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a a a Fair until Monday; Colder tonight; Diminishing northwesterly winds. WEATHER PREDICTIONThe Evening Times NUMBER 1152. WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1899. PRICE ONE CENT. LAWTON ADVANCING AGAINST THE REBELS Expedition Against the Enemy South of Manila.

Fifteen Hundred Picked Men and Three Army Gunboats. Their Purpose to Clear the Shores of Laguna Lake of Insurgents gressive Campaign Planned. Manila, April p. General Lawton tonight began an advance the Filipino army south of Manila. upon His expedition consists of 1,500 picked men and three army gunboats, the Laguna de Bay, Napindan, and Oeste.

The trcops with him are selected Fourth Cavalry, the Fourteenth (regufrontanths. and the North Dakcta, Idaho, and Washington Volunteers. All these men are tried fighters, have been in any number of engagements and an aggressive campaign may be expected. Two mountain guns were taken along by the troops. General Lawton's first objective point is the southeast shore of the Laguna Lake.

The troops were loaded ed on caskoes, which taken in tow by the gunboats. The were journey up the Pasig River was marked only by the cheering of their comrades, who were left behind. The men were in excellent spirits and eager for the fray. CAVITE NAVAL STATION. Orders to Officers Who Will Have Charge of the Guard.

Orders have ban issued by General Heywood. commanding the Marine Corps, for a number of officers to report at the New York navy yard today to accompany the first detachment of a of 1,009 men that are to be sent for guard duty at the Cavite naval station. Between two and three hundred marine; end officers will sail within ten days direct for Manila to be followed by others as fast as transports can be secured. TO BE TRIED FOR MURDER. Case of William R.

Reed Will Begin Monday, William K. Reed, colored, will be put oil trial before Justice Clabaugh in Criminal Court No. 1, on Monday, for the murder of Elizabeth Logan, also colored, on September 4 last at the corner of Second and Streets southwest. Reed and the woman had lived on intimate terms for a long while. but for some reason she deserted him and went to reside with 2 man named Williams.

On the night of the murder, Reed was on his way to see the deceased when he found her. talking to Williams at the place mentioned. He approached them and speaking to the woman said: want to see you a minute." To this she replied: "I'm too busy to talk with you." Without further words Reed. it is alleged. stepped up to her and plunged a knife into her neck.

severing the innominate artery. The woman started to run but had not gone more than twenty yards when she fell and expired in few moments. The trial of George W. Horton, who killed Mrs. Annie Nicholson in Armory Park last June, is set for trial Monday April 17.

Sail Under Foreign Flags. Consul Robert P. Skinner, writes from Marseilles that during 1898, 153 ships left that place for United States ports, everyone of which sailed under a foreign flag. "In spite of the extensive and rapidly increasing commercial intercourse between Marseilles and American," he writes, "instead of American vessel owners interesting themselves in the trade. I learn that a proposed French company intends to look the United States for a large portion of Its capital." He thinks a successful American line can be established.

Suit for Partition. Sarah E. Wilson today filed suit against John B. Morgan, his wife, Carrie B. Morgan, and four others named as defendants, asking the court to appoint a trustee to sell certain property and divide the proceeds among the parties to the suit.

The property in question consists of lot No. 22 in square 367. part of lot No. 14 in square 620. and lot in square 620.

all of which is located near Pierce and First Streets northwest. To Prevent the Sale of Property. John Lynch today filed suit against Elon Woodward, James White and the Second Workingman's Building Association, a k- Ing for an accounting and that the defendants be restrained from disposing of eartain property mentioned in the bill of complaint until authorized by the court. The property in question, which is advertised by the defendants, Woodward and White, trustees, -is known as lots Nos. 3 and 4 in Wright's and Cox's subdivision of Mount Pleasant.

Naval Academy Cadets. Upwards of 100 young men from all sections of the country will appear at the Annapolis Naval Academy on May 15, for the cadet entrance examinations. Among these boys are five designated by the President under a special act of Congress, one of whom is a son of Captain Gridley, of the Olympia during the Manila Bay fight, and another a brother of Ensign Bagley, the first officer killed in the war. Invitation to the President. Col.

John N. Carter and General Shryock, of Baltimore, today invited the President to be present at the annual banquet of the International League of Press Clubs, to be given at Baltimore April 14. He will probably accept. Postmaster General Smith and Secretary Hay will both be present and respond to toasts. William H.

Romaine's Funeral. The funeral of William H. Romaine, the veteran theatrical doorkeeper, took p'ace this morning at 9 o'clock from St. Iatrick's Church. The edifice was crowded with friends of the deceased when the funeral cortege arrived.

Solemn high requiem mass was celebrated by Rev. Father Gloyd and the sermon preached by Dr. Stafford. The interment took place at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.

Alger Reaches San Juan. Secretary Alger is at San Juan. He reached there from Ponce by the Ingalls last night. He will be home the latter part of next week, it is said at the War Department. Arlington and Return on Sunday, 15e Through trains from st.

and Pa. ave. every haif-hour, in addition to the a regular service. Frank Libbey Company, Sixth Street and New York Avenue. READY TO PAY THE CLAIMS.

Northern Liberty Market Cases Be Closed Up. Arrangements have been completed by J. T. Petty, Auditor for the District of Columbia, to pay Northern Liberty Market claims. Congress at its a last sion appropriated $128,578.50, the amount recommended by James G.

Payne, Audito: for the Supreme Court of District ol Columbia, before whom the testimony in the claims was taken and by whom the allowances were made. These claims have engrossed official and public attention ever since the night of September 3, 1871, whea the. market was forcibly removed by the Board of Public Works to make street improvements. Auditor Petty announced this afternoon that all persons to whom allowances were made by the Auditor for the Supreme Court and Congress will ba paid next Wednesday. The pay-roll has been completed and is ready to be signed.

Auditor Petty requests that all claimants present themselves at his office in the District Building at 10 o'clock Monday morning and sign the pay rolls so that no time may be lost in banding out the checks on the following Wednesday. An allowance of $7,216.66 was made by Auditor Payne some time ago and paid in drawback certificates to the following persons: George Glorious, Arnold H. F. Holsten, Tim D. Daly, Theodore Barnes, Gustav E.

Rott, John J. Lightfoot, Thomas G. Hoover, $1,041.66. The exact amount of money on the pay rolls is $125,356.35. The amount yet under consideration by Auditor Payne and not placed on the pay rolls is $3,222.15, which would bring the total- up to $128,578.50, the amount of the Congressional appropriation.

The aggregate amount of the claims was $592.215. They were originally presented under the act of January 26, 1897. Auditor Payne was appalled by the gross extravagance of these demands and strenuously opposed their allowance. He advocated an amendment to the act. restricting the possible awards to reasonable limits.

The amendment was adopted July 19, 1897. and in accordance with its provisions Auditor Payne submitted his final audit last fall. The report of Auditor Payne in addition to the seven claims enumerated above and allowed in May, 1897, and seventy-three allowed in November last. included all the claims presented except those dismissed by counsel for the petitioners, And cases in which, after full opportunity, claimants failed to complete their proofs. STATIONS FOR YOUNG SAILORS.

Newport and Goat Island Starting Points for Possible Admirals. Newport, R. is to become the headquarters of the naval apprentice gystem, and, in order to provide adequate accommodations for the large increase allowed by the last Congress, additional barracks will be erected on Coaster's Island, with accommodations. including those now there, for over 1,000 boys. The work will be in charge of Captain F.

N. Dickens. Assistant Chief of the Navigation Bureau, who returned to Washington today from a trip to Newport, where he selected the location for the new building, which is to cost $125,000. Boys enlisted in the Middle West and on the Pacific Slope will be sent to the new station on Goat -Isiand, San Francisco Bay, for instruction. The present law authorizes 2,500 boys of the apprentice class.

NUMEROUS SITES OFFERED. Proposed Locations for the Manual Training High School. Proposals to sell a site for the proposed $100,000 manual training high school for the ninth, tenth, and eleventh public school divisions were opened at the District Building at neon today. Congress has appropriated $50,000 for the purchase of the site. A large number of bids were submitted today, most of them being in northeast Washington and in the vicinity of the present colcred high school at the intersection of Street and New York Avenue northwest.

The prices offered differed vastly, one person asking more than 000 for a lot near First and Street northwest. The proposals received were as follows: Fidelity Investment Company, lots 3 and 4. block 15, Blocmingdale; 14,634 square feet, at $1.15 per foot. H. R.

Howenstein, parts of original lot 2, and all of lots 14. 15. and 16, square 836: about 19,368 feet, at $1.25 a foot, or 210. Brice Lipscomb, original lot 4, square 555: about 14,000 feet, $28,000. R.

W. Walker Son. part of square'671, about 24.905 feet. 99 cents a foot; square east of 710, about 39,488 feet, 50 cents a foot, and part of square 671, about 20,576 feet. 74 cents a foot.

B. H. Warner lots 14, 15, and 16. block 4. and Linden Streets.

21,000 feet. $1.25 a foot, lots 156 to 165. square 855, about 19.800 feet, 80 cents a foot. L. M.

Saunders, ten lots on Street between North Capitol and First Streets, square 617, 80 cents a foot. Oscar M. Bryant, lots 49 to 55, square 510, 17.275 feet, $1.25 a foot, with improvements amounting to $6,318.75 additional. August Donath. parts of lots 1, 2.

and 3. and all of 6 to 10, square 886, 75,500 feet, $50,000. Allen C. Clark, lots 1 and 2 and 22. 23, and 24, square 780, $1.50 a foot, $24,710.

Thomas J. Fisher lots 92 to :00, square 555, 18,000 feet, $1 a foot. Eliza Bole Chambers, lots 7, 8, 9. and 10, square 963, 21,600 feet, 75 cents a foot. Columbia Investment Company, lots 22 to 28, and 32 to 40, square 937, 33,405 feet, 90 cents a foot.

George E. Johnson. lots 45 to 56, square 051. 21,690 feet, $1 a foot. Allison Nailor, three parcels in square 555, first one, 28,560 feet, second, 28,474 feet, $49,829.50, and third, 59,664 feet, $104,412.

Eugene R. Russell, lots 46 and 47, square 510. 80 cents a foot. Edwards Barnard, lots 7 and 8, square 554. 20.566 feet.

$1 a foot. H. L. Rust, lots 7 and 8, square 617, 75 cen'ts a foot. Ella F.

Cotter, lots 4 and 5, square 551, 60 cents a foot. G. H. Fickling, lots 20 to 24. square 553, 30.397 feet, 50 cents a foot, $15,198.50.

Beck Weller, lots 121 to 141, square 554, 34.000 feet, $1.10 a foot, and parts of original lots 22, 23 and 24, square 554, 748 feet, 85 cents a foot. Grace A. Dyson, lots 23, 24 and 25, square 870, $36,000. The Sheridan at Singapore. The following cablegram was received at the War Department this morning: Singapore, April S.

Adjutant General, Washington; Sail tomorrow seven; all well. SMITH. The foregoing refers to the transport Sheridan, which sailed from York February 19 with the Twelfth Infantry and headquarters, Companies and Seventeenth Infantry, 57 officers, 1,796 enlisted men, and 56 women and children. Lieut. Col.

J. H. Smith, Twelfth Infantry, commanding. She is en route for Manila. 81.25 To Baltimore and Re- $1.25 turn via Pennsylvania Railroad.

Tickets on sale Saturday and Sunday, April 6 and 9, good to return until Monday, April 10. All trains except Congressional Limited. Don't Miss Auction Sale of Ocean City, lots, at Sloan's, 1407 Wednesday, April 12, at 4:30 p. m. Clear.

No. 1 Spruce Pine- Dressed sides; 10 or 12 in. wide; half price of white pine. POWELL DESCRIBES HIS PROCESS BEEF Inventor. of the Secret servative on the Stand.

Tells of His Experiences With the Meat Packers. Experiments Made in Chicago and Florida-Relies on the Fumes of Burning Chemicals. Alexander B. Powell, of the Powell secret process for preserving fresh meat, whose name has figured prominently in the proceedings of the Alger Relief Commission and Beef Court of Enquiry, was a witness before the Beef Court today. He gave his residence as the Hotel Endicott, New York city, and his business as a deala er in meats and poultry.

He sold his produce to hotels, ships, etc. He bad used a process for preserving meat for the last six or eight years. When asked whether he supplied Florida hotels with process beef he refused to answer. He used his process habitually. He said it was a purifier, and saved allowing meat to be shipped cheaper.

His process was a secret and was not patented. He thought that it was not patentable. He denied that either boric or salicylic acid was used. It was not applied by arterial injection or immersion. It was done by fumigation.

He could "process" a carload of beef in half an hour. At first there would be an odor of sulphur, but that would blow off in hair an hour. The process communicated no foreign taste to the meat. He treated some beef at Chicago. It was obtained from Mr.

Conners, Armour's Eastern agent, and treated in Armour's cars near his packing, wrote house to at President Chicago. McKinley, to Charles P. Eagan, and to General Miles. He received no answer from General Miles. He submitted replies from the President and the Commissary General.

That from Eagan declined Mr. Powell's preparation. The letter to the President was referred to the Commissary Generai, who made reply stating that he would let the contract to a responsible bidder who would agree to deliver beef to the army in Cuba which would remain pure for seventy-two hours after the removal from cold storage. The witness stated that while in Chicago he stopped at the Morrison House, and was assisted in the work of processing the beef by a bell boy. Six carcasses were treated with the process.

Mr. Conners took one of the carcasses. The remaining five were shipped through to Tampa. At Tampa he was introduced to Colonel Weston, chief commissary, by Mr. Edwards, the Jacksonville representative of Armour Co.

Conners Paid His Fare. The witness testified that Mr. Conners paid his fare from New York to Chicago, that he might make an exhibit before the Armour people, and then paid his fare to Florida, that he might exhibit his process to the Government eflicers at Tampa. The witness testified to his interview with Colonel Weston. That officer said he could not consider the process proposition in an official way, but personally gave him an opportunity to exhibit his prepared on meat on the transports.

In view of the interest which Mr. Conners had taken in the matter, the w'iness agreed to permit Armour Co. to use the process, if that firm desired it. Armour Co. did not use it.

Under cross-examination by Major Lee, Mr. Powell said that his vas not an embalming process in the popular acceptance of that word. It was his opinion that his process would also preserve a dead human body, though he had not tried it. He said he was cognizant that a great many preservatives of fresh meat are used. He did not know what these processes were, as his a proces was the only one he used.

He said he had shipped meat and game to Count de Bary, who lives near Jacksonville. He said that any process would discolor the meat. His process would discolor it as little as possible, but any meat that had been treated by sousing in fluid or rubbing with powder, he could detect across the room. At Tampa, he kept one carcass and it again. He wanted to see "how another touching up" would affect it.

He knew that Colonel Wetson telegraphed to the Commissary General that the Powell process was a success. It was a very long report. Used Burning Chemienls. He insisted that he relied on the power of burning chemicals in a confined space to preserve meat. Armour, if he got the Government contract for supplying meat in Cuba.

was to have the privilege of using this process. Mr. Conners knew all about the success of the experiments at Tampa, before the bids were opened. The Armour Company did not get the Cuban contract. Mr.

Powell was to be paid 50 cents a hundred weight or $200 a carload for meat treated. He insisted that his process was only a "purifier." He bad eaten a great deal of the process beef himself. His process would change the appearance of the meat. It bleached the fat and darkened the surface of the meat for about the thickness of a sheet of ordinary paper. He had frozen meat which he kept for six or eight months.

Refrigerated meat shipped in cars sometimes "sweated" and took on a slippery appearance, though the meat migfiht be pure and sweet. The process meat which he shipped to Florida went down in open barrels Jacksonville by the Clyde Line. This required five days on the average. From Jacksonville his meat was distributed. Cold storage meat when about to decompose would appear dark and slimy.

je this condition it ought not to be used. When mold appeared on the surface of beef it was an indication that no fermentation was going on within. This mold trimmed away the meat would be found to be sweet. The witness said he had presented the merits of his process to Swift Co. He "processed" a rib and sent it to Swift Co.

at their request, but never heard from that firm afterwards. When he first wrote to Swift Co. he referred them to Mr. Conners who knew of the experiments with the beef. He also referred them to the report of Colonel Weston.

Swift Letter. The letter from Swift Co. stated that that firm would be glad to receive a sample of the process beef and if the experiment proved successful they would like to correspond with the inventor. He did not communicate with Swift Co. until after the fall of Santiago.

The witnes said that in his opinion no beef preserved only by cold storage could endure seventy-two hours during the summer in Cuba. If the beef were frozen it might endure twelve to twenty hours. At this point Col. George B. Davis, Asassistant to the Commissary General, was recalled.

He testified that canned roast beef was Flynn's Business College, 8th K. Business, shorthand, year. It will pay you to see our clear No. 1 Spruce before you buy any lumber. sent to the troops at Camp Alger in anticipation of a forw movement to be used as part of the travel rations.

John Rusch, of Englewood, N. who was cook in Company Second New Jersey was the frat witness of the day. He served with this regiment at Jacksonville. He drew the so-called refrigerated beef from the commissary. He thought the beef was he said, furnished by red Armour and The meat, was unusual in appearance.

He beard at Jacksonville that the meat was embalmed. This was a matter of general information. The men objected to it. but ate it sparingly. He recalled that Lleutenant Colonel Currie asked him for a piece of the beef.

Many men complained that the meat made them sick. It did not cook brown, but red. The fat was not white and did not appear to be wholesome. It was current talk that this meat was embalmed as dead human bodies were. Had Under cross-examination by the judge advocate, the witness said the meat tasted like straw.

Sometimes it. had a very 'peculiar odor. The fat was yellow. He saw one foreleg that was black and slimy. On cutting into the meat it immediately turned dark.

When the men were paid eff they refused to eat the army meat, but when they ran out of money they ate it. On being questioned by General Davis, the witness said that he had frequently beard the word "embalmed" used at Jacksonville in connection with the army refrigerated beef. The Inspectors came around to the company kitchen, but did not ask any questions about the food. When Rusch left the stand. Major Lee, counsel for General Miles, resumed the reading of the reports of officers submitted by the Major General Commanding.

Among the reports were those from Lieutenant Downs, First Infantry; Lieutenant Kilbourn, First Infantry; Lieut. E. G. Berry, First Infantry: Lieutenant MeHugh, First Infantry; Lieut. Lambert W.

Johnson, First Infantry; Lieut. J. W. Pinckney, First Infantry, and Lieutenant Whitney, First Infantry. THE DETROIT SAILS.

Leaves La Guayra for Bluefields to Protect American Interests. The cruiser Detroit has sailed from La Guayra for Bluefields, to protect American lives and property from threatened danger on the part of insurrectionists. She goes upon the urgent request of the State Department, which has been in receipt of appeals from Americans in the district for the protecting influence of a warship. The Detroit is the ship that fired en Brazilian insurgent vessels in the harbor of Rio some years ago, when they attempted to prevent American merchant ships from entering the harbor. GOVERNMENT VS.

SCOTT. Case Argued on Demurrer and Taken Under Advisement. Argument on the demurrer to the testimony of the Government in the case of Charles U. Scott, colored, who is charged with larceny and violating the United Stares postal laws, was resumed today in Court, No. 2.

before Justice Bradley. Messrs. C. Maurice Smith and J. B.

Archer, representing the defendant, Scott, argued that the thing described in the indictment, a decoy letter, was not property of the United States, but of the sender, the postoffice inspector. Therefore the statute which provides for the larceny of the property, only of the United States is not applicable to the case on trial. Assistant District Attorney Ashley M. Gould made the closing for the the Government after which Justice ley announced that he would take the matter under advisement and give his decision on Monday. ONE NEW SMALLPOX CASE.

Sufferer at Once Remored to the Iselating Hospital. One more case of smallpox was reported to the District health authorities today. sufferer is Louisa Jones. colored. Then twenty-six years old, who resided at 1240 Delaware Avenue southwest.

She was at ence removed to the isolating bospital. Another death from cerebro-spinal meningitis was reported to the Health Office today, making a total of forty-one. FOR BATHING BEACH SAND. Several Bids Opened at the District Building. Bids were opened at the District Building at noon today for furnishing 1.000 cubic yards of sand to the Free Bathing Beach as follows: Columbia National Sand and Dredging Company, 40 cents per cubic rard.

John Miller 48 cents per cubic yard. John B. Lord. 45 cents per cubic yard. Reports of Mad Dogs.

policemen in the future. Lost $100. in Cash. Complaint has been made of the number of rabid dogs that have been discovered in Mount Pleasant, The police have received no complaint whatever from the residents of this neighborhood. They were surprised to learn that there had been such cases reported.

The beautiful St. Bernard belonging to Charles Schneider is the only one that has been afflicted so far as the police know and that one was killed. Lieutenant Kenney intends to personally investigate the complaints received by the Shortly after noon today Mrs. B. F.

Hyatt lost $100 in bills while crossing from the northeast corner of Eighteenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue to Eighteenth and Streets. The money was contained in an envelope and a thorough of the locality failed to disclose its whereabouts. The police were netifled and they will endeavor to find the money. Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses were issued today to Joshua M.

Burke and Ida Finchman, both of Rappahannock, M. Pierce and Anna Horn, both of Baltimore, Charles Burch and Blanche Cowling; William Percy Rose and Anna Lewis Bowen. Hyattsville, David Johnson and Mary Jackson; John A. Hinternesch and Daisy M. Harris, Anacosta; Thomas F.

Mattingly, and Irene Fowler; William C. Atkins and Mary E. Columbus; Benjamin C. Lancaster and Marion White. Proposals to Construct Sewers.

Proposals were opened at the District Building at noon today for constructing sewers and as follows: E. G. Gummel, sewer Excavation, 49 cents; brick masonry, 21-inch pipe, 59 cents; 18-inch pipe, 52 cents; 12-inch pipe, 42 cents. Sewer Excavation, 49 cents; brick masonry, 21-inch- sewer, 59 cents; 18-inch sewer, 52 cents; 12-inch sewer, 12 cents; 10-inch sewer, 40 cents. John P.

Larguey, sewer Excavation, 60 cents; brick masonry, $8.75: pipe, 65 cents; 18-inch pipe, 55 12-inch pipe, 37 cents. Sewer Excavation, 43 cents; brick masonry, 21-inch sewer, 65 cents; 18-inch sewer cents; 12-inch sew.r, 37 cents; 10-inch sewer, 32 cents. Adam McCandlish, sewer Excavation, 48 cents; brick masonry, $8.50: 21-inch pipe, 47 cents; 18-inch pipe, 37 cents; 12-inch pipe, 33 cents. Sewer Excavation, 40 cents; brick masonry, 21-inch sewer, 50 cents; 18-inch sewer, 43 cents; 12-inch sewer, 30 cents; 10-inch sewer, 26 cents. Choice Building Lots Auction, Ocean City, at Sloan's, 1407 Wednesday, 4:30 p.m.

This wood therefore FELIX FAURE'S GIFT TO MR. M'KINLEY Ordered by the French President Before His Death. In Honor of the Opening of the New Cable. Ambassador Cambon Presents the Superb Pair of Vases-Speeches of the Occasion. Ambassador Cambon, on behalf of Felix Faure, late President cf the French public, this morning presented to President McKinley a pair of beautiful blue vases made in the National Porcelain Works at Sevres, France, to commemorate the inauguration of the cable and as a token of the cordial feeling existing between the two republics.

The presentation was made in the Blue Roo.n of the Executive Mansion, in the presence of Secretary Hay and the attaches of the French Embassy. When the Franco- American cable was opened, August 17, 1898, Presidents MeKinley and Faure exchanged congratulations in a formal manner. To commemorate this event, President Faure ordered these two magnificent vases made at Serres. M. Cambon saw President Faure just before his death and the presentation was then uppermost in the French executive's mind.

The vases were not completed at the time of his death, but President Loubet out the plans of the lamented Presidented They are made of a deep blue and stand about 2 feet high They are adorned with large gilt handles, and are placed on light blue pedestals, to harmonize with the color of the room in which they will remain. On the lower part of the vases are two gold plates, bearing the following inscriptions. one in French and the other in English: Faure, President of the French Republic to William McKinley, President of the United States in commemoration of the inauguration of the Franco American cable. August 17, 1898." Ambassador Cambon also made the President a personal present of a piece of the cable, placed in a fancy mahogany box. In making the presentation M.

Cambon said: President: Some months ago, Mr. Felix Faure, the lamented President of the French Republic, joined with you in opening for publie use the new Franco- A American cable, and when I saw him for the last time he recalled the incident to mind. It seemed to him that it would be fitting that some memento of that pacifie solemnity should exist. He selected to this end two large vases made in the National Por. celain Works at Sevres, and he expressed to me the desire that these vases, offered by him to the American people whom you represent, should be placed in the White House.

"Divine Providence did not permit him to realize his last wish, but his successor, Mr. Emile Loubet, who has charged me to make known to you his sentiments of ingh esteem and cordial amity, has resolved that it should not be left unfulfilled. In his name, therefore, I have the honor to present to you these vases. They will ever remain as a pledge of the sympathy which draws closely to one another the two greatest republics of the world; they will also be an evidence that this cable which unites France to the United States across the ocean is but a type of the more potent ties that for so many years bave united our glorious nations." President McKinley in responding said: a few weeks ago. the generous American people joined the French nation in testifying their sorrow at the death of the lamented President of the Republic, the Senate of the United States expressing by a resolution the regard of their countrymen toward the memory of one who.

in the brief time of his chief magistracy, had continued the work his predecessors and had contributed to still further strengthen the historic good will that links the two peoples. "I am deeply touched at the proof yeu now give me that this high aim was. to the last, in his mind, and I co less warmly appreciate the aet of his successor. President Loubet. in giving effect to one of the last purposes cherished by President Faure.

In the name of my countrymen accept the gift you offer. These beautiful vases, typical of one of the most celabrated arts of France. will remain in the nation's care as an evidence of the friendly sentiments of French government ani people toward the United States, and as a token of the auspicious event they were designed to commemorate. I beg that you will convey to President Loubet. in my name and on behalf of the American peopie.

an adequate expression of the sincere appreciation with which this gift is accepted." Lord Dunraven in Favor. London, April dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company, from Limerick says that Lord Dunraven, who stood for the Croom division of County Limerick as Unionist candidate in the county council elections, has been elected. The Earl's success is heightened by the fact that the Nationalist victories have been almost universal. Indian Tribesmen Repulsed. Simla, India, April has been received here that a party of Cham Kannis tribesmen attacked a company of Kuram militia in the Peshower district, but were repulsed with a loss of two killed.

The trouble was caused by the imposition of fines on the Cham Kannis for raiding. Entire Family Poisoned. Marion, April entire family of J. N. Wheeler was poisoned by eating dried beef yesterday.

Miss Winnie Parmer, who was a guest of the Wheelers was also poisoned. They are all living but not out of danger. This is the second case of the kind here within a month. Left the Hague for Rome. The Hague, April Papal InterNuncio at The Hague, Mgr.

Tarnassi, Has left avowedly on pilgrimage to Rome, but in reality his departure is due to chagrin that the Holy See was not inclu led among those invted to attend the peace conference. Hanged for Murder. St. Louis. April Hancock, colored, was hanged shortly after 6 o'clock this morning for the murder of George Horton, a ticket broker, on July 17, 1897.

King Christian's Birthday. Copenhagen, April eighty-first birthday of King Christian is being elaborately celebrated here today. Rufus 11. Darby, the commercial, railroad, and show printer, has removed to his new four-story buildings, 506 and 508 Fourteenth Street northwest, one door south of Pennsylvania Avenue. ap8-61-em We have this same spruce worked into flooring; to line ice boxes; can't be beat.

FOUND AN OLD MAN'S BODY. Committed Suicide by Hanging Himself From Tree. The body of Frederick Sagauske, eightytwo years old, who alternately resided with his son, a market gardener, his daughter, near the Marlboro Pike, two miles from the District line in Maryland, was found hanging from the limb tree near his daughter's home this morning. He had been missing since Tuesday night. A coroner's jury found that he came to his death by his own hand.

BOMB EXPLOSION. Belgian Soldiers Killed While Drilling at Brussels. Brussels, April was a bomb explosion at the Huy Citadel yesterday afternoon, and it was at first thought that it was due to a crime, but it proved to cave been caused by bursting of a shell while a teaching ten richtenccidental soldiers how to load a cannon. The violence of the shock hurled the eleven men some distance. Two were killed on the spot and two are in a hopeless condition.

The others, including the lieutenant, were seriously wounded. The ground on which the barracks stands partially collapsed. A local paper suggests that they lay before the Disarmament Conference the statistics of the Toulon, Bourges, Huy, and similar disasters, showing that even in peace time the present perfected weapons are self-destroying for all nations. THE FIGARO FINED. Assessed 500 Franes for Publishing Dreyfus Secrets.

Paris, "Figaro" was today fined 500 francs and costs for publishing the secret evidence in the Dreyfus case given before the Court of Cassation. The prosecution was brought by the government. The paper made no defence. The maximum fine for the offence is 1.000 francs, By an underjudgment of the court the "Figaro" must cease publishing the Dreyfus evidence, but French procedure in cases is so slow as to allow the paper plenty of time to finish its revelations. FAITH IN MR.

M'KINLEY. Belief That He Adheres to the Berlin Compact. Paris, April European edition of the "Herald" publishes the folloxing dispatch from Berlin: The German government, through the medium of the wishes to contradict the statement of the and other English papers to the effect that President McKinley's remarks respecting the recent events in Samoa are regarded by this government as an apology. That statement the German government takes as being mischievous, and it wishes it to be known in Washington that the words used by the President were interpreted here solely as sentiments of Invulty to the treaty of Berlin, and absolutely nothing else. AN ACTOR'S SERIOUS BLUNDER.

Fired a Gun Not Known to Be Loaded. Leicester. England, April a performance of a melodrama representing the British in China here last night one of the performers discharged a gun which was supposed to contain a blank cartridge, Dut which instead was loaded with bird shot. The charge scattered in the audience, injuring five persons. CHARGED WITH PERJURY.

Holman House Treasurer Arrested On Mr. Stokes' Complaint. New York, April Polly, treasurer of the Hoffman House, was arrested this morning on a charge of jury. The complainant in the case Edward S. Stokes.

The perjury charge is based on the old fight between Stokes and those who are said to be trying to get hint out of the Hoffman House control. Mr. Stokes claims that Polly inade fa'se representation to him in the transfer certain stocks. A PLEASANT TRIP FOR SAMPSON His Squadron May Make Summer Journey to Europe. Secretary Long has under considera ion a suggestion for sending the North At antic Squadron.

under Admiral Sampson. across the Atlantic during the coming summer. This trip will be practically a continuation of the evolutions now going on in the West Indies. This proposition only contemplates a long distance cruise to the Channel, and visits to seve al English and French ports, then returning home. The European station will not be re-established this year.

The English people are making extensive preparations to receive our ships on their arrival in British waters. Stranded at Hatteras. Norfolk, April dispatch from Cape Hatteras says that the schooner J. J. Mic Naughton, bound from Newbern.

N. for Atlantic City, is stranded on the beach. off the life-saving crew means of Captain Garwood and his men, were taken the breeches buoy. Run Over by His Train. Greenville, April Carney, a brakeman, fell under his train in the yard last night, cutting both legs off close to the body.

He died half an hour later. He was about twenty-five years oid, and lived at Meadville. The Daily Harrisburg Farce. Harrisburg, April was not even a semblance of a quorum in the joint Senatorial contest today. The ballot was simply a legal farce, Quay receiving 11 votes, Jenks 8, and Irvin 6.

There was to what next week would bring forth in all kinds of guessing among outsiders aS the deadlock. Fires in Cambridge, Mass. Cambridge, April last night did $50,000 worth of damage in the manufacturing district of the city. Several small plants were wiped out. Officer of the Czar Stabbed.

Moscow, April Mauzey, an aide of the Czar was stabbed in the throat last night by attendant, attempting assassination. The wound is not serious. North Carolina Society Ball. The annual ball of the North Carolina Society will be held at Confederate Veterans' Hall on Friday evening, April 14. Col.

J. S. Carr, of Durham, has been invited to be present. Refreshments will he served. The list of patronesses is being completed.

Will of James P. Wallace. The will of James P. Wallace, dated July 12 last, was today filed for probate. Aecording to its terms the deceased leaves all his estate to his wife, Annie S.

Wallace, whom he names as executrix. $1,25 to Baltimore and Return via B. 0. and Sunday, April 8 and 9, good for return until following LimMonday. Good on all trains except Royal ited.

Our Spruce Boards are admirably adapted for use in bakeries, butter a and meat stores. MAZET'S COMMITTEE OPENS ON TAMMANY Proceedings Against New York Police Work. A Second Lexow Enquiry Launched Before the Public. Mayor Van Wyck's Administration Facing Charges Brought Under the New State Government. New York, April assembly committee appointed to investigate Tammany's administration of the municipal government of New York city began its work this morning.

Mayor Van Wick having fused to permit the use of council chamber in the City Hall for proceedthe ing, the opening session was held in one of the supreme court rcoms in the county court house. A tremendous crowd besieged the courtroom, but the members of the committee, their numerous attendants, representatives of the press, prospective witnesses and those vitally interested in the possible outcome of the investigation, completely filled the chamber, and the general public was practically excluded. The hour for launching the proceedings was fixed at 10 o'clock and precisely upon the minute the "Mazetters, as the conimittee has been designated by Mayor Van Wyck. and Tammany men generally. filed into the courtroom together with Messrs.

Moss and Clarke, chief counsel, and other advisors. They retired to one of the corners and a long whispered consultation was held before calling the session to order. The only member of the committee not present was Harris Wilson, of Kings county, whose brother died yesterday. The first witness called was Frank H. Croker.

son of the Tammany leader. He did not respond and a subpoena server was called to testify under oath that he had been unable to serve a summons on young Croker. The next witness developed the line the first part of the investigation was to take. He was William Archer, a member of a contracting firm which does masonry and fireproofing. He testified under examination that he was one cf the bidders et the fireproofing of the new Park Row or Syndicate Building, as it was characterized by Mr.

Moss. The line of enquiry was then shaped so as to bring out the fact that it was impossible for contractors 10 get specifications calling for the Roebling fireproofing system through the city building department. The next witness was L. A. Himmellwright, the general manager for the John A.

Roebling Construction Company. He testified that his company, although bidding $25,000 lower than the successful concern, failed to get the contract for the fireproofing. Exhibits were made of specifications for city schocl work, prepared since the first of the present year, in which the specifications approved by the building department were so radically different from those previously referred to that the witness admitted that the Roebling concern was the only firm in New York city that could comply with them. The purpose of Mr. Moss was shown at this point clearly, and the subsequently developed were as thoroughly sensational as could be wished for.

From the witness was drawn the admission that besides Richard Coker's son. James W. Hinckley, a former Democratic State chairman, became a member of the Robling corporation and that Assistant District Attorney McCann, a relative of Croker, became it's attorney. Following the organization of the Roebling corporaticn, there came about a complete reversal of the situation with regard to the Roebling system of fireproofing. As stated, ail municipal work for which specifications have been prepared since Richard Croket's son became a stockholder in the Roebling concern.

calls for fireproofing, that can only be furnished by the latter. Mr. Moss made a searching examination as to what Attorney McCann's real connection with the Roebling Company was, endeavoring to show that he was employed for the purpose of influencing changes in the building laws in the interest of the Roebling Company and to the exclusion of other concerns that would otherwise compete with. The witness was unable to mention any legal duty that McCann performed for the Roebling Company. Mr.

McCann next took the stand, and after much sparring with Mr. Moss and Assemblyman Mazet said he was Charles E. F. McCann, nephew of Richard Croker, an assistant district attorney, and had been a lawyer since June. 1896.

Fortunes in Oil Lands. Parkersburg. W. April one- eights interest in a six-thousand-aere tract of oil land in Tyler county. near the Wetzel county line, belonging to John McGuire, of the firm of Jennings of Pittsburg, was sold Thursday to Murphy Galloway for $90,000.

The property is producing 600 barrels daily from thirtytwo Gordon sand wells. The entire holdings are considered worth over $500.000. McGuire cleaned up over $75,000 by the deal. Acted as His Own Surgeon. Arcola, April Warren Murphy, aged twenty, amputated his deformed right foot on Thursday and then called his brothers, who stopped the flow of.

blood. He will recover. Murphy had begged to have his deformed foot ent off. but no surgeon who examined him th -hr he could survive the operation. Duck Hunters Lost in a Swamp.

Greenville, April H. H. Emmett and John A. McNary had a bad experience Thursday night and Friday bile duck hunting in the Pymatuning swam, which lie north of this place, and cover an area of three square miles. lost their bearings and were compel! stay in the trackless waste for hours, til assistance arrived.

Burned Their Way Out of Jail. Parkersburg, FoaM' April Lawson and Nolan, desperate prisoners confined in the Ripley (Jackson county) jail, have escaped by burning a hole in the floor with a red-hot poker. Discontinuance New York Florida Limited, Southern Railway. New York and Florida Limited leaving WashIngton 5:50 p. except Sunday, will be discontinued, last train southbound leaving April 8.

The United States Fast Mail leaving Washington 11:15 m. daily, and the New York and Florida Express, leaving Washington at 9:20 p. 11. daily, will continue to operate through cars to Florida as heretofore. ing ear service.

Own a Cottage by the Sea G. next Wednesday. Small payment; no Choice Ocean City lots at ruction 1407 interest. Money loaned to build. 15e Round Trip to Arlington Sunday.

Through trains from st. and Pa. ave. every ha in addition to the regular service. Libbey Co.

are headquarters for all kinds of lumber. millwork. and hardware..