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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-23
AN ERUPTION OF MAYON.
Rig Stones Thrown Dat and Streams
of Lawn ENDellcd.

Col Walter Howe, commanding the 41th
Volunteer Infantry, stationed at Legaspi,
p l., has made brief report to the War
Department of an eruption of the volcano
Mayor eight miles from Legaspi, begin
ming March /, in the afternoon about 30.
At that time large stones could be seen
thrown out with the naked eye.
1.-The eruption fiuctuated from time to
time" he said, but gradually grew worse
until large streams of red-hOt lava could be
seen at night flowing down the mountain.
one of which has apparently reached the
sea about six miles from here. For one Gay
and night the eruption was accompanied by
a rumbling noise, at times increasing to
roar which was very terrifying. All the
houses in Legaspi shook, windows and
doors rafting. On the morning of March
this vibration and noise was very trying
there was no wind. and the clouds of smoke
could be seen reaching far into the heavens,
perhaps five miles or more above the top
of the volcano. This spread out and COW
cred the town, the sun became obscured
and thin cloud of ashes fell constantly.
1t cleared in the afternoon sufficiently to
show about one-half the crater at sunset,
but the rumbling and roaring with the flow
of lava continued all night. This I'm.
March A. the eruption seems to be prac-
tically over, although smoke obscures the
mountain and steam is still rising from the
hot lava
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-23
OHIO REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
There Will Be Sharp Contests for
DeleEntes-at-LarEe

COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 23-There are
not many politicians here in advance as
usual for the republican state convention
which meets tomorrow. There apparently
will be no contests over anything outside
of the delegates-at-large.
At the county conventions this month
there has been a contest between ex-Rep-
resentativ4L. c. Laylin and Howard Man.
nington, for secretary of state, the latter
being recognized as the anti-Hanna candi-
date. Laylin secured about three-fourths oe
the delegates and Warrington withdrew on
Saturday.
1t is conceded that the delegates-at-larg2
to Philadelphia will be Senators Hanna and
Foraker. Governor Nash and Congressman
Dick. Senator Hanna does not want to be
a delegate. as it is said he will be busy as
chairman of the national committee at Phil
adelphia and will call the national conven-
ton to order.
There will be contests for all of the four
places as alternates-at-large, and these four
contests will be the only proceedings not
in the line of ratification of the selections
o. Endorsements already made. Even the
national planks of the platform have been
drafted by leading Ohio republicans in
Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-23
TAX EVERYTHING PRODUCTIVE.
Principle of the French System of
Raising Revenue.

THE principle pervading the French sys-
tenn of taxation is to make everything pay
that is productive and to aid in rendering
all property productive wherever it is pos
sible" says Consul John C. Covert at Lyons.
in a recent report upon this subject to the
State Department Almost everything of
any value or of money-producing power is
taxed in France. If saloon keeper places
tables chairs plants or statuary in front of
his establishment. or If a merchant displays
his goods in front of his store, or hangs an
awning over the entrance, the city demands
a tax for the use of the sidewalk or the
space in the air occupied by the awning
Everything in the shape of wine. fruit
poultry, fish or any kind of food or drink
is taxed at the gates of the cities. All
banks. stocks and credits are taxed but
money unprcductive is exempt, and no espe-
cial effort is made to get at it.
The annual taxes levied in France are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-23

Transport Sheridan to Be Repaired.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 23-The trans
port Sheridan is to be repaired and altered
at cost of about $4,000. Among the i'm
provements will be a new main deck and
an enlarged refrlgerating plant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-23
NEW YORK BUTCHERS STRIKE
EMPLOYEES OF SWIFT & co. QUIT
WORK.
They Object to New System of Slaugh-
terinE and Presence of
Chicago Men.

NEW YORK, April pa strike Of the
small cattle butchers in the employ Of
Swift & Co. has been declared. and 1t is at
tracing more than ordinary attention
among all the butchers and cattle dealers
in the city. The Swift Company has its
headquarters in Chicago but it also has
three slaughter houses In this city. One of
them is at 45th street and 1st avenue, and
in west 39th street. and the third is the re-
Gently acquired plant of the Eastmans
Company, at 53th street and 18th avenue.
Only small stock, such as sheep, lambs-and
calves, were killed in these places. Under
what is known as the New York system,
no machinery is used in the slaughtering
of these animals, and the butchers work in
pairs. Good men make about IS a day.
An official of the Journeymen Butchers
Protective Society said that when the men
who had been employed for many years IN
the Eastman Company's abbattoir went
there on Thursday they found thirty or
forty Chicago men working. The western
men work under a different system from
the local butchers 1t is known az the
Stacking system. The men work IN gangs
and, it is declared, make less than So a
day.
The Journeymen Butchers Protective So
ciety, when it learned the facts, ordered the
small cattle butchers of the Swift COM
pany to strike. and they did so. The Off
GERS of the society declare they will fight
system of slaughtering small cattle to the
bitter end. They also declare that the
Stacking system is unlawful in this state
and that they will appeal to the authorities
to prevent Its Introduction here
CHICAGO, April 2a-Gustavus F, Swift
president of Swift & Company, commenting
at his residence last night on the strike of
the big packing corporations New York
butchers, declared that the company was
determined to resist the demands of the
men in every particular to a finish. He de-
clined absolutely to discuss the matters in
controversy.
Il am not familiar with the details of the
trouble, anyway he added I'VE are
awaiting the arrival from New York of
our representative, c. o. Young. who will
explain the situation thoroughly, and after
conference with him we will decide on
a plan of campaign
Edward F. Swift, managing director of
Swift 4 Company was said to be absent
from the city, and 1t was rumored in stock
yards labor circles that he was in New
York looking after the companys interest
in connection with the strike. A report
that an attempt would be made to hire To-
cal non-union butchers to take the place OF
the strikers in the New York slaughter
houses gave concern to Chicago labor lead
ers, but they We're unable to verify it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-23
MEDALS FOR LIFE-SAVERS.
Regulations for Their Issue Framed
by the Attorney General.


secretary cage mas issued circuiar eH-
planning how and when life-saving medals
may be given by the government Included
In tho circular 10 an on;ndon IF the Attrnnav
-, ~ -. -sss.. ~
Heheiai' III Which, nc says illus may NC
made as follows:
u. Gold medals to those persons who by
extreme and heroic daring have endangered
-. -. - ,-,.s
'heh HHes III sdVihS' vi eiuea'ofiis u
save, lives from the perils of the sea in the
waters over which the United States has
Jurisdiction. or upon an American vessel.
..2 Silver medals to those persons who
in cases not sufficiently DISTINGUISHED to de-
serve the gold medal. have endangered their
lives in saving, or endeavoring to save
lives from the nerils of the sea in waters
over which the limited States has iurisdic-
tion ar unon an American vessel: and TO
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-23

Giles Dorsey. COlOred, Fires Into n
Street Crowd.

Street Crowd.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, April pa negro
named Giles Dorsey, said to be half de-
mented, caused great excitement in the vi
cinity of Columbus and Franklin streets
about 1 o'clock this afternoon by firing a
pistol toward a crowd of men standing on
the corner and in the scufile which follow
ed he himself was severely injured. He
was shot in the arm and head. but neither
wound will prove fatal Shortly after the
shooting a message was received at the
police station and Officers Arlington and
Sherwood We're dispatched to the scene. In
the meantime Officer Davis had been told
of the affair. He jumped in d buggy and
overhauled and arrested Dorsey on Hunting
creek bridge. officer Deane arrested Josh
Williams, also colored, who was standing
on the corner when the shooting occurred.
Both men were locked up at the police
station.
a street preacher, he became suddenly
crazed and, hauling out his gun, began
firing right and left. He denied shooting
at Williams. The latter, however, declared
that Dorsey did fire at him. and stated that
to protect himself he seized the pistol By
ISLANDERS state that after Dorsey had fired
two shots the pistol was seized by Williams
and in the scuffle which followed was dis
charged again. By o'clock both men were
behind the bars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-23
REORGANIZATION OF THE ARuy
Points in the Bill Reported Inv tn.
Senate Military COmm.ttee


Senator Proctor, from the Senate con-
mittee on military affairs, Saturday re-
ported a substitute for the original army
reorganization bill. The bill provides that
hereafter any vacancy in the staff officers
except in the positionof chief of staff shall
be filled by details which are to be for four
years. Vacancies in the line caused NV
transfers to the staff are to be filed hv
promotion in the line and officers are to he
returned from staff to line duty with the
actual rank held by them When none of
the present staff corps are left to choose
from the President is authorized to select
chiefs of staff corps from the officers of
the army not below the rank of lieMenant
colonel.
The artillery arm of the army is des;p-
mated as the artillery corps, the repinentol
organization being discontinued There ara
to be two branches of this corns 70 he
designated as the coast and the field art;1-
lery. The chief OF the artillery corns .;
to have the rank of brigadier general and
there are to be thirteen colonies Of artiI-
lery. The aggregate number Of enlisfad
men Tor the artillery is placed at II 4iS
The senior major general is given tho
rank of lieutenant general, and the adm
tant general the rank of major eensrai
There is to be one cha plain for each regi.
ment. and the position of post chanIain is
abolished. The President is authorized 70
appoint thirty cadets to West Point fron,
the country-at-large.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-23

Lot Of Plain White
and Fancy Pcrcale
Star Waists. in sizes
from > to ID years;
good patterns - and
worth up TO S1.5O,
fn,.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-23

Made of full-width Figured Denim, and
frinsed all around. Handy. and third he
low the regular price asked for these usefuls
everywhere.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-23

day, nature of the weather. condition of the
sea, the names of all persons present when
practicable. the names of all persons render
ing assistance, and every pertinent circum-
stance should be stated
Affldavits should be made before an off,
GER duly authorized to administer oaths and
be accompanied by certificate shown
In aiiiants to be credible persons, certified
trict In which the atlantis reside such as n
Judge or clerk of United States court dis
trict attorney or collector of customs IF
sne alndaviss are taken before an officer
must be certified by the proper officer 6f y
court OF record under the seal therein ;, -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-23
ADvICEs FROM THE ORIENT.
English Get Camphor Monopoly
Chinese Dismiss Europeans.

TACOMA, Wash, April 23.-Oriental adj
vices just received state that Samuel & Co.,
an English firm, have outbid American and
other foreign firms, securing the Formosa
camphor monopoly for ten years.
The Pekin government has decided to dis
miss twenty-five japanese, Russian and
German military instructors now employed
in military colleges and provincial armies,
when their contracts expire.
Viceroy Ii Hung Chang has legalized big
lotteries at Canton by licensing them. They
will furnish revenue of nearly million
taels yearly, which he proposes to use in
suppressing piracy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-23
CUDAHY'S nIUNIFICENT GIFT.
Chicago Packer Subscribes $780, 900 to
the Catholic University.

CHICAGO, April 23-Michael Cudahy has
subscribed $4,000 to the Catholic Univer-
sity of America at Washington, D. C. The
tender Of the gift was made to Archbishop
Keane, who was appointed by Pope Leo to
raise funds fer this institution.
The archbishop is now extending his en-
ergies in this direction in this city. His
opening sermon and appeal for funds was
made yesterday in the Cathedral of the
Holy Name. Favorable reports were also
made to the effect that the desired sum of
$l,GO,00O will be raised within the next
versity.
Other large donations have been received
from prominent Chicago Roman Catholics
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-23
MRS. SARAH l.. WRIGHT DEAD.
Daughter of Judge Peck, q Close
Friend of Lincoln.

CHICAGO, April 2}.-Mrs. Sarah L.
Wright, daughter of Judge Ebenezer Peck,
in whose house in Chicago the first Lincoln
cabinet was made up, died Sunday at the
residence of Perry Trumbull, 1850 Kenmore
avenue, at the age of sixty EIGHT years. She
came to Chicago when two years old. Mrs.
Wright was the widow. of Col. Edward
Wright, one of the earliest settlers in Chi
cago, having come here in the early thirties
1t was in the Office of her father, then
clerk of the supreme court of the state,
at Springfield. that she first met Lincoln,
when she was twelve years old.
1t was in the old Peck house, still stand
ing in this city, that Mr.. Lincoln and Han
nibal Hamlin met to confer over the ap-
pointment of the members of the former
cabinet.
Mrs. Wright was born in August, 1881, in
Montreal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-23
JOLIET MILLS SHUT DOWN.
Over GOO Men Thrown Out of En-
DIOyment by 1t.

JOLIET, ILL.,, April 2.-Operations were
suspended today at the three rod mills of
the Illinois Steel Company in this city. Be-
tween 600 and 700 men were thrown out Of
employment.
1t is rumored that the entire Illinois steel
plant here, which is controlled by the Fed
eral Steel Company, will shortly be closed
down. The rumor lacks official confirma-
ton, however.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-23
RumOred That His Own Soldiers Are
Planning Revolutions

KINGSTON, Jamaica, April 23.-News re-
ceived here from Venezuela, via Trinidad
says President Castro's administration is SO
despotic that lis own troops are rising
against him, and that military officers are
engineering another revolution
The populace, however, is clamoring for
the re-establishment of social order and
security insuring full political and other
rights. Some of the leading wealthy men
are leaving Caracas for Europe, the United
States and .he West Indies because of the
present regime, which Is classed as being
abOminably tyrannous.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-23

constantly increasing, says the consul to
keep pace with the public debt, which, in
Guiding the pensions that the government
owes to its railroad officials and employees
is now nedriy 5000, 100000, and annually
growing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-23
Former Soldier Dies in pr,.o,

Gen. Wood at Havana, has Informed tho
War Department that a general prisoner
named Frank Walker, formerly private
Troop G, It'll Cavalry. died at Pinar del Rio
barracks on the Goth instant of pernicious
malarial fever.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-06-01
WARRANT FOR TAYLOR.
First Official Notice That the Former
Governor Has Been Indicted.

First Official Notice That the Former
Governor Has Been Indicted.
FRANKFORT, June 1.-The issuance of
bench warrant for the arrest of W. S.
Taylor, former governor of Kentucky,
was the first official notice that an in
dictment had been returned naming
Taylor as an accessory to the murder Of
William Goebel. The Indictment was
filed and entered on record April 10.
The bench warrant commands the
sheriff or other arresting officer to ar
rest William S. Taylor and deliver
him to the jailer Of Franklin county.
On the back of the Indictment about
80 persons are named as witnesses for
the commonwealth. The bench war
rant was placed in the hands of Deputy
Sheriff John Suter, who is acting in the
absence of the sheriff, who is at Hot
Springs.
When asked what he would do with
the warrant he said: 'What can ]
do with it? would serve it if could.
and could do it if Governor Mount Of
Indiana would help me, but from all
reports guess he will not do it.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-06-01
Captain MCGOWAN Found Guilty.

WASHINGTON, June 1.-The naval
court martial which has been trying
Captain MCGOWAN on charges of scan
dalous conduct and neglect of duty in
connection with the killing by him Of
Filipino, while i'll command of the
Monadnock, in the Philippines, yester-
day submitted its conclusions to the
secretary of the navy for consideration.
The court found the captain guilty Of
the charges and specifications, and SEN
fenced him to be suspended from duty
on half pay for two years and to be
reprimanded by the SECRETARY. There
was, however, unanimous recon-.
mendation for cleiaency which will bs
taken into consideration by Secretary
Long.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-06-01
Another Fatality at St. Louis.

ST. Louis, June 1.-Albert Koenig, q
union man, emptied the contents of a
shotgun into the body of Police Officer
Crane and was himself instantly killed
by bullet from the revolver of Officer
Maher on Broadway near the Southern
Electric power house late last night. 1t
seems that Koenig was walking back
and forth in front Of the power house
with shotgun on his shoulder, declar-
ing that he was union man and defy
ing the Transit company and its non
union employees.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-06-01
TELEGRAPHIc BRIEFS.

Paraguay has been officially declared
free from the bubonic plague.
Clyde Congregational church, Kansas
City, has extended call to the Rev.
DIR. Albert Bushnell of Elmira, N. Y.
Captain Arlie Morrison, Frank, Camp
bell and William Medlar were killed by
lightning at St. Clair, Mich, Thursday.
The United States transport Crook,
carrying party of Porto Rican teach
ers bound for New York, has arrived at
Santiago de Cuba.
Emperor William, according to q
Berlin dispatch, has sent a telegram to
the queen congratulating her upon the
success of Lord Roberts
The biennial convention of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers COM
pleted it's business at Milwaukee and
adjourned sine die Thursday
Public Examiner E. M. Pope Thurs
day closed the reorganized Allemania
bank at ST. Paul, Mimi, placing Dep
uty III. @. Koerner in charge.
The interstate whist tournament and
carnival began at Chicago Thursday.
| Well known whist players from all
over the United States are in attendance.
Fire in the five-story department
store of the Pitts Kimball company, ad.
iolning the Park theater, Boston, did
more than 100000 damage Thursday.
Governor Beckham of Kentucky is.
sued an order mastering out 10 com
panies of the state guard. All except
two of them are located in mountain
i towns.
i B. F. Hennessy of the Cleveland EN-
pire theater was notified Thursday thai
he had been chosen manager of the
vaudeville combination just formed il
, New York.
General Davila, commander of tn,
Venezuelan troops, has brought Gen
eral Hernandez, the insurgent leader
to Caracas, and will exhibit him in the
J streets of the capital.
Thomas E. Miaco, theatrical man
ager, who, in his younger days, was
famous clown, died in New York hos
pital Thursday from injuries receives
by falling from stairway in the Nor
ton house.
DIR. Stetson Resigns tI1s Cnair.
DEs MONIES, May 31.-Dr. H. l.. Stet
son, for many years president of th
Des Moines college. has resigned hi
chair and will in all probability ste
out into the world of politics, becomin
candidate before the Republican stat
4 convention for nomination as secretar
: of state.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-06-01
Some Lively Fighting.

LONDON, June 1.-The war office has
received from Lord Roberts q dispatch
dated Germiston, May 30, saying: 1.-THE
brunt of the fighting yesterday fell
upon Ian Hamilton's column. I have
sent him, as already mentioned, to
work around to the west of Johannes
burg, in support of French's cavalry,
which was directed to go north near the
road leading to Pretoria. I have not
heard from French yet, but Hamilton,
in report which has just reached me,
states that about o'clock in the after
noon he found his way blocked by the
enemy, strongly posted on some kopjes
and ranges three miles south
of the Rand. They had two
heavy guns and several field
guns and pompoms. Hamilton
forthwith attacked. The right was led
by the Gordons, who, after capturing
one extremity of the ridge, wheeled
around and worked along it until after
dark, clearing it of the enemy, who
fought most obstinately. The One Hun.
dred and Fourth led on the other flank
and would not be denied. The chief
share in the action, as in the casualties
fell to the Gordons, whose gallant ad-
vance excited the admiration of all
Hamilton is now at Florida, due west Of
johannesburg, and French is few
miles further to the northeast. The
Gordons, the cavalry, the mounted in
fantry and the Seventh division art
/ holding the heights of the town Th,
Eleventh division, with batteries H ant
g and the heavy artillery, are south o
i johannesburg,
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-06-01
FIGHTING THE RATE LAW.
Onion Pacific Makes Answer to the Suit of
the Nebraska Attorney General.

OulOn f6C1nC Makes Answer 10 GAo oAAp VA
the Nebraska Attorney General.
LINCOLN, June 1.-An answer was
filed in the supreme court yesterday by
the attorneys for the Uuion Pacific rail
road in connection with the suit brought
by the state against the company some
months ago. in which something less
than $500,00o is demanded as 4penalty
for alleged violations of the maximum
freight law passed by the Nebraska
legislature in 1898. The answer is one
to the original petition fled by Attor-
ney General Smyth in the case. 1t is
very lengthy and contains various and
numerous defenses.
In one section the company set up
that in this matter the state supreme
court has not original jurisdiction, as
the suit is practically criminal one.
The railroad company further AYERS
that the company is one organized
under the laws of the state of Utah and
is therefore not amenable to Nebraska
law in this matter.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-06-01
EIGHT-YEAR-oLD HERO.
Drags Brother and Sister From Burning
Home and Strives TO Save His Mother,

Drags Brother and Sister From Burning
Home and Strives TO Save His Mother.
MEDIA, Pa, June 1.-Two children
were dragged from burning house on
the truck farm of T. Steer Bicksloe last
night by their 8-year-old brother, who,
driven out by the flames, left his mother
and a baby to perish.
His mother, carrying the baby and a
lamp, fell on a stairway, the lamp set
ting fire to the house. The carpets, sat
urated with oil from the lamp, burned
fercely, and the boy, realizing that the
house was doomed, dragged out a
brother and sister, who were intent
on rushing through the fire to their
mother.
Then he returned for his mother,
whose arms clasped the baby. But her
weight was too great for his little arms,
and as the flames were closing in on
him he gave a last despairing look at
the doomed woman and fled, heart
broken, to place of safety.