Evening Star Newspaper, July 15, 1892, Page 6

2d EDITION. CONTINUED FROM Sth PAGE A DARING ROBBERY. At Least $50,000 Stolen From a = Train. TWO ACCIDENTS IN INDIANA. Railway Disaster Caused by Care- lessness. OTHER TE RAPHIC NEWS. TEE. DARING TRAIN ROBBERY. Members of the Dalton Gang Made Away4 With $50,000. Parsoxs, Kax., July 15.—News has reached here that the Missouri and Texas pas senger train No. 2was Lalted and robbed at Aduir station, in Indian territory, seventy miles from her: last night. The deperadoes who committed robbery are the Dalton brothers, who ha of more crimes of this nature than any of the other gangs of ruffisns that make the m their head- cwopen the safe and secured’ ht. however, i: x 2. Kinney, chief of the Missouri, Kansas "exns roa! Flora, a member of the Indian poiiee, doctors, parsengers on the train and res of Adair. were wounded. None o! ever, is likely to die from the ceived. The train left Vi Adair, on time. Nothing wro faces masked j into the cab and and the train soon cams to astaudstill. “As soon as the train stopped shots were heard out- side. Capt. Kini F he two doctors | who live in Adair rush ars. They saw two men standing at the side of the express | car, into which they had tired reveral shots | after the messenger had failed to comply with | their demand to open the door. | Capt. Kinney Mr. Flora opened fire on | the men, who promptly sent several bullets at them, while several men came from one side | toward them. They. too, lively fusillade en: Kinney, Flora ap wounded. None of the o' were | to their aid, and they for retreat | into the care, their revolvers b ptr. ‘The men who had last appe kept up a| Ir lively firing for the rpose of intimidating | As a matter of fact, t their reats or lying | wo men at the express oman being | Fs Up to this time the meser fn bis refamal to open the door. had persisted | me of the} ad ‘the door was rot open phasis. several shots in uncomfortably senger. At this the er gave in and opened the door. The three men eprm: into the ear and whil ered the territied | messenger with his gun their attention to the cafe ing it open was sco! contents quickly = the messenger of his w him and dumped him i ‘They then leaped to several more shots dirappesred. | After it became u certainty that the robbers | had gone the trai jor Adair. Aa the station was reached the a! posse hastily formed and re of the robbery. N. ce of the thieves was discernible. That they were members of the | Dalton gang,heriei br the Deltons theraselves is known Levond peraire | ‘The officials here of money received b: given above 13 vouched express company while admittiaz The r . railrocd peo} the facts stated, express that the affair should have’ tkea place | Without low of life. Capt. ey. the chief of detectives, is a man noted for his bravery and the edd: mast have been t him to force a retreat on his Dalten gang are famons even erndnes that rendezvous | = and murders form a longthy | Pi edited ee IN TOO GREAT A HURRY. A Switch Thrown Over Too Soon Caused a Wreck. Isp., July 15.—The rear coach of in on the Louisville, E: ville and St. Louis line was wrecked near the city Timits at 6:10 o'clock last night. The accident was the result of carelessness 1 © a switch too soon, which racks of the last coach te he ties nw an embankm a ditch, completely ox crowded. The list of injured passengers tainabie, sberta, post- | master ‘at Pos back sprained | and severe ics, will die;| Mrs. John ut severely Beek crushed, ba John Creed of internal inj Deck crushed. ew! internally: geernshed and f Selvin, Ind., | arms, injured of Linville, Alexande: and cut! if Postonville, legs West, Poston- : : Armor Sparks, Boonevilie, eut in bead and left arm badly crushed; J.-H. of Booneville,arms and body cut severe! Mrs. J. H. Root, cut in bend and face and severe crush in breast, may die. hn Bak in head and Christ Ziramermnn Miss Ni searched for, but is out of reach. The train | 34a was a special carving delegates to the repub- lican district convention held here yesterday. Coxxgnsviter, Ixp., July 15—Freight train jo. 4$ was run into at 2 o'clock this morning by Wild freight while standing on the Cincin- nati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad ridge, which White Water river eter here.” "The cclllsion caesed the spanson each end of the bridge to give way, precipitating the engine and thirteen easiodl care into the river. “ Engineer Thomp- son and Fireman Wright of the wild freight Jumped from the engine. Both were consider- ably bruised. Charles Igichart, brakeman, of Hamilton and Edward Brannon, “brakeman, of Indianapolis were seriously injured. ‘The damage is estimated at $20,000. —_— INSULTED NAVAJOES. ‘They Wantonly Break . Down the Fences of the Setilers. Santa Fe, N. M., July 15. —News comes from the western portion of the territory that ranch- men are having trouble with the Navajoes in js asverted by an official | | “Government er passengers came | f and with excellent | | asked. Riggs, Ti IN WALL STREET TODAY. ‘The Market Was Dull, but Most Stocks Advanced Somewhat, New Yorx, July 15.—The stock market was | Yery dull this morning,even at the opening,and | the weakness of yesterday still appeared in the | first sales, which were generally small fractions lower than last night's figures. The further movements, however, were in all cases insignificant, and even among the more active shares, which comprised St, Paul, Reading, “Burlington, Rock Island and Louisville, there was no apparent tendency in either diréction. ‘The trading remained abso- | luiely without feature, and at 11 o'clock the market was very dull and stagnant at about opening prices. Money on call is easy at 134 and 2 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 3% and 534. Sterling exchango fs quiot and steady, with actual bust noss at 486%/ and 487 for sixty-day bills and 488 and 488% for demand. Posted rates, 488 and4893¢. ‘The official report of the Mercantile Safe Deposit Co, to the stock exchange shows: Silver bullion on hand, 2,087,000 ounces; deposited, none; withdrawn, 9.000 ounces; certificates ontstand- ing, 2,087. ” Government bonds, dull and steady; state bonds, neglected; railroad bonds, quiet and generally steady. ‘There was the usual diminution of business in the stock market after 11 o'clock, but afirmer temper prevailed, and most stocks showed slightly above ‘the level of firat prices, though no movement of note occurred in the railroad Sugar, however, was ac- tiveand strong and was advanced to 99%. at which point it showed a gain of 34 per cent over its lowest price. The market at noon was still dull and steady, generally at a shade better than first prices. Bar eilver, 8634. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, following are the opening and clos! | aie New Lurk Stork Startets ss | Wire to Carson & Macartney, Spend oF eal Saies—Regniar call—19 o'clock m.: Eckington R. R. 6s, $500 at 9974 ‘Met iitan R. R. conv. scrip, $220.90 at 111: Eck{ington and Soldiers’ Home R.K.,5at 92. Washington Gas, 1 at 45. T.8. 5 at 46. Bonds—U. S._48, registered, 1907, NS bid, 117 asked. U.S 4s, coupons, 1907, ies, bid, District of Columbia Bonds—20-vear 1808, 105i bid, — asked Water a currency, 1 0, Tency, is bid, "115 asked, 348, Teg. 2-105, 159 1903, 700 bid, — asked. Miscellaneous Honds—Washington and George- liroud 10-40 63,100 bid, —asked. Washini aad Georgetown Rallroad Convertible 6a, 1 182% asked. Masonic Hall Ass'n 54, 108 bid, ked. | Washington Light Infantry ist mort Fare Gs, 1904, 95 bid, — asked. Washington try 2d 7s, 96 bid, —asked. Washington Gas Company, series A. 68, 120 bid, — asked. Washt ies B, Ga, 120 bid. — asked. W jou Gas Co. Convertible 68, 1901, 135 bid. — asked. Eckington Railroad 8, 99 bid,— asked. Chesa- Peake and Potomac Telephone’ ist mort. 58, — bid, WGasked. Capitol and North O Street Railroad ist morizag Ss; bid, 112 asked. Metropolitan mr vertible @, 109 bid, Usasked. U.S. Electric Light Convertible Sa, 123 bia. 125 asked. Wasington Market Co. imp. 68, 110 bid, — asl Washington Market Co. ist 6s, 1892-1911, ‘105 bid, — asked. onal Rank Stocks—Bank of Washington, 330 —asked. Bank of the Republic, 260 bid, — {| asked. Metropolitan, 260 bid, — asked. Centr: al, 200 bid, — asked. | Farmers and Mechanics’, 190 i. Citizens’, — bid, — asked. * Co- bid, —asked. Capital, 195 bid. — 4 Did, 1067 asked. ‘Traders’.118, Second, 164 bid, — asked. Lincoln, did, — asked. Ohio, 160 bid, 106 asked. Railroad Stocks—W aahington’ and Georgetown, 0 bid, 389 asked. Metropolitan, 90 bid, 100 asked. ‘olumbia, — biel, 65 awake Capitol and North 0 Street, 33 bid, 37 aaked. Eckington and Soldiers’ Home, 32 bid, — asked. Georgetown and Tenley- fown, 50 bid. —asked. Rock “Creek, 100 bid, — asked. Insurance Stotks—Fircmen’s, 47 bid, 55 asked. Franklin, 49 bid, — asked. Metfopolitan, 76 bid, — bid, — asked. Ariing- id, — a Corcoran, 64 bid, — asked. Columbia, 15 bid, 17 asked. Potomac. "76 bi —asked. Peopie's, 8% Bid, 4 bid. — asked. “Comma ‘y s8ked. German American, 180 bid, 20 ‘Tile Insurance Stocks—Columbia Title, 6% bid, Real Estate Title, 127 — aske as and Electric Light Stocke—Washington Gas, | 45 bid, 46 asked. G bid, — asked. "U.S. Electric Li ed. Telephone Stocks—Che: otomac, 40 bid, — asked. nophone, 8 bid, 5X asked. Pennsyivanta, 1 asked. * Miscellaneous Stocks—Washington Market, 14 bid, 16 asked. Great Falla Ice, 120 bid,— asked. Bull Zon Panorama, 2 bid. — isked. | Paeamatic fan Ci Steamboat Co..94 bid, — asked. ean building, — bid, 8 asked. ‘Ivy City, — bid, 95 asked. Deposit aud Trust Companies—National Safe Deposit, Savings and ‘trust Company, 118 bid, asked. bid, Washington Loan and Trust, 1133 American Security and Truat.115 qavashington Safe Deposit, 105 Baltimore Markets. i *pts, 6,920 barrels: shipments, 25,110 barrels; sales, 100 barrels. Wheat Mrmer—No. 2 Ted spot, seijasd; July, S208; August, 924 ig; September. sdase’; steamer No. 2 red. 76 ts. 33.225 bushels: shipments, 31,389 | Stock, S#1.59% bushels; sales, 49,000 bush- | Southern’ wheat trmer—Fultz, T2as3; Long. Ty, Teast. Corn dull—mixed spot, 83; July, ugust, 53; September, 53—receipta, &615 bu s: shipments, 88210 bushels; stock, 184,645 bush- els. Southern’ corn—white firmer, i; Yellow steady, Sout. Oats firmer—No. 2, "white western, aid; No. % mixed western, "36a37—r Stock, $7,566 bushela. Kye dull— | cetpts, 4,624 bushels; stock, 30,920 firm, unchanged. ‘Gramm freights unchanged. Cotton nominal—middling, 1. 13.50; bulk meata, long clear, 84; clear rib sugar-pickled shoulders, » § = isions strong—mess pork, loose shoulders, Tig; 8 sugal fed shoulders, 9; hams, small, 144; Batter ard, refined, 84; crude, 7%. firm, unchanged. Eggs Wid cargoes, fair, 10x; —granulaied, "4 44-100. firm—rei Whisky steady—1.z5ai.26. Peanuts unchanged. BALTIMORE, July 15.—Virginia threes, 73% Baltimore aud Ohio stock, 96a97%; North- em Central stock, 68 bid; Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern firsts, 105 bid: do. firat incomes, 69 comes, 728: Consolidated gas bonds, 1134 a113%; do. stocks, 56x 356%. pon nn EES ite Struggle With Mutineers. Naw Ontxaxs, July 15.—The steamship Wan- derer, plying in the fruit trade between New Orleans and Central America, has been forced | down ana | leased that | Hardly had this been done Clark | Matecik secured revolvers and assaulted | Paymond and Mate Reed, who came | rescue. It was only after a desperate | hat they were subdued and again placed in | irons, and the vessel retarned to port, when the men were turned over to the paths! toma ‘The Fatal Cholera. Sz. Pzrznsnvn, July 15.—An official report gives the following ‘figures as the number of deaths from cholera on July 12: bid; do. second incomes, jg asked: do. third tn | from all — THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, JULY 15. 1892. PEACE BUT BY FORC (Continued from First Page.) from provost guard duty this morning. Foginvntal osters of the eighth are stricter than those the fifteenth received yesterday and military lines are being drawn closer. It is believed that the intention is to gradually place the borough under thorough military con: ‘WILD EXcrTEMENT. The town was thrown into the wildest excite- ment last night by the sudden appearance of a skirmish line from the camp, which on a double quick surrounded the mill. men were certain then that persons to lant them were about to be brought in Protection of the soldiers and notwigh- standing the pacific assurances of the leaders a clash was narrowly averted. The feeling is not friendly toward the troops since strict military discipline has been enforced. The soldiers aro attending strictly to their duties. and if calied upon to act will do credit to the good name ly established by the National Guard of the keystone state, Today a few more offers of financial aid wore receiv offers. by the leaders, making in all 652 euch men. believe that in a week they could collect $10,000 from various labor organi- zations to be devoted to the payment of day workmen. The advisory board last night do- nied that it had sent mostages tothe Union iron works employes and Beaver Falls workmen | urging them not to strike. They eay that while such action must be indorsed by the general executtve board, yet the striking of those men would be accepted as a grateful evidence of sympathy. : A meeting of all the locked-out men is taking place this morning with the object of taking action upon the other mill strikes, and also © matters more nearly connected with tho Homestead situation. STRIKERS’ ATTITUDE UNCHANGED. The attitude of Homestead’s locked-out workmen has not changed in the least. They are as determined as ever and express confi- dence in their ability to win. Hugh O'Donnell, their young leader, intends to fight it out on the The sup} un settlement. His views have been adopted by the other leaders of the Amalgamated Associ: tionand they are convinced that no other course would lead to a victorious conclusion for the workmen. association will make the fight on legitimate lines. Force will be dis- countenanced. It will be a waiting game. tion leaders contend that there are no non-union men in the country who can run the Homestead plant successfully. The best of | skilled Iabor is required, they say, and without | Xt the company cannot’ manufacture tho im- | proved material of highest grade called for by government contracts. Mechanies and common laborers aro, accord- ing to the strike leaders, merely incidental to | the work performed by the Amalgamated As- | sociation men, and they are practically helpless without the basis of work performed by the skilled men to Inbor on. It is admitted that the Carnegie Company can secure mechanics and laborers, but skilled men in the higher branches of the manufacture of iron and stecl, so.the leaders say, cannot bo obtained at any price. —— WILL NOT BE TAKEN BACK. '§, | Seeretary Lovejoy and the Iron Men in Pittsburg. Prrrssvne, Pa., July 15.—The men at the Union mills of the Carnegie Steel Company at 28th and 89d streets have locked themselves out and they will have to wait till the company un- locks the gates before they goback. This is the conclusion of the company as expressed by Mr. Lovejoy, who this morning enid: “If these men who quit yesterday think they can strike and goin and out of our property and go to work when they please and quit when they please they are very much mistaken. They not be permitted to go buck until the com- | pany says so, nor will they go back under the fame terms and considerations. They broke the contract they had with us anda new Will have to be made before they can work for us. This is their own doings, and having broken the contract we propose to say when and under what terms they shall return. “If they wait, as they say they will, till we agree to a conference with the Amalgamated | men at Homestead thes will have along wait. The mills will remain idle till we get ready to | start them, when we will do £0. I can state | positively that within a week we can get enough men to run full every department of the Union mills as well ns the Homestead plant, and we | could do this if we so desired, but we will not start full. When wo get ready we will start with enough men torun the mills and give our old umn a last opportunity to return towork. We prefer them and they pre fer to work for us. I know what Inm talking about when I say two-thirds of our Homestead men return to work when we get read We will no notices, as we had at first i tended. but when the proper time comes we will communicate with our old men and antici- | pate no trouble in securing at least two-thirds of them.” STRIKERS TO BE ARRESTED. In conformation of the story that arrests of certain of the Homestead strikers will soon oc- curit may be added that the report comes from a reliable source that on the morning of | July 6 and all during the day detectives were | secreted in the mill property armed. with ko- daks, Snap shots of many of the strikers were taken and especially thore who were the lead- ers and those who hed arms. In reference to this story Mr. Lovejoy today said: “There is a foundation for such astory, but I cannot go into details. This was done in view of the possible arrest of the strikers as means of identification, “Md beligve that the dynamite found yesterday was some left over by a contractor who was building three houses and who had to use dy- namite to blast the cellar. I do not believe it wes brought there with any design against the mill property.” There were in all about 1,000 members of the Amalgamated Association employed in the 20th and 83d street mills of the Carnegio steel works. The action of theve men in leaving | their work in sympathy with their Homesten: has, howeve=, displaced 2,000 men in theso mills in addition to vee, who were not eligible tomemberehip, but were heartily in sympathy with the movement. Work- men are engaged in erecting an eight-foot high fence about the ‘works, and | an extra guard of 100 men, recruited from the ranks of the laborers, are on duty. ‘They have rm | little to do, however, as the streets and ks proaches in the immediate vicinity of the wor! are deserted. ‘The strikers appear to be in a ery good humor and have held no meoting to- at 2o'elock this afternoon a [epresentatives connected the situation ‘vill be discussed. uneasiness’ among the to how their action in striking may be regarded the general officers of the Amalgamated Association. ‘They will not talk on this subject, and have appointed a committee to confer with officers on the subject. ee TO HELP THE STARVING. Mass eat es in Homestead ink. & Homesteap, Pa., July 15.—The mass meet- ing of workmen held in the Homestead rink this afternoon for the who are suffering as aresult of the lockout franmeated is . Hugh O'Don- A relief organization, to be under the control of a subcommittee of the advisory com- mittee, was perfected and instructions given that the money on hand should be distributed in accordance with the needs of those applying terday at St “cholerine.” teen deaths from the ball the Sion fe accentuated French official Chicago, bishop of the Episcopal Church. Bishop Fallows is en route to his home from the Christian Endeavor convention in New York and he came to investigate the condition of affairs of his own accord and as he ex- Pressed it, “‘to look into the faces of the peo- meeting and lugh O'Don- ‘were fre- talked of plan outlined until victory or defeat causca a | re ONLY A QUESTION OF TIME ‘Whea Men Will Start the Mills at Home- stead. Special Dispatch From a Staff Correspondent. Hougsteap, Pa., July 15.—Steam is up in three of the Carnegie Stecl Company's shops in the Homestead mill, and it can only be a ques- tion of days, perhaps hours, when some of the machinery will be rambling and doing its work. The press shop, the armor plate finishing shop and the electric light shop are the sections of the vast plant ready to be operated. In the two steel working shops mentioned the work of complet- ing armor plates for shipment is carried on, and there is enough material awaiting atten- tion to keep 200 men busy for three or four months. Other shops may or taay notbe opened at once, but the probebilities are that the company will be content with catching up on their armor plate contracts. It is under- stood that the company will give tho former employes a chance to go to work before non- union men are run in. The offer will not be accepted, G. H. H. Seog WAR ON THE MILITIA. The Fin’ Blow Strack by the Cooks and Waiter Girls. Special Dispatch From a Staff Correspondent. Homesteap, Pa. July 15.—As there are wheels within wheels so there are strikes within strikes. Division and brigade staff ofticers have been eating their meals at a very pleasant hostelry on the company’s property, known as the Frick Hotel. When they went to breakfast this morning the tuble was as bare as the traditional cup- board which, in connection with Mother Hubbard, has been mentioned in song and story for many generations. The cooks and waitresees were absent. Inquiry developed the fact that the servants had decided not togive aid or comfort to the enemy, the enemy being the militia. Everybody resident is in perfect sympathy with the strikers’ eauso and this is nut the first blow in a scufile between the troops and the civilians, G. H. H. peer AN EXCITING RUMOR. It Was Reported That H. C. Frick Had Been Shot. Pirrsscna, Pa. July 15.—Lawrenceville and the elty generally was considerably ex- cited over a rumor that Mr. H. C. Frick had been shot this morning, and the tele- phone was busily employed by hia friends. ‘The Tumor reached the Associated Preas early and Mr. Frick was seen and said so far as ho was age he had not been shot. He laughed jor and scemed little worried about it, but inquired whore it originated. Mr. Lovejoy of the Carnegie Company today said the corxpany had no fears of any trouble either with the men at Duquesne or Braddock. a AD SITUATION. A Talk With Chairman Oates of the House Investigating Committee. The committee of the House who went to Homestead to investigate the labor trouble there have returned and were at the capitol today. Dnring most of the day they were sur- rounded by their colleagues, who were anxious to get an opinion as to tho situation at Home- stead. “I think,” said Col. Oates, the chairman, to a Stax reporter, “‘that we got all the facts of the case and went down to the bottom of the mat- ter. It will not take long to prepare the re- port, The grestest delay will be in getting the stenographer’s notes out, there being so much testimony. “We examined Mr. Frick and his superin- tendentand Mr. O'Donnell and « number of the workmen, as you have seen. MR. FRICK AND THE WORKMEN. “Frick is a remarkably cunning fellow and is agreat manager. He has one of the brightest lawyers I have met to advise him, Tho leaders of the workmen are men of intelligence and capacity. and take the workmen as a body they are the best set of workingmen I have ever come across. The contention is not ‘one between ignorance and power. It is acon- flict of strong mon, the workmen being keen, intelligent and always wide awake. “The man who goes to Homestead with an idea that he is going to find a lot of ragged, half-starved and ignorant strikers will have a great surprise betore him. It is a revelation in the way of a community of workingmen. They are men of thought and action and of inde- pendence. They have their homes, and the skilled workmen earn from $65 to’ €275 per THE HOMEST! | month, The common laborers get from $1 to 91.50 per day. It isnot a poverty-stricken community. yon may imagine. But for this un- fortunate disagreement between the workmen and the employers the situation at Homestead would be very good. CLAISS OF BOTH SIDES, “Mr. Frick insists that the reduction of wages is mado necessary because of the reduction in the price of steel billets, &c. “The workmen declare that thereduction is un- necessary and that the only purpose of it is to put more money into the pockets of the com- pany. “Mr. Frick declined to tell the committee what it cost per ton to produce the stecl billets. “In this contest neither side is acting on im- pulse. They are deliberate and guided by in- telligence and it isthe meeting of two great forces.” “Flow do you think it will end?” LAW AND ORDER MUST BE VINDICATED. “You know how these things end generally. run, even if there is a confiict between the statutes and the equities of the case.” “Do you think there will be further trouble?” “Yes, yea; Ido. I think there is bound to be more bidodshed, and probably a great deal of it. The workmen know what they are doing, and are acting upon their calm judgment as far as the leadership is concerned, but they are the most determined men youever sw. They donot claim to have the right of law with them, but insist that they are morally right and will hold to their position. I think the Carnegie people intend to m their works with non-union men. ey will do this under the protec- tion of tho militia and will, I suppose, arm their men. As soon as the troopshave been withdrawn the strikers will, I believe, attempt to prevent the mills being ‘run by non-union men, ‘There a then bea fight, I believe, a te fight, and a great of blood: a ed a a ar pee finger viow of the sentiment thore.”” It is probable that the committee will report that the case is out of the reach of federal legis- lation. ee eee New President of the Agricultural College. Prof. R. W. Sylvester, principal of Charlotte Hall Academy of Charlotte Hall, Md., has been elected president by the trustees of the Mary- land Agricultural College to succeed Maj. H. E. Alvord by a vote of 10 to 6 for Maj. Alvord. Salaries have boen cut down and the experi- mental station separated from the college. eres The Umbria in the Dock. Lrverpoot, July 15.—When the Cunard line t | steamer Umbria arrived here from New York on Saturday last it was found that her rudder Law and order must be vindicated in the long | GENERAL BUSINESS. The Measures That Occupied the Attention of Congress. rs LAS? YEAR'S APPROPRIATIONS Continued by Resolution Until the 30th Instant. THE SUNDRY CIVIL BILL. It Reaches the House and Comes Up for Consideration. N THE SENATE. The naval appropriation bill, with the action of the House thereon, was laid before the Sen- ate,and on motion of Mr. Hale the House endments were agreed to. After remarks y Mr. Chandler showing what the condition of navy will be after. the construction of tho w ship and guns, the United States would have, he said, a fleet equal to any floct of a like ‘number ‘of vessels of the same general character, The naval bill now goes to the President. LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATION BILL. The conference roport on the legislative ap- propriation bill was also presented and read. Mr. Mitchell inquired what had been done about the provision for marshals of the circuit court of a] | Mr. Allison replied that in that matter the Senato conferees had yielded to the House con- jerces. Mr. Mitchell—Then, when. the bill becomes a law those offices will be abolished?, Mr. Allison—Yes. Mr. Cameron—I' move that the Senate insist on its amendment in that matter. Mr. Allison—That was one of the great difi- culties we had in dealing with the bill. We were confronted with a statement from the At- torney General recommending that these offices be abolished and their duties devolved on the regular marshals of the district. The Senate conferees yielded on that statement. It is very important that this conference be agreed to to- day. I move that it be agreed to. ng Mr. Allison's motion was agreed to—yeas, 88; nays, The bill now goes to the President. THE ARMY APPROPRIATION BILE. ‘The conference report on the army appropri- ation bill wasthen presented andagreedto. This dill also now goos to the President. Mr. Carey offered a resolution (which was agreed to) directing the director of the geo- logical survey to furnish tho Senate forthwith a complete list of all officers and em ployes now or within the the work of that survey, with their compensa- tion, &c. A MONEY RESOLUTION. Mr. Gibson (La.) offered a resolution calling on the Secretary of the ‘Treasury for a state- ment of the proportions in which gold, silver, United States notes, &c., are received in payment of customs duties and internal reventic taxes; the gold and sil- ver coin and paper money in the treas- ury and national banks; and what ratio should in his judgmont be _ estab- lished between gold and silverin order to pre- serve a substantial equivalency between the coins of the two metals, Mr. Stowart objected to its immediate con- sideration and the resolution went over. House bill to amend the act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Tennessee river at Knoxville was taken from the calendar and passed. The House joint resolution to extend and continue in full force and effect the provision of the joint resolution of June 30 last (to pro- vide temporarily for the expenditures of the government up to and including the 30th of July) was Inid before the Senate for action. Mr. Harris asked Mr. Allison if he did not think it eafe toamend the joint resolution by extending it to the 25th of July. Mr. Allison thought that ic might be safe, but that it was perhaps better to let the joint reso- lution pass without amendment. Mr. Harris—Peing so much in favor of ad- fourning ut the earliest, possible hour, I would ike to limit the extension to the shortest time. Mr, Allison—I quite sympathize with the Senator from Tennesace. The joint resolution waa then passed. A mimber of bills were taken from the calen- dar and passed. THE HOUSE. A message from the Senate: announced the passage of the sundry civil appropriation bill, with various amendments, and the bill was immediately referred to the committee on ap- propriations. On motion of Mr. Crosby (Mass.) the Sonate bill was passed authorizing the sale of certain property in Springfield, Mase, now held in common by the United States and one Kirk- m. On motion of Mr. Herman (Ore.) the Senate Dill was for the relief of P. B. Sinnett, Inte Indian agent at Grande Ronde agency, Oregon. THE IDANO LABOR TROUBLES. Mr. Watson (Ga.) asked consent for the con- sideration of a resolution instructing the com- mittee on labor to investigate the labor trouble at Cour d'Alene, Idaho, and the conduct of the Sullivan police therein, Mr. Pendleton (W. Va.) objected and the reso- lution was referred. Mz. Enloe (Tenn.) called up as a matter of privilego the resolution calling on the Post- master General for a report a3 to ail new serv- ice established on railroads since March 4, 1889, together with copies of all correspondence on the subject. This resolution was offered some time ago and referred to the committee on post offices and post roads, but was not reported back. Mr. Enloe explained that complaint was made that in the exercise of his power the Postmaster General had discriminated in favor of some railroads and against others. ‘The House should know whether the com- plaints were well founded. The republicans desired that the report should back to March 4, 1885, and when Mr. Enloe jeclined au amendment to that effect they declined to vote on the demand for the previous question. The previous question was ordered—yeas, 169; nays, $—and the resolution was adopted. PRESENT APPROPRIATIONS EXTENDED. Mr. Holman (Ind.), from the committee on appropriations, reported (and the House passed) a joint resolution extending temporarily (until July 80) the appropriations for the sup- port of the government. SUNDRY CIVIL BILL. ‘ ‘Mr. Holman also reported back the sundry civil appropriation bill with Senate amendments with @ recommendation that all the Senate amendments be non-concurred in. Mr. Holman then asked consent that all the amendments (except those to the world’ bo non-concurred in and that be considered in Inst year engnged in | 46) HOMICIDE STATISTICS, Facts Set Forth in a Recent Bulletin From the Census Office. An interesting bulletin issued by the census office and prepared by Mr. Frederick H. Wines, special agent, gives the statistics of homicides in this country in 1890. The bulletin states that of 82,829 prisoners in the United States June 1, 1890, tho number charged with homi- cide was 7,386, or 8.97 per cent. Omitting 35 who were charged with double crimes, 6,958 of them (or 4.65 per cent) were men and 383 (or 5.35 per cent) were women. As to color. 4,425 were white, 2,789 negroes, ‘94 Chinese, 1 Japanese and 92 Indians. As to the nativity of the 4,425 whites, 3,157 were born in the United States, 1,213 were for- eign born and the birthplace of 55 is unknown. A careful and accurate inquiry into the par- entage of those born in the United States re- sults in the mathematical conclusion that 56.14 per cent of homicide committed by white men and women is chargeable to the native whito clement of the population, and 48.85 per cent to the foreign element. On the same scalo of 4,614 to 3,605, the negro contribution to homi- cide is represented by 5,478. A tablo ia given showing the nationalities of the 3,605 foreign- born pazents in detail. More than one-half of the foreign-born whites are unnaturalized and nearly ono-fifth are un- able to speak the Englieh language. In respect to age, prisoners charged with homicide range from eleven to eighty-six years. One-sixth of them are under twenty-four years and more | than one-half under thirty-three years of age. Their average age is thirty-four years and one hundred and ninety-three days. The lowest averages are among the Indians, thirty yoars and one hundred and eighty days,” and the negroes, 30 years and 279 days. The high- estare among the Chinese. 37 years and days, and the foreign-born whites, 41 years and 159 days, The average age of women charged with homicide is 32 years and 216 days. ages at which homicide was committed are esti- mated to be at least five years below the aver- ages here stated. Nearly one-half of this group of prisoners were found to be unmarried. number of unmarried was 3.615; married, 2,715; widowed, 703; divorced, 144. ee Percentage of those who can both read and write is 61.73; of those who can read only, 4.84; of those who can do neither, $3.43. Of the negroes, more than one-half can neither read nor write; of the Indians, nearly two-thirds, The percentage of illiteracy among the foreign born is nearly or quite three times as great as that among the native whites, The number who have receive a higher edu- cation is 253, or 3.44 per cent. More than four-fifths have no trade. The foreign born and their children have mach more generally acquired a trade than the native whites and the native whites than the negroes. The occupations of 6,546 prior to incarcera- tion have been ascertained and are grouped as follows: Professional, 102; official, 38; tural, 1.893; lumber, 29; mining, 212; flaheries, 19; trade and commerce, 173; transportation, 380; manufactures and mechanical industries, 1.086; personal service, 690; unskilled labor, 2,253; miscellancons, 21. The number employed at the time of their arrest was 5,659; unemployed, 1,225; unknown, The habits of 973, in respect of use of in- toxicating liquors, are not stated. The remain- ing 6,378 are classed as follows: Total abstain- ers, 1,282; occasional or moderate drinkers, 3,829; drunkards, 1,267. ses. Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses have been issued by the clerk of the court to the following: Chas. Robbins and Lizzie A. Gleason; A. 8. Cole Alberta Davis; Frank J. Link and Susan Kin- der; James H. Glenn and Annie B. Johnson. ——— Conference Reports Agreed To. ‘The legislative conference report was agreed to by the House yesterday without much oppo- sition, as were also the conference report on the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill and the conference report on the naval appropria- tion bill—the Iatter being the foundation upon which Messrs. Lodge of Massachusetts and Fel- lows of New York based notably earnest and of- fective speeches in favor of an increase in the navy. ee Rural Free Delivery Service. First Assistant Postmaster General Whitfield has issued tho following order to each one of the postmasters of the experimental rural free delivery offices: “Provision having been made for the main- tenance of the existing experimental free de- livery offices to June 30, 1893, you will there- fore continue the service at your office, under the conditions and allowance heretofore su- thorized by the department.” Intwo Pennsylvania towna the people who had been served by the rural free delivery ex- pected that it would be discontinued, and had made arrangements to continue it asa private enterprise, they were #0 well pleased with it. ‘This order will provide for the continuation of the rervice in cach of the forty-six offices where it has been in vogue for the past year. Echoes of the Chilean Troubles. The Secretary of State is informed that T. 8. Consul McCreary at Valparaiso has left for New York via Panama in charge of the remains of Charles W. Raggin, one of the sailors of the U. 8. 8. Baltimore, who was killed during the riots at Valparaiso last spring. The transfer is made on specific instruction from the State De- partment at the earnest solicitation of relatives and friends of the deceased, who desire to inter his remains in Philadelphia. The remains of Turnbull, the other American sailor killed at the same time,are left undisturbed at Valparaiso, where they were originslly buried,for the reason that no application has been made for their transfer to the United States. ————————_____ An Agreement on the Army Bill. The disagreement between the House and Senate over the army appropriation bill today was practically settled by an agreement on the part of the conferees. This was the last of the bills in conference, the disputes over the others having been patched up heretofore. There was only one ph of the army Dill remaining in dispute, and that wns settled by the adoption of the foilowing in lieu of the House provision, to which there was so much opposition: Provided, That no money herein appropriated shall be used in payment of ion of troops and supplies over any of the non-bonded lines owned by the Union Pacific Railway Com- By or the Central Pacific Railway Company, ut this provision ehall not withhold payment from lines leased and operated but not owned by the said companies. ee No Pinkertons to Come Here. ‘Mr. O'Neill of Missouri, in the House toda: Death of Rev. Geo. F. Wiswell. Rev. George F. Wiswell died yesterday at the residence of his son-in-law, Dr. King, 909 C street. The deceased was seventy-five yeers of age and for the past seven years, owing to ill health, has lived a retired life. He was born in ‘Whitehall, N. Y¥., and has been pastor of i i if r [ g i bere 13 ft Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Reval Its Condition After the Completion of the Vessels and Guns Authorized. In the Senate today Senator Chandler, in speaking of the conference report on the naval appropriation, made a statement as to the con- dition of the new navy after the cc of the vemels and guns already ized, The number of vessels auth: will De 43, carrying 964 guns and manned by 11,094 officers and men. Divided into classes they will Consist of six double-turre harbor defense vessels, carrying 36 | guns; three armored cruisers, with forty-six | guns; five armored battle ships, carrying | seventy-two guns: three cruisers, carrying thirty guns; thirteen protected crajsers, carrying 136 guns: six gunboats, carry: ing three guns; five of ths special class (including the torpedo and dynamite cruisers) carrying six guns and three torpedo boats and one ram, which do not carry heavy guns, “ -°- AN OMNIBUS RESOLUTION. What Mr. Childs Told the House Census Committee. Z The Honse census committee today considered Representative Alderson’s resolution cailing on the Secretary of the Interior for information as to the residence, compensation, dura | service, &c., of employes of the eleventh | census who were appointed, resigned and dis- charged before and since November, 189, Chief Clerk Childs of the census office was present at the mecting and expressed the opinion that it would take ten or twelve men about three months to pre- Pare the information called for by the resoln- tion. Without acting on the matter the com- mittee adjourned. andi eS THE SATURDAY HALF HOLIDAY. How the Proposition is Regarded by Mer- chants and Banke: . The proposition to make the Saturday half holiday in this city a legal holiday meots with a great deal of favor. The first decided move in this direction was made yesterday by Senator Faulkner when he introduced the bill in the Senate which is printed elsewhere in this issue. In some of the large places of business the afternoon of Saturday during the heated term has been observed asa holiday for several years past, When 1 o'clock came the doors were closed and the clerks were allowed to leave and enjoy the few hours of a much-necded rest and recreation. If this Dill be- comes a iaw and the Saturday half holiday becomes a legal holiday then there is no doubt that the Saturday closing will be- come general throughout the city. The pro- posed law will set a good many business men free and enable them to take a part of a holiday. The banks will all be closed. business to a large extent will be checked and the result, it is believed, will be to make the holiday a general one. MR, WOODWARD'S PRACTICE. Mr. Woodward of the firm of Woodward & Lothrop, proprietors of the Boston Store, has made a practical experiment of early closing honrs during the heated term, not only on Saturday, but for ” every day of the week. Their _ piace is closed at 5 o'clock each day and on Saturday at 1o'clock. Mr. Woodward said this morn- ing that the system was an advantage, as it gave the employes an opportunity to rest ‘and at the same time did not decrease the volume of busi- ness. ‘Publi sentiment is behind us in this matter,” he said, “and people do their hopping before these hours so the employes can get off. Yor this reason we do not lose any business.” He was heartily in favor of the measure intro- duced by Senator Faulkner and hoped that it would become alaw. PRESIDENT PARKER BELIEVES IN IT. Some of the bankers who were approached on | the subject announced themselves as in favor of the law. “Saturday is a very heavy day with us,” Mr. Parker, the president of the C Bank, “and the result is the clerks don't get away from the bank before 9 o'clock on those daya. If this bill becomes a law they can leave at3o'clock. Such a measure will afford wel- come relief, and I hope that it will become a eg ae es ‘The Rock Creek Park Cases. In the Court in General Term, Chief Justice | Bingham and Justices Hagner and James, to- day there was some discussion of counsel, Mesera. Lambert, Ridout and Perry,as to | States, &c. reels Nos. 39. 44, In regard to the Shoemaker tract, 63, 69, 75 to 77, one of the joemaker, by Mr. John tion reciting that the money | heirs, Mra. Abigail Ridout, filed a peti therefor hed been paid into court and that the executors had decided to sue out a writ of error, but that she docs not wish to unite in further appeals and asked a rule to show cause why she should not be paid her pro- portion of the amount, one-fourth. A rale to show cause was directed, returnable tomorrow. Mr. Lambert, for the ‘Shoemakers, read the answer to the rule to show cause why the fee simple should not pass to the United States, setting out fifteen objections to the order be- 2a replied and the subject went over until tomorrow. A consent order was then made extending the time to submit bills of exception to August 1. A decree was made dismissing the appeals as to tracts 13 and 16. siasieanndircenenen THE SUNDRY CIVIL BILL. ‘The Government Printing Office Site Amend- ment as Adopted by the Senate. With relation to the item affecting the pur- chase of a site for the government printing office the Senate yesterday adopted a compro- mise amendment to the sundry civil bill which on of | writ oferror to the Supreme Court of the United } CAPITOL ToPTCs. PILorAoR The opponents of the Wise sailing vessels from paying state pilotage feos may rest assured that no legislation will be enacted by Congres at this seasion detrimental to their interest. The commerce committee of | the House decided today to postpone all further consideration of the measure until next seston, The bill has been before Congress for many Years and has several times passed the Senate, but invariably meets with opposition in the Houso. As the law now stands vessels are com- pelled to pay a pilotage fee on leaving and en- tering certain ports, principally those of Vir- ginia, North Carolina and Georgia,even when they do not require the services of a pilot. The opposition to the bill comes mainly from the southern pilota, who would be injurioualy af- | fected if it should become a law. STATEMOOD FoR INDIAN TERRITORY. The House committee on Indian affairs bas agreed to a resolution authorizing « sub- committee to proceed to the Indian territory during the coming recess and make an investi- gation into the conditions prevailing there niong the people, the object of the tnvestign- tion being to ascertain the fitness of the ter- ritory for admission into the Union as a state, To TEST PRINCIPLES IN AERONAUTICS. Representative Raines of New York intro anced in the House (by request) yesterday © | bill appropriating under certain conditions | $50,000 for the purpose of testing principles in | a tics and machines on plans suggested. | by Hyland C, Kirk in the Engineering Magazine for February, 1590, ; TO AMEND TRE BANKING LAWS. Senator Perkins today introduced # bill to | amend the national banking laws in regard to | the eiections of directors, so that ench share- holder shall be entitled to cast as many votes in the aggregate ex shall equal the number of shares ro held by him multiplied by the number of directors to be elected at such election. In deciding all other questions at micetings of shareholders each shareholder is to fast one vote oneach share of stock held by jim. No ofticer, clerk, teller or bookkeeper of a banking association shall act as proxy and no shareholder whose liability is past due and un- paid shall be allowed to vote. PILLS REPORTED, The following bills were reported from com- mittees and placed on the calendar in the Sen- ate today: House bill providing when plaintiff may sue #0 poor person and when counsel may be ae signed by the court. Senate bill to authorize the establishment of academy and gallery of art in the Distrot of Columbia. Senate bill to establish a free public and de- partmental library and reading room im Wash- ington city. Senate ‘bill to incorporate the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral foundation in the District of Columbia, — THE courts. Count rx Gexenat Tenm—Chief Justice Bing- ham and Judges Hagner and James, Today—Cox et al. agt. Walter: remonded to special term for accounting; opinion by Judge Tames, Helzell agt. Baltimore and Ohio Rall. road Company; judgment below affirmed; do. United States agt. Krumholtr; do.; opinion by Judge Hagner. United States agt. La Cointe; judgment reversed: remanded for new trial; d In re David Melntire’s estate; appeal dis- missed; do. Contee agt. Lyons; decree below | reversed: conveyance ordered; opinion by Chief Justice Bingham. Werden agt. Guy; jndg- ment below affirmed; do. U.S. agt. Cooper; decree dismissing lings as to i and 16; order extending time ns to parcels 89, 44, 63, 69, 75,76 and 7, and order to show cause. Egurry Covat—Je Bradley. Yesterday — Willard agt. W : auditor's re port confirmed; distribution ordered. Rose agt. District of Columbia; leave to withdraw abstracts of title granted. "Allison agt. Higbee; pro confess. Hill agt. Allison; secarity for |costs ordered and rale on | com Keone on compl . Wa fendant. Kurtz agt. Kurtz; auditor's report reported. &c. Cardoza agt. McGill; sale de- creed. C. Maurice Smith, trustee. Today—Heine agt. Heine; auditor's ratified. Norment agt. Norment; time f file answer extended. Renehan agt. Renehan; con- hearing in Ge dered. In re E. Dougherty, Burr Vickers, Peter Pieffer, M. Fanan, J. W. Lv mevrr Cot judge Montgomery. Yoaterday—Osborn agt. Sherman; judgment by default against garnishee. Parsons agt. District of Columbia; judgment in certiorari. Hughson agt. Richmond and Danville Railroad Company of exi ceptions signed. Today-J. D. Burne agtG. B. Raum ot al; jndgment by contession. ot al agt W. fra judgment by default. _ to the Secretary of the Treasury in the refund of direct taxes under March 2, 1891, in which he holds should be given for penalties and in! lected, but not for costs tion, to the several states and i says that where redemptions of lan direct tax were made under the act of 1862, the party in interest should have a ‘he tax ment of ities and interest ‘ek Fa him for such ption. He holds the act of March 2, 1891, the ion in the tion making it jaty of the ‘Treasury to repay to the ori surplus of