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WANTED (Miscellaneous), ‘The Star-Out of Town. ‘Taz Evexino Stan will be sent by mail to any address in the United States or Canada for such period as may be desired at the rate of fifty cents per month. GP But all such orders must be ac companied by the money, ot the paper cannot be sent, astno accounts are kept with mail scbseriptions. Fourth-Clase Postmasters. One hundred and nineteen fourth-claas post- masters were appointed today, of whom 79 were in place of postmasters removed. es Sliver Movements. ‘The issue of standard silver dollars from the mints and treasury offices during the week ended July 15, 1898, was $336,789; for the cor- nding period of 1892, $406,125. shipment of fractional silver coin from the lat to the 15th instant aggregated @375,454. ————— Seizure Made. Regarding the alleged seizure of the out of = cartoon of the New York Recorder by the United States officials because it resembled a United States silver dollar Assistant Secretary ‘Hamlin aid today: “The department is in re- ceipt of information to the effect that no seiz- ure was made of the Recorder plates for the (THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. ©. MONDAY, JULY Y7, 1893: 5 2d EDITION. WARNING UNHEEDED. Needless Loss of Lifein the Recent FIREMEN DRIVEN 70 THEIR DEATH. Serious Charges Against Fire Mar- shal Murphy. PLENTY-OF WITNESSES. INEXCUSABLE LOSS OF LIFE. The Firemen Were Warned Not to Go Up Ante the Cold Storage Building Tower. Cuicaco, July 17.—Jobn B. Skinner, presi- dent of the Hercules iron works, the company owning the cold storage building burned last Monday, lays the blame for the terrible loss of life upon Assistant Fire Marshal Murphy. He insists that a blunder was made ir the face of repested warnings from employes in the build- ing. Capt. Fitzpatrick was with Marshal Mur- phy. The men, Mr. Skinner declares, would not listen to the admonitio::s of men who knew the structure and the danger of an ascent to the tower. “There is one side of this fire case that bas not yet been told,” said Mr. Skinner yesterday. “I suppose it will ali come out before the cor- oner ff the case is gone fully into and the cor- oner.keeps his promise that he will go to the bottom of the affair. “There was absolutely no excuse for the loes of asingle life. The firemen were informed by our employes that there was fire below before they went up into the tower. They were begged not to go up and the danger was pointed out in advance, when there was plenty of tiae to order down such as were already up. “Among those who warned them and who is ready to testify to the fact is Walter M. Don- aldson, the office manager of the business part of the storage and ice department. He went the state of the fire before the men arrived. Donaldson bad been present durin nearly the whole period of construction, was familiar with the building, and was in every way competent to act as a guide to the fire fighters. He could not have been mistaken for an outsider, either. As soon as the firemen arrived he hunted up Capt. Fite- trick and found him on the rink floor with men, some of whom were armed with chop a hole be- hose on the fire in the iower and re- peated his place ‘o fight the fire. To these directions and entreaties Capt. Fitzpatrick answered: ‘You go to h—. Go to h—. I am running this thing” “He was trying at the time to carry three lends of hose up at once and was not making headway. Notwithstanding his rebuff Donald- son, appreciating the situation and the neces- sity for greater haste, begged him to get up one. Capt. Fitzpatrick answered he would get these up oF none. “a. J. Branch,” continued Mr. Skinner, in response to s request for the names of ‘the other witnesses, “one of our men, also asked Capt. Fitzpatrick to work on the base of the tower and fight the fire which was already there. ‘The captain for an answer fetched him back-handed blow with the fiat of his hand ich knocked him eight or ten feet. ir. Alsop, the architect, was one who also ‘advised the men of the dan; and told them begged them not to ascend. “Marshal Murphy stood there and in spite of this information actually drove his men to their deaths. Upon the information we had given them some of the firemen hesitated and de- murred. The marshal was heard to shout to them by at least two of our people: ‘Get up there, you d— cowards.’ He drove them to their denths. “There is no question about it. We are pre- pared to prove it and it must all come out at the inquest. As soon as I heard the statement of our men rightafter the fire I wentimmediately over to Higginbotham’s office and told him what I state bere.” Disputes in the Fire Department. ‘Two matters are engrossing the attention of the world’s fair firemen besides their regular duties. One of them is the’accusation brought bv President John B. Skinner and other officers of the cold storage company that Marchal Murphy drove the firemen up the tower to their death, but did not lead them nor follow them. ‘The other subject of general conversation in fire department circles and Columbian Guard cireles is the dispute between Marshal Murphy and Chief Swenie 9s to who made the heroic rescue of Capt. Fitzpatrick from the burning roof by means of Inddors and life line. Lieut. Barker of Engine Company No. 52 and Lieut. Miller of truck No. 16, both parts of the city fire department outside the gates, per- formed the gallant rescue at the risk of beng burned to death, according to the report of Chief Swenie, the veteran head of the Chicago tinent. In contradiction of this official statement Assistant Marsbal Murphy says shat neither of the lieutenants were on the roof at the time. He makes the same statement that he did on the night of the fire, that Hans Rerfeldt of hook and ladder No.8, Capt. Jus, Kennedy of hook and ladder No. 5 and himself brought Fitz- rick’s broken, burned and almost lifeless from the blazing reof. rescue was witnessed by 10,000 people, and all those not employed on the fair grounds, but those who knew the firemen, say tbat the cartoon published in that paper, but that the | two lieutenants were the heroes, while Marshal plates were voluntarily sent to Mr. Brooks, in charge of the New York district of the secret service division, on his intimation that the said plates might possibly be in violation of the Murphy was only the under man on the ladder. Inside the grounds there is a peculiar agree- ‘ment in the statements regarding the rescuers in favor of the exposition chief, Ed. Murphy, Statutes. No orders were issued by the chief of | and the firemen named by him. At the coro- the secret service, nor were any instructions given by the department in this matter. JSG ERS SLE For the Geological Sarvey. ner’s inquest some light may be thrown under oath on the contradictory statements, but the Present situation shows that tbe official rela- tions between Chief Swenie and Marshal Mur- ‘The Interior Department has signed a lease | Phy *re considerably strained. for the rent of the new three-story structure in the rear of the Hove building on F street for the use of the geological survey at an annual rental of $3,200. ‘The new quarters will be used for the accom- modation of the engraving branch of the geo- _ survey, which has hitherto been located the Adams building. ee ree oes Naval Orders. Lieut. J. T. Newton, to the training sbip Richmond. Licuta. B. T. Walling, Harry Phelps and Ensign G. N. Hay: Newport, K. L, and whiendischarged to resume their present duties. Lieut 5. L. Graham, from the Bancroft and placed om sick leave. Lieut. Edward Lloyd. from the Naval Academy and ordered to the Newport (R. 1.) naval ste- tion for instruction and exereise in automobile torpedoes, and to hold himself in readiness for orders to the Detroit. Ensigns G. W. Williams and W. A. Snow, from the Atlanta, when she goes out of commission. and ordered to the Feceiving sbip St. Louis. Passed Assistant Surgeon T. BR. Bailey, from the Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, and odered to the Machias. The orders of Eusign W. L. Dodd to the receiving ship Franklin have been revoked and he has been ordered to the fish commission steamer, Fish Hawk. E. C. Baumgrass has gone to Chicago. G. W. Kern has gone on a visit of two weeks to Cape May. C. H. L. and Fred. Sites nave gone on an extended trip, taking in Fort Monroe, southern Virginia and Kentucky, and Chicago and Denvere rea Joseph Fich and son are visiting friends at Trenton, N. J. M.A. Martinez of Santiago, Chile; W. A. Backhouse of England and Gen. Anson G. Me- Cook of New York are at the Arlington. James J. e to Atlantic C1 Brie S Heley has gone to Chicago for a visit of three weeks. Mr. 8. J. Reed, jr., and Mr. Wm. G. Dawson are spending afew weeks in fishing om the Koppasarm ck, Virginia 3H Quiet in Siam. The following cable message was received from U. S Consul Boyd at Bangkok, Siam, to- eay: “Everything quiet. Concessions Siamese, and amicable vettiement probable.” rd, to instrue- tion and exercise in automobile torpedoes at joodman and Louis Frankfurt have ‘This, it is understood by many persons in and out of the fire department, is due to a convie- tion in the mind of Chief Swenie that Murphy should have heeded the warning of the cold ftorage people as to the danger from the fire ‘below the men in the tower, and he should have regulated the orders to his men by the informa- tion given him regarding the fire and tower with the sole intention of guarding against the Reedlees sacrifice of brave Sremen, Even the dead Capt. Fitzpatrick comes in for a share of the accusation made in regard to the ignoring of all warnings and information by the ieaders-of the firemen. Walter M. Donaldson, office manager of the warehouse, Architect Alsop and A. J. Branch, an office employe, will be cailed on to testify before the coroner ms to the alleged unheeded warnings, advice and information given to Mar- shal Murphy and Capt. Fitz ime of the fire wi one's mind and it, foand rywhere. It was that “in-sending EXcee mon between two fires some one hed made abinnder which the law should not overlook, and Marshal Murphy's name was coupled with it, The Exact Loss of Life Unknown. One week has elapsed since the world’s fair five and still the mystery of the exact number of buman lives lost remains unsolved. For three dass practically no attempt was made to clear up the ruins, and the work that bas been done since that time has only had the effect of indicating the large amount of labor still ahead before the investigation is complete and tho funeral pyre gives up its secrets. The cessation of work yesterday attracted | general unfavorable comment, and, although a | large force is engaged on the ruins today, the frightful odor arising from the scene, despite the lavish use of disinfectants, indicated that putrefaction is _ proceed- ing with s rapidity that will render it im- possible to distinguish between any decom- posed fragments that are unearthed and the quantitics of meat and provisions that were stored in the building at the time of the fire. ——— ‘The Auroral Beam Seen at Yale. New Haves, July 17.—The auroral beam, which Prof. Frisby of the naval observatory, Washington, look for anew tail suddenly di- veloped to the comet now visible in the constel- lation lynx, was distinctly observed at the Yale observatory fast night by Prof. Elkins and hi ansistant, Mr. Chase. The beam referred to was in close proximity to the comet, but in the opinion of the Yale astronomers had ‘no connec: | tion, physical or otherwise, with it. into the tower and fully informed himself of a the fire was below before they went up and | We PROSPECTS GROW BRIGHTER. Gold Continnes to Come in and the Rate of Money Declines. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star, New York, July 17.—Today's market opened at fractional declines from Saturday's closing ‘and was dull and featureless. Advantage was soon taken of these conditions by operators on the short side and stocks were sold down suffi- ciently low to make covering profitable. Advices from Kansas City indicate that finan- cial affairs in that vicinity are not as serious a was expected, and will probably untangle themselves if given a little time. The bank statement has been interpreted fav- orably and it is expected that money will con- tinue to come from the interior now that the controller has called for a statement as of July 12, and banks have no further excuse for hoard- ing currency. = ld continues to come this way in small quantities, $150,000 additional being reported today. Call money was abundant, 1 per cent under the lega! rate. Railroad earnings so far this month show a flattering increase and conditions generally are assuming a prosperous air that must eventaally tell on the price of stocks. Activity a few days ago resulted in lower prices, now dullness an- swers the same purpose and stocks are cheap merely for want of buyers. . Western Union was used asa battering ram to mark down prices in the early trading, and after losing a point to 77% seemed to have the deatred effect and found sympathy all along ine. Lake Shore declined 15 to 11634, Manhattan 13¢ to 1183y, St. Paul 1}¢ to 5834. Rock Island and Burlington sold down to 633g and 80%, respectively, a net lows otone per cont. In the industrial class icago Gas was strong around 62. Sugar was dull, and sold down to 7934, one ee away from the open- ing, and General Electric was 13¢ per cent cheaper at 62:¢ than it was at opening prices. Silver was steady, opening at 7854 and selling up to 74 on limited transactions. ‘Barin, oun & Co. quote sterling ex- change At 2:30 the market had become very narrow and prices yielded slightly in consequence. In the last balf hour prices somewhat from the lowest, and in some instances early losses were entirely recovered. The closing was dull and without noteworthy incident. Jee FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. The followi lowest and the clostaw orhces of the Ree York stent market today. ge reported: by Corson z Bombers Now fork stock exes: jouars. Bebley, No. 80 Brosdwar Stocks. é ‘3 Pie easy eign # Washington stock Exchange. Sales—Hegular oall-—12 o'clock _m.: U.S. Elec. Light Scrip, $71.48 at 23. U. 8. Elec. Light Conv. ‘5, $1,000 at’ 119; $1,000 at 113; $1,400 at 118; $1,300 at Government Bonds—U. 8. 4s, registered, 1907, 11 bid, 112 asked. U.S 44 coupons,’ 1607, 111 bid. 112 asked. District of Columbia Bonds—20-year fond, 56, 1899, gold, 101% bid. — asked. Water stock, Te, currency, 1901. 112 id, — asked. 2-year fuld. 66, ‘gold, 190%, 112 bid, 190 asked. Water stock, 7s, 1908, currency, 118 bid,— asked. 8.656, 19%, fund, cur- Tency, 106 bid, — aaked. 88, Teg. %10a, 120% 1901, 100 bid. — asked. Haneous Bonds—Wasbit and George- town K.K. Conv. 6a, Ist, — bid, 150 asked. Wash- ington ‘and G RR. Conv. 6a, 2da,— bid. 180 asked. Masonic Hall Association Sa, 102 bid. 10 asked. Washington Light Infantry Ist mort- je 68, 190k, — Did, — asked. ‘Washinglon t Infantry 9478, — bid, — asked. Washi Gas Co. Convertible és, 1501, 120 bid, 140 asked, Wash. Market Co. 1st 6a. 1992-i9:1, — bid. 110 asked. Eckington Kailroad ¢3, — pid, 100 asked, U. %. Electric Light Convertible Ss, i19 bia. 120 asked. Chesapeake and Potomac Telephoue Sa, — bid, 106 asked, Capitol and North 0 iroud’ ist Sa, 1921, — bid, 108 asked, Metropolitan Kallroad Convertible 48, — vid, 110 asked. National Bank Stocks—Bank of | Washington, 880 bid. 400 asked. Bank of the Republic. — bid. 300 asked. Metropolitan, 267 vid. ¥97 asked. Columbia, —bid. 160 asked. Second. — bid. 170 asked. Farm ers and Mechanics’, 190 bid. — asked. Citizens’, <— bid, — asked. Capital, 120 bid, — asked. West End, — bid. 120 asi ‘Traders’. — did, — asked. cola, — bid, 108 asked Central. 300 bid, — asked. " Ohio, — bid. 101 ask. Stocks—' m and Georgetown, = bid, 315 asked. Met litan, ¥7 bid. 100 asked. apitol and North 0 kington and Soldiers’ t. — bid.” 35 asked. an Georgetown and Tenleytown, — bid. 45 asked. Columbh, — bid, 76 asked. Rock Creek, 100 bid, insurance Stocks—Firemen’s, — did. — asked. Franklin, — bid, 60 asked Metropolitan, — bid, —asked.’ National Union, — bid, 18 asked. AT- i mm, — bid. 18S asked. Corcoran, 70 bid. — asked." Columbia, — bid, 15 asked." Riggs. 1 bid, Sasked. People’s, 5 bid, — asked. in, — bid, % asked. Commercial. *5 bid. — asked. ‘Title Insarance Stocks—Keal Eatate Title, — bid, —asked. Columbia Title. 6 bul, — asked, Gas and Electric Light Stocks—U. 8. Klectric Light, — bid, 190 asked. Washington Gas. 45 old, Sv asked. Georget»wa Gas. — bid. — ed. Telephone Stocks — American Graphophone, 1: bid, 25, asked. Chesapeake and Potomac, bi 49 jaked. | Pennsylvania, — bid. — naked. Miscellaneous Stocks— Washington Market, — bid, 15 asked. Great Fulla Ice, 110 bid, 130 aaked Washington Brick Machine, — ee aaked. Bull Kan Panorama, matic Gun Carriage, — bid. .60 asked. Nor. and ‘Wash. Steamboat Co.. 90 bid, — asked. Interocean Bufiding. — did, 100 asked. Safe Deposit ' and Trust Compantes—National Safe it and Trust Co, — bid. 187 asked. Washington Safe Deposit. — bid, 107 asked. Washington Loan and ‘Trust, — bid, 40 aaked. American security and Trust, — bid, 130 asked. EX. div. Ss Bo Baltimere Markets. BALTIMORE. July 13. — Flour dull—western superfine, 2.00u8.36: do. extra, 2-4049.00; do, family, 8.10a8.60;' winter wheat patent. 3.750600; spzing Wheat patent. 3.90a4.95: spring Wheat straight, 8.50 82.75 — receipts, 97,989 barrels; shipments, 128 barrela, salon, 50 Uarrels. Wheat steady —No-2 Ted, 68% 654; July. 69540684: August. 08%: Gare; September, Wiattrecelpte, iot-aly pusuel 8 ‘922,505 “bushels; sales, 181,000 bul Muling wheat by sample, @ago. "Corn quiet— |. spot, 474 bid; July. 47% bid; August, 47x48; September, 48a40'— receipts, 88,551 bushels; stock, 996,319" bushels; wales, 88,000 bushels. White corn by sample, 54; yel- low corn by sample, 0. Oats frm—No. @ White western, $8389; No. 2 mixed western, 368g a8T—recelpis, 12,007 bushela; stock, — 198,190 bushels. Rye slow—No. 2, 54—recetpts, 600 bush- cigs stock. 12.782 bushels. “Hay strotig—good to choice tmothy, 17.50ai3.0¢. Grain freignis fat-- steamer ‘to. Liverpool, per bushel, 8d.; Cork for orders, per quarter, S&.13d.: cotton, ¥6 cents 100 pounds; flour, 16 cents per 100 pounds. Cot- ton nominal—middiing, 8%. . Provisions quiet, light demand, unchanged. Butter firm—creamery, fancy, 2%: do. falr to choice, 20831; do. imita: \9a30. Eggs sinl!—i4y. " Coffee steady—Rio No. 1. 17yati4. Sugar strong hanged. Whisky ged. ‘irginia threes, 65%: To; Northern Cen- fo Sou first incomes, 1014; do. secord incon Cone solidated gas’ bonda, 10944; do. stocks, 54aB4%,. Chicago Grain and Provision Markets. (By private wire to Corson & Macartney.} i if : 190 st I ‘Sept. Tio 1860188 Receints in Chicaro—Wheat, 40 cars; corn, 537; oats, 200; hogs, 3/.000. cee To Succeed Senator Stanford. Los Axouxes, Can, July 17.—The Times | publishes today a statement which represents Maj. Geo. H. Bonebrakes version of the sonatorin! matter. "He claims that he has Gov. equivocal promise of a senatorial we of a vacancy. Bonebrake was m’s chief supporters during his rnatorial campaign, re iho ADMIRAL WAUDENKOLK’S CAPTURE ‘The Insurgent Jupiter Run Down and Taken Without Resistance. Loxpox, July 17.—The Brazilian legation in this city has received the following communics- tion from Brazil: ‘ ‘The gunboats Cananes and chased the insurgent vessel Jupiter with Admiral Wau- denkolk on board, and ‘captured her without resistance off Sante Cathorine. srihore bas been no fighting in Rio Grand Do Three weeks ago 1@ rebels wore compelle? to cross into Uruguay, where they were dis- armed. ‘The reports as to the suspension of the habeas corpus in Brazil are totally unfounded.” a PRESIDENT WALSH DKAD. He Was President Notre Dame. Sourm Bexd, Ixp., July 17.—Thomas Walsh, President of the University of Notre Dame, died here today. —_-.—_ SEALS IN THE ANTARCTIC. The Bering Sea Has = Dangerous Southern Competitor. Paxama, July 9.—Ifarumor from Chile be true the Bering seal grounds will shortly find s southern comcetitor. It issaid in Valparaiso that a Dundee whaling vessel hasretarned from the antarctic ocean: with 60,000 sealskins and tbat the captain refuses to tell where he ob- tained them. —_->—_. HE LEAVES GRAY GABLES, Indications That the President Will Be Gone for Some Time. Buzzanp's Bay, July 17.—The steam yacht Oneida arrived off Monument Neck at 2:40 o'clock this morning with Commodore Bene- dict on board. He came ashore soon after in his steam launch. When « reporter called he was enjoying a pleasant chat with President Cleveland on the Gray Gables roarding tis unoupected arrival ra this unexpected ar of Oneida was that Mr. Benedict was enjoy- ing a cruise and had dropped in to pay his re- spects to Mr. and Mre, Cleveland. It was also learned that Dr. Bryant bad not retarned. Inasmuch as Dr. Bryant is expected to return this week it is presumed that he will —.. Benedict backto New York. ‘Soon lenving Gray Gables the steam Jnunch returned for « second time and Commo- dore Benedict and t Cleveland, board- ing the launch, were soon on the deck of the Oneida. ‘The steam yacht left here precisely ‘at 10:45 o'elock, bound down the bay. ‘The President may be taking a short c1 ‘ork, though it fe possible that he may be bound for New was attired ina dark suit and wore s derby hat, and as he left Gray Gables he bade Mrs. Cleveland an affectionate adiea. gee The Kaiser on » Yachting Cruise, Beaux, July 17.—Emperor William, aecom- panied by the German empress, sailed from Kiel on the imperial yacht Hohensollern. Their ‘majestieg will visit Bornholm, an island belong- ing to Denmark, in the Baltic sea; Gothonburg, in Sweden, and’ other places in ‘that country. Emperor William and the empress will also go to Stockholm, where they will meet King Oscar and the other members of the Swedish royal a Killed on a Kallroad Bridge. Warkatows, N. Y., July 1.—A young girl who was employed as a domestic at a boarding hotwe and George B. Frame, » boarder at the same place, were strugk bys train on the Rome, Watertown and railroad while they were attempting to cross s railroad bridge on the outskirts of this city city last night, RRS EE Concessions to the Vatican. Rows, July 17.—It is stated here by good au- thority that the German government has in- timated to the Vatican that no official opposi- tion would be made in the retchstag to the cen- trist proposals looking to the adoption of a law allowing the return to Germany of the mem- bers of the Catholic religious orders. ens The London Market Stagnant. Loxpox, July 17.—The stock market has been stagnant today. Realizations induced weak- ness and uneasiness prevailed. English railway securities closed irregular. Securities of the ping ae Poms, of te showed < clines ranging from 3¢ to %. Foreign securi- ties closed lower than on Becarday. pesosctttomms Beaten by Her Crasy Hi and. N. ¥., July 17.—John Moyers escaped from the state hospital for the insane in this city this morning, and, proceeding to his wife's home, murderously assaulted her with a club. Her ‘screams attracted tho attention of a neighbor, who bravely tackled Myers and the wife escaped. Meyers then rushed back into the house and cut his throat with a razor. It fs not bel that the injuries to either will prove fatal, fee es Switchman Donohne’s Ball Reduced. Newsvnon, N. Y., July 17.—Tbe case of Michael Donohue, the West Shore switchman, arrested on the charge of manslaughter in the second degree, in misplacing the awitch which caused the disaster week, was called before he recorder this morning. ’ The examination was set for Thursday morning. Bail was re- duced to $3,500 if the bondsmen care to make anew bond, the old one made yesterday being for 6,000. =e Day, the Missing Milwaukee Banker. Ixpranarouis, Ivp., July 17.—Several in- quiries have been received here within the past twenty-four hours regarding F. T. Day, the ex- banker of Milwaukee, but his brother, who ro- sides here and ts izant of his whereabouts, refases to give any information except te say that the indicted banker will return to Mil- waukeo as svon ashe is physically able. That he is still suffering from nervous prostration and is under the care of « physician, and that it ould pat hi life in Jeopardy should he return home before he is entirely relieved. It is no longer « secret here that Day is at thelittle town of Plainfield, where be is undergoing the Keeley treatment for alcoholiem, and that he will be discharged: from the institution at the ond of a three-weeke’ term, which will be within the next four days. Burial Permits. During the forty-eight hours ending at noon today burial permits were issued from the health office for the following: White—Albert 8, Deavers, 25 years; Alfred Gerard, 65 years; Kuppel Glanaman, 1 month; Geo. Carll, 60 years; Willard B. Moore, 18 months; John T. 45 yours; Ernest N. Brady, 16 years; Katie Wood, Hermann Mandley, 2 months; ’ Catherin E. Bird, 70 years; John McArdle, years; ‘Capitola A.” Henry, 23 yea ‘Annie Lowery,3 years; Wilbur West, 19 months Henry E. Clark, 71 years; Augusta M. Towns- end, 44 years; James H. Swift, 55 years; Grace V.. Hackett, ‘7 months; Alan’ 8." Warneke, 6 months; ‘Thomas M.’ Bohannon, 1 yea Genevieve McGuire, 63g’ months: Virginia Everott, 59 years; George Cares, 83 years; Mary Nutrell, 68 years; Nelson Rudy, 74 years; Augusta . 65 years; Thomes James Holmes, 43 years; Eliza J. Axe. 62 veare; Elmer McLean y, 17 years; Ralph Augustus Feldhaus, 4 months; John W. Comberiand, 6 v8. Colored—Mary Jordan, 76 years; Fred Thurs- tou, 23; months; Wm. Henry Hurd, 21 vears; Catherine Blondell, 25 years: George Johnson, 82 years: Samuel Forbes, 56 years; Harrison Growley, 134 years; Jobn Gaskins, 20 years; Mary C.'Dickerson, 41 years; Clarence Scott, 7 months; Arthur Burke, 6’ months, Ethel Slade. 10}; months; Agnes Allen, '16 yea: Alberts T. Costen. 1 year; Charles Brown, months; Rosetta Hatton, 8 months; Robert J. Cole, 634 months; John Francis Palmer, $ months; Walter W. Gant, 24 years; William Smith 113g months; Edua Tumey, 19( years: Bertie Hawkee, 14 years; Isaiah Holmes, 14 years; Lizzie Short, Gear She No More Seerery. The cloud of mystery that bas hung over the health office several days has cleared awa: | Heaith Officer Hammett read Satttrday’s Stan and he declared that his order to the clerks not to,give out news had been misinterpreted. gave instructions to the clerks today that hereafter they conid give to the repor.ers all; the routine business of the office without con: iting bim. ‘Today two garbage complaints were record: d in the book and eight were received from tLe police. In speaking of tho garbage complaints and other matters Health Officer Hammett anid that he was only too glad to have them printed in the papers, in order that the public might kuow what was going on. DISTRICT AFFAIRS. Rev. ‘Schmitt Scores ‘a Health In- spector in a Severe Manner. WEW POLICE SURGEONS. Mr. Hemingway's Ideas on the Proposed Bond Issue. STREET EXTENSION HEARING. Rev. V. F. Schmitt, pastor of St. Joseph's Church, writes the following letter to the Com- missioners today, which the latter have sent to the health officer for full investigation and re- ork: PATA short time ago I wrote to you and com- plained about the conduct of the health officer who visited my house last Thursday and who ‘sithout announcing himself or having a badge | 4, walked through my house as if he was lord of ell be surveyed. I justly took the man to task. Since I wrote to you I have ascer‘ained that Mr. Health Oficer, real or unreal, after he left my house went to the barber shop and saloon of Mr. Achstetter, 228 C street northeast, and coursed and swore in a terrible way about me, talking bitterly and in » most bigoted way about priests. The man by his conduct at my house showed that he was not s gentleman, and by bis conduct at the barber shop and sa- Toon showed that be is a low character, a bigot. ‘8 man unfit for the office he holds. The coward had not the courage before me to let out his spite and venom; but when he smelled of bad whisky be felt in bis element and fired off his volley of vituperation, curses and oaths. I can bring witnesses to testify to the truth of what I have charged the man with. “Idefy any man to defame my honorable name aud to curse mo, a priest, a citizen, a vet- erau of the late war, one who fought in the front ranks for the flag of his country. “That namelest and cursing health officer is not fit to hold office, for he is not a gentle- man, but a cowardly defamer and bigot. “T expect that you will look into this matter and see’ that justice 1 done tome. For thie reason Ihave addressed myself to you, —- Twas edvived to publish the man in the dail Pepers” ‘The Proposed Bond Issue. ‘The Commissioners today received the fol- lowing letter from Mr. C. B. Hemingway rela- tive to the issuance of $10,000,000 worth of bonds for immediate public improvement: “Iu eonnection with Mr. C. C. Glover's prop osition to issue 10,000,000 worth of bonds for the purpose of making needed public improve- ments I desire to suggest that the interest on the bonds and the secumulstion of principal to repay the bonds be collected through the assess- ment of land values (exolusive of improve- ments) in the District. the reasons for this are as follows: “It ts an indisputable fact, one believed by most people and universally’ accepted by po- litical economists, that public improvements increase the value of lund in the ares improved. ‘Therefore, as the landowners would be the greatest beneficiaries of such improrement (in any opinion tho; the sole beneficiaries), it would be but just that they should be re- quired to pay for it. Any other method of raising said funds would require many who were not beneficiaries to contribute, which would be manifestly unjust, SThe labor orgsnisatlons of the District have ‘expressed themselves as positively opposed to the proposed bond issue. With the provision 1 have suggested their attitude would be re- versed, and they would become its most ardent supporters. “Buch a measure as I have pro) would produce immense benefits to the whole body of the people, and woulddo much to correct the most serious evil which now threatens us.” A Liquor Question. An important question involving the liability of brewing companies to the act of March 3, 1898, regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors in the District of Columbia, has been raised by Mr. Warren C. Stone, representing the Bar- tholomay Brewing Company. Ina letter to the Commissioners today he claims that the company he represents should not be required to pay a lcense fee under the act above men- tioned. Sales are made in and from original kages and sold by the company in the first Instance, not passing through, directly or in- directly, a third party. He says further that it was the evident intention of Congress in pass- ing the act to exempt from such a license tax the maker or brewer of all fermented liquor. Upon the request of Mr. Stone the question wit! be submitted to the attorney for the Dis- trict for his opinion, To Deliver the Address. Dr. 8. 8. Adams, chairman of the committee of arrangements of the pan-American medical congress, called upon the Commissioners this morning for the purpose of getting Commis- sioner Bow to deliver the address 6f weloome to the delegates to the pan-American medical congress, which will meet, in this city Septem. ber . Adams said that the President of the United States has consented to formally open the congress, which will con- sist of delegates from all the Americas, The congress will bein session four days at Atbaugh’s Theater. After the adjournment the committee of arrangements will take the | eral children. Now York, Boston and Chicago for tbo purposs New York, Boston an: for the pur of inspecting the medical institutions Those citfes, This excursion will be under the man- agement of a committee, of which Dr. H. L. E. Jobnson is chairman. Today's Orders. The Commissioners today issued the follow- ing orders: That four catch basins be con- structed on 9th street extended between Grant and Floride avenues; that one fire hydfant be erected at the corner of 4! street and McLane avenuc; that the wooden hydrant at Sist and M streets be removed and a new one erected; that a catch basin be con- structed at the northwest corner of 7th and A streets southeast; that a sewer be con- structed to serve lots 17 to 22, inclusive, square 988, under the permit system; that a sewer on both sides of C street between 6th and 7th streets northwest be added to the schedule of sewers to be built under appropriation for re- 1894; that a sewor in 19th street and Ana- coutin river be added to the provisional schedule ot sewers to be built under appropria- tion for main and pipe sewers, 1895; that sewer be constructed in alley square 698, under the mit system, and that A. Neville be appointed inspector in the sewer division at 64 per diem, to be employed when hia services are secensary. Some Paragraph: A long petition from the residents and prop- erty owners in the vicinity of the Washington Brick Machine Company's works has been re- ceived by the Commissioners praying that the sidewalk in front of the company’s property on Bladensburg pike be made to conform with the pavement recently laid. Mr. 8. H. Reeder suggests the employment of @ photograph camera at the morgue with which to take the pictures of unknown dead before they are interred in potter's ficld. He calls at- tention to the fact that there isan unknown body in the morgue at provent and must be buried today, owing to the hot weather, with- out identification. health officer has recommended the opening of the ten-foot alley in square 26, Georgetown, leading into 30th street, which is very filthy. 'Tho alley was closed by Mr. Lee by placing a gate across its mouth, and as soon atte fantads rocaoved'the health, department will see that it is cleaned. Police Surgeons. For some time passed the Commissioners have been considering the advisability of mak- ing changes in the board of police surgeons. Several days ago letters were sent to Doctors McKim, Kleinschmidt, Henderson and Strickler, requesting their resignations. ‘Tho Commissioners stated in their letter that this action was not based upon any reflection upon the integrity or ability of the gentlemen, but they believed ir rotation in office, and-were going to aanere to the three years’ limit rule which they passed some time ago xs the length of service of physicians to the poor and police surgeons. This morning a number of young physicians calied at the District building and applied for the positions, but the Commissioners informed them that the appointments had all been made and would be given out tomorrow. ‘The resigna- tions will all take place on the 30th of this month with the exception of Dr. Henderson, who bas been granted an extension until the Ist of January. Capt. Powell ordered today that hereafter metal sheet signs should be substituted for ginss signs on dismantled gas posts whenever any new sign is fixed. Geo. W. King has written to the Com- missioners, calling attention to the necessity of extending Prospect avenue. Dead Animales Commissioner Parker was informed this after- noon that a vigorous protest against the trans- portation of dead animals down the niver Parker requested him to 8 regulation providing tht the dood calaele somoved wite- ae ey Sa er means of a suit- able covered wagon, ant transported down the river closed boats should be used. The Connecticut Avenue Extension. At 2o’clock this afternoon the Commission- ers gave public hearing to those persons in- terested in the extension of Connecticut ave- nue, The hearing was held in Commissioner Rose’ private office, owing to the heat of the board Toom, and there was a large attendance. Com- called the meeting to order after those present had iy ox- maps were gave the details a fe straight exten- sion of the age Sleetecre ae showed of Co lumbia roed, 19th street and” Connecticat avenue, while the third Plan gave in detail. the obstructions and be encountered. Be- fore the hearing bad progressed any length of time Capt. Powell explained the several routes, all of which ap in Saturday's Stan. Among those present were Col. ell, Prof. C. W. Riley, Dr. A. P. Fardon, Don- ald MePherson, J. D. Wimer, Frank Presbrey, a aa ies a Miss Dorsey, Mrs. Capt: Pitcher. dees ines ‘ol. Geo. Truesdell said he had called to hear what the opponents to the straight extension of ening Sy cept to offer. He was strongly in favor e t extension. Capt. A. H. Nixon said ho thowps after peo- ple had improved their property their interests should be considered. ‘The straight extension ‘was a cost! one, and he was in favor of the di- verging plan, which was very much cheaj and leee objectionable. Pa Capt. Powell that tho diverging plan wan also nd it was impossible to md a al “ was a oe ‘was true, however, verging plan was the cheaper. Mr. J. C. Wimer read_an extensive argument it the straight extension of the avenue. He bed given the matter serious attention and | # it would cost a million dollars to make a straight extension. The hearing was in progress when Tux Sran’s report closed. Repairs of Public School Buildings. Building Inspector Entwistle forwarded the foliowing estimate for the immediate repair of the public schools of the fourth district: Jeffer- son building, $864: Hammecker building, Bradley butiding, @1,207; Smallwood buildi: $10, Greentaf banding, 121; Potomac build STARTLING FATALITIES, Several Sudden Deaths in the Neighbor- heod of Marlboro’. Correspondence of The Evening Star. SOCIETY IN SUMMER. Extensive Improvements Being Made at the White House, oeramts to visit friends in Hamburg, county, Md., is visiting emai rus — Where | U24F*o0d, at her home on Capitol Hili. Washingtonians Are Summering. living rooms is receiving s touching up. some of the rooms the scheme of has beon entirely changed and presents an en- tirely different appearance. hh : e i # i iyi ge inted and a little change here and there in them suitable for the needs of their expected oceupante. ‘On the parlor floor the the red room. It is being Today all the crimson scraped off and electric the wires in the walls for ‘Urrsa Maazzono’, Mp., July 17, 1893. Friday last was a day of several great fatali- ties throughout the lower part of this county. Mr. Joseph Turner, a wealthy farmer in the vicinity of Horee Head, while performing on his violin for the benefit of some young people who were dancing at bis home, was paralyzed and died after one-half hour. attended by several physicians. He leaves « wife and four | is children, three boys and one gil, the youngest eleven and the oldest about thirty. He was in- terred yesterday afternoonat St. Paul'sChurch. Messrs. Isaac and Edward H.Grimes of Hall's terday afternoon. Mr. Edward Grimes was a rot Prother Isaac was « farmer and a eaperriaor of public roads in Queen Anne district. A young colored woman named Mary Hamil- ton, while nursing her infant, was struck by Ughtning and killed instantly. The baby ap- parently was not injured. The woman and ber cnild lived on the farmof Mr. Wm. D. Pyles, near Camp Springs. co a Sent to Albany. In the Criminal Court, Division 2, Judge Cole today changed the sentenoe in the case of the colored girl Cornelia Hawkins, who plead guilty to grand larceny © few days since. from ® reformatory to a year and » day in the Albany penitentiary. She hed been sentenced to the reformatory at Sherburn, Mass,, but the authorities there on the advice of the attorney general of Massachusetts re- fused to receive her, or, in fact, any one from outside the state. In thin condition of things the Attorney General was seen, and when the case was before the justice, Cole, it was stated that with the sentence to Albany he would send a letter requesting the warden to make ber it prisonmeut as nearly that in a female reforma- tory as possible. sas ere Death of Mra. Stevens. Mrs. T. H. Stevens, wife of Rear Admiral Stevens, died this morning near Stiver Spring, ‘Md., where she was spending the summer for her health, The sudden death will be a sur- prise to her many friends, as it was not thought toat her iliness was dangerous, She was well known in Washington circles, having lived here for many years, both before and since the re-~ tirement of Admiral Stevens. She leaves sev- Mrs. Stevens was a daughter of Su Christie of the navy ‘whose home was at 5 Pa. She leaves four sons and a daughter, Lieut. Thomas H. Stevens of the navy, Lieut. R. R, Stevens, of the army, Mr. Pierre Stovens, Mr. Rowan Stevens and Robert Bradley. Bhs Ses A Suit for Damages. Augustus Bricgs, by Messre. N. Cotton and George H. Walker, filed a suit today against the Herdic Phaeton Company for $1,000 dam- ages. He charges that on April 3 last, while in tSvempleyment of B. ¥. Laresmbe'a berdse was nogligently driven into the wagon and be was thrown out, receiving a dislocation of the deen selected from the general it is especially desired that exch chairman attend the meetings of the general commitiee. Instead of going to Blue Berry Lodgs, Sorrento, ‘Me., Secretary and Mrs. Lamont came here on Saturday night and bad « qaiet Su ‘Searoely any of their fri they were in town at all, Mrs. Lamont returns to New York today. Mrs. Logan has returned from Deer Park, much benefited by her stay there, ‘Mra. Charles F. Ford and daughter of Capi- tol Hill are spending the summer at St George's Mrs. Benedict, formerly Miss Jeannette Hal- ford, left here this ‘Mase., where she will spend the summer. Mrs. 8. T. Crews, sccompanied by Mrs. W. Bashby and daughter, has gone to Brook- for the summer. & TA very pretty wedding took place on Wed- hosbendand fether. He wes always kin the children, and mow that he is dead she dows shoulder and other injuries. John A. Ruwline Post's Excursion, John A. Rawlins Post, No. 1, G. A. R, will give an excursion to River View tomorrow, the Pentz going down at its usual hours, There will be many attractive featutes that will add to the enjoyment of those who will participate. Sa aS aaa, For the Contagious Disease Hospital. Tue Stax has received for the benefit of the Hospital for Contagious Diseases the sum of 88.45, being the proceeds of an entertainment held at Hopkinsville, Ky., by Hallie R. Souther- land, Mary Goldshwaite, Mary R. Southerland and Jean Goldthwaite. cere TO HARRASS ME. GLADSTONE. Scheme of the Unionist Leaders to Demor- alize the Home Rulers. The British unionist leaders, Mr. Balfour, Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Randolph Churchill, Sir Henry James and Mr. Goschen, have de- cided upon obstruction to the home rule bill in the government business by obstructing the work on the estimates. The home rule bill will be got through the house of commons sbout August 21. Under ordinary circomstances a fortnight more would wind up the business of the session. The game of the unionists ts, however, to pro- tract the session, despite heat and exhaustion, for weeks aftec the house of lords shall have re- a a ey intend to accomplish their purpose b; macans of endless sections and divertor ee financial voter, They hope thus to reduce the government majority to the minimum and eventually to drive the ministry to.» premature dissolution by their prolonged brawling and ullying. ¢ dissolution is now the goal of the unionists’ effort, for the unionist leaders are confident that another appeal to the public would result | “Rite ima ltberal defeat. They say that Mr. Glad- stone's repeated concessions to the Irish have aliensted from him thousands of unionist elect- ors. To their minds any means to hasten the ap- pronch of the next general elections are justi- x il Notes, The flagship Chicagohas arrived at Kingston, Treland: The Monterey is now at Portland, Ore. sammie dasentclaea nai ‘The rate for the excursions to Ocean City bas been fixed at announced, and it should be stated that this city is on the Atlantic ocean and not on the hhesapeake. days couple returned to new home, No. 712 6th street northeast, will be pleased on Thursdays from 8 to 10 p.m. to see their friends. Neck, coast of Maine, Mr. and Mrs. Howard F. Johnson and Van Rensselaer Jchnson left the city today, to be gone six weeks at the seashore and mountains, Miss Mattie Morgan of 12241 street north- west is at Asbury Park with Mra Stewart. The following from Washington, D.C., are visiting the world’s fair and Windermere: Col. and Mra. W. Barrette, E. J. Warner, E. J, Warner, jr., Miss Warner,’ Miss Dyer, Miss M. E. Draney, Miss Bessie Drane; F Mrs. M. A. Wertz left this morning for Orr- ville, Ohio, her old home, on an extended visit snow form. They are preparing. to hold back | ; 46, Ohio, her Dr. A. C. Adams and Miss Henrietta Heit- muller were married at high residence of the bride on Capitol to recent bereave- him Judge Miller held the in $2,000 bondafor dhe grand jury and told’ bios that he bond one he gave 0, where the doctor meets in reunion bis -om the University of Michi Mre. E. A. Morgan, of 1583 Columbia street, leaves today for Middleburg, Va., where she will remain until September 1. Mrs. Emma 8. Lattimore and daughter, Ma- bel, of 1446 Corcoran street, have gone to Vaw- ter Park, Lake Wawasee, Ind., for the summer. ‘The following sailed-for Boston Saturday : Mr. and Mra, G. 0. Semmes are at Aurora, W. Va, on top of the Mrs. Bertha Shaughnessy and daughters leave ‘today to be the guestaof Mr. and Mra ©. M. Truman at Scranton, Pa. Mr. and Mra John B. Randolph leave the world’s fair. Their daughter, Miss Clara Louise Randolph, is summering at Forest Glen. Mr, and Mra. J. G. Meyers, accompanied b; Mra. C, Febr of Nazareth, Pa, $8 instead of @10, as heretofore | for's sojourn of » it returning by way Mr. and Mrs. Chas, E. Hall wore $655.16 Take Bromo-Seitzer for insomnia Misses Jennie and Bessie Shomo are enjoying | ~derctead in the vicinity of Pottsville, ‘Miss Lula Underwood of Prince George's her sister, Miss Susie ‘Miss Katie E. Hall te spending a few woeke with her uncle, Dr. H. 8. Hall, at Hyattevilie. ‘The engagement is announced of Miss Ellen T. Windom, iter of the late Secretary Windom, to Mt: Ben tley W. Warren of Boston, —— THE CAPITOL CENTENNIAL. ‘in character, and of euduring historic imper- tance and intended to be dignified and usual pageant and display. Before the plan of any committee can be ried out it must be submitted to the general committee of make consistent with the dignity and importance of = work to be done. a v H Se i & 3 ; seatod in the frout room of ber howe when 0 Oran sepeeter sap en —, night, but today had heard no further particw- deceased. she said, had been « ak Shanty Connors Hela. John Connors, otberwise and more familiarly called “Shanty” Connors, is again in the toile He returned home from a stay at Albany and bas since been arrested on minor ebsrgas, but this time the offense charged against him is robbery. He plead not guilty to the charge in the Police Court this morning. Finicum, « Virginian, made the lowing by the clerk of the court: A. J. Grimes and Clara M. Cassell; Bicbard Carroll end Mage gia Ferd: Jobn 7 and Fannie joseph Gots and Maria ‘ Frank ment and Annie Anderson; W. 6 Taylor, ang ‘The receipts from internal revenue teday Cm Before retiriug—trial boitie 10 om,