Evening Star Newspaper, August 26, 1889, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C.. MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1889. A MOTHER’S STORY. SENATOR SHERMAN’S LUGGAGE. How Her Son Was Sent to Prison by a| The Trouble the Statesman Had with Chicago Millionaire. the English Customs Officers. A Chicago special to the New York World | London Special Correspondeuce New York World. says, in relation tothe story published some | The immense amount of trouble and annoy- days since of a newspaper carrier in that city | ance which Senator Sherman and his family who had been railroaded to the penitentiary at | had in getting some trunks and a few boxes the instigation of « millionaire to whose daugh- | filled with Paris clothes into London is still ter’s band he bad aspired, that the actual name | a/subject of gossip in the American colony here, of the young fellow, who under that of George | to many of whom the irate Senator has related Dunning is serving a four-years’ term in the | his woes, The Senator has not entered any Penitentiary as the result of a millionaire’s | formal complaint against the British customs daughter falling in love with him is Ernest | in general, or the men who kept him waiting Dunnivant. His father, G. F. Dunnivant, an | in dreary station foran hour in parlicular, old Chicago printer, died four years ago, leav- | but he promptly told of his trouble at the ing a wife, seven daughters and two sons, the | American legation, and Secretary Harry White elder being Ernest. Upon the earnings of went down to the foreign office to see about it. Ernest the family were dependent the | Sir Philip Currie told him that that they were death of the father, until the former to | “ very, SS course,” but, to cut a the penitentiary. Since then the family’s ex- | long story short, Senator Sherman had been istence has been maintained only by a severe | treated as nine out of every ten travelers would mother, Mrs. Belle Dunnivant, | haye been under the circumstances, and the at No, 232 Chestnut street, was | men who aed him to so much annoyance on this morning and asked to tell her really seemed to have confined themselves story, It was with great reluctance that sI strictly to their duties. If they had known consented to do so, “because,” she said, the | Who the Senator was why of course there would tears springing to her eyes and trickling down | have been no trouble, but—and all that sort of her care-worn face, “the man who sen’ him | thing. Even taking the facts of the case as there is so rich, so powerful, that I am afraid conceit ompe a bagels = pee: Ls — do more harm than he has already tape would hans ssred tin ut the ‘rouble mER’ =, of w e complains (sub rosa, itterly. —— — ny 8 bere “that nothing | , It seems that Henator Sherman's ome oe ae ipape shana ~ | dered some dresses and things in Paris which need be feared. She then thought that publi- | the tardy dressmaker did not send to the hotel cation of her statement might be hurtful to the | until all the trunks had been packed and, the young lady in th . Reassured on this | Senator was abou: to start for London. ere int sne pinto tell what she knew. | was no time to repack the trunks, so the dresses Tisten to the mother’s story: were brought across the channel in the French “It was in the summer of 1885, I think,some | wrappings in which they were delivered. There time after my husband died, that I ——s was no trouble until the Senator reached Lon- Ernest a newspaper route for $150. He worked | don. He arrivedon a very “full” train and at it faithfully and earned about $10 a week. | there was work enough for e times the force ‘The route ranfor some distance along Dear-| of examiners employed at the station. The born avenue, and it was while delivering his | railway porters were all engaged at once by the pers that he met the young lady as she went | knowing ones before the train had come to a ems her home to Mrs, Grant’s academy. | stop. e Senator started for his luggage. A REMARKABLE CASE. A Boy Lives a Year Without Taking Any Solid Food. ‘The case of Thomas Hull, jr., the fifteen- year-old son of Thomas Hull of Vinegar Hill, 6 miles from Galena, Ill, is one of the most remarkable ever reported among those persons who are compelled to abstain from food for long periods, One year ago last April the boy was taken ill with spinal meningitis, By careful medical treatment his life was saved, but he was lefts paralytic by the disease. So com- plete was the paralysis that even the tongue was unable to perform its functions, every voluntary muscle of his body being paralyzed. It was thought at the time that he could live but a short time in such a helpless condition, but as the time wears on he seems to grow but little weaker, and death is as yet apparently far off. The strangest feature of the case is that life should be maintained so long on the food to which he has been restricted. The cute 7 pe, Snees. ee ower, te a impossible { oye otuee aft food. which he has received in these sixteen months has been conveyed to the gullet by means of a quill. In this man- ner small allowances of milk, whisky, gruel a of fruit have been administered to daily. hc snialiigRatinatinniaada ANOTHER DAM BURSTS. Three Persons Only Drowned so Far as Known. The Spring Lake reservoir near Fiskville, in the southwest corner of Cranston, R. L, about 15 miles from Providence, which supplies a number of mill villages along the Pawtucket river, burst yesterday afternoon. Three per- sons were drowned and some damage done to Property. A man named Yeaw, who was about ® quarter of a mile off, noticed the water com- ing through the masonay of the dam, as he de- CAPT. MINNIE HILL. A Handsome Young Matron Who is Master of a Pacific Coast Steamer. ‘From the San Francisco Chronicle. Capt. H. 8. Lubbock, superintending inspec- tor for the first district, returned recently from a tour of inspection of steamers in the Portland district, Since his arrival here his attention has been called to an article lately published in regard to what women can do and are doing in the way of earning a livelihood. The article spoke of a lady who was engineer of a steamer on the Columbia river, and thinking that » history of the fair one might prove interesting @ Chronicle reporter called on Capt. Lubbock with s view of learning something of this para- gon. She is not an engineer, as was stated, but is master of the vessel. There is but one other lady captain known in the United States, who ‘has a master’s license on the Mississippi river. The commander of the Columbia was born in Albany, Ore., in 1865, and lived at that place until a time before her marr with Chas. which took place in 1883. ir. Hill was at that time purser of the steam h Kellogg. He continued in this position for years, being assisted in his duties by his young wife. Living economically all this time they managed to save $1,000. With this money they purchased an old schooner and converted her into a trading boat, putting a small engine into her. Mrs. Hill’s next step was to take out a second-class master’s license, Sae had studied navigation and had thor- oughly learned the Columbia and Willamette rivers while assisting her husband, and she assed her examination without uny trouble. er husband obtained an engineer's license in December, 1886, for the steamer Minnie Hill to run from Portland to Astoria, a distance of 110 miles. They then bought a stock of goods on credit and launched into a trading business at the various points on the Columbia river. Their venture was crowned with success, and in the second year their business had assumed such proportions that they were obliged to get AUCTION SALES. ‘TO-NORKOW. JUNCANSON BROS., Auctioneers. ies ko ae FUTURE DAYs. MAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. STEES’ SALE OF VALUABLE 1 TRO WELLING Lu ad 1600 ‘STATE Booty oy epee of Ai 1888, duly recorded Ns EE Re eS the land thereby secured, I t proj Id, or all of the purchase money may after the da} All conveyancing and Tecordlug at the puycvaners cost and risk of defeulting purchaser ve (5) days? notice. au26-dts JOHN GOODE, Trustee, FP HOMAS DOWLING, Aucuoncer. 4 tan Brauch, 16:45, apal ville and Way stations 14:35 p.m. ne avd intermediate points, °9:00%. 20 p.m, ate stations, 17:00 p.m, Jeaves Washington on Sunday at 1:15 on Meiropviitan Braucl $0 am, TSU, THO mm, ypIbE at all stato, K AND PHILADELPH! deere’ PLAT A FAGTS. THE EVENING STAR ts 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 ts 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 t MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT AND *k, irentou, Newark Elizabech, i ELEGANT WELL-KEPT 200, *9:30, “124 re Oe ‘ a Ernest was a handsome boy and his looks and | After a while he found it, Bat several porters | geribes i in a stream about aa big aa a barrel, | Wireer steamer, for which they paid $3,000, Bobet ae CHION,, .COMPMISING, RICH | Sot sim. Bute: Parlor Cart iu ail‘as) wate | PRINTING FACILITIES ARE MORE became acquainted, 1know that they ‘finally | When the Senator's turn‘came the boxes wich | The only living object in sight was a cow afew | all indebiedness, They ‘bought the Clnteap ea ss Peg as Silmanxion gud Chester, | FUL AND RAPID AS THOSE OF ANY became very much interested in each other | the dresses in them looked suspicious to the | hundred feet across the fields, which Yeaw | Chief, and on November 20, 1887, Mrs. Capt. hief, an AK DINING WALNUT CENTER: | and Pm, r THER WASHIN PaPE b int i , : . Hill applied for and was granted amaster’sand | LEG DINING TAGLE,” WALNUT COMBINA- | “For iuterathate points between Baltimore OTHE! INGTON PAPER. Itis and used to meet in Lincoln park. I did not! eye of the British examiner, and withal very | succeeded in rescuing, alfhough the water was | “il! app’ TION BOOK CASE AND SECRETARY, SUPEKB ‘hia, fins 2:30 and t : Kagel Gis at the tase; pm ‘in fact knew | troublesome to. undo. Sunnion, Ghstisen ‘ne ap hs ake ane uate eae aise’ valley ilot’s license, and on that day she entered on gratin cand SCRE Tags \BUPER +» *2 230 and 14:50 p.m. therefore able to print each day a full nothing of it until fall. sured the examiner that they contained nothing “Finally, after a month or so of acquaint-| dutiable and proffered his card. : ance, the family of the young lady heard of it| “I don’t want your card,” said the examiner and tried to break it up. A most close watch | without looking at it; ‘it's my business to ex- was kept on the young lady and meetings for a | amine your luggag . time were stop 5 ted went by the house| But nevertheless he did not examine it and one day and asked of the coachman something | the Senator lost his bag alittle. Presum- concerning the young lady. The coachman in-| ably the examiner lost his too, for the Sena- formed his master, who had a warrant sworn | tor’s luggage was left till almost the last and out for Ernest's arrest and had the coachman | then it got such an overhauling! The trunks Serve it. My boy was caught in the street’ and | and boxes were turned inside out and the deli- taken to the East Chicago avenne station and | cate Paris dresses almost ruined. Then the kept all night. There was nothing against him | things were tumbled back haphazard into the to punish him for, but instead of letting him go | boxes again and the Senator left to get them free a $25 fine was imposed and suspended. home and out of the station as best he might. PLANNING HIS RUIN. It was undoubtedly a case of rough treatment “After that things went on as before until | *4 the Senator hascause tocomplain. “But, ngs said a well-known M. P. to whom the World one day the young lady met Ernest and told | correspondent talked about the matter last him that the evening previous she overheard | night, “I don’t think the Serrarp moa was feed father in the library tell a detective that | more exasperating to Senator Sherman than bled Poteet him and that he wanted | the torture which I have had to undergo with the detective to follow Ernest and try to catch | the custbms officers in New York. A New York him im some crim: and send him to jail so as to 8 officer would pay little attention to the keep him out of the way. My poor boy, whose | card of a British M.P. In fact, if a member of only sin was to be loved by the daughter of the | the government were to go over and handgput man who wanted him in jail!” his card it is a question if the customs ot cers Mrs. Dunuivant sobbed convulsively for a | Would know who he was. They might if it few moments and then collecting herself con- | Were Sulisbury or Gladstone, but under no tinued: other circumstances, Why should an English “The detective followed Ernest everywhere | Customs officer be expected to know Senator for a long time and finally arrested him on a | Sherman’ charge of burglary. Ernest was wholly inno- ye er cent, but he was sentenced to sixty days in the Bob Younger Dying. county jail, When he got out he received a| Bob Younger, the Missouri outlaw, who is note from the young lady, who had gone with | serving a life sentence with his brothers at the her family to Geneva Lake, asking him to | Minnesota state prison, has been growing rap- come to Geneva and see her. Ernest got per-| ; h mission from me to spend a few days in the | *Y weaker for the last three days and is now ‘ ing. | Unable to leave his bed. His voice has en- ree es ene aoe ee een | tasty Sandy the Iptenohin woconverae emp young lady's little sister. He gave her a note | in whispers. He is expected to die in two or for the young lady, but the little girl gave it to | three days, & nurse, who gave it to the father's son-in-law. When that young man read the note he took A Deputy Marshal Arrested. the coachman and set out to find Ernest. They| W. A. Gamble, recently appointed United found him and threatened to throw him into | States deputy marshal at Birmingham, Ala., be danl moe tleeechyani fom = but Lens has been arrested upon the charge of accept- ned, for Ernest did not come back | ing bribes and agreeing to have quashed cer- for two or three days and then without his hat. | ¢25, in, ictmente against illicit liquor men. SPRINGING THE TRAP. Gamble asserts his inn “The young lady was sent from Geneva Lake toa school in Ogontz, Pa., and it was then I , be Suicide’s Story. learned of the detective's dogging my boy. [| At Indianapolis, Ind, Edward Asman, who imunediately sold out the paper route and tried | @UFdered # woman Saturday night at midnight to get him a situation. The young lady wrote, | and then cut hisown throat, revived sufficiently I believe, to an employe of her father in South | yesterday to tell the story of the crime. He beac ny _ [aimee a a friend- | said he and Bertha Eliff, with whom he had Peto don He eae raed io give Ernest some- | been intimate for three years past, had been been haber ion Onions and (old, dim 0 | to Kissell’s resort and on their return home had there with Frank Alien, of whom he knew but | Soduveir, Hegoming infuriated he drew his Hittle, Allen got Ernest slightly intoxicated | For stricken at what he bad done. he drew the end Cok him to the Farusworths, whom Allen | knife across his own throat. The deceased Sitar wetne inate fon a Bg, one there, and: | woman was dresemaker and bore an excellent aun theaines. dot Passed a siore Alien | FePUtation, Asman isa Cincinnatian, but has grabbed. a cost froma dulamy and ran away | been Working in this city at different times for with it several years. He has so far recovered as to be “Ernest walked quietly on somewhat dazed | ©°#idered out of danger. by the liquo- Allen had given him. He was ar- The Senate Irrigation Committee. rested at once and taken to the station. Allen i i pa Was caught a little later. When Allen wasar-| Te United States Senate committee on irri- rested h» said that he and Ernest bad robbed | 8@tioa arrived in San Francisco Saturday the Farnsworth’s house, although, mind you, | evening and were yesterday given a dinner at ——— lar ty erat My 7 proteste: abs = the Cliff house by the reception committee. wosnce, Sus Sie Farneworths ewors Today they will begin taking testimony on the against him. That with Allen's confession, was | °° too mach. and both were taken to jail. That | %id lands. On Tuesday they goon an excur- was about Christmas. Some time before I had | ion to Monterey and on Wednesday they will received a letter from the young lady telling | Start on a tour of the San Jones valley, me all about her acquaintance with Ernest. | Making stops at Fresno, Barkersfield and other She said her parents objected and asked me for | Points. Thence they proceed to Los Angeles my advice. I replied that if her parents were | 4udSan Diego. The committee was given a like me they were only seeking her and I | reception Saturday by the State board of trade. ————se+—____— advised her to do as they desi She also Over the Falls in a Barrel. Wanted to know if she might call on me when she came back to spend the Christmas vacation | Carlisle D. Graham made his fourth trip through the whirlpool rapids at Niagara Falls ao I nepraecuae She came here — day and me the story again—how much she thought day at 4:10 o'ck ii yusiness, how she had often fere ‘im i, money. which he always refused to take. Ithen | °f them Kendal, the Boston policeman, swam told her that Ernest had been arrested. It was | the rapids with nothing on except a life pre- the first she had heard of is. seryer. Since then Graham has been trying to LOYAL TO HER LOVER. build barrel thas would carry him over the “She said she was helpless and could do | Horseshoe a ree ae en penpens of nothing: She called again, though, and said testing his latest contrivance that he made the P run yesterday. The new barrel had two ba; she had hired lawyer to defend Ernest, and | of sad wei ing about 30 pounds inside ued she wanted me to tell him thatif he were sent | attached to the bottom were two pieces of rail- to jail not to fear, that she would think just as iron weigbing about 75 pounds, The much of him asever. She then asked me to | weights kept the barrel nearly straight. The write her at the boarding school how the trial | barrel did not stop at the whirlpool but hugged came out, and then went away. the shore and continued down the river to “Ernest was advised to plead guilty, but he | Lewiston. The whole run, 7 miles, was made in declared he would not plead guilty, and he | just twenty-five minutes. didn’t and was sentenced to four years. Allen's ETE Ry age attorney got Allen a new trial, and he then re- A Stormy Boulangist Meetin; ceived but one year in the Bridewell, but| M. Laguerre, the Boulangist deputy, presided Ernest was unable to secure a rehearing of his | at 9 stormy meeting of his partisans in Paris “I wrote to the young lady, as Thad agreed | Yesterday, called for the purpose of selecting t@do, but I don't think she got the letter. Her | C@ndidates to run at the approaching elections father heard that I had written her, however, | for members of the lower house. In his speech and sent her away fora time. She came back | M. Laguerre declared that though he was 4 last year and called on me. She spoke indig-| personal friend of Gen. Boulanger he was not nantly of Ernest's being in the penitentiary | prepared to follow him blindly. He desired and wanted me to write to him of how much | the triumph of the ideas which Boulanger ad- se thought of him and how she should help him | vocated and was prepared to adopt any plan when he got out. She said that she herself had | which promised that result without conn ny been practically inaprison during her two | himself for the fortunes of any individ: Years of absence. These remarks were not kindly received. 4 LAWYER STOLE THE LETTERS. oer tk —— ended = a “Some time last year an attorney was recom- A meeting finally pel mended to me by « woman as a man who could | “ihout selecting candidates, not be bought off. I went to him and he said An Heiress Elopes with a Clerk. that he could assist me. He asked me ifIhad| Carter Teller, youth of eighteen, who is any letters as proofs. Itold him I had and | employed in a law office in Louisvillé, Ky., and tion th tr thi He . . howe were fant ‘vhat he eonted hare td | Maty Willama, pretty girl of ten, eloped made the millionaire settle for two scrapes he | *© Jeffersonville at midnight Friday night and bad got into, one on Wahosh Ser aot — were married, Miss Williams’ father was a other on ington ulevar: that rominent lawyer and left a showing the letters to ita the’ father would | Fecently her uacle, Themes Wacaene ane immediately get Ernest pardoned out, I gave | fornia, died and left $100,000 to him the letters, and that was the last I saw of | A young man giving the namo of Fred Black them. secured the nse for the couple and en- EX-INSPECTOR BONFIELD SATs “aT Last.” | gaged to take Miss Williams to an ent Ex-Inspector John Bonfield was shown the | Ment as an excuse for her being from it, | Mrs. Teller’s widowed mother Saturda: above story and asked what he knew about it, noon d warran’ A look of recognition came into nis eyes after friend, and will poring wham! he had read a few lines; then a broad smile as farther along, followed by a moistening the end, when he broke = ee ae ae said: Well. 20 it's oat at lest Yes, the story is a very familiar and some time ago was in of several persons, but for out. To usea Ht i é were Mrs. Greene Tew, aged sixty; a Mrs. Hawkins, aged ninety, and Mrs. Tew’s son, seven years old. They were walking through a strip of wood and were overtaken by the flood and drowned. Their bodies were found in the wood through which the water quickly ran until it emptied into the Pawtuxet river. The river rose rapidly and caused considerable alarm among people along its banks, who thought that the Ponegansettl reservoir, the biggest in the state, had gone. Many of them left their houses and fled, but the flood sub- sided as rapidiy as it had come, The path of the water from the reservoir was through a thinly settled country, and the only damage to property was the wrecking of a stable belong- ing to Russell Matthewson, the capsizing of Dr. E. K. Clarke's —— shop and the de- molition of three road bridges. 4 ‘The dam was built in 1887 for the service of the Pawtuxet valley company, redeeming a small swamping pond, locally known as Spruce lake. The reservior covered 18 acres and con- tained about 35,000,000 gallons of water. The dam is 925 feet long, 17 feet 9 inches high and 8 feet wide on top and 35 feet wide at the bot- tom. The gap left by the water is between sixty and seventy feet long. It is just above the water pipe. No examination has been made to learn the cause of the break. The man Yeaw is the only witness to any — of the casualty. The reservior was practically emptied. se A MONSTER DEMONSTRATION. Forty-five Thousand Striking Dock La- borers Parade London Streets. The well-fed Londoners, who are only bored by the complaints of their less fortunate brethren, found it a difficult matter yesterday tosbut out from sight and hearing the immense demonstration yesterday of the striking East End laborers. When the head of their proces- sion, on its way to Hyde park, had passed Westminster bridge, the rear was still at Black- friars, and, walking twelve abreast, there were no less than 45,000 men in line. These were all actual strikers, and when to this number are added the laborers and artisans who have been thrown out of work through the strikes at the docks, the number of men affected by the troubles will foot up at least 200,000. All along the line of march the streets were lined with people, and the sympathies of the crowds were unmistakably with THE WRETCHEDLY UNDERPAID LABORERS. This sympathy was manifested not alone in the hearty cheers with which the paraders were everywhere greeted, but in the alacrity with which the spectators dived down into their pockets when the littl> tin contribution boxes atthe end of long poles were shoved under their noses. All along the line of march the crowds were given this opportunity to turn their sympathy to practical account. After the procession ha a Blackfriar’s bridge, the well-to-do people who crowded the streets were no less pronounced in their enthusiasm than the throngs of workmen that had cheered them before, and the patter of the coins went mer- rily op, only the coins were silver instead of copper, and now and then a bright golden sov- ereign would find its way from the pocket of some sympathizing shop keeper into the little aperture at the top of the boxes, There was no disorder of any sort, and the police who were out in force had nothing to do. THE STRIKERS ARE MORE DETERMINED THAN EVER to maintain their position, and as the dock com- panies appear to be quite as resolute there is no present prospect of an early settlement of their differences. The loss to the er geseny 4 consequent upon the utter paralysis of trade enormous and cannot even be calculated. So far the strike has been conducted peacefully, but if it lasts another week no one believes this state of things will continue. The cock com- panies have not been quiet. They have been usily engaged for several days making all ar- rangemeuts for securing laborers from other points and when these arrive there can be no doubt that trouble will follow. .So long as they see the docks deserted and the shipping unable to move the men are patient enough and their leaders can manage them, but once their places taken by others they will not look idly on, oe A ROMANTIC STORY. The Search of an Eastern Boy for His Mother. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Ten days ago young Charles Cheney arrived in San Francisco from the east in search of his mother, whom he had not seen since he was four years of age. Last night he secured posi- tive proof that she was Mrs. Maud Van Zandt, who died five years ago at the Palace hotel of criminal practice, and whose fate caused a great local sensation, as the doctor who at- tended her was accused of foul play. Young Cheney, when he first came here, told the police romantic story of his secret removal from a local orphan asylum by his father, who took him east without his mother’s knowlege. The husband and wife had quarreled, and the fa- ther told the boy when he was about ten years old that his mother was dead, He learned, however, since his father’s death that he had been deceived, and in the hope of finding his mother came west. After able search he discovered a family in Oakland with whom his mother lived after she separated from her husband. She was a beautiful woman and passiouately fond of her young child. She was unable to Sree him and placed the boy in an orphan asylum. The removal of the child by the father, who took him to his ta” home, in Mount Morris, IiL, aff the mother greatly, ceived news | whi er duties as commande: of the Clatsap Chief, while her husband went on as engineer. A ie stock of goods was put on board, as they had found it profitable to branch out and take in more territory. Another year followed and their fortune was established. Capt. Minnie Hill and her husband and their trading were known all over the Columbia and Willamette rivers. The captain had won the heart of every one by her happy disposition, her kindly heart and charming manners, while the engineer was equally well liked for his up- right and manl¥ qualities, In another year they bought the steamer Gen. Newde for $7,500. The steamer is 111 5-12 feet in length, 20 5-12 feet beam, and has a depth of hold of 5 feet. Their business is flourishing greater than ever. They now carry nearly every article that can be found in a general merchandise store. Engineer Hill runs the lower deck, where he looks after the men’s wants, and the captain dickers with the women on tle upper deck, and is said to be an excellent hand at making a shrewd bargain. She steers their ship of life, and her husband { gallantly responds to the bells and ‘goes ahead” or “slows down” as she directs, and a happier couple is unknown. When not on the river their home is in Portland, where 1t is said they have accumulated property to the amount of abuut $25,000, Mrs. Capt. Hill is a handsome brunette, about 53¢ feet in height and weighing about 140 pounds, She has the happy faculty of making friends, and no one is more highly thought of among her large circle of acquaintances Mrs, Capt. Minnie Hill. soo -AS TOLD BY HIMSELF. A Buffalo Man’s Story of His Meeting with Gotham Bunco Sharps. From the Buffalo Courier. There is in this town an individua! operating as an advertising agen‘, whose friends for short call him Bob. His other name isn’t Smith, but to speak of him as Smith willserve just as well for this recital. He has traveled some. His eye teeth were cut a good while ago. When the New York crooks last week planned to gather in his boodle they barked up the wrong tree, He thus tells the story, and he has hitherto maintained a good reputation for veracity: “I was on lower Broadway one morning when a well-dressed man, whom I didn’t recognize, addressed me very heartily to the effect: ‘Why, hello, Smith! How are you? How is advertis- ing and how're things in Buffalo?’ “For the life of me I couidn’t place the fel- low or remember him when he mentioned his name, but the beguiling cuss knew so much of my affairs that I thought we must have been acquainted before. We talked as we walked, and presently he said he had to buy a ticket and asked me to stroll with him to the office. We went into Broome street and entered what was to all appearances a railroad ticket office. There was the ticket case and all complete. My friend was talking with the man ostensibly in charge when in came another personage, ffected a very free-and-easy manner. ‘m from the south,’ he sai -Come here with a load of cotton. I reckon I'd better be gittin’ back, Say! Can I get a ticket to Missis- sippi and one for a nigger to travel separate?’ guexs we can fix you and the colored man,’ said the ticket seller. «Colo'd man be d—d He's a nigger. That's what we call’em down our way. Say,’ he continued, now addressing my self-intro- duced companion, ‘here’s the funniest thing I ever saw. A fellah showed it to me, and I won 8 pot of money on it. I’m going to take it with me to Mississippi and show it to the folks.” “The gentleman from the sunny south here roduced four cards, which he tossed on the ik. ‘Bet you can’t turn over the card with the base ball on it,’ he said. ‘Twenty to one.’ “My friend laughingly laid down a dollar and turned up the rig! it card, “Why how did you do it 80 easy?” the other exclaimed, affecting great surprise. ‘Here’s your $20, You won it fair, and we southern gen'l'men always pays when we lose, Now you try it for the fun of the thing.’ “I drew outa dollar, and turned the right card, as was of course intended, The man from Mississippi made much show of astonishment. ‘You can’t do it again,’ he declared. “ ‘Go him, go him neavy,’ urged the friendly citizen at my side, in an emphatic whisper. “Now I was dead onto the game, and as soon as it had been introduced was dead onto the capper. For answer I suddenly picked up the four pasteboards, threw away the one with the base ball, and proceeded to manipulate those remaining in approved three-card-monte fash- ion. ‘Gentlemen,’ said I, ‘this is the way we do the thing cut where I came from. Do you want any of it?” “You ought to have seen the stupefied look that came over those scamps. At last the Mis- sissippi man exclaimed to the other, ‘You d—— fool, you are a bigger sucker than the one you caught,’ and seizing his cards he decamped forthwith, “Presently my friend, the disheartened eap- pers moved to the door. SodidL AsI mildly suggested: “ Tt looks like rain! “ Damn! he said savagely, and dusted.’ A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. Plunging from a Tall Building and then Recovering. From the St. Louis Republican. In 1852 a general in the French I geeks Ha Tee i i iw ALNUT WARDROBE, ANTIQUE OAK CHAMBER SUITE, AND H Pi hy +4 ce = te ‘st Zz a rine [at rs >| FE ist I i tS Fy Fo 4) 2 ©. ” ND ooont pa. RACK AND he WA KITCHEN REQUISITES, &. 22. THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST TWENTY- NINTH, 1589, commencing at TEN O'CLOCK, the residence of a gentleman declining housekee} ping, 1785 Oth street u.w., I will sell the above. ‘Thess jendid condition. “Garepen tis decent ‘splen on. 6 door. ‘Terms cash, ‘THOMAS DOWLING, auze-at Auctioneer, F[PHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. SPECIAL SALE OF CROCKERY. On aoc AUGUST TWENTY-EIGHTH, < at TEN O’CLOCK A.M., within mj I 1) sell withor Crockery. Will be sold asec SOAS JUNCANSON BROS., Auctioneers. ASSIGNEEF’S SALE OF FINE FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES, racist h peehoor ban oy CASH wor r fb. BAF! SHOWCAS! Fount a TI SCALES, AW AND POS’ NG ET NOTH WEST. On WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST TWENTY- EIGHTH, 1889, commencing at ‘TEN o'clock, I will sel! at public auction at 1408 14th st. n.w. the entire contents of groceries, &c., consisting in of FLOUR, SUGAR, TEA~ COFF! SLURS, CANDLES, STARCH, ‘304 FIVE FANCY GROCERIES AN, sen bh B, BROOMS, TUBS, BUCKETS, BR SHES s: SUDIALR, WHISKY? BERRDY One AD, CASH REGISTER. SHOW GASES PLATFORM AND FIREPROOF SAFE, AWNING AND POSTS, ETC., us ly found in a first-cl family fe The above will first be offered asa wi and ifs satisfactory bid is not obtained will then be sold in detail. JULIUS HUG! euzd-3t Assignee of Letmuel Eriood. _——s DOWLING, Auctioneer. VERY VALUABLE UNIMPROVED PROPERTY ON THIRD STREET BETWEEN 8 AND SSTREETS NORTHWEST AT AUCTION. On WEDNESDAY, AUGUST TWENTY-EIGHT, 1889, at FIVE O'CLOCK P. M., m front uf the prem I will sell the north 21 feet frout of original Lot aot en Poa Temaing back 120506 Devs w au alley feet. wide. Te : $1,000 cash, balance in and two years, mish intr pga wpe goe attra oe ts OF all casi. uve: FS Ei etpaichaser's coat. A depoait of 8100 will be re- aq at time of sale. 21 d&ds THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. IRUSTEES’ SALE OF A VALUABLE THREE- SLORY BRICK DWELLING HOUSE, NO. 819 C STREBT SULUTHWEST. By virtue of acertain deed of trust, dated the 4th aay of gets A.D. 1586, and duly recorded in liver No. 119%, folio 421 et seq, one of the land records of the District of Coluiubia, and at the juest of the holder of the note thereby secured, we ‘will sell at public auction, iu front of aang Soong bidder, on SATURDAY the THIaTY- FlkST DAY OF AUGUST. A.D. O'CLOCK P.3i.. that certain pnece or of Jand situate in the cily of Washiugton, in sald District, and known as lot numbered thiriy-euwhe Cet Abram F. Barker) aud oiers’ reco subdiviin of part juare numbered four bum nine (409), said subdivision cry of the si in book ce in two equal installments, pay abic i one aud two years after date of sule, respectively, with at the rate of six per ceut per annum from said date, and secured b. a first deed of trust on the propert sui SF al of the purchase mioucy maybe paid it cash witLin teu days’ atter the day of sale, All conveyanc- iug and recordng st the purcuuser's cost, A deposit 01 8100 will be required when the property is sold. Af terms of sule are uot complied with within ten days the day of sale the Lrustees reserve uhe right to Tesell the property at the cost aud risk of the default ing purchaser after five days advertisement. ATTORNEYS. Coeae CAKKINGTON, AL TORN EY-AT-LAW, ‘Webster La ‘505 D st. u.w., Wi * rE Ep: D.C. kesidence, 1218 ast. n, LADIES’ GOODS. eons: FRONTS: FRONTS!!! ft the thing tor Suimuues ‘Always in order by plain combing, at aseo Yet hw. Guns naseds ine w. Gaines “* Thuporter of Fine French ‘Gvods, H _au7-1m* Shampooing. I} KENCH DYEING. SCOURING AND DE! | CLEAN- ING ESTABLISHMENT, 121 New York ave dirst-class Lagies’ and Geuts’ work of every See: a4 = yor't and a. SS russ Velvet aud J rommae. | 43 and Maison Yriese, Paris. a1 NION FISCHEW'S DEY CLEANING ESTAR Atithuistaxp DYE bay pee DI st. ow. jes’ and Gents’ Garments of all ‘clesnedand Lyca without being ey Ladies’ Leu specialty, five. years’ experience, Prices Rederate,” Gouds called for auddelivered “sia Ax To GAKMEN' MADE UP OR RIPPED na Wsceine, 2S ee Sea MEDICAL, &. R. LEON, Dri ciieet zetabtisned and only Reliable Lation’ can be consulted dally, 404 Cot, betireen 43¢.and 6th sts. n.w. Prompt treatment. Consultation strictly confiden- 81, Oilce always open. ‘euo.ot* RIVATE SANITARIUM AND LYING-IN HOME in Suburbs with Electrical and Wellsknowal physician in charge or parties can have well-kt Tate ‘can have, a Private piyaician and, Bure srecy tung ven. with stamp, Paystcra Ns Star office. aurd- ME. DE FOREST, LONG-ESTABLISHED AX\D Cm ges it vU1 T st. uw. Office ‘from ToUp. mnt with Ladies only. ‘auzz-lme ‘T HAS NEVEK BEEN CO. THA: Dr. BKOTHEES is the area rains. leave, New” E 1:30, a.m, 11:35, °4:15, °5:05, "O14 For Ailantic City 4:00 and 9:30 a1 v0 Ucean Grove 14:00, 18:00 a 2:00 woo ; $9200) a ua. ally. §Sunday only, tExcept called for and checkea from hotels and by Union Trausier Co. on orders left at ices, 61¥ aud 1391 Kens é 3. F°GDELL, Geuersi Manse jule in effect Jane 30, 1889, east Tenuessee Mail, daily for Warren- ie, Chariuttesville, tions between Alexandria and Ly'neu: tol, Knoxville, Chattanooga abd M per Wasulaxton to Memphis, 1:24, m.—Fast mail daily for Warrenton, Ls Chesapeake aud Unio ‘Route, ‘ky Mount, Danville and Stations 30 a. mI ton, Gordousvii. 218 P. m-Daily, 8 and interinedists statiore’’ (°F Manecms 26 p. m.—Daily via Lyncluurg, Chat yncLburg, Bristol and ‘9:40 p.im—Western E: daily for tig gs Chark A yo Dtaunton, Lous: uuan Vestibule train Waskiugton igh, Asheville, Charlotte, Colum! fwornery, New Oricane, eva au Vestibule Car Washington to Via Atlanta abd Montgomery. Pullman mu to Birmingh . ant Teia Paciic Railway eg eremay ine - rains on Washington and Ohio division leave Wash- 300 am. daily except sun bu. daily except Sunday, Sm. and -:53 pun, trains from the South via Charlo’ Lynchbury arrive in Wasuington 6:53 au, .M.; Via Kast Tennessee, Bristol and Lyuch- 203 ‘a.m. aud 10:40 p.ta.; Chesapeake mute aud Charlottesville at = and 6:53 am = Strasburg and at Passenger Station, Syivauis svewu a avenue Bia hailroad, Gh 2 JAS. L. 1 AYLOR, Gen. Pass, Agent. ER OF SIXTH AND BSTKEETS, 8: For Pittsburg and the West, Chicago Limited Express Pullman ruled Cars at 9-50 au: daily; Fast am. daily Ww Cincubati abd St. Louis, ins Cars irom Littsburg to Ciucimust, UTE to St. Louis : daily, except Saturday, ping Car Alivous to Cl ¥ Wasuington to Chicazo aud St. Louis, daily at Harrisburg with througl: Sleepers bis. Pacific Lxpress, 10:00 um and the West, with per to Pitsburg, and Pitisbure wo icao. BAL TiMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD rand Nugare Falls for Louisville and Mem except sunday’. 8:1 2 us aad rept Sunaay. VHIA, NW YORK AND THE EAST, 11:00 and FOR PHILADELPHIA ONL Fast Express 0:10 am. woek duys, aud y. Eayiess 2:10 p.m. daily, Accom, For boston, without change, 2 day. For yu N. X., aul tiireuck trains commect at et bao Lda AoE ai unde or UiON street, svoidiag actus New York city, For. Vora Giy nua Poste os Doss 17 Vs tn Week wuya. iN EFFECT MAY 12, 1 lity 2, TSKILL MOUNTAIN! SARATOGA, LAKE GEORG! ‘and after SUNDAY, 3 TRONDACKS. 23, express traius on ie-P i i GENTLEMEN’S GOODS. report of every transaction of public in- terest occurring in the District up te the very hour of going ta press. 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 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. —0:—— 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 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 enabled to receive and print atonce a full report of every event of consequence occurring during the day anywhere between the Atiantic and Pa- cific Oceans. —-:0:——. @ NOTE THE RESULT: 29 —:0:—— THE STAR HAS MORE THAN THREE ae AS MANY REGULAR SUBSCRIL 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 PEOPLE, 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 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- ing the public THAN ALL THE OTHER DAILY PAPERS IN THE CITY TOGE1HER. Furthermore, in proportion to the re- turns it gives its patrous, ITS ADVER- TISING RATES ARE THE CHEAPEST IN THE CITY. —e: — 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 one having an interest in their examination. 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