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OUR MEN IN AMBUSH Battalion of 4th Infantry Attacked by Professed Friendlies. OUR LOSS 5 KILLED, 25 WOUIDED Gen. Wheaton Has Narrow Escape Leading Up Reinforcements. REBELS' LOSS IS HEAVY M.\NI.A. June 19, 5:20 p.m.-A battalion of the ith Infantry, which left Imus. where Ueneral Wheaton is in command. this morn ing to reconnoiter toward Peres Das Mari na, where it was believed most of the reb- s who escaped from Paranaque and :amo.r hal fled, was attacked in the rear by apparently friendly natives. This broucht on a sharp engagement, lasting soveral hours, resulting In five Americans t.ne killed and about twenty-five being wonel-d. The loss of the rebels was very heavy. Reinforcements Sent Out. The hattalion soon exhausted its ammu nitin. anai at 2:3A1 this afternoon Gen. 'heaton and his staff, with the second bzttalion. two mountain guns and one field piece. went to reinforce the troops attacked. Gen. Wheaton was fired on in a road and had a narrow escape. Later the :d Bautalion was ordered to the fro.nt and formed on the Las Marinas road. lheavy firing on both sides followed, the tr:Sllery being freely used. The enemy was located in the woods a.t 4 o'cl.ck. .sh>wing signs of retiring, as the rebe4s were being pressed very hard. One gun of the 6th Artillery, in an advan tageous ilrsition. did greet execution. The lighting was still in progress at 5 o'clock, at which time the Americans had secured a quantity of Filipino arms which had beeft abandoned in the woods. The scene of the fight is over twenty miles from Manila. 2,$/w CL BANS PAID. Gen. Gomes Urging the Necessity of Hurry In the Work. HAVANA. June 19.-Gen. Geo. M. Ran dall has returned from paying the Cuban au.dterw. He says he paid at least 2,500 men. The majority delivered up their arms, which were turned over to the civil authorities. A few men were arrested for issing bogus certificates and discharges and were turned over to the alcaldee. The general expects to begin paying in Havana tomorrow. The additional pay rolls will probabsly not be ready for six weeks. The Cuban soldiers at Remedios are be coming anxious to receive their money, as the proprietors of the hotels and restau rants are unwilling to allow them more credit, owing to the uncertainty of the men's inclusion in the revised lists. General (:omen realizes the necessity for haste, and is urging the officers to hurry the neces sary data to him. All the Spanish merchants approve the plan for the new docks and have petitioned M1aj. T. H. Bliss, the collector of customs hor.. to include piers. Lieut. Col. Reber of G.-n. Wilson's staff has arrived at Sancti Sp.iritus. He finds the wires are being more re.pected since the arrest and punish ment of the last offenders. NEW FRENCH CABINET. Lis! Og Those Who Will Probably Ae eeft Omee. PARIS. June 19.-Senator Waldeck-Rous seau has informed President Loubet that he hoi-s to complete the list of the new cabinet this evening. It is thought Senator Waldeck-Rousseau's cabinet will be conpoeed as follows: \1. Waldeck-Rousseau. premier and min ister of war. Senator Monis. minister of justice. M. DeL.anessan. minister of marine. M. Delcasse, tminister of foreign affairs. M. Millerand, minister of public works. 31. Caillaux. minister of finance. 31. DeLiombre. ministe- of ccinmerce. 31. Leygues, minister of public instruc tinn. 1. (Guillain, minister of the co.onies. M. Lepire. mini ter of the interior. Possibly Senator Waldeck-Rousseau may take the portfolio of the Interior and give Gen. Brug-r the portfolio of war. THE ALASKAN BOLNDARY. It Will Follow Summits of White and Chileoet Pnses. LONDON. June 19.-The officials of the colonial office today were shown the dis patch from Washington saying that Can adia had served notice on Great Britain that she must choose between the United States and' her Nrsrth American dominion In the s,-ttlem.-nt of the Alaskan boundary dis pute. They declared that the story is wrong both ia substance and fact, and that it can be~ further reaffirmed that a modus vivendi s reached early last week, as cabled to the Associated Press at the time. The ar rangement, which is a verbal one. deais with the question on broad lines. One or tw., minor details are still under distus eion. andi when they are settled the fina! arrangement will be drawn up. Iseneraliy speaking, it may be said that the, boundary agreed upon follows the sum mits of the White and Chilcoot passes. GERMANY' CAiIOT ACCEPT. Foreiga Omee Oceial Tnlks et the Arhituatton ProposaL. BERl~LIN, June 19.-An official or the Gier Wnan foreign office, who was interviewed today by the correspondent here of the Aw inocated Press relative to the visit of LDr. Zorn, one of the German delegates to the peace conference, to Berlin, emphasised the impossibility of Glermasny accepting Sir Julian Pauncefote's arbitration tribunal pro yosals. THE ELKS IS ST. L1l11S. ThIrty-First Amnal Centention et Order Begin. Teonerwow. WPT I/M'13. Nd.. June 19.-This city is tking on a purple asped~ in honor of the tirty-tirst annual convention and reunion of the Benevoient and Protective Order of Elks, which begins here tomorrow. AlH the Grand Lodge offieers have arrived and are maan the Southern Hotel their headquar ters. It is expected that at leat 6,000 Elks will be here snorrow. The aessions of the r~and Lodge. whidh wiil be held in the Olymspic Theater, will be secret. Grand Exalted Ruler John Galvin of Cin cinnti will not stand for re-election. There are two active candidates for this posi tion, Judge B. N. Alien of Birmingham, Ala.. and George A. Petre of Cumnberland, Nd. For the position of granld secretary the contest will be between George A. Rey nolds of Saginaw. Mich.. the present incum bent, and Bert Lyon of St. Louis, Report of Attempted Suteide. The ponice of the eighth precinct reportLed t a police headqmarters this afternoon that Mrs. R. S. Fowler, Hiving at 2m Bright wood avenue, had attempted "suicide. Ae cording to the report. the woman took a big dose af carbolic acid. When sa be camne elck a policemma was summone. He telephoned for Dr. CoMents, Mrs. Powier's family physiciaa. The doctor rempended and sue relieved the patient. It is thegt hae andatne is GEN. MACAULEY'S BODE Reaches Here Today an the U. S %&W Detroit Gallant Soldier On the Civil War-As. rangements for Fneral-Internaent at Arlington Thursday. The. cruiser Detroit left Norfolk last evening and arrived at this city late this afternoon. She has just returned from a visit to Nicaragua, where she was sent several months ago to safeguard the Inter ests of the United States during the In surrection at Bluefields. When affairs in tihat country had quieted down sufficiently to justify her departure, orders were is sued to her commanding officer to pro ceed to.Greytown, Nicaragua, for the pun pose of receiving and transporting to the United States the remains of Gen. Daniel Macauley, a distinguished veteran of the civil war, who died in that country sev eral months ago while acting as agent of the ca-nal company. Arrangements had been made by Lafayette Post. G. A. R., of New York city, of which the deceased was a prominent member, fdr the inter ment of his remains in the Arlington ceme tery. and at the request of that post, the Detroit was directed to bring the remains to this city. General Macauley was a resident of this city for many years prior to his departure for Nicaragua, and at one time was chief clerk of the Treasury Department. According to the present plan. the body will be landed at the Wash ington navy yard tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. and placed temporarily in a re ceiving vault. The arrangements for the fureral cere monies have not yet been complted. They are in charge of Mr. S. W. Hastings of .42 R street, as the representative of La fayette Post, G. A. R. Local posts of the G. A. It. will probably participate in the ceremonies. The relatives of the deceased solider are now on their way to this city from their home in Indiana. In case a military detail is tequested. it will be sup plied by the War Department, although, in asmuch as Gen. Macauley was not in the military service at the time of his death, he is not entitled to a military escort ac cording to a strict construction of the army regulations. The committee of seven of Burnside Post, No. 8, G. A. R., Silas W.. Hastings. chair man. has received a telephone message from Wilbur F. Brown, adjutant, Lafayette Post. No. 140, Department of New York, G. A. It., that the funeral of the late Gen. Daniel Macauley will be held some time Thursday, the 22d, at Arlington. Notice to be given hereafter, giving hour and full particulars. Arrived at 1 ig. It was exactly 1:55 o'clock when the De troit arrived opposite the navy yard. The trim little ship-of-war was made fast just astern of the dispatch boat Dolphin. The body of Gen. Macauley has not yet been brought ashore. AN ISSUE OF VERACITY. Secretary Long Writes Letters of In quiry to Hodgson and Heilner. The Navy Department is endeavoring to straighten out the newspaper controversy with regard to the colloquy between Ad miral Schley and Lieut. Commander Hodg son, alleged to have occurred on the bridge of the flagship Brooklyn during the battle of July 3, off Santiago, which col loquy is said to refute Admiral Schley's official explanation of the much-talked of loop. of the Brooklyn near the beginning of the engagement. Secretary Long has written to Lieut. Commander Hodgson and Lieut. Hellner. formerly of the Texas, asking each, it is understood, if he has been correctly rep resented in the newspapers in regard to the Brooklyn controversy. There is apparent ly an issue of veracity between these two officers as well as between Lieut. Com mander Hodgson and the New York Sun. Hodgson wrote a letter tq Admiral Schley. saying that the colloquy published fre quently in the Sun never took place, and Lieut. Heilner wrote to the editor of the Sun expressing his disbelief that Hodgson had written such a letter, for the reason that Hodgson told him practically the same story that appeared in the Sun. It is stated that the Secretary has so far confined his inquiries on this interesting question to Hodgson and Heilner, and has not called on either Admirals Schley or Sampson or the members of the so-called Wainwright board for any information on the subject. The further progress of the inquiry will depend on the character of the responses made oy Hodgson and Heilner, and it is broadiy intimated that if a prima facie ease of prevarication (if nothing worse) is made out against either officer his conduct will be made the subject of an investiga tion by a court of inquiry. In that event the whole question of Ad miral Schley's conduct in the battle of San tiago would have to be gone over, at least in so far as It related to the change in the course of tife Brooklyn in the early stages of the battle. The members of the Wain right board which made the official charts of the positions of the warships at differ ent stages of the engagement would be important witnesses before such a court to testify as to what was developed before that board with respect to the change in the course of the Brooklyn early In the engagement. Some surprise is manifested that the Navy lDepartment should have taken cogniz ance or the letters of Hodgson and Hell ner, Inasmuch as It is conceded that they were toth entirely unofficial and each offi cer has stated that his letter was not in tandedl for publication and was not pub lished by him. CALSED A SENSATION. Payamaster General Ke==y Issnes Rules for Governmment of Clerks. Admiiral Kenny, chief of the bureau of supplies and accounts, has created some what of a sensation In the Navy Depart ment by the issue of the followring rules for th.e government of the bureau, to the head of which he has just been apinted: "I. The payuraster general feels it neces sary to drsw attention to a certain spirit of laxness ir. the bureau, whilch is shown at times in tardiness of arrival, neglect of legithnate work for the reading of newspa pe, conversation and excursios through the corridors. ".The c:erical force will realise thart satisfactory work cannot be done in and by the bureau if such infractions of proper disciipline are perndtted. Silence is espe cially enjoined, so far as practicable. 'N'cessary conference or collaborastion concerning work in hand imould always be conducted in very low tones. '':t. For the pmoper maintensanute of ef ficiency lists, as required by the civil serv ice system. clerks are directed hereafter to regmster times of arriva~l in the morning, of departure and return at midday and of de parture at the close of the day. "4. No excuse whatever will be acce'pted' for tandiness. '.The fo'lowlng penalties are estab lished, and will be charged in the efficiency records of individluaja in cases of infraction of office rules: TardIness, 2 points; tardi ness (over half hour), 5 points; idling or loitering in corrIdors, 5 points; reading newspapers or other periodicals, or writing on private business, during office hours, B poinrts; entertaining visitors during office hours. 5 points; seence. witbout leave, or without certificate of Illness. 10 points; ne giect to carry out verba~l instriantions, 10 points; talking above a low tone during office hours in any of the room. weree etr ical work is going on, 10 points; neglect to carry out printed regulations, writ'ten or dors or inemorandumsi, 25 potst. "Any offense not herein enumerated wili be rated as to points wheni it fs committed. as the paymaster genesai ma decide." UO EXTRA meUSSIS, Representative Cenla Says That ,Iye gse Ro Oseastem e it; Representative Cashaof mine. ua. at the Treasury Departmnt today attending to departmaai matters foe his constitua ents. When asked if be thought Congress would be callsd in session earlier than De eember he replied: "Neo. I de not think there will be any coc=sin for It. Mr. Hen derson will go lato the Si~hls chair with the approval of everyt. Whe party will be in splendid condition "M we, and I look for a useful and upratable ss .uln -- ROBBERS GET $4,000 Bold Work of adte in Fairmount Park, Phi adelphia. ?R&BPORTATTOI COPAH VICTIE Employes Bound With Wire While the Safe is Cracked. NO CLEW TO BANDITS PHILADELPHIA, June 19.-A gang of masked robbers, probably ten in number, early this morning raided the receiving of fice of the Fairmount Park Transportation Company at Belmont, in Fairmount Park, and after holding up the. receiver and five other.employes of the railway, blew open the safe, securing $4,000, the company's re ceipts for two days. Frank Levan, receiver; Frank Watson and Henry B. Whitehouse, conductors; James Cavanaugh, fireman of the power house; Philip Eaves, electrician, and Will iam Cadmus, laborer, % ere bound hand and foot with wire. In addition to the men who actually committed the robbery, others operated miles away from the scene by de stroying telegraph and telephone wires con necting with the trolley company's main office. The Fairmount Park Transportation Com pany operates various lines of trolley cars through the park for pleasure riders. The traffic being unusually heavy on Saturdays and Sundays, the robber.- evidently decided upon this morning as being a good time to make a big haul. Men Completely Surprised. The n en named were all in the office when the burglars made their appearance. Each intruder was armed with revolvers, and they took the employes completely by surprise. It was the work of a few mo ments for the robbers to pinion the work men, who were rolled over to one side of the room, with their faces to the wall. After nearly two hours' work, the safe was rifled of its contents and the gang disappeared. The entire city detective force is on the case, but the cracksmen left no clew. Frank Levan, the night receiver, -one of the men gigged and bound by the robbers, told this story of his experience: "While I was standing at the southern door of the office next to the stalled cars, I heard footsteps in the rear. Turning, I saw two men with masks on their faces. "They had two big revolvers apiece in their hands and came directly up to me at the desk. I saw at once that it was up with me. They told me not to move nor cry out or they would kill me. One fellow, who was of enormous size, stuck one of his pistols against my ear. They took me into the donductors' room and tied my hands and feet with wire picture cord and laid me on the floor, with my face to the wall. The electric lights were burning brightly all the while, and when I got in the conductors' room I saw Whitehouse was being held up in the same way by other desperadoes, also with masks on, and being bound and gagged. Guarded by a Robber. "When we were laid on the floor a man was detailed to guard each of us. In a few minutes in came another victim, who, I think, was Watson, a conductor, and he went through the same thing. Then some more of the men came in and were bound, and by this time I thought there must be twelve or fifteen desperadoes at work in the car barn, and that they expected to gathef' in the whole list of employes and then crack the safe, which contained about $4,000. The burglars worked very quietly. They whispered wheneler they said any thing to any of their number. They turned our bod4es away from the safe, so we could not see them, and started to work on the safe. "They must have been accomplished oracksmen. for it only took them ten min utes to blow the safe. The works inside. however, got tangled up, and they worked and hustled to open the door wider for an hour and a half. "The explosion of dynamite filled the rooms with a vast lot of smoke and nearly choked us. The tools they must have got ten from the machine shop, as they started to work at once when they had us bound. Threatened to Shoot. "Thy guards put us in a most unpleasant frama of mind, for they frequently threat ened to shoot us if we made the least out cry or motion. I think they must have had a wagon to take away the cash, because it was largely made up of dimes, nickels, quarters, half dollars, which is very heavy and not easy to get away with. "Shortly after the money was taken the guards, who were over us with drawn pis tols, left, telling us to he quiet or we would be shot. After considerable tusseling, Phil ip Eaves, the electrician, who was one of those bound, got himself unloosed, and he then unloosed us. I tried to reach the city ball by wire, but the wires on both tele phones had been cut, and I had to run in the pitch dark cross country to the Belmont lumping station, where I gave the alarm, and they telephoned in from there shortly before 3 o'clock to the city hall and In formed the detectives." FEmployes Suspected. The car barn of the trolley company In which the receiver's office is located stands In a deep ravine leading- from Belmont mansion, a pleasure resort, to the Schuyl kill river. The building is surrounded by heavy timber land and its isolation ren dered it perfectly adapted for the work ot the robbers. The opinion is expressed that some one in the employ of the company was either a member of the gang or in collusion with them. The robbers are believed to be local crooks. Nitro-glycerine was first tried on the safe, but that failing, it was drilled open with the company's own tools. Peter Duftert and Charles Smith, who say they lIve in Newark. N. J., and Albert Leeds of Philadelphia were arrested in Fairmount Park this afternoon on sus picion of being connected with the robbery. They were sent to prison for a further hearing in default of baiL. Dewey Fand Subscripttons. The subscriptions to the Dewey fund are growing. Today's subscriptions were $338.95, making the total to date 39,140.71. Goverassent Reeeltat. Government receipts received today from internal revenue, 31,316,580: customs, 3875, 0:26; miscellaneous. 337,182; expenditures, 34L490,000. Alleged Snupelons Person. Samuel White, colored, was this after noon charged before Judge Kimball with being a suspicious person. The court took his personal bonds to leave town at once. -Cemvieted and Fined. Richard Hewitt was this afternoon con victed before Judge Kimball of destroying three sets of harness and damaging a car riege belonging to J. N. Matthews, entail ing a Ices of about 310. He was fined p25, with thas alternative of three months in the workhouse. On a charge of larceny of some bras. goods from the same man Hewitt asked for a jury trial. which was granted. Eng~lah Favor Starting Gat. LONDON. JTune 19.-At a meeting of the Jockey Club this mnorning it was unani mously resolved to recommend the steward. to adopt a starting gate for* all two-year ol4 races in' 1910. -The Prince of 1(aies sisiie in favor of the retrolution. .Other TriaEa Inteartere. No aation was eea today i the Knt of Labonr consephacy 'ee er tUse K.ieck hoefer -cms, :far tint tesm (stl~tb Wia tslet Attmeney Davis and Astene A. S. Wotingen are engaged i the tri of a diwii case In Okrcalt Court. No. 1. It was stated tubi afternoon at the dis trict attorney's e~oe. iat the Knights of Labor eonspiracy asse will nost be tailed for trial Utel the October ters of th.e AT SMTW COLLEGE President e tWves Grad hating liendaedCt Northamptoth. B RECEIVES de will WELCOME Local Miita Ofganizations Fire a National Salute. MEETING WITH GEN. COOK NORTHAMPTON, Mass., June 19.-North ampton was dressed in its best today to welcome the President of the United States upon his arrival from Holyoke. Consider able effort at general deooration has been made, and the pubhe buildings, together with many residences, were gay with bunt ing and flags. From every trolley pole along the entire route of the parade were suspended large flags, while every few yards were long streaimers ii tiihIng to each side, and caught up in the center over the trolley wire, forming a large, bright 2rch way. The President's train arrived on time, and was greeted with a salute. of twenty-one guns. William Whiting, the President's host at Holyoke, was with the party, and at the station 'hier Mayor John L. Mather and Mr. A L. Williston of. this city, Mr. W. B. Plunkett of Adams, Miss Helen McKin ley, sister of the President; Mrs. Ella Buck ingham of Canton, Ohio, and Mrs. G. K. Glidden of Boston were waiting to join the visitors. .t Cheers for the President. A rousing cheer went up as the train came to a stop and President McKinley stepped down from the- platform to enter the waiting carriage. This welcome was repeated at inltervals, and the President and Mrs. McKinley were constantly en gaged in acknowledging the cheers. The presidential train stopped at a point where the casriages could be entered from the car platform. A reception committee rep resenting the city greeted the party, and the local militia company, with the Grand Army, presented arms. The procession was then formed and moved through the main street to the grounds of Smith College. The senior day chapel exercises were nearly concluded when the company arrived In the college grounds. When the chapel was reached the presi dential party were given seats upon the platform, while the seniors occupied the front row of chairs in the auditorium. The exercises were opened with singing and prayer, and an address was made by President Seeiye of the college. He spoke of the triumph in the struggle to remove the almost universal and unfair prejudice against higher education of women, and, turning to President McKinley, said the college felt that the-chief executive, by his presence, had given practically a national sanction to the higher education of women. The Adminibtraton Commended. He added thathe considered the visit of the chief execuive ai a fitting and crown ing event of the last ytear of the nineteenth century. The speaker, bn liehalf of the college, expressed admiration 'of the national admin istration and the determination of the President to give the blessings of free and enlightened government to all the people over whom we may be called to rule. He then requested the President be given the respectful and giaceful salutation of the assembly, and stated that, at the re quest of the President, he would not call upon him to make an address. The exer cises elosed with- the singing of "America." The seniors then -marched to the yard, where the President.watched the ceremony of platting the .ivy. .Meanwhile; in otie or the rooms of thte college Mrs. McKinley was presented with a beautiful loving- cup by the Bethesda Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, of which she Is a member,,. Mrs. Gen. L. C. Hastings made the presentation speech, to which Mrs. McKinley responded very briefly, expressing her pleasure and appreciation of the gift. Meaeting'With Gen. Cook. As the President passed through the grounds to rejoinhis associates Gen. B. E. Cook, ninety-six years of age, who com manded a brigade of the state militia about fifty years ago, and father of Capt. Frank A. Cook, commander of the cruiser Brooklyn during the Spanish war, was in troduced to him. As soon as these inci dents had been concluded the President and his friends took their carriages and were driven to the residence of Capt. Harry L. Williams. and after a light lunch the party par ticipated in a short drive through the city. Their course tookthem by the high sdtool building, where the students assembled upon the lawns were reviewed by the Pres ident, who was given a salute by the pu pils, each waving an Americen flag. As the presidential party returned they were met by. the military company and escorted to the station. As the train moved away three hearty eheers for Holyoke were given by the spectators. The weather was delightful, adding not a little to the pleas ures of the ocession. The Start Frosa Holyoke. HOLYOKE, Mass,. -Jun.e 19.-President McKinley was up early today, a'fter a night of refreshing sleep'. Mrs. McKinley, the President said, was rested after the fatigue of yesterday. After breakfast had been erved at the Whiting mansion, irhere -the presidential party are guests, preparations were begun for the railroad tit'iV to Northampton. Promptly at S:45 the la.dies and gentlemen of the party 'were driven to the station, where the President's special train was in readiness to convey them to the little town where is situated Smith College, the ulti mate destination -of the PresIdent today. At 9 o'clock the train pulled out of the sta tion, the large scrowd- assembled there giv ing the party threencheers and a tiger at parting. The' train 'was -due to arrive at~ Northampton at 1:30 LOOKS LIKE CANNIBALIEM. Awful Story of Suiering and Horror in Alaska. CIRCLE CITY, Alaska, May 29 (via San Francisco, June' 19%;-A story of possible cannibalism on the Ytukon trail has just reached here. Tphree m)en left Dahl river on December 5 legaJillttown, were not heard of again ahd the4adere supposed to have been lost. Noth ~ 's heard of them here till the steamer d t whieh arrived to, day, brought a tilMleitie pt sau~ering and horror. The men we '~ haeI Daly, Victor1 Edlard and M. o4 Ihey were fromn Providence, R. W oket R. IL, and Brockton, Mass,ireesstitvely. Their bodies were discovered sev een miles from the mouth of Old Ma~s Weefk, they having lout the trail and b$t'ewjidered. Ilasving left Dahl river w~1 Ythree weeks' food, but which was- ahllyffioient for the 110 miles to JimhtoW, rl~ ere soon reduced t(- starvation. Daly's body war foam-, partly edten, on the atove in thei tIsts iast as tS4 was left when death GS2entnb 'the- otherm, Some scrape of mot~ abienand mo 'ain, were found, .f which th3 were endeavoriog to make a stew. Dalts body was Iientinled by -the clothes. The other two men awere fouand dead I've miilg way from the tent. The feet of the teaf' b~r eing' shut dowri when found wo opreclude the possibntity -of dyhavin. beed eaten by animalist 'Y* oermen deubnlges were- &dven by huweet to the awftul ews tremilty of ncam-nba "Fobur hundred de.1 lars were fudeii ~la The apven boats. wq intered at Dal river are all55.: 'I tw he St. 18le4ei, Rqhnideer, Mans dyaa s uGrag, Lum sanldeu=nn a xwunig a:bborar hiIist*?ard et 40a,e aive-amre abise Wtil siebb . abet and kied in Mas hese Ssaureu naght. Thsire WHITE HOUSE REPAIRS Rearrangement of the Water sad Sewerage System. COLONEL NIIGH& OPERlTOI Sanitary Condition of the Mansion Improved AN EXPERIMENT GIVEN UP Col. Bihham, the superintendent of pub lic buildings and grounds, is having com pleted under his imfhediate supervision an extensive change in the water and sewer age system of the White House. The cost of the work is considerable, but Col. Bing ham, who is regarded as one of the best engineers in the country, is satisfied that he has not spent money unnecessarily or unwisely. The work v.as begun some time ago, but has been slow of completion, be cause the noise was disagreeable to Mrs. McKinley, and much had to be done while she was away from the city. In attempting to reach leaks and connec tions in the water and sewerage system for the President's home, Col. Bingham dis covered that there were no maps of the work, and that the pipes and connections were put down without any record as to their location or functions. There were also separate pipes, cesspools and certain defects which endangered the health of the President and his family if permitted to remain. A change was decided upon. The New System. The whole system is now contained in one big conduit, which was carefully dug and cemented. Iron and cement trap doors of Col. Bingham's own invention cover the conduit every few feet, making the system easy of access and rendering simple all re pairs or the flushing of the works. The system begins at the east end of the White House and runs through and around the norte side of the building, carrying away all water and waste. In the conduit run the water, sewerage and other pipes, there being a separate pipe for sewerage and rain waters. A map of the whole system has been prepared for future use and filed in Col. Bingham's office. The electric light wires for the building are also to be placed in the conduit. The system is compact and closely con nected, and all connections to the main pipe are exposed. "Washouts" are provid ed at all bends so as to flush the system at intervals. In addition several valves have been placed where they can be used for flushing. The pipes from the fountains run into the system, and everything has been "caught up," to use a plumber's expression. When the work was being done many old, unsuspected and unusued pipes were dis covered, together with several cesspools which have been an annoyance for years, but an exact knowledge of which was wanting. Some of the usual changes are being made in the interior of the building while the oc cupants are absent. Franklin Park Water. For years an impression has prevailed that the drinking water for the White House has come from Franklin Park. Stories have been told of attempts to poison the spring in the park that the President might be made away with. Not since Presi dent Arthur's administration has the wa ter from Franklin Park been used in the Executive Mansion. At that time and prior to that pipes carrying the water from the spring ran throughout the White House, there being a good flow on the second floor. About that time the flow of the water grew weaker and the supply no longer went to the second floor. Graduially it did hiot reach the second floor, and for years has run into a little pool at the southeast corner of the building. Even this flow is weak. It is understood at the White House that the flow of the spring has been getting weaker and weaker each year. It is also said that the spring or the pipes running from it has been tapped slyly for private use, thus decreasing the flow. Water Now Used. There is no use in the water continuing to run to the fountain at the White House, as it is not used regularly. Occasionally some one wants a drink from the spring and the water is caught in a bucket. The President drinks filtered Potomac water and finds that healthy. Of course his table is supplied with mineral and table waters. Mrs. Hayes did not like either the Po tomac or Franklin Park water, and thought that cistern water was the purest which could be used. She had a cistern built at the southeast corner of the building and an engine put in to pump the water to the private apartments. She soon tired of this cistern, and it has been an annoyance since. Col. Bingham has now done away with it. BRAVERY OF THE "NON-COM." Extracts From the Report of Lieut. Kessler, 3d Artillery. In the reports recelgad from Gen. Otis are a numeber from officers of low rank, which contain considerable interesting informa tion. One of these is a report of Second Lieutenant P. M. Kessler, who commanded Battery L, 3d Artillery, during some of the early engagements. This battery was part of a flanking party which drove the insur gents back during the first day's fighting. "Most of the enemy's retreat," says Lieut. Kessler, "was covered, but there was oe wide gateway where they could all be seen during their flight. It was here that was seen the only conspicucus act of bravery ti at I have known in connection with the insurgents. Two of their officers, appar ently surprised by the attack on their flank, and unable to check the flight of their men, paused in the gateway and calmly sur veyed the country in front of them. At least a hundred rifles were cracking away in their direction at not over five hundred yards. but they remained for probably a half minute in the perilous position before they passed on, with their retreating troops. A few of thesi latter lingered for a moment in the chapel to fire from its windows, but our fire soon silenced them, and they joined their comrades in flIght." In ulosing his report Lieut. Kessler says. "Where every one has done his whole duty, and has done it well, praise of in dividuals seem. almost out of place, but I wish to invite attention to the fact that as there was no offier besides myself with the battery, which numbered 122 men prm-. ent on the day of the engagement, great dependenca was necessarily placed upon the non-commissioned offieers for the prop er and effective control of such a number. The 1st Platoon was commanded by First Sergt. W. C. Read, the 2d Platoon by Sergt. William Edgar and the sections as follows; The 1st by Sergt James Barrett, the 2d by Sergt. Edward Mytton, the 3d by Sergt. Alexander Goehr, the 4th by Sergt. Ber nard Sharp, antil he 'was wounded, when the command was taken by Sergt. Peter Fanning. The work performed by these non-comthlssioned officers was of the very best. They all fearlessly exposed them selves to the fire of the enemy, and man-| aged the fire discipline of their respectiv6 subdivIsions, which was entirely in their hands, with the greatest Intellgence and effect. Not a man was missing from his place at the end of the fight whose absence was unaccounted for." Will Study Parnasnetary Prata.e Thoreas P. Cleaees, elerk .of the Senate committtee on appr'opriations, ad Harriy H. .Smith for pany yeqrs Journeat clerk etpu House of Representatives, will s*eino :tie Red Star enamer .Sathwsrk Waanamay for Antwerp, their objective potat beiag Londot ad the house cof n"neas Mrp Cleaves -will Iook into theeeleia methods of prdgering the:"ueseiV" or appsepsattu~an biuS tad and eatsohw whil. Mr. genh 'tIa tdy the rulesse--emiuswpsaese. of ele hourneo e tsem~es, and teieta DEADLY LIVE WIRE Gee Bew., s cessi Boatanga, Kmiled Cmde. tha A.i.et Srld,.-T e W re That Did the Werk. George Bowers, a canal hand, was in stantly killed last eveaing albout 10:40 o'eocd while endeavoring to turn a canal boat beneath the Aqueduct bridge, the un fortunate man catching hold of a live elec tric wire containing a voltage sufident to cause instant death. His friends endeav ored to restore animation, but to no avail; and the police were notifed. The body was taken to the Georgetown police station and later removed to the morgue at the sixth precinct, where Qroner Carr w20 make an investigation at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Bowers was maployed on the plemisre boat Male, which runs between George town and Great Fail. and it was on the return trip that the accident occurred. Capt. Magruder, in comnmaid of the boat. and Frank Donaldson, who lives at Rosalyn, Va., were the only ones on the boat in the immediate vicinity of the fatality. After a landing had been made and the passengers disembarked Capt. Magruder ordered the boat turned around. Bowers and Donald son in doing this work both readhed in the dark to get a grasp on something connect ed with the bridge. Both men's hands came in contact with a live wire. Donald son did not fully grasp the wire and he was only thrown violently to the deck. Bower., however. must have secured a full grip and he was killed instantly. The flashing of electric sparks around the man was startling. Capt. Magruder was on the towpth at the time of the tragedy direct ing the operations of the men, and friends of the captain resent deeply the statement given as coming from the police that the captain was in the cabin drinking. Bowers wea from Sharpsburg. Md., and had only been here a short time. He leaves a wife, who is in Georgetown in destitute circunstances. The Deadly Wire. Speaking of the killing of Bowers. Mr. W. C. Allen, the District electrical en gineer. said to a Star reporter today that the wire which killed the man is one of those belonging to the Potomac Electric Power Company, used to furnish Incan descent lighting for the Aqueduct bridge. The accident, In Mr. Allen's opinion, was due to imperfect Insulation, and in all probability the unfortunate caught hold of the wire with one hand and then caught hold with the other hand of an iron part of the bridge, thus forming what is known as a short circuit, and sending the current, about 1,100 volts, through his body. Mr. Allen stated that during the day time there is no current running through these wires, two switches having recently been put in, which adds to the better pro tection of the public. No complaint has ever been made in the matter of the wires under the bridge by the canal people or by others, and from an investigation made at Mr. Allen's direction this morning, It ap pears that the wires hang high enough to avoid endangering the lives of those using the canal. The wire which the man caught hold of was found to be broken, but wheth. er it was broken before he caught hold of it, or whether his fall broke it, does not definitely appear. It is probable, so Mr. Allen believes, that Bowers caught hold of the wire while he was standing on an ele vated position on the boat, and, in doing so, grounded It. sending the full strength of the current through him. The defective Insulation, thinks Mr. Allen. was due either to the effects if the weather upon the wire cable, its breaking, or rubbing in some way so as to break the insulation. The cable, he stated, is swung high enough to enable ordinary canal boats and those on them to avoid coming in contact with it. and Mr. Allen, therefore, believes that the boat on which Bowers was killed being higher than the ordinary canal boat, the man was thereby enabled to reach the cable. REITERATES THE CHARGE. Mr. Usekwood om Ex-Seaster Rill's Stateameat Regrdlng Jadge Kaight. M. L. Lockwood. who appeared before the industrial commission Saturday afternoon, and made the charge that Judge Haight of the New York court of appeals had been elected by a corruption fund, was seen by a Star reporter today, and when asked if he had seen ex-Senator Hill's statement that Judge Haight was elected fairly. replied: "I had expected Senator Hill and demo crats of his stamp would defend Haight. It was because the true democracy had sickened of Hill's leadership, of Hill's at tempt to lead the democracy of the state in the interest of the corporate and money power, that it was impossible to defeat Haight in 1894. it was because under Hill's leadership there was no choice." He said Hill's position in regard to Haight at the present time was the strong est evidence of the truth of his statements made before the conmminsion on Saturday afternoon. An Uudesirahle Precedent. Messrs. 8. Kann, Sons & Co., 8th street and Market space, recently appjied to the District Commissioners for permission to leave a few packing cases near the 8th street entrance to the firm's store from about 5 o'clock in the afternoon until 8 o'clock the next morning. 1t was explained to the Comissioners that the firm, about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, get in a great many goods which they find it impossible to store away .n the cases. The Commissioners, however, have denied the request on the ground that the argu ment urged by the firm in question might be advanced by other merchants and for other materials than packing boxes. The granting of the request of Messrs. Kann. Sons & Co. would, in the opinion of the Commissionern, be establishing an unde sirable precedent, Grah=. Releaaed. Harold Graham, otherwise known as Royal M. S. Englia, who was arrested on suspicion of having stolen some surgical instruments while at Camp Ordway last week, has been released. He denied the charge, and it is stated the police had no evidence against him. Washintom Steek Exchange. 061 Cll 12 o'cleck m.-lm ia Rail 100a 5 00e at 11e , ,00pa Lineola Fire launeat 11%. at 12%. Mar tenth-tier Ids 1le t MM 1 a .10a 106, 10 at 26, 1 at 20%. Atmericas n prefenild. S0 at 14. After l4-.U. 20 A It~ ed. $40 at 100%. Capital T'raction.4 t 20a ul%. Wmantom Glas. SO at 54. i100a 5S4 m lean Graphopahome gueferred, 2e at 14. District of Colamabis Dmaa. -54, 1208 20-year hatir,18 i a, lap. . wa ~ sih hi bd. Mlseenlaeous Bomdm.-Metropoutaa Ra~lroad Is, 124 bid. Metropehtaa Railroad rert. idiebt.. A. 116 l#i. Metreisas Railroad n-rt. landebt. a. 114 Mid 12) asked. Columabia Raliemd 12, bid. h".mbi Railroad 20 mort, 0, bid.111 a* Mt. (Sty and 06berban ilailtead s, 06di. Wa seo Gas Os. series A. 06 1O bid. Wesose ight eb 6 18I~~L 116 asst U. ectric Light cert. indabt.. Os, 114 bid, 116 saa.a. 3hesapeke ad Potomae Tsilepbme s, los bid. iaserk'aa Security and Trast 4is, :08 bit. Wasag ma Market O. 1st 08, 108 bid. Wasbes Maset 3o. Imp. 06, 165 bid, Washiugna Market (Is. esta. k. 1418 bid. Masomie liaR Aaseseds . 166 bid. imerica Grenanmao-- dab. 06, 168 bd. .Natino= Beak 8tac0s.--Bak et Wsalgt m >id. Mq Mits 4W 6. Qtai, 1. bi. . Me2bsalse!,. See '@6, 168 bi. Citimeas', bd (hia..s, 145 1 aid, 106 aske Cala1 i Mi. West m. 124 1 i,131 askd 'rds, 12) aed. raasb. lag a ei 1.d0aaad. rs paarnse t --.esta- O saiss.-Ni00 84 Md.. ouasked s. iS bid. ZeiuaoU IN, a2 FINANCE AND TRADE ust Day of the Year in WAR &reet. EARF REAl II 8!11 83 Only Sugar and Tennessee Coal and Iron MAeet Support (ENERAL MARKET REPORTS Special Dipatc6 to The Eveniag Ater. NEW YORK. June 11.-The same lack of Interest which has been gradually under Ininirg the patience of believers in higher prices was again manifested in today's mar row market. The foreign markets were as lull as our own, and no indication of relit from the prevailing apathy is recorded in either London or the continent. Many of the larger financial interests have taken advantage of the dullness to leave town and have thereby increased the prospects for continued inaction. There has been no material liquidation of long stock, how'ever, and the inference fol lows that much stock is still held in an ticipation of greater activity and higher prices. In some quarters the belief in higher prices is based almost exiusively upon the fact that the larger interests are compul sory holders of stock for which a market is yet to be created. This view is particularly applicable to the industrial shares, of which a consider able volume of stock is still in the hands t the primoters. In the better class of railroad issues the hope of higher prices is based on the prospect of an abundance of die money which will be drawn to such asues as Burlington. St. Paul and some of the newer preferred stcck. The usuai anticipatory demand is delayed by the fact that wheat ooedittons are an 1uncertain factor and may yet reduce the Purchasing level. Commission houses are liOIng lttle and have little to aemend to cidents for immediate purdase. The larger houses are generally confident of bigher prices, but few of them are willing to fix the time for action. The market is too narrow and the aort interest is too large to admit of a material decline, but the narrowness is also a potent argument against the advance. Profession al traders are in control of prices, and their commitments are intended only to reaect local board root coe.tions. Outside of Weall street there is little encoursgsment to the short interest. Ehrnings are good and trades reports make an eaceptiuonally inc comnercial showing. The gold outflow, It is thought. is nearing its end, and money promises to be abun lant throughout the summer. A leader who has had experience in manipulating such forces could change the price level almost bayond recognition in forty-eight hours. The steel stocks and the entire industrial list, with a few exceptions, were the weak features of the day's market. American Steel and Wire broke badly under renewed iquidation. The hesitating policy of certain directors, amounting in effect to a repudiation of a 3romise, on the dividend question has ma :erially hurt the standing of these Usues. From semi-oficial assurances of an 8 per rent dividend on the cemmon stock. to be maid from earnings said to be averaging !0 per cent, the rate has been curtailed, ntil now no dividend is predicted. This question is one of the most awkward that has recently come to the front, and next Friday's meeting may yet develop sifne surprises. In any event the selling should be well over in advance of the meeting, the only surprising development being certain to be good as at preset the worst is being discounted. American Sugar and Tennessee Coat and [ron are two industrial properties which are just now attracting distinctly better support than their neighbors. Indiastiona are that today's total operations will be the smallest so far this year. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCiAL. New York Steek Market. - 3:63 4m. HIgh. 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