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The evening times., 1899-10-28
GOSSIP OF THE GRIDIRoN.

The football teams of the Washington
High Schools have been doing some hard
work in preparation for the Inter High
School District championship matches. The
rivalry which has always existed between
the different schools has been increased
three-fold this season, on account of the
tie game played between the Western and
the Business High Schools last Wednes-
day. The elevens of the schools all aver
age about the same in weight, and their
all-round playing abilities are about equal.
The fight for the championship will be
close.
Now that the Western School eleven has
a tie game with the Business School lads
they will probably have another match
later in the season.
The football work in the Eastern High
School is conducted under the direction of
H. Geib. who. with several of the alumni.
acts as coacher. The Eastern School team
is at the present time the weakest of the
school elevens. This is probably due to
the fact that they have been in training
but few weeks, and consequently are not
hardened, while the Western, Central. and
Business High. Schools have on their teams
boys who have been playing for two or
three years, The following schedule of
games has been arranged for the teams:
Eastern vs.. Western, Wednesday, No
vember 1. ,.tor7 .se-oG
Central vs.. Business. Friday. Novem-
ber 3. r,yeIls4=s s-s...
Business VS.. Eastern, Wednesday, No
vember Is. ---- -.
Eastern VS.. Central, Friday, November
"a.
Georgetown has changed her schedule
for next Wednesday afternoon. and will
play the Gallaudet College instead of the
Maryland University. This game will de-
eide which team is entitled to the inter-
collegiate championship of the District
Both colleges are working hard in antici-
patton of the match, as they realize that
it will be hard fight from start to finish
Thus far this year Georgetown has played
three games and has been defeated twice
Gallaudet has played three games and
been defeated once. Both teams p'ayed
and lost with the Baltimore Medical Col
lege.
Two halves of ten minutes were played
yesterday by the Gallaudet team During
that time the ball zig Jagged back and
forth, as often In the first teams terri
tory as in the scrubs. The second half
was devoted to individual defensive work
and in improving the end-running.
College games to be played today are as
follows:
Yale VS.. Columbia, at New York.
Harvard VS.. Carlisle, at Cambriige.
Princeton VS.. Cornell, at Ithaca.
Pennsylvania VS.. Chicago at Chicago.
Annapolis VS.. Lafayette, at Annapolis.
West Point VS.. Dartmouth, at West
Point. 2a-.
Brown VS.. Newton, at Providence.
Wesleyan VS.. Union, at Middletown.
Williams vs.. Syracuse. at Syracuse.
Lehigh VS.. New York University, at
South Bethlehem.
Rutgers Vs. Ursinus. at Morristown.
Knickerbocker Athletic Club VS.. New
ark, at Bergen Point.
Princeton Scrub VS.. Pennsylvania Rail-
road Y. NJ. c. A, at Philadelphia.
Yale Freshmen Us. Brown, Second Team,
at New Haven.
The evening times., 1899-10-28
RELEASED A PRISONER.
Judge bradley Overrules the Con-
yictiOn of n ..SuspfciOus PERSON.


yictiOn of ''SusptciOus Person."
George Frazier, who was sentenced to
Imprisonment by Judge Kimball on Octc-
Der Il, for 120 days for no other reason
than he was alleged TO be suspicious per-
son, because he had in his room a quantity
of clothing. was today released on a writ
of habeas corpus by Judge Bradley in Cir
Cult Court No. l.
Judge Bradley said there was no such a
charge on the statute books as suspicious
person" and that Frazier should not have
been sentenced TO prison. He declared that
the police justices were assuming mon
strous power.
Frazer was represented in the case by
lawyers Thomas L. Jones, W. Calvin Chase
and Perry W. Frisby. When arrested he
had in his possession forty-one pairs of
pants, eighteen coats seventeen vests, three
Overcoats and other articles of wearing ap-
parel. He said that he made his living
buying clothes at pawnshop sales and dis
posing of them at a profit afterward. He
may sue the District for false imprison-
melt.
The evening times., 1899-10-28
Marriage Licenisae. issued.

Marriage lincenses were Issued today to Oliver
Abbott and Dottie R. McASoy. both of Broad
way, Va; John W. saundefs and Nicie E. Wig
gins, Tampa, Fla; Daniel. !. Jones, Elliso;t
City, Nd, and Matilda Wood; Samuel T. Car
penter and Ethel G. Eber}y, james W. James
and BERTHE A. Sterquel, both uf Baltimore. Nd. !;
Charles Benjamin Doolittles iNew Haven. Conn,
and Laura Leggett Seymour: Benjamin F. Dove
and Mary F. Brown. both of Potomac, Md. !;
George W. Harrison and Maftha Riser, Flemi-
ney Ware and Jennie Waters, Philip j. Brown
and Georgia Pierpont. both o! Selggsvilic, Md. ;
Alfred Smith and Gertrude Fisher.
The evening times., 1899-10-28
NorfoIk,s New Pub,,c Ru,,dfpr,

NORFOLK, Va, Oct. E2S.-Work on Nor
folks new public building is progressing
rapidly and satisfactorily. Capt. J. C.
Holmes, inspector of public buildings in
the office of the Supervising Architect of
the Treasury Department, who was here
this week, expressed himself as highly
pleased with the progress of the work.
he expects the building will be under roof
By December and completed in April. The
structure will be one of the handsomest
in the city.
The evening times., 1899-10-28
A TRIP TO CAMP MEADE.
The Secretary of War to Inspect Voi-
unteer Regiments.


The Secretary of War and the Adjutaut
General accompanied by Victor Mason, the
private secretary of Mr.. Root, will leave
Washington at 1O:40 o'clock tonight for
Middletown, Pa, to inspect the Forty-first
and Forty seventh Volunteer Regiments at
Camp Meade. These two regiments will
sail for the Philippines early in November
Mr.. Root with General Ludington, of
the Quartermaster's Department, and 9TH
er officers of the War Department, togeth-
er with military and naval attaches of Eng
lish, French, and German embassies, who
are inspecting the transport Thomas at
New York today, will reach Washington
at S o'clock this evening, and Mr.. Root
will leave two hours later for Camp Meade,
returning to Washington tomorrow night.
He will be at the War Department Monday,
and Tuesday will go to Richmond. Va,
with the President and Cabinet to attend
the launching of the Shubrick.
The evening times., 1899-10-28
Father VIZ. Grandmother

PARKERsBURG, w. Va, Oct. 2s.-Judge
Farr has given Samuel G. Fletcher posses
zion of his two daughters, who, it was
rlleged, were given to their grandmother,
Mrs. Sarah Hickman, by the wife of Mr.
Fletcher on her deathbed. The grand
mother of the little girls will appeal the
case. Fletcher is q well-known Baltimore
knd Ohio Railroad conductor.
The evening times., 1899-10-28
The ynurbn CIas. Conccrt.

The annual concert Of the Vaughn Glass,
which takes place next Friday evening,
November 3. at Calvary Baptist Church,
Eighth and H Streets northwest. promises
TO be one of the best ever given under the
auspices of this organization. Leading To-
cal artists have been engaged to appear
and the programme will no doubt fully
sustain the high reputation of the class in
the matter of entertainments
The evening times., 1899-10-28
Sued for Heavy Damages.

Marguerite C. Miller. today through her
attorney, ]. NJ. Wilson, brought suit
against Littlefeld, Alvord & Co., to recover
$4,000, claimed as damages for injuries
she sustained by one OF the defendants
wagons colliding with a Belt Line car on
which she was a passenger.
The evening times., 1899-10-28
New York Cotton Market.
WIRELESS TELEGRAPH TESTS.
The wnrships New York and Massa.
chusetts to Go to Sea.

1t was announced at the Navy Depart
ment today that the cruiser New York
and battleship Massachusetts will procs ed
to sea probably Monday. for the purpose
of making a thorough test of the Marconi
system of wireless telegraphy.
An effort will be made to conduct a test
under the most adverse conditions, and If
necessary a prolonged cruise will be taken
in order that rough weather may be en-
countered. The attempts at sending mes
sages will be made while the ships are
forty miles apart, and during the expert
ments some Of the large guns will be fired
on both vessels.
The evening times., 1899-10-28
A Mate Dies of Convulsions.

IRvINGTON, Va, Oct 2s.-Milsey Mad
dox, mate on schooner A. H. Dixson, of An
napolis, died while in Carters Creek har-
Dor Tuesday of convulsions. His body was
taken in charge by DR.. w. J. Newbill, Ma
rine Hospital physician at this place. and
inferred in the Methodist Cemetery. The
schooner was loaded with lumber from up
the Rappahannock, and had but one other
person aboard, the captain, Samuel S.
SOmers
The evening times., 1899-10-28
WAS ONCE HARRIsoN's SLAVE.
Sad Fate of an Old Servant of the
Great Family.

LOUISVILLE. KY. Oct. 2S.-Anna Judge.
negress, aged ninety-six years, was
burned to death yesterday at her home
in New Albany. Ind. She was trying TO
light coal oil stove when it exploded.
The woman was once owned as a slave
by the late President William Henry
Harrison. and took up her home in Indiana.
when that State was Territory When the
Territory became State the negroes were
freed and among them Anna Judge secured
her liberty. She lived with the Harrison
family until "Old Tippecanoe'' died, and
then moved to New Albany.
The evening times., 1899-10-28
Orders for General Lees Son.

By an order issued by the War Depart
ment today Lieutenant George NJ. Lee,
son Of General Fitzhugh Lee. who was ap-
pointed on August II last, is sent to New
York to Join the Forty seventh Regiment
Of volunteers with which he will go to the
Philippines, where he will join the Thirty
ninth Regiment
The evening times., 1899-10-28
RECOVERING THEIR HEALTH.
Marcus DAILY and and George O. Cam
non 10th ImnrnYiuG

NEW YORK. Oct. 2S.-Marcus DAILY the
copper king, silver mine owner. and Dem
ocratic politician, who has been i'll at the
Hotel Netherland, for two weeks, is re-
ported to be improving.
George O. Cannon, the Mormon leader,
who has been i'll with pneumonia at the
Plaza Hotel, is reported to be GONZALES
cling
The evening times., 1899-10-28
Killed By n Live Wire.

DALLAS, Tex, Oct. 2S.-Otto Feidler,
driver for a San Antonio sweeper, yester-
day walked upon live wire for ELECTRIC
light company which had fallen across the
sidewalk He was instantly killed, and
enc hand burned off at the wrist.
The evening times., 1899-10-28
The Philippine Commission.

The place for holding the sessions Of the
Philippine Commission was changed today
from the ante-room Of the State Depart
ment to the Arlington Hotel. The sessions
will be held in the rooms used by the Joint
High Commission, which are on the first
floor near / Street. The first session will
probably be held on Monday.
The evening times., 1899-10-28
Robert HatHeId,s Trial.

HUNTINGTON, w. Va. Oct. 2s.-Rotert
Hatfield. indicted for completely in mur-
Ger committed years ago during feud days,
was today granted a change of venue from
Logan to Cabell county. He will be tried
here in December.
The evening times., 1899-10-28
the soundest OF foundation. Union Pacific,
common is especially attractive.

The showing OF Northern Pacific for the
first quarter of the new fiscal year is per-
tinent here. The company made an in
crease in net earnings for the quarter of
over 100000. The company has been for
a considerable period earning well over
per cent on the common stock. The pres
ent rate is over per cent. 1t seems cer-
tain that the stock will be put on a per
cent basis permanently next year.
The evening times., 1899-10-28
MR.. HARRISON SAILS FOR HOME.
The Former President Leaves on the
st. Pnui for New York

st. Paul for New York.
SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 2S-Former Pres
ident Harrison. Representative Lewis,
of Washington. and Mrs. Hodgson Bur-
nett, the novelist, sailed for New York
today, on the American Line steamship St
Paul.
Mr.. Harrison's health has improved since
Thursday when he was confined to his
rooms with a cold.
The evening times., 1899-10-28

Sugar has a sharp rally at the close to-
day to 154 and it seems fairly probable
that further advance may occur on Mon
day despite the statement put out by bears
today that the company cannot be earning
its dividend at the present time in the
manufacture of sugar.
The evening times., 1899-10-28
Injured Hi. Skull by a Fall.

IRvINGToN, Va, Oct. 2s.-The four
year-old son of Capt. J. A. Robertson, Of
this county, fell from tall tree two weeks
ago and injured his skull. He is now at
Johns Hopkins Hospital undergoing treat
men ut accounts is not improved.
The evening times., 1899-10-28
Washington stock Exchange.

Sales. u S. 3's, coupon. $300@108 1-S;
West End National Bank, IOQ11S 3-4; Ma
tional Safe Deposit &hTrust 5@130; Po-
tomac Fire ms. 45@D77 1-2..After call: Mer-
ganthaler Linotype. 56206 1-2.
GOVERNMENT BOND4
The evening times., 1899-10-28
New York sock Market.

Corrected daily by ". B. Hibbs & Co.
members OF the New York Exchange
1919 Street.
The evening times., 1899-10-28
Chicago Grain and Provision Marke,

Corrected daily by ". B. Hibbs & Co.,
members OF the New Ybrk Exchange,
1913 Street.
The evening times., 1899-10-28
GOVERNMENT BONDS.
DISTRICT OF coLuliRA BOND.

SIS 1902 40 year funding gold. l07 -.
rs 1901 Water stock" currency. lU -.
rs 1903 "Water stock" currency. 80. -.
Funding currency 3.65's.......... 1l8k -.
3k's Reg. 2-10's, 1893 1901. ......... 80. 90.
The evening times., 1899-10-28

the summit of Mount Everest. in the Him
alayas, is above it. The deep sea was re-
gion of darkness as well as low tempera-
ture, for the direct rays of the sun wert
wholly absorbed in passing through th'
superficial layers Of water.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-18
BIZ EysClES

Watterson kicked out in 1896 and
supported Mckinley. He has concluded
to return to the democratic camp and
support the state ticket. He makes
a terribly wry face, but altogether he
is philosophical over the dish of crow.
A preacher and his sweetheart were
married at st. Joseph, No, on a rapidly
going trolley car. Novel you see ana
symbolic Of the flight of time.
Captain Coghlan, of the Raleigh, IS
from BeHville, Ill. He is to have a
statue. Dewey will have one OF more.
New Orleans will erect one. Schley
ought to have at least a half dozen.
Of mark LII. D..
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina,
a blind nephew (from childhood)
who has just taken first honors at the
South Carolina College. He must be
a remarkable youth.
Rushing to Europe by the ten thou
sands is no sign OF real general pros
perity. 1t only shows that the many
rich in the north are trying to kill
time.
Drummers will fight the trusts. OF
800, 900 it is expected that at least 15O,-
900 will be dropped and all on account
of trusts.
President Kruger, of the TransvaaI,
will give in it is thought to avoid war.
England has 10000 soldiers in Africa
more than all the men. women and chill
dren in Kruger's kingdom or ~so-called
republic.
The Nashville American finds 1.-The
spot that will not out" 1t says:
There was but one occurrence to
mar the glory of the day-the unfor-
tunate attitude adopted by Admiral
Sampson, arriving after hostilities were
over. toward Commodore Schley. Ii
showed an enviOusness and a small
spirit which the American people have
with striking unanimity resented"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-18

fore the public Of the world. The |
critic of The New York Bookman says
OF the story to be published:
THE Dreyfus novel which he prom.
fses to write will be awaited with GU
riosity and will be read more attentive
Iy. we dare say, than any book he eve
wrote. But for two reasons we wish
he were not going to write 1t. In the
first place, it would be in better taste
for him to leave it unwrftten. Second
~, NJ. lola is the last person IN the
world to attempt to put truth n the
form OF fiction. The author of
the Rougon-Macquart books is called a
realist. The word nay serve, because
the Technology OF literary classifica-
ton Is limited enough, but as a matter
of fact NJ. lola never in his life put
on paper a really faithful picture Of ac-
tual life. He is a master of detail, but
the ensemble escapes him; he a be
amazingly minute, but he makes his
details tell the story that he wishes
them to tell, not the story they would
tell If left to themselves. And 50 his
novel about Dreyfus will in all proba-
bility be a burning tract, full Of honest
wrath and lofty emotion, but quite
without value as a statement OF the
whole tangled business. Dreyfus and
his tragic experience, to be properly ap-
preciated, must be studied in an unim-
FASHIONED report"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-18

The State Press Convention did two
proper and much needed things. It
condemned trusts in strong and ap-
propriate terms and Endorsed the libel
law defeated in the last legislature by
omission, and rebuked the judiciary
committee for its unfriendly course in
dealing with a matter of such pregnant
Importance ITO the newspapers of the
state.
The trusts are so Infamous and OPP
presSive in their operations that a free
and intelligent press is compelled by
duty and reason to denounce them
with unmitigated severity. How to
reach them in the most effective way
is a question of interest requiring a
close study of the situation and a
knowledge of latw That tie trust man.
ufacturers should be boycorted is man.
fest for the law is moving with leaden
paie, and in the meantime, the people
OF all sorts n conditions are being
plucked n wronged. A trust Is such
a public enemy that it's e deserves
to be stricken as you would hit the head
of a Serpent. 1t bites daily and bites
deeply.
The paper trust, the type trust, the
ink trust, n all the trusts aimed at
the newspaper and book publishing in
terests are public enemies because they
seek to Cypress those engaged in the
business OF publishing, and ultimately
to make the people pay higher for their
reading and news. Already paper has
advanced one half cent a pound and
envelopes 80 per cent. with apologies to
Alexander Poe, 1t might be said with
truth that
"A Trus is a monster of so frightful
mein
To be hated needs not ITO be seem"
II is 30 constituencies, so p~ertinaci-
Gus, 50 sweeping that it grows with
it's growth, and strengthens with its
strength"
The libel law is a positive necessity,
and the next legislature should be en-
Heightened enough to do justice to the
press of the state. without hich the
democrats would be still out in the
cold' and a white mans government
would be but an empty dream. The
press in 1900 should make it a clean III,
issue, and democratic candidates who
oppose a Libel law and will not help tc
protect the press properly. should re-
ceive no support for the legislature OF
for a nomination to any Office.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-18
HO ~ NEGaOEs AHk TREATED IN
rHE NORTH.

The Messenger is no enemy to the
negro race. II has only kind feelings
for the worthy men and women OF that
race, and would help them to more
prosperity and happiness and content
ment. 1t has said again n again
that the best friends the negro race
has in America are the better classes
OF whites. The negroes think that the
northern whites love them with In
tense and unselfish love. and know not
how they are treated in the north. The
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph ofQufte
a late date a an article OF length on
h treatment OF negroes In that city.
II begins with these words:
Picnic grounds and burial grounds
are alike denied to the negro. And
here in Philadelphia, 90! 1t appears
incredible, but there is N ~disputing
the facts which follow. Here they
are"
Then followed the facts to prove Its
case. 1t is simply true that In the
City OF Brotherly Love" the negroes
cannot picnic" with their white
friends, or when dead n be buried
in their grave yards. We may d that
no where in the north a the negro
work in factories or shops or mines
with white labor. They cannot go to
the hotels with whites or join the same
church, or be called pastors to white
churches. They are never sent to con-
gress or the senate or put In the
cabinet or in the custom houses or post
offices any where in the great north.
Think of that.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-18

periaIism are not confined entirely to
the north or TO the republican party,
owned by the rich men.
Boston has a rare customer who IS
ar ex-mayor. His name Is Nathan
Matthews. He Grated" on the "gfo-
rious' 4th OF July. He made q ten
strike in the way OF notoriety. he IL
perialism as some Of the blatant
preachers. This particular "speechi-
fed" In q section not inclined to expan-
sion IDEAS. The real FUN Is his fiery
harangue ID not that he expanded"
and prophesied. but that he tore Oh h
covering and showed the true inward
ness OF the imperialistic gang OF Hot
spurs. He said money was at the bot
tom OF II ail-gain. land-grabbing. etc
The Richmond Dispatch discussed the
speech st some length. From II we
take this:
In other words. this imperiahstic
orator boldly proclaimed that IL was
the purpose OF those with whom he Is
allied TO set at naught all precedent.
igUore the letter OF the constitution.
n bid defiance To highest judi
cial tribunal In the land. But this was
only the beginning OF Mr.. Matthews
disclosures. Upon warming UP he dis
missed the declaration OF independence
as a collection OF phrases" and AT
firmed that empire was he only
word in the English language capable
OF indicating the size, Importance. dig
nifty, and obvious destiny OF the Amer
lear republic. MT. Matthews did
not hesitate TO appeal for support for
imperialism by admitting that the al
mighty dollar was at h bottom or
the whole business. he avowed what
had long been a suspicion. that the i'm
perialists look beyond the Philippines
to China. and to the money that Is I'm
mixing up with foreign powers In the
game OF land-grabbing in hat part or
the globe"