Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1891, Page 10

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D.C. FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1891—TWELVE PAGES. COUNTY OF WASHINGTOD Non-Agricultural Continued. Went, Nibert ransterred to tains, Mary - Mary & s, Mary A ferred tS Hien): Transferred to “Bea: aire and Asmapila..-\.- Somse dD teu COUNTY OF WASHINGTON. (Agricultural) gtarnte i Em: ert, B ‘and Butler, Robert, and San Brace, San DELINQUENT TAX LIST. THE NEW ORLEANS MASSACRE. Fenwick. Bon. J Faruhani, Joe. Fietcher, Laurence @., M. harten J. aud ot Wilhaw ii. Greet Grimth, Mebuen, Chaves & - Williaa W . Wikia W oO Oldberg, Ella Clara...., Parron, Edward Foras, prederick Pace. Mrves L Piru Jun A... Barner — Testor, Statice. ‘Taylor, Mary aud Stepiien ve: “ph ews, Kacher &. D. Widinayer, Wilh G..) ‘Taxes levied amd in arrears July 1, 1800. WILL PROBABLY AFFILIATE. —— ‘The National League of Musicians May Join the K, of L. . Nearly ten days have been occupied in the convention of the National League of Musicians at Milwaukee in the discussion of the proposed aftiliation of the league with the American Federation of Labor. President Wolsiffer took a stand in favor of car:tious action on the subject. One delegate said that musicians might as well recognize the fact that they, like other wageworkers, must combine for protection. Delegate Currier spoke at length favoring the proposition as a needful step for the accom- Plishmeut of the objects of the league. He was seconded by Delegate Davis, who said that the San Francisco local bad instructed him to vote for the proposition, they having over- come the seruples about the term labor as ap- plicable to ‘musicians: also by the delegates rom Omaha and St. Louis. . New York Manager F. A. Schwab is about to start for Europe toengage musicians for service in this country, and in the hope of heading off this project the New York delegates secured the adoption of set of resolutions protesting against the importation of foreign musicians for any J ‘whatever. Responsibility of the United States Gevern- ment—The Tragedy and Its Antecedents. To the Baitor of The Evenine Star: It seems to me that the root of the lawless ness cnd violence from which New Orleans has suffered is to be found in tho long-continned anterior failure of administrative justice. Of ail the men who have mmrdered other men in Loui how many have been convicted of murder and executed under the laws of the-state? No com- munity in which murder is a crime and mur- derers almost invarinbly escape punishment is comies a time when murders are committed of to pass unavenged, and then the masses, almost necessarily misintormed, and, there- fore, almost invariably misdirected the" functions, and, aa in this case, overrule and ‘reverse the decisions of inw. Given a community, no matter whetner it is established on the banks of the Mississippi or the Potomac, where men in their private quarrels kill other men with pistol or knife in the presence of witnessosand Fet go unpunished, and you have a community snbject to such pe teowe as have given New Orleans a sight and smell of its internal fires. Who can num- ber the members of “good families” that have been shot down on the streets, mostly, no doubt, although by no means exclusively, in our southern cities and towns, by other cit zens equally “respectable.” cowardly assassins, if truth be told, who have not even given their victims time to draw and defend themselves, but have “got the drop them on the instant to eternity. But it does not need five fingers to count the number of those deliberate murderers who have been hung. New Orleans is suffering from her own chronic indisposition — perhaps inability—to administer justice according to the lawfully established standards of the state. and the remedy she has tried is really an effect of her disease and almost, if not quite, as dangerous as the disease itwelf. If we examine the alleged failure of justi upon whom must the blame rest? The accuse were in the grasp of the law—they had not escaped or been rescued. The law of Louisiana had an opportunity to deal with them. If the judge was the culprit—if throngh fear or favor he had betrayed justice or the state, and he wav afair sample of Louisiana judges, it might kave been a most impressive lesson to have hung him. Or if, as alleged, the jurors were corrupted, or so cowardly as ‘to be’ false to their duty, and there was do other resort in the virtue and intelligence of the community the jurors might have been sacrificed to the public safety. They were American citizens charged with a sacred trust of fandamental im- portance to the state, and if they were wil- fully and corruptly’ false aud there was no chance of getting better juries but by shooting or hanging those ‘particular jurors their execution” might have been justitied. But what would by gained if within a week or two of stch “a triumph of natural justice” another jury should acquit. a mur- who after telling a friend there was ‘oing to be trouble” proceeded forthwith to get within range of his unsuspecting victim and blew bis brains out on a public street? Judg- ments, like tastes, differ, and some people might think that sach a murder as that, albeit ging to “one of our very best and most distinguished families, ais cowardly, vile and per ng in human guise that the “Mafia” could produce. Letter have no laws thn laws that are not effectively and impartially enforced. Murder is murder, whether committed by members of the *“Matia“or members of “the first familiesof the And a community that will shoot alleged fatia” who have been acquitted by a local jury, and will not execute equally mmuary vengeance upon a “respectable ’ raf an who hax committed murder on the public streets, when twelve of his have acquitted hum, isa sort of “Mafia” itsel’. Keferring to some of the legal aspects of the case which have been discussed in the press on principle aud precedent, it is to be observed that it was not the city of New Orleans but the government of the United States, by act of Congress, that paid indemnity for the injuri done by a New Orleans mob ‘to the + i, ak YOu suggest in yesterday's Sra, to ‘doing all that ix possibie ‘under our Constitu- tion for securing Gamages from the city of New Orleans.” As remarked by Mr. Webster in one of his notes to the Spanish minister, foreigners in New Orleans who have suffered injuries for which the local laws provide a remedy can sue cither in the courts of the state or those of the United States, and have thus an advantage over citizens of the state, who must sne in the state courts. But ina case like this a high-spirited d powerful government might not be willing, and_ceriainly would not be bgund, to remand the families of its murdered Citizens to the slow and uncertain processes of mnnicipal Inw. italy, as you are aware, can have no diplomatic dealings with the state of Louisiana or the city of New Orleans. It is oniy the government of the United States with which the Italian gov- ernment can deal in this matter. The United States is internationally respontible for such acts or omissions “of eack and every state of the Union, its officers and people as infringe the public law to the injury of foreigners. And it by no means follows that because the United Stites nays damages for wrongs to foreigners that either the individual wrong-doers or their state must reim- purse the nation, I have never heard that Louisiana reimbursed the United States for the indemnity paid to the consul Laborde and his Ww subjects of Spain, or that Wyoming re- imbursed the United States for the “indemnity to China for the benefit of the families of the murdered Chinese. And perhaps it is bet- ter that the whole people should suffer in the international forusa for the lawlessness of any of the members of the national body politic, The idea wineh hay been widely circulated by the newspapers, on the al ‘Mr. Bayard, that the government of the United {es is not responsible to Italy for the massa- ere of Italian subjects because the mob did not discriminate between those native-born Itali who hac become citizens of the United Sti es by natural'zation and those others who had never renounced their allegiance to Italy seems to me to be utterly unt ‘The test is not whether such violence iv c fined to one race, Lut whether the violence could and should have been prevented. In this case the mob was summoned by a previously published nil and the authorities were thus forewarned, and = should have been forearmed.' The publicists agree that inability to cope with a known danger or one reasonably to be apprehended (war, in the xense of the iw of nations, excepted) of it: self source of liability to foreign nations whose m disturb- words, just be- « to be a govern- bers are injured in «uch public In oth ment it is respoumble to ali other governments for the due exercise of tl maintenance law and order throughout territory against ail unlaw! of which the proper authorities a with due diligence, be cognizant or apprehensive. Suppose that three American citizens ac- cued of complicity in the dynamite outrages had been tried and acquitted by a London jury States have listened patiently if the British government had pleaded in bar that the Lon- dion mob also mase.ered half 2 dozen or moré native-born Ame: who had become natar- alized subjects of Ler majesty? ‘The question would be: Could ard should the massacre have been prevented by the proper authorities? It is indeed matter for public congratulation that the prineipies governing the ducy and re- sponsibility of the republic have been stated with such clearness, force and courage by the President in Mr. Blaine’s note to the governor of Louisiana, C.K Washington, D. March 19, 1891. —_ SETTLE. Eva Mann Will Withdraw Her Claim to Ray Hamilton's Estate for 675,000. Mra. Eva Manu, otherwise Mrs. Eva Ray Hamilton, who has been visiting friends in Carbondale, Pa., for a few weeks past, left yes- terday. She has gone to the home of her tather, William Steele, who resides in Dallas, a small town ninety-seven miles from Wilkesbarre, and where there are no newspaper men nor curious people who have never seen her to make her life a burden. Toa reporter on the train she said she desired rest and did not care to have her movements reported throughout the world every day. especially when 80 many exaggreated stories were being told concerning her. She said her husband's estate had an annual income of #18,000, and by rights one-third of that belonged to her, but her husband's rela- tives refused to her claim to any of tho ¢state. She further added that r pg ge it mes ‘rae their ve offered her $60, settle 3 tee ae Upon the advice of she refused to accept that amount and will not settle for less ‘than $75,000. Fire on Wednesda: pry near agen House to the extent of 000; insurance un- known. The theater will be reopened next week. na during the last quarter of a centary | either civilized or safe. for inevitably there | a kind that the community will not allow | m them” and sent | and, while still in custody of the law, had been | 9 massacred by « Loudon mob, would the United NEWS FROM ROCKVILLE. Interesting Cases Before the Circuit Coart— A Corporation Dairy Comfany Project. Correspondence of The Evening Star. Rockvinue, March 19, 1891. Last night a thief entered the stable of Mr. Day, station agent at Randolph onthe Metro- politan branch railroad, a mile eastof this | place, and took therefrom @ ltorse, saddle and | bridle. The meat honse at the same place was also broken open anda quantity of lardand other articles taken from the same. In the circuit court the following cases were disposed of during yesterday and today: Howard Butt agt. John T. Gray; appeal; jndg- ment for appellant. Monocacy and Urbana | Turnpike Company agt. Jerome Thompson: appeal; judgment for appeliant forcosts, Wm. T. Jones agt. C. W. Walker; judgment for | plaintiff for $10.94. Richard G. Plummer | agt. Samuel Darby; suit for damages: still on | trial. ‘This last case has aroused more than | usual interest among farmers, as it is based on the fact that a horse belonging to the plaintiff while trespassing on the lands of the de- fendant was taken up and confined in a lane on the, premises which yas incloned by a barb-wire | fence, and while so confined was so badly in- | jured by coming in contact with the wire that | the animal had to be killed, for which the plaintiff demands damdges. After the clove of his cave the damage suit of Philip Sterve agt. | Capt. John McDonald will be taken up and | will probably Inst for the. balance of the week, ax large number of witnesses are to be ex- | amined, Rev. David Bush of the M. E. Church South, who has been stationed at this place for several years, will in a few days leave for his new charge in Loudoun county, Va. i Elbert Perry of Guithersburg and Miss Clagett of Darnestown were married at the | residence of the bride ou Weduesday evening | by Kev. Mr. Myers of the Presbyterian Church. | A marringe license has been’ issued by the clerk of the cireuit court to Samuel A. Grimes and Annie J. Beall, both of this county | Mr. 1. T. Falke has purchased of J. Sprigg | Poole of Washington the business houses and | dwelling opposite the post office in Gaithers- | burg for £12,000. Yesterday large number of horses, carts and drivers passed through here for Washing- ton county to work on the repairs to the Chesa~ peake and Ohio car Mrs. Georgiana Williams, wife of Mr. Frank J. Williams and daughter of Hon. Howal fith of this county, died at Virginia C Va., on Sunday last, in the fortieth year of her _Mr. Frank K. Ward of Washington visited | this place yesterday, his business being to make arrangements for tive joint stock dairy company, to be composed of milk producers and consimers. It ix pro- posed to establish depots for the reception of | milk at #everal different points ou th tan branch railroad, the princival one | 1¢ at this place, from which the milk will be | conveyed to the cities by rail and delivered to | customers in air-tight glass czus. All the milk | will be thoroughly inspected, and should the | supply exceed the demand the surplus will be | converted into butter and cheese, for the man- ufacture of which suitable buildings will be erected here. In the orphans’ court yesterday letters tes- tamentary on the estate of Mary White were’ granted to Thomas Anderson; bond 215,000. the wilis of Doreas Pumphrey, Thos. Mills and Mary E. Waters, deceased, were files Letters of administration on the estate of Frances A. Eyre, deceased, were granted to Frederick E. e; bond #500. Cashel, adininis- | trato: of Thos. F. Cashell, and Horace D. | Waters, administrator of John C. H. Richter, | passed ‘their first accounts. The Sugarland Hunting Club of Poolesvitle district has captured tive foxes within the past six weeks, the last one be streets of Dawsonville on A branch of the W.C.1.U. n organized at Sligo with the following officers: Mrs. W. Thor Mrs. J. C. Dowell, vice presid illiams, secretary, and iiss Dimple Noyes, treasurer. Misses. Bessie Anderson and Ki have for some days been on a ¥ of Mr. Wm. Dorsey, near this day for their home in Baltimoi ite Hogg, who | it to the family e, left yester- SAM. CAPT, McKEAGUE ARRESTED. The Commander of the Utopia Charged With Negligence a: Wismanagement. | Capt. McKengue of se Utopia, recently wrecked near Gibraltar, Spain, bas becn ar- | rested for wrongful acts, improper conduct, negligence and misinanagement. He was re- leased on bail. The accounts given by the divers who are en- gaged in the work on the wrecked steamer of | the terrible sights which they have witnessed | on the vessel still further increase the appalling | character of the catastrophe. These men in describing the horrible scenes say that they | found the hatches and the chart room of the | Utopia closely packed with the bodies of the un- fortunate passengers, who had become wedged inte an almost solid mass in their frantic rueh to reach the decks of the steamer after she had. jerashed into the sharp ram of the ironela | The positions in w s were foun! | show that the poor pe a terrible | struggle for life and that desperate attempts | were made to excape from the doomed vessel as | the sea came rushing in through the rentin her | side. Owing toa lack of accommodations in the naval hospital at Gibra! many of the crew and the emigrants who were resctted have been. compelled to encamp on the glacis. PATROLLING THE COAST. The military are closely patrolling the shore for the purpose of reseuing any more of the bod in by the waves. dreds of persons being swallowed up in the raging waters of the bay, are anstinted in their praine of the great gallantry displayed by the men of the Britiel squadron jored there, who boldiy hurried to tix rescue of the e | dangered ithout stopping to con- sider the risk they ran in launching their small Bouts on an angry sea and in the teeth of a he gule. Much praire is also bestowed on the men of the yacht Resolute, who also marued « boat and succeeded in saving sixteen petsons, but for this brave and timely aysistance, would soon have given up the struggle and sank to the bottom, | await the resulta of pending deliberation | and of Ame | ket and sell cream, ice © {ve THE INQUIRY BEGUN. The inquiry into the circumstances of the | Utopia disaster was begun yes surgeon | Sellar of the ill i age had been une before the disaster. | Shortly after passing Europa point, at 6 o'clock in the evening, he heard s passenge? exclaim “We are ronuing into a man-of-war!” Wh the vemel was sinking Surgeon Sellar undressed inmself, jan was soon Te cued. He heard the F ing the bouts lowered after the colitsion. had implicit contlience in the exptain. ‘The offices of the Anchor Line steamship 7 Bowling Cireen, ork, were ged yesterday morning with ausiows ii guicies for a list of the survivors of the sunken 3 ers were almost fran- ds on board the ill-fated gents announced to all in- that the saved passengers Will be transferred to the Anchor Line steam- ship Asnyria, whieh sails from Genoa, and will ‘ought to New York. — He | | ‘The | quirers this morn the other day gath- | ered up ail the posters of a burlesque company and carried them to the city hall, where they | were deposited with their faces to the wall. | Director Stroisley was indignant about one pic- ture, in which one hundred fuiries in tlesh-col- ored tights were represented as paying homage tow nude queen. He expresses his determina- tion to seize all euch pictures as may be pub- licly exhibited and let the theater managers fight him in the conrt if they should choose to do #0. et eaee Possible Strike Involving 15,000 Xen. ‘There are indications of » strike in the con- tral Penneylvania bituminous coal fields in- volving 15,000 men. The miners are being paid 5 cents a gross ton and want that price net. A conference with the operators was called for to be held yesterday, but only one operator responded to the ‘call and the conference was a fizzle. This may precipitate a strike in the region thirty days before the gen- eral eight-hour struggle begins. ae hiene-tntsnciaeiinee” Another Fatal Fire in New York)" ** | stloon, and during the course of his remar! | murderer, he havi j Waters dicd sirmoxs instantly. BEFORE THE GRAND JURY. Progress of the Investigation of the Alleged | A Convict’s Proposition to Secretary Tracy | The Secretary Out of the Eace for the Ohio Bribing of Jurors. * Thomas C. Collins was before the grand jury in New Orleans yesterday to testify in the in- vestigation now being made concerning the Dribery of the tales jurors in the Hennessy case. Collins, though employed in the office of Private Detective O'Malley, was in fact an officer of the secret service duly commissioned by Mayor Shakespeare, the legal head of the police of New Orleans. Interesting, if not startling, developments are expected. Another case somewhat similar to the Collins job was attempted, but from some unknown cause went amiss. A detective was brought here from Italy, arrested ‘upon a charge of passing counterfeit money and sent to the parish prison. Being an Italian, he was put in the same section with the other Italian prisoners, bnt the assas- ins became distrustful of the neweomer and he was removed by the prison authorities to an- other cell, and so this scheme to get inside i formation fell through. The committe of fifty representative citizens, appointed by the mayor shortly after the as- sassination of Chief of Police Hennessy to assist the constituted authorities in the trial and con- viction of the assassing, are now engaged in an investigation of the conduct of the jurors who | rendered the verdict which led to the outbreak of last Saturday The jurors who voted for acquittal say they were guided by the court's instructions to give the prisoners the benefit of the doubt, and that they did not think the state had made out its case. The jurors repudiate emphatically the proposition that any money was used to influ- ence their verdict. Sheriff Villere, in his report to the court con- cerning the occurrences at the parish prison Inst Saturday, substantially confirms the news- paper reports, SEW YORK ITALIANS. L'Eco d'Italia of New York will publish the following today: . “Trauias Brornrrs: The mass mecting of to- night must be marked as a grand, dignified demonstration of lized people. Tl in tonight's mass meeting must listen to none other than the voice of reason, Until the re- quest and deserved reparation has come the Dleeding heart of every Italian should suffer silently. The Italian colony im New York is the most flonrishing and largest of all our col- onies in the United States. All our brothers in this broad nnd of voluntary exile ee Let us be calm, let onr example teach moderation to others. Even the glorious statue of libert, which stands guard over this great repub! will be dimmed by the radiant splendor of the tri-colored flag today. The Christcforo Colombo will say: “The part of the American press that tries to justify the New Orleans murders is wrong. Such deeds are not to be excused. We speak as American citizens who care for the prestige of Americs ‘We awnit calmly the results of tonight's meeting. As American citizens we have faith in the righteousness of the American people can law and government. As sons of Italy we trust that our country will do her duty. As men in the midst of humanity we stigmatize crime wherever it is found. oe TALKING TO THE FARMERS. Subjects Relating to the Dairy Industry Dis- cussed by # Farmers’ Institute. At awell-attended meeting of the Farmers’ Institute at Grange Hall, Brighton, Montgom- ery county, Md., on Wednesday, a number of subjects pertinent to dairy farming were dis- | cuswed. Prof. Alvord said he thought the co-operation plan the best, where the farmer would put his milk into thestore and receive his proportion of the profits. Itisnot necessary, he said, to make all the cream into butter, but steady the mar- m, butter or milk in the manner most profitable. At the afternoon session Prof. Patterson read ‘a paper on the quality of milk as it effects the farmer and creamery and methods for the de- termination of the same. He said the farmer can no longer disregard the quality of the mili of his herd and look only to. its quantity, but he mast put torth his beat efforts toward the ion and rearing of animals that will. pro- duce the most pounds of butter or cheese from a given weight of milk or for a given amount of foud consumed. It costsas much to feed and care for a cow yielding two pounds of butter per 100 pounds of milk as, to feed and care for a cow yielding seven pounds. No farmer who is supplying a creamery can afford to keep a “beef cow” in his milking herd simply because he can buy her for 5 or ¥10 or even €20" less than he would have to pay for_one yielding 4 good quantity of rich milk. The beef cow is generally a source of loss. Let every farmer test exch cow in his herd for quan- tity and quality and he will feel repaid at | the end of un extent of the adulteration of milk. the milk is a premium skimming of his is put it. on the watering and Even the farmer, with jon for honesty and ess affairs of lite. has ot to be wholly proof against the sot milk adulteration, ‘Ine paying rding to its fat contents does away temptation for cheating, and has a Leneticial effect generally on the moral atmos- phere of the neignborhood. Prof. A. L Hayward read a paper on the best breeds of cattle tor creamery purposes. Of thése the best were clearly the Jersey aud the Guernsey. Frank Waters, an Ex-Journalist, Killed in Dispute About tie Kecent Lynching. At 11 o'clock Weduesday nigh> Capt. Arthur Dunn, a prominent politician and a well-known attorney of New Orleans, became involved in a ‘el with Frank Waters, an ex-journalist and well-known character about town, by the state in the recent trial of the italians j charged with the assassination of Chief of Police Hennes ‘The trouble began in the early part of the evening. Waters had been drinking ina stigmatized the parish prison ns and expressed men wno au untimely end. Dunn met him shortly after- ward and a dispute took piace, during the pro- gress of which Dunn referred to Waters asa g killed Joseph Baker y Orleausin 1887. ‘The dispute grew warme and Dunn pulled his revolver aud shot Wate: in the check and in the mouth. | 'The last bullet ranged upward and penetrated the brain, Waters returned the fire of his antagonist and wounded Dunn twice in the left leg and again ght side of his chest neax the nipple. Dunn was taken ing of the Ttalians at th trage on the communii: imself as sutisiied that all those to the hospi ge pe ee The Louisville Failure. ust who the largest creditors of Schwartz & Co., the Louisville bankers whose failure was announced yesterday, are cannot be determined at this time. In the absence of positive information from the firm or from the asrignee or the attorney, and any information wouid be guess work, but it is understood, at least, that some of the other Louisville finin- cin] institutions ure caught pretty heavy, and that possibly other failures may be precipi- tated. However, from the nature of the business done, the Tosses here cannot be so heavy es if the banking business was of the regular order, and some fofeizn correspondents may lose us much as the Joval institutions if at all in pro- portion to tho emount the defunct firm pays ‘on the doilar if not in full. Aithongh it has not been stated to this effect it {x generally supposed that the finuncial erash is dne to the late financial stringency, which, it is evident, is not altogethor passed. This ‘is” inferred from remark of Mir. Cochran of the Louisville Trust Company, assignee, to the effect that the firm, ashe un- derstood, lind been hoping to pay out and tide comemer pias until yesterday or the day fore. Bequesthed to Charitable Institutions. A decree has been entered in a Chicago court authorizing Mark Kimball, Daniel K. Pearsons and Mrs. Harriet A. Jones as executors and trutifees under the will of the late Daniel A. Fores’ to distribute over $100,000 among chari- {Olé Institution ‘The following were made: Old People’s Home of £29,600; to the president and directors of Wit- ms College, at Williamstown, Mass., $10,000; Wabash at Grn Ind., =10,000; 2 Church of Hook yille, Ina. School . U; at ENLISTMENTS IN THE NAVY. Which Will Not Be Accepted. A cabinet officer seldom Incks for suggestions or advice from all sorts of sources. Indeed, he might almost stop thinking on his own Account and in a week he could accumnlate a | large enough stock of ideas to run his business | for @ year. Secretary Tracy is particularly | fortunate—or unfortunate, as one looks at the matter—in getting gratuitous advice. His latest curiosity in this line was received this morning from an individual who acknowledged that he is now residing permanently in the Wisconsin penitentiary for a slight misconception of the law and who has e1 his rooms at that institution for the remainder of his natural existence. This personage remarked that he had recently seen & newspaper story to the effect that there were 1,000 vacancies among the enlisted men of the navy that were impossible to fill. He there- fore suggested that 2 large amount of first- class material for the manning of the navy might be found in his own ad similar institutions throughout the country. He ad- vanced the startling information that there are plenty of able-bodied young men wasting their best days within stone walls who would be only too willing to enlist in the navy and | servo their coi These young men, he went on to say, are “in” for periods of from three years to life, and are eager for other Benes. A crew, he added, could thus be gathered together that would besnperior in ability and zeal to any that has ever trod the deck of a man-of-war. Personally the writer was | willing to lend in the movement, and | he revaarked that it. would be a’ good | scheme to provide in the enlistment | papers that when the terme on board slip ran ti out the men would have becn discharged if they had behaved themselves as sailors or nt 1 back to their former prisons in case they n obstreperous,. He made no allusion, how ever, to tle danger of desertion and its re- sults. Unfortunately for this dual’ hopes, the story about the shortage of 1,000 men was un- will be forced to the extreme of going to the prisons tor his sailors. The navy is now so Tull that enlistments have been stopped for the present. er. THE Wipow 1 A Claimant for the Money Found on Wm. Redman’s Body, A few wecks ago the following paragraph was printed in Tue Stan: “The Indian office has received a sum of money from the Indian agent at the Uintah agency, Utah, which was found on the bods of Win. Redmay, who committed suicide ne: the age ney in 1883. at the oxency with the expectation that some ue would claim it. As no application has beer received the money was sent to the Indian | little too much like self-secking for me to cc founded, and it is not likely that the Secretary | The money has been kept | MR. FOSTER NOT A CANDIDATE. Senatorship. The Toiedo Bladeon Wednesday had an author ized interview with Secretary of the Treasury Charles Foster, who is in the cit# attending a meeting of trustees of the Northwestern Ohio In@ine Asylum. of witch body he is a member. Mr. Foster, on being asked nis views ‘of the senatorial situation in Ohio, replied “Why, one thing seems certain to me, that if weelect # republican legiMlature Mr. Sher- man will be re-elected, if he is « candidate.” ~-Will Mr. Sherman be a candidate?” “There have been some iutimations made by his friends that he contemplates retiring at | theend of his present term. If he so con-| cludes, no doubt he will make it known in x» ple time fer the full discussion of the question Of hix a@ecessor.” | On being asked as to the truth as to recent | newspaper statements to the effect that he humm | self is a candidate to sucesed Mr. Sherman, Mr. i Foster replied: H “It is a question that has been presented to me more than once lately. Had I remained in private life I probably should have been « candidate for the senatorship, ba is pot the case now somewhat differenty: T have nc- cepted a cabinet position. Will Yt bot look a ae up within a year asacandidate for another very important place? “But your present term as secretary wil — on the day that the next senatorial term ‘Yes, Iknow, but it seems to me that it would look more ox though I were considering my own personal end: than the good of the republican party of Ohio if I shoaid an-| noance myself ay in line for the senator. | Lou forget Gor. Hill of } recent election to the Senate. he Secretary laughed. “Well, Hillis a dem- ocrat; I am a republican.” Then you are not a candidate as Mr. Sher man’s successor?” “I certainly do not fee! that I would be de what is best for the party were Ito. be a cand date,” frankly replied Mr. Foste _ The Secretary leit in the evening for his howe in Fostoria and goes back to Washington next week. EX-GOVERNOR FORAKER IN THE FIELD. A special from Cincinnati saye: The remains no doubt but that ex-Gov. Fo will contest Sherman's seat in the Senate. For the past few da ral of the recognized lientena ker have rmly cham- pioned th Jeet Palnwer of hay- ang the state tien decide on the party's didate. Foraker is eminently popular with | the rank and iile who go to conve 8, and is recognized that he Wonid sweep ungs eve against She Today F inter view, form: lared that b vention idea and the statem | #8 amannouncement of his cai Beaten to Death by Her Husband. Bridget Ryan was fou yesterday w York and his | fave nt ix recog iduey office.’ The money above referred to was received with a letter from Robert Wangh, esq., United States Indian agent, Uintah and Ouray agenc Utah, and transmitted to the Indian office on August 26, 1890, In his letter the agent states that he “found the inclosed envelope and money in the office safe at Ouray on taking charge. He was informed by Mr. Dole, former clerk entioned on the ii osed paper, namely, nnary 1, 1883, not thinking it proper to ‘have it lying around he had opened the envelope in’ the presence of Dr. C. M. Santelle and Elisha Davis, aud found therein the inclosed $20 and the piece of torn paper with date. The money was taken from the Lody of a man supposed to have committed suicide near the south end of this (Uneoi- pabgre) reservation in January, 1583 Shortly after this publication in Tae Stan letter was received from the postmaster at Barry, Clay county, Mo., referring to the para- graph, and stating that he had been requested by Mrs. Nannie Redman, widow of the Wm. Hedman spoken of, to make application for the money. He states that Redman and his wife were | born in the neighborhood of Barry and had |lived there nearly all their lives, Tanke were forwarded to the widow and if she proves her identity the money will be sent¥o her. FLURRY IN MINING STOCKS. Something Like an Approsch to the Old Ex- iti Times. ASan Francisco dispatch says: The last two days have witnessed the nearest approach on the mining stock board to the old-time scenes of excitement that have been witnessed in sev- jeral years. At Wednesday morning’s session transfers of 30,000 shares of stock were made. ‘The present excitement is ascribed to the cur- rent reports about developments of ore in the car. Few have an idea of the | Southern part of the consolidated California | Where paid for according to weight and Virginia claims on the eleven and twelve- hundred-foot levels, and the Comstock se2u: | The | | Said that when Lis father left hi morning at her squalid home in Moynals | yard, on Vine street, East Cambridge, apposition from present appe. | that he died from the effects of w | ceived in qnarrel with her husba | Ryan, who has been arresied. Ryan sys be came home from work xvout 6 o'clock Wednes- day night, and found his wife Lying on a sofa. He asked her to ge his supper ready, but she Mass, ames 14 i, | refused, and words followed, resulting in Mrs. | Ryan throwing a tumbler at in his striking her m the f er husband and ¢ with his fist. Fs that after the trouble he ieft the ined t to his 1—a boy younger girls. The boy's story is that Ryan kicked and struck their mother because he would supper. | Neighbors living al ° Ryans heard a tumult in the house about 10 o'clock, but this being of frequent ceenrrence nothing in ticular was thought of it. The litte Iya | till yesterday morning wh work. ‘The Iivans have three of seven and tio | a dollar, bade the child | he was going to New York. | about to becom } Murderer Day's Sister Confesses, Mra. Quigley, sister of Arthur Day, who was hanged at Welland, Ort., December 18, 18: for wife murder, who was with him at Niagara | Falls, Sunday, July 27, 1890, when he pushed his wife over the precipice near the whirlpool, | and was a witness against him on his trial, died in Rochester yesterday afte noon. On her deathbed sixe confessed toler mother that she had incited Arthur to the murder and had j helped him to commit it by aiding him in pushing his wife over. She held Mrs. Day's | dess skirt over her face and pushed on one shoulder, while Day pushed on the other. cine The Drouth in Montana Broken. Those who have becn out upon the Montana ranges recently state that cattle and sheep are in excellent condition. It was feared the ey Oldest ! The Evening Star is the Oldest and most firmly estab lished newspaper published in the District of Columbia, having won the high position it holds in the confi- dence of the people of Washington by forty years of faithful and unswerving devotion to their interests, without regard to any other influence or com sideration whatsoever, Tue Star is the Largest paper published in Washington, with a general equipment and printing facil- | ities three-fold greater and better than those of any other Washington paper; and, having the full Day Reports of both the New York Associated Press and the United Press, supple- mented by an unequaled service of Exclusive Special Dispatches from al. prominent points in America and | Europe, it prints more and fresher | Telegraphic News than any other | Washington paper can possibly sup- | ply, furnishing at the same time a greater amount and better quality of Local, Domestic and General Intelli- gence, and a larger quantity aad higher grade of Original and Selected Literary Miscellany than any paper in the District. ties have steadily gone upward. Consolidated | heavy snow storms that occurred in February California and Virginia reached an advance of |.and early in this month would result in serious og in the killing would come to | 5 $2 per share over Tuesday's lowest price. ‘The Best und Botcher, owing to the report Gould and and other ence of the advance und went up several points. The quotations, however, dropped somewhat before the close, when consolidated California and Virginia stood at $12.25 asked. ‘To Prevent the Dixon-McCarthy Fight. The Troy police commissioners kaye taken action regarding the MeCarthy-Dixon fight an- {nounced to be held March 31, and passed a | resclution directing Superintenden? Willard to | prevent the tight on that date or any time be- joreor after it. ee | Perso Gossip From London, A special cable dispatch to Tar Ey ING STAR from London say: ady Randol Church | ill, the daughter of the late Leonard W. Jerome, is «pending the spring at Lanstead manor, Nomuarket, where her mother, Mrs. Jerome, is olso stay’ ‘Miss Sybil nderson, the American girl who has made 80 pronounced a success at the grand opera in Paris, has been eugaged to appear on the iyrie stage in London as the heroine in “Mannon”™ by Massonet. Mrs. Besant, the reformer and fellow-worker with the late Charles Bradlaagh, will sail for America shortly to attend the annual couvet tion of the American section of the Theosop! Mme. Blavatak; —____+9s_—__ A Bank Wrocker Given Six Years, j Judge Benedict on Wednesday in New York sentenced Gen. Peter A. Claussen to six years imprisonment in the Erie county penitentiary. Claussen was convicted of wreck- lug the Sixih National Bank. i REE Sa Delinguent World’s Fair Subscribers, Justice Bradwell’s court room in Chicago bas been crowded recently by delinquent subscribers to the world’s fair fund. Assistant Secretary Kingswell was the complainant and Attorneys Matz and Fisher represented the prosecution. ‘The amounts owed on stock ranged all the way from $1.87 to $46. A majority of the de- linquents claimed that they had transferred their stock or were in lack of cufficient funds to meet their payments. In many instances judgments were rendered for the amounts Glaimed, while some few cases were continued. ———____ A Large Wheat Crop in Kansas. Reporis received at the Kansas agricultural dcpartment from 9 of the 106 counties in the state are encouraging regarding the wheat outlook. In four-fifths of the counties report- ing the crop is in fine condition and better than ever before ‘ted in the history of the state. ‘The open winter and frequent rains and snows have put the ground in con- dition, In Elin-and’ adjoining counties tho wheat is advanced beyond the condition of any previous vear at this time. It is reported that wayhdicate of English and eastern capitalists are investing in the salt fields and making large im ‘ans cal Society ay the personal representative of | | losses to live stock in Montana. Recent | Chinook winds, however, have melted off much of the das the season isso ‘The frequent | and “heavy snows that have fallen in Montw during the past few weeks indicate that the drouth is broken, and give assurance of abun- | dant grass and excellent crops. The prospect | of a large immigration to Montana the present year ix excellent. The rapid construction of Tailways throughout the state is consta two years. a Pee Jurors Who Did Not Know Euldence. Judge Backson created a sensation in the circuit court in Louisville yesterday by taking to tusk the petit jurors, He said that the way the criminals were acquitted who, according to the proof were clearly guilty, was a disgrace to the dispensation of justice and brings the | courts and officials into bad repute. “Such |Jaxness is what led to the taking of the law | into their own hands by indignant citizens, of which we have had a recent example.” iste soe eects A iry"s Strange Verdict. Joseph Tucker was shot and killed by Myrick | Ennis, his brother-in-law, yesterday. Both are | well-known citizens of Milledgeville, Ga., but have been on unfriendly terms for more than ayear. They met yesterday while both were hunting and had some words, which resulted in the shooting. The coroner's jury decided j tat the shooting was justifiable, os Schaefer Will Play Slosson. Jake Schaefer said yesterday that he will play | Slosson for the championship in New York for | from $500 to $1,000 2 side, providing he is al- lowed $250 for expenses. If Sloseon will not | game—not a championship game—for $500. If | Slosson agrees to go to Chicago to play Schae- fer will allow him 2250 for expenses. Peaceful Reports From the Sioux, Capt. Frank D. Baldwin of the fifth infantry, U.S. A., has just arrived at Pierre, 8. D., from the west, having just made a complete tour in the Indian country under the direction of Gen. among the Sioux Indians regarding an outbreak this spring. The captain says he found the In- dians at ‘the different agencies in most peaceful mood, with no intention of ' the sey gamelan | . feared from the Sioux anywhere this éummer. A Hole Stove in the Vermont. above the water line. Only a fow officers and sailors were on board, the recruite ha transferred to the Concord. the cabin i E i of Yeoman i | tots me ea mand ny allow the expenses he will play him « match | } | Being delivered at the homes of ; regular subscribers for the trifling sum of ten cents per week, THE STAR is much the Cheapest paper published in the District, quantity and quality opening up new ficlds for enterprise. It is Of Contents heing considered, generally believed that the population of Mon tana will be nearly doubled during the next Tre Star's circulation in the City of Washington is more than three times larger than that of any other newspaper, and the number of its readers more than five times as many, It is therefore in that (or even greater) | proportion the Sést advertising med- |ium in the District. On this point there is no ground for argument or doubt, even. It is the common testi- mony of the business community, and — Note This Point. Tue Sra gives the exact figures of its circul-tion every week, and cheerfully opens its books and press and delivery rooms to any person having interest in the correctness @ its statements, so that its patrons know precisely how much publicity they are getting when they buy space Page RRR RSF EB sar No other daily newspaper pub- Gh | par lished in Washington dares@A Bee eochiort sterlt to thie doricive tet “Oe