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The Grit-advocate., 1900-11-30
Death OF Lieutenant Kennedy.

Denver, Colo Nov. 27.-Lieutcnant
John Kennedy of the United States
signal corps has been accidentally
killed in the Philippines. Word TO this
effect was received at army headquar-
tiers yesterday from General \. w.
Greeley. chief of signal department
Lieutenant kennedy'S home is 122S
Evans street. where he leaves Il widow
and one child. Il boy two years old
There were no details given in the
telegram announcing the death of
Lieutenant Kennedy. The dispatch was
signed by General Greeley and was
sent to Lieutenant Saltzman. aide on
the staff of General Merriam. General
Greeley's telegram follows:
PLEASE inform Mrs. John Kennedy
that her husband. Lieutenant John
Kennedy. was accidentally killed on
Saturday. November 9th. Convey to
her my own sympathy and the Sympa-
thy of the officers of the signal corps.
who have known Kennedy's faithful
and efficient services in connection
with the corps
Lieutenant Kennedy was well known
in the signal corps by reason of his eX-
perimentS with war balloons. He was
at one time located ut Fort Logan.
where he was interested with Captain
GlaSSford in balloon experiments. At
the breaking out of the SpaniSh-A Amer
lean war he went with the signal corps
to Cuba and with Captain Joseph T..
MaXteld sent up the balloon before
Santiago to recOnnoiter The balloon
was at once detected by the Spaniards
and was the center of Il terrific fire.
II was filled with holes and was com
PEELED to descend without accomplish
ing the purpose for which it Went up.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-11-30

Denver. Colo. Nov. 27.-District
Judge Palmer gave his opinion i'll the
Tramway tax case yesterday and. as
a result of his decision Arapahoc coun-
ty will be Ssh. 900 richer.
Suit brought by the Tramway com
pany was to prevent the county as
SCISSOR from fixing the assessment of
the Tramway company. The counsel
for the Tramway commended that the
company was Il railroad company and
therefore subject to assessment only
By the state board Of equalization.
Counsel did not contend that the com.
pany's franchise was not aSSeSsable.
The assessment of both the state and
county boards of equalization was
based on the same amount of property
including the franchise. Until the year
1856 the Tramway company had paid
its taxes on the county boards assess
ment. In 1896 the Tramway took the
ground that the company was Il rail
road and not Il railway company. In
accordance with this view it returned
II schedule of valuation to the state
board ~ equalization and the board
has ever since made an assessment on
its schedule. The county board has
also made an assessment on the prop
crty and when the Tramway company
refused to pay the county assessment
in 1897 a suit was begun to prevent the
The Grit-advocate., 1900-11-30
CHICkAMAGUA
NATIONAL PARK

Washington, Nov. 27.-The annual re-
port of General II. V. Boynton. chair
man of the Chickamauga and Chat
tanooga National Military Park Com
mission. to the secretary of war. says:
There are now erected on the Chick
amauga field 1O1 field guns. mounted
on iron carriages to initiate the pattern
in use during the Civil War. marking
forty-three Union battery positions. and
ninety four field guns, similarly mount
ed. marking thirty-nine Confederate
battery positions. On the Chattanooga
field forty-tive guns, mounted as above.
mark ten Union and ten Confederate
battery positions there.
In view of the sensational reports
current during the occupation of the
Park by the troops during the Span
ish-American war that the park was
an unhealthy region. the commission
calls special attention to the report of
the engineers. showing in connection
with the last annual report that the en-
tire absence of fever or any general
sickness in the park force has contin-
ued from the time it began to clear up
the park after the troops left to the
present time.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-11-30
DENVER TRAMWAY IS TAXED
AS A STREET CAR LINE

county from trying to collect the tax
based on that assessment.
The suit has been in the courts for
three years and while it was pending
the Tramway company has paid it's
taxes on the state boards valuation
This was done under an agreement
made between the district court. the
county attorney and counsel for the
plaintiff company.
The total amount due the county in
unpaid taxes and interest in the four
years amounts to SS4,O29. The Tram
way company paid its taxes for 1899 on
the state boards valuation a few days
ago Besides the difference between
the two boards assessments for 1890
there is due the county interest on half
of the lax from March LIST and interest
on the whole amount from August LIST.
The decision of Judge Palmer is to
the effect that the Denver Tramway
Company is street car and not IL
railroad or railway company. In sup
port of this position many authorities
are cited.
by this decision it becomes the PROV
ince of the county assessor to assess
the company's property instead of its
being done by the state hoard of equal
iZation
The case will doubtless be appealed
to the supreme court of the state
The Grit-advocate., 1900-11-30
Fall Irrigation.

Fall irrigation has been thoroughly
tested and found to be a success. The
ground will work much better in the
spring and will require onc-third less
water to produce the first cutting of al
fafa. if irrigated in October or Novem-
bcr and for Il season as dry as this one
irrigating can be done at any time dur
ing the winter if the water is available.
Farmers who use the water in the fall
can depend on it that they will not
have. to irrigate in the spring to get
the crop up. This plan of irrigation is
gradually growing in favor and with
an Independent supply of water at this
time wonders gan be accomplished and
much trouble saved in the spring. Fall
plowed land or ground through which
potato diggers have run will take wa
ter readily.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-11-30

Two OF the old cannon which the
English took from the French in 1745
and threw into the harbor of Louis
bourg have been brought to Toronto.
fished out Of Louisbourg harbor and
have been purchased by the govern
ment. The cannon have been lying
at the bottom of the sea for $50 years.
Each cannon is about nine feet long
and weighs over 5000 pounds.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-11-30

Sweden is suffering from the effects
OF boom in manufacturing which
has drawn thousands of the country
people to the larger towns and caused
house rents to advance 20 to 80 per
cent Many Of the manufacturers have
invested beyond their capital and are
in distress. Money is very scarce and
q crisis is threatened.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-11-30
In Favor OF Revision.

Pittsburg, Pa, Nov. 27-W. II.
Crabbe. the Pittsburg member of the
revision committee of the Presbyterian
General Assembly, said last night that
all of the presbyteries have voted on
the question of revision of the creed,
resulting in the revisionists receiving
about seVenty-tWO per cent. of the
votes cast.
OF the 1.Oo7.6S members of the
church S9S.255 voted. The presbyteries
voting in favor of revision number 1916.
those against change. 4G.
\ twO-thirds vote is required to make
a change. The committee will meet in
ton.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-11-30

New Zealand seems to be prosperous
The revenue for the year shows a rec
ord surplus equal to more than So, OOO,-
900 over expenditure. The public debt
of the colony stands at $4,000, 900
($22S. 715,00O) and the financial state
ment proposes that parliament should
authorize another G1000,000 ($4,866,-
0OO) loan to be expended chiefly in the
extension Of railways. The loan will
no doubt be authorized.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-11-30

A firm in Lyons, France, takes ad-
vantage Of the shortening of cotton
fibers under nonmercerized treatment
by caustic potash to produce in silk
webs certain peculiar and very rich
embossed effects. The silken webs
have cotton threads at fixed distances
which, when the chemical solution is
applied. shrink. while the silk, keep
ing its original length, is gathered in
tiny folds. In this way the most d.
versitied patterns are produced.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-11-30

Sunday laws are strictly enforced in
Honolulu. Not only are all saloons
and bars kept tightly closed and stores
forbidden to sell, but anyone who at
tempts to play ball or Indulge in any
other sport on Sunday is carried be-
fore a magistrate to pay a fine or 60
20 jail.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-11-30

Train robberies have become SO fire.
Quent in the west that one railroad,
the Oregon railroad and Navigation
bloodhounds advisable. A litter OF
the puppies has been distributed
among the agents along the line, with
instructions to rear them for the sole
purpose OF man catching.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-11-30

Microbe light is the latest Paris in
vention. A French chemist. Raphael
Dubois, has found a way Of nourish-
ing phosphorescent animalcules in
glass vessels, which soon emit a light
about as bright as the moon. He ex-
poets to increase its intensity and be-
lieves that its being entirely free from
heat will give it scientific value.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-11-30
When the Roosevelt train pulled out

When the Roosevelt train pulled out
of Greeley, Col, woman climbed on
the back platform in order to give
home made cake to the governor. The
train gained such momentum that
when the time came for her to get
of she was Obliged to make flying
trapeze leap for terra firma. She rolled
over few times in the sand, got ND
and smiled at Roosevelt as he stood
worried for her safety on the back
platform. Then she waved her hand
kerchief in evident delight, and be-
came the envy Of a hundred women
who had watched her acrobatic Of
fort.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-11-30

ture was 093: pulse seventy-six. At 0
O'Clock in the evening his temperaturSn
was 800: pulse, seventy-two
His majesty passed good night.
lie perspired profusely. This morning
the august patients condition was
very satisfactory. At 8 o'clock his
temperature was $50; pulse, seventy.
in the general course of his illness
a distinct Improvement is, observable"
The Grit-advocate., 1900-11-30
The Gar Somewhat Better.

Livadia. European Russia. Nov. 90
II a. m.-The following bulletin re-
garding the Cars condition has been
issued:
1.-The Emperor passed a good day
yesterday. He was able to sleep lit
tie and had some perspiration. AT 3
o'clock in the afternoon his tempera-
The Grit-advocate., 1900-11-30

Paper money is at a premium at
Nome. Miners find it more convenient
than gold and pay as much as per
cent in excess of it's face value for it.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-11-30

A minister shakes your hand and
lawyer pulls your leg, but politician
will shake your hand one minute and
pull your leg the next
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-24

Wandered" for this event, and the re-
suit will no doubt be a most brilliant
artistic success. Last night there was
q final dress rehearsal at the Academy
and a peep at the performers showed
everything moving as smooth as clock
work.
The proceeds go to most worthy OBJ
1ect, the building fund of the Freema-
son Street Temple, now in course OF
erection. and every one who loves
music will be more than compensated
for the modest admission fee.
After the presentation in this city 1t
is quite probable that 1t will be pro-
duced by the same cast and chorus at
Richmond. Soldiers Home Theatre,
Suffolk and perhaps Elizabeth City.
The advance sale of seats has been
exceedingly heavy and probably before
night all the reserved seats will have
been taken
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-24
CAN SUE TIE CITY.
Y. m. c. A. gymnasium Notes.

Tomorrow night Will be especially
interesting to the members of the
physical department. The indoor gym
nasium contest begins just after the
regular class work. The whole class
has signi!led their intention Of taking
part in the contest. which is to be
held on nights scheduled below, at
which times the lady friends of the
contestants are expected to be present.
gold and silver medal will be given
the one making the greatest number
OF points at the end OF the season.
Indoor Gymnasium Contests-'rhurs-
day October 25th; Tuesday, Novem-
Der 9Th; Thursday. November 18th:
Tuesday. November eth; Tuesday,
December 18th; Thursday, December
10Th.
Basket Ball Games-Monday. Octo
Der 10Th; Monday. November 18th;
Monday, November 26th: Friday. De-
cemher 9TH: Monday. December 18th.
The Juniors will begin Tomorrow to
practice for their annual gymnasium
exhibition Thanksgiving Day when n
large crowd of parents and friends are
expected to be present
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-24
AMONG OUR COTTON MEN.
RAINS IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND
GEORGIA-HEAVY RAINS IN
ALABAMA

Spot cotton at Liverpool declined
BIG d. Sales, 1000 bales against 5000
last year. The contract market closed
81 to ~ points decline on immediate
months.
Receipts at United States ports yes
terday were 52,S5S bales against AZ, 40
last year and 65 sos in 1898.
Receipts at five leading interior towns
Tor the half week. 1o6.451 bales against
1850 last year and 110,912 in 1898.
New York future contract market de-
clined IL to IA points. closing steady.
October. 9.09610: January, S.97G1S. 9S:
August. S.S2@S.S4. Spot cotton declined
IS; middling. 7-10. Stock, 1904 bales
against 110.6S5 last year.
October contract market in New Or
leans declined 10 points. closing at
STA. Spot cotton declined 3-16; mid
ding. Sc. Sales. 10000 bales.
Receipts at Houston exchange $1,000
to 1900 bales against 11,414 bales last
year and 26,315 in 1898.
Receipts at New Orleans to-day 49,
600 to $4,000 bales against 1iG22 last
year and Hats in 1898.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-24
ATLANTIC CITY.

The Colley Club held It's annual cleo
ton last night with results as follows:
President. II. B. Sibley. re-elected
vice president, w. NJ. Ellingsworth, re-
elected; secretary, C. r. Spiccr, re
elected; treasurer, Harry Smith, re-
elected. Board of Directors-H. L..
Fentress, w. c.. Blake, w. II. Face, B.
r. Edwards. The annual social of the
club will be given on November LIST, ut
the club rooms.
The football game yesterday at At
lantic City Ward between Atlantic
City and Brambieton teams resulted in
neither team scoring. The features of
the game were the work of Face of
Atlantic City. behind the line. and the
tackling of Weber and Colenda, OF the
same team.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-24
Lecture on christian Science.

The announcement was made on
Sunday at the Christian Science
Church that Mrs. Livingston Minis, of
Atlanta Ga. will lecture next Tues
day night at the Academy of Music
on "Christian Science" The lecture
will be free to all Interested Mrs
Minis is the wife of the newly elected
Mayor of Atlanta, Ga. and is widely
known as lecturer on the above sub
jcct
She is the leading Christian Scientist
in the Southern field. being one of q
Board of Lecturers sent out under the
auspices of the mother church of Chris
tian Science in Boston to clear up mis-
conceptions as TO the teachings OF Mrs.
Eddy, the discovcrer and founder of
Christian Science, and to give the pub
lie some idea of the philosophy OF this
new school of religious thought.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-24
FEUERsTEIN & CO.

Mr.. Louis Feuerstein, of Feuerstein
& Co.. states that they have ordered
the Bell phone out of their office on
account of the raise in Bell rates.
MIR. Feuerstein is emphatic in the be-
lief that the Councils of this city
should at once proceed to fix maximum
and minimum rates in the franchises of
the Bell and American Telephone and
Telegraph companies. and put all local
telephone companies on an equal foot
ing.
If the people of Norfolk cannot other
wise secure equitable rates and fair
and just treatment he favors the estab-
lishment of municipal telephone sys-
tenn with service to the people at cost.
-"
THE SPHINX IS STILL DUMB.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-24
Princess Bonnie Tonight.

Tonight is the date fixed for the
presentation OF Willard Spencer's tune
full opera Princess Bonnie" at the
Academy Of Music by probably the
largest and strongest caste ana chorus
that has ever been heard in Norfolk
The very hest amateur talent of this
section OF The State has been com
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-24
Charged with Attemp,od muraor

Wiley Winsley. colored. OF Newport
News, was arrested this morning at
o'clock by Sheriff Curtis. of Warwick
county, and Detective Snowdcn
Wnsley Is charged with having at
tempted to murder n man at Newport
News. He Will be taken back to that
place to-day by Sheriff Cunts.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-24
A MUNICIPAL TELEPHONE
SYSTEM.

In number of places in various
parts of the country, owing to the
grasping efforts of the Bell Telephone
Company to crush local opposition and
hold UP business men and others to
whom the telephone has become a nee
essity, the subject of municipal tele-
phone plants is now being very Sc
riously discussed.
notable instance of this, and one
which will be watched with interest. is
at Cambridge, Md. OF this yesterdays
Baltimore Sun, in n special dispatch
from Cambridge. says:
Cambridge. Md. Oct. 22.-Since the
Diamond State Telephone Company
bought out the Dorchester Telephone
Company it has announced its nten-
ton to put long-distance telephones in
all the business places in Cambridge
and raise the rates. This has created
considerable dissatisfaction among the
subscribers. Tonight number of citi-
zens met and decided to organize Il
local telephone company to be known
as the Home Telephone Company of
Dorchester County The company will
be capitalized at $4,000, to be divided
into shares of S25 each"
Norfolk also has a Long Distance"
company that will bear watching, as it
has, under its franchise from this city,
n right to do local business in Nor
folk. The whole policy of acquisition
and crushing out of rival plants, out
lined so briefly yet forcibly in the above
dispatch. is the standing policy of the
Bell Telephone Company Many cti-
zens of Norfolk believe that It has al
ready acquired the control of it's local
rival CD the Southern States Tele-
phone Company, and this belief is
strengthened by the inactivity OF that
company when its business has been
injured by Bell rates that violate the
Bell franchise and the franchise
granted by the city to the Southern
States.
In various quarters the Virginian-
Pilot reporter has heard others also
suggest n municipal system as one way
TO knock out telephone monopolies and
their eXtortionate rates.
THE SPECIAL COUNCILS COM
MITTETI HAS YET NO ANSWERS TO
ITS QUESTIONS.
CHIEF M. J. RYAN.
Mr.. NJ. ]. Ryan, Chief of the Fire De-
Dartment. says all the telephone com
panies doing business here should be
treated alike. 1t is not fair to put Il re-
striction on one that is not On the
other.
THOSE FIGURES FAILED TO
SHOW IIp
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-24

Stag paint is guaranteed to give sat
isfaction or we will paint the house
over free of charge. For sale by
M'CARRICK & LEWIS.
ScD2l -eod-lm
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-24
Before You Travel.

North or West call upon the under.
signed for lowest rates to all points
via Baltimore and Ohio railroad (Royai
Blue Line), Bay Line, Washington
steamers and Chesapeake Line: flneat
fastest and safest trains in the world.
ARTHUR G.. LEWIS.
s. p. A. Baltimore G. Ohio r.. r.
(Under Atlantic Hotel)
fel7-eod-tt
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-24
NOT APPREHENDED.
r. q. VS. Opening Social.

The first social of the season under
the auspices of the Frances Barnes Y.
and one of the most delightful it has
ever given, came off last night mt the
residence OF Mr.. and Mrs. DUNES l..
Belote, No. 200 Bank street. Charming
refreshments We're served and the fol-
lowing entertainment program was
rendered:
Vocal solo . Miss Daisy Barrett
Vocal solo .. Mr.. Joshua Mitchell
Recitation ........ Miss Matte Bentley
Vocal solo . Miss Mamie Gregory
Vocal solo ... Mr.. j. r. Fcntress
Recitation .. Miss Brown
Vocal solo-"Asleep on the Deem"
MIR. Mitchell. by special request.
Solo ..... Miss MYRTLE Titus
There We're about one hundred people
present and the charming hospitality
of Mr.. ana Mrs Belote insured a de-
lightful evening for all present. Much
credit Is due To Miss Jennie White
hurst. Superintendent OF parlor socials,
for the excellent program arranged.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-24
ChamberIin Hotel Closes.

The Hotel Chamberlin closed Monday
at noon. and the house will be extern
sively renovated during the next six
weeks.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-24
MAXIMUM RATE.
General Public Demands Prompt
Action by the Councils.
Further Interviews on the Subject of Telc-
phone Rates for Local Service 1t is sug-
gcstcd That 1t May DO Advisable to Es-
tabIish Municipal Telephone Service.

The Virginian-Pi to-day gives fur
Their interviews on the subject of fixed
maximum rates for local telephone SER
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-24
MIR. B. W. LEIGH.

Mr.. b. w. Leigh, cashier of the City
National Bank, says he is not prepared
10 say that the present price of tele-
phones Is sufficient to give the COM
panies q fair return on their invest
ment. without which they could not
long operate in this city. He does not
subscribe to the theory that increased
business is not profitable. He thinks
both companies should have the same
franchise from the city and be sub
ject to the same restrictions otherwise
the company having the most favora-
BILE charter would be likely to absorb
the other.
BUSINESS PHONES IN BRONX
BOROUGH, NEW YORK CITY. ARE
$500 a YEAR.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-24
WATER PIPE FOR SALE!

About 5000 feet % In. Cast Iron Water
Pipe made by r. p. Wood & Co. about 10
lbs to foot, In ~ II. lengths, in first-class
condition for reuse. Suitable for water
pipe, drain pipe or sewer pipe. VIII be
sold I'm lots to suit. NJ. It. CASHIN,
oc2l-2w 20 Rowland's WIFI, Norfolk, Va.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-24
CHIEF M. ]. RYAN.
JUSTICE A. j. DALTON.

Justice A. ]. Dalton says the Councils
ought to put the same limits on the
rates of the Bell Telephone Company
that they put OH the other company.
otherwise it will become a monopoly by
ness. He doesn't hesitate to say that
1t is the duty of the City Councils to
treat them both in fair manner. They
are not being treated fairly now when
one has Il maximum rate and the other
has no rate at all. Councils ought to
put them on an equality.
$50
THE NEXT JUMP WILL PROBA-
RI,Y RI, TO 500
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-24
II u u y y 4 3. II X x Il x x 4 n Y

II anpeSrSS as If there is not man in
ana around this community. but what
Is thoroughly familiar with the cXtraor-
dinnry BARGAIN values quoted here in
mems and young mems Fashionable 4
suits for fall and winter. Judging from
continual demands on the goods--Iun- !
dreds OF customers are calling for dupli-
Gates "a of suits that have been bought here :
Nv friends-relativcs and neighbors-
they say that they had no idea that they
would be lifted so accurately and dress
ed SO becomngly-f and mod :
e .,r for such moderately low figure
with suits that have been made-to-meas-
urc by big chargers very consider
able advance In cost and the ready-to-
Wear garment with tho .Burk Label pro-
nounced the best looking and the best
httlng-having more style-tone-nnish
and decidedly the most profitable invest
mcnt-The productions this season by far
surpass any aggregation OF styles ever ,
shown in the history of the store, and !
II seems rs If the people are not slow !,
IN IN finding It out-;fashions latest and
fashions best 30 hand in hand with ,
price iiGurcmcnts that figure for volumes
OF sales and practically pass the goods !
from the maker to the wearer on whole !
sale cost lines.