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r TU OkMktwi tf TIE TDEK YMfarfcj "WAS 42,11114. COFUW. THE WEATHER. Fair tofilgbt and Saturday; continued Wgh temperature; probably cooler 8ua- 4ay; variable winds, becoming -westerly. WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, SERjSMBER 10, 1897-SIX PAGES. ONE CENT. NO. 659. Wat u cuing WiVtotti PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. THE ONLY LfflVE -TO- Atlantic City Without Change of Cars, Via Delaware Bridge Route. Round Trip. Saturday, September n, $2 FIRST-CLASS EQUIPMENT. THROUGH CARS. NO STREET CAR TRANSFERS. Tickets Goo-f on all Regular Trains Returning. Special Trains will leave Sixth-street Station at 4:ooand 10:30 p. -m. Saturday and 7:oo a. m. Sunday, and tickets valid for return pas sage on all trains until September 13, inclusive, including special trains leaving Atlantic City at 6:00 p. m. on either Sunday or Monday. Philadelphia $2 Round SUNDAY, September 12. Tickets good going only on trains leaving Sixth-street Station 7:00, 8:00, 9:00 and 11:00 a. m., and returning on special leaving Philadelphia 7:00 p. mM and all regular trains date of issue. M To BALTIMORE Jjfl ? And Return AH Trains Sunday, September 12, Via Pennsylvania Railroad. MANY NEW FALL DE The Great Double Store and An nex Crowded All Day. PRICES ARE REMARKABLY LOW Wonderful Cheapness of the Most Hundsomo Pieces lb Keniarlied by Visitors No Display Like It lu "Washington Henmrknble Success of the People's Greut Providers. , "There's a bigger crovrd in Mayer & retttl'8 today than I think I have ever ecn. and they are all nice looking peo ple,' said the gasman to his friend the gripman; aud I don't -wonder at it, for you certainly get square treatment there.' "That you do," answered the gripnan, giving the brake a vicious tug. "They furr.isl.ert my house all through -when I first got this stand up-all-day-srn:ill-pay 'Job, and when thlngslooked blackest those fellows never hollered or pushed me, as some of the eredithouses do." "1 consider them honorable men, and I Judge peoplo as I find them." No wonder the people go there; it's hu Bian nature." "Well, ho long," bald the gasman. And tbe eavesdropping reporter got orf at the next corner. AltRESTED FOB AN OLD CRIME. James G. IlawkiDb Goes to Jail for Stubbing Frank Clements. Frank Clements and James G. Hawkins ecarne embroiled in a row on June 22, 1895. Clementu stabbed Hawkins so se- rerely that he was confined in a hos- tftal for seven months afterward. The as- lailant escaped and no trace of htm could be found. Yesterday, after a lapse or two years, Clements returned, but before be was in town half a day Policeman Als recognized and arrested him on the charge rhlch all this time has been hanging "ver him. Hawkins tesUfied against him in police court this morning and the maximum pen alty, oG4 dayt in Jail, was Imposed. "Novel Judicial Decision. Pittsburg, Pa.. Sept. 10. Alderman Eynon.ot this city, is almost a Solomon in Judgment. John Kovkiski brought before his honor a cow he had bought of Bernard Ichor, and claimed her milk was bad. The alderman stepped from fate courtroom door and milked the cow. If good cream rises on tee milk by morning, bis Judgment will be for the defease. lS-tocti bearaa $1 per 100 Vt, Fra&k UMey Co., 6th aad N.A. ave. $2 Sunday, September 12. FAST EXPRESS SERVICE. NO FERRIES. Trip. SAY THEY WILL RESUME Silsby & Co. Promise to Pay Up in a Few Days. The Amount of the Accounts of Their Customers Not Yet Announced. The firm of Silsby i Co., the brokers, doing business in the Metropolitan Bank build ing, aud who partially hi upended yesterday, is today in the same condition of inactivity, while Mr. George W. Silsby, the head of the firm, Is in New York, endeavoring to secure help for a resumption. It la said by the people iu the office that the suspension probably will be only temporary. There have been somewhat over a hun dred regular customers of the firm who had deposits of various amounts with Silsby & Co.'s private bank.ou which they made their stock trades. Besides, they had, also, profits accruing from the rise of the stock market It is not yet stated how much Is due these depositors and customers, though some or their Individ ual accounts are very large. Mr. Silsby, over the long-distance tele phone this morning, made a statement for his customers that he had gone far enough with his New York negotiations to be able to state that the firm will soon resume and pay all old accounts. The troubles of Silsby & Co., had been suspected for some days and various cus tomers had been unable to draw out their prorits iu full before the crash came. Tho suit for $2,000 of a local broker, who was doing business with the firm is supposed to have preclpttated the trouble, which was undoubtedly brought on by the advancing Etock market and the failure of the people with whom the firm waB dealing. Yesterday morning the suspension came and a notice of temporary Inability to pay bills was posted up. Nothing now develops in the Washington end of the failure yesterday of Willard & Co.,thegreatNcw York bucket shop firm having a branch here. Mary Anderson Denies a Rarnor. London. SepUlO.-MaryAndersonauthor i7es a denial ot the report that she is to appear on the concert stage in London this autumu. $1.00 Washington to Baltimore and return, via Pennsylvania Railroad, on Sunday next. Tickets good on all trains September 12. ae9-3t Lacy's pure food ice cream, bohc better, SOc. per gaHoa- 601-603 N. T. ave. aw. Oaly Oae All-Rail Rotate To Atlantic City. Only one Pease ylvaaia Ballroad. Best equipped railway la the -world. Great excursion to Atlantic CKy next Saturday and Saaday. ee9-3t 12-Ibcb boards fl per 100 'PU Frank Libbey A Co., 6th aad W. r. vn. $2 WIFE BEATERSEHT TO JAIL Street Will Languish There for a Year. HE BROKE HIS WIFE'S JAW Also Kicked Her In the Side, Caus ing Serious Injury The Young "Wife's Story of Abuse Pulsed Himself Off us a Single Man When vAwny From Home. John Street, the bartender, who has figured on several occasions' in newspaper stories, was arraigned In police court to d3y on c-itarge of breaking the jawbone or bis wire, Mabel, at their home, No. 436 Eleventh street, on the night of August 24. The case lias been called in court on several occasions, but tho condition of the injured woman has up to this time made her appearance upon the stand impossible. The case was the first upon which the Jury was called to pass its verdict. Mrs. Street, was the first Witness called. She is a pretty, dainty little woman, but her beauty was sadly marred by bandages which for some time to come she will be forced to wear in order that the frac tured bones of her Jaw may knit. While awaiting the calling of the case she stood near the rail, behind which the prisoner sat with his counsel, Major Carrington. He ti led to induce her to. desist from prose cuting him, but the injured woman re fused to accede to his request. Her testimony disclosed a sad tale of domestic JnTelicltv. Both huslmnd and wife are very young, and have been mar ried less than a year. During that short period the young wife told the court that the repeatedly had htm arrested, but al ways relented and allowed him to escape punishment. Since their marriage he has not supported her half the time, her mother being compelled to fulnish her with means of livelihood. "When he did have a position," she said, "he posed at a single man and did not give me any of his money. Notlong before he broke ray jaw he 6truck me so severely in the side that I suffer from the effects of It even uow. Hculso forced me to consent to a friend of his sleeping In the same room wltn us. On tho 25th of August he cnrr.c to mj rooms with his frleud and startt-d to take away my furniture. I pro tested against his removing it aud he struck me in the face and ran out. 'I felt a terrible pain in my face and could no t lift my Jaw. I began crying aud two gentlemen from downstairs carne up aud one went for a doctor. When he came he told me tliat my Jawbone had beeu broken and immediately bandaged it. Since then I luve suffered terribly and have not eaten a mouthful of solid food. The doctor also examined tin; place where my husband sprained my side and lb also treating that injury. Dr. Hooe testified that he was called to the Street home about 7 o'clock in the evening of the occurrence and found her with a badly fractured jaw. She was cry ing violently and suffering much. He dressed the wourd which was so severe that since that lime the woman has not been able to take anything but liquid food. "There Is an older injury in her side," he said, "which I regard as much more serious. I consider that the Jaw will mend much more quickly than this injury will be cured." Mrs. Hurley, Mrs. Street's mother, testi fied that her son-in-law told her he had struck Mabel, and that she should go to her assistance. Policeman Austin arrested Street near Ninth street and the Avenue He had no warrant, as a general alarm had been sent out. Street told him that he had struck his wife, but wanted him to take him- the prisoner past the house, as he wanted to see her aud give htr some arnica for the injury. Street, upon taking the stand, denied that he struck his wire. She chased him with a brick, he claimed, and fell over a box, hurting herself. Mr. Mullowny then asked him If he knew Edith Sullivan, and If he did not tell her he was a single man. Defendant said he knew no one of that name, and claimed that he never posed as unmarried. His story, however, was di rectly contradicted by that of all previous witnesses. At one time during the hear ing Judge Kimball rebuked tho prisoner severely for laughing. "This is no laughing matter," he said, "and I will have none of It here." Thccasewashandcdovertothejuryafter elaborate speeches by counsel for both defense and prosecution. The Jury returned a verdict of guilty within five minutes after leaving the room, aud alter scoring Street most strongly, Judge Kimball sentenced him to jail for 301 days. ROBBLD IN AN ALLEY. C. H. Welck, of Silver Springs, Held TJp at an Early Hour. 0. H. "Welck, of Silver Springs, Md., reported to the police of Uie New Jersey avenue station this morning that he had been held up and robbed in an alley between Third and Four-and-a-half streets, near Pennsylcanld avenue, last night. He said he was passing through the alley shortly after 2 o'clock, when a white man approached him and demanded his money, at the same time thrusting a pistol in his face. The robber secured $20 In cash, a silver watch and a gold chain and chann on which waf engraved the "Lord's Prayer." Mr. Welck described the Tobber as a man about thirty years old, five feet ten hvhH tall, dark mustache, and wearing da:k clothing and a black slouch hat. A general alarm has been sent out, aud the police will make an effort to capture him. The Luto Fred. Frennd's Will. The will of Frederick Freund, the well known caterer, who died suddenly in At lantic City last Sunday, was filed Tor pro bate yesterday. It Is dated August 6, 1895, and names the wife of the testator, Elizabeth Freund, ae executrix. By the terms of tbc Instrument, all the estate, real, personal and mixed, Is to go abso lutely to the widow. f 2.00 Washington to Philadelphia aad return via Pennsylvania .Railroad the matchless line, finest cars built,' fleetest locomotives made, best track in existence. Great excursion next Sunday. - se9-3t iTy iBStttute Business College, 8tn aad K. Koae better; f 20 a rear: day or night. '13-lHdi beards $1 per 100 Ft. Fraak Litobey Co., 6th aad N. Y. ave. VISITING POSTOFFICE CLERKS. Delegates to tire 'National Associa tion Here Frcm Baltimore. The delegates to the eighth annual con vention of the Natlonal'Assoclation of Post office Clerks, now In session In Baltimore, took a. day oft today and came over to sec tho sights in the Capital City. There wus complaint made at tho Besslon la6t evening that business was suffering on account of too much entertainment, but nevertheless, the convention decided to" adjourn to permit .he delegates to come here today. . - The president of tho association, Mr. Benjamin FarkhurBt, of this city, and the delegatep, Meters. John H. Shugrue and BieharrtV. Leahy, representing the local branch of the association, will return with the excursionists. Under the guidunee of these, gentlemen, the excursionists will be shown the points of interest in and about Washington. Thu excursionists will return to Baltimore at 11 o'clock tonight, j The annual election for officers of the association will be held tomorrow morning, after vsbich the convention will adjourn sine die. , CUSTOMERS LOSE HEAYILY i i Little Comfort for the Investors of Willard & Company. Large Losses in All Places Where the Concern Had Branch Offices. Liabilities Not Yet Known. New York, Sept. 10. Another run of customers, who had claims against the broken brokerage firm of J. R. Willard & Co-, was In progress today at the main office of the concern, 53 Broadway. The office was crowded with depressed or In dignant. Investors. They could obtain but little comfort front what, Assignee J. L. Starbuck could tell them. Excepting that the amount of the lia bilities will be enorrapus aud are likely to run up around the million dollar marl: there was little to be learned. Just what assets there are hanofc yet appeared, ex ceptiug a vague statement made by a representative of the concern to the effect that theie ma be cash lu bank, out standing accounts and securities thut can be realized ouv ' Telegraphic advices from the other cities where J. R. Willard A Co., had of fices, ad tell of large losses by customers who had pattoiilKed their offices. THE BR1DGET0J6IE5B0B0 Citizens Urge ' Its Construction Upon the Commissioners. HON. SIMON WOLF'S ARGUMENT Major Davis' Estlmute of the Cost Far lu Excess of the Amount That Will Be Needed The Structnre Would Open n Largo Section to Improvement. The Commissioners this morning save u hearing to a delegation from the South Capitol Street Bridge Association, headed by Hon. Simon Wolf,, in advocacy of cou Efuctlng the proposed bridge from the foot of South Capitol street to Glesboro Point. Mr. Wolf acted as spokesman. He sug gested that the question wa not at all a new one to the Commissioners, as they have already made several recommenda tions to Congress favorable to the bridge. One of these suggestions Congress acted upon by making an appropriation providing for the necessary survey and estimates. Major Uavis, then of, the engineer depart ment, had submitted a report, afterward published in pamphlet form, in which he estimated the cost of the proposed bridge at $799,130. Probably owing to tho large uniuiint necessary and the depleted condition of the District finances, the plan bad been allowed to lie dormant. But the citizens interested in the pro posed efructure, continued Mr. Wolf, hnd looked into the matter .and found that the" esttmate made by Major Davis waslargely in excess of what would be actually needed. They had asked the Phoenix Bridge Com pany to make an estimate, and were in formed that at tlie highest a bridge con forming to Major Davis plans would cost not over $388,000. Modification of the plans would bring tt'e estimate consid erably lower, aud probably competition would lessen the proposals even more. There could be no question as to the need of the bridge The Government owned valuable lands which would be bene fited by It, especially tfce Asylum for the In sane. Some of the best cltlr.ens of Wash ington owned lands on both sides of the river,-and the -bridge would open to im provement sections Which under favorable circumstances could be made amonpj tho most desirable in the city. Here Commissioner Ross interposed to say, that he, tin), hadtilways considered the construction of a bridge here one of Ujc moct needed Improvements now under consideration by the District government. Mr. Wolf thanked the'Commissloncr for his good words undaaid that he had never doubted Mr. Boss' good feeling toward the scrtion and would be content to leave the matter In his hands, with the request that at the approaching session of Con gressman appropriation sufficient to build the bridge be a6ked for by the Com missioners. He was told th'at whdn. they came to make up their annual reports the Com missioners would gfve the matter every attention . Among those presentatthe hearing were: P. II. Heiskell, jr., chairman; Hon. Simon Wolf, F. Snowden Hill, George J.Seufferle, Victor Beyer, James W McKee, William A. Richards, Joseph Martin and Henry B. nalley. T $2.00 Atlantic Ciir und Betnrn Via " B.--" O Special trains Saturdayand Sunday next. Eoyal Blue Line, best and Quickest service. sel0-2t The Pennsylvania Jln.ll road. Buns the only through trains to Atlantio City. A $2,000,000 bridge the connect--ing link. Great exearsioa. Saturday and Sunday next. Best equipment. se9-3t 12-inch boards fl jep .lOOTt. frank Libber fr Co., 6th aad N. Y. av. GAIGH Ti SPANISH SPY Gen. Wilson's Laconic Dispatch to Charleston. JilEUT. SOBRAL SUSPECTED What They Say at tho War and Nnvy Departments About Spain's Ite porfed Treachery at Charleston. Precautions of the Secretary of War and Chief of Engineers. 'Catch hi ml" This Is probably the most Interesting dis patch that has gone out from the War De partment since Grant's days. It was sent wine time ago by Brig. Gen. Wilson, chief Uulted States Engineers, to'Capt. F. V. Abbot, who Is in charge of the coast de fense at Charleston, B.C. Some weeks age tho enterprise of news paper men in Charleston discovered that some'xidv, probably a Spanish spy, was taking a more than disinterested solicitude in the progress of the workjjf strengthen ing the raPt defenses in the historic port of Charleston. These rumors got to tho cars of Oapt Abbot, who sent the news to Gen. Wilson. The chief or engineers then very promptly sent the dispatch above-noted, which ought to take rank with certain historical la conlclEms, which are not half as good. Later Information from Charleston in timated, indeed said, point blank, that the person who was making secretmemoranda of this country's fortlficatious was Lieut Sobrnl, the naval attache of the Spanish legation in this city The latest news on the Interesting report was published In The limes this morning to the effect that Capt. Abbotnad forwarded Lieut. Sobral's name to the War Department, and that of ficials at Washington had evidence enough to warrant Sobral's recall If he could not explain the cause of his visit to the fortifications, to one of which the visit is sL'itcd to have been made under an assumed uame. It Is not an unlikely story. Charleston is the key to the Southern country, as will be recalled by those who remember or who have read of the war of 'Gl-'65. The pr'ncipal defenses of the harbor arc Fort Moultrie and Sullivan's Island, and the famous Fort Sumter, nearer the city. Fort Mo'Utrie is the fore which stopped Sir Teter, Parker nd his fleet more than a hundred years ago. The fort was then made out of palmetto logs, a better resistant e-en than the cotton bales that stopped Paebenham at New Orleans when Jackson was there. Fort Sumter was a pile of brick and stone after the civil war. Both of the Im portant forts arc included in the recent elaborate scheme for coast defenses. The work on these defenses is conducted with secrecy, and It Is only by some treachery orabus of privilege that aiew can be had of the operations. That feat ib alleged at any rate to have been per formed by Lieut. Sobral. It was, of course, desired to know what the SpanL-h representatives here had to say on this report. All or the legation people are away. It being stafd- that Lieut- Sobral is with the otht-rs at Leuox. In Tact, they don't appear to be doing any business at all at the legation. On the front door there is a sign which says you must go to the rear basement. When you reach the rear basement jou see a barricade which prevents you from going up the steps to the room marked "Office of the legation." In the basement, however, there is adoor which lias another legend to the erfect that you must see the lady next door. When The Times man was taking all this in the lady next door came over and said there was nobody at all at home except the mes senger. 'L he messenger, however, had gone down town, b'ifc he, too, had left a notice on the dooi: "Will return at 12 m.," the twelve o'clock being indicated by a little dummy pasteboard clock The lady was very kind and courteous, saying that it was not likely that tho messenger would talk about the affairs of the legation. At the War Department Inquiry was made of Chief Clerk Tweedale iif theTdepart ment had anything to say about The Times dispatch, which was handi-d to hfm. Mr. Tweedale said very cheerfully that the War Department did not dis cuss its affairs. The Secretary of War la not in town. It was learned, however, that Brig. Gen. Wilson knew something about it. Gen. Wilson was affable, and disposed of the story, which is practically as above given, with relation to the dispatch to Capt Abbot. Oen. Wilson further said that he hnd instructed Capt. Abbot to carry out the Instructions of the Secretary of War. Gen. Wilson possibly meant by this that the engineer In charge of the works should see to it that no observations were made. He also might have meant that If Capt. Abbot "caught him," to shoot "him" on the ramparts. Ther is no doubt that there has been some fire where there has been so much smoke, or that there has been duplicity where there has been so much Spain. The rumor has been persistent and gathers confirmation as it goes. It Is nevertheless denied at the War De partment that there has been any com munication received from Capt. Abbot. It wat- stated that the information wa3 sent hv Capt. Abbot on Thursday night. It has not yet had time to reach the de partments. Thirty Miners Killed. London, Sept. 10. A dispatch from Jo hannesburg South Africa, reports that a dynamite explosion has occurred in the magazine of tho George Gach" mine. Thirty miners, fivo of whom were white, were killed. The mine is much damaged. S3 Most Poptilur Saturday Trip $3 is that to Fort Monroe, Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Ocean View via Norfolk and .Washington steamers. Secure staterooms early and 'avoid disappointment. Tickets, $3, good to return Sunday night. It $2.00 to Philadelphia via Pennsylvania Railroad matchless service-peerless route. Special excursion Sunday next. sc9-3t 12-inch boards $1 per 100 Ft, Frank Libbey & Co.. Cth aad N. Y. ave. MI. CirLP'rf MISSING DIAMOND. Edward Howard on Trial Charged, With Stealing the Jewel. Kingwood, W. Va.. Sept. lO.-The trla: of Edward Howard, an alleged New York thief, who Is charged with stealing a diamond stud from J. M. Culp, of Wash ington city, traffic manager of the South ern Ral'road, began In this city today. The btulen Jewel, which was valued b Mr. Culp at $00, was taken from his shirt bosom In Jyne, and the theft was committed on the Baltimore and Ohio pas senger train while going west through thl3 county. Howard was on the train at tt.at time, traveling with a woman who s.ayK she .s his wife, and a New York de tective wlu is now here asserts that she Is u notorious shoplifter and that her picture Is in the rogues gallery in New York. Mr. Ciilp told the story of the missing diamond in court, and proved by Con ductor F. M. Taylor that Howard was the only person. In the smoking department when L laid down his shirt containing the diamond, as they passed through a long tunnel. Dr. Carrie Brannenburg, of New York, was a passenger on the train, and testified aga lust Howard, as to his move ments at the time of the theft, and stated that heappearpd nervous and excited when accused. The man Howard and his wife were arreted when the train reached Cin cinnatl. hut the diamond was not found. Howard Is thought to have thrown it away MANY BURNED IN A WRECK Terrible Head-On Collision o Trains in Colorado. AWFUL MIDNIGHT DISASTER Some Accounts Put the Number of Fatalities as nigh as Forty Sev erul Persons Cremated in the De bris Doctors aud Nurses Dis patched to the Sceue. Newcastle, Colo.. Sept. 10. -The Bio Grande passenger train No. 1, going West, bad a head-on collision a mile aud a halt west of this town shortly after midnight with a Colorado Midland stock extra going east, and as a re.dt perhaps a score of per cc in.it th..ir lives in the wreck and the burniagcare. Some estimate the number of dead a high as forty. Ten others are badly injured and are receiving medical care at the Albany Hotel. The accident; hapiH-ued on a curve. The list or casualties so far reported In- cludMt Dead or mIsang-A. Hartman, or Har per, 111 ; Mrs. Hartman. wire of A. Hart man, and thPlr two children; Engineer 0 trandcr, or the rrelght train; Fireman Sut llffe, of the freight train. Fatally Injured Engineer Gordon, of the p iRsenger train; K- H . Becklcy, postal clerk; Robert Howlett, a passenger. injured Pearl Connesa, leg broken John H. Standard, of Blackroot, Idaho, badly cut and bruised; J. H. Shewt, badly cut; CbarlcLcpper. badly burned. E F-Mannts, editor ot the Victor Record, who was a passenger on the west-bound train, says: "I was in the 'maker when the collision happened aud was Jammed down In the seat, but I saw daylight on one side and mai.agcd to pull myself out and with the help of Brakeman Danlels.of Sallda, helped to pull three people from the wreck. At the time or the collision the tank under the smoker exploded and set fire to the train. The scene was awful. The mall, bag gjtge, smoker, day coach, and a tourist sleeper was burned, the rear Pullman and a private car remaining on the track." Mr. Mannlx Is of the opinion that at least forty are dead, many of ttu-ni hav ing been burned to death. The responsibility Tor the awrul acci dent canuot be fixed now. The lil-Tated passenger train had orders' to run one hour late, and Conductor Hurbank, of the stock extra, km-w it, but explains the cause by saying that they must have taken the wrong ligures on the time-card. The brakeman or the passenger train was unlnirt. Conductor F. L. Hawthorne also escaped Injury- Engineer Gordon, of the passenger train, was thrown over a barbed-wire fence and so badly injured that he will die. The brakeman came back to thl place and notified the station agent of the accident and doctors and the women nurses w ere sent to the scene as rapidly as pos sible. Neighboring ranchhouses were used for the reception of the injured, and all did what they could to help. Supt. Choate and officers of the Rio Grande hae done all they could to re lieve the sufferers. The track will not be cleared before tomorrow night and pas sengers v ill havo to be transferred around the wick. At leat two car of stock were wrecked and the road strewn with dead animals. Some excitement was occasioned by two Italian1 attempting to break open trunks taken from the baggagecar. MarshalPear son shot at one and thinks he hit him. The other was arrested and taken to jail. The special relief train with doctors and nursf-H went to the wreck from Glen wood Springs . The express car and its contents was en tirely consumed by fire. Train Collision in Ohio. Toledo, Ohio, Sept. lO.-rThe Lima ac commodation leaving here last evening bad t rear-end collision with a freight train at Perrysburg. The freight was on the main track, with no one on board. The engineer ot the passenger train saw the freight and reversed his engine. Both he and his fireman Jumped and escaped. The trains came together, shaking the passengers up, but only one was injured. Dr. Winfrled, of Perrysburg, who was badly bruised. The Temperntare Today. The temperature during the day was At 8 a. m., 72; at 12 o'clock noon, 92, and at 2 p. m., 05; maximum, 05. Atlantic City. Unusual opportunity to visit America's greater seaslde resort. $2.00 round trip. Vfa Pennsylvania Railroad, Satur day and Sunday. se9-36 $2.00 Atlantic City and Itetura Via B. A O. 3 p.m. Saturdayand 6:30a. m. Sunday next. Good to.return on all regular trains Sunday and Monday. selu-2t 12-lBch , .beards $1 per lOO Ft, i Frank Libbey t A. Co., 6th aad N. Y. av. Geo. Randall, the Thief, Caught After a Brief Chase. TRYING TO PAWN A WATCH Large Quantity of Stolen Jewelry Found in the Mun's PoKxesslon. Sumo of It Believed to Be thu Property of Other People May Bo Wanted in New York. George Randall, a cadaverous IooWng young man, who sys his home Is in New Orleans, was arrested this morning by de tectives Heian and Muller, who captured him in Temperance Hall alley after an ecltlng chase. The ofricers were pass ingalungD street between Ninth and Tenth streets, when an excited pawnbroker, with a gold watch case in his handJ, rushed up and informed them that a thief with a valuable lot of plunder In his pock etshad Just disappeared up the alley. I The pawnbroker exhibited the watch ho held, anO said the man had come to hid store and offered to pawn the timepiece for $2. As it as easily worth $20, the pawnbroker liecame suspicious, and whllo bargaining With hla customer sent out for an officer. The man became alarmed ao the delay and finally left the store with out waiting to take his property. Tha pawnl rofcer followed to the street, and in fonied the detectives. The officers at once gave chaise, and finally cornered their man in the alley wucre he was being held by an excited citizen, w bo was exercising his lung power on a police whistle. The officers took; tlieir-prisoner to police headquarters, where he gave his uame as George Randall, twenty-three years old, and said he camo fro'H New Orleans. When searched hla pockets were found to be stuffed with watcbe, rings, pins, gold chains und other Jewelry. The watch-cas which the man atfemp'trtl to sell was ot antique design, with machine-turned engraving on the back and in the center the word "Mollie" in script. In another pocket was round a handsome diamond breastpin containing seventeen st'jnes, wliicti the police sair is worth at least $1 50. Another breastpin contained a miniature of a handsome, dark-haired woman, with a small child in her arms. All of the Jewelry was of old-fashioned setting and design and evidently of considerable value. A complete list or the articles taken from Randall, and which the police estimate to be worth over $200, Is, as follows: One lady's open-face silver watch, gold chain and locket, diamond cluster breast pin , br ea.-tpia-rj th miniature or woman and cnlld. pair cfgold-llnksleevebuttons, pair ot ilver sleeve buttons, two gold bracelets, scarf pin, set with pearls- Rhinestone ring, coral breastpin, ring set with garnets; silver breastpin, pearl handle penfcnKe, silver match sare, with monogram "G. E. W.,' small gold neckchain with btna stone setting, gold locket, set in diamonds; gold heart pin. two heart-shaped gold drains, gold pin with diamond setting, a pearl ring with three- stonca; gold breasc pin, set n form of f'evvers , goldshir; stud, with diamond setting: child's gold ring, gold button with word "Roach" engraved on It. gold eyeglass chain, small gold chain, gold mounted paper cutter lu form of a tu-k, two gold sleeve buttons, Canadian g.jld piece with letters ' W. L. R "ou back, two silver charms, six foreign coins, onu gold breast pin v.ithfiowersettingaadona small gold chain. In addition to these articles the man had an American bulldog revolver, about a dollar In small change and five Eright woori street car tickets. These tickets formed an important clew, which the police followed promptly. This morning Inspector Mattingly was informed that the lionse or Rev. J. E. Rankin, pres Identori'owardUnlversltrtWrioi's.awayon, his vacation, had been entered last night. The Information was unorficial, and no report of the robbery had been nmde la the regular way. The fact that one or two article- found, on Randall were marked trlth tbc letter "R," and that he' had the Hrightwood car tickets at once recalled the rnmor to the Inspec tor's mini Message was at once sent to Howard University, asking that someone be sent to police headquarters to Identify the plunder. If possible At a late hour this afternoon August M. Clark, who is employed by Dr. Rankin as a watchman, called on Inspec tor Mattingly and was showu the jewelry. He at once picked out the diamond breastpin and the miniature as Br. Rankin's prop erty and conOrmed the suspicions of thu police. When questioned as to how the Jewelry came into his possession, Randall said he had bougnt It from a white man whom ht met on the street. He said he gave S10 for the diamond pia, and that the man "throw in" tho othT articles The police regard the capture as an im portant one, and think that Randall is a clever thief whom they have been aftr for some time. It is probable that all of the plunder found on him did not come from the Rankin house The wo tch case which the man attempted to sell is thought to be the property of Mr. Watson Carr, of Anacostla, who reported that a watch of the same description had b"cn stolen from his house on the night ot September 3. Randall accounted for his movements by siy!ng that he came originally from New Orleans, and had come to Washing ton in Kearch ot employment. From rail road tickets found iu his possession, how ever, the police believe that he has been in Nevw York lately and may be wanted for ctrenses committed there. Ho Is a small, sparsely-built man, with a nsooth race, black hair and black eyes. TLls afternoon he wa3 measured and pho togrnplied for ths rogues' gallery, and after wards locked up at the Twelfth strees station. , 91.00 TVushlnuton to Baltimore and return, via Pennsylvania Railroad, oa Sunday next bet equipped railroad In the country. Tickets good oa all trains Sep tember 12. ec9-35 S2.00 to Philadelphia and Itetura via Pennsylvania Railroad, the best equipped railroad la America. Grand ex cursion next Sunday. se9-3& Comedy at Congress Heights tonlgat free- The crowds continue to Increase. Be9-tf,em i The .?2.0O Excnrslou to Philadelphia, on Sunday next via Pennsylvania Railread affords aa UHUsual opportunity to vWs the Quaker City. se9-3t 12-1bc1i boards $1 per lOO Ft Fraak Libbey St Co., 6th aad N. T. avs. .