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The evening times., 1899-10-11
REVERSED HIS DECISION.
Many Pensions Allowed That Conn
missioner Evans Refused.

The Board of Pension Appeals and the
Secretary of the Interior have just re-
versed the decision of the Commissioner
of Pensions in a number of pension cases
as follows:
Daniel NJ. Delo, of Pennsylvania. the re-
lection of whose claim was set aside; Will
liam Heinrichs. of Missouri; whose claim
is reopened on the ground of error; Sybi la
Heinz (~idowD, circumstantial evidence
held to be insufficient by the Pension ONCE
declared sufficient by the Board of APP
peals; Solomon Williams, of L0wndss oun-
~, Ala, Pension Office dec-s.on oyerrul I'd
with directions TO -readjudicate; making
the evidence 10 the declaration by one
witness sufficient; Sarah Newberry ovid
owl, her marriage and. divorce sufficiently
proved; Mary Ann Jones (widow}, held
that there was no impeachment to her mar
riage to the deceased soldier; Elizabeth
Darling tmother), pensions for dependent
parents rated in accordance with act, of
March 19, 1886, requiring claimants only to
prove present dependence instead of de-
pendence at the date of the sons death.
The evening times., 1899-10-11
CHARGED WITH KIDNAPPING.
A German Seized for Work ns M
Oyster Dredger.

BALTIMORE, Md, Oct. 11.-George H.
Cummings, aged forty years. was arrested
last night at 2020 Aliceanna Street. by
Round Sergeant Cole and Sergeant Strott,
of the Central district, and locked up at
the central police station on a charge OF
assaulting and forcibly taking August
Meyer from Union station to the house on
Aliceanna Street and there OBTAINING him
for the purpose of shipping him down the
bay for work as an oyster dredger.
Meyer lis a German, and says that he
came to Baltimore from New Brunswick,
Del On the train he said he met three
men,, oneI of, them, Brandon Hurst, who
was being brought here to be shipped down
the bay as a dfedger. Upon leaving the
train at Union station last night, and de-
spite his resistance and cries for police,
he was, forcibly hustled into wagon, and,
with the other men, hauled to the house
on Aliceannar Street. There, he claims, his
baggage was taken from him and locked
in room, and he was locked in another
room with a number of men, while three
men stood guard outside the door. The
occurrence was reported to the police from
Union station and the arrest followed.
Meyer and Hurst are held as witnesses.
The evening times., 1899-10-11
COLOMBIA WANTS MONEY.
Three Million Pounds Required to
Chanre Its Currency.

Three Million Pounds Required to
Change Its Currency.
The United States of Colombia wants TO
borrow $4,000, 600 (s14.599, 500, with which
to replace its paper currency with silver.
las a guaranty for this loan,'' writes
Minister Hart from Bogota to the State
Department, 1.-The government offers 10
pledge the rental of the emerald mines of
MuZo and CoscueZ, the product of the
match monopoly, the annual sums due from
the Panama Railroad Company to the re-
public, and the interest of the republic in
the Panama Canal. By another decree the
establishment of national bank is au-
thorized, the shares of the bank to be Of
fered to the public. The government has
other resources which, it is believed, it
would put in pledge, il necessary, to secure
this loan, namely, the customs receipts, the
valuable salt mines lthe production and
sale of salt being a government monopo-
ly) and the Sabana Railroad twenty -four
miles OF well-equipped railroad between
Facatativa and Bogota).'
The evening times., 1899-10-11
The Society of sobbine sympathiners


While the beatified Beers of our dear
sister republic" are lashing helpless
American and English women and children
refugees with their blaeksnake whips,
and refusing them the privilege of buying
food, the New York Society of Sobbing
Sympathizers, under the philanthropic
Filipino leadership Of the Yiddish hero
Pulitzer. are preparing to meet tonight in
Carnegie Hall, there to endorse the fanat-
icism, brutality, and barbarity of the
burghers, and TO twist the Lions tail for
daring TO demand that the Transvaal Gov
ernment should treat its American and
other foreign residents with ordinary hu-
manity.
Lest some of our readers should be tempt
ed to overmuch pity for these amiable semi
sayages on account of the political label
of republic they wear as a cloak for
everything that is not republican, We may
be permitted 10 state that the country
ruled bysv6em Paul Kruger is the same
kind of 'ifspghlic." that Parag lay was unt er
the bloodthirsty homicidal maniac Lopez,
when Brazil, in the interest of even South
American civilization, was compelled to
make war on him and wipe him out. The
Transyaal state is an oligarchy. All real
power is vested in Kruger and council
composed of his immediate relatives and
partners, who exist and rule for the sole
purpose of plunder. The Volksraad is their
serf and creature. The courts are depsnd-
ent upon their will and have no function
other than to obey it regardless of justice
or equity.
white man in the South African Re
public, unless he be a Boer or Holland
er. is without political rights. He may
not own or carry arms. His property, his
life, his liberty, and his family are all at
the mercy of a hostile thieying, ignorant,
and bestial minority. Even if an inhabi-
tant of the state be of white native extrac-
tion, or an immigrant from another Dutch
country or colony, if he be Catholic or a
Jew, he is forever disfranchised. The ad-
herents of both these religions are treated
as pariahs, having no rights which Boer
is bound to respect.
All English and American Outlanders are
subject to domiciliary police visits by day
or by night on the initiative of any Boer
policeman. A British citizen named Ed
gar. for resisting such visit from a
drunken policeman, was shot and killed
in his own dooIway one midnight last win
ter. The murdeEer was not punished, but
was highly complimented for his action
by the Boer court at johannesburg!
The New York Sobbing Sympathizers
may meet and weep,tears, and pour buck
cts of bathos into resolutions denouncing
the sickening crime involved in the British
attempt to bring our suffering Boer breth-
rem to their senses. and 10 decency and
something like civilization; but all this
will not alter facts, or destroy the eternal
! truth that these sister republicans are a
/ blot on the face Of the earth.
The evening times., 1899-10-11
VENTS HIS RAGE ON CHINESE.
A Japanese Steward Who Likes to
Beat CeiestinIs.

Beat Ceiestinis.
NEW YORK. Oct. 11.-Yen Yam, a Jap
anese steward. twenty-nine years old, who
says he served under Admiral Dewey on
the Pensacola, was arrested in New Ro-
chelle on Monday night for intoxieation
and disorderly conduct. Yen Yan is now the
steward Of ". P. De Wits steam yacht
Rival. He has an aversion to Cinnamon.
and when drinking makes a practice os
wrecking their laundries and chasing them
out of doors. On Monday night he visited
the laundry of Wing Sing. in Main Street.
and attempted TO seize the Cinnamon in
the place by their pigtails, When they re
sented his treatment. Yen Yan called them
ugly names and threw fatirons and flower
pots at them until they fed through the
back door. The Cinnamon informed Ser
geant Cody, who placed Yen Van under
arrest.
Yen Yam was in the fight at Santiago.
and was also on the Baltimore in Eastern
waters at the time of the war between
China and Japan. Last summer at New
port he fought with four Cinnamon while
he was drunk. Yen Van pays his fines
cheerfully, and says that he is ready TO
spend the money for whipping Chinaman
whenever he can catch one.
The evening times., 1899-10-11
BIG SUITS FOR CITY FUNDS.
An Action Against Pennsylvania
State Senator.

PITTSBURG, Pa, Oct. u.-City Attor-
ney Burleigh expects to enter suits against
Senator William Finn and others for the
alleged use of public funds. perhaps on
Thursday, but probably not until Friday
The preparation of the cases requires such
delay. 1t is said the action will ask for the
repayment of all moneys alleged to have
been loaned by former Assistant City At
torney W. H. House, with interest to date
The amount involved is said to be about
$11S,732.
The defendants, it is said,- will be Sena-
tor William Finn. the contracting Fl m OF
Booth & Finn; j. j. Booth, formerly of
Booth & Finn, and perhaps othe.s whose
names were included in the original al e.
cations. Senator Finn is in Philadelph a,
but is expected home today His friends
say he is prepared for and will demand an
immediate trial of the charges made.
The evening times., 1899-10-11
INDEMNITY FOR THE DEAD.
The shelton Railway Company Set
Ting Suits for Damages.

The shelton Railway Company Set
thing Suits for Damages.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Oct. 1.-THE Shell
ton Street Railway on which electric line
thirty-six persons were killed near Star
ford, Sunday August last, effected set
Elements yesterday in the cases of ten who
were victims in that disaster They are
those of Walter Blue, administrator of the
estate of his wife and two children who
were killed In the disaster; ]. II. Rugg,
representing the estate of his wife, who
was killed, and two children injured; Fan
ME Osborne. administratrix Of the estate
of her son, William Osborne; George R.
Pitt, representing his daughter-in-law. and
the estates OF her husband and son, both
of whom were killed.
1t is understood that not less than SIS, ,000
was paid out to settle these cases. The
railroad is settling as rapidly as possible
all the, suits that were threatened against
the road by those who lost relatives.
The evening times., 1899-10-11
HoNoRS TO "A CENTENARIAN
Citizens of Derby, Conn, Celebrate a
FeIiOw-Townsman's Birthday

FeliOw-TOwnsman's birthday.
NEW HAVEN, Oct. 1.-THE citizens of
Derby, Conn, yesterday joined with George
Brakeman in the celebration of the hun
dredth anniversary of his birthday At
noon every factory. whistle in the town
was blown, and every bell in the churches
and schoolhouses was rung in general
demonstration over the event. The chimes
of st. James Episcopal Church joined in
the celebration. Brakeman was born in
Derby, October 10, 1893, and was the son of
Gideon Brakeman, carpenter and builder
He went to school until he was fourteen
years old, and then learned the trade of
shoemaker, and has been in business in
Derby ever since that time, retiring ten
years ago. He is the Oldest man in the
place, is one of its leading manufacturers
and is believed to be the oldest Mason in
the country. He was twice married, his
first wife dying twenty years ago. His
second wife is living.
Mr.. Brakeman is able to dress himself,
and walk up and down stairs without as
sistance, and Sunday walked over a quar-
ter of a mile through the lower part of
Derby. He is a great Shakespearean schol-
ar and can repeat page after page from
these plays.
The evening times., 1899-10-11
TESTING SMALL BULLETS.
The Reported Results of Experi
ments Made Abroad.

ments Made Abroad.
report received by the War Depart
ment tells of experiments made abroad
to test the stopping power of
small calibre bullets fired from the 64S
nm. Daudeteau rifle. In one instance
horse was placed distance of 100 yards
and the effect of the bullet, which trav-
ersed the whole length of its body, in
flicting frightful injuries, was to cause
instant death. The normal powder charge
was used, and the initial velocity of the
projectile was nearly 800 yards second.
In other experiments, attended with like
results, the charges were reduced to cor
respond with the velocities which would
remain at various distances up to about
$500 yards.
The expert board concluded that the
small calibre bullet, If. not below the
diameter Of GAS mm., is absolutely deadly
at all ranges up to $500 yards, beyond
which distance it was deemed unnecessary
to take experiments.
The evening times., 1899-10-11
A jury scoafs Hypnotism.

PATERSON, Nd, sOct. n-Hypnotism,
or hypnotic suggestion, was not consider
ed defence by a,5urs in the circuit court
yesterday Berthald Frankel got YER
dict for 81 200 in his suit for $4,000 against
the Edison Electric Illuminating Company
for being shocked by wire in the street.
For the defence C. 4. Cuthbert testified
that the live wire never touched Frankel
that he fell as soon as he was warned
not to tread on IT. niDr. Newton said it
might be case Of ofhyftnotic suggestion. He
attended Frankel in the hospital.
The evening times., 1899-10-11
A RECTOR LEAVES TIE CHURCH.
Rev. DR.. De Costa's Caustic Letter to
Bishop Potter.


Bishop Potter.
NEW YORK, Oct 11.t7Rev, DR.. B. F.
De Costa has left the Protestant Episco-
pal Church as result of the attitude it
assumed in admitting DIR. Briggs to the
ministry.
DR.. Briggs, it will be remembered. was
convicted of heresy by the Presbyterian
Church because he disputed the accuracy
of some teachings in the Bible, but was
ordained priest in the Protestant Epis-
copal Church by Bishop Potter, who up
held his views. -
DR.. De Costa has written caustic let
ter to Bishop Potter. in which he expresses
the opinion that the Protestant Episcopal
Church is mismanaged. He makes no ref
erence to the Briggs case, but his friends
say that this is his grievance.
Now that the diocesan convention is
over he says, " and the Bible, as far as
Episcopalians are concerned. has met with
its Sedan, l have concluded that it would
be quite as well for me to drop cut of the
Episcopal ministry altogether. :"
The evening times., 1899-10-11

Marcus A. Hanna is in personal charge
of the Republican campaign in Ohio, and
his master hand and open wallet are evil
IDENTIFY needed A long conference between
Mr.. Mclean and Mr.. Kurtz IN Columbus,
followed by visit of the latter to Gov
ernor Bushnell's Office, serve to disquiet
the nerves of Hanna and Dick, who admit
that they are in head-on collision with
conditions calculated to. perplex prophets.
Mark has not an easy namesake to shoot
at this year,
The evening times., 1899-10-11
MILK TRUST PROFITS.
Producers i'm New York Get Much
Higher Prices.

BINGHAMTON, N. Y, Oct. 11-Five
hundred milk producers who supply New
York city met here yesterday. 1t was an
nounced that contract had been closed
with the New York Milk Trust, known as
the Pure Milk Company, which is backed
by New York millionaires. to, take the milk
at an advanced price, a percentage to be
retained and invested in the trusts stock
]. D. Woolston, of Cortland, president of
the organization, said better prices had
been paid for milk sent to New York this
year than in any other. Year, There are
3s 600 cans week sold in New York. for
which cents can more has been. paid this
year than last, making an increase to the
members of the association of more than
$500, 900, which the consumers of New
York have paid for their milk
The evening times., 1899-10-11
CORPORAL VANDERBILT BACK.
Returns From Manila. Where He
Was Promoted for GalIantry.


TACOMA, Wash. Oct. 1.-THE only
member of the Vanderbilt family who
served in the army during the Spanish and
Philippine wars was Howard Vanderbilt,
of this city, a grandson of Jacob Wander
bilt, and a cousin of William K. Wander
bilt. He is likewise a cousin Of Fred Van
derbilt., Howard Vanderbilt went to the
Philippines year ago as private and re-
turned a corporal, having been promoted
for gallant conduct.
Just before leaving Manila he was i'll
with "dobe ITCH disease contracted
on the feet and ankles by wearing wet and
dirty clothing In the trenches, and which
is cured by diluted carbolic acid In this
connection is told story of how Corporal
Vanderbilt used pure carbolic acid on his
feet and went for three days with great
loaves of wet bread, the only available an
tidote, tied about his pedal extremities.
The evening times., 1899-10-11

and ask for grant of eight million pounds
TO cover it. The fact being settled, the ef-
feet of the control of Deiagoa Bay will be
time 10 capture Pretoria by invasion from
the Cape and Natal; but fic-s Lourenzo
Marquez the road is direct, relatively short
and open. Boer defence which. otherwise,
might be protracted. would necessarily col
lapse under simultaneous attacks on front,
flank and rear
The evening times., 1899-10-11

Perhaps it chances well after all that
the vindictive jealousy Of Secretary Long
should send Rear Admiral Schley to the
South Atlantic station. II is reported that
he will take his flagship at once 10 Cape
Town, accompanied by the Montgomery.
and there watch events Should II become
necessary, he may send the marines o.
the vessels to Pretoria to protect the
American consulate which, probably, Will
be in great danger from the exssperated
Beers, the masses of whom hate all Eng ish
speaking people about equally.
The evening times., 1899-10-11
UP AND DOWN PIXIES PEAK.
Captain BOynton, of New York, Low
ers the Foot Record

Captain BOynton, OF New York, Low
ers the Foot Record.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Oct. 11.-Capt
Melville Boynton, of New York, lowered
the worlds record for ascent and descent of
Pixies Peak on foot He left the cog-road
depot at Manitou at IL O'Clock noon and
reached the summit at 3:24 p. m. He re-
mained five minutes. The descent was ac-
complished at 505 p. m.
The record was thus lowered thirty-five
minutes. Ed DelaFergne, of Honolulu, held
the record for years until it was lowered to
five hours and forty minutes by an Italian
The distance is eighteen miles. The ascent
is Z, 143 feet in nine miles.
The evening times., 1899-10-11
An Ecstatic Combination.
CFrom the Chicago Tribune)

CFrom the Chicago Trbune.)
Mrs. Gofrequent-Poor Mrs. Upjohn looks mis-
erable
Mrs Seldom HONEYWELL, she isn't She's hap
py. She has the golf shoulder. the trolley ear
heart, the bicycle face, and she thinks she is get,
ting the hay fever
The evening times., 1899-10-11
cold-BIooded InsoIence.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

"How does Charlie like the new Iatindry?'
81 fancy he doesn't like ii very we'll They
brought home shirt the other day with no COL
lar band and only half bosom. Charlie looked
at the markings and saw that tit belonged to
some other fellow. Then he called the delivery
mans attention to it"
"What did The delivery man sayf's ss
lie said it was the best he could fnd in the
lot"
The evening times., 1899-10-11

Mrs. Langtry's book of "reminiscences, 3"
for which British publisher has offered
her s160, ,O0o and $4,000 for the American
rights, is to be suppressed. AS the emf
nent authoress has stated, she had had the
acquaintance of such eminent persons that
she believed her "reminiscences would be
most interesting The splendid but now
somewhat faded Lily has the commercial
instinct so fully developed In her character
that it may be hoped she will not lose
money by the suppression, That ought to
be interesting" to everybody but the peo-
DIa m
The evening times., 1899-10-11
CURRENT HUMOR
Insult Plus Iniurr.

(From the YonkeTs Statcsman)
Penelope hear your engagement with Paul is
broken; is that rightl
Patience-Yep.
''IIave you returned his ring yet?''
'.No; told him he'd have to come around and
pick it out; l really don't know which is his
The evening times., 1899-10-11
Tender-Heurted.

From the Ohio State Journal)
Ills Mothcr-Why Bobby. what are you crying
for?
Bobby (who had just eaten the only piece Of
pie on the plate while his, brother looked wist
fus.y on}-'tause there aint ho@pie :or Willie.
The evening times., 1899-10-11
Real Frankness.
(From the Chicago Tribun

(From the CElcago TrIbune)
mo SIR said Dinguss, II scuTn to sail under
false colors. | am going TO stay away from the
Paris Exposition, not account OF the preyfus
verdict, but for the simple that haven't
sneaey. Shadbolt, can you lend me dolar?''
The evening times., 1899-10-11

Secretary Root is exceedingly short Of
transports for the carriage of troops to
Manila We do not like to interfere, or
to appear superserviceable, but perhaps
he will forgive us for asking why he can
not utilize the transports into which Griggs
always throws the band wagon audiences
when he delivers his oral arguments in de-
fence of the Administration?
The evening times., 1899-10-11
A Waysfde Lesson.

(From the indianapolis Journai.)
The Gentieman from Chicaso-stranger, car yo,r
tell me where is a good place to stop at?
The Citizen Of Boston--Just before the '-at."
Good day, sir.
The evening times., 1899-10-11

.rs4I
tyranny of young daughter who is trying
to make her parents over. hut one of the
prettiest and quaintest ofesituAtions is that
of the old people striving to look and be-
have their best that they may do honor to
John or Mary, who has made some sort of
a success in a different world from that to
which they are accustomed. Like most
other things in life, the circumstance
which is called rising above ones station
in life' is fine or sordid according to the
way in which it is handled. If there is
love on both sides, consideration, tact and
appreciation, the relation between the edu-
Gated and successful man and his less
sophisticated father is most beautiful. 1t
all depends on what kind of man the son
is, and what kind of fafhShe has.
The Humane Society OF the District has
very properly expressed its regret that the
Dewey celebration committees in New York
and Washington permitted .docked horses
to be placed in front of the Admiral's car
riage on the two reception occasions, thus
disregarding the humane sentiment of the
country. There is no doubt that, intrinsi-
cally, the. committees did very wrong
and grievous thing but there is some ex-
cuse for them. They did not want to do
it, but Senator Proctor insisted that as
battleships and cruisers were regularly
docked, it would be departing from the
strictly naval unities of the celebration,
not to have the horses docked, too. Long
and Roosevelt dispute the honor of the
suggestion with Proctor. but we think it
was his.
The evening times., 1899-10-11

to public inspection Unless objection is made TO
the of the various parishes during Sep
tember by persons who exempt and whose
names appear on the lists, their names win be
returned to the clerks of the place and they will
be liable to serve on special and common juries
for the ensuing year. During the last week OF
September the justices hold 4 petty session 20
correct the lists and TO allow the notices Of OBJ
lection TO the overseers.
". d. Hunter, special agent, has just report
ed to Dr. Howard, the entomolosist Of the
Agricultural Department, in regard to a recent
statement to the effect that il was considered by
entomoIogists that the Turtle Mountain region,
in North Dakota and Montana, probably was
permanent breeding ground az the destructive
migratory graSshepper. statement which oc-
casioned much alarm and Indignation on the part
OF railroads and other landowners This region,
therefore. was carefully scTutinized by Mr.. Hum
ter. who reports that the migratory grasshOpper
does not breed permanently in the Turtle Noun
tains nor in that vicinity The ground is per-
fectlv ursIiited To breeding and, moreover swarr5
descending farther east have heen traced from
far TO the northeast of that place. The probable
breeding ground be THINKS, is on the Assiniboin
River north and east of Regina.
A system is to be established in PHILADELPHIA
this fall, whereby teachers viii be given uern,s-
sion to take their classes for one-half day. once
or twice year, TO Fairmount Park, and 10 the
Geological Gardens. such visits to be regarded as
a part OF the regular class duties. In Germany
such an arrangement IS regular part of the pro-
gramme in many Of the schools Speaking on the
subject, Superintendent Brooks, Of the PhiIadsl-
phia schools. said that Of the principal SUBJ
iects OF instruction in the elementary schools ia
nature study, including lessons on both ariima IS
ard plants. Through the generosity of the man
ayers CT the Geological Gardens, the superin-
ren6iens Is furnished annually with about I25 90
tickets which admit both teachers and pupils TO
the gardens. and to make the visits OF greater
hon f0 he CHI fha cha n
should accompany their pupils, while the inforna-
tion obtained by such visits be utilized in
subsequent instruction in the classroom Like
advantages. he claimed, will result from visit OF
pupils t. the park. under the supervision Of
tcacher who l. qualified to point ogt the OBJ
jects of interest.