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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-17
TO BUILD A PYTHIAN HALL
Plans for the Erection of n Home
hx Members of the Order.

by Members of the Order.
BY the beginning Of next year the mem
hers OF tEe Pythian Order resident in the
District expect TO have new home The
decision TO erect a building was reached
at p meeting Of the stockholders Of the
Knights If Pyth:as Hall Association held
last Monday and at meeting Of the di-
rectoTs ana the building committee held
last night the final details of the matter
were worked out The Pythian Knights
have for several years owned q piece of
property on the corner of Nassa chUsetJs
Avenue and Ninth Street The Grand
I.-sIge has been meeting in rather incom-
mydious quarters in the Warder Building.
The new building Is expected to accom-
MEDIATE ali the local lodges.
There are at present about 5oo,o90 mem
b,rs Of the order. aid Washington has
about 1850 distributed among nineteen
lodges.
Tho order was founded in Washington
in 1861 at the old Marini Hall on r Street
between Ninth and Tenth Streets north
west il has grown rapidly and now
takes in the whole United States. 1t is
essentially an organization OF citizens OF
this country The organizer was JuStus
II. Rathboue at that time one Of Wash
InEtgn-S leading legal lights
Plans for the hall have not yet been
entirely completed, but it is understood
that the building VIII be lo) by - feet
and viii probably be six stories high il
VIII be constructed on the most approved
architectural lines with every provision
- make il fircproof and safe. on the
ground floor viii be two large stores.
The second story VIII be taken up by %
large banquet han and small Offices one
floor viii be devoted to a dru han for the
uniform rank Of The order. and ,na rest
of the building divided into separate
rooms for the various lodges
Contracts VIII be let this week and il
viii Boz but a short time before ground is
broken for the building. The directors Of
the building association are: J. X Man
gun. J. G Y0st. ). p Marshall. II J.
Gasson. q W. HeisIey, a J. Cunning,
Richard GOodbaTt, J w T5arden. and
John Humphreys. II the last meeting
the board Of directors organized by elect
luE J. X MaGgam president: }. W Har-
deli. vice president: H J Gasson- secre-
tary. and John Humphreys, treasurer
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-17

subdean Of the Sacred College. The dean
Is the senior cardinal, dating from his
promotions to one Of the sees.
There are now siXty-seven cardinals
forty Italians and twcDtv-sevcu of other
n-tionaIIties II Is said that Pope Leo
Nil desires always to have the member
snip near the pleuum. or limit. and that
ne said just before making the recent list
of twelve new cardinals
Better thar there should BE- as many
as possible to choose from in the next
couclave-" Pope Plus TX having had the
longest reign created the most cardinals,
l'3- Zone Leo XII has buried I25 cardi-
nais since he began his pontifcate-
Besides Cardinal MartiueIIi seven other
cardinals have had to do with the church
OF North America They are Cardinal
Cheverus. the first Bishop Of Boston. Car
qqin2l NcCIoskey. Archbishop Of New
ork. Cardinal Gibbons. OF Baltimore.
Cardinal TascheTeau. Of Quebec. Cardinal
IeTiSco. Bishop Of Savannah: Cardinal
NazzeIIa, the Jesuit theoloEian and pro
lessor at the college at Woodstock. Md.
and Cardinal Sat0lH. former delegate to
the nited States Of these Cardinals
Ch"verus. Persico and NazzelIa had left
this country before they were created
cardinals
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-17

! Consumers VIII Have to Pay Tween
ty-Ifyc Cents More Per Ton on July
! IA Further Increase to lie Made.
The Rise Due to the Trust.
/ BALTIMORE, June 17.-Consumers
/ of coal viii do we'll to lay in their sup
! plies for next winter before July 1. as
I prices viii advance at that time A
! well-knoun local dealer says:
! In April, May. and June the whole
! sale dealers increased the price of coal
/ 10 cents each month, making a 30-cent
/ advance for for the three months.
| While protesting against the increase
/ IN price we paid II and submitted to the
diminution Of our profits. We would
! have continued probably, to sell at the
/ old price if the wholesale men had been
/ content with the 39-cent advance But
when recently they announced another
advance Of 10 cents a ton the retailers
decided that they could not bear the
brunt of it alone
ON Jaly the retail price of coal will
be increased - cents tor in Baltimore
and on September 1 another increase of
% cents viii be made. We understand
that the wholesale price will be raised
10 cents month until that time, and
perhaps during several succeeding
months. We would be glad to continue
the old prices, but are forced to raise
them
An advance Of 25 cents a ton viii be
made in New York today. The retail
dealers there have entered into pro-
tective alliance and will abolish com
missions to statesmen. 1t is thought
that most Of the small retail peddlers
VIII be driven out of the business be-
cause of close selling in the future
Retail dealers in both Baltimore and
New York state that recent cOmbina-
ton Of anthracite coal interests has re-
suited in a squeeze" to raise prices,
and that the retailers and the consum-
ers are helpless.
A despatch from Philadelphia says
The anthracite coal trade is feeling
the effects of the warmer weather and
IS peryaded by condition of dullDess-
Prices are fully maintained, however,
and Will be advanced 10 cents per ton
at the close of this month. The com
panIes are mining an output in excess
OF the actual market requirements. but
they are not dVerse to stocking up for
the bTiskeT fail demand. The retailers
are also pretty well stocked up. and
hence are not ordering freely, though
consumers have been filling their bins
more promptly than has been noted in
any previous June TideWater ship
ments are moderate and else here the
trade IS reported as quiet"
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-17
TRIED SUICIDE IN HER CELL.
a DrucEed Woman in Fear of Dis
ErnCe.

FT.KFSBARRE, Pa. June IA mys-
ferrous girl. handsome, beautifully dressed
and well educated, tried twice TO commit
suicide in cell in the staticahouse yes
tartiav. She was arrested a midnight on
the streets under the influence Of some
drug.
When she realized where she was she
wept bitterly. refused to give any clue TO
her identity. and said only that she was
from Philadelphia and that her family
would ne forever disgTaced if they learned
If her plight How she came here what
she h;t,i taken and other questions she re
fused 10 answer
A watchman heard noise in her cell
an hour later and found her hanging TO
the door He cut her down and revived her
He found her two hours later with the
braid from her skirt twisted around her
neck She was hanging from the cot and
straugfinE. Again she was cut down and
closely watched for the rest of the night
She stfH refused to tell her story and
pleaded so pztifuiIy for mercy that Mayor
Nichols released her and saw her placed
on a train for Philadelphia
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-17

No more beautiful nor hesltHfuI section can DE-
found than that OF the BiuCmOnt country along
the line Of the Southern Railway from Washing
ton 10 BlucW0nt Many beautiful locations.
mountain homes. and villages. Reasonable rates
t1r Summer boJrderS. Low Communication tariff.
Excellent and ample train service You viii en-
Joy outing in this delightful section
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-17
THE WIsCoNsIN's TRIAL.
satisfactory Performance of the New
BattIeshIp-

SAN FRANCISCO, June I7-Thc new
battIeship Wisconsin has proved herself
flyer. On her final trip she made IS.G
knots an hour under forced draft FOR two
hours and 1G-<J knots an hour under nat
uraI draft for the same length of time.
on her forty-eight hour speed trial, un-
der natural draft she steamed at an
average rate of 15.5 knots an hour on
the trial trip all her guns, big and little,
were fired at extreme elevation and at
long range. 10 defects were found in
guns or mounts.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-17
1910 the yard.
PeTCaIeS.

One of the seasons favorites for
whole dresses. We show a charm
ing collection of the up-to-date
styles, such as dainty figures, dots
and stripes Of black, blue and
pink OF white grounds; 36 inches
wide.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-17

Mrs Westinghouse spent last week with
her brother. Mr. E. b Walker, at Kings
ton in the Catskius- For several years
Mrs Westinghouse spent her summers
At the Hotel kaaterskiII- where she
adhered reputation for her splendid
costumes and costly gems.
Mt jefferson Chandler has returned to
Washington after an absence Of several
years in San Francisco With his daugh-
ter. Mrs. a. T. Patton. of Richmond. he
viii occupy for the summer the residence
Of friend who has gone abroad.
Admiral and Mrs Dewey, Rear Admiral
and Mrs CroWninshield, Captain and
Mrs Sigsbee viii spend the latter part Of
the month at Newport.
On account of the continued rainy
weather, the lawn party which was to
have been given this evening by the
Ladies Missionary Society Of Calvary
Baptist Church at the Chevy Chase resi-
dence Of Mr. G E Mower, has been post
poned until next Friday. The hours Of
the lawn party viii be from 8 until 10
0 clock when delightful programme
VIII be rendered and frozen dain5ies
served.
ne engagement is announced of Miss
Nina Cromwell youngest daughter Of
Rear admiral ana Mrs. B. J. Cromwell.
TO Ensign Needhan Lee Jones, L s Ma
", now on duty on the Dolphin.
Count Cassini. the Russian Ambassador,
entertained at dinner last night the Turk
ish Minister, Ali Ferrouh Bey. and Count
TaTnowski- the Charge d'Afaires Of the
Austrian Legation
General and Mrs sternberE viii leave
JDCay for San Francisco, whence they
wiI sail for Manila, to be gone three
months
Mrs Macarthur. wife of General Mac
Arthur. has taken apartments 1T the
jamestown, Newport for the summT
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-17
Suicide Of an octoGenarfan.

TOWANDA. Pa, June II--Secause his
young wife. whom he had married year
ago. caused his arrest for deseTtion. and
because of financial troubles. SIlas Titus,
tfghtv-one years of age. committed sui
eide in the county jail here yesterday. He
drank four ounces of laudanum-
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-17
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mr.. Richard EIkins and B. Il. Ward. /.
: Navy. both of this city, are in New
York where they are guests at the Wal
d0Tf-Astrria-
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-17
1910 the yard.
Dotted Swisses.

Black figures and stripes on
white ground; also blue, pink, and
green figures; also solid colors Of
blue, pink, navy, green, lavender,
and black; Is inches wide.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-17
1910 the yard.

Bates Seersucker Ginghams.
\ very large assortment of the
popular stripe effects, in blue and
white, green and white, pink and
white, grey and white; Is inches
wide.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-17

James WambC.# r.- BORN in Newark
y J.. March /. t-- p. learned TO play
the banjo sEIIIfu young and with
a number of others @hU afterward be
came famous shDwmen, he formed q
minstrel troupe. Among his earliest as
sociatcs were his brother David s
WamboId. Al BrUndage Eli 1?urr. James
KerwiH, and James Turner Later he be-
came d star performer Of shows that pTfrF
along the Mississippi River in aute-bellum
days He afterward joined the BacIzus
mIustraIs located in Chicago lie as
sumed the name of Senior WambOldi ana
earned money and fame as an iu.ta or
Of birds and clown with Sands &, Nathar's
and later with RaTnum $ circus
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-17
1910 the yard.
Special Sale Of l)imities.
First FIo0r-Tenth ST.

5000 yards just received, new
and beautiful Dimities. Ia Il spleR-
did assortment of printing,
stripes, and figures, in the most
desirable colofings Of pink, hello
tT0pe, blue. etc. Both white and
tinted grounds and a full value,
at the
Regular price, 123c Il yard.
Special price, &c.
First foor-Tenth st.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-17
DEATH OF JAMES wAMBoLD.
The Famous OId-Time Minstrel Elk
nirt.s In an Asylum.

NEW YORK. June thames WamboId
brother Of Ned md Dave WambOId, and
ike them, famous oid-time minstrel
and circus clown, died Saturday at the
Essex County Hospital for the Insane. at
Overlook. Dea was caused by seniIc
denentia after the old minstrel had been
for twenty-siN yea rs an inmate Of the in
stitutIcu. His o.. surviving brother is
Jacob WamboId, police sergeant in
Newark, y j., yua - arioUsly i'll
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-17

LANCASTER. Pa June I7-Ira. the
two-year-old son Of Ira 3. WeitzeI. was
drowned yesterday in a well He had
been playing in the yard with other chill
dren Of tE- family. and suddenly disdp-
Peared- EiTs- WeitzeI was Unable to find
nun, and when her husband returned
nome at noon he made u search. In the
wei ne saw the ChiId's hand above the
refuse, and at once recovered the BODY.
Harmless and effective are Royal Headache Tab
lets III tie cure Of all TOMS of Headache.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-17
Batisfe Lawns.
First Floor-Tenth ST.

White ground with dainty
printings in black figures, stripes,
and dots; also a splendid assert
ment of other coiFings; 80 inches
wide,
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-17

Count Cassini. the Russian Ambassador
entertained at dianer last night the Turk
ish Minister Ali Ferrouh Bey. and Count
TaTnowski. the Charge d'Anaires Of the
Austrian Legation
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-17

General and Mrs. sternberg will leave
JoCay for San Francisco, whence they
wiI sail for Manila, to be gone three
mont fls
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-17

Admiral and Mrs Dewey, Rear Admiral
and Mrs Crowuinshield, Captain and
Mrs. Sigsbee viii spend the latter part Of
the month at Newport
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-17

Red aud Gold the PreII.mTnatEuG
CoTors jH Dress and Decoration.
The Ceremony of Turning :hc Pic
ture Of His Holiness to the wall.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-17

Mrs. Macarthur wife of General Mac
Arthur has taken apartments 1T the
jamestown, Newport for the summT-
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-17

Thc engagement is announced of Miss
Nina Cromwell, youngest daughter Of
Rear admiral ana Mrs 3. j Cromwell
TO Ensign Needhan Lee Jones. L s Ma
W, now on duty on the Dolphin.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-17
ADVANCE In COAL PRICES
Wholesale Dealers Gradually Fore
ing Up the Rates.

Consumers VIII Have to Pay Tween
ty-fYc Cents More Per Ton on July
IA Further Increase to lie Made
The Rise Due to the Trust.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-17
EnqbrOideries

Narrow Cambria and Nainsook ~
EdgIngs- Regular price, Sc yard.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-14
MAY BE TRUE, BUT
MIR. Ashmore Cannot Credit the
BayOnne Theory.

MIR. AShmOre cannot CreuiL the
BayOnne Theory.
MIR. Otis Ashmore, who takes an occa-
sional flyer into astronomical realms him
self, does not take much stock in the al
legged communications with some other
planet which William E. Eddy, of Bayou
ne, N Y, claims to have made by means
of kite.
The Morning News printed yesterday an
account of these alleged communications
with some unknown planetary neighbor
of earth. Eddy is reported 10 have claim
ed that since 1892 he has drawn from his
kite wire hundreds of electric signals,
both regular and irregular, which may
have come from some planet, and that
the signals have been usually in groups
of three, regularly timed like a Morse
sounder. When the ends of the kite-sus
tanned steel wires are separated by silk
strands the sparks jump at twelve sec
ond intervals. Then there are mysterious
disappearance of all electrical action for
several minutes"
Mr.. Ashmore discussed these mysterious
manifestations of eXtra-terrence intell-
gence with a quizzical smile
I'm these days" he said, sit is neither
thing hopelessy impossible, until it's i'm
possibility has been proved by actual
experiment, but it is permitted to say of
the kite communications with some other
planet that they are not very probable.
ITO concede the correctness of Mr.. Ed
dys deductions, we must first assume that
one of the neghboring planets is inhabit-
ed by intelligent beings, who have reach
ed a degree of enlightenment equal or
SIM RI c11r q
them bordering the possibility of the
earth being inhabited and possessed by a
craving to settle this mooted point def
nitely We must imagine them erecting
instruments of high power for this pur-
pose and timing their experiments to CO.
incide with those of Mr.. Eddy at BAY
onne We must picture them sending their
messages into space and waiting patient
ly for Mr. Eddy's reply.
with all of these assumptions, the DOS
sibility, at least, of the correctness of
Mr.. Eddy's theory may be conceded. 1t
requires, however, greater faith than is
in most men to give credence to the es-
sential premises to the conclusion that
the theory is possibly true. Truth comes
to men by gradations; first, as a surmise
then as an hypothesis, then as a theory
then as a demonstrated fact. 1t seems to
me that Mr.. Eddys claim has scarcely
reached as yet the dignity of an hypothe-
sis"
Indeed, Mr.. Ashmore was quite scepti-
cal. OF course he would not do anything
so trivial or undignified, but his mental
attitude on the subject would have been
well expressed had he whistled the re-
frain of the old ballad:
ut may be so; oh. 1 don't know;
1t sounds to me like lie"
1t is probable that this is what most
people did or thought who read the ac-
count of this remarkable discovery.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-14
LOVE DROVE HIM MAD.
samuel Clark Tried to XIII the OBJ
ject of His Affection.

samuel Clark Tried to XIII the Oh
ject of His Affection.
Bereft of his reason because the woman
he idolized would give him no encourage
ment in his avowals of affection. Samuel
B. Clark, a young mechanic, employed
in the Central Railroad cotton yards, at
tempted to attack the young woman in
her home early yesterday morning. The
victim of the insane mans wrath locked
herself in a room, and Clark was run into
the street by several boarders at GA VIII
lam street. Near West Broad street,
Clark lowered an electric lamp and smash
ed the glass globe into hundred pieces.
Patrolman b. W Williams sent the de-
mented man to the station house, and a
charge of disorderly conduct was enter
ed against him. Later in the dav the
police were notified of the prisoners I'M
fortunate condition. and an examination
was made by Police Surgeon Osborne. who
pronounced the man insane He is now
held as lunatic and will be committed
to Jail to-day
Clark has been in Savannah about fen
years and those who knew him considered
him steady man. He boarded with
Mrs. Martha Riedel, on William street
ana as tar as is known. conducted him
80 PAVPNi'Ns he young woman wit
whom he was in love lives with her moth
err From the moment Clark saw her
he became infatuated. Try as he might
ne found ii impossible to make a favor
able impression, and steadily his reason
began to leave him.
Friday night Clark stood on Broughton
street with an open knife in his hand
waiting for the young woman who Is n
clerk In dry goods store, and declared
that If she would not love him she should
not love any other man. The Young wo-
man avoided the deranged man and a
tragedy was averted. Early Yesterday
morning he endeavored to burst i'm the
door of her room. The noise of the blows
falling on the panel of the door aroused
the other boarders, and Clark ran into
the street. With destructive thought
on his clouded brain, he broke the cleo
trio light globe and was arrested. This
is the story told the police surgeon nv
the inmates of the house, and II is horne
out by the rambling talk of the man him
self
When DR.. Osborne went to examine
Clark the prisoner appeared TO be per-
fectly rational, but when asked who he
was, he began to wander He declared
that he was a detective, and that he was
searching for his heart. He spoke of love
in all of It's phases and declared that he
would have cher at any cost" DIR. Os-
borne had no hesitancy In pronouncing
the man insane. Clarks case is a sad one
and he will be committed to Jail until a
jury can pass upon his mental condition
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-14
SAVANNAH AT TOP
BANK CLEARINGs JUMP SEVENTY
SEVEN PER CENT.
19ooS INCREASE S10s,ooo,ooo
GREATER THAN THAT OF ANY
CITY IN THE COUNTRY.

Development Of Savannah's Trade
and Higher Prices for southern
Products Explain the Increase.
Last Years CIearings $240,313,S $50,
Against SI3S, J2O,O44 for 1S09-sa-
vannah Gone Up Three Places in
the Rank of Cities-Augusta Next
to savannah in Increase of Bust
ness.
savannah's increase in bank clearings
for 1906 is greater than that of any other
! city in the United States or Canada. In
| the list of cities included in Bradstreet's
annual compilation of clearings, Savan-
nah rose from the twenty-f1fth place Of
gain of IT'S per cent.
Mention has already been made in the
Morning News of the phenomenal i'm
provement in the cleerings, and while it
was not known what relative position the
city would occupy with the other big com
mercial centers of the country, the fact
that the gain leads all Others will not
prove surprising in commercial circles.
The explanation of the improvement be-
! ing the higher prices for most of the lead
ing products and the general broadening
| of the city's commerce, both foreign and
domestic. makes it unnecessary to recount
| what is already we'll known.
Considerable interest naturally attaches
| to Bradstreet's annual compilation Of
| bank clearings, showing the rank in size
of bank clearings of the various cities of
| this country The city having the largest
clearings was, of course, New York. Sa-
vannahs clearings in 1900 were $246 319, S99
and in 1899 $13S, $40, GA, an increase of us
per cent. The city showing the next larg
est increase was Augusta, Al per cent.
Los Angeles, Cal, showed an increase of
81 per cent Memphis showed an increase
! of "a per cent. Atlanta showed in
crease of IS per cent, her clearings in 1900
having been $780, 1896, and in 1900 1877 $685.
247
Other Southern cities showing increases
are Richmond, 5 per cent; Louisville. 8
per cent; Norfolk, 81 per cent; Nashville
per cent; Birmingham. % per cent; New
| Orleans; p per cent; Knoxville, per
cent; Chattanooga, per cent; Jackson
vile, per cent; Houston, 16 per cent, and
| Macon. % per cent.
The clearings at New York. which con-
| stitute els per cent. of the total cearings
of the country. show a decrease of 1873
per cent from 1899. but in seventy-nine
other cities there is a gain. though
slight one. over 1892 which marked high
water in the bank-clearings records of the
country.
OF eighty-three cities compared with
1899. nineteen. or slightly less than one
fourth, show decreases; den of these are
| in New England
| The decreases as a whole are largely
confined to interior New England and the
four great Atlantic ports of New York,
! Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore,
though it is probable that the decline
| has no particular relation to the trade of
those ports, but is largely due TO smaller
| speculation. A decrease of II per cent.
at Galveston was, of course, chargeable to
the interruption to business, due to the
disastrous storm.