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The evening times., 1899-08-07
The HORRORS of a Day.

Tho week hegius with a list of horrors
well calculated to chill ones blood. Ihe
awful crime committed in the District, IN
the sickening murder of the poor little girl
Lizzie Weisenberger, ought to be simp'y
impossible in a civilized community Ii
suggests depths of depravity too terrible
90 mention. Close observers OF current
affairs have noted a most discouraging
tendency TO unusually fragrant offences
against the person, for several weeks past.
In the South it has been seriously asserted
that excessive heat has been at the bottom
of a good deal Of violence
II is probably a fact that strikes. disor-
der, riots, and such things are more likely
TO occur in hot weather than at any other
1ime But the summer, so far, in the
Northern parts Of the United States has
not been ciimatically sevcr-. and neither
the dynamite outrages i. York nor
those in Cleveland can b. -;ly referred
TO heat with much show c. reason. What
ever may be the causes, the truth is that
an epidemic of crime has been moving
through the country, and We are afraid
that it may not be YET al an end.
spontaneously, the chapter of accidents
marked by loss OF. life, which the press
has been called on TO report during recent
weeks. is appalling. Railway and steamship
wrecks and structural wrecks on land
have occurred with saddening frequency
and the list keeps on growing. Our morn
ing's accounts of the catastrophies at Bar
HarbOr and Derby indicate tina; many
homes which were happy yesterday morn
ing are plunged in deepest gloom today
No doubt in each instance there was an
element of criminal carelessness. 1t al
most seems as if those who carry the
lives and limbs of their fellow-citizens in
oheir hands. under modern transportation
conditions are afflicted with periodical
attacks of ignorance and indifference in
respect of the danger sources incidental TO
such service. AT least. ii is observable
columns OF the daily papers are nearly
free from disasters of large consequence,
when one occurs, a number more are
practically certain to follow. The lesson
a strong and lasting one TO the people
engaged in urban and suburban rapid tran
sit everywhere AS a rule, after the occur
renee of a few startling accidents of gen.
habit of extra care and watchfulness. 1t is
to be hoped that it will so happen at
this time.
The evening times., 1899-08-07
NORFOLK BREATHING EASIER.
Many Merchants Anxious for Re-
mOval of Quarantine.

movnl of Quarantine.
Norfolk. Va. Aug. 7.-No new cases Of
yellow fever having developed at the Sol
diers' Home for nearly week and the pa
tients at the Home all being reported as
conyalescing, the scare hereabouts has
abated.
Pressure has for some days been exerted
upon the boards of health of Norfolk,
Portsmouth, and Berkeley by the CONNER
the existing quarantine. 1t is urged that
the business Of the peninsula, including
that from Newport News, Hampton, Old
Point, and Phoebus, heretofore enjoyed by
Norfolk, is being diverted to Richmond,
and wholesale merchants of Norfolk are
disturbed. These last have brought much
influence to bear upon the quarantine Off
cials in order to secure "a a-modification Of
the strict quarantine rules now in force.
A meeting of the health officials was held
today when the matter VAST considered.
There was no action taken iEhDwever, as
majority of the board believe that for
the immediate present it is not advisable
TO let down the bars. 1t is the view OF
the small majority of those against modifi-
cation however, that it will be but a few
days, should the situation continue to inn
prove, until the quarantine rules will be
modified Newport News is closely allied to
Norfolk and much sentiment is involved
in the matter of the quarantine against
that port especially, many here holding
that the quarantine should be relaxed in
the case OF that town at least. since it has
never been infected and it seems harsh to
have enforced quarantine so strict
against the sister port.
The evening times., 1899-08-07
A Protesting Catholic.

William Barry, the able British apostle
OF "Americanism" in the Catholic Church
has awakened considerable interest by his
latest declarations on church subjects DR.
Barry contends that 1.-The present procedure
of ecclesiastical law will never commend
itself to democratic. and especially to Eng
disappearing, peoples" and that "Britons
and Americans should be allowed their full
share in the central government" and he
warns those who threaten liberty in the
name OF absolutism." More candid utter
ances than these have not been heard
from the Catholic clergy since DIR. Nc
Glynn preached his Progress and Poverty"
sermons in New York city. 1t is doubtful
II even DR.. McGlynn ever spoke bolder
words than this closing paragraph quoted
from DR.. Barry's recent article on "Democ-
racy in the Catholic Church" 1T is well
that they should learn" says the English
clergyman, that the youthful peoples who
speak our tongue do not mean TO be ruled
by Philip ii from his tomb in the Escurial:
that they prefer Stephen Lang,on and
Magma Charta TO Spanish and Renaissance
methods, and will ever do so.''
In view Of recent significant ut;erances
The evening times., 1899-08-07
COLLAPSE OF A SIDEWALK.
Six Children Fall About Ten Feet
without Serious Injury.


New York, Aug. carrying with 1t into
an excavation half dozen children who
had been playing there, a section OF the
sidewalk in front of 219 Division Street
collapsed about noon yesterday where the
foundation of a new tenement house is be-
ing made. None Of the children was hurt
sufficiently to require medical attention.
Excavations for the new building have
been almost completed and the sidewalk
in front of the plot had been rallied off to
turn aside pedestrians. But, despite the
efforts OF Leopold Stormer. a watchman,
who lives at 217 Division Street, adjoining,
several children made their way within the
enclosure yesterday. While they were play
ing there the sand underneath the walk
yielded. prhaps from the effects of the
storm OF Saturday, and the sidewalk sank
into the excavation about ten feet below.
There was considerable excitement
among the people in the neighborhood, but
il was allayed when the children were seen
10 try to scramble out of the hole into
which they had fallen. Patrolman NJ. j.
O'Donnell. of the Madison, Street station,
and several citizens helped the little ones
out The only persons even scratched We're
Samuel Manhemer ten years old, of go
Division Street; John Freedman, ten years
old. of 263 Stanton Street: Louis Samuels
twelve years old, of % Hester Street and
Fannie Lachman, eight years old of 2l5
Division Street.
The evening times., 1899-08-07
The RetriaI mt Rennes.

Captain Dreyfus will today again face
his accusers, and al last stand some chance
10 prove his innocence. The verdict of the
civilized world has already been given in
his favor, and there is probably not a soli-
tary disinterested person in Fl who
does not fully agree with it.
p The trouble is that a very large number
of Frenchmen are anything but disinter-
ested, and whether from anti-Semitism,
BOulangerism, Bonapartism, or some other
form of revolutionary agitation, are deter
mined that, if possible, Dreyfus shall con-
tinue to bear the odium of the false
charges against him, in order that their
own wicked political designs may be ad-
vanced. To judge from appearances the
present French government is both too
strong and too honest TO allow the influ-
ence Of these fact rs to affect the results
at Rennes. Whae Loubet is President.
and Gallifet Minister of War there is
much assurance that Dreyfus will have fair
play. and that is all either he or his
friends have ever asked.
The evening times., 1899-08-07
Rescnes mt Atlantic city.

Atlantic City, Aug. 7.-Harry Fettinger
a young man from New York. did not heed
the warning of guards to keep out of deep
water when he went in bathing yesterday.
About 300 yards from the beach he was
taken with cramps and yelled for help.
Guard Slayin went to his aid. The drown
ing man seized him and struggle ensued
Fettinger was beaten off until the arrival
of another. guard, who helped both men
to the beach. iFettinger was unconscious
Slavin exhausted. The rescue was wit
messed by thousands from the board walk
and beach, who cheered the life-savers. A
lad named George Carroll, Of Philadelphia
got into trouble under the ocean pier yes
terday, and Life Guards Conover, Lake
and Kettleson went to his aid. Before
they could reach him Captain Clark, a
volunteer life-saver on the pier, had
jumped. The water was only three feet
deep. Clark rolled over helpless. When
brought to the beach 1t was found that
his right leg was fractured. The boy was
saved. -
The evening times., 1899-08-07
A LIFE PRISONER REcAPTUKEI
Oyerpoxered by a Detective After
stubborn Resistance.

Harrisburg, Pa, Aug. John l..
Dougherty, an escaped 'lifer" from New
Castle Del) jail, put up stout resist
ance before being recaptured near Middle
town, this county, Saturday.
He was serving a life term for the mur-
der OF Swede named Ericsson at VIII
mington, in 1895. On March u. 1898. a
friend smuggled two reyolvers into Dough-
erty's cell, and, while taking exercise in
the corridor with another prisoner named
Mitchell. Dougherty shouted. Throw up
Your hands," to Warden Gould. The war
den refused and Dougherty pulled the trig-
ger four times. but the cartridges failed
to explode. Then he dropped his gun and
knocked the warden down, rushing out to
liberty.
For several days he had been hanging
around Middletown and when Railroad De-
tective Kennedy tried to arrest him he
drew his revolver and escaped. Later De-
tective II. S. Michael saw Dougherty, who
again drew his revolver, but Michael
knocked il out OF his hands and arrested
him. Dougherty. is back in his old quar-
tiers at New Castle prison by this time
The evening times., 1899-08-07
DEFENDS MORMON, ROBERTS.
A Question of Religion, Not Politics
MIR. Rich Declares.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Aug. I.-B. E. Rich.
President of the Mormon Southern States
Mission, defends the right OF Polygamist
B. H. Roberts, of Utah. to seat in Con-
gress.
Mr.. Rich was one of the silver Republi-
cans who walked out OF the St Louis Ma
tionai Convention with Senator Teller, and
was candidate for Congress in Utah when
called TO this city to take charge of the
Mormon work in the Southern States.
Mr. Rich contends in an interview that
the Roberts case is "a political question
pure and simple, notwithstanding great
efforts have been made TO turn it into a
religious controversy" He declares that
Roberts was elected not as Mormon but
as Democrat, pointing 10 the fact that he
was opposed by many Mormon Republi-
cans and supported by many Democrats
opposed TO polygamy. notable among them
o. W. Powers who was sent to Utah as a
Federal judge by Cleveland.
The evening times., 1899-08-07
WHERE THE GRIP CARS WENT
RemOdeIed. These Vehicles Serve as
Traiiers to Motors.


Traiiers to Motors.
Many persons may have been wondering
what had become of the little so-called
"grip-cars" that propelled the ''trailers"
in the days of cable railway in this city.
Since the great fire that destroyed the ca
BILE powerhouse on the Avenue and up to
very recently these grips were housed
from public view and were almost forgot
ten. During the last three or four weeks.
however, one by one they have reappeared
on Seventh Street and in the suburbs.
They are now used as "trailers'' TO the
motor cars. About sixty of these former
grip-cars are being transformed into
.+trailers."
The process of changing this style of
car involved great deal of work, and a
big shop full of mechanics and laborers in
Georgetown have been thus employed for
long time. The flooring of each car and
the considerable machinery had to be torn
away. carrying with il the well-remem-
bered partition which ran lengthwise
through the centre and through which the
gripmans lever and brake were manipulat-
ed. These cars now contain the regulation
seats or benches of the road. They have
been newly painted and lettered.
The evening times., 1899-08-07
MARINE ORDERS STAYED.
Delay in Departures From League
Island to Manila.

IHkanO 10 Manila.
Philadelphia, Aug. THE twenty ma
rires who expected to be shipped from
League Island TO New York to join some
hundreds of others to be transported to
San Francisco and on to Manila, leaving
this week, were disappointed yesterday.
The orders were countermanded il was
stated by First Lieutenant GuIiok. officer
OF the day at the barracks, because there
VI as some hitch in the arrangements for
transportation. The result will be that the
number of marines TO be sent from League
Island viii be increased to fifty and tney
will probably go in the next ten days.
There are 1,2G0 10 be sent forward TO the
Philippines as fast as possible. They are
bound for garrison at Cavite, where they
remain on duty unless some emergency
calls them into brief land services against
the rebels. 1t seems that Aguinaldo' )
rebels furnish just such emergencies
Their balls, in the last engagement of con-
sequence, where the Americans lost a few
killed and wounded fell where the marines
were quartered. There will be Joy at the
recruiting stations. as the Pennsylvania
boys are eager 10 enlist. The average rate
of enlistment at League Island is sixteea
day
The evening times., 1899-08-07
An Unexpected Problem.

A person who is charged with leaving
Havana in possession of considerable
sum of other peoples money was arrested
on reaching New York at the request of
the Havana authorities and held for ex-
tradition. To the surprise of General Lid
low and others interested in the mater,
the examining magistrate promptly or
dered the prisoners discharge, on the
ground that there is not any extradition
treaty between the United States and Cuba.
just what may be the consequence Of
such a decision is hard TO determine The
president of the Havana police court says
that, if il holds, the city is infested by a
crowd OF adventures who will be very
likely TO grab anything in sight and take
French leave TO the detriment of peace
and good government in Cuba
We do not see why, in cases Of this
kind, the Government is not empowered
to arrest and return persons charged
with crime to any place within our Mill
tary jurisdiction from which they may
have escaped. The United States has oc-
casionally exercised its sovereign power,
in the absence of extradition treaties. and
has surrendered prisoners to their own
countries, as acts of international comi-
ty. Two or three years ago a Spaniard
was so returned to his native land, as
/ ii was said, in return for the courtesy
shown US by Spain nearly generation be-
+ fore in capturing and turning over to US
! the late William NJ. Tweed. If We can
stretcn the point so far in the case of a
completely foreign nation. why might We
not do the same thing where the offeni led
law is under the Administration of our
own officers and agents?
The evening times., 1899-08-07
A Baseless Vision.
fFrom the Kansas City Star. !

KFfOHI tIie hansas tlty StarJ
Italy is country of dreams and dreamers.
and the latest apparition is that of an Italian
Republic, which shall restore to the Pope tenn
poral sovereignty. Neither the creation nor the
restoration is at all probable. Italy does not
possess the material for a republic, and the
Pope having lost his former States, no power is
disposed to give him Others. The history OF
the civil rule of the Popes for a thousand years
was that of almost unmixed trouble and calamity,
and if is astonishing that any good Catholic
or friend OF the Pope should wish that rule
restored. The spiritual empire of the Pope is
probably stronger than ever. 1t is doubtful il a
Pope was ever more beloved or respected than
Leo Kill To him the soveEsignty Of petty frsc.
tion of Italy could add no Ugnity.
The evening times., 1899-08-07
A Conference of the Mighty.

BY this time il is believed that Secreta-
ry Root has gotten his bearings and is
ready to proceed to business Incidentally
he is TO visit the President on Lake Cham
plain this week and there will discuss
plans for the future with that gentleman
and Vice President Hobart.
Just what changes in the methods or
men connected with the Philippine cam
paign Will result from the conference, no
one appears TO know. The leading press
of the country is just as insistent as ever
on the substitution of a real general for
Otis, and the latter will probably have to
take a back seat before long, notwith-
standing the Confidence which the Ad-
ministration so recently expressed in him.
and the satisfaction il asserted as to his
achievements. The steady stream of criti-
cism with which the returning volunteers
are edifying the people, is something that
ii would be as uncharacteristic as unwise
for Mr.. Mckinley 10 ignore. We are not
without efficient commanders whom the
public would strongly commend to the
Presidents approval. General Miles, Gen.
eral Merritt or General Lawton would be
satisfactory, and, if a change is to be made
il would be well to make it without delay.
We do not apprehend anything dilatory
in the tactics of Mr.. Root. He is energy
and industry personified, and of course he
knows what was expressed by prominent
army officer the other day, who said that
the general who was expected to begin an
active campaign against the Tagals next
December would need to be filling his
shells and making his other technical
preparations now.
We shall not have to wait many days
after the Champlain proceedings 10 learn
some interesting War Department news.
The evening times., 1899-08-07

AT last the trouble between the ritual
istic element in England and the church
authorities appears TO have reached a eli
max. The Archbishop of Canterbury's de-
cision that altar lights and incense shall
not be used in the establishment was gen.
orally disobeyed by the recalcitrants yes
terday. Ii is not at all improbable that
the struggle between the extreme high and
low parties within the English Church
may lead 10 its disestablishment. The
ritualists, while minority. form pow
erful one and, if they should make a
mover ent In Parliament for the divorce of
church and state, il would be earnestly
supported by the dissenters. Conservative
people have for some time thought the end
of the Anglican communion as a British
governmental affair to be nearly al hand
AS an institution of some antiquity and
much history it has many interested ad
mirers; but there will be few people out
side of its local fold to mourn the change.
If anything ought to be free and untouched
by the hand of the civil power it is the
matter of religious worship.
The evening times., 1899-08-07

On the whole the Spaniards have not
gone into the war scapegoat business to
the extent that might have been predicated
upon their former history and tendencies.
They have tried General Toral who sur
rendered Santiago. and justified his action.
Cervera has been exonerated and Blanco
ought to be, for nobody wanted to fight
to the bitter end any harder than did the
distinguished Captain General of Cuba.
Spain has come out of these Investigations
and trials with more credit than France
did in the case of Bazaine. after the
Franco Prussian war. All the testimony
of a host OF angels would not have con-
WINGED the French people at that time, that
Marshal Bazaine was not guilty of delib-
crate treason in surrendering Metz to the
Germans. The verdict of history will
doubtless be that, like Toral. he struck his
flag only when further resistance would
have been useless.
The evening times., 1899-08-07
BROUGHT BACK FROM IRELAND
Charles H. Forbes Lindsay Accuse
OF EmbexxIing 81 All 80.


Philadelphia. Aug. detective James
Tate, ST., disembarked from the steamship
Waesland on her arrival in port yesterday
from Liverpool, having with him as pris-
oner Charles H. Forbes Lindsay.
Lindsay was employed as agent under
c. J. Allen. local agent Of the Mutual Life
Insurance Company of New York. He is
charged with having embezzled the pro-
ceeds of check for $1,411.60, which rep
resented the premium on policy for $780,,
900 taken out by Market Street merchant
in May last. The check was made payable
to Lindsay's ord1 at bis own request, in
stead of the company's, as was the general
rule, through his alleged Misrepresentation
that he desired to place it to his personal
account in bank in making certain returns
in gross to the company.
Lindsay and his wife, whose father is
said to have formerly been editor OF a
newspaper in Washington, D. c., sailed
from New York on June I. They were
tracked by Scotland Yard detectives to a
town in Ireland and brought to London.
The accused agent did not fight the extra
dition proceedings and denies the charge.
The evening times., 1899-08-07
STEEL WORKS BREAK A RECORD
A Big Output of Metallic Products
| for Shipmcnt Abroad.

Harrisburg, Pa, Aug. Last week the
Bessemer department of the Pennsylvania
Steel Works surpassed all records for a
four days run, turning out over 4,2o1 tons
The output of the rail mill was also a
record breaker, as was also that of the
Merchant mill A shipment of 800 tons
of splice plates for the Victorian Railway
of Australia was made last week. They
will be loaded on a vessel at Sparrows
Point. The Maryland plant is turning out
the steel rails on this big order.
second shipment of steel for the big
viaduct TO span the great Gokteik Gorge,
eighty miles east of Mandalay, India. will
be made shortly. The first shipment of
forty-three cars was started last Tuesday
and the final shipment will be made in
October This is 100000 contract Sc
cured in competition with big British
firms
The evening times., 1899-08-07
Let Him Serve His Time.

(From the New York Commercial Adyertiser.)
The United States ornithologists trying to
take away the kissing bug from us, the one little
romance OF the season. The year has been singu-
larly lacking in sensations. After the war last
year snakes and sea serpents received so little
encouragement that the crop was almost total
failure The kissing bug came just when its
appearance most grateful, and now the orn-
biologists are telling us that most of their bites
are only bites OF the common mosquito or the
vulgar bedbug. Some men of science seem unable
TO realize that the esthetic craving of a people
is strong and as necessary as the other emotions
Luckily, the kissing bug has stayed with us the
better part OF the summer.
The evening times., 1899-08-07
A Fight With StrangIing Bug.
IEro.r, tho ~ PHI adolr,l,i. r;.,as-A

The bark Bandaneira. Captain Falck, which is
discharging her cargo at Thompson's Point,
on the jersey shore, was visited on Wednesday
night by horrible-Iooking insect which the cap
tain believes to haye been genuine '.strangling
bug 1t attacked the captains wife as She
promenaded the deck, fand was only driven off
by the vigorous action 81 the mate OF the vessel,
who heard Mrs. Fa1ck.s. screams and rushed to
her assistance Repeated blows of the mate S
hand failed to stop the attacks of the bug, until
at last he picked DIP anspike and struck the in
sect severe blown 1t saropped the deck and
helped him to incasf itIin box. Captain Falck
was ashore at the tme, ,Ybut he was startled when
the insect was shown him. 1t WAS three inches
in length, with large overlapping wings. From
its head projected powefful nippers which acted
like an icemans clip.