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Evening star., 1901-12-24
POISONED BY EATING PORK.

Fsmily Of G. c. Lemert. Gov. N..h,.
Clerk, the Victims.
COLUMBUS. Ohio, December 4.-charles
c. Lemert. executive clerk to Gov. Nash,
and his entire family were poisoned by eat
Ing pork for dinner last evening. Some
time after the meal members Of the family
were taken Ill. and a physician summoned,
who pronounced the illness due to the con-
dition OF the meat. Mr.. Lemert was unable
to be In his Office today, but 1t is Thought
his condition is not serious.
Evening star., 1901-12-24
Not Employed i'm Linen Room.

The allegation made to the police by
Mary Estep. the young woman who claim
ed that she was assaulted in Franklin
Square Park, that she was employed as
superintendent Of the linen room at the
Hamilton. Is stated today to be incorrect.
IL Is said that the woman is employed in
the store room Of the hotel
Evening star., 1901-12-24
Sewer Construction suggest.d.

Middaugh and Shannon have requested
the District Commissioners to construct a
sewer along the west side OF North Capi-
tol street between and Randolph streets.
The writer's have been informed that the
sewer can be constructed at q cost to them.
Of $1S0 under the permit system.
Evening star., 1901-12-24

Mr. Borden Makes Pleasing An
nouncement to His Employees.

nouncement to His Employees.
FALL RIVER, Mass, December "a
Notices were posted in the iron works
mills here today by NJ C. D. Borden,
owner, announcing that the operatives
would receive as a Christmas gift an
amount equivalent to an increase of 10
per cent In wages for six weeks.
Ihis restores to them the amount lost IN
wages since the cut down at the mills six
weeks ago, when Mr.. Borden took off the
10 per cent advance in wages, which had
been In effect for two weeks.
Evening star., 1901-12-24
Donation to Palmer college.

LIE GRAND, Iowa, December 24.-Palmer
College has received 10000 from F. A.
Palmer Of New York. making $4,000 raised
in the last six months. This college has
the youngest president Of any college In
the country. Carlyle Summerbel. who Is
twenty eight years old.
Evening star., 1901-12-24
Must Ask the war Department.

The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad
Company has applied to the, District Com
missionerssfor q permit to lay q siding near
the north end Of the Long bridge. The
company has been informed by the Dixtrfcf
authorities that the proposed track WIN be
on the Potomac hats. and under the furia-
lcaon- Of the Var -Qepaytneut
Evening star., 1901-12-24
FATAL EXPLOSION OF GAS,
Youth Killed and Stove Wrecked Mt
kentOn, Ohio,

kENTON, Ohio. December 24-As the re-
suit Of an explosion Of gas in the store of
E. Bartholomew early today, Carl Shields,
nfteen years of age. was killed and several
other persons injured. The explosion was
caused by plumber looking for gas leak
with lighted candle. The building was
partially wrecked and the front windows
of several adjacent stores demolished. The
loss will be several thousand dollars.
Evening star., 1901-12-24
Industrial Convention Postponed.

ATLANTA, Ga, December 24.-Col. W. A.
Hemphill, president Of the Southern In
dustrial Association, announced today that
the convention of that society called for
Memphis during January had been post
poned.
Evening star., 1901-12-24

a colored female infant about two months
old was found near the corner Of Sff and
NJ streets northwest about s O'clock last
night. 1t was sent to the home of Mrs
Randolph. 4OS r street northwest, q nurses
OF the board Of children's guardians.
Evening star., 1901-12-24
To Train Filipino. to Farm.

BERKELEY. Cal, December 24.-The
University Of California has been asked to
recommend to the Philippine commission
several men qualified by experience and
scientific training to take charge of agri-
tural experiment stations in the Philip
pines,
Evening star., 1901-12-24
Governnent Bonds.
LIFE-sAvER DECORATED.

Arthur Egan of Chicago Gets Medal
From British Kfng.
CHICAGO. December A-Arthur Egsn.
the seventeen-year-old hero OF twenty
three lifs-saving exploits In Lake Nichi-
gan. has been decorated by Edward VII,
King OF England, for his heroisrn Ysster-
day young Egan was notined BY Consul
Wyndham OF the local British Consulate
that . sold medal OF the Royal Humane
Society, bestowed by King Edward IN REQ
awaited him. Esan Z the nrst resident OF
the United States TO receive such honor.
He h q British subject by reason o{ his
birth In xoront0s -ontAxjA.
Evening star., 1901-12-24

British Queen Improving.
LONDON, December N.-Queen Alexan-
dra is progressing satisfactorily toward
recovery.
Evening star., 1901-12-24
sixty Boers Taken Prisoner.

PRETORIA, December 24.-Lieut. Colen-
brander's force surprised Boer lager In
the Petersburg district December %, ana
captured sixty prisoners.
Evening star., 1901-12-24
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL

Furnished by W. b. Hibbe q Co., bankers
and brokers, 1419 F st., members New York
stock exchange. Washington stock ex-
change and Chicago board of trade
Evening star., 1901-12-24

AKRON, Ohio, December 24.-Andrew
Carnegie has offered the city Of Akron
$4,000 for a free public library, the city
to guarantee $1,000 annually to maintain it,
The offer will probably be accepted.
The Washington times., 1901-09-26
Mr.. Hanna and the President.

The statement credited to Senator
Hanna that he viii support President
Roosevelt, provided the latter carry out
the policy of air. Mckinley, is. TO say
the least, a peculiar and suggestive
one. 1t seems a little singular that a
Republican United States Senator
should deem it necessary to give any
public assurance that he will support
a Republican President and especially
when that Senator is the head of
the national organization. But Mr.
Hanna is reported as making the state
Inent, and doing it in manner imply
ing belief on his part that it was in
cumbent upon him to do so.
The qualification is also worthy of
careful note. Ir. Roosevelt must walk
in the footsteps of his predecessor if
he expects Mr.. Hanna's support. II
would not be straining the meaning of
words to construe this as a threat 1t
is hardly to be supposed that man of
Mir. Roosevelts independence Of char
acter will do everything just as Mr..
Mckinley would have done it. Safely
we may conclude that the President
will do some things that his predeces-
sor would not have done at all. Just
how far these differences may consii-
tute a departure from Mr.. McKinley's
policy we do not know, nor can we
tell how MIR. Hanna will regard them.
II seems morally certain that the per-
sonal relations between the Ohio SEN
ator and President Roosevelt will not
be so close as were those between the
Senator and President Mckinley. To
what extent Mr.. Hanna win regard his
own personal status. and the measures
which he especially favors (and in
which he had the sympathy of Mr..
Mckinley. as constituting part of
the late Presidents policy, remains to
be seen
The Washington times., 1901-09-26
A BRITISH REBUKE.

We do not pretend to know who writes
Lord Kitchener's'' dispatches. We
should be sorry to think he was RESPONSE
BILE for the egregiously brutal ptrasing of
the last weekly butchers bill. The bust
ness of killing. wounding and capturing
ones fellow men Is degrading enough
without the use of terms which suggest
the atmosphere of the shooting lodge.
Lord Kitchener. 1t appears. claims eSl
Beers as his total bag" rs thy servant
a partridge upon the hills?" was the
question which a certain David put to
King Saul Are we really hunting a ma
ton of brave men. fighting to preserve
their country's independence, in the spirit
with which we pursue grouse and hares?
Much earlier in this war certain cav
airy officer wrote to the Times "A de-
scription of the conduct of his men at
Elantlslaagte They charged a fleeing
commando and ran through numbers of
men who were calling for quarter with
their lances This pig sticking the
officer added, was excellent sport. Moth
ing could Illustrate better than the use
of these two words the decentralization
which his forces have outuumbered those
of the enemy. We have often objected to
the practice of editing dispatches in Lon
DON but we should not have blamed the
War Office If 1t had substituted a less Of
fensive word for Lord Kitchener's bag
AS for the contents of the report. We note
that fewer Beers surrendered during the
week beginning September than in the
third week of August. The approach of
The fatal 18th does not seem to Influence
these statistics too favorably.-London
Leader.
The Washington times., 1901-09-26
Russian and British Finances.

The belief is gaining ground that the
main purpose of the Cars recent visit
to France, and his effusive references
to the alliance between his own Gov
ernment and that of the French he
public. was to lay the foundation Tor
a new Russian loan. II this is true. II
seems as if he should have made a
special effort to visit Paris, the none
tary centre of the country, and where
such a loan would have to be fioated.
Eut it is possible that the full moral
effect was obtained without his going
there, and doubtless the reasons which
impelled him to remain away from tEe
French capital were deemed to be good
ones.
If this imperial journey was under
taken with the idea of rendering 1t
easier for Russia 10 borrow money in
France, it naturally gives rise to con-
lectures as TO what Russia wants Of
the money 1t is not strange that she
does want it, for of late years her bor-
rowings have been very heavy; but the
question is why she wants or needs
ii so badly as to induce the Car TO
take such a course in order to get IT.
There is no suggestion that the great
Northern Empire desires to accumulate
a fund for war purposes. On the con-
trary. at this juncture the foreign
policy of the country is believed to be
more than usually pacific, although no
one can tell how quickly it might be
changed The intimationS are that the
money is needed to buttrGss the goid
standard. the stability of which has
been somewhat threatened of late by
heavy losses of gold from the Empire
1t is also said that the country is
threatened with famine conditions,
which may call for expenditures
amounting to hundreds of millions of
roubles If these surmises are correct
we may expect soon to hear of new
Russian loan being fioated in Paris.
There is also a strong probability
that the British Government Will be
forced to borrow a considerable sum at
an early day, and there is no mystery
as to what this money will be wanted
for. 1t will be to end the Boer war
again. If both of these Governments
borrow as anticipated, 1t may materl-
ally affect the worlds leading money
markets. Naturally it will create some
stringercy, until the money begins 10
flow back into the channels Of trade
In the case of England this would be
almost Immediately the case; but II
Russia borrows merely to strengthen
her gold reserves, it may mean the
locking up of a large sum of money for
an indefinite time. The effect of this
could not be otherwise than unfavor-
able to the European business situa-
ton, which, even now. is none too sat
isfactory.
The Washington times., 1901-09-26
POLITICAL COMMENT

How would IT do to make associating
with anarchists crime? Such law ex-
lists in the case of other offensive charac-,
ters. Why not brand them as outlaws?-
Indianapolis News.
President Mckinley voiced a liberal
commercial policy and President Roose-
Welt has endorsed it. But will the Senate
ratify it2 The Senate is a difficult body.
Its record on this issue is not encour-
aging. 1t has shown itself hitherto i'm
pervious to argument and has treated all
efforts at reciprocity with contempt. The
hidebound protectionists held full sway IN
the upper chamber under the Mckinley
regime. 1t remains to be seen whether
they dare persist in an obstructive trade
policy repudiated by two Presidents. the
dead and the living, denounced by the
people. and q menace to the further ex-
pansion of American commerce.-Port-
land Argus.
II the official naval chart of the naval
battle of Santiago is inaccurate and all
the experts knew 1t to be inaccurate when
1t was drawn, what was the use of print
ing it at all?-New York World.
Admiral Howison does not appear to
have been entirely convinced by his own
testimony.-Chicago Tribune.
The sharp dispute between Senators
Tillman and McLaurin of South Caro-
lima has been in a state of subsistence for
several weeks. 1t is satisfying to know.
however, that there is good deal of un-
finished business in reserve for time
when things get dull-Cincinnau En-
quirer.
The memorial address of William 7
Bryan was especially marked by e,i-
dences of deep sincerity, strong emetiou
and good taste. The words OF Mr. Bry3,u
were in remarkable contrast with the mar
row spirit OF the few partisans who left
the hall because a Republican had not
been selected to make the address.-Phila-
delphia Record.
The chief quality Of anarchism is It's
cowardliness. 1t strikes in the dark.
Like a wild animal, it pounees on its VIC
tim at the most unprepared moment And
yet il pretends to live on higher level
than the rest of us and to seek the ideal
society and government. II has, however,
forgotten all about honorable methods.
and, therefore, deserves the contempt in
which 1t is held.-New York Herald.
In the most matter of fact way an
nouncement is made that a cable TO
Hawaii will be laid forthwith. and that
it will be extended to the Philippines as
soon as II can be manufactured. Is this
the line that has been so vehemently
discussed fer the past ten years or more?
II So IL shows once more that Horace
Greeley was right-the way to get thing
done is to do it.-Phiiadelphia Ledger.
Talk of Mckinley memorials is wide
spread That is well. Monuments and
other structures should be erected in
many places to bear his name But the
best memorial Of him will be for the
people of this nation to live up to the
lofty % ntimentS which nave been evoked
by his martyrdom.- York Tribune
Several of the matters charged against
Admiral Schiey by the navy clique.
through its tool. Sampson, have been dis
proved by witnesses for the prosecution.
Before the trial is over the clique will
find, perhaps. that 1t is dangerous to
monkey with Observation-Disclosures
World.
The Washington times., 1901-09-26
PERSONAL.

The will of George N. Kennedy. ex- JUS
tice of the Supreme Court of Maryland,
dispeses of property valued at more than
S501,00O. Syracuse University receives
about $40 coo and several local charities
get 5,CcO each.
A bust of DR.. G. Armauer Hanson, the
discoverer of the leprosy bacillus, was un-
yelled recently by Prof. Visdal in the gar
den of The museum at Bergen, in the pres
ence of many Norwegians and foreign
medical men.
DIR. Handley Moule. professor of the
ology at the University OF Cambridge.
who succeeds the late Bishop Westcott in
the bishopric of Durham England, Is one
of the most distinguished representatives
of the evangelical school in the Church
Of England. He was for some years at
the head of Ridley Hall, called after
Bishop Ridley. the martyr. and intended
to be a centre of evangelical light and
influence in the university. For that in
stitution DIR. Moule has secured great
place, and his appointment to the bishop
ric of Durham has given satisfaction 10
all evangelical and moderate men in the
Church of England and to the whole body
OF the non-estabiished churches.
Lieut. Louis Hamilton, of the Four
teenth United States Infantry who COM
manded the special guard of honor at the
Buffalo city hall and on the train which
took President Mckinley's body to Wash
ington, is a reat-grandson of Alexander
Hamilton.
Richard Bell. who represents half a mil
lion railroad men in the British Parlia-
ment, is the first railway guard to enter
the house. He won great favor during
the late strike on the Northeastern ana
the Taff Vale Railway
A Swedish genealogist says that the late
explorer NordenskjOld had among his an
cestors several crowned heads. His grand
father, great-grandfather and three pre-
ceding ancestors We're prominent in the
army. while the royal relationship was
brought into the family through his
mother Nansen also Is accused of hav-
ing a drop of royal blood in his veins.
Apparently the proverb about closing
the stable door after the horse has been
stolen is fully appreciated by the Mayor
of Ruenos Ayres, South America. He has
issued an order that no city employe VINO
handles public money can attend the
races.
Father Aloysius Viewer, Franciscan
nriest who died at the Santa Barbara
Mission. in Southern California. on the
morning made memorable by the death
of President Mckinley, was the man who
in 1873 earned the title of The Hero of
Memphis" He was a native of Vreden,
Germany having been born sixty-three
wears ago. He came to this country
when twenty years old. and became one
Of the professors at a college at Teuto-
nolis. iii In 1870 he removed to St Louis,
and in 1873. when the plague of yellow
fever broke out in Memphis, he volun-
tarily went to the stricken city and re-
mained through the plague, rendering
assistance alike to white and black. He
later removed to Minnesota from which
State he again went to Memphis In 1873.
when the yellow fever once more became
epidemic. In this later plague he was
one OF twenty-five Franciscan Fathers
who rendered service to the sufferers.
and Of them all he only survived.
The Washington times., 1901-09-26
CURRXING FAVOR.

The freedom with which officers of the
navy array themselves against Admiral
Schlcy and seek to make n record as crit
ics of his every move from the time when
lie took command of the flying squadron
until the last of the Spanish ships was
driven ashore is explained by the fact
that departmental influence is known to
favor that sort OF thing.
Many a man in the naval service or in
the Marine Corps holds an agreeable as
signment new or expects to held one here
after as a result of just such PARTISAN
ship.
The evidence against Schley thus far
covers circumstances and conditions
wherein he was G5t free to act as Samp-
son was later on, rs will presently appear.
1t Is interesting. however. as showing
how many officers there are who, In the
hope of currying favor with the depart
ment. do not hcnitete to cast reproach
upon a man whom they should be taught
to emulate.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Washington times., 1901-09-26
OUR PRESIDENTS.

The North has had sixteen Presidents
and the South nine. The executive office
has beer occupied by Northern men
few days less than sixty-three years. ano
by Southern men a few days over fifty
three years. This is based on the sup
position that Roosevelt viii fill out his
present term
Only two of the Southern States have
furnished Observation-Disclosures and Ten
nessee. OF the Northern Presidents, three
have come from the New England States
six from the Middle States and seven
from what is now called che Middle West.
No President has ever been elected
from the territory west OF the Mississippi
River. and only two men have been NOM
mated by the great political parties from
that territory-bremont. from Missouri,
by the Republicans, in 1856. and Bryan.
of Nebraska, by ths Democrats, in 1886
and 1890.
Divided politically. nine Democrats two
federalists. four Wings and eight Re-
publicans have occupied the Presidential;
office. In the above l do not include
Washington. the first President 1t is un-
Just to assign the first and only real non-
partisan President of the country to any
political party.-Cialvcston News
The Washington times., 1901-09-26

Our dispatches inform us that New
York hotels are filed with yachtsmen
and others eager to see the Columbia
Shamrock races, and that anchorage
ground in the Hudson and East Rivers Is
hard to find. so many private yachts have
come to the city. Sir Thomas Upton is
said to be in high spirits and hopeful of
success. and the consensus of expert opin-
ion seems to be that his confidence is not
without reason. The first event in the
series will take place today. weather per-
mitting, and last night all the indications
pointed to the almost certainty of a fine
stiff breeze off Sandy Hook. Should II
so happen there ought to be race worth
seeing.
The Washington times., 1901-09-26

The project of establishing a training
ship on tine Great Lakes, as advocated by
Commander Hawley, may not be bad
one. There is considerable difficulty in
getting a sufficient number of sailors on
the seaboard to meet the growing require
ments of the navy. 1t is believed that
many men could be secured in :he region
contiguous to the lakes and be given
training that would make them thorough
~ efficient. The plan seems worthy of
trial anyway. If we are to have a navy
we must have sailors in sufficient number
to man the ships.
The Washington times., 1901-09-26

our attention to one of the most shock
ing of them-the contrast between the
respect really felt for the dead Chief
Magistrates memory and the slight re-
spect Shown outwardly on the occasion
of his funeral
The Washington times., 1901-09-26


The city of Butte, the great copper
camp of Montana, and in fact the great
est copper producer in the world, Is built
upon the side of a mountain, although not
very steep one. But for several years
in portions of the city sliding movement
of the ground has been noticed. Not
much attention has been paid to it in
Butte, as 1t was deemed merely surface
movement. Now report is sent out that
the Neversweat Mine. one of the Ana
conda group. has been obliged to shut
down because of a slide that has dis
placed the engine foundations and the
timbers of the shaft some seven inches
The mine is about two thousand feet
deep, and if the displacement extends far
down it may be somewhat serious mat
ter. The probability is that the trouble
is exaggerated
The Washington times., 1901-09-26

Today the Presidential family are in
residence at the White House, and the
Executive Mansion will again take on the
aspect of a modest American home. 1t
is too modest, indeed, to be the official resi-
dence of our Presidents. The chief OF a
great State who has not a spare bed
room TO assign to a family friend or dis
tinguished visitor cannot be accused of
living in palatiai magnifcence.
The Washington times., 1901-09-26

on That is. we must be in position to
offer something in exchange for the con-
cessions made to us According to this
view we must first entrench ourselves
behind a tariff wall. which entirely ex-
cludes foreign goods from the Ameri-
can market. Then we are in pcsitloh
to take down the wall a little at time
removing a stone here and there, in re-
turn for concessions made to US by
other countries. 2 The veriest tyro IN
political economy ought TO be able to
see that the more the wall is lowered.
or the more gaps there are made In II,
the nearer we are to free trade.
II signifies nothing, so far as this
point is concerned, to argue, as the
Tribune does, that under reciprocity
we get something in exchange for
something That would be equally true
if all the world were on a free trade
basis Each nation would get an equiv
alcnt for what it gave. .Sand give an
equivalent for what IL received. The
simple fact is that each reciprocity
treaty means a longer free list, or lower
rates of duties on certain things. And
this is why score or so of such treat
les failed of ratification in Republi-
can Senate after having been negotia-
ted by a Republican President.
One point of Importance was developed
at yesterdays session of the Court of En-
quiry. SIMPSONS order No. T." instruct
ing Commodore Schley to disregard the
orders of the Department and to remain
at Cienfuegos. was produced and admitted
in evidence. This is the order which the
navy ring has succeeded in suppressing
heretofore. Considering that the wit
nesses so far examined have been the
star witnesses on whom the Department
relied to make a case against Rear Ad-
miral Schley, the prosecution" and Cap
tain Lemly. the prosecutor, have not
gained much. or appeared to good advan-
tage In the eyes of the country. The
American people are still expecting to see
a change of tactics on the part of the
Navy Department, since they cannot be-
lieve that President Roosevelt will longer
permit proceedings before Court of En-
quiry TO be conducted as IL they were be-
fore criminal court and jury in case
of felony.