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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-02
NORTH CAR0LINA'S DEBT.
State Treasurer's Report Shows 1t to
BE Less Than 100000.


RALEIGH, =. c, Jan. 2.-State Treas
urer Worth makes the following report
Of the debt of North Carolina: Four per
cent bonds, consols. s.. 397. $3.50: to pay pen
itentiary debt. $4,000; to buy peniten-
tiary farms. $G0.OOG: total SO 567. 800. Six
per cent debt. $. 72O, coo. There are out
standing old bonds which equal $21S, 400
Of 4 per cents. but it is doubtful whether
as many as one-fourth Of these will ever
be received Under no conditions. there
fore, can the debt exceed 6,5G5. 40.
The State owns 90. 002 shares Of stock
in the North Carolina Railway. which is
leased 20 the Southern for ninety-nine
years This stock is now worth 100 From
il the State receives $2I0, 014 {. year. The
State also owns L s66 shares IN the At
lantie and North Carolina This stock is
worth approximately % cents on the dol
lar The State has never received over
per cent annually in the shape OF divi-
bends
The expenditures OF the State have rap
idly increased The Treasurer says he
has prepared table showing the exp nsas
at various periods in various groups o.
years. From 1877 to 1882 they averaged
1904, 442 a year. from 1883 to 1888. 1917. 419.
from 1859 to 1884. $1,143.672; from 1895 10
1901. S1,415, 685.
\ weI-known lawyer says that the cor
pOration commission for which ne is one
OF the counsel has dcne remarkable work
in securing witnesses to go before The
standing master in the tax assessment
suits, which involve an increase Of SO,
009, eco in the valuation for taxation Of
the Southern. Atlantic Coast Line and
SeabOard Air Line railways. The com
mission will have "a witnesses q tax as
SCISSOR and a business man from every
county in the State Il is the purpose.
he says TO introduce more evidence than
the railways can possible secure. There
will be more than $50 Witnesses Moth
ing like this was ever before known in
North Carolina.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-02
BOMB IN A CHICAGO TUNNEL.
The Claim Hade by Detective Ser
Eeant Mclaughlin.

CHICAGO. Jan 1.-The Record says
that on information from a source which
he declines to make public, Detective Ser
geant Mclaughlin located a gas pipe bomb
in one of the riches Of the La Sale Street
Tunnel shortly before midnight. The
bomb was taken by the policeman TO Cen
trail Station and thence carried TO the
lake front and exploded
Detective Mclaughlin said he received
hint to the effect that an EFFORT would be
made to blow up the tunnel used for the
passage Of the North Side cable cars He
FASTENED to the scene nd found the piece
of three-inch gas pipe about fifteen inches
long in one of the small arched openings
in the dividing wall of the tunnel. \ half
burned fuse protruded from one end. When
touched of the bomb is said by the police
to have exploded with a loud report.
Earlier in the night one Of the sweapers
employed in the tunnel saw q man about
twenty-five years old and shabbily dressed
lettering in the tunnel. He was asked
what he was dong there and replied
| nothing" The STRANGER left the tunnel
hurriedly- The police suspect the bomb
was placed there by q discharged en-
plOye of tie company
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-02
REVENUES OF CUBA.
Custom House Receipts During EIev-
en- Months of Last Year

Custom House Receipts During EIev-
en- Months OF Last Year.
The Division OF InsuIar Affairs of the
War Department has prepared for publ
cation the following statement of receipts
from all sources, at the several custom
houses in the Island OF Cuba for the first
eleven months OF 1900, as compared with
the same period of 1889
The statement shows that the total re-
ceIpts from customs sources for the eleven
months ending November go 1900 were
SASS. 64I9S while for the same eleven
months Of 1889 they were $13, 378 557. 40
showing an increase in favor Of 1900 o. ST.
III 0S0.5S and an increase for the month
Of November 1900. over the same month
of 1888 OF $40. 5S3.14
The comparison by customs ports fol-
lows: Baracoa, the first eleven months OF
1899, S33. SIS. IS; 1890. $26. 246.37: Batabano
1899, 81 g29- 43; 1906, s., SZ759. Cinenfuegos,
1899. $lG20, 1874 81; 1900, 81, ops, 1854 Car
dsEas, 1899 $24S, 16e.03; 1900, S27O. 379. O5
CaIbarien, 1899. S141. $50. 90: 1900. 1885,. O9I-
16- Guantanamo. 1899. 500 617.24: 1900
S113. S79.31. Gibara. 1899. $3.50. 363.S1; 1900
S205. 05845. Havana. 1899 g. 972 924.84,
1901. sI0,Sz6. 555.T1. Manzanillo 1899 $148-
359.6S; 1900, 1856. 229- 80. Matauzas 1899
1855, $50 81: 1900, 1920, 1854 Nuevl;qs,
1883 s20i TO- So: 1900 Sl52. 412 IS Sagua
Ia Grande. 1889, 1922. So. 81; 1900. $751;
1873 Santa Cruz. 1899 s1,19S.e4; 1900
S4353.2+; Santiago. 1893. SS40, 785 %; 1900,
S845,2 SL52. Trinidad, 1899. 1,871SS; 1900,
s22. 519-94- Zaza, 1893, $6.500-71; 1909. 81
eco 10
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-02
NEW COMPASS CARD.
One Using Degrees Only Devised by
Lieutenant Commander DiehI.

One Using Degrees Only Devised by
Lieutenant Commander DiehI.
Rear Admiral R B. Bradford. Chief of
the Bureau of Equipment, has sent to
well-known mariners for criticism a
proposed new compass card designed by
Lieutenant Commander S. B. ". Diehl.
Superintendent of Compasses.
The object of the TSoposed changes is
to omit the present system of points and
fractions thereof and use degrees only.
The present card contains points and de-
grees. The conversion of one into the
other. Lieutenant Commander DiehI says,
is natural result of the presence of
poth, but IS not necessity, as would
speedily be recognized were the points
omitted Accuracy requires expression
III degrees for courses, bearings and COM
pass errors, and not in points, the use
OF which IS but duplication of work.
The circumference of the proposed card
IS divided into the usual 800 degrees and
marked continuously to the right from
zero al north 20 90 degrees at east, $50
degrees at south. go degrees at West. and
$50 degrees at north.
Lieutenant Commander DiehI says he
believes the proposed marking of the
compass card would result in greater ac-
cuFacy IN navigation in its relation 10 the
compass Courses would be laid in de-
grees and more accurately noted. as the
approximate course Of southwest By west
Il west a little westerly for ex-
ample. would be replaced by the exact
course OF 240 degrees Changes Of error
IN the application of deviation to com
pass courses would be lessened. Conyer-
sion Of points into degrees and the re
verses would be eliminated from The
problem. Boxing the compass would be
d matter Of a few minutes instruction TO
the iayInan of average intelligence sail
ing directions would be simpIffIed- and all
work in relation 10 the compass would
lie facilitated
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-02
BOATS CRASH IN A FOG.
Weems Line Steamers Damaged on
Point Lookout.

Point Lookout.
BALTIMORE, Jan 1.-The Weems Line
steamer Essex, Capt. Daniel NJ Davis. ran
into the steamer Potomac. also of the
Weems Line. during a heavy fog about
11:4o D. m Monday of Point Lookout
causing considerable damage 10 both
steamers. Captain Davis. who had rushed
out of the piIothouse on deck a few sec
onds before the accident. was knocked
senseless. and is believed TO be otherwise
injured A number OF passengers were
aboard both steamers but no one is re-
ported to have been injured. although
shaken up.
The Essex was bound down the bay and
the Potomac was on her way TO Baltimore
The fog was so dense that it was inpossi-
bic to see more than short distance
ahead, and before anyone aboard the Po-
tomac vas ware she was struck amid
ships on the starbOaId side By the Essex.
i good deal of the homework above the
deck OF the Potomac was shattered and
the bow Of the Essex was badly damag ed.
The Essex, with Captain Davis aboard ac-
COrdingly put in at SOlomOn's Island. as it
was deemed inadvisable to continue fur
Their than necessary.
The Potomac was able to come unassist-
ed TO Baltimore, and arrived at about :
O'Clock yesterday morning She was sent
TO SINNERS shipyard for repairs and the
steamer Sue put in her place
Mason Williams. Of the Weems Line
sas that it viii be impossible TO estimate
the damages to either Of the steamers IN
til they had both been thoroughly exam
ined.
Captain Davis is married and lives at
120S West Lafayette Avenue He arrived
in Baltinz0Te about O'Clock last night on
the Weems Line steamer St. Mary's. He
was conscious but somewhat bruised and
was sent home in q cab
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-02
TO CONTINUE IN SERVICE.
Naval Officers Entitled to Retirement
My BE Refnimed.

The Secretary Of the Navy has availed
himself of the privilege of law and may
retain in active service two naval officers.
one Of whom is retired and the other about
to retire under the age limitation.
Civil Engineer A. G. Menocal. now on
duty in the Philippines, will probably re-
main on that duty, although retired Civil
Engineer P c. Asserson, now attached to
the New York Navy Yard and who retires
on January .. has expressed a willingness
to continue in active service. and Secreta-
~ Long has authorized him TO remain.
The continuance on duty Of the civil en-
gincers is due to the fact that a large
amount Of work remains to be performed
under the Bureau of Yards and Docks. and
there are very few officers available to
carry it on Admiral Endicott chief of
the bureau, has recommended an increase
OF his force, but 50 far has failed to Sc
cure the authority. +, he construction of
naval stations at Pago-Pago. Samoa, Hon
oIuiu, and Porto Rico and the work on nu-
merous drydocks and coal sheds on the
coast has drawn upon the corps 10 an ex-
tent never Anticipated
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-02
The Chinese Minister'S Son.
CFrom the New YORK Tribune


Washington. Dec. 29-The Centenr- al
Celebration in comme1nOTatiOn OF the es-
tablishment Ot the Capital City was the
occasion Of an Interesting interpa tioEal
feature in the parade when the only son
Of Minister Wa marched shoulder 10 shoul-
der with the High School Cadets. wearing
the uniform and bearing the arms Of the
United States. He bore himself with dig
nifty on the long march. heavily weighted
as he was with a cartridge belt and mus
ket. keeping step in the line as il swept
along the entire length OF Pennsylvania
Avenue
Mr.. Chaa-chu. or Wa Chad-chu, as he
signs himself in i plain English hand. is
an exceptionally bright boy Of fifteen.
though scarcely up 10 the full physical
standard Of the American youth His erect
carriage and soIdierly bearing give prom
ise Of mature Development that speaks well
FOR his training among hundreds Of other
youths obtaining education il the District
public schools.
In accordance with the acknowledged
progressive spirit Of the Chinese Minister.
his son has from the first been placed in
close touch with the people among whom
he dqeIIs. and has completely mastered the
English tongue, speaking i duentiy with
scarcely a peFcepJible accent on all oc-
casions except in conversation with his
parents. With his adoption Of American
customs the boy also assumed the ordinary
garb OF the country. folding away his rich
Oriental costume for special occasions
When asked why he did not wear il ordi-
narily. he promptly replied that 1t was too
much in his way for comfort. For TIE
same reason his queue is tucked out 4
sight His military cap bears the gilt let
tiers II. s. c. with another II, represent
ing his particular company Before he en-
tered the high school year ago he was
q pupil Of the Force School for three years
There he distinguished himself in his
studies. winning the praise and esteem Of
his instructors
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-02
KILLED IN AN AIRsHAFT.
New York Woman Falls Sixty Feet
TO Her Death.


NEW YORK. Jan. Mrs. Louisa Mer-
rift, thirty-six years old. who lived TitS
her husband, Richard \. Merritt, 10
rist, at S27 Park Avenue, five-story
apartment house, yesterday fell from the
roof through an airshaft, a distance CT
sixty feet. and was instantly killed. Al
most every bone in her body, the doctor
said, was broken. The body was crushed
and mangIed almost beyond recognition.
Mrs Merritt had been aiIing for some
time and only ten days ago returned
home from the Presbyterian Hospital,
where she had been a private patient
Just before the accident yesterday she
asked Mrs. Annie Samson, her married
sister, who temporarily was living with
the family, TO take the children into he
paratory to going out Mrs Merritt
dressed and went out It is thought that
she went TO the roof 10 get the air The
next thing the family knew OF her vas
when the janitor, George Schmidt. said
that Mrs Merritt was lying dead at the
bottom of the airshaft-
Schmidt found Mrs Merritt soon after
she had fallen. He at once called po-
iiceman, who sent an ambulance call to
the Presbyterian Hospital. The ambu-
lance surgeon could merely pronounce The
woman dead and say that death had been
instantaneous.
Word was sent to Mr. Merritt. who was
in his shop downstairs arranging a 1oral
piece. He hurried home Later he said
that his wife had probably fallen over the
coping. which is low. He said there was
no reason why she should wish 20 end
her life
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-02
ARRIVAL OF THE GRANT.
a EuEaber of Officers and Enlisted
Men Returned From Manila.

men ENEluEEtu rom hdAf1a.
General shafter reported to the War
Department the arrival in san Francisco
OF the transport Grant, bringing home
the bodies of 3g9 soldiers who died IN the
Philippines.
The following military passengers were
also aboard: Captains Simpson. Medi-
cal Department. United States Volun-
teers. Carr. Signal Corps. United States
Volunteers: Niece. Twenty ninth In
fantrys Lieutenants Palmer. Fifteenth
Infantry SwitZer. Fourth Cavalry. Cham
berlain. assistant surgeon; England,
Third Artillery; Ryan. Fortieth; Gavett
Thirty-ninth; Byerly. Twenty-slxth; Act
ing Assistant Surgeons Chidester. VII
liams. Stemen, White. Thornborough,
and Allen. -Four contract nurses. two
eOmmissary sergeants. fOrty-One enlist
cd men, guard to forty-four sick forty
five prisoners. seventy-nine discharged
soldiers. Deaths during voyage: Private
Henry CianciO. December s. band Forty
seventh Iafantry. Jubercular enteritis,
phthisis puImonalis. both lungs involved:
Private Carl Miller. K. Thirteenth In
fantrys December -. anaemia dysentery
catarrhal. chronic; Corp. Harry P Miller.
F. Thirty ninth Infantry. December a.
chronic diarrhoea.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-02
we Shall Go Back.
fFronl u Baltimore s.

The United States, at least viii surely re-
cover from this wave OF war and violence and
return TO the saner and safer paths on which the
Declaration OF Independence and the Constitution
shed their splendid light. We may not seem to
be getting back TO those old paths very fast at
this moment but shall surely do 50 in fhe end
This Republic, born 4 protest against inius-
tce based on armed force, and dedicated by is
founders to human liberty and equal rights is
surely not destined 10 become in the twentieth
century a great, aggressive military aud naval
power pursuing 3 policy Of colonial expansion
by arms and forcing its rules upon alien and re-
sistnG peoples at the bayonet's point. That can
rot be- The American people viii presently harI,
back TO the eounsels Of the fathers and forbid IL
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-02
TWENTIETH CENTURY MARVEL
DIR. Pratt Predicts Sending of Coal
by Wireless Telegraph.

CHICAGO. Jan TO transport coal
from the Pennsylvania coal fields 10 an
parts of the world over an electric circuit
will be one Of achievements OF the Twenti-
eth Century. according TO Dr. H Preston
Pratt Of this city
DR.. Pratt says that within few years
il will be possible. after reducing coal into
gaseous form. to seL3 it through the air
On an electric circuit, 10 be reduced at
The place OF destination to solid and to
be sold as coal with the original qualities
of the product as dug from the mines.
The doctor is careful to say that this
can be done by aE electric circuit rather
than along z. wire Wireless telegraphy.
he asserts has she N the strength Of an
electric current in JiC air and the power
il has TO carry signals across water or
over land. and 10 use this electric cur
rent for the transport Of ceaI is DIT.
Pratt's idea
1T is a well known fact among medical
men. and especially eIectrOt apeutists, -
said Dr. Pratt, that an element or group
of elements can be transported from one
point to another in the body by the use
of electricity. the body serving as an cleo
troIyte. If We place on the positive pole
a solution OF iodine, OF like electric pos
tive element, it is driven from the posi-
tive to the negative pole, which IS on the
opposite side of the body This method OF
transferring medicine through the body is
termed cataphOresis. So much for the
conducting qualities of electricity through
the body
Dr. Pratt cited the possibility OF an
electric circuit between Chicago and NIL
waukee with the ends of wires in the wa
tiers Of Lake Michigan With each end
having an elecJrode, he asserted, il would
be possible 10 send iodine in a direct line
TO Milwaukee by means of electrolysis SO
that 1t would be collected at the Milwau-
kee electrode AMI used for medical pur-
nnSaS
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-02
SEEK THE LAND OF THE FREE.
Ii'aTri iisration Heavier Last Year Than
Any Time Since 1892.

Any Time Since 1892.
NEW YORK. Jan. During the year
Just ended S69.573 immigrants were
landed through the New York Barge
Office. This was an increase of 90,727
over 1893, which. in its turn. was mark
ed by the heaviest influx of immigrants
TO this port since 1892.
The Hebrew immigration Is one-eishth
OF the total. and the greater percentage
or this class of immigrants were Russian
Jews The Irish. German. and ScandI-
navian immigration has fallen of re-
markedly, and they were counted among
the most desirable classes who sought
these shores. The immigration of per-
sons from the French Republic never
was large at this point.
Most of the immigration to this port
now. consists of italians and Austrians
Included in the category of Austrians
are the Huns, Slavs. CrOatians. Russians
Jews, Magyars. and Poles.
As a rule the greater proportion of
them are laborers. In November there
were 22.Ge0 arrivals, Of whom only 30
were professional men. Almost one-half
were laborers, 10152 including farm
hands. and the like; 1885 were women
anu chlluTen. 5,bzI were skilled iaDOrerS,
including mechanics and artisans of va
rious kinds. There were two clergymen.
three editors, twenty-five engineers, two
lawyers. twenty-eight musicians. four
physicians, twelve sCulptOrs. twenty-one
teachers, and twenty-one miscellaneous
Of those who arrived here in the past
six months 794 were deported Immediate
~ and 166 were deported after one year
The Barge Office authorities here say
that the worst class of immigrants get
in this country by way of Canada, be-
cause the United States has a certain
agreement with Canada which is awaited
of by foreigners who live for few
weeks in the Dominion and then cross
into this country
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-02
MINE WORKERS DISAPPOINTED
A Futile Effort TO Organize in West
Virginia.

PARKERsBURG. W Va, Jan. 2-The
United Mine Workers Of America have ap-
parently given UD all hope OF perfecting
an organization in this State. and the
leaders who have been at FairmOnt for
some time engaged in an effort to unionize
the miners of that region have left the
State in disgust.
Chris Evans. the national organizer who
has been at the head Of the work there.
says that the opera OTIS had a system of
blacklisting and discha -ging any miner
who Joined the union and when the work
was carried on at night and IN secrecy the
opera tors hired detectives TO watch what
was going on and TO report those who had
joined The United Mine Workers. The re
suit was that the miners were afraid TO
join it. He says that persons employed by
the operators went around ia the guise of
mine workers and talked up organization
with all who would discuss the matter
and thus kept fully advised as to who was
connected with the organization and who
desired TO become members
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-02
MINING PROPERTY SOLD.
west Virginia Coal and Lumber
Lands 10 BE Developed

ELKINs. ". Va, Jan 2,-John T Da-
Wis. OF this place, and Benjamin A Rich
mond. Of Cumberland. have purchased
from a syndicate in which fnsnciers in
Scranton and Plttston. Pa, Wayerly, and
Port Jery-is. \. Y, were interested. extern
siye mining properties in Randolph coun-
". W Va. Mr.. Davis is the son of ex-
United States Senator Davis.
Besides several valuable mining veins
In the bitaminous region. the purchase in
cludes COCO acres Of valuable timber land
The veins have been partly worked ana
prove exceedingly well-paying properties.
Tie original syndicate was organized IN
1893, with the late DR.. Cuddeback. Presi-
dent Of the First National Bank Of Port
JerYis as It's president The two last
purchasers paid in the neighborhood of
SZ56, 600 for the land and mines which will
be operated under their individual man
agement.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-02

tFrom the New Castle Chronicle.}
vt one period OF his career Archdeacou Sinclair
used TO preach pretty often both at Wellington
and at Chelsea Barracks. One day = sergeant
major OF the COldstream Guards acoosted him,
and said how sorry he they had not heard
him preach for some time The Archdeacon e'l-
planned that he had not the pleasure OF knowing
the then chaplain nj Chelsea
That's a pity, replied the soldier. for the
men like 10 hear you. They said and here the
Archdcacon prepared himself for a graecidl COM
pliment---you had 1 voice like drill SER
geant
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-02
\ New railroad bicycle.

\ railroad bicycle Is The latest thing s.. iflns-
portatiOn devices. Chicago Arm has introduced
attachment for bicycle 20 substitute Tor the
hanGcar when the latter Is not available. The az
tachmert consists of three sgeel rods running from
the diff rent parts of the frame Of an ordinary
bicycle L, one small wheel the ether rail OF
the track The little third wheel IS Hanged on
beth s.des. and adapted to run on the opposite
rail as a guide to the bicycle. The attachment
can be made in three minutes, II Is said, and
weighs bat eight pounds. The guiding wheel TuB3
on ball bearings, and the three points are 50
distributed as 10 insure the bicycle remaining in
an upright position and its wheels keeping the
track. Great speed IS possible with <.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-02
Even Harm Might Pause.



OF course AR Mckinley Is Cor tine ship Subsidy
bill and lie Is perhaps 10 be commended for
keeping quiet about It. Explanation would be
supertUous and offensive. lie VIII stand by his
managers even 20 the point Of calling eNtraor-
binary session Of the new Congress if Mr.. Hanna
demands l. but the case viii net probably run
70 that extreme II the bin does not get through
the present session Of Congress the converting Of
the new Congress to give II further consideration
would bring about popular collision that even
Nr Hanna might not care 10 have IN the face Of
the calnpaign IN Ohio next wear.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-02

The Hon Matthew s Quay has won The
arst fall in his match Tor the Senate, by
eIecting beth the presiding officers of the
Pennsylvania Legislature. His chances
are greatly expanded and the prospect IS
now bright that he viii soon be in his old
seat. and close 10 his friend Nj Hanna
who loves him nearly as much Is David
did Jonathan, or as the aTectionate Mr..
Chandler does Senator Clark Of Montana.