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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-22
Minnehaha Lndre.

At the regular session of Minnehaha
Lodge, No. 1, I. o. G. T., on Tuesday even
ing there was a large attendance of men,
bers and visitors from Independent, Column
bia and Perseverance lodges of the District
of Columbia and Fairfax and Providence
lodges of Virginia. The lodge voted to hold
reunion meeting of members and ex-mem-
bers on April II. Next Tuesday evening
the lodge will receive the annual official
visit of the Grand Lodge, and R. A. Dins-
more, Mrs. Irene Estela Hernandez and L.
Steuart were appointed to arrange for the
reception of the Grand Lodge officers.
There were several interesting temper
ance reports received and temperance leaf
lets distributed to all. The prize game
arranged by Frank Ford. p. G. T., was en-
joyed by all, and the prizes were won by
Miss Nellie Smith and Mr.. Henry F. Smith
piano solo, Miss Gertie Hartsock; addresses.
II. r. Stewart, J. w. Jet, j. G. Smith, A.
N. Garfield, and several recitations by H.
G. Lewis. -.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-22

Equity Court No. 1-Justice Hagner
Barker agt. Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany; hearing continued.
Bankruptcy Court-Justice Hagner.
In re John +. King: hearing on discharge
fixed for April ), 1900.
Equity Court No. 2-Justce Barnard.
King agt Ebbs: receiver directed to pay
funds to committee. In re Joseph c. Crea-
mer; writ de lunatico inquirendo ordered to
issue. Fraser agt. Capital Trust Company
claim of John H. Rothert. Kaiser agt.
Williamson; auditors report confirmed.
McReynolds agt. District of Columbia: de-
cree canoeing taxes. Fidelity and Deposit
rule on receivers to show cause. Riggs
National Bank agt. Paynter ct al: decree
pro confesso. Burche ct al. agt. Arms ct
al: decree dismissng bill with costs; APP
peal and bond fixed at 500.
Circuit Court No. 1-Chief Justice Bingham.
Mathy agt. Schneider; judgment by DE-
fault. Rothert agt. Owen ct al; on trial.
Circuit Court No 2-Justice Cole
McGrath agt. Capital Traction Company;
on trial.
Criminal Court No 1-Justice Clabaugh.
L. 5. agt. Nelson Vale, murder; impanel-
ing of jury, panel exhausted and ten names
ordered drawn.
Probate Court-Justice Cole.
Estate of VIM. II. Dougherty: letters of
coll. bond $500 Estate of James Keleher;
appearance entered. Estate of Geo w
Blake; statement for account filed. Estate
of Joseph Rogers; will partly proved Es-
tate of Jno. l.. Booth; referred to auditor
Estate of Frances Z. Griffith; will partly
proved and petition for probate filed. Es-
tate of Thos Buckley; summons returned,
not found Estate of Chas. BealI: sum,
mons returned. Estate of Michael Shea;
rule returned, served. Estate of Maria
Egn; summons returned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-22
DISTRICT TAXATION
Board of Trade to Consider the Subject To-
morrow Night.
Committee Docs Not Favor Portions
OF the Proposed Bill - The
krsF
Objectionable Sections.

A careful examination has been made by
the committee on taxation and assessment
of the board of trade OF the bill proposed
to be introduced in Congress for the regu-
lation of the assessment and collection of
taxes in the District. This bill was referred
by the Commissioners to the board for its
opinion, and the conclusions reached by the
committee to which it was submitted will
be considered by the directors at a meet
ing to be held this afternoon. The subject
will also be considered at meeting of the
board of trade which will be held Friday
evening at half-past o'clock, at Masonic
Hall, 9th and + streets. In addition to
this subject the committees on commerce
and manufacture on parks and reserva-
tons. and on streets and avenues will sub
init reports.
The report of the committee on taxation
and assessment is elaborate and discusses
fully such questions as the policy of levy
ing personal taxes and offering a premium
to home owners by eXempting from taxa
ton up to $1,000 of the assessed value any
building occupied by its owner, not includ-
ing the assessment and collection of taxes
levied upon the ground on which such a
building may rest.
The conclusions reached by the committee
in regard to the bill that it should be
amended to exclude from taxation chart
table institutions not for gain: that taxes
should be collected semi-annually instead
of annually, as proposed by the bill; that
believing a tax on personal property is
inimical to the best interests of the Dis
trict, the enactment of any law providing
for it is not favored: that if any special
tax be levied on corporal tons not enjoying
natural artificial monopolies, such tax
should be levied on net earnings; that oc-
cupation taxes should only be levied to in
sure identification and for police purposes,
or only in the event of absolute necessity
to insure revenue, and thf bill should be
so amended as to attain Hhis end and no
other; that any building occupied by its
owner should up to 81 900 of the assessed
value. be exempted from taxation, this ex-
emption not to affect the assessment and
collection of taxes levied upon the ground
on which such building may rest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-22
BEFORE THE COIRT
Charges of SaErancy Tried Before
Judge Kimbali

Annie Ford and Julia Johnson, coIored
were IN Judge Kimbalrs court TODAY en-
charges OF vagranCy. The former is blind
and has been On the streets a number of
years selling matches. Each woman had
two little children in court and they We're
turned over to Agent Douglass Of the board
OF children's guardians. Sergeant Jordan
and Policeman Seibert entered the COM
plant against the women According to
the statements made in court the women
who are not married, live at III Ridge
street northwest While the children were
warmly clad this morning, the police told
the court they found but very little bed
ding in the house. The rooms occupied by
the women show that the children could mt
be properly cared for. The blind woman
the officers explained. Is led about the
streets by Il boy. Her collectors, it was
stated. amount to 50 or 81 some DAYS. and
large part OF the money Is spent in bar
rooms When questioned by the court the
blind woman said she was not willing To
go to the almshouse. and a sentence OF six
months in the workhOuse was iruposed
Julia Johnson. who is the mother Of three
children, says she is eighteen years OH
She was sentenced to the worEhouse for
ninety days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-22

high tide, 1908 pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide, G:56 a. m. and 7:51
p. m; high tide, 1922 am and 1858 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-22
The City Lights.

Gas lamps all lighted by 6:53 pm; ex-
tinguishing begun at sos am The light
Ing, Is begun one hour before the time
Arc lamps lighted at 6:3S pm; extin-
guished at 5:27 am
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-22
THE COURTS,

Equity Court No. 1-Justice Hagner
Barker agt. Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany, hearing continued.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-22
Panel Exhausted. =

The regular panel of Criminal Court No.
l having been exhausted, today before
jury was secured to sit in the case Of Nell
son Vale. colored, indicted for. the murder
of Alexander Jackson, also -colored. near
Tenleytown. last January, an adjournment
until tomorrow morning was ordered by
Justice Clabaugh During the interim the
marshal will summon additional talesmen
1t is expected that jury will be empaneled
and the introduction of testimony begun at
an early hour tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-22

The United States steamer Oneida, the
new addition to the naval battalion, District
of Columbia National Guard, arrived at
Fortress Monroe last evening from the
Norfolk navy yard. The vessel anchored
over night. and proceeded on its trip to this
city at daybreak this morning. She is ex-
pected to reach the Washington navy yard
about S o'clock this evening
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-22
Jury AdjOurns.

By reason Of the continued illness of Mr..
Noble D. Larner the jury of appraisers
in the matter of the proposed extension OF
Sherman avenue have adjourned until next
Wednesday at o'clock. Mr.. Larner is a
member of the jury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-22
SPECIAL NOTICES.

TIE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR TIE 10TH
ArnuIi season Of the ImIrral Courcil, Anci6nt
rn a., t.;,I in Washington th. week Of May II
1.sss be-. inf TIL ADVERTISING ll'lic tia' 10
persons publishers are 'iutt"ri-d ny eihsr I,.e
iun..rful t,.sTariI ~ AfilS Temple 10 solicit :u
VertI<inc FOR NY pro- peCtS. booklet, Ir'Srain or
anv other advert s.n= hem" to separate hisn 50
non frrrl tirir money. and requested not 10
give advert Sc.ncnts To any Such. but 70 diSc'Mn
tr,,.,n|,s. tho saI;,c FRANK H. THOMAS
Chairman Executive COMMITTEES.
>, - . 31ar3
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-22
FAIR TONIGHT.
Friday Partly Cloudy, Fresh SoutherIy
Winds.

Friday Partly Cloudy, Fresh SoutherIy
Winds.
Forecast till pm. Friday-For the Dis
trict of Columbia and Delaware, fair to-
night. Friday, partly cloudy; fresh south
erly winds
For Maryland, fair tonight; warmer in
northern portion. Friday, partly cloudy;
fresh southerly winds.
For Virginia, fair tonight; warmer In
western portion. Friday, partly cloudy;
fresh southerly winds
Weather conditions and general forecast
The low area which was central Wednes-
day morning over the British northwest
has moved rapidly eastward to northern
Lake Superior with greatly increased de-
Velopment, and has caused marked and
general rise in temperature, except in the
Atlantic states and lower lake region
Cool weather continued in the south At
iantic states, with killing frosts as far
south as central Georgia
With the exception of scattered snow
fiurries in the lower lake region and show
ers in the southwest. fair weather has been
general east of the Rocky mountains
There are indications of the DEVELOPMENT
OF disturbance in the extreme southwest
which bids fair to advance northeastward
and rain may therefore be expected tonight
In the west gulf states and southwest, fol-
lowed by fair weather Friday in the latter
uASeiiSl. buiii6 Tludy lne ram area Will
extend into the east gulf and south At
lantic states and Ohio valley, and probably
Friday night into the middle Atlantic states
and lower lake region.
1t will be warmer tonight in the northern
portion of the gulf states. the Ohio valley
and lower lake region, and slightly warmer
Friday in the Atlantic states.
On the New England and middle Atlantic
coast winds will be fresh to brisk south
and on the south Atlantic coast they will
be mostly east to south, increasing in force
Friday.
Storm signals are displayed from Browns
Vile to Pensacola.
Records for Twenty.FOur Hour..
The following were the readings of the
thermometer and barometer at the weather
bureau for the twenty-four hours beginning
at = pm. yesterday:
Thermometer-March PA pm, 3s; 8 d.
M. "a; II midnight, 81 March PA am,
70; 8 a. m, 81; II noon. 45; 2 pm. 81 Max
imum, 81. at 2 pm. March 90; minimum,
o. at IN, March %
Barometer-March 21-4 pm, 5000. & n
M. 1898; II midnight, 1904 March PA
am. 1884; am, 1896; noon, so. %: 2 n
m, 36.15.
Condition of the Wafer.
Temperature and condition of water at
8 am: Great Falls, temperature 80: con-
dition, l; receiving reservoir, Temperature
30; condition at north connection, 1; con-
| dition at south connection II: distrihutine
reservoir. temperature, 80; condition at in
| fluent gate house, %; efiiuent gate house.
| %.
Tide Table.
Today-Low tide, Col am. and 6:55 D.
, high tide, 1908 pm
Tomorrow-Low tide, Csc am and 7:51
p M; high tide, 1922 am and 1858 pm.
The City Lights.
Gas lamps all lighted by 6:53 pm; ex-
| tinguishing begun at sos am The light
ing, Is begun one hour before the time
| named.
Arc lamps lighted at 6:3S pm: extin-
| guished at 5:27 am.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-02-24

It may be noted that while the pro-
fessors are disputing as to the COM
mercial utility Of liquid air as a pow
er, the main engine work of the world
is still done by steam. Electricity came
long before liquid air. 1t has been
put to commercial uses for twenty
years, and immense advances have
been made in it's production and appli-
cation. Yet the extent to which it
has actually superseded steam as an
applied power is really trivial-and
there is a steam engine behind every
current Of electricity that is put to
commercial uses. Within a few special
lines electricity is practicable as an
agency for distributing the power
originally generated in steam engine;
but the day when steam shall cease
10 be the driving power of the world
seems to be az far OF as ever.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-02-24

Oaxaca, Mex, Feb. 2O.-Gen. Bravo's'
force of government troops have driv-
en- back the Maya Indians and taken
possession Of several important towns
that were occupied by the rebels dur
ing the week. The country occupied
by the Mayas is little known to the
outside world. It's natural riches are
great, An army officer with Gen.
Braves troops writes as follows of the
country: "All this vast territory which
8 now being reconquered contains
fabulous wealth and an %exuberant fer
tility of soil, which can raise every
thing in the way of agriculture. Its
forests are extensive and have all the
Drecicus woods. The whole country
IS we'll watered. There is an abund-
ance of game, the singing birds, many
with splendid plumage, are every
where. beers and mountain turkeys
are here by the thousands. The W.
catecos, living in Balige, are only wait
Ing to sec the war ended and then they
viii rush for these splendid new fields.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-02-24
In a Personal Vein.

Mrs. Gait was elected president Of
the National Woman Suffrage associa-
ton.
Mary Keith Shaw; wife of A. D.
Shaw, commander-in-chief Of the G. A,
r., died at WATERFOWL, N. Y.
G. B. Patterson, postmaster at Key
West, has been nominated for. congress
from the First congressional district
Of Florida by the Republicans.
Carver B. Cline, a well known
theatrical manager, formerly manager
for Joseph Jefferson, died in New
York from shock following amputation
of a leg.
H. H. Wells, military governor of
Virginia in the reconstruction period,
died at the home of his daughter. Mrs.
James L. Walker, in Palmyra. N. y,
after a long illness. He was born in
Rochester in 1928.
Mrs. L. H. Delahay. aged seventy,
widow Of Judge Mark Delahay, of til.
United States district court, died ut
Leavenworth, Kan. She was the moth.
er of the late Lieut.. Edward Delahay,
u. s. N. and her daughter was the
wife of ex-tSov. Thomas NJ. Osborn of
Kansas. ".
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-02-24

The price of olive oil has been adj
vanced 10 per cent.
Tom Sharkey whipped Joe Goddard
in four rounds ut Philadelphia. +
Industries throughout. the country
continue to dispose Of their FULL out
put.
Sixteen wounded soldiers died on the
hospital ship Missouri on their way
home.
Georgia and Florida Republican ron
gressional conventions instructed for
Mckinley.
The new American Association Of
base ball cluOs has been formally or
gained.
Nearly all the soldiers who were sta
toned at Frankfort, Ky, have been
removed.
The Wisconsin Republican state con
vention will be held in Milwaukee on
April 25. .
Judge Taft decided that he had no
Jurisdiction in the Kentucky election
contests.
The Ohio house of representatives
passed q bill abolishing convict labor
in prisons.
Banking commissioners report $149,.
5 1871 on deposit in Michigan, by 33S1,-
87s depositors.
It has been decided ny the New York
presbytery not to try DR.. McGifert on
charges Of heresy.
Board Of trade delegates from thir
teen cities have formed q compact to
suppress bucketshops.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-02-24
REFUSED BY CENSOR.

| The Message Referred to by Ex-Co"-
sui Macrum in His Statement
Buffalo, Feb. 1S.-The cable dlspatcn
to which Former Consul Macrum re-
ferred in his recent statement as nav
ing been refused absolutely by tne
censor in Durham, was filed by FRANK
H. Nelson, formerly Of Chicago, anu
was addressed to Miss Aldwytn bonu
of this city, who at the time WAS ~
London. and on her way to the Trans
yaal to wed him. Miss Bond studied
music in this city and New York, and
later in Paris. En- route to Paris she
met Nelson in London, then on his way
to Pretoria. In October Miss Bond
had arranged to join her lover, and
was to have sailed on the day tina
war was declared. This act was the
cause of a detention Of the ship ana
an entire change of plans.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-02-24
MoL1xEux TO DIE.

III. Convicted Man Sentenced to the
Electric Chair.
New York, Feb. 1s:-Roland b. au,,
ineux was sentenced to ale ~ ~ Marcel arch
Sing prison during the week e. t o. 7.
26, for the murder OF MIS-. 1a an4 assert.
Adams. He made a statement ASSN aan
Wig sia and d that "yellow journalism ism
had hiSi' put ia a price upon his head Santon Re.
reminded the defendant that his c eoots
sci had already presented all the la nas
to the jury, and that the court G na
but the one duty to perform. e'ni
Molineux was asked abous II LUZ ~
IT was proposed to raise lor WIDER 'l1n, nv "
tha tyial. and he said, when inquiry
Was. mad II regarding his acceptance p;sa1,m:
Absolutely and under no circumi'
stances would I accept such a thing"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-02-24
RESumE e +. NEWS
Cnsualities.

CUBu6A1t1e8
Building No. z Of the construction
department Of the navy yard at Brook
Ign was buried. Loss $1,000
DR.. Bromand of Auburn, Ind, was
seriously burned by mistalSing gasoline
for oil and trying to kindle a fire with
it.
Frank d. Allen of Williamsburg,
Kan, died from an overdose of NOR
phine taken to produce sleep. Mr..
Allen was Il well known newspaper
man, having been connected with
papers at Chicago, Omaha and A,do-
bon, Iowa. His father is n of the
we.lthicst stockme', in Iowa.
Martin Jordan, an engineer, his wife
Mary and their five-montns-oid boy
We're asphyXiated by gas in their bono
ct Chicago. The bodies Of the three
We're found the next day. A leak in 4
gas pipe in the basement dcluged the
house with gas, and when found they
had been dead 70: several hours. The
leak was so large that when workn. ell
from the gas company attempted to
close it one Of them was overcome by
the strong fumes and was revived WITH
difficulty.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-02-24
Foreign Gossip.

The division of the Samoan islands
causes trouble among the natives.
Tolstoi says that 1bsen's when the
There is a strong belief in st. Peters
burg that Russia will soon take Herat.
Six diamond cutting establishments
in Hanan have closed on account of the
war.
Anarchists made q. demonstration at
the funeral Of a nihilist in Paris re-
Gently.
The governor-general of Finland says
that Russian control of Sweden is not
far distant.
1t is reported that England and Port
ugal have formed an offensive and de-
fensive alliance.
Revolutionary circulars have been
distributed in Poland, and many ar
rests have been made.
Czechs are ready to renew obstruct-
i've tactics on the reassembling of the
Austrian reichsrath.
A bill authorizing the sale Of the
Danish West Indies for 17,OO0.Oc0 kro-
nan has been offered in the diet.
The German foreign ONCE will not
interfere in the Nicaraguan canal, re-
garding it as an American enterprise.
Berlin. regards the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty as ..astonishingly favorable" to
the powers in yielding the right Of for
tifications.
Special appliances have been made
for the observance Of eclipses at Green
witch. /.
The construction Of the Transfer
sian railway has been absolutely de-
termined upon. The line will be 1900
miles long and will cost 150,OO0,OO0
roubles.
A tremendous reception was. given
Prince Henry on his return to Berlin
from the Asiatic station. The kaiser
made a speech, In which he declared
that It showed Germany's naval am
bitionk
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-02-24
Crime. and Criminals.

r. w. Bowers of. Brooklyn, n. Y.
Il theatrical advance agent, committed
suicide at Oskaloosa. Iowa.
James X. Brown, colored, was
hanged in the Hudson county jail in
Jersey City for the murder Of Police
man Charles Gebhardt in HobOken.
Robbers held up the cashier at B. G.
Bowman's bank at Las Cruces, N. NJ,
and took $4,000. The famous sheriff,
Pat Garrett, and a posse are in pur
suit Of the thieves.
William II. Stiles, who was arrested
in South Bend, Ind, and taken to New
York, was arraigned in the court Of
appeals. He was committed to the
Tcmbs in default of bonds of $500.
A jury at Kansas City gave a negro
fOotpad a forty-year sentence in the
~peniteItiary for s%natching a white
woman's pocketbcOk. Two Of the
jurors wanted to give him a life sen
tencc.
Cecil Leslie, ''press agent and EN-
ploye Of the Miller 500 per cent swim.
die, has made a confession at New
York, in which he says Miller must
have gathered in $1,OOO,000 out of the
scheme.
Serious charges Of cruelty which are
alleged to. have been committed aboard
the United States army transport Nc
Clellan were brought. to the notice of
United States Commissioner Shields at
New York by A. S. Rarwcll, Of the
crew Of the vessel.
w. l.. Culberson of Carroll, Iowa,
wrote Gov. Shaw declining the offer
Of a position ON the state board of con.
troll rendered him by the governor.
Gov. Shaw declines to accept the an,
swer and has set influences to work to
induce MI. Culberson to reconsider the
determination. %.
Four masked men entered the home
Of Mrs. Maria s. SaXton. an aunt of
Mrs. Mckinley, at Canton. Ohio. Dan
iel Sianker, a brother of Mrs. Saxton,
was awakened, but was prevented
giving an alarm by a revolver thrust
in his face. The robbers escaped With
q small amount of booty.