Evening Star Newspaper, August 6, 1889, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON: D. C.. 3 * THE SPOKANE FALLS FIRE. A Lack of Water Caused the Great Ex- tent of the Conflagration. It is now learned by dispatches direct from Spokane Falls, W. T., that the fire there, of which an account was given in yesterday's Srax, destroyed twenty-five blocks of buildings. ‘The estimated loss is $14,000,000. Owing to a lack of-water the fire quickly spread, and was soon beyond control, and it was evident the city was doomed. The flames spread with fear- ful rapidity. The firemen were powerless. At- tempts were made to check the fire by blowing &p buildings in its path, but it was useless, From the Pacific hotel the fire Swept across Ist street to the frame buildings in the next block, and soon reached the heart of the city. The block of two-story brick buildings op River- side avenue was easily carried away. From there the fire communicated to the magnificent Hyde block, a four-story building, taking in the whole square between Mill and Howard Streets on Kiverside avenue. The fire next leaped across Howard street, and in a few min- Utes the block between Howard and Stevens Streets was a mass of red hotashes. The next structure to succomb was the large Tult block. From there the conflagration went whirlin; through the solid flocks of four-story bric! buildings, including the post office, between Stevens and Washington streets. At this point the fire burned out from lack of material. From the place of origin the fire had mean- while taken another direction, leaping across Spr: street to the opera house, and thence over hi rside avenue to Brown’s bank; then Doth sides of the avenue were in flames.’ The buildings between Post and Mill streets were mickly licked up, including the Grand hotel. From here the waves of flames poured into the adjoining square on the right, containing the Frankfort block, the largest building in the city. The Frankfort cost $250,000. It with- stood the fire for some time, but finally disap- peared. A MAN ROASTED ALIVE. The Arlington hotel was now enveloped in flames. Suddenly a man was seen to jump from the second story. He arose and started to run down Howard street, but was overcome by the heat and fell. Several people rushed to his assistance and carried him to a place of safety. He wasa pitiable sight, having been literally roasted alive, the skin peeling off all over his body. The unfortunate man’s name was Charles Davis. He died at noon to-day. Northward was the direction taken by the fire from the Arlington. It consumed the block between Howard, Main. Front and Stevens streets, burning east as far as the latter thoroughfare, when a vacant lot checked further progress in that direction. Everything in a northerly direction. including the Northern Pacific express office, the Union block and the Windsor hotel, was soon a mass of flame, STOPPED BY THE RIVER. ‘The river prevented the fire doing further damage, and was the means of saving all the big flouring and lumber mills. Three hours sufficed to complete the awful destruction. The only business block left standing in the city is * the Crescent building, which was saved by means of tearing down intervening buildings. Owing to the rapidity with which the fire Spr a anything was saved. Provisions are scarce and will last only a short time. ‘THE WATER SUPERINTENDENT DENOUNCED. The city council met this morning and ap- pointed a committee on relief. It was decided that provisions should be sent for and the needy supplied free. The superintendent of the city water works was denounced by the council for neglecting his duty, he being away at the time of the fire. The big pumps were not connected, and as a result there was scarcely any pressure. Had the contrary been the case the fire would have been easily gotten under control, The militia is out in force and all persons Without passes are forbidden to enter the burnt district. Five out ot the seven banks destroyed were again doing business yesterday, all being Ioented in the Crescent block, the only business structare left standing. Notwithstanding the extent of the calamity the people wear a cheer- | fulair and bear their losses bravely. Many business men have already signified their in- tention to rebuild. s0- — Convention of St. Patrick’s Alliance. ‘The annual national convention of St. Pat- rick’s alliance of America was heldin New York yesterday at their beadquarters. Over two hundred and eighty delegates were present from the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, South Carolina, Maryland, New Jersey, Obio, Pennsylvania and California. ‘The organization has 35,000 members, 10,000 of them residing in New York county. The meet- ing was for the purpose of electing the national officers for the ensuing year. and the following were elected: President, Jeremixh Hennessey. New Brunswick, N.J.; vice presidents, Hugh Carney of New Brunswick, N.J., and M. J. McKiernan of Orenge, N.J.; secretary, Francis MeCarthy, Ni York; treasurer, Michael C. Green, New York: sergeant-at-arms, John Casey, Orange valley; conductor, William Gregory, Jamaic: o+-_____ Suspect Burke in Chicago. Martin Burke, the man who has been identi- fied as the Frank Williams, who rented the Carlson cottage in which Dr. Cronin was mur- dered, arrived in Chicago at 10 o'clock last night. He was in charge of Chief of Police Hubbard, Lieut. Rose and Officer Collins. He was heavily ironed. The fear that the prisoner would be rescued by Clan-aa-Gaels prompted Chief Hubbard to take extraordinary precau- tions. When the train arrived at Western ave- nue Burke was placed in a closed carriage. He Was taken toa sub station and locked up with @ heavy guard for the night. Barke, acting on the advice of his lawyer, Tefused to talk and was so suspicious that he refased to drink or eat anything furnished b: the officers. He was intensely nervous all along the road, and when the lights of the city were i he became almost uncontrollable. Chief Hubbard thinks the man will confess all be knows about the tragedy. Terrible Riot in Stam. The Japan Gazette, received at San Francisco by the steamer City of Pekin, contains an ac- count of a terrible riot between two factions of the Chinese coolies at Sang Kong, Siam. About 5,000 men engaged in a conflict. Spears and firearms were used and a great number were killed. The coolies were more or less ander the influence of drink and fought like demons. Several times the coolies would dig their spears into the wounded men and hol their bodiesaloft, ali the time yelling hideously. ‘The Siamese troops charged the rioters, and. after bayonetting a number of them, quelled the disturbance. and captured 900 of them, who were afterward released with a light fine. ‘coe “ The Atlanta’s Successful Test. The United States steamer Atlanta went over the mile course at Newport, RL, yesterday and tried tactical diameter, then made three trials of speed at 24, 48, and 64 revolutions. ‘The highest speed made was twelve and one- half knots. The conditions were fenerally favorable and the record is considered good, ‘The trial will probably be concluded to-morrow when it is hoped to make fifteen knots at sev- enty revolutions. lil ci The Baby Didn’t Mind the Lightning. Lightning freaks were numerous at Atlanta, | Ga., yesterday. A severe storm visited the city im the afternoon, and a flash of lightning | struck a track near Union depot and created | consternation among the people there, but did no damage. A bolt struck the clock in the house of Fireman Closser. Closser, his wife | and baby were in the room at the time. The father and mother were stunned, but the baby, who was in its mother's lap, played on without being harmed. No great harm was done by any of the bolts. ——<ee-—______ Rise in Railroad Bonds. ‘The conspicuous feature of the railroad bond market in Wall street yesterday was the move- ment in Chesapeake and Ohio fives, the sales of which aggregated $379,000, resulting in an ad- vance in the price of them and causing a sym- Pathetic advance in the balance of the list. Chesapeake and Ohio fives rose 3, to 103; Rich- mond and Alleghany firsts %, to ; JAKE KILRAIN CAPTURED, Arrested While Trying to. Escape to North Carolina in a Boat. A Norfolk, Va,, special to the Philadelphia Press says: Jake Kilrain visited Ocean View on Sunday, and after himself with Mrs. Kilrain and a party of friends who had sailed with him across Chesapeake bay from Hampton started to return home about 5 o’clock in the afternoon. Before he reached the house of A.J. Ruth, where he bas been stopping, he was met by Hampton friends and told that de- tectives were in town looking for him. This, of course, caused a panic among the party, They went in hiding until about 3 o’clock yes- terday morning, when they embarked on a catboat and started from the ancient village of Hampton across Chesapeake bay. Hardly had the boat started before through the fading and fast decreasing moonlight a trim sloop was seen putting out after them. Although the Kilrain made every effort to shoot their craft ahead by putting out every stitch of canvas, they were ovei 4 o'clock when 3 miles off Ocean View. The first news of the capture was brought to Ocean View by some fishermen who were near when the sloop ran alongside the cat boat. They gay that as the sloop rounded the cat boat and almost capsized her, so heavily did she strike, two men jumped from her, and one with a paper in his hand and the other with a THE MAYBRICK TRIAL. The Widow Tells Her Own Story to the In the trial of Mrs. Maybrick at “Liverpool Yesterday, after the testimony given in Tae Stam, the defendant read her statement. In this she the presence of fly papers in the house by saying that she had bought them for use as cosmetics, For many years she had used @ cosmetic prescribed by Dr. Griggs of Brooklyn, which contained arsenic. She had lost the prescription, and, wishing to make a substitute, had soaked the fly papers in elder- flower water and lavender water, and had cov- ered the vessel holding the mixture with a plate and a towel to exclude the air. Continuing Mrs, Maybrick said: “On the night of May 9, after the nurse in attendance upon my husband had given him some meat juice, I went and sat by his we ae — of being very sick and de, an Cee os Seuivchin apowder “maciie in the day he had made a similar request, and I had declined to administer the powder, But that evening I was overwrought, terribly anxious and miserably unhappy. His distress unnerved me, and as i e powder was harmless and I could put it in his food, I_con- sented to mix it with some meat juice, which I praia at Re | and a) ‘et ret a was Not ane ious to administer the wder. THOUSANDS OF OVENS IDLE. Nearly All the Connellsville Coke Work- ers on Strike. 14,000 ovens in the region, not less than 12,000 are now idle, and the managers of the strike assert that over 1,000 of the remaining ovens will be shut down to-morrow. The National Progressive miners’ association and Knights of Labor are working together in perfect har- mony for the first time in years, Ata meeting at the Standard works Sunday the men, who are nearly all National Progressive miners, unanimously passed a resolution igncring the scale and agreement of last February. The latest works out are Leisenring Nos. 2and 3, Jimtown, Calumet, Sterling, Emma, Warden, Pennsville and Moyer. From the latest re- ports received here it is almost certain that not More than eight or ten works out of the sev- enty-six in the region will be working to-mor- row. These, with the exception of Mam- moth, are all small works, and will not repre- sent over 1,200 or 1,400 men. The men are quict and peaceable and believe they will win the strike. -The strikers from Donnelly and Stoneville went to Moorewood yesterday morni: at daybreak and held a meeting in front of the company’s store at that place. They succeeded in inducing the men to quit work, but it is reported that as soon as the tirely away. The patient could not have survived much longer, but Icomimenced the use of Swift's Spe- ‘That was three ‘Local Stations 10:30 a m 110:50 am, T3:00 p.m, ‘Thomaston, Ga, March 14, 1889, ‘Treatise on Cancer mailed free. ‘THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Drawer 3, Atlanta,Ga, eu6-tu,th.ss9tl AUCTION SALES. IHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. VaLw. ED PI revolver pointed directly at the pugilist, de- it he surrender. Without resistance Afterward I placed the bottle containing the meat juice on the wash stand, where it re- mained until Michael Maybrick, my brother- visitors left the place some of the men went back to work. Arrangements are being made for an immense mass meeting to be held at Pittsburg to-morrow. Delegations from all [ABLE IMPROVED PRO! a SIREET NORTHWEST AT AUCTION © TUESDAY, AUGUST SIXTH, 1860, AT FIVE sell, im front of the bm t O'CLOCK ¥.M.; 1 5:30 van. ay stations 14:35 p.m. Mra. Kilrain was much excited and through eyes dimmed with tears asked that she be al- lowed to accompany her husband. Her request was granted, and with the little woman and the big husband aboard the sloop turned her nose across the bay in the direction of Old Point Comfort, followed by the catboat with Kilrain’s friends, It is thought here that Kilrain when arrested was making for North Carolina, His boat was inted toward the capes, and by sailing close in shore after getting outside he could have reached North Carolina's shores inside of three hours. Nothing has been heard of him here since he was arrested, but it is thought he was put on board the steamer at Old Point for Bal- bom or Washington to be sent from there sou SULLIVAN'S RETURN TRIP SOUTH. Sullivan's friends, who so earnestly protested against his being jailed Sunday evening, al- lowed but a small part of Monday morning to to elapse before they obtained his release, which they effected about 2 a.m. He was then taken to his room at the Edwards house, and there remained until 11 o'clock when a hearing was had before Judge Campbell of the supreme court on a writ of habeas corpus. The judge ruled that Sullivan must repair to Purvis, Marion county, and give bond for his appear- ance August 12. Sullivan and party left last evening to appear before Justice Carter to-day. oo CLUSTER OF MILLIONAIRES. Sixty-three of Them Between Dobbs Ferry and Tarrytown. From the New York Times. In the territory between Dobbs Ferry and Tarrytown, a distance of only six miles, there reside at the present time sixty-three million- aires, and it is doubtful if any such cluster of rich persons can be found in a similarly small suburban territory in any other part of the world. Several of these persons have fortunes 8o gigantic as to have attracted the attention of the entire world. Among the number are men who are in charge of some of the largest rail- roads, telegraph companies, banks, and trust companies of the nation. These sixty-three persons are, upon careful computations, esti- mated to be worth more than $500,000,000 in the aggregate. The names of these wealthy individuals are John Jacob Astor, Edward 8. Jaffrey, Joha D. Archibold, Eugene Jones, Dr. John C. Barron, Wm. E. Kingsland, Mrs. Wm. Barton, Mrs. Geo. Lewis, jr., Mrs. Jas. H. Banker, Geo. D. Mor- gan, Arthur L. Barney, Caroline L. Macy, Mrs. Clara Russell Bacon, F. Otto Matthessen, Ed- ward C. Bull, J. Jennings McComb, Edward B, Cobb, Miss E. T. Minturn. Bainbridge 8S. Clark, Geo. B. Newton, Henry Chauncey, . Anson G. Phelps, Mrs. Cornelia L. Chauvet, Mrs. E. 8. Paton. Thos. Cochran, Henry Parish, Wm. F. Christie, Wm. Rockefeller, David Dows, Roswell Skeel, Mrs. Henry Draper, G.W. Smith, Timothy C, Eastman, Frederick J. Stone, James Frasier, Jobn Sinclair, Cyrus W. Field, James M. Sigafus, Frederick A. Foster, Samuel B. Schieffelin, James C. Fargo, Robert Sewell, Mrs, William Fogg, James D. Sarven, Frederick W. Guiteau, Augustine Smith, Robert Graves, jr., John T. Terry, Jay Gould, Gen. Samuel C. Thomas, Fletcher Harper, Charles L. Tiffany, Alexander Hamilton, HenryVillard, Mrs. Robert Hoe. Charles C. Worthington, R. 'E. Hopkins John G. Wendel, John H. Hali, William H. Webb, Mrs. Annie L. Howard, J. Henry White- house, Mrs. Henry R. Worthington. — see LOOKED STUPID BUT HE WASN’T. How Mr. Stone’s Under-Gardener Bought a Fine Lot of Roses. From the New York Tribune. One of the favorite lounging places for up- town Brooklynites is the sidewalk in front of the extensive gardens in Franklin avenue of Mr. Stone, the editor of the Journal of Com- merce. Only a low iron railing separates the onlooker from the wonderfully verdant lawns and the flower beds planted with mathemati- eal exactness and kept almost miraculously neat. On Sunday afternoons the Head gardener brings from the hothouses such of his rarest treasures as will stand «brief exposure in the open air and deposits them near the railing, Mr. Stone usually stands close by and is quite ready to explain and descant on the beau- ties and peculiarities of his flowers. ‘The garden covers about an acre, and at the back are long ranges of glass houses. Imme- diately in front of these are great beds of roses. The writer asked Mr. Stone if the vast increase | in the number of buildings and the consequent additional smokiness of the air did not inter- fere with rose-growing out of doors. Mr, Stone inted to abed of white roses and said: “A lew days ago I told a friend of mine that I thought there were 5,000 blossoms on that bed. He laughed at my estimate, and as I was a bit nettled, I called the gardener, and ordered 2,500 rosescut. The men gathered 2.750 and no appreciable difference could afterward be noticed in the bed. I sent the roses to friends, and to hospitals and institutions that I keep supplied, ror I have never sold a flowerora plant, though I must have given away millions. “I was the first person to show that the now favorite Jacqueminot rose would grow in the open air,” continued Mr. Stone. “By the way, the name was originally two words, Jacques Minot, after a French general. This was a little more than twenty years ago and was the second or third year after the importation of the rose. All the stock was held by a grower up the Hud- son, and he advertised a sale of 150 plants in lots of threes. The terms of sale were that the buyer of the first lot might take as many as he | Semen at the price at which the first was nocked down to him. I had in my employ at that time as under-gardener a boy who was the stupidest looking country lout that was ever seen. But he knew all about flowers, and wasa remarkably clever buyer at auctions, “Isent him up to the sale and when he got there he was the butt for everybody's jokes. When he said he'd like to buy some roses all were prepared to have fun with him. The first lot was put up and everybody waited for the boy to bid. He offered 25 cents, and as no one thought he had any money no other bid was made, the desire being to see what he would do when stuck with the lot. The auctioneer knocked it down, and inquired with mock Politeness bow many lots the, purchaser would ike. ‘I will take them all.’ he answered, in his usual imperturbable manner, ‘and they’re for Mr. Stone of Brooklyn. ee Lutheran Missionary Secretary. Rev. A. Stewart Hartman, pastor of First Lutheran church of Chambersburg, Pa., has accepted the secretaryship of the English board of home missions of the United States of the Lutheran church, and Sunday tendered his 6 eec- 34, to 3554; Hiechmond and Danville con- sols 34, to 1164: South Carolina firsts 34, to 99. — — The Harrison Libet Suit. The suit of Schuyler Crosby against Russell B. Harrison for $100,000, for alleged libel, came up in the New York supreme court chambers is ies a pares oe bye ed October 1 nex! congre; rr e action on the matter to-morrow evening. Rev. man’s future headquarters be at Balti- more, Hyppolite Meets With Defeat. The Haytien consulate at New York in-law, took possession of it. The day before my husband died I made a full confession to him of a fearful wrong I had done him and re- ceived his forgiveness.” statement caused A SENSATION IN THE COURT ROOM, One result of the trial is the renewal of the agitation in favor of allowing prisoners to tes- tify in their own behalf. Sir Chas. Russell’s application for permissign to read a statement prepared by the accusedjand the judge's con- sent under certain rest heated discussion as to ting such a proceeding. ig of the prisoner's statement adds interest to the dis- cussion and gives it point Those who urge the necessity of reform in this particular, Las out how absolutely essential the facts isclosed in this statement are, to enable the jury to — « clear understanding of the case, and yet how utterly impossible it would have been to present the facts except through tho accused herself. It isa little remarkable that though the necessity for this reform in the law of evidence is all but universally admitted, and in point of fact has been admitted for years, no action was possible. This is due to the politi- cal features of the question. Whenever a bill is introduced with this reform in view, the Irish members promptly move the extension of the principle to Ireland, and as this is alwa; refused they not only vote against the meas- ure, but obstruct it. ——+eo— HE SAW THE CORPSE MOVE. Then the Undertaker’s Apprentice Re- tired Permanently from Business. From the New York Herald. “Grimly ludicrous incidents happen occa- sionally even in such a grave business as that of burying the dead,” said a 3d avenue under- taker with whom I was talking the other day. “One of the most amusing cases in my expe- rience happened last week and resulted in actually scariag out of the business a boy whom Thad taken as an apprentice. “Beginners are frequently required to act as watchers during the night. One night last week I sent my apprentice, a bright, active lad, who seemed eager to learn, to sit up all night in a death chamber at a 5th avenue residence, The body was supplied with what we call a corpse preserver. This isa hollow zinc case, fitting close over the breast and abdomen of the dead person. The body is put on a cooling board, and the preserver, filled with ice, is laced upon it. Thesupply of ice is renewed | Beng ere by by the watcher, and as the ice melts the water runs off through a rubber tube into a pail on the floor. The body in the 5th avenue residence was provided with a pre- server of this kind. “Several times before the boy had sat up with corpses kept in exactly the same way, had re- plenished the supply of ice in the preserver properly and seemed to have no timidity about the work. There wasno intimation that he was not fulfilling his duty in the usual matter-of- fact way on this particular night until about 2 o'clock am. Then the whole house was awakened by a series of yells from the death chamber. A second later the boy rushed from the room, down the stairs and out of the house without stopping to get his hat. He was not seen again that night. As he did not appear at my place the next day I hunted him up, and after much persuasion got him to tell me the story of his experience in the death chamber. ! “He had been frightened nearly out of his wits, and even when talking to me was still suffering so from the experience that he could hardly state the facts connectedly. He said that he had fallen asleep for a few minates and just ashe awoke he heard a gurgling sound, for all the world like a person struggling for breath. There was no living thing in the room with him, and still probably half asleep as he strained his eyes toward the stretcher, he de- clared solemnly to me, and stuck to the state- ment doggedly, that he distinctly saw the corpse move. Tas at that moment he heard the grue- some gurgle again from the direction of the stretcher, and—that settled it! He yelled and rushed from the house. “The whole thing is easy of explanation, ever if all the boy said is true. The noise was made by the water from the ice rumbling through the rubber discharge tube. I have frequently heard it make such a gurgling sound, Asto the movement of the corpse, that was robably the work of the boy’s imag- ination, though the relaxation of muscles some hours after death could easily produce such a movement. Anyhow, the boy was badly scared, and notwithstanding my explanations of what had caused his fright he decided to retire per- manently from the undertaking business.” ———-- see Venetian Funerals. From the Cornhill Magazine. Where is the person who, upon the first eager introduction to the gondola, has not felt that he is stepping into his coffin when, with scant grace, he creeps into the black cabin of the lithe black boat? With me the impression was perhaps deepened because in our passage up the canal we twice made way for a funeral pro- cession bound for the island cemetery to the north of the city. The one funeral was that of agirl. She lay under a blue pall in the middle of the boat, a crown of white flowers, symboli- cal of her virginity, being over the pail. The other was a youth, whose tender age was marked by the crimson pall. Both were flanked by tall candles. After the bodies came the friends in other gondolas, priests in violet, parts of the region are expected to be present and the meeting will be addressed by National Master Workman Rae and several other promi- nent labor leaders, TRAPPING MOSQUITOES. They Cannot Get Their Bills Out While You Hold Your Breath. Three or four men were sitting on the piazza of a seaside cottage smoking. It was evening. The stars were as thick in the sky as freckles on a red-headed girl’s face. The waves came in on the beach with a swish-swash-swosh just as they have done ever since the second day of the creation. More piercing than the song of the waves were the notes, and more multitudinous than the stars\of heaven the number of the mosqui- toes that haunted that piazza, and every one of them was “looking for blood.” The men had ceased smoking for fun, They now puffed their pipes and cigars to keep the mosquitoes away. “Something fanny about mosquitoes,” said one rather absent mindedly. “Yes, rather,” was the drawling reply. “Funny how much blood it takes to fill one of them up.” “No, but honest, now; do you know that if a mosquito c his bill down into your hand he can’t pi it out while you hold your breath?” “Don't believe it.” ‘It is true, however, for I have tried it.” “Bet you the cigars a mosquito can take his bill out at any time he wants to do it, and we will try it right here. Is ita gor” “It is, and I'll let them try.” A lamp was lighted, the cigars put out, and all waited. In less than a minute a mosquito had placed himself on Tom’ hand and begun operations, “Now,” said Tom, and placed the forefinger is other hand down close to the mosquito. It did not budge. He placed his nail against the abdomen of the insect and whirled it around, Still it remained fixed. “You can do it every time,” said Tom as he killed the mosquito and drew a long breath, It isa fact. Go and try it. so dearcicess “ded a President Eliot’s Gift to His Pilot. From the Mount Desert Heraid. President Eliot of Harvard was one of the pioneer tourists to the Maine coast and spent many seasons cruising around Frenchman's bay in his yacht before Bar Harbor obtained its world-wide celebrity. One year he had a skipper from Waukeag Point, now known as Sorrento, to sail his yacnt. In the fall the pro- fessor gave him asa token of gratitude for favors received a Webster's Unabridged Dic- tionary, which, as the man could neither read nor write, was as useful to him as a side pocket would be toatoad. The skipper received it with all due gratitude and left it for safe kee; ing with the village doctor. Several yea passed by, when one day the skipper's wife came to the doctor and said: ‘I guess I'll carry that ere book home now, for Sammy's ben goin’ to school all winter, and he knows enough tor the ies in it now!” ———°@e-———_ Heat and Hydrophobia in Russia. Odessa Letter to the London Daily News, Never within the memory of the oldest British resident here has such intolerable heat prevailed in this region of Southern Russia. Deaths from sunstroke occur almost daily even among the native laborers, For the last ten days the thermometer has never registered less than 144 degrees at noon. One day last | week it was 150 degrees in the shade. Out of reach of artificial Ah Mere all vegetation is parched and withered. ‘The long scorching day unbroken by even a passing thander storm. suc- ceed each other with perfect regularity, Even after sundown there is no breeze, and the nights are so sultry that sleep is impossible. A sunshade is necessary as carly as5am. From what I saw and heard at the Bacteriological station one morning it would appear that there is, after all, some truth in the old theory of the dog days. On one day alone twenty-one caves of bites from rabid dogs were received at the station, and during the last twenty days no fewer than thirty-eight cases of hydrophobia occurred within the city, and were treated by Pasteur’s system inoculation. Figureheads. the Christian Intelligencer. A writer in the Richmond Religious Herald relates the fact that once the late Dr. J. B. Jeter was chosen by a syndicate as vice presi- dent of a great corporation with the offer of a selary for the use of his name. He replied: “I would despise myself to do a thing like that.” He was not willing to be used as a decoy duck to draw in innocent Baptists who might invest in the venture simply from seeing his name in the list of officers. The thing failed, anda million of dollars was lost, but his conscience was clear of any responsibility. A milder case of the same kind was seen in the action of the late Dr. Woolsey, who for many years was chairman of the committee on versions of the American Bible society. The time came when he felt unable to make the journey from New Haven to New York to attend the meetings of the committee, and accordingly he resigned. His colleagues on the committee all earnest: besought him to retain the position even erase § he could not attend. But that he resolutely declined, for it would be wrong to give the appearance of a service which he knew he was and acolytes in scarlet. The sun blazed tom all from the blue heavens, so that even this dolorous scene, enacted on the smooth purpled water, between the high mildewed old “palazzi,” was not wholly melancholy. pe eanveracht a eI Snow as a Non-Conductor. From Good Words. It has been practically shown that in the bad conducting property of snow there is a remark- able protecting power in the economy of nature. However cold the air and the surface of the snow may be, if there is a considerable thickness of snow the temperature of the sur- face of the soil underneath does npt fall below the freezing point, Thus the snow is actually warm covering to the vegetation, for on its removal in Alpine slopes by the ethereal mild- ness of the spring the surface of the earth is seen to be gorgeously verdant and studded with beautiful flowerbloom. But, though the snow is a beneficent protection to th it world in cold climates, it is chilling to the atmosphere. The radiation from the snow in a cloudless sky considerably lowers the temperature of the superincumbent air, and in extensive snow-clad basco sr the winter is gees os chill- ing effect is very manifest. The of the snow receives so little heat from the earth that it gets cooled down to hoar frost in a brilliant layer gliste: ‘ture above ft sno} iter] Sone meer Surat 01 e¢) by active work. “Pao” planta ina would die or stunted with- unable to perform, ——eee. A Martyr to Duty. From the New York Weekly. Mother (suspiciously)—“If you haven't been in swimming how did your bair get so wet?” Little Dick—“That’s perspiration—runnin’ away from bad boys wot wanted me to disobey you an’ go in swimmin’!” Finest Fishing in the World. Robert Graut in Scribner. Tarpon fishing is, in my opinion, the most Magnificent fishing sport in the world. I understand that veterans at it now refuse to take up theanchor after hooking a fish, pre- ferring to part company rather than not to bring him up to the boat by force of rod and reel only. Ascompared with salmon fishing * in (393, im comiortable fiory:and basement ori dveling, ‘with all modern intermeduate points, *9:00a improvement i ‘Terms: ate stations, 17:00 p.m, 4 train leaves Washington on Sunday st 1:15 m., stopping at all 1b Metropolitan Branch, Por Frederick 76:4 E E :1Suud 73 or Hagerstown, Tl: 00, THOR PETE RN AB Cee RECE, HOUSE, NUMBER Mops LAND SVEN Noo13i7, folio 459 et sea.,one. ‘ofthe Land Records of the District of Columbia, we will seil iblic tion in front of the mises on ‘TUESDAY, T 00 a.m. and adie Earice Core om all Gay waiua the 10:30 p.in, open ai pm Dm. train does not stop at Elizabeth. or Philadel N Wilma 14:30 p.m. ashi ‘and w 215, “Od jure three h 5 for the same at I - (15), thence running west on the south line of said lot one hund: rty-eight feet nine inches (138 ft. y, north ten feet seven and one-halt inches (10 ft. 74 inches, thence south to te place of bepiuuing, "the rene pera #07 ning. same remises hunsvered “i612 ‘Ninth otrect, in one and two third cash, balance 1 Lotes of the purchaser, secured perty sold and in M, OF all cash, at ‘ash, jon pur. chaser. A deposit of @100'w: mageired ‘at time of le. All conveyancing. &., » at purchaser's cost. ‘Lermsof sale to be complied with in en dag from reserv of the 2:00 noon 12:00 noon. 18:00 a a only. ?Except Likert Mong ‘on orders left at lvania avenue, and Agt ‘ears, for wh deed of trust non, Ts at CHAS. O. 8CI J. 1. ODELL, Generai Manager. 10) the day of sale,otherwise tl fo resell the property at She risk end cost of the de, faulting purchaser alter five ic not such resale in some Rewspaper published im Washing- ton, D. CHAS. C. DUNCANSON, CHAS. W. DAKE. } Trustees, ‘TO-moRROW. OOT & LOWENTHAL, Auctioneers, R 37 7th street n.w, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST SEV- fon to Sleeper Greensboro’ to Columbia and A) Pull- ENTH, AT TEN O'CLOCK, AT OUR SALES ROO! 7 u ESS adste Ne AREER EA | Rate 2 a nage en ora aes LOR SUITES, WALNUL AND Al HAMBER andinterthedists statomee’ = DE! Ww ONE INVALID BED, REFRIGERATORS, WINDU' a 4 3 wee ROOM AND KSICHEN cE: a xpress, daily for Manassas, ALSO, —, Ghariottowviiey Sta Louis: 4 LOT OF COUNTERS AND 8H ville, Cincinnati, Pullman Vestibule train Washington 4 2 ELVING. aia "ROOT & LOWENTHAL, Aucts._ JPEREMTPORY SALE OF WELL MATCHED TEAM OF 1KON-GRAY PONIES, FIVE YEAKS OLD, WELL BROKE TO ALL HARNESS AND VERY to Cincinnati with a Pullman sleeper for Louisvilie. —— y for ‘nchburg, loa Ca Waipeton a lou! merry. Als., via Atlanta THE ABOVE TEAM WILL BE SOLD, TO COVER ADVANCES, IN FRONT OF OUR SALES ROOMS, ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST SEVENTH, TWELVE LOCK, TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER WITHOUT ROOT & LOWENTHA! 937 a ‘on and Ohio division leave Wash- in, 200 am. daily except Sunday, and daily; arrive Round pain) i a.m. and returning leave Round Hill 6:05 aia. daily aud 12:20 except Sunday, arriving Washington 1 ‘Through trains from the villeand Lyneuburg arr Auctioneers, TH ST. N. W. THE ENTIRE CONTENTS OF THE STABLES OF THE LATE JOHN B. RILEY, CORNER OF ELEVENTH ASD WATER STHKEETS SOUTH- VEST, A’ 2" ie On WEDNESDAY, AUGUST SEVENTH, 1889, at TEN O'CLOCK A. M., at the stables, corner of enth and Water streets southw: st, 1 will '¢ the following effects, viz: < iving Horse, hesapeake at 2:35 p.m. and Strasburg local at 9:18 sh z Fraud, td Umevane uke gis, 400 Fone mia Oth and B streets: oa <E Jee JAS. L. TAYLOR, Gen. Pass. Agent. \HE GREAT PENNSYLVANIA ROUTE, TO THE NOK1H, WEST AND SOUTH WEST. 1 Trotting Bugky. DOUBLE TKACK. SPLENDID SCENERY tere ius TEL ATE, pec OR tora aera Pa UNE wy’ SS. 1 Set Load Harness, TRAINS LEAVE WASHINGTON, FROM STATION, | toe eeet tacos deogie nee OF SIXTH AND BSTKEETS, AS POL- Aud other articles as usually foun inan establish- ted Express hose in search of such goods should not fail to at- ‘dal soatt and ott 1 ioe Louse tend this eale. “Sale positive,” Torun cash, poping Gare from Pitisbarg: to pincineet aus-dts 1HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. e ‘Saturday, looha to Chicago. 40 p.m. daily, with Sleeping Cars Washington to Chicago and St. Louis, con- Recting daily at Harrisburg with throuh Sleepers leand Memphis, Pacific kxpress, 10:00 .m. daily, for Pittsburg and the West, with Tiroweh shceper to Pittsburg, and Pitssbarg te FUTURE DAYS. ‘ALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO., Aucts. PEREMPTORY SALE OF A TWO-STORY FRAME DWELLING, WITH KACK BUILDING, FKONT- ST BETWEEN MAND N ING ON SIXTH STREE’ Chicuco., SURKERTS NOKTHWEST (No. 1227). BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD On MONDAY, AUGUST “TWELFTH, at SIX | For Kane, Canandaivus, Rochester and Niagara Falls O°CLOCK P. M., we shall sell, in front of the prem! daily, except sunday. 8:10 a.m. part Lot 5, in square +81, having 18 ieet Yinches front | For Erie, Cana. Kochester daily; for Buf- Ey'bs teet'4¥ inches deep. imptoved bye Twn ste faloand Niagara daily, excevt Saturday, 10:00 p. Frame Dwelling, with Buck Building. containing iw» with Sleeping Car Washington to Kochester, Tooms, to be sold to settle up an estate. For Williamsport, Lock Haven and Elmire at 9:50a ‘Terms of Sale: One-half cash ; balauce in six, twelve and eighteen months, for notes beuring interest from. day of sale and secured b of trust ou property sold, All conveyancing, &c., at purchaser's cost, 81 down when the property is struck off, and if the terms within ten duys the 200 an EY ‘50, 4:10, tus ‘m. daily, except Sunday. FOR PHILADELT UIA. NEW YORK AND THE EAST, 720, 9:00 0 am, 2:5 of sale are not compiied Fy roperty will be resold at risk aud cost of defaulti Purchaser WALTEN'S. WILLIAMS & CO. | Car. R = SS. Express 5:10 4. un. week 0 daily. Express 2:10 p.m dally. “Accom. 0 'p. me D AN: AL For Boston, without change, 2:50 p. m. every day. _WOOD AND CO Jol Beiah rigor! ape. 2.80pm vera, VORKEST DODGE Jersey City with“Loats of Brooklyn Annex, aflved= COAL, COKE AND WOOD OF ALL KINDS. ing direct trauster to Fulton rs FAMILY COAL A SPECIALTY. ~ - 3 for Uceal Cit; ware Division, Best quality George's Creek Cumberland Coal for oo Pots on Dela Di team Purposes, Office, 1214 31st st.; Telephone, 956-2, Yard aud Wharf, 3008 Water st’; Telephone, 954-2. PIANOS AND ORGANS. | 2s my 219 D (CKER BKOS’. PIANOS REPRESENT ALL Papers Creck Line, 7 0 am and 4:40 p.m. daily, BY, uate best im “the art of Fianotorte making: | For Amfuyolia: 20 and 9-00 am., 12-05, 4-20and ob rms. u a EBER FISCHER and ESTEY PIANOS. A few! Si d:1G pm?” xeePt Sunday. Sundays, 9:05 st-cluss Second. "anos at very low prices. ;XANDKIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RAIL- ESTEY ORGANS.—'T wo hundred and ten thousand 7 *; 5 “ (¢10,000) kstey Organs have been made and sold, | jt A\yASP ALEXANDKLA AND WASHINGIUN New styles ior Parlor, Church and School use. Bold | BAIWAN. Fo yo eeg nh easy terms, a ~ way 22 “PIANOS AND ORGANS FOR RENT. wee Aeeeie £20. Sh ThE if Old instruments takeu in part payment for new a ones. Tuning and Repairing. rs a ‘SANDERS & bg fngeed at mw. 13.N. Charles st., Baltimore, Md. 1217 Main st, Richmond, Va, aul-3m K UK BBB EEE KK BB E KK BB EE i A Bost Een 205, 8:00, 9:20, and 10:32 p. Pla Tickets and information at the office, northeast cor- UNEQUALED IN TONE, TOUCH. y ner of 13th street and Pennsylvania aveune, and AND Di LLL at the station, where orders can be left for te Special attention of “Purc! checking uf baxgage to destination from hotels and EST'DECUMAT NS ART beans CHAS SS" ruaH, J. R. WOOD, aes = General : General Passeuser Agent. comprising shinee et eve : tt in thorough ae in y MONTHLY INSTALLMEN: a6 ATSKILL MOUNTAINS, SARATOGA, LAKE GEORG: ‘ADIRONDACKS. Ou'and after SUNDAY, 3 xpress. tral Rest Shore ‘Railrosd wal ‘run ‘Dail on run Daily, except 8i and from the Jersey City Station’of the Penne! close counections trains to and from W 5 CATSKILL MUUNTALN EXPRESS City Station at 8:50am. Arrive a. ; Grand Hotel, 1:45 p.m.: Aiount House ADIES WHO REQUIRE THE SERVICES OF AN le Physician should consult Mra SEATLBON, 1108 Patk Place te bet Bondo Pe and 12th sts_n.e, Ladies ouly. Remedy 85. Je2a-7w" 1K, LEON, ~ ‘Phe Uldest-Established and only Reliable Ladies’ in the City, . can be consulted daily, 464 C st., bet 434 and 6th w tio confidential. Separate rooms for ladies. Stic always open: auz-ot FO} ', LONG-ESTABLI! Mirsiabie Ladies’ rwician, can be ry ol nw. Olfice tob p.m, with Ladies only. AND 3:45 pam THE EVENING STAR is a PAPER OF TO-DAY, not of YESTERDAY nor of LAST WEEK, It prints ALL THE NEWS, Local, Domestic and Foreiga, , | 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 MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT AND PRINTING FACILITIES ARE MORE THAN THREE TIMES AS POWER- | FUL AND RAPID AS THOSE OF ANY | OTHER WASHINGTON PAPER. Itis | therefore able to print each day a full | report of every transaction of public in- terest occurring in the District up to the very hour of going to press. 20% By the free use of the OCEAN CABLES for REGULAR AND SPECIAL 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 noke, | for the entire day, and up to 12 o'clock Char. | midnight, thus leaving literally nothing | in the way of news from Europe, Asia, and Africa for the morning papers. Equally does THE STAK lead all its contemporaries inthe publication of the NEWS OF OUR OWN COUNTRY, 2, Receiving the regular dispatches of | both News Associations; with alert and | enterprising special telegraphic cor- respondents at all 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 enabied to receive and print atonce a full report of every event of anywhere between the Atiantic and Pa- cific Oceans. 203: @ NOTE THE RESULT: 29 —:0:—— THE STAR HAS MORE THAN THREE TIMES AS MANY REGULAR SUBSCRIBERS and MORE THAN FIVE TIMES AS MANY REGULAR READERS AS ANY OTHER DAILY PAPER IN WASHINGTON, It is de- | livered regularly by careful carriers at | the HOMES OF THE PBOPLE, AFTER | THE BUSTLE AND WORRY OF THE {SAY 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 | measures to advocate, and no private ‘schemes to forward. They know it, in Suit short, tobe THE PEOPLE’S PAPER, and nothing else. Asan ADVERTISING MEDIUM it is, therefore, ABSU- | LUTELY WITHOUT A RIVAL. It is | in fact worth more as a means of reach- jing the public THAN ALL THE OTHER DAILY PAPERS IN THE CITY TOGETHER. | Furthermore, in proportion to the re- turns it gives its patrous, ITS ADVER- TISING RATES ARE THE CHEAPEST | IN THE CITY. —0: —— | In conclusion, the public should bear | in mind this one significant fact: THE SLAK does not rely upon empty boasts to impress the pubiic. ITS CIRCULA- TION IS SWORN TO; its PRESS- ROOM IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC; and its BOOKS MAY BE INSPECTED by any one having an interest in their |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. | Im the first six months of each of the five years named the average daily cire | culation of the paper was: “ 1886.. 24,382 “ “ 1887... 1888... « 1889..