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r- If fifr JPtIV 'vr?--. mmn Number 1469. WASUXNGTOIN, FKIDAY, APRIL 13, 1900. Price One Cenj. Qfctttit wbt III' SPIES 1 ROBERTS' GAMP Information of Movements Gained bv Pioilncc Venders. A Curj-iiriil. I'seniiiiiK from the Cnp 1 11 rod Coii-oj. nin Ho lleeop-nlaed "Muii. rrcc sinters nion;; 1 hoie in the VtuliiiNCiitlc Thej Hnd ITe viouslj A l-tlted the British LnaRcr. LONDON, April 13 A. despatch from Bloemfontein dated April 12 says: "Corporal Lloyd, who escaped from the eonvo of 500 men which was captured In the drift near the waterworks for not re trying which disaster General Gatacre has been disgraced sajs that he -ecog-nized, among- the burghers -who trapped the convoy, man Free Staters who rnd been soiling produce in Roberts" camp at Thnbanchu Corporal Llod s statement seems to In dicate that the burghers employed during methods in learning the -strength and in tentions of the Britisli fortes "Evfacntlv in the gule of inaorent pro dme venders the sent eleei spies within the British lines, who mingled th ir s le of potatoes and parsley with a sharp lock out for militar secrets in the eneniv s eamp it js possible in this manner tint Co-rtmamlant De Wet learned of the inten tions of the British to move the convov " As a result of the Boer note to Portugal regarding the u-e by the British of the Belra route for the transportation of troops to RhodeMa, if the Boer act against Portugal Great Britain ma land ttoops at Lonrenco Marques In the net number of the "Nation, publlflhed in Berlin Prof Von Bar, of the University of Gottingen, will discuss the international aspect of the transportation of the British troops through Portuguese termor He considers it a -erious breach of neu tialitj. The action of Lord Roberts in re quiring Free Staters to swear not to fight againbt England is pronounced b Prof. Von Bar "as decidedl contrary to inter national law " and he adds it is cowardly ab well and an admission of British weak ness AGAINST THE PLAY OF "SAPHO." "Ministers Ihrenten to TnLr nines of t t-nl lni I'm Isluoner. LAPORTK Ind. April 13 Maor Dar row toda ofliciallj notified the manager of Hall's Opera House of this cit, that he would take such action as la within hte power to prevent the performance of "Sapbo," announced for here tomorrow Might. The city clergymen have taken up the crusade, and the announcement was made today that the pastors would take posi tions at the door of tin opera house if the attempt to stop the play i not successful and take the names of all their parishion ers who attend the performance MONEY IN HOESE HAIR. A Mo-Uynrd lniliit Method of '.fttltiK Wealth. CHJCAOO jm1I 18 Oscar S "A ales former wntohman of the Stock Yards Horse Market, explained to Justice Fiugerata eMeru a new method of gaining wealth For two weeks he told the Magistrate he had spam the night in plucking hair from the tails of hoicfc The hair, he said, wmild bring 36 eenis a pound and it was all oas rentier to plmk fiom ten to twemv poundi; a night HIGH PRICES TOR COTTON. I.oulsiiitm I'nrini-r Make Money h- HnldiiiK Hit top. LA GRANGE La April 13 George W Truitt has sold his JS"ei trop of cotton -160 bales at &1-4 cents September 27 when cotton was selling at 6 1-2 cente. Mr Tiuitt came into town with 100 bales, and on the front wagon weie twent bales upon which vra printed m large letters "Eight cents or to the warehouse we go" And to the warehouse the entire lot did go, but yestorda it came out. Last Au Mivt Mr Truitt sold fifteen bales for $3 000 He old the snie number of bales jestcr-d- foi JG700 a difference of ?3 700 FOUND A BOX OF MONEY. tlold nml SIM or ( oin I m nrthed in mi Illinois Harden PANA Hi April 13 While digsing in the garden of her recently acquired prop er at Windsor Village east of here yes "csniav. Mrs James Carter unearthed a box containing $240 in gold and several dollars In stiver Tlie contents of the bo show -Me-ce of haing been buried a long time. The propert was sold last year for ju.es TO STUDY AFRICAN BUGS. An iiMTicnii eienllst ( hnson h the British "o eminent. ELDORA Iowa prii 12 Prof Charles W Maih. of Ame Iowa who has just goac to the Transvaal as Government En tomologist for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, owe his ap pointment to Secretary Wilson of the Ag ricultural DepaitnienL British agents axked the Secretary for a capable scientist, and he recommended Mall, asd it is taid to be the most important commission. eer gieu an Ameiican s-ientist in a foreign eountr. The study of African bugs will be first wudertalten b Mall, and as the field Is a large one he will haye opportunlt to show his abilit. Tlie British are expecting to open a number of experiment stations for yarious bcientific studies at the close of the present yar T)p1ioiil I'utient Kurapr. CHESTER, Pa. April 13 George Mc Ginnis. a joung man, twent -eight years old, who has been suffering with tjphoid feyer foi some das, left his bed jesterda afternoon aftei f o'clock and took a trip to Philadelphia, where he yisiled a brother, and then came back to this cit. and put up at a hotel for the night lie was found this morning by his relathes. 3Inn Cnniiiit in tliichiiicrj . SOUTH BETHLEHEM Pa . April 13 -!'iank Miller, of TrutnbauersyJIIc, while rmploved in a flour and feed ttorc jester day had his clothing caught in the gearing machine!" of a gasoline ongine, and drag ged so close that the goycrnor of the en gine nearly battered in his skull hfore as sistance ar'yed His condition is pre carious. KI.J.". to HhHiiiioic :im! Itrttint U II. A. O. Mttunln :! Mimln. April 14 snd 1 good for return until fatten Ibr !fmj Tickets sood n all trains exc iJomi' Uniitfd Untlx t.itnilier cmi. ami I,ciyycv t'l-f ala b li-atk liuh-j A. Co, PU iwl . 1. e. COLDNESS IN ITALY. Tiie Boer Envoy a Receive Scnnt Cheer I'roni Minister Vennntfl. ROME, April 13 Italy has given the Boer Peace Envoys the cold shoulder, and the hae decided not to go to Rome, but to make for Paris, la Milan Mr. Fischer, while at Naples, asked for'thc intervention of Italy. The Marquis Visconti-Vcnosta, Minister of Foreign Affairs, replied that he would gladly receive the mission, 'bat he could not Interene in favor of neace. All he could do was to transmit to London the proposals made b the mission. G David, a Pretoria, newspaper man, said that it was Impossible for the British troops to suffer any eerlous reerses here after. He added that the Boer delegates hoped that the Interention of some Euro pean power would induce Great Britain to listen to the Boer peace proposals. It is reported here that when the Boer Peace Commission reaches Berlin, it will be received by the German Government. The commission had a conference at Na ples with the German Ambassador to Hal. After the meeting Mr Fischer exchanged a number of cipher messages with Dr. Leds The commission will be at Berlin Ma C It is stated that Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, will he In Berlin on that date and friends of the Boers sa his isit there when the Boer delegates are in the Get man capital is er sig nificant. FROM THE WEST INDIES. 11i' Ilnhil ItelnriiH from Her I'lmt 'trip to (lie AiitlllrN. NORFOLK, Va. April 13 The Norfolk ami West India Fruit and Pleatmhlp Com pany chartered steamer Habil has ar med on her first trip from the West In dies, bringing 12 000 bunches of bananas from Jamaica The Habil left Montcgo Ba fey en days ago and had quite a rough 0age She is discharging her car go which is said to be the f.nest lot of bananas that has been brought in a num ber of cars The Habil left Norfolk sey eral yyeeks ago for Kingston with a cargo of breadstuff, which brought high prices The flour yyhich the yesel carried is aid to bate leen sold to the beK adautage. TO AVOID A BEATING. A om nn ( oiifcoi"! to I'utiliiKT 1 nu ll nn n in In Her Husband' Beer. TRENTON. N J . Mrs. Ma'nie Black of 74 Carroll Street, confessed to Police Judge Jackson this morning that she had administeied one-half teaspoonful of laudanum to her husband William Black, in a glass of beer The oung woman frankl confessed that she had frequent 1 "doped' her hus band s bcei in a similar manner her ob ject bung to put hiia to leep and aye herself from a beating at ins hands as yas his usual custom when drunk Mrs Black added that scores of women do the same thing yyhen thMr husbands are preparing to go on a spree The judge. yho is a druggist said it would icquire three times the dose of laudanum administered b Mrs Bl.uk m hei husband' beer to haye affected Black m his drunken condition Black had discoyered the laudanum in his beer before drinking it and had poured the beer into a bottle and then caused his yifes arre-t on a chaige of attempting to poison him Judge Jackson stdrtled the police by a mg that women fiequetith bought lauda num at his store for the purpose of put ting it in their husband's beer. He dis missed the wife and .ent the husband to the yorkhouse for thirt days on a 'hirge jf being drunk and di-orderl) WOOLEN WEAVERS STRIKE. 'I h" Dr-rlarp the Forrmnn '"Snoop " unci DfMiimiri His Dlxelmrue. TREVTON X J April 13 Because Foreman E P Gmgyill, of S K il-on's lower yoolen mill insisted upon counting the "picks ' in a piece of cloth being wcayed and discharged one of the girls because the cloth l$ Might," sity-fiye girl weavers aie on strike this morning Foreman Gmgyill comes from Proyi dnce, R I and is a new man The girls demand his discbarge forthwith Thev sa he is "snoopj " The cloth alleged to be light being weighed proed to be. two ounces heayier than the rules required and the discharged girl was reinstajrd and last night the sixt-fiye striking girls de termined to return to yyork, but sudden! It dawned upon them thtt the new fore man had determined to make himself ob noxious to the girls and this morning they told the millionaire owner of the mills in a conference that they would not return to lieir looms until the foreman is discharg ed So the strike is -till on THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. iinn:il ytoiMiiii; if the xnclnt ion Ilt-KiiiH yoil 'Inesdnj. The annual stated session of the National Academ of Stientes will be held at the Columbian t'niycrMt Building beginning Tuesday prll 17. The morning sessions, continuing un til 12 30, will be deyoted to the buine:b of the as-ociation. The a temoon sessions, commencing at 2 p ra , will be gnen up to the consideration ff scientific subjects and the readings of papers The afternoon sevs'ons ai oi en to the public The Academy of Sciences was incorpor ated in 1S6.1 b act of Congress, and now numbers eight-si members, including the most eminent scientists of the eountr. There are associated with it twent -two foreign scientists of worldwide reputation. Dr. Wolcott Gibbs, of Newport, R. I., is president of the academy: Asaph Hall, Cambridge, Mas . yiee president, Alex ander Agassiz. Cambridge. Mass , foreign secretar ; Ira Renisen. Baltimore, Md , home secretar; Charles D. Walcott, Washington, D. C., treasurer. Other mem bers resident in Washington are Cleye land Abbe, A Graham Bell. William H Dall, Clarence E Dutton S. P. Emmons, G. K. Gilbert. Theodore N. Gill, Arnold Hague. S P. Langlej, Simon New comb J. W. Powell, Charles A. Schott, and Charles A. White. Ileny sc iitoiiee for n Doctor. ALLENTOWN, Pa , April 11 Judge Al bright jesterda afternoon sentenced Dr. Cornelius Bartholomew, yyho was ester da found guilty o performing a criminal operation, to tw. ars and six months' tolllar confinement in the Lehigh count prison, and a fine of ?200. Woman Appointed "Notarj I'nlillo. Miss Maud M Crane, daughter of the late J. II. Crane, has been appointed bj the President a noiar public. Shi is one of thirty-nme yvomen notaries in a list of oyer 00, mcludfng both sexes. 81. -!."" To Baltimore "ntid Ite- 9l.i. turn y In Poiijihj 1- nnin llailrond. Ticket on sale cJtim2ay and uiiday. April 14 and IS. good to return until Monday", April 10 All trains, except th- I ongiesuunal Limited. riooriner. nil one yyidth. dreniicil i k.. ?1 S3 ptr 100 sq ft Call and rcc it. LiMjcj L Co. STRIKERS AEE HOPEFUL Confidence Expressed by the Rail way Telegraphers. Ilendi-nnrters Kstnhlishcd 1 the Prealdent of the Order o Freight Trains llimnliiK nt ChnttunooKn. Mnet) l'cr Cent of the "Ien. Snld to Be Ont Statement of Mr. Guuuon. CHATTANOOGA, Teun , April 13 The striking telegraphers of the Southern Rail wa sybtems here are in fine spirits today oyer the .fact that not a freight train is running. W. r. Powell, the President of the Order of Railwa Telegraphers, now in Atlanta, has a representative in charge of each diyislon and with his first assistant, A. B. Stillwell, in his office at the Southern Ho tel, in this cit, keeps posted b hourly bulletins from each diyision. SUllue'l claims that the road is tied up in -ail its branches from Washington to Greeny flic, Miss Onl one operator remained at his ke in this cit. Passenger trains up to tills morning were running, but seyeral are now from one to four hoars late Mr. Stillwell claims that of the !)C0 ope lators emploed PQ per cent are out. The railroad people den this and sa that onl about 10 per cent hiye quit york and that trains will be moylng again on time 1n a few hours. It is rumoied that the Cincin nati Southern men yyill go out todav, but so far there is no indication of it The At lanta Federation of Trades last night adopted strong resolutions of smpath. The Central Labor Union here yill hold a meeting to take action tonight. Mr. Stillyycll, this morning, issued the following bulletin in regard to the situation-Order of Railroad Telegraphers, "Headquarters Southern Hotel, 'Chattanooga, Tenn , April 13, 1900 "Telegraph Operators, Southern Railroad" ' Gentlemen and Brothers The stike of the telegraph operators of the Southern Raihvay sstem is now on, and I bee no reason yh we will not yin. ' We haye right and Justice on oui side. The latest reports show that the entire main line is tied up from Washington, D. C to Greeny Hie, Miss Under no circum stances return to yyork until the order comes from President Powell Pa no at- i tcntion wbateyer to newspaper reports or I the talk of officials. I will post joii dailj ' on the situation All the organization a ks is our support in this matter Remember that this is your fight that we are here in your interest and at our solicitation and if you allow ourse!yes to be influenced b the officials of the coin pan ou are not onh injuring yourselycs but your families and felioyy yyorkcrs as yyell Stand b the orgnnlzttlun that yrill always stand bj you vihcre iiht and jus tile are in the balance Don't allow your selycs to be bluflled or bullied into return ing to ysork ly anyone If a scab takes your place paj no attention to it whatcy er hut bring the influence of your friends to bear and make the town too hot to hold In in Victor is sure to be ours if we onl remain local to the Order of Rallwnj Telegraphers The following telegrams haye been receiyed b Mr Stillwell toda ' 'Columbia. S C. pnl 11 ' Kyer thing strictlj O K 1n m ter ritory All business at a standstill. "'E 11 WIS " ' tlanta April u " 5o far as I can learn eer one is mil and standing hrm It is said freight trains are annulled W V POWELL ' ' Knoyille Tenn pril 13 ' Ml tied up cast of here Compan has no wires- LUSK ' " Greensboro X C April 13 11 out at Salisbury to Knowille and Norfolk Eyer thing in good shape What are conditions there J F SWAN ' " 'Birmingham Ala April 13 ' Uabiina, Great Southern went on tlie rocks at 10 a. m esterda. Solid, all wires down, red hoards up Despatchera refuse to touch a message Southern lines till out Eyer man in ards shops and general offices noyv in m room "T M PEMt.NON. " Mr Frank Gannon, Third Vice Presi dent and General Manager of the Southern Railroad was seen this morning at the of fices of the company, 1300 Pennslyania Vvenuc He stated that there yvere out on strike altogether less than 130 telegraphers out of a total number of 1400 emploed "All businesb," Mr Gannou said, has been moying regularl and yithout em barrassment." Reports from the other diyisions arc of similar nature Mr Gannon said, and he expects the men yill all be replaced im mediately, and the business of the rnllyyuy in no yaj inconyenienced THE LAFAYETTE DOLLAR. rn 1 orL IlroKcr Trjiiiu to Coi- ncr the Supply. NEW YORK, April 11 Brokers are reaping a haret on the sale of Lifayette dollars In this cit and signs may be seen in ycindows almost eyery where along Braid and Wall street offering these prize coins at $2 i"0 to t" eath The etra premium is due to the fact that the suppl of the sou-yc-nir dollar- is rapidl becoming e hausted. Scarce! ri.OOO aie noy ayailable for the entire country and yith the approach of the unyeiling of the Lafa cUe Monument in Paris, Jul 4 next, in aid of yyhich the coin was struck, the demand is increasing rapidl. The brokers are using eyer effort to get all the coins and it is with difficulty that the demands for them are met at the local offices of the Paris Exposition Commis sion, in the Equitable Building, where the coins are being old to the public at the regular price of $2 each. lite Hollnml Pin clinNert. The contract for the purchase of the sub marine torpedo boat Holland by the Goy ernment was closed esterda. The boat becomes the propert of the Goyernment for S130.C00. "Wanted in Philadelphia. Major Sly ester this afternoon receiyed a telegram from Chief of Police Harry M -Quirk, of Philadelphia, stating that Francis Spinner, alias Wilson and Oscar C. Hilton, jr., alias Oscar P. Belmont, who were arrested in this cit eslorda on suspicion of being check brokers, were wanted in the Quaker Cit. The telegram requested that the men be held to await the arriyal of a Philadelphia detecthe. fio-i eminent Iteeciptx. The receipts of the Goyernment to Jay amounted to ?1,733.!)S2.42, acd were m-de up from customs, 1750,310 31-; interest rey cnue, ?937,153 91; miicellaneotf, 2?,48s.20. Theepcnditures reached the, sum of $1,875,000, resulting in an excess of expen ditures oer receipts of $130,017. ihe excess of receipts oyer expenditures this fiscal ear amounts to $)4,74C,978 73. acd at the close of the same may leach the sum of $65,000,000. Plnnterinj-; I,nh, onI ?:t.75 p.r 1,000. Call at Cta awl X Y, avc. bw, TEE CABINET MEETING. The Porto Ilicnn Unextton Dlxcnitncd nt Length. The Cabinet conferred today at the reg ular meeting in regard to the installa tion of the ciil goernment in Porto Rico The proisfons Of the law enicted b Congress last week were carefully ex amined and the subject of appointment to fill the new places created was consideicd in detail, although impersonally. It Is expected that General Day is, Gov ernor of the Island, will he summoned to Washington Immediately for the purpose of haying a conferenco with the Presi dent and with Charles H. Allen, the newly appointed civil goycrnor. Mr. Allen will leaye for Porto Rico in time to take charge of the ciyil goyernment on May 1. THE DAUGHTERS' MEMORIAL. I ro mi lie nt Uoiucn AnIc Conjjrcn for Public Ground. The Senate Committee on Public Build ings and Grounds gaye & hearing this morning to Mrs Daniel Manning and Mrs. Senator Burrows, yho appeared in fay or of Senate Bill 2237, setting apart certain public grounds in the cit of Washington for the use of the National Soclet of the Daughters of the American Rcyolution for the erection of a memorial building. The land specified in the bill is Reser yation No 13, Rayvlins Park, area one acre and 30,218 square feet, between Eighteenth Street and Nineteenth Street northwest, and at the intersection of Xcv York Aye nue and E Street northwest. The memorial building is to commemor ate the scry ices of the heroes of the Rey olutiouar War, and is to be elected and owned b the societ. Mrs Manning read a paper supporting tlie bill and giying reasons for its passage. Mrs Burrows also made some impromptu remarks of the same purport. After fur ther consideration of the bill by the com mittee it wus decided to make a fayorable report upon it. CANNOT HAVE A TELEPHONE. Coliinihin Fin Is limbic to Otitnlti n Permit. Repre;entntiye 0 W. Underwood of Alabama recentl enquired of the District CommisPioners yyh a penult had not been isued for the erection of a telephone line to Columbia Flats 'in their repl today -the Commissioners state that the question of the power of the Commissioner-, to granl such permits vas recently passed upon adyprely b the At torne for the District of Columbia yyho holds, in effect that no law has glyeu such power to them It is further stated that the matter has been brought to the attention of Senator McMillan, Chairman of thj Senate Com mittee on the District of Columbia and a clause submitted for insertion In one of pending Appropriation bills granting such aiithouty Until the legislation re'erred to is en acted the Commissioner? state that they lannot issue the permit desired. BRITISH NAVAL EXPENSES. ()1M in! rifturi-v. Vhonliijc nn lin meuo InrrenNe in Kticnditiirew. During the six years -.. ing March 31. 1SS7 according to figures obtained at the Xayy Department the ayerage annual ex penditure on the British nay was 11. 300 000, during the next lx years it ayer aged 13,000,000. during the three ears ending March 31. 1S6, the .vengc annual expenditure had rien to 17.100,000, be ing an increase of 3 500,000 on the pre ceding period of six ye., yyhile for the thiep years ending March 31. 18'(9. the ayerage expenditure was 22,300 000, an increase of 5 200.000. This ear the nayy ostimites amounted to 26,800, 00 an in crease of 4,300,000 on the preyiou three years There ha been an ayerige imrease of Hnmnl expenditure on. the British nay by 15,000,000 in twehe ars. THE BRYAN DEMOCRATS PLANS A t ony cut ion to Be Held u (.rand Ami Hall MoixJh) MKlit. The Brjan Democrat, which is planning to send a contesting legation to the Democratic National Contention at Kansas Cit, will hold its Difctrict Conyention Mon da night at 7 10 o'clocV, in Grand Arm Hall Six delegates and six alternates will be elected to go to Kansas City Cot ter T Bride and Herman Sthulteis, yyho have been prominent among the Br an men will probabl .be on th" delegation The other memehrs will be largei com posed of labor leaders It is said to be the intention to que the whole deputation a strong labor unioi fla yor and to furnish it with instructions end credentials, which will leaye no doubt of its being seated. The District Contention Monda night y ill be conducted by the Bryan Democratic organization, and Captain Collins the president, will act as clnirnian. AH the Bran delegates yho ye-e yoted ujon at the piimanes on April 10, will be illowcd seats 'I lie stm; Denied. The War Depirtmen receiyed today from an official source in South Africa a telegraphic denial of t'rn statement sent to uevvspapcis in England atid the United States about ten dis ago that Capt Carl Reichmann, beyenteenth Infantr, United States Army, yyho was sent to obsene the operations of the Boei torces, had com manded the Boer column Ahich captured seyen guns of Colonel IughboTough's bat teries near the Bloemfontein water yvorks Secretar Root laid the despatch before the Cabinet For Dixtrirt Coimnl'oner. A large delegation of local business and professional men called at- the White House to urge the appointment of Judge Scott, of the Police Couit, to be District Commissioner. "ntlinnlel Cnrtml Henigriix. Nathaniel Carusi today tendered his res ignation as Vice President of the District Title Insurance Company. Mr. Carusi also resigned as a membei of the board of di lectors of the compan. Mnohlncrj and Hnndyvork. The United States Bureau of Labor has been inycstigating the effect of displace ment of hand laboi b machinery in the iron and steel trade It yvas found that in 1S57 it took ninet -eight hours to make a rifle barrel bj hand. It is now made in three hours and forty minutes Half-inch bolts fix inchee long, with nuts were made bj hand at the rate of IHe hundred in for tj -three hours, yvhile b machinery the same product is turned out with onl eight hours labor In 1S31 one hundred feet of four-inch lap-welded lipe required eight -four hours of labor, yvhilp in 1S'J3 the same pioducl yas turned out m fhe hours. Xot foIIctt.'Waalilncrtoii Sicninliont Co. Delightful trips dailj at 6 30 p an. to Old Point rvmfort. New-port Netvs. Norfolk, and uinla llcaeli For elinlnle, see pace 9 . Fly mi's UtixliiCKH College. Stli mid K. f5 Ccnens Office lZxamlnalion 5 Clear Doom htiU only 91.5, and all lands of mill work low prices. Ubbcy L Co. KENTUCKY'S GRAND JURY Indictnieiiis Including Taylor and Senator Deboe Expected. Correspondent, Under Threat of a Court' AVrntU, rorbidilen to Men tion the Goebel Investigation at Franltfort The Minor Ofllcen For mer President Harrison's Denial. LOUISVILLE, April 13 Indictmenta against the Republican State officials in connection vrfth the Goebel case are ex pected this 'afternoon or by Saturday at the farthest... TaIor and Senator Deboe are among those slated for indictment. Owing to the threat made b Judge Can trill, of the Franklin Circuit Court, to send an correspondent to jail yyho wrote any thing in regard to the inyestigatlon of the assassination, no news has leaked out of Trankiort for a w cek. and although wit nesses are being examined dally, the pub lic is not eyen allowed to know the names of these witnesses. The suits for possession of the minor State offices yyill take the ordinary course in the courts The proposition, b wh'ch the issues were to be cornered and onl one suit adyanced and tiled, was rejected by the Republicans toda. The Republi can officials were diyided o.cr the ques tion of ratifying the agreement, although the major! t yyere inclined to yicw it with disfavor Secretar of State Caleb Powers, fayored it, yvhfie Commissioner of Agricul ture Throckmorton, and Prof. Burke, though willing to assent to it, nevertheless were reallj opposed to it. The other oli cials were diyided. Finally ifter matuie deliberation t was decided best to aban don the agreement and let the law take its course. One adyantage, which may accure as a result of the failure to sign, is the possi bility of getting the case before a Court of Appeals with a more friendl make-up than the present political body. Judge Hazelrigg goes out of office th- first of next. ear. His successor will probably be a Republican, as, een under the Goebel law, the district gaye Tay.lor 3,000 majori t. Under the lacy an appeal ma be ta ken at an time within two years of the judgment of the lower court. The stor that former President Harri son had expressed an opinion that there yyas a Federal question inyolycd In the Kentucky election cases is denied. Mr. Harrison wired here toda as follows in responbe to an interrogatory message "It is sot tnif tJiat I liatr eprertd art opm ion on the Krntuil election, tafe "uimkmin niini-o. ' FOR PORTO RICAN TRADE. fir- A eimcl Just t iiitltcil nt Baltimore. BVLTIMORE pril 13 The first yesel built in the United States for a Porto Rico order since that island came under the Stars and Stripes was launched yesterday afternoon by the Speddeii Shipbuilding Company from its ard off Boston Street, Canton In the preence of a large crowd Mis Irma A Baile, of Harlem Avenue, christened the boit ' Agnirre. ' after one of the owners In Porto Rico The Aguirre is a twin-crew steel tug, 73 feet 1Q inches long, 17 feet molded bam. and C 1-2 feet molded depth. The machin ery consists of two sets of single engines, each with 10 inches diametre of c Under and 10 inches stroke Steam will be sup plied b a boiler of the Scotch tre tested for a working pressure of 110 pounds per square inch natural draft Accommoda tions for officers and crew will be aft in a large deckhouse and dining saloon will be forward THE CHANGES TOO COSTLY. Commissioner Heeommcnd tihcrne ction on House Bill lO.O-ll. The Commissioners haye sent to the House Committee on the District of Co lumbia a report on House bill 10,041 "to legulate the pa and hours of service of attendants at St Elizabeth In-ane Asy lum In their report the Commissioners rafer to a letter from Dr A. B Richardson, te Superintendent of the aslum, in wh'ch he sas tint it yyould require an addi tional sum of $171,000 a year to carry oat the proyielonc of the bill Besides this Dr. Richardson expresses the belief that the proposed changes would be detrimental to the bect Interests of he patients and the hospital On the ground of the-e objections the Commissioners recommend an adyerse re port on the bill DYING OF BLOOD POISON. Woiiuui I'liysffinu Diagnoses Her Own fuse. PITTSBURG, Pa, April 13 Dr. Peail Starra yell-kuoyyn woman phsician, of Pittsburg, is dying of blood poisoning, how contracted, no one 1 nows She l.as been attending to her piactice rignt along, but in conyersation yvith her mother esterday she aid she yyould die In a feu weeks. She had diagnosed the case herself Last ey cuing she lyent to Cley eland with an other yyoman physician to haye her case diignoed at the college yyhere she grad uated She returned this morning The story yyas told by her mother to some friends Physicians tay there are cases of blood poisoning yhose progress is so gradual, yet certain, that patients may pursue their ordinary yocations Dr. Starr is a daugh ter of a former Army surgeon and her sister is a "Methodist Protestant preacher in tho town of Ohio, 111. Hpr father yyas a cousin of the Countess AValdersee, of Berlin QUIET IN THE COURTS. Bnt I.lttlc Business Trnnsneteil nt the City Hall. "While Good Friday is not recognized as a legal holiday, business was generally sus pended at the City Hall today. The office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court of the Disti let, the Register of ills, and the Re corder of Deeds, were open as usual, but there was yery little for the assistants to do Friday- always motion day in the dif ferent branches of the Supreme Court of the District, but none of the Justices yyas present. In the. Court of Appeals too, -all business was suspended. Bonded AVn re lion flea lu Liberia. Minister Smith, of Monrovia, under date of January 2.", 1900, writes the State De partment that the Liberian Legislature has enacted a law for the erection and establishment of bonded warehouses In eyery port of entry of the country. The object of this is to prevent smuggling and to facilitate the collection of import du ties. (Sou enlT Free, titnrday . nt Grand I'nion Tea Co 's stores 427-129 Till nw. Cnrnentern find the Friendly- Corner the plsee for lowest bide on lumber. 6th and X 1. aye. LIGHT DAY IN CONGRESS. o Session of the Senate and I.lttlc Business In the House. Representative Marsh, from the Com mittee on Military Affairs of the House, has presented a favorable report on the bill which provides for the detail of active or retired officers of the Army or Navy to assist in military Instructions in public schools, so amended that the title and preamble shall read as follows. "A bill to amend sectidn 1223 of Revised Statutes so as to provide for detail of re tired officers of the Army and Navy to as sist in military instruction In schools. "Whereas the national defence must de perd upon the volunteer service of the people of the Several States, and "Wheras those schools which shall adopt a system of military Instruction ariv en titled to the assistance of the Government in order to secure to the United (states such a knowledge of military affairs among the youth of the country as well render them efficient as volunteers if called upon for the national defence. Therefore-," etc. The Committee on Claims of the Senate has recommended the passage of tho bill directing the Secretary of the Treasury to re-examine and resettle the accounts of certain States and the city of Baltimore for military purposes during the war of 1812. This bill authorizes and instructs the proper accounting officers of the Treasury to examine the accounts between the Unit ed States and the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, and South Carolina, and between the United States and the city of Baltimore, growing out of moneys expended by such States and by said city for military purposes, in the yyar of 1812 with Great Britain, applying upon Kuch examination, in the computation of interest and settlement, the provisions and principles of the twelfth section of the act of March .1, 1S57. entitled An act mak ing appropriations foi certain civil ex penses of the Government for the year ending June 30. 1S5S " "During the war of 1S12-1814 the States of Massachusetts New York, Pennsylva nia, Delaware. Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, and the city of Baltimore ex pended crtain moneys for military pur poses. The United States a3umed these debts with Interest The method of com puting interest was protested agiinst by the States, they alleging that it amounts to refusal on the part of the United States to refund the whole amount tor rowed. "By the act of March "3 1S57 f'ongrpss di rected a re-examination and readjustment of the account of Maryland and on the 8th of July, 1S70 Congress pasl in ict directing that the accounts between the United States and Masichu"etts and Maine be readjusted upon the same princi ple that controlled the readjustment with Mainland. "The object of thi bill i to treat the States alike and to give to th,e States and to the city of Baltimore, named In the bill, the same measure of Justice and equity treatment that vas accorded in the aets i aforesaid The language of this bill as to aioresaiu i ne language oi uirc urn -.am to interest Is identical with and copied from the language of those measure'. A bill of similar import to that which we row recommend has several times passed he Senate and has received favorable report from the Houe Committer on the JMdl -ruu. iuC -u-e y '"""---" ""'"- ciary, on Claims, ana on nar waiaw., .. .u ".. i . .-. r..w-il.. Congress an amendment was made In thf Senate to the Defiency bill of like import. Mr Martin has made a favorable report from the Committee on Claims of a bill providing that the claim of John S Mosby for the value of 7 .'l0 pounds, more or leas, of tobacco mentioned in an official paper dated at Rocketts Lahdlng Richmond, Va , July 27. IS61". tinned 11. D. Cochran, major, depot quartermaster, and purport ing to give a lNt of captured tobacco marked in the name of Col. J S Mosby. trau-iferred to Col J. S. Loomis Treasury agent, June 7 lfcb." be referred to the Court of Claims A committee amend ment to the bill pecifieb that any portion of such sum representing tobacco bene ficially belonging to the father, Nter. or other relatives of aid Moby shall be held in trust by him accordingly. The report of the committee coda. us a copy of the receipt given Colonf Moby after the year had ended and when he was a paroled soldier, which show; that the exact amount of tobarco taken from him wis 7,861 poiim's and it is recommended that the bill be pavird Mr. Vest has introduced in the Senate a bill to amend the act gianting addi tional quarantine powers nnd imposing ad ditional duties upon the Marine Hospital Service, approved February 15. 1SS3 Section 6 of th act is amended o as to provide that on tbe arrival of an infected vessel at anr port not provided with the proper facilities for treatment of the same the Secretary may remand said vessel, at us own expense, to the nearest national or other quarantine station where accommo dations and ippliances are provided for the necessary disinfection and treatment of the vessel, passenger and cargo After treatment of any infected vessel or cargo: and after treatment of any infected vessel, or irspection of any vessel not iufected at a national quarantine station, and after certificate shall have been given by the United States quarantine officer at said station that the vessel, enrgo and passen gers are free from infectious disease ci danger of conveying the same said vessel shall be permitted to enter and admitted to entr at an port of the United Staea named within the certificate. A new section is added to the act which authorizes the Supervising Surgeon Gen eral with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasur. to designate the boundaries of the Quarantine grounds and the quar antine anchorage for vessels, and provides that an person found trespassing on such grounds shall be subject to arrest and may be punished by a fine of not more than 300 or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, and that any mas ter or owner of a vessel violating any quarantine or inspection regulation shall be subject to arrest and to punishment by a fine of not more than J500 or impris onment for not more than one year, or both. Another new section provides that any vessel sailing from any foreign port with out the required bill of health and arriving within the limits of anv collection district of tbe United States, and not entering or attempting to enter any of its ports, shall be subject to such quarantine measures as shall be prescribed by regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, and the cost of such measures shall be a lien on the vessel. It is also provided that the medical offi cers of the United States, duly clothed with authority to act as quarantine offi cers at any port or place "within the United States, and when performing the said du ties, are hereby authorized to take dec larations and administer oaths In matters pertaining to the administration of the quarantine laws and regulations. Sale or the He-rent Hotel. A deal was put 011 record today by Henry R. Webb and- his wife and John Sidney and his wife, conveying to Owen G. Sta ples part of original lot SI, lots C and D, Henry ''Jouchcrez." A. B, and "McGorao," In square No. 22C. Thi3 is th2 p-cper y known a3 the Hotel Regent at the coiner of Pennsylvania Avenue and F ftecnti Street northwest. Tne purchase pri e. as shown by the revenue -stamps attached to the deed, is 35",000. AsU your ilrnjrsrist tor ICretoI. One litle of culled out Itnstic Mtii-i-; at hull -met. Call sco" .c it. Libb-y L Co. JOM A. PORTER Mffl The Secretary to the President Re tires From Office. Continued Ill-Health Given as I her Reason "IA III Take n Complete itest Georse B. Corteijrou ameI as Ills Successor The Srleetloa Meets With General iprotnIa The resignation of John Addison Porter, Secretary to the President, was annottne'l at the White House this morning. At ihe same time it was stated that George B. Cortelyou had been named as hfss- seteii sor. The reasoo given by Mr Porter for. his resignation from office hs eonUBMed Ill health. Mr. Porter's health began to break don'ti more than a year ago and it a thirB ru mored that he would be compelled lo sever his connection with the Exetlve hwtfio hold. At times during the pat yar ho Improved to such aa extent as to te-able to perform his duties for brief perieds. but recurring attacki of nervcHis treabfa to which he Is subject compelled his free quent absence from duty. Last spring and summer Mr Pent-r w rompplltd to go to Europe. UU eowl t en was very serious and at times prevkus lo his departure and during the voyage oer he did not recognize his nearest .friends. Apparently the voyage benefited him and he returned in the autumn and res-tircul his duties at the White House. The strain of social and official life da lag the paat winter proved too mueh for hfm. and In March he wars compelled to tak a, trip South to recuperate. Since his re turn to Washington be ha speat but a, fmall portion of the time at the Wh-tt House and about a week ago he went lo Ncv York, where he Is nov etavin--. Uls physicians enjoin complete re.-t att change. Mr. Cortelyon's promotion is receleI with popular approval His eIectoa is e garded as being a mot fortunat one I'e Is alwnys courteous, is diptomatir awl has a large e-cperieace in the work he wilt have to perform asj Secretary to tto President. Mr Cortelvoti is one of the hpst-known members of the President s otSeial family. For three years prior to his appointment, as Assistant Secretary he was Chief Ex ecutive Clerk to the President When, dunn the war with ''pain Congress pass ed an act providing for an additional Stt- r"tary to the President Mr. Certelyon. was named for the plaee. His appointment; was made July 2, 1S9S He was born in New York J? 26, 1S9S. and belongs to one of its oldest families which played a conspicuous part in eolo nial history His grandfather Peter Cor lius Cortelyou, was prominent in bsin and social circles in New York as was hfc father. Peter C. Cortelyou, jr He reer- A Ms education ia pub. aml prva4o I gchooIg. He ls a sraauate of Hempstead Institute, the State Normal School at Westfield, Mas. He pursued literary l musical courses at the Boston Censerta tory of Music, and later tutored elaegtM In English literature at CambrWg-- M- lhen gllHed stenograpnv awI vBmst4 hl active business. In 1SSI he was appointed offie'al st rapher in the United States appraiser- of fice at New York. Beg notag -lth the change of administration in l'S3 b lie came associated with James E Msm. author of the "Munoa System of Paeaeg raphy." From 1SS5 to 1SS! he was t e principal of college preparatory e-Bol in New York, and in lSst was appointed pri vate secretary to the po-tofflee ntspeetar in charge at New York la March. lStU he was made confidential ecretar s itn Surveyor of Customs at New lorfc aad I later private secretary to Fourth s-lt- ant Postmaster General Rathbone. H le signed in 1S92 and was reappolsted to the position by Assistant Postmaster G-arai Mixwell, and was acting chief clerk o th office and acting Fourth sg-start Past master General. In November 18r5. Mr. Co-t-lyin wai appointed stenographer to the Pr2s dent, and in February. 1S96. Cnief Utttrmi.e Clerk to the President, and in July Isfig, Second Assistant Secretary. He Ls a grad uate of the Georgetown and Columbian Law Schools and has received from th tat far the degree of LL.M . and from tba former the decree of LL.B. He is a n-m-br cf the New York Prea Club aad Is- a frequent contributor to newbpap-rB anl magazines Mr. Cortelyou occupies a bi-h ptaee In Mr McKiniey's confidence. He proboSlJ' knows more of the public tranaac throe anil internal politics of the Republican j-artfy than any man except the Prcskleat Benjamin F Barnes. Chief Et?-:ttttte Clerk to the President, is next la fHrdeT eC rank to Mr. Cortelyou iad it w the-tifM. that he will become the -iiuni Secre tary. lohn Addison Porter, the retina Sec retary to the President, wan bora at Nv Haven. Conn . April 17. 1S55. He a acc ented at General Russell s ColIegia sad Commercial Institute of New I 'area, tha Hopkins Grammar School, and Yale Uni versity, from which he was graduated from, the academical department In the ek, cX 1S7S Mr. Porter resided in Wa-hingta be tween 18S4 and 1SSS and was In ekw taaxh on matter of polities with his fho late William Walter Phelps weia1? ui Congress from New Jersey a ad MiM-tr 10 Austria and Germany I)up!ng (mm se-taii of Congress he served as elerk to oae a tbe Senate committees to whirh He van appointed by Semtor Piatt of Cllletti, cut. He has been a frequent coatrlMrtec to literary journal1; and magazines, hi 1SSS Mr. Porter purchased a pirt inter in the "Hartford (Conn ) Evening '--. Two yean subsequently he secured a eoa trolling interest in that paper and became editor-in-chief He represented the town of Pomfret lu the popular branch of the Connectlctic General Assembly and was elected an al ternate delegate to the Republican Na tional Convention at Minneapolis. On sev eral occasions he has been a candidate for the Governorship of Connecticut. Ia the Presidential campaign of lS9b. Mr. Porter was an earnest advocate of tho nomination of Mr. McKinley. Air. Porter was cho&en for Secretary to the President in February- 1S97, and as sumed office March 4. 1S97. He is a mm ber of numerous social and fraternal or ganizations and clubs, including the Ma sonic order. THE NORANMORE LIBELED. Vttnc-hmeiit 1'apern Served 111 n nlt for Ten Thousand Uollnrs. NORFOLK, Va , April 11 - The Brlrth steamship Norenmore now in port ba.1 been attached by Deputy I alnd Statetr Marshal West upon libel jiaper aledjhi the United States Court by coiiaee! for Richard Sltinner. a colored longshore map, who was injured on the Noranmor Pejwt arv 22 last. Skinner claims -10,00 damea- THiev Noranmore gave bond In the stira of SHtf-' OCO. with the- meriean Boudii c and T-tHac-Company as surety, and was rH?e--ee4 "Notiee. Tie PcBivjironw Kunroad Co. afia-fcjli'g- jg- ."i-conlinuance d iVa-Jrinc-ten-OW I'afnt Q-TntaaG. Ihrr.ush -jrlcr car -frvilce. Lat ear wBI f-a5 arhirsN tr 11 " m.. fa-lnri'r pr'I 14 le turning If ace Old Point Vfontlur, fH !. Ifcst lVarils. Kiln dried, only -Jl.HO per 100 -q. It. Iabbty & Co., 6th actl X. Yt XJ