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Evening star., 1902-01-28
Warrington stock Exchange.

Sales-Regular call, II O'Clock m-Natfonaf Ga .
S S at at Ss S S at 1S 1S 1S
~, 70 at 1O9 ! at 1091s: Washington Gas, a
7S 7S 8 at at 7o p 3. at oS se % ss 5O
Inslie.n 10 a. 15s S,,SssssoIs e At S a
Greene Copper io0 st % loo st 100 o. at q ISL
District Of Columbia Bonds-S.65s, funding, IL:
Railroad Bonds-capital Traction As. 1o7, hid
los asked. Washington Traction and Electric Re
eeiptss e714 bid. 20 asked. Metropolitan IS. lis
DID, iS1 asked Columbia ss iis bG Ii s.kes aS
Miseeianeous G Oc Gas aSoeO co ss
ries A. l131s bid. Washington Gas Go. 6s. series
i bid sssli tssts sss csr 9si ldeSPP P g:
esas sna 4 bid 10 sa
Go. 1st 6s. 1854 bid. Washington Market Co Inn
ss 81 1ps "a O Masonic Ms'h'0a ha %..se.aa ass g.
SAFE Deposit ana Safe De De-
security ard Trust si7 bid go asked. Washing Washing
ioSH Sia io7E asked washington nS SAVING. s1as
Railroad stocks-capitaI Traction Co.. 1851. hid
National Bank stocks-Bank Of Washington. s7s
bid. Second, les bid Citizens., 1s0 bid. Ooium.
bia. 1s7 bid. 1870 asked. Capital, $50 bid. ITO
asked: West End. 1241 bid, I27 asked. Traders.
is5 bid Lincoln. I2o bid. 13o asked. Riggs, 665
bid. $50 asked,
Insurance stocks-Firemen's. % bid. Franklin,
y bid IS s ssksS ssS Mst,opotsn q 55 BID 6 asked
lington, 26N bid, g asked. German American.
260 bid National Union. 7x bid 81 asked. Co.
lumbia. 1oN bid, lin ASKED. Riggs. ~ bid, 8
bid, asked. Colonial, III asked. -
Title Insurance Stocks-Real Estate Title. e5 bid.
81 asked. Columbia Title. 4x bid, asked Wash,
inTton Title, bid. asked. District Title, Il
bid % asked.
Telephone and Graphophone Stocks-Chesapeake
and Potomac, s66 BID 70 asked. American Grapho-
phone oom., SH bid, asked. American Graphic
phone Pref., 8 bid, 81 asked.
Gas Stocks-washinSton Gas, p70K bid 7o% ask
ed GeorFetown Gas. TIN bid, ~ asked.
Type Machine Stocks-Mergesthaier L.fnctype
l5lh III BID. a7lK asked. Lanston Monetype. 81 bid,
Miscslianeous stecks-Greene Con- Copper Co.. es
BID, 20 asked, Washington Market. 15h bid. Nor
folk and Warrington Steamboat, 10 bid. 200 ask
Cd. Columbia sand Dredging. 10 asksd.
ZEE dividend.
Evening star., 1902-01-28
RAIN OR SNOW.
Weather Bureaus Prediction for the
Next Twenty-FOur Hours.

Weather Bureaus Prediction for the
Next Twenty-FOur Hours.
The predictions by the weather bureau
today are that the cold wave will continue
tonight. The temperature will be lower
will begin to ascend and clouds will appear.
Washington is therefore likely to be treat
ed to rain or snow, but more probably the
latter.
These predictions are based on conditions
prevailing in the middle west, where there
is a good deal of snow, and in the south
west, where rainy conditions prevail. The
interior sections are experiencing a snow
fall. These varied conditions are expected
to combine somewhere before Warrington is
reached, and it depends upon circumstances
whether rain or snow will prevail. The
change Is expected to occur by tomorrow
night, when the weather will begin to
moderate. The mercury will, it is thought,
register about IA degree above zero, being
about degrees below that of last night.
To make good the weather prognostica-
tions of the bureau made twenty-four hours
ago old BOreas assembled his cohorts and
by last night Washington was seized and
held as captive of the cold wave. Follow
Ing a morning of great mildness came a
night that caused furs and heavy wraps to
be brought out. During the afternoon the
rain gradually ceased, the mercury started
downward as the wind commenced to blow
and by midnight the register showed sew
eral degrees below the freezing point.
The weather conditions bid fair to follow
out the program of a number Of years past,
when goodly portion Of the winter was
boxed up in the latter part Of this and the
early part Of next month
Evening star., 1902-01-28
ONE REPORT FINISHED
VIRGINIA CONVENTION THROUGH
WITH EDUCATION QUESTION.
Report of the Committee ON AEricuI-
ture Was Then Taken Cp for
Consideration.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Corresp< ndence Of The Evening Star.
RICHMOND, Va. January %. 1902.
The report Of the committee on education
was taken UP In the convention today and
its consideration was completed. the report
being sent to the committee on final re-
vision. The section under discussion today
was that relating to state bonds held by
schools and colleges other than those con-
trolled by the state. 1t was pointed out
that large amount of state securities were
owned by the colleges. having been pur-
chased in open market a number OF years
ago, and that when the state was in dis
tress the holders dl~ not push the state
for defaulting interest. When the state
debt was settled 1t was with the under
standing that these bonds should not be
funded, but that they should remain in the
possession of the colleges, and the state
would continue to pay the interest annual
ly-6 per cent-while the securities funded
under the terms of the settlement were to
pay only per cent. The report provided
that the provisions Of the section should
not apply to these securities A motion
was made to strike out the provision, the
mover expressing the belief that it was in
effect an appropriation to the support of
other than state schools. The motion was
rejected.
The report was further amended so as to
provide for appropriation to schools under
the exclusive control of the state or ''some
political subdivision thereof" so as to al
low for the support and maintenance of
schools in the country other than primary
schools.
The report of the committee on agricul-
ture was presented today. 1t provides for
a board to be composed Of ten members
one from each congressional district, to be
appointed by the governor, the members
from the odd districts to serve for two
years, and those from the even districts
for four years, and all members named
thereafter to serve for a full term of four
years. The president of the board is to be
named by the governor, and the board is to
have control of the bureau of agriculture
and immigration and have the power to re-
move appointees. Producers of farm truck
and gardeners are exempt from payment of
taxes of any kind for the privilege of SELL
ing their own commodities in any town or
city.
The report empowers counties. cities and
towns to exempt for a period OF five years
all new manufacturing establishments,
provided that there shall be no factory or
enterprise of the same character within the
limits Of the town at time such exemption
Is made which does not enjoy the same
freedom from taxation as is extended to
new enterprises. The report will come up
in committee Of the whole at an early date.
There are now three important reports to
be considered by the committee Of the
whole-corporations, suffrage and finance
and taxation, and with these out of the
way the end of the convention Is believed
to be in sight within the next six weeks.
Evening star., 1902-01-28
SOUTH WASHINGTON.
Mass Meeting to Urge Improvements
In This Section.

Mass Meeting to Urge Improvements
In This Section.
There is to be a general movement to
bring about Improvements in South Wash
ington, and as a preliminary step q gen.
eral mass meeting is to be held this
evening at Grace Parish Hall, 9th and p
streets southwest In the call for the meet
ing, sent out by the South Washington I'm
provement Association, it is stated:
THAT there Is great need Of improve
ments in the old section Of the national
capital, originally known as the island, now
Southwest Washington, is strikingly evi-
dent especially when we consider the cob
blestone streets and other Objectionable fea-
tures Prominent families have been COM
PEELED to move away to the northwest and
other sections because Of the rumbline and
jarring and nerve-shattering noises which
by day mad night disturb some parts of
this locality. 49,
Real estate men have avoided until re-
Gently, this old historic section, urging that
money invested here would not pay Now
that magnificent improvements, sanctioned
by Congress, and already beginning to be
erected by the Pennsylvania railroad have
been mapped out for this section. why
should not property owners, business men
and citizens interest themselves in having
streets and alleys correspond to the more
general Improvements which are ineytt-
able"
Evening star., 1902-01-28
BUREAU OF IDENTIFICATION
HEARING By THE HOUSE CO,INITTEE,
ON JUDICIARY.
Major Sylvester, Chief wilkie and
Other Promihent Omcials
Givs 6he,r views.

The bill for me- establishment Of ma
tional bureau OF identification in connection
with the departpent Of justice was under
discussion by thecHouse committee on the
judiciary this pothing.
Major Sylvester Chief Wilkie OF the Sc
cret service, Acting Chief Post Office In
spector Engie, and Assistant Inspector
Fry. and Warden McLaughrie Of Leaven-
worth penitentiary, and the warden of Jo-
iiet, ILL.,, penitentiary, as well as the chief
OF police Of Jersey City, all appeared before
the committee in advocacy Of the measure.
Major Sylvester told the committee that
the measure was the joint work Of the con-
vention OF chiefs of police of the various
cities OF the country and that all Of these
u,ncerS ON I were heartily in favor OF the meas
ure. The Attorney General he said. also
Favored the project and had generously Of
1ered to set aside room in the department
OF Justice for the new bureau.
CmeI W1lkie spoke in enthusiastic terms
or the measure, which he said would make
cooperation possible in the way of iden-
Trying and apprehending all classes of
criminals The universal use of the Ber-
tllllon system, he urged. was one Of the
lnost potent forces against crime. The ex-
the committee. Maj. McLaughrie. who was
ehief OF police of Chicago during the
World 8 fafr, told how Cooperation then be-
tween the Chicago and Paris police had re-
anarchists.
Ihe post Office inspectors both heartily
favored the measure. Criminals against
the postal laws, they said, were often also
laWbreakers in other ways, and if general
system Of cooperation in their apprehen-
sion could be had it was most desirable
II Is predicted that the committee will
niahe favorable report on the bill.
Evening star., 1902-01-28
DRf DEN FORMALLY ELECTED.
Little Else Done Today by New Jerse,
Legislature.

TRENTON, n. j., January 2S-The two
houses Of the legislature met separately
at noon today and voted on the United
States senatorship. The name of John F.
Dryden Of Newark, the republican caucus
nominee, was presented III the senate by
senator McCarter and in the house by Mr..
Bacheller- The name of Representative Nc
Derm0tt, the choice of the democrats was
presented in the senate by Senator Geb-
hardt and In the house by Mr. Hamill The
erection resulted in strict party vote. as
follows:
Senate: Dryden. Il; McDermott, 4. House.
Dryden. 10; McDermott. IA.
freElous 10 the session the democrats :
held a caucus and selected Mr. McDermott
as their candidate. Senator Gebhardt pre
sented 10 the caucus the name of T,
Martin OF Sussex. In a speech in which he
questioned the democracy of Mr. McDer-
mott The latter did not support BRYAN in
1896 Mr.. McDermott was chosen by a yote .
OF Il to l.
The TWO houses did no other business ak
cept the introduction of a few bills. One
OF these, by Senator McCarter in the SEN
ate. authorizes the construction of tun-
mel under the Hudson river.
Both houses adjourned until tomorrow.
Evening star., 1902-01-28
Baltimore Markets.

BALTIMORE, Nd, January 2s-Flour dull m
changed; receipts 1457s barrels; exports 1877 bar.
rels. Wheat steady; spot, S3AaS3Is: the month ana
February. s3Aas3is; May, s3Iaas5%: steamer No.
2 red, solsasoh; receipts, 7.ls7 bushels; exports
none; southern BY sample, !7asfss; southern on
the month e354a6S%: February, 63ka65It; May.
G4l4 4a64la. steamer mixed, 62a62L receipts "a 449
65h; southern yellow corn, 57ae3ss. Oats weak
and lower; No. white 40 sales; No. 2 mixed, IS;
and easy; No. nearby. 67a6s; No. western,
69a70; receipts, 1,071 bushels; exports, none Hay
very quiet; steam TO Liverpool. per bushel is.d.
January; Cork for orders. per quarter. Offer
ing Sugar firm. unchanged; fne and coarse grsnu-
lated, 4.S1h. Butter firm, unchanged; fancy imi-
taton, 1Sa19: fancy creamery. 24a25; fancy ladle,
16a1T: fancy roll. 11a1s; good roll. 15s16 store
packed, I3al5. Eggs firm higher: fresh, 27a2s.
Cheese firm, higher large, lla11ls; medium, liza
11A; small. 1l1ea11&.
Evening star., 1902-01-28
CLEARING AWAY wRECkAGE.
Big Force of Men at Work ON Ne,
York Tunnel,

NEW YORK, January 2S.-The work OF
clearing away wreckage and repairing
buildings damaged by yesterdays tunnel
explosion was resumed at daylight today.
Large forces Of men were employed at the
Murray Hill and Grand Union Hotels at
the Grand Central station and at the Man
haitian Eye and Ear Hospital. 1t was ex-
pected that a,aweek would be required to
put the hospital in proper condition to
make safe the return of the patients who
were removed to other institutions yester-
day.
All of the hospitals to which injured per-
sons were taken after the explosion re-
ported that their patients were doing we'll.
Many who had suffered mostly from shock
were able to go to their homes today.
Ira A. Shaler, engineer In charge Of the
work at Park avenue; John Bracken, Il
foreman and Martin McGrath, an assist
ant foreman, were placed under arrest last
night and charged with homicide. William
Barclay Parsons, chief engineer of the
Rapid Transit commission, said that Shaler
was one of the most competent and careful
engineers he ever knew.
The damage may exceed 81 900. 900. The
first estimate on the Murray Hill Hotel
placed the loss at 100000, but later the
hotel was abandoned as unsafe. If the
building is condemned the loss on it alone
will approach s1,OOOOOO The damage to
and that to the Manhattan Hospital at
$4,000. The loss at the Grand Central
station was entirely in glass, as was that
of the 100 or more other buildings affected
by the explosion. No estimate was made
of the losses sustained by the Rapid Tran
sit contractors.
There was a clash in court yesterday
afternoon between District Attorney Jerome
and Coroner GOlddenkranZ, resulting in
the former being struck in the face by a
clerk. Mr.. Jerome was In his office exam
ming Shaler, Bracken and McGrath the
men under arrest, when a policeman as
signed TO the coroners Office entered, and
under the coroners instructions demanded
cial. Mr.. Jerome allowed them to go, bat
he and his assistants followed
The district attorney told the coroner
that there was no Information in the pa
trolman's affidavit on which to hold any
body, and there was a Wordy wrangle be-
tween the two officials. In spite Of pro-
tests, the coroner gave the case to the
Jurymen, who returned verdict recon-
mending the discharge of the prisoners
| The coroner then opened court as Sit
ting magistrate, had the men rearrested
and held them without bail. More protests
came from Mr.. Jerome, and the coroner
changed his decision, holding the men in
| $4,000 each.
everybody so much that there was a Tree
| fight. Mr. Jerome received a blow In the
| face from a coroner's clerk, who in turn
| was beaten by two of the district attorney
detectives. Then the detectives and the
| clerk had each other arrested but bett e-
counsel prevailed, and all charges were
Withdrawn for the present.
Evening star., 1902-01-28
TO ENTERTAIN SCHLEY
ELABORATE PREPARATIONS BEING
MADE AT LOUISVILLE.
knights Templar and Board of Trade
VIII Take Charge of Ar
rangements.

LOUISVILLE, KY, January 2s.-Elabor-
ate preparations have been made by the
Louisville Knights Templar and board of
trade for the reception and entertainment
of Rear Admiral and Mrs Schley, who will
arrive from Chicago tonight.
"A committee representing the Knights
Templar and Louisville board of trade
accompanied by the local military organi-
Zation and a band, will meet the admirals
special train at Salem, Ind, and accom-
pany the parsy to this city. When Admiral
Schley reaches Urfon station. shortly after
o'clock torifghtssa salute of fifteen guns
will be fired. and the admiral and Mrs.
Schley will be escorted to the residence of
Marion E. Taylorsi president of the board
of trade. at Whese home they will remain
during their1 stay here. The program in
honor Of the radIlliral includes reception
at the board sof trnde at noon tomorrow,
luncheon at the Pendennis Club and ban
quet tomorrow night under the auspices of
the board oftatrade. On Thursday he will
be the guestsDf the Knights Templar, and
after ride over the city in the morning
he will takedlunch at the Pendennis Club.
In the afterAoon the admiral will be es-
corted to the Masonic Widows and Or
phans' Homo anda the Industrial School of
Reform. whore he will address the chill
dren. and on Thursday evening a Templar
ball and reception will be given.
+ At. O'clock. Tomorrow afternoon re-
ception will be- given in honor Of Mrs.
Schley by Mrs Marion Taylor, at the lat
ter's residence, and at 3 o'clock Friday at
ternoon Admiral and Mrs. Schley will leave
for Nashville.
CHICAGO. January 2s.-Admiral Schley
left Chicago today after three days visit.
AS his private car rolled out Of the Dear
born station on: the Monon road for Louis
Vile the cheers. Of hundreds of citizens
echoed through the big train shed. For
twenty minutes before the train started the
admiral held Misunderstanding Ievee on the
rear platform Of the car.
The admiral rose early at the Auditorium
annex. With Mrs. Schley he took break
fast in their private suite. President Mum
ger Of the Hamilton Club escorted the
city's guest to the station. Before he left
the admiral said: II have had most de-
lightfu visit. I shall always carry afrec-
tionate remembrance Of the cordiality and
hospitable welcome / have received from
the people of Chicago"
Evening star., 1902-01-28
DIR. ARMIsTEAD PETER DEAD.
Old Resident and Prominent Physi.
clan Passes Away.

Old Resident and Prominent Physi-
clan Passes Away.
DR.. Armistead Peter died suddenly this
afternoon about 1 o'clock at his residence
at the southeast corner Of 31st and O
streets. Death was due to heart disease
He had been complaining Of Illness for
several days.
This morning he attended to his practice
as usual, and was seated in his office, his
niece, Mrs. Dunlop, and DR.. Louis Mackall.
ST., being with him when the fatal stroke
came. Death was almost instantaneous.
DR.. Peter was born February @. 1910, in
Montgomery county, Md His father was
Major George Peter, U. S. A. who organ
lied the first battery Of flying artillery and
served in Congress as representative Of
the then sixth Maryland district, being
elected in 1915, 1917 and 1898.
DR.. Peter was educated in the District
and resided in Georgetown practically all
his life. He began the practice Of medicine
in 1851, gaining considerable prominence.
He married a daughter Of Mrs. Beverly
kennon. His wife died about ten years ago.
Five children survive him-Mr. Walter G.
Peter, who was one Of the architects of
The Evening Star building: Mr.. B. Kennon
Peter, an attorney; the Rev. George Free
man Peter, recently ordained, who is sta
toned at st. Marks Pro-CathedraI; Mr..
Armistead Peter and Miss Agnes Peter.
DR.. Peter was the third oldest member of
the Medical Association of the District. He
also belonged to the Medical Society Of the
District Of Columbia.
Evening star., 1902-01-28
ROWE AND KEEPER HANGED
DOUBLE EXECUTION AT HARRISBURG
THIS MORNING.
The Men Killed Bank Cashier Ryan
While Trying to Rob
Him.

HARRISBURG, Pa, January 2S.-Weston
NJ. KEEPER and Henry Rowe were hanged
at 1910 o'clock today in the Harrisburg
Jail yard in the presence of 1000 persons
for the murder of Charles w. Ryan. The
murderers went to their death without a
shudder and neither made any statement on
the gallows.
The crush for admission to the Jail was so
great that 1t required the combined efforts
of the police force and the sheriff. s deputies
to keep the crowd away from the entrance.
Several of the jurors were forced to fight
their way through the crowd into the pris-
on. The house tops and telegraph poles
in the vicinity were crowded with people
eager to witness the execution. Two men
with a camera secured admittance to the
jail for the purpose of securing snap
shot of the hanging, but the warden de-
tected them and took the camera away
from them until after the execution.
Rowe and KEEPER for several years work
ed in and about the mines at Lykens, Pa.
During the morning of March 13 last they
visited the Halifax National Bank Of Hall
fax, this county, and with drawn revol-
verS demanded of Cashier Charles w. Ryan
the cash in the vault. They quickly gath
cred into a telescope Satchel the loose
money in the cash drawer amounting to
about $4,000. While one of them was
fastening the lid of the satchel he laid his
revolver on the cashiers desk.
Mr.. Ryan seized the weapon, and in
desperate struggle which ensued between
the desperadoes and the cashier for pos
session of the revolver the cashier was
shot in the breast, dying several hours
later. Persons living near the bank were
attracted by the shooting, and Rowe and
KEEPER We're captured by a posse of citi-
zens and turned over to the authorities
Within two weeks they were tried and
convicted of first-degree murder
Frank b. Sholey, an accomplice, pleaded
guilty as an accessory and was sentenced
to ten years in prison.
Evening star., 1902-01-28
RELATING TO SURVEYS.
New Code without Clause Neessarx Z,
Uniformity OF Method

NGeGRAFv tn
Uniformity OF Method
H. B. LOCKER. the District surveyor has
written to the District Commissioners call
Ing their attention to the fact that section
1885 Of he code Of law for the District Of
Columbia. recently enacted, has no oua,ffv-
ing clause relating to surveys in George
town. The result of this would be to ann,v
to that part Of the District a system of
surveys at variance to the method preyail-
Ing therein since the Incorporation of the
town, over $50 years ago.
ITO apply this rule now to GEORGETOWN
says Mr.. LOCKER, would manffestly ba TIM
practicable. as under the precedents OF all
these many years lots have been located
and houses erected on the principle Of
throwing all the excess or deficiencv thar
may exist in block front In actual meas
urement as compared with record into the
highest numbered original lot in said front.
in 1 Deneve tnat the nrst test case brought
tion OF the rule of proportionate distribu-
tion OF excess or deficiency to Georpetown
but think 1t advisable that the whole
matter be carefully considered at this time,
ana II thought best, an amendment pro-
posed to this section. either simply exempt
ing Georgetown from the operation of the
section or positively providing that In said
part Of the District 1t shall be lawful for
the surveyor to proceed as has always been
done under unbroken precedent
There is much to be said in favor Of
both of these alternatives and I think II
would be well for the attorney for the Dis
trict to give an opinion on the legal aspects
OF the case. A case is already practically
made up in this Office by the action of an
attorney, who insists upon survey for a
client, In block In Georgetown which is
by measurement 166 feet shorter than it Is
by record. He raises the point that the code
Is now operative and makes no exceptions
in this particular
The papers have been referred to the city
solicitor for an opinion.