Evening Star Newspaper, August 5, 1892, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, EAST WASHINGTON CITIZENS. Regular Meeting of the Association Last Night and Business Transacted. A REPLY To THE REFLECTIONS MADE BY THE PEESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE—iM- PORTANT REPORT RECOMMENDING IMPROVE- MENTS DURING THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR. While the attendance was small the business transacted at the regular monthly meeting of the East Washington Citizens’ Association last night was important, as the committee on streets, avenues and alleys made its recom- ‘mendation on the improvementa for the eastern section during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894. President Babson occupied the chair, and after the regular routine business called for re- ports from committees. As chairman of the executive committee he called attention to the fact that on the 14th of July the board of trade had brought the association into considerable notoriety and ill-repute. As chairman of the executive committee he had called a meeting of ‘that committee to take action thereon. REPLY TO THE BOARD OF TRADE, |"; ‘The committee had authorized him to pre- gent the following, which he read ina forcible ‘manner: An organization understood to be composed of gentlemen selected for their high qualifica- tions, social status and financial standing, known as the board of trade, having their headquarters at 1419 F street northwest in this city, at a meeting held at said 1419 F street on July 16, 1892, did pass certain resolutions condemne- tory of the East Washington Citizens’ Associa- tion, 8 copy of which resolutions the public press has announced has been transmitted to ‘the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Said organization had no just cause for t! unprovoked attack upon the East Washington Citizens’ Association, which is its senior by many years, which had its origin in the principles upon Which this republic was founded —resistance to taxation without representation or it accom- panying benefits, and which is compoeed of men not representatives of or aspirants for weal! but of the people, and seeking only the people's welfare. In its efforts to advance the material {interests of Esst Washington, to which this association is committed, it has ever, while hon- erably and energecically pursuing this purpose, been regardful of the rights of other sections has never presented an argument or an array © figures that did not rest upon actual fa and figures of re nd_bas ever been read to support ail movements for the public good, in which it has from time to time prominently | participated: Therefore, Be it resolved. That we depreeate the spirit which leads an org: np represen taland speculative stments to assail an secure reasonable impro’ homes and throughtout their trade ciation eit rison of its achington which bas 0} inasmuch as for the . the burden of jen upon the + for the ple that the taxa asted as to favor aat ground and to Te ae by persous of il mcsus for immediate and speculative bavi depress fis bo that the ¢ co-ope ing comrades ment a cordial them the use of the hal Fesolutions of thanas. uR. L WELLER'S REMARKS. i ‘Mr. M. I. Weller,whom Mr. M. M. Parker had especially referred to when he attacked the East Washington Association, deprecated the action of Mr. Parker, a man for whom he bad always enteriained a’ high opinion, in making a sonal attack upon himself. He could stand is abuse and hold his record for truth and Yeracity before his fellow man and not blush. He desired. however, to call the attention of m to certain misstatement by this gentleman. In reading the ovticial state- ment of the expenditure of appropriations be- fore the b. trade Mr. Purker suppressed certain information. He gave ie vals ation and pepulation of East Washington, but suppressed the area of that section, which was on@half of the entire District; in which the ex- the same committee, said ost on Capitol Hill was ns to give the visit- Grand Army encamp- ome. He had tendered .d the post had passed | | sears and not one-half he did not say that 80 per in a similar con- inuing, said: 5S DEFENDED. this association. We, ost to further the rict. This astociation It does not | have always done our of the Dis * money. > a ‘lation has been ntatives, | © of them ever went there to conduct | a lobby.” he previous question being called the reso- | ms of the executive commuiitee were unani- mourly adopted INPEOVEMEN Mr. F. A. Le NEEDED NEXT YEAR. 4, Chairman of the commit- next fixcal vear. ‘The report was an important one, and after tworwall amendments offered by Mr. Wines ‘Was unan asly adopted. * The amendments w street between the improvem: The report Your com Jere herewi.h p n as fol tte on streets, avennes and al- cents its schedule of strects street to 14th. ting ther those streets fir: Which have been left over from the recommen- by the Commissioners of the Dis- gress to Be inuproved this year, > them those last vear by this associa but which have not yet been improved. For the streets recom- mended by the Commissioners and those al- Yeady approved by this association for the two or three years your committee sec fon for any tion. Lelieving the opening up of new streets | through unimproved sections, so that large reas of land are made accessible to builders and passage from one portion of the city to the | aint wake sanze-cnngt to beet greater benefit ‘than improving those streets already well built Up, Four committee has added to its schedule for beth the northeast and southeast sections.a number of streets which extend out into por- tions of the city where no improvements have — fore been made, but where they will ¥ gO as soon as it is made possible for Residents to get back and forth. AROUND LINCOLN PARK. Around Lincoln Park the building of a very fine class of houses fs going rapidly on, and every improvement made in this section will ‘not only greatly expedite further building, but add tothe taxable property of the Disirict, For this reason those portions of East Capitol street which extend along the north and south —_- = have — recommended for 3 of East Capi t ‘exte: from 13th to 15th streets Tot iat end ting. Until B street was graded am Tegulsted from 11th street to the jail that por- tion of the city lying southeast of Lincoin Park ‘was almost unknown and certainly {1 during the rainy weather to those who. wished to pass back and forth from the northeast to the southeast sections of the city. Upon 12th street southeast, at the corner of B street, there is now finished the finest residente on Capitol and which when completed will cost about 000. As this house faces upo yhen fini-hed il Fefbré tH hs PEEP T regulated, as it is being rapidly built up. Ten- nessee avenue, extending from Lincoln Park in | | the northeast sectign 15th street, is recom- | mended for grading and regulating, not only Decause this portion of the city is being rapidly built up, but because it opens up a new street | out through a section which is almost im Die to vehicles during wet weather. Delaware | avenue is recommended for one square of pav- | g and which connects with stone paving on C, } @ a practicable and needed though | vomewhat cirenitous thoroughfare, and pro- | tecting the greatest lope of Delaware avenue from the destructive washing of rains. WHEN PREFERENCE SHOULD BE GIVEN. — | Your committee desires to urgently renew the recommendation heretofore made, that where discrimination is necessary preference should to a couriderable extent be given to the grading end regulating of streets. Paving may be considered as in some degree a luxury without which people may get along in com- parative comfort; but grading and regulating open to practical use streets which are not in use and generally not usable, and that estab- lishes practf¥al__means of communication, | which if not immediately necessary for a resi- | dent population stimulate the erection of new | buildings and other improvements in places now desolate, and thus help not only to make the city more comfortable and beautiful, but | also increase the value of assessable property, | thereby in many cases paying for themselves. | And this argument, good and sound in any city | with a topography like ours, is especially so in Washington, where one-half of the moneys ex- pended are appropriated from the national revenues. ‘The interest which the government and the people of the United States have in the natioual capital is not limited to the north-| west quarter, but extends over the whole city | and Districtand to all parts alike. It is not | more to the advantage vf the government and | the people that the northwest quarter should be improved and made beautiful than it is that the southwest, the scutheast and northeast quarters shor!d be made equally so. The peo- ple have a right to demand, and itis the i of their repfesentatives in Congress to provide, that the money they contribute toward the im- provement of their city shall be apportioned to the needs, fairly and equitably, without par- tiality for any quarter. | It is not oniy unjust to the people that their | half of the District appropriation should con- | ne t xpended so largely in comparative | lnxaries for one favored section while other por- tions, equaliy theirs in every way, are left in @ sdition unsightly, uncomfortable and abso- Intely dangerous to health, but it is really also inimical to the residents’ of the city, for it | suould never be forgotten that the poisonous exhalations of the open sewers and filthy | streets and alleys and festering deposite of gar-| bage and decaying carcasses on vacant equazes | {lots are not confined to their own imme- | inities, but are carried by the winds in | , So that the curled darling of lux- | ury in the most aristocratic quarter may die | from malarial poison-originating in the distant | region of neglected and filthy homes of povert ignor ice. We are all connected with other and cannot escape the consequences | by ignoring the fact. but because the large tax- | cera do so generally ignore this fact and do | endeavor to reduce fair assessments and prevent | of divert proper expenditures, it is found nec- essary for us in self-defense thus to urge that | < ews chould exercise its sovereign power in the interest of the whole people for the welfare of ali. ADDITIONAL ALLEYS NEEDED. ‘We also feel impelled by a sense of duty to urge that the District Commissioners should use all their powers under the new law to secure | the prompt opening of an alley of sufficient | width for the passage of garbage wagons en- | tirely throngh every square in the c sireet to street, and ‘of additional alle; residence, whether shall have access to an alley and ortunity for the removal of the . which under existing conditions is | LATE POLITICAL NEWS. ‘The Republican National Committee Noti- fied of Fraud tn Alabama. At the republican committee headquarters in jew York yesterday Chairman Hackett, of the executive committee, received the following dispatch from Montgomery, Ala.: “The returns of the state election as nowcom- ing in show a revolution in political opinion. The candidate of the alliance and independents | has carried the white counties of the state and polled 70 per cent of the democratic vote and carried over one-half of the lower house in the legislature. Jones, straight-out democrat, will have less than 10,000 majority in the state, ob- tained in six counties in the black belt by fraud unequaled in eighteen years, and at polling places where Kolb was refused a manager of election. “The Kolbites are advocating a force bill’or any law looking to fair and honest election: Not a republican nor a colored man was a can- didate for office in the whole state, and yet opposition and hire negroes to speak for white supremacy forty or more counties of the state the officials just elected on the issue of fair elections by re- publicans will appoint the managers of clec- tions in November. With prudenee and wis- dom in management the republicans will elect four Congressmen und possibly half of the electors, Gen. Stevenson at Louisville. Yesterday was a great day for the Kentucky | democrats at Louisville. The opening and dedi- cation of the new Watterson Club house drew together all the leaders of the party in the state. ‘The governor and hi quorum. But the chief feature of the occasion was the | presence of Adlai E. Stevenson, democratic nominee for Vice President, who came at the invitation of the Watterson Club, and spoke both to a great concourse of people at Lieder- Kranz Hall and to asmalle? guthering at tho ‘atterson Club house, where he was given are- ception and where Mr. Watterson, in spite of his recent severe illness, of which he showed decided traces, also spoke. Young John Brown, governor of Kentucky, presided over the great mass meeting and intro” duced Gen. Stevenson to the immense audi- ence, He was greeted with tumultuous en- thusiasm, and delivered a speech that was frequently interrupted by applause. Speeches were made by J. Proctor Knott, James A. McKenzie, Bo; Winchester and Albert 8. Willis and othere. After the adjourn- ment of the mass meeting Gen. a public reception. The members of the V terson Club and their invited guests then re- paired to the Watterson Club house, where a Tepast, followed by a feast of reason and a flow of soul, awaited them. ‘The Kentucky legislature, by o unanimous vote, has invited Mr. Stevenson to go to Frank- fort, and he will proveed thither today, having accepted the invitation. Elections in Tennessee. Yesterday general elections were held throughout Tennessee for sheriffs and other county officers. No state officers were chosen. In middle and west Tennessee democrats were generally elected; in east Tennessee, republi- cans ; ‘The chief interest centered in tho fifth gressional district, where primal was heid to decide whethe* Ho: Richardson, Pilow, U Cleveland's administration, should be the dem- ocratic nominee for Congress. ‘on- y electi James D, sent inenmbent, or Hon Ernest It Hurt Mr. Cleveland. In| staff came down from | | Frankfort. The legislature was left without a jevenson gave | | of the vital necessity of general cleauliness, and and serious menace to the public| The day after Mr. Cleveland was ceremon- - A single epidemic of cholera or of| iously notified of his nomination he had at ty d disease might prove a vers costly | jancheon with him in W. C. Whitney's dwelling, means of zwakening our people to a perception | 61s chitok aevecad tnaaee | at Sth avenue which general cleanliness does not now exist | S¢quaintances, says tac New York Herald. Col. continued withont | William L. Brown, Don M. Dickinson of De- 2 were rein recoramended. he | troit and State Senator Walker of Elmi alleys as are saying: “You are requested to meet at the court house of your county on next Saturday for the | purpose of seeing that the votes cast at the | election August 1. 1892, are correctly and fairly | counted. You will make note of all irregular- ities. Keep an account of all votes that were illegally cast and be prepared to have it. Circu- late this among your friends and go to the court house in such numbers as to show that you are determined to preserve your rights, The indi- | cations now are tint Kolb is elected. and that | the legislature will be composed of true men who will see justice done in the premises. And T urge you to do your duty from now on as you have done in the past and not lose the fruits of | your victory.’ | The Resuit in Alabama. | Official returns and reliable statements from | sixty-one out of sixty-six counties give Jones and the regular democratic ticket a majority of | majority of twenty-two in the lower house of legislature and thirteen in the senate. act majority of Jones will not be known until the boxes are all returned Saturday, but it will be in the neighborhood of 20,000. An Fxciting Political Incident. The most exciting scene of the campaign occurred yesterday at Union. Gov. Tillman and Col. Orr, the conservative candidate for lioutenant governor, were the participants. nied that he flaunted his profanity in the faces of the people, and declared that an oath slipped | out on but one occasion. Col. Orr contended | that Tillman had been profane and said he could ascertain the fact appealing to the Hera ersin general. Gov. Tillman then said at Col. Orr lied. The colonel advanced threateningly upon the | governor and for a time it looked as if there | would be a personel encounter, but both men | finally quieted down and the incident ended. | There was tremendo: excitement among the spectators while the row lasted. Democrats Will Fight Simpson. ‘Wm. O'Connor, county attorney of Stephen county, Kan.,anda democratic leader in the southwest part of the state, eays in an interview | that outside of Sedgwick 50 per cent of the | democrats in the seventh district would vote | with the republicans rather than support Con- gressman Jerry Simpson. He said that the democrats were organized to prevent Simpson's indorsement and if defeated in the conven would boit and run an independent candi | as was done as the third district convention, oe — TAKES A REST. | wx. Grapsro | He Leaves London, but Will Keturn on Monday. The rising of Mr. Gladstone in parliament | yesterday to second the motion for the re-clec- tion of Mr. Peol as speaker of the house was the signal for renewed cheering by the opposi- tion, Mr. Gladstone in his remarks paid a graceful tribute to Mr. Peel and expressed’ the hope that no discordant note would be heard during the vote and Mr. Pecl’s induction into the chair as speaker. | After the re-election of Mr. Pecl had been | announced he was conducted to the chair by | Mr. Balfour with the usual ceremonies und ad- dressed the house briefly, thanking the mem- bers for the honor done him by his re-election. At the conclusion of is speech an adjourn- ment was taken until toda; ed Stntes district attorney under | | of the house he was given m reception b | his colleagues. Upon his taking his seat on the | Irish benches he was teanned with curios y the conservatives and whispcrings were licard ominous of their intention to contest his right to take the oath. Mr. James ir Hardie, the labor candidate i ected in the south division of West 2 majority over Major J. E. Banes, drove into the palace yard ina gouette filled with worknien and a 20,652. The supporters of Jones will have a| ‘The ex- | Gov. Tillman in the course of his remarks de- | | municipal removal of a es, also, while not so necessary on the score of health, would be a great economy as well as convenience, and it | cannot be economically attained without the opening of these alleys, the proper condition of | which thercafter should of course be obtained by police supervision. THE STREET SCHEDULE. Northeast—i0th street from East Capitol | street to H street, paving; 2d street from C street to F street, paving; M street from North Capitol street to 2d street, paving; 15th street | from East Capitol strect to E street, grading | gulating: C street from 12th street to 15t grading and regulating; Delaware avenue C street,to. D street, paving; Maseachusetts nave from 2d street to 4th street, paving; 11th | eet from East Capitol street to B street, pav- | Cay pai ing; 11th street from B street to Maryland ave- | grading and regulating; D street from rland avénne.to 12th street, grading and | B street from Sth street to 11th F street from 8d street to Gth paving: Ist street from F street to Chi- | engo Ftreet, paving: Gth street from C strect to | F ‘sireet, paving: B street from Lith street to 19th street, grading end regulating: 1 street | from 7th street to 12th strect, grading and ‘Tennessee avenue from Lincoln treet, grading and regulating; m_ D sireet to F street, paving. 13th street from East Capitol street to Marslad | avenue, grading and regulating; East Capitol m lith street to 13th street, paving; | tol street from 13th street’ to 15th | ing: 19th street from ing and rect from South Capitol street | ag: Estrect from 1th street | to 13th stree treet from C street to E street, 15th street from East | Capitol street to K street, grading and regulat- | ing: 8th strect from North Carolina avenue to} | Pennsylvania avenue, paving; 10th street from | Pennsylvania avenue to G street, pav ectirom G street to O street, regulating; E street (north’ tide) from Sth stree street, paving; 17th sireet from G street to E street, grad- ing and regulating: 14th treet from B street to K street, grading and regu Strect from Lincoln Park to B street, paving: | 12th street from B street to K street, grading and regulating; East Capitol street from 11th street to 13th street, parin jeorgia ni from Lith street to 17th, grading and regulating; ¢ from Lincoln grading and regulating; L et to Sth street, grading and treet from 7th street to North 5 10th | grading and | lich street, grading and regulatiny from 14th street to New bridge, grad- ing and reguiating: Iéth street from E street 10 ue, grading and regulatin, b street to 8th street, paving: 13th East Capitol street’ to D street, | sulating; 13:h street from Penn- | ne to K street. grading and regu- pitol street from 13ik street to ading and regulating; 19th street pitol street to B street, gradi: ind regulating; O street from 11th street to 13th street. grading and regulating. Under the call of new business Mr. Weller | offered a resolution approving the Commis-| sioners’ action in their efforts to get Congress to pass the Iiunton liquor bill aud the associa- tion unanimously approved the same. ‘The meeting then adjourned. ———— Thinks He is an Embezzler. There is a general belief that William R. Robins, attorney and conveyancer of Phila- delphia and late accounting warden of St. Mark's Church, is n fugitive, and it is alleged , that the total sum of discrepancies in which he | is involved will reach $150,000. | In the latter part of June the fact became public that Mr. Hobins, as accounting warden of St. Mark’s Church,’ was several thousand | dollars-ebort in bis “accounts with the vestry. No statement has ever di the exact | amount of the shortage, beyond the indefinite ganouncement that it ‘would reach a total of veveral thousand dollars. It ia understood that the deficit was made good by an effort of se- curit Pills have been filed in common pleas court | iu Site waite to anmal coriain | property of Mra, Mary W. Camp! |e averred in the ‘complaint, » Robins without her know! 15th street, t | t8 alleged that he | of attorney, and of Mes. Campbell's property. Tt | that Robins recent ‘® confession | crookedness. He has of the party. It wae the day the democratic national committee met and Mr. Whitney was down town at the meetin While at table the taik the statement by all the York to the Chi land could not carry th “I must own,” said signing of that paper b; me. Now there I would nev Manning would t “Manning did know,” put in Sena? hard pressure. “I wouldn't have thought it of him,” replied Cleveland. legates from New r. Cleveland, “that the some of the men hurt ing of Albany. ed that a ron of Dan Ben Wood would like to get his signature | off that paper,” remarked Col. Brown. would give $5,000 myself if his name wasn't — “I'm sure I don't understand it,” repeated Ir. Cleveland. ‘The conversation, as itis described to me, continued in the same vein, and Mr. Cleveland expressed his wonder and grief that soveral men who had been served by him and who bad professed not long before the convention a warm attachment to him should have put their names to the declaration that he could not carry the state. M Struggle in the Nebraska Republican Con- vention. After the most desperate struggle ever known in a Nebraska republiean state convention the Nebraska republican convention adjourned at | T o'clock last evening to today without having made a nomination. The great contest came on at 3:30, when the balloting for . The candidates were: Lorenzo Crounse, assistant secretary of the treasury: ex-Congress- man Thos. Majors, Lawson Sheldon, A. E. Cad. Jack MeCall and Judge Reese, ‘Whe fist ballot resulied: Crounee, 376; Majors, $44; Sheldon, 42; Cady exe, 1. There was little chango on the second ballot but when the third ballot was ordered the trou. ble began. The Douglas county convention had instructed itg delegates to vote asa unit for if were ironclad, y # reached one of the delegates demanded a poll of the delegation. At once there war an uproar and the convention became u howling mass of humanity. Al efforts to restore order proved futile for « hour. Finally the chair decided thai the d gation could be polled. The poll resulted in thirteen men deserting Crounse for Misjors and five voted for McCail. Enough Majors men from other counties, When Doi | however, changed to Crounse to offset the loss and the result of the ballot showed a gain of two for Crounse. Pandemonium reigned for halfan hour, but at taken, which’ resulted: Cronnse, 393: Majors, 817; Sheldon. 83; Cady, 60: McCall, 40; Reese. After the result of the ballot had been made known an effort was made to adjourn, but the motion vas lost. ‘There was considerable filibustering and in the middle of it the lights in the opera house were turned out. booked to play there Inst night and in order to secure adjournment the proprietor of the thea ter took this means to bring the convention to time. The play proved successful and the con- Yention was forced to adjourn until morning. AFTERNOON SESSION. A. E. Cody of St. Paul was chosen perma- nent chairman of the convention at the after- noon session and the committee on resolutions reported the platform, which was adopted with- outa dissenting voice. The platform aiirmed faith in the principles enunciated in tho plat- form adopted by the national repnblican con- vention at Minneapolis, and heartily indorsed the administration of President Harrison. The resolution indorsing the administration of President Harrison was heartily applauded, as was one denouncing the employment of Pinker- tons. An allusion to lower freight rates also Drought out applause. | ‘The whole platform was received with enthusiasm, and on motion of J. W. Tucker of Cherry county the platform was adopted without a dissenting vote. i tary resolutions were also intro- lancet by ten committee with the explanation that it was not to be made part of the plat- form. It was.as follow: nomination of tes, and limited to five minutes. wanted to do away with the amendment rt vention that Mr, Cleve- | another ballot was A theatrical troupe was | ing the Marseillaise. Mr. Hardie was dressed in a workingman’s clothes and cap, both his cap and coat were decorated with ig, rose fe was greeted with cheers aud laughter. Mr. Chamberlain took his ceat on the front crammed, the members crowding the ga for want of standing room below. The pe and # filled to over- flowing. Sir MLW. Ridley’s rem: election of ‘the 5) the admirable m: ks moving the re- ker, in which he referred to 28 of the office, were greeted 1 side: 3 hir. ho earlier had becn con- versing with Mr, Pecl, on beginning his remarks |seconding the ‘motion for the latver'e re citon, spoke huskily, but after a few minute his voice became clear, and before his specch was concluded had regained all its old reso- mance, bd ‘The liberals are congratulating themselves that their Mhief is in good form. Mr. H. H. Asquith, the memb: division of Fifeshire, will move the amendment to the address in reply to the speech from the throne declaring no confidence in the g: ment, to be presented in the hou: t week, | and Mr. Thomas Burt, member for Morpeth, will second the motion. | ‘There was the usual meager attendance of | peers at the opening of the house of lords yt terday. ‘fhe lord ‘chancellor announced ng of parliament by commission and tis ork read the letters it. ‘These proceed. ings occupied twenty mix The house then cleared of visivors, after which the bishop | of Ripon read prayers and an adjournment was | taken until today | THE MUSH PARTY, | Sixty-six McCarthyites met in the committee | room and re-elected Justin MeCazthy as chair- | man, Mr. Deazy, Sir I. Esmond, Mr. Molo: and Dr. Tanner as whips, and Arthur O'Connor and Donald Sullivan as secretaries, ‘The meeting then bs of the for the eas| Mr re-clected_ a3 a mere figurehead t ‘aces in abeyance. ‘Tho rival sonally loss ‘authority than ever. ‘hey cannot answer telegrams about the position without submitting them to the real wort The MeCarthyites will meet Ithas been decided that they shall continue to xit on the opposition side of the house, though they will co-operate with the Gladstonians on the home rule bill. ‘The Ascociated Press is authorized to state has agreed to take pe v for Ireland. ‘The hberal whips are arranging with th nment fora division of the house on 'T: MeCarthyites, with « view to facilitating an early di robably Mr. ‘Thomas Sexton, to reply to Mr. our. The Parnellitea concur in the plans to expedite the division. — -¢ee-—____. Boston Printers Refuse to Be Assessed. In order that a nine-hour work day might be sueceesiully enforced in all book and job print- | ing offices in this country the International | Typographical Union at its last convention pro- | posed that an assessment of 1 cent per day be | levied upon the members of the union for the | creation of a nine-hour fund. The members of | Typographical Union 13 of Boston, by a vote of | 271 to $16, have voted against the proposition. They also, by a vote cf'205 to 32, declared | against paying an nssessment of 10 cents per | week for further support of the printers on strike in Pittsburg, Pa. path ies ese The Military Display at Chicago. ‘Tho details of the proposed military display at the world’s fair at Chicago by United States troops are being considered by the War De- posts to the fair, but their eelec- upon the condition of the country at the time. ee ie He Woes John Brown's Physician. Dr. Wma. Nick Pindell died at Newark Wednes- day night, He was overcome by the heat » rs have per- | n, will put up only one member, | DON M. DICKINSON. THE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN. Ex-Postmaster General Don M. Dickinson Selected by the National Committee. Ex-Postmaster General Don M. Dickinson of Michigan has been chosen chairman of the democratic campaign committee. On motion of Senator Gorman B. B. Smalley of Vermont was elected secretary. Chairman Harrity of the national committee was authorized to appoint the necessary sub- committees and-to employ assistants and a clerical force for headquarters, He immediately appointed George N. Parker auditor and Wil- liam Duff Haynie of South Dakota superin- tendent of the information bureau. Frank M. Duffy of New York was appointed messenger. The campaign committee decided that the resoltion of the national committee contem- plated the appointment of nine members of the cempaign committee exclusive of Chairman | Harrity, so Mr. Harrity added ox-Secretary Whitney to the committee. ‘The advisory com- mittee will not be appointed for several da; Senator John F. Ahearn, Nelson Smith,chair- man of the Tummany general committee, and Lawrenco Gardner, secretary of the National League of Democratic Clubs, were among the visitors at democratic national committee head- quarters yesterday. The democratic state com- mitice will meet at the Hoffman House this even rrange for headquarters and take ive campaign at once. 1 Dickinson, the new campaign born at Port Ontario, Oswego in 1846. His parents migrated tually settled in Detroit, where ‘anuel attended the public schools, Later ed the University of Michigan at Ann Harbor, where circumstances rendered it nece: sary he should inect studied law and was admitted to the bar when he was barely of age. Four years later be had become one of the leading lawyers of Michigan, Just after he had been admitted to the bar he occupied a desk in his older brother's office. Later his brother went to NewYork and handed over his business to Don Manuel, who took into partnership another Dickinson—Julian G.— who, however, was not related to his family. Mr. Dickinson's partner had the reputation of being “uncommonly smart” in the art of col- lecting debts. Julian G. and Don prospered. ‘Then they dissolved partnership, but Don held together the lurge collector's usiness and con- tinned to prosper. Don wooed and won a fair heiress of Grand Rapids, who had $150,000 inher own right,with Deauty and accomplishments thrown in. In i872 he was a warm Greeley man. Four later he strongly supported Samuel J. en and was made chairman of the statecom- mittee of Michigan, Ue first came into national prominence upon the accession of Grover Cleveland to the presi- dency. In the autumn of 1884, as a member of the Detroit committee, he called upon Mr. | Cleveland at Buffalo. Mr. Cleveland was very much impressed at the time by the business manners of Mr. Dickinson, and one thing which t particularly charmed the | ent was that Mr. Dickinson was giving him advice as to an” the government. ud had not been installed e before he received another son, and from that date emocracy, in 1888, Lo ap- was made in Michigan, or of at Was not inspired by Dick- er, was ys ow he should resident Cleve! many hours in ¢ izom Mr. I er General for that of Seere- tary of the Ini «l_ Prevident Cleveland ied Den Manuel Dickinson to the vacant ‘on proved himself a capable ent nd-out Jeffersonian democrat, ct construction of: the | Constitu nd is wosed to protective tariffs. does not advocate undue haste | in reforms in this direction. Schema re ae FIRST DEFENDER. E. C, Williams of Snyder County, Penn., Has the Record. Cc. Williams of Snyder county, Peun., is st defender.” Gen, Williame is ahcro of the Mexican war. He was also in service during the Philadelphf riote of 1844. Itis cl Chapm: a the call was made for troops Williams | raised a company called the Cameron Guards and presented the roll to Gov. Shunk, who re- fused to accept it, stating that it was not a regularly or; d body, but after some per- suasion the company was accepted and started for the front. They sailed on a vessel bound for Lobas Island, Gulf of Mexico. After forty days’ voyage they arrived, but were not per- tted to land op account of a number of cases allpox. AS soon as they were sufliciently | recovered they their march toward the Civ -of ¥ . ‘They had many ekirmishes | with the enemy and always came out conquer- , but the i t was at Chapulte- fic, but the bluecoats Williams and Capt Montgomery raised the first American flag on | the citadel “of Chapultepe kept it flying til Gen. Scott rode up. the cal! for troops was announced for the late war Gov. Curtin direoted Cxho had_Lcen commissioned brigadier general of Dauphin force for the » organized Camp mustered in the service in the late rebellion on the 1pth day of April, 1861, in the executive chamber wt Herrisbu: between 9 and 10 ‘a before the Logan Guards or any of the others of the first tive companies. Th: general has bi i the Yellowstone Park investigation submitted | their report to the House. They take the ground that Secretary Noble acted with fair- ness and justice in annulling the transportation | leases, and that Mr. Gibson acted in a false and deceitful manner in his relations with the See- retai n attack is made on Mr. Gibson by | theaminority, while Russell Harrison's connec- tion with the company is defended in strong terms. . Referring to it the minority accuse the ma- jority of going out of ite way in what it charac- terizes as an attempt to smirch the son of thé } lent by the use of some incidentals in the l evidence. The facts are, it says, that a certain arty interested in the park association, assum- Ing that Slr. Harrison would have sone. influ- ence with the unknown Secretary of the Inte- rior to be appointed, proposed to induce Mr. Harrison to use such supposed influence for the benefit of the association and remunerate him with fifty shares of the stock. But the stock was | never issued, the minority holds, and Mr. Har- ristn was never requested, exeept by Waters, to to uve his influence, and was no necd that ; he should do so. . ‘The whole thing was evidently a the fegh ie hil we wd D. C., FRIDAY; AUGUST 5. 1892. is own expenses. He | ° A Party of Young People Tell of a Fright- ful Experience With a Big Serpent. Some young people of Havana, IL, persist in telling of a frightful experience they had last ‘Sunday afternoon while rowing on Thompson’ lake, not far from this city, says n Havana special to the New York Herald. As they were passing through the flooded district, which is thickly grown up with underbrush, one of the young men, they state, pointed a revolver at what was supposed to be a log lying half snb- merged in the slimy water and asked his com- panions to note how accurately be would hit the center of the fallen tree. At the report of the weapon the supposed log began to move about in an extremely lively | manner, and soon the waters were white with foam. To the horror of the young folks an im- mense and hideous head reared out of the water. The shape of the head they declare was like that attributed to the sea nt. The | head was covered with a scaly hi and’ the body with enormous scales. had wicked eves, which glittered fiendishly, and from the hideous mouth long fangs shot forth with rapidity. So frightened were thie occupants of the boat that they did not linger long to take observa- | tions, but rowed for clear water as fast as they could. ‘The young ladies kept up a continuous screaming. ‘The serpent followed. the boat some distance, making the most hideous noises, | ome the atmosphere was filled with a fetid jor. A farmer residing in the Spoon river bottoms says he is satistied this enake has been for some time in the bottoms, as he bas always wondered at the wide swath made in the grass and could never account for it. Other people claim to ‘have seen this snake, and some farmers t loss of young stock’ and poultry. It ia cur- rently reported that the reptile is the one that escaped froma river menagerie some two years == —-2- —___ THE CANAL COMPLICATIONS. Collection of Tolls From Canadian Vessels | May Be Ordered. | A dispatch received at Ottawa from Washing- | ton says that President Harrison will not issue any proclamation putting into operation the statute authorizing him to impose tolls upon foreign vessels using the Sault Ste. Marie canal, but will simply order his officials to collect the tolls, Tnis will give the owners of Canadian lake shipping no warning whatever. The first | notice they will get of the initiation of the new order of things will be the stoppage of their | vessels at the entrance of the Ssult Ste, Marie canal. | Owners of lake vessels say that the Canadian canal around St. Mary's falls will not be com- pleted for two years, and that if the canal on ‘the Michigan wide of the river is closed against Canadian vessels during that period there will be uo Canadian shipping to use the new canal, | as vessel owners cannot afford to have their craft lying idle for two years. The closing of the American canal, therefore, means the ex- tinction of Cazadian shipping on Lake Supe- | rior. | | ‘The talk about Canada retaliating by shutting | American vessels out of the Welland canal is nonsense. Says a special tothe New York Times: Canada has no power to violate treaty e | ments entered into by Great Britain and United States, and the use of the Welland canal | to American veseels is guaranteed by the treaty ot Washington. The dominion can get out of the existing difficulty either by declaring the St. | Lawrence and Welland canals free to everybody | or by imposing full tolls upon all vessels and | cargoes using them, ‘The government has sacrificed some revenue by the rebate xvstem, but it is questionable whether the producers of grain or the taxpayers of Canada, who are taxed to build and maintain canais, get any advantage from the system. A rebate in itself euggesta deception und | practice. The grain, upon which rebates of |canal tolls are allowed, is for the most part grown in the United States, The dominion commissioner of inland reve enue, Mr. Miall, who has made a study of the | whole canal tolls question, has frequently de- clared, in his reports to the government, that the system of refunding canal tolls upon grain cargoes involves a loss of revenue to the domin- ion without attracting any additional business to the St. Lawrence route. ———_-se- Consul Ryder’s Case. | At the State Department it is aid that the reports from Europe in connection with the a: rest of Consul Ryder at Copenhagen contain in- | accuracies. | The American minister, Mr. Carr, has never reported to the department that Mr. Ryder was guilty of the charges, nor has he ever recom- | mended his recall.” He did not report that the Danish government had madean ex-parte in- | vestigation of the charge of the claimants and had suggested that if the government of the | United Stat-s desired to @ansfer Mr. Ryder to | Some other post the prosecution would not be | instituted in the courts, ‘The State Department replied that the consul should be submitted toa legal trial and abide the judgment of the court. It is stated that the charges cgainst Mr. Byder have been greatly exaggerated in the European press, and some of them are known by the de- artment to be unfounded. He has been for | many years in the consular service of the United | States, was a gallant soldier and is now suifer- [ing from a wound received’ in the civil war. | While the department did not feel warranted in | withdrawing him from the post under the eir- cumstances or evading the results of a legal in- | vestigation, his past record called for a suspen- sion of public judgment till the pending triai was concluded. = — Rebuked @ Nobleman, Lord Chief Justice Coleridge of England de- livered judgment yesterday regarding right of | jay in an action in which the plaintiff, a work- | | ingman, sued the Duke of Rutland because of | the latter's gamekeepers stopping traffic on a | highway while they were driving grouse. His | lordship in his del i | j rights of the people bad paseed and that if the duke could not conduct his shooting without meddling with | the right of the public to use the highway he | must select other places to hold bis battues. ‘The evidence given during the trial of the suit showed that the gamekeeper knocked the plain- tiff down on the highway and that when the | | Plaintiff complained of this treatment to the | | duke's son, Lord Edward Manners, the latter | | Teplied: “Go to the devil. If you are shot your | fe be on your own head.” This the lord chief justice eaid could not be | tolerated from any person, duke or otber. Lord Edward Manners, interrupting at this point the remarks of the lord chief justice, said that his lordship’s words seemed to hold derer. To this his lordship replied: “I only said what T considered it my duty to say.” of the Cowes cup over the Quéen's course was | won by Queen Mab, the Emperor William's | yacht Meteor being beaten. After the mce the emperor was banqueted on | board the royal yacht Victoria and Albert. ‘The | ship was speci deck was covered with an awning and a electric lights was passed around the bul ‘The pavilion was also Mluminated with lights, ‘The Prince of Wales recei man em) | at the g if i F j i him (Lord Edward) up as a prospective mur-” SCHIAPARELLI TALKS, The Italian Astronomer Thinks Mars is Inbabited—A Theory as to the Canals. A special cable dispatch to the Philadelphia | Pressrom Milan says: Prof. Schiaparelli, the illustrious astronomer, was seen here today. He has known of the progress of the observa- tions by the Lick astronomers, with whom be has been in correspondence, and expressed great admiration for the American enterprise which had brought their splendid observatory | into existence at so great a cost. Prof. Schiapa- | Telli was asked what was the probable cause of failure by other astronomers in some cases to see what he had seen. i “There might,” he said “‘be two causes for the diversity of observation. The first of these is the different acromatism of the telescopes. The visibility of certain stars depends much more upon the suitability of the instruments reflecting certain colored rays than upon the size of the instruments themselves. “The second cause for the variability of ob- ‘ions is habit. The eye, I think, should be habituated to the observation of certain stars. Itwas only after fourteen years’ work in ob- seFving Mars that I saw the dotails of the image with any clearness, and after that further details appeared. The California astronomers, who appear to be doing such excellent work with their fine instruments, could thus probably be enabled to see next year many things not apparent now. ‘Some newspapers,” he continued, “have attributed to me the idea of finding in the duplication of the lines of Mars a proof that the planet was inhabited, and this they thought was upon the supposition thai the lines were the work of reasoning beings. I never said anything of the kind. Natural forces may have hollowed out these deep canals fifty to 100 kilometres long. Why they are double it is impossible to say and it would be idle in an astronomer to setup an by for dis- enssion. It would still require and laborious observations before we could know | definitely from what could be seen that Mars was sustaining life. | £0 50 fo net, however, believe that Mars now inhabited, if not by human beings, then by some lower order of the animal Pe “Iam convinced of the habit ity of the “but my convic- net,” replied Sc i, doe ft te based ‘upon smany other tion on that things than simple observations. The condi- tions which prevail in Mars see to ximate | more closely those of the earth than is the case | with any other heavenly body. It would in- deed be strange if a globe like ours, in many of ite im it features, should exist without life of some kind, ly when we know that such life would ible on the earth were such conditions absent. Thus naturalists and phers would say that it is much eatier to show that animal life exists on Mars than that it does not. The burden of proof, peng rests upon those who deny such ex- tence. During the present apposition of Mars Prof. | Sehia ell! bes boon ni tly on the scene of | is labors, wat planet his now | famous reenter rhe Loreto additions | to his map as his keen eyesight has been enabled | to detect. His canal theory is widely known | here among the common People, who regard the professor with a reverential awe, and would | believe him if he said there were gondolas on the seas of Mara, | Ex-Treasurer Hyatt Assaulted. Ex-United States Treasurer Hyatt, president | of the Roton Point, Conn., Improvement Com- | pany, who is summering at the Point, was at-| tacked the other day by four drunken Harlem | roughs anda lively fight ensued. Mr. Hyatt, who isan athlete and very strong, when he | found moral suasion useless, struck out straight | from the shoulder with both fists and quickly put bis assailante to flight. Mr. Hyatt ssid the men bad been fighting among themselves, and it was when he endeavored to restore peace that they in turn immediately set upon him. A ‘thin jacket which he wore was torn to shreds, | +02 | Strack by a Skyrocket Stiek. ‘Mrs. Sarah Waters of Philstielphia, the wife | of a Pennsylvania railroad conductor, was sit- | ting on the beach with ber children watching the fireworks set off by the Chautauqua Circle at Ocean Grove, N. J., on July 21, to celebrate | its commencement, when a large skyrocket | stick crashed down on her right foot, burying it in the sand. It crushed the bones of the in- step. and before the bystanders could pick it off ithad burned her severely. She has been confined to her tent on Wesley lake since then and suffers great pain. None of | tho cuthoritien of Ooma Sicore ines eniied en her and she cannot find out who liable for her injuries, A Shaky Old Tower Blown Up. Dynamite cartridges were exploded in the walls of the northeast corner of the City College building, on North Howard street, Baltimore, yesterday, and the tower, which had been a menace to passers-by, fell. More dynamite was at once placed in the remaining portion of the front wajl and about fifty feet more of it was thrown down. The sinking of the bed of Howard street was caused by the eudden empty- ing of water and earth into the spuce ti workmen bad made in their construction of the Beit Line tunnel. An old well or reservoir was struck, and the sandy soil was forced out, thus AT SEA. The Master of » German Steamship in Port Describes a Very Remarkable Capt. Fendt, commanding the ( ship Procida, which das arri from Hamburg with a large general carg thaton July 27, in the height of = thunder storm, he witnessed an Phenomenon, in the shape of a bine «t the northern horizon, illuminating a dark blue colored light for m The appearance of the ph Markable effect upon the crete, many of whom were superstitious and f world was near at hand. markable blue streak ling horizon, and although the ship was go speed toward the directi he never peared to ge For the first time since the the hydrographic office at I hin the officials in charge have been puszied. They do not know, neither can they discover, the cau of this phenomenon, and all yesterday the rhij Pere of the varions veasels in harls discussed the report made by Capt. Pe Jame. Me! ick, in charge of ring Lieut. Hughes’ alence ’ day that it was the first report of the Kind ther had ever received Capt. Fendt says his ship was in latitude 41.40, longitude 64.20, when the pher ed. “We were in the nu frightful thunder storm, with heavy © vivid lightning. At 1 p.m. the er deck called my attention to the x1 red first like a ligh ascending #k¥ward in serpentin: illemin visible. tio’ an Kteam= at Philadeiptia sea with 1 ag at full which it was visi- vishment of It of the paler very gradually and eventually from view. For a time before #und streak appeared ta become heavier and spr out in the form of Clouds, presenting a gorgeous appearance.” Capt. Fendt anys that in all his years at sea he never beheld such was brought about by some strange atmos pherical conditions. OF A DANCER. FOR Lo’ Waiter Joseph Dictze Attempted Suicide in Central Part A better waiter never balanced a tray than Joreph Dietze. Joseph prided himself upon this accomplishment, and there was by other thing that over-hadowed this pride, and that was his immense sive. He stood over six feet in height throe months ago when he plied ata beer garden on the Bo in New York for @ position as waiter. Joseph had been in this country bata year or so. He came bore from Berlin after having escaped being drafted into the army. Upon his arrival he worked as waiter in dif- ferent places for small wages, and finally, three months ago, he secured work at the gar- den. For two months his lite was uneveut and then Fraulein Geertes Ziclimistin and dance artist, was eng: d to do ber in the place and Joseph fell in lov She wang every afternoon and could dance bewitchingly, kick high an fully, and assbe sang her love ditt evening Joseph, while serving fandwictos sw beer, imagined ‘that sbe was singing for kim alone. He little knew that Geertos had a | In the course of time Jose; and Fraaieain met. Within a few weeks of this meeting Joseph told the little dancer of his love and threatened to kill himself if she refused him. She only laughed, fo: she loved another. Joseph pleaded until Geertes called for help and had poor Joe thrown off the stage. He got bock, however, by promising that he would not furiher annov ibe artist, But from that tim neglected bie rk. He could only rit nd hear Geertes sing. The managers warned him that be was not paid for listening to the music and watea- ing the dance. Last Monday night Joe could stand it lionger. He must speak again | saw ber behind the wings; more de- | clared his love and was again rejected and | ejected. For hours he waited about the door | trying togetaglimpre of his idol. He bad told the dancer tha: bh» would kill himself and | she bad laughed at him. Tuesday, at his lod zings, Joseph wrote along letter of fareweii to Geertes and ail nigh with a pistol in his pocket, he paced back and forth in Central Park, When the sun rose it found Joseph still Central Pi Hie was etill there when the 4 installment df nurses aud babies arriv he was there when the midday visitors toarrive. About noon an officer beard a over iu the arbor, near the dairy. Hurry there be found a man prostrate and with | ouriug froma wound over the heart. 1 joe, and be thought be was dying. “Officer!” he gusped, “give this letter to her, and tell ber Tloved her too much to live with out her,” and then be fainted away. An ambu- lance was summoned and the injured man taken to the Presbyterian Hospital, where kis wound was pronounced not necersarily fa" ‘he letter to the actress is written in German. It awaits its owner at the arsenal police station. In it Dietze we, Tam going to kill myself. 1 told you r: day, You have treated me badiy. In re for my love you buve laughed and scoffed at me Tcould beat ail this if ow only in a causing the settling of the City College buil ing. The Belt Line Tunuel Company will in- ————-e+—____ England After Pago Pago Coaling Station. ‘The Auckland, N. Z., Evening Star, received by steamer Mariposa at San Francisco, says H. M. S.sCuracoa, which recently annexed Gardi- ner and the Nassau Islands in the Central Pa- cific, returned to Suva, Fiji, from Samoa June sympathy for me. I can do not want to. The only place for m Tove yon dearly and some day w you will think of me kindly, with affection, and I shall be sntistied. “Good- bye, good-bye. The letter is long, covering four pages of ctnraty weieen matte. yh will probably be out again ina few days, or weeks, perhaps. The bali entere sbave the heart, to the left, and is «till ina If it had been deflected a half inch downward for the nee may is ready for use. It is ii I F i i i i ——+*e A TERRIBLE OUTRAGE. A dastardly outrage was committed the other evening near Chislehurst, Kent, England. As Miss Woods, daughter of the vicar of Bickley and « niece of Kight Hon. Geo. J. Goschen, chancelior of the exchequer, was walking «long the road in the company of a friend, they were ‘approached by two men carrying guns. The fi it ef | | i i H a5 & i i E f i f ! Hf i i E i i ! if i if Hl t i Fr