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Las Tras Wh Sl DUTY OF TARIFF REFORMERS. The President’s to the Tariff Re. form Convention. Cutcaco, Feb. 19.—The following is a copy of President Cleveland's letter in reply to an invitation to be present at the convention of the National Tariff Reform ie, which meets in this city this afternoon, I mtirely in the President's handwriting. At one point there is evident omission of some words necessary to the sense, and those suggested by Secretary White of the league as the probable ones, are inserted in brackets: “Executive Mansion, “Wasninaton, Jan. 24, 1889, “John Z. White, esq., de. “Dear Sir: I have received the invitation of the Tariff Reform league to be present at the convention of tariff reformers to be held in the city of Chicago on the 19th, 20th and 2ist of February 1889. I have also read the circular of the league accompanying this invitation, in which the objects and —— of the proposed convention are specially set forth. The scheme of practical and efficient work therein de- scribed meets with my hearty approval and promises, if honestly adhered to. the most valuable aid in the furtherance of a cause which is very near to the interests and welfare of our people. “The danger which we have to guard against is the misieading of our countrymen by specious theories, cunningly contrived, and falsely offering to the people relief from ‘pres- ent burdens and the legitimate [expense neces- sary to secure the] benefits of beneficent rule under the sanction of iree institutions. “The declared purposes of your league will not be attained until all those interested in the economic question which is now pressed upon their attention are freed from all sophistries and clouding fallacies, and until the subject of tariff reform is presented to them as a topic | involving the relief of the plain people of the ind, in their homes, from useless and unjust expense. “The question is a simple and needs but to be fairly presented lain one and be under- stood. “It is the positive duty of vour organization extreme interests in the work which your league has undertaken and in the expressed objects of the proposed convention, would lead me to accept your invitation if it were possible to do so. it my public duties here positively prevent such acceptance. “Hoping that the convention will be very a — with an earnest —_ for the Prosperity and success of your league in its | efforts to enlighten and benefit the people, I am Yours very truly, Grover CLEVELAND.” ———._— Jay Gould’s Poor Health. IT CAUSES HIM TO RETIRE FROM THE LACKAWANA AND WESTERN DIRECTORY. New York, Feb. 19.—The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Delaware, Lackawana and Western railroad was held to-day. The only exchange in the board of directors was the retirement of Jay Gould, whose place was filled by Henry A. C. Taylor. a son of the late Moses Taylor. whose estate is still the largest holder of the company’s stock. The retire- ment of Mr. Gould was in accordance with his wishes, as expressed in a communication dated Jannary 21, 1889, as follows: “My Dear Sioan: During the past year my health has been h that I have been unable to perform my duties as director of the Dela- ware, Lackawana and Western company: nor willl be able to doso the year tocome. I write, therefore, to ask you ‘to substitute, at the approaching election, some one in my place as a director. Yours, truly, “Jay Gounp.” ee Flames Fanned by High Wind. TWENTY-ONE FIRMS BURNED OUT IN AN IOWA TOWN. Fort Dopar, Iowa, Feb. 19.—Fire broke out im the Union block at Rock Rapids Sunday, and when discovered was far beyond control, the high winds causing it to spread very rapidiy until nearly the entire business part of the city was consumed, Twenty-one firms were burned out. Among the heaviest losers are D. H. Shannon, hardware; Wyckoff & Fairbanks, drugs: C. G. Anderson, general merchandise, and Miller & Thompson, dry goods, all of whom were completely burned out. The total loss will reach $75,000. There was but little in- surance. oo Tried to Lynch the Manager. CRITICAL STATE OF AFFAIRS IN A BANKRUPT ' MONTANA MINDY? CAMP. | Hexexa, Mowr., Feb. 19.—A critical state of | affairs prevails at Castle mining camp. The | mines have been closed on acconnt of ‘k of | fynds, and the men have not been paid off. Manager King escaped a lynching a few days j ago by the possession of a fast horse. The | men had failed to receive anything out of a ; sale of bullion. Rioting has occurred and more | trouble is imminent. ; | Ridding the County of Horse Thieves. ONE CULPRIT LYNCHED IN NEBRASKA AND AN- | OTHER IN DANGER OF LYNCHING. | Omana, Neb.. Fes. 19.—For some time past the farmers of Holt county, N have been | losing horses and cattle. Men living in the county were suspected and a large organiza- | tion, said to number 500, was formed for the | purpose of punishing the guilty parties. A | man named ©. M. Clay was taken in charge by | the committee. His friends obtained a writ of | habeas corpus from the presiding judge in a | neighboring county. “Lhe sheriff refused to | receive the writ and t | | | i | ernor Thayer for militia, - The governor, how- ever, refused, holding that the judge had no | authority to act. Another of ‘the supposed | thieves, a man named Stewart, rode out of | Spring View Thursday mght. Saturday morn- | ing the horse returned without a rider and | Stewart has not been seen since. Twenty men | have been notified to leave Keya Papa within | the next twenty-four hours. It is feared that Clay and others will be lynched before the | leaders of the committee can be secured. | sma Swindling Tax-payers. TWO OFFICIALS OF BLOOMINGTON, ILL., ARRESTED FOR COLLECTING EXCESSIVE TAXES. BroomiNGTon, Ixx., Feb. 19.—Ignatz Lederer, cif tax collector, and his assistant, Harry M. Loehr, have been arrested, charged with for- gery and grand larceny. The specific charge | | was altering the county records and collecting | taxes in excess of the amount assessed. The | | complaint was brought by a merchant who found he had been overcharged $20. A hasty | examination of the collector's books shows that | about 21,500 in overcharges have thus far been taken in. | —- | Suppressing News of an Accident. | 4 COLLISION ON A CANADIAN RAILROAD WHICH i OFVICIALS TRIED TO KEEP SECRET. | Bostox, Peb. 19.—A special from Montreal | says: Officials of the Grand Trunk railway ut | Bonaventure station admit that an accident took place near Beloit bri: 2 miles west of the city of St. Hyacinthe. They say the acci- dent was not serious, so fer as injury to person or life was concerned; that the principal dam- | age will be torolling stock, as the accident was | a collision between two trains. A train from | Portland, Me.. due here at 7:45, connected at Iichmond with the express from bee, which | left there at 2 o'clock yesterday noon, The | united trains left Richmond at 5:20 for this city | aud were due at St. Hyacinth at 6:50 p. m. It was « few minutes late and running fast. In a blind- ing snow storm it collided with the outgoing train for Portland, which left here at 5:20. The smash was evidently a big one, but the officials | will give no further information and claim that | ho One was seriously injured. | BOTH ENGINES WERE DEMOLIAHED, Sr. Hyactnrue, Quenec, Feb. 19.—A collision occurred on the Grand Trunk railway last | bt, two miles from St. Hyacinthe station, ' between the Point Levi express train, due here | at 6:50 o'clock, and a local train from Montreal. | L. N. Lussier, of St. Hyacinthe, was Lay ps jured, and another person whose name is as yet {3 | unknown was also bruised. ‘The two e1 and escaped unhurt. Both b ge the Montreal train | bay ear on was EH badly and tiremen jum to guard the people against deception. My ; THE FALLEN HARTFORD HOTEL. It was Known as a Dangerous Structure The Bill to Increase its Effictency and | Preparing the —More Bodies Recovered. Hanrtrorp, Conx., Feb. 19.—Work on the ruins of the Park Central house stoppea about 12:30 o'clock this morning, having reached rather inefficient conditions at that hour, and the opinion prevail that no one could be alive in the del This o'clock it was resumed. It is i from The tain to fall unless pulled down. The pulli down is deferred until more bodies are foun THE BUILDING WAS KNOWN AS A DEATH-TRAP. Meanwhile the rooms split in two are open to inspection, and a suggestive picture of the flimsy construction is shown in the walls, The building has long been under ion. No Hartford insurance company would touch it, and the local insurance officers have personally denounced it to the city government, Work went on this morning for several hours without finding any bodies, but about 11 o'clock the news spread that TWO MORE BODIES HAD BEEN FOUND, and in half an hour they were taken ovt and covered with blankets and carried to the cor- oner. One was identified by Mr. 8. W. Galvin as the Rev. Dr. L. Perrin, of Torrington, « widely known Congregational minister. ‘fhe other is believed tobe jis wife. She has since been identified positively. A third body has jast been brought in, and proved to be William le, of this city, who had a room in the hotel. HOW MR. PENDLETON ESCAPED. Ivpranapouis, Feb. 19,—The report that R. . Pendleton, of this city, was one of | the victims of the -Hartford disaster, is incorrect, His son, A. D. Pendleton, yester- day afternoon received a message from his father stating that his baggage had been de- stroyed, but that he escape Mr. Pendle- | ton left the hotel on Saturday to spend Sunday with his son in Vermont. He stayed just long enough to miss the accicent that doubtless would have resulted in his death had | he been in the building. A Boarding House Burned. New Oneans. La., Feb. 19.—Fire broke out about 1 o’clock this morning in the four-story | frame building No. 29 Coliseum street, corner of Euterpe street, used as a boarding house by Mrs. R. Stickney. The fire is stil burning fiercely. The loss ir is $2 The Railroad Cannot be Dispossessed. Sax Francisco, Feb. 19.—In the case of Gore ys. Best the supreme court of California has decided that when the government has patented lands to the Central Pacific railroad, with the understanding that they were agricultural lands, judge telegraphed Gov- | the said railroad could not atterward be dis- | possessed of them by persons setting up mining | claims thereon, even should the lands prove to be mineral, unless there is a reservation of mineral lands other than the general one by the government. as Pennsylvania Prohibitionists. OPENING OF THE STATE CONVENTION AT HARRIS- BURG TO-DAY. Harrispura, Pa., Feb. 19.—The state pro- hibition convention was called to order at the opera house at 11 o'clock by Mr. John Fulton, president of the State Constitution Amendment association. Gen. Hai White was chosen temporary chairman, "which was a knockout for the pro- gram prepared at the conferenee last night which selected Joshua L. Bailey, of Philadel. phia, for temporary presiding officer. $ Judge White’s speech was brief. He said it was not the saloon-keeper but the saloon which it was proposed to fight. He denied that the Jaw could not be enforced. co a FINANCIAL AND CUMMERCIAL. The New York Stock Market. ‘The following are the opening and closing prices of the New York Stock Market, as reported by special wire to Corson and Macartney, 141 F atceet. EE Be en rt 3 : — Baltimore Markets. BALTIMORE, ¥eh. 19. — Cotton, steady—mid- dling, 10. Flour. and ‘steady. fairly activ Fultz, 1050110; 2 southern, 106; western, , Spot, #43/a95; March, 97; May, Sau. | Ce and rather easie Wheat—southern, Rye, steady, “57a58. Hay, | slow—prime to choice timothy, 16.00a16.50. Pro visions. quiet and steady. Buiter, barely steady | —western packed, 16020; best roll, 13a]; cream- 22a20, Ege. y, 1salsy. Petroleum, refined, 7.00. | Coffee, firm—Rio cargoes fair, 173ga17%. Sugar, fairly active—A soft, 6%; co] per refined, steady, 151416. Whisky, very’ fir ii. hts to Liverpool per steainer, frm— cents per 100 pounds; grain, per k for orders,’ March, daa 000 bushels; corn, 98,000 b. 19.—Virginia consols, 41; do. threes, 65; Baltimore Northern Central stock, >; Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore firsts, $4095; do. seconds, 51 bid; du. threes, 27% asked; ‘consolidated gas bonds, 1104; do. ‘stock. 44%. ee MR. TAULBEEF’S REPORT. He Says the School Site Testimony Was Tampered With. IMPORTANT CHANGES MADE IN THE TRANSCRIPT —H® REVIEWS THE CASE AND CENSURES THE COMMISSIONERS—HIS VIEWS TO GO TO THE HOUSE TO-DAY. The report of Mr. Taulbee, the chairman of the committe to investigate purchases of real estate by the Commissioners will be submitted to the House of Representa- tives this afternoon. The report dif- fers in almost every respect from that of the majority. The report will state that Mr. Taulbee was delayed in preparing itby the tact that the transcript of testimony submitted tohim had been tampered with and differed e testimony as given before the ve and as shown by the notes of the stenographer. These changes were princi- pally in the testimfhy of John F. Cox, and in tho parts of his testimony bearing upon his relations to the Commission- ers. Tn one or two cases, Mr. Taul- bee says, declarations in the affirmative were changed to the negative. In order to review the testimony as given, Mr. Taulbee had recourse to the stenographer’s notes and made up his report from that, After referring to these cl os Mr. Taulbee oes on to discuss the charges against Tho Gamumianionscain the light of the testimony. He criticises the Commissioners’ course in the matter of the purchases and taaintains that the testimony shows that Mr. Cox was their agent as well as the agent of the persons selling the property. In somé instances, he says, » Cox enabled to make exorbitant commis- sions in _ some ag ous the Commissioners id more for than they would have paid if doy tok sought owners of the land, Ori on their => says, woul have develo} fact and also the fact of the peculiar character of the transactions in which takes ” conduct Le ee their MR. WEBB’S NOMINATION. Tabled by the District Committee. Mr. Webb’s nomination has been tabled middlemen porte. Sefone-b the record. He position that Commissioners’ THE SIGNAL CORPS. Reduce Expenses. AMENDED BY THE SENATE MILITARY COMMITTEE IN VARIOUS IMPORTANT PARTICULARS — THE REPORT ACCOMPANYING THE BILL. Senator Bate to-day reported from the com- mittee on military affairs the Senate bill to increase the efficiency and reduce expense of the signal corpsof the army. The pill was amended in several important particulars, and, as reported, provides that in addition to the chief signal officer the commissioned officers of the signal corps shall consist of one major,who shall be assistantchief signal officer; 4 captains, signal officers, mounted; four first lieutenants, signal officers, mounted, who shall have the pay and allowances of like grades in the army. The major and captains shall be appointed from the line of the army, preferably from officers now serving with the signal corps who may have rendered long and efficient servic in the preparation of weather forceasis. ‘The ee nae, now in the signal corps are EXAMINED BY A BOARD OF OFFICERS to be convened by the Secretary of War, and the four second lieutenants who shall be ad- jndged most competent? shall be promoted to be first lieutenants, and the second lieutenants not promoted may be appointed second liea- tenants in the line of the army, with present te of commission. All appointments and promotions in the corps are to be subject to competitive examination, When not serving in the field with troops, enlisted men in the corps | are to be paid, in lieu of allowances, $50 per month, except that $60 shall be paid to those serving in cities of more than 100,000 population, and #70 monthly to those serving In connection with state weather services. THE KEPORT ACCOMPANYING THE BILL, states that the bill, as amended, reduces the UARY 19 THE INAUGURATION. Program for the Proces- sion, Mr. Britton, chairman of the inauguration committee, stated to a Srar reporter that neither the West Point cadets nor the naval cadets will come to the inauguration. He made @ strong effort to secure their attendance, but the War department and Navy department authorities ruled against it. The prin- be ge objections were that the studies of the cadets would be interrupted, and the experience of the past, as to the temporary demoralization of the cadets, To make up for this lack, however, the War department will order here five companies of troops from Fort Monroe and two eompanies from Fort Mc- Henry. The Navy department will have here 500 marines and a battalion of blue jackets. CARRIAGES AT THE BALL. The commitice on carriages held a meeting at inaugural headquarters last night, and per- fetted arrangements for the control of car- riages on the night of the ball. After the ad- journment of the committee the hansom and cab men held a meeting. There was some objection to the plan of the committee, and after a prolonged discussion the meeting was adjourned to next Wednesday. The screen | upon which the numbers of the private car- riages will be flashed, as described in Tux Srar, will be placed at the northwest corner of | the pension building on the roof, and will be j twenty feet square. The operators of the | stereopticon will be in communication with the 5th street entrance by telegraph. on the screen will be six or seven feet long. | and can be seen by aman to be stationed at | the corner of 7th and G streets, who will start | the carriages. A STAND FOR THE CHIEF CLERKS. Chief Clerk Youmans, of the Treasury de- partment, has arranged for the erection of a | private grand stand at the south front of the The figures | 1889, PROBLEMS IN THE HOUSE. The Constitutionality of the Senate Tarif Bill. WHY THE SUBJECT WILL NOT COME UP IX TEE HOUSE TO-DAY—WHY THE DEMOCBATS REVOKED | ‘THE CALL FOR 4 CAUCUS, ETC. Mr. Mills and his colleagues of the ways and means committee have decided not to call up the resolution onthe question of the constitau- tionality of the Senate tariff bill in the House to-day. This was construed by some of the op- ponents of the committee to mean that they | were afraid to take the matter up, and it was | reported that the resolution, like the cancns, was to be abandoned. The ways and means members declare, however, that no such con- struction should be placed upon their action; that they have no idea of abandoning the reso- lution, but will call it up and expect to pass it through the House. THE REASON THEY GAVE POR POSTPONING THE MATTER is that pressure has been made to get them to permit the post-office appropriation bill to be disposed of and to give Mr. Crisp an oppor- tunity to go on with the Sullivan-Felton con- tested-election case, The republicans are fili- | bustering against the unseating of Felton, and | Crisp wants to get them on record unmistaka- This record might be construe ito a | precedent in the next House. After a confer- | erence with Mr. Crisp and the chairman of the | | post-office committee Mr, Mills decided to giye Way for the election case and the post-ofiice | bill. Wheil these are disposed of it is pro- posed to call up the resolution. WHY THE DEMOCRATS GAVE UP THE CAUCUS. In connection with the decision to revoke the geal for a caucus it is said by those re-| sponsible for the call that they had two objects | in view. One was to get a party expression as | | to the Mills resolution, and tho other was to | force of officers from twenty to ten and the en- | building, just to the rear of the clerks’ stand, | decide whether or not the committee on ap- listed force from 320 (now employed) to 300, “As to the value of the weather service to the country,” continues the report, “there is no question. It has grown in favor from year to year, and there is scarcely an industry or com- mercial interest that is not benefited in some way by the reports collected and issued by this service. Warnings of storms on the northern lakes und on the seacoast are specially ser- viceable in saving human life,while the annual saving of property in ships and their cargoes alone amounts to many millions of dollars. Notice of approaching cold waves and “north- ers,” frost warnings, dood warnings, reports for the benefit of the cotton and sugar interests, are incalculable in value and are sought for and utilized by parties interested. The public confidence in the correctness of these reports has increased so that the weather service has now become indispensable to the public, and it should not only be continued but so organized as to assure improvement and, if possible, ex- tension of its benefits to other branches of in- dustry.” WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP. Tae Jupement iN Favon or THE CENTRAL Pactric.—The decision of the Court of Claims giving judgment for $1,002,517 in favor of the Central Pacific railroad company in its suit against the United States was ‘an adjust- ment of the accounts of the com- pany based on previous’ decisions of the Supreme Court. The judgment repre- sents the amount due the company for govern- } ment transportation over its non-aided roads and also the amount of certain payments made by the company in excess of the requirements of the Thurman act. Rev. Wm. B. Frisny, 2 graduate with dis- tinction from Columbian college, and for many years of his youth a resident of this city, is now in Washington renewing the many warm friendships which were formed during his resi- dence here, He has recently become rector of the Church of the Advent in Boston, a position involving great labor and usefulness and a wide influence, for which Mr, Frisby is admirably fitted. He is staying at the Ebbitt House. To-pay’s Cabinet MEETING was attended by Secretaries Bayard, Endicott, Vilas and Cole- man, Postmaster-General Dickinson and Attor- ney-General Garland. Anmy Onpers,—Capt. A. H. Russell, ordnance department, ordered to temporary duty at Providence, R. I. Second Lieut. Chas P. El- liot, fourth cavalry, relieved from duty at 'the University’ of South Carolina and ordered to join his troops. Post Chaplain Henry Switt, relieved from duty in the department of Texas, and ordered to duty at Fort Leavenworth, March 25, Post Chap- lain Geo. W.Collier,grantedieave until August 29 Assistant Surgeon James E. Pitcher or- dered from Fort Wood, N. Y., to Pi to give instruction to the hospital corps of the first brigade, Nutional Guard of Pennsylvania, Released from a Cuban Prison. A NATURALIZED AMERICAN CHARGED WITH AN ATTEMPT TO ORGANIZE A REVOLUTION. Secretary Bayard has received. a telegram from Consul-General Williams, at Havana, | that Cirilo he has Pouble, been = advised naturalized stating that a | American citizen imprisoned there for an al-| leged aera to organize a Cuban revolution, | was comprehended in the recent royal decree rdon, and that he will be set at liberty at Capitol Topics. FOR PURCHASE OF AN ORDNANCE PROVING GROUND. The session of the Senate committee on mi tary affairs to-day was largely given over to a hearing upon the bill to purchase an ordnance proving ground in New Jersey. The tract proposed is seven miles southeast of Vineland, and is two miles wide by ten long, containing 13,000 acres. The price is $225,000, The purchase was advocated by Gov. Green, Senator McPherson, ex-Senator Sewall, and others. There is at present a four-mile range on the tract, but the government is a mere tenant. THE HOUSE DEMOCRATS FILLIBUSTERING. The democrats of the House are fillibustering against the consideration of the conférence re- port on the direct tax bill. NOTES. The House committee on Indian affairs to- day ordered a favorable report on the Senate bill to ratify and confirm an agreement with the Creek Indians fgr a cession of a portion of their reservation to the United States, He Admits His Guilt. BUT SAYS IT WAS IN THE DAY TIME AND NOT AT NIGHT. In the Criminal Court this morning the case of John George, a young German. was placed on trial for the offense of housebreaking in the day and larceny of cigars at the restaurant of Gerstenberg & Reuter, 1335 E street, on De- cember 9 last, Mr. G. A. Kuhn for the defend- ant. Mr. Gerstenberg testified that George, after his arrest, admitied that he knew of the cigars, and told where they were at Geisler’s, aand R strects northwest. Daniel Geisler testitied that he hired George, and, after his arrest, the cigars were found in his washstand. Officer Moore. of the first pre-- cinct, testified to the place having been entered by a window. and to recovering the cigars. When first arraigned it was on an indictment charging the offense in the night, and he pleaded that it was in the day and that he was guilty. A new indictment charging the offense to have been committed in the day was found. A verdict of not guilty was found on this in- dictment, et ee THE COURTS. Count Ix Generar Ter. To-day, Benton agt. Patch; motion for re- hearing overruled. Cracurt Court, eyed 1—Chief Justice Bing- he To-day, Hamilton agt. Michael; ‘To-day, auditor's trial resumed. Cor. M. Tisserand has presented a report to the Paris academy of sciences concerning some ladelphia | | and has invited the chief clerks of all the other | executive departments to accept of his hospi- | tality on the 4th of March, and take seats on | his stand to view the parade. Mr. Tweedale, of the War department, and Mr. Hogg, of the | Navy department, have accepted the invitation. THE OHIO TROOPS. Chairman Britton to-day said that Gov. For- jaker would have about a thousand Ohio troops in line, A letter received at | headquarters from Gen. Axeline, adjutant-gen- | Ohio companies already reported, there would | be in line on March 4 a battalion of the seven- | teenth, a battalion of the fourteenth, company | Bof the sixteenth and company G of the tifth | regiment, ‘THE SWALLOW-TAIL PROBLEM. | The inaugural ball tickets announce that “full dress is required.” This regulation | has caused considerable discussion, as the general understanding is that full dress means a swallow-tail coat. Some have feared that the requirement might have the eff ect of keeping froia the ball many who could not conveniently provide themselves with swallow-tail coats. Hundreds of visitors to the city might not be able to attend the ball, When Mr. Britton was spoken to by a Star reporter to-day on the subject, he said that the {words on the ball ticket should be con- strued that full-dress is “requested” or “expected.” It was desired, he said, to prevent people coming to the ball without any care whatever as to the propriety of their A Prince Albert coat or any coat that a gentleman would wear at an evening entertainment ofa formal character will be considered proper. THE PENSION BUILDING. Preparations for the inaugural ball are visi- ble both in the interior as well as on the exterior of the pension building. NOTES, Governor and Mrs, Jackson will probably at- tend the inauguration of President Harrison as the guests of Gov. Beaver, of Pennsylvania,and Mrs, Beaver, at the Riggs house The DistrictCommissioners have reconsidered their action in refusing the permit for the stand along the front of the Botanical garden, and it willbe erected, ‘The guerantee fund for the inaugural com- | mittee has been closed at £50,000, which amount has been collected by Capt. Lemon. chairman of the finance committee, and de- posited in the Columbia National bank to the credit ot B. H. Warner, treasurer of executive committes. The Bland club, of Cincinnati, bas secured Lochboehler’s hall for the inauguration. The presiding elder of the Potomac district A. M. E church, Rev, James H. A. Johnson, has published a statement justifying the course of the A. M. E. ministers here in resolving to ) join in the inaugural parade. Capt. George E. Martin, of Camden, N. J., is in the city to make arrangements for 300 of the Harrison Veteran Legion, who will come here to participate in the inaugural ceremonies. ren. William W. Thomas, jr., of Portland, was a visitor at headquarters to-da Governor Beaver, the grand mars inangural parade, will be here Fri | chief of staff, General Hastings. The order for the procession will soon be preposed. A telegram from Gen. Hastings to Chairman Britton this afternoon requested to have forwarded to him at once to Harrisburg a list of all military bodies that have reported outside of the regular troops and the District and Pennsylvania troops. has been appointed marshal of the third di- vision, which includes all the military except the bodies named above, will be in Harrisburg to-morrow and in conference with Gov. Beaver, and Gen. Hastings will arrange his division so that the necessary orders can ‘be issued. ‘A force of men was engaged to-day erect- ing the framework for the pagoda in the center of the urt, which is to be occupied by th as pipes formed in ornamental sha wires, and other materials were scat! er the floor. DISTRICT i alof the y with his THE TRIENNIAL ASSESSMENT, The law of 1883 provider that every three | years the property in the District of Columbia | shail be assessed.” The assessment is by men chosen by the Commissioners, who are as- | Signed to the different sections. ‘The appoint- | ments:have all been made for this year, but | the only name made publie is that of Stephen Taity, who is to assess the property between Ist street west and Ist street east. BUILDING PERMITS | were issued to-day: as follows: | buss stable, alley, between Rand S$ and’ 19th jand 20th streets northwest; $2,500. James Jamesone, frame store, 7th street extended; | $1,600, MISCELLANEOUS, | ‘The Commissioners yesterday, granted a per- mit to Mr. Stilson Hutchins, for‘the River and | Rail Electric Light company of New York, to runa storage battery motor car on any railroad | in the District. The car arrived yesterday. | LOCAL NOTES. | The South Side musical and literary society | was incorporated in to-day by Jas. F. Cox, John | Bebrle and Wm. Larcombe.' Lonise A. O’Conor, by Chas. Bendheim. filed i to-d: from Edward B. titioner states that they were married June 16, 1875, one child living, and she charges that he deserted | her in 1884, ‘The hop which was to be given by the pupils | of Miss Baden’s dancing school this evening | will not take place, on aeconnt of the sudden | death of Miss Baden’s brother. | In the case of Alice Stewart, a colored woman, tried in the Criminal Court to-day for the | grand larceny of a toy bank containing 237.50 trom Mrs. Everly Jones, on” January 23d, a | verdict of guilty was rendered. William B. Gurley has been elected presi- | dent of the Y. M. C. A. in place of Charles B. | Baile: hose ill-health would not allow him | to continue in office, — An Imposition Upon Gen. Harrison. Gen. Boynton in Cincinnati Gazette. The government of the national capital, which is a presidential affair, and next in has i | eralot the state, said that in addition to the | Gov. Foraker, who | P. Sawyer, one | | propriations should be permitted to report a | | revenue bill. Before the time fixed for the jcaucus Mr. Randall had actually reported his bill and it was on the calendar. That matter was disposed of, and the Mills resolution only remained to be caucused on. As to that, the men they wanted to caucus with | refused to go into the cw and rendered the | call useless, All those who would attend were already agr d did not need the binding of @ caucus to keep them together. Therefore | the caucus was declared off, as stated in yes- | terday’s S | JOHNNY WARD TALKS. | | He Says He Would Like Boston, But | Wants Time. | The American base-bail teams arrived in| Naples Friday night. On their way to Paris | | they will stop at Florence, Milan, and Nice, | and will play in those cities if practicable, | JOHNNY WARD INTERVIEWED. | | _A-special cable from Naples to the New York | | Herald to-day says: I had a long talk with Johnny Ward to-day over the purchase of his | | release from New York by President Hewitt, of | | the Washington club. He opened his eyes in | | wide surprise when J told him the price paid | jfor his services was twelve thousand cold | American dollars. | | He smiled, however, when one of the boys | remarked that that was much more than had | | been paid for the “only” Kelly's release, But | jhe made no comment on the matter and did not say whether, if he consented to the ro- j lease, he would insist upon getting a slice of | the purchase money. | WANTS TIME To THINK, Speaking more to the point, he said he could not say anything definite as to the arrangement | to transfer him to the ranks of the Senators, for | | he knew nothing whatever about it or the de- | tails of it, as Le was on the Pacific ocean at | | | j | the time it was made. Ali he knows is what he | hasreadin the newspapers in his mail. and he | preferred not to say he heard directly from the presidents of the New York and Washington clubs. Captain Ward said he had not received a let- | ter of any kind from either Mr. Day or Mr. | | Hewitt on the subject. | “I would not give the subject a great deal of consideration,” he added, “before making up my mind as to just what course 1 would pur- | su A HANKERING FOR BOSTON, en the st of his going to Boston came up, and Captain Ward said quite unreservedly | that he would like very much to play in Boston, “I would gladly go to Boston,” he added,-‘and | would play short contentedly under the cap- of Mike Kelly or anybody else.” From all of which I inferred that, while Werd is anxious to get away from New York, his aspirations are toward the Hub rather than | toward the capital. | HANLON'S PROVISO. It was not until now that Hanlon learned from his advices from America that on the dis- solution of the Detroit club he had been sold to Pittsburg. He said he would as soon p in the Smoky City as anywhere else, and will do so unless there should be some hitch on the | subject of sal: THE REAL SITUATION | Ward, as stated in the Herald spe | very anxious to go to Boston, a that he would prefer Boston to but Boston hasn't anything to do with the case. The question for him to cide | is whether he would rather come to Washing- ton or stay in New York. President Day has been quoted to that effect. He sold Capt. jee | | | | | Ward's release. to President Hewett {for $12,000, All thet is necessary j to complete the deal is to gam Ward's consent | to the transfer. If he ref York. So says President F j any idea thai he will refuse uses he stays in New But nobody has | | gh | Women Walking for a Parse. j THE GO-AS-YOU-PLEASE AT THE NEW YORK AVENUE | SKATING RINK, A walking-match for women began at the | New York avenue skaking rink in this city yes- | terday afternoon. There were eight contest- | ants, two of whom, known as Lady Macbeth | and Louisa Marony, are competing for a purse | ), the winner to be entered in the female alking-match to take place in Madison square garden, New York, in th . while the | prizes which the othe ng for are gold watches of different v: The race is to last three days, the contestants walking every | alternate half hour between the hours of 1 and | {12 o'clock p. m. | ‘The score at midnight was as follows: Clara | | Dupont, 22 miles 3 laps; Josephine Thorne, 22 miles 3 laps; Alice Maubre: Bessie Macbeth, 21 miles ennie Morse, 21 miles 21 miles 5 laps. and 1 THE SOORE AT TWO ©'CLOCK TO-DAY Was as follows: Alice Mowbrey, 30 miles 11 laps; Lady Macbeth, 30 miles 9 Iaps; Clara Du- pont, 30 miles 8 laps; Carrie Jefferson, 30 miles | 4 laps; Josephine Thorn, 30 miles 3 laps: Jen- | miles 12 laps; Laurena | Jeftri | nie Morris, | 29 miles 3-iaps: Louisa Maroni, 26 miles 3 laps, weohers Real Estate Matters. Messrs, Freeman Rhoades, the proprietors | of the Pavilion hotel, at New Brighton, Staten | Island. have purchased the lease of the Maltby | | hotel, at the corner of New Jersey avenue and | B street northwest. ! John D. McPherson has bought for €4,500 | | from Caroline W. Dobbins, parts 49 to 51, H's | | addition to West Washington, part 183, square | | 69, 83 by 120 feet on Dumbarton street, west of | | Monroe street. | | _W. G. Pond has bought of N. Cobb for | $4,764.25, sub 5, square 179, 22 feet. 5 inches, by | 97g feet on Q street, between 36th and 17th | streew northwest, | J. MeL. Carusi has bought for $10,000 of W. | A. Smoot, subs 6 and feet on C street, bet. east. Emmons 8. Smith has bought, for $6,500, of M. M. Parker a half interest in lot 11, reserva- tion 10, 25x180 feet on Pennsylvauia avenue, between 3d and 41¢ streets northwest. Also, from E. J. Stellwageu et al., for $7,502, sub D, sq. 341, 25x124 feet on L, between 10th and ith streets northwest. | will be of unusual excellence. | inadequate to the demand. All the Preparations Gibbons to Arrive To-day. ‘The centennial celebration of Georgetowa College will commence to-morrow, and@ all the event are now z thoroughly provided for. The massive front building is handsomely with ting and flags of all nations, and — 6 ing appeal lights have been introduced the illumination which row night. The interior of the new ant and tasteful. The gateway is a handsome feature, and adds to the attractive appearance of the grounds. Bs who will escort him to the college, the cadet corps of the college joining im the escort at Washington circle. “On his arrival at the col- lege Mr. C. O'Day, of the class in philosophy, will deliver a poem of welcome and there be three addresses by Mr. Ed. O'Brien, of the rhetorical class; Mr. Smith, of the more class, and the third by Mr. Edward of the freshman class, Then the cardiual hold an informal reception, when the stadente will be personally introduced to him, after which he will dine with Mr. and Mrs. Preston B. Sands, who will give a reception in his honor, for which invitations have been issued. The cardinal will be attended by twenty archbishe ops and bishops, among whom will be Arche bishops Ryan, of Philadelphia, and Corrigan, = weal sy t Bishop O’Hera, of Scranton; ishop Foley, Bishop Ryan, of Buffalo, and the bishops of Teookiye ant Quebec, TO-MORBOW'S EXERCISES, The centennial celebration will commence to-morrow with religious exercises. Pontifical high mass will be celebrated in Trinity church, Es | Georgetown, and the centennial sermon will be preached by Rev. Father Doonan, « former president of the college, ‘The musical program In the evening theological degrees will be conferred and ai address will be delivered by Mgr. Preston, and the faculty will hold a reception to old stu- dents, friends of the college, former professors, and tutors. The building and grounds will be brilliantly illuminated. The next day will be alumni day, when class and alumni mbetings will be hela’ an ‘oration be @elivered by Martin F. Morris, and poem by Mr. Pelien, of St. Louis. In the evening a grand banquet will be beld at Willard’s, at which s number of distinguished invited guests wil! be present. The exercises will close on Friday with class and society meetings in the morning, held by the past and present students of the depart- ments of arts, medicine and law. In the after- noon there will be a solemn academic session of the three faculties, at which honorary de- gress will be conferred. President Cleveland Will aunounce the degress and make a brief ad- dress, NOTES. Already alumni from abroad .are beginning to arrive, and Secretary Brady has been busy to-day in meeting the new comers, Many of the visiting clergy have come to tho city and have taken up their quarters at the college. The alumni medals have been eagerly i called for. and it is feared that the supply wil prove Some misunderstanding having arisen as to whether ladies will be admitted to the centen- nial exercises of Georgetown college, the com- mittee in charge desires to state that ladies are expected and invited to be present at all the | public exercises, including the reception to- morrow e' ning. Raxor or rar Tarewomerer.—The following . adiugs at the signal office to-day: ; 2p. m., $2; maximum, 33; mame Orators, Actors, and Editors, wearied with night work and following the fashion of French surge , tind Mumm's Extra Dry Champagne a more refreshing and invigorating tonic than tea or coffee, Mr. Gladstone and Bismarck, who are using the wonderful vintage of 1884, are notable exam- ples. MARRIED. EMMONS—MAREOE. On Thursday even! at 2 ‘a. Leonard. DD. ot the peme o'clock, by the W. the br WELLS. On Monday, February elo $E ot the yarsonnge af Oe ch. by the vy. Mr. Register, WH. KID- whinginias to" Bias CEORLIN’ WELLS, of ° cal ad John's chus WELL, of this caty. DIED. On Monds: or February 1) ock, ELIZABETH Mi widow of the Inte Funeral services at her late residence We th instant, at lo'clock. Funeral pris GOET 2 » ob Tuesday, Februni Ee it her late residence, iia avenue southwest, FRANCES, the of John Goetzinwer, aged fifty-eight years. funeral hereafter. COLEGATE, seventh year of his age. Funeral from residence #39 Zoth street northwest, € lay evening at 3 o'clock, na 30 (Ou Monday, February 18,1889, LUCINDA JONES, in the forty-sixth year of ber age. Funeral from the Metropolitan Baptist. church, M street, between Sixteenth and Seventeenth, Wedies- day at 3 o'clock p.m. . KEADY. Departed day, February 18, this life at 1 o'clock a. m., Tues- heady, sno, kilen 3 daughter of John and Mary Keady, age four years seven months. Funeral will take place Thursday evening at 3 p. from her parents’ residence, 1300 85th st £6. = LEE. On Tuesday, February 19th, 1889, FRANCES: LEE, aged sixty-five mes : ty Funeral Thure¢ ‘bru Zist, at 3 from John Re Wrights’ undertabing estebiion d street borthwest. Relatives sud rent, Olelock Relatives and friends of ‘the daaaily ere spectiully invited to attend. ao re SPEISER. On Saturday, February 16, 1880, at 7 misof Pneumonia, ¢. VIRGINIA: daughter of the lake Frederick and Marla Spetser. east a a 20, at 2 0% | Ghinist church, & street, between 6th ema ‘2 southeast, where service will be beid at 2:30 pan. 2° WOOD. On Febreary 18, LS8H, at 7. 7 XANSIE © beloved dauxhter of Charles and Gath? wie Wood “Funeral from parents’ residence, Xo. AFA Latreet 8 A jenday, February 20, at 2 clock . mm. be eee Honsronn's Acw Paosrnare FOR WAKEFULNESS, HYSTERIA, and other diseases of the nervous system, Prans Sou. Prans Soar. Prane ‘Sour. Fos Wor Hor Bucur Cuzz Comrrenox Serr Heurrc, Sam (The Great Lugiish Complexion Soap— PEARS’ SOAP.” ‘SULD EVERYWHERB (Beware of Limitations *