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an export bond, because such a shipment
would not constitute an expectation within
the meaning of the laws relating to the
bond and warehouse system. Second, for
an analogous reason. merchandise manu-
featured in the United States from import
ed materials cannot be shipped to Porto
Rico on and after the I'd proXimo with
benefit of drawback. Third, bags for sugar
shipped from the United States to Porto
Rico will be entitled to free entry on and
after the I'd proximo.
Commissioner Chamberlain of the navi-
cation bureau has issued a circular to the
effect that pursuant to section q of the
Porto Rican act vessels entering the United
States from Porto Rico from and after
May 1, 1900. or entering Porto Rico from
the United States will be exempt from ton
mage dues. From and after May 1 vessels
entering Porto Rico elsewhere than from
the United States will be subject to ton
mage taxes, as provided by the laws of the
United States.
The Treasury Department has issued a
circular under the new Porto Rican gov
eminent act, which will take effect May !,
providing for the registry as vessels OF the
United States of vessels owned by the IN
habitants Of Porto Rico at the date of the
ratification of the treaty. Registry Is to
be granted in accord with the laws Of the
United States, except those which are not
locally applicable. These are first, the law
requiring the owners. masters. and all
watch officers to be American citizens.
In lieu of this the regulation provides that
all such persons must take the oath of
allegiance to the United States. The re-
quirement that vessels Of the United States
must be built in this country Is not locally
applicable to Porto Rico. The Porto Rtcan
merchant fleet consists of twenty-five ves-
sells. of which only two are steam vessels.
The largest of these, the Vasco. is t59
gross tons. The remainder are all less than
100 gross tons.
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PLANS FOR BATTLE SHIPS.
Board of Construction Has Approved
Those for Three.

Those for Three.
finally approved the plans for the three bat
tie ships authorized by the last Congress
and has given Instructions to have the
specifications prepared at once preliminary
to calling for bids from the shipbuilde-s.
The board has settled upon a design very
similar to the plan originally proposed.
The ships will be enlarged Iowas ii type,
with the rectangular superstructure and
the two turrets. bow and stern, on the
main deck. The turret guns will be twelve
inch caliber. like the Iowa's guns; there
will be a turret at each corner of ths SUI
perstructure carrying two eight-inch guns
and twelve six-inch rapid-frers will be dis
posed along the sides OF the central citaaeI
To carry all this armament, the armor and
the engines and boilers to giva the ship
nineteen knots speed will require dis
placement of about $500 tons, making
these new ships by far the largest in the
United States navy and as big as the late st
type Of British armored cruiser. AS the
constructors are limited in the Kraft 10y our
shallow harbors to a little over twenty-five
feet, and as seventy-five feet represents
about the greatest beam consistent with
speed, 1t will be necessary to provide fC1
the weights by giving the ships more length
than the Iowa class, and they will be a.
most $40 feet long. The secondary bat
terias will be made up largely of four teen
Founders. and altogether the ships will be
more than equal to any warships of their
size in the worlds navies.
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TRADE WITH PORTO RICO.
A Number of Rulings by officials of
the Treasury.

Commissioner Wilson Of the internal
revenue bureau has received an inquiry as
to whether. under the new Porto Rican
act, beer exported to Porto Rico will be
required to be stamped under existing reve-
nue. regulations as applied for home con-
sumption or If it can be removed under ex-
portsstamps, as heretofore.
In his reply. the commissioner calls at
tention to the ruling. of his office to the eff
feet that Porto Rico is not a foreign coun-
try within the meaning Of the custom draw
back law. and that therefore no refund CT
duty can be allowed by way of drawback
on goods exported to that country. The
commissioner holds that on and after May
], 1900 articles subject to internal revenue
tax cannot be exported to Porto Rico in
bend or with benefit of drawback of the
tax paid under internal revenue laws.
Assistant Secretary Spaulding also has
rendered an opinion to much the same eff
feet. He holds, first, that merchandise can
not be withdrawn from bonded warehouses
In the United States on and after the I'd
Rroxmo for shipment to Porto Rico under
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FATAL LABOR RIOT IN CHICAGO.
One Man Killed and Several Others
Seriously Injured.

In a labor riot which occurred at Racine
and Wellington avenues in Chicago last
night one man was instantly killed, anoth-
er severely wounded and five others sus-
tanned slight injuries. The dead:
Peter Miller. shot through the head by
H. c. Baster and instantly killed.
The injured: John Mcclure. shot in the
right arm and right cheek by H. c. Baster;
injuries severe, but not fatal.
Edward Yarranton, cut on head with brass
knuckles.
Benjamin Bernard. cut on head with brass
knuckles.
VIM. Pottgetter, bruised about head and
body.
Louis Jeckiske, cut about face and head.
James Gibbons. bruised by being struck
with club.
The killing was the outcome of three
months trouble with striking laborers. The
firm at whose place the trouble occur
red employs non-union labor, and three
months ago several pressmen and feeders
were discharged because they Joined the
union. The assaulting party consisted of
Miller Mcclure. Pottgetter. Jeckiske and
Gibbons. With the exception of Miller all
are former employees of the firm. Those
who were assaulted were Baster, Bernard
and Yarranton. The latter three were On
their way to their homes from work when
the assault took place.
Two of the assailing party were armed
with brass knuckles, and the others car
ried clubs. Yarranton and Bernard were
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CARTER OFF FOR PRISON.
Ex-Captain of Engineers Taken to
Fort Leayenworth

Under escort of Lieut.. Harker of the 18th
Infantry, one non-commissioned officer and
four privates. Oberlin NJ Carter ex-cap-
tain Of engineers. U. S. A. convicted OF
embezzlement and sentenced to five years
in the military prison at Fort Leayenworth.
Kansas. left Castle Williams New York. for
his prison home last evening The last step
In the legal condemnation Of the ex-capta1n
was taken yesterday afternoon. Carter has
been on Governors Island just seven davs
less than seven months. That time will be
deducted from his original sentence of five
years. and for good behavior he will be al
lowed five days off for every twenty-five
days Of his sentence. If he conforms to the
requirements of the prison, thereby getting
the allowance. he will have yet to serve
about three years and six months in the
prison at Fort Leavenworth-
Abram ]. Rose. counsel for Carter, said
that he had not determined whether or not
any further efforts would be made in behalf
of the ex-captain. If further effort was
made he was not prepared to say yet what
the first step would be.
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GATES AND PARTY OFF TO CHICAGO.
Big Move Thought to BE Afoot fin Steel
Trust

The New York Herald of today says:
John w. Gates and the steel and wire
people who have been so much in evidence
in Wall street and at the Waldorf-Ast3rta
for the last week, departed for Chicago
yesterday afternoon. With Mr. Gates went
President John Lambert, William Edenborn
Isaac Ellwood. Alfred Clifford. William p.
Palmer, John A. Drake and James HOPKINS
Only Max Pam, the legal adviser of the
Gates party, was left behind
AT the Waldorf-Astoria last night the
u1announced departure of Gates and his
followers was genuine surprise and the
reason OF their going was a riddle that 40
one seemed able to solve. All sorts Of
guesses were ventured. and there We're
vague intfmations Of litigation by dissatis-
ned stockholders which the steel and wire
executive committee might not want to
race But nothing in any way definite on
this score could be ascertained
Jefferson Seligman, of ]. & W. Seligman,
declared that the exodus was news to MINI
and that he knew of no reason why it
should have been made"
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COLUMBIAs WON TWO.
State of the Bowling League Race an
Interesting One.

The Golden Eagle Bowling Club disposed
Of its chances to win the championship PEN
nant of the District Bowling League last
night. The team met the Columbia bowlers
on the latters' alleys and was defeated by
the home club in two games. The Column
bias bowled in excellent form, making two
500 games and winning easily when their
score fell below that point. Had the Eagles
lost but one game, the league situation
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Many important government surveys will
De made In Alaska during the coming sea-
SON They will include surveys on the
CEettyna river. In the copper district. and
this work will be In charge of Messrs. F. c.
Schrader. geelogist. and T. c. Geordine
topographer. Considerable interest at
taches to the surveys on the Cane Nome
district, where such rich gold fields have
recently been discovered. Mr. Alfred IA
Brooks will have charge Of this work.
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strong enough to give this great Baltimore
team, the champion of champions, a stiff
contest In practice at Simpsons alleys last
Monday evening the new team went against
Il good picked team and easily Won the
three games played. In the last game the
Washingtons made a very high score, four
of the men passing 100, and the promoters
of the enterprise are well satisfied. The
team will leave for Baltimore on the 6:20
B. and o. train Saturday, and will be
companied by delegation of rooters.
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General md PersonaI Ment

Mr. Arthur Barker has been transferred
from the position Of deck mate on the
steamer Kent to the steamer Pentz. He
has been succeeded aboard the Kent by Mr..
George Cook.
The schooner Drifuse is sunken in the
cove near the mouth Of the canal, just
north of Alexandria
Mr. George A Shekell. one Of the old
est and best-known steamboat men ON the
Potomac, died at his home, on 18th street
between G and II streets southwest. last
night. For more than thirty-five years
past he had been on different Potomac
river steamboats,. and since 1881 had been
in the employ of the Washington Steam
boat Company. In respect to his memory
the flags the steamboats, are at half
mast today.
The schooner Three Brothers. Capt Ken
drick. and the punges Cathelene;;, Capt
Henley and the William Turner. all laden
with cord wood, arrived for Carter Clark
P. II. Biscoe Is looking for the schooner
SdOnia Curley, with a cargo of pine lumber
from Norfolk.
The light house tender Holly. Capt. Dom
nelly. has finished replacing the buoys car
ried away by the ice in Chesapeake bay
during the past winter.
The house boat of the Capital Yacht Club
Is to be fitted up for the summer season. 1t
is now lying in the basin near the bathing
beach.
The schooner Annie NJ. Hodges sailed
| from Alexand yesterday. with a cargo of
| burnt sulphur rock for a lower river port
The little side-wheel steamer George J.
Seufferle. which is now lying at Aitchson's
wharf, Alexandria. 1t Is stated. has been
chartered to run excursions to Glymont
| during the summer.
The first coal boats from Cumberland to
| come down the canal for Alexandria this
season were delivered at Agnews shipyard
yesterday.
The large house boat belonging to Mr. T.
| F. Rawlins is being refitted and repainted
| for service on the river.
| The schooner Isaac Solomon completed
| the discharging Of her cargo of wood, and
| cleared light to river point to reload ia
! Carter & Clark.
| The repanting Of Mr.. J. A Nicholson
| sailing yacht Elenora is completed. and she
1 will be put overheard today.
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Fire which started on the top floor of ].
W. McCausland's paper spool manufac-
tory in Philadelphia last night spread TO
adjoining property. and before the flames
had been gotten under control did damage
to the extent of about $250OO0.
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Guarding Against Smallpox.

The marine hospital authorities are keep
ing a close watch for smallpox all YES
sells coming up the river, especially those
from the neighborhood of Nomini creek.
the point from which the schooner Earl
Briscoe came last week with the case
aboard. Yesterday evening DR.. Snowden
of Alexandria. marine hospital and quar-
antire officer, boarded the schooner George
F. Wright, Captain kintz, below Alexan-
dria The Wright had left NOmini a few
days ago. but as there was no sickness on
board she will be allowed to come up to
this city and discharge her cargo of wood.
Prof. S. =. Langley of the Smithsonian
Institution left here this morning on the
tug d. NJ Key for Chopawumsic creek.
Va. where further experiments with his
flying machine are to be made.
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FIRST GAME
Totals. Is 10 6e2

Totals. 10 " SBZ Totals 10 10 81
The second game was not SO close though
the home team did not have a very decided
ever. kept them constantly in the lead and
they won without much trouble. The score
follows: zi'
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the Washingtons. recently organized, and
including the very best bowlers in the city.
will make their initial appearance Saturday
evening In Baltimore The team will meet
the Catholic Club, and the WashinRtons are
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Totals. IL II s23 Totals. Is IT 7S1
The last game was easy for Columbia, the
visitors having two very low scores on
their slate. Rodrick pounded out another
200 game and now leads the league on that
record. The score follows:
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4 lot of 60 rolls of Fine Grade Mattngs, con-
sisting of Heaviest Chinas and Fine japanese
CottOn-warp Mattings-in the
est and most beautiful designs and II NJ
colorings of the season. Special, II VVA
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Advance in Price of Coal.

The rapid rise in the price of coal in the
past two months is giving the steamboat
line managers much anxiety. Two months
ago the best grades of scN coal sold ut
from s225 to $50 per ton. Today the
same coal is costing "a per ton, and the
dealers have notified the companies that
this rate is only good until the LIST OF
May. when the price may go still hlgher.
Dr. TindaH, secretary to the District COM
missioners is fitting up his sailing yacht
at the E&rbor boat wharf, preparatory to
summer cruising. The yacht, which was
built under Dr. TindaTs plans. is one OF
the fastest boats on the river.
The steamer Norfolk of the Norfolk ana
Washington line came out of the dry dock
at Newport News Tuesday. and left o!d
Point yesterday morning at O'Clock. nav
ing on board the pupils and teachers OF the
PRESBYTERIAN Church OF Newport News, en-
route to the city en- a pleasure tour The
party. numbering several hundred arrived
here last evening at 80 o'clock. and after
spending the night and today seeing the
sights Of the capital, will leave for home at
30 O'Clock on the regular boat capt
Chap Posey was in command of the Nor
folk, and Mr.. Will Callahan looked after
the comfort and pleasure of the excursion
party.
The handsome sailing yacht belonging 10
Mr. Harry Thomfort has just been over
hauled and painted at Townsend's boat ex-
change, foot of P street The SlOOp Lots,
owned by DIR. Carr has been provided with
a new suit of sails and overhauled at the
exchange.
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Another odd lot of Fine grade ClOse-woven
i:5s,s Ss.5 s; H. ;s l22c.
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ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
HEAVY CATCHES OF SHAD AND
HERRING REPORTED.
Receipts Mt Fish whnrf-Advance in
Price of COal Causes Anxiety
to Boat Owners.

The fishing season is in full swing. and
the down-river seines are sending their
catches of shad and herring to the market
every day. At most of the shores seineS
varying from n mile to FIVE miles in length
are laid out and hauled. and to those who
have never seen it the operation is a most
interesting one, especially when the catch
is large. This year more sefnes have been
fished than for a number of years, and the
Frcestone Point Mr. Theo. Ballcnger is
hauling seine: VIM. Neitzey is fishing Sto-
ney Point shore; Frank Gale. Chapmans
Point: Frank Price. Plum Tree; Heron q
Lindsey. Monkeys Point and Bar Landing.
and II. & G. Rome Tent Landing and Tu-
lip Hill shore. Within the past few days,
in consequence OF the low prices being
brought. the hauling of seine at Windmill
Point by r a. Golden ard at Passlpa-
tauzy by Al. Farrell has been discontinued,
or cut out as the fishermen term 1t.
The receipts at the fish wharf since yes
terday have been very light. Up to about
O'Clock this morning only 10000 herring
had been received. but since then two YES
sells with a cargo of 100000 have come
up.
The receipts of shad We're about 5000.
In consequence Of the scarcity of herring
prices have gone up to 81 per 1000. Roe
shad this morning sold at from $40 to S12
and buck shad from 81 to 81 per 100.
At the Alexandria fish wharf the re-
ceipts We're about 1900 herring and 200
Shad-
The schooner Amanda F. Lewis. with 500
bushels of oysters. is the only arrival at
the oyster wharf since Tuesday.
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The Passing Craft.

Graham's tug Templar is lying at the
Haskins Companys wharf. Alexandria,
having her machinery overhauled
The repairs to the shaft of the tug LenoX
have been completed. and she has resumed
her place as the tugboat for Neitzey &
Ballenger's fleet of fish vessels.
The steamer Potomac. Capt. Smith. ar
rived up last night for Stephenson & Bro.
with a miscellaneous cargo from Baltimore
and river points to local merchants.
The steam launch belonging to Mr.. John
Campbell is hauled out at the boat eX-
change to be fitted with a new Keel and to
be reprinted.
Mr. Frank Price is having his handsome
little sailing yacht ovcrhauled and repdirt-
ed at Townshend's boat house, foot of 2
street.
The tug Emma of Baltimore. with a tow
Of four barges. all light, passed down the
river yesterday evening bound to Philadel-
phia to reload.
The schooner Grace NJ Bennett. en- route
from Edenton. N c.. with a cargo of shin
giles for johnson & Wimsatt, sailed from
Norfolk yesterday.
The schooner Alaxina, Capt. Banks. is
being loaded with fertiliZing material for
Coan river by T. W. Riley.
The schooner George f. Wright, Capt.
Kintz has arrived with a cargo or wood
for Carter & Clark
The steamer James f. Tull has been sent
to Alexandria by johnson IL WimSatt to
discharge a cargo of railroad ties for the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
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8 dozen ai-size Damask Dinner Napkins. 1uii
beached and all pure linen fast selvage both
sides-worth sl.69 doz. These are Sh Or
soiIed. hence. W sSO
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2 to 5-yrrd lengths OF Russia Crash Towel
Ing. pure linen. neat red border and m.SZc
fast selvage edges-worth Sc. yard. VaSNtSso
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3 bar gain lots mattingS

One odd lot of Extra Heavy China Mattings,
close woven quality-and in neat 20
and attractive patterns-goes on |oMC.
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dozen Boys soft Negligc Shirts, with
collar and CUTS attached; sizes y y
u to IA: new spring patterns. $780,
Sold at 4Sr.-now. -
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Odd lot Of Muslin Undnrgarlncnts consisting
OF Lace and Embroidery triHnrd Drawers and
Low Neck and N-shapr Corset Covers and Short
Skirts-aiso thiidrns White and t.5ored
Dresses and Corded Waists. Regular , NJ
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Remnants of Torchun Point Venice and
Platt Val. Laces. both edgings and -
insertfngs-widths range up to QUC
inches. Worth 15c. and l9r. I'd for. y 70
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Totals. Ia 10 7sS Totals 12 IA 722
The standing of the clubs follows.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-06-01
WOMAN SUPERIN1ENDS CHICAGOS STREETS

stood good-naturedly by while Mrs.
Paul "bossed the job"-regarding the
whole proceeding as little wind
storm that would soon blow over. The
new inspector systematized the labor
OF the ward exactly as she would have
done her own housecleaning; thor
oughly cleansing a given area, then
been done, removing any nev accu-
mutations. Even the men became
aroused to considerable enthusiasm,
and by the end of the month she had
as spick and span ward as any that
the best-managed city could produce
The subject had, however, got into
her blood, and all summer she con-
dnued her studies. looking up laws
and statistics and penetrating into va
rious hooks and crannies of the city
to note the laws observance Her ef-
fective months work established her
reputation to such an extent that In
the early autumn she was asked to
give a paper upon street cleaning be-
fore the Civic Federation of the Coun-
Gil of One Hundred, also organized dur
ing the Worlds Fair, and comprising
the wealthiest and most representative
men in the city. Mrs. Paul presented
the subject with so much force and
clearness. and her knowledge proved
SO comprehensive and exact that the
federation, as private body, decided
The Grit-advocate., 1900-06-01

the State Fee and Salary Commission,
by the reports it requires from county
officers is bringing to light some
strange conditions. 1t has been found
that nepotism prevails to an astonish-
ing degree in the county public service
in Indiana. The commission will not
name the counties, but 1t does give the
instances. In one county the clerk en-
ploys his father, his wife and his son
as his deputies, and Recorder has
appointed his son and his daughter his
assistants on regular salaries. The
daughter is said to be the most efficient
officer of the three. 1t is nothing un
common, the secretary of the commits
sion says, for county officers. particu-
larly clerks and recorders. to employ
their wives and daughters to assist
The Grit-advocate., 1900-06-01
A C.nary's Funeral.

The pet canary OF New York fam
lily succumbed to an attack of grip the
other day. The five small Smiths
and even the neighbOr children
mourned uproariously. The funeral
services were thus described in a let
ter by Wilfred, aged 10: I'VE buried
Chirp under the dead tree in the yard
dug the grave and Sylvia gave the
coffin. Montmorency and me sang a
hymn. We pretended it was a hymn,
but it was song Mrs. Wilson sug-
gested about sparrows falling and
God watching over; maybe you have
heard it. Montmorency knew it be-
fore. Then l preached sermon over
the tomb. Rose danced skirt dance
and we all wept."-Cincinnati En-
quirer.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-06-01
DIRECTING A GANG OF

to appoint her city inspector on good
salary.
Her business for the next few years
was merely to investigate and bring
the results OF her work before the
body; to criticize, suggest remedies
and exploit abuses Of public trust.
Mrs. Paul remained with the fedora
tion until she was asked by the city
to accept the same position under the
municipal government When the
purpose Of this Office was accom-
plished Mrs. Paul was offered the po-
sition Of night superintendent of one
Of the wards, which she accepted. This
necessitated her driving about the city
from s o'clock in the evening until 4
in the morning, overseeing her people
She, however, liked the work i'm
mensely, and never met with any un-
pleasantness due to her being a wo-
man; on the contrary. she encountered
much chivalrous kindness from all
sorts OF night workmen. Later she
was made day superintendent.