Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1892, Page 6

6 “3 fo THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY," JULY 26. 1892. THE FORT M’'KINNEY PLOT. Bemb Intended w Blow Up F the Place. Omama, . July 26.—A special to the Bee | from Buffalo, Wyo., says: Startling additional discoveries have been made at Fort McKinney. Keyser, the soidier under arrest at the post, as fully contoased thet he was hired to blow up | the buildings in which the stockmen were con- fined whem brought frem the T. ‘A. ranche, | On thie informati bomb made of four two- Inch muapipe woe ford this meraing under the floor. It contained two stocks of gunpowder the vacant space was filled with gun cotton. eyser faye he was paid @95 in advance and was mised $459 upon completion of the job. Tt was to be fired by an electric frletion tube, but the pulled the wire too sharply and {+ came away without igniting the chat Aman called Biazer, formerly a soldi T, Was — in — with this — nd the “— sul ent burning ont of cavalry quarters. ‘The representative opened the interview by | Several arrests have boon made st the fost. atte last ae Homestend I have come to | : fe RSS ast again for ac expression of your opi the ottoome of the Homestend troubles. At first Mr. Carnegie positively refused to | The People’s Party Presidential Candidate jaonse any phase of the situation, but after | in the West. Poragent feerrogntion bo fealty wai: Dexven, Cor., July 26.—Gen. Ins. B.Weafer, je you to make the foiio |the people's party candidate for the presi as oe eae Sore agin arrived in Denver last evening and will those who are managing the fh stop here Tuesday and Wednesday, during than that T ha ng 10 8a: which time he will make two speeches on the political sttuaticn of the day. It is known that Mr. Carnegte is greatly dis- ee a ooo <P |” Gen. Field did not come wost with him, aa it wens at firet inte Mr Weaver said’ that upon Mr. Frick and that he daily re = cable dispatches giving the fallest pertic ae ee a sin Virginia demanded Mr. Field's pres- cae te > ae oC oe gnce and thus he was forced to give up his con- “ o plated trip. America at the present time. Gen. Weaver would not talk politics, saying | that he would reserve what he had to si nti | tomorrow and the following night, when he will } @ddress the citizens of Denver. He eaid, how- ever, that Virginia was solid for the people's | party und he also considered Colorado to be the same, . TTRLBGRAMS $0 THE STAR CONFIDENCE IN HIS MANAGERS. Discovery of a AU That Mr. Carnegie Will Say About the Labor Troubles. Loxnox, Joly 26.—The representative of the Associnted Preas yesterday drove from Ki to Rannoch Lodge, on Loch Rannoch, . the residence of Mr. Andrew Car- negie, and made repeated efforts to obtain an interview with in r to obtain o jatutement of his views regarding the Ftroubles at Homestead. Pa..and moto espe- *elally concerntag the thooting of Mr. H.C, Frisk, the chairman of the Carnegie Steel Com- y, but bis misston then proved fruitless, is morning, however, he was macre saccese fal ane was finally admitted to Mr. Carnegic's ‘presaace. —— FIRE AT PUT-IN-BAY. Destruction by Fire of the Hotel Recently ‘Toreno, Jely 26.—A ch has just been received here that the great new summer hotel on Put-in-bay Island, Lake Erie, Hotel Vie- torin, burned Inst night. The structure had 600 rooms and cost about $500,000. It was| opened to the public two weeks ago with a| and bangvetand was already tolerably well > — AID FOR IKON RIVER, Neighboring Wisconsin Towns Coming to the Relief of the Peopie. Sr.’Pavn, Mixy., July 26.—A special from | West Superior, Wis., says: Neighboring towns aa eas have responded generously with aid for the yuro, July 26.—A Sandusky dis- | BUndreds of homeless people at Iron River. patch tothe Plaindealer says regarding the | 1#¢10ss of household effects was needlessly wrted burning of the Hotel Yictoria that | 8T¢t Owing to the expectation that fire engines —_ oo. pork eemare! would arrive, and many made no effort to save | of the steamer City of Sandusky. | their goods until too late. Not over $20,000 in- athe sept cus tenet e was carried on the destroyed property, Bi he report wae found | which was worth over ten times that amount. | ton. | Several Superior contractors are heavy losers, | Baving ereoted many buildings and taken tne o- Fle are housed in passenger coachon and fraght cars and rebuilding will go on rapidly. It is now said the fire was of incendiary origin. ‘Tramps, of which there are scores in the town, are supposed td have been responeible. | It i: cven claimed they prevented citizens from making effectual efforts at fighting the fire. A wagon containing three barrels of water was driven hastily up to the fire, but the water was spilled by the tramps before it could be used. Tney hindered Se Sghtors in other ways and robbed and plundered right and left. The tramps peo large quantities of liquor, which they tugged and roiled to timber near by. As ult the tramps are drunken and insulting. One tramp was shot at vesterday Iron River was what is known as 8 and the tough fraternity was prominent. panmasa= busca Hited with gusste. THE nt Company, 230,000. Most of ¢ rumor. a SOME ONE LOOSEXED THE BOLTS. Seats French The: Persons Paris. July 26.—Duringn theatrical perform- ance at Rucil, a town of about 8,000" inhabi- tants, in the department of Seine-et-Oise, last evening an accident occurred by which eighty of the audience were seriously injared. The seats occupied by those who assembled to wit- nees the performances were arranged in tiers. rising toward the rear. Shortly after they had been filled an ominous cracking was heard and | i tant they had fallen witha crash, car- ying down with them 700 persons. When the | seats collapsed it was at firat supposed that Tmany were killed. Foratime all was con- fusion, but through the efforts of a few who re- tained their presence of mind, aided by the po- lice, order was restored and the work of extri- eating the injured from the wreck was F scapes forward. After all bad been taken out the po- lice found that some person or persons had *leosened the screws and bolts in the framework that supported the seats, rendering them un- safe and sure to fall when any considerable weight was put upon them. When the result of the police investigation became known the Greatest indiguation was oxpressed cn all sides. An active search is being carried on for the perpetrators of the outrage. ————__— JACK SHEPPAKD UP TO DATE. A Fifteen-Year-Old Burglar Arrested by New | ‘York Police. New Yors, July 26.—A modern Jack Shep- pard was arrested this morning by the police in the person of a New York gamin named Jimmy MeGowan. He is scarcely fifteen years old, e medium-sized lad, rather good looking. He was arrested for a burglary on the night of June 18, while ing of bis booty toa pawnbroker. He was sentenced to the Catholic Protectory. way there in the Black Maria he alipped off his is, pried open the door of the van with some instrument and mad escape. Since then he has broken into se other houses ‘Tennessee Cotton Damaged. Mexruis, July 26.—The continued heavy rains, Insting over two weeks, which terminated ten days ego, followed by a drought and ex- | ceedingly hot westher, have evriously the cotton crop in tl | is rain within the next week a great deal of that product will be rendered almost worthless. ‘ es Racing at Goodwood. Loxpox, July 26.—This was the first day of the Goodwood meeting. The race for the Steward’s cup was the most important on to- day's p@gram. It was won by the Duke of Devonshire’s five-year-old chestnut horse Mar- vel, by Marden, ont of Aj TL Lord Dur- hbam’s four-year-old chestnut colt | Peter Flower, by Petrarch, ont of Florida, finished second, and Mr. D. Cooper's four-year-eld ches:nut colt Hildebert, by Friar Bush, ont of Hilda, by the Prime Minister IIL Tha’ condi- tions were: The Steward’s cup, value 800 sov- ereigns, part in specie (given from the race) fund) added toa handicap sweepstakes of 10 sovereigns cach half foot for year-olds and upward, winning penalties; the second to receive 50 sovereigns out of stakes. Entrance, | S sovereigns; 3 of a mile; 90 subs. seabed dy A Family Quarrel. Warzrixe, W. Va, July 6.—Michacl | Mablon, sixteen years of age, shot and in- morning young McGowan was captured | stantly killed Samuel Winesburg duging o detective while skuiking through Hester | family quarrel last night. He also shot Mrs. ject and locked up. He will be returned to) Winesburg, inflicting fatel injuries. Mahlon the protectory. | and his father, who also took part in the row, Bergman’s Career of Crime. neieen emetet, eer ‘Wremta, Kas., July 26.—Alexander Berg- Thrown Over a High Cite, man, the would-be murderer of Mr. Friok, : "| Wizezixe, W. Va, July 26.—James Pilens, spent the firet thrte years of his life in Amer-| , prominent ‘eitizen, and his wife, mother Worked here in a German oreo. «He | law aud four children were thrown seventy-five | days in 1886, while trumaping | feet over a cliff into the Obio river bya runaway : ad td trigeeta Paap et pd be received frig] injuries and bot pro ae in the arardenes | ably die. An infant child was also dangerously county seat fights of that time. From there | burt. The others ‘escaped with slight infuries. he went to Garden City, Kan., where he worked | The horse was scared by a train. the case until one day suddenly he got eff hie stool, left the office and Vicking up a big rock Luried it through the window, striking down the foreman of the Je hi ral J Bas molen considerable prop- { for two years, taking Sararoaa, N. Y., July 26.—First race, six / COLUMB: IA, BETTER KN OWN AS “THE PIRATE.” A DESTROYER OF COMMERCE. The Columbia to Be Launched Today—A Swift and Formkinble Ship. Cruiser No. 12, which has been popularly known as the Pirate, but which has received the name of Columbia from Secretary Tracy, will be launched from Cramp & Sons’ ship yard at Philadelphia at 4 o'clock today. Miss Edfth Morton, daughter of the Vice President, will confer the name upon the vessel as she glides into the water. The Columbia isa new type of vessel and ber launching is con- sidered an event of more than usual im- sportance. In her construction the Navy Depart- meut has produced a commerce destroyer said tobeunequaled by any other vessel in the world. As described by Secretary Tracy the vessel unites “a sufficient armament with complete protec- tion against light guns toa high speed and ex- traordinary coal capacity hitherto unknown in vessels intended for purposes of war or com- merce, and making her a match for the swiftest merchant ship, armed or unarmed, as well as for the most advanced type of modern com- merce destroyers found abroad.” Her battery will be tomposed of one three-inch 40-caliber high-powered rife, two six-inch rifles, eight four-inch rapid-fring guns, twenty smaller rapid-firing guns and six torpedo tabes. She will have a heavy protec- tive deck, four inches thick on the slopes and two and one-half inches elsewhere, cov ing her vital paxts completely, while a coffer dam five feet in width is to be worked next to the sides for the whole length of the vessel and | capable of use in an ev, and forward and abaft with water-ercludi material. Steel plates, four inches an: two inches thick, te be placed in the wake of the rapid-firing and machine guns, will further protect the ehip’s sides, while thi and six-inch gun: shields attached to the gan The machinery of the vessel will consist of three sets of triple-expansion engines, which be filled in the center portion with patent fuel, ; will drive three screws, two of which will be placed in tho usual, positions, and the third een and fifteen feet abaft the other two in the central longitudinal — plane & the ship. In this third propelicr lica the \ chief novel of tho vessel By it all possibility of the ship bein | rendered helpless is removed and the power 0 | the en; is more economically distributed {and obtained. It is estimated that with one screw in use the vessel will make fifteen knots |an hong: with two screws, from. cightcen to | nineteen knots an hour, and with three screws, from twenty-one to twenty-two knots, | ordinary sea. Ps coal capacity of the vensel is fixed which at the rate of ten knots an enable her to keep the sen for ot | | riod of 103 8, in a radius of action of 25,520 miles. In words, tho vessel will beable tosteamcom- pletely around the world without recoaling. Itis the opinion of Secretary Tracy that six snch vestels could exterminate the commerce of any country under the present condition of com- merce protection, absolutely precluding an at- tack from a commercial state, however threat- ening in its demands, powerful in its armored fleet or aggressive in ita foreign policy. Iumbia: a fect; diay 8 feet; dra lacement, 7, speed, 21 knots; maximum spced, 22 knots: Gicated horse power (sustained), 20,000, (maximum), 28,000; displace- cated horse Pde ip! 34 5-10 tons; with bunkers full ra draught 8 feet. The accommodations for officers and crow have received — attention and are well lighted and ventilated, all the most improved modern appurtenances for exhausting vitiated air, which necessarily acoumulates below decks on a steamer, and for lighting the ship by elec- tricity having been incorporated in her dosi In appearance the vosre) resembles closely an ordinary merchant stenmer, with four smoke- stacks, the sides being nearly clear of projec- tions or sponsons, which are generally found on warships. sht (mean normal), 23 sea indi- THE WHITE SQUADRON. Interesting Evolutions of the New York Naval Reserves. A BHAM BATTLE THAT WAS ARTISTICALLY EF- FECTIVE—THE GRAND PARADE AT PEEKSKILL LANDING, WHERE FOUR DRILLED TOGETHER—WEST POINTERS AND STATE MILITIA AND AMATEUR AND GENUINE JACK TARS. Correspondence of The Even‘ng Star, Prexskit ox rae Huson, July 22; 1892. The last week with the white squadron has been a grand show for outsiders and visitors, Commander Miller's naval reserve artillery of New York, it has been one of downright hard work. Last Saturday, as the old “three- decker” lay at her moorings at the foot of 28th street, in Now York, the New York naval reserve, 300 strong, reinforced by the Bochester @ivision of fifty mon, tharched on board and cruise, with the New York state flag at the fore. In tow of two tugs she statted on her cruise, the first port being Gravesend bay, where ehe anchored and was soon joined by the Chicago and Atlanta. me aaah eine According to the program Sunday was given pope bet muster, reading the “articles of war” and “devotional exercises.” I noticed that the “devotiozial exercises” came last. which calls to mind an oft-quoted eaying of Commo- modore Fife’s that “a reaman’s bible was the articles of war, his pulpit the main top and his hymn the coandings of the log lime.” STORIES OF COMMODORE FIFE. Many a good story is told of the fine old commodore. On one occasion, tt is said, be was oommariing a ship on the European station when a salute of twenty-one guns wns to be fired in honor of Queen Victoria’s birthday, but by some one’s mistake twenty-three ns were fired. An English admiral in SKe" mame port immediately wont to. the Yankee captain for au explanation why the short and quick in the following words: “Twenty-one for Queen Victoria, one for the Lord Almighty and one for Joe Fife, sir!” The brave old commodore is a native of Champagne county, Ohio, wid while on the Asiatic station, some years ago, was called upon to attend a state dinner in Yokahoma, Japan. When saluted by'a Japanese oficial with the national salutation, “Ohio,” he quickly replied, “Yea, Ohio, and Champagne county by G—d!" ‘The commodore at present commands the naval station at New London, and is always the kind, good-natured gentleman that made the “old navy” famous for the manners of its hearty seaman officers. On a Eros hyathg bs — at i t guns of the cruisers, and though they #1 a learn before they can affix the onaanizations | but to the officers and men of the ships, and of | put the old ship into commission for her week's | twenty-three guna were fired, and he got it; out 1,800 men were under arms in or; tions, which represented the regulars and militia of the army and navy both, this being the first time that the four or- ganizations have ever come together for drill. Mr. Pierpont Morgan's big yacht the Corsair came up the river yesterday with a large ty | on board and last night she was decorated wi @ long line of ninety ineandescent lights from | the bowsprit to masthead and from masthead to mast in honor of Admiral Walker and Commander Miller of the reserves, who were guests on board. Mr. Morgan's interest in the naval reserve movement is shown by his liberal subscription of $1,000 to the fund for ite support. Senator Ilirsch's famous fast yacht, the | Vamoose, has served as a dispatch boat for the squadron during the naval reserve drillsand her twenty-eight knot speed makes her especially | suitably for | ‘The squadron rn to New York tomor- row morning, when tho reserves will lenvo the New Hampshire, having finished their annual cruise. The New Hampshire will probably bo | towed back to New London by the Atlanta next | Week to resume her old station at the navy yard there. Z Rhode Island has a newly orgnnized naval re~ jerve of 150 young men, and itis possible that the white squadron may be ordered to Newport to drill them within a few weoks, bat further | than this little is known of the coming move- ments of the squadron, D.W. ——— ‘The Boy an Incompetent Witness. | Philip Barry, proprietor of a bar room at | 1217 E street northwest, was before Judge Har- | per this morning, charged with selling liquor to minors. It was alleged that the Jiguor was sold to a little white boy ‘tamed | Nelson, bout nine years of age. Nelson | when questioned by Mr. Shillington, who rep- | reeented Barry, eaid that he had never been to | Sunday rchoo!’ and did not know the meaning of an oath. He did not know what would be | done with him if he chonld testify falsely. Thi held that he was an ineompe- and without the little boy's | ent to convict gainst him was dismissed. Barry's defense wes that the boy presented a note from his mother and the officer discovered | bm before he nd time to deliver the liquor to er. 2 Record of Death: During the twenty-four hours ending at noon today burial permits wero issued for the following: White—Mary A. Shanahan, 56 years; Eliza- beth 8. Gurley, 62 years; Sarah A. Towner, 75 years; Lewis Haines, 55 years; Jane E. Det- weiler, 59 years; Mattle Benzinger, a Eli H. Hommer, 99 years; Max Esse; 8 Ralph Johnson, 26 ‘years; Theodore P. Ripley. 4 months; Edmond L. Shannon, 24 year: Wm. O'Kiefe, 19 years; Walter G. Clark, 10 years; Patrick SI in, 20 years; Joseph Swing, 1 year; infant ct Estelle Harris, 1 month; Gco. | } | | in an} The following are the dimensions of the Co-| he on load line, 400 feet; beam, | ANOTHER DROWNING CASE. Howard Feunteroy Meets His Death atthe ° an A Washingtonian’s THE CORONER'S INQURAT IN THE CASE OF PATRICK SHRAHAN—TPSTIMONY GIVEN BY POLICEMAN COTTER, ONR OF THE KREPERS— THE VERDICT OF THE JURY AND WHAT THEY THINK SKOULD BE DOXR. Yesterday afternoon, only a few hours after the recovery of the body of Patrick Sheahan, who was drowned at the bathing beach, Howard Fauateroy, a sixteen-year-old colored boy, lost his life. Howard's name was put on the register in the regular form and he told the keepers that he could swim. He told the truth, for he was agoed swimmer, but he remained in the water nearly two hours, and about ten minutes | after 2 o'clock he went under for the last time. There were numerous boys tn the water at tho time and they wore all having a time. They were playing their usal abies! one The swimmers had of the boys ctied “Cop!” 0 doubt been in places where tho appearance of a “cov,” or-polfceman, would always cause 3 stampede, and for the time being they forgot that they were ina place whero were not to be arrested. Most of tho boys made a rush, and in the confusion the Faunteroy boy went down and ‘could not be recov- life was extinct. the Emergency Hospital worked for nearly an hour, but to no purpose. The boy was dend and the body was temoved from the beach to the home af his parents. THE CORONER'S INQUEST. The inquest in the case of young Sheahan was held this morning at tho sixth precinct station. Policeman Cotter went on duty at the beach Sunday morning and during his two days there he has had tg care for two dead bodies of res who lost their lives while in bathing. le was the first witness called at the inquest over Sheahan's body. He testified that ad never seen Sheahan to his knowledge. He did not register at the beach, and therefore ; Witness could not say what timé he was drowned, nor could he say that Sheahan had on a bathing suit. A ORY OF DROWEING. “Sunday afternoon,” he suid, “some young man raised acry of drowning. When I heard itIcalied toall those who could swim, and specially to the older ones. to go out there and try to save the man.” “Could you se@ the man?’ “No, sir, I never saw him. Continuing, he snid: “Mr. Adams, one of the keepers, got a large gunning ekiff out in th water and did all he could to recover the young man. Later op Mr. Stevens went out with 8 eine and tried fo recover the body.” “How long was that after the cry of drowning ‘wae raised?” “I don’t know,” replied witness. “I didn’t look at my watch during the whole proceed- Vas it an hour?” “T think not.” “Half an hour?” “I don't know. Continuins fu pew said he ascertained that the deceuse: not registered: that he could not swim, ahd one of the boys said, ‘‘He was in our room,” “How do persons get into the beach without istering?” inquired the coroner. itness replied that such persons can get in by being admitted to another persot’s house or register. In the latter event, however, he would have to register. “We bave no dry land tests as yet,” re- marked the officer, “to determine the @ man to swim. “Do you know how the deceased got into the water?” “Only from what I have been told,” be an- ed. ‘ve been told that he went into the m of Mr. Jere Cullinan and there he proba- bly pat on # euit of tights.” pMDER OF PERSONS REGISTERED. Sunday, sald witness, about 295 persons reg- istered and yesterday there were about 205 who registered and about 150 were turned away. Dr. Patterson said that there were more than 205 in the water yesterday, for he bad seen the books and had counted 224 names. Witness, in answer to a juror’s question, said that about two-thirds of the bose bring their own suits, ‘There were only twenty-three suits at the beach. From what he was told he thought Sheahan sank about fifty or sixty fect from the shore. The tide was low ut the time. He was unable 0 tell whether the beach had changed any since jast year, as he had not been in the water this ly He wanted to go in the water, but think- | ing some one would get drowned it would be said that he was enjoying himself and that he was responsible. ‘The coroner thought differently. He thought | that if the o@icer or any one else was in the | water he would be more able to render assist- anc Witness said there were three keepers at the beach, one was Mr. Adams, about twenty or twenty-one years old, another was Mr. Salkeld, about eighteen years old, and*the third ‘one he ‘did not know. “He's an old-fashioned Irish-American,” snid witness, about eighteen years old.” He explained that one man was kept busy at the register and the others were on duty outside about the houses. NO BOAT ON THE WATER. “Is there any boat outside on the water?” the coroner agked. “No, he answered, “but there should | be one there by all means, ’ There should be a boat manned by an expert swimmer and with all modern life-saving appliances.” “It is my opinion,” said the witness, “that if a lifeboat had been out there the young man would have been saved.” | Witness said that the place pointed out to | Lim xs the place where the deceased went down by Iving to the keeper When he appears to | ACROSS THE CONTINENT. Trip From Cincinnati to Denver and What He Saw. ‘THR RIOK WHEAT AXD CORN FIELDS OF ILLINOIS, MISSOURI AND KANSAS—THR CITIES OF st. LOUIS AND KANSAS CITI—TNE GRANDEUR oF THE ROOKIES. Correspondence of The Frentng Star. Dexves. Cor. , July 91, 1892. Leaving Cincinnati by an early train we soon found ourselves fiizly flyiug past the farms and villages of southern and middle Indiana, Green- burg and Shelbyviile, young cities, possessing great thrift and enterprise,were soon Passod, and Indinnapolis, the state capital, beauty, charming strocte and drives, many churches, banks and houses of merchandise, all bristling with life, and while here we were not unmindful of the fact that this was the home of our fellow citizen, President Harrison, Looked was to be seen. From here we went in direct and Illinois, ‘The beautiful farms of both these states are a source ofconstant a: " When we approached the wonderful valley of the Mississippi river, which is, I suppose, un- sui for richuess by any valley of’ the we were surprised to find that for man: talles'the fields and. wood: were ‘covered. wi Water, and it was with difficulty that one could tell where tho real river commenced. Forests seemed to stand in the river,and there were corn fields with the tops of the cora waving, but all else a sea of water. Upon inguiry 1 learned that the river hod beem very high all of th season, but Just at the time of our crossing it it was particularly turbulent. We aaw but little of special interest in St. Louis, a large, busy, hur- ‘ying city, rich in resources, situated upon the banks of ibe great Mississippi river, with the | | | ‘ passing at her very door. for Kansas City, Mo., we soon passed Alton, Godfrey, Roodhouse and other less important ta. "The Illinois river valley we found also jo be covered very largely with water. river was greatly swol | jen and much damage due west we cross the entire state of Missouri, crossing the Mississippi riveragain at Louisiana and the Missouri river at Glasgow. Passing for 323 miles across this state by day- state. All of the western portion of the state for perhaps 175 miles is one vast prairie or plain without a hill or mountein, as rich soil and fine climate as can be found in the United States. Indeed, its soil and atmosphere are | #0 conducive to growth and development that if must shave again. Just tell the Washington doys struggling to raise a beard to come out here and in thirty days they can return home with long and full whiskers. You know it is in Missouri and Kansas during the summer that they have to keep their stock of horses and cows moving about, else their feet would take root and they would be transformed into acres of corn, wheat or barley, as the-c: ight be. But the acricultural possibilities of the state of Missouri are immeasurable. It is the opinion that if all of her millions of acres were properly tilled che could supply the wheat and corn market of the nation, But just now we reach Kansas City, situated on the western, as St. Louis is on the enstern, extremity of the state, and here wo find the bustle, hurry and rush of a great business cen- ter, fast growing into importance and power. We stop some time here, and finding our young Washington friend, Mr. Harry Pullman, are permitted, through his courtesy, to look into one of the great industries of the nation, , indeed, of the world—the Armour Packing pany. We pass through one of their Jall- id “packing establishments, where they slaughter 1,200 cattle a day, aud seo the stock driven in, knocked down, dressed, agt up and in the cold storage room in eight minntes from the time we saw them alive aud well running into the slaughter pen. The method of killi is humane; oue blow upon the head by large fron hammer weighing three pounds, the skull is crushed in and the animal is dead in a moment; no struggle, no torture. This is but one of the Armour Rouses. In Chicago, Omaha and San Francisco, Cal., are others, Mr. Pull- | man is now constructing an additional house | for them here, having a frontage of 600 feet on | one street and 400 on another, to be six stories high, end as soon as that is completed they will kill 4,009 animals a day at the Kansas City | house alone, | We also inspected the cable and other roads, | visited the high lands, where are found meny | beautiful recidences, and altogether declare | Kansas City to be a taking place. Leaving Kancas City for Denver, Col., we had | before us an unbroken stretch of country of 638 | miles, 1 through the entire length of the state of Kansas and nearly one-balf of the tate of Colorado. The state of Kansas 1s one magnificent garden of wheat and cornfields, the soil being about like that of Missouri, bu! the state of ugriculture‘farsuperior. Here w: | behold those vast fields of wheat extending for miles. and, indeed, as far as the eye can reach these dclds we saw hundreds of those immen: | machines, come driven by steam, others drawn | by two or four horses, not only cutting the | grain but actually threshing, winnowing and | bagging it, so that when it leaves the machine | itis in a bag ready for the market. As T have looked over these vast plains containi - ions of acres of land rich and fertile thought of our owa beloved |wondeted why itis that m have England, and New England |Iands of his home and spends’ his life in re- | moving stones in the search of soilin which to plant his grain when there thera is such a vast extent of fine land really unoceupied and un- tilled. Many times in passing over the plains I | looked out of the windows of the cars and be- held the wonderfully beautiful landscape, which light has given me new impressions of the | you shave at 8 o'clock in the morning by 10) Your beard is long and unsightly and by 12 you | ANE | tended to antici farmer remains on tho rough, stony, barren | Roe LOLS ABSOLUTELY Teached. There we found a large city of rare | © SO "=e — Highest of all in Lesvening Power.—Latest U.S. Gov't Report. Baking Powder LUSTROUS BUGS IN vocuR. Brought Along by Cuban Visitors. [statement has an invidious | Jectularius, vuigarly known as the bed bug, | the biatta orientalis or any that cloak their offensivoness with name | contrary, these bugs over which Richfield hi noctilucus, described by | winged, luminous insect Ught frome yellow jorax and fromi other parts-of the body.” | These particular poe mm were brought t agricultural products of the great northwest Richfield by the Cuban grandees at the Enrling- Leaving St. Louis | ton and by them were introduced to the throng on the verandas one evening of the past week. | The Cubans had thirty on forty of the curious | . more than half of which they That | gave away to ladies among their acquaintances. areas in « piece of lace, the had been done the crops. Then going nearly | currnilas, as they are called by the natives, look | e dark like a cluster of emeralds of ‘won- beetle-like i | Fastened to the | in | derfa! brillianey, and, as every lady who conk get one has worn it with ber e effect bas created’a decidedly no = coe THE KATANGA EXPEDITION. the Party. Capt. Bodson in the ill- | how the Msiris attacked the expedition and ho: Msiri, Capt. Bodson was then himself killed b; and locusts. The the expedition from starvation. Subsequent! | besi river. Capt. Stairs had been ill for a lo: time and he died at Shinde. One hundred an Capt. Stairs, was organized by the Katanga Company, and was intended to effect settlement in Mairt's weetward Lekes Macro and Bangwe pan; gion. which is supposed to quicksilver and gold.” It is qi sphere of indluence or and the Katanga expedition was probubly te the activity of the British | South African long. | ticularly in the matter of copper mines, jteems no doubt. Livingstone, much between the two lakes, | | been described in detail by several travelers, AT THE WAGNERIAN MECCA. Festival. | tereinger von Nurnborgh. formances arranged for this year's festival. | a grand setting, which, however, was the | on either side of the road, and in the midst of | Usgd at the fosfival of 1889, The applause after the final curtain was very perceptibl | me ia |who have now spent | oing to leave ‘today enthusiasm, | “Por Herr Anthes of knigh: ung prize winner in the ‘con: |chosen for the partof Walther by Wagner in op | masachn tapctahs inpag irir nea meneche 9 or | scarlet fever service will be aliowed as oeti- othor of the bugs | mated. several times as long as themselves. On the toilet, the sensation. Death of Capt. Stairs, One of the Leaders of The London Times says that the Marquis do Beauchamp, a colleague of Capt. Stairs and ted Katanga expedi- tion, hae landed at Marseilles. He describes Capt. Stairs sent Capt. Bodeon to King Msiri to | Perley with him. Mefri was about to kill Capt. Bodson, when the latter in self-defense shot the natives. The expedition had been for twenty-six days without food, excopt white ante mission was reached | Just in time to save the surviving members of thoy tried to reach the coast by way of the Zam- ninety natives attached to the expedition also perished. The Katanga expedition, under command of Its ultimate ob- Ject, a8 expressed in the prospectus of the com- e opening up of the Katanga re- be rich in copper, juestionable whether Msiri’s country is within the British it of the Congo state, napany, to whose jurisdiction this unappropriated territory is believed to be- ‘That Katanga isa wealthy region, par- » Who travele: and Macro, makes frequent reference to these local | Fesources, and the working of the mines bas “Die Meistersinger” Sung at the Bayreuth The audience that gathered at the Wagner ‘Theater at Bayreuth yosterday heard “Die Meis- Yesterday's per- | formance was the last in the first series of per- The last scene, the meadow on the banks of the Pegnitz, crowded with people marching in pompous procession to the singing contest, had ore enthusiastic than that heard at any of the three previous performances, but the more | discriminating Wagnerians attribute this mani- festation to the fact that many of the pilgrims | almost io kindling wood. a week at Bayreuth are nd 80, these judges say, felt bound to offer a farewell tribute of marked Dresden, who interpreted the dificult role of Walther von Dtalsing, the test, the occasion was almost a debut, He has | sung only e year at Dresden. It seems he was position to the judgment of the | directors, Bat after overcoming the nervous- DISTRICT GOVEEKNMENT. WRALTH OFFICE CONTINGENT EXPENSEA. At the request of the Commimioncrs Health Richfield has gone bug mad, says a corre | OMoer Hammett today transmitted an ftemired to catch a glimpse of prosidential air, but none | *Pondent at Richfield Springs, N. ¥. This | estimate of the emonnt required for the con- sound, T am line to St. Louis, crossing the states of Indiana | “Ware, but it is the unvarnished truth nove the | CUrrent fiscal yeor, togoth There may be palliation in the fact that | the insects are of a high order of creeping | things. They are not loathsome, like the cimex j tingent expenses of his departmant during ti h a brief He neke tn ment of necessity for penditures in the coudu ra oa} GRORAETOWN MARKET. The annual report of tho market master of the Georgetown market shows that during the | lost its wits temporarily are harmless, unob- | Past year the gros income of the market was trusive and in some respects beautiful members of their kind. They are of the genus elator naturalists as “a ich emits a briitiant spot on each sido of the | $1,468.84. ‘The expenses for the «ame period Were $1,088.95, leaving a balance of estimates that next year the sum of €1,100 will be necessary for the proper conduct of the market, 0 | C1 REPORTS. E. L. Harbaugh, inspector and measurer of |Tumber, reports that during the Inst seal year he measured 3.849.481 feet of Edward Champlain, inspector and measurer of lumber, reports that during the past fiscal Fear ho inspected and measured 8,723,320 fect ‘of lumber. E. J. Daw, another inspector and measurer of lumber, reports that during the past fiscal vear he inspected and measured 3,820,080 fect of lumber. anber. a MISCELLANEOUS, A. W. Eaton, inspector and measurer of wood in Anecostia reports that during the year he measured and inspected 5,882, cords of wood. The annual report of Wm. M. Dove, in- spector and measurer of fuel, shows that dur- ing the year he hed and inspected 8,475 tons of coal and 402 cords of wood. _— CUT A WIDE swara, | A Storm Swept Through Philadelphia and Caneed Great Damage. Just before noon yesterday a violent thunder storm broke orer Philadelphia, and in fifteen minutes the mercury had been driven from #1 degrees back to 81 degrees. The duration of the storm was not above forty minutes, but in that time it did nearly €200,000 worth of damage. The southern section of the city excaped with @ heavy downfall of rain and some eharp light | ning, but a wide ewath of demolished and roof- lees houses marked the path of the storm in the northern section. ‘There the rain and lightuing was accompanied by a fierce wind, which cre- Sted great havoc. At 2vthand York streets « Tow of twenty-five three-story hotuves that were in the course of construction were leveled to the ground. A two-story stane stable at 34th and id streets met the maine fote. ‘The storm advanced eastward over the city, leaving a train of unroofed housed in ite wake until it struck the great manufacturing districta of Kensington and Richmond. Here its greatest fury was venied. The tall buildings fur- hed w good mark and a q stripped of their roofs. At Rickley a Gaul streets tive small houses that w built were almost destroved. The roof North Penns¥]vanin railrowd station: and Berks streets was went over and Reading Telegraph Company and ern Union Somes The « two compantes was badly crippl down of their wires and it was sev fore they got any of them in work: The roof of the Catholic C tivity, at Allegheny avenue was ripped off. At Clenrtield street wharf one of the repair sbops of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company ia located or rath was located. ‘The building was 400 feet long, seventy feet wide an time the storm brok it were eating t the exposed side « sway to and fro. y ly >s formed the building fe! With the exception somewhat cut and braised by flying the men in the shop escaped uninjured. cars beneath which they took refuge were reduced There were seventy care in the shop being repajred, 1 the low upon them and the structure itself is estimated at €50,000, Inaddition to t nearly fifty dwelling houses in the two distr were unroofed and partly demolinbed. suburban sections of the city also suffe heavily. At Manayunk three mills and fiftee dwolling houses were unroofed. A he Passage of the storm the coolness that had with it passed away, and the heat became more intense than ever. y and the humidity rose together if ~ The a | | ness natural to the occasion, which placed him | ata disadvantage during the first part of the drama, be created an agreeable surprise. His method of enunciation is si , but he has a | good voice, and hts rendition of the great prize Song in the last scene was excellent. Critics admit that beth the choras and or- | chestra did magnificent work, in contrast to | what they consider a certsin deterioration | of standard evinced in the work of the princi- noted "RSD formed a comb noted “B.S.D." (sad sea dog) to thotr names, they are beginning to show what a little drilling will do. Desirous of learning all the ways of the seaman of the regular service, a crowd of the “reserve tara” went ashore to paint Coney Islnd with fire and brim- gtone and succeeded bedutifully, but one thing that characterized this liberty party from the New Hampshire wes that there were no de- furlongs —_Busteed wou, with Blanche second and Sleet third. Second race, purse $500, five furl Ro- busta won, with, Sis Mock’ second and” False Ahens third. ‘Time, 1.03, Third race, purse $500, one mile—Lester won, with Gamber second and Roonetto third. Time, suggested the mighty expanse of the great occ efice,who wus alono at the time. He entered the | everything on the floor and left | next turned up at Pue- he was arrested for stab-/ bing. Wher be got out be went east. +Daring part of the time he was with his com patriots in Kearney county he acted as local gent for some sewing machine company. He was always morore and very violent when Boteler, 1 mouth; Midréd Campbell, 1 month; infant of Jenaie Freidberg, § hour Ugua Francis, 2 months; Maty C.’ Getty, 3 months; Grace M. Huilidge, 3 months. Colored Silas Young. '44 yea Young. £0 years; Maria Drow, 65 yeur Washington, 41 ; Elizabeth ears; Gr ‘auntloroy, 16 years; was about twelve feet deep. Witness explained how Mr. Stevens had at-| when oat of sight of laud, so smooth, so beauti- tempted to make the beach as safe as possible and said that the pool system was the only safe | ful and so green, ~ | _ As we approached Denver, the “‘queen city of beach to make, “Mr. Stevens asked Congress | the plains,” the scenery became more beautiful | for an sppropeiation for such a place, but Con- | every moment, and soon we beheld the Rocky | | gress did not give one cent. With a pool beach it would be almost impossible to get drowned.” jountains, partly covered by snow, standing oat SAFEST PLACE IN THE DISTRI that prod the steam room in a mometer at that hour marked uinety-three «) in plain view, and as the train rushed .on we had a maguiticent view of the mountain range thstanding —— ake wus reported by the pe (pape = til later the porter announced, “Grand Cen-4 pals. at four ‘entriee at the Los- e sertersand no “overtime men,” a# is neazly | David 3. Coats, 25 days; Witness thought the bench today was the | }4l Dever bobo ‘tel ‘ — Oauresrn, Deny Fay MA pec rom | eaten a Dane | Neng Cerf movi: core Baar | st ce nthe Distt for srimmere eet aed Mabe a tate yt | ffl wll patron by German | iota exes STON, » Faly 26.—A eve: the searc! ‘of the reformed | month: Edi! jomas, § inonths; Willie Smith, i * basse i 4 % y 7‘ . peacematian uch Bay Sot Dead. «| Bio Grande City to the New Indications | an addition to the umtel display of fireworks | 9 months; Jocoph Cartise, 4 months, fought. that a lifeboat, a good Lattean and a | rest, und having sccured quarters at the Grand roap, Coxs., July 26—The friends o| point to the reorganization of the Garza forces. | About eighty men of this section are formi wads of tive and six, all armed and moun! Capt. Brooks’ rangers are on the scout with Sherif Shelby, but so far have not caught up Hugh J. Fay, the comedien, are rejoicing at the news that his reported death ten days ago has no foundation in fact. Cablegrams from | both the actor and his from Conoy Island, and the enterprising hotel Keepers had this feature as one of their attrac- tions in their advertisements. ? ‘On Tuesday the Chicago and Atlanta, with tho naval revervesat their guns, steamaed outside of There were thirty-seven exceedingly large number list shows that fourteon were under one old and ceven were fifty years old or over. “The a single day. The | | make the beach perfectly safe. The coroner asked witness what were his par- ‘| ticular duties at the beach and he said, like others there, he was general utility man, good swimmer with modern sppliances would | G ral Hotel we have since been “yankee-liko” | specting the town and iis envirouments, jenver eeems and has the reputation of ial and commercial center of thi | in: Louise of P Meiningen, ers of very high rank. Prussia, Duke and Duchess of Saxe- the Grand Duchess of Mecklen- burg-Schwerin, the Landgrave of Heas and oth- ‘Thero were many Americans in the audience. Excursion to Niagara Falls via Royal Blue Line. The Baltimore and Ohio’ railroad will ran special train of Pullman parlor cars and day S Falls on Thursday, section of the country. It hax an clevation of ——- Singers = 7 July 28, Sand engag : : are? assis ab , “4 ‘ PSG coe ving Washington at 7.35... and Baltimore ride to frieryls in this tside of | causes of death,althongh not given in the report, | "J" was detailed thine ax cat isypmia: |akcat Rie erhbore eateeioeet omen a, cae = ona city state that be ia very much alive'in Liver. | with any suspects. Sandy Hook — alee, ny — were largely due to surnmer complaints, tendentto Mr: Stevens, who fsa pate over to the mineral as well as the scenic phenomena lomestead, ae at West Superior, | at eas pm ye peel, ——_—. ‘The shooting of the reserve was excel hi Tee ney. He is now in New York. When ho is in | that have made the Rocky mountains famous, iy amg shot from an eight-inch gun on the Chicago night. The Firing the Jail to Sce a Fight Better. An Able Western Educator Dying. Cuuxpe, Cor., July 26.—Yosterday was af Baxsss City, Mo., July 26.—The Rev. Dr. rely day at Bachelor City, Mike Donnelly eng | 26Alls of Springfield, Mo., president of Drury W. B. Gerslinger bad a dispute over mining | CoUese, was thought to be dying last night. s@laire which ended in both men drawing thetr | DF- Ingells, ‘who is a brother of ex-Senator revolvers azd thooting. Gerslinger received | John J. Ingatis of Kansas, is one of the ablest three bullets and was be: with the revolver | educators in the west. He was educated by by Donnelly. Donnelly was bit twice by Ger-| Mark Hopkins and studied theology at Andover. alinger's bullets. Bota men, although veriously | He lived'in Kaneas for # number of years, but wounded, will recov: During the feat Kid | for four years bas had charge of Drury ro- | College. completely demolishing the target, and another from the Atlanta scoring a htt, ‘The Rochester division of “fresa water iars” did ospecially well considering that many of them had never deen aboard » man-of-war before nor seena modern great gun. Wednesday morning the Dolphin, flying the new flag of the assistant secretary of the navy, Mr. Soley, came down from New York and with the squadron. The new flag is the Secretry’s fiag reversed—that is, a square Fire at Portner’s Brewery, An‘alarm of fire sounded about 10:30 this morning by the whistles of Portner’s brewery, in Alesandria, announcing a fire there. Some of the woodwork of the engine room was ablaze, | but the stationary engine of the works was set } to work” and the town firemon were soon on | hand and the flames quiekly yielded. The loss will not exceed a few hundred dollars, gecncalin sais throe times a day, as that ig his hobby.” ‘All the men, he said, are instructed’ to drop everything to rave human life. The matter of refusing persons who cannot swim was discussed and the officer said it had been his cxperience that more good swimmers gct drowned than do those who cannot swim. in fused admittance to the beach wanted to the he could go a short distance down as p ‘Transfers of Keal Estate. the beach and go in. The batber would no eCoy, a prisoner in the jul, watched white fiag, with ablue foul anchor and four debtba tn erie Senger bate eae ecedings Uiroagh the ‘barred ‘windows of his See Blue stars’on it, Deeds in fee have been filed as follows: @. W. drowned the reputation of ihe becch to eae ett ‘fray he set fire to the building | D'S apo ——— Ex Rrxo, Oxxa., July 26.—J. BR. Shannon and fmanendenvor to escape. His plan was frus- trated, bomever, for the Ave was quictly extn | J- L- Hollyfield of Puresll have orgehised © guished. Another fight occurred between Ho-| large colony of disappointed Oklahoma home Ez snd Jobe Ryan. Tyan was bit over the | seekers to locate in Central America. The col- with « beer giass an] bis akull fractured. ong bioee August 1, and will go via Galveston —_>—— to Nicaraugua, where they havesecured perma- Smallpox Among Japanese Workmen. nent employment on coffce plantations. Bors, Ipamo, July 26.—Three cases of staall- gy a Pox kave been discovered among Japanese rail- Striking for 10 Cents a Day. oad laborers at Nampa, 150 Japancse being run| Buaztt, Lxp., July 26.—Several section gangs out of that place and Caldwell, and there will | on the Vandalia road have laid down their tools Frobabls be further wprising against them | and refused to return to work at the price slong tho Oregon Short Line. now paid, @1.10 a day. They A SHAM BATTLE. ‘The day was devoted to a sham battle, the naval reserves and part of the Chicago's men being stationed to defend the earthworks near old Fort Hamilton, while the remainder of the naval forces, aswisted by a bombardment from the shipsand a battery of the third United States artillery, made the attack. ‘Crowds of people came from New York to wit- ness the battle, = in bg ferent hafman everything frequent! ween wo lines, which result iS several meg bees ured by an artillery charge. battle lasted sbout an hour, and the assailants were Sef ce of ten cents and will not retarn ‘Third Party Men Oppose Fusion. pergola toed Ans Soy Sg Orreuwa, Iows, July 26.—The people’s party aooee BS of this county have unanimously adopted reso-| Wand for the Arrested Homesteaders. Jations opposed to fusion on either thecongres-| St. Patt, Mrxx., July 26.—The labor mass sdonal or state tickets, meeting last night decided to push the collee- RTI, tion of funds to send Attorneys W. W. Erwin enstanted tou Congas. and C. W. Arno to to defend the ar- Nonrorx, Nea, July 26.—The thitdNelmaska | restod Homesteaders. The will be raised i by the Twin City Labor Organization. ee Raiders Met With a Warm Reception. Buazn, Ixp., July 26,—A crowd of | eal nenetnes Sor_ Cos | men made raid on Mrs. Harmon's in y Mr. Clark Lewis. ‘moved up the river crowds of peo Ble smembled along the bunks to see the rovel sight. The anchorage was reached by 10 o'clock wad the day a spent in proparaticus for tho 7. The sixty-ninth regiment of New York State Guards are in camp at Peekskill with parts several other regiments, and today the naval eompesed of s battalion each from , Atlanta and New ve Driver to A. Heitmuller, parts 26 afid 27, sq. 1003; $8,375. E. L. Beach to T. F. Schneider, sub 51, sq. 482; $—. D. C. to 8. 8. Phillips, part 14, sq. 143; bt SEE Real Estate Matters. L._C. Wood bas purchased of B. L, Walker for $19,000 parts 13 and 14, square 488—20 feet 894 Inches by 9 feot on between Sth and Gth sigeets Woe daline M. Noble et al. have bought of A. Bj Renchan for $13,000 sub 26, square rine 4 | 95 feet on Sherman betwetn 18th and 1: | streets northeast. Jokn W. Smith has bought for $7,500 of H. D. Williams lot 39, block 6, jan Hill, = Meridian @he Drowning of Kobert W. Shufeldt. Correspondence of Tho Evening Star. Marietta, Onto, June 25, 1892. ‘Tue Stan's readers have been shocked by the would be saved. “ e and Officer Cotier as to the location of the wharves and the stakes, but there were no defi- nite measurements to give to the jury. It was the intention of the coroner to post- pone action until tomorrow, in order to pee earpiece ‘as none Sees de nas com were present to tell of the minutes he,had on earth. VERDICT IN SHEAHAN’S CASE, the city he comes down to the Beach two or | Dr. Patterson remarked that if a person re- | Rock: Its climate ix said to be peerless and invigor- ating, and it is situated on that edge of the iains which extends up to and touches the Yoot hills of the Rocky funge. ‘Its strects are fine and largely in their natural state. Cable and electric street railroads f nF, FEE? 3 { a F 4 f ti & i i ? R, i 2 i i i il it d i ; E it I ‘The steel workers of the West Superior (Wis.) Iron and Steel Company have publicly an- nounced that they are out ona strike. There are about 250 of them in all. The mills have and Wroming valleys. anthracite coal fields, and ns it t ou: of Deasen track of Niagara tourists from Marvland, District of Columbia and Virginia the excursion cannot prove otherwive than interosting. i stroctive and plersant. Round-trip ti 00d for ten days, will be sold for $10, Teturn ¥ will be good to stop off al falo, near which city is Watkins G also at the romantic Glen Onotio and Meuch dot. ‘Murray and Emma Louise Payne. both of Ricb- mond, Va.; W. H. Russell and Lillie C. Hodge of Alexandria, Va.; Isaiah Carey of Caroline county, Va., and Mary Ashby of Fairfax Vee ¥ t it if i Hi § if Hi i i fi a ef iy! Hf rl ( ii i i i Hid < dl | @ Hf 3 8 f | i t " iff ri ki ity i ‘ren teat Tene Let ‘at iss