Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1892, Page 7

6 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. Cy MONDAY, JULY 25. 1892. SILVER AND NATIONS A Resolution Introduced in the Sen- ate by Mr. Vest. THE ANTLOPTON BILL DEBATE. Mr. George Makes an Extended Speech on the Measure. PENSION OFFICE INQUIRY. The Investigating Committee’s Report Discussed in the House. THE SENATE. Immediately after the reading of the journal Mr. Vest introduced.a joint resolution provid ing that for the purpose of securing and main- taining the uniform value of silver as a money metal throughout the world the President of the United States shall institute and carry on ions with the governments of Great Befuin: France and Germany looking to the es- tablishment, by international agreement be- tween those governments and the United States, of a recognized ratio of fifteen and one- half ormixteen ounces of fine silver to one ounce of fine gold, and as an_induce- ment for such agreement the President is authorized to propose __reciprocal arrangements to those governments whereby in consideration of any two of them agreeing toeither of those ratios the United States will make a reduction of not exceeding 25 per cent on the import duties now imposed on the fol- lowing articles, products of those countries and imported into the United States: Mannfac- tures of wool; earthen, stone and china war hardware, guns and cutlery; glass and manu- factures ‘of: manufactures of silk and cotton. And the President ix requested to make full Feport to Congress of his action in the matter, with all details thereof and the result. The resolution was, at Mr. Vest's request, Inid on the table. ‘THE ANTI-OPTION BILL. ‘The anti-option bill was then taken up and Mr. George addreséed the Senate. He said he should confine himself almost exclustvely to the éffect of “future” dealings on the cotton indus- try, which was the main industry of the state which he, m part, represented. This year cot- ton had reached’ the lowest point of prices reached by it in many years. It was, he said, the system of futures and options that had pro- duced this effect. The principal cotton mart of the United States was the cotton exchange of New in futures about 300 The Orleans. That institution dealt solel and options, and was composed o! men, not one of them a cotton planter. only other cotton mart of the U: the New York cotton exchange.- N was engaged either in producing cotton or in consuming cotton—no man who was at either end of the line ( production or consumption )— ‘was » member of either of these exchanges. So that if the bill became a law it would not be much of a restriction on the naturdl right of American citizens to deal in futures. It would only interfere with 300 gentiemen in supposed. in New York—men who never raised m nor handled cotton in any way. In the year 1891 these two cotton exchanges had sold ,000,000 bales of cotton, while the actual crop was a little lesa than §,000,000. He had the fig- ures of daily agles in the New York cotton ex- change, which’showed, he said, that one day in February, 1891, 1,500 bales ‘of “mythical.” “phantom” or “wind,” was sold to the one bale real cotton. Was ‘that, he asked, real, gen- uine commerce. or was it gaming? GAMBLING CONTRACTS. Having described the operation of “fatures” and “options,” he asked Senators whether they would say that those were not gambling con- tracts. respectability, their char gonnections to do a gambling business without being called gamblers, and so he should not all them gamblers. THE HOUSE. and Snnday school The warmest day of the summer found a goodly number of members present when the House wus called to order at 11 o'clock. There ‘was still no quorum present when that hour ar- rived, but during the prayer and the reading of the journal stragglers strolled in (no one could hurry in the torrid air)andafew more seats were pccupied when the business of the day waa entered upon. Col. Ike Hill, deputy sergeant- at-arms, states, however, that there are 212 members in the city. Mr. Brookshire (Ind.),.from the committee on post offices and post roads, reported back. adversely, a memorial asking for un investiga tion relative to pneumatic postal serviee in Philadelphia. Laid on the table. THE PENSION OFFICE CASE. Mr. Wheeler (Mich.) called up as the special order the report of the committee investigating the workings of the pension office. Mr. Enloe (Tenn.) suggested that the debate be limited to two honrs on a side. Mr. Henderson (II) made the counter sug- that the discussion be permitted to pro- ithout limitation for the present. Mr. Enloe threw out the hint that the repub- could filibuster after the discussion as well usat the present time. Mr. Henderson repudiated the intimation carried by this hint, but said that this case had Deen pressed with undue haste from the be- ginning. MR. LITTLE ON THE MAJORITY REPORT. So nodimitation was agreed upon and Mr. Little (N.Y.) took the floor in advocacy of the majority resolutions, which give it as the judg- ment of the House that Commissioner Raum abould be removed from office by the President. ME. LIND DEFENDS THE COMMISSIONER. Mr. Lind (Minn.) in opposing the resolution feferred to the connection of Mr. Cooper ind.) with the investigation. He did not now, never had and never would charge the gentle- man with doing anything that was improper. But the gentleman had permitted himself to d things which he now regretted that he had done. He had permitted himself to do things that no member of Congress should permit himself to do—-not corruptly, but through good nature. In view of the circumstances the com- missioner had acted and acted justly. : favestigating resolution, spoke in infor of the Teport. He said he had been referred to as a Prosecutor. He would always bea prosecutor when it was necessary to prosecute crimi — 0+ Real Extate Matters. C. C_ Duncanson has purchased for $15,500 of . Columbian University. nd Sth streets northeast. ~ Eccentricities of a Wealthy American. Harry Livingston, the descendant of the il- Iastrious American statesman, whose death has fast been announced, had lived in Florence, Italy, thirty years, says the New York Sun. ‘Be was universally nicknamed “E] Americano.”’ ‘Though very eccentric, he was a general fa- Yorite. His chief amusement was driving six, eight, ten and even eighteen horses to his car- riage. Finally the municipal authorities, fear- gem im the streets, forbade him to jvo more than six horses. ta ct of ‘New Orleans and about the same number, he | nf ‘The men who took part in them might | be, he sid. privileged by their wealth, their | Mr. Enloe (Tena), one of the authors of the | | TO CANVASS THE CITY. « An Effort to Be Made Tomorrow to Com- plete the G. A. R. Fund. ‘The canvassers recently selected by authority of the citizens’ executive committee to canvass the city for subscriptions to the G. A. R. fund will do their work tomorrow. The plan is to have their work done in one day, promptness being required, as it is necessary that the citi- zens’ committee shall know at once how large a fund will be at their disposal. ‘The committee will need at the lowest estimate $150,000 to provide for the reception and com- fort of the hundreds of thousands of visitors coming in September, — been provided for by ti the fiinds of the District and ®40,000 has been subscribed. The amount needed is $20,000. This amount if promptly subscribe@will enable the committee to go ahead at once with its work. | The following changes have been made in the | list of canvassers, as announced in THE Star: James B. Lambie, 1415 New York avenue northwest, in place of John H. Magruder. Conrad Becker, 1845 E street northwest, in place of E. J. Stellwagen. R. Goldschmid, 1007 F street northwest, in place of A. M. Lothrop. W. H. Hoeke, 8th and Market space north- west, in place of Seaton Perry. Thomas D. Singleton. 415 7th street north- west, in place of Gus Eiseman. Geo. J. Bond, 623 F street northwest, in place of Wm. H. Barnes. J. Philip Hermann, 917 7th street northwest, in place of Chris. Xander. ohn H. Busher, 12th and E streets north- cast, in place of James F. Oyster. The following additional canvassers-at-large among the Afro-Americans have been ap- pointed: Maj. Charles A. Fleetwood, 2906 6th street northwest, Charles B. Purvis, M. D., 1118 18th street northwest. James H. Merriweather, 1822 13th street northwest. Rer. Walter T. Brooks, 305 9th street north- east. A member of the committee said today tos Stan reporter that while small subscriptions will be acceptable, it will requirea great many in sums of #25, $50, $100 and upward to make $20,000. —>__ DROWNED AT THE BATHING BEACH. ‘Patrick Sheehan is Added to the List of ‘Victims. A sad accident occurred at the bathing beach yesterday, adding one more victim to the list of those who have already lost their lives there. ‘The young man who was drowned was Patrick Sheehan, about twenty years old, son of Juror Sheehan, who was one of the twelve men who voted to convict Guitesu of the murder of the late President Garficla. Michael Sheehan, the father, is now in the insane asylum, having gone insane some time after the execution of Gui- teau. The son went to the bathing beach yee- terday afternoon with three companions. AS only one of the party could swim the othersdid not ask for suits, the rules requiring one to be able to swim before he can register and get the use of a bath house and suit. Sheehan and the other compan- fon waited for some of the swimmers to come out and from two of them they bor- rowed suits and went into the water. It was buta few minutes later when the unfortunate boy was seen to There was nothing un- usual in that, but when he failed to come vy “Man drowned!” was _raisc and ‘those who were not good swimmers were soon out of the water. Those who could swim went in search of the body, but they failed to locate it. The life- boat with drags was soon on the water in the vicinity of where young Sheehan went down. The hunt for the body was kept up until dark without success and then the search ‘was abandoned until this morning. Mrs. Shechan, mother of the deceased, resides at No. 725 4th street northwest with her other children. The tad news was conveyed to her ‘soon after the drowning andall the afternoon there was a large crowd of men, women and children on the street near the house, evidently awaiting the arrival of the body. This morning search was renewed and before To’clock the efforts of the searchers were re- warded. The body was removed from the river to the home of the deceased’s mother and the coroner notified. ae HOT WORK IN COURT. i. Sixty-three iene, = Crowded Into Three ‘lis. The agent of the Humane Society was badly needed at the Police Court this morning, where there was suffering of humanity owing to the hot weather and the limited space for prisoners. ‘There are but three cells in the place set apart for prisoners and there were sixty-three per- sons to’ occupy them. Among them were eleven women, who were put in one cell += to._—sthemselves, ~—ileaving the fifty-two men and boys to occupy the other two cella. ‘The atmosphere in there was par- fectly horrible. Keeper Madigan did what he could:to relieve the prisoners, giving them free access to the water, of which they drank abund- antly. Most of the unfortunates were up on al trivial offenses against the District laws and they thought incarceration in the sweat boxes wasenough punishment for their ‘As soon as the prisoners were tried and dis- posed ot they trere sent off to the jail or work- ouse'in order to get them in more comfortable quarters, ne THE GARBAGE SERVICE. Complaints of Its Inefficiency Being Sent to the Health Office. There is plenty of work for the-garbage in- spectors just now, as the complaints of non- collection of garbage are still pouring into the health office. Health Officer Hammett called «Star reporter's attention to the matter this morning and said he hoped that persons who have cause to complain about the non-collec- their duty.” . During six days last week there were 189 complaints recorded on the books of the health office, an average of thirty-one and » half eom- plaints a day. ie All complaints are referred to the inspectors, who are required to investigate them and re- port the result of their investigation. During the forty-eight hours ending at noon today burial permits were issued from the | health office for the following: G.E. Emmons lot 12, and part 11, North| month. Grounds. Te F. Wainwright has bought for 8,813.05 of | an” 8 Cox subs29 and 37, square 804, each | Nokes, 65 years; Adclina Dysbn, fronting 18 feet on Florida avenue between 4th | 4. Butler, 50 years; Thos. Monroe, White—Catharine Talty, 80 years; August 0. Hinrichs, 61 years; Hepry D. Boteler, 51 years; p criminals. < It was aot a position he desired to occupy, but | Peter H. Youngs, 48 years; Lizzie Price, 43 {t was not one that he was ashamed to occupy. { years: Frances E. 40 years; Katie Sweeney, 23 ; Clara L. 0" 1 year; Helen M. Duflef, 9 months; Earl F. Kehnsrt, 3 months; Ethel J. Clementson, 6 months; Frances W. Sexty, 3 months; Anita L. Parks, 1 Colored—Nellie Dickson, 80 years: Anna Ruf- Liggons,68 years; Maria ‘54 years; Sarah 40 ‘years; Robert D. Coates, 18 years; John G. Livers, 2 months; Wm. Tayior,9 months; Albert Stevens, $ months; Julia Kuland, 3 months. ‘80 years; Elizabeth passa <stbewes Transfers of Real Estate. Deeds in fee have been filed as follows: D. D. Stone to W. Minnus, lots 7 and 8, block 4, Avalon Terrace; $1,550. R. Strong to W. A. Henderson, part 34, #q. 782; $3,000. W. Mc- Neir to W. N. Clayton, subs 110 to 112 and 117 THE CAPITOL HILL MURDER. Clues to the Perpetrators Being Worked Up by the Police. CERTAIN THAT TWO MEN COMMITTED THE CRIME—THE STORY TOLD BY A COLORED GIRL ‘WHO SAW THE BLOW INFLICTED—BOTH WERE YOUNG NEGROES. As the investigation of the murder and rob- bery of the late Peter H. Young progresses clews multiply and give the officers an addi- tional amount of work. “Where are the mur- derers2” is the all-important question, and the ownership of the pick handle is also a problem | God, which if solved might furnish material aid to the officers in their efforts to apprehend the murderers. That there were two persons con- cerned in the tragedy there can be no doubt. They were seen by the colored girl when the crime was actually committed and they wore ‘also seen by others either in the vicinity of 8d and South A streets just below where the death blow was inflicted or on the route between the 's store. corner of 4th and D streets southeast, and the scene of the commission of the crime. Robbery was undoubtedly the intention of the criminals, hoor had pi Cones Po }, which they carried out thus IMP Tocceetuliy. 2” "Me they caered o TWO SUSPICIOUS PERSONS. Before Mr. Young closed his store two sus- picious persons were seen about there. One of them entered the store and purchased s cent’s worth of cigarettes. This was just about the time for closing: The man left, the store and went outside, where his companion was waiting for him. One of the two was about sixteen Years old and the other was apparently two Years his senior. As the deceased, who was nearsighted and . wended his way along the street toward the home of his brother-in-law, where he resided, he mado ro stop. ‘Tho mien sue pected crime darkness, passing under an occasional gaslamp. The All this time Mr. Young was evidently uncon- scious that he was Less Leggo but kept on his way as usual, paying but little’ attention to his surroundings. ‘THE COLORED GIRL’S STORY. The negroes, however, did attract attention, for after the murder was committed persons who had.seen them came forward to tell about them. ‘The colored) girl who writnessed the tragedy, as published in Saturday's Star, e most ¢ witness. She enw the negroes as they came along and saw them not far from Grant alley. Sho thought at first that they were after her and she hastened her footsteps, Dut when Mr. Young came along and receiv: the death blow she congratulated herself upon and went on, to get out of ood. “the etl evidently thought that the man was not killed, for it was not until Saturday morn- ing that she told of the affair to her employers and they sent word to the police. THE YOUNGER STRUCK THE BLOW, In describing the affair the girl says that the younger one of the men inflicted the blow, but she did not see either of them rob the victim. There can be no doubt, however, as to his being robbed, for his little hand satchel, in which he always carried his money, is gone.’ As he car- tied the satchel in his hand it is likely that one of the men grabbed it so suddenly that the girl did not notice the transaction. After committing the murder and robbery the criminals quickly escaped in the darkness, not giving witnesses an opportunity to tell where or even which way they went. It is known, however, that they went south to A street and ted, one going east and the other west. ing their movements after leaving the corner of 3dand A streets state- ments differ, but they wore seen running down 8d street to that corner. One story is that from there one went east toward Lincoln Park and the other to get around East Capi- tol street and goon acaras far as Dupont Cir THE NEGROES DESCRIBED. ‘The negro who dealt the blow is described as being about sixteen years old, five feet five inches high, brown skin, round face and dressed ino suit of gray mixed goods, white shirt and collar, a striped necktieand a brown derby hat. His companion is described as being about eighteen years old,.stout built, five feet eight inches tall, dressed in dark clothes and a white straw hat. Deputy Coroner Schneffer made a post mor- tem examination Saturday afternoon at Zur- horst’s undertaking establishment and found that the force of the blow had fractured the skull in numerous places. ‘THE CORONER'S INQUEST. The officers of the sixth precinct summoned a coroner's jury yesterday and Coroner Patterson swore them to make true and diligent inquiry into the facts concerning the death of the mur- dered man and the jury adjourned to meet tomorrow mat 5 o'clock at Zur- horst’s establishment, where the witnesses al- ready summoned will give their testimony. During the investigation the police have been | fag’ visited by numerous persons, who, in the usual mysterious manner, call them aside to give a ee in al rv young colored men have beenarrested on suspicion and released when it was evident that they were not the ns wanted. The officers are still confident of ultimate success, and expect to have the murderers be- hind the bars before long. THE WIRTH MURDER RECALLED. The murder and robbery recalls a similar crime committed here twelve years ago, when George Philip Hirth,a grocer, on his way home one night was foully murdered and robbed. Hirth’s store was on 14th street next to the corner of P street northwest, and after closing store shortly after 8 o'clock ‘he started to go to the house of a friend. That was January, 1880, and on account of the season of the year there were not oo mang persoas on the sirect as at this time.* Hit was killed on P street between 17th and 18th, the north side of the square not being then built up. His murderers were after- captured and two of them, Babe Bed- : ford and Edward Queenan, were executed. tion of garbage would make them. Pinn was sentenced to life “That,” he said, “tis the only.way this office | im nt. The murderers were well can learn of the failure of the collectors to do acquainted with their victim. They had spent considerable time about his store and thor- oughly understood his habits. Like Mr. Young, the victim of Friday nigh dy, he carried money home with him at night,and no one ‘knew it better than did his murderers. Acolored man named Johnson, who was with the others that fatal night, left his companions when he learned what they were going to do, and he afterward proved to be one of the strongest government witnesses. ‘The Mow concbred by Mr. Young was similar to the one dealt Jandorf by Sam Moore in the jail several months ago. In that case, although was generally conceded that the shovel han- dis used as it was wos dondly weapon. it was the opinion ef the court and the prosecuting officer that it was not ae deadly in- tent,and, Moore was consequently sent to pri for life instead of being executed. Should. the ‘assassins of Mr. Young be captured it is more than likely that that point will be raised in the trial by counsel and that the court and district attorney will be quoted as authorities. ee FUNERAL SERVICES, ‘The Remains of the Murdered Man In- terred at Arlington. The funeral of Mr. Peter H. Young, who was so mysteriously and cruelly murdered on Capi- tol Hill last Friday evening, took place from the Metropolitan Baptist Church, 6th and A streets northeast, at 10 o'clock this morning, the Rev. Green Clay Smith, pastor of the church, The funeral was in charge of Junior’ Deputy: Commander deceased on the hill. The murdered man, e ;| though heserved four years during the late was nota member of the G..A. R., how- ever. ‘ 7. said that the darkest hour of the night was that one just before dawn of day, and in of this das view tardly crime and of similar acts throughout today wat immediat ay preceding ine dawn of yy was immediat wn a better, purer one, "OF the deseased be aatd that he was aman of great goodness, one who had hatred for no one. A good. citizen, a trae Christian, he bad to his reward. A brave soldier who passed safely four years of battle, and who had lived to suddenly stricken down by an unknown and cowardly assassin in the quiet streets of the capital of the country he had fought to save. A brief prayer followed and the services were concluded by singing the hymn, “Nearer, My pe od tp = and = Leper The jet was: oO an mt pand viewed the semaine, afer whidt, tho Arlington, where it was in- terred with G. A. R. honors. EON has VHB AN OVATION TO BISMARCK. The Prince Joins in Cheers for the Emperor, the Empire and the Reichstag. An immense demonstration in honor of Prince Bismarck washeld in Kissingen yesterday. Spe- cial trains carried thousands to Kissingen from Coburg, Mannheim, Darmstadt, Heidelberg, Pforzheim and Carlsruhe. Replying to an ad- dress presented to him Prince Bismarck said that the ovation was such as no minister ever before received and he regarded it asa tribute to his work. The endeavors made to bring about German union in 1648, he said, were premature, and ose made in 1866 had no result, while i 1870 all wielded hammers, striking in unison anvil on which the empire was forged. United Germany was wrought out by French battalions. Friends, he added, had advised him to keep silent, but he would not allow his mouth to be ck He concluded by joining in cheers for the emperor, the empire, the reich- stag and the bundsrath. 42TNA’S SUMMIT. Famous Ascents of the Great Sicilian Volcano Which is Now in Eruption. ‘From the Philadelphia Telegraph. The story of the ascent of the mountain from whose summit Plato, in his serene and thought- fal time, and Mr. Gladstone, in our troublous days, have, among many great ten, in great | M wonder, watched the sunrise, has a strong fas- cination, because of: its wide contrast, its stern exaction of strength and endurance and its su- preme, awe-inspiring reward, the realiza- tion of that which inspired the ancients and the poets of the middle ages. From the banana and the orange groves, from the ards and the palms, through the seven regions into which the botanists have dividtd the realm protected of Persephone— because ‘among the billowy cornfields of her mother, Demeter, and the meadow flowers she loved in girlhood are ever found sulphurous ravines and chasms breathing vapor the pit of hades”—to the snow-capped crust that — for ten square miles between the awful lepth of unque: that suddenly seems to be brought near, the traveler mounts, with an eve! sense of the vastness beyond and around him. twelve miles of theascent from Catania have been accomplished the summit looks as far off as ever. When Mr. Rodwell made the as- cont in August, 1877, no rain had fallen in Sicily for three months, and along the eastern Loam of the rien or er tem) n ‘was 82 degrees Fahrenheit. starting point was Catania; his first halt at Nicolosi, a little town consisting of one long street bordered by one-storied cottages of lava. Nicolosi has more than once been abaken to the ground by earth- quakes. From thence begins the journey on mule back, by no definite path, over a vast tract covered with lava and ashes, with here and there patches of broom. The mules know all about it and wise travelers trust them as they deserve. While his mule bore him unguided up the steep slope of the track- leas waste Mr. Rodwell wrote his notes, and at the time of the setting sun used his pocket spectrose: Around the district of Ia and ashes lie forests of small trees, and at height of 4,216 feet is the Casa del Bosco, where men in charge of the woods live and whence the start for quite the upper regions of the mountain—where cold surpassing that of the higher Alps has to be encounterod—is made. There, Mr. Rodwell records, ‘the air was so extraordinarily still that the flame of candle placed near the door cf the house did not flicker.” At 6,300 feet the Regione Deserta is entered. Lifelessness is all around. Silence broods over the waste of black sand, ashes and lava; ants are, the =. living creatures in the crater region. A little lower down Sp: found jays, thrushes, ravens, kites and a few i There was nomoon on the night on which Mr. Rodwell made the ascent; but as the desolation deepened, and the earth became more arid,and more void and utd, the heavens ‘‘took up the wondrous tale. tars,” he says, “‘shone with extraordinary brilliancy and sparkled like particles of white- hot steel. I have never before seen the heavens studded with such myriads of stars, The Milky Way shone like a path of fire and meteors hed across the sky in such numbers that I soon gave up any attempt to count them, vault of heaven seemed to be much nearer than when seen from the earth and more fiat. as if | T™ only a short distance above our heads,and some of the brighter stars appeared to be hanging down from the sky.” A hundred years ago Brydone, beholding this same wondrous spectacle of “awful majesty and splendor,” records how he and his companion were “‘more struck with veneration than be- low;” how they exclaimed together, “What a glorious situation for un observatory! Had Em- pedocles had the eye of Galileo what discoveries must he not have made!” and how they re- gtetted that Jupiter was not visible, as he was rauaded they might have discovered some of satellites with the naked eye, or at least with a smuall glass which he had in his pocket. ‘There every probability that next year will see an observatory at the Casa Inglese, a small lava house near the base of the cone of the great crater, built by the English officers stationed in Sicily in 1811. At 1:30a.m., with the temperature at 4 de- grees (Fahrenheit), Mr. Rodwell reached the welcome shelter of the Casa Inglese, and reated there until $.a.m., whea the brighter stars hav- disappeared, he started for the summit of 7 him, in order itness what Brydone calls “the most won- derful and most sublime sight in nature.” ‘There was no strong wind; the traveler did not suffer from the sickness of which travelers con- stantly complain in the rarefied air of the sum- mit. He reached the highest point at 4:40, and, cautiously choosing a coolish place among the cinders, sat down on the ground, whence steam and sulpburous acid gas were issuing,to wait for the sunrise: “Above the place where the sun would presently appear red, shading off in the direction of the zenith to orange and yellow; this was suc: green, then a long stretch of blue, ‘ending o wit lasted some minutes and was very remarkable. ‘This was succeeded by the usual rayed ap} ance and at ten minutes to 5'the upper limb of the sun was seen over the mount of Cala So simply does Mr. Rodwell record the guerdon of his toil, for, as he suys truly, noone would have the hardihood to attempt ‘to de- scribe the impressions which are made upon the mind while the eyes are beholding the sunrise from the summit of Htna. How greatly the Seolation of the awfal mountain adds to the ie communicable effect Brydone wi Gwells npon “the immense elevation from flo polniwithont any neighboring oountataa for int, without ‘mountains for fho'senscs and imagloation torest upon and re- bows y pale blue, darker, ite the rising san ¢ le fireand the blue heaven) re was a brilliant | 400s that Ma binck. Tile etek eae quite diotinear = ‘MR. LEITER KEPT QUIET. ‘The Captain of an Alaska Steamer Threat- ened to Put Him Ashore. A special to the New York World from Tacoma, Wash., says L. Z. Leiter of Chicago, his wife, three daughters and two maids were Passengers aboard thesteamer Queen, which ran upon the rocks near Sitka, Alaska. The steamer was crowded, and the officers had their hands full to preventa stampede. An ugly cross cur- rent had driven the steamer on a ledge of rocks, and Capt: Carroll, the oldest man in Alaska service, decided not to attempt toget free until ‘the tide changed, tics te Soa ing handled.” Capt. Care wi t was: Toll thought such comment, if contin would create needless alarm and requested the million- tnd ‘then in" the heating of all ou dock Capt, en in of ‘all on Carroll said: “I am navigating this and if you do not like the manner in ‘which ft is being navigated it is not too late to go ashore.” ‘The millidnaire was indignant. He would go ashore, he said. His family and friends gath- $7et sbont bim and on effort was made to at rent joing ashore. Cap’ Catroll suid to the first officer ani 2mera boat and take Mr. Leiter ashore jo not bring him back again.” The boat was quickly lowered and Leiter was that he could secure no comforts of life at Sitka, He replied that he could buy the town. Some say he claimed the ability to buy all Alaska” When everything was for the millionaire to go ashore his daugh- ters had prevailed on Capt. Carroll not to insist on hie orders being carried out. Ho replied that he would maintain discipline at any cost, but would not force the mi ire ashore if discipline were maintained. So the unpleasant- ness ended without Mr. Leiter being put ashore. ——_—_+e-.__— A Sad Accident to a Boy. Everett Merrifield, the eleven-year-old son of Mr. G. A. L. Merrifield of the pension office, was seriously injured by a singular accident on board the steamer Dorchester near Norfolk last Wednesday night. The steamer ran ashore and four tugs fastened lines to her to haul her off. A piece of the fron cleat near the stern was off and flow with terrific force about prenty-five feet toward midahip, where young ‘The hen eee ee truck against some ea" of st i object and, bopnding off, struck the lad on the breaking the bone. A bolt which flew off the iron struck him below the knee, break- ing the bone ina second place. The little fel- low, who stood the painfal injuries bravely, was taken to Norfolk, and thence brought to this city by his father, arriving here Saturday. Mr. Merrifield took his son at once to his home at ‘Falls Charch, Gd on ‘Saturday, after being etherized,’ the leg was thoroughly ex- s@mined and reset by Dre. N. F. Graham and T. M. Talbott. It was found the leg was broken near the hip and just below the knee, involvinj the knee foint. Mr. Merrifield and con an daughter were on their way by ses to their old home in Maine when the accident occurred. cee ager DRINKING IN PARIS. There is 2 Good Deal of It and It is All in Plain Sight. From the Detrott Free Press. If you wore to subtract drink from Paris you would change the whole appearance of the city. People drink in Paris morning, noon and night. They do not drink in the half hypocritical way we drink in America and England, but openly, boldly and on the streets. There are no con- cealing swing doors in Paris to quickly cover up the retreat of @ man intoa saloon, as there are invariably in the states. Everybody drinks in Paris, but they don’t sneak in and drink and they don’t come sheepishly out as if they had gone in for a light. Drinking is part of the life of Paris, and it is open, unblushing and sociable. Instead of con- cealing screens and opaque window shades there are brilliantly lighted cafes with reat sheets of transparent plate glass open to all the world. In good weather, of course, most of the drinking and gossiping is done out on the sidewalks at the little round tables, three, four or five rows deep. They read and drink; they talk and drink; they write and drink; they smoke and drink; they meditate and drink; they contemplate the passing crowd and dri:.k. ‘The cafe in Paris is really everybody's club. You gct there about all the facilities you get at aclub. Youcan have for the calling, free of cost, writing paper, envelopes, pens and ink, while if you write a letter at your hotel on paper of the hotel they will charge you for the sta- tionery in your bill. You can have at the cafes all the Parla papers, and at many of them English and American papers—the expensive Pilustrated ones as well as the cheap dailies, ‘You take a seat on the Boulevard and may drink much or little as you please and read or write all day. There is no appearance of expecting you to give many orders if you stay long. ‘At many of the cafes in the afternoons and evenings you may hear the best music the world has produced and the waiter hands youa printed free of cost, while it you pay ‘a big price to hear a concert in London they expect You to give sixpence additional for the pro- m. In one of the little cafes on the Boule- vard St. Michael there is an orchestra under the mi of the Grand Opera House. In some of the big cafes they have orchestras which it would cost us @1.50 to hear in the United States. People are as quiet and orderly asat a church. They listen attentively and appreciatively to the excellent music and have educated up to arealization of what music is. The waiters are prompt and unobtrusive. There is no dickering about how much there is to pay. You can pay when you leave, which is the uswal custom, or if you are an American and accus- tomed to pay on theenail you may do so and there is no possibility of a mistake. ‘This is all beautifully arranged and is one of the things they order better in France. You have a beer, for instance, and the waiter brings you the glass in a little saucer, which you may think is intended to keep the drippings from soili the table. If yoa look clossly at it you will see that the price of the drink is printed on it. ‘The beer costs you threepence or fourpence, as the case may be, or it may be as cheap as five cents in American money. The saucer is marked thirty, forty or twenty-five centimes, as the case may be. If you pay on the spot the waiter slips this seucer out from under your glass and takes it way with him. If you ‘postpone pay- ment until you leave the different saucers are piled up in front of you and their total repre- sents your indebtedness. ‘The loungers at the cafes go in for a strange variety of weird tipples. There are numerous sirups of different colors whose composition no man knows. There are many horrible decoc- haps, the vilest with. Beer, which they second, and that is now largely imbibed For some reason it is more popular than it was a few years ago, and some of the French breweries are ‘large business. Perhay a befuddle y call bock, is a = doing in time they will learn how to make beer. At it the secret for some or other is withheld from them, and uch beer is the poorest and dearest in the world. Coffee and brandy is another drink. In serving this the stranger i E- BS ee AG if r i HI I : i HE SEE ij ae ta 4 : : oy 3. HS pee f EH | ij Hi i+ rr | E G 3 3 air i I i é E \ j EE | i 2 i 4 5 I Ff i i ? f F i | fe , 2 ge. E i t i F i = i . EY H i ti $ | i E, E i ii 4 j i 768 | die. “Carter, uiet within the | casee, DEATH CALLED THE ROLL. All. Were Accounted for, Either on the Field or in the Treaches. ‘M. Quad in the New York Sun. He had been lying very quiet for a long time, ‘and the nurse at his bedside dozed and nodded— struggled to keep awake, and finally slopt in her | chair. Then a Shadow stole into the room and stood by the bed whispering: “Right dress! Back on the left! Front!” ‘The sergeant opened his eyes and looked about | him in wonder. His hair was thin and gray, his face pale'and wasted and death had set its mark upon his brow. “Artention to roll call!” continued the Shadow.* “Adams, Ansil, Artnman, Averill, All- port, Amsden——” “They do not answer,” said the sergeant as the Shadow passed. “They can answer no more! They were buried in the trenches at Manassas. Barnard, | Baxter, Bebee, Burton, Bloom, Bailey—" “I do not hear them,” said the sergeant. | | “Their lives went out when McClelland turned at bay at Malvern Hill. They died as heroes | Curtis, Claxton, Coleman, Caniff, Campbell—-" “Does any one answer for them?” asked the sergeant. j “Aye! Ido!” replied the Shadow. “I saw them laid in the shallow trenches at Antietam | after the roar of battle had ceased and the cries | of the wounded had been hushed. They were following Hooker's flag when they fell. “Davis, | Denton, Danforth, Dougherty, Donobue, Di “Absent without leave?” said the sergeant. “No! Absent forever! They crossed at Fred- ericksburg and their dead bodies lay nearest the terrible stone wall at the base of Marye's Hill. They could not win victory, bat they jon die. nright, Eberman, Eckliff, Epstein, man, Eckart——" a “They may be on guard,” said the sergeant, ‘as he listened for the sound of their voices. “Then the dead d the dead,” replied the Shadow. “I saw them Iring stark and dead under the trees at Chancellorsville, left to be buried by the victorious enemy. Faber, Fen- ton, Foster, Franklin, Fitch, Fitzwilliams——" “They have been detailed for special duty, suggested the old soldier. “Pheir duty ended at Gettysburg. Isaw them lying dead after the Virginians had been driven back and thousands were shouting Yetory. Gray, Gorman, Gobel, Gosport, Gansel, ren “Where?” asked the \t. “In the thickets of the somber wilderness, where 10,000 men died without seeing an enemy. When night came the songs of the whippoorwills were heard above the plaints of the wounded. Hall, Harmon, Hennessy, Hill, Hifton, Hurlburt” “Ard these too?” “Aye! every one of them. They were left be- bind. Ingalls, Irving, Isham, Imrie, Isabel, Ingersol “Ah! I remember!” whispered the sergeant. “They fell as they guarded the trenches at Petersburg. Ismyself helped to bury them. “James, Jenkins, Jordan, Jolly, Justin—— “Dead at Appomattox!” “Larkins, Lampton, Larry, Lennox, Lever- ing, Loring —” “Call no more. Only when the angel calls the roll of the dead at the last great day will the dust make answer. Ialone am left of my company!” The old sergeant fell back upon his pillow | day with moan, and before his dim vision the specters of the dead seemed to form in line and await his order. ‘Sergeant Grim!” called the Shadow. The nurse awoke and cried out: “Who has called him? He is dead. “Tt was I,” said the Shadow. *‘He was the last on the roll ard I can call no more.” “And you—you—" “I am the Shadow of Death!” — ANGRY JILTED WRAITHS. ~ A Boycott That Darkens the Prospect of a Pair in Their Honeymoon. From the Indianapolis Journal. A short time ago there was a wedding in spiritualistic circles, a handsome young lady, who is credited with tho possession of rare mediumistic powers, being united to the happy man who she preferred among a score or more of, admirers. Fortunately, or unYortu- nately, all of these admirers are not sojourn- ers in these low grounds of sorrow. Some of them are in that mysterious land from which most persons believe there is no return ticket. Of course, no spiritualist accepts the Prince of Denmark's dogma on this point, and the young lady, now a bride, has heretofore maintained thather admirers ‘over there” were a great deal more useful toher than those who re- mained on this shore of time, for the reason that her best ~‘controls”” were these eame spirit po ae Since her a sin condition of affairs has come about. The earthly admirers | have accepted the situation, most of them even | attended wedding and endured if they did notapprove her choice. With the lovers on the beautiful shore the young wife's friends say | it is different. They are angry and appear to have placed a spiritual boycott upon her. | She | has not received a single communication from | any one of these departed lovers since her mar- riage, and worse than that, they have formed guard around her, and allow | no other spirits to communicate with her. As | the marriage was one of pure love, wholly with- | out mercenary ‘consideration on the young lady's part. at least, and the limited salary of the husband was to have been aided by the pro- fessional earnings of the wife, the spirit boy- cott is a serious matter to these worthy young people. It has already operated to make thera cut short their wedding trip, and instead of go- ing to housekeeping for themselves, as they in- tended, they have been compelled to board with mother. How long this malicious boycott may be kept up is one of those things that no one can deter- mine. The attempt to call elderly and disin- terested spirits asa board of arbitration has thus far been frustrated by the departed lovers, whose earthly affection seems to have been turned into an unrelenting hate. soe ‘To Resuscitate the Half Drowned. From the London News. Everybody maybe called upon to afford assistance to drowned persons while the doctor is being sent for, and Prof. Laborde’s simple method for restoring breath when all other means have failed deserves to be universally known. Our Paris correspondent tells us that the other day at a watering place in Normandy two bathers, a young man and a boy, who were unable to swim. went out of ma depth and isa] ey were brought on re lameieads and ae taken to the village. Two doctors were sent for, but the young man gave no sign of life and they he was dead. Laborde, who was fishing at half an hour's distance, came up assoon as he heard of the accident. Heexamined the body and found that the extremities were cold and the heart had flex action of the breathing apparatus, which is always extremely sensitive. At the end of a few minutes a slight hi showed that the patient was saved. In addition t6 the usual Testorative means SAVED HER CHILD FROM DEATH. ‘Mrs. Rubling’s Heroisni May Cost Her Own | Life. A thrilling scene was enacted Saturday even- ing in front of the Star Hotel, at Long Branch, in which Mrs. Mary Rubling performed an act of bravery which saved her child from a horrible death, although she may lose her own life. Mrs. Rubling, with her two children— Katie, aged three years,and Edna, aged three months boarded at the Star Hotel. The trains of the New Jersey Southern railroad pass this house. Saturday evoning, while seated on the piazza holding her infant danghter Edna in ber arms, she was startled by hearing screams, and looking up saw her daughter Katie on the rail- Toad track in front of an approaching engine, which was coming from West End. Without Waiting, and still holding her baby in her arms, Mrs. Rubling rushed frantically to the roscae of her child. She paid no heed to the shouts of Ses etoerane tt dane ot 2 e saw ra, Rubin and ber two children, and at once reversed t ie engine. Mra. Rubli little Katie from the track when the: Iscometive was. few seve away: the next instant the brave mother was struck by the cowcatcher and thrown a consid- erable distance from the track. The baby was knocked out of her arms and fell a few foot from where Mra. Rubling lay bleeding and c: constious. Physicians, after making an exau- ination of Mrs. Rubling, found that sbe b received a gevere gash in the head and a dis- located hip and internal injuries. The baby | Was not seriously hurt, Mrs. Rubling regained consciousness an hour after the accident, and asked if her children had been killed. see THE OLD-TIME ROWEKS. ‘The Old Ward Brothers Row an Exciting Race on the Hudson. An effort is being made to bring the crack oarsmen of the world to the world’s fair next season to engage in single, double and four- A New York man now in England states that if the Australians, Stanbury, Kemp, Sullivan and McLean, will come to America he will guarantee a 5,000 purve, and if Stanbury can procure backing the American champion ‘will row him for stakes of @5,000 a side. It would make a fine race in fours to see O'Connor, Gaudaur, Teemer and cither Hun- lan or Hosmer meet the crack Australians, and large sums would be on the result. Kenforth, Brown other old-time cham. pion oarsmen must have tarned over in their graves Wednestiay when old Josh and Gil Ward of the famous Ward * crew rowed a match race on the Hudson river at Newburg, “Like all oarsmen, the,Wards think they can Tow as well today as they did twenty years ago, | when they defeated the crack English dian crews on Saratoga lake. A discussion of the old-time races brought about a desire to see which was the better man in light skiffs, and in order to make it m teresting, each took one of his nephe A big crowd gathered arotnd the starting point and loudly cheered Gil when be appeared and Cana- for with a tri-colored handkerchief tied around his | head, justas he always looked in his palmy va. course was one and a half miles with one turn. The veterans rowed stroke. Josh is sixty-five years old and Gil is eeveral years his junior. Dan Ward, twenty-five years old, was Josh's Partner and ’ Edward was Gil's mate. George A. Prince, messenger of the court of appeals, was referee; he was also an old-time oursman of note. The crews got away on even terms, both iking thirty-eight to the minute, and reached the stakeboat together. ‘The race home was a te one and re- minded the spectators of the Ward's old con- teste. Josh and mate began to draw away from their rivals as they neared home and won by four lengths. Git claims that Josh had the best boat. and another race with an exchange of bouts is likel: to take place. J ————_+e-___—___ THE OAK CHEST. A Relicof Primitive Luxury Much in De- mand Nowadafs. From the Cornhill Magazine. Every one who pretends to have a little taste | nowadays lays out some money in buying a genuine old oak chest—that is to say,an oak chest which he believes to be genuine—and the Dlacker it is the more confident does he feel that he is the possessor of a genuine article. If, moreover, there be a date on the chest, then his confidence is complete. The dealers know exactly what he wants, and they manufacture dates and blacken the chests they make to meet his requirements. Itisa fraud to date the chests, but a buyer has no reason to complain if he getsacopy of a good antique. He has but to take his penknife and try the wood and he can easily convince himself whether the article be new or old. Two hundred years ‘the wood till the penknife blade will make no impression on it, whereas that of the modern antique is fresh and soft and when a chip is re- moved the dye is shown to be but skin deep. The oak chest is the most primitive of all articles of furniture, and it served a great many pui It ‘was the receptacle for clothes, for money, for every kind of valua- bles; but it was also a seat, a table. a bed and even a coffin. And as the oak chest is the most primitive and necessary of all articles of furni- ture, so has it been one of the first to have attention devoted to it to make it ornamental. Every maiden and every man must have had his chest to contain her and his treasures, and | i* claimed ths not treasures only, but garments as well; and | remarkably fine spe in the long winter evenings what more natural then that each should endeavor to decorate the exterior of his or her chest according to taste or fancy, and thus impart to it an individual character? It is not likely that a girl would carve the oak of her chest, but it is extromely ble that she would exact the ornamenta- tion of it with graving tool as repayment for her needlework on the garments of men. Never- theless some of the decoration may have been the work of women, notably that which is pro- dueed by hot irons. Smaller boxes certainly made beautiful by the hands of their mis- were tresses, and many of these remain incased in white satin, richly embroidered or decorated with beadwork. maiden's chest contained the linen she had spun, linen that was to serve for the house over which on marriage she would horse may be said to be men-made. Horses were an important factor in early nomadic life, and were cherished by their owners, and the progress of civilization, so far from breaking this bond, has apparently strengthened it. Thy animal is not now so essential to human welfare ‘and convenience; science has furnished other means of transportation, and is in « fair way to take all the heavy loads from his back; but in ; E | it Hh i i 7 i H ie | if lt E if if 1 4 f H f i af horse : is | ' | passing over an old chest or old cabinet harden | h A WOMAN IN Fr. A Handsome Vemale Nihilist in New York Incited Bergman. newt n Bergman or Berkman, the assailant of C. Frick, lived in Vilna, Rassia, says the New York 7 rather bi une, be became acquainted with Hie loved her asaboy there and itis suid that ne girl named Emme-(oldman. Miss Goldman retar his affection, She came to America before Bergman did. Later, when he came to New York, be met Emma nagain, Their affection was renewed. For a time they lived together, although were never married, To Bergman's intimacy with Emma Gol 4 be ascribed bi She is a strong-minded we uraily exercise a great influence over a weak man like Bergman. She is an intimate friend f John Most. She never mises an anarohi« meeting. It will be remembered that she ated a disturbance at the last May day demon. stration Labor Union, which was a and would nat invaded by anarchists. The track on which abe was speaking was driven away while she wos talking. It was the chief incident of the persons who are familiar with the rchists of New York city remember having seen Emma Gol Bergman togethe frequently were se jay who did not hesitate to hold. this yo n spomable for Bergman's murde kon Mr. Frick. Emma Goldman ec be found yesterday, though many efforts were made to Nhe was seen with John Most at a meeting of group lof the New York anarchists at No. SS East 4th street late on Saturday then admitted that ] fused to tatk al She was overjoy. Mr. Prick. fi his act that be would AK Woman Ky been seen si Her lover, was always miseral bly ftlews to work I G tly attended the 5 Bast 4th #reet, ONLY ONE MAN ESCAPED. Sixteen Lost Their Lives by the Explosion at York Farm Colliery. The list of victims of Saturday's explosion of gas at York Farm colliery, near Potteville, Pa. has increased to fifteen dead and one mom tarily expected to breathe his last. Thus not one of the men working in the vicinity of where the explosion occurred will be able to tell the tale of the disaster except I who first noticed the unusual running complying with col form the fire boss of these unusual indicat and was thus absent from the v explosion. His story is that he and his Christian Hornick bouir buried in the mim hot wit N te’ brenst i lift and im- ely there was a strong rush of gas and of coal, The gas ruvhed up the airway ring the first and eecond lifts and war . it is wap posed, by one of the safety lamps, that was either upset and broken or faulty, and the ter- rible explosion followed, whereby the men working in the immediate vicinity were affected as above mentioned aud the gangways filled with fallen rock, « and timber, cov@ring up the bodies of some of the men. All the bodies have been recovered except two, soe HIS MANAGERIAL CAREER STOPPED. Youthful Manger Thomas Pratt Has Had « Conservator Appointed Over Him, Thomas Pratt of New Haven, having ran through the greater part of @ patrimony of £100,000 in attempts to attain success as a the atrical manager, has just bad a conservator his mother’s appli from St. Louis four or the Hopkins Gram- where he studied until he He then left school and began bis tion. twenty-one. carcer of a theatrical manager. After being a silent partner in several unsac- cessfal theatrical ventures young Pratt om- barked in the production of the comic opera, e Robber of the Rhine.” which was brought at the Fifth Ave im New York. After a career « withdrawn and the ¢ since the close of his sea been living with his naphtha launch. the Manola, nan actress of tual a club house, but 2 Weeks the opera was disbanded. Pratt, w York, has His beautifal 1 after th «yack ting tr a season, and hard Beach, Me ys that he will take a farce-comedy company out next year. cee RICH DISCOVERY IN A MOUND. Jewelry and Skelet The West Fork Hist bus, Indiana, has un women from the moun: plum hed two skeletons of 4 ont of which the large | | | male skelet a year ago. It ctoms exhibits a ‘wucasian skull the Mongolian and Cauca- and the otfier one sian varieties mixed. ‘Two pieces of jeweiry wore also found, one of them a six-pointed star, one inch from tip to tip. Each of the six points has thirteen small stars, #0 small as almost to require a microscope to discern them, while in the center of the is. full moon, not discernible without « piec ©The other relic ine copper cross of peculiar A with figures of birds aud bew yhas been offered liberal prices but will not sel ailin, presidegt of the association, will exhibit these tkulls, if ‘they can be pre- verved, and the relics at the world’s fair. — ss A Remarkable Surgical Operation. E. W. Andrews and C. W. Crary, surgeons of the medical board of pension examiners at Chicago, have performed a remarLable surgical operation on laj. 0. C. Towne, Towne has been confined to his béd for neariy a year from a growing abscess in his right lang. Two months ago the lung was opened and the abscess cut out and drained. Maj rupidly, but recent worve. Last Suuday Dr. Andrews determ on another operation. After the surgeons hod made aa incision they foand almost the entire lung diseased and according!y went further than they at first intended and removed the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh ribs. This open- ing was large enough to admit the surgeon's two hands. In this cavity a great quantity of stony substance was found, some of the pieces being as as marbles and as hard as stone, while that which waain the bottom of the ca