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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-23
TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL.
Seven Bids Opened Today Were Above
Limited Appropriation.

Bids were received by the Commissioners
today for the construction of the tubercu-
losis hospital, for which 100000 has been
appropriated, and of which only. $4,000 is
to be used in actual construction. The
bids were opened in the board room at the
District building by the chief clerk of the
engineer department., and according to
their figures new proposals will have to be
advertised for, or else the proposed plans
of the hospital will have to undergo num-
Der of changes in order that the bids will
be within the limit of the appropriation.
Seven bids were opened today, and every
one of them was above the limit. Isador
Pavarinis bid of $4,000 was the lowest,
and the bid of Boyer & Smith, $4,000, was
the highest. The other bids were: Rich
ardson & Burgess, $1O9, 1906; Thompson
Starrett Company. New York, $1l1,5O APP
pleton & Burrell, Philadelphia, $1O6557; the
Brennan Construction Company, $1O9,972,
and the Engineering Construction Company
of Baltimore, $1OS,O91.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-23
The American Tract Society.

1t is expected that Mr.. Justice Brewer of
the Supreme Court will preside at the Tract
Society meeting to be held tomorrow at II
am. in the First Congregational Church,
corner 10th and G streets northwest. Rev.
L. r. Dyott, pastor of the United Congre-
gational Church, Brooklyn boro-gh. New
York city, will preach the sermon. His SUBJ
ject will be Religious knowledge" Rev.
DR.. Judson Swift, field secretary, will make
a brief report. A cordial invitation is ex-
tended the public to attend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-23
EXERCISES AT TAKOMA
PATRIOTIC ADDRESS BY WILL
LIAM E. ANDREWS.

Washington's birthday was appropriately
celebrated by the citizens of Takoma Park
last evening, exercises being held in the
Takoma Presbyterian Church on Maple
avenue. A special chorus of residents of
the park, under the direction of Mr.. James
w. Dyre, sang patriotic songs The orator
of the occasion was Mr.. William E. An
drews, auditor of the Treasury Depart
ment.
The exercises opened with an invocation
by Rev. Thomas Culbertson Clark, D. D.,
pastor of the church. followed by a few
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-23
Blaze in Pigeon House.

No. IL engine company responded to an
alarm of fire this morning. and found a
blaze in the pigeon house of Andrew
Joiner, 2SO0 oath street northeast The
building was damaged. and a number of
pigeons were burned to death. An over
heated incubator caused the fire, and about
Sis damage resulted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-23
WIN Filed FOR Probate

The will Of Emile NJ Halstead, executed
at Northampton. Mass, June %, 1873, was
offered today for probate. The sum of
81 600 and a Venezuelan bond are given to
her brother, Eminel P. Halstead; gold
watch and chain to Mrs. Augusta tIalstead
and the residue of her estate to Mrs. Annie
B. Halstead. The residuary legatee IL also
to act as executrix.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-23
Baltimore Man Missing.

Maj. Sylvester received a letter this
morning from S. F. Davis, living at 1902
Walbrook avenue. Baltimore, asking that
James Davis be found and told of two
deaths that have occurred in his family
His mother and brother-in-law the mes
sage states. are dead, and his presence at
home Is desired.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-23

Punishment has been melted out to two
more midshipmen guilty of misconduct
at the Naval Academy. They are Rich
ard e. Trip of Kittanning, Pa, second
class, and Charles A. Gildersleeve of Santa
Fe., N. NJ, fourth class. The department
has ordered that Trip be dropped back
to the third class and that Gildersleeve be
close OF the scholastic year in June, when
the midshipmen embark for their annual
summer cruise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-23
Railroad Loses $780, 900 by Fire.

CUMBERLAND, Md, February 23.-The
roundhouse of the Cumberland and Penn
sylvania railroad at Mount Savage, with
other buildings and six locomotives, were
burned today, entailing an estimated loss Of
about 100000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-23
Back From the West Indies.

The captured Spanish gunboat Don Juan
de Austria has arrived at the Navy Yard,
Portsmouth, y. H., after a long cruise in
West Indian waters. She is to be put out
Of commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-23
Regarded as Only Remedy.

The tuberculin test Is looked upon by
physicians, veterinarians and bacteriolo-
gists as ithe only possible means of approx
imately determining the disease in animals.
The test, 1t is said, was discovered by a
German scientist named Koch, and when
the test was first introduced in this coun-
try 1t was always called Koch's tuberculin
test" He discovered it In 1890. audit was
first tried In this country in 1891. AS strange
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19
He WAS ABUSED.
Mr.. Robertson Charges Court Report
er Graham With Interfering.

I'm looking for a little advice said
Senator Robertson of Wilson county
when he arose to a question of personal
privilege yesterday afternoon. I want
to know how to act in a condition that
confronts me. 1 am new to legislative
procedure and things that pertain to
the passing of laws and I've often ask
ed for advice. 1t has been freely given,
SO you will pardon me if 1 ask for some
more.
1T is a bit humiliating to me to be
compelled to confess that 1 am not able
to put up a good scrap. I had to quit
the fighting business fifteen years ago.
The spirit is willing but the flesh lacks
considerable muscle.
ION leaving the senate chamber Fri
day night after I had opposed the bill
increasing the salaries of the assistants
to the supreme court reporter 1 was
accosted by a big burly fellow who took
me to task about what had done.
When this bill came up on Friday and
arguments had been made that-the SUI
preme court reporter and his assistants
were working nights to catch up with
the work and that the assistants really
were entitled to more pay. Senator Rob
ertson took occasion to remark that
tn might be burning the midnight oil
but that for the past ten days the head
of the department had been spending
most of his time in the senate chamber
button-holing senators to vote for the
bill. He said then that probably a great
deal of work could have been accom-
plished by the supreme court reporter
If he had paid more attention to the
duties of his office rather than camp
ing in the senate chamber in the in
terests of the bill in question,
This fellow told me on Friday night
that / had no right to criticise any
man. said Senator Robertson in speak
ing to his personal privilege question,
FOR coming into the senate chamber
and lobbying for any bill. He intimated
that I did not have any sense and he
5abs of one fist against his other hand.
He classed me inferentially with the
cranks of the state and especially with
some of the women cranks."
Senator Robertson then picked up
statute book and said: Il am reading
from good book which we are trying
to make better" And he read from the
constitution that provision to the effect
that no member of the legislature had
a right to be questioned for any state
ment or action he might take on the
floor of either house.
I'm view of this, said Senator Rob-
ertsOn, Il want to ask for some advice
Shall I carry gun or shall 1 hire a
special policeman to follow me around
or shall I stay in at night, or shall I
take all this abuse in my usual meek
and 1amblike manner?"
who was this?" shouted Senator
Getty.
THE supreme court reporter himself"
said Senator Robertson. The reporter
is L. ]. Graham.
I'VE won't need to take action now
on this matter" said Senator Getty
When the bill comes up on third read
ing I guess that some folks will find out
that the senate is quite able to take
care of ITSELF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19
WOMEN TAKE A HAND.
Decide to Organize a Political Party
of Their Own.

Chicago. Feb. ia national wo-
mans political party with state and
county committees in every state and
county and ward, and precinct cap
tains in every city-with all the para
phernalia of the politicians except the
right to vote-may be the outcome of
the National Woman's Suffrage con-
vention, which will close here today.
The plan, which involves a reorgani-
cation of the National American Wo-
mans Suffrage association along lines
which, even to the reformers, seem
radical, was preached at the conven-
ton yesterday in the report of the ma
tional membership committee given
by Miss Laura Clay OF, Lexington, KY
1--WE have been an overgrown wo-
mans club long enough" said Miss
Clay in her report. This system OF
gauging a persons devotion to the
cause of woman suffrage by his or her
attendance at meetings and pink teas
and things, is nothing to advance our
cause much further.
There is a vast public sentiment
lust now in favor of our movement,
which we are not reaching. 1t is time
we did something"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19
MAY HAVE TAKEN If HERSELF
NOW Claimed Mat Mrs, Binge Got the
Poison Tablets.

New York, Feb i9.-The inquest into
the death Of Mrs SIdat Bine, the aged
woman who is alleged to have died from
sublimate poisoning administered While
she was dying of cancer, will be held
tomorrow Meantime her daughter,
Mrs. Lottie WaHoh who is charged
with the murder is held in the Tornbs
without bail.
There have been no definite develop
ments regarding motive for the al
legged crime. Friends and relatives
agree that Mrs. Wallou did all that a
loving daughter could do for a parent
who was incurably Ill of lingering
disease and can give no explanation
for the alleged crime, supposing poison
was administered as the analysts of the
chemical experts seem to show.
Neither Assistant District Attorney
Corrigan, who has the case in charge,
or attorneys for the defense would dis
cuss the theory of euthanasia, that is,
that the poison was administered as an
act of mercy by some sympathetic hand,
as advanced yesterday in some quar-
tiers in explanation of the supposed
crime. 9
The attorneys for Mrs. Wallou. it is
said, are framing a defense of suicide.
1t is stated that Mrs. Binge, day or
two before her death, was seen In the
bathroom where the bichlor1de OF mer-
curry tablets, the poison said to have
been found in Mrs. Binge's stomach was
kept.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19
JAPAN ISN'T PLEASED.
Doesn't Like the Roosevelt Exclusion
Plan

Toxic. Feb 19.-Afternoon-Th
official text of President Roosevelt's
amendment of the exclusion bill has
been published.
As expected it has created the
strongest dissatfsfa elton among the in
terested parties although the move
ments of procedure have not yet as
sumed a definite shape.
The Japanese residents of the Ha-
waian islands have telegraphed Presi-
dent Roosevelt and the Hawaiian rep
resentatives in, the house indicating
the seriousness of the injury which
Will be caused to their rights and in
terests by this legislation. The Lead
ers of public opinion here are aware,
however, that under the circum-
stances, the only alternative is to
calmly resign themselves to the situa-
ton, hoping that the government can
arrange with the American authorities
to reduce the sacrifice in the interest
of Japanese emigrants to the mini
mum. They regret the new law unless
the San Francisco people glory IN
their success should assume an over
bearing attitude
News of this kind would only tend
to injure, japanese suscepitibilities,
which President Roosevelt has been
specially careful to avoid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19
Regulate Life Companies.

Washington, Feb. 19.-The house
has passed a bill amending the code of
the District of Columbia relative to as
sessment life insurance companies.
The bill provides that such companies
must have $4,000 assets if they do
not issue policies above a thousand
dollars and 100000 invested assets if
they do issue the large policies and
that these assets shall always be
at least three per cent of the
total risks of the company. The
small sick benefit companies are
required to have guaranty
fund of at least $4,000 and that it be
at least three per cent of outstanding
life risks. It is also provided that ex-
penses of such companies shall not ex-
coed so per cent of the premiums re-
ceived in any year, so that at least the
balance of premiums and all forfeits
shall be paid in losses or dividends or
placed in reserve for the benefit of the
policyholders. At present less than
one-quarter of the premiums USUALLY
goes to their benefit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19
coNNoR BOND IS FORFEITED.
Rush County Boy Convicted of Wheat
Stealing Can't Be Found

Guy Conner, the Rush county boy
who was caught stealing load OF
wheat from a neighbor, has skipped"
and the attorney general today filed a
Connor's bond of $4,000. The bond is
signed by Guy Conner, G. D. Reed,
Lloyd Camp and Henry Swangey.
Accompanying the motion are affi-
davits by J. M. Purcell, clerk of the
district court of Rush county, and ]. H.
Hartman. sheriff of Rush county, to
the effect that Conner cannot be To-
Gated.
1t was in the Conner case that the in
teresting story of the farmer boys de-
tective agency developed 1t seems that
there had been a good deal of wheat
stealing going on in that neighborhood,
and suspicious were directed at Guy
Conner who was rather new conner
in the vicinity. Some Of the farmer boy
detectives set a watch on Connors
house One night they saw him, assist
ed by another man. hitch up team
and drive away. They followed the
team to o44ristian Werhahn's granery.
where they watched the two men load
their wagon with grain Then they
notified Werhahn and his two sons
and the whole posse started in pursuit
of Conner When they got within a
hundred yards of him. he or his partner
turned and opened fire on the posse
with a revolver This about ended the
pursuit.. but Connor dumped his load
of wheat into a gully, and escaped.
Conner was arrested and convicted OF
grand larceny Because of his youth
he was sentenced to the Hutchinson re-
forrnatory. He appealed to the supreme.
court. and the decision of the lower
court was affirmed. 1t was to get this
appeal that Connor filed his $1,000 bond.
The amount of wheat which Conner
and his pal stole from Werhahn, or
tried to steal, was so bushels, worth
about s35. The names of the boy de-
tectives were Ed Shrader, Bill McKaf-
fiery, Floyd Arnold, Art Strong, Frank
Glare. Jake Hergert and Henry Gallon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19
RAILROADS WIN.
Murdock's Plan to Save Millions i'm
Mail Contracts Defeated.

Washington, Feb. 19.-The railroad
lobby won in the house Monday. The
much advertised reduction of IL mil
lion dollars in railroad mail pay which
was to be inaugurated through the
postof1ce committees bill is promise
unfulflled. Jesse Overstreet chair
man of the house committee led the
retreat, and as a result a reduction
estimated at million dollars by over
street mad at II million dollars by the
department is the most which can be
hoped for. Even part Of this may be
wiped out in the senate.
Murdock's plan for determining the
daily weight is numbered among the
dead promises of the postoff1ce COM
mittee. The attorneys for the rail-
roads never worked to better legisIa-
occasion. AS near as can be esti-
mated, the reduction now possible is
6 per cent. =
The reduction promised was rs per
cent. The procedure in the matter
was entirely unusual. The result, of
course, was accom- plished without
record vote, thereby avoiding a rail-
road and antirailroad alignment of the
members. 1t was as neat a job as has
been done under cover here for some
years.
The postofice committee of the
house adopted series of provisions
governing railway mail pay, each of
to the railroads. The provisions We're were
Incorporated in the postoffice appro-
priation bill, which is now on it's pass
age in the house. Being general leg
islation in an appropriation bill, the
railway mail pay clauses are subject
to a point of order, and hence some
step had to be taken to protect tn EN-
from being stricken out through this
parliamentary device.
Delay All Along the Line
The usual procedure under such cir
cumstances is to get a special rule re-
ported from the committee on rules.
The Republicans of this committee are
Speaker Cannon, never unfriendly to
the railroads; John Dalze1 and Cen
eral Grosvenor. The committee on
rules refused to report a rule. The
excuse they gave was that the post
office committee is not unanimously in
favor of the provisions for which,
however, majority of the committee
voted.
Jesse Overstreet of Indiana, chair
man of the postoffice committee, was
forced by members in his committee
to go farther than he had expected to
go in making the committee reduce
lions. The action of the rules COM
mittee left way open to protect only
a proposition that all the member of
the poStoffice committee would agree
upon. The necessity for this unani-
nous action scaled the series of re-
auctions down to the following propo-
sition:
Reduction of erscent on all routes
over 5000 pounds and under $4,000
pounds daily; reduction of 10 per cent
fiat on all routes above $4,000 pounds
daily, excepting in the case of land
grant roads, which are to be paid on
the present basis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19
RUNAWAYS RETURN.
Clay Center Husband Forgives Erring
Wife and Brother-in- Law.

Clay Center, Kan, Feb. 19.-The Dis
patch says:
Sheriff Drumm came in last night
from Red Wing, Mimi, bringing with
him Ellsworth Brockway, under arrest
for selling mortgaged property. and &C
companied by Mrs. Ethel Sterritt and
baby, who had left here in company
with Brockway. Mrs. Sterritt was met
at the station by her husband, who took
hisswife and baby home with him, and
Brockway: was placed IN Jail, where
he is now.
Mr.. Brockway had rented and fur
nished a house in Red Wing, and had a
good paying position in, pottery estab-
.lishment, and there was not much dan
ger of his being intercepted. had he not
given himself up. When the runaway
couple had had time to reflect on their
hasty actions their remorse and sorrow
made it impossible for them to do any
thing but come back, and. so far as
possible, right the wrongs they had
done their families and the friends
whose confidence they had outraged.
The two brothers-in-law, Brockway
and Sterritt, had a conversation a the
Jail this morning. and all was forgiven
between them. Brockway owed Sterritt
a sum of money, which he paid.
Mr.. Brockway will be given a pre-
liminary hearing before Justice Davis
soon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19
OVER A MILLION.
Divorces Allowed in United
States in 90 Years.
Applications Number 100000
for Same Period.
ARE ON THE. INCREASE.
They Number 20 Per 100000
of the Population.
Were 33PerIOO, 900 forPrevious
Equal Number. of Years.
ARE ON THE, INCREASE.

Chicago, Feb. ia dispatch to the
| Tribune from Washington says:
Preliminary estimates made by the
bureau of census as result of the in
vestigation of marriage and divorce
statistics, which began last summer,
indicate that the number of applica-
tions for divorce filed throughout the
United States during the twenty year
period from 1887 to 1906 will reach
the enormous total of 100000. 1t is
estimated that three-fourths of the
applications have been granted so that
the statistics when compiled will show
that in the period stated more than L.
1000 divorces have been allowed. In
the twenty year period from 1867 to
1885, for which divorce statistics were
secured. the total number of divorces
was 1000.
On their face the figures indicate a
stupendous increase, but when the ra-
ito they bear to the population is con-
stdered it is not so great, though still
large enough to warrant the serious
consideration of the American people.
Upon the basis of the average annual
population of each period it appears
that the number of divorces in the first
period was 33 per 100000 of popuIa-
ton for the whole United States and
approximately 70 per 100000 for the
second period. 1t is estimated there
fore that for the whole country d.
vorces have more than doubled.
There is striking difference in the
reports of divorce applications and d.
Vorces for cities and those for the
country. In the case of Chicago for
example the number of divorces
granted from 1867 to 1886 was $685.
The records thus far transcribed for
the second twenty year period show
1853 applications of which s1,7S5|
were granted. 1t is estimated that the
total number of applications will be
$4,000 of which $4,000 have been
granted. Upon the basis of the aver
age annual population divorces in Chi
cago during the first period numbered
13 per 100000. while they increased
to 107 per 100000 for the second per-
fod.
Chicago's increase is not nearly SO
great as that of Philadelphia where
the average number increased from %
per loo, 600 for the first period to So
per 100000 for the second period. Bos-
ton is passing Chicago in the rates or
increase which has gone up from 40
to 60. The statistics for New York
have not yet been completed.
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ALL OVER THE WORLD.
American Metal Working Machinery
in Use Everywhere.

Washington. Feb. 19.-The census
bureau today issued a bulletin relative
to the manufacture of metal working
machinery in the United States in
1905. the total of value of which was
$32,4OS,766 which is an increase of
$7,670,862. or 81 per cent, in the value
of this class of machinery. over 1900.
The term metal working machin-
cry" is defined as relating only to
power operated machinery for work.
ing metals, including also the parts
and small tools necessary for the
operation of same but does not en-
brace machines or. tools for use in the
hand trades.
The bulletin says American manu-
facturers have been progressive in
changing and adapting their machin-
cry to meet European shop methods
with the result that American made
metal working machinery is now to be
found in almost every part of the civil
lied world. American manufacturers
have shown progressiveness also in
their readiness and ability to manu-
facture special machinery for use in
new machine building industries This
was true of the manufacture of the
bicycles. and is now true of the auto
mobile industry.
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AMERICANS KILLED.
Three of Them Caught in Venezue-
Ian Revolutionary Movement.

New York, Feb. ia dispatch from
Caracas. Venezuela to the Herald, IN
giving details of the suppression of the
attempt made. by General Antonio
Paroles to start revolution, says that
Paroles and his followers after their
capture, were executed.
General Paroles and Is men were
captured by government forces and sent
from Bolivar and Maturin and by boat
from LaGuayra.
After this collapse of their expedition
they were imprisoned at Barranca UNI
der a strong guard and later, 1t is SAID,
all were shot. According to bulletins
issued by the Venezuelan government,
the dispatch states Paroles and his
men persisted while they were seizing
arms in an attempt to escape. Three
Americans who are known to have been
with Paroles when he landed in Vene-
zuela are reported among the slain.
General Paredes' landed with about
20 men at Pedernales, at the mouth of
the Orinoco river February 5. In his
army of which General Baldillo was
chief Of staff, were several men who
are we'll known in Venezuela. Who the
three Americans were that accompanied
him cannot be asceftained, but they are,
supposed to be young men who become
tempted by the prospect of adventure