Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1893, Page 1

THE EVENING sTAR PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, tes Peuasy! a — corner Lith St., by ¢ Evening Star Newspaper Company, & HU KAUFPMANN, Preven Yew York Ofion, 88 Potter Buildtag 2 me conte Der 3 ‘tt the com —any there in the United States oF nt ‘states ae ~Ocente per mouth. ‘with forelizn povtace added, LOO 81“ OOPSE Fear: paldin advance ‘on application. Vor. 83, Na 20,637. —Ghe Evening Star. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY. JULY 29, 1893—SIXTEEN PAGES SPECIAL NOTICES. SPECIAL NOTICES. coTTisH RITH, CATHEDRAL — A 'EMPERANCE. Albert = IMPRRANCE 3. be hel Tm TEM) NCE re, 38, 15, 1S he stcicn ot Gassing nad nacs | PE Pek wrngen a Boge. of the Radosh. HUBERT BALL, 30d | Fam. ‘This te te last 2 jashinaton. It syzb-2t THE SAILOR BOY i1C.—DR. JAMES C. BATCHELOR. Iste commander of the Su- S , died this morning at 3: Se TOUDSRS RT teameins SeEe! SG. 2th instant, at7 o'clock, to which active and Chara tk = ‘RICK WEBBER, Sec. ‘Gene Best E TEND ENG: OF THE TIMES ——is to overwork the brain, and the invention thst business men need most of all is = “MIND-SAVER"— they have such sn invention in the Edison Phono-raph. It dispatches correspondence and other office work Guickly and accurately and takes al- most all the strain off the mind. Ew" Rentet or sold om easy terme. COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH CO., 627 Eat... ¥. D. EASTON, Pros. [1y28) B. F. CROMELIN, See. HEKE’S THE “CUT AGAIN. 2 tot rein aa we Neclive Stirte, imp. $250 't think they're like others’ at those Finest. ueatest and piece Bathing Suit Von's Belomgrnge™ 8 IF YOU WANT ANYTHING IN THE STATIONERY LINE Go To EASTON & RUPP'S, 421 11TH STREET, Just above the avenue). EP-LOWEST PRICES. 3728 Be Banvsouegy WHEEL YET ‘SHOWN Is the Full Copper-plated No. 5 Rambler on exhibition ‘at 1325 1ith st nw. Weight, 226 pounds. Price, @175. The Full Nickel-plated No. 4 at the same price, comes pretty close to the 5 for beauty, but is Rot quiteso unique. Just cast an eye toward them When yougo up that way. yet GORMULLY & JEFFERY MFG. co. Bee HSIN, 5D. ‘MUSICAL cca eee KIT CARSON PO: MONDAY EV! OL ‘Tickets, including the claun chowder. Children half price. STE! Willleave the pier at 10 sm. 2 p.m and: rompur. The ewes WaNTED— HOUSES TO RENT. It ts now the season when people are looking for houses. We aredaily turning away good tenants, as most of our property i+ rented. Place your vacant houses with us, and we guarantes: they won't stay vacant long. We make this branch » specialty. BANES & SIMPSON, Cor. Lith and G sts. nw. Be LE FUNDS DRAW rNTER EST WHEN DEPOSITED WITH 03. Certificates of deposit issned. payable at eur counter on demand witbout notice, drawing interest at the rate of 3 per cen! ver anoom. ‘Time certificates issued, payable in any umber of months, rate of intersst depend- ing on leuxth of time for which deposit is made. You esnnot afford to keep your money idle. (Call and talk tt over, Woops & Co. BANKERS, we F sr. XW. . 1.25. ‘chowder will be served at 8:30 p.m. 224m. w.5.3t only 20 minutes" ss home site in winter and doubly esirabie) during the hot suminer lmonth-, for breezes always blow there. JAMES E. WAUGH. **Owner,” 10 F ST. N.W. wT 7OR KEEN-EYED BARGAIN HUNTERS. Another chance Two more days’ buying snd the re reduced Tennis Rackets will be “of the past.” Reduced to simost nothing and the ‘*Tennis season” not half gone. AUT $3 to $4.50 Rackets now......91.50 Ail 85 to Rackets now......82.50 YOUR ICE CREAM Amounts to you make it yourself. cost of a Freezer “‘makinses."” Ice Cream Freezers. Ice Cream Freezers. % FT. GARDEN HOSE, 81.75 including patent nozzle and coup- lings complete. Doeen't the lawn and garden need water? PARBER & ROSS, cor. 11th and @ sta aw. x balf the usual cost~if You can save im two or $1.35 70 tat. pant will be held at the oBice of the company on DAY. Ausust 7, 1863 Polls will open et ES a saci ym ‘3H BRADLEY. ‘Secretary. 3 8 REMOVED HIS office from 1929 Pena, ave. 2 226-6 =~ FoR RENT — PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY: jcatire ape por oa pa. ave. new. : cccupied by the late Mr fallery. skylights dart roo eption aad skylight, dark roome, “rece iit ima: lease’ to desirable party. W.-C. VALL, 025 Fat nw. 1925-7 Gouial ofite from S44 G at to, Be Tigh eal = i = ‘yom | <a G BETISR Asa Summer beverage thaa PALMER'S BELFAST GINGER ALE, Equal to imported Agk for {t at your Grocer's, Drugwiat’s or Restaurant crorder from the manufacturer. SAMUEL C.-PALMER, D st. o.w. Depots: (uss 32d st.a.w. m el BuOs. STUPENDOUS OFFER. Our whole stock of Men's Fancy Cassimere, Cheviot and Worsted Suits and Pants, and all Children’s Suits Without reserve, to besold this weit @ discount oy ‘Biba per cont of regular marked prices. EISEMAN BROS, Eand 7th st. a w. a3 = DIAMOND SETTING A specialty of our Factory. & HARRIS & CO., ‘Manufacturing Jewelers, ae Cor, 7th and Daw, wae You DONT ExOW SE ee Sag ae oy eee eee one eetonts McGILL & WALLACE. Printers, mst gees UT Bow I can give you better service than in the unler seinen.) Look over’ [unr stationery ina doestt m enishiges | “GYROS & ADAMS, PRINTER, Phone a3. ADAMS, ee — —aaEE Re" ASP RINTER AND PUBLISHER book and Jo . Telephone Wedd) Tow TMG E at. ww NTEL=. ANDIRONS, FENDERS, Gentes, Wrgaahtiron, Gen Fixtures, ae: fosaics. 3 tained Glass, Marbies. ‘3-H. COBNING. Te 107 BST. _N.W. agen ‘Shop, 520 Lath st. dressiest Shirts | east Wash! ave. jy28 a ith, reception hall and | office and did not need the salary. S vite. it a NAUGLY. RE oa road Sunday afferuoon, 8.30 lock. ‘Youn men ine ae mas MEMBERS OF Ca- P.—You are Tequested to Fewuler meeting on traportent. Dusiness wil]. be ie betors foune. By order of lode, JOB. MACE, ©. Corie” e STANSBURY LODGE, No. 2%. FAA M_ LS rm. Weck dor val Sit 7 er lodges cordially invited. W. E. NALLEY, Seo. Bt = PERFECT HOMES OF 12 Ms No. 1402-4 bande eaters” = it ‘0. W. WHITE. 980 F st. n.w. | <— pe Ss TALE. }A MADRE OLIVE OIL (California). . lve teat Olive Oil on the markor—uaed by all é only : sacrinxe WioH-Ghabr WikE™ A fine white wine, far superior to the foreign same mame and mach less in WT ne Exery ibeskinr, tuber, Ee et io tltire al . ERE PRR TURNS eara ee The weather tobe a a0 Moly Tair and not so <3 WE ARE CUTTING PRIORS. A larme and complete stock of Molding at 40c. PER 100 FEET. Everywhere eles tt t sold at Ske. or 6a, SIs you read it in our ad. its 00. LIBBEY, BITTINGER & MILLER, AMER MACALESTER, MARSHALL HALL, | “Lumber, Mitiwork and 3 $30 pis. | Cor. Oth and N.Y. ave. mw. 3 “* HOTEL AND HOME’— Renn Liecttbes the HOTEL RAN- Dol — the comvenwences of @ hofel and the home thoness of home. Rouns angie or en suite. Be eetient table board. HOTEL RASDOLPH, 130 @ ST. N. W. WE OPERATE ATE EXTENSIVELY ite & Heuer, New York. Jewett, Boston. “Opera” peek, ‘New York. ‘The Trowbridge, ae 4 miss the bargains now beiny off Bente toeaik” Eachanys your a THE The a lity. Don't "Sfoutbiy par ano. IANO [ANGE. 33. ave. $y20-3m_ ‘The Lesding Piano House. q=> THE OPENING OF MICHAEL CUNEOS . restaurant is postponed until furthor * WEATHER COMFORT. | ee SUMMER SHIRTS to order. Come ee "Factory, 908 F st. UNDER 10N5 OF DEBRIS. Collapse of s Seven-Story Building at Pitis- burg. PITTSBURG, Pa., July 29.—At 12:10 o'clock this afternoon @ seven-story brick and iron building, at the corner of Spring alley and 9th street, owned by the Second National 3y27-3t_ | Banik,collapsed and crumbled to the ground. About forty workmen were seated inside of the bullding eating their dinners. Some one of their number detected a trembling of the structure and gave a shout of warning. The men all rushed for the street and es- caped, save two of their number, who ere yet missing and are supposed to be covered under the many tons of debris. The building was being re-arranged for office purposes and anew three-story addi- tion was in process of erection upon the old and evidently weak walls. —_—.__ CARELESSNESS COST HIS LIFE. A Watchman Burned to Death in = Lock- port Fire. LOCKPORT, N. Y., July 29.—The plant of the United Indurated Fiber Company was entirely destroyed by fire early this morning, only the pulp mill used in connec- tion with the works being saved. The whole plant was valued at $200,000 and the loss {s $80,000; insurance, $172,000. The fire was caused by the explosion of gas from an overheated oven and resulted from carelessness of Night Watch: Hrederick O'Donnell, what was burned to lea ‘The company manufactured fh fiber pails, tubs, &e. and had a branch oct tablishment at Portland, Me. besides branch offices at New York. Chicago and elsewhere. The works will be rebuilt at once. ——— DISTRICT GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS. The excise board, by its clerk, Roger Wittiams, Promulgated the following order sag: Notice is hereby ested in the pathig’ ot" — when an Ce as been rejected by the excise board District of Columbia, the same owill net be considered upon the same showing upon. cumulative evidence to obtain such recon- siderations. A written motion must he filed with the clerk to the excise board clearly setting forth the new and inde- pendent facts or reasons upon which the Feview 1s asked, with all the evidemse ne Support thereof, Without the ce of the above such licenses will not Rg al interview the granted prior to the ae anon Tecited requirements. Mr. Mockabee’s Proposal Accepted. The Commissioners have accepted the seesoant of B. F. Mockabee to construct a family building on the grounds of th —— gichool of the District of Columba, for 3 Au Order as to Impounding Stray Animals. The Commissioners would be pleased to receive expressions of popular opinion upon a question of extending the area for tak- ing up and impounding animals runnit larze. Health’ Officer’ Hammett recently gave it as his opinion in a letter to the Commissioners, that the growth of popula- tion in the suburbs required that the ex- tension should take in the entire county of Washington. The latest order of the Com- missioners on the subject is dated August 4. 1879, and Is as follows: “That on and af- ter August 5, 1819, domestic animals shall Not be permitted to run at in the pop- ulative suburbs of the cities of Washington and Georgetown, nor within the villages of Mount Pleasant or Anacostia, nor south of the Columbia road, Brown's road, and Glea- son’s road, and west of the 7th street p' nor any point in the county of Washi ‘within one mile of the boundary line of the city of Washington and Georgetown, and any animal found running at im the boundaries named on and after the above date, shail be taken up and impounded.” Dr. MeKim's Resignation. The Commissioners have received a letter from Dr. 8. A. H. McKim, whose resig- nation as one of the police surgeons has been asked, which reads: ‘Washington, July 29, 193. Commissioners: I am in’ receipt of a communication bearing date of the lath in- stant, and signed by William Tindale, sec- retary, containing the following: Commissioners direct me to ask you to tender your resignation of the office of | surgeon of the police and fire departments, | to take effect the 3ist instant.” A compliance with this request would in- dicate that I did not wish to retain the which would be untrue. S.A, H. McKIM. Thirty-one years surgeon of the police de- partment. eed Pierce Converse discovered a burglar in the house where he was living at Ravenna, Ohio. Shots were exchi and both men “The | were wounded. It is thought both will die. THE COMING SESSION Causes Which Led to Oalling Con- gress to Meet. sara’ |MR. CLEVELAND'S IDEA OF I?. Matters That May Be Taken Up After Silver is Disposed of. TO PREVENT FILIBUSTERING. When Clerk Kerr's gavel falls at 12 o’elock on the 1th of August and Vice Pres- ident Stevenson calls the Senate to order there will have assembled a Congress which Promises to be one memorable in history, whether with good repute or bad time will tell. Heaven knows when it will adjourn— by the 4th of March, 18%,certainly, and pos- sibly not sooner, though if all the mischief: of the dark lend Confusion should combine to do evil to the democratic party they would probably hit upon an endless session of the Fifty-third Congress as the best CHRIS WAGNER'S SUICIDE. First He Takes Poison and Then Uses a Pistol. No Cause Known for the Commission of the Act—Grief of His Wife and Children, Christian Wagner, 2 middle-aged grocer, who had his establishment at 1129 7th street, committed suicide in a sensational manner this morning. It took two at- tempts to complete the deed, but by 8 o'clock, an hour or more after his first ef- fort, he was dead, and his wife and child- en were overcome with their grief. Wagner was a German by birth, but had made his home in this city for a good while past. He had succeeded in building up a good business, and was look- ed upon by the neighbors as a prosperous and well-to-do man, whose troubles, if he had any, were not of a serious nature. Just why he took his own life, then, is largely @ matter of conjecture. His family rela- tions seemed to be of the pleasantest. For the past day or two, however, he seemed to be worrying a good deal over the condition of his business and the troubles that might come from the prevailing hard times. He left no letters behind him, nor any expla- means. The meeting of Congress at this early date is accepted as one of the most natural things in the world, and there 1s undoubt- edly need enough for the session—if they will do anything—but one who traces back the causes which led to it will be somewhat puzzled. ‘The First Talk of an Extra Session. ‘There appears to have been a demand “in the air” for an extra session. It was talk- €d about before the old Congress had ad- fourned and long before there was any thought of getting together for the pur- ose for which this session was called. It Was first said to be a scheme of the friends of Judge Crisp to get re-elected Speaker before there was time to form a dangerous opposition to him. The bare mention of an extra session at that time was enough to cause the little circle of disgruntied anti- Crisp men to turn alternately pale with fear and red with anger, and it was de- clared that they would thwart the wicked Georgia man in his plans. Finally it was discovered that the men who did not want @n extra session were so few as not to fur- nish the quorum of a committee meeting, But all this time there was no thought of @ silver session. The adjournment of the last Congress was welcomed by the sound money men of that quarter whence wisdom has come from the ning of Christian times. It was welcomed because it relieved the ever-dreaded danger of the passage of a free coinage bill. They were glad of an adjournment | to get It out of the way. The reason why the Rew Congress should be brought together promptly, which was urged on every hand, was that the revision of the tariff might be begun at once. This reason did not seem to impress Mr. Cleveland, and the much de- sired extra session appeared to be unattain- able until the new reason was found in the financial situation. Now we have Congress about to meet to face a question they were running from all last Congress. There has been an almost complete revolution in a few months, and Congress comes together almost without a thought of what they had expected to be a cause for their assemblin; —not that they have forgotten the tariff, but that it does not enter into the matter of the present getting together. Beyond the President's Control. Mr. Cleveland's idea of this session is that it will be brief; that Congress will do"what he wants them to in short order and then get away. What fs Itable to hap- pen is very different. The Sherman law may be repealed, unconditionally, without much delay, but, if so, Congress will not forthwith adjourn. If the opposition per- mit a vot to be taken promptly on a re- bill te will be with the understand- Ing that they are to have an opportunity to legislate on the silver question immediately afterward and there will be more plans than the ordinary brain can take account of or an an: rain cor com- prehend. The repeal of the Sherman law will not be good night to the possibilities of this Congress. Though Mr. Cleveland can get them together he cannot adjourn them unless he can get them into a disa- eement “officially” as to the time of ad- journment, and a plan to bring that about Would be as difficult of fulfillment as the lifting of the world on a lever. The prob- abilities as to financial legislation (the Sherman law being disposed of) point to the free coinage of silver al twenty or more to one and the repeal of the tax on state banks, but before this is ac- complished there will be many plans pro- posed and discussed. Matters That May Come Up. Meanwhile the ways and means com- mittee will be at work and by the time the financial matters are out of the way, which may not be until after December, a tariff bill, radical enough to furnish’ a cause for some hard fighting, will be ready for the House to take up. They will also have a bill for the repeal of the federal election laws, and when the other things pressing are out of the way there will be & discussion, 1f no more, of the question of an income tax. Some anticipate a bill for the curtailment of pensions, but the chances are that the work of reducing the pension list will be left to the executive branch of the government, which ts get- ting along boomingly in that line, without any legislation to help them. The party leaders dare not trust this question to a vote in Congress. Fillbustering to Be Checked. Filibustering will probably not be a feat- ure of the proceedings of this Congress. It 1s recognized by all the big men in Con- gress and by most of the little ones that public sentiment is opposed: to such methods for the wasting of time and trif- ng with public business. "The obstructionists are in a fair way to be run over {f they stand in the way when Public sentiment has been aroused to the Seriousness of this business of making laws and government. by the stress of hard times and business disorder. As a member said to a Star reporter, the demagogues have got no business practicing their pro- feaston in times like this, and there will be very little consideration shown them if they. interfere with the progress of public business. There may be hard fighting enough on both sides of the great questions that come up, but {t appears to be under- stood that nothing but up and down fight- ing and hard hitting will be recognized. The dilly-dallying obstructive policies are apt to find no place under the existing cir- cumstances. How Mr. Cleveland Manages Men. ‘There is one thing Cleveland has been do- ing in his efforts to convert Congress to his was of thinking, which shows an under- standing on his part of one side of human nature. It may not be publicly known (it is given out here confidentially), but every man who holds a seat in Congress is not a great big broad statesman. It would not do for the knowledge of this fact to become too y known, but it is important tov am understanding of Mr. Cleveland's astuteness. Stra) ly enough those men in Congress who are much sifted in other qualities possess that of vanity to an ab- normal Some of these men Mr. Cleveland fhas’ flattered into an attitude where no amount of threats, pleading or tronage could have led them. Every- ly knows that Mr. Cleveland can talk in a very lofty and tesmaniike manner. Now some of these small men love to be talked to as if they were men of import- ance. In this Cleveland has gratifled them, | He has talked to them as if he felt that the fate of the nation were in their keeping, as unfortunately it is | ina measure at this time, and he has treated them as {if he thought they fully appreciated the responsibilities before them. ‘He has intimated rather than sald that their qualities and position fitted them for better employment than the seeking after patronage, when the credit of the country was in danger and panicky busi- | ness cried to them for aid. He has pointed | out to them a higher ambition than that of pleasing a deluded and small constituency | ‘and told them that greatness was to be found in the gratitude of the whole people. Wise men do not need such cajoling, and | the cunning cannot be caught, but the vain are numerous, and it is interesting to note | how many of these are talking in a tone beyond their compass and in the language | of one greater than they. nation which would throw light upon the reasons for his act. His Two Attempts at Self-Destruction, ‘This morning, at an early hour, proba- bly about 5 o'clock, Mr. Wagner went up TWO CENTS. FIGHTS IN CONGRESS. Debates That Havp Been Enlivened by Pugilistic Encounters, NO SCENE LIKE THAT IN LONDON, Exciting Incidents in the History of the House. IN THE DAYS OF DUELLING. With all its reputation for confusion, @isorder and hurly burly methods of do- ing business, there is no scene in the House ot Representatives within the recollection of the present generation which parallels that which occurred in the House of Com- mons this week. There is always more or less disorder in the ordinary performance of business in the House, if anything of interest 1s under consideration. Pro- priety and decorum are often strained, and occasionally members speak to each other in language not approved in good society. On rare occasions there have been personal encounters, and frequently the uninitiated looking down upon the floor from the gal- leries might imagine a riot about to occur. into the hay loft over the stable that stands in the rear of the building. The house is a fairly commodious one, and the upper floors, as well,as the rooms back of the store, are as a home by the Wagner family. Mrs. Wagner was in the store be- tween 6 and 7 o'clock this morning, and be- coming rather alarmed over the failure of her husband to‘ return, she sent down to the house of her friends, the Geler boys, who have an undertaking establishment a few doors below, and "ed that one of them come up and help h. Mr. Joseph A. Geler responded at once, and on being told that Wagner had gone up to the loft he hurried up there and found Wi r lying on the floor and evi- Gently ‘suffering intense’ pain. ‘The man seemed to be almost in a dying condition then, but he was able to hold up a box to Geler, and pointing to it stated that he had taken a dose of Rough on Rats. He beg- ed Geier not to bother about him, but to eave him alone, as he wished to die, and thought that he would. Geler ran down the stairs to inform the family and to obtain aid in bringing the dying man into the house and to summon physicians, He was gone but a very few minutes, and when he came back with two neighbors, George Boegeholz and John Shugrue, they found that during those few minutes the man in his desperation had drawn a pistol_and fired a bullet into his left temple. Even then he was not dead. This was about 7 o'clock, and it was not until 7:45 that death came to his reli ‘The pistol was a small 22-callber revolver and was held close up to the forehead when the trigger was pulled. Coroner Woodward was summoned as soon as death came. He viewed the body, and after hearing the story of Mr. Geier and the others he gave certificate of death by sulcide and decided | that there was no necessity for holding an | inquest. A Sad Scene. The scene in the little back room behind | the store was an intensely sad one, for | when Mrs. Wagner came to realize what had happened she gave way completely to her grief. ‘The body lay stretched out on a sofa, covered up with a sheet. The face Was peaceful and showed no signs of the agony of such a death. One would have said that he could not have been more than thirty-clght or forty years of age, though the ‘iticate of death gave ite. at fitty and a few months, Occasionally the widow drew back the sheet to gaze upon the cold face. Then her grief would be- come almost uncontrollable. “Oh, Chris, Chris, why did you do it? You were such a good man. You loved me so and, oh, I loved you, too. You were such @ good husband. Oh, why did you dv this?” Mrs. Wagner's mother and sister came in a few moments after, and then the harrow- | tng scene was repeated. The dead man lett | four children, three girls and a boy, the oldest of them fourteen years of age. He was a member of the Butchers’ Association and of the Arion Singing Society. ees ‘Wants to Be Chapt Rev. Thomas H. Stevenson, a Baptist min- ister located in Englewood, Tl., has ap- peared in the field as a candidate for the office of chaplain of the House of Represen- tatives. Mr. Stevenson ts only twenty-six years old. He was in New York yesterday Seeking the ald of Tammany leaders, on the ground that he is a New York boy.’ He was @ page in the New York legislature. —___-- e- —_____ Naval Orders. Lieut. H. C. Poundstone has been de- tached from duty at Chicago and ordered to the New York. Passed Assistant Engi- neer B. C. Bryant, to duty in the bureau of steam engineering. Lieutenant Commander E. H. Lentze, to duty in charge of depart- ment of yards and docks, navy yard, Wash- ington, D.C. Ensign W. D. Brotherton, to the New York. | Ensign J. F. Carter, to the Detroit. Ensign H. E. Smith, tothe Charleston. Ensign R. J. Harting, to the Bennington. Ensigns R. H. Leigh, Waldo Evans, H. ©. Kuenzit and &. ‘f. votlock, to ‘i, and Naval Cadets A. R. Davis, 3. KE. Moses,R. K. Cri YA Trout, J. F. Hin: . L. Gamble, G. Mallison, L. Me- , to the A Collector of Customs Appointed. It was announced at the White House to- day that George 8. Weed of Plattsburg, N.Y., had been appointed collector of cus- toms for the district of Champlain, N.Y. —— Lieat. Backus’ Case. The War Department has issued an or- der for Lieut. George B. Backus, first cav- alry, to appear before a retiring board for examination for retirement. The board will meet at Fort Logan, Col. Lieut. Backus is alleged to be of unsound mind and the coming examination is for the express pur- pose of settling that question. a ee ‘Two Treasury Appointments. ‘The Secretary of the Treasury made two appointments today of interest to the Dis- trict. Alex. G. Morgan of Lexington, Ky., was appointed disbursing clerk of the bu- reau of engraving and printing at a salary of $2,000 per annum, and C. H. Warnecke of the ‘District of Columbia was appointed foreman of construction of the hing ton city post office at a salary of #8 per Ye Mr. Wike Acted as Secretary. Mr. Scott Wike of Illinois acted as sec- retary of the treasury today for the first time in his official career and signed all the mall as such. Secretary Carlisle was at the department during the day, but his right arm is ‘temporarily disabled with | rheumatism and he cannot do any writing whatever, not so much as making his sig- nature. Assistant Secretaries Hamlin and Curtis, both of whom are senior to Mr. Wike, are out of the city. Mr. Curtis has gone to New York on private business and fs expected back on Monday. An Accident to Mr. McAdoo. Assistant Secretary McAdoo, who has been confined to his rooms at the Shore- ham here for the past week as the result of a slight but painful accident, sustained by him while staying at the Hot Springs of Virginia, has sufficiently recovered to wa: rant his departure tomorrow for the Je! sey coast, in order that he may have a few day’s rest before resuming his duties at the Navy Department. ——— Fourth-Class Postmastera, The total number of fourth-class post- masters appointed today was 97, of which 45 were to fill yacancies caused by resigna- tions and death. ———_+e+_____ Surrogate Ransom of New York has de- nied the motion of the executors of Daniel B. Fayerweather for a distribution of the residue of the estate, nearly $8,000,000, ac- cording to the will and the deed and gift of the executors. But it‘is seldom that blows have been struck, and there has never been anything like the free fight which occurred in the House of Commons. During war times, when sectional feeling was intense, and the hot blood of temper rushed feverishly through the veins of the men assembled representing the antagonistic sections of the country, some wild scenes of confusion were enacted. How a Wig Saved the Day. Probably the greatest disorder that ever occurred in the House and the nearest ap- Proach to a free fight wes during the de- bate in ‘61 over the sectiona] question, which started about midnight with an altereation between Keitt and Grow, and which led to the exchange of blows between several members and threw the House for time into a riotous turmoil. The House was practically divided into two sides then. Washburne of Lilinois and Potter of Wis- consin on one side and Lemar and Barks- dale leaders on the other. Two-thirds of the, members were engaged in the tumult and a numbr of blows were struck. The affair was one threatening most serious Shisiod more’ speedily. by. & ludicrous fea- lusion more ly by @ {ure of the most. serious collision in the disorder. While the Speaker was clamor- ing for order and the eant-at-arms rusl here and there with his mace Mr. Barksdale received a blow or a shove which nt him under a desk, and at the same time some one grabbed him by the hair, wuteh, bolas owas. Comet hat fact was Not generally known, came ot e Of ais irate antagonist, Mr. Barksdale's confusion was even greater than his anger. and this, together with the astonishment and dismay of the man holding his col- league's scalp aloft so appealed to the sense of the ridiculous as to cool down the tem- per of members which promised to lead to Very serious results. ‘When Party Spirit Ran High. During the electoral count while Randall as Speaker was trying to check filibustering & section of the House became 80 eee) that personal confilcts were threatened ant there was & rush Soene like that between contending teams at @ foot ball game. Members shook their fists in each other’: faces and one member walked all the wa: from the back pert of the hall to the front over the tops of the desks in his angry ea- gerness to get to the front, but in this there were no blows struck, only confusion. Dur- ing the Reed Congress such scenes of dis- order were almost of dally occurrence, but they were always quelled before any’ vio- lence was done. The anger of the minority at the course followed by the Speaker found expression in epithets, angry gesticulation and denunciations. Once there was a rush made for the Speaker's chair and the tm- pression prevailed that there was a pur- se in the minds of a number of the mem- rs to seize the Speaker and pull him from the chair. But if there'was such an intention it was nothing more than a noisy demonstration in front of the desk. When Bynum was cen- sured the democrats stood around him in front of the Speaker's desk and gave ex- pression to their disapproval, but offered no violence. The only time that a blow was struck during this most exciting Congress was when it was unexpected, and the trouble then was over almost before it was realized by the House. It grew out of a matter the House generally was not much excited over. Words between Bur- gan of New Jersey and Wilson of Washing- ton, and Wilson, quick as a flash, stru the’ New Jersey’ Congressman. The blow was not a very hard one and the men were separated before the conflict went any fur- ther, Blows Were Passed. Before that Congress there had been a number of personal encounters. Blows were passed between Parks and Weaver when Mr. Randall was speaker, and one member excited by this encounter, drew a Knife and made as if to take in the conflict, but was stopped and disarmed before "he could carry his purpose into effect. Randall before hewas speaker once struck « fellow member on the floor, and Morrison pulled the beard of one of his as- sociates in Congress. Personal difficulties have usually occurred outside of the hall 88 a result of disagreement provoked in debate. During the Forty-eighth or Forty- ninth Congress, there was a dispute be- tween Laird of Nebraska, and Cobb of Indiana, on the floor, and later in the day meeting in the ker’s lobby, Laird struck Cobb in the face. They were both very powerful and determined men, but enough of their colleagues were present to separate them at once. When John M. Glover of Missouri, was in Congress, and Allen O. Myers, a representative of a news- paper in the gallery, a dispute occurred between. them ‘over ‘something that had been written by the latter, and Glover uummeled the correspondent’ rather badly in the speaker's lobby during the session of the House. Myers with his face bruised and bloody rushed into the House, though not entitled to admission and began to take summary revenge upon an employe of the House who was supposed to be the instigator of the trouble. Fights in Caucus. A number of conflicts more or less serious have occurred in caucus. At the caucus at the opening of the Fiftieth Congress blows were exch: between Breckinridge of Arkansas and Blount of Georgia. During the Fiftieth Congress there came near beng a free fight on the floor growing out of the pension discussion. Turpin of Alabama and Johnson of Indiana were the principals, and a large number of members were in- volved in the melee. The two principals struck at each other several times over’ other people's shoulders, and several mem- bers got scratched and jostled or hit dur- ing the disorder, but noone was hurt, and it is not believed that a direct blow was given to any one. ROWS IN OLD TIMES. Mr. Coyle’s Recollections of Some Exciting Incidents. The recent scrimmage in the house of commons so far eclipses any like display of fisticuffs we have exhibited in Congress that English neighbors should be silenced so far as any criticism of us and our house of Congress is concerned. In the past we have had belligerent Representa- tives, and an occasional Senator, but we have never turned the House of Repre- sentatives Into a Donnybrook Fair. In April 28, 184, a fight between Rathburn of New York and White of Kentucky took place, and a member of Congress named Moore interfered and a pistol was fired and an officer of the House severely wounded. | In January, 184, Weller of Ohio, subse- quently of California, beat a reporter named Schriver very severely in the Jo of the House. In ‘Clingman of Noi Carolina and Yancy of Aja! indulged im such personal denunciation in debate that a duel resulted, ni Beltsville, which (Continued on Sizth page.) THAT PENSION STORY DENIED What Ex-Assistant Secretary Bussey and Ex-Oommissioner Tanner Say, The Alleged Decisions Were Not Approved by Secretary Noble and They Never Had Any Effect. Ex-Assistant Secretary Bussey and ex- Commissioner Tanner give a very positive and circumstantial contradiction to Dep- uty Commissioner Bell's statements to the effect that sixteen employes of the pen- sion bureau whose pensions were illegally increased in 1889 by Commissioner Tanner were still drawing their pensions at the increased rate in contempt of specific in- structions given by Assistant Secretary Bussey that the old and lower rating be restored, and the further statement that these orders by Assistant Secretary Bus- sey had been secreted and were only re- cently discovered by Commissioner Loch- ren. ‘An examination of the alieged decisions discloses the fact that only four of them bear any specific date, tive are dated “Au- gust, 1889," the others having no date Whatever. All of the cases except two are signed by Assistant Secretary Bussey, one of these having no signature and the other his name in typewriting. When the attention of ex-Commissioner Tanner was calledgto the matter he stated very em- phatichity that he had never seen the al- decisions, although he remained in office until September 12, 1889, nor had he ever heard of them until today. Gen. Bassey’s Statement. Ex-Assistant Secretary Bussey was seen At his office. He said that no such decisions as were referred to and quoted had ever been promulgated from his office. During the Tanner investigation he had, on his own motion, taken up a number of cases of —— employes who, he believed, had illegally rerated, and wrote outa de- cision in each case. ‘They were formulated with a view to their being shown to the President and soon | Nobl2 as aids in their investigation and understanding of the cases, and also with a view to their subsequent official promulgation if they met with their approval. They did not meet with the approval of the Secretary, who de- cided upon another course of procedure, as indicated in his letter to Congress on the subject. The cases as written up were signed ‘by Mr. Bussey, simply, he said, to identify them’ to the President and Secre- tary Noble. After it had been decided not to issue the decisions as prepared Gen. Bus- sey says he put them in his desk, where they remained for many months. ‘On one occasion he showed them to the then Commissioner Raum, who asked per- | mission to take a number of them to his office and look them over at his leisure. This ion was granted, and about twenty out of fifty or sixty of the decisions Were taken away. Gen. Raum had, no doubt, forgotten to return them, and so the “secreted decisions” were discovered and the concluston instantly reached that larger sums of money had been paid out contrary to the instructions contained therein. Gen. Bussey stated with earnest- ness that the alleged decisions were not de- cisions at all, nor were they ever copied and Promulgated as such, as was well under- stood by Gen. Raum ‘and the chief officials of the pension bureau. THE PEESIDENT’S RETURN. Everything Points to His Being in Washing- ton Next Wednesday. Notwithstanding Secretary Lamon’ dipiomatic assertion to the contrary, mat things tend to confirm the Star's pri tion that the President will return to Washington on Wednesday or Thursday of next week. The principal reason for this belief lies in the fact that the President has a number of important matters to pre- pare, for submission to Congress, which necessarily require his conferring with the head of the department to which they re-| late, and as no arrangement has been made | for ‘the members of the cabinet to meet him at Buzzard’s Bay the presumption is natural that the conferences will be held in Washington. It is also known as a fact that the White | House has been prepared for the Presi- dent's return early ext. week and. that Most of the members of the cabinet have arranged to be here about the same time. Secretary Carlisle is the only cabinet of- ficer in the city at present, but a major- ity of the absentees will be back by the middle of next week at the latest. Secre- tary Lamont's reported statement that the President wil! not return to Washing- ton until the day before the meeting of Congress is thought by many to have been made solely with the view of allowing the President to make the trip without the | knowledge of the people along the route, | so, that he might arrive in Washington before the public was aware that he had left Buzzard's Bay. The well-known fact | that the President's movements are al ways surrounded with the utmost secrec: gives a color of truth to this theory. Sub- ent events will show whether it is well founded or not and the presumption now is strong that it is true. Sechrest meals at tcbon eR THE BROOKLYN NAVY YARD. Keported Pians of Secretary Herbert for Its Enlargement. Secretary Herbert is credited with a scheme to transform the navy yard at Brooklyn into one of the greatest naval stations in the world, capable of turning out the heaviest battle ship complete in all its parts. The plan contemplates the erection of twelve new shops, principally near the water front, to be devoted to the special work of the building of modern ves- sels of war and to be furnished with the most improved machinery for the con- struction of iron and steel vessels. The plan also contemplates a completion of the cob dock sea wall, which is now only half built, and the deepening and dredging of | Whitney basin and surrounding it with a retaining wall of concrete and masonry This basin has a sufficient area to hold the entire United States navy, and having an outlet to the East river from the cob dock 1s too valuable to be allowed to remain, as it is now, merely a mud flat. ‘The plans also include a network system of railroads connecting all the buildings in the yard and crossing the Wallabout channel to the cob dock at the point near where the receiving ship Vermont is now moored. The railroads are to be equipped with engines and flat cars for the trans- portation of heavy pieces of machinery or armor plate from any of the buildings to another and to points on the water front where vessels may be in course of con- struction. It is estimated that the sum of $2,500,000 will be required to give the plan @ good start. ———-e-—______ Government Receipts Today. The receipts from internal revenue today Were $59,205; from customs $464,159, -— Engineer Grifin's Duty. Passed Assistant Engineer Robert G. Griffin has reported for duty at the Navy Department, and has been assigned to the task of preparing specifications for the ma- chinery of the new gunboats. Mr. Griffin was formerly stationed in Washington, and had much to do with the preparation of plans for the engines of several of the best vessels of the new navy. pee ey The Monterey. The coast defense ship Monterey has ar- rived in Willapa Bay, Wash. She was to sail Monday for San Francisco, but as her turrets are not yet ready to be put in place, the ship will remain where she is for the present. 22 2 eee ‘The Czar‘s Private Stud Horses. Secretary Carlisle has directed that the | collector at New York accept a nominal | bond for eighteen horses imported for the Russian exhibit at Chicago. These horses came from the private stud far:n of the | PO czar of Russia and are said to be exception- | ally fine types of the Russian horse. At the | close of the fair it is the intention of the czar to exchange these norses for Ameri- can trotting horses and carry tnese trot- ters to Russia, = Capt. Theodore 4’ Ismaeloff, captain in the imperial guard of Russia, a delegate to the fair, etc. is in charge of this exhibit and yesterday had an interview with Sec- Fetary Carlisle on the subject of ‘thelr ins portation. EVERY POINT YIELDED| Siam Accepts the Terms of the French Ultimatum. PASSING OF THE EASTERN WAR CLOUD. An Early Settlement of the Trouble Expected. GLADSTONE LEAVES LONDON. BANGKOK, July 2.—The Siamese gov-' ernment has accepted the full terms of the French ultimatum. The substance of the ultimatum was as follow: 1. A recognition of the rights of Annam and Cambodia on the left or eastern bank of the Mekong river as far north es the twenty-third parallel of latitude. 2. The evacuation within a month of the forts held by the Siamese on the east bank. of the river. 3. Full satisfaction for various Siamese ageressions against French ships and French sailors on the Menam river. 4. The punishment of the culprits and, provision for the pecuniary indemnity of the victims. 5. An indemnity of 2,000,000 francs for: various damages sustained by French sub- Jects. 6. The immediate deposit of 3,000,000 francs to guarantee the payment of the fourth and fifth claims, or the assignment of the taxes im certain districts in lieu of the deposit of 3,000,000 francs. ‘This ultimatum was sent on July 19 and forty-eight hours were allowed for Siam to make answer to the French demands. ‘On July 21 M. Pavie, the French minister at Bangkok, presented the ullimatum to Prince ‘vawongso, the Siamese foreign minister. ‘On July 23 Siam Feplled, stating that the king was at a loss to understand what the rights of Annam and Cambodia were on the left bank of the Mekong river. The king expressed his willingness to abandon all the territories over which the existence of these rights could be and called attention to the that five months pre- Yiously he had proposed to submit all con- tested territorial questions to international arbitration. In the interests of ’ ever, the king offered to s the ter- ritory as far north as the eighteenth ce- gree of latitude. but no further, Poved that the islands in the Mi river used in common by Siam and ce. All the other points of the ultimatum were conceded. ‘This answer was not satisfactory to France, and subsequently M. Pavie with- drew from Bangkok on a gunboat and ¢ French warships in the Menam river went to Koh-si-Chang, an island near the head of the Gulf of Siam, where they joined the French fleet under the command of Admi. ral Humann. * France then determined to blockade the Siamese coast. There is serious doubt as to the time the blockade was to be made effective. The French government informed the British government that the blockade would begin July 31, but the British minis- ter at Bangkok later informed the British foreign office that it had commenced on July 26. Lora Rosebery, the British toreygn minister, asked the French government for @ prompt explanation of this confiict in dates, but the answer has not yet been made public. With the acceptance of the ultimatum by the Siamese government the war cloud in the east will of course pass over. It_is stated here that Droteated to France that her the Siamese coast would not be a legal act, and that France conceded the point made France, it is said, has undertaken that British commerce will in no wise be inter- fered with by the French warships. En- glish vessels will be allowed to cross the Menam bar inward for after Sun- day. The situation here now presents = much more peaceful aspect. ‘Mr. Gladstone Hears the News. LONDON, July 2.—The Siamese legation in this city has received a @spatch from Bangkok stating in effect that the Siamese government learning that France regards its reply to the ultimatum as a refusal to grant the French demands, and being most lesirous of maintaining peace, has tele- graphed instructions to the Siamese minis- fer at Paris to inform M. Develle, the French foreign minister that Slam a the ultimatum in its entirety. The dis- patch adds that the Siamese government Opes that the blockade will cease; that, diplomatic negotiations will be resumed, and that an early settlement of the troubles will be effected. Lord Rosebery, secretary of state for f¢ eign affairs, was at the foreign office at a very early hour this morning. He remain- ed there for several hours. Mr. Gladstone has concluded that his presence in London now Is not necessary and he has gone to- day to make his promised visit to Mr, | by Great Britain. . Stuart Rendel at Hatchiands Place, rea®} yacht Osborne, with the Guilford. France Has to Deal With Great Britain. PARIS, July 23—In view of the Sis concession of all the demands made by the French, notice of which reached this city today, it is expected that France will with- draw the notice of blockade. It is also ea- pected that France will accept Siam's sur- rénder to her ultimatum. It is understood that the provinces on t upper Mekong river that were ceded Siam by Great Britain will form the Ject of further negotiations between Frange and Great Britain, ° Fnglich OMcials Stirred’ Up. ew York Sun, in a Londoa special, say It may be jumping at conclusions to sa¥ that England has begun preparations foe! war with France, but a series of events today points strongly in that di Here is an outline of what has News came from Bangkok late last that France had begun the blockade o whole Siamese coast without giving Gi Britain official notice. The terms of Dlockade included the cutting of of eB commerce in ships of whatever mationaktn Lord Rosebery on the receipt of the news, sent a high official of the foreign affairs to Paris with dispatches, which he was. ine Fitucted to place personally 4 Lord Duk 8 summoned to the f ferin’s ha: fice, and a long conference followed. min! legation w: fonignt. “Mr. Giadsto accepted Invitation to three days in the cogne try. He abandoned the trip and is In cum sultation with his colleagues of the cabinet Lord Kimberly of the cabinet and others of the privy council were sent by npectal train to Osborne for consultation with het majesty. The Duke of Cambridge, the Veteran commander-in-chief of the whose duties are so nominal as to req only occasional calls at headquarters, was hard at work ail the afternoon and evening ae ve ed the ope Guards, “01 osebery was under engagement deliver an important address in’ the city this afternoon. He sent word that it be impossible for him to leave the foreign office during the day. There was the te ent activity tn both the war and admiralty lepartments unt ne rer the usual houw for closing. Startling Ramors Abroad. Rumors were rife among members of parliament tonight that Lord Dufferis would within a few hours demand his pass- ports from the French government. It is no longer doubted at Westminster that dip- lomatic relations between the two countries are at great tension and the gravest events tend. China, it is now definitel i lied France that she clainw the tertery between ‘the twenty-first and twenty-third of tude, which is t hat is demanded of Slam. accep ties News from Paris {6 more meager. It was said yesterday that in response to Lord Dufferin's protest the French cabinet had consented to arbitrate part of the territo- rial claims. Were also some, signs f abatement of the savage hat of England which the press bes been mole ing venomously for days. - SENATOR STEWART HERE. He Denies the Interviews That Have Been Attributed to Him. He Thinks That It Win Be Four or Vive ‘Months Before a Vote Can Be Had on the Sherman Repeal Bill. Senator Stewart reached Washington to- @ay and leaves for Chicago this evening. He said to e Star reporter this aternoon that the interviews published with him in New York were, he supposed, satisfactory to the newspaper boys there, but they were Rot so to him. He identified very little of what they attributed to him. He said thet he bad refused to talk and apparently the Newspapers published just what they went- 4 to as interviews with him. He said that he did not know whether the effort to repeal the Sherman law would be Successful or not, but ff the law was re- pealed and silver demonetized there would be the devil to pay in this country, it would make us a tributary colony to Hing- jand, paying a heavy tribute without rep- Fesentation and without consideration. “We mow to 4,” he said, “one b ‘and fifty in interest. if silver is demonétized we will pay a thou- sand 8. Corn and wheat and cofton cannot be sold cheap enough to raise the money to pay, interest on what we would He ny that there would be no filibuster- ing on the part of the silver men, but that the repeal could not be acted on without mn, and they would do well to get toa vote in four of five months. et They Ought not. he thought, to talk shout repealing the law before it had been in tion. The law had been null by the Treasury Department, he said, and had not yet been given a trial MORE MONEY WANTED, DENVER, Col., July 28.—The Chamber of Commerce has prepared # memorial to Con- ress favoring an increase in the circylat- ing medium of the country by the free ouin- age of silver produced from the mines of the United States and demanding the pay- * ing out of the money hoarded in the vaults of the national treasury. ‘The memorial claims that the amount of legal tender currency is altogether inade- ay to the transaction of its business; the repeal of the so-called Sherman law would further contract the currency and should, therefore, not be done without providing an uate substitute. ‘The memorial aske that the the Treasury be required to do that he has had the discretion,but has te ly declined to do, to the great injury of the People, to coin into legal! tende= money pay out in like manner on the debts the government, all of the stiver bullion, or which may hereafter be in the treasury. ‘The memorial protests & continu. ance of the practice of the authoriti bi-meta!lic America in ing and follow: ing monometailic Engiand in matters finance, because Great Britain is the Iar- est aggregation of money lenders in the world, and your constituents, in develop- ing their resources, have become the lat gest borrowers in the world, and becausé hers ts an aristocratic movement. whose in- terest and object is to make money “more valuable by the contraction of the curren to a gold basis, and who have little ot ot the people.” ‘The memoriel. favors the bi-metallic sys- tem in vogue in France, or something sim= ‘The document is signed by ex-Governor John Evans as chairman. DISCUSSED BY THE “STREET.” ‘Was Said in New York About the Action of the Savincs Bank Presidents. NEW YORK, July 28—Naturally the ae tion of the saving bank presidents in the matter of the thirty and sixty-day clause was much discussed in Wall street today. ‘Opinions differed widely, but it is to be ree marked that the conservative element Father favored the action of the presidents. It was generally agreed that the recent hheavy purchases of odd lots of railway and other stocks materially reduced the deposit Mines of the banks, and while this proved of benefit to the security market it has caused some of the banks to be apprehen- Sive of a sudden withdrawal of money from the national banks by savings tsti- tutions tn pty © arun on 4 This we disturbed a grea’ collateral reasons the the bank presidents meets with commenda- Henry Clews says the action of the ssv- ings banks in availing themselves of thelr sixty days’ privilege ie not a bear anus ment. current was becoming 90 strong to draw money out of the savings banks to invest at bargain prices in seeuri= ties, and it was to prevent this that this step was taken. The action of the savings yanks show that the investing public ane now picking up stocks right and left and it_has drifted into almost a mania. President J. Edward Simmons of Fourth National said this morning: “T he nothing further to say about the the savings bank presidentr.save that I Spprove oC their ection. It to 3 ——. - KAISER WILLIAM AT COWES, Sportaroan Will Witness the Safle ing of Bis Yacht. LONDON, July 2%.—Emperor William, om ‘board the imperial yacht Hohenzollern, ar- rived at Dover this morning from Kiel Count von Hatzfelt, German ambassador to Great Britain, was at Dover awaiting the arrival of the yacht. He at once em= RF emi. oe for tt jent Some miles east of Spithead the moyal sborne, with the Prince of Wales and a. disti party on board, met ‘the Hohengoliern and after ex signals with the German yacht her company to Cowes, Isle of Wight. As the two yachts entered the Solent salutes in honor of the German emperor ‘were fired at Portsmouth and Cowes. The Solent presented a beautiful appears ance, the water studded with yachts and pleasure craft, all of which were deror- ated with German and British fines es undreds of vari-colored signal, fags. emperor was given an enthusiast! He ‘will witness the races of the Isis of during his stay. His majesty” it Meteor, ihe wel-knawe Evitien cutter Thistle. thet was defeated ‘2 the Taces for the Ameniga's cup in 187 1 the Volunteer, is ents for some of the races. IT CAUSED A RUN. : ‘Effect of the Decision of the New York an@ Brooklyn Savings Bank Presidents. BROOKLYN, N. Y., July 2.--There & @& slight run on the Brooklyn Savings Bank, About 200 people are in line. The run i caused by the action of the savings hank presidents yesterday requiring thirty days notice. Cashier Flandreau said the ban! was in good condition and al! who a their money today will be paid in L ‘The Dime Savings Bank and the Soutt Brooklyn Savings Bank both put into opers tion today the thirty and sixty day rae ‘The General Savings Bank of Kings coun announces that they wil! into operation on Monday , 4S SS 4 wil probably do the same. 4 Able to Stand Runs. ‘TRENTON, N. J.. July %—A run come menced this morning on the ae was paid out. The bank is one of the strongest in the state, haying © clean @ur= plus of $268,000. The money paid out thie ma was phy silver wow the Trenton banks are in excellent 2nd no suspensions wil! occur. NEWARK, N. 5, July 2.—There I slight run today on the Howard Sa. Institution of this city. A long line of depositors has been passing tn front of the x teller’s window all the morn- ing. e officers of the bank fay that they yy on hand to pay all demands. The Howard is the strongest savings bank In the city. ———— Fx-Recretary Foster's Accounts. FOSTORIA, Ohio, July %—The creditors Foster & Co., and Charles Foster, have held a largely attended secret meeting and raised 4 to employ an expert to meke a ‘of the books of the bank. This will be done in order to see whether there were any irregularities in recent transfers of real estate. Financial Difficulties ofa WichiganPoliticias Special Miapatch to The Evening Star GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. July 2h. Isaac M. Weston, widely known as a pelle tician and capitalist. filed a real estate mortgage today to the amount of $70.08, and is in deep water generally. He is ‘of the bi jure will not affect the paper.” St Mi