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The colored American., 1900-12-22
A WONDERFUL FACE RLFAcH

PEACH-LIKE complexion obtained If used
as directed. Will turn the skin of black q
Drown person four or five shades lighter ano
mulatto person perfectly white. In forty
eight hours shade or two lighter will be no.
ncesbie. It does not turn the skin in spots but
pleacnes out white, the skin remaining beauti-
1uI without continual use viii remove
wrinkles, treckles, dark spo.s, pimples or bumps
or black heads, making the skin very soft and
smooth. Small pox pits, tan, liver spots re-
moved without harm 20 the skin. When you get
the coloryou wish, stop using the preparation.
THE HAIR sTRAIGHTENER
that goes in every one dollar box is enough to
make anyone's hair grow long and straight and
Keeps IL from falling out. Highly perfumed
and makes the hair soft and easy to comb
Many OF our customers say one of our dollar
boxes is worth ten dollars yet we sell it for one
dollar box.
Any person sending US one dollar IN a letter
or Post-Ofhce money order, express money or
DER or registered letter, will send it tt rough
the mail postage prepaid or If you wantit sent
e u D., 1t will come by ex press, S5c. extra
In any case where 1t fails to do what we
claim, we will return the money or send box
free OF charge. Packed so that no one viii
know contents except receiver.
THOS. B. CRANE,
122 West Broad ST.,
RICHMOND, Va.
The colored American., 1900-12-22
BLACK SKIN REMOVER.
AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER.

Doth in box for 81, or three boxes for s.
Guaranteed TO do what we say and to be the
"oest in the world" One box is all that i .
required If used as directed.
The evening times., 1900-03-20
WHHBLER'S FUTURE DUTY
Likely to Command the Dep r.ment
Of the Lakes.
Report That the Veteran VIII ne
Made a BriEadfer General i'm the
tGtiOn with Secretary Root i'm Re-
gard 10 the Proposed appointment.

General Joe Wheeler, Il was said today
viii be made a brigadier- general in the
Regular Army and sent 20 command the
Department Of The Lakes, which has been
temporarily under the command Of Gen
eral Wade, since General Anderson retired
on January 20 tt
At the War Department it was said to-
day that the assignment OF General Wheel
er to the Department oi the Lakes was IN
der consideration and would be settled aft
er IL had been considered by Secretary
Root, who arrived in Washington today
after two weeks trlf in Cuba
Il is said that the President has had un
der consideration Tor come time the ap-
pointment OF General Wheeler and Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee TO be brigadier generals in
the Regular Army. General Lee. il is said
viii be given command Of the Department
OF the Missouri or the Department OF Co
lumbia, both Of which are at present with
out commanders, the Department OF the
VI souri, being merged with the Depart
ment Of Colorado, and that OF Columbia
being under the command Of General Shaft-
er who also has the Department Of Cali
fornia.
In Army circles il is said that there is
strong impression that General Wheeler
viii be permitted 70 resume his seat IN
Congress The President IL said to be
desirous, however. thai General Wheeler
shall not lose anything through his sery-
ice with the army IN the Philippines.
General Wheeler's friends say that he
has not decided whether he viii attempt
TO take his seat in Congress, and will not
make up his mind until he has had con-
ference with Secretary Root
Major General Merritt, the commander
OF the Department OF the East, retires
in June and he will be succeeded by Ma
jOr General Brooke who is now in Wash
ingtOn awaiting orders. II is more than
probable that BrigsdieT General Otis will
be promoted TO the vacancy caused by
General Merritt's retirement and viii be
brought home, reaching here sometime in
July. With the arrival Of General Otis,
it Is believed THAI General Wheeler will
be sent 70 either the Department OF Mis-
souri, or Columbia, and that General Otis
viii be given the Department Of the
East
The evening times., 1900-03-20
SURGEONS FOR MANILA
Hospital Forces "a the Philippines
TO BE Increased.

Another large force OF Army surgeons
sailed from san Francisco for Manila yes
terday on the transport Meade Surgeon
General Sternberg is doing everything pos
sible to prepare for the coming wet season
when sickness is expected TO increase
among the troops in the Philippines
All the hospitals at Ma:ila are to be sup
piled with large corps OF medical officers
and the various garrisons throughout Lu-
zon and the other Islands are 70 have one
OF more surgeons Twenty -four surgeons
sailed on the Meade yesterday with seventy
hospital corps men and four contract
nurses. About twenty surgeons viii sail
on the transport Sumner which will leave
New York in a few days.
The military passengers on the Meade
yesterday were as follows: Major Davis.
Captains Manley and Dean. of the Medical
Department, twenty-One acting assistant
surgeons; seventy hospital corps men: four
contract nurses; Captain Pomroy. of the
Subsistence Department: LieutensnJ Bur
CESS. of the Fifth Artillery; four signal
corps men, and seventeen recruits for the
infantry.
The evening times., 1900-03-20
Charged with Rigamy.

NORFOLK. Va. March 20.-Mrs. Flora
Miryis, wife Of Ike Mirvis. a grocer. has
been arrested upon a warrant charging
bigamy sworn to by Joel RodOsewsky, or
Baltimore. She has been bailed in the
sum of $3.50 for her appearance in the Po-
lice Court tomorrow. II seems that about
TWO years ago while Mrs. Mirvis. then
single. and RodOsewsky were being mar
RED in Russia by a priest in the Greek
Church. a strange woman appeared with a
eniid and claimed ROdOsewsky as her hus-
bGnd. The marriage, it is said, was stop
ped and the bride returned 10 her people
subsequently coming 10 America. ROdos-
ewsky afterward came TO this country and
settled in Baltimore Upon learning that
the young woman had married Mirvis and
was living in this city Rodosewsky came
TO Norfolk and caused her arrest. The case
promises % be one OF considerable inter-
est
The evening times., 1900-03-20

LOUISVILLE KY. March 20,-SeTgeant
Golden, OF the state militia. who has ron
fessed TO the Goebel attorneys a knowl-
edge OF the assassination. has named the
assassin. The man alluded 10 is a mulatto
named Combs. He was a loader in the
French -Eversole feud n Perry county.
perfectly fearless, and a dea5 shot. After
the close Of the Perry county war Combs
was a barber at Winchester for some time.
When local option prevailed in that city
he conducted blind tiger" He was in
dicted and fined $4,000 While working cut
the fine he escaped and is now fugitive
from justice. Combs vas at Frankfort at
the time Of the killing Of William Goebel
Golden is a friend Of the Powers brothers
John and Caleb. ard was an officer in the
latter's company OF State Guards.
A story. corroboratipg in way the con-
fession OF Golden, is ,Old by a respectable
negro woman, Mrs. Betty Pittman. who
keeps a boarding house here. Mrs. Pitt
nan says that Combs and Hockersmith,
a negro from eastern Kentucky. were
boarding with her at the time Mr. GoebeI
was shot and their board money was
brought TO her regularly by one Of the
porters on State House Square. Combs,
so she says, was known as "TaIlow Dick, %
while Hockersmith's first name is un-
known.
When Auditors Clerk " H. Cullon
was searched az the Louisville jail the
following were among the receipts found
on his person:
January 2O-Received OF John Perkins
50 for board FOR Mr.. HOckersmith. Mason.
and Combs. Bette Pittman"
January 3l-Received SO from Mr.
Hockersmith for board Balance due. 81
Edward Pittman."
John Perkins is a negro porter who
cleans up the office OF Adjutant General
Collier. Combs is now in Elliott county.
surrounded by his faction. and Sc Will take
an army to capture him.
VIII Durham, confined in Jail at Bowl
ing Green. confessed today that he knew
the assassin. Durham says he was in
Frankfort the day Goebel was shot and a
friend Of his told him that he was going to
assassinate GOebel and said If he would
60 with him, he would divide the money
he would receive for the assassination.
Durham says he refused TO go. but told
his friend that ne would wait for him at
saloon. He says he waited and between
the hours Of IL and y O'Clock his friend
returned and said he had fired the fatal
shot
The evening times., 1900-03-20
PORTO RICAN GOVERNMENT.
Mr.. Morgan on the Constitutional
Rights of the Islanders.


Mr. Foraker's bill to provide govern
ment for P'rto Rico was reached in the
Senate this afternoon. and Mr. Morgan said
he wished to speak upon it,
He referred to the recent vote OF the
Senate that the Constitution did not CT its
own force extend to Territories and re-
marked that question WAS presented in the
pending bill. and that he would discuss it.
He then spoke at length on the subject
Among other things. he said that resist
ance TO American power in Cuba would be
as much r@taliion as il is in the Phi ippiae
Islands, and that the national power must
continue &c exist in all the islands until
Congress shall otherwise provide.
The world he said. has a right to be
amused at our discussion of the question
whether the Philippines are part Of the
United States, while We are voting ar
mics, supplies, and money TO suppress the
insurrection Of part Of the many tribes
ia those islands.
The question now presented Is fOurfold
in character: Whether Congress should
proceed 10 provide legislative government
Tor Porto Rico. leave the island in It's
present government abandon il and rec
ognize its Independence, or suffer the ISL
and to float among the nations. like dere-
-iNe 1Aipf 6NDJttl 10 De IlGheO up ana cap
tured.
As to Cuba, the treaty (which is the su-
preme law Of the landj requires shat we
shall occupy the island We cannot aban-
bon Cuba without disgrace. without violat-
ing our plighted faith with Spain Nor
can we abandon Porto Rico or the Philip
pine Islands without inviting anarchy and
internecine war. The abandonment Of
those islands is impossible. and we must
govern Porto Rico an: the Philippines
The Constitution extends 70 Porto Rico
al least so far as regulating the powers
and duties Of the President and his Off
GERS In dealing with persons and property
in that island.
The constitutional power OF the United
states cannot operate TO control private
property and persons there until Congress
has macS provision Of Law extending Il
over them; the Constitution operates. how
ever on the officers OF the United States
IN the island TO restrain them from abuse
OF power. The people should be admitted
70 as full citizenship as We have given 10
the native inhabitants OF all the other ter
ritOries we have annexed 10 the United
States. n this matter our history is con
elusive rpOn US, for We have not debarred
from citizenship any native inhabitants OF
any country annexed
The evening times., 1900-03-20
DYNAMITERs UNDER ARREST.
Eight Young Men CaptuPed In Cedar
Rapids. Iowa

CEDAR RAPIDS. Iowa, March 20
Through the arrest OF eight yoaIg men.
who confessed toputting a beer keg, empty
bottles and a stick Of dynamite on the steps
Of st. Paui's N. K. Church Sunday night
week ago the police have snraveled a
mystery that shocked this city oa the day
after Thanksgiving
Albert Kub3, a bartender and the son
OF a saloon-keeper. confessed that he and
one Charles Mettle had placed four pounds
Of dynamite on the steps OF Attorney w.
l. CrOne's residence and ignited a iuse.
which, had il not failed to burn down to
the cap, would doubtless have killed Crone
and his family. Mettle was arrested at
Monroe. Mich. this afternoon and officers
have gone after him. Kubs was held Tn
der s., 600 bonds.
The other young men may be fined in
the Police Court fOT unlawful assemblage
They claimed that sae fuse % the dyna-
mite left on the chuch steps was burned
in Kuba's saloon. and they only intended
10 have some fun with the preacher"
The affair. IL is alleged, grew out OF the
recent effort to defeat petitions sor new
saloons.
The evening times., 1900-03-20
PASSED BY THE SENATE.
4 Number Of Bills on the Calendar
Disposed of Today.

Number OF Bills ON the Oaten LA T.
Disposed of Today.
In the Senate this afternoon the bills on
the calendar were taken up and these
were passed:
Appropriating S45OO0O additional for
public building at Seattle, Wash.
Providing for the use by the United
States Of devices invented by its naval
officers while engaged in its services and
covered by letters patent.
To reimburse certain persons who ex-
pended moneys and furnished services
and supplies in repelling invasions and
suppressing Indian hostilities within the
territorial limits of the present State of
Nevada.
A concurrent resolution calling for an
estimate Of the cost OF constructing a ship
canal to connect Puget Sound with Gray's
Harbor, via Chehalis River, In the State
Of Washington.
A bill authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury TO hX the salaries of the deputy
collectors Of customs at the SUPPORTS Of
Tacoma and Seattle. in the State Of Wash
ington and repeating all laws inconsistent
Herewith.
The House bill relating to the licensing
Of officers Of steam vessels.
The Senate resolution for the appoint
ment of a messenger. at 81, ,440 year for
every Senator who is not chairman Of a
committee.
The evening times., 1900-03-20
FIVE NEW CORPORATIONS.
Business Concerns Created in BnI-
timOre for Various Purposes.

Business Concerns Created in BnI-
timOre for Various Purposes.
BALTIMORE. Md. March 20.-The
Southern Cafe and Bar Publishing Compa-
ny was incorporated yesterday for con-
Quoting the printing and Publishing busi-
ness by Edward E. Herald Eli NJ. Sbill-
ing. Jacob Wolfsheimer. Edwin Cronch
George Shurekman, and John 5. Mowbray.
The capital stock is S15,Coo divided into
] 500 shares Of $40 each.
The HerteI Company. for consucting the
wholesale and retail coal, wood. lime. pIas-
ter, cement and builders supplies bust
ness was Incorporated by John Lange.
Charles a Singewald, August ]. uecker
Matilda c. Hertel and Henry Hertel The
capital stock is $1,5C0. divided into 15O
shares of SO each.
The Druid Chemical Company of Balti-
more. for dealing in drug speeiaities and
medicinal and pharmaceutical preparations
was Incorporated by Charles L. Meyer
Frank NJ Hall. Solomon NJ Brenner. Ed
win L. Hall and Albert ROsenheim. The
capital stock is $l0,oC0, divided into l .O00
shares Of $40 each.
The Maccabeans of Baltimore were Moor
pOrated by Sydney NJ. Cone, Edward J.
Bernstein, Harry Cohen, Leopold s. Ba-
burger, Lewis J. Cohen. Herman Gerstle
Milton T. Greenbaum. Nathan Haaman. ia
cob NJ. Moses and Max Zurndorf. The OBJ
iect OF the corporation is TO carry on edu-
cational, benevolent and philaBthropic work
among the poor OF the city. 1t has no cap
ital stock.
The Royal Novelty Company. for dealing
in a puzzle known as the Royal Solitaire
and Ofhar novelties al H.,
Thomas West. Jackson. Brandt. George p.
Steinbach, Charles b. Roper and Michael
J. Conway. The capital stock is SIS, GOO,
divided into 5000 shares OF IS each.
The evening times., 1900-03-20
PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE.
a Dispute Regarding the Proposed
Publication of ANfoms

Publication of ANiOms.
In the Senate this morning resolution
was reported from the Committee on Privi-
leges and Elections by Mr. MeComas, and
was placed on the calendar. declaring
Senator Scott Of West Virginia elected and
entitled to his seat
The bill for d submarine cable from
san Francisco 20 Honolulu was reported
by Mr. Hale and placed on the calendar.
also the Urgency Deficiency Appropriation
bill
4 conference was ordered on the con-
currenI resolution as to the use Of the
rooms formerly utilized by the Congress
sional Library, and Senators Spooner,
Elkins, and CocNren were appointed con-
ferees on the part Of the Senate
An amusing colloquy was caused by a
proposition on the part OF Mr. Pettigrew
10 have printed as document o compila
tiOn OF aXioms Of D0liticO-social char
acter, some Of which ne recited.
Il would like 10 know who is the author
of these wise sayings. said Mr. Hale i
viii read another Of them. Mr.. Pettigrew
replied. ~and you will recognize the au-
thor ThereupOn he read an extract from
a letter Of Mr Lincoln. illustrating the
political changes OF that time by the story
Of two men who had engaged in fstfght
strained and struggled til AT the end OF
the fight each wore the overcoat Of the
other. Mr. Pettigrew intimated that the
same change had taken place between the
political parties Of the present day. They
had changed coats.
Mr.. Hale objected 70 printing outside
literature as a Senate document He
thought that the Senator from South Da-
kOta Was too busy a Kan TO collect those
aphorisms himself.
Il did collect every one OF them. Mr
Pettigrew Interrupted
Il am not going TO object, said Mr. Hale
If the Senator thinks it proper 10 have
this collection printed. But I might come
in tomorrow with volume Of table talk,
and ask to have it printed"
What is il all about2' Mr.. Spo0ner ask
ed, with puzzled manner
About everything" Mr.. Hale replied
1t is an omnium gatheTum some of IL
good There are one or two things from
Abe Lincoln, and I do not know thar
Abe Lincoln ever said anything that was
not good"
rs il all on one subject?" Mr.. Spooner
asked.
NO. Mr. Hale replied "lt is On every
subject under the sun"
The Senator from Maine knows more
about my document than do myself Mr.
Pettigrew remarked. He must be q very
wise man (Laughter)
MIR. Hale do not object.
Mr.. Sewell-I do object.
Mr.. Pettigrew-I have nothing here but
two pages of axioms from Washington two
pages from Thomas Jefferson. and tue rest
from Abe Lincoln. l am not afiRid 10
have it printed and let it go to the Ameri-
can people. But ! withdraw the request.
as il has been objected to.
The evening times., 1900-03-20
BURGHERS REPORTED ACTIVE.
nocrs said 10 Have Blown Up the
Moddcr River Bridge.

hocrS said 10 Have Blown Up the
Moddcr River Bridge.
NEW YORK, March 2O.-The Evening
Journal" publishes the following from
South Africa,
BLOEMFONTEIN. March 20. - The
Beers have blown up the railway bridge
across the Modder River. thus causing a
serious obstacle to the advance OF Lord
Roberts mighty army.
This bridge IS fourteen miles north of
Bloemfontein. The Beers are strongly
entrenched at that point. General Jou-
bert is said to be in command.
LONDON, March pa despatch to the
Exchange Telegraph Company from Cape
Town Of toda: 5 date. states that among
the railway bridges blown up by the
Beers in the Orange Free State north Of
Bioemenfontein were those at Winburg
and KrOOnstad.
The Exchange Telegraph Company is
also authority for the statement that il
is officially admitted al Pretoria that the
total Boer casualties have been: Killed.
2'l2O; wounded l.251; sick 4,3Jl: total,
7.722.
The evening times., 1900-03-20
A CHILD BURNED TO DEATH.
Played With Matches During Hi-
Mother's Ahscnce.

Mothers Absence.
BALTIMORE. March 20-Patrick Nc
Gainey, the t,yo-ycar- son Of James =.
McGainey, 10 Eas, Saratoga Street. died at
the City Hospital about $50 O'Clock last
evening having been terribly burned early
in the morning.
Mr. McGainey and his family occupy
rooms on the fourth floor OF the house Mrs
McGainey left young Patrick and another
son. about four years OLD, alone in a room
while she was gone about ten minutes. and
when she returned found the youngest
Child's clothing ablaze and nearly all
burned from its body. She quickly put out
the fire and the child was sent &c the hos
pital. Its face and the upper part Of the
body were so badly burned that pieces OF
flesh peeled of. 1t was said that the chill
dren found some matches. struck one and
the flames caught little Patrick's dress and
spread rapidly. Marks along the wall in
dicated that the child tried to reach the
door hoping to hasten the return OF its
mother
Coroner Germou made an investigation
and decided the burning to have been the
result OF an accident.
The evening times., 1900-03-20
THE PACIFIC CABLE.
Favorable Report on the Bill r
ceiVcd by the Senate

Favorable Report on the Bill Re-
ceivcd by the senate.
a bin appropriating $3.000.C00 for a
cable from san Francisco TO Honolulu
was favorably reported to the Senate to-
day from the Committee on Naval Affairs
The bill states it to be the purpose Of
hereafter extending the cable TO Manila
Il authorizes the Secretary Of the Navy
20 enter into contracts for the cable and
10 use vessels OF the Navy for laying it
If thought more expedient The cable.
instruments. etc, are TO be Of American
manufacture OF the cost is not y per cent
greater than that Of like materials in
the foreign market When completed the
cable is to be operated by the PostOfhce
Department.
The evening times., 1900-03-20
Killed by Accident.

PETERSBURG, Va, March 2O.--Samuel
Green, a widely known citizen OF Dinwid-
die county. was instantly killed yesterday
afternoon. 1t seems that the unfortunate
man was in a store at Church Road, in
Dinwiddie county. on the Norfolk and
Western Railroad, when, some one acciden-
tally Knocked a gun down which caused IL
10 be discharged. The load struck Green
in the forehead and tore away nearly the
whole OF his head. Green was married and
leaves a widow and five children.
The evening times., 1900-03-20
Granted a Writ of Error.

PETERSBURG, Va, March 2O.-Judge
B. A. Hancock, Of the Circuit Court OF
NottOway county, has granted a writ Of
error in the case Of Arthur Ros Jrs, ne
gro who was convicted in tie County
Court Of NottOway some time ago Of the
murder of another negro named Emmett
Boss, and sentenced to be hanged In April
next. The case will come up before Judge
Hancock in the Circuit Court OF NottOway
on the 9th inst
The evening times., 1900-03-20

Mr. Hull, from the Committee on Mill
tary Affairs. reported to the House tcdav.
with recommendation that it lie on TIE
table. the resolution offered last week BY
Mr.. Sulzer, that the Secretary CT war IS
hereby directed 20 inform the House Of
Representatives as early as p0ss. bic what
fOrtichcations Great Britain is erecting.
constructing, and completing along tie
northern frontier Of the UIited States.
especially at Puget Sound and other places
on the Pacific Ocean. contiguous to the
State Of Washington and the district Of
Alaska"
The resolution had keen referred 10 the
War Department, and was returned to the
Committee with the followiog endorse
ment
'Adjutant Generals Once.
Washington, D. c. March 20 1900
The information the department pos
sesses in this and like cases has always
been held 10 be confidential and for good
and sufficient reasons has not been made
public. II is remarked, however. that
Great Britain. so far as the department is
Informed. is in no instance erecting forth
hcations trespassing upon our rights.
H. G CORBIN.
''Adjutant General"
An effort was made by Mr.. Sulzer and
by Mr.. Richardson TO get twenty minutes
debate on a side, but a motion TO Law on
the table not being debatable unanimous
consent was necessary 20 secure it. This
was not forthcoming Mr. Hull saying he
did not think the matter deserving Of hat
much attention.
Mr- SuiZer had Eve minutes accorded him
IN which 10 express his opinion that the
Administration was being humbugged by
the Government Of Great Britain. The
resolution, he said, had been introduced in
good faith. General COrbin's endorsement
ne characterized as ridiculous. for no con
hdential or secret information had ben
asked for.
The resolution, in accordance with the
recommendation Of the committee. Was
laid on the table by a vote OF 10 TO 81.
The special order was then taken up. the
Loud bill 10 amend the Postal laws relating
10 secOud-class mail matter An agree
ment was reached that general debate
should continue until O'Clock Thursday;
that from 20 4 o'clock that day TO be con-
sidered under the five minute Iule for
lmsldment, and that at 4 o'clock the vote
be aiken on its passage.
The evening times., 1900-03-20
FIRE IN A LEAD FACTORY.
a Portion of the Plant harmed. With
$4,000 Loss.

PORT RICHMOND. y. Y. March 2O-A
portion Of the works Of the National Lead
Company, at Port Richmond. S. l., was de-
stroyed by fire this morning, entailiug a
loss Of $50. 600. Crossed electric wires caus-
ed the flames
The building that burned was frame two
stories high, and enclosing a space Of 400
b. 200 feet. In the structure were ] 500
tons Of white lead in process o. corroding,
and this was practically destroyed. tOgeth-
CT with considerable machinery. The fire
was under control at $50 o'clock