Evening Star Newspaper, April 28, 1890, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR PUBLISHED DAILY, Except Sunday, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Nerthwest Oorner Pennsylvania Ave. and 11th 8t, by | The Evening Star Newspaper Company, Pree riers, on their own account, at 10cents per | Senor ate Tuonth. “Coples at the couuter, = | cents each. mail—postage prey cents » | ‘one year, $6, six months, #. (Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C.,ss Second -class mail matter.) Tae WEEKLY Stam—published on Friday—@1 8 Year, postage prepaid. Six months, 30 cents. Ev AN) mail subseri must be paid in advance; Bopaper sent longer that is yaid for. Rates of advertiaing made known on application SPECIAL NOTICES. _ NT pPREME COURT OF THE DIS- ss. GHD OF MOLUMBIAY NATHAN OF DER Ys ELEZGERALD Er ALL Equity. No. 9745. Hen: Garnett aud Edward H Thomas, trus- eNO, Inu reparted to the court that they have sold = uare 38 in the City of Washiugton to John jan at and for the sam of @> 408.50, taxes outs to be paid by said trustees out of the January 1, 1890, it us by the court this of April, AD. 1890, ordered that said sale as by said trustees be ratified and confirmed unless cause to Neg ‘SD oieed ‘be shown on or before the | day of M 890. $ oe that: of this order be published in tne hington Law Reporter and Evening Star once A week for thee stccenaive weeks Priur 40 the said Jast-named day. Justice, ter! ~ Ans't Clerk. > URT OF THE DIs- whine et al Equity Doe, cause having reported tw Je sale of lot twenty-two (2 "5, described in the bill, to Thoruas . at and for the stn of 100, and further. that the suid purchaser requests tit he be al- Jowed to pay the entire purchase money in c: this 11th day of April, 4D. 1990, ordered that sald sale be, and thi is, ratified, confirmed, | and that said purchaser have leave to pay the entire | purchase money in cash as prayed, unless cause to the | contrary be shown on or betore the expiration of thirty days from the date of this order, provided s copy thereof be inserted in the “The Evening Star” snd the Washington Luw Reporter, once » week for ‘Three weeks during the said thirty days. 8 COX, Sustice. A true cops—Test: er spite ie By} ‘Aust. Clerk. @ eq DE. SAMUEL 8. ADAMS HAS REMOVED = Ris Omion and iewidence trom 152) I to 3 Ht [Office Hours: 8 to 10 0-1 m, Telephoue 253. B= vcovomy cas nanors. GARDEN HOSE, VASES, SETTEES. GAS FIXTURES AND LAMPS. Agents for the S. WATER PURIFYING CO. “Bubring’s Filter System.” S&S. SHEDP & BRO, wu AMUSEMENTS. ATTORNEYS. AUCTION SALES. BICYCL) BOARDL BOOKS AND STATION! BUSINESS CHANCES, CITY ITEMS EDUCATIONAL, EXCURSU FOR SALE (Houses). FOR SALE (Lots). E (MISCELEAN LOST AND FOUND. MANICU PROPOSALS. RAILROADS... ER Wear 100 FOUR) geeeeageaeayedaziaiiyie? A 5 7 7 8 2 2 3 2 3 3 7 8 8 ttt 36 ? § ap22 432 9th st now. " a 7 ‘TED (Country Boanp). -Page - ED (Hex: Page 2 | ee LUMBER. 5) WANTED (Hovses) -Page 2 81.15 | WANTED (Lors).. Page 2 1s 100 FT. GOOD N.C. BOARDS. _ | WANTED (Srrvartro: Page 2 $1.15 LIBBEY, BITTINGER & MILLER, $1.15 WANTED (MisceLtaneor Page 2 2 $1.15 — Gthst, and New York ave. n.w. pa nen eet Page 2 5 ASH, DOORS, BLINDS, parse . SPECIAL NOTICES. 81.15 HARDWARE. == aes a ap2h OTICE, HE ASSOCIATED PUBLISHERS OF ‘ASHINGION and the Employing Printers of the City desirous of joining that body or co-operating with: jj ISSUE OF STOCK OPEN FOR SUBSCBIPTION. EQUITABLE CO-OPERATIVE BUILDING ASSOCIATION. R “EQUITABLE BUILDING,” 1003 F ST. fers Shares are $2.50 per month. Against Damage b; Subscription books will be open for shares inthe} 4. ‘29th issue on and after April 16, 1890. Pamphlets explaining the objects snd advantages of the Association are furnished upon application. it in the purposes 1t has iu view will meet st the edi- torial rooms of The Washington Post on MONDAY EVENING, April 28, at 8 o'clock. Afull and By order of _it rompt | in Willard Hail Monday ED 0) Cleaned y Mot vi BH. STINEMETZ & 80 IT 1S ADVERT IN thet there is to be a oe entertainment endauce is requested. the Executive Committee: N STORAGE, and Insured . h at a siall cost upon their ralue. Pennsylvania ave. THE PAPERS evening. was vot 3 bition of that character, therefore Office hours. from 9 am. to 4:30 p.m. On we need ae aon be he Y Gucndse> ee arat Wednendag im ach month te office WH be EVENING Tie eee G STAPLES” so aahcanabelieialaten ah gq HOW ABOUT A SPRING ov Tr THOMAS SOMERVILLE. i Lots of good ones left. Prices, 88 to #18. ce them. INO. JOY EDSON, See'ry. apl7 _ap28 | GEORGE SPRAY CLEARING OUT SALE = SPECIAL NOTICE.—THE ‘meeting of the Stockholders of S'S FINE FURNISHING GOODS, | mmgton Gasited Petroleum Steam Fuel Con on aie py a | be bela at ‘Koom ‘0. National Hotel, Washin on, D. UNDERWEAR, : | ¢. ao ony lay 7, 1890, at 1 o'clock p.m. HOSIERY. . cRWEAR. i JOHN V. CARRAHER, Secretary. — UMBRELLAS, &c., AT COST FOR CASH ONLY. FRANK T. M. LAIRD, Receiver, 15TH AND F STS. w. ct) a N.W. eneee*ss. PERFECT GAS STOVES. | Calland examine Gas on, CHAS. A, MUDDIMAN. GAS FIXTURES AND LAMPS, SPECIAL NOTIC! = I desire to usform my friends and the pub- ‘Uleuutinue to handle the highest «rade Qdorless XXX Vapor Fluid. whicu gave entire satis: | Siay 1 1N0O. Meeting for prayer aud praise in the faction tomy many cUstoiners last wasor. AWaitiDE | Chapel Tuesday evening, ADE SY, at Spin. apt fued orders, I remain respect i Four valued eas, K HODGELS, U1 tthat.nw. | ——_ TO REDUCE SURPLUS WE MAKE THE Five gallons delivered <q=>A BOON TO French classes at OF LANGUAGES, 1205 F st 2. See Instruction. 5 cents, ‘apo-Ln_ | TRAVELERS TOURISTS’ ILLAKD'S SCHOOL sp18-10t* E—; -FIVE SHARES JUD- | FOK S5ALE—FIPTY-FIVE 5 vent) at $30 Tl B33 Fst ‘son Pueumatic KK. Stock ( ber Apply to GURLEY BRos., 1 alo-lm mes a @& > WE Wish To INFORM OUR F' S 2S and patrons that the Cabgraph oilice has re- moved to the large sales rooms, No. 605 7TH ST. «ear F), where we will continue the Typewriter Busi- hess op an extensive scale. Bee: hogy apa "oe NEW iM General Axenta, | <i TRADERS’ NATIONAL BANK of ore. maton, 16-918 Peuua. ave. n.w., Washington Sate Deposit Conipany Butlding. ns 30 am. from April 1 to Oct. 4. Da tatirom Oot I to Apel i. Closes at 3 p.m, ‘This bank solicits the | and acy surance bu: qa THOMAS K. his position as head of the credit de | ment ox Julius Lausburgh and opens his new Keal | tate Untice, 616 nF te morning. "H> will be uaintances consul fSState. A spec ing real BROOKS HAS ke betwee! and G, Monday eased to baye hix many friends Wt him before buyinyg or sell- 1 feature will be the collection of rents, making loans and ® geueral life and fire in- 88. > wetting investo-s 100 a26-3¢ HUTCHINS, B A FEW MORE SUBSCRIPTIONS each will be received to new land syn tH cent in 90 F $100 ate CKERY & CO; 1503 Pa. ave. 's Foreign Missionary Society ,THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL ASSEMBLY | arene of the Presby tei rian Church ¢ ‘a: the Chureb of th in this cit; jadelpinia) will be he.d venaut April 30 aud following low prices for cash: Beat Charcoal Tin Roofing, $4.50 per square. Glendale and Caimeret at inciudys felt and a leakage. | **Parlor Sun “Sexton's Grand,” 3 hese prices ielide leu! Sett Range, with water Cream Freezers, Stoves at low prices Plumbing, gus iting, "UNO. Me Telephone 984-”. frigerators, ia Leaky roofs cured or no pay. ing story al back, #18: Gas | &e. DRA. WASHINGTO: ‘The coparine tween the undersi Cullmane & Co, sent, Mr. Joln"F. C ‘The’ business will be Messrs. Dugan & Butler. IN, D.C. ship be continued JUL WM. TS see : Beer ih BREWED BOCK BEER, OLD AND ‘The Robert Portner Brewing Company of this city Sodividuale, rane and corporations, careful | $0 wed durius the mont and prompt attention to all business entrusted to it. | hener being Every tactiity consistent with sound banking will be | 2859, neuer bern e to its customers, their patrons and Inen¢ ‘Directors Osceola C. Green, Geo. A. Shehan, Emil G, Seuafer, } Samuel 5. Shedd, Emmous 3. smith, ria Wal sa" BRENT L. BALDWIN eal cg7o renee. Seamer, | Shui foaidin vases 840,000 | WASHINGTON SAFE DEPOSIT Co, —w Gand 918 Palave. | STORAG | lar proof vt DEPARTMENT ROOMS: fire and bur- prott: rome all above ground; yeruculariy | siayted ior the Storawe of Furniture, Pictures, ac.” | 4m BAC ws Ge , CERTIFICATES Ov STOCK AND | All x ving. EL methods of Printing aud 5 GEDNE my 407 10th st., Adjoining Post Building. ¥ & KOBEKIS, THE WASHINGTON LOAN AND TRUST = COMPANY, TEMPORAKY OFFICES. 100!) F st. nw. | vl Y be Dh Wag us to the erection of the Company's Building, corner 9th and F sts. nw. MONEY LOANED (ON |COLLATERAL AND ON Well Secured Loans, guaranteed by the Company, forsale. INTEREST PAID. Cail on or correspoud with us. ‘a piste’ X, Secrti st: WARNER, President, fe. ISON, retary. DikkCrURs: Charles B Bailes, James L. Barbour, E. Bartol, HS. Cummings F. Dathton, wv Joy Edson, Sharies 5. Faulkmen, Albert F. Fox, ©. C Green, William B. Gurley, Jon B Laruer. a3a: ik ae WASHINGTON SAFE DEPOSIT are bo' peed to RENT BOXES at at Decep Exes: ve. reat m27-4m Call for Constitutions Subscribe for stock-—$1 per shsre—between the Bours of 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. daily at the office of JNO. A. PRESCOTT, Secretary and Treasurer, ni4-6m rpaxan A laxative refreshing, fruit CONSTIPATION, hemorrhoids, bile, | Joss of appetite, wastric and intessinal troubles aud headache arising trem them, F. GRILLON, 27 Reve Kambut Sela by all INDIEN Tur "Tuousox-Hovstox Exccraic COMPANY, G20 Allantc avenue, Boston, Mass, WASHINGTON OFFICE, 1333 F 8T. el7-em .™ EXPENSE. SMA Ts. cy at lowest Dein arenes barter a” Bt God Gents’ Furnishings. Give uss call. o> li T. WALKER SONS, 204 10TH ST, N.W. bestos Goods, Moth proof Paper and Wax. 1,. at tue Linioy and Tops, W.B 2 Cements. White Wash Brushes cheap apié | | Of 7 cent of ‘April, 18% SOLE_W, } FoR => WARREN Y. W Rei as REAL ESTAIE to Room 21, Le Droit Building, $10 F st.n.w. “4 =a UFFICE OF Bo Mocoimne Tele nts per share w 10, to the #1 | office of the treasurer Washington, D. 28th of April inclusive, NA driving. g Luuehes and suppers served at a moment's notice. Driving pacties must mission, ‘Apply to fi st. 101744 Mst. Office have not beet ¢ Hours 9 to 10; 1 to 2: Apy message be telephoned at once. ge ote Resorts at short notic STEAM LAUNDRY, 49 qa TWE: rive SB Howe," with Couplinen an 5. ozzle complete, for 8. MELVILLE LINDSAY. and Rubber Belting and apl4-lm will supply their customers for one week, commenc: counts (large and small) of | ¥. py yeur and sir months old. ‘ed, this being intended as transfer books will be closed from th nt to the Shoreham Drug Store 1 ciry Work solicited ; Lauudering for Summer and extra fine BOCK hy of October aud No} a ed His AND LOAN OFFICE ‘TH vhone CHESAPEAK! uupany.—A dividend ill be payable on the 25th day i the “d day of April, 1890, at the of the company. 619 14th st. Washington Inn), TOWN ROAD, r daily’ and monthly lence of those who are Positively have cards of ad- JAS. R, KEENAN, Proprictor. -E, HAGNER HAS KE- ice aud residence from 1507 H hours and telephoue number 4to5. Telephone No. 951. i ‘aply- MBOAT AND CARLA’ e: jatwe tacilities, DEXTER 1 to 499 C st. uw. apls-im FEET COMPETITION 4 Combination 17%. Guodyenr Rubber Co. Manager, 300 9th st. Leather all kinds of Rubber Goods. =»ROCHDALE CO-OP. SOCIETY OF THE DIST. OF COL. qpileisibers of this society are iutormed that the new te Cards (and Lists), reudy for issue. fee. There bein Less Apri By 1d st. A. T. Longley, prest., advisable. 7 t.. Cash Room, ut noon and at L, Vanderhioet, Pes Roster WE N HING: 1] Laws TEN he old JW. SOG A st. ne. ¥ Sinsihs Thompson, Vb. INS) Fn. w28.G-0. improved and extended, are jel vers wili return the old (green) card, with their address written across the | below and obtain the new ou payment of th face, to aby of those named proper over 4,000 uwimbers who should ub- tain the uew card before Ai rit 30th instant prompt- dix Of No benef ty |. W. HAKSHA, Secretary, ‘Treasury Dept, aud at 705 4 o'clock pan. . War Dep. O31 French st., Bul of statistics, 603 Mi 4th Aud. 16H nw, 3 15th at aw. Cisear executive commit J. W. HAL tee. SHA. Secretary. — AN WN NDOW SCREENS, 82.75 DOZ FRAMES. foc, BACH. Tian Tsing OW OEM ICE CKEAM 2.15. sTitte ‘NOZ- IN AG! ENTS. DITSON'S NIS. ap5-1m gq. > HEADQUAKTENS FORK HAMMOND T3PE- writer aud bd “AB. | Zand | stocl emenen commenety. Lash brea irate Full on JOHN 6. PA- District of ‘the rambia, pening Sta. WASHINGTON, D.C... MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1890. Washington News and Gossip. Goverxuext Recerrrs Tonar.—Internal Fevenue, $957,819; customs, #940,266. Tonas's Box Orrens aggregated #34,100, a8 THE MISSISSIPP] RIVER PROBLEMS. follows: Registered 4s, $10,000, $20,000, #100, at = coupon 4148, $3,000; registered 434s, $1,000 a it 10334. ee Liect. Com. Samven Bexpixe, of the re- ceiving ship Franklin, is off on a month's leave of absence, Tae Yaxtic ex Rovre to New Yorx.—A dis- patch was received this morning at the Navy Department announcing the arrival of the U.S.S. Yantic at the Delaware Breakwater, on her way to New York. Pensions ror District Peorte.—Pensions have been granted to residents of the District of Columbia as follows: Original invalid, Chas. B. Dike. Anthony Marmell (Soldiers’ Home), Wm. Faccett. (Soldiers’ Home); in- crease, Nathaniel S. Paul; widows, &c., Ellen W., widow of Jas. 8. Thornton, Dectstox or THE Fner-Cantace Casr.—The Interstate Commerce Commission decided yes- Relative Merits of the Levee and Outlet Systems Disenssed in the Senate. DISTRICT DAY IN THE HOUSE —_——. SENATE, In connection with the presentation of a memorial in relation to the Mississippi river a discussion sprung up and was participated in by many Senators, the point turning on the question whether the jetty system or the outlet system was the correct one, or whether there should not be a combination of the two. Mr. Vest gave it as his opinion that the two terday the case of Stone & Carton against the | systems could not stand together and that Con- Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway Company in favor of complainants. ‘This case involves the question of the lawfulnesa of free cartage of freights by railroad companies to and from one station on their lines and ship- pers’ places of business when such free cartage jot given to shippers at another station on ne line taking the same grouped rate. the ‘The railroad company is ordered to cease and desist from making Fuch free cartage. Sonat Corrs Cuaxors.—The following | !€¥ee system had rais changes have been ordered in the Signal Corps: | 24 was continually r: Second Lieut. J. P. Finley, from Boston to San Francisco, relieving Second Lieut. J. E. Max- well, who’ is granted leave of absence, at the expiration of which he will take station at Fort Riley. Kan.: Second Lieut, F. W. Giles, from Galveston, Tex., to Norfolk, Va. Ose Parpox Grantep; Two Rervsep.—The President has granted # pardon in the case of Cohen Whutehead convicted in South Carolina | overflows had taken P gress should adopt the one system or the other, Mr. Frye, chairman of the committee on commerce, spoke of » hearing which that com- mittee had given last Thursday to the friends of the outlet system and said that it had left his mind in greater confusion than ever. THE FRIENDS OF THE OUTLET SYSTEM had taken the ground, very strongly, that the the bed of the river ing it,and that the outlet system was the only way to relive the river. He had not now the remotest idea what ought to be done on the subject. Mr. Reagan said that he had given the sub- ject great attention when a member of the committee ou commerce in the House, His in- vestigations had convinced him that the levee system Was a failure; as it had proved to be on the Yellow river of China, where the bed of the river had been raised, and devastating lace, cansing the loss of of violating postal laws. He denied the appli- | millions of lives, It seemed to him that cation for a pardon in the cases of Lafayette Teel and Jason Stilley of murder, THE PLAN LAID DOWN BY COL, ELLET convicted in Arkansas | fifty years ago for an outlet system was the true kind of relief for overflows of the Mis- A Grxerat Covurt-Martrat has been ap- | 888ippi. pointed to meet at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, to-day, for the trial of suc! prisoners as may be brought before it. The detail for the court is as follows: D. Wallace, seventh cavalry; Capt. Stanton A. Mason, fourth cavalry; First Lieut. Levi P. Hunt, tenth cavalry; First Lieut, George H. Sands, sixth cavalry; First Lieut. John H.Ga ner, ninth cavalry; Second Lieut. George W. Goode, first cavalry; Second Lieut. Farrand Sayre, eighth cavairy: Capt. Henry B. Osgood, commissary of istence, judge advocate. Wants Damaces Bec. His Weir West Dry.—In the Court ot Claims this morning Judge Weldon read decision granting a new trial to Alexander Little in his claim against the United States for damages sustained by him in the loss of a well by the construction of the Washington aqueduct tunnel. The claimant's land Is located nearly over the line of the tunnel and was provided with a good and val- uable well, which went dry when the tunnel was blasted through. The motion for a new trial was sustained and a date will be fixed for a hearing to determine the amount of damages to be paid the claimant. Navar Onpeus.—Lieut. Wm, Kilburn ordered to the receiving ship New Hampshire. Ensign Wm. A. Gill detached from the Ranger and or- dered to duty at the naval ordnance provin; Capt. George | Sut ir. Berry said that every engineer (except 1, | on@ perhaps) who had had anything to do with the river had reported that the levee system was the only true system. Ninety-nine of every hundred) = men who were familiar with the river were in favor of the levee system and opposed to the outlet system. Mr. Washburn spoke of the deep interest which he had felt in the subject and of the thorough examination which he had given it as amember of the House committee on com- merce, and said that the conclusion which he had reached had been that the levee system was the true one, but he was frank to say that he was today in doubton the subject, The results that had been anticipated from the levee system had certainly not been real- ized. In view of the rtainty as to the true system and of the difference of opinion among wise men it seemed to him that it would be unwise for Congress to proceed further until it knew more abont it A PROPOSED COMMISSION OF SCIENTISTS. Mr. Harris said he nad believed in the levee system, but that the events of the last two months had greatly shaken his confidence init, and he suggested the appointment of a coi mission of scientists to be charged with the duty of a thorongh investigation of the sub- ject in the light of the experience of the whole planet, Mr, Paddock spoke of the hearings given in Gere weet re eee OE | tha Inet Cneerons tp the committee om the im- a ap-uaiting atdese, .<i<ih dias provement Bf the Missisippi river. and said Fran! jaxson detached from duty at the | tbat they had developed the fact that ail the Washington navy yatd and ordered to duty at | engineers who had any relations to the Missis- Mare Island May 3 sippi River Commission, and every practical - — man familiar with the river believed in the A Cexsvs Contract Awanpen.—The contract for furnishing the census office with man la cards has been awarded to Mr. AL Daggett. His bid was 52 4-10 cents per thousand, It is estimated that about 100,000,000 of these cards, which are to be used in the tabulating machine, will be needed, Pensoxa.—Dr. R. I. Gatling of Hartford, in- ventor of the Gatling gun; Geo, J, Murray @ Cincinnati, J. D. Kimball of Hot Spriugs, W. v. Darby of Nashville and Prof, A. E, Carpenter of Boston are at the St. James. Geo, W. Merritt and Frank D. Moseby of Boston, J. I Morris of Portland, Me., Chas. D. ‘Thornton and W. L. Winslow of Fall River and 1.) Wardwell are at the Norn die.——C, H. Wil- leveo system, Congress had adjourned before the hear: 8 were concluded: and he suggested should be continued. ustis thongt ita very inopportune mo- nit to discuss the question, In the first place ithad come up unexpectedly; and, in the next place, he did not. think that any Senator had the requisite information on the subject, Steamboat captains who ought to know a good deal about the river were unanimously in tavor of the levee system as against the outlet sys- tem, THE LEVEE SYSTEM COME TO STAYs Mr. Hawley said that the levee system would never bo got rid of because Congress had no constitutional power to prevent planters from building levees for the protection of their son of Chicago. Col. Joe Rickey of Xt. Lonis, | property, but he also believed that the outlet R. N. Baskin of Salt Lake City, Henry V. Don- | system had been undervalted and he thought nelly, Miss F. Donnelly and Miss K. B.|f'°* ‘ogress should finally settle down on Allen of the “Natural Gas Company” and A. Lombard of Boston are at Willard’s.— Francis Canfield of England, T. H. Kennedy of Pittsburg, D. N. Avery of Detroit, 8. H. Angell of San Francisco and A. B. Sullivan of Denver are at thy Ebbitt.—J. B, More of Wilmington, N.C., ©. 0, Hood of Boverly. Mane, Too on, yawa of Tokio, Japan, Geo. H. Barbour of Chi- iggs.-—G. Lindenthal of Pittsburg and Louis | less for t Higginson of Boston are at Wormley’ Alfred Horking and W. 5. of Melrose, Mass., are at Chamberli Charles B. Cory and wife of Boston, Miss Joftin o and Warren Green of Louisville are at the Mississippi combinin ; the two systems, - satthall said that, as far as knew or be- lieved, the people along the river ( of them) had absolute faith in the le and were generally, if not universally, opposed to the outlet system, He had not the shadow of a doubt that if the outlet system was adopted, it would not be long before the i river would become absolutely use- he purpose of navigation, Mr. Vest asked him what would be the effect Barrett of the Lake Borgne outlet on the Mississippi — | jetties. Mr. Waitbail replied that there was no of Wiscassett, Me., R. E, Duval and E, C. Hall | doubt that the river below the Lake Borgne of the Baltimore Arno.—-~-W. 0. McDoweli of Newark, H. H. nd Ohio road are at the | outlet would shoal just as it had shoaled a few years ago below the Bonnet Carre Crevasse Swann of Detroit, B. W. Currier of Boston, §.| and the Belle Crevasse; and that the whole M. Hotchkiss of Hartford and ex-Gov. Rafus | theory of the Eads system would be dofeated, B. Bullock of Georgia are at the Arlington. 1s THE WORK A FAILURE, A Man Who Says the Mississippi Im- | M HOUSE. On motion of Mr. Sherman (N.Y.) Saturday, jay 10, at 4 o'clock, was fixed us the time for provements Have Made Things Worse. | paying tribute to the memory of the late David Hon. T. J, Henderson, chairman of the river and harbor committee of the House, has re- ceived a letter from Chas. P. Huntington of New York, a gentleman who has made a study of Mississippi river improvement, in which he says: “No law was ever perverted as the act of Congress of June 28, sion to mature a plan and prevention of destructive Missiasippt iver. The plan recommended and adopted by Congress, upon which experimental work has now been going on for the last ten years, is not only injuring navigation, but it is forcing the river to go down the Atchafalaya, and at the same time it is undermining, over- taxing and overtopping the levees, increases the volume and velocity of thereby making a flood it would be otherwise. For the past six years I have been protesting —_ this plan at every opportunity offered wi = it ere igen ci priations, t the parties having the expendi- ture of these appropriations are so deat to rea. son and the warnings that come to them from foreiga lands, where, under like conditions, the evils of flood have been aggravated as they are now being in the Mississippi, it becomes wecensary to appeal direct to Congress which supplies the money. & large appropriation for the continuance ot work under this plain is now pending before Congress, I address you this letter in the ho] that it will lead to an investigation of the evils arising from increasing the of the water in time of flood. The Interior Department Stationery. Wilbur of New York. ‘The conference report on the Fremont, Neb., public building bili was submitted by Mr. Mil- liken (Me.) and was agreed to, The limit of cost is $60,000, A VETO. * The Speaker laid before the House the mes- sage of the President returning without his 1879, creating a commis- | approval the bill to allow Ogden, Utah, to in- for improving navigation | crease its indebtedness, Referred to the com- floods in the | mittee on territories, THE LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATION BILL PASSED. The legislative, executive and judicial appro- priation bill was passed without division, DISTRICT BUSINESS. The House then went into committee of the noe whole—Mr. Burrows (Mich.) in the chair—on more destructive than | bills relating to the District of Columbia, Real Estate Matters. W. C. Fowler has purchased of Ruth C. Den- nding appro- | nison for @18,500, subs A and B, square 215, fronting 62 feet 4 inches on L street at the cor- ner of Vermont avenue northwest. J. C. Davidson has bought for $14,000 of L, A. Barr, lots 40 and 41, block 3, LeDroit Park. Gabriel Edmonston has bought of Jennie W. O’Ferrall for $11,000 sub R, square 286—an L shaped lot fronting 20 feet’ on 12th between New York avenue and I street and 12 feet on I street between 12th and 13th streets north. west, Wm. H. Manogue has bought for $40,000 of meand velocity | F- 2. Seibert lotw 1 to 18, block 27, Long Annie R. Humphrey has bought of W. C. Fowler for #20,000 subs A and B, sqnare 215, One of the largest stationery contracts under | 0M the northeast corner of L street and Ver- the government is the one that is made annually | ™22* ®" to supply the Interior Department and‘its bu- Pp. reaus with writing paper, ink, &c. ‘The con- enue. Susan Gangewer has bought for $5,000 of C. Stone, part 40, — 366, fronting 19 feet 4 inches on Columbia street between O and P tract last year amounted to €77,851.26. This —s northwest, year the awards have just been made and the total amount involved is $72,259.68, which is | $4,000, saving of over $5,500 as compared with last | feet on year. Fishman has bought of K. Strasburger for — 16 and 17, square 454, fronting 20 as between 6th and 7th streets north- we ‘Among those tracts ‘Annie E. McKnight has bought for $6,500 of are the Sollowing ont Gan cigs D, Or kant | Hency Hart, ov St ouere tev ao fete son, Balan’ Son, Jas, J. Sinn, Ea by 100 feut on P between 16th ‘and 17th streets & Z. D. Gilman, Melville Lindsay, northwest « mg ae eee wee B. Hughes has purchased of Barbara Woltz A. Sebmidt, Wm. H. ‘Teepe, ‘oodvard & | for #4, cae: square 874, 20 feet front on ped aia sce, cere al rn pr gale So Ex-Gev. Wilson of West Vi has @n-| Lawrence Hickey has bought of C, D. nounced himself a candida tie | et al. Tor 85,100 part 4, reservation 10-2020 bp Figo oa in the third district, | feet on 3d street between vania avenue New York's legislature ~ Jand C street north~est, THE BALLOT BOX FORGERY. The Taking of Testimony by the House Special Committee Resumed Today. After a recess of several weeks the special House committee charged with an investigation of the Ohio ballot box forgery met today to take further testimony. Alphonso Hart of Hillsboro’, Ohio, now solicitor of internal revenue, testified that he had been elected a member of Congress in 1882. Before he took his seat he had a conver- sation with E. C. Bush of Cincinnati. The sub- stance of the conversation was that a meritori- ous ballot box had been invented and used in Cincinnati, Mr. Bush thought it should be adopted throughout the United States, and said that the proprietors of the box were about to have a bill introduced in Congress to secure its use, EX-PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S LETTER. Representative Grosvenor put in evidence the letter from ex-President Cleveland stating that Gov. Campbell had not even remotely re- ferred to the ballot box bill, and that he did not know of the existence of the bill. Chairman Mason placed in the record a wri ten statement from Charles Collins of Cincin- nati denying Wood's statement in a newspaper publication that he (Collins) would be able to confirm one of his statements. Hee closed the taking of testimony for the y. THE SITUATION IN FLORIDA. The President Directs the Marshal to Enforce the Process of Courts, Attorney General Miller has directed Robert G. Weeks, the recently appomted United States marshal for the northern district of Florida, to enforce the process of courts in his district, alleged to have = been _—obstructed, The order is based upon a let- ter to the Attorney General from Presi- dent Harrison, dated April 24, in which he calls attention to the complaints that in the counties of Leon, Gads:en, Madison and Jeffer- son in the state of Florida the officers of the United States are not suffered freely to exercise their lawful functions. “This condition of things,” the President writes, “cannot be longer _ tolerated. You will therefore instruct United States Marsha! Weeks as soon as he has qualified to proceed at once toexecute such writs of ar- rest as may be placed in his hands. If he ap- prebends resistance he will employ such civil posse as may seem adequate to discourage re- sistance or to overcome It. The press dispatches last night transmitted from Jacksonville, Fla., an open letter to the President from F, W. Hawthorne, editor of the Times-Union, in reference to the order to Mar- shal Weeks, in which he charges that cou ficers have boasted that Judge 8 would be one of persecution to di that a jury commissioner was unlawfully ap- pointed in furtherance of this policy. AGAINST THE PROHIBITIONISTS, An Important Liquor Decision Rendered by the Supreme Court. The United States Supreme Court, through Chief Justice Fuller, today rendered an opinion adverse to the constitutionality of state laws providing for the seizure of liquor brought into the state in original packages. Such laws. the court holds, are an interference with interstate commerce. After the liquor becomes the property of the importer the state may under its police powers regulate or prohibit sale, but it has no power in the ab- sence of the express Congressional authority to prohibit the transportation of the article from enother state and its delivery to the importer. The case in which the decision was made was that of Gus Leidy & Co., plaintiffs in error, against A.J. Hardin. It was brought here on appeal from the supreme court of lowa an this court reverses the decision of the stale court. tic Jus- 8 Gray, Harlan and Bre dissented. The se is one of great importance to prohibition- ts and liquor dealers. THE POSTMASTER ACCUSED, Employes of the House Post Office Make Charges Against Their Superior. . J. MeCord, an employe of the House post office, who is a son of Representative MeCord, has filed a formal letter of charges against James L, Wheat, postmaster of the House. ‘The letter, which is signed by McCord and five other employes, says: “We, the undersigned employes of the House of Representatives post office, make the following charges: That J. L. Wheat, postmaster of the House of Represent- atives post office, has been guilty of gross ir- regularities in conducting the business of the said office, to wit: Hisson, Walter R. Wheat, is receiving the pay of two positions, while it is impossible for one man todo the work con- nected with these two positions, and, in conse- quence, the work falls upon some other em- ploye or employes in the office; that many als, pamphiets, circulars addressed to members, ployeshave been thrown in the waste-paper basket every day; that W. I. Wheat has been guilty of opening at least one sealed and postage-paid letter addressed J.L. Wheat was aware of the fact within an hour after it was done; that he bas compelled, through fear of dismissal,the route;men, to the number of three, each week to do work entirely foreign to their regu- lar work, viz: one in the post office to do work which his son should do and two to do docu- ment room work, which should not be done by any employe of the post office. We believe that J. L. Wheat receives pay from the document room for this work, We further charge that he has shamefully imposed upon us in many ways; that he is subject to violent outbursts of tem- per, is arrogant, tyrannical, despotic, overbear- ing and insulting; that, in our judgment, he entirely untitted in every way for the position he occupies, lacking dignity, executive ability and a proper sense of justice. In conclusion we wish to say that the employes of the House of Representatives post office are poor men and. have stood these impositions and insults simply because they could not afford to lose their positions—about half of. them being married men. Mostof us resigned good paying posi- tions, which we cannot return to, to accept a Position in the House of Kepresentatiy. We urgently ask that an investigation be made at once into the official conduct of J. L, Wheat, postmaster of the House of Repre- sentatives. WHAT MR. WHEAT SAYS. Postmaster Wheat says that the charges made against him are inspired by a feeling of resentment on the part of young McCord. He says that he had some trouble with young Mc- Cord on account of insubordination on the part of the young man, He does not consider the charges very serious. ‘The papers and communications which have been thrown into the post office waste he says, are such as members asked him to dispose of in that way—chiefly matter which is left at the office without postage. He said he did uot think therd was anything out of the way in his son’s doing substitute work after he got through with his own work, especially as it was done for a short time only for the conven- ience of the office. As to the cl that he was tyranincal he said he was only trying to get efficient work out of the force, ‘The waste paper he saye he sells and uses the money asa stamp fam AN INVESTIGATION PROBABLE. It is likely that there will be an investiga- tion and it may be that some new regulations will be provided for the management of the office. A good many its are made, chiefly by employes of the itol, of delay in tting their mail and members complain of ir mail getting mixed. - of at the Boston House at Troy, eas ree at of and She was found dead next day, taken a dose of arsenic. TWO CENTS. TOIL'S WAR CRY RINGS All Along the Line Labor's Legions Marshal, DISASTER AT STAUNTON TODAY A Train Running at the Rate of| Eighty Miles an Hour. ONE KILLED AND MANY BADLY HURT. Chicago Employers Demanding Protec- tion From the City. Cnicago, April 28.-The members of the Master Carpenters’ and Builders’ Association will today present to Mayor Cregier a written demand for police protection. They deciare that if this is not granted they cannot employ the non-union men who stand ready to go to work and will make an appeal to Gov. Fifer within a day or two, since they claim that there are more non-union men in the city than would suftice for them to finish the contracts that have been delayed for the last three weeks and on which they would probably suffer heavy loss by forfeits should a deal be made betwee the strikers and the new association. = STATISTICS, The Times prints advance sheets from the city’s official compilation of tie number of wage-earners, male in the old wards of the cit time. The reset at the pi statistics were secured for the light they cast | on the anticipated labor troubles pred tor May lL. The Times says: “A mere glance : the tables wil! suffice to show the extravagance of the scare-head announcements made by some of the local newspapers, The tables include all who would be likely to imaugur: an eight-hour movement. The gross numbe: isshown to be 304,704. Of these 46,281 are women, who, by common assent, are wholiy without organization and not meditating a strike. According to the reports that have been circulated fully one-half of the remaining 258,423 will go out May 1. When it is remem- bered that the cigar makers, the paper hangers, the stone masons, the brick layers, the plumbers, the plasterers now have an eight hour day; when it is further remembered that all employes of the carrying trade. all clerks, wholesale and retail, all bakers, brewers, tan- ners. ail professional men, all’ bank, broker and real estate employes—in short ali except the few crafts that have pushed themselves to public notice in the projected movement have no intention of striking, the extravagance of the reports alluded to becomes apparent. It is thought that actual figures will furnish bat few of the 100,000 or 150,000 strikers expected by labor agitators.” STOCK YARDS MEN. It is now practically certain that the em- ployes of the Union stock yards will go on a strike to the number of about 40,000 May 1. it has been arranged by the men to go out Thursday morning unless the packers sound the whistles for commenc- ing and quitting work at 8 sm. and 3:30 p. on Wednesday, thus indicating their acceptance of the eight-hour day and the other terms de- manded. The employers are a unit in refus- ing. They have filled up their cooling houses _ ew York, Baltimore and Boston with fresh ef, NON-UNION MEN POURING IX. The lines laid down by both sides in the car- penters’ strike are well detined and both sides began the struggle this morning, Non-union men, in numbers larger than even the strikers care to admit, are pouring into Chicago and it is believed that the master carpenters, anticipating the fruitless conicr- ence of Saturday, cea agents in other citie: securing all the non-union carpenters the could tind. The strikers are vigilant, however. and this morning captured a large number of non-union men and induced them to refuse to gotowork. A boss carpenter named Smythe attempted to put some non-union men at work on a building on North avenue, but the strikers drove the men aw: Chief March says that non-union men will be protected in their work if it takes the entire police force, In the meau- time the boss carpenters’ association and car- penters’ council are making arrangements to put 4.000 carpenters at work. A teamster in the employ of one of the largest contractors in Chicago was hanling some carpenters’ tools this morning when his team was stopped gang of strikers. The horses were cut from the wagon aifd the team- ster dragged to the gronnd and given a severe beating. The strikers then cut the harness to pieces and wrecked the wagon. IN BOSTON. Bostox, April 28.—This morning the Glole publishes an article showing the situation in New England regarding the labor demonstra- | tion to take place May 1. . and Worcester will beghe iain battle grounds for the state, in bo! which the contest wil! be for a working day of eight hours, The greater part of the three thousand carpenters employed in Boston will strike for eight hours, but they make no demand for an increase in the hour rate of wages, They believe that a decrease in hours will cause an increase in wages according to the law of supply and de- mand. The nters are so well organized all through New England and even the Cana- dian provinces that there is little fear of out- side carpenters coming here to take their places, It is aid that in Worcester the painters, plumbers and slaters wili ask for nine hours. wich the same pay they now get for ten hours’ work. It ‘8 that Boston EMPLOYERS WHO ACQUIESCE. Norcross Bros, and Darling Bros, have an- nounced that they will adopt nine hours May 1 for carpenters, their mill hands and in-door workmen, In nine other cities in this state the workingmen demand a working day of nine hours, In several cities the plumbers, briek- — seed and masons will demand nine hours, fhe quarrymen and granite cutters in Quincy will probably strike, as the bosses while wili- ing to grant the nine bour system will not agree to the price per hour demanded by the workmen, Strikes are expected among the granite cutters at Westerly, Ii.I.: Concord, N.H.. and Hollowell, Me. The at Ports- mouth, N.H. and the carpenters at Portland and Lewiston, Me., demand nine hours, SUSPENDED. Mawanoy Praxe, Pa., April 28.—Operations will be suspended tomorrow for an indefinite period at the Buck mountain colliery at Buck mountain and the middle Lehigh colliery at New Boston. Four hundred men will be forced into idleness, STARTED UP, Nasuva, N.H., April 28.—Jackson & Co.'s mills were started up today. Nearly 900 men returned to work at the same schedule or prices that existed before the strike. IN IRELAND. Dvstrs, April 28.—It is the intention of the directors of the Great Southern and Western Railway Com to prosecute the signal men in thet employ leaving their work without iving any notice of their mtention. Arch- Eishop Walsh bas written a lettor to the direc- tors ing ‘that they postpone the taking f legal stage sgniant the signal men until the strike is settled. ° OBJECT TO MR. BLAIE'S IDEA. Ixptanapouis, April 28.—At a secret EIGHTY MILES AN A Runaway Train Wrecked, One Lady Killed and Several Passengers Hurt. Sracwtox, Va., April 2&2 —At Sam, today the express train of the Chesapeake and Ohio rasi- road for Washington was descending « heavy grade a mile of Staunton, when the brake- rod of the engine fell, the air-brake was ren- dered useless and the wild train rashed into Staunton at eighty miles aw hour, tearing away the depot root, The Pullman sleeper left the track and was thrown on its side. In it were fifteen members of the “Pearl of Pekin” troupe en route te Baltimore, announced to play tonight. Of the company, Miss Myrtle Knott injured, died while being taken from the car, Miss Edith Miller hada leg broken, Mra, Edward Webb, Edward Stevens. Miss Bertha Fisher, Louis Harrison and Miss Ione Dunham ail escaped with slight cuts and bruises, W. F. Kilpatrick, lumber thant, Ne York, hada leg severely torn; L. M. Sloman, commercial traveler, Cincinnati, was braised. The car took fire, but it was put out by citizens, Bauriwone, April 28.—The Pearl of Pekin Company, inthe railroad wreck at Staunton, are announced to appear at Harris’ Academy of Music for one week, beginning tonight. management have wired to have the company brought on inaspecial train, The dange ously injured are the chorus men and women, Mr. Louis Harrison, the star of the organiza~ tion, escaped with but a few bruises, KEMMLER’S LAST HOURS, A Patent Resuscitator Ready to Expert= ment on His Body. Avrrrx, N.Y., April 28, —Kemmier's last Sunday on earth was spent in much the same Way as previous days of his last year's life, if life it can be called, in solitary confinement, He never sees a living soulfoutside of his two guards, his spiritual adviser and occasionally the warden’s wife. He occupies his time be- tween mals in studying his pictorial Bible and writing bis wutograph on cards, of which he hax dashed off a great mauy. HOUR, Dr. Fell, a Buffal entist with tent resuscitating —appars has arrived and is 8 guest of Warden Dure- ton. He is here at the request of the warde to sec that ¢ goes off smoothly. The doctor tried on animals which were j put to death by in January last, lirst tested. It leetricity in the priso when the machinery w failed at that time to resuscitate the subjects and went far toward convincing the electrical commission that death and not mere suspended animation was pro- j duced instantancously. It is underst he | will also try the apparatuson Kemmier after tbe latter has received 1,000 volte, Warden Durston has yet to let fall the first inkling as to the pre- cise day of his taking off. It is generally be- 1 i, that Wednesday will be the day, but certainly no later than Thursday, It is also thought that the execution will take place at a very early hour in the morning. perhaps before daylight, But these are m re surmises, New York city newspaper are here great force. ‘The warden is unyielding adamant in shutting out press representatives, but some of the doctors or guards at the execu. tion may be prevailed upon to talk after it is ~ — THE TAMMANY SCANDA! McCann, Who Startled New York Sat« urday, Says He Told the Truth, New Youx, April 28.—Richard Croker cables from Wiesbaden that McCann's story about boodle being raised to secure Mr. Grant's con- firmation as public works commissioner is false, Mr. Croker ounces McCann as a blackmailer and says be would not believe hia under oath, McCann, when he saw the cable dispatch from Mr. Croker, said: “I stand ready to back up every word of my testimony. What I have said was the truth and it the truth. and what is more, both Mr. Croker and all the rest of his crowd know this to be s if t have wronged Mr. Croker he has his remedy, My books will show whether he owes me any money or not. I am logally responsible for everything that— Legally responsibie, did Tsay’ By —. I'm physically respousible to Mr. Croker or to any one of them, ~ FIRE A FLOOD, Trying to Escape From a Burning Bulld- ing Seven Men Drown. New Oneass, April 28.—The steam gin and saw till of Chas, Lawrence, situated in Spatkey county three miles from Holling Fork, Miss., was burned Saturday night. The loss is email, Fifty or sixty of Mr. Lawrence's tenants were quartered in the gin, and im their efforts to es- cape from th: nes seven Were drowned, The buiiding was surrounded by water seven feet deep. They had taken refuge there from the overflow and it is stated that their carelessness caused the fire, Moyraeat, April 28.—The disappearance of Thomas Kimber, the English tourist, from the Grand Centra! fiotel here is still a mystery and there is no clue as to his whereaboute, will be remembered that a pool of blood was | found i: the room he had occupied and that } the wall and bedcloties were spattered with blood. of the detectives is thut | Kimber either attempted suicide in his bed- | room, and failing to accomplish his end rushed | madly down to the canai and ended his life by | drowning, or that he has been a victim of souce scoundrel of the Burchell type, who mardered him for the purpose of robbery. Street Today. — The stock market orning, the trading From Wal New Yor, April 2 opened with a rush this being extremely large while the first prices in sympathy with the London figures were gen- orally from |, to *; per cent higher than Setur- day's closing. The igh prices, however, brought out: great deal of stock and every. thing almost receded from the opening figures in the carly dealings. A marked exception was St. Paul preferred, which, opening up 1, per | cent at 121 rose to 122%. being very feverish after that time between 121', and 12245. The early losses were generally smaller than the opening advances, however, except in the cases jot Lackawanna, w declined 3 acilie #4 and ©. C. and § %. The market later recovered its strong tone. becom- ing somewhat less active, and in many cases the opening prices were again reached, while Lake Erie and Western preferred was conspicuous for strength, moving up a fractional amount, At 11 o'clock the market was active and strong at small changes from the opening prices, There was a large and well distributed business im all the leading shares, with Lackawanna, sugar aud the St. Paul stocks most prominent. en New Mexican Bank. Crry or Mexico, April 2&—News from Europe states that the capital for the new bank of Fomento, to be established here, is practi- cally secured. ‘This will be a large institution, with ——— nominal capital, one-Bfth ———o—_ Killed on the Rail, Cixcryxati, Onto, April 28.—The remains of along the track of the Chesapeake and Obio railroad, were pi up by the crew of passenger train No. 1, posite Coney Island this morning and to Newport. The garments of the victim were of « material and of recent purchase. A letter found in the dead man’s pocket was ad- dressed to D— Stephenson, Ripley, Ohio, —_— They Laughed. Baurmwore, April 28.—Archdeacon J. P. “{ have been honored with the tion of being the first clergyman to receive intment from the Episcopal Baryiond t» labor ameng the 5 i z ¢ Ep a i E 8 i : 5 | Ee be