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BRINGING THE BODIES HOME.
Hemafns OF Seventy-tySO Soldiers Eek
pected From Santiago.

Quartermaster General Ludington re-
ceived telegram today announcing that
the transport Mcclellan had left Santiago
Sunday with seventy-two bodies of sol
diers who had died of yellow fever in the
summer and fall of 1898. The transport is
expected to arrive at New York by Friday,
but it is thought the bodies will not be
brought to Arlington for interment before
the first part of the week.
or the seventy-two bodies fifteen are
unidentified and twenty-nine have been
claimed by relatives and will be shipped to
them for private 'interment. The remain
ing forty-three bodies will be brought to
Arlington for burial. The arrangements
for the interment have not yet been COM
pleted. but the ceremony will be OF a very
simple nature. A detail of troops from
Fort Myer will take part in the ceremo-
MES. and beyond the reading of the burial
services and the firing OF yolley over the
graves there will be no other ceremonies.
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THE CUBAN FORESTS.
Valuable Public Timber Lands i'm
Urgent Need of Protection.

HAVANA, Jan. 16.-The Cuban Secre-
tary OF Agriculture. Rivera. has submit
ted report to Governor General Wood
urging the appointment of a board of in
spectors to preserve the forests. He rec
ommends that six inspectors be appointed
at an annual salary of s., 900 each and that
they have authority to use the rural guard
in protecting the public timber lands. There
are many lumbermen In Cuba looking for
bargains and there is nothing to prevent
the unauthorized clearance of very valua-
BILE tracts where they are accessible There
is no great danger. however of Cuba los
ing her forests until the transportation IA
cilities are vastly improved. Cubans own
ing splendid stretches of mahogany tim
berlands in the interior of the island are
In straitened circumstances because of
their inability to get their products to the
seabOard. With railroad development and
a reduction in freight rates there will be
a great onslaught made on the forests
public and private. unless the lands are
protected but the problem hardly seems TO
be one requiring an immediate solution.
The area of public forests in Cuba is es-
timated at $50 600 acres.
The reports Of the illness OF Col Ramon
Williams, formerly American Consul Cen
eral here, are erroneous. He is attending
to his business regularly.
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EXPERIMENTS With GUNS
The War Department Receives Re-
ports of Recent Tests.
Some Novel Features of a New In
vention-It May Be Fired at n Rate
of Four Hundred and Fifty Shots
a Minute-A Substitute for the
Belt-Feed System-The Mechanism.

General A. r. Burlington. Chief OF
| Ordnance, of the Army, has receiv-
ed report from Springfield of recent tests
conducted there of different types of au-
tomato machine guns. The types of guns
tested were the Gatling, Colt automatic,
and Maxim and Hotchkiss. and a new in
yention called the Carr gun.
All but the Carr gun were familiar to
army officers, but this gun presented sew
eral novel features. It is the invention OF
Howard Carr, the champion off-hand rife
shot of America. The aim of all inventors
OF machine guns has been to produce a
gun of great lightness; one that can be
carried by one man and fired automati-
cally.
1t is this feature Of the Carr gun which
has appealed to the Ordnance Department.
Its weight is but twelve pounds. while the
other guns range in weight from forty
pounds to over hundred. 1t is claimed
that the extreme lightness of weight
makes the gun easy to carry on any ioad
by infantry soldiers.
No part of the entire equipment exceeds
thirty pounds in weight, and the whole
tion, may be dismounted and distributed
to an infantry company.
Another feature of the gun is the use
or drum feed instead of belt feed as
used by other guns. In a belt feed the
cartridges are stuck in loops in web belt.
With the drum feed the cartridges are
dropped into slots radiating from the CEN
tire like the spokes of a wheel with the
cap toward the circumference and the bull
let toward the centre.
Each shot holds five cartridges 1t is
claimed that it takes much less time to
load the drums by sticking the cartridges
into the web belts. Each drum holds $50
rounds and its weight when filed is only
twenty-eight pounds. All the work of
ejecting the empty case, placing ten great
cartridges in the chamber, closing and fir
ing the piece is accomplished By the coun-
ter recoil, as the gun returns to its nor
NAL position after recoi
This is caused by the use Of a strong
spring which is compressed by the recoil
of the barrel, so that each discharge fur
nishes the power to operate the mechan-
ism for the next fire.
Single shots can be fired by pulling the
trigger the same as used in an ordinary
gun. To fire continuously the trigger is
held back and the gun operates at rate
of about 45O shots each minute
At the preliminary tests at Springfield
the Carr gun proved very satisfactory, but
it was shown that the gun and tripod
needed more weight, and before complet-
ing the test il was withdrawn for the pur-
pose OF increasing its weight to give it
more firmneSS during the operation.
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TOBACCO IN THE TEMPLE.
The Weed VIII BE Sold In the W. &
T,iT Building

CHICAGO. Jan. 15.-Within few days
cigars and tobacco will be on sale in the
rotunda OF the Womens Temple, at La
Sale and Monroe Streets. A tobacco stand
is now being constructed, and upon its
completion all of the hopes OF the founders
OF the Womens Christian Temperance
Union to keep the building free from the
tsint Of tobacco Will have vanished.
This is one OF the first changes which
denotes the passing OF the building from
the control of the Women'S Christian Tenn
peranCe Union. Within another year a
still greater change Is contemplated, by
which Willard Hall will pass out of ex-
istence. and the rostrum. which was con-
secrated by Miss Willard to the cause CT
temperance. will make room for the count
ers Of a bank.
When the building was completed there
was an attempt on the part Of the Women s
Christian Union to prevent any smoking in
the building. Tenants were barred from
smoking. even in their private offices.
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A HUMAN OSTRICH.
Ply hysicians Recovering Hardware
From John SaseTs Body.

NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-John Sasel,
twenty-five years old. is recovering in st.
Johns Hospital, Brooklyn, from the ef-
fects of a surgical operation which was
performed to relieve severe attack of in-
digestion. Sasel. who had worked as a
professional human ostrich, had swallow
ed many things which don't agree with
the human system, and on Friday doctors
in the hospital made an incision in his
stomach and removed two nickel and one
brass watch chains two latchkeys six
hair pins. 12S common pins. ten 1-2-inch
iron nails. and one metal ring with a
stone in il.
There are some other pieces of metal
still in his system, the physicians say, but
il is impossible 10 find them, and they do
not believe they will do much harm 1t is
a theory that even the articles which were
removed would not have caused trouble
had not the chains got tangled.
Sasel says that IL he recovers he will
never again try to load his stomach with
an indiscriminate lot of hardware He had
given exhibitions in a museum for four
teen weeks and had endeavored to swal-
low any small article which was given to
him by the spectators.
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la6o--leOo.

The secret formula of Duffy's Pure Malt
Whiskey was discovered in 1860 by one Oi
the worlds most famous chemists, and
strange to say. no other living man has
ever discovered how to produce a pure
malt whiskey. This great whiskey has saved
the lives of thousands of people who were
apparently doomed by that dreaded of all
diseases-consumption For forty years
Duffys Pure Malt Whiskey has stood the
most crucial test of doctors and chemists,
and is today recognized and endorsed by
the best authorities in the medical profess
sion as the greatest known stimulant and
tonic, on account of its absolute purity
and medicinal properties. Duffy's is the
only absolutely pure malt whiskey manu-
facturedein the world. 1t is used and pre-
scribed as medicine, and is the only
whiskey stamped as such by the United
States Government.
Get the genuine All druggists and grocers,
sl.0O. Book of Information free.
DUFFY MALT WHiSkEy CO., Rochester, N. Y
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THE OYSTER INDUSTRY.
A Profitable Business This Year In
Maryland.

| CAMBRIDGE, Nd, jan 16-There are
| thirteen oyster-paeking establishments In
the town of Cambridge. Managers and
members of the various firm say that the
business of 1899 was equal to, II not better
than, that of 1898. Some say that the
business would have been more profitable
but for the fact4that labor has been very
| high.
Last year men could be gotten on dredge
! and tong boats for from $12 to SIS per
| month, while this year the same class OF
labor costs from s22 to $25 per month, and
is very hard to get at that price. This and
the increase in the price of provisions has
had much to do with profits. Shell stock
has brought far better price, requiring a
considerably larger capital to conduct the
same amount OF business. On the whole.
possibly nine out of the thirteen packers
will say that the business has been quite
satisfactory. There were but two houses
interviewed who thought that the oyster
beds are being depleted, the other main
tanning that there are as many and even
more oysters in our waters than ever be-
fore,
One veteran in the oyster business re-
members when oysters could be caught in
the Great Choptank River only in spots;
now he says the river is veritable oyster
bed; the continuous taking of oysters with
tongs and dredge has distributed the small
growth over almost the entire bottom. He
also claims that the annual catch has in
creased enormously.
One thing in which all seem to agree
ig hal Dhrid CHI hax
at least four oyster inspectors instead OF
one, as We now have. They contend that
one man cannot protect the interest, and
that there are plenty OF good men who
would accept the position OF inspector for
$500 one-fourth of the salary now paid.
They are firm in the conviction that the
most important thing to be done is the
strict enforcement of the Gull law. This
done, the majority of them contend that
there is no danger of depletion in the
Choptank. notwithstanding the annually
increasing catch.
Quite a number of those interviewed say
that the successful enforcement OF this law
will be very difficult until the buyer and
the packer lend their aid to strict police
supervision. When the buyer and the
packer refuse to accept Illegal oysters,
then they will not be caught
Two of the most prominent packers are
in favor of the count law" now in force
in New Jersey. cOntending, for instance,
that the tenth or twentieth tub should be
counted and the amount obtained by the
multiplication OF tubs, and that this could
be done more rapidly and with no more ex-
pense than culling, and would go very far
in the enforcement Of the Gull law. They
want, they say, no more oyster legislation.
but give us good police protection. with
proper inspection, and we will be all right
and the oyster beds will be perfectly safe
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a NEW BANK FOR VENEZUELA
New York and Boston Capitalists
VIII Open One at Caracas

NEW YORK. Jan. 16.-George ". Upton.
Venezuelan Consul General Gonzales, and
Gen. y. Bolet Peraza. Confidential Agent of
the Venezuelan Government, have signed
the final papers In an agreement looking
to the opening of the first American bank
In Venezuela. The head office of the bank
will be in Caracas. and there will be
branches in other cities. The institution.
which is backed by New York and Boston
capitalists. will have a working capital Of
s3.000000. Mr.. Upton. who received the
concession from the Venezuelan Govern
ment. and who will be its manager, said
today that he did not care to divulge Just
now the names OF those interested. He
expects the bank to open in about three
months. Mr.. Upton said
Venezuela affords an excellent oppor-
tuity for bank such as We intend to start
The country has ine5timable wealth not yet
developed, and all that is required Is capi-
tai. The country, despite its internal
troubles. Is as safe a place to invest in as
New York. and IL per cent interest. is
easily obtained"
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FoREToLD HER OWN DEATH.
= Prediction by Mrs. William Rosser
That Became True.

EASTON, Pa. Jan. 16-'1I will die at
10 o'clock" said Mrs. William Rosser, of
West Easton, at O'Clock Sunday evening
to number Of friends who had assem-
bled at her home. and when the hour ar
rived she expired. Mrs. Rosser was
twenty-five years old and a devout mem
Der of the Reformed Church. She had
been sick a week or two, but she was
about the house, and it was not thought
that her Illness was of a serious nature
When Mrs. Rosser predicted her demise
and fixed her hour OF dissolution her
friends attempted to cheer her up, think
ing she was growing melancholy. But
she assured her guests that she was not
excited. She bade her husband farewell as
the hour grew near and then seated her
self in an easy chair to await her death.
After the family clock struck the hour
Mrs. Rosser's husband tried to arouse
her, and then discovered that the woman's
predictions had proved true. She was
dead
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DIED.

STEWART Entered into rest at his residence,
| Il26 2Sd ST. NV, January 10, 1900 at 6 a. M,
DANIEL II. STEWART, the dearly loved husband
! of Eta b. Moses Stewart.
Angels bright and fair.
Take, oh take him to thy care.
Notice 0f funeral hereafter. 1t en-
DANT-0R Monday, January 10. 1906 OF prom
chitis, threatening pneumonia. ARTHUR GLEN
ENTS DANF. infant and twin of c. 7. and
Ida NJ. Dant.i
Funeral Wednesday, at II o'clock q. M, at
5l2 Ill st. sy. Interment Alexandria, Va.
alexandra papers please eopyD
TEN 5lPh'a
/ JENNINGS2On Monday. January Is. 1900, at
$40 p M. at his parents residence 7l3 Seventh
Street northeast after long and painful Illness
FORSTER II. JENNINGS, eldest son OF Jefferson
Ii. and AltoDs ii. Jennings aged twenty -four
years. 80
Notice Of funeral hereafter. 1t
VAN REUTH-At 1e:40 a. M, January Is,
FRANCIS A. W., beloved son OF Mary and Adolph
Van Reuth.
Funeral from his late residence sf3 New Jersey
Avenue northwest, at $50 a. M, Wednesday, Jan
uary IL; thence to St Aloysius, where requiem
mass will be celebrated for repose of his soul 1t
PUMPHREY-At 5:25 a. m.. Sunday. January
II, 1900, W. CLEMENT PUMPIIREY, husband
of Ida Shreeves Pumphrey, of congestion of the
lungs.
Funeral from his residence. Gao Calsn Stree:
northeast, Tuesday. January II, at e:39 Friends
and relatives invited. ja15-1at
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

OFFICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE AND
Potomac Telephone Company divi-
dend OF 81 per share will be payable on
the 29th day of January. 1900. TO the stock
holders of record at the close OF business
on the 10Th Of January, 1900, at the office
of the treasurer of the company, 6l9 Four
teenth Street northwest Washington, ID. C.
The transfer books will be closed from
the goth day of January TO the 18th OF
January. inclusive.
JEREMIAH NJ WILSON. President.
CHARLES G.. BEEBE, Treasurer.
Washington ID. c.. January 10, 1900.
The evening times., 1900-01-16
An Invitation for Admiral Dewey.

Former Representative Henrichsen of
Illinois was at the Capitol today renewing
old acQuaintances. He came with a COM
mittee from Jacksonville TO invite Admiral
Dewey to attend the annual encampment
of the G. A. r., to be held May 2-3. The
committee. consisting of Mr.. Henrichsen,
c. S. Ranneils. NJ. F. Dunlap, and Capt. J.
B. lnman, Commander of the Grand
Army of the Republic Of Illinois, called on
Admiral Dewey this morning and received
his promise to attend the encampment.
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CHARGED WITH CoWARDIcE.
Gen. w. =. MetcRlf Denounced by 8
Kansas Lieutenant

TOPEKA, Kan, Jan. 16.-Gen. Wilder S.
Metcalf. former colonel of the Twentieth
Kansas Regiment, which made remark
able record for gallantry in the Philip
pines. has been asked by the secretary of
the Kansas Historical Society to read a
history of the regiment before the annual
meeting of the society here tonight. The
announcement of this fact has resulted in
the receipt OF number of indignant pro-
tests to the society's secretary from for
mer officers of the regiment.
Lieutenant Hall, in an open letter,
charges Metcalf with a display of rank
Cowardice on the day of the battle of Gui-
ginto. He says Metcalf was not within
1000 yards of the firing line on that date,
and that he made slight flesh wound an
excuse for his return to Manila, where he
spent the next two months. The Presi-
dent breyeted Metcalf brigadier general
''for gallant action" in this battle.
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A SOLDIER GROUND TO PIECES.
The Eighth Member of the Tenth
Pennsylvania TO He Killed

GREENSBURG, Pa. Jan. 16.-The re-
markable fatality that has prevailed in the
ranks of the famous Tenth Pennsylvania
Regiment since its return from the Philip
pines, continues. Charles Jones' member
of Company E. of Mt. Pleasant, is the
eighth soldier to meet violent death, all
being ground to pieces under railroad trains
except one, who was killed by a gun ex-
plosion.
Sunday night Jones called on his fiancee.
and they walked to the railroad station.
He bid her farewell, and as he turned
about was struck by a shifting engine
The evening times., 1900-01-16
al Remarkakie GLOVE Sale.

The Louvre Glove Company, of 931 Street
northwest, announces an unusually attractive
sale of ladies' fine kid gloves This is
their annual clearance sale, and will embrace be-
sides the regular Stock, a big line OF manufac-
turers sample gloves, some slightly soiled, which
will be closed out regardless of actual cost or
value. This is tosbe the greatest glove oppor-
tunity of the year, and will undoubtedly be taken
immediate advantage Of. Sale begins Wednesday.
January IL, and seekers of bargains will be out
in full force. tt y
The evening times., 1900-01-16
GREwsoME FIND OF woRKMEN
Charred Remains Dug From a Burn
ed Barn In Maryland

ELkT0N, Md, Jan. 16-Workmen en-
gagged in. clearing away the debris of the
barn of Mrs. S A. Mcdaniel near North
east, which was burned last week, came
across the charred remains of a man Be
side the bones was revolver, a pocket
knife, and part of a pipe.
The supposition is that the man was in
the second story of the barn. and in light
ing his pipe set fire to the building, which
was totally destroyed together with the
contents. involving loss of about 81 900
No one is missing around Northeast. and
il is supposed the man was tramp.
The evening times., 1900-01-16
WIN MARIANI
Army Orders.

Department:
Captain Charles J. Symmonds. assistant quarter
master, Volunteers, is relieved from temporary
duty in the Office Of the Quartermaster General
Of the Army, and viii proceed 70 New York city,
y. Y, TOR duty. On the completion Of the duty
assigned him by the commanding general. de-
partment Of the East. will proceed to Puerto
Principe. Cuba, and resume his duties at that
station p
The transfer OF Second Lieut.. Robert G. Foy.
Eigth Infantry, 10 the cavalry arm. with rank
in that arm from February 10. 1sJJ and his as
signmeat to the First Cavalry, Troop 2, Is an
nounced.
Major George ". Fishbaek. additional paymast-
er. Volunteers, is honOrably discharged. to take
effect February Is, 1900, his services being no
longer required.
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West Nirripin,s ConI Trad.

ELKINS. W. Va, Jan. 16.-The coke
trade for 1899 was the greatest in the his
tory Of both the West Virginia Central
and the Connellsville regions. The Con-
nellsville output was 20 per cent greater
than that of 1898. while the prices OBJ
tanned averaged so per cent higher than
the best year on record.
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runeraI of lieutenant Howard.

The funeral of Lieut.. Samuel Howard, U.
S. N, pilot of the Monitor in her fight with
the Merrimac, who died Sunday, took place
from his home at 1907 NJ Street northwest,
this afternoon. The services were conduct
ed under the auspices of st. Johns Lodge,
F. A A. NJ, and Lincoln Post, G. A. R., the
Rev. DR.. Newman officiating. The inter-
ment was at Arlington.
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THE SIDEWALK GAVE WAY.
An Accident to Mrs. Rosina Baker
smith i'm Brishtwood Avenue.
Mrs RnSina palarcrDitb of 95ee

MIS-. FOsInd bdktTSHIIH OF oobb bTISHl-
wood Avenue northwest, three years
old met with an accident about
3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Bakersmith was on the way to her
home when a portion of the brick pave
ment over which she was passing eaved in
precipitating her into a hole about five
feet deep.
Her shoulder was injured and she was
momentarily stunned. She managed TO eX-
tricate herself without assistance, and was
able to go to her home unaided
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Not by the Hundred,
TRANSPORT. Arrive From Manila.

General Shafter informed the War De-
partment today of the arrival at San Fran
cisco from Manila of the transports Olym-
pia and Pennsylvania. bringing as passen-
gers Colonel Viele, Fourth Cavalry; two
discharged soldiers, and one retired ser
geant. There were no deaths during the
voyage and no remains carried on either
ship.
The evening times., 1900-01-16
THE RoCHDALE SOCIETY.

The annual meeting of The Rochdale
Cooperative Society of the District OF
Columbia will be held at G. A. r. Hail
(third floor, 1412 Pennsylvania Avenue
northwest,
TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16. 1900.
7:3O O'CLOCK.
Election of officers for the ensuing year.
Present your Trade Card at the door.
BY order of the Executive Committee.
L. s. EMERY, Secretary
ja1416 635 G. Street northwest.
SPECIAL notice.. C. REDDING will
be at the American House on 18th, 18th.
and 18th to receive taxes due to Colonial
Beach, Va. ja15-3t
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FOR DYSPEPTICS.

There Is no reason why any one should
suffer from dyspepsia or any stomach
trouble. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters cures
constipation. Indigestion, dyspepsia, ma
laria, fever and sgue. 1t has done so for
fifty years. Any druggist will sell it to
you. Take it faithfully. 1t will regulate
the bowels, improve the appetite and bring
back health and strength. See that a Pri-
vate Revenue Stamp covers the neck of
the hottie
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IN MEMORIAM.

IliTfE-In loving remembrance Of our dear
mother. MARY X. HITTE, who departed this life
five years ago today, January IS. 1895.
May her soul rest in peace;
Gone, but never will be forgotten
TEN By HER SONS
The evening times., 1900-01-16

There is not another beer in the United States
tested than in Hearichs Maerzen, Senate. and
Lager To prove to you that Heurich's are the
best phone 634, Arlington Bottling Co., for
case.
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TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Az
druggists refund the money II it fails to cure
E. W. Groves signature Is on each box. 25c
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EDUCATIONAL.

OPPORTUNITIES for students 70 practice are
offered in available studio: central location:
grand piano; terms reasonable Address Box 2SO
this office. ials-3t en-
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Women az well as men ars
made miserable by kidney and
bladder troable. DR.. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root. the great kidney
remedy. promptly cures. At
druggists in fifty cent and dol
ay have a sample bottle by mail
let telling all about it and its
aer & Co.. Binghamton. N. Z.