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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-23

hibitors as well as one who has knowledge
from veterinarian point OF view, draws
my attention to the fact that II the pro-
posed new rule calling for a thorough eN-
animation of each dog entered at a snow
goes into effect the outcome at New 1orh
will be something like this: Such an eXarni-
nation as is called for will take about TWO
minutes for each dog. for no veterinarian
will certify to perfect health in less time
than that. With an entry OF say Low dogs
that will mean fifty hours to examine tile
dogs. or six days work for one veterinarian.
AS DR.. Miller has one assistant the WORK
can be reduced to three days, hence we Will
have the New York judging beginning on
about the third day of the show, and on
the first day there will be a string OF oogs
extending to 34th street awaiting entry 10
the building Some rules are Immaculate
in theory but impossible in practice, ana
this is of them.
1t now appears that several or the ruies
previously commented upon are altogether
wrong The omission of the requirement OF
win at a three-points show to quarry 1or
champion honors is an error of the IRAN
scriber of the origina! draft, SO Is lne
standable rule regarding the manner
in which past wins shall be computed No
person has. however, undertaken 10 say
what the correct reading of any OF these
rules should be so that delegates TO tile
meeting of the American Kennel Clup 10
be held this week are in blissful ignorance
as to what is or is not the correct cooe
they to vote upon.
The shows for the coming week are
Trenton. n. j.. Brattleboro, VI, ana
Methuen, Mass, all in connection Win
fairs to be held at those places. At none
Of them Is the entry at all large, Trenton
being the best of the three. There WILL
however, be better entry at Bryn MaWr
on Saturday and solely for the reason it IS
for one day. there being no prize money
to compete for. 1t is a charity show, the
receipts being donated to the Bryn Mawr
Hospital, and there has been as large
turnover as $500 on more than one occasion.
Entries have also closed during the week
for Danbury, Conn. and York and New
castle, Pa, but nothing has so far been
given out regarding the total OF them II
Is known, however. that Newcastle had
already over 200 entries week ago, and
with that start 1t Is likely to lead the
others Several OF the regular Danbury
supporters are also known to be going to
York. where there is tirst-class premium
list announced, to say nothing OF the
promised presence of President Roosevelt
to attract an attendance. Danbury places
reliance upon list of thirteen special list
Judges and Newcastle upon being in a sec
ton of country we'll studied with towns in
which dog owners abound.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-23

The dog show rules, which Will shortly
come before the American Kennel Club for
amendment. are eXactng much attention at
present. one of the most experienced ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-23
How Detection is Escaped.

| "Ot course, the question NATURALLY dShed
is: How do the books and their turtles
escape detection and arrest, since the police
are known to be especially active in WASH
ington in suppressing this particular form
of gambling?
1.-The answer is as simple the question:
You cannot convict a bookmaker except
upon evidence, and good evidence at that,
for mere suspicion that men are engaged
| in handbooking, or even knowledge of the
fact without the documentary evidence
the actual play with the paper and the
money put up and accepted-doesnt go
in the Police Court, just the same as any
other violation of the law doesn't stand in
| court without the evidence to sustain the
| charge
| 1.-The police have made arrests on sew
| erai recent occasions and secured Jail sem
| fences of the offenders in these instances
| and now all concerned in the transaction,
| from bookie and player to our friend the
| turtle are especially cautious, and it is
| impossible to get a bet down in WASH
| ington unless the would-be pony bucker is
either personally known to the bookie to
| be all right or is personally introduced
to the layer of odds by player known
! to him. Hence, when the detectives seek
| to secure evidence, either by their personal
efforts or by the use of pigeons, the boolkie
or the turtle Immediately get wise and
/ the stereotyped but fill-a-volume phrase of
| nothing doing is at once handed out and
accepted by the other party, who retires
| to think over some other plan of throwing
! the net around the elusive and sharp-eyed
sports
Less Playing Than Formerly.
| There is, however. and it is a fact
worthy of note, since are discussing the
| trials and trbulations of our own little
sporting world, nothing like the handbook
play going on in town at present as was
| the case some years ago. This quiet play
goes every day in every city in the
country but 1t has been greatly eXaggerat-
ed regards the capital as to q general
| custom and in volume, and it is just as
well that this statement should be made
to remove false impressions, largely oc-
casioned by the presence of the old pool
room which was located across the Poto-
mac. Washington is large city, and all
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-23

Fox terriers were a very large entry COM
pared with what has been the outcome at
Atlantic coast shows of late, a total of
thtrty-three dogs being immense by COM
pariaon with the five to ten dogs usually
received. Their quality was also sur
pris.nS!y good, and there is no reason to
accept the claim that the breed is being
given up. All it needs is freedom from
being overrun by travelling kennels made
up Of imported English champions
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-12
TROLLEY PLANT DESTROYED.
Poughkeepsie without service-AI but
 One Car Burned.

Poughkeepsie, N. T., Feb. 1.-The en- tire plant and equipment of the Pough- keepsie City and Wappingers Falls Electric Railway company was destroy ed by fire early this morning, and to- day Poughkeepsie is without any sur- face railway accommodations, twenty two of the twenty three electric cars of the company having been burned. The loss is estimated at $150,000 on which there is an insurance of about $S0,O00,
 Within fifteen minutes after the blaze. was discovered the interior of the build ing was mass of flames and the huge dynamos and engines were completely enveloped, being warped and destroyed within short time. No power could be generated because of a short circuit, and the twenty-two cars in the barn were soon twisted mass of debris.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-12
PLOT TO OVERTHROW
 PRESIDENT CASTRO
VICE PRESIDENT TO 4CT 1N CASE OF FRENCH BLOCK 
 AIDE.

Second Vice President Said to Have se- cret Understanding With France Aspires to the Presidency--Castr Roasting That He Will Test the Mon- roe Doctrine--His Army Numbers But 5000 Instead of 23OOO--peop1e Against Him.
 Willemstad, Curacao, Friday, Feb. 9. Conditions in Venezuela were ,ln- changed at the date of the latest ad- vices from that country The censor. ship is rigid. One report Is that the attitude of President Vincente Gomez who is said to be plotting a revolution against President Castro, in case of a French blockade, is causing some anx- iety.
 It is reported also that General An tonic Velutini, second vice president has a secret understanding with France, and that he aspires to the presidency All the turmoil over the
  French Cable company's concession ia attributed to General Velutini, and it IS said he will soon abandon President Castro.
 The total strength of the Venezlle- Ian army is reported to be 5000 men. and not 23,0OO as the army accounts state. The total armament is 5O.00O Mauser rifles and 29OOO,OOO cartridges; eighty pieces of small artillery of old- fashioned types, and ten modern guns in position at the ports. The treasury shows balance of $200.. 900. President Castro is said to be boast ing that he will test the Monroe doc- Urine.
 The reports say that the best infor- mation in Venezuela shows that France or any other power can rely upon al- most the entire populace to fight Press fdent Castro, and that anxiety is ev- anywhere expressed for the arrival of the French to solve the problem, which is beyond the resources of the Ven ezuelans.
 1. Money will be decidely scarcer if q war should break out, and the Ven- ezuelan government has made no pro- vision whatever for the commissariat.
 President Castro continues his cam paign against foreigners, and has ex- pelled man named Van Kestern.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-12
LYNCHTNG IN ALABAMA.
Negro Taken From Jail by Mob and
 Hanged.

Gadsden, Ala, Feb. 11.-Bunk Rich ardson, negro, charged with the as- sault and murder of Mrs. Sarah Smith here July 15 last, was forcibly taken from the jail here at an early hour this morning and hanged to the bridge of the Louisville and Nashville railroad. across the Goosa river. Four masked men went to the jail, overpowered the sheriff and jailer and made short work of the prisoner.
 Four negroes were charged with the crime against Mrs. Smith, two of whom nave been legally executed. The third, VIII Johnson, was recently convicted and sentenced to death, but last week Governor Jenks commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. Richardson, the man lynched this morning, had not been indicted, but was in jail awaiting the action of the grand jury.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-12
TO SAVE NIAGARA FALLS.
Petition from 25OO Residents of New
 York state.

Washington, Feb. 11.-Mrs. Miriam Mason Greeley, president of the Na- tional Society of the Daughters of the Empire State of New York, will call at the White house tomorrow by appoint ment to present to the president peti- tions bearing the signatures of about 25OO residents of the state of New York praying for the preservation of Niagara Falls. The petitions are addressed to the president and to the two houses of congress, and ask that legislation be immediately enacted which will prevent further impairment of the volume of water and to preserve the grandeur of the falls. One of the petitions is about seven feet in length
 Mrs. Greeley also brinvs with her a badge of the society as a wedding gift to Miss Alice Roosevelt, she being a Daughter of the Empire State. The badge is of beautiful designs. From 8 gold bar bearing the words New York" is suspended, by silk ribbons, a pendant upon which appears the coat-of-arms of the state of New York.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-12
FIRE IN HARTFORD.
Damage Estimated at Between ssO,OOO
 and S4O,OOO.

Hartford, Feb. 11.-F'ire which result ed in damages estimated at between SOOOO and $40,OOO broke out to-day on the third floor of the four-story busl- ness block located at the corner of Asy- lum and Trumbull streets, and was sub dued only after five hours of hard fight ing.
 The floor on which the fire started was used by Charles Griffith as pool room, while the top floor was occupied by the Neal, Golf & Inglis company, furniture dealers, as storeroom. Their loss is placed at about $6,O0O. On the first floor were Sedgewick & Casey, mu- sic dealers, and little & Rich, clothiers. Their losses are placed at about $1O,OOO each, and it is estimated that the dam age to the building itself will be a like sum. It is believed that about 75 per cent. of the losses are covered by insur- ance. Grifith's loss is not estimated. No one was injured.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-12
RAIDERS DISAPP0INTED.
Deputy SheriRs Break Into Shelton
 SalOOn-Place Deserted.

Shelton, Feb. 11.-Armed with a search warrant issued by Prosecuting Agent c. H. King, of Bridgeport, dep- uty sheriffs from that city came to Shelton to-day and visited the saloon of Dennis Donovan in quest of violators of the Sunday liquor law. After vainly trying to get in through a door the dep- uty sheriffs smashed through a wire netting and a plate glass window with axes and then crawled into the saloon The place was deserted. Chief of Po- lice Robbins was notified by the search CTS and he in turn notified Donovan who wrathfully went about patching up the broken window.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-12
Shipping News.

New York. Feb. 11.-Arrived: Steam CTS Celtic, Naples; Sicilian Prince, Ma pies, Palermo and Madeira.
 New York, Feb. II. Wireless Reports. Steamer Statendam. Rotterdam and Boulogne for New York in communi- cation with Sable Island, N. g., noon to-day, 700 miles east of Sandy Hook: will dock D. m. Tuesday.
 Steamer Kroonland, Antwerp and Dover for New York. in communica- tion with Siasconset, Mass, S.10 D. n., 120 miles east Nantucket lightship: will dock 2:S0 ?. m. Monday.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-12
WOMEN SUFFRAGISTS
Attend Sacred Concert and Divine Ser-
 vice in Baltimore.

vice in Baltimore.
 Baltimore, Feb. 11.-After listening to a sacred concert this afternoon, the mu- sic. of which was furnished by Edwin M. shonert, pianist, and Earl J. Pfouts, violin virtuoso, the delegates to the con vention of the Woman's National Suf- frage association attended divine ser vices in Lyric hall, which were presided over by Rev. Anna H. Shaw. There were several brief addresses appropri- ate to the occasion, hymns were sung by Rev. Jeannette o. Ferris and Rev Olympia Brown, and Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell offered a prayer. Miss Etta H. Maddox, of Baltimore, sang the Battle Hymn of the Republio;" Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth delivered an address, after which there was an offering for the benefit of the Door of Hope" of the Volunteers of America The convention will continue in session two days longer, when it will adjourn to reassamble in Washington, where the final meeting will be held Wednes- day next.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-12
MUNICIPAL OEME.1.., III EE5g ,!...
MaItbie Sails to Make Arrangements
 for American Study AEkoad.

New York, Feb. 11.-Milo R. Maltbie
 one of the expert members of the public ownership commission of the National Civic Federation, which is organized to examine into the relative merits of municipal and private ownership of quasi-public utilities in this country and started abroad, sailed for London yesterday on the steamer Minneapolis to make arrangements for the visit of the entire commission to England in May The commission has completed all of it's plans and has actively begun the work of investigation in this coun- try. AS the commission is composed of men representing different views on the subject of municipal ownership and op- eration two sets of engineers, account ants and other experts have been se- cured, one of which is inclined towards public ownership and operation, and the other towards private control In thai way only the committee determined could all the facts for and against mu- nicipal ownership and operation be brought about and a report secured that should have appreciable value.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-12
SPEECH BY BRYAN STIRS
 UP RENEWED ANTIPATHY
USED BY CHINESE AGITATORS TO FURTHER ANTI-AMERI-
 CAN BOYCOTT
Whole Trouble in Fair Way of Adjust

Whole Trouble in Fair Way of Adjust
 ment When Former Presidential
 Candidate Appears on Scene and Up-
 sets Arrangement-Qu0ted as Saying
 That Labor Party in United States
 Was So Strong That Chinese Work
 men Would Never be Permitted to
 Enter.
 Spokane, Wash, Feb. 11.-Samuel Glasgow, manager of milling company of Spokane and Seattle, to-day said that he had received from William Burtt, Chinese representative of the company, newspapers and letters which say that the Chinese interpretation of a speech made by William J. Bryan be- fore Chinese merchants at a dinner given by them in his honor has been used by Chinese agitators to stir up renewed antipathy to American prod ucts.
 Previously to this speech by MT. Bry- an, the letters say, at a meeting held by about fifty commercial representatives and delegates from the various Chinese guilds of Shanghai Canton and Hong Kong, the delegates had agreed on twelve proposed notifications of the American Chinese exclusion law. The American representatives agreed to have their houses urge these on con- gross, and the Chinese agreed immedi- ately to call off the boycott Then, ac- cording to Hong Kong papers, MT Bry- an was entertained by the Chinese mer- chants at dinner and made speech.
 One of the Chinese merchants at the dinner reported the proceedings to Chi nese newspapers. He quoted MT. Bryan as declaring that the labor party was so strong in the United States that Chi nese workmen, skilled or unskilled, would never be permitted to enter and as drawing gloomy picture of what would happen to American workmen if the Chinese were allowed to take away their employment. This informant said that, while MT. Bryan had agreed to support a number of the proposed changes, he had not been able to draw from Bryan any definite assurance of support of the policy which the Chinese would insist on as the only condition on which the boycott would be with drawn.
 After this interprettion of MT. Bry- ans speech was circulated the Chinese merchants became convinced that con- gress would not adopt the changes rec commended by the American merchants, and that their best policy was to put on the boycott screws tighter than ever.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-12
RENEWED UNEASINESS
 OVER MOROCCAN AFFAIR
RESULT OFDEADLOCK BETWEEN
 FRANCE AND GERMANY.

Long Despatch from AIeeciras, of n
 semi- OmclnI Nature, Foreshadows an
 Abortive Result If Not an Actual
 Rupture - Line Reached Beyond
 Which 1t is Impossible to Go--Ger-
 many Insists on Her Attitude Re-
 garding Policing of Country.
 London, Feb 12 -Telegrams from continental capitals and editorials in the London newspapers this morning reflect the renewal of uneaslness over the anticipated failure of the Algeclras conference on Moroccan reforms in con- sequence of the deadlock on the French and German contentious with regard to the question of police. A long Algeciras dispatch of a semi-official nature, pub lished In Paris to-day, seems to fore shadow an abortive result, If not the actual rupture, of the conference and declares that the line has been reached beyond which it is impossible that France can go.
 Special dispatches from Algeoiras to the London newspapers admit the crit ical aspect of the situation but counsel patience. They are inclined to the view that Germany having called the con ference, cannot allow 1t to break down. The editorials decline in any case to believe that war could result, even if the conference failed,
 Paris, Feb. 1l.--A fresh semi-official note eminating from Germany and claiming that Germanys amour propre demands that the police of Morocco be either regulated by the zone system un- der the various powers or entirely en- trusted to neutral nations, has attract ed much attention here.
 The Temps to-day devotes its leading articles to the note, pointing out that eitiler the special rights of France which were recognized before the open ing of the Algeciras conference, must be confirmed without thereby injuriously affecting the general rights of the other powers, or Frances claim must be en- tirely rejected and the general rights of the other powers thus remain unguar- anteed-in other words, the resumption of the former situation
 If, however the paper says, the con ference at Algeciras gives it's mandate to France, 1t would be in the nature oi a guarantee of the entity of Morocco averting the possibility Of French dom- ination and permitting all nations tc read an equal advantage from the oper door As a whole the powers represent ed at the conference would guarantee the proper carrying out of it's decisions This solution of the question. the Temps declares, is the only one ae- ceptable to France.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-12
FIRED REVOLVER IN BACKYARD
Nnugatuck Man Wounds NeighDor and
 IS Arrested.

Naugatuck, Feb 11.-Edward Beck, a foreigner, was arrested to-day as a re- suit of discharging several times in his backyard late Saturday night, a reyol- yer, one bullet from which piercing the side of a house over 100 feet away; struck Gus Balka, the occupant, on the arm, infiicting superficial wound. Beck was released under $1OO bonds and will be given a hearing to-morrow. The firing off of the revolver was in honor of a wedding at Beck's house.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-12
Sovereign Grand Lodge, I. o. o. F.

Toronto, Ont, Feb 1.-The meeting of the sovereign grand lodge of the h. dependent Order of Odd Fellows will be held here in September. The executive committee of the grand lodge has de- cided to appropriate s12,0OO for the en- tertainment of the delegates. Two thou- sand dollars will be set aside for prizes for competition in degree work and S1,0Oo for the Patriarch Militant branch of the order.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-12
WISE SUCCEEDS MORGAN
Twenty-three Years Clerk in Quarter
 master-GeneraI's office.

Hartford, Feb. 1.-Michael J. wise, for twenty-three years clerk in the office of the quartermaster general has been appointed assistant quartermaster general to succeed Colonel Henry c. Morgan, who died last week.
 MT. Wise was appointed clerk during the administration of Governor Waller and has been in the office since that time. The appointment carries with it the rank of colonel and salary of S1,sOO year.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-12
WRECK ON ILLINOIS CENTRAL
Three Passenger Coaches and Engine
 Turn Over.

Nashville, Tenn, Feb. 1.-The Illi- nois Central railroads Chicago and Florida limited, leaving here tonight at o'clock for Chicago, is reported wrecked at Chapmansborough, thirty four miles west of here. Three passen- ger coaches and the engine are said to have turned over. Details are not yet known as there is no telegraph station at Chapmansborough. A wrecking train has gone from here to tile scene.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-12
soldier and woman Found Dead.

Concord, N. H., Feb. 11.-Frank M. Norton, private in the Coast artillery and stationed at Fort Wadsworth, New York, and Mrs. Nellie Pagan, of this city, were asphyxiated by gas some time to-day, whether from suicide or accident the authorities are unable to determine. They were last seen shortly afret midnight last night, and this aft ernoon, when their room was broken open, both were dead and the gas was turned on.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-12
WENT DOWN IN FEW MINUTES
SOW AND PIGS REEF CLAIMS
 ANOTHER COASTER.
Schooner Joseph Hay Strikes on One of the Western Ledges--Bumps Over and Goes Down at Once--Six Men Comprising the Crew Save Them selves but Lose All Their Effects.

Vineyard Haven, NIass., Feb. H. The famous Sow and Pigs reef at the entrance of Vineyard sound claimed another coaster to-day, when the New York tern schooner Joseph Hay, Cap tain c. B. Mclean, struck on one of the western ledges, bumped over and sank fifteen minutes later in twelve fathoms oi water. The six men on board, who jumped into their yawl without saving any of their belongings, were brought here this afternoon by the tug Dudley Pray.
 The accident took place about s o'clock this morning. The weather was clear at the time, and the vessel was running along on the port tack, with a fresh north-northeast breeze. For some reason the Hay was kept in close to the Cuttyhunk shore, from which the lodges run out two or three miles into good progress at the time although deeply laden with about 400 tons Of coal, which she was carrying from Perth Amboy to St. John, N. B. Sud donly she struck one of the western ledges, crashed along on top of it, and then bumped over into deep water The crew rushed on deck and started the pumps, but 1t was seen that the vessel was sinking, so the yawl was hastily cut away. Without attempt ing to get any of their personal ef- fleets, the six men Jumped into the lit- tie boat, Captain Mclean being the last to leave the vessel.