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HELPED BURN CONSTITUTION.
Capt. Frederick C. Brecht Dead at
Home in Baltimore.

BALTIMORE. October 3O.-An officer
Of the Constitution, which was burned
by, it's own crew just before the battle
between the Merrimac and the Monitor.
died last Monday night. He was Capt.
Frederick c. Brecht. and succumbed to
Brights disease at his home. 927 North
Broadway At the battle of the two
iron-clads in Hampton roads he was
within range of the shells. and was fond
of narrating the events of the great
fight. which marked the beginning of a
new era in marine warfare.
Capt. Brecht served under Farragut
and Porter. When the Merrimac swept
all before it In Hampton roads Capt
Brecht was transferred to the Constitu-
ton. where he was installed as lieuten-
ant He was one Of the last to leave the
burning ship after helping to set it
ablaze and with a number of other naval
officers he put off from the craft while
the battle was raging between the two
iron-clads. and was later taken aboard
the Monitor after the battle.
Nearly every man who was in the boat
with Capt. Brecht is dead. After the
civil war he remained in the navy for
several years When he was retired he
returned to this city. where he married
Miss Clara Tuston.
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RICHARD WARREN GUILTY.
Convicted by Jury Of Murder il
Second Degree.

Guilty as indicted was the verdict re-
turned today by the jury in Criminal
Court No. before Justice Stafford in the
case Of Richard Warren. colored. charged
with murder in the second degree.
Warren, who was placed on trial yes
terday, was charged with causing the
death of George F. Reed, colored, by
slashing his throat with razor in South
Washington, May I last.
Witnesses told of a quarrel between
Reed and Warren at the latter's house.
where several persons were assembled
drinking beer and whisky. Warren
claimed he was protecting himself when
he used the razor.
Attorneys j. C. Foster and N. C. Tur-
mage represented the defendant. Assist.
ant United States Attorney Proctor con-
Quoted the prosecution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-30

The northern storm Of Monday and
tuesday has passed to the eastward of
hudson bay. and light local rains have
fallen from the lake region eastward.
Ihere was no other precipitation of con-
sequence east of the Rocky mountains.
but to the westward there were local
SHOWS and rains.
1t is decidedly warmer in the middle At
iant1c states and New England and colder
to the westward with freezing tempera-
Mississippi valleys.
The weather will be colder and gen.
orally fair tonight and Thursday over the
eastern half Of the country, with freezing
temperature tonight in the upper lake
and western lower lake region.
The winds along the New England
coast will be moderate southwest to west;
on the middle Atlantic coast moderate
west and northwest; on the south Allan
tic coast light to moderate northwest and
moderate northeast and east.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
The following were the readings Of
the thermometer and barometer at the
weather bureau for the twentyfour
Observation-Disclosures pm. 10;
pm. So; IL midnight. 81: today, 4
am. So; am. 81; IL noon. "A; 2 pm.
~; Maximum. 7s. at pm. today;
Nv, dt OOV D. H., lOudy.
Temperature same date last year
Maximum. 81; minimum, 38.
Barometer-Yesterd 4 pm, 1898;
8 pm. 2S98: IL midnight. 1897; to-
day, am, 299S; s am, 1902; y noon,
1890; 2 pm. 1895.
Condition of the Water.
Temperature and condition Of water at
8 am: Great Falls-Temperature, g.;
condition, Z. Dalecarlia reservoir-Tem-
perature 66; condition at north con4ec-
ton, Z; condition at south connection, Z.
Tide Tables.
Today-LOw tide, SOB am. and 4:JO
pm; high tide, 1O:47 am. and 11:1O pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide. 5:5S am. and $50
p.m.; high tide, II 40 am.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose 6:25 am; sun sets 500
pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises 6:26 am.
Moon-Rises $40 pm. today.
The City Lights.
Public electric arc and electric incan-
descent lamps are lighted fifteen minutes
after sunset and extinguished forty-f1ve
minutes before sunrise: public gas lamps
lighted twenty minutes after sunset and
rise Naphtha lighting service has been
discontinued.
Up-River Waters.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HARPERS FERRY, w. Va, October
3O-Potomac and Shenandoah rivers both
clear this morning.
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GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, October 3O-Flour-Quiet
and easier
Wheat-The weakness in foreign cables,
continued liberal northwest receipts,
liquidation through commission houses
and stop-loss selling put wheat down y
early. December, 9SAa9S3s.
Pork-Barely steady.
Beef-Strong.
Lard-Weak; middle west, 11.O5a11.15
Raw sugar-Steady; muscovado, 50 test,
3.55; centrifugal. 96 test, 4O5; molasses,
50 test. $50: refined steady
Petroleum-Steady.
Enthusiastically.
Hay-Quiet
Hides-Firm
Leather-Firm
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TO HEAR ISSUES DISCUSSED.
Political Addresses Scheduled fo
Howard University Students.

For the enlightenment of the stu
dents Of Howard University who are
going home to vote in the national
election a public meeting is to be held
In the university chapel Friday after
noon at o'clock. when speakers repre-
senting the republican. democratic and
progressive parties will deliver ad-
dresses. A talk on woman's suffrage
will be given also.
About 800 of the students at the uni
versity are going to their homes to
vote. and the faculty has arranged for
a holiday beginning Saturday to per-
init the students to make the trip
without interfering with their class
standing at the university.
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CHICAGO CATTLE MARKET.

CHICAGO, October 30. Cattle e Re-
ceipts, 1900 head: market steady to a
shade lower: beeves. 5.30a11.00: Texas
steers. 4.35a5.65; western steers. 55Oa
1926; stockers and feeders. 4-25a7 so !:
cows and heifers. 2.70a7.25; calves, $50
a1O.5O.
Hogs-Receipts. $4,000 head: market
10 to Is lower; light. 7.00a775: mixed.
7.SJa7.S IS; heavy, 7.O0a7SJ; rough. 7.OOa
7.20: pigs. 4.25a6.S5: bulk Of sales. 7.45a
IT'S.
Sheep-Receipts, $4,000 head: market
steady; native, 3.40a4.50; western. 3.5Oa
40; yearlings. 4.50a5.65: lambs. native.
5.00a7.00; western, 5.25a700.
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Improvement Abroad Big Help
to Market Here.
CANADIAN FACIFlC RISES
Jumps More Than Three Points,
With Advances in Other Stocks.
SELLING CAUSES SETBACK
Virtually Ill of Advance Cancelled
and Some Issues Are
Driven Down.

NEW YORK, October 30.-Improve-
ment in the foreign markets resulted
in a sharp rebound in prices at the
opening here today. Canadian Pacific
rose more than points, with one-point
gains in the coppers. Smelling, Union
and Northern Pacific, and Lehigh VAL
ley. Rock Island preferred, Reading and
Steel Initial dealings in Reading and
Steel were fairly large, and there were
indications of urgent short covering
throughout the active list.
Initial prices were the highest Of the
first hour, prices failing steadily soon
after the opening. Reading. Lehigh VAL
lev Canadian Pacific and Amalgamated
receded a point, and some other gains
Uora affaca1
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NEW YORK CURB PRICES.
LONDON MARKET.

LONDON. October 3O-All sections of
the stock market opened strong and cheer
full today. The strength was due to a re-
port that Austria and Russia had reached
an agreement regarding the Balkans
Continental buying orders were numer-
Gus. and Canadian Pacific was a strong
feature with an advance of As points
Two small failures We're announced but
they had no effect
American securities opened firm. Trad
ing was active during the forenoon and
prices advanced on good buying. At noon
values ranged from 4 to l point above
Yesterdays New York closing
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DEATH OF DICK" DONOVAN.
Long. a Familiar Figure at Washing.
ton Base Ball Park.
"Dick" Donovan is dead.

Dick" Donovan is dead
"Dick," whose name really was Charles
P. Donovan. many years ago lost his
right leg in an accident. He lived at
141O v street, Anacostia. He was
stricken with epilepsy last night and
died at the Emergency Hospital.
He was one of the familiar figures
about National Base Ball Park. Atttred
in a suit of gray. leaning on clutches,
with a box Of chewing gum in one hand.
Donovan greeted the fans daily. Arrange
made.
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Washington Stock Exchange.

Sales-Regular call. II O'Clock noon:
Washington Railway and Electric As, 1000 at
S3es $1,000 at S:s5s. $1,000 at S3hs, $1,000 at
1885, 81. 600 at $685.. 81 600 at SSss.
Capital Traction. IL at 1871.
Washington Railway and Electric conn., % at
S9K q at S9N.
Washington Railway and Electric pfd.. 10 at
80. . at 80.
Mergenthaler. at 224%. at 224h. at 224h
at 224h, 10 at 2241a. 10 at 224h, 10 at 22i11
10 at 224h, at 224H. at 2241a. at 224A,
q at 224H, at 224h.
LanstOn, at 90.
United States Trust. at 140A.
Citizens Savings Bank. 10 at q, 10 at q.
GraphOphone COM. Is at 1917.
After call-WashingtOn Gas, D at S6A, at
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LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL. October 3O.-Cotton-Spot
N fair demand; prices firm: American
'niddling. fair. 6.1S: good middling, 6.54 !:
iniddling, 6.36: low middling, GIG; good
ordinary. 3-64; ordinary. 516. Sales, 5000
bales. of which 800 We're for speculation
and export. and included 400 American
Receipts. 2lOO0 bales. including 2O.9OO
american Futures opened quiet and
steady and closed steady. October. 6.I31a:
October aud November. 612; November
and December. 600; December and Janu-
cry. GOO; January and February, 6.OO,A
February and March. 500: March and
April. 6-O3: April and May. 6.O4; May and
June, 6,0512: June and July, 6O51h: July
and August. sos.
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FOREIGN BANKS.

LONDON, October SO-Bullion
amounting to f288.000 was taken into
the Bank of England on balance today
PARIS. October 30.-Three per cent
rentes. 80 francs TN centimes for the
account Exchange on London. 25
francs 23k centimes for checks. Pri-
vate rate Of discount, 3k per cent.
BERLIN. October 30.-Exchange on
London, 20 marks, 53h pfennigs for
checks.
Private rate Of discount, ~ per cent.
Money for the settlement. AZ per
cent.
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Burning Awning Calls Out Firemen.

A lighted cigarette carelessly thrown
writer Supply Company, 7O2 10th street
northwest, shortly after noon today. caus-
ed a fire which did about so damages.
The fire department was called to the
scene on an. alarm, and extinguished the
fire.
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BALTIMORE.

Special Dispatch to The Star
BALTIMORE. Md. October 3O-Wheat-
Weak; spot No. 2 red. 1907; spot No. 2
red western. 1O21k; October No red,
1.O0k; November No. > red, 1O0A; De-
cember No. red, 1.027s; January No 2
red. LOS; steamer No. red, %; receipts,
1886 bushels: exports. 10000 bushels;
southern by sample 96a9s; southern on
grade, 1.01.
Corn-Easier; spot contract, 81; year,
5!%; January. 5J1s; receipts, 2,44O BUSH
els; exports. 800 bushels.
Oats-Steady: No. white, 4Oa4Ok !;
standard white. 3sAa3S1s: No. 3 white,
37Aa3712. Receipts. 266, 1876 bushels; ex-
ports 649.11S bushels
Rye-Ffrm; No. western domestic, SOa
81; receipts, 1877 bushels.
Hay-Steady. unchanged
Grain freights-Firm; steam to Liver
pool. per bushel. unchanged: Cork for or
ders, per quarter, aunchanged
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Prices Advance, Then Drop.

Europe advices to the effect that Aus
tria and Russia had reached an agree
ment concerning the Balkan situation
caused a violent uprush of prices at the
opening here today. Canadian Pacific
rose more than three points, with numer-
Gus one-point gains elsewhere. The ad-
vance was met by heavy selling, how
ever. which soon reduced gains to nomi-
nal proportions.
Later the selling gathered greater
force. canceling virtually all the rise and
sending some issues. notably Steel, Smelt-
ing and st. Paul, under yesterdays low
est Public interest was more negligible
than usual, fact attributed to the ap-
preaching election. Bonds were easy
Lower Prices at Noon Hour.
Lower prices were touched in the noon
hour. Reading losing three points. and
extreme weakness being shown by Steel,
Amalgamated and other leaders. The de-
cline was gradual, with few signs of
support
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A Difference.

From Judge. --f--
valuables?"
He took 'em: but darned Il expert
enced any relief!'
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LOCAL FINANCIAL NEWS.

A sale of a twenty-five share lot of
common stock at 49h, at
the meeting of the stock exchange today.
made the record of the highest price paid
for this stock since the recent movement
began in the recovery from the levels
that followed the suspension Of the divi-
dend The bid for another similar lot
rose to 1915, but the asking price re-
manned firm at so.
Washington Railway common stock
sold for S9A and S9H, two lots, and then
the Did was S9A and the asking price.
80. which was the selling price yester-
day.
twenty-five shares Of the preferred
stock sold at the current figure of 30 and
was still for sale. but as it was not
taken. the asking price dropped an eighth
of a point.
The trading in Capital Traction stock
was slight, and when the supporter of the
stock wanted to know IL there was
jOO-share lot for sale, all that he elected
was the information that the block of
200 shares recently bought could be had
at the purchase price.
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WEATHER..
Fair and Colder Tonight and Thurs
day; Northwest Winds,

For the District of Columbia, fair.
colder tonight and Thursday: light to
moderate winds. becoming northwest.
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GAzED INTO CRYSTAL
AND PREDICTED DEATH
State Introduces Globe and
Life Insurance Policies in
LindIoff Case at Chicago.

CHICAGO. October 3O.-A solid globe
Of crystal glass. nearly foot in diam
eter. into whose mysterious depths Mrs.
Louisa Lindlon gazed, and then an
nounced. according to witnesses, the
forthcoming deaths of members of her
family. was introduced in evidence to-
day by the state in the trial of the
woman on charges of poisoning her If
teen-year-old son Arthur. Life insurance
policies on other members of her family
the manner of whose deaths is being
disclosed as corrollary evidence by the
state, also were introduced.
No evidence Heretofore produced was
of as intense interest to the crowded
courtroom as this globe. through whose
colorless depths she asserted came mes
sages from her familiar spirits Like
wise. no bit of evidence has so appeared
to disturb the complaisance with which
she has regarded the witnesses.
The mysterious crystal appeared during
the testimony of Police Capt. Bernard
Baer, who went with Coroner Hoffman
to question Mrs. Lindloff' soon after a
question as to the cause of Arthur's death
was raised.
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CHICAGO.

CHICAGO. October 3O-Accord between
Russia and Austria concerning the Bal
kans forced the wheat market TODAY to q
lower level. Bearish temper was in
creased by the fattering crop outlook in
Argentina. Opening figures showed KaA
to 70 decline. December started at 911s to
BIZ, loss Of q to IS, and fell to 9lAa
91ss. Corn turned heavy on account of
general commission selling. Support was
ped 3ss to 561s on few transactions.
December opened 1saA to sak lower at
521ls to 52as. and sagged to 52a521s.
Big receipts weakened oats. Deem
Der started unchanged to n off at 80
TO ~ ". and seemed disposed to keen
within those limits
Active investment demand gave
strength to provisions. First sales
ranged from ~ decline to 22k ad-
pork. 10.52h for lard and 987h to $50
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Identifies Mineral Poison.

The captain identified a small box of
mineral poison which was found in the
defendants home. 1t was of the same
nature as the poison discovered in the
viscera of four deceased relatives of the
woman.
Mrs. Lindloff said she was willing to
answer questions" said the captain.
'She told us she was a seeress and that
she read the future in the big glass ball
and gave electrical treatments to pa
tients. The boy, she said, had been sick
nearly two weeks before his. death.
she told us. when we questioned her
about the deaths of other relatives and
of the amounts of insurance each car
RED
Then the crystal globe. for which Mrs.
LindlOff has said she paid $500, was
brought out of black velvet-lined box
and set upon a black sandalwood base.
The aroma of the sandalwood became
apparent in the room and it seemed to
arouse the defendant to a nervous con-
dition.
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LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL. October 3O.-Closing-
Wheat-Spot steady; No. Manitoba,
IS 1kd. Futures steady; October, rs
SID: December, Is Sd; March, IS I'd
Corn-Spot easy; new American kiln
dried. IS; futures easy; October, 5s 4d
December, So 2.d.
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Bar silver easy. 29d per
Money. J%.a4 per cent
Th'. rate of discount in the open market for
short bills Is 13- 1Ga41s per cent
The rate of discount in the open market for
shree-montb bills is 1516a43s per cent.
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CIRCUIT COURT NO. 2-Justice Wright
Thomas agt. Anacostia and Potomac
River Railroad Company: on trial: plain
tiffs attorneys. Wilton ]. Lambert and
r. HI. Yeatman; defendants attorneys, ].
j. Darlington and George p. Hoover
Lucas agt. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company: motion for new trial filed;
plaintiffs attorneys, E. H. Jackson and
d. w. Baker; defendants attorneys,
Hamilton, Yerkes & Hamilton.
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The World of Finance and Trade.
Washington; New York; London.
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.


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GENERAL.

Seven murderers were taken from
their cells in Sing Sing prison Aug. 70,
and put to death in the electric chair.
The courts will be called upon to
pass on the will of Col. John Jacob
Astor, who went down with the Ii
tanic.
The first negro to become a Jew, as
far as records go, is Rufus l.. Perry,
lawyer of Brooklyn, who has embraced
the Jewish religion.
Three members of the Illinois guard
were shot near Camp Lincoln at
Springfield, by a farmer. None of the
men was injured seriously.
The highest price ever paid for cat
tie in the United States was reached
in Chicago when beef on the hoof
brought $10.40 per hundred
In gratitude for having restored his
appetite. Diamond Jim Brady of New
York has given 100000 to the Johns
Hopkins hospital at Baltimore.
Both the Catholic and Protestant
clergy of Baltimore are engaged in
crusade against the tight-fitting skirts
and low-neck waists worn by women.
In over a score of cities, big and lit
tie, in the United States, government
by commission supplanting the pres
ent mayor and council system is now
in effect.
A $4,000 appropriation for federal
aid to the Americans driven out of
Mexico into Arizona was passed by the
Senate. The refugees are now being
supported by private subscription.
Crazed because of jealousy, Stephen
Kostoff of Brockton, Mass, twenty
two years old, murdered his wife and
their two-months-old baby in their
nome. He then blew out his brains.
The exports of coal from the United
States during 1911, according to the
United States Geological Survey, were
17,432,753 long tons, valued at $751;
593,274, compared with 13.S05,S66 long
tens valued at s41,470,792, in 1910. The
exports in 1911 comprised 3,553,999
long tons of anthracite, valued at $751;
O93, ,2S5, and 13,S7S.754 long tons of BIZ
luminous coal, valued at S34, ,499,9S9.
The untitled tonnage of the Uniten
States Steel Corporation July 81 totals
5,957 ,079 tons. This Is an increase of
149.733 tons over the tonnage of June
20 last and compares with 3,5S4,0S5
tons July 81, 1911.
Tunneling through the ceiling of "a
basement room, then cutting a hole
through the five-eighths inch steel
floor of the vault of a bank in the
lower part of New York. n band of rob-
bers obtained $4,000 in bills of large
denominations but missed s3,000,000
more IN cash concealed in an inner
safe.