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rAnQE of thermometer. The thM-mo-mcter yesterday ranged as follow- at The Times office: 9. A. M. 52; 6 P.

62; 8 P. M- 63; 32 nildnlghL 62; average. 55. VOL. 17.

XO. 241). EICHMONO, WEDNESDAY, XOVEMBER 26, 1902. ii mmm' Tatatamx tor Wi-JMrtO" JJ VlrrfniaAFalr ln waaU ln east VfadhaaOatt fair; fresh, southwest to North Carollna-Falr and cooter nesday; Thursday, fair; cool.r fresh southwest to south wtods west, PK1CE TWO CENTS. REMARKABL ONTOBAi i Board of Directors Meets to Plan Relief.

BREAK DOWN TO-DAY Some Think the Market Cannot Stand Strairi Longer. cQUGHTTOSECUREENTRANCE White Men Bar Out Stand in Street All housemen Get More Than They Sales To Carrington's Opinion Notes. At dusk last d'ening tbe Board of Di richmond Tobacco Trade lriinc in special called session re of the remarkable day. concluded, and attempting to devise me reliei-irig the market of congestion. The problem serioufi one.

and the best the board do was to establlsh a precedeut, and order doubie sales ior to-day. lt is the opinion of many, Including the Kupervisor of sales, that unless saving circumstances develop, the market will co down under the strain to-day. Others. among whoin is the president of tlie trade, take a more hopeful view and be jli that price will continue steady. All agreed that there ls something phe nomenal In the way the bidding has i up thus far under the burden.

and feel that if there must be a smash to? day it will have been forced after a re co.d whieh few other markets can? cx "BREAKS EVERY RECORD. The business on the market yesterday breaks every known record in the local lobecoo world. and is believed to be laigej since Richmond has eed. Last week was al way. establishirig a new 1 up thal time, but what last was was lost and forgotteh yesttir than that of any Early Monday crcning lhe mudoy whe? led canvas-topped.

wagons began to ln nnd in an hour or two an un ol them coming out of tiii At Crst it was tliought the reedpts would be somewhat iinder those of last week, but tho wa.rchouEemen noon uisabused their minds of this pre niature oplnon; For on tbe wagons came and the break oi day saw no stopping uiem. At o'clock in "tlie morning they were still rolling ln and oft and nn during yesterday morning. afternoon nnd night; The country ror a radlus ni many miles around seemed Lo have suddenly conoeived the idea of coming to towii and men and women. white and black, were there jotting along ou top the r- king weed, Nobody counted the wagons. but it was possible last night to get a very just and conservatfve estimate of the.

number bere. A prominent oflicer oi' the trade was si en and after careful deliberatlon he welghtilv declared thatthere are be? tween 10Q and 1,000 of these wagons in Richmond. The responsibility of ing such an iitterance was considerable. bui ihis gentleman was willing to take ihe risk. Ke would probably have been accurate had he said there were 1'3 and Pft wagons with odds on the latter figure.

A thousand: pound rather large. THE SALES. The bidding began about "10 o'clock and under mosl exceptional conditions. From end to end the four large warehouses were filled to the bursting point and in tbe streets outside stood at least seventy five wiik'ons, utterly unable to get inside nnd ln a drenching rain. wh'ch.

despite all efforts, penetrated to tho tobacco carefully covered and which Bcaked tbe wagoneers tlirough and through chliling some of them to the bone. As 1....1 the piles were sold on the Inside Hay were rushed out to make room for the wagons outside; as fast as one wagoh galned entxance some other drove up from tbe countiy ar.d tobk its place. Some few back home, but the vast niajority Btayed, and at nigbtfall they were still Ne 'effort iwliatsoev or was made to com ihe round ol" fhe warehouses. About fcUKiO pounds on the floor of Crensbaw's tvere-sol I and then the buyers hustled off where over 100.000 pounds were The sale proceeded until o'clock, IhelimH and was then called off. Seventy thousand pounds been soldi mained untouched.

The third sale was at Blobewsill. and amounted to 70,500 pounds. IVhen tt was over the sbadows of evening hud begun to fall, and nothing more could bcd dav. Shelburne Warehouse, fourth warehouse. with 125,000 pounds on the floor, vas not even visited.

At Iii i the market opened weakly, but its wonted strength. The prli held up wonderfully and to the very i tu high into the air. Many ex p. break, bat no break came. and Uie many have transferred their expecta lions unill to-day.

They deelare it to be bripossible for lhe market to hold up un tf. i Un- strain, and they say the break ioivn i this morning, Whether their predietions ire to be vorilied and are to be borue out remains yet to be en. OVER HALF A As soon as the.sales were over the warehouse set work paying off tho farmers who had crowded the market during the day. and getting things in readlness for loading up foi this morn? ing. Careful estimates showed a total 355.500 pounds of on the w.ire b-use flloors and a hr.ud'Vd thou nand on ihe stieets in wagons which had not been unloaded.

This latter amount what other came in yesterday eve? ning will run up to 200.000 pounds thereby making a gnuid total of conshierably over a half million pounds in Kichmond yesterday. "When tho farmors had been paid and many of them had started for home jingling coin warming their pocket nnd their hearts. the warehouse men got rlown to the next big task of housing what was st 11 in the street. One or two of them announced a determination of working straight through the n'ght. And they doubtless had the pleasure of on Eighth Page.) SCENES CCO MARKET mTmend School Board Wiil Ask That Teachers Be Given More Pay.

COMMITTEE TAKES ACTION Several Lady Teachers Appear Before Portion of Sch'ooi Board and State Their R.asons for Asktng an Increase io Salary. As a result of action taken at a speclal of the and Senooi Comnntlee yesteiday afiemoon, uie School wiil, at a meeung this ai teruoon, pass a resoluuon i-eu-imending to the City Council Uiat ia the budg-t of an appropnaUon sutncieut to per. mit an inci eu.se of ten per cent. in tne salaries of the public school teachers be made. This resuit was reached atter considering a lengthy petition from the teacaers, which was submitted to a cont.

mittc-e of ladies aud read by Miss Annie Granger. Present at the meeting were Messrs. Hugh M. Taylor, H. Capers and Reuben Eurton, Alderman from Monroe Ward.

The vote stood two to one, Alder. 1 man Burton opposing such action. The foilowing teachers were present: "Miss Annie Granger, Miss Lena Duke and Mjfs Cornolia Taylor. At the in staiue of Mr. Capers Miss Granger read I the petition.

COSTS MORE TO LIVE. i The petition states trat the cost of liv i ing has increased materially within the I past year or so, but that the paper ls presented through no spirit of complaint or dissatlsfaction. Board has advanced to a marked degree, table board form erly costing $15. now costing $18 per i month. while the increased price of everything has caused even washerwo men: to adx-ance their charges.

lf a teacher is absent from school for five days she has to pay a substitute $7. and ii' the illness requires the attent'on a physician an additional cost is added. The petition cites that the average salary of teachers is only $50 per month for by a nine months in the year, or an average salary for the entire year of about $37 per month. With board and lodgiiig costing at. least $22.50 per month the teachers call attention to the small margin left.

Hartford. the teachers are allowed two weeks absence from sc-hcol i withont a deduction made in the deteiit on is due to sickness or string ent cireumstahces. The teachers in the public schools of Norfolk receive an average salary of $55 per month, and their sa'ary continues for ten months in each year. as against an average of $50 per month in Richmond and pay for only nine months' work. ln conclusion the petition says that even shouid the Council refuse the peti? tion the endorsement of Board will mean much to the teachers, as it would Indi 'cate that those gentlemen consider their work of sucha character as to merit I the remuneration-w-h'ch will enable them i to meet fairly the changed conditions in the expenses of living.

It Is signed by Misses Lena M. Duke, I E. S. Taylor, Cora Elliott. Mary S.

Schermerhorn, Xannie T. Pcgram Fan? nie C. Ragland, Louise C. McCarthy, Josle H. Maddox.

Annie E. Granc Nora Shepperson, 11. A. Apperson, "Vir i ginia "Brown. i Mr.

irton in opposing favorable recommendation took the ground that the Cnances of the city would not be in condition for increasing the salaries sxt year. APARTMENT HOUSE fiT FIFTH The Virginia State Company Has Great Things in Mind for Hoge Residence Site. The State Insurance Company (ns great things in mind for the site of tlie Hoge residence, at Fifth and Main Strei ts. The directors have instructed lhe officers of tlu: company to inquire into cost of erectlng a nve-story brick building, the tirst fioor to bo used as an office for the company and the four lloors above made into modern llats, so con slructed as to be cOnvertible into offices when such change The plan is to get an architect to draw rough plans and.furnish estimates of the cosL li" such a building as oul.lned can be built at a reasonable cost there is scarcely a doubt about its ereetion. thing dennite will be given out probably iti the next ten days.

Everyone seems to think that a flat at Fifth and Main would pay handsomely as ar. investment, and this is what the com? pany ls looking for, as well as an office home for itself. This plan has seemed best to the Board of Directors. Flats would pay better now than offices. but the time inay come when offices will pay lf tlais are erected they will be modern in every particular.

even to the extent of having'-, flrst-class elevator service. i'he Virginia State Company recently 1-urchased this lot from Mr. S. II. Hawes for $10,000.

CLOTHING CAUGHT FIRE FROM BENZINE EXPLOSION (Special Dispateh to The Times.) WILLIAM SPORT, Xov. i Robert Arthur, of Muncy. saved from instant burning to death by quick action. As it is she cannot recover. lntendlng to go upstairs to cleanse a 1 pair of gloves she carried a basin of ben I -ine through the kitchen and near the stove.

On her way Instantly she became ja pillar of.flame. Grabblng the carpet she lotisened enough to wrap herself. passing neighbor heard her screams and ran io her assistance. and not a moment too soon, as the llames began to- out afresh. A doctor was summoned as soou possible.

and at a late hour her 1 doath seemed but a Uttlo while oO. NEW SC TH Russell Sage's Farm is Sold for Taxes. (Special Dispateh to The Tlmes.) NYACK. November farm be? longing to Russell Sage was sold at public sale of land in Rockland coun? ty to-day for non-payment of taxes. The sale was conducted at New City.

the county seat by County Treasurer Randolph. The Sage farm was sold for $47, the amount of taxes due. and was bought in by the coun ty. COULO iT REACH Coal Strike Matters Must Be Settlsd by the Com? mission. (By Associated Press.) "WASHINGTON, November prospects for an understanding between the Uaited Mine Workers and the coal operators, outside the anthracite coal strike commission, came to a sudden ter mination late this afternoon through the receipt of a dispateh to Wayne Mac Veag, representlng the Pennsylvania Coal Company and the Hillside Coal Iron Company, notli'ying him that at a meeting of the anthracite coal road men in New York to-day it had been de? cided not to grant an interview to Mr.

Mitchell and his associates which had been suggested for Friday next. The announcement, coming as it did after an all-day's conference in this city between Mr. MacVeagh and Mr. Mitchell and his associates, attended part of the time by Carroil D. Wright.

in an en deairor to adjust some details of the pro? posed agreercsnt between the operators and the miners, completely surprlsed everyone here. From statements made by Clarence S. barrow early in the day the impression had spread that a complete agreement would be affected at to-day's conference, but when the meeting broke up Mr. Darrow read to the newspaper men in the corridor outside of his room in Wil lard's Hotel a statement which made it clear that no final agreement had been reached and that no further confer? ence were likely. The statement was as follows: "The conference was siniply a continuation of the conferences held at Scranton and with precisely the same of trying to reach a of hopeful discussion for an amicable MacVeagh has not been in Scranton since Thursday, and some matters developed as to whether a fur? ther conference might be useful before either the operators or the representa? tives of the miners approach the serious task of formulating a definite agreement for their sighatures." BULLET HAS WORKED OUT AFTER NEARLY FORTY YEARS (Specinl Dispateh to Tlie Times.) FREDERICKSBURG, Nov.

Mr. R. C. Macon, of Orange county. was wounded in the shoulder at the battle of the Wilderness in Spotsylvania county during lhe Civil War, and the bullet was never extracted.

Within the past few days after nearly forty years the bullet has worked out. and he now has it as a relic of those stormy times. Bitter Attack Made Upon Late Wealthy German by a Socialist Organ. (By Associated Press.) BERLIN, Nov. socialist organ Vorwaets, in a page and half to-day, deals with w-hat it calls the "hypocricy of Herr Krupp as a benevolent genius." The paper does not touch ou the immediate cha.ges which it brought against tho deceased.

but ana lyses the pension system of the Krurp firm, which, is says, a "species of refin? ed swindling," adding: I "The enormous so-called benevolent funds have been built up by compulsory contribution from the employes, wbo could be arbltrarily deprived of partici pat.on in the advantages. They are re? quired to contribute per cent. of their wages for 20 years before they are eligible to a pension upon disability. In the meantime.if an employe is scharged or resigns he loses all he has often exceeding $250. The employes are morally and economically terrorized and must in humility accept every petty reg ulation of the firm's officials or lose per cent.

of what they have earned In the firm's service. This terrorism is ap plied to political opinions, where they become known." The paper also quotes the German budget committee's proceed'ngs as show? ing that the Krupp works have been charging the navy $100 per ton above what the United States pays for nickel steel plates, amountlng nearly to $750, 000 for Herr Krupp and his Works. SAYS SHE KILLED WOMAN BY USE 0F A HAMMER (Special Dispateh to The Times.) BUTTE. November to be demented in prison hospital on sus picion of having killed Mrs. Patience Conn and James Conn.

Mrs. Hank Narling has. made a confesslon. She de? clares she killed Mrs. Conn with a bam mer, and tht.n shot Mr.

Conn. She kihed her husband twenty-f. re years ago, but was acquitt-4 on the ground of insanity. HEME OF BELLK Negroes to Fight Organic Law on Different Lines. TO SUE THE OFFICERS Declrations Are to Be Sent Out.

CHARGES Any Unregistered Negro Invited to Bring Action Against Governor and Convention Men for $5,000. Canisle Won't Be Here. Glass May Ask Manda? mus of State The fight against the new Constitution of Virginia was given additional interest yesterday by tho coming to light of a new and novel scheme on the part of Captain John S. Wise and Jim Hayes, are counsel for the belligerent ne? groes. It is tlie printing and promiscuous dis? tribution among the negroes of an un limited number of copies of forms of suit, which any and all negroes who failed or registration may file ln their nearest United States Circuit Court by attorney, asking Ji.OOO damages on the alleged grounds that they were unlaw fully and improperly denied the right to register prior to the recent election.

About fifty members of the recent Con? stitutional Convention, Monta? gue and members of the Registration Boards and election officers are made de? fendants in tho proposed suits. and each negro who f.les one of these declarations is supposed to ask for $5,000 damages. DEFENDANTS NAMED. Governor Montague and the following members of the convention are named in the declaration as defendants: Rufus A. Ayers, John S.

Barbour, John L. Barham, Wm. H. Boaz. Thos.

H. Barnes, Allen Capterton Braxton, John Thompson Brown. Preston W. Campbell, W. L.

Cobb, Hill Carter, William F. Dunaway. D. Q. Eggleston, Albert Fletcher.

G. Taylor Garnet. B. T. Gordon, R.

Lindsay James XV. Gordon, Berryman Greg? ory, L. A. Hardy, Cocdrich Hatton, John H. Ingram, G.

W. Jones, Claggett B. Jones, Gilmour Kendall, John Law s-on, J. II. Lindsay, E.

H. Lovell, Rich aid Mcilwaine, C. V. Meredith, James Munday, James VV. Orr.

R. S. Parks, I John Garland Pollard, J. M. Quarles.

J. B. Richmond, Joseph Stebbins, G. P. Tar rv.

J- B. Thornton, RotSert Turnbull, C. H. Walker, A. C.

Walter, J. M. Mills, Eugene Withers, Woodhouse, W. T. Yancey and Goode.

The regis? trars and judges must be. specied in each ini-tance in the different parts of the State. The declaration is a scurrilous docu ment, and assaults bitterly these men and thewhite people of Virginia. lt is said that a number of these suits will be filed here on Friday before Chief Justice Fuller and Judge Waddill. when they sit to take up the matter al? ready pending on the same subject.

CALLED COXSPIRATORS. After setting forth that the plaintiff is and always has been a citizen of the United States and of Virginia the decla. (Continued on Second Page.) PROPERTYGOIE HE STARTED LIFEIGM Death of North Caroiinian Recalls a Unique Story of War Time Interest. (Special Dispatch to The Times.) GOLDSBORO, N. November News has just reached the city of the death at Dudley this morning of Mr.

Giles Kornegay, aged seventy-six years. This fact recalls a bit of history, some? what remarkable, associated with the life of Mr. Kornegay. ln the war between the States, Mr. Kornegay saw service.

At its close he did not return home, and was mourned as dead, his estate a goodly one, administered on, and the entire property disposed of. Later on Mr. Kornegay put in his appearance at home, was advised of the settlement, accepted the conditions in good spirit and started life anew. Since he has considerable property, reared and edu cated a large family. Besides his widow, he leaves ten children to mourn hia taking off.

HUNDRED MILLION SUIT AGAINST THE HUNTINGTONS (Special Dispatch to The Ttmes.) NEW YORK, November has been brought for more than $100,000,000 against the estates of Collis P. Hunting? ton and tho men who were his partners in the early days of the Central Pacilic Railroad in behalf of the remaining minor stockholders of the Central Paci? lic Railroad Company. of California, through Robert Cutting. In this suit are charges of collusion, exaggeration of exJ penses and fraud against Mr. Hunting? ton, Leland Stanford, Charles Croker and Mark Hopkins.

It is charged that these four men so manipulated the finances and construc? tion of the Central Pacific. now a part of the Southern Pacific system, that out of $163,000,000 expended in building "ahd equipping the road, more than $100,000,000 found its way into their own pockets. 3ERENTS Trust ts Said to Have Collapsed. (Special Dispatch to The Times.) NEW YORK, November ia understood in Wall Street to-day that the big Beef Packing Trust which was to be formed with a capital of $500,000,000 has fallen through, and that Its promoters. the blg packing companies, have upon their hands an indebtedness of $90,000,000 as the result of the attempt to form It.

COTTON MILL' Mr. E. Strudwick, of Richmond is One of the Cor (By Associated Press.) COLUMBLV, S. Nov. Carolina is to have another milt'on dol lar Marlboro Cotton Mills.

The plant will be located at McColllr Marlboro county, and the capital oc! is to be $1,000,000. The incorporators ar E. Strudwick, of Richmond, T. Gibson, A. W.

Morrison, Chailes Ice man, Robert Chapman and J. R. Parkei of Coiiiinoia; a. u. auit 1 XV.

Boucier, of Bennettsville, S. C. Mr. Strudwick ls one of the official of the Virgin.a-Carolina Chemical Com pany and is well known in busines circles in Richmond. A MILLIONAIRE WAS VERY BADLY INJUREl (By Associated Press.) ROANOKE.

November 25. Houston, a millionaire coal operator the Elkhorn (W. Va.) District, whil busy about one of his mines to-day, ac cidentally got on the track of one of th small coal-hauling locomotives, and wa struck in such a manner as to brea several ribs and caused serious Interna injuries. CLEVELAND WILL PRESIDE AT PHILADELPHIA MEETINI (Br Press.) PHILADELPHIA. Nov.

Former President Grover Cleveland ha accepted an invitation to preside at public meeting to be held on Decem ber llth in the interest of the Berea Manual Training and Industrial Schor for colored people. Mr. Cleveland wi make an address. Among the other speak ers will be former Postmaster-Generr Smith, Colonel A. K.

McCiure and Booke D.NNER T0 BE GIVEN T0 JUSTICE HARLAf (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON. Nov. Hat lan. of the United States Supreme Couri on December 9t.h will have compiete twenty-five years of service as a membe of that court, and his friends at the ba throughout the. country have arranged express their appreciation of his service by a dinner in his honor on that evenin at tho New Willard Hotel in this city.

THE nOU Present Shareholders Will Bi Given the First Chance to Take Stock. (By Associated Press.) BALTIMORE, November Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company i considerlng the issue of $0,260,000 of nc stock. This is in connection with the rancing of the purchase or control the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Th proposed issue is to supply the $10,000,01 cash which is required as partial paj rnent for this purchase. Such an issue means of th pai value of $100 a share.

It is conterr plated to sell this stock at $125 a shari and at this price It would yield the corr pany $11,575,000 in cash, so that after irg the $10,000,000 the company would ad 51,575,000 in cash to its surplus. The present stockholders of the com pany will be given the first chance to tak this stock. An underwrlting syndicat will take what they do not. The privi lege would be to subscribe to the amouc of forty per cent. of their holdlngs.

LITTLE GIRL REMAINED WHILE OTHERS FLEI (Special Dispatch to The Times.) CHICAGO. November year-old Ethel Barker, daughter of Al derman Barker, braved smoke and me nacing flames. while hundreds of hei fellow pupils in the Lincoln Schoc marched in orderly manner from peril safety, she remained courageously at he post and played a lively march on ipiano. Hardly had the lines in the variou I rGoms formed before the stirring notes I one of Sousa's marchife penetrated al quarters. Each tramping pupil knew hi place and little Ethel knew hers, toc i While the four hundred merged from a corners into one great column.

and wa moving out of the bnilding she played th piano as evenly as lf beei MR. CARLISI N0TA1 COL OCHILTREE DIED YESTERDAY Was Known Al Over the World as a Good Fellow. HE WAS A NATIVE OF TEXAS Served in Confed rate Army, Was Once a Member of Congress and Later on a Globe Trotter. (Speclal Dispateh to The Tlmes.) HOT SPRiNGri, Nov. Thomas Ochiltree died here at 1 o'clock to-day of heart trouble.

He had been slnking condition since yesterday morning and it was a surprise to hl3 physician, Dr. F. XV. Chapin. as well a3 others that he lived until to-day.

He was conscious this morning, but soon grew much worse. He lost consciousness again. and died without pain. Arrangernents for the funeral will be made by friends in New York. No plans have been decided upon as yet.

Colonel Ochiitree had been suffering I for some time with. heart disease, but it was not until a few weeks ago that his condition became at 11 serious. The tteart tro uie was tne result of pneumonia contracted a year ago. It has been said that Colonel Tom Ochiltree did more to make Americans popular and welcome socially in Eu? rope than any other American of nation? al renown. His popuiarity abroad did not begin until it was securely estab lished at home, and his name is a syno nym for wit.

Intellect and good fellow ship wherever the language is spoken. If anyone knows the year of Colonel Ochlltree's birth that secret has been carefully guarded. Texas has the honor of calling him her native son. fits boy hood was that of any other native? a healthy American boy. Since he grew up he has been at odd times journalist.

Confederate Colonel, Congressman, globe trotter, man of the world and good fel? low. THE HAVANA STRIKE HAS BEEN CALLED OFF (By As.cciated Pres3.) HAVANA, November Central Labor Union to-night decided call off the strike. and committees were ap? pointed to inform the various unions of this decision. There probably will be a complete resumption of work to-morrow. Much of the credit for the settlement of the strike is due to General Gomez, who headed the committee which con sulted to-day the offtcials of the Havana Commercial Company against whom the strike was first directed.

TWO BASE-BALL GAMES; YALE AND VIRGINIA (Special Dispateh to The Times.) NEW HAVEN. Nov. Yale's hase-ball schedule for 1-03 haa Just been announced. and Includes two simes with the University of llth and April 13th. MOURKED AS DEAD, Absent-Minded Man Comes Back Home After a Long Absence.

(Special Dispateh to The Times.) YORK, November years ago Joseph P. Meyers disappear? ed from hls home at Madison, X. A stranger rapped at his door and he went out of the house to talk to him. That was the last seen of Meyers until he re appeared Monday evening as ono come back from the unknown, for he was mourned as dead. Myers was an absent-minded man at the "time of his disappearance.

He left the house without a hat, but had a nap kin tted round nis neck. He went from to place, staying for one year at Denver, and three years in San Francisco. Early in he went to South Africa, and on October 20th of tlie tsame year he took part in the battle of Spion Kop. serving in the Irish-American volun teers. He' was one of the ieaders of the Boers that made the desperate against the Eighteenth Hussars and Dub liri Fusiladers and the Sixteenth RiCes.

ON THREE HUNDRED A YEAR COULD SAVE MONEY (Special Dispateh to The Tlmes.) CHICAGO, November J. Scott Ciark, of Northwestern Universtiy, in an address at Evanston, said In effect that no man has a right to bring into the world more children than he can properly support, and that no pa? rents, however weaithy, have a right to bring children into the world and so train them that by any posslbllity they may become dependent on others. The chief burden of Professor Clarfc's addreS3 was the posslbllity of all men and women becomlng financially inde? pendent. The Professor declared that on a sal? ary of I30O a year an unskitled American workman could keep a family in com fort and save money- Ha added that this was not: only a possibilitv. duty oC every woriunaK, PPEAR HERE tbs Not Been Engaged to Assist Mr.

Wise. IS GOING TO KENTUCKT Has No Inside Information as 10 Fight on Constitution. CREATE NEW DEPARTWEHT President Roosevelt Will Desigm Officials to Confer With Mr- Hep burn's Committee Cabinet Considers Reciprocity With Cuba and Canal Treaty. Capitol News. (Special Dispatch to The WASHINGTON.

D. C. November Former Secretary of tho Treasury John G. Carlisle passed through Washington to? day on his way to Kentucky. When ques tioned in regard to the report that he han been engaged by Mr.

John S. Wise assist ln the case against the Constitution of Virginia. Mr. Carlisle said: "I was asked yesterday if I would part in this case, and my answer that I would have nothing to do with it unless it comes up to'the Supreme Court Then if it ls desired of me I will assist. I know absolutely nothing about the and could not.

of course. appear on Fri? day, when lt comes up ln Richmond. am on my way to Kentucky at present and have not even looked into the Vlr? ginla Mr. Carlisle said he could make further statement upon this subject at this time. President Roosevelt to-day informed Representative Hepburn.

of tha House Committee on Interstate and For? eign Commerce. that he would appolnt at once a representative from each of tho government departments to confer wlth tlie committee as to the creatlon ot department of commerce. Cabinet Meeting. The Cabinet meeting to-day was de? voted almost exclusively to the consld eration of the status of reciproclty wltb Cuba and the canal treaty with Colombia. The hitches that have occurred in tha tho negotiations were discussed, as also were the prospects of settlement.

Secretary Hay. while presenting tho subject of the canal negotiations to tho Cabinet. was not able to report that any progress had been made during tho past week. in fact. lt appears that the negotlatlona have come to a dead stop, and while no such thing as an ultimatum has passed.

the precise situations may be deseribed iu the statement that the Colombian minister here, distinctly informed tha State Department that he cannot in bo balt of his government. accept the laat proposition of the United States as the basis of a canal treaty. The State Depart? ment has already let it be known that lt has come to the end of its concesslonsv so the chances of a renewal of the nego? tiations in the near future are not very; bright. MRS. BIDDLE CHARGES HARSHIM WITH THEFT (Special Dispatch to The Times.) NEW YORK.

Nov. Constanca Drexel Biddle was a conspicuous flgura to-day ln Essex Market Court. she appeared as complalnant against Naj.b Harshim. whom she charged the larceny of a gold aml dlamond loeket valued at which he had pawned for $16 at Simpson's, No. 19i Bowery The prisoner was held by Brann ln $1,000 ball for trial.

The case is the sequel to a simiiar charge preferred by Mrs Biddle in Phil? adelphia last July whereby Hashim held ln $5,000 ball for trial, charged with stealing jewelry worth $30,000 belonginjc to Mrs. Biddle. but the case never catna to trial, as Mrs. Biddle withdrew tho compiaint. Mrs.

Biddle was formerly a flgure society. Hashim was manager of one of Koster and Bial's vaudeville houses. MAN MADE MANY EFFORTS T0 TAKE HIS LIFE (Special Dispatch to The Times.) NEW YORK, November pas? sengers on the steamer Adlrondack, of the People's Line, from Aibany and Tryo which landed this morning had had no sleep. Samuei Nathaniel a steerage passenger, had kept them awaka by his efforts to commit suicide. He was first found emptylng flower pots and eating tne dirt.

Next he pulled out of the port hole through which he was vainly trylng to squeeza himself. Then he tried to hang himself. The deck hands tied him to a stanchfon. This he did his best to batter hia faw brains out against lt. They packed pil lows and excelsor behind him.

But ha never stopped shoutlng until the boat had arrived, and he had been taken. in stralt jacket to Bellevue. FORTUNE AN0 A BRI0E FOR A FOOT-BALL STAR Dispatch to Tbe times.) NEWPORT NEWS. Nov. Joseph Theislng.

half back on tha foot 1 ball team which plays in Philadelphia Thursday. wiil not return to Newport News. but will proceed to New where he wlH take steamerTor Germany. news having reached him of his grandfather. left him a fortune of eighty thousand bride is also walting for him- Thelslae came here four years ago from Phila delphia and went to work at the yard as a blacksmith.

He will amttkah pate ln tha.