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The evening times., 1899-01-23

bought oatmeal at seven and one-half cents
a pound of the commissary. sold 1t to the
contractor for twenty cents, who SOLD IL
back to the Government, for use in the
general hospital. for forty cents No one
will imagine" he says, that there was
single steward in that hospital who did not
know that he could buy the same oatmeal
of the eommissary for seven and one-haif
cents a pound.
Any private could buy any quantity OF
any article from the commissary al less
than San Francisco prices. without signing
his name or being identified or explaining
what he intended to do with 1T. Jewell,
the agent of a Hongkong firm, got the men
to make purchases, for which he paid never
less than double the commissary price
He removed the Government labels, put on
those of his firm, and sold them to the
hospital stewards for never less than dou-
bic the price he paid Many privates sold
their purchases to the stores in Manila,
which paid still more. Oatmeal, dried and
canned fruits, and American crackers were
the principal things Jewell wanted, and
these could be bought in unlimited guam
tity and without vouchers, of the COM
missary The fact that McFarlane bought
ffty-pound packages every day did not
/ disturb the confidence and serenity of the
! commissary, who never enqu;red as TO their
/ destination. He asserts that the agents
! of the Red Cross sell supplies to Manila
merchants.
That there is no knowledge OF sucn
transactions among the officials at Wash
| ington is not surprising since General
Breckinridge's Office has been ernascu.ated
and upset by the order of the Adiutan'
General requiring all the suboriinates oi
of the Inspector General to report not to
General Breckenridge. but to the Adjutanl
General. who-is said 10 have no time u
/ consider inspection reports. But it is sur
prising that there should be no safeguard!
about the selling OF commissary supplies
Ii would naturally occur 10 an efttcien
commissary officer that unless the salt
| should be restricted and the purchaser
required to produce certificate of som'
! kind from a responsible company office
there would be exactly such frauds as this
in which the Government sells goods a
cost price and buys them back at fou
times that price.
The evening times., 1899-01-23
CONSTRUCTION OF
THE CUP CHALLENGER
NO EXPERIMENTS TO BE TRIED
Launching of the Shamrock to BE In
Aprii-BuildeTs Making Rapid
Progress.

Glasgow, JAN 23-Sir Thomas Upton
has requested the Glasgow Citizen" to
contradict the misleading statements which
have been published regarding the new
racing cutter Shamrock. which is to con-
test for the Americas cup. Many new
ideas have been suggested, he says. and
in some cases they have been adopted in
the construction of the cup challenger, but
the issue ut stake is 100 great TO induce
the designer and builder OF the cutter TO
experiment to any extent While the new
boat is expected to be constructed on in
proved lines in comparison Nitsa the Val
kyrie III. there will De comparatively little
metal used in the construction or the
Shamrock.
A crew of sixty picked men has beer
engaged and Sir Thomas Upton is neso-
tiating for the purchase OF the late Baron
Ferdinand de Rothsehild's steam yacht Ro-
ma, OF 1.023 tons. TO convey his large party
to America
The builders are making rapid progress
in the construction OF th1 Shamrock, and
she will be launched early in April
The evening times., 1899-01-23
ANOTHER ROUTE ACROSS
THE AMERICAN CONTINENT
PLAN OF THE vANpERBnTs
Through Trains to Run From New
York to the Pacific Coast-Buy-
ing Up Lines.

New York, Jan. 23.-What is practically
the final step in the formation of Van
derbilt transcontinental railroad has been
consummated by the absorption of the
Chicago and Northwestern.
One of the best informed and largest
Wal! Street operators yesterday positively
confirmed the fact of the transfer.
Gradually the Yanderbilts have been
buying in the lines necessary to complete
their great plan of line from the At
lantic to the Pacific They now control
a large interest in the Union Pacific and
the Oregon Railway and Navigation Com
pany. Since the Lake Shore consolidation
they are in possession of direct route to
Chicago. All that was needed 10 complete
the chain was the link that the Chicago
and Northwestern now supplies.
The plan long contemplated and now
completed was to take the Chicago and
Northwestern on the same basis as that
upon which the Lake Shore was gathered
in In that case they made an issue OF
3 1-2 per cent bonds. which the New YORK
Central exchanged for the old stock, put
ting the latter in its treasury
Rumors of the present transaction nave
long been rife in Wall Street and in the
railroad world generally.
| Upon the apparently excellent founda-
| tion for these reports great activity was
| brought about in Vanderbilt stocks and
especially in New York Central and In
| ion Pacific.
| During the past week New York Central
| went as high as 137 rs.
The new arrangement will result in a
| great economy in the operation of all the
| roads concerned it is claimed.
| The system will be solidified and many
| of the present officials will be dispensed
| with soon after the Yanderbilts take pos
| session.
Through trains will be run from New
York to the Pacific Coast, thereby great
ly reducing the present operating expens-
es. From New York to Buffalo the route
will be over the New York Central; from
! Buffalo to Chicago over the Lake Shore
| from Chicago TO Omaha over the newly
acquired Chicago and Northwestern; from
Omaha to Ogden over the Union Pacific
from Ogden TO Portland and Puget Sound
points over the Oregon Railway and Nayi-
cation Company.
Within the past two weeks frequent con
sultatons have been in progress at tn
Grand Central station between importan
railway men from all sections OF the coun
| try.
W. K. Vanderbilt has been central fig
ure in all OF them, and 1t is significan
that his was the head that managed all tn
details of the Lake Shore consolidation.
When asked about the new deal. Chaun
cey NJ. Depew yesterday disclaimed al
knowledge of it, and suayely declined L
believe such thing possible.
The evening times., 1899-01-23

Considering the fact that most of the
appropriation bills are still to be acted
upon by the Senate and that the fourth of
March is approaching at a high rate of
speed, the statement ascribed TO Senator
German, that the Treaty will be thorough
ly discussed and reach a vote at this
session, seems rather rash. The anti
scalpers' bill alone is likely to consume a
good deal of the remaining time, and there
is sure TO be hard fight in both houses
on the army reorganization bill. The more
the war scandals are stirred up the great
er becomes the opposition to Secretary Al
gers pernicious measure adopted by
Chairman Hull.
The evening times., 1899-01-23
SHOT HIS NEIGHBoR DEAD.
Fatal Ending of Quarrel over
Chickens and Dog.

New York, Jan. 23.-Nicholas Miller
twenty nine years old. lived at 3S9 Honey
well Street, Long Island City. His next
door neighbor was Santo Tore Miller
kept chickens. and Torres dog came into
his yard TO worry and kill them.
+ Miller several times told Tore that he
must keep the dog off his premises. The
men came TO blows about il yesterday aft
ernoon. and Tore got worsted in the fight.
Miller afterward went visiting. When he
was entering his house on his return Tore
suddenly appeared with double barreled
shotgun. Miller first saw him as he raised
the gun 10 his shoulder. Tore fired one
barrel, and charge of shot struck Miller
in the chest. He fell and died in a few
minutes. DR.. Mulcahey, who came in an
ambulance from st. Johns Hospital.
thought that the unfortunate mans heart
was pierced.
Policeman Crezler arrested Tore and
took possession of the gun.
The slain man leaves a widow and four
children. Mrs. Tore was held as a wit
ness. the police saying that she will help
to prove the killing was premeditated.
The evening times., 1899-01-23
Commissary Looseness.

II is a proverb, the result of long ex-
nerience, that if the head of a business is
Isx the subordinates will be loose. The
story that comes from Manila of the in
competency and neglect in the Commits
sary department will surprise no one who
is familiar with the ineficiency of the
head of the War Department and the scan
dals affecting the purchase and distribu-
tion of commissary supplies. That civil
ians, appointed because of their kinship
with politicians of influence, should so
mismanage the issue and sale of rations as
to make it possible for men TO rob the
Government with impunity, is another
proof of the danger that comes of politics
in the army.
Mr.. T. NJ. McFarlane, of the Astor Bat
tery, which has just returned from the
Philippines, says that he made from
twenty TO forty dollars a day by
buying supplies. from the Commissary
department at wholesale cost prices
and selling them for twice as much
10 contractor who, in turn, sold them
back TO the Government for twice the SUN
he had paid. For example, McFarlsae
The evening times., 1899-01-23
THE SEARCH FOR ANDREE.
One of Herr StadIing's Rescue Party
Lost on an Arctic Island.

Stockholm. Jan. 23.-The return to Stock
holm Of Herr Stadling and his companions
from their vain search of the Arctic Coast
of Siberia for traces of the Andree balloon
expedition has already been told. Fur
ther facts have been received regarding
the search and the misfortune that befell
the leader and one of his men on their
way home.
DR.. Nilsson left the two other men and
went up the Lena River to Yakutsk, while
Stadling and Froenkel went down the Lena
to the sea, intending to make their way
in boat along the coast westward to the
Olenek River. While on this journey Stad-
ling and his companion were wrecked, but
managed to reach an uninhabited island
10 miles from the river, where they were
icebound for seventeen days until succor
reached them.
Gaining the mainland at last, they pro-
cured reindeer and proceeded to the mouth
of the Anabar River and thence to YeniSei.
All reached home in safety after their eX-
citing experiences, and their only regret
was that no trace of Andree or his bal
loon was discovered.
Herr Stadling believes there are bright
prospects for the development Of the Lena
delta fisheries. He says that If the con-
templated railroad from the upper Lena
to Join the great Siberian railroad becomes
fait accompli, trade will spring up in
supplying fish to the industrial and mining
districts of the south.
The evening times., 1899-01-23
SENTIMENT ON THE
PHILIPPINE QUESTION
VIEWS OK sJbsrrcE BREWER
Majority of Americans Favor An
nexafion-Does Not Consider the
Mattef g Party Question.

- ~ & q
London, Jan. 23.-Justice David j.
Brewer, of the Supreme Court of the
United Statessis nom in London en- route
to Paris when be gill participate in the
deliberations of the Venezuelan arbitra-
tion tribunal. at.ssssssss
In the course of a conversation con-
corning public sentiment in America in
regard to the. philippine question Justice
Brewer said yesterday:
Undoubtedly at the present moment
the majority of the people OF the United
States are in favor of the annexation OF
the Philippines. Those who believe in ex-
pansion and those who think We should
keep all the fruits of war predoninate.
"It is not party question in any sense
OF the word Each OF the political parties
is divided within itself on the subject, and
prominent men in both parties ind them
selves on this question in perfect accord,
and are earnestly endeavoring, according
to their honest beliefs, to either hastt n
annexation or to prevent it, as the case
| may be.
1.-THE policy of the Administration, it
| seems to me from what l have read and
| observed is to move slowly in the matter.
| The Treaty, | am sure, will be ratified
| but | think nothing will be done as to the
| future of the archipelago until the next
| Congress meets in December.
The President, | see has appointed 8
| Commission to thoroughly investigate the
conditions prevailing in the islands, ant
| its report, no doubt, will have great weight
in the formulation Of the policy of tht
| Government"
| do you think there Is any probabilit!
| of change of sentiment on this subjec
| coming over the country" he was asked
THAT | cannot say" Justice Brewer re
piled, but, as ! said before, the countr.
| at present by a great majority is in favo
of annexation. The 'hurrah element is ol
top"
In your opinion, do you think it proba
BILE, should the Government decide upol
annexation, that the Supreme Court woul
be called to pass upon the constitutionalit
Of such policy"
The lawyers are very ingenious, sal
Justice Brewer, "and almost any question
can be brought before the Supreme Cour
| upon some ground or other"
The evening times., 1899-01-23
It's Reputation,

When General Miles condemned the beef
He brought the nation lasting grief,
For what he said with wings SO feet
Our foreign cousins soon did greet
sit was embalmed!'
II VIII not buy the German said,
81 hef der full perticklers read;
Und here defls YOU, you're a cheat
To try und Sell me any meat
Dot vas embalmed!''
tSc- If ~
''Monsieuy's the littlef Erenehman cried,
''You haf our shonnaire quite defed.
How could you hold, the str-r-ange belief
Eat we would buy ze hor-r-id beef
Eat is embalmed?''
And so it goes from day to day
We cannot give the beef away;
Oh, General Miles, You brought us grief
When you announced our army beef
Was all. errfbalmed!
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The evening times., 1899-01-23
ATTEMPTED ARSON A FAILURE.
Dasta-tiiy Attempt Made to Burn the
House of an Editor.

WiIIiamsport. Pa, Jan. "a dastard-
IL ATTEMPT to burn the residence CT Editor
W. W. Meginness, of the Daily Gaz tte
and Bulletin" was made at an cary hour
yesterday morning and was on.y dseoy-
cred in time to prevent a serious fire by
the passing OF a railroad watchman on MS
way home from work.
The fire was discovered at 4:30 o'c'ock.
and had been set underneath side Po en-
and was rapidly making headway TO the
lattice work. and would soon have envei-
oDed the entire structure, and probably
sacrificed the lives of those as eep within
After extinguishing the flames II was
discovered that the fiends had taken OIL
saturated waste and placed il under tne
porch. and at the rear of the house the
police are making a thorough investlsa-
|
The evening times., 1899-01-23
TWO EXPLOSIONS.
Cornwall Iron Furnaces Damaged
and Several Workmen Injured.


Lebanon, Pa. Jan. 23.-The two I'd
Coleman furnaces at Cornwall. operated
by the Lackawanna Iron and Steel Com
rany of Scranton, were the scene of two
explosions Saturday night which caused
great damage TO the plants and created
intense excitement in the neighborhood.
as il was feared a great many of the
workmen were killed and injured. The
explosion in No. l furnace was caused by
weak spot in the stack above the jacket
giving away. Large quantities of hot
bricks, coke and iron were thrown
amongst the many workmen. Shortly af-
ter an explosion occurred at No. , fur
mace, caused by the hot iron having eaten
its way through pipe leading to the Gin
der pit, where. coming in contact with
water, it exploded.
number of workmen were injured,
hut none seriously.
The evening times., 1899-01-23
DEVOTION OF A PRIEST.
Contracted Smallpox Administering
Extreme tnction to n Woman

ST. Louis, Jan. pa St. Louis priests
devotion TO duty may cause his death of
smallpox. The Rev. Theophlus T. Pud-
lowski, pastor of st. Casimir's Catholic
Church, was called on Thursday to admin
lister the sacrament of extreme JUNCTION
to Mary Balzerozak, who was dying at
quarantine of smallpox. Before going to
her bedside he was vaecinated, but il was
unsuccessful.
The young priest. who was the girls
confessor, closed the eyes of the dying
woman and returned to st. Louis. He be-
came i'll Saturday. Yesterday he was
found to have contracted smallpox and
was taken back to quarantine, where he
is in a dangerous condition.
The evening times., 1899-01-23
Zinc Trust Organized.

Toledo, Ohio, Jan. 23:-J. S. Rogers,
president of the Rogers Shoe Company
here. has organized the American Zinc
Trust, with capital stock of s5,OO0.OOo
He has been working on the scheme for
nearly a year, and has succeeded in inter-
esting Ex-Governor Flower. of New York;
Daniel ODay, and Standard Oil men in the
project Rogers is in New York.
The evening times., 1899-01-23
DRIVEN TO SUICIDE.
Charles Adams Unable to Work and
in Needy Circumstances.

i'm Needy circumstances.
Easton, Pa, Jan. 23.-Charles Adams
about forty years of age, committed sui
eide here yesterday morning by hanging
himself in building in Tells lumber yard.
a short distance from his home. A little
son of the dead man who was playing hide
and seek with two or three other children
ran against the lifeless body at noon. The
child told ex-Mayor Peter Hagerty, and
the latter cut the remains down.
Adams was at one time the proprietor of
the Hub House in this place. His family is
in destitute circumstances.
The unfortunate man tried to secure
some assistance for his wife and two chill
dren by holding a benefit ball in Artegia
Hall Saturday night. The receipts were
not sufficient to pay the expenses. His
failure and ill-health drove him to the
crime of self destruction.
The evening times., 1899-01-23
VICTIMS OF AN ASSASSIN.
Frenchman With n Mania Like Va
cher at Large.

Paris. Jan. 23.-The police believe that
a second Vacher is at large. who without
motive stabs young girls on lonely roads
on their way home from work.
During the last week two cases have
been reported OF girls being suddenly met
by the assassin, who sprang from behind
some tree and stabbed them. Neither of
these was fatally injured, but yesterday a
fourteen-yea girl named Ernestine
Lombardini on her way home near the
place Saint Louis, was stabbed and killed.
There were ten wounds in her body.
Her purse, which contained few francs,
had not been taken.
The evening times., 1899-01-23
STRENGTHENING HER HARBoRs
France Needs War to Danish the
DreyfuS Spectre.

DreyfuS Spectre.
Paris, Jan. 23.-Admiral Valery has or
dered re- endorsements from the harbors al
Brest and Calais. Leaves of absence for
the marines of the French northern squad
ron have been Cancelled.
A writer in La Liberte, " who signs him
self Diplomat argues that France is il
a strong position 10 fight England.
He says she would not make the mis-
takes Spain did in the war with the United
States. but would play a waiting game
that would eventually tire England out
Meanwhile, says the writer, a war would
unite France and dispel the Dreyfus night
mare.
The evening times., 1899-01-23
POLICE CHANGES IN NEW YORK
Heavy Reduction Among the Favor
ed Men in Easy Places.

ed Men in Easy Places.
New York, Jan 23.-One of the most
violent ''shake-ups'' in the history of the
police department stirred the members of
the force at S o'clock this morning when
300 of those who have been assigned hith-
erto to special detail work reported to va
rious precinct commanders for assignment
to patrol duty.
The force of policemen at police courts,
in the criminal court building and other
favored places, has been reduced from l, 800
10 200.
The evening times., 1899-01-23
CONVICTED OF MANsLAUGHTER
Sentence of bartender for Cruelty
to n Drunken Man.

Oshkosh, Wis. Jan. pa jury of Win
nebago county holds that TO I'LL a man
with liquor and then throw him out OF
doors on a cold night to die, of the COM
bined effects of liquor and exposure. is
manslaughter. Mic Marx, bartender, has
just been found guilty of this crime
John Webster, jr., was his victim. The
maximum penalty is two years.
The evening times., 1899-01-23
KEENE FITZPATRICK ILL.
College Football Trainer suffering
From an Abscess.

New Haven, Conn, Jan. 23.-Keene Fitz
patrick, the former Yale and present Uni
versity of Michigan football and track
trainer, is lying seriously i'll in the Massa-
chusetts General Hospital, Boston, with a
complicated abscess of the back.
Mr. Fitzpatrick was injured at Ann Ar
bor in November.
The evening times., 1899-01-23
Meeting a Popular Demand.

Cleveland. Ohio Jan. 23.-The Leader,
one of the oldest papers in Ohio. gave
CIevelanders surprise this morning by
announcing reduction of price of from
cents to ] cent.
The evening times., 1899-01-23
Something Very Distant.

From the Boston Globe.) -
When you see lions eating straw if NAV be that
England will join in the movement for disarma-
ment But let the Gar continue to chew hay in
behalf of peace 1t is bound to do good, anyway.
The evening times., 1899-01-23
A Pertinent Fact.

(From the Houston Post.)
1t may be well to remark right now thatI the
introduction of useless bills doesnt make "a tegs-
lator statesman.
The evening times., 1899-01-23

Yesterday General Breckenridge was eX-
patriated, partly because he had not shown
any zeal in the defence of the War De-
partment's bungling administration and
partly because he was engaged in an off,
cial investigation of the tainted meat scan
dal that would make things very uncom-
Portable for the Secretary of War. The
officers who Have stood up before the AL
gerian calsominers and declared their sat
isfaction with everything. from typhoid
fever to rotten meat, will have much nicer
times than the too scrupulous Inspector
General
The evening times., 1899-01-23

Archbishop Ireland will not represent
the American Republic at the Cars Peace
Conference Whether it is the Pope's veto
on his appointment that caused the Presi-
dent to change his mind is not known. 1t
was stated that the Pope appealed to the
Car to include him in the invitations, but
as this would be to place him on the plane
with temporal rulers, the Car declined;
that therefore the Pope decided that no
prelate OF the Catholic Church should
take part in the proceedings. However
that may be, the President has decided to
authorize the Ambassador to Russia to
serve, and, if three are required, the Am
bassadors to Great Britain and Germany.
This will disappoint many politicians who
are out of employment. but it will strike
most people as an extremely sensible and
The evening times., 1899-01-23

Bourke Cochran is in favor of annexing
Canada and Mexico, but for some unex-
planned reason he is opposed to taking in
anything-except Porto Rico-that has
water between it and this country. He
does not make a pretence of explaining
our inability to govern islands as well as
continents. The attitude of a professional
nrntor is ALWAYS omen to susnicinn
The evening times., 1899-01-23

England has not formally announced a
protectorate over the Soudan, but has
practically established it. No concession
from all the powers could lead to other
steps than she is now taking to govern the
territory with single and absolute hand
She does not explain to, OBJ in any way
consider, France, although that nation did
not acknowledge British supremacy In re-
calling Major Marchand
The evening times., 1899-01-23

certainly an economical solution. There
have been so many eXtra-oficial bodies
recently that the compensation wi be
quite an item. There-are theJPeacs COM
missioners to Paris, the prolonged Alger
Relief Commissioners, the also. pro onged
Evacuation Commissioners in Cuba the
Porto Rican Commissioners, the new
Philippine Commissioners, the Colonial
Advisory Commissioners to consider fran
chises and the like in the West Indies,
besides the frequent special commission
ers such as Robert p. Porter, and so on.
They all have to be paid something more
than their actual or constructive outlay.
The complaints of Cuban journalists at
Santiago do not necessarily represent the
sentiment of the people. The newspaper
men are intoxicated by their new liberty
and naturally carry it to excess. The free
dom to pitch into existing authority is de-
licious after an eternity of Spanish op-
preston and suppression. In the action of
these writers is to be found profitable
suddenly freed from their restraint, are
not capable of doing things in moderate
way, and if left to themselves, as the
American provincialists suggest, they
would cut one another's threats. AS the
Irishman said when he whipped his wife:
'"Tis not because l hate ye that l bate We
but to show me authority over ye.