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THE PORTLAND DISASTER.
BcIief That She May Have Sunk I'm
fit Collision.


Boston, Mass, March 29-Most of the
theories regarding the loss OF the steamer
Portland are invaidated by the finding of
submerged wreckage in deep water off tn
northern end of Stellwagen Bank.
The fishing schooner Maud S, Captain
Thomas. arrived at Boston yesterday
bringing two electric light brackets, a
mattress and pieces of cabin furniture an /
heaving line which he had caught in the
travis in sixty fathoms CT water.
All these articles were positively iden.i-
fed by the agent and employees of the Port
land Steamboat Company, and credence is
now given TO the discovery OF cabin sci
bowls fished up at about the same p ace
several weeks ago.
The steamboat officials say that the wa
ter is too deep for divers to work, and tn hay
will make no effort TO grapple for the
wreckage which the fishermen say is scat
tered over several hundred feet of hard
clay bottom.
The steamer Portland sailed on Sa ur-
day. November 20. and the first wreckage
came ashore at Cape Cod on Sunday even
ing. 1t was at first assumed that tle
Portland when she encountered the gale
sought lee at Provincetown and went
down in the breakers of Peaked Hill bars,
a few miles from Highland Light
The place where the wreckage is found
is twenty-four miles north three quarters
west from Highland Light, twenty-five and
half miles east onehalf north of Boston
Light and fourteen and ne-quarter mi es
southeast of Eastern Point
The steamboat officials and Captain
Thomas say that the circumstances show
that there was collision. There were two
hundred persons on board, and less than
thirty bodies have been recovered
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SERVED POISONED COFFEE.
Young Wife Accused of Trying to
Xiii Her Husband

Centreyile Md. March 29.-Mrs. Sadie
Schneider and her brother. John Aaron,
who were arrested a month ago, charged
with attempting to poison Henry Schneider,
We're given hearing Monday before JUS
tice Bryan. Mrs. Schneider is a young wo-
man recently married Schreiber and his
two sons, aged twelve and nine years, re-
spectively, were the principal witnesses
for the prosecution. They testified that On
the evening of February IL the coffee serv-
ed for supper had bitter taste. Schreiber
accused his wife OF attempting to poison
him. She denied that she had attempted
TO poison her husband. but said she had
placed saltpetre in her own cup of coffee
with the intention of killing herself, and
had given Schreiber the wrong cup.
States Attorney J. Frank Harper sub
mitted an analysis of the dregs contained
in the bottom of the cup from which
Schneider drank. The analysis was made
by State Chemist Penniman, and showed
the presence of corrosive sublimate chem
ically the same deadly poison at bichloride
of mercury.
Justice Bryan held Mrs. Schneider and
her brother under $500 bail each for the
action OF the grand jury at the May term
of the circuit court.
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WRECKAGE ON THE COAST.
Vessel believed to Have Rec
Sunk On New Jersey.

A Vessel Believed to Have Been
Sunk on New Jersey.
New York, March 29.-That some vessel
has met with disaster Off the Jersey coast
was indicated. yesterday when the steam
ship Beecbley, arriving from Tampico, re-
ported having passed through wreckage,
SO much of it that the Beechley, steaming
at nine knots an hour, was two hours in
clearing it.
The Beechley went to the Atlantic Basin
where Second Officer Gibson, who was Of
fcer of the watch when the vessel was
steaming through the wreckage, gave
description of the debris. The Beechley,
according to Mr.. Gibson, was at $50
O'Clock yesterday morning midway between
the Five-Fathom Bank and Absecom, and
about 6 miles off shore. The lookout re-
ported wreckage ahead, and in few min
utes the vessel had casks and half barrels
bobbing all about her, with bits of dun
mage floating between.
An open stretch of water lay beyond.
Traversing that, the steamship ran into
another maze of wreckage, and one which
had an even stronger suggestion of ma
rine disaster Pillows, mattresses and bed
ding were seen, then wooden settee and
then some bentwood, -bottomed
chairs. None OF these chairs was of the
iOlulHR type Sucn as are carried Dy trans
Atlantic steamships
Further on the sea was thickly strewn
with spfintered woodwork Some pieces
were painted white, and evidently we're
from the deckhOuse of some vessel. Some
showed polished panels and the carved
wainscoting of interior finish. More mat
tresses were seen. together with some cork
life preservers, doors, ladders, and graf
ings and then a grewsome thing which
looked like a body floating face down
ward. Not far away was what looked like
the wreck of a small boat, and near 1t
what seemed to be spars were floating. The
wreckage was strewn over a stretch of
water Is miles in length.
Upon arrival at Quarantine Captain Hall.
of the Beechley, enquired what vessel had
been wrecked down the coast and was as
tonished to learn that nothing was known
OF any wreck. The quantity of wreckage
that some vessel has been sunk by collision
with another. The mystery will undOubt-
edly be solved, possibly by the arrival at
some port of one of the vessels in collision.
If both sank their absence must soon be
noted
II was believed that the barrels. bedding,
and clothing might have been thrown ever
board from the transport Meade, which ar
rived here on Sunday with the Twelfth
New York Volunteers on board. This was
denied by the officers of the ship, who
said that nothing had been thrown over
board from the Meade.
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John L. Gavin, said ito be an investigator
for the New York Bureau of Information
at 60 Liberty Street. He testified to pur-
chasing two share lots of Missouri Pacific,
Sugar, st. Paul and other stocks on a mar
gin of 81 and testified that he had made
money in his transactions. He swore out
a warrant for Wade in May, 1898 and
Wade was arrested and held for trial.
Assistant District Attorney Daniel
O'Reilly was assigned by the district at
torney's Office to prosecute the case in tie
court OF general sessions, and the triil
resulted in the decision handed down yes
terday. E. Y. Bell represented the bucket
shop interests, and ne accepted immediate
sentence, which was imposed upon Wade.
1t was fine of $500 or three months i'm
prisonment in the city prison.
The decision may have the effect of clos
ing up the several hundred bucket shops
which are operating all over the city at
the present time.
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Tobacco Trust stock Doubled.

New York, March 29.-The American To-
bacco Company has increased its eapitali-
cation from s35, 900 900 to $4,000, 600. This
action was decided upon yesterday by a
vote of the stockholders at meeting held
in the Newark office of the company. The
increase will be by an issue OF 100000
shares of common stock at $50 share Two
amendments were passed changing the
sixth section of the charter so as to pro-
vide for fifteen directors instead of twelve.
The three additional directors may be
elected at meeting Of the board OF di-
rectors of the company held today in New
York
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BUCKET-sHoP OPERATIONS.
judicial Decision against the Legal
ify of Dealings


New York March ga decision of
grave interest to proprietors of bucket
shops in this city was handed down by
Judges Holbrook, Hinsdale and Jacob in
the court of special sessions yesterday
morning 1t was in the long pending case
against Henry c. Wade, proprietor of the
Colonial Stock and Grain Company, of
No. so New Street. and the decision has
been anxiously awaited ever since Wade
was arrested on May %, 1898. His convic-
tion is the first under section 343 of the Pc
nal Code, and establishes a precedent for
future cases.
The judges in their decision. which was
very length, state that this is a very i'm
portant decision and will be a precedent
hereafter in such cases. The judges then
show that:
In each of the transactions between the
complaining witnesses and the defendant
but two shares of stock were involved and
the amount of deposit or margin was 81,
representing one per cent of their par
value. OF this amount fifty cents was re-
tanned by the defendant for what he termed
his commission.
There was no purchase of stock by the
defendant to fill the orders, and no delivery
of stock was ever made or contemplated
between the parties. The fiuctuating prices
on the stock quotation ticker alone deter
mined the question of profit or loss. The
defendant did not in any way act as broker
or agent for the customer, and there was
no mention of any dealings with another as
his principal.
ION the contrary the evidence clearly
shows that the transactions were entirely
between the defendant and the customer
as principals, and that the brokerage busi-
ness of the defendant was a mere sham
The real nature of the transactions being
thus shown, it follows that the printed
contracts with the blanks properly filled
while not Illegal per Sc, were subterfuges
and intended as disguise for gambling
THAT prompt action was taken by the
legislature to overcome the evil is shown
by chapter 42S, laws of 1889, approved June
IL. 1889, amending section 343 of the Pc
nal Code by adding thereto the words:
or for making wagcrs bets made to depend
upon any lot chance, casualty, unknown or con-
tingent event, or the future price of stocks
bonds, securities, commodities, or property of
any description whatever, or for making any
contract contracts for account OF any
money, property, thing in action so bet or
wagered
1T is plain that the very object of the
amendment was to prohibit Just such
transactions as the ones complained OF,
md it therefore follows the defendant is
guilty Of the offence charged
Wade was arrested on complaint of
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Trying to Break the VIII.

Charleston, w. Va, March 29.-The ia
nous Ward will case is now on trial be-
fore the circuit court. 1t it suit on the
part of the heirs of the late Brigham Ward
a somewhat eccentric merchant of this
city, who died a few years ago, to set aside
his will, in which he left his property.
value at $4,000, TO be divided between
the kanawha Presbyterian Church and at
the time proposed City Hospital, SIC. 900
OF the amount to be given to the church
The claim of the plaintiffs is that Mr..
Ward was mentally irresponsible when the
will was made. He came here from Yer
mont before the civil war; and as a stone
mason amassed fortune
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AUCTION SALES.
WALTER B. WILLIAMS & co, Auctioneers

WALLER D. WILLIAMS d 90, Auctioneers
TRUSTEES SALE OF A VALUABLE TWO.
STORY DWELLING, STABLE, AND CAR
RAGE HOUSE. AT CHAMBERS STATION
ON THE GREAT FALLS ELECTRIC RAIL
WAY.
BY virtue OF deed of trust recorded in Liber
No. 1852, folio 22I et seq. one of the land
records of the District of Columbia and at The
request of the holder of the note secured thereby
we will sell at public auction, in front of the
premises, on SATURDAY, THE 18TH DAY OF
APRIL A ID. 1899, at 1890 O'CLOCK A N
the following described real estate and ,nprove
ments thereon, viz: All of that certain niece
OF land known and distinguished as being LOT
numbered fourteen tfD, in block one IN. in The
subdivision made by Jacob p. Clark and .Jobn G
Hurst, as parts ot white Haven and Harlem
Terms of Sale: 500 CASH and The balance in
one and Two yeaB from day of sale. the pnr-
chaser giving notes for the deferred paymenfs
properly secured, with interest PAYABLE semi-sn
nually at the rate of six (6) per cent per annu,n
deposit of 500 viii be required at the limo
OF sale All conveyancing and recording ar pur
chaser's cost Terms of sale TO I've coInplied vri,l
within ten days. from day of sale or the propert, :,
will be resold at the risk and cost OF purchaser
JAS G. SPRlGG
FLOYD : PATTERSON
mh2g-endSds T,,,staas
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himself in a room used as summer kitch-
en-, at so Hudson Avenue. He had been
drinking When found he was fully dress
ed. He had taken a piece OF rope and
made moose and placed 1t around his
neck He then tied it to the shutter catch
and, stepping upon chair. kicked ii from
beneath him and slowly strangied. Peters
was married man. His wife, who has
been visiting relatives in Hudson during
the last two weeks, was notified of his act.
The evening times., 1899-03-29
Falling Tree Broke His Back.

Lynehburg, Va, March 29.-While at
work yesterday in cutting telegraph poles
near Lynchburg S. P. Morton was struck
by falling tree and fearfully injured.
His backbone was broken. He remained
conscious and had to be hauled to this
city in road wagon.
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Heavy Snow i'm the West,

Kansas City. No., March 27.-There has hoe, =
heavy fall of snow during the past twenty.four
hours, accompanied by stiff north wind Farm
ers are discouraged. They have been unable 70
do any spring work yet. The weather Washinotor
has been having is discouragne. bui tho lo;.
ones keep from getting the blues by the nd;o;n'',
nse of Thsrp's pure Berkeley rye Only s1 >
full quart at sl2 Street northwest -
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IL THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRiC7
or COLI MBIA, SITTING AS DISTRICT

IL THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT
or COLI NBIA, SITTING AS A DISTRICT
CoURT.-No. 547. In re The Extension of
Howard Avenue.
Notice i hereby given that the Commissioners
Of the District OF Columbia, pursuant 10 the pro-
visions of an act OF Congress approved March 8
1899 entitled An act Tor the extension of Penn
sylysnis Avenue southeast. and for other pur-
poses, have filed petition in this court pray
ing the condemnation of the land required for
the extension OF Howard Avenue through lot
numbered hundred and thirty and one-balf
Q30lsb. in Chaplin Browns subdivision of Nount
Pleasant and Pleasant Plains, as shown on a plat
map prepared by said Commissioners and an
neXed TO their said petition and marked ..Ey-
hibii ID. C.. No. L. and praying also that a
Jury be summoned by the Marshal. in accordance
with the provisions Of chapter eleven (lD of the
Revised Statutes of he mted States relating IN
the District OF Columbia. 10 ascertain The dam
ages for and in respect of the land propoScd To
be condemned for the extension of said svenue
and to assess one-half thereof against blocks two
90, three (S), four a. five (5), and six 90. Of
Chaplin Browns subdivision OF Ingleside. and
against lots from hundred and TWENTY-FIVE
I22) TO one hundred and forty -four N4D incIu-
sive, of Chspin Browns subdivision of Mount
Pleasant and Pleasant Plains
II is ordered this 22d day Of March, 1890 that
all persons interested in the proceedings be and
they are hereby, required to appear i'm this court
on or before the 18TH DAY OF APRIL. 1899.
TO show cause, if any they have. why the PRAYER
OF said petition should not be granted and why
the proceedings directed in said act of Congress
should not be tsken Provided, A copv of this
order be published in the Evening STAR and
The Washington Times newspapers at least six
once, before said 18TH DAY OF APRIL, 1899.
BY the court:
(SesD W. s cox, Associate Justice
A true copy-Test:
J. r. YOUNG. Clerk.
BY II. J. MEIcS. JR., Assistant Clerk
mll24 % % SLAMS 3
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Rev. E. Edwards, pastor Of the English Ran,;s.
Church at ninerSille, Pa. when suffering with
Pain Balm. He says: "a few appIications 80
this liniment proved of great service to me r.
subdued the inflammation and relieved the main
Should any sufferer profit by giving Pain Rain a
trial 1T viii please me-" For sale by Henry
Evans, Wholesale and Retail Druggist. a3S +
Street northwest; Connecticut Avenue and 81
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FinIanders Seeking ,ew Home.

Berlin, March 29.-Agents of the perse
cuted Finlanders are arranging for the
wholesale immigration of their countrymen
into Germany, Canada, and the United
States
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~ THE srpRfnE Court or TnE Dr>Tmc

IN THE SUPREME COURT or TIRE DISTRICT
OF CUiI NRIA. SITTING A. 4 DISTRICT
toI gT. No $40 In ne Tho Extension of
Tw,r'icth street northwest.
Nriic- J. hrrCts given that tho Commissioners
of the District oi CaIunhis. p:,-~raut 10 tlc pro
visions 81 act ~ Congress approved March 3.
ISsr4. entitled A. for the extension uf Penn
syiyauia Avenue -a1., hea~i aud f.. oiha. pui-
Fu>Cs have iiied petition IN this court. pray
ing tLr condemnation of The land Necessary icr
the ryicnsi.n uf Twentieth Street -uuthcrly from
Wyoming Avenue To toUIibiI Road. including
the tfiaUgulai-slapsd piece of land bounded by
The east line 1T T.yenri Ia Street thus extended.
The south line ot Wyoming Avenue. and The
west lin, ut Columbia Road. ~ shown on a plat
or map prepared by said Commissioners aud an
neyed TO their petition and marked ID. &. Ne.
j, and praying also. thar jury he summoned
by the Marshal, in accordance with chapter eleven
~ the Revised Statutes of the I nited States re-
lsting 10 the District II Columbia to ascertain
and assess the damages if any, which each owner
Of land through which Twentieth Street Is pro-
posed To be- extended aforesaid may sustain by
reason thereof. and 10 assess not les than one.
half the amount found due and awarded for
damages for and IN respect Of the land con
demned for the extension u Said Twentieth
Street against those pieces parcels of land sit
nate and lying on each side OF said Twentieth
Sreet, between Wyoming Avenue and Columbia
Road, and also an amy or all adjacent pieces or
parcels Of land which viii be benefited by said ex-
tension.
Il is ordered th, 22d day of March. 1sqq. lhat
all persons interested in the proceedings le. and
they are hereby, required 10 appear IN this court
on or before the 18TH DAY OF APRIL. 1889
TO show cause II any they have why the praver
Of said petition should not be granted and why
the proceedings directed in said act OF Congress
should not be taken: Provided. 4 COPY of this
order be published in the Evening star and
The Washington Times newspapers al least six
times, and in the Washington Law Reporter
once, before said 18TH DAY OF APRIL, 1899
BY the court:
(SeaD ". s. COX. Associate Justice
A true copy-Test:
J. r. Vol Nc, Clerk.
BY r. J. MEIGS. JR., Assistant Clerk.
o.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA, SITTING AS A DISTRICT
COURT.-No. 543 In re The Widening Of
Nineteenth Street northwest
Notice is hereby given that the Commissioners
Of the District OF Columbia, pursuant 10 the pro-
visions of an act of Congress approved February
D. 1899, entitled An act for the widening of
Nineteenth Street northwest" have filed a petit
ZION in this court. praying the condemnation OF
strip Of land forty f40) feet wide lying the
west side of Nineteenth Street extended. to make
said street ninety 800 feeJ wide between Florida
Avenue and Columbia Road, and for the con
demnation OF the remainder OF lots (D. two
%, and much Of lots three 90 and fifteen Q5)
is required 10 properly connect and make
continuous line and roadway Of Wyoming Avenue
across Columbia Road. said lots one ID. two (2},
and three 90 being part Of lot one %, of Oak
lawn, recorded among the land records OF
said District in Liber 735 folio 3SS and said lot
fifteen Q5) being in Noerr's subdivision Of oak
lawn" records in the Surveyors Office, in book
county :. folio Is. shown on map or plat
prepared by said Commissioners. and annexed 10
their said petition and marked Exhibit ID. C..
No. L. and PRAYING, also. that jGry bc sum
moned by the Marshal in accordance with The
provisions of sections 257 to 261. both inclusive,
Of the Revised Statutes Of the United States re-
lsting to the District Of Columbia. 10 ascertain
the damages for and in respect vi The land pro-
posed TO be condemned for widening said street,
and TO assess one-half OF the amount awarded a.
damages against the piece parcels Of land sit
nate and living each side Of said Nineteenth
street extended. peiMeen fiollda avenue ana 10
lumba Road. and also on all or any adjacent
pieces parcels of land which viii be benefited
hy the widening of said Nineteenth Street as pro-
vided in said act
II j. ordered this 22d day OF March, Isga that
an persons interested in the proceedings bc. and
they are hereby. required 10 app in this court
on or before thp 18TH DAY oF APRIL. 1899.
20 show cause. il any the, haze. why the prayer
~ said petition should nor be granted. aud why
The proceedings directed IN said act OF Congress
should not be taken. Provided. 4 copy of this
order br published in the ''EveEng Star and
The Washington Times newspapers least six
times. and n the Washington Law Reporter
once d. fore said 18TH DAY OF APRIL. 1894
By th, court:
tSesh W :. cox. As>pciat, Justice.
thu, ropy-le-t:
J. ". NOt VI. CLERK
By n. J. MEIGS. JR.. Assistant Clerk
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HAVANA'S EXPORTS.
Assfstant Secretary Meiklejohn Is.
sues n RepOrt for Eebrn.rx

Assistant Secretary of War Meiklejohn
has just made public the following state
ment concerning exports of tobacco. etc.
at Havana, Cuba. during the month of Feb
r1Iary 1890
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The Ambassador Presented.

Senor AEpiroz, the Mexican Ambassador,
was presented TO Secretary Hay yesterday
by senor Godoy, Charge d'Affaires of the
Embassy
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Salesman Kills Hfm.eIl

Salesman Kills Himself,
Albany n. Y, March 29-Charles C.
Peters, travelling salesman for who e.
sale shoe house in New York, comm tted
suicide yesterday afternoon by h.ngin;
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