
s SS lS bio 70, Citizens, ia lse BID Columbia 5
asked Traders. lis hid. 124 asked. Lincoln, lis
osa: IL l2g n asked. IN, r-us, c,u,,,n,..
Deposit and Trust 1s5 bid. As asked. washington n
Loan and Trust lS a lid 1853 asked. American Sc
in ,,, stocks -Frsmens, 80 hid. Franklin,
asked German 20 bid National I'G Gni ass
coin 1i;, slaA bid oaamsrelai; * assed i-D
bid. Columbia Title 81 bid. 6Ii askrd Distri Of
Title, "a bid. 8 asked.
Railroad Stocks.-Capital Traction Co. $751; bid
95Ss asked City ard Suburban. 43 asked 20 N'
Gas and Electric Light Stocks.-washington Gas
xb3H bid, 53A asked. Georgetown Gas, 65 asked
u. ). Electric Light, 100 bid
Telephone Stoeks.-Chesapeak and Potomac x74
bid. 20 asked. Pennsylvania II bid
Miscellaneous Stocks: -Mergenthaier Linot, pc,
2o3ta bid 2041a asked Lanston Monotype, ISIk bid
lsA asked American Graphophoae. 49, bid ii
asked, American Graphophone preferred. 1917 bid
II asked. Pneumatic Gun Carriage % hid. u
asked. Norfolk and Washington Steamboat no
bid. Lincoln Hall, 10 ASKED N
xEx dividend
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-17
FOR PUBLIC LIBRARY.
The Commission Meets to Select the
Successful Plan.

he CONTINUATION Meets TO select the
Successful Plan.
The Washington Public Library commits
sion met at the District building this after
noon for the purpose of proceeding to the
selection of the plan on which the library
will be constructed on the Mount Vernon
Square site. 1t will be recalled that Mr.
Andrew Carnegie donated the sum of $780,
600 with which to erect the building, and
Congress set apart Mount Vernon Square
as the site for the building.
The commission, which consists of the
District Commissioners, Colonel Theo. A.
Bingham, u. S. army, in charge of public
buildings and grounds and Mr.. Theo. w.
Moves, president of the board of trustees
of the library. will be called TO select the
plan from among twenty-six drawings usb-
mitted by the ten architects invited by the
commission to do 50, and by fourteen other
architects.
The ten architects invited to submit plans
will receive $3.50 each whether they are
successful or not in the competition. The
less the plan of one is selected by the COM
mission, the fee of the successful architect
being three per centum of the total cost
of the building.
The competing architects chose as their
representatives in the selection of the plan
to be used Mr.. Henry Van Brunt of Kansas
City. the president of the American So
ciety of Architects and Mr.. George B.
Post of New York, an ex-president of the
institute, and these experts were present
this afternoon. 1t is expected that the
commission will be at least ten days in
making selection of the plan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-17

Aunt Betty Bantum struck by a Train
at HyaftsviIIe.
Dispatch TO The Evening Star

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star
HYATTSVILLE. Md, July 1T.-Aunt Bet
ty Bantum, as she was Familiarity known
here, an old cOlored woman about eighty
five years old, was struck by Chesa peake
train No. 102 at Wells crossing on the Alex
andria branch of the B. and o. railroad this
morning and was instantly killed. From
the facts given at The coroner's inquest
Aunt Betty was standing about ten or fif-
teen fee; east of the crossing when she was
nrst seen by the train crew and several
other witnesses. The crew were on the
front platform of the rear coach of this
train. which runs backward from Marlboro
to this point. Aunt Betty waited until the
train was within 80 or 100 yards of her
and started across the track and despite
the Lact That James Jackson called to her
not TO attempt to cross, she replied she
could make it all right and proceeded on
her way. and just she reached the op-
pcsjte SIDE the step of the front coach
struck her in the side, throwing her for
ward on her head and breaking her neck
Death was instantaneous.
Conductor Beers, Brakeman Winn and
l.. M Devers, a passenger. were on the
rear of the train and made every effort to
avoid the accident. but, owing to the old
womans feebleness, it was impossible to
GO so. coroner's jury was impaneled,
and after hearing the evidence in the case
rendered verdict of accidental DEATH ex-
onerattng the trainmen from all blame.
Aunt Betty was born in Kent county and
was in slavery times owned by ex-Mayor
Hodges. After she was free she came to
Hes OF Mr. G. c. Hyatt and DR.. Charles
Wells
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-17
GRATIFYING COLLECTIONS
Well-Arranged System for Securing Relief
for Texas Flood Sufferers.
Nearly $500 Already misunderstanding
Hay Gives SIOO-Evening star VIII
Receive Subscriptions.

Ihe work of securing funds for the re-
lief of the Texas flood sufferers is being
actively pressed in this city by the citi-
zens' committee, healed by Commissioner
John B. Wight. The system of collection
has been well arranged, and as a conse-
quence money Is coming in from all direc-
lions in sums that are very gratifying.
The Evening Star will receive and ac-
knowledge contributions. Contributions
may also be sent to Mr.. John Joy Edison,
treasurer of the committee, at the office
of the Washington Loan and Trust Com
pany. Solicitors have been appointed to
work among the government clerks in
those departments where no objection has
been raised by the Secretaries. The COM
mittee now wishes to appeal personally to
all the residents of the capital city, the
many workers in private offices and those
employed by corporations, who can be
reached in no other way than through the
newspapers. Such subscriptions as the peo-
pie may choose to make will be gladly re-
cefved at the office of The Star The need
of funds in the flooded district is said to be
very pressing.
A letter prepared by the committee was
read In many of the churches yesterday.
This letter was in the nature of an appeal.
1t called attention to the conditions exist
ing III Texas, and requested that the church
people lend substantial aid in the way of
subscriptions.
Secretary Hays Contribution.
Permission to solicit subscriptions in the
city post office has been granted by Post
master Merritt. Secretary Hitchcock of the
Interior Department, in a letter, declined
the request of the committee, saying that
the rule against the soliciting of subscrip-
tons was one of long standing and had
never been broken by his predecessors
Secretary of State Hay also felt constrain-
ed TO refuse like request. Secretary HAY
however, Enclosed to Mr.. Wight his Der
sonai check for 800.
Subscriptions have been received by
treasurer Edison as follows:
f. W. Williams, So; pupils of Berkeley
schooi. 81 40; w. 8. Hoge & Bro IS; Ru-
eoiph' west & Co, IS; Rev. Paul Griffith,
St- Ausustine's Church, 81; clerks of the
moran once, S2o.55; clerks of the pension
ONCE, through Chas. F. Tancill, committee
man. S22i.6S; Miss Mary e. Goodwin, -.
Mrs. l.. w. Kellogg, 81; c. G. A, So; total
S274.63. ~ N'N''''
Other CONTRIBUTIONS.
In addition to the above, the employees of
the District government at the District
building have contributed over $50 and
MAI. Sylvester superintendent of police,
To-Day received contribution of $40 from
Mr. w. w. Rapley. These two items, to-
gether with Secretary Hays generous con-
tribution bring the total up to nearly $500
Many states are joining in the work OF
relief In South Carolina Mr. A. c. Kauf-
man has the matter in hand Representa-
i've HaWley ofg Texas has sent Mr. Kauf-
man telegram of thanks for his interest
in the work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-17

place was overrun with applicants. Only
300 were wanted. and after these had been
selected no others were accepted
There were over 800 men waiting in and
about the Office. The men engaged were
promised permanent employment and will
he taken to Brooklyn during the day.
For some weeks past the employees of the
several lines controlled by the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company have been com
planning that the management did not live
up TO the tep-hour law. The men demand
a revision OF The time tables at the differ
ent barns. and also claim that they should
be paid ~ cents an hour for overtime. which
Is equivalent To s. a day. the price which
they set for a working day of ten hours
a strike was called al 3:3o yesterday morn
ing AT that hour most of the motormen
and conductors on the Brooklyn Traction
Compauy'S lines had completed their night
trips and the leaders decided that this was
the most opportune moment to begin what
was expected to be stubborn fight with
the traction company.
About LOCO policemen from the precincts
in Manhattan and the Bronx districts were
conveyed to the different barns. and many
were placed along the several routes COM
prisIng the territory covered by the Brook
lyn Traction Company.
Presidents Car Attacked.
Shortly before noon President Rossters
sriyate car Ampere started from the city
hall and made a round trip of the trac-
lions lines. On board were Chief En-
gineer Breckinridge W. W. Wickes. Presi-
dent Rossiter's private secretary and Secre-
tary Van Colt. Accompanying these were
Headquarters Detectives Reynolds, Har-
rington, Graves and Stoddard- The Am
pere. after running to the Flushing extern
sion went up Nostrand avenue to Bergen
Beach and returned down Flatbush avenue,
whence it ran TO Coney Island. Coming
back from COney Island the president car
travelled over the 9TH avenue route, and as
IL neared I'D street and 18th avenue those
on board found their further progress i'm
peded by a stalled car near the 9th avenue
barn.
Here crowd of some 500 people, many
of whom were women and children, had
congregated, and the motorman of the Am
pere Howard Jackson, was attacked by
several strikers OF men in sympathy with
them. The motorman received some nasty
bruises on the head and legs
Secretary Wickes was one OF the first to
run TO the mans assistance. and he was
finally rescued from the mob. Six arrests
were made, and the track was soon cleared.
Throughout the afternoon boulders and
large pieces of granite were taken from
nearby yard and placed on the tracks in the
vicinity Of Greenwood cemetery. and as cars
came along at intervals of twenty and
thirty minutes their further progress was
considerably delayed until these obstruc-
tions were removed No sooner did the cars
pass than the boulders were laid on the
tracks again. and the police were unable
to stop the efforts of the obStructfonists.
The only cutting of wires reported to the
Brooklyn police headquarters was the par
tiaI destruction of the feed cable on Flat
bush avenue, but a score of hnemen soon
repaired this in temporary manner, which
sufffced to reopen the line.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-17
LAST TESTAHENTS.
Wills of the Late Joseph Anthony and
Amanda L.. DufOur.

The will of the late Joseph Anthony, dat
ed the 9th Of March, 1896. and naming Will
liam E Edmonston and Thomas W. Fowler,
executors. was filed this afternoon for pro-
bate. The estate of the deceased is left
in trust to his wife. Elizabeth Anthony. for
life. At her death, $1,000 is to be paid to
Joseph Anthony. nephew of the testatOr;
$1,000 and property at 1852 Sth street, to
Mary V. Alexander, a niece; $500 TO Mary
Shields; 500 to Anna Z. carp. and 500 to
J. Edward Fowler.
One-third of the remainder of the estate
is to go to the Washington Protestant
Orphan Asylum, one-third 10 the Methodist
Home of the District of Columbia and the
remaining oue-third to the National Asso-
citation for the Relief of Destitute Colored
Women and Children of Washington, D. c.
The greater portion of the estate OF the
late Amanda l.. Dufour is left to her chill
dren and grandchildren. according to the
terms Of her will. filed this afternoon for
probate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-17
One Mans Hard Luck.
Louis G1obe-Democrat.

From the st. Louis GloDe-Dehiocrat.
The coroner of Kokomo, Ind, has re-
turned verdict in the Benton w. Coleman
case, holding that the deceased was eaten
up alive by hogs while lying in drunken
stupor. Ten years ago Coleman was the
wealthest farmer in this section OF In
diana, owning several hundred acres of fine
land. His life has been strange one, and
his tragic death was but fitting close of
an eventful career.
The Coleman home was near the Sharon
Church, three miles west of Thorntown.
Domestic trouble came, and Coleman and
his wife separated. Shortly after the dis
ruption a valuable cattle barn, full of stock,
grain and hay. was destroyed by hre. A
few months later the residence was burned.
Next his hogs were killed by eating pounded
glass, and about the same time iorty head
of fat cattle were found lying dead in the
field from eating paris green that had been
strewn in the pasture Coleman had his eX-
wife arrested for the arson and stock pois-
oning, but she was acquitted. The woman
then sued him for SANDER and got judgment
for $1,000, having previously obtained a
large slice of his fortune in alimony.
In 1891, shortly after Colemans marriage
to another woman. came another period of
barn-burning and stock-poisoning, in which
$4,000 worth Of property was destroyed. in
Guiding a stock barn full of valuable stall
lions. The second marriage was no happier
than the first. and Coleman and wife No. 2
separated a few weeks ago, the wife OBJ
tanning divorce and substantial alimony.
Two days after the divorce was granted
the couple remarked. but quarreled inces-
sanity since
Coleman left his home two weeks ago.
with 500 In his pocket, all that he had left
of his magnificent possessions. declaring he
was going away never to return. He went
to the village of Colfax, where he bought
two quarts of whisky. That was the last
seen of him until his body was found partly
eaten by hogs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-17
Fix the Gold Standard.
From the New York Times

1t is plain now that the issue of the
gold standard against every form of
reputation and initiation will have to he
met III the elections Of, next year. 1t was
the Judgment Off those most strenuously
engaged .sas in the ;sght fpr sound money in
1895 that the issue could not be settled
until it was settled rightly by the com
plete establishment of the gold standard.
If the republican-PartyAas the courage and
sense sens to enact tPe required legislation at
the approaching session of Congress, the
campaign will stiu haye to be carried on,
but the issue wflp be 90 plain and the re,
suit so certain That there will be but little
disturbance. 81 >
II the party refuses to do that the work
Will all have to be done over, The country
VIII be left to the. risk Of an attack on the
national credit through the standard value
Whenever there iSa reverse in the business
world, such as is sure to come soon or
late. and the fight willIhave to be renewed
when it Will be the hardest. There is no
lasting security for the business interests
OF me country except in the unqualified
establishment and thel2 complete mainte-
nance of the gold standard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-17
MURDERER POWELL'S CASE,
Justice Bradiey's Rulings Relating to
Appeal.

In the case of James Powell, colored
convicted of the murder of William Patrick
Lee, Justice Bradley this afternoon direct
ed that the record of the trial, for use in
appealing the matter to the Court of APP
peals, be prepared by the clerk of the
court without cost to the defendant. The
question of waving the appeal bond was
not passed upon, Justice Bradley ruling
that the matter was one that should be dis
posed of by the Court of Appeals or one
of the justices thereof and not by the SUI
preme Court of the District of Columbia
Powell is under sentence to be hanged
the 18th of next month. Justice Bradley
declined to entertain a motion for stay of
execution to such time as the appeal is
decided, until the Court of Appeals acts on
the question involving the waving of the
appeal bond.