Evening Star Newspaper, July 7, 1891, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, ania Avense, coruer 11th St. by Star Newspaper Company, H. RAUF? MANN, Preset, Sew Yor Ofc 88 Peter Building. The Evening @ STOR ww served to CAUNCTLE SttuRe Stan ntawe adhied, $5.00. “5 at the Post Ofi.e st Washington, D.C., 98 Che Hoening Star. at 442s buy the imply fe titeice und then it came dot and wos fal At5:15 the first revsof the sun topped the eastern bluff and brightened up in spots the ivy of the prison house. It helped to raise the mist on the river and it made the scene « trifle less gloomy. ‘The sun turned vagrant awhile and went Lebind » mackerel screen, and then, when everything looked gray and gloomy again bacriptions must be paid in adwance. WASHINGTON, D.C. TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1891. the same half man was visible. A pair of bands fumbled awhile with the halliards and then @ SPECTAL NOTICES. SPECIAL NOTICES. CARUST & CARTSI, Work—4th and th de- Imp. O. St TOSIGH TS councit Yo mak ; funeral of our brot Horses and lote ia all pu Funeral will tal T YOUR ORDER Now For NEG Jorated at Lid Fst. nw. tinaker, Wn Fst 0. Factory on preir jor -" D. LARK IMPORTING TATLOR, HITE to my frieuds and the ANDREW J. TERRY. prime Noveitios rereiv~t OF SENECA TRIBI Oni M.. rested to be present yaake a rrameements for the fe residence, H and 5 4.30. Menibers of ‘Sister tribes are fraternally invited. new., Wednesday, July weit Washington News and Gossip Index to Advertisements, im parior 10, W tee. REPUULICAN ASSOCIATION BUSINESS CHANCES. the Maine Republican Assocta- ara’ Hotel. on instant, at 8 p.2n., fo Pyro jou to the death of Hon. Hanuibal COUNTRY REAL ESTATE, COUNTRY BOARD. Cites PEAR, Chairman. _ | EHUCATIONAL. FINANCIAL. & NATIONAL, "s will be sold. to 1@ Said late Thor &.E. COR 19TH ST. AND NEW YORK AVE. DROTT | EXCURSIONS, fe. FAMILY SUPPLIES Pais President. (Chartered by special act of Conzrese Reorgautred under act of Congress of October 2, 1800. ‘Transacts the business of TRUST COMPANY Ip all ity various branches. Als: the business of = SAVINGS BANK THOMPSON, Executrix, (0. BLAS M street northwest. an ral of the Scotian ite St pun. Work: second or war xpm. All 8 o'clock p.m. went improvement of Le Droit Park are cordinify invited to attend F_B. CAMPBE eq, THE COMING OF ELIJAH, Propliet.” will be the sul ANS € jon, Chapin augiitars.— ting at i) Pa a ma. Mrs, Martin will lead the fonthi 2 COMER, =SO8TRIS LODGE, NO. 20, F. A meetin wilt Ge bell aU FOR RENT (Rooms) ir Pou shall we SNIGHT: ve terver Gol oF Baal? Womeand near, M*4.E* | FoR RENT (Storen, > = FOR SALE (Houses). FOR SALE (Lots). MRISTIAN TEMPERANCE TOMORROW at FOR SALE (Misceiianeous) WEDNESDAY, Sth July, third deyrees. By order WM. OSCAR ROOME, Secretary. _ LOCAL MENTIC LOST AND BUUN SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANY, herety notified to remove the same before the Lt day THOS. DOWLING & SON. Auctioneers, Sinall safes ‘or ron* Receives money deposits in sums of TEN CENTS nd upwards and allows interest thereon. Loans money upon Real Estate and Collateral se- '2 policy holder says: meurance (provided you are in the jearly illustrated in iuy case. ADFiL Solis frst-ciass lea! Estate and other securities. OUR LADIES’ SILK GLOVES, WITH three-piy fluxer tips, worth §1. Tomor Ladies" Sutton Suetle Mousquetaires. Reduced from $1.67 to ie -ailies' Biarritz PJorsey BE Stes with lace ore} s, on", ace to for tomorrow. ‘Price tomorrow, 25c. pair. LOUVRE GLOVE COMPANY, ‘911 Pa. ave. jousquetaires. "Regular price, 98c. sold everywhereat | POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. PIANOS AND ORGAN! PROFESSIONAL VALUABLES apon depomt in capactous storage vaults Of unsurpassed dryness az! sec Ofiee bones Dat the letter all it prom- ith its polity holders from 9am to# pu. and TWENTY FIVE CENT eint fo creae *CASHIOWN CREAM! SUBURBAN PROP! BH IAVRCAIIGEDITIWTARVWH YS OV OVEKYHASAAMEHRWNASD Fality aud proimptness. Sapte Se tS Been aed | Seheenceeeat Gy same lin . BAURHAGES, P.O. Dept. Inspection ae REMOVAL CHARLES A. BEST, THE dealer in antiques, has removed from 400 2h wt. n.w. to southeast corner of K and Mth sts, -W.. where he will be glad to see his old patrons. Washington, D. given that the attual meeting of pany Will be held at this oPice oth tals om Sunday, the Lith day will be | ¢¢ on WEDN&SDAY, Sul 5 et ey nag coandise Brokers, has this consent, EO. W. PEARSO! WM. J. WEL NO. SM. ADMIN . IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS- TRICT OF COLUMBIA. Hobling « Special serm for Orphans’ Court business. In the case of Mar; ecutors of Philip ae) FE ESTABLISHMENT. It is very itaportant for the public to know Where to dispose of their horses anil carriaies and per- In onder to fill Inneh needed want Mesars. LATIMER & SLOAN ed » Horse and Carriage Department at KS HL st. two aquares above their iain off GLOVES, First. JAMES M.JUHNSTON, Second. Setetae aubent LSI UkrEVANT. ZenaaC, Robbing, Georee Hi. Plant, Lew Cley bane, attorney duiy author- fzed, with their ciaima against the estate otherwise the’ executurs will take the Frovided, « copy of cee week for three weeks Where they are prepared, with conduct their real estate anc loan business. Per Attention given to collecting rents. NUTARY. - John F. Hodgers, peu Wotan E Ciari benefit of the law WASHINGTON, JULY ‘The firm of J. W. beget ital gh wot Pua dyrae* M. J. KE, matter of like character. orated and Where any one wi comfortable and profitab.e eituer to attend the sales or fedistose of their effect 3 REMOVAL—H. CLAY STEWART & SON ‘Have Kemoved to Their New Office, 20 141H ST. NW. SUMMER RESORTS, WANTED (Help) WANTED (Rooms! WANTED (Houses). WANTED (situations), WANTED (Miscellaneous)... PEGE ETETS TSC GeE SESE SECT TREE E? Disrnict Patexte. issued to Marshall MéDoi filter and a method of and means for cleaning filtering surfaces. He has assigned the patent to the Automatic Filter Company. Two patents have been mald of this city for a Deatine rx Lance Stms.—The annual report of Judge Matthews, first controller of the treasury, shows that during the fiscal year just ended 29,523 accounts were examined and ad- sted, involving the sum of $5,259,294,594, ‘ing 2,180 more accounts than were adjusted Tested facilities. to | during the previous fiscal year. reonal syret Keporter and Evening Siar jevicus to tue said das "eat L. P. WRIGHT, BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION. Register of Wills for the District ot Columbia, SUBSCRIBED STOCK, $903,000. Bas the best plan devised for securing « Home, EIGHTH ISSUE OF STOCK. CAUTION —WISHING ALL OF OUR MA- chines to ive the Lizhest degree of satinfac om, we particularly caution those having vld ones of F inake against aliowing them to be adjusted ise {her all over our store. 7 apply to the manayer or ove of t Suse L q=>FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF THOSE clerk attending them i all the departments of our store we will allow ot our force that privilexe, and those s0 desir ‘sales person of either sex to Walt ua ‘hose not faiuiiiae heed only customers that prefer an have w Rewanp ron Inrormatiox.—Acting Secre- tary Nettleton has directed the payment to 8. €. Osborn of fifteen per cent (8150) of the udgmen* of $1,000 recovered from Henry letz of Palo, IIL, for violation of the alien contract labor law. Osborn waa the informer in this case and is the first Jour walkers. NSBUKGH & BRO. where than at the COMPANY'S OFFICE, where none but genuine parts are used, and oniy the ‘uiost reasou- nade. Uryers by postal will ELER & WILSON MFG. CO. NO BACK DUES REQUIRED. Any amount loaned. repagab 1.0W0 advanced. Bi able charges, if any, are receive tuumediate ait WHE! $15) er mirth om ear Privuewe of withdsaWwing s¢ any tine and receive a Su.rauteed U per vemt cer ate With each depoait. 7 SUIT FOR YOUR HORSE? Wehsve an immense stock of Summer Blankets and Coole Porro Dinaypan. Free O71 Theupatn, Treas. 7 AMERICAN SECCKI ALT. bee Alonzo Tweedale, See. including Sheets, rand desire to close ‘dhe Sheets run from $%—a.l good value for ihe price. articles have an Gen dE Suiith atx. HEY AND. TRUST Co. ually wide range oUF horses away for well to secures fui, equipisent before starting. ANDREW J. JOYCE'S SONS, Wis G_TEWKSBURY, my9-3m AMeuber Washington Stock Eacuange —" YOU WANT SHOES? MY ENTIRE STOCK AT A DISCOUNT OF FROM 15 TO 2 PER CENT. JOHN E. LITTLE. ‘oh USINESS 1s Witat we are doing, betuy the result of careful atten- ‘ion, good work aud iow prices. JOBN F. SHEIRY, PRINTER ASD ENGRAVE! ex DST. N. person to receive compensation for furnishing information to the government under the law in question. Wesr Ixprax Cantes.—The United States con- sul at Santiago de Cuba reports to the Depart- ment of State under date of June 12 that the lines of the French Telegraph Cable Company have been extended to Fort de France, St. Pierre and other points in Martinique to Point- ‘and Paramaribo. pected that the line to Rio de Janeito via Para will be completed by August 15 next. a-Pitre, St. Louii Statistics oF tHe CatnoLic Cuvece.—Super- intendent Porter of the Census Burean bas in spd 1030 Connecticut ave: ing necessary i Carringe. _ Jeb-tr cee STEAM LAUNDEY” Is now located at LEWIS 6. TEWRSBURY & CO. BANKERS AND BROKERS, 1995 F ST., WASHINGTON, D. c., Boy end sell for cash of on margin nd sett for can Stocks, Bonds, ures to New York and Chicago lowed og deposits, business a specialty. ‘Ai: Local Securities dealt 1b. ‘Constant quotatiois a maracts. octlar Diet priest oF Patronage of ty Old friends and 1 4 ~ HENRY MDEXTE! = DR MULLER REMOVED To 1027 w. ‘Treats all chronic affections of kidney, strictures aud urs: Bio L'a.m. aud 4 to Jo © comsos: tue eye, ear, thrust, | in Briuary distases, Office Ho CORSON & MACARTNEY, GLOVER BUILDING, i419 F ST. ¥ Ww. and Dealers ib Government Bor WIRE GOODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. Adlustabie Window Screens, $2.2 per dos, imesh, light «rade, per 100 ‘Green Wire Cloth, Liye. foot. Me: PT EE CURRY & CO. 8.0. cor. 1isth and H sta. o: Loans. Coilections. orks and Bonds and all see arities !isted bangers of New York, #1 jeciaity ioade of investment veal Katizuad, Gas, Bhone Stock denis in. Anerkan Be. Te«pbone Stock boushtand sold. i718 Pte here nesmontcrsrenccnnanearmens rans er Deporte. Exchange. vurities. | District qe OLMAK STEAM Lacyvey, 491 to. 490 Cat. n. Now Taar Youve HAD YOUR FILL 01 GUSH AND GAMW (Old established and reliable. TAKES AND FIZZLES, BALDFRDASH AND MBE. LET'S COME DOWN TO USINESS, PURE SUITS OF CLOTHES FOR MEN—SACKS AND nai cost. =SEXCURSIONS! EX! TE you are wiving an ©: irsion you will want printed POR THE MOUNTAIN OR SEASHORE, Our Biue and Black Serge Su: half lined and lined throughout: the thing for cool mornins and evenings. Price,915 per suit. GEORGE SPEANSY, A7Tthst. now, Store will be closed ax 6 p.m. (commencing next Monday) until September 1. sy6 =, re N GED a P & $ NEY& nd = $i ws 3% I N - ERTS. x G st ce g DON'T BURN COAL— ” expensive. S7eiGiman will supply Fou with a ganstove at nomi. soon am liht is extinculshed the house ‘cools und ft im cheap bemides. “think or it, buy one. CA MUDDIMAN, O14 12th st. nw. preparation and will soon issue a bulletin upon the membership of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States by states and counties. The bulletin will show that the membership now numbers 6,250,000 communicants ofer fif- This minimum limit of age to fifteen years will be adhered to in the statis- ties of all other churches which are in course of teen years of age. prangement of th ‘Traxsren or THE Itar! received at the Department of Justice today from United States Marshal Gard at San Diego, Cal, asking instructions as to his course in regard to the seized Chilian steamer Itata. In response the acting attorney general tele- graphed United States Attorney Cole at San Diego to libel the vessel at once and turn her over to the United States marshal by due By special arrangemen* with the Navy Department the vesse: will be trans- ferred to the custody of the civil authorities —A telegram was process of law. To Br Ixvestiaaten ny Exrenrs.— Assistant Secretary Nettleton today appointed Taylor Fannce and Lawrence E. Brown of Philadel! phia special agents of the Treasury Depart- meut to investigate the cases of the Keystone 5 Garden Nationai Banks of Phila~ matier to make It & Taw quoting lowest prices for good work. BYKo! S. ADAMS, Printer, AT 87.50 A SUIT. SUMMER RESORT BUKKAH YOR THE AT $7.50 ASUTT. HURRAH FOR THE = for proprietors hieited ood work, prow ptuess may be relied on Sanuples nent if desired jes myl-m_Printerand Pubiiaiier, 1 AT THE KEQUEST OF ONE TH and oue of cur customers we have provided | space fora iunch room on thesiath floor of our 10th street Lutlding and have opened the sane. bow prepared (0 serve them in a first: id uenterate prices {@ our offering for ‘What your ONE-LINE MARK DOWN in Moisture and Moses! The ting isso fusigmifican: the ‘aan exaggerated SUITS FOR CHILDREN. Sizes, Biue, 3. 4. Sani s years, _Crown and Bridge Work a npecialty. Boe PF © Le aNvERsoN, DI Has rewoved to 1504 se2a-Lm? >TO TOURISTS AND - . lating a European voyaxe we would jm Tf 18,4 PROVEN FACT Be ined Cary tie, LARGEST, nandsoment and iiore complete8 TUCK of AMERICAN WATCHES: inthis city. A sine! ou that ay Pld use in the UNT F CATES given with all first-class A. L, SALTZSTEIN, Jr. ‘Manutacturing Jeweler, 55 7th st. nw. Branch cor. Main and Granby sts., Norfolk, Vs. mye ee” GB rerace Has removed her offic Bio 1 hist. bw ‘st. o.w., ‘hose gentlemen were nominated by the mayor of Philadelphia as expert account- ants in accordance with a suggestion by the gall at my sturés will ‘convince ‘They will report to As- ¥ first-class | Treasury Departmen:. ‘CERTIF- | sintant Secretary Nettleton for instructions. Tur Parext Orvice Exurprt. — Secre- the following letter to Mr. Leo Ehrlich of St. Louis: the recommendation of the commissioner of patents you are hereby designated, in contem- plation of a further appointment, to proceed to Chicago to inquire and repo: your judgment will be the best pl the patent office international exh: DENTIST, rt as to what in resented at the Columbian ‘opposite the Shoreham. ‘The fund is so lim- attention to our” ALLY MISTAKEN HAVE SCITS CON- BISTING OF JACKET AND SHORT PANTS amortiuent of Enyliw: aid Atercan Steamer ead Shawis 10r ralway travel, 3016-1 Sacks and Cotawaye, casemate ss i the conviction THAT spree = ecroreacs THA BUSDRED CENTS ww ith and F sts. n. i. BS wre are stone WINDOW SCREEN FRAMES, 17. ZACH. ADJUSTABLE WINDOW SCREENS, $2.75 DOZEN. WIKE SCREEN DOORS, COMPLETE, With Spring Hinges, Hook and Eyeand Knob, @leach. ‘2% FT. GARDEN HOSE, COMPLETE, ‘With Couplings and Patent Nozsie, each. GARDEN HOSE REELS, A FULLY GUARANTEED LAWN MOWER, $3.75. SQUART ICE CREAM FREEZER, $1.35 EACH XUULIRY NETTING, Fer 100 square feet, 60e. BEARS SPECIAL RACKETS, 94.35. ue of ISHING GOODS REGULAR PRC! 1k Folded Ties—hand- jerks, dm and ie. E . SRO DOLLAR Bia Gove Hes OVES. REDUCED TO 7c. «pair. BARBER & ROSS, COR. 11TH AND G STS. N.W., Opposite Boston Dry Goods Store. Scarlet Underwear, mneticated Jockey Caps, due., uc. iecw, VICTOR EZ ADLER'S © PER CENT CLOTHING BoUSE, @ AND oy 7TH ST. CORNER MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE STRICTLY ONE PRICE (Open Saturday until 11 p.m! T. B. Towsex & Sox, MEN'S OUTING SHIRTS TO ORDER, We take pleasure im announcing that our stock of Flannel, Silk, Madras and Chevict for Men's Negligee Shirts iscom- plete and embraces all the new and cor- rect styles. We make a specialty of Fine Custom Work. We use only the best materials,employ none but skilled bands ‘and guarantee that for superior work- manship, style of finish and scientific Sqe2HAVE YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS PUT UP at at the Temple tg Store, ‘charge, ‘Thus departiient is carefully conducted. ‘Store 0 Se. Monster, Senate Wing Barber Shop. writes: “‘Have used ‘K. B. Extra’ Razors and although Ihave beens barber for over thirty years jiave never seen a new razor to equal it, having shaved over twenty beards without being honed," ‘These now celebrated razors are being sold at 62.188, and im order to to insure ‘your getting the right strop you receive ® Rood one gratis with each razor. ‘WOODWARD & LOTHROP, Job, 1th and F sts. ow. mylé-tm IN THE MODERN GAS RANGE ALL THE objections hitherto unyed. aruinst Kas a8 8 Tuemisof ‘cooking have teen entirely overcome, #0 ibst no Louseliold nthout’ Gisoine sort, is now complete wi ‘Gail and examine the “BUN DIAL.” “GILT EDGE,” “ECLIPSE’ ana “RELIABLE,” At the office of the myl9-tr_WASHINGTON GASLIGHT COMPANY. ited. that great as is my,desire to have your assintance, as the commissioner sugges services must be for the time be better arranged hereafter Navat Mrairta.—So far Acting Secretary Soley has received applications from three states—New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Inland—for allotments on account of naval mi- litia. Massachusetts heads the list with 238 men under organization. California has al- da naval militia act, but is having ficulty in effecting their organization. ‘To aid the state officials in the tauk the Navy Department has placed at their service the old of-war Independence, now at Mare Island, and has instructed the command- ant of the navy yard to sssist the movement in are from Io to 25 percent lower than ree, but this may pier Sg WILLIAMS & Co. Gor Wir and F sto. 2c. ‘AL Minrtta.—As a re- sult of correspondence between the Navy De- partment and Adjutant General Porter of the state of New York, Fisher's Island has been se- lected as the place and July 25 as the date for the drills of the New York naval militia, Fisher's Island is off the Connecticut coast at the entrance to Long Island Sound and is one of the most important strat nected with the defense pe proaches to New York from # naval attack. “Yt was selected asa place for the drills at the re- uest 2 Adjutaut General rorter, and the avy Departinent sent the necessaai structions to Admiral Walker, ‘commanding the squadron of evolution, looking to his co- New Yore State L. Lasker of Cincinnati, E. C. Fuller of Chicago, T. T. Browning of Kentucky, B. R. Lipscomb of Richmond and C. B. Hender- son fof Iowa are at Willard’s.—J. 8. Mason of Philadelphia and J. Kroger of Leadvile and H. H. Atlan of Mississippi are at the Shoreham.——R. Hammond of Pittsburg, John H. Stewart Antwerp, B.S Baker of Omaha, J. army, Fred. es of Springfield, IL, and Jas, Barrett of ——Hon. H. Libbey of ato — A. Rice of Alex- Pi mnaha, J. J. Upham Maryland are at tho E perfection in cut and fit our Shirts can- not be excelled. Samples af materials and prices cheerfully surnished on ap- DEY GOODS DEALERS, 1S16 Teh wt owe, ‘Barwstas for the week commencing MONDAY, J: tidrem's Vests in a oe. —— Sate Meet Sot tices yo a a Aig ig ger of Drom inca: worth from Ww ace stils seuiine Fast Con wa. for 2i4e- Guocase of Ligut ans Dark Caer opt exon Leave your onlers at Men's Depart- ment, first floor, first annex. WOODWARD & LOTHROP. AMERICAN ICE COMPANT. WHOLESALE AND ICE, COAL, WOUD AN! Bap ofr. oer, Iu and Laker IGEN ACL a 45,000 Tons PEXOLSCO! from our DiPors 90 RE! toleGm View: ATL, leslers tm PEt “ae = EQUITABLE CO-OPERATIVE BUILDING ASSOCIATION, EQUITABLE BUILDING, 1003 F BT. ASSETS, $1,205,274. 18, ‘The ist jesue of stock open for subscription and payment. Shares are $2.50 per month. Office hours from a.m. to4:30 p.m. daily. On the fSret Wednesday of each month the office will be open from 6toSc’clock p.m. Advances are made promptly at Z o'clock. Pamphiets and information concerning the ob- ect and advantages of the eseociation furnished upon application at the office, : ‘THOR, SOMERVILLE, Prest, 30MK JOY EDSON, Secretary. oom Heath of Ohio and Jno. ‘Texns are at of Richmond, Va., J. \vania, J. ¥. Downman i F ial CAME LIKE A. FLASH. Death Was Easy for the Murderers ; at Sing Sing, THE AFFAIR A PERFECT SUCCESS. All the Details Carried Out With- out a Hitch. WHAT THE WITNESSES SAY. —— ‘The Quadruple Electrocution at Sing Sing a Success. 81No Srxa, N. ¥., July 7.—The four murder ers, Slocum, Smiler, Jugigo and Wood, con- demned to die in the electric chair for their crimes, suffered death early this morning. They died without @ utruggle. ‘The second electrocution in history took place at the state prison here today. The first occurred at Au- burn eleven months ago when the sentence of death was carried out on William Kemmler. Every precaution had been exercised here to avoid the mistakes which made the Kemmler affair in part a failure. The causes of the acci- Gents and delays there were known to the war- den at 4ing Sing and they had been anticipated in the arrangements for the execution of the four men who were to be put to death during the week. ‘The tested voltage of the dynamos had been brought up to 3,000, while the exti- mated voltage which was turned into Kemmlet body was 750. ‘The weakness of the current at the Kemmler execution was chargeable in part to the slipping of the belts on the dy:famor, and especial precautions had been taken to avoid this at Sing Sing. A device for the tightening of the belts if they should slip was ready in the dynamo room at the north end of the prison building for use in case the resist- ance of the body of any one of the condemned menin the chair should cause au unusual strain on the dynamo and threaten an accident. The+ dynamo used was a Westinghouse, a counter- part of the machine used at Auburn, but it upplemented bya smaller dynamo in- 1d to augment the current. BETTER ARRANGEMENTS THAN AT AUBURN. The arrangement of the apparatus for testing the strength of the current was clumsy at Au- burn—so imperfect that through the neglect of one of the electricians the incandescent lamps used to test the voltage were left burning and absorbing the greater part of the currents’ strength when it was turned into the body of the condemned man. Here at Sing Sing the switch controlling the electric current was #0 arranged that the motion that turned the cur- rent into the wire running to the execution chair turned it away from the incandescent lights and the other devices for measuring its strength. ‘The executioner at Auburn was in @ room adjoining the execution chamber, and the warden in giving him the signal to turn on the current had to step from the chair to the com- municating door and speak through the door- way. When the current bad been turned off from the body of Kemmler the first time this connecting door was fastened and when there were strong indications that Kemmler was re- viving it was some time before the warden could get to the men in the other room to tell them,to turn on the current again, At today's execution the executioner was in a small closet with an open top, through which he could hear anything said to him by the warden or any of his assistants and the electricians were in the execution chamber itself. Besides, by an ar- je possi- ter itches, it was m: ble for the electrician himself to turn the cur- rent into the execution chair or turn it off in case the executioner should become confused or fail to respond to the warden’s signals. With these precautions it was thought that every chance of failure had been provided against. ‘THE WITNESSES. The witnesses to the execution gathered at the prison in response to the warden’s invita- tion half an hour or more before the time fixed for the electrocution to take place. The war- den had invited the full number of those whom the law authorized and directed him to invite, and sofaras he could he had insured their presence. The law says nothing about the number of persons who shall be present. It directs the warden to invite certain officials and twelve citizens. Warden Brown inter- preted the law to authorize him to send out only twelve invitations outside of those ex- tended to officials named, and he believed that if one of the witnesses invited should fail to come or should write declining the invitation he would have no authority to invite any one to fill the vacancy even if there should be legal time in which the invitation could be given. He had therefore written in advance to those whom he had selected as witnesses, asking them if they would serve, and he bad obtained as- surances from the twelve that they would be present before he sent formal invitations to them. Of the officials invited he could have no assurance that any would be present, but as the law did not require their presence the warden did not care very much whether they came or not. “If we are the only people here when the time for the execution comes,” said the warden on Saturday, indicating with hisleft hand Head Keeper Connaughton, who sat near him, “it will go on just the same.” No delay of any of the witnesses therefore would have delayed the execution. The crowd which lingered along the road in front of the prison when the witnesses began to arrive was not large. It was composed almost entirely of ‘the representatives of newspapers and of the two press associations. Warden Brown had declined to permit the representatives of the press associations to have access to the execu- tion chamber, either as witnesses or assistants, and it was known several days before the execution took piace that the account of it which might be published must be obtained from the twelve citizens who had been invited Pel seared if they could be persuaded to talk about it. PREPARATIONS TO HANDLE THE NEWS. Extensive preparations had been made to handle what news could be obtained as rapidly as possible. Near the place where the tem- jorary execution room had been built was a tle running above a series of lime kilns. Adjoining this was a small frame buil nding of two rooms. This building had been by the prison people toa lime company whiel sublet for the occasion of the execution to the representatives of the press. special wires had been strung to it and ators had sat with fingers on the key from mid- night of Sunday waiting for the signal to send a bulletin to the whole world that the execu- tions had taken place. LAWYER HAIRE’s MISSION. At1:30 Lawyer Haire came out of the warden’s fice accompanied by the warden's son. He borrowed a carriage, promising to return in five minutes and after a m: ious conference with the driver was ace § in the direc- tion of the He to say any- thing about his interview with the warden. When Lawyer Haire returned from his mys- had nothing to say. ‘Then, the carriage ‘har. ried away toward eaaitoment cocasioned ty his visit esbaided. i F : | f fe E § & tik entered the little frame building in which the apparatas of death had been placed. Opposite e entrance e chamber aad faci was the death chair. we ‘THR DEATH CHAIR. Ix was almost exactly the same pattern as the chair in which Kemmler was executed—s plain wooden chair, with perforated wood seat, the back having a slight incline. Near the top of the chair back wasa beveled cushion of rub- ber for the prisoner's head and neck to rest against. Above this extended a wooden “figure four,” the long arm of which was clamped with two wooden net screws to the back of the chair. In front of the chair extended a foot rest to which the legs ofthe prisoner were to be bound. This was the only important particular in which the chair differed from the Kemmler chair. Kemmler's legs were separated and fastened to the front legs of the chair in which he sat. ‘The chair was ‘on arubber mat to insu late it. Behind the chair, built against a par- tition wall which divided the building into two apartments, was @ closet opening at the top, ut seven feet high. In this closet was the switchboard. which was to be used in turning the current into the condemned man. THE EXECUTIONER WAITING. Before the entrance of the witnesses the exe- cutioner had entered this closet from the other room and sat waiting for the signal from the warden to turn the switch. Who he was is not known and will not be known authoritatively. Itis generally supposed that the executioner was a convict from the prison detailed for the duty. On the right of the witneses as they eytered was the massive iron door which closed e passage leading into the prison for the con- demned. It was, almost. as massive and im- penetrating as the brick walls about it, and as impervious to wound. Seated in their celis with only the walls and the iron door between them and the engine of death, the condemned men heard nothing of the busy preparations going on in the execution chamber. They knew that their last minutes were bei measured off, for their spiritual advisers ba: been with them some hours giving them such consolation as they could. ‘There was uo indication outside the prison walls that active preparations for the executions were going on within ‘The warden bad not slept all night nor had he uny sleep the night before. Late at night he had told the witnesses to go to Ded in rooms assigned to them. They would be called, he suid, when the time for the execution arrived. None of them knew what the hour would be, but all of them sup) that it would be soon after daybreak. [t was near midnight wheg mostof them went to their rooms to get a little sleep, while the warden aat down in his office and waited for any legal sum- mous which might delay the execution of the condemned men. ‘UP EARLY FOR BREAKFAST. At 2:30 o'clock the grinding of coffee in the warden’s kitchen indicated the prepuration of breakfast for the warden’s guests, but this sign of life was quickly concealed from the watchers without and the shutters of the dining room windows were tightly fastened. All of the shutters of the other rooms were closed #o that no evidence of the time when the witnesses should gather in the warden’s parlor prelimi- nary to the execution yhauld be given. Shortly after 3 o'clock theattorney for Wood, Lawyer Haire, left the warden after a fruitless hour spent in trying to convince him that the petition which he had filed in the federal court shonld act as a stay of execution. Deputy At- torney General Hogan, who had sat up with the warden, decided the disputed legal ques- tiov for hit, and the condemned man’s last hope was extinguished when, shortly after 3 o'clock, the wargon Iny down on a couch in his parlor to get a little rest. Outside the prison walls the group of newspaper reporters which had watched all through the night remained on guard. ‘The guards paced slowly up and down the roadway. At 8:30 o'clock the lights in the town and the lights in front of the warden’s house went out suddenly. It was a half hour before the usual time for extinguishing these lights, and the fact that they had gone out in- dicated that the power used in generating the electric current for them was to be used in operating the dynamos attached to the exe- cution apparatus. A few minutes later the whirr of the dynamo sounded through the still morning air. It was 4 o'clock and the warden hed risen from his couch .and sent one of his awsistants to rap softly on the doors of the sleeping rooms upstairs to waken the witnesses. Some of them had retired half dressed and they were quickly down stairs. The two priests and the prison chaplain had been summoned more than am hour before, and after drinking a cup of prison coffee had gone down to the cells of the condemned men. NOTIFYING THE PRISONERS. The prisoners had been awake most of the night. When the warden visited them at mi night all of them were wide awake and e: dently expecting the end to come soon. They knew that Kemmler had been killed on the second morning and they did not believe that their time would be delayed much longer. ‘There had been no increase of the guard. ‘The regular watchers, Partridge and Baxter, had remained with them from 6 o'clock last night. Most of the men were awake when shortly be- fore o'clock the priests and chaplain 9 peared, Chaplain Edgerton spoke a few words of comfort to Jugigo when he told him thut the end was near, but the Jap did not receive them in a grateful spirit and the chaplain passed on to Smiler’s cell, while the two priests busied themselves respectively with Slocum and Wood. ‘The condemned men took very calmly the an- nouncement that the sentence was about to be executed. ‘They were drewed when. the chap- lain and the priests entered. Their clothing was much alike—a suit of dark diagonal, white shirt and collar and black tie. ‘The witnesses distributed themselves about the chamber. "The electrician was in charge ot apparatus for measuring the current, whic! ‘was fastened to the side of the closet opposite the entrance to the cell room, It consisted of volt meter,» resistance coil and a row of twenty incandescent lamps, each measuring 100 volts, A beavy switchboard formed the connection between the wires from the dynamo room at the other end of the prison grounds and the wires in the executioner's closet ad- joining. A push button communicated with the signal bell in the dynamo room. When. the witnesses had ranged themselves about the room the electrician touched this button once. The engineer responded to the signal and started the dynamos. They had been tested up to 3,000 volts during the morn- ing. When the current had been turned on the electrician threw the switch which turned it into therow of lampsabove his head. They burst into a glow of light that rivaled the daylight shin- ing through the canvass covering of the win- dows about the sides of the improvised execu- tion room. ‘TIME OF THE EXECUTION. The approximate time of the turning on the current in each case was Slocum, 4:40; Smiler, 5:10; Wood, 5:80; Jugigo, 6:08. ‘The prisoners had received some intimation beforehand that the executions were to take place this morning, and they were prepared for them. They went to execution bravely and met their fate without They offered no resistance, but rather the keepers when they were bound down in the chair. ‘THE WITNESSES. No one knew just all who were the legal wit- nesses, but this is the imperfect list: Dr. South- wick, Buffalo; Dr. Daniels, Buffalo; Dr. Carlos F. McDonald, state board of lunacy, New York; Dr. Alphonse D. Rockwell, New York; i Sy ir r lth 7 ttle iF il Hl i it ' I ii et i Te : f i : : i Lj ny a Army boy slayer of his third wife, had givens life for a life five minutes before. It took the attendant five minutes to go to the top of the Prison and hoist the mgnal. At 5:44 o'clock # black tlag went up the pole. It settled ail argument concerning the nogre Wood, who his companion on the aque" duct during a quarrel. It announced, sccord- ing to previous arrangements, that the negre was dead. The sun, which at ite firet rising gave promise of a bright day, had kept 0 secluded that it looked as though the dawn effect was to be a lasting ove. The wk} was gloomy, the mist on the river thick and the waves which broke mournfully on the shore were in periect harmony with the general surroundit Tt seemed as though the cus tomary awakening in the prison was to be overs 1 for oue day. The prison cows were nob driven down the bill from the stable as usual The trains shot under the tannele with am angry roar, and paswedon. There was nothing else to break the spell. The Jap. that Ing, muscular Shibuya J who, ins fitof rage, stabbed to death one his countrymen. was to come next. The a death for him was red. It was believed d the taking of the foreigner to the chair we be a bard task, and that there would be sucl electricity was flashed through him that sent him into eternity. Next to’ follow was Wood, the negro. He had been worked up toa state of religious enthusiasm, and it was while in this frame of mind that he was fastened into the chair and killed by the fatal shock. Jugigo was stubborn to the last. There was the usual ferocious look on his face. He was closely guarded and short work made of him. DEATH CAME LIKE A FLASH. There was no apparent hitch in the four exe- cutions and they were pronounced a success. The death of the four men appeared to the ob- server to be painless. Death came like a Sash. It was one awful shock and then oblivion. The doctors took charge of the four bodies imme- diately after death and began an autopsy to discover as far as possible how rapid had been the killing and the precise effect produced. The witnesses were by reporters as soon as they made their appearance from the pana Allof them refused to say anything, jowever, except that the executions had off without any hitch and had been a success from a scientific standpoint. Warden Brown had laid a strict ,injuntion of secrecy, upow them all and evidently made such an impression on their minds that they were loath to talk. All looked thoroughly used up and ex- hausted. They had been through a terribie ordeal, and the effects were plainly visible upon their faces. DIFFERED FROM THE KEMMLER CASE. The electrodes were not applied, as in the Kemmler case, to the top of the skull and the vase of spine, but were bound to the foreheads of the condemned men and the calves of their legs. The current was turned on in each cuse for 20 seconds. The voltage was about 1,500 or, 1.600. In each case there were apparent evidences of revival, as in the Kemmier case, and in each of these four cases the carcent was turned on a second time. In spite of the fact that the sponges were kept constantly wet all of the executed men were burned by the current, and especially about the calves of the legs. The medical men pres- ent that death came on first contact and that the seeming revival was merely a reflex muscular action. None of the witnesses were overcome by fright and all of them who have spoken have made the statement that the eleo- trodes were successful and death in all cases was instantaneous and painless. At 12 o'clock Drs. Southwick and Daniels and Deputy Attorney Hogan left for the west. None of them would talk. Dr. Barber, the physician of the prison, came out shortly after and said that the autopsy was completed and that no statement would be given outfor several hours. Dr. McDonald conducted the autopay. ———— IT WAS A SUCCESS. Views of Those Who Witnessed the Big Ex- ecution. Srxo Sixa, N. ¥., July 7.—Ex-Warden Brush, under whose administration the apparatus was erected, drove through the grounds on his way tothe depot. Asked concerning the ap- pliances he said: “Everything was in perfect order when I left, and I have no doubt that the apparatus was used just as I had planned, because we had it in *he best of working order. The applications were made to the head and calves of the lege #0 that absolute connection with the spinal cords was obtained. We killed a horse with it and I think it was possible to successfully kill a man this way. It took about a year to fix the baild- ings and construct the apparatus. Every: was done in the most thorough manner and don’t think the present warden had tochange a single thing.” ‘The ex-warden added that he did not ap- rove of electrocution. He thought it was Barbarous and uot deterrent, Lawyer R. J. Haire of New York, who tried toeffect a stay for Wood, stayed in Sing Sing this morning until the announcement was made that all of the men, including his client, had been killed. Before leaving for New York ‘on the morning train he said: “It semis to me that Warden Brown was unnecessarily ine hurry to execute Wood. He had all week to do it in accordance with the law, and the best in- terest of law and and bumanity would have been proved by allowing me the full time in which to secure astay. ‘There is a possibility that I might have secured it. Iam almost positive that a new trial would have secured an acquittal.” Dr. Alphonse Rockwell, who devised the electrode, and who was one of the three com- m‘ssioners appointed to supervise the electro- cution, was the first of the "ex to from the prison. Dr, Rockwell hurried to tbe depot to catch an early train to New York. He said: “We are all pledged to secrecy; but Ido not think I am violating that pledge in saying that all four executions were unqualified suc- ceases. “The men all died painlessly and without a struggle. Further than this I cannot E. A. Brown, purchasing agent of the state prison, said that there was no doubt that the electrocutions were absolutely “The horse killed yesterday in the test of the machinery,” he said, “was dead before it fell. Itseyeballs were as natural as in life after death, and ihis was the condition of the men put to death this morning. Each walked calmly to death, and there was nota struggle or hitch at any stage of the proceedings. When the current was turned into a man's body he died so quickly that it was difticult to "the Rev. Dr. Law, chaplain of the Tombe, n v. Dr. Law, New York, who was the assivtant of the chaplain and a witness, said to a reporter at the station this morning: “I was fully con- vinced that the killing of murderers by elec- tricity was failure, but Lam now convinced to the contrary. Every one of the men went to the chair calmly and died easily and without in or contortion. Death was instantaneous. am bound to secrecy and can say no more.” George Edgar Oliver of Albany, a wi said: “I came here because I am’ a fend of Warden Brown. I can, say, nothing about the execution because I, together all of the witnesses, signed = paper last night at 10 o'clock myself to secrecy.” When Mr. Oliver was by the re it the execution was a succees he nodded assent. scene in the death chamber as the jaunt; warden. who talkes! of killing men as be woul of bebeading chickens for his Sunday dinner, could not forget as long as he lived. The Jap had quect ideas about the death. He believed that when be was taken to tha® lmysterious room beyond he was to be tortured. He had said, as well ax he could, that he would it before he would «it in that chair. A die placement of the wires or of the barnes, caused by a struggle, would mean torture. The watchers anxiously looked up at the pole om the roof to see the red fing announce the death of Jugigo. It wus “That tact favored of a struggle. It was over presently. ‘The law had been carried out to the letter, and the red flag went up. The Jap died at 6:06 o'clock. The entire time consumed in exe- cuting the four men was one hour twenty-three and one-half minutes. ae PROBIBITION’S BATTLE GROUND. Republicans in Kansas Decide to Drop It as TRE ALLIANCE PARTY SET THE EXAMPLE, CL’ ING THAT IT WAS SETTLED AND No LONGRK & pisPCTED QUESTION—TRORARLE EFFECT ON ‘THUS RECENT POLITICAL DEPAWTURE. Spectal Dispatch to The Eventne Star. Torexa, Kax.. July 7.—Duriug the past ten years Kansas has been the battle ground of Prohibition. Other states have wavered, but Kansas bas remained firm in the support of probibitory legislation. From the day the constitutional amendment was adopted the re- publican party bas been its champion, and an every state and almost every county plattorm the jaw bas been indorsed and upheld. In fact, prohibition was the supreme imue, and every politician of the republican persuasion, no matter what his ity for liquor or how crimson his nose, took the stump and defended it as the greatest moral blessing ever conferred on a state. On the other hand the democratic party as sumed as radical position against protibition, and in every convention declared against it ans pernicious ‘and un-American principle which sought to regulate the habits of people by law and to say to the citizen thut he should not en- dor the rights guaranteed by the Constitution. Vutil the beginning of last year, when the Farmers’ Alliance movement began to agitate the people, the probibitory question was the Paramount iesne with the republican party. fhe farmers always rallied to the polls and supported the republican ticket because it represented prohibition, and the leaders were certain of an old-time 40.000 or 50,000 majority end to cap the climax made ita round 60,006 jn Last year when the state campaign opened the republican managers were confident that the ali Movement would melt before the Kansas sun when the question of prohibition or rum was presented to the farmers. They called their state convention, made a platform and resolved in favor of ition. The state convention bud nominated @ ticket and ignored the question. The demo- crate subsequently held their convention, de- manded # resubmission of the probibit NOT A POLITICAL In8UR, It soon developed that the new alliance or people's party was opposed to even discussing the question. Their leaders declared that pre- hibition was a settled issue and a part of the organic lnw of the state. It was not a question with them, they said, “as to whether the saloon should set up near the home, but whether they should have the home. Ibey would first save the home, then if it was imperiled by the saloon they would address themselves to that matter. This kind of argument and this way of dis- of the prohibition question stumped the two old parties. One was demanding resub- mission, the other fighting for the strengtben- ing and perpetuation of prohibition, while the advocates of the people's party, led by Jerry Simpson, Mrs. Lease, Senator Ieffer and others were crying out against “the money sharks of Wall street” and demanding more money per ta. “When the election was over and the ballots thee slvuations Ae was the verdict of all thet fhe alliance men bed acted with more political indgment and sagacity than ei parties, and has brought about a radical change of sentiment in the republican ranks in this state, It was shown by the vote last fall Hobinsou, the democratic candidate for gov- ernor, because of the attitude of their party on ‘this question. In every campaign large num- bers of republicans have voted the democratic ticket because of their antipathy to probibi- tion, and this fact, together with the action of the Farmers’ Alliance last fall im totally four. uestion, nged the sentiment theusenls of republicans, who are no lees hibitionista, but who believe it to be a fixed jaw of the state and 4 settled issue and will therefore not favor further agitation. i i jould be hard to was i of Kansas to again become sponsor to Mit of the tea were killed on the drat poutert. | Probibition would: havo. ie incu’ to deter, ‘The positive electrode was applied as in the | mine. Evidently an element composed of ee oe Oe Oe ee eS ae oe reas! atten) cut his beard yesterday would organize = probibi- ateroncd tp tae east ies toe bea oe with ex-Gor St John Ss their trimmed downs week ago in anticipation of | leader. , there has been a state pro- the execution. hibition ticket in the field every year since the OUTSIDE THE WALLS. over recdlved shore &:000 voto kn ‘Inet o- never ve 8,000 ¥ = vember it dropped down to 1,200. Then, if the ‘of Each Murderer. 18,000 resu republicans who have beew voting with the democrats will retura, and as Srxq Srxo, July 7.—The day broke this morning uponarow of very tired men, who