Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1889, Page 6

LISTEN TO THE REFEREE. Mr. Fitzpatrick on the Great Sullivan- Kilrain Fight. ‘BE SAYS SULLIVAN 18 THE SQUAREST FIGHTER THAT EVER STEPPED INTO THE BING—WHY HE RE- FUSED TO ALLOW A CLAIM OF FOUL—A WARM TRIBUTE TO MITCHELL'S GENERALSHIP. Boston Special to the New York Sun. In the mass of literature that has been Printed about the Sullivan-Kilrain fight noth- ing has been quoted ‘rom the lips of one of the most important functionaries of the battle— Referee Fitzpatrick. That gentleman is now at Nantasket Beach, Boston’s popular seaside resort, and for the first time he talked to-day for pubfication. He says that it is the last time that he will consent to be interviewed on the subject. When asked if he had expected to referee the battle he replied: “I went there to see the fight, like thousands of others, and had not the slightest idea that they wanted me. If I had known that I would not have gone. When they began to shout for Fitzpatrick I was the most surprised man on the grounds. I explained to the men thatI ‘Was not up as regards the rules, but that I would serve to the best of my ability. Idid not read the rules until the day after the fight. Possibly if I had the contest would not have ‘as long as it did. Now, for imstance, there is one rule which says that the men, at the call of time, must face each other and toe the scratch, but the rule does not say what shall be done if either man refuses to toe the mark. I supposed that the result of such a violation is left entirely to the discretion of the referee. Of course I understand that all rules cannot be perfect. especially those which gov- ern prize fights, but I do think that a little re- vision would not injure the London rules a bit. They are relics of bygone days and should be thoroughly overhauled. I had very little trouble in refereeing the fight. It just about refereed itself. I want to say that I think that Jobn L. Sullivan is the fairest and squarest fighter that ever stepped into a ring. Yes, he was spiked a number of times by Kilrain, ‘but I would not aliow afoul for these reasons: First, I could not make up my mind that the spiking was intentional; second, I wanted the fight todetermine which was the better man, and thus prevent any dissatisfaction later. I think that everybody is satisfied as it is. The friends of Sullivan can easily believe that he is the best man that ever trained for a fight. The friends of Kilrain have the consolation of knowing that theirgman was game from start to finish and that Ne fought desperately, but that he was overmatched. The first time that Sullivan was spiked was on the left foot. The spike went through the thick leather and ripped it. The second spiking that he got must have been very painful. . It cut into the small toe, lacerating it badly.* Several other times was Sullivan spiked; the worst was when he fell on Kilrain. The iatter had his foot in the air when he fell and one of his spikes en- tered Sullivan's groin. Muldoon at once claimed afoul and made quite an energetic demand that it be allowed, but I could not de- tertermine whether it was intentional or acci- dental, so I did not allow the claim. “I was the most surprised man at the ring when it was announced at the close of the fight that the men bad fought over two hours, I felt that they had fought just about half an hour. Both men showed the effects of the battle wetty thoroughly near the close. They were Poth pretty tired, and a chance blow would, in my opinion, have settled the battle either wa Then, when Sullivan saw that Kilrain was b: coming weak, he braced up hike a thorough- bred horse and went at Jake hammer aud tongs, ‘That great final brace just about made Sullivan champion of the world. Poor Kilrain must certainly have suffered awfully toward the lat- ter part of the fight. He would walk upto the scratch with both hands below his heart, pu ing at the flesh in an effort to ease the pai He was a very badly used-up man and he showed the effects of the punishment which he had received.” “Do you think that Mitchell worked as faith- fully for the interest of Kilrain as he should?” “Yes, Ido. Ithink that Mitchell is not be- ing treated fairly in this matter. I know that he is disliked and hated for his arrogant man- ner, but I feel that he ought to receive fair play. If things had gone differently Mitchell would have been a great man. I do not see for the life of me why Kilrain has changed his opinions expressed before the fight. He claimed to be in the best of form, and re- ferred gratefully to the hard work that Mitchell was domg. Now, the —_ trouble with Kil- Fain is that he allowed himself to become too confident. Mitchell convinced him that Sul- livan was not the man he was in former days. ‘The result was apparent. Kilrain, instead of resting for aday or two before ‘the fight, was about in panic places. Why, the confi- dence which that man had in his ability to whip Sullivan was so great that he shifted Many stanch New Orleans admirers of Sullivan and made them bet on him. The story that Mitchell shook Kilrain when the fight was over is all bosh. Now just think of the work which that man did. His brain was working every second of the fight, and to his generalship was haps due the fact that the fight lasted as asitdid. It wasa frightful hot day, and think of the number of times Kilrain was ked or fell down. Think of Mitchell rushing over and picking up, with the assist- ance of another second, 180 limp pounds. Was not that work? Well, when the fight was over, Isaw Mitchell. He looked as palo as a ghost. clothing wascompletely suaked with per- spiration. He could not have been more wet if he had fallen into the water with his clothes on. He was terribly disappointed. Do you wouder that for a while he went off by himself? When men are suffering from grief they sometimes like sympathy, but there was nobody there to sympathize with him. He was expected to sympathize with Kilrain. His work over; he was defeated and felt disheart- ened. He was almost as badly knocked out as Kilrain,and he needed the brief rest that he re- ceived. I never knew Mitchell, and don't know much about him now, but I do think he should receive all the praise in the world for the man- ner in which he handled Kilrain. He acted faithfully and honorably. He did his level best. Sullivan's blows and Muldoon’s training were what did the business. Sullivan is simply a wonder—th:t’s all. I do not think that we will ever see his like again. He was in his prime on the morning of July 8. It lies entirely with himself whether he will continue to be in his e for several years to come.” “Whataction, Mr. Fitzpatrick, do you think Gov. Lowry of Mississippi will take in regard to the principals?” “That is a matter that I would like to say a word about, as I think it will be rticularly appropriate at this time. I think that Gov. ba a will sift this matter to the very bottom. My advise to the pugilists in New Orleans was to go Fight to Mississippi and give themselves to the authorities. The day that Sullivan Jef New Orleans I impressed the importance of this on Muldoon. Of course we all have a horror of jails, but as the same time it is better to submit to the inevitable. I went and gave myself into custody and was promptly bailed. That would have been the proper thing for to do. The longer Sullivan, Kilrain, and others they remain away the more difficult will it be to boil thera when they are caught. The princi- only other thing the matter with me was my hands were a ttle swollen.” MITCHELL TALKS AT LONG RANGE, Mitchell, the pugilist, was interviewed at Queenstown yesterday on the arrival of the steamship on which he is a passenger. He said that Kilrain’s defeat was due to ay of training and to overmuch confidence in ability to beat Sullivan. “Donovan,” said Mitchell, “had no right to throw up the sponge; though Kilraif’s second he was Sullivan's man, The report that Kil- rain was severely punished was rubbish, as he was in better form the day after the fight than on entering the ring. Sullivan was worse dis- figured than Kilrain.” Mitchell denied the truth of the r that he had had a quarrel with Kilrain, and said that he and Kilrain were good friends. He eluded the detectives by changing his routes and by disguising himself as a clergymon, a farmer and a tramp. Mitchell said he was ready to fight Sullivan anywhere, NO WARRANT FOR KILRAIN, After his conference with Governor Jackson at Salisbury Detective Norris again showed up in Baltimore yesterday. It seems that the gov- ernor issued no warrant for Kilrain’s arrest, and that the detective will be obliged to go back to Mississippi, as the grand jury of Marion county, where the offense was committed, has — yet found an indictmentt against the pugi- ts. A friend of Kilrain’s assures the detective that if the indictment is found by the grand jury at its next meeting, August 5, Kilrain will give bond to appear at the December session are in no danger of arrest at present. I not think that Gov. Lowry will take any action in the matter until the grand jury meets in October. Then indictments will probably be secured, and the principals will be brought to the state and tried. The easiest way is the best. That is why I should advise those con- @erned to goright down there and settle the Matter as soon as possible. The men can be extradited from any state in the Union, and the Mississippi authorities will follow the matter to the end.” $24,600 For suLirvaN. ‘The proprietors of the Illustrated News pre- sented to Champion John L. Sullivan Saturday the 25,000 which they had contributed to the $10,000 stakes put up for Sullivan in his fight with Kilrain. Wakely and Johnston had al- Feady presented to Sullivan the other £5,000 they had jointly put up. This made, with the 10,000 stake money won, the 23,600 of gate receipts, and the $1,000 personally won Kilrain, the sum of $19,600 which Sulli- ‘Van made out of the fight. In the atternoon Waxely and Johnston called at the Vanderbilt hotel for Sullivan, and the three went to the I[Uustrated News office tc- . They were closeted with Arthur Lum- yforan hourandahalf. lefore the visit Was over Mr. Lumley said that Sullivan could have the Jlustrated News stakes. Papers were drawn up making the transfer of the @5 000. Sullivan thanked Lumley and thrust the papers in his pocket. This makes him in the entire of his viet $24,600. —- | tory, He has re- Sullivan will stay in New York nntil Tuesda: or Wednesday. There are a good many ard ters connected with the fight still to be settled up, Arthur Lumley says. The big fellow was ina sociable humor after the settlement. He talked over the fight with his backers and a reporter. “I never felt one of Kilrain’s blows,” he said, and I felt no effects from them until after it was over. No, I never even felt the ciip he gave me the eye until they told me of it “You were well tired out, all the said arthur Laney the time we reached New Orleayas. A hot would have taken the black out-of my eye. of the courtand chanée paying the @500 or 21,000 fine, or the possibility of serving twelve months in the penitentiary. According to the detective an effort will be made for the indict- ment of none but Sullivan, Kilrain, Mitchell, Muldoon, Stephenson, Moore, Cleary, Johnson and Coburn. It is not likely that Jake is far from Balti- more, but Norris telegraphed south that Kil- rain is in Canada.and that his own efforts here are fruitless. Norris says the delay in arrest- ing Sullivan is due to the belief that it can be more easily done after that gentleman’s arrival on Massachusetts soil, Norris claims to get $20 per day — + ~6— —— CAPTURING BUFFALOES. How Two Young Texans Caught Five American Bison. From the St. Louis Republic. Five full-grown American bison, the buffalo of the frontiersman and Indian, sulk in a close corral at the ranch of Steve and William Williams near Rockdale, Carbon county. The captors are adventurous fellows who came here from Texas three years ago, Of the nota- ble successful chase Wilson, the older brother, said: ‘We have known fora long time that the herd ranged on Red desert, 90 miles north- west of Rawlins, but I realized that the capture would be laborious and dangerous because the country was open, and an eastern menagerie with whom we corresponded offered $500 a head for the wild beeves, and Steve and I de- termined to make some money.” ‘The expedition included the young ranch- men and two cowboys, who are daring riders and perfect with the lariat. For the chase they selected powerful horses, possessing both bottom and speed. There was no trouble in locating the herd, but the animals were fear- fully timid and were away like the wind at sight of the hunters. ‘The four plainsmen rode their mounts for all there was in them. Each cast was successful. buta big bull roped by Steve Williams would not be conquered and killed, Before being dispatched he gored two horses. The second effort was fruitless, but the third added three more to the captured. Each buffalo was lashed toa heavy work ox taken along for that purpose. route to the ranch bison became frightened, struggled but finally fell and broke his neck. , asplendid trophy. was brought to The hunters say there are fully fifty in the herd, and express ability to capture all if properly outfitted. They now think their prizes worth more than the price offered before the chase Three of a Pleasure Party Drowned. A yawl boat containing six persons, compris- ing a pleasure party from Baltimore, was run down and sunk in the Patapsco river last even- ing by the steamer Tolchester, Mary Weiner, Mary Kolb, and John Betz were drowned, the others being with difficulty picked up by the steamer’s boat. A Plot to Kill Dom Pedro. The Portuguese who fired a shot at Dom Pedro on the night of July 16, while the latter was leaving the theater, is named Adrians Valle. He declares that he was instigated to make the attempt upon the emperor's life by a republican associat: soe An Overdue Steamer Arrives. The new Clyde built steamer Thetis, which left the Philippine Islands April 26 with $350,000 worth of sugar, and which had almost been given up as lost, arrived in New York yesterday. She was forced to put into Rio Janeiro for repairs to her main shaft, and was delayed several weeks, The Chico, Cal., Tragedy. Hubbs, who was shot by his bride's former lover at Chico, Cal., as stated in Tue Star last week, died Saturday. Mrs, Hubbs’ wound is not dangerous, Before dying, Hubbs made an ante-mortem statement to the district attor- ney. He said that when he visited Mrs. Bar- ney’s house with his wife yesterday he found Bierce there. Bierce abused them and tried to quarrel. Hubbs and wife started to go when Bierce, who, a moment before, had stepped into an adjoining room, reappeared and fired, the ball striking Hubbs. Hubbs returned the fire and four shots were fired by each man. Hubbs told his wife to leave and went out of the door himself. When he found his wife was not with him he re- turned. and hearing two more shots in theroom, broke open the doors, as Bierce had locked it. He grappled with Bierce and threw him to the floor. Hubbs states that Mrs. Barney made no effort to stop Bierce’s shooting but tried to get him (Hubbs) to let Bierce up after the latter had been thrown to the floor. eee Wants Queen Victoria to Abdicate. It was rumored in the lobbies of the house of commons Saturday that the prince of Wales is anxious that the queen should abdicate, as he believes that he could secure a favorable civil list at the present time, while, if his ascent of the throne should be deferred for any consid- erable number of years this would become ex- ceedingly doubtful. The queen herself, it said, while recognizing the force of these con- siderations is unwilling to take such a step so long as her health remains good, a Christian Scientists Crazed. Mrs. Mary Hawk, one of the leaders of a large band of Christian scientists in the com- munity at Sharon Plains, N.Y., was Saturday removed to the Warren insane asylum. She says she holds communications with heaven in trances and has beheld Christ in visions. Mrs. Hart of Brookfield is also a victim of the doc- trine. Both women refuse nourishment. se — Three Wives Looking for One Man. Four women are in Newark, N.J., looking for Chas. A. Lewis, the defaulting purser of the steamer City of Albany of Sea Beach, which plies between Newark and Coney Island, Three claim to be his wives, and one expected tobe. The latter lives at Bath Beach. The others came from Coney Island, New Bruns- wick, N.J., and Washington, D.C. Lewis is twenty-four years ‘old. decamped a week ago with $600 of the receipts of the boat. There is no clue to his whereabout, wn es wate 62 nl Mr. Chamberlain’s Ambition. London special to the New York Sun. The ouly amusing incident of Thursday's and Friday's debate was when the editor of Truth took the starch out of Joseph Chamberlain, whose American wife was watching the scene from the gallery. Enumerating the sinecure salaries that are paid to officers of the royal household—£2,000 to the lord chamberlain, £2,000 tothe master of the horse, £2,500 to the waiting, and £3,000 to four equerries— Mr. yachere asked why the country should be put to the expense of paying noblemen to perform these duties while there were so many entlemen, like the honorable member from ingham, for instance, who would be too glad to perform them for Gnd berlain was startled out of his usual composure, commons, there laughter from all sides, He turned red and except that of his wife. seats in advance at 619 and 1351 ia d, as he is one of the most unpopular men the house ofcommons, there was’ a shout, of then white again, and in weer Seales inceed sean tee) bition d Tobey Sane Comienaty sented Seeee- siou Thursday, August 1. 't fail to secure avenue. No extra c! Round $1. Train leaves Baltimore Sad Ohio stata a The! 10a.m. THE NEW STATES. Montana Excited Over the Selection of a Capital. At Helena Saturday the convention went into the committee of the whole for the con- sideration of state institutions and public buildings, Section 2, relating to the seat of the capital, was taken up. Every town in Montana was named for this honor. A vote was called for under confusion. Anéonoa received » Plurality, which caused consternation and ex- citement throughout Helena. It is considered a bluff, but the Helena lights are agitated. The vote stood 32 to 24. A call to adjourn was heard frequently. The convention finally ad- journed until Monday at 4 p.m. Australian Ballot Defeated in Dakota. At the Sioux Falls, D.T., convention a ses- sion was held for the purpose of further con- sidering the amendment to the schedule incor- porating a modified form of the Australian system of voting. The discussion was ani- mated throughout, The delegates were al- most unanimous in the opinion that the mens- ure was a desirable one, while a considerable number opposed the amendmenton the ground that it was special legislation, not authorized under the omnibus bill. The unanswered question as to any power to enforce it or pun- ish its violation decided its fate. A vote re- “rea in the defeat of the amendment by 27 to SS ESP Sees any CRUSHED IN A COTTAGE. Seven Persons Killed and Five Wounded —Terrible Storm in Chicago. In Chicago the storm of Saturday night was one of the most severe that has ever visited this section of the country. The rainfall was the greatest ever known in a like period—over four inches in two hours and fifteen minutes. As nearly as can be ascertained, it was 7:20 o'clock when a terrible gale of wind struck a three-story brick building which stood at the corner of Leavitt street and which had not yet been roofed; it toppled and fell on a cottage at 747, crushing it as though it were paper, and burying the inmates beneath the ruins. The three front rooms of the cottage were occupied by Cornelius Ferdinandus, a Hollander and his family, consisting of his wife, Reka, and five children, the eldest a girl of twelve and the youngest an infant of one year. In the three rear rooms lived Charles Rock, a German laborer, and his wife, Amelia, and three child- ren, the eldest thirteen and the youngest six years of age. ‘As soon as possible an alarm was sent to the Hinman street police station, and Lieutenant Beck and every officer on night duty, eighteen | in all, responded. Engine companies 23 and 36 and truck 12 were also quickly at the scene of the disaster, There was not a trace of the cot- tage to be seen. It had been buried com- pletely out of sight; but the painful cries of a — were heard through the shriekings of the ale, i With a will the firemen and policemen went to work to remove the debris, and siortly after 11 o'clock the bodies of all who were known to have been in the building were taken out. The dead are: Cornelius Ferdinandus, aged thirty-three; Reka Ferdinandus, his wife, aged thirty-one; Cora Ferdinandas, aged five; May Ferdinandus, infant child of Mr. and Mrs, Ferdinandus, aged one year; Amelia Rock, wife of Carl Rock, aged thirty-nine; Annie Rock, aged eight; Albert Rock, aged six. The wounded are: Carl Rock, aged forty- three, slightly crushed; August Rock, aged thigteen, skull crushed, and will probably die; Linda Ferdinandus, aged ten, badly crushed; Luda Ferdinandus, aged eight, slightly hurt; Gertrude Ferdinandus, aged three, skull frac- tured and can not survive. adi: SI A Flood Sufferer’s Suicide. Saturday afternoon a man named John Sny- der purchased a revolver in a hardware store at Johnstown, Pa., and, after loading it, started to walk out. In a moment the clerks in the store were surprised at hearing three shots fired in rapid succession and seeing Snyder fall to the floor. It was plainly a case of self destruc- tion, nor was it difficult to find the cause. In the great flood the little home of Snyder,which was on Maple avenue, Woodvale, was swept away and his wife and four children were lost. He himself had an awful experience and was saved, after floating to the stone bridge, by climbing over the debris to the hillside. After the flood he was inconsolable for a time, but finally obtained employment as a watchman at Moxham, and for three weeks attended to his duties and was apparently becoming reconciled. ‘Then he took a notion to go away, and he went to Ohio, returning a week ago last Friday. That his mind was somewhat unbalanced by his grief was known to his friends, and that he contem- plated the awful deed which he afterward com- mitted is known by the remark which he is said to have made to his mother Sati when leaving home, which Was: “Good-bye; you may not see me again.” Snyder was about thirty-five years of age. —— = +A Womanly Deed. From the Rochester Democrat. “I saw a little act of kidness yesterday,” said one of our court officials, ‘‘that struck me as very pretty and womanly. Isuppose you've noticed that there are quite a number of gypsies about the streets lately, Well, yesterday afternoon one of the women was in rather of @ fix out on West Main street, She was carrying a bouncing young Roman and the gay handkerchief she wore twisted about her head instead of a bonnet was on the point of slipping off and falling on the dirty sidewalk. Having both arms fuil of baby she couldn't readjust her head dress herself, and her evident distress over what seemed a rather trifling matter seemed a fit subject for laughter to those who observed her at ull. “Just then a very handsomely dressed lady came along, and evidently took in the situation at a glance. She walked straight up to the gypsy woman, smiled an ‘allow me!’ reached across the not over clean baby, and with her daintily gloved hands tied handkerchief under the woman's chin, Then she gave the repaired headdress a little twitch at the sides to set it straight, and with another smile and that final pat with the hollow of the hand on the knot with which all women put the finishing touch to a bow went on her way. It don’t sound like anything in Lappe, but it struck me as a bit of real womanly kindness, and judging from the look in the brown woman's eyes, it struck her 0 too,” ——_——_~-+ee______ A Prize Fight Ends in a Row. Early yesterday morning Wm. Corcoran and Joe Shannahan engaged in a bare-knuckle con- test, Marquis of Queensberry rules, for a purse of $125, in a barn near Mansfield station, Penn- sylvania, on the Pan-Handle railroad. The principals were in good condition and evenly TELEGRAPH RATES. The Western Union’s President to Post= master General Wanamaker. Dr. Norvin Green, president of the Western Union telegraph company, has published a let- ter to Postmaster General Wanamaker denying Mr. Wanamaker's statement that “the Western Union has been making rates to various large corporations that are in some instances as low asthe figures now proposed for the govern- ment service,” one mill per word. Dr. Green says he conveyed this information to the attor- ney general in a letter dated July 16, and that no publicity was given it, although the state- ment of Mr. Wanamaker appeared in the news- pers before it reached Dr. Green. Dr. ireen, continuing, says he did not infer that in the 1 “various large corporations” Mr. Wanamaker could have referred to the Press associations. After the so-called free service for railroad companies, which is paid for in kind by the free rtation of men and material, services of their railroad oper- ators, and in most instances the furnishing of labor and other assistance in maintaining the lines, Dr. Green says the lowest rates should naturally be those for the transmission of news for publication. It is not an ex- acting service, but is mostly done at night. and the Western Union company has contrib- uted to it largely without profit and frequently without any compensation whatever, distribut- ing Presidents’ messages, sending out daily bulletins during the illness of President Gar- field and Gen. Grant, and distributing the doings of large political or benevolent assem- bla; free of charge. “I cannot conceive,” adds Dr. Green, ‘‘why the government should treat this class of service as a measure for fix- ing the rates fer government messages.” Dr, Green further py that in every scourge of yellow fever and cholera and in every devasta- tion by flood or fire the Western Vain bia done for public information and private relief a large amount of service without charge, but it never oceurred to the compuny that the gov- ernment was in such straits as to require its service to be done practically for nothing. Except the arrangements with railroad and transportation companies and rates for press and commercial news service, Dr. Green asserts that the Western Union makes no reduced rates to any corporation, whether patrons large or small. For messages transmitted and delivered toasingle address the government 1s the only customer of the company that enjpys reduced rates, woe QUEER CORONERS’ VERDICTS. Curious and Ridiculous Findings Made by the Jury. From the August Forum, Some cases of comparatively recent occur- rence will serve to illustrate the defect of the coroner system. Here are four instances from a single New England state. In a certain town a man shot himself. A coroner hearing of the fact, and still in ignorance whether death had occurred, sum- moned a jury and hastened to the place, only to find the man alive. Selecting the nearest saloon as a waiting place, the coroner and his jury remained there until the man was dead, employing a boy in the neighborhood to keep them informed as to the man’s condition, until he had ceased to breathe, when they proceeded with the inquest. In another place: “The body of a drowned man was towed across a mill pond from one town to another, to save the first town, in which the body was found, the expense of inquest fees.” The following humorous verdict was ren- dered by a Tennessee coroner's jury: ‘ “He come to his death from the following causes, to wit: From some sudden cause, to the jurors’ unknown.” ae An Irishman named O’Connor was killed in Minnesota by one Cochrane, and about his dead body assembled a jury of six men, who ren- dered the foliowing verdict, given here without the original spelling: “Martin O'Connor, here lying dead, came to his death by shot from a gun, which caused the blood to rush in torrents from his body 80 that it was impossible for him to live until we could hold an inquest.” ‘The following is reported from Kentucky: “Inquisition held on the body of Holmes, deseasts December 8, 1953. We, of the said bt by being summoned and qualified, and earing the evidences, and making true and diligous resentments over the said body of said deseasts, twelve men met, and, being duly sworn into the case, believes that he come to his death by some fit or other apoplexy. Doctor being duly sworn by myself, coroner, states that the lobis membrane of the spinal disease was affected to considerable extent.” ei Two Much Whiskers for the Horse. From the Chicago Mail. “Have you seen Dick Gunning lately?” asked a round-town friend yesterday. I hadn't seen the heavy man of the board of trade and said so. “Oh, yes, you have.” continued the gossip; “you've seen him, but you didn’t know him, He ain't got any whiskers any more; nobody would recognize him since that beard, the priae of his life, is gone.” I remembered Mr. Gunning’s justifiable vanity in his fan-shaped, English beard, and asked why he parted with it. “Had fo,” sententiously replied my friend. “He and I were down to Mount Clemens to- ether and he left his whiskers down there. A horse eat them. Yes, it’s true;a horse eat Gun- ning’s whiskers. It happened this way; Dick and I were standing on the piazza of the hotel. It's about 14 feet above the ground. A lot of ladies were going along the street and we were watching ‘em, when all of a sudden there was a racket up the street, the women began to dodge into doer-yards and’ scream, and a runaway horse tore around the corner and came dashing down toward the hotel drawing a dilap- idated buggy after it. Gunning is no_feather- weight, you know, but he vaulted the banisters likea hurdle-runner and came down so hard he made a dint in the ground. He didn’t stop, but ran into the street, seized the horse and checked him in his flight. I got down on a ladder and ran out to help him hold the fright- ened beast, which was plunging and kicking around at a great rate. “It was funny for everybody but Gunning. He stood there holding the horse’s head when the beast made a bit for his ear and caught a whole mouthful of whiskersinstead. Gunning’s eyes fairly popped out, and he begged us to pull the horse loose. That was easier said than done, though, for the horse kept chewing away for two minutes before we could loosen his hold on the whiskers. When we did, Gunning pped over faint from the pain, with all the whiskers gone from one side of his face, “There were 109 ladies looking on as we got Gunning into the hotel, and cologne, notes and roses began to come up into the room at once, Gunning revived all right and got shaved be- fore dinner time. When he went into the din- matched at 190 pounds, Eleven terrific rounds were fought, Shannahan having the best of it, and would in another round or two have been the victor had not the trainers of the principals become involved ina quarrel which soon be- came general, and the wildest confusion fol- lowed. The antagonists were finally separated, forced into their cubs and were driven to Pitts: urg. ————— ee ______ Baltimore Post Office Changes. Civil Service Commissioner Theodore Roose- velt was at the Baltimore post office Saturday. It is understood that he went there at the solici- tation of Postmaster General Wanamaker, There are only eleven of the employes of four years ago now left in the office. Most of these changes, however, were made by Postmaster Veagly, whose open violations of the civil serv- ice law gave him a national notoriety. The present postmaster, Frank Brown, has made Cham- |’ only about forty changes, and these, he claims, have all been pS err for the improvement of the service. It is not known what Mr, Roose- velt will do in the matter. eee —_____ Baltimore and Ohio Reorganization. Third Vice President Lord and General Pas- senger Agent Scull of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad have issued a circular carrying into effect the reorganization of the passenger de- partment and abolishing the general ticket office, Mr. O, P, McC the it chief Pre left Baltimore Saturday for Columbus, Obi obtice there as as- ifs eke charge of the ing room that night he was a changed man, but the dear girls recognized him and gave him a terrific round of applause. It embar- rassed Dick awfully, he's so modest, you know.” “What became of the horse?” “Died! Died miserably from the results of the runaway or his meal on Gunning’s blond- ined whiskers. Idon’t know which, Anyway, he died, and he’s dead.” ns Helping the City Editor Out Nicely. From the Minneapolis Tribune. I rather admire the young lady, Miss Seibert, who 18 in charge of the telephone exchange at night, and believe that she would make a good reporter* if she belonged to the other sex. There is probably no reporter in the city who is better informed on current events, She knows as much about the different running and trotting horses and their relative merits asa veteran jockey. On base ball she isan expert and she always takes interest enough in a prize fight to inquire at the newspaper offices, during the evening on which one ‘bin rogress, for news from the mill. She also has a faculty for, catching on to the news about as quickly as paper bors important ipa” “Ihe other night im) a 6 ni Tie called up Thadeus Simeon Varnum at Globe office and proceeded in the following manner: “Say, Te have heard about the exaacee Nare Td 2” ef / that individual as he stretched his neck out like a.sand hill crane expres- and thought of the stuff he cruel crime.” with a fierce Dr. Jekyll-and-Mr. H; Pnghs pascal ne >| purchaser's option, A deposit of $1.00 required on day of sale. All conveyaucing at the purchaser's cost. Sale to be compiied. with within ten (10) ng | kuown as pre:nises numvered 1612 Ninth street AUCTION SALES. a 1) Tt On" ow. KR SALE—AT PUBLIC AUCTION—ONE BROWN will in ap} A pee vemesas BROS., Auctioneers, x CoMPIASING GERERAL ASSO! oF eee ea BY ORDER HENB' SLC EIMBACE, RVIVING va! LoT FURNITURE, CONFER ICE BOX, &o. SIDE-BAR TOP BUGGY, ‘MADE BY 8. C. RODGERS, sanMS LOS RAE GNS D STREETS relate SORTA WEST, ON TUESD. NG, JULY THIRTIETH, 10 OP EDAMENCING AT TEN O'CLOCK, UNCANSON BROS., Auctioneers E LE OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE oH deci Jere tier, eaeaa Twill ty at the auc- AY | MORNIN Sree beeen ‘on : vasehold Furaiture, ie. a HENRY A. LEIMBACH, 3y26-3t Surviving executcr. 1 | haisgreneenics BROS., Auctioneera, SALE OF VALEUABE LOTS IN TRSHTNEY. CLOSE SUBDIVISION, ADJOINING SOLDIEKS' HOME, jotes secured there! in front of the premises, on TU! sell f ESDAY, AY OF JULY, A.D. 1889, at FIV described real estat ‘hmgton, holuer lic auction . Tairriers z ‘LOCK P.M, the following bins to wit Lot numbered titee 13); th block Colum wit: Lot num! ree (3), im bioci ele 8 subdivision of & tract of land called Whitney Close, as the said sub- division is duly recorded in the office of the surveyor of the District ot Columbia im the liber of county plats No. 6, folios 62 and 63. ‘Terms of'sale: Que-third of the purchase-money in cash, the balance in six and twelve months, the de- ferred payments to Le secured by @ deed of trust on the property sold and to bear interest at the rate of am cash reqi complied within ten days from day of sale the Trustees reserve the rixht to resell at the risk and cost of the rc Geraultiug purchaser. All ‘conveyancig, Sc to beat expense of the purchaser. pORG| ‘MONS $16-dkds CLARENCE DRMLEAE, § Trustecs, UNCANSON BEOS., Auctioneers, QRUSTEES' SALE OF VALUABLE SUBURBAN 1S IN WHITNEY CLOSE SUBDIVISION, AD- JOINING SOLDIEKS* HOME. By virtue of a deed of trust, duly recorded in liber No. 1243, folio 220 et seq, one of the land records of the District of Columbia, ‘aud at the request of the holder of the notes secured thereby, we will sell at ction, in frout of y Ae premises, on TUESDAY, H DAY UF JULY, AD. 1880, at HALE! O'CLOCK | P.M.. the following-described wal Estate. situate in the county of Washington, Dis- trict of Columbia, to wit: Lots num! four (4) and eleven (11) in block numbered two (2),1u B. H. Ward- er’s subdivision of a tract of land called Whitney Close, | as the said sub\li a is duly recorded in the office of | the surveyor of the District of Coluubia, in the liber ot county plats No. 6, folios 62 and 63. Terms of sale: One-third of the purchase money in the balance in six and twelve months, the de- ferred payments to be secured by a deed of trust on the proper' vid, and to bear mierest at the rate of six | per cent perannum from the oy, of sale, or all cash at purchaser's option. A deposit of $100 will be required attime of sale. if the terms of sale be not complied with in ten days froin day of sale the Trustees reserve the right to resell at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. AL yancing, &c. to be = papas GE i GE E, EMMONS, 2 Jy1G-d&ds_ GLO, W. F. SWARIZELL,S Trustees, FUTURE DAYS. HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer, LE OF TWO-STORY FRAME | 208 D STREET SOUTHWEST. EXECUTORS’ DWELLING, a t public auction, ises, on THURSDAY, the FIRST I, 1889, at HALF-PAST FIVE K, the uorth half of Sub Lot H, in square 581, 18 D sireet southwest. ha, FLGAN & LEONARD, Executors, WwW ALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO., Auctioneers, CHOICE, HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS AT AUCTI HANDSOME PaliOn SUITE UPHOLSTEI IN PLU FLAMES; ELEGA ERI TABLE: ALKS, WAL! A. UTHEK CHAMBEK EASY CHAIRS, FANCY £ABLES AND ERRY AND OLHER ROCKERS, KE- 4. HAIK AND OTHER MAT- PEAT) PILLOWS | A! ‘BO! »: HH CHINA- LL AND STAIK Cak- N UTENSILS, &o. HIKTY-FIRST, com- cing at 0 ‘KA. M., we shuil seli at resi- dence No, 1228 14th street nortliwest, the above col- lection of Wweil-kept iurniture. It will the interest of those desiring first-class articles of the latest styles and best workmanship to attend the ‘Terme cash, WALYEK B. WILLIAMS & CO., t Auctioneers, OBERT VOSE & CO., ‘Real Estate Auctioneers, Two Valuable Building Lots by auction on MON- DAY, JULY 4WEN1Y-NINAH, at SIX O'CLOCK P. M.. Being numbered 24 and 25,’ in square 723, be- twéeu ist and 2d streets and "D street and “Massa- “ust. ws ut sale; $50 on each lot when sold, jy26-3t JUNCANSON BROS., Auctioneers, IMUSTRES SALE OF BRICK HOUSE, NUMBER 612 NINTH STREET NOKTHWEST, NEAK RHODE IBLAND AVENUE. By virtue of a deed of No. 1317, folio 459 et the District of Columbi in front of the premises on TU 7 DAY OF AUGUST, A.D. 159, AT HALF-PAST F1Vi: O'CLOCK P.M. ‘tile igllowiux deserived reul estat, situated in the City of Washington, Distiéet of Colum- Lig, to-wit; All thatcertaim piece or parcel of laud | and premises kuown aud distinguished as, and being part of, lot numbered fifteen (15) in square three hundred aud sixty-four (364), begiuning for the suufe at the southeast corner of said lot fitteen (15), theuce runuing west on the south line of said lot ue hundied and tuirty-cixht feet nine inches (138 tt. 9 inches) t the line of alley, thence north ten feet seven and one-balt inches (10 tc. 73¢ inches), thence east to the west line of Ninth strect uortuwest, theuce south to the place of beginuing. ‘the same ben nortuwest. “ters: ‘One-third cash, balance in ove and two years, for which the uotes of the purchaser, secured by Ged Of trust on the property sold und bearinw interest trou day of sale at the rate of six per cent per annuum, will be tuken, or all cash, wt the option of the pur: chase WW will be required of sale,otherwise the trustees reserve the right il the property at the risk and cost of the faulting purchaser aiter Bve days’ public notice of such resale in some Lewspaper published in Washing- ton, D. Cc. ” CHAS. C, DUNCANSON CHAS. W. Dabs. dy25-d&ds TP\KUS 1 E'S SALE OF UNIMPROVED PROPERT. SLLUATE IN THE COUNTY NEAK BuIGHT- Nod AND ON AKOAD NEAR THE MILITALY OAD. Unuerand by virtue of a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, 1m a cause wherein Bessie F. Sipperly Was pluinuft and William Sijperiy Was defendant, kuown us equity cause No. 11719, the ‘undersigned trustee willou FKIDA\, AUG SEC- OND, 155%, at the hour of SIX O'CLOCK P.M., im front of the premises, sell at public auctiow ail that certain piece and Jot of land kuown ass part of “Girl's Portion, "containing three acres,aud more particularly described in the proceedings in said cause. ‘Lhe terms of sule as prescribed by said decree are as follows: One-third of the purchase money cash, bal- ance in two equal installment, to besecured by tue ‘notes of the purchuser, at oue ‘and two years, und a of trust on the property sold. or all ‘cash, at the trom the day of sale,otherwise the trustee reserves right to resell at the cost aud risk of the defaulting purc! re D. CARPENTER, Trustee, ence, Bi 1 D.C. gy Auct . ‘Land 22, in Heury A: ‘iflard’s subdivision uf square No. 151, together with the huprovements, which consist of a Two-story Frame ‘House with brume dtavle iu rear, situate on the north ‘abd 15th streets Side of 1 wtreet between 17% wen of sale: One-fourth cash, the residue at 6, 1 18 abd 24 monthe, with, botes bearing anterest ot ait per cent per annua, until rat and sectired by a deed i Siicreyentind and eesardtn@ ab peiecheste*oeels 8200 deponit pequizel atthe uuue of fale. dy19-d&ds ALBiitr L-STUMTEVANT,$ Trustees. f\HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. CHANCERY SALE OF VALUABLE LOTS AND REAM TE NALLYLOWN, De. = By of passed June 28, 1889, in Cause No. 11505, quit: BOs, 1 Docket 29, krench ¥ Frout of the promises, Lots aaa bered Atees M., in (15) aud ‘Onion Bu wore Axp Oo 8, 1 NN ywenue and C street. “ For Chisago anit Nortiweet, Yestibled Limited es. daily 1: ne ar Giuvannath St Youle apd Indianapolia. express oe Aaa : bape day 11:20 am. express 8 Fa line, express daily except M pat 3s z 10:30, #530 pone For bal am, mb. 230, nt For Boyds ‘aud ‘in £10:00 pan, Chi Pan. at all 4:05 pom ain, and 1:59 pan. 6:50 is w York, 200, *#: Bufet 0am, Pom, Atlantic City 30 pm. ne Branch itimore for BU, 7: » trail v8 8 in leaves is. KK AND PHILADELPHIA DIVIS! York, ‘rei Newark av zal Car on the 10:30 p.m, Philadelp» cheat Washineton and Balth- 30 lp, 12:10, 325, 4::19, 8:50, Jam, 1215, 3:25. week days, mnutey “Tet das putes), 4.1 205, 10220. ‘Washi 15, 7:20, 8:00 (45 minutes) a. 3:00, 4:05 (49 "45, 8:00, 10. (45 minutes! 5, 8:00, 10:05, 10:10. ing leave B and O. depot, Wash- 05a m.. 1:25 and 4:30 p.m. Tago and 3:18 4:0 im, 4:00pm. jetropolitan Branch, *6:43, for principal stations only; termediate points, °9:00a. Ht 11:20 p.m, termediate stations, 17:00 p.m, stations ou Metropolitan Branch, 11:0:30 am, 13:00, 14:30— m, jam. and t5:30p.m. cao dally 11-45 a:m, and p.m.; from Cincinnati and St. Louis daily 3:50 m., and 3 from Pittsburg 7:10 ON. ), *12-00 a.m. *2::30, "4-20 Parlor Cars on all day trai ‘at 900 p. not stop at £ | Washington on Sunday at 1:15 PE ey www ¥ Ww Pre A PLAIN 3 bat ah rrr A coe TrTr 24 OS F Set “iis Tae THE EVENING STAR is a PAPER OF TO-DAY, not of YESTERDAY nor |of LAST WEEK. It prints ALL THE | NEWS, Local, Domestic and Foreign, LONG IN ADVANCE OF THE MORN- ING PAPERS. This is conspicuously true of all classes of news, but especially so in regard to Local News and District Affairs. THE STAR has a very much LARGER \ and BETTER, force of LOCAL RE- | PORTERS and SPECIAL WRITERS than any other paper in Washington ever thought of employing, and ITS ICAL EQUIPMENT AND PRINTING FACILITIES ARE MORE OTHER WASHINGTON PAP! 30, | therefore able to print each day a full hia for W; TASS, “4:15, *O 4:00 and 9:30 am., 12:00 noon * 4:00 a. m., and 12-00 noon, Ocean Grove 14:00, 18:00 & a ye Mouday ‘ecked from hotels and 50.00 orders left at uehburg, and stations between Alexandria und Lyncbbury, Koanok Bristol, Kuoxville, Chattanooga and Memphis. Pull- quan Sleeper Wash: 24 4. m.—Fust rdow Atlanta, parlor cars Sleepers Montgon sleeper Greensboro’ wtou to Memphis. vail daily for, Warrenton, Char. tations Chesapecke and Ubio: Mount, Dauville aud sta Danville, Greensboro’, . Columbia, Aucusta, w Orleans, ew ork to pmery, Pullman Orleans." Pullman to Columbia and Augusta, Puil- ry to New juan Sleepers Waslingtoz to Cinciuuati via C. aud O. nut 4:15 p. m—Daily, > except Sunday, for Manassas, Strasburg and intermediate stations. olf P.m— Western Express, dafly for Man ~ Lp ville, to Cincinnati with a 11:00 p. m.—Southern Ex Danville, Raleigh, Augusta, Atlant and California. Bieeper Washington ‘Trains on Washington and Ohio division leave ington 9:00 am. daily 5 daily ; arriv retul ‘Kound m. ‘Tickets, slee} furmsbed, WP HE GREAT Asheville, Charlotte, Columbia: Mon: ing leave Round Hill 6:09 yer, Urange, Charlottesville, Staunton, Louis- Cincinnati, Pullman Vestibule train Washington Pullman sleeper for Lou ress daily for Lypcht ville. ure, tgomery, New O1 Lexus, is, Le : Pullman Vestibule Car Washington to | New Orleans, via Atlanta and Montgomery. Pullman to Birmingham, Ala., dante Georgia Pacine Railway except Sunday, and Ce ren sd 1 1 = Sunday, arriving Washington 5 - ad 22535 p. Thro villeaud. and 7 10. trains from the South via Charlotte, Dan- Lynchburg arnve in Washington 6:03 au. 7:13 puy.: via bast Tennessee, Bristol and bury at 8:03 am. aud 10:40 piu; via d Ohio route aud Charlottesville at 3 p.m and 6:53 am Strasbury ing-car reservation and information iy checked at_office, 1300 Peun- ‘Passenger Stauioll, Penusylva- Oth and B atreste, JAS. L. 1AYLOR, Gen. Pass, Agent. _ PENNSYLVANIA RO} TO THE NOK1 wack DOUBLE Tk HL RAILS. EFFECT Junk VE WASHINGT OF SIXTH AND BSTKEETS, AS FOL- and the West, Ci UTE, WEST AND SOUTHWEST, SPLENDID SCENERY. MAGNIFICENT EQUIPMENT, 1, Lae. ¥EOM STATION, cd Limited Express of Pullman Vestibuled Cars at 9:50 a.m: duily ; Fast Li Har and to Chicago, with cao ‘at Harrisburg with through ue, 9:00 ain. daily to Ciucianati and st. Lows, ‘with'Sleeping Cars from Pittsb mary to Ciucinuati, bury to St. Louis: daily, except Saturday, Si ar Altoona to Louis, con- for Louisvilleand Memphis. Pacific t xpress. 10-00 through 3i © ay, for pita burg and the West, with to Pittsburg, and Pitwsbure to Chicazo. BALIIMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD For Kane, Can undaigua, Kochi id Niayara daily. excevt Saturday, 10:00 p. in., with Sleeping Car Washington to Kochester. For Williamsport, Lock Haven and Elunira at 9:50a, m. daily, except Si iy unday:, FOK PHILADELTHIA, NEW YORK AND G2 11:00 and 11:40 a, id 11-20 pan. hs 0:00 aud } n. me Express of F except Sunday, iman Parlor Cars, 9: 3:40 pam. FOR PHILADELPHIA ONLY. Fast Express 8:10 a, ui. week daily. Express 2:10 duny. For Boston, without change, 2:50 p. all through For Brooklyn, N. Jerwey i 17 p.m. wee 1: For Atlan: days, 8:10, 10:00, aud For Fope’s Creek Line, except Sunday. For Anuupolis, 6:00 «m., 4:10. EXANDKIA WAX, AND KAILWAY. 2. pan. Accommodation for Quantico, 7. wi . 7:45 aan. Sun For Kichmond aud the South, 4: aud 6:21 p. m, daily, Trains leave Alexandria 00, 9:10, 10:45, 1. reek days, z. City with rect trausfer to double ferriage across New York city. ‘Ucran City aud Fouts on Dewware Division, ke tie City 9:00, 11:0 b. uy, daily, except Si ‘0 6 days, and 8:10 ». pin dally. “Accom. 6 'p. ma m. every day. i. trains conuect at ‘boats of brooklyn Annex, atlurd- Fulton street, avoiding days. 11:00and 11:40 a, m, week 1 p.m. 20 am and 4-40 p.m. daily, and 9:00 am., 12:05, 4:20and sunday. Sundays, 9:09 AND FREDERICKSBURG RAIL- ALEXANDKIA AND WASHINGLON IN EFFECT MAY a, 4:50, 6:39, 7 50, 10:57 a.m. daily, ‘xcept Sunday. for Washington, 6:05, 7:05 |ATSKILL MOUNTATNS, LAKE GEORG ADIRONDACKS. Onend after SUNDAY, Jane 24 DIBONDACES. West Shore Kailroad will run Dadytexeept 4 to and from the Jersey City Station of the Pennayl- vyauia Reiiroad, making close Connections with fast to and from W: in CATSELLL Mu) AL —! talon at 8. am. Arrive rand Hoel. 1 <g> am. Dra 1 Hotel station = to Shanice jountain House). SAKALUGA AND CATSKILL MT ve ‘am. p.m. ; Grand Hotel, . bn! Mt. House Station, " : Gecrwe, 510 4 rig Reour ‘care Ewe, 3°: Pm. to Grand Hotel Station to Pheenicia (for ‘well and Jersey Ci SARATOGA AN! ill and Mountain House), New York to irg ‘uewgo, | 40 p.m. daily, with Sleeping wn report of every transaction of public in- terest occurring in the District up to | the very hour of going to press. | | By the free use of the OCEAN CABLES |\for REGULAR AND S8\ AL DIS- | PATCHES, and with the difference of _ | time in its favor, it is also able to give its readers every afternoon the news of the WHOLE EASTERN HEMISPHERE for the entire day, and up to 12 o’clock midnight, thus leaving literally nothing in the way of news from Europe, Asia, and Africa for the morning papers. 20%: Equally does THE STAR lead all its contemporaries in the publication of the NEWS OF OUR OWN COUNTRY. Receiving the regular dispatches of both News Associations; with alert and (enterprising special telegraphic cor- | respondents at hl important points; and | with wires leading directly from its own | office to the general network of telegraph system touching every city, town and | hamlet in the United States and Terri- ; | tories, it is enabled to receive and print | atonce a full report of every event of consequence occurring during the day | anywhere between the Atiantic and Pa- “i | cific Oceans, @ NOTE THE RESULT: <3 —_e—— THE STAR HAS MORE THAN THREE TIMES AS MANY REGULAR | SUBSCRILGERS and MORE THAN | FIVE TIMES AS MANY REGULAR | READERS AS ANY OTHER DAILY | PAPER IN WASHENGTON, It is de- livered regularly by careful carriers at the HOMES OF THE PEOP$E, AFTER THE BUSTLE AND WORRY OF THE DAY ARE OVER, and it is thus read leisurely and thoroughly by EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY. They know that it prints all the news, and has only the interests of the people of the District in view, with no partisan oe | measures to advocate, and no private | schemes to forward. They know it, in short, tobe THE PEOPLE’S PAPER, and nothingelse. Asan ADVERTISING MEDIUM it is, therefore, ABSO- | LUTELY WITHOUT A RIVAL. It is in fact worth more as a means of reach- ing the public THAN ALL THE OTHER DAILY PAPERS IN THE CITY TOGETHER. Furthermore, in proportion to the re- turns it gives its patrons, ITS ADVER- | TISING RATES ARE THE CHEAPEST IN THE CITY. ——:0:_ —— In conclusion, the public should bear in mind this one significant fact: THE | STAK does not rely upon empty boasts | to impress the public. ITS CIRCULA- | TION IS SWORN TO; its PRESS- | ROOM IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC; | and its BOOKS MAY BE INSPECTED = | by any ono having on interest fa thelr examination, These are CRUCIAL TESTS, which few papers invite, and which those that boast most are least able to stand. © The esteem in which THE STAR is held by the reading and advertising public is conclusively shown by the fig- ures given below. In ‘the first six months of each of the five years named the average daily cir- culation of the paper was: 24,382 “ Equally significant is the showing in regard to the advertising patronage of the paper, which is the surest indication of its acknowledged value as a medium of publicity. Thenumber of NEW AD- VERTISEMENTS printed in the col- umns of The Star during the first six months of the years named was as fol- lows: In 1885. “ 1886.