Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1892, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON TUESDAY,“ AUGUST 2. 1892. D. Cc. ASSESSMENT REVISION. The Board of Equalization Has Finished Its Work. REDUCTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE UPON PROP- ERTY IN VARIOUS SECTIONS OF THE CITY, FAR- TICULARLY IN THE BUSINESS LOCALITIES ABOUT WHICH DISCUSSION HAS BEEN HAD. The assessment of 1892 as far as relates to the city proper has been completed. Yesterday afternoon the board of equalization presented its report upon the app@il« from the new re- turns of assessment, and the Commissioners according to law declared the board dissolved and the assessment closed. ‘There can be no further appeal now on the new returns of assessment and -heuld the reso- Intion continuing the assessment of last year fail to become a law it will stand unlew Con- Tess intervenes. The bo of equalization met to consider appeals on the Ist cf June and completed its labors yesterday afternoon at 40 ik. In ali there were 2,934 appeals, representing about 1,000 property owners. REDUCTIONS MADE ON F STREET. All lots fronting on the north side of F street between 10th and 15th streets wore reduced 20 per cent of the returned valuation. On the South side of Festreet between 10th and 13th streets the reduction on each lot was 15 per cent. { From 13th to 15th on the south side of F street the reduction on all lots is 19 per cent. With the exception of reductions on the northeast ard southeast corners of 10th and F streets there are no reductions between 9th and 10th, both sides of F. ‘The property on the northeast corner of 10th and F streets was reduced from $15 per foot returned amessed valuation to $12.75 per foot, while the property on the southeast corner was reduced the same. All lots on both sides of G street northwest between 9th aud 15th were reduced 30 per cent. | ON PENNSYLVANIA AND OTHER AVENUES. All lots on squares bounded by Pennsylvania avenue northwest and 1Sth street west, Virginia avenue and 28th street west are reduced 15 per | cent. All lots in squares south of line of railroad along Maryland avenue from 11th street so7ti- ‘west to Virginia avenue, thence easterty to and along Canal street, to and along K sirect south- east, to andaloug Virginia avenue, toand wlong M street to the Eastern branch, exclusive, ho ever. of lots fronting on Sth aud Lith stree’ south, reduced 20 per cent. A further redu: of 5 per cent ix mad all lots in squares south from Eastern branch and Jai making a total reduction of 25 pe A reduction of 15 per cent is n on sides of squares fronting on streets northwest between FE and F All lots except corners and those already ad- fasted on both sides of 10th. 11th, 12th. 13th and 14th streets between F and G are reduced 20 per cent, while all lots except corners a those already adjusted on both sides of 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 1th streets betw G and H are reduced 15 per cent. A TEN PER CENT REDUCTION. | | je on all lots h and 10th and Boundary northwest, along 5th to and in- eluding 518, down 4th street to and along Indiana avenue, to and along Ist, to ard along pitol street. along North Capitol street to Boundary and Boundary to 5.b northwest are reduced 10 per cont. Upon all lots fronting on Sih street north- west, both sides, from Bound e" vania avenue north a reduction of 12 per cent occurs. E street, both sides, between 9h an northwest gets reduction of 25 per cent w all lote fronting thereon. All lots on both sides of C street northwest between Ist and 7th are re: All squares south of B mac river and Eastern bi July 26 are reduced Al lots from 734 and abe ced over 2 cents in fractional parts are reduced to 5 and 10 cents nearest figure. All squares through which the B. and O. rai not adjusted to road pases and all lots on sides of squares facing railroad are reduced 15 per cent. ‘An adjustment to the old assessment on im- provements where appeals have been filed oc- curs, except where uo new improvements have been added. ON STREET RATLE The assesem adjusted to the same figures as ment. Perhaps the most interest ments to the public general 13th; D street north of Pennsylvania avene end ‘Pennsylvania avenue itself, from Ist to Bh. ‘The returns are as follows: @ STREET FROM SIXTH To FIFTEENTH. On the north side of Gstreet between 9h and 40th the old assesement for interior lots was 1.25. the new assessment was $5 and the ad- aeseesment in £3.50. South of this block is square 376. With the exception of the corner lot the old asses values were [rom $1.25 to 31.50. The ne Sq 20th and 11th, the int $1.50 to $1.75. The new assesamont put them from $10.50 to @11.50; the equalized assessment is from $7 to $4. On the south side interior lots were, under the old assessment, valued at $1.75; uuder the , Bew O11. The equalization places thera at 7.70. Square 319, the north side of G street be- tween Lith and 12th, interior lots were valued at $1.50 under the old awessment, under the Rew @11 to $12 and from $7.70 to $8.40 under the equalization. | ‘On the south side the old assessment on terior lots was 21.50, new assessment $11 an: @i2 and equalized assesment from 37 @8.40. Square 258, on and 13th. interior lov 2 nssesement from $1.30 to 21. new assessmen’ S to @12: equalized assess On the south side « { G between 12th \t + street, between the | oogaee above named, rior lots under old assesem: ranged from #1 to €1.75. The new neseseme ed f: @11 and the equalized assessment p! from £6.60 to $7.70. . north side of G between 13th and cen 13th and new, $10 to €12; ey Sq) ith atreets, old. #: feed. $7 to 23.40. Square 223, north side of 15th Old assessment from from @11 to $16: equaled, $7.7 1. Sonth aide of G between Lith and 15,th squa 244—Old from $2.50 to $4: new irom €i1 915; equalized, £7. 0. ¥ STREET between axp 15ra. Square 376, north F between $th and 20th. old assessmen: from $5 to $6; uew £10 to @1S, equalized same assessment. South side of F between 9th and 10th, sanare 377, old from $4 to $6, new $310 $13, equalized sam, no change. Square 346, north side of F between 10ui ew, $13 to @15, equalization, $10.49 to 312. Bouth side, between sae points, square 3: old from 35 to rom $10 to $12 £11.10. A SEMI-CENTENNIAL. | The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Independent | Order of Rechabites. FORMAL MEETING OF THE HIGH TENT THIS | | MORNING—AN ELOQUENT ADDRESS OF WEL- COME AND RAPPY RESPONSES ¥ROM VisITIX@ | DELEGATES—CONGRATULATIONS FROM THE | | onpeR 1x eNoLanp, ‘The High Tent of the Independent Order of | Rechabites of North America celebrates the | fiftie: niversary of the order in this country by holding its convention in this city. Today the High Tent met at Rechabite Hall, at 414 and Pennsylvania avenue, for the | as | minary organization, The hall t decorated with ings, wi the gay regalia and above all the| presence of a large number of Indies added a still further decorative effect. Upon the plat- ‘re, besides Mr. N. Bunch of this city high chief ruler of North America, a/ a ¢ number of high officers of the | ites in this country are welcoming | his convention two of the leaders of the ler, which is one of the strongest * of any kind in England. The | tives here are Mr. Henry Sharples, f ruler of England, and Mr. John er of England. i SOF WELCOME. ‘ing the proceedings were opened by a prayer from Thos. B. Marche of Washing- high chief ruler of the order and cr. He was followed by un elo- nt and cordial address of welcome from Dr. Lk of the District to, the visitors, | to by E. C. Smith, high | ‘ew York. | ¥, Mr. Mahoney, read a tele from ihe order in THE ORDER IN ENGLAND. A number of speeches followed from the prominent officers and visitors. Mr. Henry harples, who is at the head of the order in England, made an effective speech, delivered in lear, easy way. He represented, he said, an | which in England consisted of 110,000 There were 1,600 adult tents and 1,200 jue nile tents, and 170,900 persons in Eng- lund and her’ colonies gave allegiance to the | Order of Rechabites. here were, besid 000 women who were | Sharples thought the Id be proud of the capital The present meeting he con- wedding of the order in this in England, and he asked the to become a member of the World | der of Rechabites. A high compliment was | paid by the speaker to @ work of women n fie purpose of the order. he se which M arplds’ speech | Mahoney read a sua Mr. R. Campbell, the high secretary der in England, in which he spoke of udous strides’ which the order was aking and referred to the fact that twelve Members of the parliament just elected were chabites. In conclusion the letter says: “+I trust to hear of a permanent union | and your branch again united to COLEMAN'S ADDRESS. ‘ough of Ohio made a short spe and Mrs. C. C. Coleman, who is deputy high | r of Ohio, was calied to the stand. jeman made a vigorons little speech, in ich she called on the High Tent to give the of the order a better chance and more authority Airs, Coleman was followed by Mr. John R. Moditt of Virginia, who was introduced by Dr. {r, Moffitt said he was not a Rechabite, b was with them. He had been on his way to the Cupitol when he had seen the sign in front of this building, and thinking © was more sympathy between himself and chubites than between himself and Con- gre=s ke had come yj The deputy high ebief ruler of England. Mr. Jobn Lee, made a vigorous speech in a clear i well-modulated voice, and spoke of the ith which he would sing “Praise God, from whom all blessings flow,” if all liquor sell- ers could be collected in one’ big boat snd the bottom knocked out of the vessel. Mr. Lee nen presented an engrossed address from the ted the address in an eloquent | and vigorous speech. OTHER SPEECHES. y Otto of the Savannah Local spoke fter which Mrs. E. C. Smith, deputy of New York, renewed the subject of | giving the women a better chaace to ac- nplish sowething in the order. Women, she | have to sit down and fan them-| id there was a sudden v-four palm-leaf fans in I: is needless to say that mase hands held the fans. Mr. Win. Re: Mich a member of tho English order, taiked entertainingly for a few minutes, as did Mr. Morrow of Pittsburg. L. Hecox, editor of the Rechabite, was pesker, and Mr. Hecox referred to the reof the order had been in- Keepers on Pennsslvania by the hall, and honed that the ime would come when such things could not | happen in this country. A SECRET SESSIO: A recess was then taken until 2 o'clock, when a secret session will be held for the transaction | of bu ‘The past high chief rulers pres- | ent vention are J. H. Mitehell, Wash-+ iu Marche, Washington; Chas. | Steers, Geo. W. Glenna, Sykes, | Va; C. L. Hiecox, Lion, N. | A PARADE AT 6 O'CLOCK. | At6 o'clock this evening there will bea pa-| rade of the local and visiting Rechabites. The | on will march from 44 street aud Penn- | down Peunsylvania avenue to | House, through the President's | . thence to 20th street and around | le. down K to 10tb, down 10th | 1 Church and disband. | wtshai is S. I. Mundell and bis . Thompson, G. W. Shoemaker, J. Wm. B. Marche, € ckey wud Win. M: 3 ibe headed by mounted move in the following order: he bail. Jere Knights of Rechab, hy Band: Heber Tent, | No No. Anacostia Te Tent of ‘Alexandria; | l lis, Geor North Ce: Excelsior Tent of Annapo- aon Tent, Columbia Ter Rechabite Legion of Jun ers of High Tent and ment ts in carriages, preceded by ur's RECEPTION. | whasiastic reception was given | Covenuat Tent of this 43g and Pennsylva- | ple were present and | vere enlivening and attractive. on, with a baud composed of | <r sixteen vears of age, ar- eck and marched to the hall. Jed at the recep- wed bz a prayer by | by Miss Lula ny | tention, Speeches followed from nch, the high chief ruler of | aabite Hall, Over 300 eleven girls, ail Tived at 9 o¢ Mrs. attracted 320, north side of F between 11th and | the, order in North Ameriea; Mr. Smith, the | St ee coe che of 3 ck: “Mr. Heary Sead *? © 9: ooaee, Jes, the high chief ruler of England: Mrs. | South side of same street, square 921-012, @5; new. from $13 to $16; equalized from $11 to 213.60. Square 289, north side of F Wth—Old. from £4.50 to at G16: tion, $5.60 to 212.0. side same street. square 290—O10,$4.50 to 95: now, $9 to $16; equalization, from $7.65 to 813.60. North side of F between 13th and 14th, 258—Old, from 25.50 to $6; new. from to S16; equalized assessment, $9.60 to Same street, south side, sauare 254—Old, $4.50 295; new, $10 to 915; equalization, $9 to 40. ‘North side of F between 1ith and 15th, square 24—Old, from @5 to &: Ww, $14 to $17: $11.20 to $15.60. nth ween 12th and O46 to 86, now, $14 10 O17, equlention to 85; new, to $17; eq: a, 916.90. s z Jess than on F street, and adjustments were madeon account of the floods. Reductions ‘*inglar reasons were made on other per- south of Pennsylvania arenas. East Washington, despite « ad are been mado sa cont, although 200. to 800 per cent, rere made and the ‘small consequently 3 based on local con- ly adjusted. ee :f? | | { t iy + £ 4 fl il | i i i | f i I f 1 75; mew, $11 to | avenue prices rale slightly | honey, high tocretary of the order: Mr. Thos. B. Marce, past high chief ruler; John Lee, high depaty ruler of Engiand; Mr. James | Lee ot Washington. ———— Down in Prince George’s County. u vx Marunono’, Mp., Aug. 2, 1892, ma stabbing affray occurred in Queen An: last Saturday night, in which Frauk Hebron, colored, was stabbed in the ab- , domen by Joseph H. ireland, white. The two had been plaving cards in # saloon and a quar- rel arose, which developed into a fight. Hebron waa badly injured and had to be carried home ina wagon. Ireland has not as yet been ar | The county commissioners of Prince ‘s ty met today to redeem the onts: ing clerk and at were usy ixening checks. remainder ¢ paper will be redeemed on the 15th inat., the levy for March, 1892, will be col- have ‘cou- pon bends banging over it as a bonded debt. | BL W. Bedle, for G. C. Merrick, sold last | week « tract of 63 acres within eight miles of | Waehingtou for $10 an acre—€400 cash and the | balance im twelve months. The land was a part j of she % B Enmphrey ae. Bs | tl oleott of Iowa, who been | the guest of Miss Addie Clagett at “Strawberry | HILL.” returned to Wi yesterday p As when (lected. When thie is done the county will only the £30,000 of thirty-year 5 per cent for visti before going home. bs on To show that the flannel shirt is respected it is only necessary to remark that it i down from size to eon after it is waahed.—New York Sun. : | Hardy, Norris and Gant Held for the Action | you go to court, you | rent of uir. | notably damp earth vay: THE MURDER OF MR. YOUNG. of the Grand Jury. This morning George Henry Hardy, Edward Norris and William Henry Gent, the three young men charged with the murder of Mr. Peter H. Young on Capitol Hill the night of July 22, were brought’ to police headquarters, where their measurements were taken, and they were then taken to a photograph gallery id their photos ndded to the rogues’ gallery. Tater they were taken to the Police Court sind locked up for a hearing. During the time they were locked in the cells below they occupied , seemed to predominate, and sec8nd, there was | the time by singing and dancing, dirplaying the utmost indifference to their situation, BROUGHT INTO CouRT. It was after 1 o'clock when the prisoners were | position, and played patriotic airs the evening | brought into court for examination. Mr. T. F. ‘Taylor uppeared for Hardy and waived an ex- Mr. John B. O’Neill appeared for Norris and Mr. E. M. Hewlett for Gant. Dr. . Schaeffer, the deputy coroner, was the witness called, who testified that he made a post-mortem examination of the body and that death resulted from fracture of the ALICE THOMAS IDENTIFIES HARDY AND NORRIS. | Alice Thomas, the little colored girl who wit- nissed the assault, testified that on the night of June 22 she left friends at Sd and A streets, She saw Mr, Young walking in the| middie of the street, followed by two bs he then described the assault, ax has been heretofore printed in ‘Tne Stax.” Sho then looked d the ro and idextitied Hardy ynd Norris as the two bi who followed and struck the murdered man. TESTIMONY AS TO GANT. Charles Mitchell, “Icy” Mitchell, a young colored bo; ed that he knew Gant and had a conversation with him on jthe night following the murder. He met him ut the ug horses, and Gant asked him if he bad leard anything. He told him that he hnd heard of the mur- der, when Gant said be was scared, but would not say why. One ti sked him to help to rob Mr. ¥ Willi tl that he kno and several months Gant care to himand aekod hitn to help in killing and robbing Mr. Young, although he did not at the time know it was to be Mr. Yo Daniel Bell, « one-legged young colored man, said he knew Gant, and that some months ago Gaut came to him ‘and told him how a lot of money could be made by robbing Mr. Young. Another tim Tobe Thomas, no: in the penitentiary, told him that they wer just about to do Mr. Loung when they were frightened off. WHAT OFFICER KRAEMER HARD. Officer J. 8. Kraemer, who had worked up the case, was called for the a conversation at the Norris and Hardy. room he heard Hardy ery out: “*) wear that W ‘aters struck REPUBLICANS RATIFY. pars neni A Large Concourse of People Listen to Good Speeches in Front of the City Hall. Surrounded by bunting, Chinose lanterns, calcium lights and by a throng of between two and three thousand people, the Chase faction of the District mepublicans last night ratified the nomination of Harrison and Reid from the city hall steps. A small stand had been erected for the speakers, and back of it on the wide | landing several hundred chairs were placed for the invited guests. The mocting was remark- able for two things—first, the white population | an absence of that wild enthusiasm which char- | acterizes such meetings even in the District. | The Third Artillery Band occupied a prominent through. | Wm. Calvin Chase introduced Mr. Geo. M. | Arnold as the presiding officer of the meeting, | and he in turn introduced the Rev. Walter H. | Brooks of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, who invoked the Divine blessing. Letters of regret were then read from A. Clapp, who pleaded ill health; Frede: lass, who wrote that in vier of the stances then surrounding him he with regret the opportunity of 1 publican meeting: Si r jater ou he would be found where work counte and H. A. Taylor, whose Pacific slope journcy prevented his attendance. CHAIRMAN ARNOLD'S REMALKS. Chairman Arnold, before introducing the speaker, said there were a number of repub- licans present from the south who have jno chance to a such section or express their re ts because of | shotguns, bowie knives and stuffed ball A few days ago five or six white men he killed up in Permmsylvania and been madé about it, and ev token section, but since the colored men had been bute! and nothing had been do: a man been found wi! enough to stand np #7 stop. But next fall o'r in the presidential ch irc must declii governm ible. He then nissioner John W Douglass as “one of the old-time, iron-ciad an rock-ribbed republ | COMMISSIONER DOUGLASS’ ADDRESS, | Mr. Douglass said he was ied to see ‘such a large and intelli kinds of good republicans a some good democrats. In a heht and w manner he discussed the candidates and platform and told many good stories greatly | the delight of the A. It was a good thing | to have for a candidate» mun who said a ds | or so ago that no one should command t! soldiers to “keep off the grass” next Se nt audience of all 1, he hoped, of ber. Both candidates ero men of the highest | character and ability. The platform. he though’ came nearer to the Ten Com ments than an: £. else he had ever seen or heard of. One thing he con!d not understand, 1 that wax how any man with love of country anda the blow.” Norris said: “All right, and we will love of fair play could object to that plank in exit asics: ' tho republican platform which said every man, S ‘Acton tostified that he ques | white or black, was ontitied to one vote, and | i + at the station the following | bad a right to have that vote counted. In thia | nd Hardy admitted the thing | they say tho republican party has a big con- | id that if ft had not’ been. for Gant tha thing wonld never have occurred. Gant said of the witnesses was af of Serge. Hewlett asked for tl . ming that no testi- to connect Gant with Mr. O'Neill made a similar re- if of Norris, ALL THREE HELD. Judge Miller said that it was not necessary to farther discuss the case and that a cease suf- ficiently strong to hold the defendants for the action of the jury had been made out. The three committed without bail, 8.8 Witness in defi quest on be t of $300 bonds. ae ‘The Origin of Atmospheric Electricity. nospheric ¢! y ‘The origin of local thunderstorms in summer may be thus exy In any region strongly heated by the sun's rays there arises an active evaporation, and, in consequence, a strong as- cending curren vapor. On en gions of the « condense, and ates the upward ¢ urronndings are of the water 1 t ight to overcome the pressure of the ascen As this process is eontir as for long the frequently great number of lightni charges is not to be we redat. be remarked that Hoppe’s hypoth planting of forests would tend to im 5 electric conditions, is borne out by Bezold’s Aor swampy lands ation of elec. observations, that defore most favorable to the dances. In the the forest sh ters the floor from the sun’s rave, arrests the « tion dus towheated suriace and, consequently, the formation of ascending currents of vapor-lalen air, which cisely the phenomena which the condition: deforested or swampy lands are designed to promote. A reconcilintion between the respective fol- lowers of the evaporation nnd friction ti bas been eff by Fi point in order lectricity to its source, it 1s useless to specu on whether it would be genersted by the evap- oration of pure distilled water.carefully gawe from friction. There is nothing like this in nature to tigute: pis rather to ndi- tions most nearly resembling those which at- tend the process of evaporation in nature. In so far as concerns the surface of the dry land the s ter penetrates to a greater or less ext into the sub-soil stra Si ilariv the strata ave penetrated by the warmth follows, : is of the sun's rays. Ii then, th's sa & ass F hardly remark th abundant oppor a. And two possibi kept in 2 (1) The evaroporation of water fo) i equence of a he water from the vapo: - periment whether the etric or no! a ex mted under both of these conditions and in both instances found positive evidence of the ° of cle yin tho condensed vapor. He holds it demonstrated t ated by evaporation from chem ical combin: is elect 1 that water evaporated from the ocean 1s ¢ o> Why China Has ™ ‘elegraph Poles. From the St. Louis emo-crat. Thos no telegraph poles in China, Not eeause thers are no telegraph lines, nor yet because there is not wood suitable@or use as poles. Strangely enough, the reason is purely religious. ‘he Chinese worship their dead fathers and grandfathers, and regard the resting places of their remains as so sacred that they deem it a sacrilege to allow a shadow to be cast upon their graves. When the Hnemen of the first Chinese telegraph compa- nies began operations they were greatly embar- raseed in their operations by crowds of inhab- itants who followed them about and, with the most frigh‘ful blasphemies, cut down the poles as fast as they were erected. For some time no explanation could ‘be obtained, but at last the working parties dis- covered that in the more thickly settled districts of the celestial empire graves were everywhere to be found, and scarcely a pole could beerected anywhere’but thatat some time of the day it cast its shadow on a grave. ‘The difficulty was insuperable, and the Chinese government, anxious as it was to render assist- ance, stood powerless. So sli the wires went un and it is said the system proved perfectly efficient. penned fet rlth ee gare The O14 Longfellow House. ‘From the New York World. tract on ita hands, but it had been in the habit of handling big contracts and it had never failed. | MR. JAMES Cc. BUSHBY. | | Mr. James ©. Buchby of North Dakota was next introduced and said there was no doubt of republican success next fall. ‘Ihe democratic candidate might be a man of destiny, bu assuredly in ’88 destiny took a tumt | when the hero of Buzzard’s bay retur to the conflict with fate he would take en worse tumble. ‘There were some desti- nics, it seemed, that did enough to come fn out of the rain ublican party plased kite’s tail to no man’s destiny. The wisdom of the party was too great to let the are of any one man’s destiny outshine the | galaxy of other statesmen who were trust and boast. ‘The splintered tariff plank wou ch; ‘therefore ice wagon. me off the perch and crawl democratic 1 one foot in the grav i the other out to rave And this demi-corpse was ng to get up party was at aly keep: funeral expenses. now said to be try | the Farmers’ many 2 were too ty, rensibl ighdut tl danger: ed on to FARDON'S SPEECH. of this city was bR. Dr. A. P. F: ALP. don duced un from, He vaid vote for 1 his next for that he eh at pleaeui District rep polix, bat now that the con 1 know no Chase, no Carson, no Gleeson no Wolf, and all should jight shoulder to shoulder against the common enciny j MR. G. AL Ray, Mr. G. A. Ray of Illinois followed, and re- marked that such a meeting would not have been possible thirty y It might be Ned Brother ¢ Hill Brother Holm: save the democratic majority in’ th from the onslaughts of one man And, perhaps, the result might be the changing of the city's name to that of Holmany ormer D. P. Roberts, colored, King of South Dakota and Brooks of this ¢ n short spe the isiter saying that no one could den; the colored vore in the south was climi Rev. ‘The bill to is had been termed * nd good, Meot force with lican parts defeated. The tiret he e: ndidate God want: 1384, becuse in and dispersed as the band played “Home, Swect Home.” — male Fighters, Quinn and Bettie Sims, two young c« omen, appeared before Judge £ h with a pair of bean Hattie ored this m for a full dre was invited to con’ fund of the Police rly Conduct. Nelson, George Andrews, Ei s Tredevick Colston, nine colored boys, whose uges ran from ten to eighteen, were charged be- fore Judge Harper this morning with dirorderly conduct in the county. ‘They had followed a band of niusic to the neighborhood of Chapin | and 14th streets, where they enjoyed themselves | by pouneing upon passersby’ with Inths and | throwing stones.’ A fine of €5 or fifteen days was imposed and ail but Malchia Williams and Perry went down in default, —_ For the Children’s Country Home. _ Heretofore acknowledge: 411.99 A friend, - 200 L, and - 2.00 {¢. is a | Ino. + 26.00 | Lc, 2 “L009 | Jas, Gray Thompson. + 100 | Mra. F. - 1.00 M. A. P. «= 800 | Three litile children. rer? | No name,.?... + 8.00 iGEL. ¥ . 1.00 A 5.00 467.49 | She Was Sent Down. Madeline Russell, an elderly white woman, neatly dressed, was the prisoners before pee ae charged with dis- rtation with | AMUSEMENTS. Jo! with | 0 i | 8o initnical to the interests of the enterprising manager who anticipates the cool weather vessels Philadelphia, abated to some maces yesterday, The ther- ‘Swi neat = roe Barker commanding; the Miantonomoh, Capt. momoter lowered itself afew notches, so that | B* the temperature did not prevent an audience of | Sicard; the Concord, Commander White; the generous proportions from assembling in the | Dolphin, Commander Brownson; the James- theater to see the first production of “Settled | town, Commander Goodricl ‘h; the Constellation, Ont of Court” by Charles Frobman’s oome- | Chester; Lieut. Schroeder, inns. Washington offers pre-crainent induce- | C°P% Chester; the Vesuvins, Lieut. : ments for first-night presentations. It furaiches | this harbor for ome time past has made it aiudisnees wiuero intelligence aud disectiniaee | Very lively all around, Very many of the off- tion weigh tho performance entirely on its | cers have their wives boarding in the neighbor- | esits The applause comes hones:iy and fn-| hood and the visite and dinners out aro dependent of any personal’ favor table pactien itisms. These facts Rake the re-| Bumerous and very accep: icp ception which was accorded “Settled Out | Upon the arrival of the Dolphin a few days | of Court” the more complimentary, When | since Lieut. Buckingham represented the com- Mr. Frohman gave “Mrs. Wilkinson's Widows” | manding ofticer in reporting the Dolphin’s ar- * presentation here the smoothness of the | rival to the commandant of this station, Com- preventat: was the wonder of all who saw | modore Joseph Fyffe. Just how long Admiral ‘The same condition of things marked the | Gherardi’s fleet is goix to remain here depends performance last night. It was a graceful flow | entirel upon the orders from the Navy Depart- of humor from beginning toend. The play i8| mont. I think as soon as Congress adjourns from the French, and as @ matter of course it | and Secretary Tracy can join it here there will deals with affairs of the heart in a rather rapid, | be a pulling up of anchors. ‘The impression is rongh and tumble fashion that would make that neces will be the first objective point ny auditor who had been broaght up on the | afd then north ad libitum, stately scntimentalities of the old romancers | " Admiral Kimberly (retired) and family have Mr. William Gillette mod- | been visiting Commodore Fyffe at the naval prograin that in order to | station. They are old friends of many years d last night he has standing. The Misses PF; xi otherwise tampered | musicians, both on the Mrs. arisian success, “Pont | Kimberly und Mise Kimberly are excellent per- _Sytunctrical perform-. formers also. Mias Breed of Lynn, Mass., is ‘nat Mr. Gillette's visiting the family of the commodore, and as of cleverness have &8-| ghe plays the viola ectly the music that ‘ai_original merit. | escapes from the windows of the commodore’s sbridgment of the | residence is excellent. worn figures in the | Other officers at this station are Lieut. Ball enjoyability ia | and Dr. Gardser. il which | “Mra. Flint, wife of Dr. Flint of the Miantono- 80 a8 to | moh, is here, | , Mrs. Chester, Mra, Bellows, Mra. Dr. Griffith, Mrs. Hood, Mrs, Cressup, Mre, Magruder, Mrs. Goodrich and Mrs. Royce, all wives of officers T | of the navy, are in the vicinity of the squadron. @ than ®| The cadeis on the Constellation will go from ppt me pre tag aay ay tomorrow and by September 1 will be back falis npon ta rs of Mr. Joseph | to Annapolis, olland, who is fully competent to sustain it, | Ainony some of the navy officers here. well- id whose exeeilent work elicited tho warmest | known by many of your readers, are Lieut. robation. Mrs, Georgie Drew Barrymore's | Porter, Licut. Com. Ross, Paymaster Barton, New Loxpox, Coxx., July $1, 1892. he entire pre on of the rolo | d chare of atte trayal of Mrs. Lucretia DPlunkett waa) yj "at. Muson, Paymaster Mead, Lieut. Johnson, al and remarkably eifective. | Tieut. Com. Wood, Licut. Grant, Lieut. Me: onc in her reading of the lines, | Crackin ’ 5 her action, play of feature and | “A court of inquir, FA “ . consisting of Commander attention to details of “business” | Sands, president: Commander Ceok, Paymae- sho win the admiration of | her | ter Cook, Paymaster Calhoun, with Ensign I. A. Kennedy as Judge Plun-| Hoggatt as judge advocate, has been in session Prort (o Mr. Holland's work, | here on the Jamestown for some weeks investi- terre of Mr. Chas, A. Abbe was gating the methods of business sued by of character work. . Messrs. | Passed Assistant Paymaster H. R. Sullivan in nd Humphrey added materially to | the discharge of his duties. Deputy Fourth ceces of the performance, as did Misses! Auditor Whitaker has beeu summoned asa n Campbell, Agnes Miller, Margaret Cou- | witness, It will doubtleea be some weeks be- n. Ida C and io Titteli, the last | fore a conclusion is reached. Mr. Stayton, named being highly entertaining as a sor: of | formerly of the navy, represents Mr. Sullivan, eyelonic frich servant maid. The audience ‘The weather is delightful today. Hartison, Vice Preside: < nd Private Secretary Assignment of Cadets. were seattored through the| By the direction of the Secreta: ‘The general verdict was that | appointments in the army of the United States the piece was a go. and the assignments to corps and regiments, to date from June 11,1392, of the following named tes of the Military Academy, are of War the The Columbia's League Incorporated. Yesterday a certificate of incorporation was | cadets, gra: filed by Father © William F. Boogher announced and E under the name of | Corps for vs the time is twenty years | Artillery arm—To be second lieutenants: First oie ach that | 7eSiment of artillery, Cadet Frank E. & ae okey oe the atta! | vice Peck, appointed frst Heutenaut in the ord brotherhood of man: en {mince department, battery M. Second regi- om sin, | Meut of artillery-—Cadet George Blakely, vice urtis, promoted, battery 1; Cadet Tracy C. Dickson, vice Pierce, appointed first lieutenant in the ordnance department, battery H. Third of educational and | Cavanaugh, Cadet James P. Jer engineers—Cadet James B. purposes. in July 4, 1N92. bave of legi:latic hood of God and the ance of Christ as man’s Savior from sin and th from the consequences of sin nome of God should pe in each Consti- and the spirit of Christ in every law aécilvaae 1 Seenaorie jong | Fegiment of artillery—Cadet J. E. Hoffer. vice Feet te ee See seceten, grenekt, Weteay Xe be OO And all the | tional second Meutenants—Cudet Arthur Chase, to the second artillery; Cadet Frank W. Coe, to the first artillery; Cadet Kenneth Mor- | ton,to the third artillery; Cadet Wm, I, Smith, his descendants, and ered ¥o to do, would create such laws plieh such business methods as that each srof his national family might | % the first artillery; Cadet Henry H. Whitney Wecenechin te Lieaoe a : hart, to the third artillery; Cadet Louis Rt. pecker | Burgess, to the fifth artillery; Cadet James A. cupation and enjos s frnits of that labor » hus secure the highest common good in freedom, wealth and happiness,” — The Grade Crossing Accident, Prening Star: ing been established at the coroner's in: qnest that the fatal accident to Mr. Brabler at the H street grade erosring was due mainly to the unlawful speed of the train, a brief state- ment o} tion of affairs at this point will she Baltimore and Ohio for the further rens his erossing beyond what ihe low. » and Ohio company has king up its trains outwide the city limits | there hes been a consiant shifting of trains and | empty engines across Hi street, making this por lepot to Ivy City d. Shipton, to the fourth artillery; Cadet Sawyer Bianchard, to the first artillery; Cadet Wm. Chamberlaine, to the second artillery. Cavairy arm—To be second lieutenants: First regiment of éavalry—Cadet Sterling Adams, ‘vice Holbrook, promoted, troop E: Cadet Kamuel B. Arnold, vice Byram, pro- moted, troop K. “Second regiment of cavalry | Cadet i. M. Leary, vice Michie, promoted, troop D. ‘Third regiment of cavairy—Cadet Kirby | Walker, vice Horn, transferred’ to the second artillery, troop B.’ Fourth regiment of cav: | alry—Cudet James H. Reeves, vice Bro moted, troop M. Sixth regiment of | Cadet George | moted, troop € Cadet Williata moted, troop I. vadet Claude B. Se nth regiment of cavalry— gerald, vice Rice, pro- th regiment of cavalry— Sweezey, vice Sayre, | , troop G: Cadet Alexander M. Davis, vice Tompkins, transferred to the seventh cav. alry, troop K; Cadet Samuel MeP, Rutherford, vice Farber, promoted, troop E. Ninth regi- ment of cavalry —Cadet Julian R. Lindsey, vice Bettens, promoted, troop M; Cadct Howard it Hickek, vice Benton, promoted, troop L. To be additional second lieutenaut—Cadet Julius T. Conrad, to the third cavalry frequently de- , Which necessarily bout them, 1s the passage of «hifting ears and that the watehinan having par~ | Tufuntry arm—To be second lieutenants: First y el. tife gates and thas signaled the | regiment’ of infuntry—Cadet Charles P. Sum- crowd of vehicles to start across is often com- | merall, Ferris, promoted, company C; pelled to reiewer them immediately in obedi- | Cadet Frank A. Wilcox, vice Benjamin, pro- to another in the mid al, an 4 thus let them down the now rapidly mov- icles, with every chance in or ot catching one or more of those in the | moted, company I. Second regiment of in- | tantry’-Cudet Leonard M. Prin | promoted, company H. ‘Third regiment of in- try—Cadet Horace M. Reeve, vice Cole, re- tired’ from active service, company I; Cadet James T. Moore, vice MeCain, promoted, com- 4 3 i st such an occurrence | the dey following the accident to Mr. Brahler, | pany D,” Fourth regiment of’ infautry Cadet t of detained vehicles being thirtee ‘rederick f. Stetson, vice Brown, promoted, few of which got across before the gates | company K. Sixth regiment of infantry Cadet were relowered, verted only thro of the dr and another accident was | Willard E. Gieason, vice Beckurta, promoted, gh the skilland strength of | pany I, Seventh regiment of infantry— A his horses vio- | Cadet Henry A. Pipes, vice Bufington, pro- were about to pass un- | moted, company F. Eighth regiment of in- | fantry Cadet John K. Miller, vice Ruthers, in sitst running ite trains faster | vice Krug, promoted, company F; Cadet Wm. » law allows; second, obstructing the | W. Hanct, vice Smiley, promoted, company K; eater mt than is lawful, and | Tenth regiment of infantry—Cadet George 8. ot regulating y the interval | Harison, vico Wren, promoted, company K; the passage of this crossing. | Cadet Marcus B. Stokes, vice Brewster, pro- saust be ob sions that when the railroad com- | moted, company B; Cadet George W. kirkpat- obstructs the street long enough to allow rick, vice Bullard, promoted, company F. teen or more vehicles to collect on one side, imeut of *infantry—Cadet Wm. ises the gates to allow this crowd to pass | Newman, vice O'Brien, promoted, comy pany G; Kately relowers them before | Cadet Haneford L. ‘Threlkeld, vice Biddle, pro- fh of the moving vehicles have had time | moted, company B; Cadet John H. Parker, vice to get over, accidents must necessarily occur. | Lawton, promoted, company I. Fifteenth reg M.D. | iment of infautry—Cadet Charles C. Jameson, TE OS vice Noudiez. promoted, company C; Cadet ‘Transfers of Keal Estate, John McA. Palmer, vice Blow, promoted, com- Deeds in fee have been filed as follows: K. Sixteenth regimentof infantry—Cadet R. J. Dyer to W. 5. ackson, lot 86, old George. J. Prescolt to E. BR. Haight, Wm. H. Anderson, vice Anderson, promoted, téwis company Ks Cadet John 2, Woodward. vice eee cra dere ack, promoted, company F; Cadet Isaac det ried &—. W. P. Smith to 8. J. | frwin, vice Hawley, dropped far desertion,com: Prescott, lot 21, block 4, Trinidad; £2,750. J. | pany Hf. Seventeenth regiment of infantry — Cook to Haitic T, Gait, sub | Cadet Dennis M. Michie, vice Murr, promoted, > compa: ; Cadet Wm. D. Davis,vice Schoeffel, \5, sor el trausierred'to the ninth infantry, company I. lp . aq. 121, Georgetor Eighteenth regiment of infantry— Jacob Baylis to CL. rtevant, lot 10, S.°ssub Pleas- | H. G. Lazelle, vice Pardee, promoted, com- L. C.W. 7 81 |. 8. Woodward, lots Woodward to Ch Williamson to ¢ Chris- pany C. Twentieth regiment of infantry— Cadet Robert W. Mearns, vice Alvord, pro- moted, company A. Twenty-first regiment of infantry—Cadet John J. O'Connell, vice Par- merter, promoted, company K. Twenty-sec- ond regiment of ‘infantry—Cadet Peter W. Davison, vice Moore, ted, Cadet Horeee G. Hambright, vice Bruce, de- ¥, part 16, sq. 157; i totz, sub 121, eq. 294; S—. W. T. 8. Stone, ‘sub 7, Whitestown: '. Barnhart, vice Koehler, pro- | vice Ellis, | lies with the Baltimore and | promoted, company B; Cadet Traber Norma, | MARCH OF THE CHOLERA, SENSATION AT ASBURY ARK | Origin of the Epidemic in Asia—Its Pres- ence at First Kept Secret. The news from Europe is that the cholera is working its way westward, and physicians in | Park have been greatly exei Germany express the fear that 1t may cross the | tonal elopement of Mis Mab ocean and become epidemic in the United | of the Hotel Brunswick. with 1 States. Knowing the rigor of the quarantine | WBo W#* until Inte regulations at the Atlantic seaports, however, | 2¢!phia post oaice they believe it will reach this territory through | Mis# Tinler is the daughter of the late J. W. Miss Mabel Tinley Plopes to Marry Kichard W. Roetta. The guests of the proaninent be ele at Aebare © the doy, tt hard W.Hoelts, a night clerk i T Canada. An article in the Philadelphia Preas | Titles, who was for many years a purine ivesthe origin of the epidemic as follows: | W- 3. Kempter in a lerg ods house The extension of the trouble into Russia, | Philadelphia, The the Tine family is at 1 street, where it first took root and which we must now consider the most prolific source of danger to | ourselves, at once suggests 4he importance of our getting the Russian version of the matter in preference to those necessarily garbled accounts | Which filter into our newspapers through En- | glish sources. | The truth ix that we must seek for the birth- | place of the cholera epidemic within the cou- nes of British India, or at least in those soo- | tions of the Indian empire which are practically under British control. In Russia a grave eus- picion exists that the English resident in Cabul, in Afghanistan, knows more of the true in: | wardness of the diftioulty than he or his superiors have ever been willing to admit. As early as April 20 last several cases of cholera | were reported in the valley of the Helmund, a river that flows between Kandahar and tho Persian frontier. DEPORTATION OF VICTIMS. ‘The British resident, hearing of the outbreak, | sent acipher dispatch to the government o cials at Calcutta, whence instructions were for- | warded to Lahore directing the shipment of | disinfectants in quantities to the Anglo-Afghan border. No public explanation was made for | | this action, as it was considered advisable to | keep matters quiet. The Russians practically charge the English with malice in trying to throw off from their own territory imto the ad- Roelfs has beon paying attention to Xt nearly a year and followed her to Asbury I in spite of the obje her Was strongly opposed to the attachment between th: On Saturday evening. whi in progress at the Hotel Bru ley went out on the baloony with Roelis came up to them and words with the girl The was soon cleared wp, hy learned that the posession of and t pouda ball. Tinley learn: at th re I shall marry ‘Then she burst into tears and hi the room. She sent word t« residence, where They took the fi Mrs. Tinley wired or daughter, | jacent alien regions of Central Asia the incubus | never enter her doors. No r « of an impending plague. ceived from Mabel anil Mex. Tinley keeps to In seeking to trace the origin of the trouble her room, almost broken Loarted, anil kepate it must fairly beadmitted that the Transcaspian | for her dwugliter’s return — | tages, has from the start favdred the dissemina- DYING BY INCHES. | tion of disease. It traverses a desert region z which before its construction acted as a barrier | The Slow Ossification of an Pighteen-Vea between Russia and Asin, effectually shutting Old Oktabow | railway, notwithstanding ite manifest advan- | off the possibility of transmitting disease. Now, Rose L. Cle: that the railroad is an accom fact, cou- | daughter of Th. necting the Central Asian and European prov- 0. T., is slowly dying of © four feet high and wei | Pounds. There is no flesh she cannot talk because o | inces of Russia, it is perfectly easy for infec- | tion to be carried toand fro. Baku, the great | port on the eastern side of the Caspian sea has | proved in the present instance the first etape of the contagion. Being the western terminus __Being 7 the tongu of the Transeaspian railroad system, it ix the | ®t : = gntrepot of commerce between Asiatic and | 4 1h¢ work of ossification. has been slow, as European Russia, and ite malign influence as center of infection can scarcely be underesti- mated. ‘The writer's knowledge of the town suggests | some interesting details which are especially | timely. It is a populous city, containing a dis- tinctly “floating” population. They come and | go. successively seeking, finding and abandon- | ing the employment which is there obtainable in connection with the great petroleum springs jand the railsoad freight They are | mainly composed of Persians, Bokbarites, Khi- | vans, Turcomans and the most repulsive de- stiffening and her death is not fa father, who ix poor, has arked that ter may be admitted quest hus been grante Mer he. Listant 4 » = hospital, and hiv ss “NAPOLEON OF THE TURE” Death of Richard Ten Broeck, for Years a Familiar Figure at the Kace Track. News comes of the death of Richard Ten Broeck at Menlo Park, Cal, 5 = .. His death has been long expected. His tion of low-cl new: 6 prev fee cpechedeentiorgt many ry te ager yg 4 Pe wife was the widow of H.D. Neweonb, | superfluous to say that it carries with it the | father of Victor Neweomb. She is living in | inevitable accompaniment of uncleanliness, Louisville with her by Smith. DISREGARD OF SANITATION. Richard Ten Broeck was born in Albany There is thus confronting the observer of in 1810 of old revolutionary stock. On | social conditions in Baku « state of affairs | the paternal side bis grands Col, Ten | which, apart from its individual interest, sup- | Broeck of Albany, wasa rev ary soldier, plies a general key to the position Kussia occu- | and on the maternal his elder brother inbertiod pies toward other nations in the face of -be | present cholera crisis, Here we find a congre- gation of human souls which herds amid al- most indescribably horrible sanitary surround- ings and menaces other nations by reason of its | *criptive right of such a pedi | migratory tendency. The petroleum industry | Broeck was odneated at the Military subordinates all other commercial interests to | Subsequently he stu its predomiaant claims, Even the common ne- essities of sanitation are disrogarded in the | nrsuit of gain, and the largest employers of bor_-the Nobel Brothers, who principally con- | trol the output of the oil well-—are compara- | tively indifferent to the condition of their em- ployes. Perhaps they cannot be criticised very sharply for this, because they are dealing with a class of men practically unamenable to con- | siderations of decency, as understood by Aryan cople. | the town of Baku is almost destitute of drainage and apart from the few government } buildings it contains forms a collection of | $2,500, then regarded aud equalid dwellings overcrowded with thei: | at once matchel him with miserable tenants. When the writer was in |bama, a rivul cand Baka, less than two years ago, a case of small— | aguinst Sallie Waters and | pox broke out within 100 yards of the residence | carrying the colors of Kentucky, | of the archemandrite or governor of the town, | state stukes of $20,000 four mile | Let americans imagine the case ax one of local | wassubseqn owe | occurrence in any of their cities or even minor | over the same distance in | towns, Beyond question the officials responsi- | 1455at New Orleans lower ble for the public health would have promptly | record to 7.19%. | responded to the needs of the occasion, effectu-| It was in 185 | ally quarantined the sufferer and taken other requisite measures for stamping out the disease. Not so, however, in Baka, where the . | from ( Iphia the menbor- bip of the distinguished Order of | inst ituted Warhington, | and other otticers of th ed law in established a xt and later on | started nine times without ¢ | beaten. Then Mr. T ington ax a throe- Darley. eve of Ten Broeck, Broeck slipped ican borsesto E land. The stable mcludod ue . nut horse Lecompte,the ebes: ~~ absorbed in their ‘customary task of ing | bay tilly Priores and Leaing! nibilists—real or imaginary—had no time to de- | opening of the racing season in TX | Yote to a secondary matter like the rvation | and Prior died. The first rece won by Broeck’s stable was the Cosa tured by Prioress at the Ne tober mecting. Thirty- this race. Among them were Fi Saunterer and Warlock, the three m | brated horses on the English turf at th After a very severe struggle, tn wh American filly fared poorly, being by the jockey Tankesl brated dead heat with Bess, Mr. Ten Broock secured the serv the celebrated English jockey Fordham, wh rode the filly in the ru: winning the Mr. Ten Brocek or of the idea of training wes :that the Engli<h — The » winnings of Mr. Ten Brocck's sth ai the ten years he remained in witeh st market se | of public health. “The patient was allowed to have his case treated ina private house, where | he was in constant contact with other i, j and to many of whom he actually did transmit his malady. Only a providential dispensation could have saved thecommunity from a smal pox plague. The archemandrite was attacked and almost succumbed, KEY TO THE PosITION. That Providence does not always intervene in such cases has been proved by the present out- break, which bas spread its foul influence broad- them, The effect of it, and has been felt by ‘the masses to an extent which is almost inoredi- | ble in its consequence. Yet, if Baku is bad, ngland were $197.75. Of this sum Mr. Téa Broeck's | what shall be of entire Volga provinces | American stable stands credited with 125 | like Astrakban, where the ever-moving campsof | 2 the Emplich steble with ¢120,600. fede ws | of disease from place to) Some years ago, when short of funds, he sol | placo without or hindrance? ‘at auction all his cups won on the British turt. It is true that special efforts have beon made | “* Bu toiee eineun ochpshal quay | by the Russian to prevent the cbol- | the front, Be. Ten Broeck. ha g few of whut pay ay Be te are called im the South “little aifeultion peotieg its cosmopolitan attendance | tis last he — source ‘ ow emehe wed ga = SS rer, the last entering over the eyes, ; a i. Newhinds to J, H. Ralston, lots 50, | ceased, company A. Twenty-third regiment of | y, ‘and ent to the utmost the Representative Watson's Charges. | Lo, 196 aud 137 and parts 111 ‘and 114, "sq, 151; | infantry—Cadet Henry G. Cole, vice Devore, | vith which all omvectacy hes imeested Weer | After Taz Szan's report closed yesterday | &—. Same to C, J. Hillyer, lots 51, 109, Tdsand promoted, L 139 and parts 111 and 114, — Prof. Fristoe’s Funeral. ‘The funeral services of the late Prof. Edw. T. | Fristoe were held at the First Baptist Church yesterday afternoon at 4:30 p’clock. Dr. Stakely, the pastor of the deceased, conducted the ser- vices and was assisted by Rev. Dr. MacLaurin, Rev. Dr. Cuthbert, for many Prof. Fris- toe’s pastor, and’ Rev. Dr. Shute, who had been associated with Profi Fristoe in educa- nal work for over # quarter of a century. ‘The quartet choir of the church some appropriate relections of music. The pall- bearers were Dra, A. F. A. King. Wm. Lee and D. K. Shute representing the medical faculty, of which the deceased was a member; Profs. 0. 'T. Mason, J. H. Gore, H. L. ins and R. | H. Martin, from the arageege fon Capt. Thos, J. Luttrell, the church, of which Prof, Fristoe remains were lo. was an honored member. ‘t interred at Oak Hill beside of his mother, who wasburied last Friday. Ata: of the members of the corporation of Columbian University held ys resolutions in con- tion with the death of Prof- Edw. T.