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THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON D.C., SATURDAY. r JUNE 14, 1890-SIXTEEN PAGES,’ A YER'S SARSAPARILLA THE BEST BLOOD MEDICINE, 80 SAY LEADING PHYSICIANS AND DRUG- GIST3, AND THEIR OPINION 18 INDORSED BY THOUSANDS CURED BY IT OF SCROFULA, EC- ZEMA, ERYSIPELAS AND OTHER DISEASES OF THE BLOOD, “Aayer's Sarsaparilla has won its reputation by years of valuabie service to thecommunity. It isthe best."— RS. Lapg, Druggist, 212 Merrimack st., Lowell, Mase Dr. W. P. Wright, Paw Paw Ford, Tenn., says: “In my practice I invariably prescribe Ayer's Sarsapariila for chronic diseases of the blood.” Dr. R.R. Boyle, 3d and Oxford sta, Philadelphia, Pa, writes: “For two years I have prescribed Ayer's Sarsaparilia in numerous instances and I find it highly | efficacious mm the treatment of all disorders of the Liood.” LM. Robinson, Pharmacist, Sabina, Ohio, certifies: “Aayer's Sarsaparilia has always been agreat seller. Diy customers think there is no blood purifier equal to it “For many years I was affiicted with scrofulous run- ning sores, which at last became so bad the doctors sivised amputating one of my legs to save my life. I becan taking Ayer's Sarvaparilla and soon saw an im- provement, After using about two dozen bottles the sores were Lealed. I continue to take a few bottles of ibis medicine each year, for my blood, and am no longer troubled with sores. Ihave tried other reputed bicod purifiers, but pone does so much good as Ayer's Sarseparilia.”—D. A. Robinson, Neal, Tanssa. Deu't fail to get AYERS SARSAPARILLA, Prepared by DE. J. C. AYER & CO., LOWELL, MASS. Sold by Druggists, 81 ;six @5. Worth $5 a bottle. mo Do Nor Exvenmest with your stomach Take that only which has been Proven to be pur’ st and best. The genuineimported Carlsbad Spradel Salt is admitted by the best physi- cians in the world to be the grandest remedy for stomach disoriera Be sure and secure the genu- ine. 3 : we R, WITH CON- ¥ OF THE LIV ERA a iaare Jexion, induces pin. stpation, ipjazes the complexion, ces pin es, sallow skit. CARTERS Little Liver Pills re- ve the cause. Loosr tne vicom of youth by inattention to the skin. Found axain by the use of Fels's Germicide Soap. It lessens snd prevents frecRies, tan, its sweet and dainty odor is Ural ingredients, uot of irritatins perfumery. ‘Beyond compare the Soap for the Baby. Fuss Genwewe Soar Feiss Gennciw: Soar Feiss Gexwcwe Soar PEERLESS IN ITS PURITY. Fuss Geawewr Soar Fexss Gennewe Soa Fe s Genmcwe Soar Or vxcvttaR vatue in alt forms of skin and scalp 2d EDITION. Tales! TelaraMs 10 The Star, THEY WANT UPSHAW’S SCALP. An Inkling of the Course of the Threat- ened Cheyenne Outbreak. Mites Crt, Mox., June 14.—A petition of citizens of Miles City and settlers in the Chey- enne country was drafted and sent to Col. Swayne at Fort Keough to be sent by him to the Secretary of War. The petition sets forth the present trouble and its causes and asks the government to disarm the Cheyennes and keep them on the reservation. Col. Curtis, Gov, Toole’s aide, has gone to Cheyenne’ agency to in- yestigate the trouble and to impress upon Maj. Carroll the necessity of moving his troops to points "where they are needed. Four more families have arrived here, and it is reported tnat a number more are on the way. Linn Holt, a cattle owner, whose ranche is in the vicinity of Ash- land, the great telegraph station, has lived in that locality since 1386, and in the vicinity of the Cheyenne Indians since they have been on the present reservation, He has never felt any fears for his safety until now. About three weeks ago he noticed a change in the manner of the Indians, and Thursday a Cheyenne advised him ‘to take his wife away as thero was going to be trouble. Later a trusty Indian boy _ told him that the Cheyeunes were gotng to fight, that two of the tribes had been sent to the Sioux agency at Standing Rock to get tne Sioux to come and help them; that they were going to take Agent Upshaw's scalp sure. So he packed up and brought his wife here. sential Telegraphic Briefs. The body of Ella Cordell, the murdered girl, was exhumed at Canton, Mo., yesterday and the physicians found that vhe had been subjected to acriminal operation. Franklin Coughman and Pierce G. Taylor, who were put on trial at Lexington. 8. C., for articipating in the lynching of Willie Leap- etea ag 5 wore promptly acquitted yes- terday. Thursday night's electrical storm in North Dakota was accompanied by several fatalities. Down in Cass county, near Gradin, a wealth: stockman named Marshal from Deadwood, while driving a herd of cattle to the Black Hills, was struck by lightning and killed. One of his assistants named Clark was severely stunned. The night telegraph operator at Windsor station was knocked senseles The introduction of the cable system on the west side in Chicago bids fair to bring with it a general strike among the employes now ope- rating the horse cars on West Chicago lines. During a lightning storm at Madison, Ind., last night the barn of Wm. ‘Turner was struck. Turner tried to get out some stock and was himself consumed in the flames as well as barn, horses and cattle. BLOCK FILES AFFIDAVITS. Some Interesting Statements About the Policy Business. Detective®Block today filed additional affi- davits with Commissioner Robert bearing upon the charges recently instituted by Wm. P. Wood, heretofore published in Tae Star. The first affidavit is one from E. O’Brien, who was charged with being in collusion with Block with reference to the choking off of certain warrants issued against policy dealers for which he received compensation. O’Brien in his afiidivit says that the affidavit filed by Wm, P. Wood setting forth his connec- tion with 8. J. Block in reference to the procur- ing of certain warrants against policy dealers and their non-execution and all else connected therewith is incorrect and at variance with the facts. He makes affidavit to the effect that in 1885 man named Woodyard, sometimes called Wagner, came to him and asked him to meet him at Wood's office, saying: “If you will swear toa certain statement which Wood will have prepared in regard to warrants which have been secured against certain policy deal- ers there $1,000 awaiting you, which Wood will pay you.” He says that he went to Wood's office and that the statement to be sworn to was drawn up ani handed by Wood to him and that he put it in his pocket and Woodyard then said: “Will you go to A, C. Richards’ office and swear to it? As soon as you do the money will be handed to you.” He says that he replied that he would not swear to it that day, but would think it over, and that he had no intention of making the affidavit because ihe statemente contained therein were utterly false. He says that the statement prepared by Wood had sole reference to the warrants against policy players obtained from Justice Mills, Wood having alleged in the statement drawn up and placed in his hands to be sworn to that said warrants " had been disposed of to the policy dealers for a money consideration and that Block had re- ceived a portion of the money. Further that the statement prepared by Wood that he in- formed him that Block held on to the lion’s share of the €500 alloged to have been received from the policy dealers is utterly false and altogether without foundation, and further that he has never given to Block any money or other consideration for any purpose whatso- ever. THE SMITHSONIAN RESTAURANT. Another affidavit from John Linden, with reference to that portion of tho charges relat- ing to Block selling liquor without license at the National Museum, sets forth that Block never had any financial or other interest or any connection with the business. BLOCK’S PROPERTY. Mr. Block also answers the charges that he became possessed of a large amount of prop- erty in the last few years by setting forth in detail the history of all of his transactions, com- mencing with the period eight years ago when borrowed $30Q up to the present time. He says that his transactions are known to a num- ber of persons on and off ofthe police force and that he never neglected any of his official Aloise and Annie, aged eight«and twelve, daughters of Mr. Fellker of Wilsonville, Coun., were struck byatrain on the Perryville state line bridge yesterday and killed, The lasters at Breed’s shoe factory at Marble- head, Mass., have been notified to finish up all the shoes they are working om at present and then quit the shop. The shops will now be fitted out with lasting machines and non-union men. — FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, New York Stock Market. The following are the opening and closing prices of the New York Suck Market, as reported by special wire to Corson aud Macartney, 1 D.& KioGr.. Erie.” Ft. Worth Cts. Hocking Val. Hl. Cen. ¥ St.P, a. M1 sugar Trust. Washington Stock Exchange. Sales—Regular Call—12 o'clock m.: Columbia to the ctive, Bealing and medicinal powers | National Ban Oat I West ud National ef the Soup. Bank, 5 at 10: Eekington and Soldiers’ Home K., Riggs Insuran Co., 10 10oat 7. Chese FELS & CO,, Makets, Pbtiadelphix, PL io arse Groat Palle DE4F sess. A DEPLORABLE MISFORTUNE. Mz. Eprron: Every intelligent person must Adiuit that the loss or even stupairment of hear- jug ya deplorable misfortune, for it seriously iuterieres with suctal intercourse, robs life of lnany of its choicest pleasures, renders success ditticnit or impossible, amd im severe cases, al- most isolates the sufferer. In fact, it 1s yet am open question whether the total loss of bearing ds bot s greater calamity than the loss of sight, he blind are usually cheerful and soctal, the deaf are unhappy, moruse and suspi- A deaf person has never been known to achieved any distinetion tn life, while vind one bas earned undying fame, hen we consider for a moment the fate of J mother who caunot hear the prattle of © cau imaging in part the horror of total deafness With thes sad facts before us it seems that ir the ma- difficulty is tu relief in the incipient con- rai complaint, It iy an up- that the approach of deaf- sidions that the with which aud that the loss of hearing anderadual that it excites no the patient isapt to devy any ty im bearing, aul is even louth When tt beeoues an os- erally so very pultent is iqnorentof the dang he is threaten hinaseif. ay be arrested by nature ¢ trouble may disappear altogether. No hope, however, laws ever proved more falla- cous, for itis the expertence of ail aurists of repute that deafuess is not benefited by nature trary it keeps who value their edical advice or ume, but that, defective hear- o jeopardize one of yield Ifal medical at.endance, and even of long standing ard whore the hearing sly uupaied am entirecure can often by appropriate means, Catarrh and nish the most Srequent nd in order to effect a per= and oat affections { causes of deafuens every case of deaf- javorable it may appear, least be subuutted to treatment for @ beth of tine before hope is sban- Many cases in which heariuz cannot be ed cau be materially benefited, and iu som.c even the arrest of the ever-increwsing juss of hearing proves an inestimable blessing. A. P. LIGHI HILL, M.D. done DR. LIGHTHILY. For thirty years Specialist for the cure of DEAFNESS. CATAKKM, HAY FEVER, THROAT AFFECTIONS. ASTHMA and ‘The Early Stages of CONSUMPTION, Can daily Le consnited at bis office, 1017 FIFTEENTH ST. N. Hoars—From § to 12 and 3 to 5. HEKDICS PASS THE DOOR. _se13-tr HOSE UNHAPPY PERSO’S WHO SUFFER {ium Bervouswess and dy speywia should use CAR TEKS Littie Nerve Pile, wade expressly fur this staws Senso Asp Scaner Hass IN CASSIMELE, DERBIES AND STRAWS. DUNLAP'S NEW YORK HATS. Sth Avenue Stylea BOYS" and MISSES’ STRAWS at 50c., 75. $1.00 ond upward. MEN'S STRAW HATS at 50e. nd upward. A large lot of GENUINE MACKINAW STRAWS at 81.00, worth $2.00, 62.50 and $3.00, WILLETT & RUOFF, wy0-3m 905 Pennsylvania ave. UST NOT BE CONFOUNDED WIT! MON earth Pills, CAB’ VS Little Me ites See lat gst et rial will brove tetr sapertor! Mere ‘draymst. pan. South xW Manhattan, N.¥. Cen diseases The gerins of disease are destroyed, the porss opened, sore, irritated and itching parts are soothed, aud full activity is ziven rake and Grapbophone at lay; ovat 5. 43y8, 1891. registered, sked. U.S. 43s, 18Y1, coupon, ked. U.S. 45. registered, 1007, id, ed. U.S. 4s, coupons. 1907, bid. 122} asked District of Colum! 104% bid, 104 bid. coin 2-year fund, ds, 15u9, Water stock. n, fund, 6, cold, currency, 1903, fund, currency, Miscellaneous Bo: Ist.Us, 105 bid. ads—U. S$, Electric Light bonds, U.S. Electric Light bonds, 2d 6s, 1 vid. Washington and ~—_ Georgetown Kailroad. 10-40, 63, 100% bid. Washing Convertible bonds. Gs, 25 Masonic Hall Association 58, 1898, 108 bid, 1lz asked. Washington Market Company Ist mortgage, Us. 110 bid. Washington Market com- imp. 68, 118 bid, 1% d. y Georgetown ational Bank Stocks . 900 asked. Bank of Republi pitan, bid Central, 300 asked. Farmers Citizens, 169 bik IST asked —Washington and Georgetown, 2) asked. Metropolitan, 166 bid, 174 asked. Columbia, 77 bid 82 asked. Capitol and North © Street, 664; bid, asked. EKekington and Sol and Ten lusurance S yaxked. Georgetown 's—Firemen Franklin, ional Union, asked: 57 bid. Metropolitan. S$ bid. Ni ty bid, 23 asked. Atlington, 185 bid < . > bid. 70 asked.’ Columbia, Is bid. 1% asked German-American, 180 bid. Potomac, S80 bid. Riggs, Siz bid. Garhed. Peoples’, 54 bid. bid 3%, asked Stocks—Real Estate ‘Title, 130 bid, 79, asked. Washing- as and Electric Light Stocks—Washington Gas, 5 48 asked. Georgetown Gas, 48 bid. nt, 13% bid. gaTelephone Chesapeake and Potomac, 7: American Grapbophone Compauy, asked. Misc Company. Machine lis Is 1. 78% asked. 14 bid, 14K Maneous Stocks — Washington Market IS bid, 194 asked. Washington Brick % bid, 420 asked. Great ) bid. Bull Kun Pano- rama Sate Deposit Company, 5 wked. Washington Safe Deposit Com- ational Typographic, 30 asked. ¥ Tipasked. Wash- mpany, 44 bid, 434 asked 4 nd ‘Trust Company, 553, bid. pany, 50 bid. Baltimore Markets. BALTIMORE, June 14.—Cottou nominal—mtd- @nng, 24. F ull and unchange—Howard SSK, August, a a southern quiet b Yeudow, diadt: westeru frm mixed spot, 40%, 41, June, 40;a415; July, 40',a41; August, 4140 tember, $14:' steamor, 364 ‘asked, Oats steady and unchanged—ungraded southern and Pennsylvania, 1a; do. western white, ‘kia Sig; do. do. mixed, S2a4: graded No. 2, white, Rye quiet and unchanged—choice, 64au7. prime & choice, Gzaés. ay dull and ui cuties inany of his small dealings, DISTRICT THE PROSPECT HILL CEMETERY COMPAN' The bill to amend the charter of the Prospect Hill Cemetery Company would have been taken up in the Senate today had it not been agreed that the bill should go over until something has been done by the conferees on the District ap- propriation bill. TO PROTECT HOTEL KEEPERS. The Senate passed the bill for the better protection of hotel keepers, inn keepers, lodg- ing-house keepers and boarding-house keepers of the District of Columbia. The bill resem- bles the measure common in most states, It releases proprietors who have safes from responsibility gfor lost jewelry or money. Liens upon the baggage of guests are provided for and the defrauding of a beneficiary of the bill by false pretenses is made a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than #500 or six months’ imprisonment or both. DISTRICT GOVERNMENT. RESIGNATION OF ENGINEER HOWELL. Howell today handed in to the Commissioners his resignation as “engineer in charge of street extensions” under the Dis- trict government. Mr. Howell, who was en- gaged in private business in this city as a civil engineer for some years, has connected him- self with a business firm.to which he will here- after devote his entire attention, OPJECT TO THE HERDIC TERMINAL, ‘Yhe Commissioners today received a long petition from the residents and property own- ers on 22d street between F and G northwest complaining of the terminal of the Herdic Company at the corner of 22d and G streets and the use of that corner as a place for hanging horses, thereby creating a nuisance. y ask the Commissioners to look into the Grace Ott Released from Jail. Today Grace Ott, who was convicted in De- cember last of the larceny of over 2500 from Marcelins West, was released by Chief Justice Bingham on her personal recognizance to ap- pear when wanted. Richard Stanton was con- victed with her and he was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. No sentence was imposed in the case of Grace, who was used as a witness in the case of Mary ‘Thomas, charged with the same of- fense, and in whose case the jury failed to agree. Grace has since been retained in jail that she might be used as a witness in another trial of Mary Thomas but the latter having left the city there are some doubts if she will ever be tried. Miss Ott was brought up from jail this afternoon and placed temporarily in charge of the sisters of a Catholic institution. THE COURTS. Crevrr Count—Judge M Today—Newman agt. Locke: motion for judgment denied. Carroll agt. White, two cases; judgment for plaintiff. 6 cents, Pioneer Suspender Company agt. Hollander, Hardy c t. Lewis, Ruppert agt. Pendleton, Roonie agt. Walker and Davis, Paden Bros. & Co. agt. Goldstein, judgments by default, Equity Covrt—Judge Cor, Today—Wheeler agt. Wheeler; sale ratified nisi, Maloney agt, Keefer; reference to audi- tor. Clark agt. Perry; do. Duehay agt. Hoov dismissed with costs, Martin agt. Mar complainant Seley an to see children. Clark- son agt. Hardy; déeree for cost8, Morrow agt. Edwards; injunction granted against sale of property, Burrell agt. Burrell; counsel fees and alimony granted, Equiry Court -Judge Hagner, Today—Lrow umg agt. Betker; time to take tistimony limited. ntgomery. The Cunard line steamer Umbria, which ar- rived at Queenstown this morning, had the body of Dr. Joseph W. Howe, a saloon passen ger, who died on board June 7 from the effects af an apopleetic stroke. The body will be brought back to New York, Father Green of Rocheile, Ill, the missing priest, was heard from yesterday. He is at the house ofan uncle in New York city dangerously al. A storm in Marshall county, 8. D. yesterday demolished seven barns. Mrs. Secord and her six-year-old boy were buried in the ruins of their home. The boy was killed, but the mother will recover. Rockford, Il, had the worst storm of the season last night. Five blocks of new pave- ment is afloat and completely destroyed, Cholera has broken out at Puebla de Rugat,in the province of Valencia, Spain, and there have | atready been fourteen deaths from the disease. Yesterday Mrs, Mary Holland of Grand Rap- is, Mich., was arrested and taken before ed States Commissioner MeQuewen for re- fusing to answer a census enumerator and driy- ing lim out of her house with an ax, ‘The provincial elections in Victoria, B.C., re- | sulted in the government being sustained by a large majority. 4 ‘The Missouri state republican executive com- mittce has agreed upon a call for the state convention to meét in St. Louis on the 8th of July. Mra, 8. Elizabeth Fairman_ wishes to correct the statement heretofore published that most of the ladies of the Woman's Christian Temper- —prime to choice timothy, 12.00a13.00, ud unchanged—mess pork, DuLK meats, loose shoulders, ard,’ refined 73, crude Ga8\. firm unchanged — creamery. faucy, Mali; do. fair choice, 12813; itatation, 10011; ladle, nes, 10; do. good to choice, Sat; rolls, fine, 10a 12; do.. fair to good, Sad; store packed, ‘Sas; grass, Ga Eggssteady—lik. Freights to Liver- per steamer steady ad unchanged—cotton, 20c.: flour, 2s.6d.: 4. Cork tor orders— 3a. Reon te aod barrels: wheat. 4.000 busbels: corn, 51 oats, 11,000 bushels; rye, 600 bushels. Shipments—fiour, 5,167 bar- Tels; wheat. 14,000 bushels; corn, $,000 bushels. Sales—wheat, 60,000 bushels: corn, 4,000 bushels. BALTIMORE, June 14.—Virginia consols, 53\a {ris105; Normers Central Gor Cuactamat® ington and Baltimore stocks, 524853, i ance Union whieh recently Ded @ menting in New York, favor woman suffrage. Mrs. = mun says po such statement was authorized, A banquet in honor of ex-Secretary Whitney and Mrs. Whitney, who are about to return to the United States, was given in Paris last even- ing by the Ai nister, Mr. Whitelaw Reid "Many distinguished and others wore present as guests. _ Rev, a Pie sate ane was injured iu the accident at Newburg, yea- terday, reached Buffalo late last night, He was injured rather ‘severely about the head, the scalp being cut in several places. He hopes, to be able to preach at Plymouth » Ont., during a severe thunder storm Andrew — ry herder, was struck and instantly killed Bt. jtwilers in Tisbiitice 9500007 CAMPBELL RESIGNS, One of the Results of the Civil Servige Inquiry. HIS LETTER OF RESIGNATION WRITTEN DURING THE INVESTIGATION JUST MADE PUBLIC—THE MISTAKE HE MADE IN HIS TESTIMONY AND WHICH HE DESIRED TO CORRECT. The following letter of resignation from Mr. A. C. Campbell of the civil service ¢ommission was given to the commissioners on the 15th of last March, after he had completed his testi- mony about giving out the examination papers before the House committee that was investi- gating the civil service commission. The commissioners accepted the resignation at once, to take effect ten days after the com- mittee should have made its report. The res- ignation was not made public at the time, of course, but, now that the committee has re- ported, it was given out this afternoon. The letter explains itself. ' MR. CAMPBELL’S LETTER, March 15, 1890. Gentlemen: When called to testify before the committee of Congress now investigating the civil service commission concerning the mat- ter with which my name has been connected, I was laboring under great excitement, pro- duced by great and long-continued mental and physical strain and suffering, which wholly unfitted me to testify in any important matter, and especially in a matter so vitally affecting myself, and in this condition was led into mak- ing an incorrect statement as to when the ex- amination papers were copied and the motive thereof. The statements made by me to Commis- sioners Lyman and Oberly at the time the matter was first investigated were made when the facts were fresh in my mind and were the truth, The same statements were made to Commissioners Roosevelt and Thompson in September last, and were to the effect that I tock a set of examination papers from the room of the certification clerk, copied them, questions and answers, and gave the copy to a clerk in the Pension Office at her re- quest to enable her to judge of the scope and character of the examination, stating to her that they were old questions that had been used and would not again be used in an ex- amination, I did not do so knowing or believ- ing that 1 was betraying the secrets of the commission, or giving any private or secret information, or information that could pot have been obtained from the com- mission itself if it had been asked for. The im- ropricty of my act, or the offense committed y me, if it was an offense, consisted in the copying the papers of an eligible and givin them out without the knowledge or consent o! the commission or any one of them. No one can possibly regret more than I do and no one could possibly suffer more than I have suffered from the publicity given to this matter and the importance, ont of all propor- tion to its true character, into which the act hax been magnified. While all this is true, I painfully realize that the error into which I was led in my testimony, and which I sought to correct at the time, has put me a false position and is likely to prove embarrass- ing to the commission, or at least to impair my usefulness in the service, andin view of this fact, although I have faithfully and to the best of my ability served the commission and the public in the past, except as to the matter which has been sub- ject of investigation, and believe that I could do so in the future, I yet feel that it is perhaps due to the commission that I should place my resignation at their disposal. I therefore hereby tender my resignation to take effect at such time as may sult the con- venience of the commissicn, * Yours vory respectfully, [Signed] ALEX. C. Campaent. The Honorable the CivilService Commission, THE QUESTIONS WERE CURRENT. Documentary Evidence in the Campbell Case Discovered Since the Hearing. The report of the committee on civil service reform upon the investigation of the charges against the civil service commission is very favorably spoken of by all who are familiar with the case outside of those who brought the charges, ‘Those who have no other knowledge of the case except that given in the verbal testimony on that point may be somewhat puzzled at the conclusion of the committee that the questions that Mr. Campbell took were not obsolete. ‘There was no evidence in the direct testimony beyond the suspicious conduct of Mr. Campbell on the stand that tended to sustain the theory that the questions were not obsolete, but documentary evidence subsequently came into possession of the committee, which proved to their satisfaction that the questions were current at the time Mr. Campbell copied them. Had the committee got no other evidence than that brought out by the examination of witnesses they would not have had sufficient legal evidence to show that the questions were current, but in the scarch for the identity of the questions given out they discovered sufficient evidence to sat- isfy them that a conclusion such as they have announced was warrantable. In the report a mistake is made in stating Miss Dabney’s testimony. The report says: “It appears from the evidence of Miss Emily M. Dab: that Flynn offered to sell these quostions to her, she being about to take an ex- amination, She refused to purchase them, at- tended the examination and failed. She recog- nized the questions as being the same shown to her by Flynn, and consequently these ques- tions were used in the examination held De- cember 3, 1887.” What Miss Dabney actually testified to, as the printed record shows, was that Mr. Flynn, be- fore she took her examination, told her that he would sell her the questions, but that he did not show them to her. She took an examination and failed. Some two weeks or more after the examination she t to Flynn, she said, and he th questions that she recognized those the had had at the examination. The committee might have concluded that Flynn actually had the questions betore the examination, which he showed her two weeks after the examination; but Mr. Oberly brought out the ’ fact that the papers shown to her had the answers on them, a8 worked out at the examination she attended. If this were true it would, without any other evidence, seem impossible that the papers could have existed before the examination and at the time Miss Dabney said Mr. Flynn said he had them, but not show them, A PRIOR SPECIAL EXAMINATION, It was documentary evidence subsequently discovered on this point showing that the questions had been answered in prior “special” examination which convinced the committee that the questions were current. THE WASHINGTON POST OFFICE, The Results of the Months’ Weighing Reported to the Department. di A little over a month ago the Postmaster General ordered that all the ‘mail passing through the largest post offices of the country should be weighed for the period of a week in order to get some estimate of the amount of mail matter handled. In this city the weighing was kept up for a month, in order to shake a fairer estimate of the amount, inasmuch ag the mail handled at the city post office here varies considerably more than elsewhere, on account of the nature of the mails that originate in the government departments, being, as it is, much heavier som weeks than others. Postumster Koss has just forwarded his report of the result of this weighing to Postmaster General Wanamaker, and the statistics included in it are decidedly interegt- ing to people here. ‘The report shows that during the thirty days ending June 4, 122,002 pounds of first-class free matter were dispatched, which would amount to 1,464,024 pounds per annum, This at 32 cents per pound would bring to this oftice an annual revenue of $464,480. Add 33 per cent, the estimate if each piece wore weighed and rated separately, $156,160, During the same thirty days official Gnas: matter—revenue ars books, pamphlets,&c. amounted to 911,361 lbs,, which would amount for twelve months to 10,936,332 Ibs., and at eight cents per Ib. to 906.56, Add rae as re if wei Ry separat cent making 690, ‘Ada potas A feo Bn 218,208 official pieces now registered free, $21,820. The total number of prepaid pieces forsame period amounted to 733,387 (postage on same $42,651.30); this for twelve months would be 44,900,644 pieces and $511,815.60, mi the grand total of the office for the year, upon the basis of the last weighing. $2,122,872.16. The estimated amount of $511,815, as com- pared with the cashier's report of the réceipts ot this office for the four quarters ended Magch 31, 1890, $411,996.07, shows 8 considerable in- crease. ‘ Samuel Kimball, a Milwankee saloon ke shot and PAYING FOR THE NEWARK, The Goyernment Saving Considerable Money by Imposing Penalties. Secretary Tracy has approved the applica- tion of the Wm. Cramp Ship Building Company of Philadelphia for the ninth payment on the new cruiser Newark and a check was mailed to that firm amounting to $102,300. There are ten payments stipulated for, each amounting to $112,000, but there was a deduction of 9,700 made from this paymentasa penalty for non-completion within the contract time. The ship was to have been completed on the 27th of last October, and since then she has been accruing penalties at rates rang- | ing from $50 to $200 a day. There is no indication to show when | the next payment will be made, but there will undoubtedly be a considerable reduction on account of penalties, which are now at the maximum, having reached that point in May. The eighth payment was made on the 3d of April The vessel will probably be almost a year hind time. The San Francisco was con- tracted for by the Union Iron Works of San Francisco at the same time as the Newark, but has been drawing penalties for only a month. She will have her official trial before the lapse of another month. THE CHEROKEE LANDS. No Settlers Will Be Permitted to Enter Until Congress Ratifies the Agreement. The Cherokee commission that has recently negotiated for the purchase of the land of the Towa Indians and has just completed another contract with the Sac and Fox Indians for their lands, and is about to nego- tiate with the Pottawatomi and other Indian tribes in the Indian territory, is proceeding under the act of Congress ap- proved March 2, 1889, which provides for negotiations with the Cherokee Indians and with all other Indians owning or claiming lands west of the 96th degree of longitude in the Indian territory, for the cession to the United States of all of their title, claim or interest of every kind and character in and to the said land, This act further provides that any and all agreements resulting from such negotiations shall be reported to the President and by him to Congress at its next session and to the council or councils of the nation or na- tions, tribe or tribes, agreeing to the same for ratification. It will thus be perceived that before any set- tler can make claims upon any of these lands the particular agreement relating thereto must not only be reported to the President and by him to Congress, and until Congress ratifies such agreement the lands are closed to settlers. The Secretary of the Interior announces that no one will be permitted to go upon these reservations any “ore now than heretofore until such ratification by Congress. Real Estate Matters. Ratcliffe. Darr & Co., auctioneers, sold yes- terday afternoon lot 16, square 388, situated on F street between 9th and 10th streets south- west, improved by two-story frame house No. 937 F street southwest, to R. A. Golden for $2,500. Ratcliffe, Darr & Co., auctioneers, have sold lot 17, square 38, situated on L street between 23d and 24th streets northwest, to Jas, Cady for 1.86 per square foot. Sarah A. Foulke has bought for $7,200 of W. B. Rozalt part 2, square 94-27 feet 3'4 inches front on Massachusetts avenue between 20th and 21st streets northwest, Hi. M. Schneider has bought of T. F. Schneider for $8,000 sub 239, square 362—20 by 80.50 feet on 9th between Westminster and ‘I’ streets northwest. J. H. Doty has bought for $8,000 of the same, sub 190 of same frontage in the same square. F. E. Alexander et al, have bought for £11,000 of James E. Moses part resurvey Peter's Mill Seat, 9,227.91 feet at the intersection of the 14th and 7th street roads, P. B. Dunn has bought for $4,010 ot W. W. Boarman, part 30, square 195, 19 by 9 feet, on 15th between P and Q streets northwest. Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses have been issued to the following by the clerk of the court: Frederick W. Grenfell and Lulitia Elizabeth Gardner; James F. Gass and Sarah L. Eagan, — The Pressmen’s Suit Dismissed. In the case of J. F. Clarkson et al. against J. E. Hardy et al., to restrain the defendants from conducting the Pressmen’s Union, the bill has been dimissed by Judge Cox and cumplain- ants decreed to pay @sts. Shooting for a Record. Ata club shoot of the East Washington bun Club on their grounds on Poplar Hill yesterday afternoon the following score was made out of a possible 20: Steele, 9; Rockwell, 7; Dr. Adams, 15; Rockwell, jr., 15; Bowdren, 13; Bailey, 7; Scribner, 14; Schroth, 11; Osbora, 12; Dr. Halley, 15; Wagner, 18; J. Smith, 12; He- nault, 12; Case, 10; C. Smith, 15; Torney, 11; John Peyton, 14; Pumphrey, 14. ae al An Interesting School Closing. The annual closing exercises of the Misses Tiffey’s school took place at their residence 1436 Corcoran strect erday The songs, dialogues, recitations and calisthenic drill, closing with a number of graceful attitudes, afforded a pleasant entertainment to the parents and many friends presents.;Among the upils deserving special mention were Miss Marie Fechet, Master Thom Williamson, Misses Sue Young, Ada Locke, Lily King, Evelyn Graves, Eliza Preston and Lessie Me~ Chesney. ee ae Transfers of Real Estate. Deeds in fee have been filed as follows: Sib- bie L. MeCoy to E. C. Moreland, sub 17, sq. 526; $2,200. Mary C. Pierce to J. Oeser, sub 25, sq. 697; $2,000. 8. A. Crandall to E. Fugett, pt. 17, sq. 539; $2.900. W. A. Stewart to H. H. Mitchell, sub 41, sq. 812; €3,700. A. E. Randle to G. O. Walson, lots 6 and 7, bik. 3, Congress Heights; $300, C. 'T. Caldwell to B. M. Bryan, jr., sub 34. sq. 417; $3,650. J. H. Gulick to Catherine Hazlett, subs 15,16 and pt. 14, 8q. 87; &—. Mary A. Handy to Emma 8. Handy, sub Q, 6q. 492; $3,000, a Launch of a New Steamer. The new steamer Cambridge, in which quite @ number of Washington's business men are interested, will be launched at Baltimore this afternoon in the presence of a large and distinguished crowd. The steamer will run from Baltimore to Oxford, Cambridge and Easton, Md. —— The Appealed Liquor Cases. This afternoon in the Police Court the ar- guments in the appeal liquor cases were re- sumed, and Mr. Dumont. for the District, spoke in answer to the arguments of Messrs, Cook, Smith, Cahill, Closs, Moss, Johnson and Hew- lett, who represent the different defendants, The point involved is that the Police Court has not jurisdiction to enforce its judgment, the cases having been appealed to the Supreme Court, where they were not docketed or prose- cuted, Mr. Dumont argued as to the constitution- ality of the Police Court, cited many authori- ties and held that the court had jurisdiction to enforce its judgment. The argument was in progress when Tue Srar’s report closed. Bee The Naval Display at Portland. It having been found impossible to have the U.8.8. Pensacola ready m time for participa- tion in the naval display at Portland, Me., July 2, orders have been issued for the U.S.S. Es- sex, now at New York, to join the North At- lantie fleet temporarily for that occasion. The fleet wh epee vessels, viz: Balti- more, iphin, Petre], Kearsarge, and Essex. ‘Two of moro of these vessels will as- sist at the speed trial of the new cruiser Phila- Siren wet Vick Lelendiedthin the mend two ee! we The importance of this trial lies in the fact that the builders of this vessel will receive a Premium of $50,000 for each quarter knot of Se aba capt Se ae beat er our, an su a like each quarter knot bee: schon Curcago Fare ALTERNATES. ted to attend the meet be held in Chi on the 26th instant they learn that whom are to represent will not be able to attend. ‘ternates wi will be expected to keep themselves informed of the intentions of the commis. ‘The cartmen of Brooklyn have struck for an increase of w: They have been $2500 day and say thet they cannot UNSETTLED NAVAL CONTRACTS. It is Expected That Secretary Tracy Will Decide the Matter Monday. No decision has yet been reached as to the award of the contract for the new armored cruiser for which bids were opened at the Navy Department on Tuesday, but it is ex- pected that the Secretary will make known conclusion on Monday. There are a good many varying opinions at the department as to the probabilities in case. and the identity of the successful bidder xs a matter of deep mystery. The affair was dis- cussed at the cabinet meeting yesterday, but apparently nothing was done. There is a be- lief that the’ Secretary does not want to crowd up any of the yards with work so that they will be _indisposed to bid on the forthcoming battle ships. In other words, that he wants to insure an open competition on these vessels and it is in view of that that the theory bas sprung up that he wants to divide — the two vessels recently proposed -for _be- tween the two largeestablishments, Mr. Scott, the president of the Union Iron Works, says that even if he should get the contracts for | both of the cruisers he could easily take two of the battle ships. AMONG THE LAW MAKERS. Temperance Advocates Urge a Constit ticnal Amendment, A joint meeting of the Senate committee on education and labor and the House committee on the alcoholic liquor trafic was held today in the Senate reception room to hear repre- sentatives of various temperance bition organizations in favor of the adoption of the joint resolution propos- ing a prohibition amendment to the Constitation, The hearing was under the direction of the national prohibitory amend- ment committee for congressional work, of which Ada M, Bittenbender is chairman, and which includes within its membership the gen- eral officers of severai national prohibition so- cieties of the United States, the general offi- cers of the national executive committee of the prohibition party and the national W.C.T.U, superintecdent of legislation and petitions. The committee appeared at this time in fur- therance of the *‘plan of canvass” in ~— ort of the proposed amendment. The speakers were Ada M. Bittenbender, W. Jennings Demo- rest of New York, president of the anti-nuis- ance league; Geo. ver, lecturer; ree May Powell, Phi jelphia, president arbitra- tion council; Dr. C. N. Whitney of Washington, representing the 1.0.G.T.; John Loyd Thomas of New York, secretary of the national prohibi- tion committee, amd Mra. Lydia H. Tilton, Washington, legal secretary of the Non-partisan Woman's Temperance Union, The last speaker was Louis Schade, editor of the Washington Sentinel, who opposed the resolution. JEFFERSON'S LETTERS AND PAPERS. Senator Evarts, chairman of the committee on library, today reported a bill from that com- mittee appropriating $20.000 to purchase the manuscript papers and correspondence of ‘Thomas Jefferson in the possession of his de- scendants. THE BALTIMORE PUBLIC BULIDING, A favorable report was made to the Senate today by the committee on public buildings and grounds upon the House bill directing the Sec- retary of the Treasury to sell the old United States building at Baltimore. PREFERENCE TO UNION SOLDIERS. The Senate committee on the judiciary, through Mr, Evarts, today reported back the bill “to insure preference in the appointment, employment and retention therein in the pub- lic service of the United States to veterans of the late war,” with a request that it be sent for consideration to the committce to examine the several branches of the civil service. THE RIVER AND HARBOR BILL, It is said the additions made to the river and harbor bill by the Senate committee on com- merce aggregate nearly $4,000,000. The bill will be reported to the Senate next week. A NEW YORK APPRAISER'S WAKIHOUSE. The Senate committee on public buildings and grounds today agreed to report favorably the House bill for the amepdment of the act of 1889, providing for the erecsion of appraiser's warehouses in New York city, by striking out the requirement that they shall be erected in the immediate vicinity of each other. It is the dosire, as was explained to the committee, to build them about three squares apart, TOWN SITES IN ALASKA. Representative Payson of Illinois today re- ported to the House, from the committee on public lands, a substitute for the Senate bill for the ac quisition of land for town sites and commercial purposes in Alaska, TRE NATIONAL ELECTION BILL. John I. Davenport, United States supervisor of elections, was with the House caucus committee for some time today giving them the benfits of his experience in the execution of the election laws to aid in the formation of the national election bill, The committee has so far pri gressed that Messrs, Lodge and Rowell were this afternoon arranging the sections and add- ing the finishing touches to the bill which will be printed in season for the use of the caucus Monday night, if it is regarded as necessary, to submit to that body the small details of the measure which has already received its ap- proval in principle and outline. WINDING UP THE ‘The Time for Enumerating the People Will be Extended a Little. Tonight the work of taking the census in large cities is supposed to end. Two weeks was the time allotted for taking the census in the cities anda month in the country. It is not likely that the enumeration will be com- pleted in the cities by tonight and the time will be extended into next week, when the fif- teen days, which 1s the construction placed upon the term two weeks, w; expire. Thus far but few returns have been received at the Census Office. A few districts were sent in from New York city day before yesterday, and today the returns from about a dozen districts in Philadelphia and also in Pittsburg were received. The flow of returns is expected to begin next week. Supervisor Dingman of this city has already sent in sixty districts and before the day closes he expects to increase that number. There are now over 100 distrigts when the returns are ail completed. Mr. Dingman feels confident that ali the returns will be in early next week. Superintendent Porter thinks that the results of the census in this city will be the first as- certained, Treasury Department Promotions. J. H. Hitcheock of New York, from class 1 to class 2, office of the third auditor; Geo. 8. New- ton of New Jersey, from $900 to. $1,000, office of the third auditor; De Los N. Reeve of Iowa, from $720 to $840, office of the fourth auditor; Miss A. E. Graves, from $780 to $1,000, and Mrs. Julia Barry, from $626 to $780, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, War Department Changes, Frederick Beglinger of Wisconsin, E.H. Hun- ter of North Carolina, John P, Clum of Cali- fornia and Wm. D, Wendell of Mississippi, ap- pointed cterks, $1,000, surgeon general’s office, n of Virginia and Thos, H. Nether- land of Virginia, appointed telegraph opera- tors $900, signal office. Robert G. Allen of North Carolina inted clerk $900, signal office. Wm. D. Barter of Virginia from tel itor $900 to $1 signal Smith of New York trans- ferred and promoted from class 1, Secretary's office, to class 2, surgeon 's office, THE NORMAL SCHOOL, Eighty Candidates for Admission Ex. amined Today -The Graduates. Franklin School had little of the look of quiet and repose this morning that usually hangs over it on Saturdays A num- ber of young women were around all the morning and in two of the rooms were crowded eighty pretty girls, who are to gradu- ate from the High School next week. They are anxious to have a chance to show what they can do as teachers and this morning were taking the examination for entrance into the Normal School. The record they have won im their course at the High School counts 65 per cent of the necessary grading for admission to the Normal, and the other 35 per cent is based on the results of this morning's ex tion, re were eighty applicants and only forty Facancies, so one-half of them are sure to be disappointed. The results of the examination will probably be annoauced at the High Seheol cominencement next Thursday evening. On Mouday morning an oral examination of the prseent members of the Normal School will be eid inthe Normal School room at the Franklin, burlding, to pupils have will be differe will be conducted by the superintendent ef schouls and will involve questions respecting the theory of teaching in all the subjects taught in the public schools. It will also ime clude the subject of psychology. THE NORMAL SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT, On Thursday at a.m. the commences ment of the Normal School will take place at the Franklin bailding. The program has got yet been definitely led upon, but it will include short addresses by representatives from the board of Commissioners, the board of education, the supervising principal of schools, the pal of the High School ge, Harris, the commissioner of educa’ ui, Mayo and others. ‘The following ie tu. lit graduates, although not arrang the order of merit: Martha Maria Brewer, Madeleine Als derman Blandy, Mary Elizabeth Bannon, Lill Osborne Burroughs, Kose Gertrude Caireher, ich the parents and friends of the been invited. Thi t from any Eunice Lucretia’ Chace, Mary Eliz= abeth Draney, Ma’ Wilson Cameron, Katie G. ‘Durfe Annie Saidee Drown, EstellejFowler, Mi Frances Soria Galeski, Mary Margaret Glass, Mary Euphermia Graves, Frances Ann Graham, Sarah Belle Gorham, Frances Hartstall, Ehzabeth Anaie Hayden, Anna A. Hinkel, | Hal Hoover, Are= Hi turus I ard. Stephen Elliott Kramer, Anne , Grace Lynne McCulloch, Maggie Celestine Mantz, Albertine Odly, Blanche Martha Pearson, Susie Purcell, Florence Reed, Alma Florence Sagar, Emily Scrivener, Fa ley, Bessie E. Taylor, Blanche Lewis Teel, Zala Walker Annie Edna West and Annie Gertrude Williams, Hutchinson Gets Another Warrant. Samuel Hutchinson, the young negro who it is charged, was clubbed or besten with a pistol by Policeman Dean, as heretofore pub- lished in Tur Srax, swore out a second wars rant for the officer, charging him with assault and battery and the officer was at the Police Court .oday in answer to the writ, This as the case over which so much has been said and two indignation meetings held. Prosecuting Attorney Armes took written statements of the evidence given by the wit- esses in the case and acted the same as he did in the case of the first warrant agaiust the of- ficer, that is, he nolle prossed it, ee The High School Cadets. The High School Cadets, headed by the Marine Band, will give an exhibition drill and dress parade in front of the Arlington next Monday at 6 p.m. The High School boys have good cause to be proud of their battalion thia year, andthe drill will no doubt prove s rare treat to those who are fond of military mas neuvers, After the competitive drill at the school in May Capt. Chase, third United States artillery, said: “The drilling of these boys is the finest E have ever seen outside of West Point.” Every one who saw the Pan-American pro- nounced the marching and wheeling of the cadets far superior to that of the regular army or the Natioual Guard. Next Monday the boys declare they will eclipse all previous efforts, aud in the presence of the distinguished guests they have invited will no doubt do their utmost. The Secretary of War, the District Commis- sioners, Gen. Ordway and staff and « host of regular army officers will witness the manew- vers from the reviewing stand. - _ A New Captain for the Ball Team, President Hewett today announced that Capt, Jeremiah O'Brien had been suspended for not reporting for duty and that Belden Hill had been made captain of the Washington base ball team, Manager Sullivan has been in- structed to search for a new second baseman, ——_ Auction Sales of Real Estate. Thomas Dowling, auctioneer, has sold ag Public sale to Geo, C, Henning lots 6, 7 and 8, each fronting 25 feet on P street between North Capitol and Ist streets northeast, and also lots 37, 38, 39 and 40, each fronting 25 feet on Florida avenue between North ¢ streets northeast, for 60 cents per square foot, Also a two-story brick house, No. 20 P street northeast, to John F. Haufman for €3,000. —— A Foumicarixe Vesser.—The steamer Robert Koch, built at this city for the marine hospital, has arrived at Fort Monroe. She is specially fitted ror fumigating vessels, a Range of the Thermometer Today. ‘The following were the readings at the sig- naloffice today: Sa.m.,72; 2 p.m, 80; maxis mum. 83; minimum, 67. MARRIED ER-SCHLOSSER. On Juve 11, 1) at the residence of the bride's mother, uy Rex KG. GEOKGE F S0TEK to AMELIA SCH of Washingjon, D.C. No cards. — oo En . BLAIR, Passed to s bigher life June 13, 1890, at Mrs. SAKAH BLAIR, widow of the lave 215 pam. Dr. David Blair, in the fifty-secona year nee Funeral from her jate reside 1414 Q street northwest, Monday. the 16th instant, 10aan. Kela= tives and friends invited to attend, . GILBERT. At Bath, Me, June 12. 1890, Hon. WASHINGTON GILBERT, father of Dr. Charles b. Gilbert of this city, aged seventy-four years and three HURST. The remains of Mra ELIZABETH HURST, who died May 1, 1490, will be taken from e Vault in Cougressional Cemetery Saturday, June 14, 1800, at 6 o'clock pam. for burial. ° On, Friday, June 13, 1890, at 4:20 pany beloved wife of Rev. Sahu 1; Laer. unday, 5, sclock vm from ¢.A. ME, Church, Nichols’ avenue, Hillsdale, D. Friends of the family are invited to attend. “ MURRAY, Suddeuly on Saturday morning, June months, ters, Funeral 14. 1890, af her residence, 1073 Twonty. streey, hire Mahy a. MURRAY. aged seventy eure. ineral from UFC “third street, Sunday. 4:30 p.m Friends invited tosttend "= HECK. On June 14. 190, KARL oe ey fifteen mon} days. parents’ residence, 318 N street southy ‘west, Sunday at four o'clock p. m, - STEWART, Ou Friday, June 13, 1890, JAMES STEWART. SS ne ' st _n.w., Washington, D.C, under date 1890, wrote to the A.B.Q, Chemical Oo, ] ‘Va, giving the history of scase of skin eruption bed twenty years’ standing, the result of malignant blood | disease, (At this time Mr, Harris had been Upable to walk for six months.) In reply he was directed to use ' A.B.O, Alterative with the assurance that ke would becured, March 1, 1890, Ms, Harris again wrove the 4.B.G, Chemical Co. tm the following words: “The improvement in my case so far is almost miraculous ‘Tam really getting well, and can walk sswell as lever could, and my general health was never better. I shail ‘write you from time to time, Meantime you can refer anyone tome you desire,and I shall certainly tell them that the A.B.C. Alterative has done me morepood 1g two months than has twenty years’ experience with ‘vasipus eminent physicians and all other remedies teied,* Under the date of April 7.1800, Mr. Harrie Peléestu-lm