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THE BRIDEGROOM FLEEs.
A disappointed FiRncee Causes fh
Arrest of johnson Hicks.

WILKESBARRE, Pa, Jan. 12.-Young
Johnson Hicks and Lille Gerson, of Lu-
zerne borough, were engaged to be mar
ried. The day for the wedding was set, and
the clergyman who was to perform the
ceremony engaged
On the morning of the day appointed
for the marriage Hicks visited the home
of his fiancce The best man made his ap-
pearance, and the bridegroom retired for
the purpose of donning his wedding
clothes. The bride also went to her room
to put on the wedding gown.
A half hour later all were ready except
the bridegroom. He was gone-no one
knew where. The invited guests had by
this time arrived, and, after waiting an
hour or more, began to surmise that some
thing was wrong.
A search was inaugurated for the miss
ing man. The whole town was searched.
but no trace of him could be found The
wedding gusests then left
The other day Miss Gerson received a
letter from her recreant lover He said he
had been overcome by a sudden impulse
and had left for another town. detec-
tive was sent after him, and he was
brought back here.
His sweetheart was very bitter against
MIN and concluded to prosecute him. She
brought suit for breach of promise. and
HICKS was put under bail for trial at court.
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GENERAL MILES PROTESTS.
lie Makes Complaint of Interference
With His Orders.

General Miles has complained to Secre-
tary Root of the failure of the Adjutant
Generals Office to forward certain official
communications to the Secretary of War.
There have been. it is said. a number OF
instances of important recommendations
which have been shelved, and which only
reached Mr.. Root after personal enquiry
as to their fate.
General Miles has also called the Secre-
tary's attention TO interference with Ger
tain orders issued by himself. The incl
dent relates to Captain Van Deusen. of the
artillery, who was assigned by General
Miles to proceed to Europe and inspect the
manufacture of certain mountain guns at
the Maxim works. When the officer reach
ed Washington on some official errand in
connection with his new duties he found
he had been ordered to San Francisco to
take charge of some guns. These weapons
he was to take to Manila and turn them
over to the senior artillery officer there.
The original orders contemplated Cap
tain Van Deusen taking the Maxim guns
via Suez to the Philippines. where it was
believed by General Miles they would he
of great service in the peculiar conditions
prevailing there. The timely discovery
change in the orders, made without the
sanction or knowledge of General Miles,
led to the revocation of Captain Van Deu-
sens orders.
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MORE DISTRICT FUNDS.
Beach Seeks Them in
the Deficiency Bill.

Capt. Lansing II. Beach, Engineer Com
missioner of the District. recommended 10
! his associates today that the following
items be included in the Emergency De-
fciency bill.
To be added to the existing appro?ria-
ton for the construction of an eight-room
school building in northeast Washington,
$4,000. To rebuild the Lovejcy school.
s6 0o0 To be added to the existing ap-
propriation for the construction Of an
eight-room school building in southeast
Washington. $7,c0o.
For a manual training school for the
first eight divisions. $4,000. For hcu- e
lot and furniture for truck company, to
be located in the northern part Of West
Washington $4,000. For house, lot. and
furniture for a trucn company On Columbia
Heights $70G0.
For house. lot. and furniture for a
chemical engine company in TenlevtoWn.
s. 600: for an egbt-Toom school building
in HilIsdale, S6.o00.
The last four items are to be added to
appropriations already made for the pur-
poses named as the amounts originally re
ceived are insufficient 10 build the various
structures in accordance with the proyis-
ions Of the act making the appropriations.
The recommendation of Captain Bea ~
was accompanied by a table which was
prepared by the Inspector of Buildings
which shows the manner in which the
money has been expended that was origj-
nally apportioned TO the District and tn.
amount OF the deficiency.
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DISMISSED FROM CHURCH.
MichiEnn's PuGiIistic Preacher Dis
charged by His Congregation.

DETROIT Jan. 12.-The Rev. J. J. AK
tell has lost his church and title. At a
meeting of the congregation it was decided
by a unanimous vote to dismiss him from
the church.
The immediate cause of this unexpected
action was said to be his acceptance o.:
Mayor Maybury's invitation to box for
charity. He subsequently declined. and
the show was declared off. His friends say
the real reason for his dismissal was his
insistence upon being paid his niggardly
salary in cash instead of cabbage, stove
wood and promises.
Axtell's fight cost him a house 10 live in
his position as a pastor, and finally his
means of earning a livelihood. He is not cast
down, however. He thinks there may be
an opening for him in the vaudevilles.
He says that if he cannot find house to
live in or a pulpit to preach in. he is quite
sure that some enterprising manager will
give him a chance 10 earn an honest living
He is now delivering 4 series of five lee
lures on psychology at Battle Creek.
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MUSHROOMS AS FOOD.
German Chemists Think They should
Be Ciassed with Meat.
(From the London Family Doctor.)

(From the London Family Doctor)
A great deal has been said concerning the
immense amount of valuable food which
was daily going to waste in the shape OF
edible fungi. We are told that In many
parts of the world these articles form the
staple articles of diet of the inhabitants.
Our attention has been called to the natives
of Patagonia and Terra del Fuego. who are
said to be of gigantic stature, and to exist
principally On vegetable fungi, and to GER
tain African tribes who value mushrooms
so highly that one of them the POlypOrus
sacer is worshiped as a god. Chemis
have assured us that mushrooms belong 10
the animal rather that the vegetable king
dom, seeing that they possess larger per-
centage of. nitrogen than any other class OF
vegetable life. They are, we are told. es-
sentially protein in composition, as much
so pound for pound, as butchers meat.
Two German chemists, Rolbrausch and
Ziegel stated some years ago, as a result
of chemical investigation, that mushrooms
deserve to be placed with meat as sources
OF ntrogenous nutriment. One man in
Thuringia is said to have lived upon moth
ing but mushrooms for thirty years and
to have died centenarian. Comparison
has even been made between mushrooms
and other articles of food to the detriment
of the latter. Thus chemical analysis has
shown mushrooms to contain from 20 TO 80
per cent of protein, while bread only con-
tains per cent oatmeal 10 per cent. pota-
toes per cent, and barley meal per cent
of protein. Against this, however We have
the opinion of a DR.. Kitchener, who in
1924 stated in a publication called Cooks
Oracle that he did not believe that
mushrooms We're nutritious. DR.. Jona-
than Pereira, in his Treatise on Food and
Diet" published in 1S43, said: ''Mush-
rooms are difficult of digestion, and on
certain constitutions act injuriously. In
valids, dyspeptics, and those with delicate
stomachs will act prudently in avoiding
the use of this doubtful order of foods.
Other writer's have expressed similar opin-
ions, not, however. based on experimental
work, and therefore not absolutely reli-
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

OFFICE OF THE MUTUAL FIRE IN
surance Company of the District of Co.
Iumbia. Washington, January 1, 1900.-The
annual meeting of the MUTUAL FIRE IN
SURANCE COMPANY OF THE DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA will be held on the THIRD
MONDAY IN JANUARY, 1900, THE 18th
INSTANT, at the office of the company,
902 Pennsylvania Avenue northwest, COM
mencing at 9 o'clock a. m. BY the charter
of the company the election Of seven man
ayers to conduct the affairs of the company
is required to be held at the above meet
ing.
BY the sixth article OF the bylaws OF the
company 1t is provided: "At the annual
meeting of the company, the first business
in order shall be the appointment Of
chairman, who shall conduct the meet
ing and election in accordance with act OF
incorporation, between the hours of 8
o'clock a. m. and p. m"
Amount OF cash on hand. d.............. 9,45l31
Securities Observation-Disclosures. 266 PA Sc
Real estate. -...................-.... $4,000 90
Office furniture and fixtures. ........ 500. 90
Losses by fire. adjusted and paid. 49,. e.149.0 .06
The annual statement will be ready for
distribution at the Office of the company
about January L. BY order Of the board
Of managers. L. PIERCE BOTELER, Sec
retary. ja115t
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War Department officials are worried
over the reports of the spread of the plague
at Honolulu, and orders were today sent
to the Government health officers at Seat
tie. Portland. and San Francisco, and all
other ports on the Pacific coast to redouble
heir efforts to prevent the introduction OF
the disease into this country by the ships
coming into port from the infected city.
The State Department has received the
following cablegram from Consular Agent
Haywood at Honolulu:
Eight new deaths from bubonic plague
since last report. Quarantine strictly en-
forced
The last cablegram referred to was dat
ed Honolulu, December 20. and reached the
State Department January 8.
Press dispatches state that eighteen
deaths from the plague have occurred 1t
Honolulu up TO January ). All the infected
houses have been burned and the greatest
precaution is being taken TO prevent the
spread of the disease.
The death OF Ethel Johnson a fourteen
year-old girl at Honolulu reported a few
days ago. has caused some uneasiness as it
is the first death OF an American from the
plague. that has been reported.
Few ships are touching at Honolulu, and
messengers from the Far East bound for
Honolulu are being brought to San Fran
cisco where they are quartered at the eN-
pense of the transportation companies un-
Til they can be sent to Honolulu.
Surgeon General Wyman has also re-
ceived reports of the presence Of the plague
at Rio de JaneirO where one death occurred
yesterday. and all vessels coming from that
port TO this country will be placed in
quarantine and every effort taken to pre-
vent the disease being brought into the
ports along the Atlantic coast.
General Ludington. Quartermaster Gen.
eral, has issued strict orders TO
all transports TO avoid Honolulu. or 10
have any communication with any ship
touching at that pert All animal trans
ports now stop at Hilo, one of the Ha-
waiian Islands. l50 miles from Honolulu,
while Inc transports carrying supplies
10 Manila stop at Nagasaki, Japan. for coal.
Surgeon General Sternberg said today
that he had received on recent advices from
Honolulu and Manila, and that orders had
been sent several days ago to the army
surgeons at those places TO report progress
of plague. and 10 enforce a strict quaran-
tine. keeping all troops away from the In
fected districts
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THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION.
Joseph Bishop Witness Before Ii
on Labor Matters.


Joseph Bishop of Columbus, Ohio, Secre-
tary of the State Board of Arbitration of
Ohio. appeared as the principal witness
before the Industrial Commission today.
His testimony treated mainly of general
labor tonics.
Being questioned by Commissioner
Farouhar Mr.. Bishop stated that the Board
of Arbitration of Ohio is composed of three
members; one an employer. the second an
employe. and the third. who must be a
member of some recognized labor organiza-
tion, is selected by the former two. In case
Of failure to select the third member within
thirty days. the Governor OF the State has
the right to nominate and select him.
Questioned as regards the work per-
formed by the board and results obtained,
Mr.. Bishop referred to the great coatmak-
ers' strike which took place in the year
1895.
This strike he said, was settled through
the board. peaceably and within short
period, with the result OF an advance IN
the wages of the strikers.
Mr.. Bishop then related the circum-
stances as connected with the first and sec
ond street railway strikes in Cleveland,
which would also have been settled peace
ably and TO the satisfaction OF dll Coheehh
ed had the officers of the street railway
company accepted the many offers for me-
diation of the board.
The second strike broke out on account
of the violation Of the agreement upon
which the first strike was adjusted In TINS
case the boards 5 services were not engaged
Referring to the strike al the East Liver
pool pottery works. in which thousands OF
girls were interested, Mr.. Bishop SAID the
board Of arbitration conducted the ADJUST
ment between employer and empioye with
a very satisfactory result for both parties,
and an advance in the wages OF the striking
girls
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DIED.

SHEA-S Suddenly, at Lay Hill, Md, MICHAEL.
beloved husband of Mary c. Shea. and son OF
Catherine and late Daniel Shea, aged forty-nine
years
Funeral from his mothers residence, Saturday
at 10 a. m, 1lI3 Eighteenth Street northwest
Relatives and friends invited 1t
LOvELL-On Thursday, January IL, 1900, at
1914 Massachusetts Avenue northwest, ANNA j.,
wife of W. II. Lowell.
Worcester, Mass, and Gouyerneur \. Y, papers
please copy. 1t
DOUGLASS-On Wednesday, January 10, 1000,
at the residence of her parents, MRS. MABEL
CARVER DOUGLASS, daughter OF Mr. and Mrs
Frank n. Carver.
Funeral Friday, January II. at p. M, from
1881 l. Street northwest. Interment private.
iall-2t
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CONDITION OF NATIONAL BANKS
a statement Prepared by the Comp
trOller of the Currency.

The Comptroller Of the Currency has
prepared statement showing the cOndi-
uon OF all the national banks of the coun-
try at the close of business on December
:. 1899. The total resources and liabilities
or the banks are given as s4.4T5. .343 723.
Among the resources are the following:
Loans and discounts, $2,479 S19 ,49i: United
States bonds to secure circulation. S;34,
iO3, 400; due from national banks. s19S-
6ll,O69; due from approved reserve agents,
$3i5, ,047
The principal liabilities a,fe: Capital
stock paid in: s606. T25. .255; surplus $3.50,
1881; undivided profits. $113, ,95S S57: in
dividual deposits. $3.50. 610.36l The aver
age reserve held by the banks was 27.15
per cent.
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-DEPoRTING THE AFFLICTED.
Operations of the Medical Inspector,
at New York for December.

The Commissioner Of immigration has
made public a report from the medical ex-
aminers at the port of New York regard
ing the deportation of persons afflicted with
certain contagious diseases. During the
month of December, 1899, no less than q
cases OF trachoma we're discovered among
immigrants seeking 10 land. OF these q
were deported. was admitted, escaped
and are still under examination.
Trachoma is described in the report as a
contagious disease affecting the eyes
Two cases of favus were reported both
of which were deported. Fayus is a conta-
gious disease of the scalp.
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EXPORTS FOR THE PAST YEAR
4 Slight Decrease in the Four Lead
ing Products.

The Bureau OF Statistics has issued its
December statement of the exports of the
country in breadstuffs, provisions, cotton,
and mineral oils. giving the total figures
of these principal export products for the
year 1899 1t is shown that the exports
have fallen off somewhat from those of
1898, but that they are much larger than in
any previous year. The cause Of the de-
crease is due to decrease of nearly $780,
O00. 600 in bread stuffs and a decrease OF
about sac ,OGO 600 in cotton.
The total exports in the four groups
we're S7l2, ,OS1 925 The total in 1898 were
$3.50. 995. 1OS and the total in 1897. were
S693 610, ,747.
The exports Of breadstufTs for the past
year were S259 ~, ,2S3. compared with
$S0S. 757. 1863 in 1885, and S243 500. $50 in 1897.
Cattle and hogs made a total of S2S, 326 642
compared with S32 300 966 in 1898. and $685.
735 ,91S in 1897. Other provisions made a
total of S16S POS S35. compared with S163,-
947 Sol in 1898, and s1S9, 400. III in 1897.
The exports of cotton for the year were
sl9l. .09I, ,916. compared with S232, 437 Sos,
and S2l2. .523. go in the two previous years.
Mineral oil exports show an increase.
the total value for 1899 being S54 ESQ 249
as compared with $50, ,551 ,04S. and S59,-
057547 in the two previous years
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TURNED OVER TO CHICAGO.
Water Power for Lighting and
Pumping Plants Obtained

CHICAGO. Jan. 12.-Water power sufi-
cient to operate the city pumping stations
and the municipal lighting plants will be
turned over by the sanitary board 10 the
city of Chicago as a result of the joint
conference yesterday between the commit
tees from the city council ana the drain
age board.
BY the terms of the agreement all the
water power privileges generated at Lock
port by the opening of the drainage canal
will be transferred to the city at the rate
of 81 annually per horsepower for a term
of seyenty-flve years.
The amount of power which il is esti-
mated will be created at LockNort is in the
neighborhood of $4,000 horsepower, which
will furnish the drainage board with an
annual revenue of S100 600.
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THE CRANBERRY INDUSTRY.
Data TO BE Collected by the Census
bureau.

Although cranberry growing is an old in
dustry. no comprehensive statistics con-
cerning it have ever been collected by the
Federal Government. There are $50 per-
sons engaged in cranberry culture on a
more OF less extensive scale in the four
States of New Jersey, Massachusetts,
Michigan, and Wisconsin.
AS their crop was completely harvested
before the end Of October, the Census
Office has determined to attempt to collect
data concerning this industry by mail. and
thus to have them fully tabulated and
ready for publication before the general
Census work is commenced
This will considerably reduce the labors
of the Office after enumeration, and also
furnish material for a bulletin concerning
cranberry culture while the statistics are
fresh The Director feels, however, that
the success of this effort is largely de-
pendent upon the cooperation of cranberry
growers which he expects to receive.
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A TYPHooN's TERRIBLE TRAIL.
Japanese Villages Destroyed and
Vessels Wrecked on the Coast.

Japanese Villages Destroyed and
Vessels Wrecked on the Coast.
VANCOUVER. British Columbia. Jan. l..
Among The advices brought by the steam
er Empress of Japan. which arrived in Van
couver. is one giving an account Of a ter
rible typhoon which swept over the coast
OF Japan in the last days of December The
loss OF life, property. and shipping was
enormous.
The fury OF the storm did not abate
untiI a number OF vessels near the shore
were damaged or lost. To make matters
worse, a series of tidal waves drove the
shipping toward land, and many houses
rear The water were destroyed.
Out of forty heayy-laden junlys an
chored off Osaka, thirty five went 70 the
bottom. and 169 &C the crews were drowned
The fury Of the storm and the terribly
tempestuOusness Of the waves were shown
by the fact that vessels were lifted bodily
an deposited high and dry 100 yards from
the waters edge, while from half a mile
TO mile inland, in many sections, villages
we're leyeled to the ground. The total loss
is estimated at about 200.
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A LOTTERY sWINDLE EXPOSED.
\ Large sale of a Defunct Concerns
Tickets.

NEW YORK, Jan. 12.-Senor Emilio
Joubert, consul general Of the Dominican
Republican in this city. received a letter
yesterday from the Secretary of State at
Santo Domingo. exposing q swndle which
has been in operation in this and various
other cities of the United States. Cuba
and Porto Rico for the past two or three
months.
The letter says that gang of swindlers
have flooded these places with tickets on
the Santo Domingo lottery which ceased TO
exist six months ago. 1t is believed about
S200. 600 has been taken from persons enX-
ious to win a fortune.
The Dominican Government was first
made aware of the swindle through a tick
ct received from Cuba calling for a draw
ing on December 19. Senior Joubert is in
structed by his government to use his ser
vices to suppress the swindle and he will
place the matter in the hands of the au
thorities at Washington.
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CLOSED FOR A REVIVAL.
kalamazOo's Il Business Suspended
During Religious Meeting.

KALAMAZOO. Mich, Jan. IA reli-
gious revival is being held here under the
direction of Rev. D. J. Wilbur Chapman. Of
New York. This afternoon a monster
meeting is to be held and every place OF
busines in the cbf, including saloons. will
be closed. :
Every business house displays the fol-
lowing notice: This place of business will
be closed Friday afternoon, January l2. Oh
account OF union evangelistic services.
The ministers of the city visited saloons
and asked them 10 close. The clergymen
were met with great couretsy. and every
saloon will comply with the request
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A NEW BAPTIST CHURCH.
The Dunkards' Edifise TO be Dedi-
Gated Tomorrow.

The dedication of the new German Bap-
tist Brethren Church, the faith known as
Dunkards. will take place tomorrow morn
ing at IL O'Clock.
The new ediice was completed this week.
at the corner of North Carolina Avenue
and Fourth Street southeast. The style is
Gothic, and the building presents a very
handsome appearance. The cost was met
by wealthy Baptist Dunkards in Pennsyl-
vania, the Western States and this city.
The pastor. Rev. Albert Hollinger will
preach the dedication sermon There will
be services also at 3 p. m, and preaching
at p. m, by the Rev. ]. ]. Rosenberger,
of Covington, Ohio.
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After the Fertilizer Trust.

COLUMBIA, S. C.. Jan. 12.-Following
the organization Of farmers against the
Fertilizer Trust. a bin has been introduced
in the legislature requiring the attorney
general to investigate the methods of the
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company
which has absorbed nearly all the fertil-
izer factories in this State, 10 see il it has
violated the antitrust law, and, if so, to
auuul its charter.
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DELAY IN THE FUNK CASE.
Argument on the Motion for New
TUiRl Postponed.


The argument on the motion for a new
trial in the case Of Frank ". Funk. who
was some weeks ago convicted Of the muir
der Of William H. Brooks. which was TO
have taken place today before Justice Cole,
has been postponed until some day next
week. The delay in hearing the motion is
Gae to several causes.
After fixing today the time FOR the
argument it was remembered that Justice
Cole would be engaged in Orphans Court
and also in conducting proceedings in luna
cy Ialer in the day Il was agreed between
counsel that the hearing should go over un-
til tomorrow. Yesterday il was learned
that Alexander. Wolf of the counsel for the
defense had a special engagement as coun-
sci for Captain Shuieldt. before the mill
tary court at the navy yard. and could not
be present tomorrow.
In addition to this District Attorney
Anderson who win appear for the Gov
eminent has been i'll ar his home for the
last few days. with a severe attack of
tonsilitis. and it would have been i'm
possible for him 10 be In court.
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BIRKENMEYER MAY RECOVER.
Surgeons to Operate on the Would
BE Suicide.

The condition of Policeman Joseph X.
Birkenmeyer, who attempted suicide by
shooting himself at the home Of Mrs.
Sophia Koch, 907 Eleventh Street yesterday
morning, was this afternoon reported to be
slightly improved. The physicians at the
Emergency Hospital say that unless un-
favorable symptoms develop the man will
be operated on this evening. They express
the opinion that Birkenmeyer has a fair
chance for recovery.
Should Berkenmeyer recover it is hardly
probable that he will continue as police
man. Major Sylvester has as yet taken no
action in the matter, though he has care
fully considered it. He said that any man
who would attempt suicide was irresponsi-
BILE and unfit for police duty. That state
ment was construed to mean that Birken-
meyer would be relieved from duty.