Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1891, Page 5

W copwand Arp Lorasor. 10TH, 15TH AND ¥ STH YL. se TOMORROW, FRIDAY, Reusaxt Curanvxe Dar. Friday of each week is “*se: apart” for the aaieof all remnants that way have collected during (he week. These sales vary in import- ance, of course. Sinetizes the offerings are more attractive than at ouhere -at aii times they aro money economuizers for you. Tomorrow's sale promises tome wmasuslly sttractive, oee- Sonsbie things. The term “Kemnant” with doesn't meas simply # “‘amall end of a piece of rods" “hit of ribbon” and the like— if ass Lroader. more simificant meaning ant te applet to all “short lengths.” ‘broken Sires,” “odd and smais lots,” anything sotled, ioussed, scratched or chipped from handling, splaying or otherwise. These and things of red ature inst be sold at once in order to fresh aud clean. A price is © that assures their quick soe here is © mere suyges- Rooesaxte: Or Pretenee. We have found im this department a numoer n variousites, the frarues of which marret To viuse theu: cw! tomor- reduced tem tu tue fulowing low prices 2 Pastel, with silver trams. Gured froin 83.95 tw 82. I Artotype, with silver frame. Size 20x24. Reduced trom @1.95 to 82. LActoty pe, with white and ciltfreme, Size ‘Det. Kedured from 1.05 to 61. 1 Wacer Color, with white and gilt frame. Size Reduced frown $3 to €1.75. ‘2 Water Colors. with white and wilt frames. Size Is Reduced from $3 to €2. J 1 Artotype, with whtt Sie 1éxt2. Re- Rewtuced from $1.15 to 75e. with steel frame. Size 20x24. Bim Lo 1 Attotype, Pati ee, three with oak aud thave with Keduced from fh steel ant four with Sire IMaIk Reduced trom 75. with oak frames Size 12x18 ie 70 Sth, with oak and fvory frames, as eek from $2.75 bo #225. e. annet “rpes. A cy Nesorewonk Devanrwest. SHORE LENGTHS OF EMBROIDERY LIN- ESS. Efc.. FOR SEEDLEWORK we Dirarrwest. MALL LOLS Gray Lisle Thread Gloves. 2 pair ee atton Real Kid Gloves ix ant 7. Reduced from LSTERY Devsnrwesr. ODD AND SMALL LOTS. BPairs Deriny Satin Curtains--1 Gold, 1 Terra Cotta and 1 Biae. Reduced from @10 to@se Pair. 17 Hal. pairs Spetla and Chenille Curtains in Pisin, Ja quard and Embronlered effects. Re dneed from #4.) and @U. 00 to €3 7S each. pairs Love Curtains, four yards lous. Re- Ate from $4.0 te $3.00 a pair. Fourth floor, 11th st. buiidiug.) Israsre Deranrest Path ‘Tub, made of the best white rubher, with pockets {0r soap. wash cloth and puff box oa cresiteamt towel rack on the other. Sibehtiy damaged. Weduced from @13.50 to 810.0" A few camaged Toilet Sets, consisting of Puff Box, Soap Dis, Pitcher and Bow! with parti- tion tm the enter separating hot and cold water. Pmk, Bive or Brown trimmings, Reduced Oa set mh st. Lutlding. > tn Doxesric Dar Goons DEPARTMENT. ——-— SHOuT LENGTHS. 0) rensnamts Batistey Lawns and Challies in lenethe from 2% to 1F yards. Reduced from Mi tose. a yard ‘Sw remnants of Helf-wool Dress Goods im 0 12 yards Reduced frou 12% ents fr tose ayant (Second floor, Ith st. budding.» N CRWEAR Devantwest. Uarettes. Reduced from 20 to 24 OMI Mull ¢ oh unter skylight.) M LIN if NDERWEAR Devanruest. opp Size i 4 = ne Pir ARTMENT oS AND ENDS. _ Bows Comforter, Reduced from @10 to Marvetlies Quilt. Reduced from Cloth Lap Robe (very slight; uced trom $6 to 4.50 rllthy building 1 camaget Berwin th Boss Crorms Daraxrwese. 20 Outing Clot shat Waist, tn yertyct on- Pe eR a ot __ Yair toor, 10mm st. tattting > Seu Devave : Oop Stes. Centanere, Jonesy a ig thermo York Sele ate ue brake Hef al fre Eat 0 dt Whnate wn Drees fuss skirt, wai ete w ‘Sua Cloak. Bize 4 SESE Rye eioah xewmae- Green ant Wruwee aoe ne, tbe budtnn Serr Derartyrsr, rd me at. etry Cc ; Se juced fom $12 to - 30m Wrap, hand iced from $40 to Fine Irapor Rooely Urhaued with # ik ad aire Hest (queit, image Stock ineite Jack- m Rp and S10 | Evzor Fassex Should be provided with Ayer's Flux, Noother aperi- ext isin such general demand or so hisk!y recom mended by the profession. Mild but thorough im operation thets pilis are the Lest of all remedies for constipation, Lilivusness, Leartburn, indigestion, Gatuletcy, lovs of appetite, liver complaint and sick j Beadache. They break up cvlds, fevers 2nd malaria, Telfeve rl.eumatism and neuralgia and are indispens- able to travelers, either Ly land cr see. Sugar coated and compounded of the purest vegetabl SEEDS aachertics, they may Le taken with impunity by old aud young. Physicians recommend these pills in Preference to any other. H. W. Hersh, Judsonie, Ark., says: ‘In 1859, by the advice of a friend, I be- wan the use of Ayer's Pills ax a reme-ly for bilfousness, constipation, high feversand coids. They served me } better than anything I had previously tried, and I ave used theu in attacks of tha: sort ever since." AYER'S CATHARTIC PILLS. Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Muss. | Bota by all Druguiste and Dealers in Medicine. Ups. WINSLOW BOOT SYRUP M Has been used tor over FIFTY YEARS by MILLIONS of MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE TEETH- ING, with PERFECT SUCCESS. It SOOTHES the CHILD, SOFTENS the GUMS, ALLAYS ali PAIN, CURES WIND COLIC, and is the best remedy for DIARRHEA. Sold by Drusyists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for “Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Byrnp” and take no other kind. 25 cents a bottie. alsly Goxrnrs Visrr To Cantspan. "hore is no doubt that the life of the «reat post a iy Prolonged by drinking the waters of the ZW nidel Spring brought if ‘ubtained by evapor- a ter ot Curlstiad. BAD SPRUDEL SALT (powder form) dissolves tenacious Disc, aliays izritation and removes rictious by aiding Hature. Itacte socthinw!s amt “§ Las the sh wut the -enuine Hiss tke Busta DEYSON Co., Aucnte, on every bottle. For Necaacm Barnz WITH POND'S . EXTRACT. 18 Browss Inox Bitters ures Indigestion, Biltousness, Dysperata | Malaria, Nervoustess and General Debihity. Physier.ns recom: iuend it. Alldealere sell it. Gentine has “rade tour joumed Feu likes ob WrapLer. 3 4 LL. DISORDERS CAUSED BY A BILIOUS STATE he system can Le cured by using Carter's Little DB. Kripiug oF discomfort attending ry them. Ova Niw Hose Is ready for your inspection. ITS FIVE FLOORS: | Arecomptetely stocked with everything that isnew and desirable in Household Furmslings, and worth a visit. OUR FIRST FLOOR Contains « carefully selected stock of Bed Room, Din- sug Koom and Office Furniture. OUR SECOND FLOOR Is devoted entirely to Carpets, and contains the latest and most desirable fall and’ winter colorings. All erades. OUE THIRD FLOOR Contains a stock of Farlor Furniture which for variety of desixn and untform excelience of material 1» not surpassed by any house in the country. SOME STARTLING PRICES: Piush or Hair Cloth Parlor Suites. Cash, $28; credit, 30. ‘Solid Oak Bed Room Suites, 3 pieces. Cash, 81 credit, 818 Poplar Bed Room Suites, 3 pieces. Cash, @14; credit, €15. SIX-FOOT OAK EXTENSION TABLE. Cash, credit, 84 50. foot Oak Extension Table. Cash, 85.50; i. Forty-pound Hair Mattress. Cash, $7.50; credit, a Woven Wire Springs. Cash, @2.25; credit, 82.50. Brussels Carpet, per yard. Cush, 60c. ;credit, Goe. Ingrain Carpets, per yard. Cusi:, $5c. :credit, 40c. Carpets sewed and laid free of cust. No chargetor waste in matching. TERMS. Easy weekly or monthly payments. No notes and 66 per cent discount allowed for settle- mente in thirty days. GROGAN'S CREDIT HOUSE, sel-tr Doxt Be Decewen, But buy the BEST FIREPLACE HEATER EVER MADE, Which is SEXTON'S GRAND HEATER. 819, 821 and 823 7th st. nw. It works where others fail! Sales unprecedented! ‘Thousands in use by our best citizens, who unbestat- ingly Pronounce them without an equal and superior toad others the) “uave Cver used “iso indorsed and uuenied LY the priucipal stove dealers ‘ud other cities. We will be leased te seud, on ap- Viteation, s o0-pege book cotttaimiug testivouials from parties Using DEXZOUN'S GLAND HEATERS, con- Etim ail we claian for thot. 8. B. Sexton & Som, Manufacturers of the Best Fireplace Heaters, Ranges and Furnaces, Baltimore, Md FOR SALE BY THE PRINCIPAL STOVE DEAL- ERS IN WASHINGTON se21-lin JOR ANY CASE OF NERVOUSNESS, SLEEP- ‘dyspepsia, re- ‘Liver Filis. “Berose Macixe Your Fax Pon CHASES” OF FURNITURE, CARPETS AND HOUSEFURNISH- 1NG@ GOODS READ THESE PRICES, ‘Then eail at our store and examine coods,on which we guarantee you a saving of frou 15 to 25 per cent: Bed Room Suites. 3 pisces, any finish. e13 Parier Suites iu Hair, Cloth or Plush. 3 Our $37 Hair, Cloth aud Plush Suites beat them ail. INGRAIN AND BRUSSELS CARPETS AT PRICES LOWER THAN THE LOWEST. ALL CARPETS MADE AND LAlD FREE OF CHARGE. SMITH'S CREDIT HOUSE, 452 PA. AVE. N.W., NEAR 43 ST. Looking Glasses of any size that have been dam- aged Resil vered equal to new. vet War Do You Tux Or Tus: Ite surprising how many people are fooling them- selves iu buying furniture, &c., ou installments oF jong time. We slow theu where we offer many things st just one-half credit price, but they say: “Idon't care anything about price-I want tune.” It iso strange fascination, of tmprovident habit, in which they are willing to pay #2 for a @1 articio for the privi- lewe of payin for tt SUc. at a thine. ‘These sane people Gout seem to understand how it is that they are al- hard up. Ne man can prosper as long as he pays and gets $1 tori J don't want any credit busi- you havea dollar to spend. I will ¢ive you jorth for. If you can't pay cash for what Want you used notcows We don't sell on thine. ead these prices All-haie Mattress, 40 pounds, $8.30. Real Curled Mair Mattrese, full sige, Se.. 212.50. Cotton-tep Mattress, 62.25. Oek Suite, $16.50. beat Wire Cote, 91.6%. Spring Moller Shades, 30c. A Crystal Tum- Wer, Fly Fans, #1.u8. luitial Tuublers, any ro that tf you Luy fer cash don't spend your money until you come and seus. Weciain to be the only bouse in Washington where you can furnish a house i except cooking onasty, DOUBLE STORES, FURNITURE, CHINA, GLASS AXD KITOUBY WARE-8OLD ONLY FOR Casi. 1930 1510-12 7th at. m.w,, bet. PandQ AIS PROM INDI *0ODWAND & LOTMROR, he, bits and Fe. aw, . DYSPEPMIA ARD ~ PeVpRS THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C. ituaper é SEPTEMBER 24, 1801. 2d -EDITION. CHEERS FOR BLAINE. Nebraska Republicans Enthusiastic Over His Name, TWO FATAL RAILWAY DISASTERS, iA Girl Trampled to Death in a Panic. THE SEARLES WILL CONTEST. REPUBLICANS IN NEBRASKA. Convention to Nominate a State Ticket Meots Today. Lixcous, Nex. Sept. 24.—The republican state convention met in this city at 10 o'clock today and with the close of this convention Nebraska will present a political situation which finds parallel iu no other state of the Union. Three great poiiticul parties will contest |for supremacy in the state this fall and so nearly equalize their numerical strength | that no one can predict with any certainty to which the victory will fall. Of tho 214,000 votes cast in the state election a yonr ago the repub- licans cast in round numbers 74,000, the inde- pendents 71,000 and the democrats 63,000, except for governor, Boyd receiving a plurality. It is conceded by both the old parties that the dents or farmers are by no means tired of their new organization, and that their vote | will not vary materially from that cast a year | 9go, so. that a bitter ‘three-cornered conte: with all its uncertainties, again confronts the voters uf Nebraska. As a slight | fluctuation of party strength means so much when three tickets are in tho field, no one but very enthusiastic partisans | indeed attempts to.prediet the result of the coming election. The democrats and inde- pendents have already nominated their state tickets, and the republicans mect today tocom- plete the list of eandidates to be presented to the Nebrasku voters. ‘The convention was culled to order promptly at 10 o'clock by Chairman Watson of the state central committee, who made a briof speech, congratulating the convention upon the lar attendance and predicting success for their candidates to Le nominated. MANY CHEERS FOR BLAINE. “If the signs are true,” said Chairman son, “the republican national convention at Omuhs (cheers) in 1892 will nominate the next President of the United Statce, and that mau will be the glorious captain of the gallant ship of state, the skillful navigator, the fearless lender, the brilliant, matchless Blaine.”” At the mention of the uame of Blaine a secret cord from the rear wus touched und the por- trait of the great exponent of reciprocity dropped in sight. The cffect was magical. Five hundred delegates instantly sprang to. their feet and cheer after cheer resounded through the hall tor the distinguished Secretary of State. In concluding his speech Chairman Watson introduced Hon. Geo. W. Hummel of Grand Island as the temporary chairman of the con- vention. Chairman Hummel was greeted with cheers, but his speech was brief and consisted mostly in predicting republican success. jong the resolutions introduced and re- ferred to the committee was one presented by J. L. Keck of Buffalo, extending the greeting of the convention to the republicans who are #0 nobly battling for the principle for honest money, a reforin and ft tariff and for Mr. Blaine’s idea of reciprocity. [Cheers.] ‘THE OHIO SILVER PLAXK. The committce on resolutions immediately met and began the formation of a platform. There was alittle difference of opinion on the financial and transportation question, but it was finally resolved to place the ropublicansof Ohio on record as declaring for honest money and indorsing the republican legislation of the last Congress on the silver question, an equitable adjustment of freight rates, fair alike to the farmer, shippersand the railroad, is demanded, andthe McKiuley tariff law and’ the principle of reciprocity are warmly indorsed. The administration of President Harrison is approved, and the Nebraskans point with pride to the diplomatic victories achieved by the State and Agricultural Departments under the present republican administration in the ad- mission of pork into France and Germany. DURING THE RECESS. During the recess the candidates for the supreme judgeship were active in receiving the newly arrived delegates. It was apparent that Reese and Cobb would develop _nearl: equal strength on the first ballot wit Post, Harrison and Morris fottowing with more support than had been anticipated. Every- body realized that the contest would be a stul born one, and the fight was practically for-all one. _— — KILLED AND MANGLED. a Body of Workmen Kun Down by a Freight Train. New Casttz, Pa., Sept. 24.—A terrible wreck occurred on the Pittsburg and Western rail- roud at McKim's siding, a station a short dis- tance on the other side of Zelienople, Butler county. At this point. a work train, with a force of fifty men, was engaged at the time in putting down a new track. About 8 o'clock this morning the work train got out of the way of a freight train going west, but the crew did not know that a second section of the same number was following five minutes later. A TERRIFIC CRASH. The work train again pulled out on the main track and the men were engaged in throwing off dirt when the second section struck the work train with great force. Cars were piled up in a shapeless mass. ‘The engines were a mass of broken iron and wood, and the hot steam and boiling water fouea over the unfortunate ones caught in the jem. AX AWFUL BCESE. For a moment after the collision there was silence. ‘Then the air was broken by tho shrieks of the dying, making the scone so terri- blo that one of the trainmen who had escaped injury fainted with horror. The trainmen and laborers who were not in- jared began at once to assist those imprisoned im the debris. Several arms and legs were found in several different places and the head of an Italian was found twenty feet away from the body. The engincer, John Houghton, who had bravely done hie best to stop his engine at- tached to the freight train, was found wedged ® broken and shapeless iron. E LODIES FOUND. By 11 o'clock the bodies of Italian laborers had been taken from the wreck and with the killing of Engineer Houghton thie ewells the number to nine. ‘There were at least twenty men injured, several of whom cannot recover. All of the bodies were terribly mangled and distigured. Engineer. Houghton was the only American Ualled, | His home issaid to be in Allegheny. ‘Assistance was telegraphed for to Zelienople [and it ort time physicians and citizens | were at the scene rendering all the assistance im their power. - CAUSE OF THE DISASTER. At this writing the exact cause of the disas- ter cannot be learned, but, as usual, it is said that a mistake was made by trainmen, who did not correotly interpret the The coroner of Butler county has been sent for und he will begin the inquest immediately after his arrival. All the trains were delayed, but the force of men at work will soon clear the tr ‘The names of the Italians could not be araed, bus ay in and around Zelieno- a A BLUNDEK COSTS LIVES, Fourteen Persons Killed bya Railway Dis- aster. Mapauup, Sept. 24.—An express train running between Burgos and San Sebastien eame into collision with a combined goods and passenger train. Fourteen were killed and twenty-four were inj accident was due toa blender outhe pert ofa switchman. ‘The latter bas deon arrested. pers Philatelphia Democratic Nominations. toc hearty eating m= fuijeved st acre Ly; taking one Ngee rtoc's Hattie Liver Pills Umuuediately after Pumaperruns, Sept democratic ERS NIGHT Dan ANGCeTURA city convention today unauimously nominated fg Be. EGER UR Meg | W- Redwood Wright for city treasurer and baaiica se 4° | Theo. F. Jenkins for registe: of wills, SEARLES WILL CONTEST. A Crowded Court Room Listens to the Wid- ower’s Story. Sarea, Mase., Sept. 24.—Anothor crowded court room greeted the opening of the third day of the Searles will contest. ‘The exatnina- tion of Mr. Senrles was continued. Witness had owned an estate in Methuen twenty-one years. It was his birthplace and he had enlarged and improved i: at a cost of from 100,000 to #150,000. This came from the copartnership income. Neither this estate nor the Great Barrington propert: went into the copartnership the Great Barrington —_prdpert; transferred by decd to witness, but the deed Wes never recorded. The deed was dated February 23, 1888, but pencil marks on it indi- | cated Febri 8, 1900. This was said to have been done b: ne copyists to give the date for another ‘ced. ‘The transfer was made through Mr. Stillman and was executed in Europe. Neither of the deeds were recorded. Witness did not know of any transfer of tho San Francisco homestead. Mr. Burley then produced the deeds of the San. Francisco, Sacramento and Suinmit soda springs in Califormia from Mrs. Searles, through Stillman to witness. Witness had even after these transfers con- sidered himself und wife equally interested in the property. Deeds of the Memlo Park {sgl were also putin. None of these had been recorded. There was alvo a deed of 1,500 acres of timber land in California. A deed was put in convey- ing absolutely to wituess the same property ed to witness by the marriage settlo- nd was executed in Europe. There wa aletter with these documents which witness did not think ad been preserved. Ali the documents came at one time. ‘The title of the Block Island property stands in witness’ name: it was bought in October, 1887, aud_a house built there, which was begun’in 1888. The 5th avenue’ house was purchased in witness’ name in 1890at a cost of $165,000, ‘Those deeds were recorded, but in the other case the condi- tions were different. Witness understood that the time did not Pass until the deeds were recorded. No one suggested that theso be kept from the records so thut neithor Tinothy Hopkine nor any of his wifo’s relatives should know of them. No one gave any reasons for so doing. ee IN WALL STREET TODAY, A Sharp Attack on Missourt Pacific Causes the Price to Fall, New Yorx, Sept. 24.—In the stock market this morning a most vigorous attempt was made to break the list by means of = sharp attack upon Missouri Pacific and material losses were caused in a few of tho leading shares, while the general list was firmly held and the losses = afterward —re- covered. The market opened feverish and irregular, but whilo Union Pacific was per cent higher, Missouri Pacitic was down 1} per cent at 78, and in the early trading on ex- tremely heavy business it retired to 70%. At the sane tinie Northern Pacitic preferred and Union Pacific were forced off 13¢ per cent each, and the rest of the list from }{ to 4; per cent. The market, however, rocovered itself quickly and ‘the general list was soon brought up beyond the level of first prices, but u later attack sent the weak shares | down to still lower figures and the general list sympathized closely. ‘The talk of the passing of the dividend on the Missouri Pacific was the principal inducement for the attack. The Gould stocks, the Villards and thegrangers were prac- tically the whole market this morning and the trading in them was very large, but moderate in the general list. The market at 11 o'clock and weak at the lowest prices issouri Pacific was setting at 68. Money on call is casy at6 per cent. Prime mercantile paper 53ga7. Sterling exchange is active and weak with actual businessat 48004903 for sixty day bills and 489a483!; for demand. Posted rates 481a484. The offi atl report of the Mercantile Safe Deposit Company to the stock exchange shows: Silver bullion on hand, deposited, 40.181 ounces ,010 ounces; ‘certificates out standing, 4.025." Government bonds have been dull and steady, state bonds neglected, rail- THE DISTRICT SINKING FUND. ‘Treasurer Nebeker Submits an Estimate of the Appropriation Required. ‘Treasurer E. H. Nebeker today submitted to he Commissioners an estimate of the appropria- ttions required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, by the treasurer of tho United States, ex- officio commissioner of the sinking fund of the District of Columbia, on account of interest and sinking fund on the funded debt of the District of Columbia, exclusive of the wator stock bonds and for the sinking fund office. He also submits in accordance with the act of Congress of July 5, 1844. an esti- mate of the amount required to refund within the time fixed by law onc-half of the amount ypropriated for increasing the water supply of the city of Washington and to pay in- terest on the sums advanced to the District of Columbia by the United States for that pur- pose. Also, as required by the District Appropriation act of March 3, 189i, an estimate of the amount necessary to ‘refund in twenty- five aunuai installments one-half of the cost of the 48-inch main and connections and the 14th street main and connections, with interest on snid smount for one year at 8 per centum per annum. His estimates are as follows: Interest and sinking fund on the funded debt exclusive of water debt. €1,213,947.97; salaries of two clerks at $2,500 and £1,200 respectively; contingent expenses, $200. To pay the eighth instalment of the Dis- trict’s half of the debt for tho disused water tuunel, $54,021.80. Interest on same ut 3 por cent, $20,171.77. The first installment of the principal of the cost of the forty-eight-inch main and the 14th street main and connections, 211,896.51. Interest on same at3 per cent, 28.877.38. The above does not include the annual sink- ing fund and interest on the water stock bonds, which amounts to $44,610. ipsa HUSTIANG FOR CURRENCY. Less Than One Mi Business Said to Be in the Vaults Today. » Less than $1,000,000 in currency available for business in the vaults of the treasury at Washington is the condition that confronted treasury officials today. In the subtreasury at New York there ia 5,000,000 in currency, and in the various subtreasuries 500, more, making in all $10,500,000 cur- rency. ‘There is now in the course of re- demption $2,500,000 in currency, which makes @ grand total of 13,000,000 in currency. The net balance, as shown by the treasu: | mont, is €45,000,000. Included in this is £14, 000,000 in’ bank depositories and $17, 000,000 = in = subsidiary — silver, —_leav- ing the available balance as stated between $13,000,060 and #14,000,000 ‘This statement docs not iuelude the 100,000,000 gold reserve which Secretary Foster has stated at various times he could ure in cage of neces sity, nor does it include gold and silver coin in the ‘treasury. It ineludes only the currency available for current demands. Itisetated on good authority that during the present week treasury officials have lad to “hustle” to get together suiticient currency to meet demand drafta, and that where practic- able drafts have — been drawn on the — subtreasury = at. = New-York to avoid curtailing the small cur- rency balance in the Treasury Department. Money has also been transferred by express and telegraphed to points remote from sub- treasuries to meet urgentdemands, as the treas- ury could not afford to have funds remain. ‘Thie “cramp” for currency is brought about by the redemption of 43 per cent bonds, more than $16,000,000 of whic have been redeemed during the prescut month, and also to the falling off of customs receipts, which show a decrease of about 30 per cent during the resent month over the same month last yeur. eusion payments have also figured in reduc- ing the available currency, $7,500,000 having been paid out on this accoun! eee FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, New York Stock Market. and closing prices: reported” Ey spee.at Piroet. road bonds active and weak. ——— THE UNITARIAN CONFERENCE. After a Business Session and Reading of Reports Officers are Elected. Sanatoaa, N. ¥., Sept. 24.—The last day's session of the national Unitarian con- ference was begun by a devotional meeting at 9 o'clock this morning. The business session opened at 108. m. Reporte on the Meadville ‘Theologica: School, on liturgy and on work in Japan were submitted and discussed. The Paper on the Bible in theology, by Rev. W. Fenn of Chicago, was read. Keports from bi ness committees followed, and the confere: then proceeded to the election of ofiicers. Officers were chosen as follows: President, Hon. Geo. William Curtis of New York; vice presidents, Senator Justin 8. Morrill of Ver- mont, ex-Goy. John D. Long of Massachusetts, Hon. Dorman B. Eaton of New York, Hon. D. L. Sharey of Chicago, Hon. Horace Davis and Hon. J. P. Chaney of Worcester; general secretary, Re7. W. H. Lyon of Boston, and treasurer, Wm. Howell Rend of Boston. Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale of Boston’ was chosen chairman of the council and Rev. Geo. Batchelor of Lynn, the former, gen- eral secretary, was chosen & member of the couneil. apenas RECEIVED BY THE PRESIDENT. Members of the Congress of Physicians and Surgeons at the White House. ‘The President ought to be a very well man this afternoon, and he probably is. He passed a trying ordeal at 2:15 o'clock, submitting him- self to a close scrutiny by half a thousand physicians, who visited him in a body at the White House. His pulse was felt 500§ times or thereabout and he was told by several scores of men, who should know what they were talking about, that he was looking well. All this bappened during the course of the reception tendered by the President to the dologates to the triennial congress of physi- ians and surgeons, row in session CS a A ad east room, which was shown for the first time with the new furniture, was well filled with the doctors and their wives, formed in a line of twos around three sides of the apartment. At 2:16 the President came down the western stairway to the lugubrious strains of “Hail to the Chief” and stationed himself in the blue parlor. DR. MITCHELL PRESENTED THEM. Dr. Mitchell, the president of the congress, was at once introduced and then the line be- gan to flow Ly. The two Presidents stood side by side, the one the head of anation, the other of an association of healers, and the latter pre- sented his colleagues by name to the former. ‘The President shook each one by the hand, and had afew minutes’ talk after it was ali over with some of the officers of the congress about a few light topics, politico-surgery, na- tional-opthalmology and some kindred themes. In the meantime Director Sousa was surpris- ing every one with the pyrotechnics of Weber's “Invitation to the Walt,” with ita sudden anti- climaxes and its medley of meters, While the big baxs was blowing hard and the flutes were tinkling the doctors were wand ing about the elegant apartments admiring the new decorations and showing a certain national pride in the premises. The erst room was darkened at about 2:30 by the closing of the blinds and the clectric lights were turned on. ‘They made a handsome effect and inspired a great many exclamations of favorable criti- cism on the way in which the executive man- sion is being modernized. The reception lasted about half an hour. _—— ee THE GARBAGE QUESTION. Van Rusk’s Bid Thrown Out aad the Present Plan Will Continue Until Congress Convenes. Tho Commissioners talked garbage again this morning in board meeting. The question under consideration was the contract for re- moving the garbage the remainder of the present fiscal year. It willbe recalled that Was from Kobert V. Rusk, who work for 34,200. Only about 000 remains “ie contractors wil sabvalt bids. Washington Stock Exchange. Sales—Regular call—12 o'clock m.: Pneumatic ry jage. 100 ut 3g. Washington Loan and Trust Company. 10 at ¥6; 10 at 96. Government Bonds—U.S. 48, registered, 1907, 115% bid, 116% asked. District of Columbia Bonds—Market stock, 7s, 1802, currency, 101 bid, — asked. 20-year fu e, 1892, gold, 101 bid.~—asked. 20-year fu, 53,1 gold, 105 bid, — asked. “Water stock, 7s, cur Tency,1901, 122 bid, — asked. 30-year fund, 68, gold, 1902, 116 Did, — asked. 5 905, cur: Jy bid, — asked. 8.658, 1924, “fund,” cur- Tenc¥, 112% bid, 115 asked. 33s, Teg. its, Ive iwi, 102 bid, —asked. Miscellaneous Bonds—Washington ana George- town Railroad, 10-44, 6s, 103 bid, 107 asked. Wash- ington and Georgetown Kallroad Convertibie 68 1¥5 bid, 138 asked. Masonic Hall Association, 5s, 1005, 108 bid, — asked. Washington Market ‘Company, 63, 110 bi Washingtou Market Company ’imy . 12 asked. Americar Security and Trust Company, 68, 109 bid, — asked. Washington Light Infantry ist mortgage 6s, 1964, 100 bid, — asked. Washington Light Infantry 2d 7s, 1904, 991, bid, 100%, asked. Washington Gas Light | Company, “series A, 68, 128 bid, — asked. Wash- ington Gas Company, series’ B, 68, 199 bid, —asked. — Wasiington Gus Company’ Converti- bie 6, 131 bid, — asked. Eckington Rall Foad 6s. — vid. 108 asked. Chesapeake an Potomac Telephone Ist mortgage 58, 100 bid, 106 asked. Capitol and North O- Street’ Railroad. ist mortgage 53, 104 bid, 1103 asked. Metropolitan Railroad Convertibie 68, 120 bid, 190 asked. U. > Hlectric Light, con. 54, 104 bid, 112 asked. National Bank Stocks—Bank of Washington, — bid. 900 asked. Bank of Kepublic, 270 bid. — asked. Metropolitan, 269 bid. 255 asked. Ceutral, 300 Vid, 350 asked.” Second, Ise bid. 00 asked. Farmers aud Mechanics’, 190 bid. —asked. Citizens’, 17 vid. 185 asked. Columbia, 150 bid, i6dasked. Capital, 122 bid. — asked. West Eud, % bid, 100 asked. Traders’, Lid bid, — asked. ‘ncoln, 98 bid, 103 asked. Hailroad Stocks—Washington and Georgetown, 285 bid, — asked. — Metropolitan, 104 bid, 112 asked. Columbia, 63 bid, 7% asked. Capito!” and North O Street, 36 bid, — asked. Eekington aid Soldiers’ Home, 3 bid, 43 asc. Georgetown aud ‘Tenleytown, Si bid, 62 avKed. Rock Creek, 100 bid, — asked. insurance Stocks — Firemen’s, 60 bid, 69 asked. Franklin, $2 bid, —usked. Metropolitan, su bid, — asked. National Union, 17 bid, 21 waked. AAr- lngton, 17 vid, — asked. Corcoran, 63 bid, — asked. " Columbia, 15 bid, 18 ayked: German- American. 150 bid, — asked. Potomac, 80 bid, 90 asked. Higgs 7% bid, — asked. People's, 51, vid, — asked. Linooln, oly bid, 83 asked. Commer: ciai, 4 ‘bid. Sasked. ‘Title insurance Stocks—Keal Estate ‘Title, 123 bid, 140 asked. Columbia Title, 6x4 bid, 6% asked. Gas and Electric Light Stocks— Washington Gas, 4344 Vid, 443¢ asked. Georgetown Gas,43Ui U_S, Electrle Light, 153 bid, 165 asked. ‘Telephone Stocks — Penusylvania, 24 bid, — asked. Chesapeake and Fotoinac, —bid, 65 asked. =lnetican Graphophione, 43, bid, 6% asked. Miscellanevus Stocks—Washington Market Com- Pany, 15 bid, 21 asked. Great Falls Ice Company, 140 “bid, 170 asked. “Bull Kun Panorama Com: pany, 16 bid, 25 asked. Pueumatic Gun C ¥ yx Did, 4, asked. Lincoln Hall, — bid, 100 asked. ‘Sufe'Deposit and ‘Trust Companies —~ Washing- ton Safe Deposit Company, 112 bid, — asked Washington Loan and ‘Irust Company, 953g bid, 96 asked. American Security and Trust Company, 92 bid. 9S asked. —— Baltimore Markets. BALTIMORE, Sept. 94 — Flour dull, un- changed—teceipts, 7.838 barrels anipmenta, 222 barrels; sales, 900 barrels. | Wheut eusy—No, Ted, spot, 1.0234 1.03%; September, 1.02;¢a1.02%; October, 1.037%; December, 1.06% 01.0 No. 3, Ted, %}y—receipts, 51,200. bushels: ments, 269,372 Dushels; stock, 1,705,021 by _ sales, ‘184,000 bushels.’ Southern wheat, steady: Fultz, 951.0%; Longberry, 1.0ual.0;. Corn easy dig: Jahuury, oowasiig: February, “Suyadty te FoR gO ae ag te gg ‘182,000 bushels. Southern corn—white, quiet, 67a Salis Seat, Sasa aie are ‘8000 bushels: stock, 155,343 bushels. Rye quiet and easy—No 2 8,170 Dusnels; stock, #iag00 bushel. May” quict and steady. to choice x Grain frelghts quiet, unchanged. Cotion trm—middling, 8%. Provisions firm, une! Butter very firm, unchanged. firm—19. Coffee dull— Rio cargoes, fair, ae SE age frm, Unchanged. " Cupper iirm—re! Whisky steady, unchanged Peanuts, unchanged, ia threes, 64 bid; WASHINGTON ALL RIGHT. No Thought of Seeking Any Other City as @ 90 GAYS DR. & WEIR MITCHELL, PRESIDENT OF THE CONGRESS OF PHYSICIANS AND SUROEOXS— ‘THE SESSION THiS AFTERXOON—BUSINESS FIRST ATTENDED TO—BANQUETS TOXIGET. Several energetic people—some of them Washington's and some from other cities—were busily ongaged this morning in endeavoring to find an alleged sentiment favorable to forsak- ing the national capital asa permanent meet- ing place and moving the triennial congress of American physicians and surgeons to some cooler spot. Fi The searchers bad their trouble for their sins. No member of the congress could be found who bad even entertained such an idea. “I never heard a word of any such proposi- tion,” enid President 8. Weir Mitchell toa Star. reporter this afternoon. “ are very much pleased with Washington meeting place, and I see no reason why any oue should set such ramors afloat.” THIS AFTERNOON'S SESSION. A large number of men of eminence attended the afternoon session of the congress, which commenced shortly after 3 o'clock. The sub- Ject discussed was “Fibroid Processsc (chronic inierstitic! inflammation, scleroses); their pathology and etiology, with special reference to ihe influences of diathesi« and Dr. Alfred L. Loomis of Ne’ ‘ork, Professor of pathology aud ,tho practice of | medicine in the University of the City of York, was referee. timore, professor of medicine ia Johns Hop- kins University. There will be discussion on the paper by Dr. Charles L. Dana, Dr. J. Weet Roosevelt, Dr. Wm: ‘Tf. Councilman, Dr. John Guiteras and others. “You have probably noticed,” «aid an officer of the congress, this afternoon, “that our time is pretty fully occupied by business. Any attempt to make our mecting an’ excuse for excursions is at once squelehed. When #0 many practical physicians and surgeons get together for mu- | tual increase of knowledge and to ameliorate the physical condition of unsound mankind, it would be criminal for us to spead hours in recreation. Hard work aud lots of it is the order of the da; _ BANQUETS ToxI@uT. This will be a good night for banquets. Mem- bers of the American Surgical Association and of the Association of American Phy- sicians will entertain . their foreign guests = at—sthe = Arlington at8 o'clock.” The neurologists have a dinner at the same hour at the Arno. The gynecologists will feast also; the spread will be at the Arling- ton, Dermatologists will fill up on good things at the Arno, commencing promptly at 7. ‘The Climatological Association banquets it- self this p.m., and so will the pedrialicists, the latter at the Arlington. THE INDIVIDUAL BOctETIES. After an executive session the surgical asso- ciation this morning talked about cancers and tuberculosis, the papers being by Dr. Frederic 5. Dennis of New York and Dr. Nicholas Seun ¢ E¥necologists listened to Dr. Chadwick's cloquent tribute to the late Dr. Fordyce Barker and then discussed subjects of professional in- terest. Dermatologists had a busy session, for, in addition to the regular program, ofiiccrs were elected. ‘These are theelect: Dr._E. B. Bron- son of New York, president; Dr. F. J. Shep- herd of Montreal, vice president; Dr. George Jackson of New York, seeretary and treas urer; Dr. G. H. Fox of New York, member of the council at large. _, she Laryngolical Association was not idle; its work tor this year is over. The climatologists talked about la grippe Principally and attended to business matters hot of a peculiarly medical nature. Physicins ind a very interesting session in the Grand Army building, one of the papers read by Dr. ‘theobald Swith of this city. iis subject was on “Changes in the led blood Cor- puscles inthe Pernicious Auwmia of ‘Texas Cattle Fever.” The Association of Andrology and the Orthopedic Association and Syphilology, the Pediatric Society also ineld meetings. cecum GOLD IN THE SHOEMAKER TRACT. That Was the Burden of the Testimony of the Mining Experts Today. In the Rock Creck Park appraisement pro- ceedings before Commissioners Norrw, Seut- ferle and Burchell yesterday afternoon Mr. J. W. Kidwell was recalled. After describing the formations which indi- cate gold he spoke of his visit to the Shoema- ker property,in which he found the indications of gold such as to warrant development of the vein. Ifit developed 6 per ton with water, &c., it would pay to ship the ore. If he owned the property he would certainly develop it. ‘MINER HOWARD'S TESTIMONY. James Howard testified that he had been en- gaged in mining in the west and in examining imines in North Carolina and Virginia. He had gone over the Shoemaker property and made a sketch of the veins. He described what he had seen indicating gold—quartz between two wails of shist. It was'a well-defined vein of erous rock—the three veins being in con tiguity. He had traced it by the float ore—-out- croppings. It could be mined easily, the water being handy. He would expect to find beneath 2 good layer of ore. He estimated the valuo of the mining right at $75,000 to £80,000. MR. JOHNSON RECALLED. Mr. Johnson was recalled and testified as to the indications, explaining that to the inexpe- rienced the quartz bearing gold and the barren quartz looked alike. The fact that on assay only a trace was found would be us sufficient for him as an assay of £100 per ton, for it would indicate that gold was there, and he would go to work to develop it. He then described his tracing of the vein veveral hundred fect. He regarded the prospect as yuluable, but he had not thought ns to how much it was worth. He regarded the vein asa good thing to work, as one to be opened up. It is safe to say that two Veins come togetler, and in his judgment a shaft sunk 100 feet ‘would show an immense value. He would give $80,000 for the mining right, and the man who got it at that, he thought, would get it dog cheap. BIR. KIRK CONTINUES MIS TESTIUOXY. This morning District Attorncy Cole ap- peared with Mr. Perry. G.W. Kirk was re- called and stified to his examination of the vein on the Shoemaker tract, saying he traced it half mile. He found manganese and cop- Per, (with iron, copper and lead salphurots, which accompany gold. He also found indica tions of silver. Itavas well situated in respect toeconomical mining and the prospect has a value which he pluced et £120,000. & 3, DAVENPORT RECALLED. 8. J. Davenport wax recalled and testified to the gold-bearing quartz in the Shoemaker tract, describing it at the several pits, and {gave a valuation of $200,000. ence See RAILWAY MAIL SUPERINTENDENTS. A Higher Physical Standard for Railway Mall Clerks Desirable—Other Business Transacted. ‘The division superintendents of the raiiway mail service continued their sessions this morning in room 8 of the Postoffice way mail clerks. As itis nowall applicants for positions in the service make appli- cation to the civil scrvice commission and they are informed as to the place of the next examination for appointment. They are subj to a rigid mental examination tte “feat a thad the clerks "ara at on oat The co-referce was Dr. William Osler of Bal- | 5 rr ‘THE PENSION OFFICE. Commissioner Raum Submits His Annnal Keport to Secretary Noble. INTERESTING FACTS SHOWING THE XUMPER OF PENSIONS GRANTED, THOSE NOW UNDER TRAIN OF COMPLETION UNDER BOTH THE OLD axD NEW LAWS— RECOMMENDATIONS MADE. ‘The annual report of Commissioner Raum of the pension bureau, submitted to the Secre- tary of the Interior today, shows that on June 30, 1891, there was 676,160 pensioners borne Upon the roils of the bureau, being 138,216 more than were carried on the roils at the close Of the last fiscal year. They are classified as follows: Widows and danghters of revolutionary sol- diers, 23; army invalid pensioners, 413,597; army widows, minor children, &c.. 108.537; navy invalid pensioners, 3,449; navy widows, | minor children, éc., 2,568; survivors of the war of 18) of 1812, 7,590, 16.379; widows of soldiers of the Mexican wat . Following are the number of pe sions of the several classcr granted under the act of June 27, 18W: Army invalid pensioners, 36; army’ widows, minor chil ke, | navy invalid pensioners, navy minor children, de., 1, During | r first’ payments were made ! original claims, requiring 38 for their paymen’ is is an iu the number over the ye. | yeAhe asbreeate cost, however, was €1,087,902 | | tess. | of oyginal payments cription, req ,592 less than was required for the 130, first payments made during the last fteeal year. ‘The average value of first p ing the year of Brat y } allowed 1890, was $71.28 1 r the prec reduction in the averoge first payme ‘The ayg.<gate annual value of the pensions on che roig June 31, 1891, was $89,247,200, and the average annual value of each pension w nual valine of e, dune fiscal year there were 38,- 574 pensioners ou the roll who remained un- paid for the want of ti tled to receive which will be paid of the appropriation for the current fiscal Year, and there remained at the close of the fiscal year in the Lands of the several pension agents the sum of 13.852.84, which has jrince been covered into th | ‘this amount to of the pension appropr: drawn from the treasury agg: | 956.06 of the appropria pended. ‘There will b propriation f; pennes of exam’ TOTAL AMOUNT DISBURSED Tae total amout disbursed on account of pen- sions, expences, &c., during the fiscal year was €118,54: s compared with $10 disbursed during the preceding ap- and ex- that it appears thut 155,216 peusios to the rolls during the fi at an increased — cost the — natic of 12,055,069 as compared with the expendi- tures for the previows ii penditure includes $4,357.3 ear, and said ex- id upon vouel Crs remaining unpaid at the close of the year. Peusions were granted during each’ ot the last four years as follo 145, 20, 151,658; 18 PUTTING CASES IN TRAIN FOR COMPLETION. In the conduct of the business for the past year in addition to the adjudication of com- pleted cases it has been a prime object, says the commissioner, to put as many cases as possible in train'for completion. With this | jend in view 603.661 orders were made | for medical examinations and 474,680 medical certificates of + examinations have act beon geceived, 345,867 reports fro1 Department have been received, giving the military and medical his- tory in as many claims. The commissioner in- viteés attention to in annexed tables, which show the length of service and ages of 83,408 pensioners to whom certificates were granted from February 14 to June 30,” 1891, inclusive. These tables show that of the 12,402 soldiers to whom certificates were issued under the general law 1,371 were to persons who served a period of six months and under, while 11,031 served fora period of seven mouths and over, and that the argest number of certificates issued soldicrs of a particular length of serv Ww: 905 to those who served thirty-four enths and 874 to those who served thirty- x months. The remarkable fact is disclosed that fifty certificates were issued to men who served from 161 to 476 months. It also appears that of the 71,004 persons towhom pensions were | granted under the act of June 27, 16), 1,163 were issued to soldiers who ‘served ‘six months and under, 26,099 to persons who served a year or urder and 44,905 to persons who served thirteen months and over, and that the largest number of certificates insted to a class was 4,623 to men who served thirty-nix months. The age of the greatest number of pensioners under both the old and new law was | forty-seven years. MAJORITY OF PENSIONS TO YETERANS. Isubmit.- the commissioner, that this data shows th. the pensions now being granted under the old as well as the new law are not to persons whose terms were short and who suw but little service during the war. The great majority of the certificates now being issued, he says. are to the ve erans of the great struggle for the Union, and many of these men would have gone to their graves in want but for the just, humane aud timely enactment of the law ‘of June 27, 1890. ing the last year 20,525 pe |sioners were droppei trom ther | tor various causes, an | were dropped by reason of dea [Joss to the pension rolls by | widows and dependent mothe | wasat the rate of 25 per thonsand: in 18, 33 | per thousand, and in 1891, 35 per thousand. | It is estimated that of thesoldiers who served the country during the late war 1,004,658 were killed in battle or ‘died during and since the war. On June 30 last 124,750 of these deceased soldiers were represented on the pension rolls by their widows or other dependents, USION SOLDIERS NOW LIVING. There are about 1,208,707 soldiers of the Union now living, and of the survivors 520,158 are now on the pension rolis. There are, therefore, 685,549 survivors who are not pen- sioned and 879,908 diseased soldiers not repre- sented on the pension roils. ‘There were 154,617 congressional calls for the condition of cases made during the past fiscal year, boing an average of more than 500 per day. INCREASE OF SALARIES RECOMMENDED. ‘The commisgjone: calls the Secretary's atten- tion to the fact that the salaries of the chiefs of division in the pension bureau are very much Jexs than in other bureaus of the executive de- partments and recommends thai the salaries of six of the chiefs be inereased to $2,500 and that the ealaries of the six others, as well as of the law clerk, be increased to $2,280. He also recommends that the grades of classes three and four be each increased to 150. This, how- ever, does not contemplate an increare in the force, but a readjustment of the salaries. BEADJUSTMENT OF PENSION RATINGS. The commissioner renews his recommends- tions of last year as to the readjustment of the pension ratings under the actsof March 3, }, and March 4, 1890. In concluding his re- port the commissioncr says that on an average about 30,000 pension certificates are being issued each month and that during the current year he expects that as many as 390,000 claims will be adjudicated, for which he believes the present = Of 133,473,085 will be amply it. The bureau of pensions, he says, is thorot organized; the ‘divisions are well nced in respect to the work to be performed by each, and their chiefs are gentlemen of excellent abil- ity and are conscientiously to their duties. The force is composed of men and women of intel and capacity, and Siring the pst ear there aw been exhibited an excellent spirit. which cannot be too highly commended. An immense amount of work has been done, and well done. Assignment of the Cherch News. An assignment for the benefit of creditors of this number 13,229 the In 1890 the decease of nd fathers : Catholic papers in the country. It bas = large circulation — been Win it demented, which ‘bere ‘receaty’ toot brought to light and sent to the grand '. have brought Mr. Lepley into financial culties from which he is unable to extricate pene a Ris oth Bs pepe waa bo ¥y Bit Tid ek : 10 COME FROM INDIANA. Judge Butler Said to Ne Slated for the Coart of Claims. Tt is learned today on the best authority that everything points now to the selection of Judge Batler of Indiana to meceed Judge Sco- field on the bench of the Court of Claims. He is energetically backed by Justice Harlan. Senator Sherman's man is ex-R-y cesentative Thompson of Obio, Today's indications, bow- ‘ever, throw him out of the fight. At one time it wae thought tha: Mr. J. M. Langston had @ good show of securing the place. As stated, to Buder. COMMANDER KELLOGG'S CASE. A Naval Retiring Board to Examine Inte Mis Physical Condition. The naval retiring board today conducted an exauivaiion of the physical condition of Come mander Augustus G. Kellogg witha view to determining whether his mental condition ie such as to warrant his being placed on the retired liet. The examination will be held at St Elizabeth's Insane Asylum, where Com- mander Kellogg is now under treatment for brain discase. The question of his retirement Will depend largely upon the testimony of the physicians in charge ot his case, the temporary or permanent nature of the affection being the main factor. Then there will be other matters to consider, euch as the relations “between the disease and the service of the officer. ‘The inw stipulates that 1f an officer should suffer from an pacitating disease incident to his service: he shall be retired on three-fourths pay. From this point there are tw grades of retirement, half pay or furlough pay and complete retire- ment with a year's pay. It ix thought, ever, that “Commander Kellogg's excellent record in the navy will have an eflect upon the findings of the board. i ---+ DISTRICT GOVERNMENT, everything now points POLICEMEN APPOINTED, Tpon the recommendation of Maj. Moore of the police force the Commusmoners: today made the following appointments: Joseph A. Burns, isemas Lightioot td to bo first-cluws privates in the ‘opoli= tan police force, wiee Devi E- Som sumpeek, F. N. Bart removed, and Johannes Rouning, who failed to qualify. No aAvTHoRrry. Tn passing upon the application of A.M. Copen to be allowed to build « bouse on the strip of land at the junction of Lincoln avenue and the new road icadi: wet cyrner of the Soldiers’ Home, € Rowell today says: “Ido not a> what suthies ity the Commissioners have to permit building of @ house in the street or road. Tecommend that the request be not. granted.” WANTS IIS CANE REOPENED. ThePresident today forwarded to the Com- missioners the communication of ex-Police Ofticer Wm. N. Cutter, who seeks. reopening {his case. In his letter to the executivehe 1. Robert wrote him a letter, in that personally he was not satie- action of the board of Commie Ts in dismissing him. The Commissioners will return the letter ina few days with « report. ISCELLANKOUS. ‘The Washington Brick Machine Company has requested ‘the Commissioners to place @ patrol box at the southwest corner of 14th street and Florida avenue northeast. The Commissioners have ordered the laying ofa six-inch water main from the intersection of Columbia avenue aud Quarry road down the latter road into the Zoological Park Mr. &. F. Gunison writes to the Commission- ors that Sunderiand Mace has net been for a long time and is in a filthy condition. suvshe thinks it is habitually neglected. It will be looked in} Mr. James H. Kicharda, in behalf of the Vet n'# Association, has re~ eran Voluntecr Fire quested permission of the Commissioners to make connection with the fire plug at the core ner of 19th anc H streets, adjoining their bail, for the purpose of testing a hand engine. Mr. Fred P. Spalding, the engineer in charge of the subdivision of land, has tendered his ree- ignation. The Commissioners have the same and appointed Mr. NX. P. Hicherde to fill the vacancy. —— Marriage Licenses. - Marriage licenses have been issued by the clerk of the court to Orville & Swank and Jessie Haller: Winfield Brown and Julia Pred- erick; Joseph Moseby and Sophia Evans; Chas. W. Curtis and Mary E. Gray; Michael W. Nolen nd Ella M. Funk; W. P. Hartiey and Carrie W. Frazier; Levi 8. Freas and Lizzie 8. both of Brightwood: Wm. Francis Green Martha Brown; James S. Turner of Charles cou and Florence M. Benson of Mone omery y, Md.; Emmet Clay Riley of anquier county, Va., and Mary Elizabeth King; C.W. Pallett of Saulsbury, Md., and Laura A. Taylor: W. 8. Hatton and Julia C. Armstrong; John W. Alibritton and Henrietta D. Best; George H. Aukward and Catherine a Kirby; James K. Freeman and Emma Tay> jor. —- Real Estate Matters, Bessie J. Kibbey has purchased of W. A. Gare don for £12,000 part of the Linthicum estate (the Oaks), fronting 300 feet on Linthicum place, West Washington. E. bi, iughes has purchased for @4,717.56 of F. T. Browning Jot 16, square 895, fronting 52 fect on Sth between b streets northeust. F.E. Nesbit has purchased of A. B. Clarke for £4,200 sub 20, square 781, fi 16 feet on Massachusetts avenue between 3d and 4th streets northeast. LP. C. Palmer has bought for 4,000 of C. A. MeKuen lot 12, square 7: 16',99 feeton D between Ist and 2d streets northeast, 5. H. Heizer bas bought of D. Selwis for €4,- 500 lot 10, square 34320 feet ou th between, ‘T street und Florida avenue northwest. Mayor Strauss bas called the city eouneil to- gether this evcning to consider the subject of selling the city property at Duke street dock. —_—— Range of the Thermometer. The following were the readings at the office of the weather bureau today: 8 a.m., 70; 2 p.m., Sl) masimum, 83; minimum, 66. DIED. CLARK. On Monday, Septeniber 21. UROL, st late ‘restience, Meeene Hill, eat Honuine,’ Date MAKIA J. CLAM. widow cf Spencer Moron Cintily in the sevents-minth Sear of her sae. Luria! in hartiord, Coun, Friiay, September 2%. * {UM BERLAND. Iota ud “hate Cu: Fuueral. at 10 o'clock’ Prnisy. tro residence T18 ‘Twenty tourth street. Privates DANT. On W September 23, M801 U1-lS en, MARY hel ved daughter of Charles Ha Snd Martua E- Dani’ aned une peat Desa bam ees ex, oe euegeeeeee te ee eee ‘Where ne farewell tear is sea Site worm, Funeral from parents’ resdenor, 486 1 street svath= west, Friday at Yo'cock pom. Relatives and triends Soeenie eater ? DENNIS. | Departed this life Thi morming Septenter 2h, mel AUGUSTCS DERMIS aged laa years, Seven months and twenty-four Fricnds are invited to review oi, p88 late residence, 408 M street. City, Va. KILROY. Suddenly, on Thursday. 5 Berar base