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Evening star., 1914-04-20
"woMPA" CREATES INTEREST.
Little Mexican Animal Seen in Tree
Attracts Attention.

The appearance of a genuine Mexican
'wampa" Rodentia Brinckmanensis) Sat
urday afternoon in one of the young
trees recently transplanted on Pennsyl-
vania avenue near ID street southeast
caused a genuine sensation. The little
animal is about the size of large squir-
rel and resembles a big rat. Its fur.
which is soft as down and rather long. is
black leading to white tip at the tail.
Quite a large crowd was attracted by
it's appearance. ard it was not until late
in the evening that DR.. 1. c. Gamble
fixed the identity of the little animal and
securely Gagged him. The '.wompa." while
Indigenous to Mexico, is said to abound in
large numbers in southwestern Texas,
along the river border, but it is believed
this is the first of the species to appear
in this latitude. 1t is supposed the ami
mar is pet that has gotten away. His
appearance is said to be harbinger Of
spring.
Evening star., 1914-04-20
Baumgardt Closes.

B. r. Baumgardt closed his first and
unusually successful season at the Be
lasco with two lectures yeste: day after
noon and evening, which he repeated in
Difference to general request.
In his analysis of Napoleon Bona
parte," subject to which he gave years
of study and travel, the speaker declared
that Napoleon is not yet dead. The SOL
dier and his campaigns may fade into the
background of the ages, but the states
man and lberator will live forever.
France. bankrupt at the close Of the rev
olution. is now SO rich that nine families
out of ten own their own homes-not in
cluding Paris, which is "an American
city set down in France" The nation
owes its prosperity to Napoleon. Her
plowed fields will perpetuate his immor-
tality long after his campaigns are mere
ly known on history's page. Mr.. Baum
gardt received a recall at the lecture 8
close. An Evening With the Stars"
was repeated in the afternoon.
Evening star., 1914-04-20
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, Apri! 2n.-Flou1 Quiet:
spring patents, 4.50a4.65: winter straishts.
4.2Oa435: winter patents 4.40a4.75; spring
clears, 4.O0a4.1J; extra No. winter. 3.o5a
3.T5: extra No. = winter, 335a3.5O Kan
sas straights, 4.1Oa4.20.
Wheat covering on the colder weather
west and war scare put wheat up this
morning. July. 9o.
Pork-Steady: mess. 22.15a23.25; family,
24.O0a26GO: short clears. 19.T5a21.jU.
Beef-Quiet; mess. 17.00a1sGo; family.
13.OOa2OOO.
Lard-Firm: middle west. 104oalO.5o.
Petroleum-Steady: refined. New York,
bulk. 5.::5: barrels. SO: cases, ll.23.
Molasses = Steady: New Orleans open
kettle, :s1a55
Hay-Steady; standard. 100; No. l. 10;
No. =. 92llaa35; No 3. s0aS5.
Hides-steady: Bogota. 2sl.a29,2; Cen
trail America, 2S1a.
Leather-Firm: hemiock. firsts, 30; sec
onds, 28a29.
Raw sugar-Steady; molasses, 2.33; cen
trifugal, 2.9S; refined, steady; cut loaf.
5.O5; crushed. 4.9J: mold A. 4.6O; cubes,
AIS: powdered, 4.05: powdered, 400; fine
granuiated, 800: diamond A, $50; con-
fectioners' A, $50; No. /, 3.65. e..
Evening star., 1914-04-20
EXCISE BOARD IN SESSION.
Saloon License Transfer Applications
Being Considered.

With Gen. Robert c. Smith presiding
as chairman. the excise board held its
first hearing on saloon license transfer
application today. following the recent
reorganization of the board and the
swearing in as d member of Cotter T.
Bride to succeed Joseph c. Sheehy, re-
signed. The application considered was
that of Benjamin f. Rosenthal for a
transfer from 247 X street southwest to
60 E street northwest.
Protest by residents in the neighbor-
hood Of the proposed new location was
made on the ground that the saloon
would be located in a building which is
used as an apartment house. A. E. Shoe
maker. attorney for the Anti-Saloon
League, also entered a protest claiming
that E street. which Is one of the main
travelways from Union station to the
business section of the city, has under
gone a moral cleaning up, and that it
would be a backward step to permit an
other saloon to be located on this thor
oughfare. The board reserved decision.
Evening star., 1914-04-20
Commerce Department Changes.

The Department of Commerce has an
nounced the following changes in it's
personnel:
Charles H. Becker. clerk at $1,40O in
the bureau of the census, has been trans
ferred to special agent in the bureau of
corporations
In the bureau of standards the tenn
porary appointments of William B. Alex
ander as junior laboratory helper at $3.50
at Northampton, Pa, and Eugene II.
Stobbe as mechancian at $500 have been
terminated; James E. Howard, engineer
physicist at S.. $50. has been transferred
to the interstate commerce commission; /;
Solomon W. Stubblefield, fireman at $72O,
has resigned and Eugene !. Harding has
been PROBATIONARY appointed as clerk at
S720.
Richard J.. kephart has been tempo
rarily appointed as plate printers helper
at 500 in she coast and geodetic survey.
Evening star., 1914-04-20
KANSAS FIRE INSURANCE
LAW IS CONSTITUTIONAL
Right of Government to Regulate
Rates Upheld by Supreme
Court Decision.

The right of government to regulate
insurance rates was settled once and for
all today by the Supreme Court upholding
as constitutional the Kansas fire insur-
ance law of 1909. Chief Justice White
and Justice Vandevanter and Lamar dis
sented. claiming that insurance was a
private contract with which the state had
no right to interfere.
Justice Lamar in announcing the dis
sentina opinion declared with vehem-
ence that the decision upheld the prin-
ciple that the state had the right to fix
the price Of every article on the mar
kets.
Justice Lamar said surely the decision
would uphold the power Of the state
to-fix the price of newspapers and
magazines. Tor they of all things were
impressed with public interest.
Differs From Ordinary Business.
Justice McKenna for the majority of
the court. declared insurance had become
SO clothed with a public interest as to
distinguish insurance from ordinary busi-
ness and to classify it with the business
Of running hotel a grain elevator or a
railroad.
In dissenting. Justice Lamar gave ut
terance to the first expression from the
court as to a minimum wage scale.
Labor in the aggregate affects many
and so might, be said to be impressed
today holds Is equivalent to public
use" said Justice Lamar. "If so We
might have in the United States under
this decision a law fixing wages. Just
as they had in England in the fourteenth
and fifteenth centuries
Evening star., 1914-04-20
Interpretation of the Law.

The Interpretation placed on the act by
Mr.. Syme is that it does not affect lesiti-
mate clubs whose poolroums are fire.
quented only by its members and not
operated for gain. The authorities. he
said, intend TO prosecute only those clubs
that are organized principally for the
playing of billiards and pool. These will
be required to obtain licenses and to
close between the hours of l and am
The license fee for a pool table or bill
lard table is $l2 a year. while the pen
atty for conducting a poolroom without
a license is fine OF $50 or three months
Imprisonment, or both. The penalty for
keeping a poolroom open on Sunday dur
ing the hours sale Of liquor is prohibited
is fine of rot less than s. nor more
than $40.
Evening star., 1914-04-20
WEATHER..
Partly Cloudy snd Colder Tonight
Tuesday Fair.

| For the District of Columbia and Mary
land partly cloudy and colder tonight.
tuesday fair. moderate shifting. winds.
The western disturbance now overles
! the Atlantic states. but the unsettled
weather conditions still extend westward
20 the Mississippi river, and there were
some snow in the upper lake region and
the upper Mississippi valley Another
pronounced disturbance from the north
Pacific is approaching Manitoba. but fair
weather has prevailed over the west. ex
| cept that local rains fell from the Da-
kotas westward. There is no high pres
sure area of consequence.
II Is much cooler over the eastern hair
| of the country. except along the north
Atlantic coast. with freezing tempe: ature
as far south as central Indiana In the
west temperatures are rising rapidly. ex-
cept in the Pacific states and Montana.
With the exception of rains or SHOWS
tonight in New England and the north
ern portion of the middle Atlantic states
the weather will be generally fair tonight
and Tuesday over the eastern half of
| the country
1t will be colder tonight in the At
iantlc states, colder Tuesday in New
England and warmer in the central val
! ieys. the upper lake region and the east
/ gulf states.
| There will be along the New England
and middle Atlantic coasts moderate to
fresh shifting Winds. on the south At
lantic coast moderate, mostly west and
northwest winds; On the east gulf coast
gentle shifting breezes.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
| The following were the readings of
the thermometer and barometer at the
weather bureau for the tw.nty-four
! hours beginning at > pm yesterday:
Thermometer-Yest pm, so
pm. IS; II midnight, IS; today !
| am. 65: s am, 55: 12 noon. SO: 2 pm,
sc. Maximum, 80. at pm yesterday
minimum. 56 at 6 am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Ma ximum. SO: minimum, 40.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 4 pm. 1880;
8 pm. 20. 80: IL midnight, 1916: today.
1855; 2 pm, 1856.
Tide Tables.
| -Today-Low tide. 11:I0 am. and IL 33
pm; high tide. 4:37 am and 5:1O pm
! Tomorrow-Low tide, 1905 a.m.; high
tide. o:25 am and pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-sun rose $40 am; sun sets
, Tomorrow-Sun rises 517 am: sun
! sets, 6:42 pm.
Moon-Rises 3:12 am
| Condition of the Water.
| Temperature and condition of water at
t am: Great Falis-Temperature. "a;
condition, 10. Dalecarlia reservoir
| Temperature. DO: condition ut north con-
nection. 100: condition at south connSc-
ton. 81. Georgetown distributing reser-
voir-Temperature, SO; condition at in
fluent gatehouse. 30; condition at effiu-
ent gatehouse, 80.
Weather in Various Cities.
Evening star., 1914-04-20
COTTON MARKETS.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK. April 2O.-The cotton mar
ket vas unsettled ear : today. with the
trade evidently nervous over the situa-
ton in Mexico. The opening was steady
at unchanged prices to an advance of two
points. There was considerable liquida-
tion. however. and active months soon
sold > 10 : net lower. At this level the
market steadied on buying by spot and
foreign houses. and prices rallied with
active months selling about :; to ) points
net higher before the end of the first
hour.
Futures opened steady; May. IT, 10: July,
1...; August. 11.3>. October. H.: De-
cember. ll.iI: January, 11.i..
Favorable weather forecasts failed to
inspire any selling OF consequence and
the market ruled firm during the middle
Of the day with active months about :
to 10 points net higher on covering land
bull support encouraged by Sundays
heavy rains in the central belt.
Evening star., 1914-04-20
ARE NOT TO BE MOLESTED
UNLESS RUN FOR PROFIT
District Only After Unlicensed Pool
rooms Which Are Operated
for Gain.

Clubs provided with billiard and pool
tables which are not operated for profit
are not TO be molested in the crusade to
be wased by the District authorities
against unlicensed pootrooms. This was
the announcement today of Corporation
Counsel Conrad H. Syme. The law pro-
vides that no person or persons may oper-
ate a pool table or billiard table for
profit or gain without a license therefor,
and that the rooms in which such tables
are placed may not be opened on Sun
days during the hours saloons are re-
ouired to be Closed.
Evening star., 1914-04-20
Memoranda.
CLAIMS $35, 900 DAMAGES.
Oliver H. Smith, Jr., Sues Z. R
Comnanv for Loss of Foot.

oliver H. Smith. jr.. q former brake
man in the employ of the Washington
southern Railroad Company. today filed
suit against the corporation under the
employers liability act to recover
s35. 900 damage for alleged personal
injury.
He alleges that by reason of the
negligent shifting of cars in Potomac
wards March 23 last he was caught be-
tween two cars while coupling them and
sustained injury which required one of
his feet to be amputat ted. He 10 repre-
scented by Attorneys J. s. Easby-Smith
and Ralph B. Fleharty.
Evening star., 1914-04-20
NEW YORK CURB PRICES.
MARITIME AGAINST REPEAL.
Heart and Conscience Prevent Hin
Voting Otherwise.

In submitting to the Senate today petit
tions from citizens of Trenton, N j.,
protesting against repeal of toll exemp-
ton for American ships in the Panama
canal. Senator MARITIME declared that he
would vote against the repeal bill.
II want to be with the President" said
Senator MARITIME, but only when my
heart and conscience bid me. l do not
believe that the President wants me or
any one man with him without heart and
without conscience"
Evening star., 1914-04-20
PROBE TO START MONDAY.
Date for Investigation Into Wrigh,
Impeachment Case Set.

Investigation into the Impeachment
case against Judge Wright of the Su-
preme Court OF the District of Columbia
will start Monday next. according to a
decision of the subcommittee in charge
OF the proceeding this afternoon.
Chairman Mccoy will serve notice on
every one interested in the case that
hearings probably will begin In the
caucus room Of the House ONCE building
at 10 o'clock Monday morning.
Evening star., 1914-04-20
Building Permits.

Building permits We're issued today to
the following:
j. Q. Thompson. to repair store at 1923
Avon place northwest; estimated cost.
Sl,3U0.
D. H Oertly. to repair dwelling at 12l1
Quincy street northeast: estimated cost.
s4O.
Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis
Electric Railroad Company. to repair
freight shed at 18th and Fl streets north
east, estimated cost, s21I.
Charles Bauman. to repair dwelling at
1917 NJ street southeast. estimated cost.
$50
Evening star., 1914-04-20
BALTIMORE.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch 10 the Staf.
BALTIMORE. Nd, April 2o.-wheat-
Quiet but firmer Spot No. red, 97l !;
spot No. > red western, 91i4; April No.
= red, 9714; May No. . red, 97ia; July
No. . red. ss7s; August No. red. ssl=.
Receipts 81 bushels.
Corn-Quiet and easy. Spot contract
7O1a: April 7O1a. Receipts. 9.2O7 bushels.
Southern white corn. %; southern yellow
corn, -13h
Oats-Quiet. Standard white, "A: No 3
white. 4314. Receipts, 1896 bushels.
kye-Dull: No. western export. esq;
No. western domestic, 69a70: receipts,
., I69 bushels.
Hay-Firm: No. l timothy, 19OOa10. 80:
No. 1 clover mixed, 1900.
Grain freights-Steady; steam to Liver
pool. per bushel, I'D, April; picked ports,
per quarter, Is It'd, April.
Evening star., 1914-04-20
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

. CHICAGO. April 70. = Hogs = Receipts
e',o0D head; slow. Bull of sales. s.e0aS IO
light. s.:a'as1,: mixed. s.J0aS.1J: heavy
t25as'2i2; rough. S.2JaS..3: pigs. 1.2Ja
& ~.
Cattle - Receipts. 1890 head: lower
Geeves. s0,a?.i5; Texas steers. 1.15as. 20
stockers and feeders. J.J9aS.0-: cows and
heiferS. 36,aS.Go: calves. 6.UOaS.1J.
Sheep-Receipts, 23.O'D head slow Ma
tives. ..40a7.0o: yearlings. 5.S0aT 60;
lambs. native. 6.25aS.3O.
Evening star., 1914-04-20
Further Cut in Crude Oil.

PITTSBURGH, April 2O.-A further cut
in the price Of crude oil was announced
here today with the opening Of the mar
ket, 10 cents barrel being taken off
Pennsylvania crude. making the price
so2O. Other prices were: Mercer black,
81 so: New Castle. M.SO: Corning, $50:
Cabell. SlS7> Somerset. Sl.D The reduc-
ton for each grade is 10 cents barrel,
except Corning, which dropped % cents,
and Somerset cents.
Evening star., 1914-04-20
Socialists Conviction Reversed.

TRENTON, n. J., April 2O.-The New
Jersey supreme court today reversed the
conviction Of Alexander Scott, a socialist
editor of Paterson. for encouraging hos
tility and opposition to the government
during the silk strike there some time
ago. Scott was sent to state prison for
from one to fifteen years. The supreme
court found the indictment faulty in that
the hostility was not against any and all
governments as charged in the indictment
Evening star., 1914-04-20
Held on Charge of HOUSEKEEPING

Harrison Brown, colored, was held for
the action of the grand jury in $500 bonds
today In the Police court on a charge of
housebreaking. Brown Is accused Of
breaking into the home of David Peko-
sky, 1901 C street southeast. and stealing
81, a watch and a knife. He denied the
charge.
Evening star., 1914-04-20
Kate Parella Asks Limited Divorce.

Kate Parella filed suit for a limited
divorce today from Antonio Parella,
charging cruelty and declaring she is
afraid Of him. They were married, Sep
tember 20, 1905. and have five children.
The wife asks alimony and requests that
her husband be not allowed to leave the
Jurisdiction. She is represented by At
torneys James A. O'Shea and John T.
Sacks.
Evening star., 1914-04-20
Refuses to Review Cases,

The United States Supreme Court TODAY
declined to review the action of the Ohio
federal courts in finding the Hooking
Valley Railroad Company s42O for ac-
cepting unsecured notes from the Sunday
Creek Company, a coal shipper, for
freight while requiring secured notes
from others. 1t also refused to review
the $4,000 fine imposed on the coal COM
pany.
Evening star., 1914-04-20
Find Opportunity in Mexican
Crisis to Make Another
Drive.
SOME OF THE LEADERS
SUFFER IN RAIDING
Southern Pacific Convertibles Drop
to o-Reading at Lowest of
Year-Sell Off at Close.

NEW YORK. April 2o.-Prices gave
way in all quarters of the stock
market at the opening today. While
thc market betrayed no nervousness
over the acute stage reached in the
Mexican crIsls. il gave the bears an OPP
iortunity o max" another drive such as
they aunched repeatedly and with in
variable success last week.
Quotations for United States govern
rncnt bonds on call were Is to 3. lower.
with The Is most affected.
The decline in these bonds was innu-
enced by the possibility of new issue
OF governments in case of hostihties with
Mexico
Evening star., 1914-04-20
Americans Lower in London.

American stocks were lowered frac-
tionally in London. which tended to de-
press This market Most of the active
stoc.is We're forced down about a point
on active selling during the first fifteen
minutes.
Th,. market met with good support on
the decline and prices quickly hardened.
with full recovery in some cases.
Oil stocks were especially heavy.
Low prices for the current decline were
established in some of the popular trad
ing shares before the market began TO
SWIM upward definitely.
President Wilson's expression OF hope
that 4 conflict with Mexico might be
averted helped in the rally which set in
after the opening break.
By noon the market had fully recovered.
with small net gains in some cases. Con-
tintet ,uts in crude oil prices caused
stocsls iii the Standard Oil group to break
sharply on the curb and affected petro-
leum shares on the stock exchange.
Bonds Are Irregular.
There was heavy trading in some of
the speculative bonds. Blocks of $500 to
s2n0.a0o of Southern Pacific eonvertibles.
o. which S1,0po.ooo changed hands in fif-
teen INMATES. forced down the price to
!ao. Recently this issue was quoted at
I,s;i.
Rock Island collaterals rose points
and then lost their gain.
Bonds were irregular.
Aggressive tactics by the bears brought
about another brief downward movement
in which Reading touched the years low
estS
Union Pacific. Southern Pacific. Steel
and Erie also were prompt in the decline.
Evening star., 1914-04-20
Arrested on Charge Of. Theft.

George Stephen Hall. twenty-eight
years old. who is charged with the
theft of s135 from the Autocraft Com
pany of Cambridge, Mass, was arrested
this morning by Detective Burlingame.
His arrest was requested by John r.
Murray, acting chief of police of Cam
bridge. Hall. who is a machinist and
automobile repairer. consented to re-
turn to Cambridge without demanding
a hearing
Evening star., 1914-04-20
NEW ORLEANS.

NEW ORLEANS April 2o-Promise
Of improved weather stimulated selling
Of cotton around the opening. First
prices were To points down. and
half an hour after the opening the
trading months were TO ) points down
Futures opened steady. May. 1855
asked: July 1853: August. I2.a2: Oc-
tober. ll.J2; December. 11.50
The market later acted oversold At
noon prices were . to ) points net
higher.
Evening star., 1914-04-20
LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL, April 2o.-Cotton-Spot
easier: good middling. 1.s%: midding, 1.31;
low middlins. 6.?l: good ordinary. 6.o5;
ordinary J.:.I: sales 100 bales: specuia-
ton and export. 200: receipts. 31.o13.
Futures quiet: April, 6.a3i:. April and
May. I.Stia: May and June. 6.S2is: July
and August. 6.d1t.: August and Septem-
h-r 6.'&:i@; October and November.
t.2az; december and January. S.lJI.:
January and February. G1J1..
Evening star., 1914-04-20
NEW YORK RnHns.
Compensation Necessary for Canal.

The United States Supreme Court today
held that the state of Louisiana is not
entitled to the possession and manage
ment of the Caronde!et canal. Bayou. st.
John and Old Basin. a waterway. at New
Orleans without compensation
Evening star., 1914-04-20
LIVERPOOL.
LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL April 2O.-Wheat-Spot
quiet No. red western winter. Is Sd:
No. Manitoba, IS Sd: No. ., IS I'd; No.
3. IS Id. Futures firm: May, IS 1ssd;
July. Is 1;sd; October, IS sd.
Corn-Spot quiet: American mixed, IS
I'd: La Plata futures firm, July. IS JSld;
September, As 61sd.
Flour-Winter patents. 2ss 3D.
Hops in London (Pacific COAST. E4a95
l5s.
Evening star., 1914-04-20
FOREIGN BOURSES.

PARIS April 20.-t'nsavorable Mexican
reports caused weakness ON the bourse
today. Rentes. nj francs -, ce.ltimes
Exchange On London =, francs tj'a CEN
times: private discount. "a per cent.
BERLIN, April @.-The bourse was
vnsik todsr owing to :he Mexican situa- :
lion and the Illness of Emperor Francis
Joseph. Exchanges on London. - marks
6ia pfennigs. Money, 2ss; private dis
count, 2in.
Evening star., 1914-04-20

1t PAYS to read the want columns of
The Star. Hundreds of situations are
filled through them.
Evening star., 1914-04-20
LOCAL STOCK EXCHANGE.

Sales-Regular call. L. o'clock noon:
Washington Railway As $500 At So.
Norfolk and Washington Steamboat 5s $1O0
at 1051a
Capital Traction. at 1O1. 3 at Ioi.
Washington Railway pfd. 70 ut ST.
Washington Loan and Trust, 10 nt .3,.
After call-Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
IS. 81 600 at los.
Capital Traction. 10 at 1ol.
Washington Gas 30 S.
Farmers and Mechanics National Bank. 4 at
Evening star., 1914-04-20

The Harrisonburg CVa.) Hebrew con-
Gregation has decided to build q new
synagogue. $4,000 having been voted for
that purpose.
Evening star., 1914-04-20

As result of a fight at a negro bail
i'm the hall at Bowie. Md, Thomas Gray.
about thirty years old. is dead. ana
Ernest Hall said to be responsible for
his death, has disappeared.
Evening star., 1914-04-20
LONDON MARKET.

LONDON. April 20.-The Mexican
situation caused uneasiness on the
stocH exchange today and effectually
checked business.
In the early trading home securities
Joined in the setback. which was led
by Mexican rails and fractions with
losses of from l to points. Foreign
bonds. home rails and consols recovered
later. but dropped again on reports of
TIE Illness of Emperor Francis Joseph
and closed uncertain. The Paris favor
ties were weak
American securities moved irregular
" within narrow limits in the fore
noon. In the early afternoon the mar
Eet developed weak tone, and prices
feH = to :, below parity. Then Wall
street buying brought about recovery
and made the closing steady
Money was in quiet dema nd and dis
ra-ps