Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1891, Page 6

CITY AND DisTRicr. | The local circulation of Tar Evesrxe Sran is not only the largest and fullest, but it is also the pest. since the paper goes not alone into the hands of the people of the District of Columbia as a body, but regularly info their homes,—into the families of all classes, and into those of the money-spending as well as the money-earning portion of the community. An advertisement in its columns therefore reaches the eye of everybody worth reaching. MEXICO WILL PARTICIPATE. Lieut. Baker Presented to President Diaz and Mexican Comments on the Incident. Lieut. Baker of the United States navy, re- cently appointed commissioner of the world’s Columbian exposition to the republic of Mexico, has been formally presented to President Diaz byMr.Ryan, the United States minister,and deliv. ered the invitation from the President of the United States to that republic to participate in the exposition. President Diaz in reply ex- Pressed the greatest interest in the exh ‘and said that Mexico would do herself credit at Chicago. El Universal commenting upon Lieut. Baker's prosentation, #a Lieut. A. C. Baker, commissioner for the Columbian exposition at o, Was officially received by the presi- n. Diaz. The reception was of th most cordial conversation the that Mexico would take part in the exposition. Lieut. Baker belongs to the uavy of the United States, and was nominated by Mr. { Bisine and appointed by President Harrison to come to Mexico and solicit the Tepresentation of this republic at the grana universal exhibition which is to take lace at Chicago in 18%. He is also anthor- ized to treat with the state as well as federal authorities about all matters concerning the exporitic “For the purpose of aiding Mr. Baker the director general of the exposition has appointed Mr. H. C. Payne of the firm of Roberto Boker | & Cox of this city as a special commissioner. | He is a well-known person in business circles, ha resided in this __ city some years past. His knowl- edge of the country, his commercial relations | as well as private and his affable treatment of | all will be valuable in the execution of th mission entrusted to him. He will ocew himself more particularly with all relating the commercial features of the exhibition. “With men soableand of such high character there ix no doubt that all the vast riches of the republic will be represented in a dignified and proper manner at the great Columbian exposi tion at Chicago.” it 2 -——___—— GOLD BARS FOR EXPOET. ‘The Treasury Department Has Already Been Asked to Vix the Charge. ‘The Tréasury Department has already be calledupon to act under the Sherman ame: iment to the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bills authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to exercise his discretion in the exchange of gold for gold coin and also to impose a charge for snch exchange. Heretofore the statute regulating this matter bas been con- strued by{the Treasury Department asagainst " acharge. Under the new law the polic the department will be to ebarge 4 cents per #100 in value for all gold bars required for shipment, and if this fails to deter | gold shipments the question will then | be considered as tothe ~—aadvisa- bility of retusing altogether to exchange gold bars for shipment, thus compelling shippers to use gold com or to obtain gold bars from pri- the ii vate parties. A ruling to this effect was first made yesterday on a telegraphic order for 600.000 in bars for shipment from New York. The director of the mint, with the approval of the Secretary of the ‘Treasury, directed that a charge of #240 (or 4 cents per $100) be made for the exchange, but is not yet advised as to whether the exchange Was inde on that basis. It is assumed, bow- @ver, that it was. The Treasury Department is in receipt of ad- vices from New York to the effect that there will be a heavy demand for gold bars for ship- ment by the steamers sailing for Europe Satur- day. NEWS FROM HAGERSTOWN. Corporation Elections—The New Postmaster Commissioned—Other Items of Interest. Correspondence of The Evening Star. Hacenstows, March 5, 1891. ‘The municipalities of this county, not af- fected by the Australian ballot law, held their corporation election during the presen: week. At Williamsport James E. Hawkens was elected burgess, with Memrs. M. E. Cullen, Charles Downes, George F. Thompson, L. R. Spangler, Edward Rechter and Wm. Newell as commis- sioners, the last two tieing in votes, which will require a new election. Hawkens is the first democratic bure-~ws elected since the war. The couneil stands, » democrats and two republi- cans. A colored man who was on the republi- can ticket was “snowed under,” running 133 Yotes behind his ticket. Boonsboro’ elected Jobu E. Smith, burgess: Joseph Keedy, aasist- ant burgess, and Messrs. James B. Brining, A. N. V. Deaner, D. W. Barkman, A. C. Huffer and Joh ne, commissioners. ch 28. republican meetings e several election districts of nty toelect ten delegates from each attend a convention in m Tuesday, March 31, at which legates will be elected to represent hington county in a republican constitu- convention to be held in Baltimore on + April chination of numerous nominees Mavor Haim has sueceeded in securing two public-spirited citizens willing to serve upon zd of street commissioners, positions without pay. V. Smith and Geo. M. Stonebreaker were ed. confirmed by neil and have since qualified. Mr. Wm. Meimeyer, a leader in local repub- lean polities in the’ western section of this county. died at his residence, Green Spring r t's disease, on Tuesday. He nt torape Hester ienburg, was arested Thursday at Boons- this county. He was taken to Frederick trial. The inatrimonial market is brisk. Thirty- nine marriage licenses were issued by the clerk of the cireuit month of Febru J.C. Bolinger of this city, a member of the first Maryland regiment, has been granted a pension of $12 a month. Mr. James P. Harter, Hagerstown’s new post- Taster. yesterday reeeived his commission and will take arge of the e on the 15th instant. The question of who shall be his deputy con- Unues to agitate the breasts of numerous appli- eants, The Hagerstown iron works, for a number of years past an important industry of this place, employing quite a number of hands, dis- Continued basiness on the Ist of March, and will offer itt plant and property at sale. "The cause assigned for the closing of the works is thai it has been profitlens to the proprietors. A big demonstration in honor of the restora- tion of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal will be held in Williamsport, this county, on Saturday. One day last week a well-dressed lady applied te the county commissioners for agsistance to Procire transportation to Washington, which she claimed as ber home. It was furnished her. Yesterday she returned the amount with, thanks Kev. John G. Hibben, pastor of the Presby- terian Church at Chambersburg, has notified bis congregation that he will resign on June 1. Clarence E. Stoddard of Baltimore was ar- Frated im this eity yesterday by United States Deputy Marshal Wm. E. Chrissinger, charged with illegally registering and voting in a couple of different wards in Baltimore. He was taken back to that city to answer before Judge Bond. Mr. Frank Emmert of Washington is visiting ip this c: A new suramer hotel is being built on the Western Maryland railroad near Pen Mar by Mr. Semmel ‘O'Neal. it will be called the Cascade House. B. a eee Revenue Measures in Argentine. The president of the Argentine Republic has Fecommended to the congress of that country several radical revenue laws, which have aroused considerable antagonism in commer- cial circles. The president in his message holds that such measures are absolutely necessary to maintain the credit of the government and asks their indorsement by congress, but con- Gress had not yet noticed the suggestion. The president proposes to lay export duties ona number of whe principal products of the country besides adding to the import tariff sc to tax foreign vessels engaged in the ‘coasting trade anc to tax heavil; ‘foreign in- surance companies and deposits in private ‘The president of the Argentine Republic has Proposed to Congress the passage of a law cro- sting » special court, whose jurisdiction shail imelude aly offenses against the revenue laws. ition | oes JOHN MACDONALD. LARGE LIBERAL GAINS. The Conservative Majority in the Canadian Parliament Cut Down. Intense interest was felt all over the Domin- ion of Canada yesterday in the elections for members of the house of commons. The con- ftiet was between the government of Sir John Macdonald, represented by the tories and in favor of limited reciprocity with the United States, and the liberals, who championed unre- stricted reciprocity and were charged by their {opponents with favoring annexation to the United States. The loss of twenty-six seats to the tories or conservatives would convert the government majority of the last house into a liberal majority of two. It will be several di before the official re- | turns will be known. About 1,000,000 votes were cast in the whole Dominion of Canada, which, it must be remembered, is larger than the whole of the United States, omitting Alaska. In other words, while the number of voters in ‘anada is about equal to those in Pennsylvania me, the territory to be covered in collecting about forty-five times as large as Pennsylvania. APPARENT CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY. Upto midnight returns had been received from 198 constituencies out of 215 in the | whole dominion, two of which did not elect yes- | terday. These returns show the following In Ontario 89 out of 92 consti elect 49 liberals and 44 conservatives | liberal gain of 11. In Quebec 61 constituents out of 65 elect 33 liberals and 27 conservatives—a net liberal gain One labor candidate was elected in seven constituencies out of fect four liberals and thirteen con ain for either side. In New Brunswick thirteen constituencies out of sixteen elect two liberals and elever con- servatives, a net conservative gain of three. In Manitoba four constituencies out of five elect one liberal and three conservatives, no gain on either side. In Prince Edward Island six constituencies complete elect four liberals and two conserva- tives, no gain on either side. British Columbia returns indicate that the conservatives will carry all of the four conetitu- encies—no change from the last house. Returns from the northwest territories indi- cate that the government will carry all of the four coustituencies. The conservatives have, therefore, elected 108 members and the liberals $9. The liberals’ net gain is 1S; and, as it was necessary for them to make @ clear gain of 26 seats to de- feat the government by a bare majority, it is safe to eay that the Macdonald government is RESOWING OF THE LIBERALS, ‘The liberals are by no means depressed over the resnits of the election. In Ontario, where the question of unrestricted reciprocity got the best hearing, the liberals made very gratifying gains, showing that where the issue was nar- rowed down to the liberal policy and no outside questions were dragged in the verdict of many constituencies that went to the government with big majorities at the election in 1887 is now favorable to unrestricted trade relations with the United States. The returns so far as are in give the govern- ment « majority of a little more than a third of what they had when the house was dissolved a month ago. There are yeta number of re- turns to be received from distant districts dificult of access, but it is generally pelieved the government majority will stand about 14. ‘MINISTERS RE-ELECTED. The members of the present ministry who are re-elected are Sir Jobn MacDonald, for Kingston, John Haggert, postmaster general, for South Lanark; J. A. Chaplean, secretary of state, for Terribonne; Sir Adolph Caron, minister of militia, for Rimouski; Sir Charles Tupper, min- inter of marine and fisheries, for Pictou; Sir John Thompson, minister of’ jnstice, for An- tigonish: Sir Hector Langevin, minister of pub- lie works, for Richelien; Mackenzie Bowell, minister of customs. C. C. Colby, president of the privy council, is defeated in Stanstead, Quebee, by over 100. lon Costiga: lected for Victoria, New Brunswick. Hon. George E. Foster, minister of financegis defeated in Kings county, New Brunswick, and Hon. Mr. Domville, who was minister of | ma- rine in the Mackenzie government, is elected in his place. Hon. E. Dewdney. minister of the interior, is elected in Assiniboia, Northwest ‘Territory. INTEREST IN THE RETURNS. The interest taken in the result of the elec- tions was probably unprecedented. The people began tocrowd upon thestreets in Torontoabout 6 o'clock, and by 8all the newspaper offices were surrounded by great crowds. The first news that came in was from Halifax and New Bruns- wick, showing conservative victories. These were posted almost before the crowd had gath- ered and attracted Jews attention in conse- quence. ‘The returns from the three Torontos began to come in about 5:30 o'clock and kept up till 6:30. The euxy defeate of Mowat in West and Wheeler in East Toronto had been expected, but Kerr's ran in Center Toronto was much less close than had been expected. SIR JOHN'S MAJORITY. Returns from London, Kingston and Hamil- ton were in about 6 o'clock. Sir John’s in- creased majority was loudly cheered and Car- ling’s defeat was both cheered and groaned. Keturns from country constituencies showing ‘ge liberal gains created a great deal of en- jasiasm around the Giobe office, but were much groaned at at the £mpire and Telegram oftices. A dispatch from Winnipeg says that the hot- test political battle ever fought in the north- | West ended at 5 o'clock last might. For Winni- peg Hugh J. Macdonald, « son of the premier, is elected by 500 majority. Sir Kichard Cartwright, the prominent liberal, is elected in South Oxford by over 800 majority. Robert Beith, liberal, is elected. jex. Mackenzie, ex-premier, is elected rk. Join Ellis, liberal, editor of the St. John Globe. who was running for St. John city, is defeated by $00 majoriz ee A MEMORIAL HALL, Ex-Prisoners of War Will Erect a Building in This City. The first of a series of meetings that the Union Ex-Prisoners of War National Memorial Association propose to hold in large cities of the north to raise a fund for a memorial hall in Washington was held yesterday in New York It is proposed to make this building a monu- ment to the 70,000 Union men who died in southern prisons during the war. In front of the box oceupied by the John A. Dix Post hung the revenue flag that was the immediate cause of Gen. Dix's famous “shoot him on the spot” order. Gen. Wheelock G. Veazey spoke about the ropriety of erecting this pr i Bailaings aud the other ped pent Sherman, the Rev. James Foster, Gen. 0. 0. Howard,’ Gen. Horatio King, Gen. Viele and Miss Clara Barton. The fund’ was well started last night, and it is expected that every large city inthe north will Contribute toward. Us memorial building. -200 Sale of the Ohio Valley Road. Negotiations for the sale of the Ohio Valley railroad to the Chesapeake, Ohio and South- western were closed yesterday in New York and the papers wil! be signed and the formal trans- fer made law. The officers of the Ohio Valley and C. P. Huntington bad several conferences today and Vice President Echols of the Chesa- apeeke, Ohio and Southwestern will savume way carriage near Castlereagh, Ireland, Tues- day, has been declared of sound mind. has been twice in prison for neither case was there any ay iiteaes tthe ewciindsppee into his past history. £ 5 oF THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1891. WILL ARREST ME. DEPEW. for New York’s Tunhel Disaster. The New York Herald saya today: Coroner Levy's tunnel accident jury.found a verdict last night which held the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, through its officers and directors, solely responsible for the deaths of six persons who were killed in the accident. In plain, straightforward language they charged the deaths of two of these unfortanates upon the stoves which the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad used in its cars in viola- tion of the laws of the state. Criminal'prosecu- tion is to follow at once these comprehensive findings. Mr. Chauncey M. Depew and the other directors of the railroad wha live in New | York will be arrested today and held on bail to await the action of the grand jury. "The district attorney, through his representa- | tive at the inquest, has promised that he will indications of the jury as tothe persons criminally responsi- use every offort to follow ont tl ble for the disaster. * * Thirteen of the persons whom Coroner | Levy wants live in Connectient. This brings up an interesting question political aspect. If these persons refuse to come to New York to answer to the complaint against them it will be necessary at one stage of the proceedings to secure req: tion papers for them from Gov: Hill. But Gov. Hill having refused to recognize requisition papers from Gov. Bulkeley it is certain that Gov. Bulkeley will refuse to honor such papers from Gov. Hill. If these thirteen persons do not choose to come to stand trial, therefore, it is entirely likely that they can stay away in perfect safety. i Hae Ei RipieO SE UNCLE SAM'S FIRST MINT. Where the First Regular Coins of the Re- Public Were Turned Out by Horse Power. From the Philadelphia Times. ‘The subject of a new mint, so long and earn- estly discussed, is once more being agitated at Washington. Should the proposed legislation be effected, and the present mint building be abandoned, the change cannot be made before the centennial anniversary of the founding of the mint will have passed, and it is worthy of note that in an entire century only one such removal has taken place. The act establishi was passed April 2, 1792, and steps were at once taken to erect a suitable structure m which to domicile the new department. The seat of the federal government was in the state house and other buildings in Independence Square, and it was desirable that the mint be located as ar that spot as possible. A site was secured upon the east side of 7th street, above Sugar ley, afterward called Farmer and now known as Filbert street. Here a plain brick building was erected in the summer of 1792. ‘The coining presses arrived from England in September and operations began in the early part of October, the material for starting coining. six pounds of old copper, having been purchased a few days before. The inachinery of the mint was moved by horae | power. The first regular return of coins tothe | treasury was made March 1, 1793, ond con- sisted of 11,178 centa. The renowned scientist, David Rittenhouse, ws inted director of 5 in & fortnight after referred to above. He ified for the position and was eminently q’ | was thoroughly imbued with a sense of the | responsibility attaching to his offic It is re- ion he paid lated that pon more than one | bills for mint supplies out of his private funds m | because he considered them exorbitant. His sustained by anywhere from 10 to 15 majority. | spucious residence was at the northwest corner of 7thand Arch streets, but a short distance from the mint. Rittenhouse died in 1796, and the second director of the mint was another prominent personage, Dr. Elias Boudinot, whose name is stilla well-known one to. Phila- delphians. ‘The famous Rose Hill estate in Ken- sington, where the putriot lived, is now being rapidly hidden from sight under thousands of dwellings, but the Boudinot school house at Indiana and D streets perpetuates the memory of the famil; As the nation grew older and richer enlarged facilities for coining money became impera- tive. and, accordingly, a site was procured on Chestnut street, west of Juniper street, and here the present structure was begun in 1829. The new building was occupied in 1831. The architects engaged upon the plans, Wm. Strick- land, John Haviland and others, endeavored to design a structure as nenrly classical ax the par, f the building would permit. With the various changes and additions made of late ¥eurs, particularly the mansard roof put on by Superintendent Fox, the effect has in & xreat measure destroyed and the tiny building 1s overshadowed on every side by lofty struc- tures which dwarf its appearance and make the most important government office in the coun- try seem mean and insignificant. tcc cr A Daring Project. From the Electrical World. ‘One of the features of the coming electrical exhibition at Frankfort-on-the-Main will be the transmission of power on a scale hitherto never attempted. When it was announced 0 that it was proposed to trans- mit 100 horse power from Lauffen-on-the- Neckar to Frankfort, a distance of more than 100 miles, the statement was received with smiles of incredulity; but now it seems. quite probable that not only will the experiment be tried, but that it will succeed, in spite of the engineering difficulties that have to be sur- mounted. ‘The government has been asked to supply line for the purpose, and on the system used the expense will not necessarily be at all severe, for the use of very high potential alter- nating currents is the featnre of the scheme as at present planned. ‘The alternating generator will supply a step-up transformer, thet in turn will transmit its secondary current at an enor- mously high potential wong the line. to be retransformed by a step-down transformer at Frankfort to a potential practicable for an al- ternating motor. A series of experiments car- ried out recently at Oerlikon involve the use of pressuresas high ax 33,000 volts on the line. At such a potential the current transmitted be- comes so small that the line is # relatively small factor in the losses incurred, even though it be of the extreme length proposed. Nothing can better illustrate the characteristic advan- tages of the alternating system than this beau- tiful process of generating and utilizing enr- rents at n moderate potential and transmitting them from station to station at a pressure 40 enormous that the losses in transitu become insignificant. ° ee eee “The Iron Port of the World.” From Iron. Escanaba is the county seat of Delta county, Mich. Itlies at the foot of the great pine forests and overlooks Little Bay de Noquet, the headwaters of Green bay. Five years since it was practically a village in the wilderness. ‘To- day finds it a city with a population of 8,000, lighted by electricity, having a well-equipped fire brigade, water works with a capacity of 4,000,000 gallons per day, a high school and three other schools, six churches, three news- papers, a railway station where 216 trains arrive and depart daily, and it will shortly have an electric street railway in full work. Its annual retail trade is estimated and its wholesale trade, including iron ore, pigiron, lumber and’ coal, at about According to Mr, Nursey's carefully written |report, capable of the fullest verification, Escanaba is the greatest iron port of the world. He tells us that during the navigution season of 1890 it. shipped 3,700,000 tons of iron ore, or nearly double that of all the ore ports of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota com- bined. Its Inmber output amounted to about 120,000,000 feet, while the freight capacity of the vessels entering and clearing trom its 14000 tons. This comparen port exceeded 8,09), with the tonnages of the greatest sea) of the, world, which are; (1) Landon, 19,00 000; 2) Liverpool, — 14,000,000; (: ° $1.000,000, "und" nexi comes acanaba “with 8,000,000 tons. Oarsman Wm. O’Counor offers to row John Teemer for from #1,000 .v 25,000 a side in June or July if a course can be mutually agreed “Sins Acizons lagisistive-coundil tes passed the woman suff: bill by a vote of 10 to 2. fone j_ fade stn was A shipment direct to made on Wednesday of cotton Jobn P. King Manutactw Gonpeny wae ou the order from a from Ne: Kews states that peek Geir Ge eee Chief Engineer Ed Melbourne, to 8 steamship . while com- Panion auip, the Qaecnaland, lost his footing, overboard The lower house of the Minnesota in committee of the whole, has Rallroad Officers and Directors Responsible of a the United States mint JERSEY LAWYERS SURPRISED. Court Overridden by Lay Judges. Aensation was created among Jersey City lawyers yesterday when it became known that in an important railroad case in the New Jersey court of appeals the lay judges had overridden the opinion of the chancellor and the supreme court justices who sat with them. It is said to be the second time only in all the history of the state that this has happened. ‘case that gave opportunity for this freak of justice was that between the New Jersey Junction Railroad Company and the Pennsylvania railroad. The Janetion Railroad Company has a line running from the West Shore railroad station at Wee- hawken, southerly through Jersey City toward the Standard Oil Company's docks at Constable Hook. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company be- came possessed of the idea that its real object was to make a connecting link for western traftic between the New York Central and the Jersey Central road, and with the purpose of blocking its construction the Pennsylvania road ran a spur across its projected line. “The level of the Pennsylania road ix two feet above that of the junction. It was impossible for the junction road to cross at grade and equally impossible for it to go under without disturbing the Pennsylvania grade. Commis- sioners were appointed, however, to cou- domn a right of way, but these were enjoined by the Pennsylvania roed,.and on a writ of certiorari the supreme cofrt sided with the company. ‘The junction road appealed to court of errors and the case was reached for final decision at ‘Trenton on We-lneaday. Chancellor MeGill, Judge Dixon and Chief Justice Beasley were the law end of the . Five of the seven possible lay judges were ou the bench with them. The law judges unanimously decided to sustain the rulings and Chancellor McGill read the opinion. Then, as judges put the opinion to a vote. To the sur- rise and consternation of the law judges the ve lay judges voted as a unit against the opin- ion and’ reversed it. The Pennsylvania road lawyers say that this remarkable development of the suit but marks the beginhing of the fight between the two ronds. +00 Yankee Capital in Place of English. A Richmond, Va., dispatch says: The state- ment is published here this afternoon that ex- Gov. Fitzhugh Les, who was entertained by Gov. Russell on his recent visit to Boston, brought back with him a large amount of New England capital to be used at Glasgow. This, it is stated, is to take the piace of the million anda half which English capitalists were to have invested at that place. ‘They paid a twenty-five-thousand-dollar forfeiture, having failed to place the amount agreed upon. - —+ee ‘The Gutenberg Bible Brings 614,800, The Gutenberg Bible was naturally the chief object of interest at the sale of the Brayton Ives collection, which began yesterday after- noon at the American Art Galleries in New York. The price which Mr. Ives paid for the famous volumes has been various estimated, but the knowing ones among bibliophilesi are pretty generally agreed that $13,000 is very near the sum. If this was the price originally paid Mr. Ives realized 1,800 upon his invest- ment, for the two volumes were sold_ yesterday toJ.W. Ellsworth of Chicago tor #14,800, There were three other would-be purchasers in the field beside the Chicagoan who fought hard for | the treasure after the bidding had passed the $10,000 point a —_—__+os___— A Steamboat Burned at Her Dock. ‘The wooden steamboat City of Richmond of the Hartford and New York Transportation Company, plying between New York city and Hartford, Conn., was burned at her berth, pier 24, Fast river, yesterday afternoon. Two waiters asicep in their bunks narrowly escaped smothering. Night Watchman Samuel Lam- bert, who spent his days in his bunk prepara- tory to being on duty at night, failed to escape. Asleep on the lower deck when the fire broke out his escape was cut off and he perished. capone boat Draftemen Examinations. The civil service commission is to hold ex- aminations soon to fill vacancies in the position of draftemen as follows: For the supervising architect's office, senior draftemen who are skilled as assistant architects, at from ® to $8 per day, Sundays excepted; junior draftsmen, who have had two years’ practice or study in the principles of architecture, at $8.a ds y, Sun- days excepted; heating and ventilating drafte- men, who have had practical knowledge of steam and hot water heating apparatus for builgings, at 35a day, Sundays excepted; en- gineer draftemen, skilled in iron work and building construction, at from $6 to $8 a day, Sundays excepted. For the coast and geodetic surv draftsman, at $75 a month. For the patent office, mechanical draftsmen, at from $1,000 to $1,200 per annum. Persons who desire to compete for any one of these places should obtain application blanks from the United States civil service commie sion, Washington, D.C., and make application atonce. Those who forward duly executed ap- plications will be notified when and where they can be examined. —__-s-___ Meeting of Trotting Horse Breeders. Aconference of the leading trotting horse breeders of the country was held in the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York last night, under the auspices of the National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders. It was decided to call a convention of the trotting horse breeders of the country to meet in Chicago April 22 next, when a plan of reorganization will be formu- lated. ¢ convention will consist of two dele- gates from each of the state organizations. —— World's Fair Program, ‘The report of the world’s fair committee on ceremonies has been completed. It provides for a gigantic military display and parade, un- der the direction of the major genera! of the army, Tuesday, October 11, 1893; the regular dedicatory exercises Wednesday; a grand ball ‘Thursday, and the whole to conclude witha general eivie and military demonstration Sat- urday & junior St ges ste Settling a Great Miners’ Strike. The strike of the Monongahela river miners, by which 10,000 miners and laborers have been thrown out of employment since January 1, is now in a fair way of settlement. A meeting of the operators aud shippers has been called for next Monday and it is stated they will come to the men’s demands--that is 314 cents per bushel. The operators deny this individu- ally, but it isan open secret that the strikers are supported by a rich fund raised by the men now on strike in the Connellsville regions. They seem uble to continue the strike indet- nitely. ———<oo-—____ Probable End of the Vall Case. Charles F. Vail, whose trial for murder re- sulted in a disagreement of the jury, has been admitted to bail in the sum of $10,000. The case will probably never come to a second trial, as the state's attorneys are loth to again prove- cute on the very slight evidence ———__1c____—— Republican Gains in New York Towns, ‘The Albany Argus prints returns from clerks of boards of supervisors in forty-two counties on all spring elections thus far held, with Alle- ghany, Franklin and Washington not yet re- ported. For supervisor the republicans have carried 481 towns and wards and the democrats 418. The sane towns and wards ut the spring election, in 1890 voted republican 457 and dem- cratic 432, und in 1889 the republicans voted 526 and the democrats 364. ‘Ten new wards and towns have been erected since Inst year. —0o— New York Southern Society Election. ‘The annual meeting of the New York South- ern Society was held last night, when the elec- tion of officers took place. Capt. Garden was elected it and Messrs. James H. Parker, Peter John H. Inman and Clarence Cary vice mts of the society. ——_—_ +02 —___—_ Southern Illicit Stills Destroyed. A party of United States officials from Divergences Observable in the Hours of Laber in Various Countries. ATurkish working day, ays the Chicago Herald, laste trom sunrise to sunset, with cer- tain intervals for refreshment and repose. In Montenegro the day laborer begins work be- tween Sand 6 in the morning, knocks off at 8 for half au hour, works on till noon, reste un- til 2, and then labors on until sunset. This is in summer. In winter he commences work at 7:30 or 8, resta from 12 to 1 and works uninter- ruptedly from that time to sunset. The rules respecting skilled labor are theoretically the same, but considerable laxity prevails in Practice; in Servia the principle is individual convenience in every case. In Portugal from sunrise to sunset is the usual length of the working day. With field laborers and workmen in the building trades the summer working day begins at 4:30 or 5 in the morning and ends at , two or three hou! The Opiaten of the Chancellor and Supreme 7 in the evening. taken in the middle of the day ; the hours are from 7:30 to 5, with a shorter in- terval of repose. In manniactories the rule is hours in summer and ten winter, with an hour and « half ‘allowed for In the winter Eleven hours is the average 4 Belginm, but the brewers’ men work from ten to seventeen hours: brick makers sixteen; the cabinet makers of Brussels and Ghent are often at work seventeen hours a day; tramway drivers are on duty from fifteen to ‘seventeen hours, with an hour anda half at noon; rail- way guards sometimes know what it is to work ‘teen hours and a half at districts women track loading or similar heavy labor for thirteen or fifteen hours. ‘The normal work day through thirteen hours, with two hours’ allowance for ing. In Baden the medium duration from ten to twelve hours, but in some r exceeds this, often rising to fifteen hours in stone-ware and china works and cotton mills; in saw mills to seventeen hours, while the workers in the sugar refineries, where the shift system is in. vogue, work twenty-four hours free, aud in too many of the Baden fac- work is the rule. In Russian in- ishments the difference in the extraordinary, is remarkable that these great divergences occur in the same branches of industry within the same ing tor’s district and among establishments wi produce realizes the same market price. ee ‘Can You See Your Own Brain? From the Chicago News. On the authority of Dr. Fraser Halle, it is quite possible fora man to see his own brain. Fifty years have elapsed since Purkinge ob- served that by passing a candle to and fro several times by the side of the eye the air in front was transformed intoa kind of screen, on which was reflected what was then supposed to be “a magnified image of ir C. (then Mr.) Wheatstone believed it to be ‘the shadow of the vascular network.” May image of the blood vesrels Sir Benjamin Brodie said that it was to him really incomprehensible. By means of more careful drawings Dr. Fraser exploration and sne- ceeded in identifying the picture with the rep- resentation of the “anterior lobe of the cere- brum.” The picture consists, he has long ob- served, of “red convolutions with which a whiti sometimes visible. exactly the image of folds of the anterior lobe the furrows between them. The candle shouid be moved to and fro about four inches below the eye and three and a quarter inches from the face. When the move- ment ceases the undulations, of course, also image disappears. A reddish the image is soon de- tht is the best time stretch, and in often’ kept at out Saxony is amatter of form, as they supposed, the iaw | working hours part of the retina.” thought it wa of the retina.” Halle resumed of the brain wit cease and the it mnist appears first an veloped and defined. for it, but itcan be seen in a dark place— faintly—in the daytime. Mobile Bricklayers and Plasterers Strike. All the union bricklayers and plasterers of Mobile, Ala. went on a strike yesterday and med a notice to all subordinate unions of bricklayers and plasterers in Alabama not to come there as there, is ‘a desperate fight on hand.” The men have been paid $3.50 for eight hours’ work and were offered today the same pay for nine hours’ work and refused to ————— . P. Rogers Dead. ‘Wm. P. Rogers, secrotary of the municipal consolidation inquiry commission of New York, a body created for the purpose of bringing about a consolidation of the cities of New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City, fell dead in inthe Hotel Bradford just before midnight Wednesday night frora heart failure. He was e and was a brother of Rear United States navy, and of ‘ut. Meigs, on learning of his legraphed instructions to have the body prepared for Ray Hamilton’: Secretary Wm. seventy years of Admiral Rogers, Death Unproved. Sehnyler Hamilton, jr., the commissioner sent by the surrogate’s court of New York to Pau, France. to obtain the deposition of J. Green, who found what is supposed to be the body of Robert Ray Hamilton in Snake river last September, has returned to New York city. His report has been given under seal to the It was rumored, however, that Mr. Green's testimony was of such a character as to to the Hamilton famil the statement, it is xaid, ix strongly corroborative of the generally accepted belief that Robert Ray Hamilton is dead. As lentification of the body—the im; point—Mr. Green says p id not identify it. It was so mutilated that no one could have identified it by the features. Mr. Green scouts the idea of any mystery in connection with the case and sa body found was not that of Hamil must have been clad in Humilton’s clothing and the body placed in the stream. ———_-r-_—____ Died While Making a Speech. Hon. Wm. Almy Pierce of Johnston, R. I. died while making a speech at a fireman's cele- bration in that town iast night. The cause of his death was heart failure. He was born in 1824. He served several terms in the Rhode Island legislature; was chairman of the Rhode Island delegation to the republican convention at Chicago in 1830 and was a mem- ber of the republican national committee. He ‘was also a member of the republican state cen- tral committee, of which he was chairman for prove disappointin, and their counsel. eases A Great Revival In Progress. A.special dispatch from Mount Orab, Ohio, says: Tho greatest revival in the history of this place, notorious recently for its White Cap out- rages, has been in progress here the last six weeks. The scenes enacted nightly are past description. People stay in trances for days. Two or three are said to have become insane. All children are excluded from the services at night to prevent unpleasnt effects on them. ‘The population of lage is 500. Over 200 have professed conversion. Judge Woods to be Elevated. position co-ordinate with that held Gresham, and will take him to Chi court for this district will But if the Old Woman Med Been Made o Widow There Would Have Been Trouble, From the Detroit Free Press. As the train going down from Charleston to Savannah ran in on a siding to wait for the up train to pass we saw a large alligator in a pond on the other side of the fence. This pond had been made by a fill in the railroad bed and was about 200 feet long by forty broad. On the op- Posite side, and not twenty feet from the water, ‘was e negro cabin and a negro stood in the open door looking at the train. A dozen men leaped to the ground, pulled tneir revolvers and began firing at the reptile. He was hit by two or three bullets at once and down he wens out of sight. As he disappeared the negro came running down to us, hat in hand, and, pointing tos hole made in the headgear by a glancing bullet, he exclaimed: “Now, den, whar is dat white man who shot dat bullet?” No one could eay, as we had all been firing, bat cnet: the shooters finally stepped forward snid: “See here, Moses, it was an accident, and though it was a close shave youhave not been wart. “But I'ze got a chill, sah! When dat bullet Went ‘p-i-n-g’ frew my ole hat I t Iwas, dun sent fur and killed dead, an’ it's brungde ager back on me.” ‘Well, how much damages do you claim?” bits, sah—fo’ bits an’ not a cent less. I doan’ want to rob nobody, but dat builet might her went rignt frew my head.” = raised the balf dollar and handed it over, and, as Moses it into et taried away, he continued: i “Doan’ feel hard, gem'len, but I owes a duty to my fam'ly. Ef dat bullet had killed me de ole woman would her stuck out for two big dol- lars, even if it broke de hull crowd !” ee Do You Scan Your Bills? From the Portland (Me.) Press. The other day a gentleman of this city, who is well known for his wealth and social promi- nence, happened to take up the bill of a lead- ing dry goods firm, as it was lying on his office table, and glanced over the items. This is a very rare proceeding on his part. He usually gave a check, and then filed the bill without examining it. This proceeding was not busi- neas-like, but he had perfect coufidence in his wife and also in the dry goods firm. But on this occasion he looked over the items, and he saw his wife was a devotee to black silk. He couldn't remember that his wife wore a great many silk dresses, and that seemed odd under the circumstances, When ho arrived home he jokingly said to his wife that she ought to be able to rent black silk dresses. Naturally the spouse asked him what he meant. He told her. She declared that she hadn't bought a black silk dress for a year and asked to see the bill. Her husband nded it over, when she identified more than half of ‘the items as incorrect, that is, she had never had thore goods. The husband went to the store and inter- viewed the head of the firm. That gentleman referred the matter to the bookkeeper, who showed all the items charged properly on the books, Then the clerk who sold the goods was seen. She remembered the black silk sales perfectly. The goods were bought by a young dy, who said she was requested to get’ them by the gentleman's wife. “Could she recognize the lady?” “Oh, certainly!” said the clerk. ‘The next day the gentleman again called. “Glad to sce vou,” said the proprietor, “the lady is here. There she stands.” ‘The gentle- man looked, and, lo and behold, the Indy was an intimate friend of his wife and a lady whose Parents are wealthy. Subsequent develop- ments showed that this was a nice little gathe on her part. She ascertained who of her friends bought their goods by bill, which was paid by their oparents. The scheme wouldn't be worked with ladies who had allowances of th own. With the most of them she only made occasional small charges, like gloves, cuffs, col- lars, or little lingerie, but where she found that | ka bills were not closely in «pected, she plunged in deeper. Among parties who know of the matter the affair has caused a deep sen- sation. We hear it xtated there is not the slightest probability the case will be brought to trial. ‘The affair has been settled and the lady Mill probably make an extended visit out of own. ——— A Tragic Incident. Instances have not been lacking wherein speedy and condign punishment has been re- ported as having been meted ont to persons guilty of blasphemy, says the Youngstown (Ohio) Telegram. But they have generally been lacking in some essential features of proof, 80 that they were received with more or less suspition. Infact it is not too much to say that the average man does not put any faith in such reports at. all. But today there comes a tale, told in the plain, matter of fact method, and with the official assurance of one of the press associations that will strengthen the faith of thore who do believe in the administration of striking punishment for such an.offense. A Hamburg dixpatch ‘ays: “A very tragic incident occurred in thecourt here today. ‘T'wo socialist, Sigis- mund and Berenson, were ordered to appear before the magistrate to answer charges of blasphemy, preferred by the public prosecutor. Although suffering from acute influenza, they obeyed the summons, and while listening to the evidence against them they both suddenly expired.” Of course they would probably have died under similar conditions they not been accused of blasphemy, but there is no doubt the coincidence will produce a profound impression wherever it is rea: a Panic Caused by a Bursted Fly Wheel. The breaking of a governor belt on an engine in Green & Fanton’s hat factory at Danbury, Conn., caused the engine to “run away” about 6 o'clock last night and the increased speed caused the three-ton fly wheel to burst. The explosion was so terrific that nearly every one in the building was thrown down. Flying iron shattered the floors and roof for 50 feet, and 4 plece weighing half a ton fell on the factory of Davenport & Vongal snd broke in 20 feet of the roof. Several pieces went through the trimming room, where sixty girls were at work. and caused a panic. Two girls, Lizzie Feely and Katie Lagdon. leaped out of the window. 25 feet from the ground, and received internal injuries. saccades i dt Icen Served in Calla Lilies, ‘From the Indianapolis Tribune. At @ small and elegant company given re- cently the hostess departed from the customary serving of ices im glasses and had them in real callalilies. The large stamen was removed and the flower contained quite as much ice as the ordinary receptacle. When the cup #0 filled was Inia on an exquisite plate the effect was very attractive. with bunches of sweet English violets make « beautiful dec- oration when piled in pyramid form on the center of a dinner table. They are alsoequally pretty placed at each plate. Callas by them selves are cold, f tiff flowers, except when grouped with growing plants, ut filled with small blossoms like violets, forget-me-nota, tiny rosebuds, or even alarger flower, softened with s bit of ‘maiden hair fern or asparagus, they become things of beauty. Ifa lily of this kind be filled with strawberry ice, with a for- get-me-not stuck in the center, it would be a charming, patriotic combination for today or the 4th of July. It is » flower that, may be used in numerous ways, and a woman ‘of ideas can give a calla party that would be a revela- tion in the way. of entertainments. The flower is one that combines both usefal and orfamental qualities in an unusual degree, A Tallahassee special says Gov. Fleming of Florida will leave to the legislature the ap- pointment of a United States Senator to suc- Senator Call. pobre os Alleged Cruelty to Miners. Bernard Heise, » writer on « Bohemian paper, has left New York for Pocahontes, W. Va., to investigate the truth of charges of awful i AUCTION ToMOKRKOW RARE pane e w z _THIS AFTERNOON. RATcuPrE, DARK & CO., Auctioneers, 420 Pennsylvania ave. @. Pennsylvania ave 2. RIVING HORSES, WAGONS (NEW ALSO MAKNESS, MALTERS, WORK AND DI AND SEO! CARRIAGE arr, MARCH SEVENTELD CARE No. 23, Fronting 27 feet 5 miebes on thener! hh side of Marytar Prenting Fo S maken cayieatarth tect Boyan ory Brick Dwell ‘This property is on the line of Potomac railroad and is particulasly Ba Wil sell at Dow: lapted for ware | ‘Terius: Oue-balf cash ; balance in one and two with interest st 6 per reid per anima ete annually from day of sale, secured the property, or all caste at the Pu complied with in Svewines French Landaa juired'at time of sale. Bifitteen days, otherwise the riskt i Teserved to resell the property” at the risk aba cost. of the defaultine purchaser after repaper pubitshed conveyancing, recording. ([HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioncer USEMOLD RFPRCTS a) ROOMS, RATURDAY MARC ERY DISCLIPTIO} Ss. AMONG WHICH Two Hiegant Turkish Parlor Suit Imported Rue with Plow Tri Hiewaut Couches, bas and t days’ advertisement ashinaton, D.C. All ANA CO. Auste, I8 POSTPONED ON AC. SPURL GE the rain quell TUESDAY, THIRD DAY OF FE. DARR & 00., Aveta, aa-THE ABOVE SALE IS FURTHER PosT- her nuts) PRIDAL, INL, sume Lour aud E, DARKE CO. ag-THE ABOVE. 8a CondiUOR : saueral Square Plauen s banner Sin Slarute is creases, isters, Oak, Ash atl Pwintat jane Ware, larce nuriser rene t Ose Fora gentioman leaving the city. several Pine O@ north 21 feet “3 ironing on 1235 n{ combination safe and office furniture of the ALSO. AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. ro) st, by adepth of 106 feet ‘Terns: Cne-half cash, balance in une and two years, interest atti per cent [er nil A depomit of @200 requ: be complied with tn ‘Wise rigiit reserve to resell the property a and cost of the deianiting purcbater, v inaer, in pertect onder. drait and otiver ports cles ot Various kinds, some of them very) fine. Yanda. dy best Ait couves um nu and Fe F, DARK & ©O., Aucta. DARE & 00., Avctic $20 Pru. ve. @. ANEOUS AND a . IX ADDITION To THE MEDICAL LIBRAKIFS 01 DRS. TYLER AND Phi alleries, 4240 Pa, ave UKSDAY AND OURTH, FIFTH AND SIXTH i Feady for inspection and catalowues for dis- | FFE, DARR & Co. x. {shall sella ict of Harness and Harn: tings. Horse Blankets, &e tribution Momday at 10a.u: RATCL ND ART GALLERIES @ ‘Thirty-five’ bend of Drait Horses and some aret-rate 2 New Basines Wace . 2 New Busvien and 1 Waxous, Piastonn. WALTHE Wits & 00, | Boons, Sungicas Instruments, & f the late Dr. Walter B ready for inspection and catal om Monday at 1yp clerk. a RATCLIFFE. DaRR 2001 PENNSYLVANIA AVE. ¥. JAPANESE AKT AT AUCTION. ‘Owing to the inclemency of the weather it was tm Possibie 0 clove out the collection of THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer TWENTY THOUSAND JAPANESE CARVED IVORIES, BRONZED, OLD SATSUMA WARE AND COSTLY Femoved {9 my Fu AS ADVERTISED. ‘We will theretore make « continuation sale each day CHANCERY SALE OF REAL ESTATE ON FOURTH RIRFET EAST NEAR PENNSYLVANIA AVE- By virtue of 9 decree of the Supreme Conrt of the Disirict of Columbia. passed in ‘euiity cause No. sais, 1 will offer for s. ELEVEN 4M. AND THREE P.M, a. ‘very large and in it will be found almost Xp MARCH SE) every specluen of i, having © trout of 00 feet 6 yrohase mouey to be balance it six mo . for whiek the note uf the “JAPANESE ART.” visale: Our-belf the Every lot offered will be positively sold without me. serve. Be kind enough to note time of sale, viz, the ontion of the purcbaser oF when property ts knocked pied with witul: ELEVEN A.M. AND THREE P.M, sndlcost of the efaditine pugshnwer after five aye’ | ESF Gay until thie imuense stock ie dteponed a $56 Louisiana avente, (THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. AT AUCTION. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, HORSES)"WAGONS, CARTS, CARRIAGE, BUGGY AND SLEIGH, IMPLEMENTS. CHOICE CHICKENS, &c., AT THE RESIDENCE OF JOSEPH W. DAVIS, BELLEVUE, WESLEY HEIGHTS, OPPOSITE GRASSLANDS, ‘Ladies especially invited to attend. WALTER B. WILLIAMS & ©0., FUTUKE DAYs. ASCTION SALE OF VALUABLE PERBONAL PROPERTY. On the farm in Alexandria County, from Georgetown, on the road lesdone tro Bridveto Falls Church, 15 miles tro the turner: Vrelatrer piscey am WEDNESDAS Seal ini, at NIKE Bik td WEDNESDAY, MARCH ELEVENTH, 1891, COMMENCING AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK, I shall sell on the above-mentioned premises the fol- TWO No. 1 WORK HORSES, TWO BROOD MARES, AND HAY CARRIAGE, ET WAGON, CARRIAGE eH, FARMING IM- TWO-HORSE WAGO WATER CART, MARI AND BUGGY, CAKT, SLE PLENTS, AND LOT OF CHOICE CHICKENS. ALSO LOT OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. THOMAS DOWLING, SALE OF VALUABL SOF WASHING By virtue of the decrees of the 8: District of ‘Columbia pessed 1c), on the 11th day, of Deceniber, INNO, aud on the 4th day of February, the will offer for sale at public cES’ SALE OF VALU ESTATE ON KINGMAN Virtue of e deed of trust to Is, and reconied in liber me of tue land Fecords of the the written request of the holder of the note in Equity cause TH HALE-PAST FOUR ihe south twenty-elclit feet and ‘Of twenty-five iect of lot six the west went; Biya ‘ten Ay - days ‘EDWARD J. STELLW: A me ies F. B. McGUIRE, Truster. L—__i__ & ATCLIFFE, DART & ©O., Auctionsers. OF 4 VERY Y, STREET AND NE! WEST. By virtue of a deed of trust, No. 1454, tolio 43, et seq... ome. pee scarier Tg | Siar ;