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t- 2" tmt Fair tonight and' Saturday; warmu; 1'ghk vaxiabJe winds, becoming southerly. 'V WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1899. Number 1085. Price One Cent. S-inyT froe mm MOST OBSERVE TREATY OBLIGATIONS President McKinley Calls a Halt Regarding Samoa.

Anglo-American Alliance Against German Aggressions. KiKhtH In the Inlaudx to Be Maintained nt Any Coat Im- Xiortnut Cabinet Germany wil be informed in polite, but emphatic terms that the United States will maintain treaty rights and American interests in the Samoan Islands, and in order to do so will proceed to any extent that may become necetsary. Tills, in effect, was the important conclusion reached at the Cabinet meeting; today at one of its longest sessions, which continued from 11 o'clock in the forenoon until about 1:30 o'clock this afternoon. In this maintenance of treaty rights against German aggressions. America and Great Britain will be one, and the fi-it step in the much-talked-of Anglo-American alliance will have been taken.

The serious Samoan situation was discussed at length by President McKinley and the Cabinet members with the above result. At the close of the meeting threa Cabinet officers stated that an impoitmt conclusion had been reached in reference to the Sarccan difficulty and one of them said frankly that further German aggressions would not be tolerated. They, however, declined to discuss the details of the conclusion reached. The Administration will keep in close touch with Rear Admiral Dewey, and important naval oiders may be expected. Secretary Hay has received from the United States consul at Auckland, New Zealand, official dispatches, which, he says, fully confirm the press reports concerning the Samoan situation.

The shibboleth of the Cabinet officers Is that Germany must live up to the treaty "between England, Germany and the United States. MATAAPA MADE KIXK IX IRREGULAR MANNER LACKED PROPER Germany Atrnitinir OflleinI Advlees Ueforc Deciding- Upuu a I'lan of Aclicn. Berlin, Jan. 20. Dispatches received by the government from the German consul nt Apia do not explain why Mataafa was chosen king without confirmation by Chief Justice Chambers, or why Herr Itaffel, the president of the municipal council, closed the supreme court.

The Berlin government considers the press reports incorrect, and awaits further advices to decide on a line of action. This, it is said, will be without prejudice to the other powers. It is believed here that Germany's position in the affair will be found to be correct. TAX SCHEDULES DISCUSSED. Slattern Concerning the "West India i'oxHeKKiniin Talked Over.

The Porto Rican tariff schedule was considered at the Cabinet meeting and it was stated that it ill be signed by President McKinley this evening. Secretary Gage was directed to establish the relative value between Spanish and American money now in circulation in the new possessions upon a basis which was agreed upon. The pending bill to Increase the regular army was also discussed and Secretary Alger maintained that the army should consist-of not less than 100,000 men. Another subject considered was the future government of Cuba and its customs duties. HE.

YOUNG'S SUCCESSOR. Mr. McICInlcy trcci! to Apolnt Hep-rexentative Harrow. The rumor of the appointment of Representative Samuel J. Barrows as successor to the late John Russell Young, Librarian of Congress, was substantiated this morning by a statement made by an official of the Executive Department to the effect that Mr.

Barrows was strongly recommended by the entire Massachusetts Congressional delegation. His name has already been presented to Mr. McKinley by Secretary Long, and since then Senators Hoar and Lodge and a number of representatives from Massachusetts have called to urge his apointment. Representative Barrett saw the President this morning in reference to the matter, and said afterward that he assured Mr. Barrows would receive the appointment.

Mr. Barrows, who now represents the Tenth Massachusetts district in Congress, is said to possess the qualifications desired for the position, having spent the greater part of his life in the pursuit of literature. President McKinley will soon appoint a successor to the late Nelson Dingier, as a member of the Joint High Commission. The name of James A. Tawney.

of the Firet Minnesota district, has been highly recommended by the members of Congress from the Northwestern part of the United States. In view of the Xct that the Joint High Commission's work is so nearly completed and that It will probably adjourn before another fortnight there was some question as to the advisability or necessity of appointing a successor to Mr. Dingley. The President has concluded, however, that the Commission should not go out of existence without a full American representation, and that the treaty which the Commission Is now completing should be signed by an equal number of Commissioners from both countries. The President receives a number of telegrams every day relative to the appointment of various persons, the majority of which advocate Representative Tawney.

Auditor Youngblood, of the Interior Department, and Chairman Vaughan, of the Alabama Republican committee, were at the White House early this morning, and brought -with them Capt. David D. Shelby, to introduce to President McKinley. Captain Shelby, who is a lawyer when not a Eoldier, is being pushed for the position of circuit judge of the Sixth district, which includes a number of Southern States. Senator Piatt and Representative Alexander, of Buffalo, X.

were In conference with, the President for about twenty minutes before the Cabinet convened. They saw Mr. McKinley in reference to the appointment of a postmeasler for the city of Buffalo, but would not disclose the name of the person suggested for the position. In the matter of the Advisory Council to be appointed for the West Indies, it developed this morning that it would also be expected to act as a bureau, established for the purpose of granting franchises to different persons and corporations In Porto Rico and Cuba. The President will not consider the matter of the personnel of the commission for some time to come, as he is anxious to conclude several matters of great importance, which he now has under consideration, before entering into any new problems.

Senators Cullom, Har ris. Nelson, and Pritchard, were at me White House today as were Representatives Wadsworth. Russell, and Lawrence. These gentlemen were questioned as to the purpose of their visit, said they only called to pay their respects to the PresidenL HON. WARNER MILLER GIVES TESTIMONY MEMBER OF GRACE SYNDICATE I'nlcsH the Government AjjreeB to an Eciuitnule Adjustment.

He Sayn, There "Will Be 31 nek Trouble. The feature of the hearing before the House Commerce Committee this morning was the testimony of former Senator Warner Miller, once president of the Construction Company of the Maritime Canal Conipauy, and now a member of the Grace syndicate opposing it Mr. Miller gave a long explanation of his relations to the two companies, as serting that he had been asked to the Grace syndicate last spring and had made an eftort to secure an agreement by which the wealth of that syndizatc could be applied to the concession and plant of the Maritime Company, but had failed to do so. He had thereupon withdrawn from the Grace syndicate. Lcter, after that body had secured its concession, he had again been asked to join and had consented to do so.

He stated that the Grace syndicate stood ready to make an equitable agreement with the Government, and warned the committee that any attempt to ignore both that and the Maritime Company would cause al! sorts cf trouble. He, said that he assumed that the United States meant to deal fairly by Nicaragua, and not try to compel her by fcrce. The concessions were deliberate acts cf that government and to ignore them was to ignore Nicaragua. Mr. Cragin, who obtained the concession that bears his name, argued that the claim of the Maritime Company to an extension was absolutely new, and bad never been heard of in Nicaragua until recently.

He said that on October 9, if he had not secured his concession, the Maritime concession would have lapsed, and France or Germany might have stepped in, causing endless complications. THE SUNSET LIMITED WITH DISASTER RAILROAD WRECK IN TEXAS Accident to a Fakt Pullman Palace Car Train Several Persons Reported San Antonio, Jan. 20. The Sunset Limited, one cf the finest and fastest trains in America, was wrecked at daylight this morning near Lacoste Station, 23 miles west of here. Railroad officials are reticent, but it is reported that the engineer and several other persons were killed and twenty passengers injured.

A wrecking train with physicians has gone from here, and the injured will be brought to this city. The Sunset limited was composed entirely of Pullman palace cars, and stopped at only three stations in Texas. Its average speed through the State is CO miles an hour. MURDER IN BALTIMORE. Divorced "Wife ot the Victim Held Under Suspicion.

Baltimore, Jan. 20. Azariah Reckard was found dead at his home, 236 North Amity Street this morning, having been murdered last night. Two bullets had entered his head. His divorced wife, Glementine, is held on suspicion.

IRISH CATHOLIC COMPLAINTS. KcnncKiM to lie Allowed BcnelltM of University Education. London, Jan. 20. A memorial has been prepared for signature by the Roman Catholics of England for presentation to Salisbury, showing that the Roman Catholics of Ireland are cut off from the benefits of university education.

They ask that in the matter of higher education the "policy of the open door" shall be adopted in Ireland, and that some of the consideration shown for educating the Mohammedans in the Soudan bo extended to Christians in Ireland. THE RIPPER AT LARGE AGAIN. Women Axsanltcd at MueiiBter, a "Wcstphnlian Town. Cologne, Jan. 20.

The "Ripper" who has terrorized Cologne during the past two weeks has transferred operations to the town of Muenster, in Westphalia. Two young women were stabbed there last night, an effort being made in both cases to disembowel. One cf the victims is in a serious condition. The "Ripper" had informed the Muenster police of his coming. DESERTION ALLEGED.

Elizabeth I. AUiHon Sues for Divorce From Lewis E. Allison. Elizabeth I. Allison, today filed a petition for divorce from her husband, Lewis Edward Allison, alleging desertion and nonsupport as the grounds.

Mrs. Allison states in her complaint that she was married to the defendant in this city in 1887, and that he lived with her until 1891, when he abandoned her and his child. She asks for alimony and the exclusiva custodv of the child. Now a Paper Bos: Combine. Chicago, Jan.

20. The Western Paper Box Manufacturers' Association, which is holding its annual meeting at the Grand Pacific Hotel, is considering plans for effecting a combination or all makers of strawboard and paper boxes. The next meeting will be held June 1 at Put-iu-Bay, Ohio. Hotel Fire In Cincinnati. Cincinnati, Jan.

20. The Sherwood Hotel was completely destroyed by fire, which started at 3M5 a. m. The guests were hustled half-clothed from the building, but thero were no fatalities. There were forty-nine persons in the house.

The loss is about The "Yoncuttte. Norfolk, Jan. 20. It is said at the navy yard that the auxiliary cruiser Yo-semlte, being fitted out for a trip to Manila and Guam, will probably be ready to sail next Capt. -R.

p. Leary, United States Navy, recently ordered to assume the duties naral governor of Guam, will sail on the Yosemlte. Student' OhIjm Dissolved. Berlin, Jan. 20.

The government has disolvcd all clubs composed of Polish students in the Prussian universities. Union Veterans' Union Concert. Department of the Potomac, Union Veterans' Union, will Eire a concert tomorrow night at Maccabec Temple. A ATE POISONED BEEF Former Surgeon Daly's Analy sis of the Pood. Testifies Before the Alger Relief Commission.

Made Soup From. Army 3Xent-' nnd Found Boric nnd Salicylic Acid. VJMed as Preservatives. Dr. William H.

Daly, who has become famous by reason of the charges made by him that beef furnished to American troops in Porto Rico was preserved by means of poisonous chemicals, appeared as a witness before the Alger Relief Commission today. Mr. Daly told his story in a straightforward manner. Sometimes he was a little uncertain as to dates, but he was positive as to facts. He saw a quarter of beef exposed at Tampa which, it was given out, was "embalmed" beef.

He ate a piece of It and was made sick. He saw much beef like this in Porto Rico. The beef which the Commissary Department supplied to the transport Panama, conveying convalescents from Porto Rico to Newport News, was full of poison. He made toup from this beef, and upon analyzing it found boric and salicylic acid. He preserved a portion of the precipitate of this soup, and it will be analyzed in the presence of the Commission by a Government chemist this afternoon.

Dr. Daly testified that he was in the military service of the United States during the civil war and the Spanish-American war. He became an officer during the late war on May 28, and his resignation was accepted on January 18. In the late war his rank was major and chief surgeon of volunteers. He served at Tampa and in Porto Rico.

His service was as a staff officer of the Commanding General of the Army, and was detached on several occasions for special duty. He had known General Miles previous to the outbreak of the war. His active service terminated about October 18 last. He was strlckeu with malaria and was granted leave. He was at Tampa from June 1 until the time of the sailing of the Cuban expedition, and observed the preparations made in fitting out this expedition.

General Beaver handed the witness a copy ot the report alleged to have been made by him against beef to the Assistant Adjutant General. He said he was willing to stand by that report. A Voluntary lleport. He dictated the report to his stenographer at about the time his active srvlcs with the army closed. He said that Vie Teport was a voluntary one and was net instigated by anybody lu th Army or elsewhere.

Dr. Daly had no knoal.d,Te aC sny circular suggesting that he a report. He was strongly under thu impression that he made observations at Pones to General Jfiles similar to those contained in his report. At Ponce he had charge of the Spanish hospital. His duties were varied.

One day he was correcting the sanitary condition of a hospital, and the next day he was making an examination of the water supply. He performed evey duty that he was ordered to parform. His conversation with General Miles was, be thought, between the 1st and lCtn of August. The witness insisted that the report was not suggested by General Miles. Dr.

Daly recalled that at Tampa. Colonel Weston called his attention to a quarter of beef which he snid had been hanging in the warm and moist air for seventy-two hours without putrlfying. The impression was left upon his mind that this quarter was part of the army beef. He had not heard that this was "process" beef prepared as an experiment by an inventor whose, name is Powell. He cut away a small piece of this meat and put it in his pocket.

He noticed that the flies, though they would light on men's hands and faces, they would avoid this particular piece of beef. He cooked and ate the sample of beef he had cut from the exposed quarter. It did not taste like natural beef, though it was not bad. Later he was attacked by a burning sensation in the stomach and by extreme nausea. Xnuxcating Food.

After getting to Ponce, he stopped one day at a stream, near which was a picket. Some of the men were cooking pieces of meat. The nausea come back to him. He observed this meat at several camps and in the hospital. This beef lacked the rich taste of meat cured by refrigeration alone.

He did not know that Col. Weston had declined the proposition of Inventor Powell to supply the army with this process beer. He said that it was his belief that the meat he ato was preserved in boric acid and other chemicals. He had used this same preparation once in preserving elk meat during a hunting trip in the Rocky Mountains. -He ate part of the elk thus treated and became ill.

It affected him just as the beef at Tampa did. Poison to tlic System. The witness said that boric acid was a combination of boron and oxygen. It was not a safe thing to be used internally. Salicylic acid was made from crude carbolic acid.

Its effect upon the human system was bad. It was thenost loathsome and nauseous medicine known. It destroyed the patient's indigestion. He thought that this acid was used in the meat he ate Tampa. He did not know what the destination of the experimental quarter was.

He made no investigation of beef in Porto Rico with a view to determining the source whence it came. It was his understanding that the objectionable beef he observed in Porto Rico was transport or refrigerated beef. Once he had been ordered to attend some sick officers on a transport. He saw a butcher stripped to the waist. This man was plunging his bare arm into the quarters of putrid beef that ho might find sound portions.

The ship on which he saw this was, ho thought, the City of Chester. He was not positive about the name of the ship. The understanding of the witness was that the beef contracts called for the preservation of the beef for seventy-two hours out of the refrigerator. The contract requires that beef shall withstand exposure for twenty-four hours. Dr.

Daly thought this was an extreme limit for the endurance of meat that for weeks had been subjected to very low temperature. The witness said that the beef on the Panama was procured by Captain Irvine. He got about 2,000 pounds of meat" -at Ponce, and after some difficulty got 11 1-2 of ice. This meat had a peculiar odor. He had the beer laid, on the ice, and later had it packed in the ice.

A ward of convalescents adjoined the ice chamber, and there was an outburst of indignation against the stench. He analyzed some soup made from a sample at this meat and found boric and salicylic acid. The soup was made on the Panama and the analysis was made at Pittsburg. He thought that Captain Irvine had secured this meat at the commissary depot at Ponce. He rehearsed the story of the board of survey on the Panama, which ordered that fifteen hundred pounds of the condemned beef be thrown overboard.

The ship left Port Porto Rico on Septem ber 5, tie board was organized on S3p- temner anu tne was cast la th3 sea on September 7. At the timo of the convening of t'ae board he had no strong belief that the meat had been chemically treated. Netting was said about chemical treatment en board ship. It was his impression that the beef on the Panama was brought down the refrigerator ship Manitoba, which was at Ponce when, the Panama sailed. Analysis to Be Made.

Surgeon Daly said that he had a pait ot the precipitate from the poisoned soup and proposed that he make an experiment with it before the Commission. Dr. Conner objected tOjtbls, saying that he would rather that the experiment should be conducted by a-Government chemist. It was concluded that the precipitate should remain in the possession of the witness after being sealed in the, presence of the till this afternoon, when the. experiment will be made by Professor Clark chemist of the Geological Survey.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO W. H. HENNING KNOCKED DOWN AND RUN OVER George Killeen, a Contractor, Snid to He Hesiionsilile The Victim in it Critical Condition. W. H.

Hennlng, aged 64 years, lies in a critical condition at his home, 15 Third Street northwest, as the result of nn accident at A Street and Maryland Avenue northeast, on last Wednesday afternoon. Henning is employed at the St. James Hotel, and on Wednesday afternoon, as was his custom, started to walk home. When he reached Maryland Avenue and A Street northeast, he was knocked down and run over by buggy, but is unable to glvo any particulars of the accident. The only witnesses to the affair were several newsboys, who were standing on the corner.

One or them stated to a Times reporter this that the accident was due entirely to the carelessness of the driver Mr. Hennlng was making his way along A Street northeast, and when he reached Maryland Avenuo a buggy was seen coming down the street. The man in the vehicle, he said, drove headlong into the old man. knocking him down, both wheels passing over his head and arms. The boys say that they rushed out and grabbed the horse.

One of the boys asked the driver his name, and wus handed a card bearing the name of "George Killeen, contractor, 3327 Street northwest." it Henning was taken to' his -home, where, after an examination, it was found that he had sustained serious Internal injuries and was threatened with concussion of the brain. A Times reporter visited the home of the injured man this morning and learned that he was slightly better, although he continues to spit large quantities of blood. Mrs. Henning stated thai the man who ran over her husband had not called to Inquire after his condition, and had shown no concern whatever. George Killeen, when seen, by a Times reporter today, said thaihevas driving near the corner of A Street and Maryland Avenue northeast on Wednesday afternoon, and was close to the curb, when a man walked from the middle of the street toward the curb near which he was driving.

The man was reading a newspaper and was not looking where he was going. Mr. Killeen stated that he shouted to him and endeavored to stop h'is horse, but could not do so before the, man had walked against the shafts of Ills buggy. The force ot the collision knocked the man to the street Mr. Killeen said that he stopped bis horse as soon as he could and went back to the man, who was lying on the pavement.

Together with John Fitzpatrick, who lives at 1216 Duncan Street northeast, and Henry "Wells, who lives at 612 Street, he assisted the man Into his buggy and started to take him to a drug store, where he could get medical attention. He had driven but a short distance, when the man jumped from the buggy and walked away. From the fact that he was able to walk away Mr. Killeen did not think that he was Injured. NO TRACE OF CHEMICALS.

Secretary AVllson Hastens to Deny a. Cr.unetl Beef Bnmor. "The story to the effect that chemisis of this department who are examining samples of canned beef have found traces of chemicals therein is a lie." said Secretary of Agriculture Wilson this morning. "Such examinations are being made, it is true. Some of the samples were furnished by the War Department; others were bought in open market.

The chemists would have finished their work last Saturday but for the fact that some new samples were submitted which will occupy them another day or two. They have made no report as yet. I talked to them last Saturday, before the new." samples were submitted, and at that time I was told that no trace of any chemicals had been found." VOTE ON THE CANAL BILL. Effort 3Inde to Set o'clock for Final Action. Senator Frye, who has been absent from the Senate for several days, occupied the chair this morning.

Mr. Hoar presented le credentials of Henry Cabot Lodge, 're-elected to. succeed himself, his new term beginning March 4. Mr. Wellington offered a'bill and asked its reference to the Committee on the District of Columbia, authorizing the Maryland and Suburban Railra'y; Company to extend its lines into the District of Columbia, Mr.

Caffery offered a resolution requesting the President to furnish! the Senate with copies of any communications received bv the State Department from any representatives of the Philippine Islands, together with the number of inhabitants and territorial boundaries. Mr. Caffery asked immediate consideration for the resolution, hut Mr. Allison asked that it go over for ajday, which was ordered." Mr. Hansbrough made favorable report from the Committee on the District of Columbia on a bill relieving Margaretta Riehl from the alicif act.

5 Mr. Allison made an leffort to secure on agreement for a vote on the Nicaragua Canal bill at 3 o'clock todaj. Mr. Caffery, however, made objection, and said that although he objected ho thought a vote might be reached at thattime or before. Mr.

Allison then said net, should call up the Indian appropriation bill some time today, but he should not displace the canal bill. fr Governor Roosevelt Visits Xcvr Torlc Albany, N. Jan. 20. Governor Roo- Kovolt left for New York at 9:33 o'clock this morning intending to remain unlr" Sunuay auernoon.

ne auiumucu by Col. Treadwell, his nillitgry secretary. Marine Engineers' Association. The National -Marino Engineers' Beneficial Association officers this morning as follows riGeorge: tlhler, national president, Philadelphia; iFrank Jones, vice president, Sam? Francisco; George Grubb, Chicago, secreUryfJj Blanctard, Milwaukee, treasurer; advisory board, J. McG.

Sterritt, New Brady. Baltimore, and J. Brook'sfifFhlladclphla. The convention will adjonrjetomorrow. Flynn's Business 8tl ana Business, shorthand.

a yeir. THIRD BALLOT II PENNSYLVANIA Falling Off iii the Yotes for Senator. Qnay Scores Ninety-three and Jeuks Sixt'-nine. Mnny MemhcrK of the LeKinlntnre AhHcnt From the Joint KcHMlan. Deadlock Probable.

Harrisburg. Jan. 20. At noon today the house and senate met again in joint session and the third ballot for United States Senator was taken. The result was as follows: Quay, 93; Jenks, C9; Dalzcll, 14; Stone, Irvin, Stewart, Huff, Rice, Tubbs, Markel, Grow, Smith, Downing, 1.

There were 210 present, there being -12 aDsent ana pairea, maKing luu necessary to a choice on this ballot. There is "now every indication of a prolonged deadlock in the situation, which may in the end result in a compromise with Magee as the most prominent selection, by reason of his support of Quay up to this time. Senator Quay is said to have told a friend yesterday that he realized that he could not be elected. Many ot the members of the legislature have gone home to spend Sunday, which will account Tor the comparatively small vote today. LIBRARY BILL REPORTED FROM SENATE C03I3IITTEE A COMMISSION PROVIDED FOR Building: to Be Erected on Mount Vernon Square Competitive lie- sifrnx From Architects.

The bill to provide for the erection of a building for the Public Library in Mount Vernon Square with funds contributed by Mr. Andrew Carnegie was acted upon by the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia this morning, and was afterwards reported in the Senate by Mr. McMillan, it will be called up for Snal action as soon as poesiblc. The bill confers authority uron a commission to consist of the Commissionti-2 of the District, the officers in charge of public "buildlngi and grounds, and the president of the Board of Tru'tees the Public Library, to cause to be on Mount Vernon Square a building for the use of the Public Library, with fund3 to be contributed by Mr. Carnegie.

Tae bill provides that work must be commenced within twelve months after the passage cf the act and that the structure muit ba completed within three years. Competitive designs are to be received from ten architects cr Arm cf cf conspicuous ability, the com on to ba decided by the commission. The successful architect is to be employed as architect of the building. The construction of the building will be in charge of an officer of the Government whose experience qualifies him for the work. In addition to considering the Public Library building bill the committee this morning ordered favorable action on the following: A bill to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe buildings and parts thereof and for other purposes, introduced by Mr.

McMillan, December 7, 1S98, and referred to the committee. The bill to provide for the compulsory support of children by parents in the District of Columbia. The bill to amend the act entitled "An act to amend the criminal laws of the District of Columbia," approved July 1S9S. The bill for the relief-of Margaretta niehl, and the bill to exempt from taxation the property of the Y. M.

C. A. In the District. FAVORABLE REPORTS OX DISTRICT BILLS THE DOUGLASS MEMORIAL "Wnjron Ttoad From Roclc Creelc to Br I wood Property Owners Must Cat Down Weeds. The House District Committee today decided to report favorably three bills and to report a substitute for a fourth.

The three favorably acted upon are House bill 11439, incorporating Helen Douglass, William H. H. Hart. Francis J. Grimke, Wright Sewall, Edward A.

Clarke, their associates, and successors, under the name, style, and title of the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association. Another bill was House bill 1135S, which provides that a wagon road be constructed in the District of Columbia from the upper or northern extremity of Brightwood Avenue westwardly toward Rock Creek, across Rock Creek Park, with such bridge and approaches as may be necessary, and flora the southern or western side of said park to the upper or northeastern bend of the Daniels ltoad, the portion of said roadway outside of said park to be constructed by or under the authority of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and the portion of the same within said park to be constructed by or under the authority of the board of control of the Rock Creek Park. The third bill makes it the duty of the owner, occupant, or agent in charge of and land in the city cf "Washington, District of Columbia, or in the mere densely populated suburbs of the city to remove from such land any weeds thereon of four cr more inches in height within seyen days (Sundays and legal holidays excepted) after notice from the Health Officer of the District so to do. Failure to comply with such notice is punishable by a fine of not moro than 10 for each day the notice is not complied with. The weeds are said to be detrimental to health.

The bill to extend Twenty-second, and Decatur streets, through lots 41 and 42, of Phelps and Tuttle's subdivision of Connecticut Avenuo Heights, part of Widow's Mite, was reported with changes as to the methods of assessing damages and benefits. Colonel Sexton'tc Condition. Col. James E. Sexton, who Is ill at the Garfield Hospital, was reported as no better today.

At 2 o'clock this afternoon his physicians, after a lengthy consultation, stated that the sufferer's condition was alarmfng, but not necessarily serious. Senator Xelnon Speaks. At 12:30 o'clock Mr. Nelson of Minnesota took the floor In the Senate, to discuss the Vest resolutioa from tho expansion point of view. to Balitluiore and Heturn via B.

O. Saturday nnd Sunday, January 21 and" 22, good until following Monday. Tickets" good on all trains except. Royal jalJMt-em' SCULPTOR'S GIFT TO THE NEW PCBLIC LIBRARY BUST OF ANDREW CARNEGIE l'rofeasor Trentanove'H Timely Offer Acepted by the TrnMteeH Secretary Flint's Letter. Prof.

G. Trentanove, the distinguished sculptor, who is a personal frlsnd and admirer of Andrew Carnegie, has obtained that gentleman's consent to sit for a portrait bust which the artist has offered to the Public Library officials. The folo.v-Ing. is their letter of acceptance: Washington, D. Jan.

10, 1SS9. Dear Sit-in reply to jour liberal offer to present a heroic size bust of Andrew Carnegie to the Public Library, I am requested to communicate to you the grateful thanks of the trustees of the library for this beneficent gift of art, and trust that it may remain as a erpetual memorial of your public fpirit in tho magnificent buildinc "uhich will soon be erected. Very respectfully, WESTON FLINT, Librarian and Secretary ot the Board. Proftisor Trentanove, City. A HOME FOR AGED COLORED PEOPLE BILL FAVORABLY REPORTED Tlie Sum of One Hundred Thonxand Dollar Appropriated The Home to Be a.

National One. Tho House Committee on Military Affairs has reported favorably the Sanata bill establishing a home for aged and infirm colored people. The bill provides that the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, out of all moneys, "arrears of pay, and bounty which are due the estates of deceased colored soldiers who served in the late war, and which were In the hand3 of the Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau and have been repaid Jnto the Treasury, be appropriated for tne purpose of erecting a national memorial home for aged and infirm colored people and to aid in maintaining the inmates of the tne building for said home to be erccud in the District of Columbia upon the jands owned by the association known is 11i2 Home for and Infirm Co'ored Persons, a corporation duly incorporated under and by virtue of the incoipDration laws of the District of Columbia. It 13 provided that no money shall be fald to the association until the deed for the property shall have been approved by the Attorney General or the United States, and until the association shall have given good and sufficient bonJ, to be approved by the Attorney General, conditioned upon the faithful discharge- of their duties in the proper expenditure of the above-mentioned fund. All moneys, arrears of pay and bounty, and prize money, and other allowances that are due the estates of deceased colored soldiers wnb served in the late war are appropriated, to be invested as an endowment fund for the home, with tne exception of so much as may be held to pay eff all or any claims that may be proven against the fund.

All the States shall have the right to organize one or moro similar associations, and one or all ot their members can be members of the main association by complying with the requirements of the association and any such other association shall have the right to place in the institution or on the grounds of the institution any memorial of deceased colored soldiers cr representative colored men, providing that all such memorials axe in harmony with such institutions, by and with tho consent of the trustees of the home. RICHARD HARDING DAVD3 HI. Well-Ivnoirn Jnnrnullst SafTeriuc; From Cuban Fci cr, "New York, Jan. 20. Richard Harding Davis, the noveltist and war correspondent, is lying seriously ill at his home in this city.

He contracted fever while with the Fifth Army Corps at Santiago. GROPING IN DARK CORNERS. An Arrest Xot Expected in the Rromo Poison Case. New York, Jan. 20.

Captain McCIusky said this morning that he did not think there would be an arrest in the Adams poisoning case. William K. J. Kinsley, the handwriting expert, accompanied by his assistant, David X. Carvalho, called oa Captain Mc-Clusky this morning and held a long ta'k with him.

Neither McCIusky or Kinsley would say what their consultation had been about. The reports of Kinsley and of Professor Witthaus are looked fo-daily. PEANUT SYNDICATE TROUBLES. Advanccn nr.tes for the Ponnlnr Succulent Bean. Norfolk, Jan.

20. The heavily capitalized peanut combination, ex-Governor. Campbell, xif Ohio, attempted to form among the cleaners of these nuts, which constitute one of the mot important products of eastern Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, has to close up its options secured on many cf the mills of this section. This, It is said, is because several la-g2 Western concerns and the largest cf tne Virginia cleaners declined to consider the overtures of the trust. In view of tae collapse of the new enterprise, the rise in the price cf peanuts which has taken place in the last few days is little short of phenomenal.

A jump of one cent In the" best grades has startled the and the shorts in this city are somewhat demoralized, and are attempting to fUl their warehouses. THREW ACXD ON THE THIEr. Drue; Clerk Couldn't Kind HIk Ilevol cr. Knt a llottle "Was Handy. N'cw York, Jan.

20. A -'hurgTar early 5 yesterday morning was burned by su phu-ric acid while entering the drugstore of Frederick A. James, TOO Eighth Avenue, at Forty-fourth Street. Herbert Wiilmott, the prescription clerk, sleeps in the rear of tiie store. At 5 a.

m. he heard an unusvsal noise and saw the trapdoor that leatia into the cellar slowly rise. He also aw a man's face. He reached for hl. revolver and fqjnd it was not where iic supposed he "had placed it.

Something prompted him to throw a large bottle filled with su'phuric acid at the slowly rising trapdoor. There was a smothered exclamation of paia, and the door came down with a bang. Wiilmott ran to the front dcor and gave the alarm, but thief escaped. He had entered the hallway in the rear of the drugstore, and removed panels leading Into the cellar. A Pretty Little Itomnnee.

Newport News, Jan. 20. Charles Cooper Young, of Baltimore, a steward in the Josiah Simpson Hospital, and Miss Ella May Wobd, of Philadelphia, a nurse In the same institution, were married yesterday, thus consummating a pretty little romance which had its foundation in the association of the two young people In the humane work ot alleviating the sufferings of the unfortunate soldiers. Rev. Charles S.

Walkley, chaplain of the hospital, performed the ceremony, making a special trip to Newport News to secure from Barbam requisite authority to sol-'emnlze marriages In Virginia. APPROVED I THE PEE1EBT Commissary General Eagan. Absent jfrom His Office. Coustilts His Attorney Regarding the Coming Trial. SIttincn of the Court AVill IroDably; Be Open-Effort to Kmbarra.ts General Miles.

Commissary General Eagan did not make his appearance at the War Department today. When he was served with a copy of the order for his court-martial yesterday afternoon he understood that it meant he was constructively under arrest, and he therefore turned his department over to his first assistant. Lieut. Col. George B.

Davis. The latter officer was in charge today. His tenure as Acting: Commissary General of Subsistence will, however, be short lived, as Col. J. F.

"Weston will occupy General Eagan's official boots when he arrives here from New-York next Monday. Array officers today expressed the belief that General Eagan will never again officiate as Commissary General of Subsistence. They say he has reached the end cf his tether. General Eagan called upon his attorney-, A. S.

AVorthington. former District Attorney, this morning and furnished him with a copy cf the charges and specifications. This document embracer tw'o charges and fifteen specifications and is said to be drag-net in its nature and so tareiuuy worded and constructed that General Eagan, no matter how skillful his lawyers are. cannot escape througi it3 rneshes. Presidont McKinley today returned the original copy ot the charge3 and specifications to Secretary Alger endorsed "Approved," and they were placed in charge of Judge Advocate Lieber, to be held until the day of trial, which will probably be next Wednesday.

It was stated at the War Department today that the sittings of the court-martial may be held In parlors at the Ebbitt House, which will be more convenient for the distinguished officers who will compose the tribunal. War officials also say there is no reason why the trial shall not be open to the public. They cited the court-martial cases cf Captain Carter, Major Armes, and other famous military trials which were held with open doors and say the Eagan trial will also bs public. The mysterious return tc duty of Chief Clerk De Caindry, of General Eagan's office, who resigned several days ago. is being discussed by war officials.

De Caindrr declines to talk about his action. It was stated by an army officer this afternoon that when Gen. Miles is summoned as a witness before the court Eagan's attorneys will endeavor to extract from him some, statement or admission which will makQShlmthe subject of couit-murtiul on charges of conduct unbecoming, an officer and gentleman and perhapa one other. WEARY OF ATTEMPTING TO COjDIIT SOCIDE JOAITZ TRIALS OF A ROBBER! Ills Vnrlon Mean.H to nnlsn Life. Sow a.

Probable Penitentiary Inmate. Chicago, Jan. 20. Alfred Jackson, who robbed the safe or the First National Banfe of si.500 and dodged the police for fifteen, years, is a patient at the county hospital, his tenth attempt at suicide having only; slightly disabled him for a few days. Since committing the robbery Jackson has tried to freeze himself to death, drank a pint of potash, starved himself for three weeks, dosed himself with horse liniment, tried to contract pneumonia by laying his tody in ica water immediataly arter leaviag-an overheated room, tried to hang himself four times, and, to cap the climax, sent a bullet through his head.

The missile grazed his brain, but the would-be suicide will not die. He ha3 determined to stop attempting suicide and It possible have himself sent to the penitentiary. AWAITING OFTICIAL REPORTS. German Paper). Chary of Comment inic on Saraonn Complications.

Berlin, Jan. 20. The German press makes little comment on the disturbances at Samoa, as it is waiting for official advices on the situation. It is stated that Germany does not desire to gain control of the islands, but fears that the present trouble will lead to complications with the United States. COERCED BY THE CZAR, Troops Sent to Finland to Compel an Array Increase.

St. Petersburg, Jan. 20. As a result the threat of the Finnish Parliament not to vcte for an increase in the number of troops furnished the Russian army from Finland, the Czar sent three regiments to the Finnish capital and Parliament has agreed to pass the measures. The attitude of the Parliament was prompted'by the objection of the Fins to serve in the Russian army outside their own country.

SIORLEY DEFINES Calls It Allen Suneratition London, Jan. 20. The Hon. John Mor-ley, in a speech last night, replying to Mr. Chamberlain's speech on Wednesday, defined jingoism cs a belief that all possible territory must be acquired regardless of value or expense and irrespective ot the rights of others.

Jingoism, he declared, has no regard for the interests of peace and subordinates happiness and progress at home to- the greed for This alien superstition, said Mr. Morley, is tx national danger. ANXIOUS ABODT THE NEW YORK Sister Ship of the St. Paul ITchlnd Her S'cheilnle Time. Southampton, Jan.

20. Friends of passengers expected to arrive here by the American Line steamship New York, which left New York on January 1L iu place of the St. Paul, are anxious, aa thu New York Is now overdue. She has not been reported from any lookout station in the Channel. She carries a large number of passengers.

The New York was due to arrive hera on Wednesday. The weather at sea has been very rough for the past week. The agents of the line say the vessel will probably get in during the day, and that they have no fears for her safety. Try my coal. 5 bushcb $L00.

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