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Firemen Prevent Spread Of Flames.

Fire of unknown origin caused about
s25 damage this afternoon in the house
of James H. WinsloH. 1862 18th street
northwest. Firemen made a quick re-
Spouse to an alarm sounded from box
23S and extinguished the blaze before
much Roadway had been gained.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-21
Court of Claims,

Present: Chief Justice Peelle Judge
Howry, Judge Booth, Judge Barney and
Judge Atkinson.
Submitted:
Congressional 14247 and fourteen SUBJ
numbers. c. d. Pennebacker for plain
tifs and w. w. Scott for the United
States.
Congressional 1887. C. d. Miller:
merits; E. c. Brandenburg for plaintiff
and George NJ. Anderson for the United
States.
On trial:
No. 3OO72. The United Engineering and
Contracting Company: contract. New
York dry dock No. 3; P. NJ. Ashford was
heard for the government and argument
concluded by j. S. Flannery for plaintiff
Usage Indians; argument concluded.
NO. 3OO72. The United Engineering and
Contracting Company Contract, dry dock,
No. 3. New York navy Yard: Mr. ]. S.
Flannery appeared for plaintiffs and Mr..
P. NJ. Ashford for the United States.
Inc following calendar numbers were
passed: $50, 334 and 346..
Submitted cases:
Congressional. No. 1896. First Baptist
Church, Lafayette, Ga; Messrs. Mcneil
& Mcneil for plaintiffs and Mr.. w. F..
Norris for the Department of Justice.
Congressional. No. 1901 Heirs of Jo-
seph Gilmore: Mr.. G. w. Holt for plain
tiff and Mr. c. F. kincheloe for the
United States.
Congressional. No. 1921 Mary E. Will
lett; Mr.. G. W. Holt for plaintiff and
Mr.. A. ]. McCabe for the United States.
Assignments for Wednesday: Trial Nos
1913, 2O2, 1873, 80, 312, 49, 800 :s1i, 81,
316. $50. 1874, 33o. :'S6. BAL 346 347, Boil
and 352
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-21

Bar silver steady. - Lied per ounce.
Money. 81 per cent.
The rate of discount In the open market for
short bills II 3iaa3 9-l6 per cent.
The rate of discount In the open market for
three-month bills is 7-16s3h per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-21
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, February 81. = Flour -
Quiet and easier; winter straights, 4.2Oa
Abs: Kansas straights, 4.70a4.S5.
Wheat = Easier Liverpool cables and
bearish northwest receipts caused slight
opening decline in wheat, which, how
ever, was soon followed by an upturn
on covering of overnight shorts and with
the firmness in outside markets. May,
1.O3ha1.04k
Pork-Barely steady.
Beef-Steady.
Lard-Easy: middle west. 8. 7OaS.SO.
Raw sugar firm: muScOvado, ~ test,
4.3O: centrifugal, 96 test. 4.SO; molasses,
SO test, 4O5; refined firm.
Petroleum-Steady.
Enthusiastically.
Hay-Steady.
Hides-Steady.
Leather-Firm.
Butter-Flrm; receipts, 6.69S: creamery
specials, %; extras, 2S1s; tirsts. 27haa2S
seconds, 2aa27: thirds. 25a2ok; creamery
held firsts, 27a271a; seconds. 26a2o1a; thirds,
%. hacking stock, current make, No. =,
22ha23
milk, held, specials white. 1lA; do color
ed, 171a; do average fancy "mte, l'12; az.
milk, winter make, white average FANCY.
16A do. colored, 161s; daisies, fall and
earlier, best, ia.
Eggs-Firm: receipts, 12,45S: fresh gath
cred extras. 37a3s; firsts; 81 seconds loo 81:
checks, 27a29; state. Pennsylvania and
nearby hennery white fancy large. new
laid, 39a4O; western gathered whites. 36a3S:
state. Pennsylvania and nearby hennery
browns, 3ia3S; do. gathered Drown ana
mixed colors, 36.
Poultry-Live, steady; western chickens,
12a121k; fowls. 1311a1411; turkeys. 15a16;
dressed steady: western chickens, 12ka
10; fowls, 12ka16; turkeys, 12a21.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-21

Jack-She has refused me four times.
What shall / do?
Bob-Stop while your luck Is with you.
Chicago News.
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READING ON DECLINE
Weakness of Stock Principal
Feature of Market.
RECESSIONS COME EARLY
Opens Quarter Point Of and Soon
Falls Back Two Points.
TRADING IS VERY LIGHT
Business Without Slightest Anima-
RECESSIONS COME EARLY
TRADING IS VERY LIGHT
Business Without Slightest Anima
ton and Dealings Are Com
paratively Insignificant.

NEW YORK, February 2I.-Buslness IN
the stock market at the opening was al
most lifeless, with merely nominal
changes either way except in the case
of Reading, which opened off quarter
point and later made further decline.
Trading was without the slightest ami
nation and presages another dull day.
Increased weakness in Reading was the
most noteworthy feature of the first
hour, that stock declining 1R points to
lIj. Steel and Union Pacific sold under
yesterdays low level, and the balance
of the list on exceedingly light trading
followed this trend in Iesser degree.
Reading Shows Weakness.
The entire morning session was
dominated by Reading, which declined
2 points. Selling was more or less
general. but proceeded in large part
from prominent traders, who apparently
based their operations on the unfavor-
able coal trade outlook. Union Pacific,
southern Pacific. United States Steel
and the Hill stocks were all weaker.
Dealings otherwise were insignificant.
Bonds were steady.
The successful attacks on special
stocks induced liquidation of other
issues, and the whole market went
lower after II o'clock. Reading sold
at 1888. and Union Pacific at 1853. Sew
eral specialties which have recently ad-
vanced in striking fashion were weak,
including Pittsburgh, c., c. and st. Louis
and Philadelphia Company.
Check to General Selling.
NEW YORK. February 21.-Some In
quiry at the lower prices put a check
to the general selling and the market
began to harden. Recoveries, however,
only reached a slight fraction and buying
soon came to a halt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-21
CHICAGO.

CHICAGO. February 21.-With 100000
bushels of corn on track here waiting to
be unloaded snow today proved help to
the bulls in all the grain pits. Attention
of traders was directed chiefly to the fact
that the delay in railroad switching could
not help but turn out a serious factor
May corn opened unchanged to u higher,
at 67A to 671a and rose to CTS.
In the wheat crowd there was dis
position to regard the benefit of the snow
in the fall-sown fields as having been
discounted by yesterdays decline Open
ing prices were Aa& down to V up.
May started at 1914 to 99A, loss Of a
shade to Aah, and then assembled to
1.OOb.
Control of oats depended on corn. There
was moderate activity in both sides OF
the market. but prices gradually hard
ened. May opened Il higher, at 52A.
and advanced to J2Aa52as.
Packers buying made hog products firm.
Strength in prices at the yards counted
also in favor of those who desired to
bolster the cost. Initial sales were a
shade to Toe UP. with May at 15.471a to
$50 for pork S95 to S.971a for lard and
S.5l to S.57k for ribs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-21
THE COURTS
United States Supreme Court.

Present: The Chief Justice, Mr.. Justice
McKenna. Mr.. Justice Holmes, Mr..
Justice Day, Mr.. Lurton, Mr.. Justice
Mr.. Justice Lamar.
Curtis c. Williams of Columbus. Ohio;
Stephen A. Foster Of Chicago. ILL.,: John
T. an Motre of Mohnomen, MINI. :;
George NICK. Mcclellan of Honolulu.
pendence, Kan, were admitted to prac-
tice
Nos. $40 and $50. The interstate COM
merce commission ct al, appellants, agt.
Goodrich Transit Company; and
Nos. SS1 and 49, The United States
ct al, appellants. agt. White Star Line;
argument continued by Mr.. Ralph NJ.
Shaw for the appellees and concluded by
Mr.. Charles w. Needham for the inter-
state commerce commission
Proceedings after The Star went to
press yesterday:
No. S46. Omaha and Council Bluffs
Street Railway Company ct al, appel
lants, agt. interstate commerce commits
sion; argument continued by Mr. Assist
ant Attorney General Denison for the
United States. by Mr. Charles w. Need
nam for the interstate commerce commits
sion and concluded by Mr. John Lee Web
ster for the appellant.
Nos. S19 and $50. The interstate COM
merce commission ct al, appellants, agt
Goodrich Transit Company; and
NOS. ISL and $50. The United States ct
al, appellants, agt. White Star Line
one hour additional time allowed each
side in the argument of these cases, on
motion of Mr. Ralph NJ. Shaw for the
appelfees; argument commenced by Mr.
Assistant to the Attorney General Fow-
Ter for the United States and continued
by Mr.. Ralph M. Shaw for the arpellees
Adjourned until today at II O'clock
The day call for Wednesday, February
81, is as follows: Nos S79 land $50, ISL
and $50, 641 (and 642), $50 land SO and
500. 914. SS3 land 1874, 92S and 929) 16S
161, III, 172 and 163
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filed; plaintiff s attorneys, Webb & Stein
defendants attorney, w. c. Balderston.

DISTRICT COURT-Justice Barnard.
In re condemnation for Meridian Hill
Park; compensation of commissioners fix
ed at $3.50 each
In re condemnation OF square >. OF ood
order of publication.
BANKRUPTCY COURT-Chief Justice
Clabaugh.
In re Elliott l. Garner; adjudication and
reference to E. S. McCalmont.
In re Harry G. Click; discharge ordered.
PROBATE COURT-Chief Justice Ga
baugh.
Estate of Eliza w. Sanderlin: will
dated october "a. 1904, filed. with codicil
of February 10, 1911
Estate of Thomas Burke: will admitted
to probate and letters testamentary grant
ed to Lawrence Mangan and Michael F.
Mangan; bond. $1,000; attorney, NJ. F..
Mangan.
ted to probate and letters testamentary
granted to Harry E. Gladman; bond, $12.
OOO; attorneys, Ralston, Siddons & Rich
ardson
Estate of j. Edmund Blake: letters
granted to George w. Blake; bond, 81 ,20O
attorneys, Lyon & Lyon.
Estate of Eneas N. Lamont; order to
sell leasehold; attorney. William Henry
Dennis.
Estate of John M. Mahaney; amended
petition filed: attorney, {. H. Bauman.
Estate of William c. Freeman; answer
filed; attorney. J. A. Maedel.
Estate Of George H. Ewers; exemplified
copy of will filed.
Estate of Thaddeus Higgins; petition
for letters of administration filed; attor-
news, Lyon & Lyon.
Estate of Gertrude Reith: petition for
probate of will filed; attorney, F. L. Neu-
beck.
Estate of Charles Gordon; petition for
letters of administration filed; attorneys,
Jones & Waring.
Estate of Nora Correll: petition for pro-
bate of will fled attorney, D. w.
O'Donoghue.
Estate of William c. Taylor; will dated
November 2, 1911. filed.
Estate of Charles Gordon: petition for
letters of administration filed; attorneys,
Jones & Waring.
Estate of Grace c. Bernhard; will dated
March u, 1901; filed.
Estate of Eminel p. Halstead; will
dated December 6. 1911; filed.
In re- Raymond F. Gheen; order APP
pointing Joseph r. Fague guardian; bond.
5000; attorney, j. r. Fague.
Estate of Nora Cornell; will dated Feb
ruary g. 1907; filed.
Estate of Ellen c. Daingerfield; will
dated June 49, 1906; filed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-21

FOR SALE
10 International Textbook Co. Stock.
20 Inter. Educ Pub. Pfd Stock and
10 shares of Common Stock.
$1,000 Lack. Coal and Lum. Co. 69e Bond.
No reasonable offer declined, funds re-
Quired Immediately. Address
''TEXTBOOK,' Star office.
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BALTIMORE.

Wheat - Inactive: spot contract, 9ih;
spot No red western. 97ss; February,
97as March. 9Sss; May, LOIS: steamer
No red 94h
Corn-Steady: spot contract. 69a69h;
February, 69aG3b: March. $685.; April,
7O1s. Receipts, 124,11O bushels; exports.
25,714 bushels.
Oats-Steady; No. 9 white, So: standard
white, 571s: No. white, 81; receipts, 49,
O49 bushels.
Rye-Dull: No. western domestic. 100
asked.
Hay-Firm; No. 1 timothy. unchanged;
No clover mixed, unchanged.
Grain freights-Quiet; steam to Liver
pool. per bushel, unchanged. Cork for
orders, per quarter. unchanged.
LIVERPOOL.
LIVERPOOL. February 21.-Closing:
Wheat-Spot steady: No. l Manitoba,
IS 7hd; No 2. Manitoba. SIS sgd: No.
g. Manitoba, IS I'd; futures steady;
March, Is 1od; May. Is 4Nd; July, Is
4hd. Corn-Spot American mixed. new.
quiet IS 4&d American mixed. old.
steady, IS lid: American mixed. new.
kiln dried, quiet, IS I'd; futures easy:
March, IS 11hd; May. SIS 11!sd.
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The Safest Investments

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property. We can supply such Investments
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The City Lights.

The city lights and naphtha lamps all
lighted by thirty minutes after sunset;
extinguishing begun one hour before SUM-
rise. All arc and incandescent lamps
lighted fifteen minutes after sunset and
eXtinguished forty-five minutes before
sunrise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-21

DISTRICT COURT-Justice Barnard.
In re condemnation for Meridian Hill
Park; compensation of commissioners fix
ed at 81, 800 each.
In re condemnation of square S. Of 667 4;
order of publication.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-21

xEx dividend-American Tobacco pfd.
new, IL, and American Tobacco prefer
red, 1k.
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BANKRUPTCY COURT-Chief Justice
Clabaugh.
In re Elliott l. Garner; adjudication and
reference to E. S. McCalmont.
In re Harry G. Click; discharge ordered.
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CIRCUIT COURT NO. 2-Justice Gould.
Downey agt. Washington. Alexandria
and Mount Vernon Railroad Company; on
trial; plaintiffs attorneys, l. P. Harlow
and E. Burke; defendants attorneys, D.
s. Mackall and J. l.. Barbour.
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CIRCUIT COURT NO. 1-Justice Stafford.
Tyson agt. Philip Carey Company; time
to file transcript extended to March Is:
plaintiffs attorneys. McNeill & MCNEIL;
defendants attorney, c. L. Frailey.
Byrne agt. Keppel; on trial; plaintiff s
attorneys, Gates. Wilson, Boyd defend
ants attorney, George P. Hoover.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-09-06
VERMONT STAYS REPUBLICAN
Party Without Majority. However, for
First Time in History on
Presidential Year.

Montpelier. Vt, Sept. 4.-Allen NJ
Fletcher, rep. has an undisputed piu-
ralitg for governor over Howe, dem.'
and Metzger, prog, in the guberna-
torial race, and is assured OF the
nomination.
On the basis of returns already re-
ceived, it is estimated that the total
vote for Fletcher will approximate
5000 to $4,000 for Howe, ana
$4,000 for Metzger.
The strength of the new progress
sive party in its first lineup against
the older parties and the disappear
ance of the republican majority lot
the first time in ten years, and the
first time in the history OF the sIaIe
in presidential year, were the out-
standing features of the state cleo
ton.
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its contents Hall, with the blood
streaming down his face where piece
of shell had grazed him, stood by his
gun and urged his fellow bluejackets
on by word and deed.
Throughout the long afternoon the
men hammered away at the twenty
foot wall. Gun after gun was aban-
doned as their crews were shot down,
but the negro hero was game to the
last. Shortly before dark the COM
mander gave the order to collect the
killed and wounded and retire for the
night, but Hall had to be peremptor-
lily ordered to retire by his superior
before he obeyed
Meanwhile, Lieutenant Salmon of
the naval brigade had climbed a tree
and discovered small aperture in
the wall. The enemy saw him and
volleyed at him. Badly wounded he
fell into the arms of his men and re-
ported what he had seen. For this
brave act he was rewarded with a
Victoria Cross.
The English were quick to take adj
vantage of the information. and among
the first men to rush the breach was
William Hall, wounded, but hacking
right and lift with his cutIass. Early
upon the following morning, the Resi-
dency was relieved and a second mass
acre averted.
In due time, Hall received his Vic
toria Cross, as both his commanding
officers and shipmates We're agreed
that his gallantry had been the most
conspicuous event of day memorable
for its many brave actions.
Hall lived to take part in the bonn
bardment of Alexandria many years
later, and was awarded the Egyptian
medal and its inseparable companion.
the Khedive's Star. With his Grim.
can and Egyptian medals, his Victoria
Cross and Khedive's Star, this brave
negro finally retired from service and
took up his residence in a small Nova
Scotian village, far away from the
grim scenes of hts early days.
In all. three negroes have been
awarded the Victoria Cross: Samuel
Hodge and w. ]. Gordon of the West
Indian regiment, and William Hall of
the Royal Navy; and possibly the brav.
est of these is the white-haired. black
ex-captain Of the foretop, William
Hall. v. C.
Baron Roberts Of Kandahar and
Waterford has the insignia of the Or.
der Of the Garter. 1t was presented to
| nini by Queen Victoria about two
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Residency at Lucknow in due time,
after having been obliged to fall back
upon Cawnpore by reason of the ex-
IRENE heat and the dreaded cholera.
The gallant Neill was with him when
he finally succeeded in cutting his way
into Lucknow, but the. negro Hall and
other bluejackets were not present
Their opportunity was to come later.
Havelock and his. men. though
strong enough to reinforce the besieg-
ed troops in Lucknow and save the
English garrison from destruction.
We're not strong enough to cut their
way to safety, hampered with women
and children and wounded amounting
to 1900 souls. Thus the siege CON
tinued upon a larger scale.
Meanwhile, Sir Colin Campbell had
arrived in India. He was to assume
the chief command OF the forces in
India, and his first task was to rescue
the garrison at Lucknow Upon the
9th of November he led an army of
Eve thousand men and thirty guns out
of Cawnpore, and among these was
the naval brigade under William
Peel
The Sikandarbagh, a formidable
looking structure about 1870 yards
square and surrounded by thick
brick wall about twenty feet high, was
the first nut to crack before Lucknow
could be relieved. 1t sheltered up
ward OF two thousand well-armed Sc
poys. who poured CALLING fire into
the English from the fiat roof of a
pavilion on top of the structure
Little could be done until a breach
had been made in the wall. so the in
fantry lay down and sheltered them.
selves as best they could while the
men OF the naval brigade dragged
their guns up under the wall. Across
the deadly zone of bare ground the
negro and his shipmates dragged their
guns as coolly as if laying alongside
an enemy's frigate, Men after man
dropped under the cruel fire until
each gun was short-handed
| Once up under the wall, the gallant
nea were in a measure protected. but
as the 24-pounders kicked back after
each discharge. 1t became necessary
for the men to enter the danger zone
to drag them back into position. AT
each recol the Sepoys concentrated
their fire upon the little detachment
and each discharge cost 2 human life
Encouraging his shipmates by his
fearless example. the negro was al
ways the first man to dart out Of the
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Victoria Cross Stories
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sheltered angle to drag back his gun.
He called upon them to remember the
bloody room at Cawnpore. He seemed
to bear charmed life.
After an hours perilous work, dur
ing which the detachment of blueiack-
cts was all but wiped out, the "a
Founders succeeded in hammering a
hole in the wall about three feet
square. A bugle call sounded. The
rushed at the little hole in spite of
the fact that certain death awaited
the foremost.
The enemy, having been driven out
of the courtyard by the intrepid Eng
lish aided by the loyal native troops,
made for the gateway of the main
structure. AS they attempted to close
the heavy doors behind them, a Pun
jabi Mohammedan, Mukarrab Khan by
name, thrust his left arm between
them. AS tulwar nearly severed his
hand at the wrist, he withdrew the
wounded arm and Immediately thrust
in the other!
10y tAlAS tiAuSt Olu6T IuSu Hdu I6dCutu
the spot and torn the doors open. For
this brave act, Mukarrab Khan was
decorated with the Order of Merit,
the Indian equivalent of the Victoria
Cross
Meanwhile other serious work had
been cut out for William Hall and the
other bluejackets, for a thousand
yards away. in the direction of the Resi-
dency, doomed the frowning outlines
of the Shah Najaf, white-dom ed
tomb, surrounded by high walls of
solid masonry While the Highland
ers tore off the roofs of the surround
ing huts and drove the Sepoys before
them like sheep, other troops were ire
membering Cawnpore" while attending
to the enemy in the Sikandarbagh, and
the naval detachment dragged their
guns into position before the Shah
Najaf.
A solid shot from the enemy struck
a naval ammunition wagon, exploding
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fingered, but living and dead were re-
morselessly cast together into the pit.
The horror OF It, With HaveIock
barely a score of miles away!
Scattered like chaff before the wind,
the followers of Mana dispersed be
fore the onslaught of the avengers;
and upon the afternoon following the
battle, the negro Hall and group Of
his bluejacket shipmates heard the
horrible story as related above, from
the lips OF half-caste woman CON
vert who spoke English fiuently Hall
and his friends gazed upon the floor
of the death-chamber, fully two
inches deep with blood and gore and
tufts of hair They noted tulwar
gashes in the walls the height of a
woman's neck Then they turned
aSay, sick at heart, but swore to be
avenged.
Forty-hve miles away another des-
perate siege was being conducted. At
Lucknow, one OF the most beautiful
cities in India, handful of English
men We're holding out against the
fierce hordes of Sepoys who hemmed
them in on every side.
Havelock set out for Lucknow with
the greater part Of his force, leaving
Cawnpore in charge Of Colonel Neill.
Among others left behind under Neill
were Hall and some of his shipmates.
Quite naturally they were furious at
not being permitted to accompany the
first relief, but 1t was necessary to
leave guns and men to hold Gavin
pore.
They relieved the monotony of their
situation and vented part of their
pent-up vengeance by forcing a num-
Der of high-caste Brahmin prisoners
to clean up the blood-stained death
chamber Men were set over them
with whips to see that they did not
shirk their task The Brahmins. thus
tremendously defiled. were then hang.
ed and buried in a ditch
As the world knows. General Have
lock and his command reached the