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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-28
Quarantine Houses.
SUBSIDY SHIPPING BILL.
m endments to Meet Objections Re-
ported to the senate.

Senator Frye, from the committee or COM
merce, today reported additional amend
ments to the Hanna-Payne shipping bill.
The amendments place additional restrie
tons upon the bill and are intended to
meet the criticisms that have been made
upon the measure. The assertion has been
made that If the bill should become a law
in time it would require an annual eX-
penditure of slGo,0Oo.oOD.
To meet tins criticism provision was in
serted limiting the aggregate bounties to
S9,G0NW annually, the language of this
new provision being follows. THE total
compensation to be paid out Of the treasury
as provided in this section shall in no fiscal
year exceed the sum of S9,otGs0 and the
secretary of the treasury shall make such
regulations for the payment of said COM
pensation will cause any excess in the
total amount of compensation earned I'M
der this section in any one fiscal year over
and above S9uD0GD0 to be deducted pro rata
from the total compensation due each in
dividual or corporation entitled to such
compensation hereunder during said fiscal
year..
The bill as originally reported extended
its proposed benefits to foreign built YES
sells under contract for American citizens
on January l last. Advantage it is
serted has already been taken of this pro-
vision and number of contracts are said
to have sprung into existence for the con-
struction of ships abroad As now reported
the language is changed SO to require
that ships coming under this provision shall
have been in actual course of construc
ton on January /. The bounty TO be paid
to foreign built vessels is also reduced to
80 per cent under the new additions to
the bill
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-28
Army Orders.

Captain Edwin r. Butler, assistant quar-
termaster, has been relieved from duty at
Admission. Ala, and ordered to Manila,
Philippine Islands, per Connemaugh.
By command of Major General Miles the
findings and sentences in the cases of Pri-
Yates J. l.. Beverly and Harold F. Neliean.
Company G, LIST Florida Volunteer Infan-
try, have been disapproved on the ground
that the offense of which they were con-
victed was 'excusable homicide in defense
of brother whose life was in imminent
danger" Both of these men were con-
victed OF conduct to the prejudice of good
order and military discipline and sentenced
to dishonorabie discharge with forfeiture
of all pay and allowances Beverly was, in
addition, sentenced to three years confine-
ment at hard labor. The action of the re-
viewing authorities operates to restore them
to rank and duty.
Captain James f. Calhoun, commissary
of 81 BIS stence. United States volunteers, has
been honorably discharged.
Colonel Charles A. Woodruff OF the sub
sistence department, now at New York, has
been ordered to make an inspection of sub
sistence affairs In the military camps at
Havana, Pinar de- Rio am Matanvas 49,
ing mis- absence Major Henry B. OSgnod
will perform the duties of chief commissary,
Department of the East. and purchasing
cenmissary at New York city.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Thomas B. An
derson has been relieved from duty at Fort
Myer. Virginia. and ordered to Manila, per
hospital ship Relief.
Maj William Williams. commissary of
subsistence. T. s. ": Capt. Charles e.
Cosby. 1Glst Indiana Volunteer Infantry,
and Lieut.. Col. Henry Lohmann, jr., 4th
New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, have been
honorably discharged the service Of the
United States.
Senator Pritchard of North Carolina has
secured from the Secretary of War a reyo-
cation of the order mastering out Major
James M. Moody, chief of subsistence, un-
der Maj. Gen. KeifAr at Havana.
Capt. Andre W. Brewster, assistant quar-
tcrmaster, u. s. V, has been ordered from
Madison barracks, New York. to New York
city. NY, for duty quarterlnaster and
acting commissary of subsistence on sse
transport Burnside.
|. Secord Lieut. James S. Young, jr., re
Gently promoted from the ranks has been
assigned TO the 10th United States InfaR-
try and ordered to join that regiment In
Havana.
Second Lieut. Fitzhugh Lee, jr.. son Of
Gen. Lee. has been transferred from the
21st Infantry to the LIST Cavalry, now on
duty in Cuba
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-28
DID NOT UNDERSTAND SPANISH.
An American Killed by "a sentry in
Honduras

Mr.. Hunter, United States minister to
Guatemala and Honduras. is here In con-
sultation with the officials of the State De-
partment respecting the course to be pur-
sued by this government in the matter of
the killing of Mr.. Pears. native of Pitts
burg, and the resident agent OF the Hon
duras Mahogany Company near Puerto
Cortez. in Honduras. Representative Dali
zen of Pennsylvania has submitted to the
department some data connected with the
case from a brother of the deceased, who is
one OF his constituents and seeks ample
reparation for his brothers death.
Pears was Killed by Il sentry owing to his
failure to stop al the word of command
He did not obey because Of his imperfect
knowledge of the Spanish language. The
circumstances of the case have been thor
oughly investigated by the commander of
the United States gunboat Machias which
Is now at Puerto Cortez, and by the United
States consul at Tegucigalpa, and their re-
ports are now on the way TO the State De-
partment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-28
kIPLING HOLDS HIS OWN.
Passed Favorable Night and
Brenthes Wore Freely.

NEW YORK. February 2s-The follow
ing Bulletin has been issued by the physi-
clans attending Rudyard Kipling at the
GrenobIe:
"s:3o a-m.-Mr. kipIing has not lost any
ground. 2 G. JANEWAY. NJ. d.
THEODORE DURHAM, NJ D.
Mrs. Kipling this morning sent the fol-
lowing note down stairs:
Mrs. KIp,ing wishes to acknowledge
with grateful thanks the many letters ard
kilograms OF sympathy sent her. They are
too numerous for her TO reply 10 indiyid-
ually.
Shortly before IL am. Dr. Durham said:
There has been a more free respiration
and hope the crisis has been passed"
H. H. Mcclure, son of the publisher. said
today:
Mr.. kip.ing passed a favorable night
No new complications have set in and
there is general feeling of hopefulness in
the sick rJom
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-28
sunday school officers Elected.

AT the annual meeting Of the Sunday
school board Of Grace NJ. E. Church. held
February y, the following officers were
elected for the year 1888: Superintendent.
}. IL. Gaileher; assistant superintendent
hiram Mlchaels. secretary. ID. F. Croft
assistant secretary, S. Scrivener: treasurer,
Miss V l. Stevenson; librarian, Chester C.
Gron, assistant librarian, Chas. A Jones
choFister Thos- CT Young: assistant Choir
ister- Jas H. Galleher; organist Miss A
Pope; assistant organist, Chester c Croft /:
president OF the missionary society. Miss
y Brown, secretary missionary society
Miss Aloilie Davis; treasurer missionary
society, Miss Jennie Watts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-28
baltimore Markets.

BALTIMORE February 2S.-Flour dull. unehang-
81 receipts S.foi barrels; exports. 229 barrels
Wheat flrmer: SPOT and III, 17a77L.: March, n
alta; Nav, 1SMafSas; steamer No. red, T4Sia75;
receipts. a.3t bushels: e&paIts, 5000 bushels
stock SOB, I62 bushels ssies. 900 bushels south
eru wheat by sample, 7aaGS: .lo. on grade. 74lsa
.!k. Corn strong: snat aud month. 39l4a3?zs;
March. 39iaa39I.; April. 393sa Yg,s: steamer mNad
3sa3sls; receipts 3e2 osi bushels: exports I7it3
bushels; stovk, 1,334s2i bushels: sales 5000
Oats easier: No. white. 81 asked; M. mixed. 81
asked receipts. 29.a43 bushels; sta~k. l23. AIS
bushels, Rye firm: No. 2 Rearhr, 61a6lL; 70. 2
western e3lS receipts ABB bushels; stock, S.. 100
bushels. Hay drIn;s No. timothy Slias11 So
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-28
Changes In Police Department..

The following changes in the police de-
partment We're made today: r. i. King,
reduced from class two to class one; Mar
tin Brown, promoted from class one to
class two, vice King, reduced; Hugh
Mitchell and Robert G. Yates, promoted
from class one to class two, vice Allen
and Brown, retired several days ago; Jacob
Oppenheimer and John Is. Lipscomb APP
pointed priyates of class one, vice Mitchell
and Yates, promoted. Philip Brown, re-
Gently injured by fall from his horse, dis
mounted, and W. L. Owens. mounted. vice
Brown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-28
THE nj NORED BATTLE.
No Confirmation obtainabIe Mt tn.
White House.

There was not word at the White House
today to confirm the rumor of trouble with
The Germans at Manila The rumor was
given IA" crtdence by officials al the Execu-
tive Mansion.
II was Generally argued that the Germans
would nave to commit q grieVous offenss.
before they would be rrcd upon by man
al such Conservative and diplomatic disno-
kiIiuu as Admiral Dewey
n report was spread that a special ses-
SION or the cabinet had been called. This
was promptly denied.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-28
Movements of warshipx.

The training ship Essex has arrived at
ST Thomas The MassasOit has sailed
from Norfolk for Key West. The Am
phitrite has arrived al Sandy Hook She
is on her way south 10 Pert Royal s. c.
where she viii establish her old base for
slnnery practice and train the gunnery
class.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-28
Mr.. Hull's Criticism,

Mr.. Hull. chairman Of the House commit
tee. intends TO make speech criticising the
measure, and will then abandon it to the
House for q majority to do as they please
with. He was engaged this morning in 60
ing over the bill, and says that under It's
terms the maximum size of the army. both
regulars and volunteers is about Al. on in
stead of 100. dDo, be; ween the enactment of
the law and me lstl OF July, 1901. He says
that while thu bill provides that the regiI-
lar army mSXimqfp shall not be above
G5,oeo men and tbs volunteers not above
io6tn, apparently lEoviding for an army of
1oo,ooo men pntil IAly l. 1901, the binding
provisions for the maximum strength of
companies and number of regiments limifs
the possible size of the army TO about
4G 900,
He points out That the provision ,,s,
there shall be but twenty-seven regiments
and that the-<companies composing these
regiments shall be: Cavalry-a captain.
two lieutena8Ss aSd forty-three privates,
with the Commissioned officers: infs ntrv
"a captain, two lieutenants ana forty-eight
privates, with non-comnlissioned officers.
heavy artllery-a captain, two lieutenants
and ffty-two prIVateS, with non-commis-
stoned officers and light artilIery-a can
tain, three ieutenants and fifty-six uri
Yates, with non-commissioned officers linn
its the regular army to "a 944 men. Instead
of $1,000
The Volunteer Force
The provision that the volunteer COM
panies and regiments shall be organized on
the same plan as the regular army will. he
says, if strictly constructed, reduce the
volunteer force to maximum of II.
men, instead of 5000. This will make the
entire force about $4,000. With some irony
he says that abundant music is provided
for the army. inasulnch as a band of twen-
ty-eight musicians is provided for each
regiment. with two additional musicians for
each company. He says that the bill is full
Of ridiculous defects
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-28
Kansas Regiment Leave. Santiago,

The War Department today received in
formation of the sailing of the transport
Minnewaska with the 23d Kansas Volun-
teer Infantry aboard from Santiago Cuba,
bound for Newport News. These troops
will be transported thence to Fort Leayen-
worth, Kan. for muster out
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-28
New Tent Enrmed

new tent of the Knights of the Macca-
bees was instituted in Maccabee Temple,
al3 9th street northwest, last night by
State Deputy S. S. Foutz. with fifty-two
charter members The fun form Of initIa-
ton was conferred upon the candidates by
the degree team of National Tent No. 1.
The ceremony was witnessed by over 30
members. The new tent starts out with
Sir Knight +. L. Tolson, commander; l..
NJ Mexican, record keeper; II. +. Sands,
lieutenant commander, and Hugh Waters,
past comma ffder.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-28
Pri.auers Sentenced.

Arthur Gatewood. alias Arthur jackson.
and Levi Jones. indicted for HOUSEKEEPING,
who yesterday. in Criminal Court No. ?.
Withdrew their pleas of not guilty and
pleaded guilty, were sentenced by Justice
Bradley to Imprisonment in the West Vir-
ginsa penitentiary at Moundsvilie FOR one
years and one day each.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-28

Grain freigbts steady. unchanged. Sugar strong,
unchaused Bntter steady. UNCHANGED. Egvt nrFm.
unchanged. Cheese steady. unchanged Letturs,
SZ1bas2 % per bushel box. WHISKY UNCHANGED.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-28

HONOLULU. February ~ (via San Fran
cisco. February 2s,.-The battle ship Ore
gon. accompanied by thu collier Iris. sailed
for Manila February ~.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-28
THE ARMY BILL.
How 1t Will Have 10 eB Treated In
the House.

The House military committee is 10 meet
tomorrow for the purpose of considering
the Senate compromise army bill.
Practically the only proposition before
them will be whether or not they will ac-
cept the bill just as it is. To amend it is to
defeat legislation ON the subject at this
session, since the bill comes over from the
Senate in the character Of an ultimatum
The reason that 1t was passed in the Sem
ate as an independent bill, instead of a SUBJ
stitute for the Hull bill, was that the oppo-
sition would not agree that the matter
should ever go into conference An amend
ment to the Hull blu would have been SUBJ
ject to conference but tbs bill must be
acted on by the House if at ALL as an orig
inal proposition. The President and Score
tary of War have reluctantly accepted the
bill, and the plan is to have the committee
report it tomorrow for the House to ma IS
ii without amendment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-28
Government Bonds.


Furnished by w. n. Hibbs g. Co. bankers
and brokers. ia? + ST. members New York
stock exchange correspondents Messrs. La
den6urg, Thalmann Co. New York.
CHICAGO F.t-uary 2s Grain.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-12

and children for more than eight hours in
mines and other specified unhealthful occu-
pations.
New York Typographical union No. 6 is
going to try another season of farming by
the unemployed who care to take advantage
Of the opportunity TO earn something. The
in charge of the work last sum
mer declared that, all things considered,
the venture was a SUCCESS.
New York Photo Engravers' union has
taken steps to abolish instruction at the
state penal institutions in photo-engraviug
and to have the plant at the Elmira reform
atory removed If possible. The objection TO
the instruction Of Convicts il this trade lis
that ii fits vil-minded persons to become
counterfeiters and forgers and makes them
familiar with the deadliest poisons.
The Menominee Indians in northwestern
lumber operations as are the Osages at
farming. BY the sale of pine logs in years
past the 300 men. women and children have
accumulated q tribal fund aggreEating 81
000, 900, which is still growing. The tribe
eXpends about S75, 900 u year in logging OPP
e~rations and clears from $50, 900 TO 800, OOO
annually.
The Great Northern Paper company this
spring will construct in Millinockett,
Aroostook county Me, the largest paper
and pulp mill in the world. 1t Will contain
eight machines, with a capacity OF from 200
to $50 tons of newspaper daily. 1t is to be
run by water power supplied from Il dam
controlling the west branch output from
Quakish lake, there being a fall OF 115 feet.
The immediate expenditure will involve
$4,000, 600, while nj the completion of the
mill employment will be given to 900 hands,
where today there is q dense wilderness.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-12

political pull or how much better he can
run the elevator than his friend on the other
side. When an elevator falls they cry out.
on, why don't they build the elevators
better? Why don't they put safety catches
on them, so they can't fall III tell you
why: When an agent goes to sell an ele-
vatOr 10 a man he mentions what he has on
hand in the way Of safety devices, states the
cost, and if purchased the apparatus is
built in. and, good or bad, ii is seldom
and clog up with dust and grease; then
when it is needed at one certain instant it
fails to act.
ITO win the confidence Of the public and
maintain it, it is the first care Of all lead
ing manufacturers TO put in the best of
safety devices, but there are no parts Of the
mechanism that show such careful thought
as the devices which guard against an actual
fall or q TOO rapid descent OF the car. In
most cases when the safety devices have
failed il will be found that the mishap was
due to the ignorance or neglect Of the
elevator conductor or mechanic.
The efficiency Of the most perfect device
is after all largely determined by the human
element, which is more or less inseparable
from the operation of all s~o-Called automatic
appliances.
1T should be incumbent on the owners Of
buildings having elevator service to exercise
the greatest care for the oversight Of the
elevator mechanism, and they should select
and employ only such mechanics and
operators as are capable, not merely in
running an elevator plant, but who can also
adjust il in cases Of emergency"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-12
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

America has 400 knit goods manutac-
turers.
Cleveland has $500 manufacturing estab-
lishments.
It is said that fully 100000 persons in
London work all night.
Nine-teuths of all the sewing machines
used throughout the world are made IN the
United States,
Women are employed at railway points
and crossings IN Italy, because they DO not
get intoxicated.
Calls have been issued for the eighth con
vention Of the International Association OF
Machinists to convene IL Buhalo, n J"
Monday, May !.
Lemon culture Is catching up with the
orange business in California. There are
g.. 600 bearing trees in the state and 25O,OOO
nom bearing trees.
II is reported that the tobacco workers at
Bedford. Va, have not received a cent OF
wages for FIVE years on account OF the truck
system in vogue.
The value OF cotton exports from the
port OF Galveston has not varied much from
$32 600, 600 q year since 1890. Cotton snip
ping constitutes about nine-tenths of the
business al that port.
Fourteen pattern makers employed in the
Brooklyn navy yard who lost their tools
through fire there recently have been REIN
bursed for the loss by the Pattern Makers
union. The value OF the tools was placed
at 1880.
The supreme court Of Utah has upheld
the coustitutinnality Of the Utah law pro-
hibitiug the employment Of young women
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-12
TIME CLOCKS NOT POPULAR
Employees at Union Pacific Headquarters
Register a Kick.
,BJECT TO THE SUGGESTION CONVEYED
Having No other They Vent
Their Feelings by Having All
Kinds of Fun with the I'm
s~penknble Tab Keeper.

There are rumbling noises at Union Pa
cihc HEADQUARTERS which were not noticed a
Few weeks ago. They are not caused by the
wheels, springs, or interior mechanism OF
the time registering clocks which have re
gently been put in service there, but II rs
alleged they are due TO the presence OF TINS
new wall decoration. II has already been
mentioned that the clocks were a tasty
ornamentation TO the bleak walls on the IN
terror of that building, hut it cannot be said
that their particular style Of beauty is
pleasing TO those who are employed there.
some OF these employees assert that since
the advent Of the clocks the individuality
Of the people working there is absorbed by
the numerals assigned TO each by the audi
tor OF the road or some other high officials
70 facilitate his force in keeping a record OF
the hours put in by the different employees
j is no longer Miss Smith or Mr., Jones, but
10" and ''29," The even numbers are said
10 be assigned 10 the feminine portion or
the pay roll, with due care that none OF
them have a higher figure than 20, TO pre-
vent invidious comparisons, while the odd
numbers, anywhere from . to LOOP, are as
signed 10 the men.
In the rules governing the clocks there is
an ]allOwance Of one minute for variation in
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-12
TIPS FOR ELEVATOR MEN
Means Available for the Protection Of Pas
sengers from Injury.
CARE AND OIL THE MAIN ESSENTIAL
Necessity for Wntchfulness on the
Part of the ConductOrs-SOme
Recent Accidents and
the Cnuse.

Suppose a railroad would put upon its
fast express trains, or, in fact, upon any
trains an ambitious conductor for an en-
Eineer. some chan who likes to ride fast,
who would open her up TO the last notch
on every occasion, pay no attention to oiling
the moving parts or adjustment, not eX-
aiming the bolts and nuts TO see if they
had Jared loose and paid no attention to
the thousand little things that go to make
up u perfect running machine, what would
you say ." asked Ambrose Ellington, one
of the efficient elevator conductors in The
Bee building, the other day.
Statistics show that the last year there
occurred about $50 accidents, seriously in
juring over 300 persons and killing about
ninety, IN sixty cases the elevator dropped
from one to nine stories. The elevators in
general use al the present time haul more
people in one day than all the railroads and
steamship lines in the world haul in a week.
This Of course includes all classes Of people.
The mechanics have all they can do TO keep
the plant below in normal operation and
the agent of the building has his share of
the responsibility,
The following will show, for example, a
few Of the accidents that have recently &C.
CURED:
IN DeceulDef last Dennis SULLIVAN, an
elevator conductor in a New York City
"sky-scraper," through his careless methods
OF stopping, caused 1000 POUNDS of iron
and rubbish to fall on the top of the elevator,
breaking through and killing the secretary
and a director Of that building and seri-
ously ~iniuring several others.
Another instance came up in the Savoy
hotel, San Francisco, where the elevator
conductor, who, in ascending with a load OF
passengers, let a woman standing close II
the door fall out and down the shaft from
the third story and strike head first. was al
a loss to explain how the accident occurred
Another elevator conductor. Oscar
Westberg of New York, while on duty hap
pened TO lay down and carelessly failed tC
adjust the lever, which resulted in the
elevator shooting up and thereby cutting mis-
head of.
Daniel johnson C~colored) of Cincinnati
also on watch, happened to fall asleep anC
the consequence was tnat he was crushed Il
death.
u could cite many such instances. bu.
these four are sufficient for illustration.
The trouble Is that most of the averag,
elevator conductors thiuk the necessary
point Of running elevators is simply 10 wall
in mornings and run up and down all day
long.
Some tell all passengers that will lister
how religious ne and his family or friends are
one viii tell how well his wife can do things
another Will tell how smoothly he works hi
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-12

He was an American citizen and a hit
vaiuglorious. reports the Washington Star,
and he was talking TO an EnEllshman, VINO
had q wit of his own, despite reports 10
the contrary. The recent achievements OF
Uncle Sam in various localities constituted
me subject Of conversation and the Yankee
fairly bulged out with pride.
Il am a free American, ! am, he sald'
stamping mis- manly bosom, though there
was no especial occasion for such a demon
stration. r.-r
in a tone that sounded as If he knew what
he was talking about.
The Yankee resented it with promptness
.rd ike to know, sir, why ! am not he
exclaimed, with the color Of wrath rising
You are married, aren't you?"
Yes"
And 10 an American"
wei. that settles it in my mind I've
got an American woman for a VIE my
self" -
The Yankee smiled, stuck out MS hana
and said he thought II was about TINT LOT
hem 10 organize an Anglo-Amerlcan all
ance not entirely for commercial purposes