Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-08

All through early FEBRUARY nalI century
ago the United States was drifting toward
War with Spain, but few, If any,
More Ships persons, realized the fact. The
Tocuho Star for the I'd of the month
announced: 1.-THE Secretary Of
the Navy has selected another warship to make
a friendly visit to Cuba. This is the cruiser
Montgomery. now at Key West. Under recent
orders from the department, she will start
tomorrow on cruise in Cuban waters, stopping
first at Matanzas on the north coast of the
island, not very far from Havana, where she
will remain few days to exchange courtesies
with the port officials after which she will
proceed around the east end of the island and
visit the port of Santiago on the southern
coast of Cuba It has been over three years
since the flag of the United States has been
displayed in these ports on an Amrican man-of-
war, and the incident may have been more
than ordinary significance to the inhabitants"
Meanwhile, the armored cruiser Brooklyn and
the eunboat Nashville we're in the Caribbean.
Bishop John H. Vincent of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, explained dispatch from
Topeka, Kans.. published bysThe
Anti Gum Star on February 8, 1898, ap-
Crusade peaed to a congregation assem-
bed in the Midwest city to join
with him in drive on chewing gum. The GUS
tom of chewing on pieces of chicle, he argued,
INSTEAD of doing any good whatever was en-
couragng dangerous habits among the people"
Children especially, the bishop urged should
be denied gum as "a sort of self-indulgence
that should be restrained" Youngsters who
were educated against gum-chewing could
be easier trained to resist other habits" The
bishop was particularly sharp in his reference
to young girls who were gummers.
Paragraphs quoted from the San Francisco
Call gave readers of The Star on February 4,
1893 the latest information
Echo OF the on the famous Durrant case
n Members of Emanuel Baptist
Church lover which there
has been so much notoriety," 1t was declared,
wished ito forget the whole affair and to
remove with as little stir as possible everything
that may bring the case again to mind. Talk
of leveling the tower is growing but money
is not so plentiful as to allow Of this being
done at once ." The pastor (however) can
now return to his work with some assurance
that he will not be molested. For months past
he has been practically under a guard. for ne
believed that there was a plan to make away
with him. that some day he would be found
dead, letter telling of his suicide in his pocket
and another confessing his guilt OF the oenry
murders That his fears were not without
foundation was not wanting confirmation.
He has been referred to as the enemy OF the
Durrants throughout the whole trial, and all
that followed it, but he claims that the nrst
assault was made upon him by the prisoner
and his friends, and that after such SHOW OF
antagonism he could not offer to assist tnenl.
Eventually, many different persons confessed
to the crimes for which Durrant was executed
but the only traceable rumor that the clergy
man was one of these self-accusers Is that
mentioned in a rewriting of the whole sordid
story by Edward McQuade In 1882.