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Worth £4.50. Tro lots Ladies’ Hand-sewed Turn Boots at €2.25 per pair. Regular price, $4.50. As a nimble penny is worth two slow ones, you'd Detter jump at these bankrupt prices at once. They won't last long. Tar Wannes Suoz Hovse, 1115 F Sreesr N. W., #15 —- KENEASTER’S OLD STAND. Linczst Stock, I pvest Parces, Exsrst Tenus aT Grocaws amwota Creprr Hover. S19, 821 and $23 7th st. ow. Foesircae Asp Hovsercrstservas OF EVERY CONCEIVABLE DESCRIPTION SOLD ON CREDIT. fefrigerstors are a necemity at this season of the year. We are well prepared to supply your wantsin thisdirection. Ours are made by Armizor & son and ‘took first"prize at Paris exposition in 1880. AI sizes, all prices. You will need Matting also—we keep able erades. Matting, Oil Cloth and Lino- gm your tloor free of extra cost. per cent lower ia price than uuand at other stores, We soli or hair clota, for 828 cash, A Soild Oak Bed Room Suite for #17 cash, $18 on fhne. Ifyou needs Carpet see the Brussels we sell for Gc. per yard cash, Gd. on time. Good Ingrain Carpet 35e. per yard cah, 4c. om thine. All carpets made and laid free of extra cost. Nocharge for waste im muatching feures. Have you seen our six-foot Soll4 Oak Extension Tables for $4.25 cash, 94.50 on time? Perhaps you need a Baby Carriage. We have almost @ bundaed patteras for you to select from. REMEMBER Frversthine te sold on credit and our cradit prices are h prices elsewhere. Our tering require no notes— A sxvall deposit at time of purchase and the batanee in suws w suit you, 8 Week or a month apart. GCG RRR 00 GGG A NN N™ 688g © @R RO OG G@ AA KNN” Eo BME 83 Eco Mh ERE gM Goo Kk oS AAAS SS Maat MAMMOTH CREDIT HOUSE, a S819, S21, S23 7th st. ow. Sas Bae By Bas8 wel ae: a e pass “4 rit “gf 5 it at i Se S aon 2. ie Eat aia ¥, LH 3 Wy is & a re) q oe sa a _ | nellites, he declared, 2d EDITION. (THE IRISH CAUSE. |Gladstone’s Proposals Ayeened by McCarthyites. (CAMPED ON THE BILLS. | St. Olaire Valley Folks Waiting for the Waters. |OTHER TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. GLADSTONE AND HOME RULE. The Liberal Leader’s Conference With the McCarthyites. Loxpox, June 22—The representative of the Associated Press in this city is authorized to state that the conference yesterday between Mr. Gladstone and the McCarthyite leaders almost solely concerned the proposals of Mr. | Gladstone to extend guarantees to the minori- | ties under the proposed new home-rale bill. |" Justin McCarthy subsequently convened rivate meeting of his colleagues to discuss | Sir. Gladstone's’ p , and communicated | Ged'tet propeeaie vil be approved arena’ at t] a] re With regard ton reunion commission which ia | coming here from the United States Mr. John | m says he fears it will be too late its work to be effective here, as it | will arrive on the eve of the | polling and after the final for anti-Par- | the contests are completed. ill be ready, however, to the moment, to attempt to effect con- ciliation, or to favorably consider such | should they be made by the Parnellites, pests Peeks WAITING FOR THE WATERS, People in the St. Claire Valley Still Camp- » ing on the Hills. Porrsviite, Pa, June 22.—After twonty hours of work at drawing off throngh the pipes the water in the immense leaking reservoir of the Pottsville Water Company in the St. Claire Valley has only lowered six feet and the danger of the entire breast giving | | for \d the builders of the dam frankly confess that they cannot understand how the bank is holding ‘together so long under the wear of the escaping waters. Claire and surrounding towns are still on the hills, where they spent the nigh! Pottsville and other safe places entertained hun- dreds of them last night. St. Claire councils bei ed to end the by the use re ee eS Reading Railroad jof dynamite and | yond deacription. The — cad Company suspen ic on toh the threatened valley and has re- moved a goodly part of its engines and rolling stock to vafe points. Large construction gangs | e ready for instant call and large quan- tities of new material have been brought to nearby points. There are no flood gates to the , the only outlet being two twelve-inch service mains, and these can | only release the water in about double the vol- | ume that is running in from the feed streams. | This is why the water lowers so slowly. The | water escaping by the leak would if put together fill a main the size of a flour Pottsville is being supplied from other dams of the com- pany. Many collieries and other oe | tablishments are idle from lack of hands in con- 4 pany. The ‘Senate bill for the same was indefinitely postponed. One of the amendments to the House bill rec- ‘ommended by the Senate committee provides that for {he safety of travel on the Canal road and before commencing to run its cars on the elevated railway the amendment to the sundry civil bill: “For im- proving the ventilation of the Senate chamber and of Senate committee rooms; improving the eee and sout its and addition to the kitchen the Senate restaurant, said amount to be ex} Ey plans and specifications Col. Geo. E. Waring, jr., and Dr. John 8. as set forth by the reports of April 12, 1902, ordering sn investigation sed i ing an inv. ion an Sepelt by’ ie comaniites on protic builtin and t away at any instant has increased. Experts | H ids of the sanitary condition of the chamber and other parts of the Senat Capitol.” OTHER BILLS PASSED. Other bills of local interest passed by tho Renate today were the House bill confirming the title to real estate in the subdivision of square 206 and the Senate bill which provides that any officer of the navy now on the retired list who shall have been retired after completing forty years of servico or having attai: the of sixty-two shall re- ceive the rank and pay of commodore if he shall have served creditably a term of four years as aFcaus. chief of one of the Navy Department One of the District bills reached on the cal- endar was the measure which proposes to ex- 0 jome. This. upon the suggestion of Senator ‘Vest, went over without prejudice. COMPENSATION OF JAIL EMPLOYES. Among the calendar bills passed by the Senate today was the one fixing the salary and compensation of the warden and employes of the United States jail of the District. By the provisions of this measure tho warden will re- ceive $2,500 annum and the deputy warden, #1,400 per annum. Other employes will be paid’ as follows: at month; fifteen guards at $85 month; clerk, $90 per month; physician, $1,000 per a1 num; three matrons, €88 per month exch, en- ineer, $100 per month; twoassistant engincers, 390 per month; cook, $60 per month; driver for jail van, $30 per month. ph tacoma SPECIAL ASS! MENTS. ‘Why the District Has Made No Contest in Cases of Certiotari. Assistant Attorney 8. T. Thomas today, in re- ply to a recent letter of the Commissioners ack- ing the attorney's office for a statement of the Teagons why no contest is made in behalf of the District in cases of certiorari involving special | sequence of the excitement. josie, Russian Cereals Can Re Exported. Sr. Perenssvas, J 22.—The ukase revok- ing the prohibition of the exportation of cereals is published. Mr. Blake for Parliament. Toxoxto, Oxt., June 22.—The Irish leaders have offered Mr. Blake one of the two Long- ford seats. Both of the Longford seats re- turned nationalists by acclamation at the general election in 1886. Mr. ce, who is now at Poimte-a-pic. lower St. Lawrence, cannot leave for Ireland at once, but will start shortly. ais aa eens ‘What One Freight Car Did. Newark, N.J., June 22.—At 8 o'clock this morning a freight car on the Pennsylvania railroad ran off the track on the Newark road of the Center street bridge over the Passsic river. The track was torn up for twenty yards. ‘The accident caused a delay of four hours. All trains were obliged to go by the Meadow route. ———— Found Dead in His State Room. New Yorr, June 22—8. M. Lesher, a rancher from Texas who was a saloon passenger on the steamer Neise from Galveston, which arrived here yesterday, was found dead in his state room at 5a.m. June 19, his death having re- sulted, it is supposed,’ from an overdose of morphine. i Additional inor Officers. Curcaco, June 22.—The following states have selected secretaries in addition to those hereto- rms. The following vice chosen in addition to Alabama, W. | Henry Paul; Connecticut, | Massachusetts, A. C. Houghton: heres ag | R. Buch; New Mexico, G. A. Richardson; North Carolina, = A. Phenix; = a Virginia, C, Corbin; Washington, Blanckford; Wisconsin, Wm. Carson; Wyoming, Col. C. Hunter; Arizona, A. G. Oliver; Okla- homa, 8. T. Levy. fabenna eee Dynamiting a Bank. Krzovrse Crrx, Wis., June 22—Burglars | blew open the vault in Bowman's Bank last | night and got away with $800 in currency, which was left outside the inner vault, which contained $2,000. Five or six dynamite cart- | ridges were exploded and were awakened, but the burglars a Rev. Mr. Dixon Held for the Grand Jury. New York, June 22.—Justice Grady rendered | his decision this morning im the case | of Rev. Thos. Dixon, jr., who was arrested on the complaint of Excise \ sioner Joseph Kerch, who cl with criminal bel ‘The Bev. Mr. Dixon is held for the grand jury. ywever, paroled | tos casted od bisdeepee’ Ger Abner. Justice failed to find during the exami- | nation that Kerch was individ for the delay of the excise in ite decision upon saloons that were open on tion day. ‘essensments, and whether there is any prospect of the District being successful in any of theni, says: Orrice or tux Artonyey D. C., Tune 21, 1892, To the Hon. Commissioners, &c., &c. Gentlemen—Your letter of the 18th instant, asking the attorney of the District for a state- ment of the reasons why no contest is made in behalf of the District in cases of certiorari in- volving special assessments and whether there is any prospect of the District being successful in any of them, bas been referred to me for answer. The reason why no contest has recentl; hee Buprecss Courtine soioe of caus ox" jupreme Court, in a canes ex- orer a period of ten years, bas held ‘them void where either of the following objec- tions existed: (1) Where the property was im- iy described. as, for instance, “of lot 2,” eo Where the original assessment was by the surveyor of the District instead of the board of public works or the Commissioners, (3) Where the revised assessment was not made on the complaint of the owner of the property. 4) Where the revised assessment includes , however small. not included in the origi- nal assessment. (5) Where there is no record showing how the owner was notified of the as- sessment. ‘These objections, as I understand it, exist in qithe special assessments now remaining in books of the District, except such as have been levied for work done under the so-called com] ‘The been pulsory permit system in recent years. validity of these special assessments was vigorously and aggressively defended by our predecessors, Messrs. Riddle and Davia, but without success, and they have uniformly been declared void ‘by the courts mainly on the | points above mentioned, Achort while after the present attorney for the came into office the Great Falls Ice Company sued the District in certiorari to gach certain Assessments against its property. e took the ground in that case on the aiithor- ity of Mattingly agt. District, 97 U. S., 687, that the act of Congress of 1878 for the revision of assessments was a curative act, azd that revision of an assessment under it had the effect of confirming the doings of the board of public works touching the improvement of Toads and streets and of ratifying the assew- ments under the legislative assembly act gust 10, 1871, ae charges on adjoluing property, and that it conferred upon the Com- missioners to revise and correct such as- sesements within thirty days after the of the act, and that such confirmation wan as ding as authority had origi n “ eae direct the improvement and make the assessment. But it was held among other things that the act of 1878 had no such effect; that it-did not revision except upon complaint of owner, and that Congress never intended ive validity to everything called an assess- ‘under the legislative act of 1871. case is reported in 18 Washington Law at page 798. The truth is immedi- ‘after the passage of the act of 1878 for tho | PSF i ‘of complaint on the part of the owners, Teems was error. amounts in these cases being less than — jurisdiction of the Supreme Court them have been taken there for review. not think, in view of the decisions of the ‘Term, there is any chance for the Dis- ‘trict to succeed in any of these cases and I take pellywygy of this portunity = urge propriet; recommending to Coe ies ‘of the bill now in*the-bands prigeit (i i ae A Desperado Killed. Poncext, LT., June 22—Bob Leslie, a des perate Seminole negro, was shot and killed near Sacred Heart Mission yesterday. There was s standing reward of 1,000 for his cay ‘Two deputy marshals undertook to effect his arrest, ‘The desperado resisted and attempted to his captors, whereupon the marshal opened fire A Trainfal of Wool. cars of wool rolled into St. Louis over the i Ha WG 5 | i i cif i | i i i E i Le ft bers Present. RETALIATION ON CANADA. Senator Davis’ Resolution on the Subject Introduced. THE SENATE. In reference to the President's meseage pre- sented last Monday as to reciprocal trade with Canada Mr. Sherman asked that the printing of the message and accompanying documants be hastened, so that the finance committee might be able to consider the subject without delay. ‘Senate bill to amend the act of June 22, 1888, authorizing the construction of a bridge ma he Wacour ar at Onn, ue Fp | and passed. It extends the for the com- pletion of the bridge three years from the Pet post office appropriation bill 6 post office a] tion bill was and placed on. the calendar, and notice was given by Mr. Cullom that he would call it up in @ day or two. The agricultural appropriation bill was also reported, and Mr. Allison gave notice that he would cail it up tomorrow. ‘Mr. Quay, from the committee on commerce, reported a ‘bill authorizing the Secretary o! War to cause survey to be made for a ship ganal from Philadelphia across New Jersey to New York bay, and it was placed on the calendar, TRE MILITARY ACADEMY BILL. The conference report on the military academy bill was presented and agreed to after statement by Mr. Cullom that the conferees | had no serious difficulty in arriving at sn agree- | ment—that the Senate item as to enlarging the | gas plant was retained, and that the bill, as it | passed the House, appropriated $396,665, and a gnreed to “in conference appropriated 917. ‘The calendar was taken up and the following bills were passed: Senate bill concerning the rank and pay of certain officers of the navy. It provides ‘that any officer of the navy now on the retired list who shall have been ret after completing forty years of service or hav- ing attained the age of sixty-two, as now pro- | vided by law, shall receive the rank and pay of commodore, provided he has served credite- bly 9 full term of four years as chief of bureau in the Navy Department. Subjecting to the homestead law the public | lands undisposed of within the Fort Fetlerman | hay reservation and wood reserve in Wyoming. | _ House Will for the relief of the inhabitants of the: town of Ferron, in Emery county, Utah. Senate joint resolution to authorize Lieut. Jordan, fifth artillery, and Capt. Carter, assist- ant surgeon, to accept medals from the British government for their humane services to the shipwrecked crew of the British ship Strath- ne. Senate bill authorizing the Secretary of War to lease for five years any public property un- der his control. THE CASE OF COL. BROWNE. Senate bill authorizing the President to ap- point Jobn. L. Browne (at present a lieutenant colonel on the retired - list) a colonel on the retired" list of the marine corps from March, 8, 1889. The preamble, which was, however, struck out of the bill, stated that s report made by a board of naval officers, Vice Admiral Far- ragut and Rear Admirals Davis, Dahlgren and Porter, bad recommended for promotion for “eminent and conspicuous conduct in bat- tle or extraordinary heroism” certain naval officers, including Col. (then junior major) Broome; that the was never made public and was not filed by the then Secretary of the Navy, but was taken by him ‘to his home and was never delivered to his _ successor; that it was not known by Col. Broome for nearly twenty years afterward, and that he had never received the advancement or promotion so recommended. THE FREE COINAGE BILL. At2o’clock the bill for the free coinage of gold and silver was taken up. Mr. Morgan (in the absence of Mr. Stewart) stated that it was the intention of the Senator from Nevada to move an amendment to the bill, #0 as to confine the measure simply to the free coinage of silver. * Mr. Perkins addressed the Senate in eprosition to the bill He declared himself as a sincere and honest be- liever in _ bimetallism. If the condi- tions of today were the conditions of 1873 no voice would be raised in the Senate or in the country in opposition to the re- monetization of silver. He believed the act of 1873 was great legislative mistake, and he wonld repair | that mistake. But the conditions now were _ entirely different from those of 1873, and the Senate onght not to be unmindful of those changed condi- tions. He asked the Senator from Alabama Qir. Morgan) how many of the farmers of his state owned silver bullion and were waiting for the of the pending act, so that they could take their silver bullion to the mint and have it coined free of expense. THE HOUSE. The blind man eloquent—the chaplain of the House—this morning offered a beautiful and touching prayer for help and sympathy for Mr. Blaine and his bereaved family in this their hour of sorrow, and as his resonant voice filled the chamber the members stood with bowed heads and in perfect rilence, ench and every one sincere in his sympathy for the great states man who yesterday received such a magnificent tribute of respect and esteem from his political opponente in Chicago. ir. McMillin (Tenn.) asked unanimous con- sent for the adoption of an order that hereafter the hour for the daily meeting of the House shall be 12 o'clock. Mr. Livingston (Ga.) objected, but subse- quently withdrew his objection, which was re- | newed by Mr. Watson (Ga.) Lee rire eta cpr . rigid = was extending to the port of ugus- tine, Fia,, the provisions of the act for the imm- te transportation of dutiable goods. Mr. O’Ngill (Pa.) presented the protest of the Manufacturing Chemists’ Association of the | of assessments the Commissioners went | United States against the bill to prevent the to work and ‘revised all the assessments adulteration and misbranding of food and under the legislative act of 1671, irre- | drugs. Referred. GENERAL DEFICIENCY BILL. The House then went into committee of the whole (Mr. Lanham of Texas in’ the chair) on the general deficiency bill. an appropriation of €4,871,885, yet as there was included $910,000 to carry on the census work from July, 1892, to March, 1898, which was not a y and should have been embraced in the sundry civil bill, the actual amount 9) for doficien- cies was €3,961,885. had been passed this session urgent deficiency bills courts | $2,310,944, making, outside of the de- ficienc) 1¥, $6,272,929, which was in the en- tire deficiency for the fiscal year 1892 and pre- vious years. - o os of order raised by Mr. (love) foe provisions of the ol money to pay the widows of were out, A Little Previous. By the Few Senators and Mem- | committee bill ecensel mamnbers | afternoon, of the appropriations made in the bill is $80,807,~ $12, or an increase of $2,220,479 over the amount as the bill came from the House. The total appropriation of the act of 1892 was €77,907,222. Items in the bill were increased by the Senate taasiors, "€118,000;" compensation. of in, the Post, offices, $800,000; rent, t, fuel, &e., for post offices, $125,000; mis moose es mses, $32,000; free delivery Toutes, other ¥ to ‘about $9,000 for ting, engraving an print envek only Teduction made in the House bil is of $196,614 for special facilities on trunk lines. An important addition to the House bill is the insertion of a provision which authorizes the Postmaster General to examine into the subject of s more rapid itch of mail mat- cal acaperteine niente eee tee | ans tel means: ue sor nage gr ay gree eogreinpaore Feport upon the , cost and advantages of the system when applied to the mail service of the United States. The only important ion stricken out of the House bill is one providing that no part of the money for the transportation of foreign mails shall be expended in carrying out the contract under the subsidy act, THE CORONER'S INQUEST. Verdict in the Case of the Death of John Pontes. ‘The inquest on the body of John Poates was conducted this afternoon by Deputy Coroner Schaeffer. The jury viewed the remains at the home of the dead man's mother and then ad- Journed to the sergeant’s office at the sub- station. The first witness was William C. Sartlin of 606 I street northeast, who was engi- neer of the train which killed Pontes. He testified that at about 5:30 Sunday evening the trainmen were getting out @ freight car at Buck Lodge, a siding eight miles from Gaithersburg, on the Metropolitan branch. Pontes, one of the brakemen, undertook to make the coupling, but just as the bumper of the tender touched that of the car | Poates screamed. The locomotive was imme- diately reversed, Poates put in the ca- | i |Doose, the car left standing on the jsiding, and the run began for the | nearest telograph station at Boyds, Informa- tion of e accident was sent to the main office at Baltimore, and orders re- ceived to carry the wounded man in the best time that could be made to a = medical at nea would be on han‘ ‘oates was sent to Washington on r train No. 76, due here at 8 p.m. ere Wm. W. Mobley, a fellow brakeman of de- ceased, was next called. He testified that Poates put his left foot on the rail and had reached in to make the coupling when the tender wheel struck his foot, knocked him down and ran along the leg to a point above the knee. This evidence was corroborated by Conductor | Goodheart of 1007 Delaware avenue. Dr. Hall, the surgeon at Providence Hospital, told of the condition of the leg when the man was received by him. The interests of Mr. Poates’ family were at- tended to by Attorney Sillers. , Other testimony was given and a verdict found in accordance with the facts. The verdict also centured the railway company for not using an automatic coupler tead of the old-fashioned pin coupler. - ee DISTRICT GOVERNMENT. TO LAY GAS MAINS, The Commissioners have granted the Wash- ington Gaslight Company permission to lay gas mains in the following streets: Lydecker street between 13th and Holmead streets north- west, Holmead street between Whitney avenue and Spring road, R street, both | sides, between Ist and 4th streets north- east, in parking: Quincy street, west side, be- tween North Capitol and Ist streets northeast, in parking. PAVEMENTS TO BE RERAIBED. The Commissioners have ordered that the asphalt block pavement on 15th street from Pennsylvania avenue to E street be resurfaced and paid for from the appropriation for repairs to concrete pavements, 1893, and that the pave- ment on 15th street from B to E be repaired ith broken stone and paid from appropriation for current repairs 1893. BUILDING PERMITS. The following building permits have been issued: R. B. Clark, six brick dwellings, from 218 to 228 K street northwest; $4,800. St. John & Plummer, one brick private stable, B street southwest, lot 17, square 278; $200. R. Rothwell, two brick dwellings, 10 and 12 9th street southeast: $7,000. M. E. Kleindienst, one frame dwelling, 'M street extended; $700. G. L. Batsch, two brick dwellings, 1392 to 1334 22d street northwest; $7,000.’ Wm. P. Cissel, one brick dwelling, 602 Spruce street, Le Droit Park; cost $3,600. bert A. Boyd, | six brick dweelings, 1020 to 1024 Georgia avenue and 1103 to 1107 1ith street southeast: cost $15,000. D. Cristofane, one brick dwell- ing, 1238 Wylie street northeast; cost $700. James Costello was granted a permit to build a four-story brick addition to the building at 624 6th street northwest at a cost of $9,000. Marriage Licenses. “Marriage licenses have been issued by the clerk of the court to James Hy Posey and ‘Maggie L. Maddox, both of Charles county, Ma.;M. B. Jeffries and Gracie M. Shipman; James A. McCarter and Ellen Hughes; Wm. H. ‘Thomas and Mary E. Lee: Samuel Coleman and Priscilla Henry; H. Goldsborough Goddard | and Estelle L. Chapman; John H. Ellis and Bessie B. Williamson; Aubrey A” Drummond of Nelson county, Va., and Annie J. Jennings of Amherst county, 'Va.: Wm. Stranahan and Susie Bartle; John Williams of Alexandria, Va., and Fannie Yager of Culpeper county, Va.: Samuel H. Speake and Sallie C. Hodges, both of Charles county, Md.; Ernest L. and Mary J. Bateman; John Hancock of Charles county, Md., and Annie Forsyth; John W. Ber- rett of Loudoun county, Va.,'and Susie V. Florence of Manassas. Va.; Robert E. Ander- son and Mary M. Reinhart; James MeConnal and Rosa Weitrich, both of Richmond, Va.; Antonio E. Pacini and , both of , Va; Wm. H. Wise and Gay R. Young. ieee se Transfers of Real Estate. Deeds in fee have been filed as follows: E. J. Stellwagen to H. 8. Nyman, lots 11 and 13, bik. 18, add. to Lo Droit Part’ $3,266. w. E. Abbott to M. A. Ballenger et al.,in trust, lot 4, st 85; @—. E. M. Gilpin to 8. J. Speer- iP * Ok. 40, ‘Golunbian Univer sity x . Smith 'to A. P. n. of 680; @1, |! 8 i S; i i E iff Fete’. nafs iff iy " |W square from the home of the and the school of their aunt, ‘The children were to have met at the church shorily after 10 o'clock this m. and their mother had put on their summer and band in hand they left the house in a frame of mind that none but happy children could eons, A MOTHER’s HORROR. coming down the street and as the | vehicle neared the children she saw that they | were in danger, and as tho animals struck her | dear ones gave a piercing cry of horror. | The driver of the wagon shouted “look out,” Dut it was too late. The younger of the children, Perley, was knocked beneath the wagon and the vehicle passed over ber without serious injury, bat her older sister was knocked down by the horse and the wagon passed over her body, killing ber in- stantly. Joseph McDonnell, the driver, unable to bie bores, banded the aa on eens iper and jumped from the wagon. He up Alice and held her in his arms until her mother reached the street, and then he handed the lifeless body over to the almost frantic rent. Pics. O'Brien hurried into the house with the body of her loved one in her arms wholly un- conscious that life was extinct, and when she reachéd the house she then realized that the worst hed happened. In the meanwhile the sister was picked up and carried to the house of « neighbor, where she was cared for. TRE DEAD CHILD'S INJURIES. An examination of the body of the dend one revealed a terrible wound of the head, through which the brain protraded, and there was Saat ge ee oe ete eee na cating a tl wagon wi passed | over it. It was thought by those who witnessed the accident that the horse stepped on the child's head and that both wheels passed over the body. : The wagon, which belongs to F. J. Nolte, dealer in bottled beer and soft stuff, was laden with that sort of merchandise and was drawn | by one horse, The wagon is very heavg and | the horse was going fast at the time, there be- | ing a steep grade on 25th street, where the cr 5 After turning the child over to its mother the driver got on his mand went home. | After changing his clothes he went 40 police headquarters Sand surrendered. He was then | taken to the precinct station, where he was locked up on e charge of murder. THE DRIVER'S STORY, When seen by » Stan reporter the prisoner said he could not possibly have prevented the accident. On account of the steep grade there, he said, his horse was making time. He saw children on either side of the street. The little girls, he «aid, were walking arm in arm, and as he drove down the street they turned’ and got against the horse before he could do anything. Being unable to stop his horse, he said he jumped from the m and picked up the child, holding it until Mrs. O'Brien came out, when he handed the little one over to her. ‘Two carpenters who were working next to the O'Brien house witnessed a part of the affair. ‘They said that the horse was going at «rapid rateand one of them said that the driver did not call to the child until the horse struck her. Deputy Coroner Schaeffer was notified and he will probably hold an inquest tomorrow. Until the inquest is held the driver will be held at the station. -He is twenty-one years ol es ALEXANDRIA, DEATH OF AN ALEXANDRIA ARTIST. Intelligence has been received here of the death in Loudoun county, Va. of Mr. 8. T. Shuman, for some time a resident of this city, and well-known here. Mr, Shuman wae a na- tive artist that without artistic training devel- oped much talent and was advancing to be a master of the art when death took him. After the war he took the painter's brush as a means of living. He haa had no previous instruction and for awhile worked as an ornamental painter. 80 he repainted the cabins Sf the old Penns Coats, that plied be- tween this city and Washington. In one of these boats he painted 148 panel pictures, some of them rude and others showing evi- dences of the touch of an artist, He had bean lor some years before making prepa- rations for a life-size painting of the death scene of Ellsworth and Jackson at the Marshall House, and had accumulated considerable ma- terial for this purpose. He maintained a studio in Washington for some time, and his pictares were much admired. A FIRE EXTINGUISHED. Shortly after 10 o'clock last night it was dis- covered that the furnace at the wood yard of J. which covers the an alarm was iven and a stream extinguish (iotidng tebe The loss is slight. MAYOR STRAUSS AND THE SMALLPOT VESSEL. Mayor Strauss was most active in guarding Aléxandria from the attack of smallpox threat- ened by the breaking out of the disease on the schooner Strann in“the harbor. He employed a watchman and a tug and had the vessel car- ried out of the harbor. He thinks his work in the matter has not been fairly estimated. ‘NOTES. * Geo. and Sarah A. Benson have, by Mr, John ‘H.Greene, their attorney, brought suits in the cir- juries | nition. Foc Sila seuceses x0 Frei Montana ts Safe for the Republicans Mr. Carter Will Become Chairman. ‘The Ailing of the vacancy of the chairman- ship of the national republican committee, | caused by the resignation of Gen. Clarkson, is Biving the President some concern. | Three or four prominent gentlemen, all of them shrewd politicians and party leaders, have been mentioned for the place, among them Commissioner Carter of the general land office. ‘The President, it is said, is anxious that Mr. Carter should assume the chairmanship, relying upon his peculiar ability and fitness for the Position to direct a successfal campaign. Mr. Carter would readily accede to the President's | Wish were it not for the mixed condition of Politics in Montana, Mr. Carter fs not at present a member of the national committee, and unless some desl is made for his representation on the committee from | Montana it would be impossible for him to receive the election of chairman. Mr. Carter has con- fog that Teason went direct from Minneapoli: yy a> tana to learn the complexion of political afairs in his state. If the commissioner finds the «i a republican standpoint, in a healthy vcondi- tion he will accept the position, otherwise he feels that his work in the campaign in Mon- tana will be more effective in its results than in directing the campaign in New York and ran ning the risk of losing his state to the demo- crate. ———_-+e-—____ RETALIATION AGAINST CANADA. Senator Davis’ Resolution to Carry Out the President's Recommendations. Senator Davis today, prompted by the reeom- mendation of the President in his message on the subject sent to Congress Monday, intro- duced a resolusion, which wrs referred to the finance committee, proposing retaliation upon Canada for the discrimination against American vessels passing the Canadian canals. The resolution pro- vides that after August 1 next whenever and #0 often as the President shall be satistied that the passage through any canal or lock co nected with the navigation of the St. Lawrence river, the great lakes or the waterways con- necting the same, of any vessels of the United States or of cargoes of passen- ra in transit to any United States port is pro- ibited, or ix made difficult or burdensome by the imposition of tolls or otherwise, which, in view of the free pasauge through the St. Mary's Falls canal now permitied to vessels of all nations, he shall deem to be reciproc: unjust and unreasonable, be shall have the power and it shall be his duty to suspend by proclamation, f such time and to such extent (incl Prohibition) an he eh he right of free paseng: St Mary's Falls “canal so far it relates to vessels owned by the eubject the government so discriminating the citizens, ports or vessels of the Uni States or to any cargoes, portion cargoes or passengers in transit to the the government making euch dixcrim whether carried in vessels of the United States or of other nations, In snch cases and during euch euspension tolls shall be lovied, collected and paid as fol- lows, to wit: Upon freight, not to excred €2 px ‘ton: wy passengers, not to exceed €5 as shall be from time to time determined by President; provided, that no tolls shell charged he to or collected upon freight or passengers carried to and landed | at Ogdensburg or any port west of Ogdensburg and south of a line drawn from the northern boundary of the state of New York through the St.- Lawrence river, the great Inkes and their connecting channels to the northern boundary of Minnesota. The second section of the bill authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regula- tions for the collection of the tolls and require sworn statements from the masters of vessels. tolls are to constitute a lien on the vessel. The Agricultural Appropriation BIL. Senator Allison today reported to the Senate from the appropriations committee the agricul- tural appropriation bill. The committee has made additions aggregating $37,500 to the bill as it came from the Honse, so that it carries an ap- | Propriation of $3,217,995. The additions include the following: Division of forestry, $12, tending foreign markets for ” agri: producte, $10,000; collecting information as to | the best ‘modes of promoting agricnlture by | irrigation, $5,000; ii tions of the history Interior Department Changes. The following official changes have been made in the Department of the Interior: General land office—promotions, Walter T. Paire of Rhode Island, clerk, €1,000 to $1,200; | Cassius M. Ketcham of Missouri, copyist, $900 to clerk, $1,000; Marion F. Holderman of Tili- copyist, $900, Pension oftice—Resignations: Jos. A. O'Neill of Pennsylvania, clerk, $1,400; Ziba W. Rey | nolds of Pennsylvania, Miss Emma Schubert of | New Jersey and Axil N. Starkes of Ilinois, | clerks at $1,200; Wm. W. Southgate of Missouri |and Chas. Anthony of New York, clerks at | $1,000; Jos. E. Williams of Texas, copyist at $900. Patent offige—Appointments: Geo, R. Bald- win of Illinois, fourth assistant examiner nt $1,400; Samuel W. Mellotte of Ohio, Miss Minnehaha Ethridge of North Carolina, Miss i nd Miss M. Gene- vieve Spencer of Wisconsin, copyists at 720. ———+e- Representative Morse Will Run Again. Representative Elijah Adams Morse of Can- ton, Mass., has reconsidered his determination to retire from congressional life. He did so because a large number of prominent republi- | cans in his district wrote him appeals to accept | the renomination which they say can be hia, ir. Morse’s health is in much better condition than it was when he announced his intention to say farewell to Congress at the close of this term. SO et ae. Gore To THR Lauxca.—Secretary Tracy anda number of prominent navhl officers will attend the launching of the battle ship Texas at Norfolk on the 28th instant. —— Danomer to Br Buockapep.—The Department of State has been officially notified through the French minister at Washington that by reason of recent difficulties between Dahomey and France the lntter government has decemed it | necessary to adopt measures to prevent the y of arms and ammu- ment has decided to blockade the coast of Da- homey and accordingly gives public notice of = THE FINAL ADJOURNMENT. Members of the House Here Think Tt Wim Be in iy. The House baving passed all the approprig tion bills but the general deficiency, and the presidential campaign being on the point of opening, the thoughts of Members ee now turning to the question of final adjournment with « goed deal of eagerness, There seems to be a genenil desire to finish up the odds and ends of Iyginbe tion as rapidly as possible and get away. Among Senators the same feeling poe vail. A couple of months ago it wae Bnderstood that the republican Senators were willing to prolong the session url Inte in the summer, but in the last two weeks ther acem to have changed their attitnde on the question. They are now inclined to harry mat ters up and adjourn as 0 vith a number of ms in the House general opinion to he waid ldn’t close up ite br He did not find « Age Holman gave it as his esa could be closed up by the The chances that anvil | done with silver this se TRE AILVER ovESTION. It is the imp: that che manner in which the silver question is handled in the de platform will have a good deal to action of the silver men in the House for the rem If the democratic favor free coinage be likely to stimulate the sii Eres to force the question to ti d try to pase a free ac ocr ie ate phot would men in Com democratic be a “straddle” in which eve the dispow men will be p furt in Con gress, po end take to the hustin, — oF NEW YORK. THE vorr Representative Bailey Takes Comfort by the Regular Chanse of Majority. of Texas has boon giving some stpdy to the history of former presidential campaigne with a view to basing thereon a fon t of the one now about to open, A fact al New York whish he regards 9s @ particularly cy of a omen moeratic wuccess this year is the singular manner in which the vote of that state has swung from one party to the ciher with pendulum-hke regularity in ead alterna mign from 1864 down to 1888. fin 1864 Lincoln carried the state against McClellan by only 7.009 major 1868 Seymour de ocrnis, im their turn, the of Tilden captured the state by © ndsome mi: arficld carried it against 5 $4 back the state went the democratic column, giving her elective vote to Cleveland by @ very «mall majority. Four years later, although he had been renominsted without opposition and hed all the fed- eral patronage to aid him, Cleveland could not overcome York's lowg- established habit of oscillation, and Harrison tit a fi the democrats by over 14,000, year it is the democrats’ turn to carry the | state, and they will watch with intense interes® | to see if the pendulum swings wich regularity. =— es | DIED. COLLINS. m2, after = lone ena vin COLLINS, ta ow 1 Re a vHINE, twenty os al reat im pence, Fu BHO | 1 3 p. rot bee ENCE ut te m. * DOROTHY ELI ite a Branco it west. She was two day® ral from her inte residence, No. 5 K trent hureday at 11 a1, Interment at Gleme \dence, 1373C street south Fricads pd at U1 partes ‘iste Win. ke F T Lstreet northwest SHEA. SHEA, age Teaipienc S92, at S am. BRIDGET Se native ot the parish of . Treland. May her soul rest in peace, | Funeral Thursday strest north weet. Amen. . at 2:30p.m., from No. X27 1th Helaiiven and fiends are invited to Departed this life gnue 2 rs. D.C., Thursday, sete, ancke, 2330 June 23, at 20 Ir You Reap Tass You Wu | NOT BE DECEIVED. Good things have always been counterfeited nd | tmitated—articles without merit, never. | We cautioped you lastweek against the imitations of CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILES. Nobody likes to be deceived—so dont foreet the } caution—ask for CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILISs | insist upon baving C-A-K-T-E-R--S, and see that yout get them. Don't forget the caution—don't be decetred. A POSITIVE CURE FOR SICK HEADACHE. ‘Small Pal, Small Dose, Small Price, ocl6-4,m, wy Fined for Cruelly Beating Her Child. Agent Wilson of the Humane Society had be- fore the Police Court today a colored woman named Margaret Johnson, who lives at 916 Lib- erty street. The woman was charged with Ovn Exrmz Srock Or Bors Axo Cayorers Crormxe WE HAVE PRIGES CUT IN HALF. Buite we sold at $8 00 we sell at $4.00. ‘Bulls we sold at $7.50 we sell at 83.75. Suite we sold at $7.00 we sell at 83.50, Bulte we sold at $6.00 we sell at €3.00. Butts wo sold st $5.00 we sell at 62.50, ‘We aleo made a big reduction im our