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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-12

most arbitrary views The other demands for the
local market were not materially CHANGED
Iron-Pig warrants. hnner. quotations omitted.
Tin. Fime,, SO ls@n speiter. quiet, Nl5@4s;
Lead-Steady, $L70a475. The firm that fixes the
selling price for miners and smelters quotes lead
at N.ls at the close
% % %
FOREIGN.
NEW YORK. Jan. 1.-THE Commercial Adver-
tiser's London financial cablegram says;
Stocks still stagnant. but the tone was arm.
The action Of the Bank Of England in reducing
sequel Of the reduction Of tho French to per cent
encouraged some continental buying OF Tintos and
Spanish q. but neither London nor Berlin showed
except for Baltimore Ohio securities. which were
bought the encouraging earning statement
harder prices for gold, because Of information that
the Indian council was obtaining a higher rate
the demand for gold In India may lead to exports
Money was still cheap at aa2a per cent. but call
bills In the afternoon were rather harder on the
gold exports and a further decline in exchanges
Closing Quotations.
Canadian Pacific, sii; Union Pacific preferred 15i;
Northern Pacific preferred Isl; Atchson, l91; Grand
Trunk. g.; Anaconda. s; bar silver. steady. I'D per
ounce
% % 70
Condition of the Treasury.
WASHINGTON, jan lL-Today's statement OF
the condition OF the treasury shows:
Available cash balance ........"........S836@8 s
Gold reserve 232 69l .5S6
% % 70
Articles of Incorporation.
The following articles of incorporation were filed
yesterday with County Auditor Evenson:
Fraternsl Order Of HAWKS; object. improvement
and social endowment Of all male Afro,Americans;
rxrotaA II ktnu N
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Tin was very frm all day. with demand active on
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the condition Of the treasury shows:
Available cash balance .S1s3 SO q
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A Uniuue Cnntrivance.

People passing along Market street be-,
tween Seventh and Eighth streets were
attracted last night by red glare, re-
sembing fire in the cellar of 715 Mar
ket street. On reaching this above place
the reflection proved to be lights beneath
the coal hole and the glass grating in
front of the electrical establishments cf
The Arrowsmith Electric Company, Mfr.
E. Ross, manager of the above firm con-
trived the arrangement, by erecting be-
meath the coal hole and the glass grating
q row of electric lights with red globes,
therefore throwing out the red light
which led people passing to believe tile
CELLAR to be afire.
The sun., 1900-03-09
TORPEDO BOAT STR|NGHAN BREAKS DOWN ON TRIAL TRIP

A strange fate follows in the wake of
the United States torpedo boat Admiral
Strlngham. AS the grim sea fighter
plowed her way through the blue waters
Of the Delaware bay yesterday, ON her
wav to the ocean. where speed trial
was scheduled off the capes, a sudden
accident in the engine room caused some
little excitement aboard and made nee
essary a second postpanement OF the
trial trip, This change in the arrange.
ments was caused by the breaking Of u
high pressure rod on the valve stem OF
the starboard engine.
The Stringham left the month Of the
Chrlsiiana river yesterday morning at
no O'clock. l. was inten led 10 rnn
slowly To the month Of the Delaware,
and passing outside the capps, have u
speed trial III the deep waters OF the AT
lantic The Stringham was il charge nf
Pilot Harry g. Long, one Of the most
popular Delaware river pilptA anu Is
member OF the Board Of Port Watdens
Others on board the slender lver were:
Rodney Cause, of the Harlan 4 lInl-
lingsworth Company; superintendent OF
Machinery S. ). Caskey, General Snpei
intendent 7. Jackson Shaw, Engineer
IN Charge George Counelly, aud crew
Captain Lewis, OF Baltimore, was in COM
maud.
Bombay Hook Light, which marks
the beginning OF the bay, was reached
The sun., 1900-03-09
.ELOPED WITH A CDMELY GIRL
DR.. D. !. McColIey Deserts His
Wife For Miss Annie John
son a Trained Nurse.
HER FATHER ON THE TRACK
A Woing Which Began Last Summe,
at the Delaware Hospital Gull
inmates in an lEIopement, the
Young Woman's Friends
Are Horrified.

All is gloom and sadness in one home
in Wilmington today. DIR. Daniel l. Nc.
Colley, of No. 235 franklin street, has
eloped with Miss Anna johnson, nurse
at the Delaware Hospital. He has de.
serted his wife, charming little woman,
for young and comely girl.
Mrs. McColley is nearly prostrated
with grief. She refused to believe the
news at first when told by friends yes
terday. She had too much confidence in
her husband, but it is shattered now.
DIR. McColley is well known in this
city, being prominent physician here.
Miss johnson has been nurse at the
Delaware Hospital for about three years.
Size would have graduated in about three
weeks.
The elopers left at different times. Miss
johnson put a lew clothes in a satchel
and quietly left the hospital at about
7.30 O'Clock Tuesday evening. She went
to Philadelphia. On Wednesday evening
DIR. McColIey joined her. Neither, as
far as can be learned, took extensive
wardrobes. This would have been i'm
possible. Ii would have created sus-
picion.
DIR. McColley met Miss johnson at tile
Delaware Hospital, whera she has been
training for nurse. Their friendship
soon ripened. Then they began meeting
The sun., 1900-03-09
LOCAL NEWS NOTES.

Mrs. and Miss Mortlock will give
musicale in the Smith Building this
evening.
An order has been issued stopping
passengers from smoking on the Darby
trolley cars.
A horse valued at 500 and owned by
Jester 4 McDani.l was shot yesterday
becau.e OF broken leg.
August Donath has bought the interest
Of Thomas $. Vernon in the Ches.er
News and assumed editorial charge.
"lIow to get in touch with nature I"
will be he snbipct Of DR.. Schmucker's
lecture in Friends Meeting House 10.
night.
To-day marks the eighty.fonrth ami
versary of the birth OF Henry G. Bau-
mug, president of the National Bank of
Delaware.
Building Inspector Cassidy has granted
to Phiemma Chambers permit to make
alterations to the building No. JOS Or
ange street, for brass foundry, 10 cost
$500
United States Commissioner Smith
heard testimony in the stockholders
~nit sgalnst the Bay State Gas Co, and
tomorrow testimony will be taken in
Philadelphia in the bondholders' suit
against the company.
The sun., 1900-03-09

at the door, and the school room was
well filled, the proceeds of which will 60
to the benefit of the missionary work of
these two classes.
The program rendered during the
evening was greatly enjoyed by those
present, and was as follows.
Opening prayer by the pastor, Rev.
Charles A. Grise; recitation by Miss
Emmerson; vocal solo, Mr.. Howard Nc
Danial; recitation, Miss Helen Hohl-
field; piano solo, Miss Elsie Springer;
recitation, Miss Bertha Porter; vocal
solo, Mr.. Earnest Haines; recitation,
Miss Myrtle Nansant; vocal solo. Mr.. W.
Il. Collision Of Philadelphia; recitation,
Miss Q. Willis; vocal solo, Mr.. Howard
Swartz; recitation, Mr.. Leslie Bnck-
master; vocal 500, Miss Anna Buck
master.
At the close Of the program Rev.
Charles A. Grive gave a short talk on
the heather Chinese, their mode OF
living, customs, habits and Of the great
good the missionaries cent to that
country are doing.
The sun., 1900-03-09
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, FRIDAY. MARCH g. 1900
MORE MONEY NEEDED
BY CITY COUNCIL
An Ordinance Making an Extraor-
binary Appropriation intro
duced Last Night.


In the absence of Mr.. Kane, Mr.. Cam
non acted ae chairman Of the finance
committee at the meeting of City Coun-
Gil last evening and introduced an or
dinance making an extraordinary appro-
priation for public building, crematory
and miscellaneous accounts.
The amounts appropriated to these ac-
counts will not be sufficient to meet the
necessary demands. This, it is said, has
been made necessary by the recent
sale of bonds not having been consum-
mated.
The amount required, it is said, is
several thousand dollars, and in case it
cannot be secured by taxes, rents and
receipts obtained during the present
fiscal year, then it will have to be in
cluded in the appropriations made on
taxes during the next fiscal year. The
ordinance was referred to the law and
finance committees.
The fire committee made no report in
reference to the appeal of the Phoenix
Fire Company for an appropriation for
it's ambulance.
The monthly report OF the S. P. G. A..
showed that 104 dogs had been taken mp
and impounded during February, and 93
killed. Chief Doan turned in S253 as
receipts from dog tax. T.. M. Sayers re-
ported taxes collections of 81, $50, and L.
s. Lewis collections Of S1,015.
%. =. An order for $l2 SPOOL was drawn to
pay the monthly appropriation for the
Board of Education. Complimentary
tickets for the St. Patrick's Days enter
tainment OF the A. o. Ii. were acknowl-
edged with thanks.
The sun., 1900-03-09

each other. Not on the street corners r
in the parks, but at the house of friend
OF DIR. McColley's. This commenced la
summer. They met only once in awhile
at first, but as they began to grow fond
of each other, their meetings became mt re
frequent DIR. McColley declared his
love and an elopement wassplanned. 1t
has been carried out. Mrs. McColley never
for one minute suspected the truth,
neither did the NURSES at the hospital.
DR.. McColley and Miss johnson were
seldom, il ever. seen together sthere,
and when they were they did not show
that they cared for each other.
Little could be learned about the affair
last night. Mrs. McColley, when seen
by reporter OF TIE Sun, refused to
have anything to say. Il have nothing
to say" she replied to each question
asked.
Inquiry was made at the hospital, but
they seemed to know little, except that
Miss johnson and Dir. McColley had
eloped. The police department denied all
knowledge of the affair.
Miss johnson is grand-niece OF Capt.
Edwin Kershaw, of This city. Her home
is in Chesapeake City. A telegram was
sent to her parents and they arrived in
this city yesterday afternoon. AS soon
as her father arrived he began an inves-
tigaton, which proved coucIusively that
his daughter had eloped with Dr.McCol-
ley. He was seen to 90 into the police
station last night, and il is said that he
was closeted with Chief of Police Dolan,
but this the police deny. He was later
seen to go to the French street station
and board northbound Pennsylvania
train. 1t is presumed he went to Phila-
delphia.
As near as could be learned last night
DR.. McColey and Miss Johnson expect
to go South. 1t is probable they are on
their way now.
|. Miss johnson was held up as a model
at the hospital. She was always very
prnClent and quite reserved. She was re-
spected by all. She is very comely aud
about n years OF age. The news Of Miss
Johnson's elnpement with married
man was received almost with horror at
the hospital. She was the last girl there,
they all thought, who would do q thing
Of that kind. She was their model. Their
model has been shattered.
The sun., 1900-03-09

before noon, and as the torpedo boat
passed into deeper water her speed was
increased. About | O'Clock the String
ham was plunging ahead very rapidly.
Her screws were churning the water
white and look at herengines, eight in
all, showed that the propellors were
making $50 revolutions minute. This
indicates about 80 miles an hour 1t WAS
while the torpedo boat was making this
fast time that a loud report in the engine
room told those on deck that something
was wrong. Engineer Connolly shut off
the steam Immediately and au evamina-
ton showed the high pressure III the
valve stem OF the starboald d ENGINE to be
broken. The break was caused by the
rod becoming ovriheated.
The accident hecessiated q postpone
ment Of the tap and the Stungham's
prov was turned northMard. The tor
pedn boat reached larian X Holiings-
wolth's shipta,d ahpit 4 o'clock and
was docked 40 ,iC,. Tue machine shops
presented a sceie ui activity last night.
y new high pressure rod was being
turned ont rs quickly ~ possible The
new rod will belIaced in position early
this morning aid the String ham will at
once go out the Chrstiana in another
attempt to have u speed lrial, Some litt!e
expense is entalrd in keeping the Bhlii-
more crew here and 10 time Will be lost
in getting under wav TO-DAY.
The sun., 1900-03-09
CITY TREASURER is
STILL DEFYING COUNCIL
He Sends Another Letter in Which
He Mentions His Special

Account.
At the meeting of City Council on
Thursday, February 10 when City
Treasurer Hamann first formally mott.
fed that body, that until the controversy
between Council and the Street and
Sewer Directors over receipts from GER
tain sources had been formally settled he
would deposit such receipts in bank to
the credit of William L. Hamann, special
account.
AT that time Mr.. Kane read the
thirty-fourth section of the city charter
which states that all monies belonging
to the city which shall come into the
hands Of the City Treasurer shall be by
him deposited every day in some in
corporated banking institution, or in
stitutions to be designated by Council in
the name of Mayor and Council of Will
mington. He said the law was very plain
and the City Treasurer had no right to
deposit money to his own account.
The City Treasurer has however ap-
parently not receeded from his position
in the matter as he sent letter to City
Council yesterday notifying it that he
had received from the w. & N. Railroad
Company, $3.50, three months rent for
French street wharf and deposited it to
his special account.
The sun., 1900-03-09
To Remove a Wreck.

The bids for the removal of wrecked
schooner from the bed Of Little Creek
are as follows: Charles w. Johnston of
Lewes, 1888, to begin work in ten davs
and complete in thirty; Creamer Wreck
ing Co. Of Philadelphia, $295, to begin
work in five days and complete in
fifteen; John J. Fitzpatrick OF Platts-
burg, N. y, who is now removing rock
from the bed Of the Christi ma River,
1925, to begin work in ten days and COM
plete in five; Cornelius j. Kelley of At
lantic City, N. j., S345, to begin work in
ten days and complete in ten; Joseph
Porter OF Little Creek, $500, TO begin
work in thirty days and complete in
thirty; Charles w. Poone OF Atlantic
City, $55a, to begin work in ten days
and complete in thirty. Mr.. Johnson
being the lowest bidder may receive the
contract.
The sun., 1900-03-09
An EIGHTEEN YEAROLD PHILOSOPHER COMING HERE

a young woman Of leisure, is pianist
and Miss Trueman's enthusiastic ad-
mirer.
The book contains poems dedicated to
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Ralph Waldo
Trine and Henry George. Four lines of
one, entitled Work." give au idea Of
the authors indulgent point OF view;
And work together, each in his own way,
You i'll the home and ii distant lands,
IL ch 10 Ills own self he true. No one can say
Who hath wrought more or less III life's eternal
day.
Though Miss Trueman has never read
Plato or Aristotle or any of the modern
philosophers, she has built up a system
Of metaphysics OF her own, and charm
ingly delivers lectures explaining it.
She declares that intelligence rules the
universe, that mind controls matter and
that perfect Happiness will come TO men
wher they know and live in harmony
with natures laws. Evil and unhappi-
ness, she asserls, come from ignorance
and the violation OF the harmony OF ma
ture.
The sun., 1900-03-09
Died After Lingering e Illness.

After an illness OF about eight months,
Mrs. Mary Reybold Tatnall, wife of Ash
ton r. Tatnall died at Ter home No.
1903 Jackson street. She was suffering
from complication OF Affections. Late
in the fall she improved and it was
thought she was recovering, but in De-
cember she became worse and from that
by death, she was confined to bed
She MAS daughter OF the late John
Reypold, Ct Delaware City, and grand
was born in Delaware City and was "A
years OF age.
The sun., 1900-03-09

The Single Takers Of Wilmington will,
on SUNDAY night bring to this city ii
lgenihs. Miss Al Ss }F.neman, IN eigh-
iiepn.ytar-old phil sTblrr, viii address
a meeting t. he held in the Gtani Olettt
IIlonse at { o'clock SUNDAY evening. rha
,gnlv jther speaker vi | he Professor H.
hs LyRarger, 81 Wrll known orator, Miss
lnpeman j. Singlr raxtr nv hciitage
y be i the daughter of tie president ii
Y Tfe New Haven Conn. Single Tax Ciuh
lYale Slugle Takers he'e are her friends
AT has known Henry George. Edwin
Sklam praises lter.
:, eight wears Of age size had read the
~ from Genesis 70 Revelation; at
stonNlo sh- had formed her system Il
'thu sophy; at fifteen she bad published
ssle hInp conrs, bonk Of poems.
- Sophia" the arPumentative tone
! Ayich ia lightrued ~ an irrepressi.
:, nuthfn fsrtasr. TIE hook is dedi-
ing alto Ntss l,strlr G. L. Sweet. ON
ktha leaf oi Miss Sweets copy of the
;n llis the inscrintinn. 'fFrnm Poetry
philosophy to Music" Miss Sweet,
The sun., 1900-03-09
HOMES FOR N. [. MINISTERS
This City is Prepared to Enter
tain the Visitors of the
Methodist Conference.
REUNION OF THE THEOLOGIANS
Graduates of Conference Academy
Dickinson College and Drew
Seminary to Banquet Thurs
day Night at the Clay
ton House.

Wilmington is quite prepared to re.
ceive and entertain the great gathering
OF Methodist ministers and laymen who
will attend the Wilmington M. L. Con-
ference which opens its annual session
at Epworth Church on March 2l The
hardest work of Rev. Francis Burgette
Short, the pastor of the entertaining
church, is that of providing homes for
the visiting preachers and lay delegates.
That work is practically completed, and
today the list of homes is given to the
public. Some vacancies still exist. Ii
all the churches had readily responded
to their quota these vacancies would not
be noted.
In addition to the program Of the con-
ference Rev. Samuel Thomas, Of Phia-
delphia' has been secured TO address the
Veterans Anniversary on Thursday
night OF conference week. On Thursday
evening the Educational Society of the
Wilmington Conference will have BAN
quet at the Clayton House. The mem
bers of this association are graduates of
the Wilmington Conference Academy.
Dickinson College ard Drew Theological
Seminary.
A corrected list of the homes during
the conference session in this citv,
March 2l-30, is as follows:
Bish e. G.. Andrews, Delaware avenue
and Broome streets, Judge G. B. Lore
M. c. B. Mason, D. D., SIS French
street, F. B. Short.
j. L. Thirkield, d. D., Asbury Par
sonage, James Grove.
]. M. King, ID. D., Delaware avenue
and Washington street, Job HI. Jack.
son.
w. T. Smith, D. d., Delaware avenue
and Washington street, Job H. Jackson
w. V. Kelley, D. D., Grace Parsonage
Henry Baker.
F. Wagner, D. D., Asbury Parsonage
James Grove.
]. L. Hurlburt, D. D., Asbury Parson-
age, James Grove.
George e. Reed, D. D., Asbury Par
|sonage, James Grove.
w. F. Mcdowell, d. D., Delaware
avenue and Washington street, Job H
Jackson.
]. F. Goucher, d. D., Delaware avenue
and Washington street, Job II. Jack
son.
H. Eaton, D. D., Delaware avenue
and Washington street, Job H. Jack.
sen.
J. NJ. Buckley ID. d.. Delaware avenue
and Washington street, job H. Jack
son.
Hon. j. G. Woolley. 1910 West Sew.
enth street, w. Linton.
G. w. Todd, 1106 West street, G. w
Todd.
]. Hersey Hall, 1902 w. Fourteenth
street, |. p. Rhoads.
Samuel Wharton, 2OS East Tenth
street, w. McGonigal.
L. S. Nelson, SIT Van Buren, street
L. F. Nelson.
I. ]. Shallcross. 1905 Shallcross
avenue, T. w. Shallcross.
Joseph Smithers, 901 Tatnall street
Joseph Smithers.
Albert Cowgirl Albert Cowgirl
William Dyer, 500 West Ninth street
Mrs. A. Willis.
II. G. Browne, Ninth and Madison
streets, n, G. Browne.
a. G. Cox, 500 West Ninth street
w. II. Lowden.
W. II. FollSe, 1908 West street, w II
Folke.
Hon. ]. H. Hoffecker, Eighth ant
Continued on Page Three.
The sun., 1900-03-09
led WHILE VISITING.
Aged Smyrna Woman Suceumbs to
ApopIexy in This City.

While visiting her brother, Captain
George Cooper, of No. 9l0 Pine street.
this city, Mrs. Susan Walker, of Smyrna,
died suddenly Wednesday evening vi
apopexy. Mrs. Walker had been i'll the
city hut few hours when she died.
Although she has been complaining for
some time she did not seem any worse
when che retired for the night. Later in
the evening, however, one Of the mem
bers OF the family went to Mrs. Walkers
room and found her dead.
The deceased was native of Port
Penn. Her parents were Joseph and
Susan Cooper, and her husband was the
late Joseph Walker, who was at one
time tax collector at Middletown.
The sun., 1900-03-09

by Boer ambulance. Two men were
Killed, 46 were wounded, and one man is
missing.
"Gatacre reports that he intends oc-
cupying Burghersdorp today.
Repairs to the railways toward both
Stormberg and Steynsberg are being
pushed.
"Clements now occupies Norvals pont,
on the south bank of the Orange river.
The bridge was blown up March 6, and
, the enemy are holding the north bank of
] the river, but not, it is believed, in any
tgeeat strength"
The full extent of Lord Roberts sue
8cess is not yet clear, but the best in
formed appear satisfied that it brings
'gpeace perceptibly nearer. Experts an
Sticipate that the burghers will make no
further stand west of the Free State
hcapital, and some of them even deduee
ifrom the fact that the Boer forces are
divided and have retreated in different
Nirections that decentralization has set in
Vfld that the Transvaal forces will next
We found carefully intrenched in posi-
ons north of the Naal river. while the
sllk of the Free Staters will abandon
Rile contest and sue for peace.
The sun., 1900-03-09
Retreat OF THE BOER ARMY
General Lord Roberts Reports
He Took Burghers Com
pletely by Surprise.
KRUGER STILL CONFIDENT
The President Issues a Statement
Through Secretary Reitz Declar-
ing That the Defeat of Cronje
Has Not Staggered the
Republics.

London, March S.-The following dis
patch has been received from Lord Rob
erts, dated Poplar Grove, March s:
1.-TWO brigades of cavalry, with horse
artillery and Kplly-Kenny's division,
marched today ten miles eastward.
"The Beers were quite taken by sur
prise yesterday. They moved off so hur-
riedly that they left cooked dinners be-
hind. We captured a Krupp gun and
several tents and wagons.
"The total casualties We're: Killed,
Lieutenants Keswiclx and Frieslick;
wounded. Licutenants Bailey of the
Twelfth lancers and De Crcspigny of the
Second Life guards. both severely, and
Lieutenant Smith of the Shropshires,
who is believed to have been picked up