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The evening times., 1899-11-08
HELD FOR BICYCLE THEFTs.
Four ColOred Youths i'm Possession
of n Number of Machines.

-
In the arrest of William Mills. sixteen
year-old colored boy. yesterday, by De-
tectives Muller and Baur. the police un-
earthed what is now thought to be a gang
of youthful bicycle thieves, who, it is said.
have been carrying on an extensive sys EN-
of thefts.
After Mills was taken into custody the
detectives got information which led to
the arrest of four other solored youths. and
the recovery of seven stolen bicycles. to-
gether with a miscellaneous lot of bicycle
parts, which included handle bars, saddles
wheels. tires. tool bags. lamps. and ether
paraphernalia. These are all he'd by the
police and will be submitted as evidence
against the prisoners when they are ar
raigned in court.
The four youths arrested after Mills had
been captured gave their names and ages
as Robert Sewell. fourteen years; Charles
alias Mills Washington, fifteen years; Irv-
ing Shelton, seventeen years, and Randall
Shelton, fourteen years old.
All of the prisoners denied any knowl-
edge Of the thefts charged against them,
when first questioned, but finally under
pressure, two of them weakened and. 1t is
said, implicated the others.
Mills and the elder Shelton are given
bad regulations by the police, who say that
both were recently tried for housebreak-
ing and released on their personal bonds.
Two of the recovered bicycles have been
identified. One has been claimed by Ben
jamin Dakin, and the other by George Gar
nard. The numbers OH both bicycles. as in
the case of several others recovered, had
been altered
The evening times., 1899-11-08
APPEALS FOR A NEW TRIAL.
VI. w. Fa1l<'s Motion Heard In the
Court of Appeals Today


Argument on the motion for new trial
and arrest of Judgment in the case of
Maximillian W. Falk, convicted OF adul-
terry, was heard today in the Court OF Ap-
pels for the District. The defendant was
represented by Messrs.- Edwin Forrest and
Edmund Burke, and the Government by
Assistant District Attorney Ashley NJ.
Gould.
Falk, it will be remembered. was ar
rested, charged with the crime OF which
he was convicted on December &c, 1897.
a few days later he was given a hearing
in the Police Court and held in $1,000 bond
TO await the action Of the grand jury. Falk
left the city soon after, and was not
brought to trial until January % last. On
the second day of the proceedings he
however, did not appear. and it was learn
ed that he had fed. The trial continued
without him, and the jury which heard
the evidence returned a verdict of guilty.
This, however, was not until after Falk' s
counsel, Messrs. Bendheim and Carl.n, had
withdrawn from the case.
Four months later Falk was arrested in
New York. and brought back to this city
where or May 16 he was sentenced to i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary at Mounds
vile. w. Va. for term of six months.
He then gave new surety in the sum of
$500 to await the findings of the Court
of Appeals on his motion for a new trial
and arrest Of judgment.
The evening times., 1899-11-08
EVIDENCES OF TREASON
Facts in the Indictments Against
French ROyaIist Plotters.
Charges of the Public Prosecutor
Others-DiscOvery of Well-Con-
cefved Plan to Upset the Govern
ment-Interest I'm Senate's Action.

PARIS, Nov S-The public prosecutor S
indictment against NJ. Paul Derouide and
the other royalist plotters who were ar
rested last August, on the charge of trea-
sen. which charge was later reduced to
conspiracy against the state, covers forty
pages. The Indictment carries crushing
weight Of evidence against several we'll
known personages, supported by documen-
tary evidence. The prosecutor sums up as
follows:
''All the facts have just mailed reveal
undoubtedly the existence of a concerted.
changing the government and destroying
the republic. which plot has been accom-
panied by many overt acts in the further
ance Of its execution.
The evidence itself fills seven volumes Of
80 pages each. The first volume en-
braces all of the police reports. In the
second the daily movements Of the Duke
OF Orleans partisans and the result of
searches in the dwellings of the conspira-
tors are chronicled. In the house Of NJ
Buffet were found a list of future royalist
projects. list of future royaIist procura-
tors general, and a letter from Count de
Bourbont to NJ. Buffet, wherein the count
writes that General Chanoine could easily
be induced to make a coup d'etat in favor
of the Duke of Orleans II he were promised
a dukedom for his services. The third
volume of the evidence contains reports
of Deroulede's alleged intrigues with the
Anti-Semitic League while receiving sub
sides from the Duchess de Uzes.
Many protests are appearing in the news
papers. denying the prosecutors allegations.
The Count de Castellane denies having Civ
en- Deroulede $4,000 francs to assist the
royaiists.
Much interest is felt as to whether the
senate will declare itself competent to act
as a high court Of justice. If it should de-
clare itself incompetent it is believed that
the fate of the Waldeck Rousseau cabinet
is sealed.
The evening times., 1899-11-08

Minister Hunter cabled the State De-
partment today. informing Secretary Hay
that the Guatemalan Government has
agreed to arbitrate the R. H. May claim.
The despatch states that Guatemala de-
MES Mays right to indemnity, but Offers
to submit all disputed points to tribunal
Of arbitration. with Instructions to deter
mine IL the rights to damages exist, and
II SO to what amount
The claim grows out of the action of the
Guatemalan Government in dispossessing
r. H. May, citizen Of the United States,
residing in Tennessee, from the Guatema-
Ian Northern Railroad, which Mr.. May had
been commissioned by contract with the
government to operate. The contract was
made early in 1888. and the period of
operation granted Mr.. May extended from
April. 1898. to April, 1899. By the terms
Of the contract Mr.. May was to receive
the revenues of the road. from which he
was to pay royalty to the government.
He was also commissioned to make i'm
provements. for which. he was to receive
compensation. ~ -
The government from the start showed
a disposition to interfere with the man
agement Of the road. and finally in October,
1898, before the expiration OF the year.
withdrew the road from his hands, paying
Mr.. May 100000 for his services. This
amount. Mr.. May claims. is considerably
less than that due him, and he Immediately
placed the matter before the State De-
partment. Solicitor. Penfield Of the State
Department reviewed the case and re-
quested Mr. MAY through his attorneys to
secure additional evidence and file briefs.
Solicitor Penfield then reported the matter
to Secretary Hay. who instructed Minister
Taylor to secure the consent of the Qua
temalan Government to arhitrate.
There is 40 case in the record Of diplo-
macy. it is said. where a similar matter
has been attended 10 as promptly as the
May claim. Usually five or six years is
consumed in settling such disputes.
The evening times., 1899-11-08
CHANGE IN SCHOLARSHIPS.
President BndIey's Ideas Endorsed
by Yale Students.


by Yale Students.
NEW HAVEN Conn. Nov. S.-Yale las
started complete change in the system
of awarding her scholarships. They have
been given promiscuously until President
Hadley declared in his annual address that
they pauperized the holder in many cases.
President Hadley said in his inaugural
speech:
Aid in education, if given without ex-
acting corresponding return, becomes
demoralizing II il is earned by the stu
dent as he goes it has just the opposite ef-
feet. All scholarship beyond the tuition
fees. whether for undergraduates or for
graduates, should be distinctly in the na-
ture of a prize for really distinguished
work or payment for services rendered.
Remuneration rather than pauperzation
should be the principle underlying such
aid.
In the Yale Divinity School free scholar
ships are so plentiful that they have been
almost literally thrown at the undergrad
uates.
The theological students held a mass
osition to pass resolution TO pledge every
graduate of the school to reimburse it
fully for his educational expenses except
in case of disease or death. This motion
was defeated. and another expressing sym
pathy with President Hadley's ideas was
passed.
The evening times., 1899-11-08

as hungry as the pitiless sea itself. Many
Of the smaller cases in the Sahara have
disappeared from sight in an hour or two.
buried deep by the deadly simeon.
Some 400 miles southeast Of the old city
OF Kashgar. far out in the yellow desola-
tion Of the desert of Cobb, the great Swed-
ish explorer, Sven Hedin. saw something
projecting from the smooth side Of one OF
the long dunes. 1t was the wooden roof
Of a house. Further investigation showed
that IL was but one Of thousands. A teem-
ing city Of highly civilized Aryans had long
existed on this spot, until the earth had
tired Of 1t and wiped it out.
Nothing Is too big or too small to escape
the NAV Of our hungry globe. ouicksands
are the traps she spreads for smaller fry.
Probably the worst and most dangerous In
the world are the Shots" of the Sahara.
These are, perhaps, the dregs Of some pre-
historic sea. Now they are covered over
with thick crust Of salt and sand. Whole
caravans have walked unconsciously Into
these death-traps and been quickly swal-
lowed up. Reclus, the great French au-
thority. declares you can sound these
quicksands to depth Of 800 feet without
finding bottom.
The evening times., 1899-11-08
INSANE OVER RELIGION.
The Strange Disappearance of q
Louisville PhNsician,s Wife.

WIle.
CHARLESTON. W. Va. Nov S.-About
month ago Mrs. p. Richard Taylor, wife
of the dean Of the Hospital College of Med
icine of Louisville. KY, disappeared mys-
teriously under circumstances that caused
her friends to fear for her safety. She
had been in the habit of spending the sum-
mers at the All Healing Springs. Va. She
left that place about the 1st of September
and went to Gap Mills. W. Va. and while
there attended camp meeting conducted
by travelling evangelist. She had been
reared Catholic, but year ago became a
Methodist.
After attending the revival she conceived
the idea that the Catholics were persecut-
ing her and were in search of her to i'm
prison her. She disappeared suddenly and
the next heard of her was at Ronceverte,
this State, where, it is claimed. she board
ed westbound Chesapeake and Ohio train.
a few days after this the body of dead
female fully answering the description OF
Mrs. Taylor was found on the public high
ways between Lewisburg and Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs. AS there were no
evidences of foul play the body was inter
red without any investigation. DIR. Tay-
1or. who has been here searching for his
wife. left for home Monday night without
having learned of this story of finding the
body of a female answering the description
of his wife. The story was told by gen.
tleman who resides near where the body
MAS found
The evening times., 1899-11-08
IN MOTHER EARTH's NAV.
Islands and Desert Lands Swallowed
Up and Extinguished.

Up anu EXthm Y uhbhcOs
(From the London Mail.)
: When one reads or hears of some sud-
den and violent alteration in the crust
of this planet Of ours one instinctisely pits
it down to something IN the way OF a
volcanic outburst In most cases it is
SO. But not always. Mother Earth has
many fashions of building up what she
likes and getting rid 6f what she is tired OF.
One hardly wonders that Indian tribes
who freuuented the shores Of the Columbia
River used to worship as the "All-devour-
ing one" a great cliff near the Cascades.
which for many years past has been
steadily advancing upon the river, with
the evident intention Of blotting out its
bed and forming huge lake above. This
will inevitably happen. The mountain,
which is 1000 feet high and eight miles
long, has been proved to be moving for
ward and downward at a rate Of One to
three feet year. The railway track which
runs along its base has to be constantly
altered. The reason of this ponderous
landslide Is that the mountain rests on
layer Of soft sandstone, which is steadily
giving way.
The village of Sainte Foy de Tarentaise.
in Eastern France, seems doomed to be
engulfed. The base Of the hill on which
1t stands is being eaten away by the rapid
waters Of the Isere. The houses, some Of
them. show cracks rivaling those Of our
Cheshire Northwich. Some day there will
be short. sharp shock" and Tarentaise
will no longer exist.
Islands 20 and come so constantly that
none but the admiralty keeps count Of
them. Submarine volcanoes are responsible
for most Of these disappearances. but
others are harder to account for. Metis
Island, for instance, in the South Pacific.
bore NO sign Of volcanic action about it.
It was charted in 1880, it's highest point
being $50 feet. Last year 1t had gone
vanished utterly without leaving q trace.
The shifting sands Of a great desert are
The evening times., 1899-11-08

Regarding the plague In Bombay William
T. Fee writes to the State Department from
that place: j.. ai. - .l.st.
The plague in the Bombay Presidency
continues II had its inception In the lat
ter part of the year 1896 and has spread into
every collectorate apd district of the presi-
'dency. From statements showing the NOR
tality from plague furnished me by the
government Of India I find there were, du--
ing the week ending September 8. 1899,
1880 deaths from plague in the Presidency
Of Bombay. Its progress In the southern
Maratha country during the past year has
been remarkable. 1t has assumed an epf-
demic form IN the city Of Poona, place OF
over 100, 900 Inhabitants. which, on account
Of its supposed sanitary condition-high
elevation, dry heat with a climate from
May to November ike an English spring
mOrning-has been made the home Of the
Bombay army and the residence of the gov
ernor during the monsoon season.
This city has had 1881 and, 17.S0S
deaths from plague up to the present time.
The epidemic Is just at present at its
height and there Is great suffering and dis
tress. .-sf.npps ...t -fts,
AN antitoxin. or serum. first prepared
by Prof. Haffkine as plague incubation,
called Hankines prophylaetic. is now being
used in Bombay and Western India with
remarkable results.
This prophylactic is prepared by first
taking the plague bacilli. or the young
germs from a person affected with the
plague, and cultivating them. These mi
crobes are killed by artificial means and q
high degree of heat. From these dead
germs and their poisonous excrements Is
produced fluid that is believed to have ac-
quired the power. when injected into the
human system, TO render the blood immuns
from the attack of plague germs and TO
neutralize their effect. Experiments are
now being carried on at the laboratory at
the government house in Parel. Bombay,
where further discovery is expected to per-
feet this plague preventive.
Strangely enough inoculation is exceed
ingly unpopular among the natives The
government has had great labor in persuad-
ing the Hindoo mind OF the efficacy of Han
kine,s prophylactic against the plague. and
at the same time its utter harmlessness in
every other respect"
The evening times., 1899-11-08
1NvAs1oNs FROM GERMANY

Prcpn rnttOns to Establlah Branch
Textile Factories In Amcrfca.
Vice Consul General Hanauer. Of Frank
fort, Germany, has sent to the State De-
partment a report upon a movement among
German textile manufacturers to establish
branch factories in the United States. The
movement has assumed large proportions
and according to the report is regarded
among the Germans as being an Indication
of the decline of German manufacturing in
terests. The report says:
German papers discuss and copiously
comment on the late news that the firm of
Bruhm's Soeline. of Gera. one of the largest
textile manufacturing concerns in Germany.
is now about to establish a factory and
branch house in the United States. One of
this FIRMS partners, Henry Bruhm, has
been in the United States for some time
past TO carry out this purpose. 1t is conf
IDENTIFY expected that this enterprise will be
as successful as those of the firms Of
Stohr Co. fworsted-yard spinners), which
recently established branch factory In
Passaic. N. j.; Geerg Hirsch, of Gera; and
Arnold, Of Greiz, which also have factories
at Passaic. These German ventures in the
United states have been very pr0ntabie. A
report is now current that manufacturers
OF Gera haveNformed q syndicate aiming at
the erection Of new worsted textile faeto-
ries in the United States. News also comes
from Rhenish Prussia tthe Crefeid and
Barmen textile manufacturing district) that
manufacturers Of silk and woolen textiles
there purpose to erect branch factories in
tbs United States.
The straits in which this German indus
try has been placed by the partial shutting
of of the important American market, ow-
ing to the working of the tariff, has ne
cessitated this new departure.
For our country. this move is Of much
greater Importance than appears on the sur
face 1t not only means new capital and
skilled labor. whereby the cOuntry's popu-
lation and the national wealth is increased.
but it strengthens our capacity to COM
pete in the world markets with the very
country from which this skill and monetary
force has been drawn. The truth is better
known and more keenly felt by German
manufacturing circles and their organs OF
the press than by our own people. This
transfer of manufacturing and financial
powers is the handwriting on the wall tell
ing OF the coming decline of European ma
tions as purveyors for the ouside world. and
the rise OF the vigorous and ingenious ma
tion of the Western Hemisphere to succeed
them"
The evening times., 1899-11-08
COLONEL BIRDS SUCCESSOR.

Major BellinEer Assumes Charge of
Army Transportation.
Major John B. Bellinger assumed the du-
ties of Col. Charles Bird as Chief of Trans
portation in the Quartermaster's Depart
ment this morning. -..... e..
Colonel Bird is getting ready to leave
on the Thomas for an inspection of the
transports of the army and the various
stations they touch at. He will leave New
York for Manila via the Suez Canal No
vember 20, returning via Honolulu and
San Francisco. He will be absent about
four months.
The evening times., 1899-11-08
Shot a Small Boy.

BALTIMORE. Nov. 8.-George Rebhan,
the eleven-year-old son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Rebhan, 1917 East Lombard Street,
was shot in the Ieg last night about. s
o'clock while looking at bonfire which
was burning on Watson Street, near Lloyd.
While he was watching the fire a crowd of
eolored boys arrived upon the scene, and
Immediately began to rout the. white boys.
Stones and sticks were thrown, and a num-
Der Of pistol shots was fired, one Of which
entered the calf Of young Rebhan's leg
He was taken home BY his sister, who
found him In q nearby store. His. mother
then took him to the Baltimore University
Hospital, where his wound was dressed
The wound Is not considered serious.
The evening times., 1899-11-08
SUICIDE IN CENTRAL PARK.

The Man Thought to Have Killed
Himself Found Alive.
NEW YORK, Nov: S.-An unknown man,
forty years old. committed suicide yester-
day afternoon BY, taking carbolic acid in
Central Park al the east drive and Sixty
fifth Street. He was taken to the Presby-
terian Hospital, but he died there in an
hour The man had notebook bearing
the name Of Eugene Sullivan and the ad-
dress No. Morton Street. The book was
full of musical terms and the names of
popular airs. At No. 6 Morton Street. Eu-
gene Sullivan, who is an expressman, who
was thought dead, "was found very much
alive. He was surprised when told that a
notebook bearing his name was found. on
the body of the suicide. ......,.s-.. ~
The evening times., 1899-11-08
A Child burned to Death.

PETERSBURG, Va. Nov S-Marion
Fitzgerald Thweatt, aged two years and
seven months. daughter of F. F. Thweatt.
a grocer of this city. was fatally burned
last evening. The child's mother had just
taken OFF its cloak and had gone into an
adjoining room - hang the garment up,
leaving the chii f.; -iar' il .ae room in
rocker In from ih7 y1ring her alb
sence tie chi tH a.z irt1 the crate
and IVES SO b. te-e- ;afr lied of its
injuries.
John
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Crown, g 4l.-ir
Courier,
his ko-cc
son Of i: -
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prisoner tf ef,t
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The evening times., 1899-11-08

more, he Is an amateur actor of the first
order. and when there was no more seri-
Gus work afoot has done much to enliven
garrison life by his taking part in amateur
theatricals. All who served with him at
Malta will remember him as the life and
soul Of the place. leader Of the revels
at the palace. and yet given to more seri-
GUS pursuits. and especially in his re-
searches into the ancient history OF their
knights.
A good man all around, Baden-P Powell
has also lived so far under lucky star.
and that goes for much in the dread busi-
ness in which he is engaged.
The evening times., 1899-11-08
New Mail Service In MARYLAND.

BALTIMORE, Nov. s.-A new mail ser
vice has been established by the Pcstofhce
Department bstween Washington and
Ocanwood. Seat Pleasant, westphalia and
Marlboro. Prince George county; Pindel,
Anne Arundel county: Friendship, the dis
button Office for Calvert and Anne Arun-
,i counties, and Chesapeake Beach, all
re Offices being en- the line of the recently
Instructed Chesapeake Beach Railway.
The evening times., 1899-11-08
THE ToUHEY WILL CONTEST.
Proceedings Begun This Morning Ii
the Orphans Court.

Proceedings begun Ihfs MORNING IN
the Orphans Court.
The hearing in the contest of the will of
Thomas Touhey commenced today in
Criminal Court room No. 2. before Justice
Cole, sitting for Orphans Court business.
The caveators, Dennis and William Toy
hey. sons of the deceased, are represented
by Hemphill & Peter. and the chief bene-
fciary, Mary Trail, a daughter, by Tag
CART & Waters.
The execution of the will and codicils
thereto is admitted by both parties to the
contest and the main issue is made over
the condition OF testator's mind at the
time the documents were drawn.
According to the will the deceased left
s. to his son Dennis $500 to his son Will
liam, whom 1t was supposed was dead, and
with the exception of $500 left to the Rev.
Father Barry the rector of st. AIMS
Catholic Church, the remainder. about $6,-
500. was left to his daughter, Mary Trail.
and her children.
The evening times., 1899-11-08
Late Naval Orders.

The following naval orders were issued today:
t''s;lnander q. Blocklinser, to duty in charge Of
Naval Recruiting Rendezvous and Branch Hydro
aphic Office, Chicago, Ill. Lieut.. B. W. Wells,
r., detached from duty in charge Naval Recruit
.rg Rcndezvous and Branch photographic Office.
iicaeo. H., home Lieut. Commander ]. T. s.
'-awstncc, 20 Massachusetts, for engineering duty.
'ieai II. l. Reid. detached from Massachusetts,
nd to navy yard. Norfolk. Va Ensign J. r.
Marshal. jr-, detached from Dixie and to ter.i-
po'ary duty. en- board Chicago. Ensign E. H.
Dunn, detached from Dixie, to Chicago. Com
nrander T. W. Watson. detached from navy yard,
Washington, and to navy yard. Norfolk. November
IA, a. captain Of the yard.
The evening times., 1899-11-08
1MM1aRANTs SWIM ASHORE.
Refused Longer to Be Detained on
Vessel From Brazil.

NEW YORK, Nov. S.-Three Of the steer
age passengers on the British steamer Col
eridge. lying of Martins Stores. Brooklyn,
jumped overheard yesterday afternoon,
swan ashore and made their escape The
Coleridge arrived from Rio Juneiro, Bahia,
Pernambuco and st. Lucia late Monday aft
ernoon. Yesterday morning the health ON
GERS burned all the beds and fumigated the
ship because the bubonic plague was sus-
pected of having reached Brazil.
The ship reached Martins Stores at
p. m, but the immigration officials sent
word to the captain that they were too busy
to take of the steerage passengers until to-
day. The fifty-four passengers held an in
dignation meeting, and although the cap
tain sent for beds, three Of the immigrants
jumped overoard. lT