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Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-01-24
The German bark Marie has been
seized by British cruiser because -four
for the Transvaal was on board.

The German bark Marie has been
seized by British cruiser because -four
for the Transvaal was on board.
The Germans insist upon fairness,
and say their ships shall no longer be
seized at will. England will be asked
to mend her ways.
Martin Bergen Of Worcester, Mass.
a member of the Boston baseball team,
shot and killed his wife and two chill
dren at his home in North Brookfield.
Mrs. Susan G. Tevis Of San Francisco
received nearly all the estate of her
late husband, Lloyd Tevis, by a decree
OF distribution from Judge Coffey. 1t
is valued at about $7,000,0O0. t.,-
The Mormons holding fat Offices are
being investigated. Federal Jobs may
be held by men OF plural families, but
the president has never been advised of
it. according to Congressman Gros-
venor.
At every point the Yankee fighters
are victorious in Manila Hughes is
cutting a swath through Panay. Mae.
Arthur Is capturing Fllipin0s and their
arms and supplies. Schwan and Whea.
ton are pushing the insurgents hard.
The Bundesrath at Berlin has abro-
gated previous regulations and grant
ed permission for the importation of
dried American fruits, and also fresh
fruits, on the condition of their exam
ination at the Basle custom house.
A special from Redwood Falls, Mimi,
says a report has reached there from
relatives of old man Slower, recently
died in California, and that he made a
confession to the effect that he killed
Nose Lufkins in this county some IL
years ago, instead Of William Rose,
who was afterward hung for the crime.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-01-24
Men Are Quitting.

Wallace, Idaho, Jan. 23.-There has
been an unusual number of men quitting
from the different mines up Canyon creek
recently, although the exact number can
not be learned. People not in sympathy
with the state administration assert that
there are scores Of them.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-01-24
Mniar Klns.nury sued.

Spokane, Jan. 24.-Major b. C. Kings.
bury, the widely known mining man OF
this city, has been made defendant in
two suits aggregating $4,000 damages for
alleged breach OF promise and seduction OF
Lizzie Schumacher, l7-year-old girl re-
siding in this city.
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warshfp Is Aground.

st. Petersburg, Jan. 20.-The Russian
ironclad Poltava, Of 10000 tons, is dan
geronsly ashore near Ubau, on the Rai-
tic. The vessel was constructed at st.
Petersburg in 1894 at a cost Of s5,495,-
coo.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-01-24

Mexico City, Jan. 23.-A sharp and pro-
Ionged shock of earthquake was felt here.
The duration was one minute, according
to the observatory. Many houses and
churches were damaged but no loss Of lite
was recorded.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-01-24
aerman nark I- Relea.ea.

Berlin, Jan. 24.--A dispatch received
here from Durham says the German bark
Marie, loaded with sulphur, which was
captured early in January by the British
cruiser Fearless and taken TO Port Eliz.
abeth, has been Internationally released
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-01-24

The Toronto city council has ordered
the anion label To be placed on the mu-
nicipai firemen's clothing.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-01-24

Kari Buehling has organized the Hell.
ena brewery workmen as branch Of
the Butte Brewers Union This is . !!
members for the s'nion. .' .es,
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-01-24

{ British railroad workers have decid.
"a to demand an s-hour day.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-01-24
Main Army II Fighting.

London, Jan. 23.--1he war Office has
received the following from General Bul'
Ter:
"In order to relieve the pressure on
General Warren and to ascertain the
strength OF the enemy in the position in
front Of Potgieter's drift, General Lyttle-
ton made reconnaissance in force yester-
day. This kept the enemy in their
trenches in full strength all day. Our cas-
ualties: Third battalion, Kings Royal
Rifles, two killed, IL wounded, two miss
ing"
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gibson & THOMPSON,
Publishers and PrOprietors.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.

President William Mckinley
UNITED STATES SENATORS.
Addison G. Foster ...........-.... Tacoma
George Turner .................-...Sp ..Spohane
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-25
PRINT CLOTH MARKET.

FAN River, Mass, Feb. "a (SpeciaD-B re-
port that this was good week for business In the
local print cloth market. The demand was steady
and all grades of cloth were included in the call
The increase in price at the beginning OF the week
did not keep out a buyer. and good prices were
offered for special weaves The sales equalled the
production at least, and went higher because
the manufacturers were not eager TO sell at the
present prices. There few goods sold for
immediate nearby delivery, and the mIllmen
evnced no desire to make long contracts The
situation improved by the condition OF the cot
ton market, Most OF the mills have enough on
hand or the way to last until the arrival OF the
new crop. but nevertheless they are giving the
present quotations in cotton as the reason for a
rise In the price or CLOTH The Selling Comnnitts 10
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-25

quartet that Mr.. Kneisel will play. however. has
still singular freshness and spontaneity, and
along with certain rather archaic qualities the OBJ
servant listener will discern interesting details
that are usually nowadays assumed 10 be the orig
ina property of Haydn and Mozart, and show how
truly he was their forerunner. One of these ar
chaic characteristics is the fact that, like the in
strumental suites, at that time. just yielding place
to the more highly developed sonata FORM this
quartet is written with all its four movements In
the same key, that of e fat To avoid the monot-
ony of this Mr. Kneisel substitutes for the slow
movement in G major from another of Differs
DORIS quartets. Schumann composed only three
string Quartets 1t is characteristic of HIS methods
that he devoted the year 1912 wholly to chamber
music composing in that year the string quartets
the pianoforte quintet and quartet and one OF the
trios. Quite unfamiliar with the technique Of the
string quartet he buried himself in the scores of
Beethoven's and Mozart's works in this FORM and
within a month had finished the three quartets;
then he dropped the string quartet forever He ex-
presses himself in letters of this period well sat
isfed with the results the musical world ever
since has been, for they among the most richly
imaginative and beautifully expressed OF all his
compositions. In the last three years Of his life
Beethoven wrote five string quartets that are the
most characteristic utterances Of that last or the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-25

leading man of this playhouse. A plan to erect in
Hamburg a theatre modelled after the
Theatre Franchise. perfected, and Baron Won
Berger, the head of the society undertaking this
enterprise, requested Herr Wagner to join It, The
new playhouse will be opened in September. For
his first appearance here Gerhart Hauptmann's
THE Sunken Bell has been selected. Among the
other parts which Herr Wagner viii present
are SchilleTs Don Carlos. Hamlet. Marcus in
Wildbrandt's ARIA and Messalina" Leander in
Grilparzer's Hero and Leander," and Crest In
Goethe's "IphigenIe" For the first three nights OF
this week GALS Ich Wiederkam" win be repeated
The bill OF Keiths Uuon Square Theatre this
week will include Robert billiard in The IAttIest
Girl" by Richard Harding Davis; Harding and All
SID Montreli juggler; Albert l.. Guile tenor; the
Carl Damann troupe OF acrobats; Fisher and Car
rolf the biograph SilYern ana Emery. the flying
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-25
PLAGUE OF RATS IN A SCHOOL.
A PIED PIPER AT HAND. BUT HIS CHARGE is
STEEP.

Springfield. Mass Feb "a (speciaD.-The mag
nifcent new High School building in this city is
infested by hordes of rats. The schoohouse
erected last year at expense OF $4,000. ana
is the pride of the city. Ever since the building
was completed It has been known that many rats
made their home in IT, but not until recently have
the rodents appeared in such numbers as to excite
apprehension.
Some of the older residents of the city account
for the presence OF IN the schoolhouse by the
fact that the building stands where there was
old Jail and an unused sewer runs UNDER
meath IT, Through this. they say. droves OF rats
swarm up from the river bank into the basement
Until about two months ago the rats rarely or
never ventured out OF the basement. or late now
ever they have become extremely bold and nave
nearly overrun the whole building. The marauders
soon discovered the Iunchroom and made an as
saut upon IT, Food disappeared so rapidly ana
persistently that the principal called council OK
and took stringent steps to put an emu 10
these gastronomc feats.
When shut out of the lunchroom the rats tried
70 subsst upon literary diet. Virgil. the ANA
basis and Wentworths Geometry were among
the sufferers. German and French grammars and
the elements of chemistry were devoured Win
equal avidity. Scarcely pupil but found his text
books mutilated
The teachers held meeting after meeting to con-
slider plans for Kidding the building OF the pests
All sorts of traps were set but all In vain no
trap could deceive rats that had digested TIM. tne
theorems of solid geometry; The Schooi CoInnnttSS
proved incompetent as the teachers 10 COPe VII"
the difficulty. - -. -
Egbert Van De Car Of this city. Mr.. Van DE gar
ia acknowledged to be the champion rat catcher
Of Western Massachusetts. He asserts that ne IS
every bit the equal of the Pied Piper OF daneln
No sooner had Mr. Van De Car heard the story
than he went TO the schOOlhOuse to investigate LOT
himself This is what he says or his Visit;
At went into the basement and stayed mere
about five minutes. In that short time counIeo
thirty rats That was in the daytime, too. me
place must be alive with them at night don
hesitate to say that there are fifteen hundred rats
in the building. ,,., c,o,,v,,.
The rat expert waited upon the School CoLnIni t
tee and informed them or his aoihty 10 Iiu ING
temple of learning of It's pest - - Gu
How long would II take you. MI van De CdIs
asked the chairman, Ito clear the schooInouse OF
rats and what would you charge the city TOT your
services?" 49,. :, $50. tho 70
ply but I believe that L can clean OUT an Ine
rats in three months / want so a week lot my
work and / am ready to guarantee that at tne
end of three months your schoolhouse VIII De Tree
of the pests 80 - 49,. Co. rra
How an are YOU going to do it? asked one Of the
The rat expert hesitated moment
f'That sir I'm not going to tell YOU salo NO.
''It's a professional secret. -
The School Committee still mas MI van Oo
Cars offer under consideration
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-25
NOTES OF THE STAGE.

be played by the company on its annual tour next
autumn. If the stock company's at the
Empire is prolonged beyond May it is probable
that a few performances of Lord and Lady Algy"
will be given and also that the company will be
seen in "A Man and His Wife" which was played
q a matinee at this house several years ago. The
regular Wednesday matinees at the Empire will
be resumed this week and will continue for the
rest of the season.
A troupe of Japanese actors is to appear at the
Berkeley Lyceum on Thursday and give entertain
ments for the following two weeks. 1t is said that
they are opponents of the dramatic school Of
their country, and the principals accompanied
by dramatic students from the national theatre
for appearance at the Paris Exposition. Some &C
count of the company given in The Tribune at
the time of It's arrival in San Francisco, several
months ago. The leading actor is Kawakami. who
is said to excel in MS line of acting in his
own country, being the founder of the dramatic
school already referred to- Kawakami is not only
playwright and actor, but he is also a politician
and the publisher of q weekly magazine called
The New World" He recently tried to secure
election to the Japanese Parliament from the
female member of the troupe, Nine. Yacco. was
formerly one Of the most noted geishas of Toxic
dansng to great & and must not be
singers. who wrongly called geishas
The melodramatic spectacle Hearts Are Trumps"
by Cecil Raleigh. will be given at the Garden Thea
ire every evening and at the Wednesday and Satur-
day matinees. The play begins promptly each even
ing at 740 o'clock, and at the matineeS at o'clock
The present week will be the last of THE Princess
Chic the Casino. The house will be closed for
a week. before the attraction which is in prep
aration, The Casino Girl" will be ready for the
stage
succession of large and fashionable audiences
has attended the performances of The Ambassa-
DOR at Days Theatre, and there have always
been evidences of enjoyment of the work and of
It's presentation by the stock company of the house
At the Murray Hill Theatre this week the Don
nelly Stock Company will revive Lord Chumley,"
written by Belasco and De Mile and originally
produced by +. II. Sothern.
performance of "Corae & Co, Dressmakers," at
run is said to be still before the farce.
''Rigoletto" will be the medium through which
the Castle Square Opera Company will return to
grand opera at the American Theatre this week
William Mertens and Homer Lind will reappear at
the American Theatre in the title part Reginald
Deamotte the Duke of Mantua. Miss Berr
and Miss Morgan will sing Gilda. "Falka" will be
revived on March 8 on which date the Castle
performance of opera in English at the American
Theatre.
Carl Wagner, the star of the Irving Place
Theatre will make his American debut next Thurs
day. After Josef Kanz decided to leave the
Deutsche Theatre in Berlin, for the Burgtheatre
in Vienna, Carl Wagner his successor. He
engaged for five years as the first hero and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-25
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE SUNDAY FEBRUARY 25 1900

did most Of the business in the week for the mar
standards controlled by the syndicate were IN
great demand. AS a result OF the steady safes lne
market is almost bare and II is hardly possible 70
buy any large amount OF goods to-day tor s Ge-
livery before June and contracts that ruhIliis
out are renewed at once. With the price at y
and the market firm the manufacturers have ever
reason to feel pleased. and IL is expected tnat II
present conditions continue there Will be announcer
advance in the price OF cloth in q short time.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-25
Miss Heyman.

The Cooper Union Advanced Class, which is the
second year division of the Peoples Singing
Glasses. will give concert at Chickerng HAM,
Sunday evening, March 4 The programme in
cludes THE Hymn of Thanks" by Kremser; See
the Conquerng Hero Comes" by Handel; "Gaia, y
by Gounod, and some unaccompanied part songs.
The soloists Will be Miss Sarah King Peck, so
prano, and Henry T. Burleigh. barytone The
conductor will be Edward G.. Marquand The
chorus numbers three hundred voices, and the
occasion will be interesting one, because 1t is
the first time in the history OF the movement that
any of the Peoples Singing Glasses have given a
public concert in the middle of the season.
News in Brief.--Mr. Van saar and Signor zerni
will give a concert in Mendelssohn Hall on the
evening of March g. with the help OF Mrs. Morris
Black, Emile de Gogorza, Harry Grabon and
Victor Harris. Tickets at Schuberth's. The
pianists Slot and Sapellnikoff have commits
stoned a Russian sculptor to make marble bust
OF Tschaikowsky, which is to be placed in the
foyer of the Gewandhaus In Leipsic Slot is also
10 provide bust OF List for the same place next
year. Mr.. Henry K. Hadley announces two
afternoon recitals the first to take place at Mrs.
John Elliott Cowdin's, No. 10 Gramercy Park on
February &c; the second at Mrs. Archer Vance Pan
coasts No BIG West Seventy-second-st.. on Mon
day, March L. Mr.. Hadley will be assisted by
Miss Susan Strong, Miss Marie Torrilhon. Mr.
Mackenzie Gordon. Mr.. Arthur d. Hadley, Mr..
Henry Burck and Mr. Alfred 2. De Vato. Mr..
Ernest Sharpe a young American basso has come
TO New-York from European studios and will give
a song recital in Mendelssohn Hall on the after
noon of March s. Mr.. John Cheshire, harp
ist, will give recital of harp music at the Wal
dorf-Astoria at o'clock next Tuesday afternoon.
$50. To help along appreciation of Wagner's Nj
belung tetralogy. Mrs. w. s. Crosby will give q
series OF Wagner interpretations at the home
Of Mrs Charles c. Worthington, No. 90 Fifth-ave,.
the afternoons of March IA, &c. q and q. 4.
Mrs. Harcourt Bull announces a pianoforte recital
her home, No. POI West Eighty-seventh-st, on
next Thursday afternoon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-25
LECTURE ON TRUSTS FOR DEAF MUTEs.
MEETING TO FORM SOCIAL AND LITERARY
CLUB TO BE HELD AT COOPER UNION

Professor Charles Sprague Smith. OF the Peoples
Institute, has announced that tomorrow evening
there will be a meeting held In Room No "a of
Cooper Union TO organize a social and literary
club for deaf mutes. The club is to be under the
direction of the Peoples Institute, and all deaf
mutes and those interested in their advancement
asked to join In perfectIng the organization at
that time
lecture Trusts will be delivered i'm the
sign language by Albert V. Bamiin. and Professor
Smith will explain the plan upon which the pro-
posed deaf mute club Is to be founded and its
general scope. The idea embraces also the intent
to have In the lecture room in Cooper Union a sign
language interpreter during all lectures and adj
dresses, and TO have prepared section of the hall
for the accommodation OF the deaf mutes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-25

Naughty Anthony" at the Herald Square Thea
tre is approaching it's third month. and still at
tracts large audiences. Souvenirs will be given TO
the women attending the seventy performance.
which occurs on Monday evening, March ~ on
Monday March g. Mr.. Beasco Will present his
dramatization of John Luther Longs Japanese
story, Madame Butterfly" which, with Naughty
Anthony" will form a double bill
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-25

Marie DRESSER heads the programme at Mr.. Proc
tors uptown theatre. the Palace this week Adele
Harrington gives her assistance. Other specialities
are Daisy Lowering and her company, in Jimmy S
Marie Mile. Ami, the Patterson Brothers, triple
Reed and Shaw. grOtesque aCrobats; the Nicholson
Brothers, banjoists estrada, equbrist, and the
kalatechnoSCope. TO-days concert. continuous from
till 1890 p enlists Flo Irwin and Walter Haw-
ley, the Musical Colbys. Polite Holmes. c. w. Lit
tleied the kalateChnoscope and others.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-25

Fatal FALL WHILE CLEANING A WINDOW.
Mrs Mary McCord. thirty-seven years DID, OF NO.
on Fast Nineteenth-st wife of a Custom House
employe. was instantly killed yesterday afternoon
by falling from a fifth story window into the ar
shaft at her home. Mrs. McCord was cleaning a a
window when she fell. She was sitting OUTSIDE WIt
the window open. Leaning back too FAR. she lost
her balance and fell out
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-25

Chauncey Olcott will remain at the Fourteenth
Street Theatre in "A Romance of Athone" for only
q week longer He will be followed there by Tim"
Murphy In THE Carpetbag ger," a play which he
ha3 been presenting on the road for some time.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-25

rings: the Averys Roemheld sisters. Halliday and
Ward the Budd Brothers, comic acrobats; James
A. Dunn mimic; s. Stebbns and the stereopticon'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-25

The friends of Max Weber Robert E. Stone and
Charles Fields have arranged to give them en-
tertainment and ball at Terrace Garden on Sunday
evening March T. The three are associated with
Weber & Fieds's Music Hall The entire stock
company of the music hall, headed by Weber and
Fields will appear, and in addition many we'll
known people of the vaudeville world have FASTENED
to offer their services.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-25

broadway to Toxic is making good record at
the New-York Theatre. The audiences are large
and they seem to enjoy the ballots and the other
features of the spectacle. benefit for the Actors
Fund OF America, with a long and varied pro-
gramme, will take place at the New-York Theatre
this evening
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-25

THE Rogers Brothers In Wall Street will be the
Offering at the Grand Opera House this week
Since leaving Broadway a few weeks ago the Rog-
ers brothers have been in New-England. The COM
pany is the same earlier in the season.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-25

Andrew Mack, the romantic Irish actor. will be
seen at the Harlem Opera House this week in The
Last of the Rohans" II played for some time,
earlier in the season, at the Academy of Music.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-25

Agreeable vaudeville ought to be found IN the
continuous programme at Proctors Twenty-third
Street Theatre this week The merrymakers are
Flo Irwin. who will play The Gay Miss Con-;
Patrce Ward and Curran, the Musical Colbys. in
strumentalists Charles G. Fitzpatrick the one
legged bicyCltst; Polite Holmes. Belle Hathaway S
monkey circus, c. w. Littletied, mimic; Provo.
tuggler; the kalatechnOscOpe and other features.
In to-days continuous CONCERT. from 80 till 1890
p m, Digby Bell, Camilla UrsO, Daisy Lowering
and her company Maxwell and Simpson, Linton
and Mcintyre, and Others
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-25

At Tony Pastors Theatre for the coming week
there will be Rice and Elmer in "A Rubes Visit
to Chinatown; George Evans in new songs; the
Tobins. Miss Artie Hall, the Willett and Thorne
Farceurs, Rae and the Brothers Che, the Carsello
sisters, G.. D. Melville and Mamie Conway. Will
Jams and Hood. Tegge and Daniel. Satsuma. Japan
csc jugger and equilibrist; extra features on the
vitagraph and songs by Tony Pastor.