Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-01
COL0NISTS SAIL FOR CUBA
English Army Buys Wagons From
American Manufacturers.
PRIZE FOR GERMAN SINGERS

ing presidential year it will attract more
attention than usual. 1t will be held at the
Waldorf-Astoria on Wednesday evening,
January 81. Between 500 and GOO members
Of the board and their friends will he pres
ent. Last year the board did not have it's
annual dinner because it united with the
National Association of Manufacturers in
the dinner which was given to President
Mckinley in this city. the desire of the
merchants and manufacturers being to
make that dinner as great success as
possible. The dinner Of the board of trade
this year, however, promises to be more
successful than any of it's predecessors, not
excluding even the dinner given to Presi-
dent Mckinley last year, judging by the
acceptances of invited guests already re-
ceived and the number of members who
have announced their intention to be pres
ent. Several United States senators will
be at the dinner and some of them will
speak in response to toasts.
Among those who have accepted invita-
tions are Senators Lindsay of Kentucky,
julius Caesar Burrows of Michigan, Marcus
A. Hanna of Ohio, John M. Thurston of
Nebraska, George c. Perkins of California
and A. j. Beveridge of Indiana. Senator
foreign policy" Senator Perkins of Cali
fornia will speak on California and the
commerce of the United States,'' and it is
expected that in the course Of his remarks
chant marine and the proposed substituting
thereof. Senator Beveridge Of Indiana will
also speak, and much interest will, 1t is
expected. be shown. by the New York mer-
chants in his remarks. Congressman Sher-
man of New York and Fowler of New Jer-
sey also will speak.
Other invited guests will include the
senators of the state Of New York, the
governor of this state the mayor of New
York city. representatives of the United
States army and navy. including the COM
mandants Of the Brooklyn navy yard and
the Department of the East, and also sew
eral members of the Presidents cabinet.
The President has promised to attend. If
his official engagements at that time will
permit of his leaving Washington w H.
Parsons president of the board of trade,
Will preside
The Molineux Defense.
The prosecution in the Molineux case still
has eighty witnesses to examine. With the
opening of another week come reports from
fairly authentic sources that Molineux's
efforts to prove his innocence will hang
mainly upon the possibility Of showing that
Mrs Adams did not die from poison, that
neither in her case nor in Barnet's nor
Cornish's was there anv salvation or nose
bleed which il will be. urged by the ex-
pert DR. Allan McIane Hamilton are the
necessary Concomitants of poisoning by
mercury. Other symptoms which Cornish
and the doctors summoned nv the prOsecu-
tion have described such as violent eructa-
tions of gas will be shown to be charac-
teristics Of acute eastritis produced by the
excessive use of alcohol, unaccompanied
by food These conditions in Barnet Cor
r;sh and Mrs Adams the defense will en-
deayor to uroye. There is likelihood that
Molineux will testify in his own behalf
No one can tell so well as he his side of
the story of the rows in the Knickerbocker
Athletic Club of the effrontery of Cornish
the animus of Adams both of which the
defense alleges No one is so competent as
Jealous of Harry Barnet. and all the other
accusations made by the prosecutor in his
effort TO fit Molineux into the garment of
proof which in mis- opening address ne
stitched together for the poisoner wherever
or whoever that poisoner might be.
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yestors in its purely co-operatiye enter
prise, to whom have been allotted plots of
land running all the way from five to forty
acres In addition to the investors already
rentioned there are MANY soldiers now
located al Nueyitas MatanZas and Havana
who have invested with the company
About a hundred of the colonists who sailed
seemed a very happy lot They appeared
to be quite satisfied with the treatment
they had baen receiving and the arrange
1aents that had been made for their com
forts Except the seed stores the mer-
chants do not seem to have profited much
by their brief stay in this city, for they are
satisfied 10 get their general supplies from
the companys store at La Gloria AS this
store carries supplies of all kinds and as
they are partners in the enterprise, 1t is
but natural The pioneers were fortunate
in having with them and looking after their
comfort Gen. Van De Wort. eX-commander
of the Grand Army of the Republic and
vice president of the company who ac-
companies them to Cuba The general was
quite enthusiastic about the enterprise, into
which he has put a large part of what he
has earned He expects to live in La Gloria
where his son has been since last October
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England has demonstrated the superiority
of the American mule in South Africa and
now the British government is looking to
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US iol wagons ioi 10 "epai'
H.ent. AS early as september iast' pe1o1e
actual hostilities had begun in the Trans