Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1890, Page 15

CITY AND DISTRICT 3" No city in the world is so thoroughly covered by the circulation of a single news- paper as is the eity of Washington by that of ‘Tue Evextse Stan. It reaches all readers in the city sad vieinity. Jt swears t its circula- tion. No other Washington paper has yet done this. Was it His Body Found in the Potomac and Buried in Potters’ Field? © REMAINS AGAIN EXRUMED — CUMULATIVE DENCE THAT THE BODY WaS THAT OF AX- DREWS—ANOTHER SEARCH TO BE MADE FOR THE MISSING CLOTHING OF THE DROWNED MAN. Yesterday while the aged inmates of the alms- house were about finishing their noonday meal three men wended thef# way along the wind- ing road in the rear of the institution and walked almost to the edge of the Eastern branch. Then passing through a gate leading from the road toa triangular-shaped piece of ground the men entered potters’ field, where thousands of paupers have been buri «Phere are many graves ther mark of one of the aged inmates of the home, “bat who can tell how many of them are empty? They are put in the ground in the day time and carried away at night.” At one end of the cemetery a cow was nipping grass from the green graves, while at the other enian old hog was doing its best to get through the fence. On the marshes, only s few handred feet away,several sportsmen were in skitis killing reed birds and enjoying the Sport, while a stricken family was awaiting the result of the work to be performed Prune three men who bad entered the well-filled burying ground. ‘These men were Dr. E. M. Schaeffer, the deputy coroner, and two grave diggers, and their mission was to once more — the grave ofthe man whose body washed ashore near Holtzman’s landing, on the Potomac above Georgetown. about a month ago, and to make 4 further examination to determine whether or hot it is the remains of Mr. Charles C. An- drews, the Washington manager for Einmart & Quartley, who disappeared just two days before the finding of the body mentioned. Mr. Frank Andrews, the missing man's brother, was at the almshouse again yesterday to make further inquiries oe the body = the dead man whom he thi was his rother. ‘When shown the pic- ture of Andrews, Emery Wallingford, the driver of the dead wagon, said he thought it resembied the drowned man. Wal- lingford’s assistant was shown the picture and asked if he had ever seen the man whom it represented. “Sure. I have,” was his response, “I ‘buried he that man the other day.” CHAS. C. ANDREWS. All these circum- gtances fully convineed Mr. Andrews that the body was that of his brother, although he had failed to identify the corpse when it was first exiinmed. puty coroner and the two grave dig- fers proceeded to the spot where the marked &rave wos. Beside it were a number of open £raves ready to receive the bodies of any more unfortunates—paupers or unknown people. THE REMAINS AGAIN EXHUMED. The grave diggers went to work with their shovels and had soon thrown the earth from the grave and left bare the lid of a plain pine box. The sight presented when the lid was raised was anything but a pleasant one, and no one but a person experienced in such business have finished the job. wonder if that is Mr. Andrews’ body?” ked. but there was no one to answer pos- ely. When one of the grave-diggers had lifted was it the hd from the coffin the feet of the corpse were ra 1 to see whether the ingrown nail was there, but time had destroyed all evidences of nails on the toes, ‘THE HEAD REMOVED TO EXAMINE THE TEETH. condition of the body rendered it ut- terly impossible to remove it from the grave, but Dr. Schaeffer had gone there to obtain the remains, or at least the head, in order that Mr. Andrews’ dentist might examine the teeth and prove the identity of the body by the fill- | ing. The doctor was bound to accomplish his mission, and he did it, In # few minutes the head of the corpse was lifted from the coffin and placed im a vox and sent to the morgue. ‘The grave was then refilled and again the meu rounded it up and marked it, in case it have to be reopened again. Dr. Schaef- >a slight examination of the head and ed that there was gold filling in several teeth, which is an additional fact tending to prove that the body is that of the missing Mr. Andrews. ‘The head will be prepared today by Dr. Schaeffer, and then the dentist from Baltimore make the examination, In investigating the case it was learned that the missing man was lost seen about 2 o'clock Saturday morning the 20th of last month, THE CLOTHING TO BE LOOKED FOR. An effort is to be made to have the river near Holtzman’s dragged for the clothing of the drowned man as that, if found, would prove beyoud a doubt whether the body was that of Mr. Andrews or not. —____ CAPITOL GLEANINGS. The Alien Contract Labor Law—To Make Lotteries Unconstitutional. Representative Buchanan introduced in the House yesterday a bill to amend the alien con- tract labor law. The billwas prepared after free conference with Treasury Department officials, and is so framed as to overcome certain jefects in the existing law, which left the de- partment without full power to enforce it sat- factorily, "ROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL PRORIBITION OF LOT- TERIES. Representative Hansbrough (N.D.) yesterday introduced a joint resolution proposing an mendment to the Constitution providing that either the United States nor any state shall ass ny law authorizing the establishment or maintenance of any lottery or company for the ‘istribution of prizes by chauce. CORRESPONDENCE CALLED FOR. Representative Cummings (N.Y.) today in- ‘oduced in the House a resolution calling on he President and the Attorney General to far- ish a copy of the correspondence between the ‘resident and the Attorney General on the one and and Benj. F.Conlin,Geo. W.Jackson et al., members of the bureau of employment and mergent relief memorialjand executive com- A.R. of Kings county, ittee of the Veterans’ Rights Union, relatin; jo the alleged refusal of Danie! Lake, Unite tates marshal, eastern district of New York, }o appoint as a deputy mershal one Charles A. cott, an honorably discharged Union veteran, ovisions of -796, Revised Statutes. The resolution referred to the committee on reform in the vil service, NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED. The Senate in executive session yesterday fternoon confirmed the following nomina- ions: Niels P. Bornhauldt, United States con- ul at Rigs, Denmark; John F. Gowey of Yashington, consul general at Kanagawa; Wm. - Sims of Virginia, United States consul at ‘clon; Henry 8. White, United States attorney ‘or the district of New J: + Levi P. Wright, mm. rimes, United States marshal for the territory f Oklahoma; Milton J. Rosenan, assistant sur- jeon Marine Hospital service; Abraham X. varker of New York, assistant attorney Peter Ronan, Montana, Indian agent vd. th eneral; of the Inthend Agency in Montana, ebrecht, La Grange, Tex.; John L. Dircleville, Ohio; Enoch 8, Eastman, Swamp- ‘ott, Mass; Samuel M. Aitebsugh, White ulphur Springs, Mont; ©, Elliott Moore, ‘berryville, Kan. SAPETY COUPLERS AND POWER BREAKS. ‘The House committee on railways and canals agreed to report favorably a bill for the rty, and of railroad Nandiing fc ‘The bill pro- or safety couplers on freight cars and wer brakes on locomotives, but gives the “-tlroad companies sufficient time to prepare fthe change. After January 1, 1893, it shall »unlawful for railroad companies to runa «ain that cannot be controlied by the engineer. IGNORANT ATTEMPTS to supply @ substitute for mother's milk are often attended with ill effects; & suitable food given judiciously will always give ‘3 Food i now thorough! THE ATKINSON BILL, It Will Be the Regular Order in the House Monday. THR PARLIAMENTARY SITUATION — PROPOSED AMENDMENTS LOOKING TO THE REDUCTION OF THE NUMBER OF GRADE CROSSINGS—PLAXS PROPOSED FOR SINKING TRACKS, The Atkinson bill comes up to occupy the time of the House on Monday if the day is ac- credited tothe District. as provided by the rules. On the last District day the Pennsyl- vania railroad had a majority of those mem- bers present on a vote to réconsider the action of the House on the preceding District day in recommitting the bill with instructions. On this last vote a majority of about two to one for recommittal was overcome. But no progress was made with the bill andthe matter was left standing practically upon the ques- tion of recommittal, the first vote being a motion to lay on the table a motion to reconsider the vote by which the previous question was ordered on recommittal. There is something of a parliamentary web to unwind before the bill itself can be reached, and then it will be subject to amendments that may be offered or toa motion to recommit with other instructions or with no instructions. The in- structions with which the bill was recom- mitted a month and a half ago were that pro- visions be made tor the removal of the depot. Many who favor the removal of the grade Crossings by some of the several plans sug- gested do not favor the removal of the depot, and the fact that these instructions were re- called and the bill brought back into the House does not, by any means, insure the passage of the bill in its present form. A vote is yet to be taken again on the proposition to recommit as itnow stands and there are several propo- sitions for consideration after that, PLANS FOR DOING AWAY WITH GRADE CROSSINGS, The important question is that of reducing the number of grade crossings. There are several plans of reducing the number of grade crossings, upom which the opinion of the House may be tested by amendments, The South Washington organizations favor an elevated road, running through purchased squares be- tween I and K streets and along the river front. The board of trade recommends a depression and bridging of the tracks west of 43g strect on the avenues now a by the road, sub- stantially the plan which Senators ‘Mor- rill and Ingalls and Engineer Commissioners Twining and Ludlow have advocated. An amendment offered by Mr. Heard is pending, which retains the tracks where they are, but provides that the company shall, under the di- rection of the Commissioners, construct sub- ways for the passage of vehicles and passengers under the tracks ou 4th and 1ith streets. By 4th street 43g street is probably intended, as there is no 4th street southwest, The South Washington people's plan wouldremove all the grace crossings from Maryland and Virginia avenues, the board of trade's plan would abolish them west of 434 street and Mr. Heard's ald permit the people to pass under the t two points, omitting entirely any pro- vision for the —— crossing at 7th street, where nearly 8, people and considerably over 2,000 vehicles are in the daylight hours of a single day subjected to the obstraction of 116 lowerings of the gates and to the dangers from an equal number of passing trains or engines. PERPETUATING SURFACE TRACKS. One objection made to the bill has been that it confirms surface tracks and authorizes the construction of additional surface tracks wost of 4:4 street, over the part of the road from which it is sought to remove grade crossings, and that the measure not only does not cure the grade-crossing evil itself, but tends to per- petuate the surface tracks and prevent any re- lief from them in the future, To meet this objection Mr. Atkinson proposes an amend- ment to the second section which limits the Commissioners’ powers of authorizing addi- tional side tracks to the space cast of 43, stroet. But no similar amendment is proposed to the first and third sections. The road may still condemn and run tracks to its acquired Prop erty west of 434 street, and the existing tracks illegally occupying open spaces of the United States west of that street are confirmed. Amendments will be offered to correct this. THE OCCUPATION OF PUBLIC LAND. Another amendment proposed by Mr. Atkin- son adds to the third section of the bill the provision that nothing herein contained shail be construed as making a grant or confirma- tion to the said company of any land now tha property of the United States. This amend- ment is proposed to meet the objection which has been urged against the tirst section of the bill that it grants or confirms to the railroad the use of six emall reservations, the property of the United States, which the side tracks now illegally traverse and occupy. Some of those who do not favorthe surrender of the use of this public property to the railroad without compensation in any shape to the pub- lic are of the opinion that whatever rovision is made in the line of Mr. At- inson’s amendment should be attached to the first section of the bill, The opiuion is also expressed that it would be more simple to except from the legalizing provision tracks which cross and occupy this government prop- erty than to confirm the road in the occupa- tion of these reservations and then add that nothing in the act is to be construed as making such coufirmation. Other amendments that have been offered are one by Mr. Moore re- ferring the whole question to a commission, one by Mr. Lind making it the duty of the road in consideration of the privileges conferred to carry persons free of charge between points in_ the District, and one by Mr. Baker recom- mitting the bill, with instructions to provide for the removal of the passenger station and for depressing all tracks where practicable, or for overhead passageways, The object of all the plans and propositions isto reduce the number of grade crossings and to preserve as much of the city and its parks as possible to the citizens. MAJ. TWINING'S PLAN. The report of Maj. Twining, Engineer Com- missioner, made in 1881 in compliance with a resolution of Congress, favored the inking of tracks on Maryland and Virginia avenues, and he presented plans and estimates showing thatthe sinking of the tracks was practicable and not enormously expensive. His estimates give an approximate idea of the cost of the various plans of depression now roposed. For sinking four tracks from a point Een 3d and 434 streets to the Long Bridge with beam tunuel crossings at intersecting streets from 7th to 12th, both inclusive, he esti- mated that the cost would be about half a million dollars, COL. LUPLOW's REPORT. In 1887 Col. Ludiow, then Engineer Commis- sioner, made a report substantially in accord- ance with that of Maj. Twining. He said: ‘The conformation of the surface is such that between 4}¢ and 13th streets west the tracks can be depressed so as to admit of the inter- veniing streets passing over them, with little or no change of grade. und, in fact, a consider- able portion of the cut itself could be con- verted into a girder roof tunuel if deemed ad- visable. The proposition, therefore, is to be- gin depressing the tracks at Delaware avenue, where the surface grade ‘ine feet above city datum (mean high water in the Potomac), and practically continue at that grade, with a mod- erate variation to provide for drainage. Maryland avenue the grado will gr from nine feet at 8th street to sixteen at 14th street, in order to pass over Long Bridge. The interference with sewers and the provisions for the draining of the cut are fortunately not serious. A three-foot sewer 1s met at 6th and D, but can be diverted at no great cost, It will be needful to build a sewer down 8th street from C street to the river, which would in any case be a desirable construction for the better drainage of the neighborhood. * * * It may be estimated brondly that * * © the expense of the adjustment of tracks in South Washington willbe half « million. The cost to the city of the necessary changes in sewer and water pipe arrangements, including new Sth street sewer, should be co y 225,000." He also places the union station at the intersection of Maryland and Virginia avenues. A RAILROAD ENGINEER'S REMARKS. The Senate District committee which amined Col. Ludlow’s plan in 1887-8 also heard the chief engineer of the Baltimore and Ohio road, Mr. Douglass, who pronounced the pro- posed Peso of tracks, bridging, &c., practicable, and who could see no dangers to his road from flooding, &c., but who suggested a modification of the plan so that the Lee | f ee should begin 6th street instead of at ware avenue, as mucous "She edition the expenses. Under Mr. Dou; Baltimore and Ohio was to run tracks, de- Pressed as through South Washing- ton cc with the Baltimore and Potomac, and the road saw no engincering difficulties in the way of this project. O'Rei died verdose of taken wie o lize intent. —Jew York Tribune, JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY’S ESCAPE. The Dead Poet’s Owa Account of His Adventures. From the Philadelphia Times. The narrative of John Boyle O'Reilly's escape from Australia #s worth recalling. The follow- ing is a condensation of the dead poet's own words: “The man to whom I owed my liberty was a Catholic priest, the Rev. Patrick McCabe, whose parish extended over hundreds of miles of bush, and whose only parishioners were con- victs and ticket-of-leave men. He was a scholar and gentleman of rare accomplishments, al- most always in the saddle, riding alone from camp to camp and sleeping in his blanket under the trees at night. “One day this romarkable man rode to myhut, and we walked together into the bush. I had then made all my plans for escape, and I frecly told him my intention. ‘It's an excellent way to commit suicide,’ he said, and he would not speak of it any more. Ashe was losving me, however. he leaned from the saddle and said: ‘Don't think of that again. Let me think out aplan for you. You'll hear from me before Jeng: “He went away, and I waited weeks and months and never heard a word. I was not compelled to work with the criminal gang on the roads, but had charge of their stores, and carried the warder's weekly report to the Buu- bay Sa “Finally, one day, on my way with the re- port, I came to a plain known as the race course, AsIcrossed it I heard a coo-ce, or bush cry, and saw a man coming toward me, He was e big. me fellow, with an axon his shoulde: “He came to me with a friendly smile. ‘My name is Maguire,’ ho said; ‘I am a friend of Father Mae's. and he's been speaking about a Seeing my hesitation, he ‘a card rom his wallet, on which Father McCabe had _ afew words to me. Then I trust:d ‘im. This wasin December, 1868. Some Ameri- can whalers were expected to touch st Bun- bury im February for water. months of pense news came to O'Reilly of the arrival of the barks, Maguire an- nounced that he had arranged with the cap- tain of one of thi alers, the Vigilant of Bedford, to cruise for two or three days just outside of Australian waters and take the fugi- tive on board from a small boat. On the night of February 18 O'Reilly waited until the warder had visited his hut, put on a pair of freeman’s shoes, as the trackers could ily discern the mark of a regulation convict’s boot, and struck into the bush. “About 11 o'clock I came to the old convict ind an old gum tree hour or so two men rode up, but they passedon. They were farm- ers. probably, or may be a patrol of mounted police. Shortly after I heard horses coming at asharp trot. They halted near me and I heard ‘Patrick's Day’ whistled clear and low. In an instant I was with them—Maguire and another friend, M——. They led a spare horse. I mounted at once and without a word we struck into the bush af'a gallop. For hours we rode on in silence, “We reached the shore, found a small boat ready for us and pulled about forty miles along the coast to the point where we expected to meet the New Bedford whaler, Noone had thought to bring food or water, and for twenty- four hours or more the sufferings of the party were intense. ‘At 1o'clock on the third day we made out the Vigilant, under full sail, steering north. She was stecring straight toward us, so we stopped pulling and waited for her. ‘But we were bound to be wofully disappointed. “When she was within two miles of our boat she fell off several points, as if to avoid us, Every one started in amazement, Maguire kept saying that Capt. Baker had given his as a man, and he could not believe that he would break it, One of the men stood up in the boat and gave a loud hail that must have been heard on board. No answer. Again he hailed and we al joined in the shout. No answer. It only seemed that the Vigilant turned a point further from us, At last she came abreast of our boat. She was then about three milos distant. Maguire hoisted a white shirt on the end of an oar and we shouted again. But the Vigilant passed on and loft our boat to its fate. They landed on the beachand O'Reilly's friend went back to Bunbury, promising to r turn in a week and leaving him hiding in a se- cluded sand valley close to the shore. He chmbed & tree and caught an opossum and also captured a few kangaroo rats, ‘These animals supplied him with food. After three days O'Reilly, still believing that Capt. Baker must be cruising for him somewhere off the coast, resolved to make another attempt to board the whaler, The rowboat was too heavy for him to pull alone. Six or seven miles further up the beach he found an old dory half buried in the wand. He dug the dory out, launched it, made it water tight by plugging the cracks with paper bark, and put to sea alone. “Before night I had passed the headland, and wason the Indian ovean, I knew there was a current going northward. Next morning I gave up pulling and sat down to watch and wait, It was vefy hot. The sun flamed above, d the reficetion from the water was scorch- ing. That day toward noon I sawa sail. It” was the Vigilant—there was no other vessel there. She drew neur to me, so near that I heard voices ou deck. Isaw the men aloft on the lookout, but they did not sce me--at least Capt. Baker says so. She sailed away again and was out of sight before night. The dew and the cool air refreshed me, and I resolved to pull back to shore and wait for Maguire's return. I pulled all night, off and on, and in the morn- ing saw the sand hills at the headland of Geographe bay.” After that second bitter disappointment O'Reilly left his sand valley no more, He slept most of the time for five days, and then Ma- uirecame back with the good news that 'ather McCabe had arranged for O'leilly’s massage on another New Bedford whaler, the jazelle, Capt. Gifford. But Maguire ‘also brought au unwelcome traveling companion in the person of @ criminal convict, one Martin Bowman, a ticket-of-leave man, and one of the worst c! eters in the colony. He had dis- covered O'Reilly's escape, and had threatened to put the police on the track unless he was taken off too, hat night we slept Keeping an eye. on bo little, some one always wman. We were up at daybreak and soon after we were afloat. We pulled straight out toward the beadland, as Captain Gifford had instructed. By noon we saw the two whale ships coming along with a fine breeze. Toward evening we heard a hail, and somebody shouted my name and cried out, ‘Come on board!’ We were all overjoyed. We | orgs alongside and I was helped out of the out by the strong arms of Henry Hathaway. the third mate, Captain Gifford made me we come and gave me a place in the cabin. Mar- tin Bowman, the escaped criminal, was sent forward among the crew. ix months afterward, when the Gazelle touched at Roderique, an English island in the Indian ocean, the govern ne aboard seareh- ing for an ‘escaped convict from Australia, a black-haired man.’ I was standing with Mr. Hussey, the mate, when the governor made the demand. The governor answered that he had information that a man had escaped on the Gazelle, “Mr. Hussey feared that they might se1zo the ship, so he said that a man of that description who had come on board off the coast of Aus- tralia might be the person. He called a man named Bowman, whom every man on board detested, and he was put in irons and taken ashore. We knew that he would tell the whole story (the wonder is that he did not do it then; but he wished to make terms for his own re- lease). “That night the officers of the Gazelle threw overboard the grindstone, with my hat, while I lay hid in the captain's cabin, A cry of ‘Man overboard!" was raised, a boat was lowered and the hat picked'up. There were on board some English ex-convicts who had shipped in Aus- tratia and these only waited for a chance to get me retaken, “But oue of them, utterly deceived by the officers’ strategy, declared t he saw me sink where my hat was picked up. When the gov. eruor came on board next dey to demand his prisoner the was at balf-mast and the offti- cers sorrowf ‘f told him that the man he probably wanted had Senpes overboard in the night and was drowned. is — went among the crew and learned the same news. Two days later the Gazelle sailed from Kode- rique and I came on deck, much to the amaze- ment of the crew. That ended Mr. O'Reilly's adventures. Off the Cape of Good Hope Capt, Gifford handed him thirteen sovereigns, all the money he had, and transferred him to the American ship Sap- ‘This ship took him to Liverpool, where was provided with a secure hiding place was secured for him on the Bath ship Bombay, which landed him in Phiia- dolpbia om November 23, 1969, nine months iter he made his frst brosk for the Australian PENSION OFFICE METHODS, Commissioner Haum’s #fxamination Concluded by the Committee. After recess yesterday Commissioner Raum resumed his testimony. He said that probably Mr. Lemon had spoken to him about advanced cases before he submitted his letter. Certainly other attorneys had done so. At great length the commissioner described the progress of a pension case through the Pension Oflico, devot- ing especially attention to the system of com- pleted files, Under the procedure mow in vogue, he said, the office relied solely upon the certificate of the attorney, who was assumed to be a credible person, being accredited by a court, that the case was complete and ready for action. Mr. Coo; remarked that he objected to that procedure. ‘ou didn't always object,” replied the com- missioner. Mr. Cooper wished to know what he meant, and the witness replied: “You have filed hundreds and thousands of slips for attorneys. , Cooper: a member of Congress? Wituess—Yes; but for attorneys, Mr. Cooper—Well, I didn’t do it while you were in office. Mr. Sawyer suggested that a knavish attor- ney, and there were some in Washington. as he knew, might take advantage of the ‘com- pleted files” to improperly press The com ioner replied thatif the case was not complete and it appeared that the a torney had dishonestly connived at its advance- ment his conduct would be revealed and pun- ishment and loss of practice would follow. if a case certified to be complete was found to be ‘eally incomplete it did not lose the preeedence to which it had attained and was delayed long enough only to secure the missing information. ‘The commissioner went on to say that he could not state whether or not the private claimant was placed at a disadvantage as compared with the attorney. The responsibility for prompt action upon pension pees was by the ‘‘com- pleted files” order shifted from the bureau to the claimant, and in the opinion of the witness that order had great merit, Some chiefs of divisions were examined as to the methods of the Pension Offi which Commissioner Raum produced t book of the refrigerator company and furnished a list of stockholders, which was veritied by the committee. He testified that it containe the name of no employe in the Pension Offic except his own. and that no stock was ever offered to any employe. Mr. Cooper declared that the proccedings was ex parte; that it was beneath the dignity of a member of Congress or respectable attorney to participate in such an investigation. (He hi book. not been permitted to look at the stock ) ‘The committee offered to allow him to inspect the verified list, but he refused to do-so unless he could have access to the books themselves, So the committee adjourned to meot Septem- er 1. OLD SOLDIERS’ ENCAMPMENT. Annual Election of the Officers of the Union Veterans. The national encampment of the Union Veter- ans’ Union at Lakeside, Ohio, elected the follow- ing officers on Thursday, Commander-in-chief, W. T. Clark, Cleveland, Ohio; first deputy com- mander, E. E. Putnam, Massachusetts; second deputy commander, W. H. Smith, Michigan; surgeon general, Col. Wm. M. Crosby, New York; chaplain-in-chief, Joln A. Anderson, Pennsylvania; chairman national executive council, F. R. Loomis, Ohio; members of na- tional executive council, Col. A. R. Sewell, Michigan; Col, Thos, 8. Hopkins, Washington; Col. C. W. Rodecker, Wisconsin; Gen. George | D. Curtis, New York; Col John Reade. Masea- chusetts; Col. C. M. Lightner, Pennsylvania; Gen. John B. MeNulta, Illinois, Gen. Clark announced the following mem- | bers of his staff, the adjutant general and | quartermaster general not being yet appointed: Inspector general, Col. Isaac C. Givbons, Ohio; judge advocate yeneral, Col. Wm. ‘Edgar todgers, Washington; musteriug officer, Col. | Jos. M. Brown, Ohio; assistant inspector gen- eral, Col. W. A. Biye, Michigan: chief of staff. Col. Louis F, Ellis, Lima, Ohio; aides-de-camp, Col. A. R. ¥, Ohio; Col. John Reade, Bos ton, Mass.; Col. Join A. Miller, Washington; Col. Jos. Gaston, Pauiding, Ohio; Col. IF. M. Standley, Leipsic, Ohio; Col. Wm. H. Waiter, | Washington. The Woman's Veteran Relief Union elected | the foliowing oflicers for the eusuing year: Mass Mary C. Bloomer, Bloomington, Ill., pres- iden’ fisher, Byron, Mich., sonior vice; | Mrs. ‘Standley, Leipsic, Ohio, junior vice; Mrs. L. Coie, Bloomington, IIL, treasurer; Mrs. Rachel Eldridge, Bioomington, Ill, secretary; Mrs, Swick, Byron, Mich.. chaplain; Miss Hol- lingshead, Defiance, Chicago, conductres Bonner, Cleveland, inner guard; Mrs. No Saginaw, Mich., outer guard, A LARD BILL SEN SATION. Representative Mason Charges Im- proper Influence. In the House yesterday Mr. Mason of Illinois, | rising to a question of privelege, said that some days ago a resolution had been adopted alleg- | ing that a certain gentleman bad been fraudu- | lently using the mails to create a sentiment in| favor of the Conger lard bill and calling on the | Post Office Department for information on the | subject. The resolution had been sent to the | Post Oitice Department with the request that the papers in regard to the matter be trans- mitted promptly. This had not been done. He had calied at the department three or four times, and had been informed that probably the papers would not be sent up untii Satur- day uight, ‘then they would be of uo use, as the previous question én the bill ordered at 4 p.m. today. His charge was that improper influence had been | brought to bear upon a department of the gov- | ernment to retain certain papers in its posses- sion, Influence, social or political, had been brought to bear to withhold from the members of the House information in regard to pending legislation. ‘The chief clerk of the Post Ottice ; Department tad denied him access to the papers for the purpose of making copies of them for use in the debate. He wanted the facts brought before the House, and he moved thata committee of three members be ap- pointed to wait upon the Postinaster General andask that the papers be furnished in time to be used in the debate. Before any action was taken the hour of 5 o'clock arrived and the House took a recess until 8 o'clock, the evening sewsion to be for the consideration of private pension bill: Se EE eae Congressional Nominations, i The first Virginia district democrats nomi- | nated William 0. Jones at Tappahannock yes- terday. Congressman W. F. Parrett was renominated in the first Indiana district without opposition H by the Canneliton democratic convention, The democratic convention for the second congressional district of West Virginia will be held at Keyser Weduesday next. Representa- tive Wm. Wilson will be renominated with- out opposition, The republican convention for the same district will be held at Murtins- burg September 6. 8. B. Elkins scems to be tho choice of the republicans, but it is doubt- rt. ful if he will ace stn cc ee Tho young Harrisburg people who are tak- ing their wedding trip in @ canoe are making the right sort of startin life, Instead of look- ing to papa fora big check to pay for their tour they are paddling their own — Philadelphia North American. A BOY BURNED TO DEATH. Terrible Fate of a Child at an Atlantic City Hotel. The guests at the State Capital Hotel at Atlantic City had a jost about bedtime Thursday night A little eight- year-old boy yee John Gorman, the son of Stephen Gornian of 4031 Lancaster avenue, and his two-year-old sister were being put to bed by their mother. She left the room tempo- rarily, but had gone only a few steps when the shrieks of her boy brought her hurriedly back toher room. She pushed the door open and was horrified to see him enveloped in flames, His cries brought many of the guests to the room, and one of them succeeded in extinguish- ing the flames by throwing a coat over the un- fortunate boy. His mother was terror-stricken at the sight, but when the flames were put out recovered her composure sufficiently to euable Dr. Arm strong to make an examination of the b badly charred bod: Deep furrow: burned into the flesh at several poin the right side the fire had eaten its into the lung. The boy’s suffering w: most excruciating kind, and no antidote, how- ever powerful, had any effect in ameliorating it, and after a night of terrible agony death came as a welcome relief to him. The cause of the sad affair was a lighted candle, which fell against the boy's clothes while he was untying his shoes, ———___-cee___ ROBBED BY THE TELLER. The Capital City Bank of Nashville Plundered of Over $41,000. Frank M. Allen, who has been both receiv- ing and paying teller of the Capital City Bank at Nashville, isa defaulter to the amount of shortage extends over a period of from thirty to sixty days, and he was not suspected until he voluntarily confessed. He has been speculating in stocks and the rapid decline in Rock Island, especially during the present week, cost him over $20,000. A young mac named P. J, Dismukes acted as his agent and placed the money in bucket shops. Allen's plan for escaping detection was a bold one. His books were well and accurately kept and until strict investigation did not show any deficit. He was simply a day behind with de- posits to the amount of liis shortage. When he first began to use the bank’s money, he filled out the deposit slip to the amount used until the next day. In this way Ajilon kept con- cealed depositors’ slips to the amount of his defalcation, Allen went to Vice President Benson and confessed his shortage, saving he had no hops of being able to supply the defi- ciency. Mr. Benson called a mecting of the directors for 7:30 o'clock yesterday morning, At that time the missing slips were entered upon the books and the ot found. The cashier and vice president of the bank issued a statement showing the assets to be over £700,000 outside of Allen's shortage, with liabilities of 751,000, The capita) stock of the bank is $300,000. Allen married man, thirty-one years of age, and of good family. | The Guar- antee Company of North America is on his bond for $10,000, but the local agent says he will await instructions from headquarters be- fore taking any steps. Offers of a compromise are being qpnsidered by the bank, but in the meantime Allen is under arres: oe sir “wpa WHY BRITISH TROOPS REBELLED. Gen. Wolseley Was Responsible for the Army Outbreaks. It has been discovered that the recent out- breaks of insubordination in the British army sre not due so much to socialistic agitation as to a widespread feeling that the authorities at the Horse Guards were about to smother up Wolselcy’s reform program. For some months past it has been widely promulgated that Gen, Woiscley was going to revolutionize the army and make the position of the enlisted men far better than it had ever been. His article in an American magazine on the hardships of the private soldicr had been reprinted in pamphlet form and widcly disseminated among those in theranks. When it was hinted that “the only general” had written the article in return for a consideration in solid cash the indignation broke forth, The agitation has had one good effect, however; it stimulated the authori- ties to investigate grievances and has resulted in acommission being appointed to consult upon aplan for a thorough reorganization of the standing army and reserves, with a view to their greater efficiency and mobility in time of | war. coo OT SIR ROGER, A Suicide Borrows the Name of the Notorious Claimant. HE WAS A strange case of suicide has just occurred at Chatham, England. Aman, whom no one as yet has been able to identify, cut his throat in the middle of a field of standing corn, where his remains were discovered. On a shect of paper found in the breast pocket of his coat he had written the words Sir Roger Tichborne. The claimant now writes to the papers that he is not the man who killed himself, aud the ae affair seems to be regarded as a grim joke. ee see ER ee THE ANTI-TRUSE BILL APPLIED The Knights of Labor May be Violating a Recent Federal Law. A special to the Herald from Washington says that a question of great importance at this time has been raised in connection with the strike of the Knightsof Labor on the New York Central road. Itis whether the members of the executive board of District Assembly No. 246 are not tiable to be proceede d against un- der the provisions of the act entitled: **An act to protect trade and commerce against uulaw- ful restraints and monopolies.” It is known in Congreessonal parlance as the “Anti-trust bill” A prominent United States Senator is oe as saying, that while the spirit of the iaw evidently does not aim at strikes, he has no doubt that if a test case be made it will result in the conviction of the men. Guatemala Distraught With Internal Dissensions. The New York Herald's dispatch from Liber- tad says: Advices from the frontier depart- ments of Guatemala are far from reassuring for law and order in that country. In the east- ern departments another revolutionary move- mont has broken out, President Barillas has sent a force of 4,000 men against the insurgents and a bloody battle will follow, as the insur- gents are determined to overthrow the present government of Guatemala if possible. und the forces who are under command of Gen. Pedro Bari are equally determined to sustain it, It is stated that the revolutionists are well armed and well drilled, <<a A Slight Misunderstanding. From the Epoch, She (as he places his arm around her waist) —‘‘Btop right where you are, sir! ait (easing @ firmer hold)—“Willingly, my ar.” ie ee aay TheComing Husband Won’t Have to Hire From the St. Paul Globe, The typewriter is likely to be introduced in the public schools as a part of the course. Clevetand’s Superior Baking Powder is for sale by G, G, CORNWA c. C, BRYAN, JOHN H, MAGRUDER, CHAS, KELLOG, WITMER & CO., JOHN KEYWONRTH, THEOD. F. McCAULEY, w w EAB R. BROW W, BURCHARD « CO, M. 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