Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1894, Page 7

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MILLER. Mrs.Miller says: “I first noticed dark rings around my daughter's eyes—that she could never blow ber Rose well, and yet it stuffed up. At times wi She took cold she would be actually deaf. & general running down of the system, atte with sleepless ni ing during her sleep. Whenever the child exertion she in- varlably complaired of pains im the side. She Was frequently aifected with nervous spells. Her breath was noti She had been iclaus without deriving any After two weeks of Dr. Jordan neticed # decided improvement; my daughter slept better—had a heartier appetite—and could breathe much easier through her nose. She has increased ten pounds In weizht, and is now a bright, healthy ebild. 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The bill means the striking down of the value of a debt by one- half, and it means to strike down the credit of the United States. In a few days I hope to see the Senate perform an act of long- delayed justice to the people of this coun- try—a form of justice I have fought for for years—the turning back from that species of legislation which lays a burden on the many for the few. But, let me say to my friends, if there are any who enter- tain the impression that there {s justice in one measure which will rob the rich under the form of law, which will strike down debts under the form of law-—that that justice is not the justice of democracy, but the democracy of anarchy. The cormmun- ism of Paris in the bloody revolution may have done some deeds of justice, but it | wrecked society and deluged humani | horror. Let us be just on both hands-- honest with debts, honest with the prom- ise of the government and above all honest with the faith and credit of the govern- | ment, which ought to be our dearest cb- | Jeet.” Mr. Allison's Objections. Senator Allison then began the speech | which he was not well enough to deliver last Friday. He had made the motion to re- | consider the vote by which the bill passed | the third reading, because he wanted to | correct serious defects in the first section of the bill and also to strike out th2 entire second section. He then analyzed the bill, section by section, calling attention to the defects in each. As to the ‘rst section, he agreed with those who neld that the bul- lion in the treasury was not available in its present form for any purpose except one— to be sold. But he had yet to hear any one, either in the Senate or elsewhere, maintain that it was the purpose of Ccn- gress to authorize the sale of this bullion, and without such authority such a sale was impossible. Therefore it was clear that at some time it would be necessary to deal with it. He was willing, and always had been, to deal with it now, but he did not beli that the way of dealing with it proposed In the bill was wise. In his opinion, too, the bill was unnecessary, for he believed the Sec- retary of the Treasury was authorized by the act of 1890 to coin every dollar of that bullion for the purpose of redeeming the | treasury notes outstanding. That he had | seen fit to exercise that power was evidence | that he did not consider this Lill neces- Mr. Aldrich inquired whether he had the right to coin it unless necessity demanded | it, without special legislation. | . “Probably not,” replied Mr. Allison, “but he can coin a silver dollar for every dollar of the treasury notes. 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NATIONAL HOTEL DRUG STORE. ambl2 ° | ; Same and a warrant was issued for him, for the issue of this paper money?” Mr. Allison. “At first,” he said, inquired | ‘it was | tended to do away with the necessity of | borrowing $50,000,000, It was intended as} @ panacea and soporific, but the bill was so slow in making its appearance that the | Secretary of the Treasury went ahead and j borrowed $50,000,000, It may be that the | emergency of the treasury is so great Uiat | in addition to that $50,000,000 this $55,000,000 | is necessary.” He was not opposed to silver, he said, end | he is ready to deal with the bullion in the | treasury, and he moreover predicted that | when silver was restored to an equality | with gold, as he believed it would be some i day, it would not be at the present ratio of 16 to 1, but at the world’s ratio of 151-2 tol. Calls It a Buffer. Senator Wolcott advocated the passage cf | the bill. He would have been glad to see the proposed amendments discussed and voted on, but it was also true that the friends of the bill, if they were in the ma- Jority, had the right to pass the bill as it was. The main purpose of those who cp- posed the passage of the bill was to keep it before the Senate as a buffer obstacle, a -paw to prevent the consideration of the | tariff bill. When Mr. Sherman had moved to refer the bill to the finance committee, | where its imperfections could have been corrected, only seven Senators voted with him, four of whom came from the other side of the chamber. He thought, there- fore, that the bill should stand as it was as a warning, even while he admitted that the bill was crude, roughly drawn and ex- tremely ungrammatical. At the conclusion of his speech the Sen- ate, at 5:25 o'clock, adjourned. a YOUTHFUL PRISONERS. Several Diminative Youngsters in the Police Court Procession. Benjamin Buckley, a boy not more than Seventeen years old, who was found in a stable with a party of men and women sev- eral months ago, was found on the street last night by Policeman Kimmell with two small boys. The officer said that the boy was begging for money under the pretense that he wanted to pay for lodgings for the small boys. When the police station was reached the officer learned that one of the boys had run away from his parents and the other had left the home of his guardian near Benning. They were restored to their homes and Buckley was taken to the Po- lice Court this morning on a charge of vagrancy. lie told the court that he had attended the Central Union Mission nearly every night, but last night he went to Harris’ Theater. “On my way home,” he said, “I held a horse for a lady and the two little boy came along and told me they had no piace to stay last night He said he did not beg for them, but he was going to get them a place in Mrs. Potterfield’s for the night. Ben told the court that he had slept at | home every night and that he had been working on a huckster’s wagon, but the officer gave him a bad name. { Judge Miller told him that the reform | school was perhaps the best place for the boy, but he was too old to be sent there. “I wanted to go in the navy," said the | boy, “but my father wouldn't send me.” “Where do you live?” “At G24 Sth street. “With whom do you live?” ‘My father. He works in the pension office. His father was sent for, but he failed to give his boy a clean record. Judge Miller, however, was willing to give | the boy another chance, and took his ber- | sonal bonds, warning him that he had bev- | ter change his course of life. Robert T. Tascoe, a fourteen-year-old colored boy, had a lively experience yester- day, when he went to a second-hand store on D street to dispose of a pair of knee breeches, for which he had no use. Robert no longer wears short clothes, and for that reason he desired to dispose of the short ones he had on hand, and buy a new pair of man’s trousers. But the dealer suspected the boy of hav- ing come by them dishonestly, and so he made an outcry. Policeman Harry Hutton, a dog and about a hundred loafers from in front of the Police Cour joined in the exciting pur- suit, and the honest little boy was found hiding in a stable in the alley in rear of the second-hand store. Vagrancy and suspicion was the charge against the youth when he appeared in| court this morning, after being locked up all night, but there was no proof of wrong | doing against him. He ran when pursued, but the crowd was enough to frighten a full grown man. The boy's relatives appeared, gave him a good reputation, and said his sister sent h the clothes from New York. Dismissed.” Samuel Greenfield, a young man who said he wanted to help out an acquaintance who had opened a house in the “Division,” Was arrested by Policeman Williams. Sam's cousin appeared in his behaif aud said he had made arrangements to send him in the country. “That's perhaps the best thing he can do,” said Judge Miller to his cousin. “If he remains about the ‘Division’ certainly no good will come of him He was released on his own recognizance. Watt Douglass is a colored man who is known to the police as a “professional crap shooter.” More than a month ago he engaged in a but it was not until last night that the of- ficers found him. “How about this game, Watt?” inquired the court. “I don’t know nothin’ about it,” he an- swered, “’twas too long ago.” “Five doilars.”” Bidney Brooks, a South Washington ne- gro, who had some trouble with Fannie Green, was similarly fined. “Judge, your honor, I’m a stranger in the city,” said John Hayes, “and if you let me go I'll leave the city.” “What ts the trouble with this man?” the judge asked. “He's been hanging about the mission,” = Policeman Hamilton, “and I've seen im ol the avenue bracing people fer Edward Bowen said he was only singing in a bar room Saturday night, but Poli man Troeter stated a worse state of af- fairs and the usual fine was imposed. Julia Banks said guilty to a charge of } obstructing the sidewalk on 41-2 street last night. “She was drunk,” said Policeman An- derson, “and I found her lying across the sidewalk with a crowd of boys around er. “Five dollars or fifteen days.” A young colored man named William Pearson and Annie Jackson, his companion, had some trouble at the 7th street transfer junction late last night. An unknown white man assaulted them and the man indulged in profane language. A witness said that the girl also used bad language and referred to him as “ poor white trash.” “She don’t swear,” said Pearson, “and I know it. She's going to get baptized Sun- day and I know she's a Christian,” Annie was acquitted and Pearson paid $2. ———_— MR. PEFFER’S BILL. He Hi Evolved an Independent casure on the Tariff. Senator Peffer has introduced an inde- pendent tariff bill in the Senate. It re- duces the tariff on common brown earthen- ware to 10 per cent ad valorem, on china to 30, 35 and 40 per cent for the various grades; makes hoop iron or steel free: puts T rails at $10 per ton; iron or steel wire for fences, &c., 5-10 of a cent per other wire, 1-10 of a cent per table and other cutlery, 10 per cent ad valorem; firearms, 100 per cent ad valorem; spikes, nails, screws and like articles are all largely reduced; lead ore is to pay a duty of 1 cent per pound; tin, 1 cent per pound; hewn or sawed iumber, 5 per cent; sawed boards, &c., free. There is no proposed duty on sugar except on that imported from countries which im. Pose an export bounty, when it is to pay a duty equal to the bounty. Agricu! tural products and provisions are to be admitted free of duty. The duty on spirits and wines is increased from 50 to cents per gallon. The duty on unmanufactured goods is decreased about half and that on manufactured articles increased. Binding twine is made free, as is also bagging for cotton or grain. La edgings, &c., are increased to 75 per cent. The duty on wool of the first class is to be 8 cents per pound, while wool of the third class of less value than 10 cenis per pound is to be admitted duty free; wool of this class worth more than 12 cents to be charged 25 cents; sheddy, 2 cents per pound; woolen yarns, iV per cent; woolen cloths of the first class free; cheap, ready-made clothing, free; costly carpets, 50 per cent; cheap carpets, free; playing dollar per pack; coal, including anth: free. jewelry, per cent ad printings, 50 per cent. The Dill als vies the internal revenue law. The tax on beer, lager beer, ale, porter and other fermented liquors is placed at $2 per gal- lon. He amends the income tax in accord- ance with the populist graduated proposi- tion in the House and includes justices of the Supreme Court and other federal judges in the list to be taxed. ™ PROMOTIONS BY SENIORITY Commodore Erben’s Application of Vital Importance to Naval Officers. | The Question of the President's Power in the Premises—Alleged Contiict of Statutes With Constitution. The application of Commodore Ezben, commanding the European station, for pro- motion to the grade of rear admiral on the retirement of Admiral Benham on the 10th proximo raises a question of the highest importance to naval officers. It is as to the authority of the President to make promotions in the navy, regardless of seniority. There is no doubt whatever that there are statutory obligations for the recognition of seniority in such appoint- ments. The question at issue, however, is as to whether such statutes are of binding force in so far as they tend to conflict with the constitutional prerogatives of the Presi- dent in the matter of appointments. "he point is made that the statutes providing that naval promotions shall be made by seniority of service are, in view of the con- stitutional provisions, advisory merely, and do not bind the President to that method of selection when, in his judgment, the interests of the service can be best sub- served by a departure therefrom. Some naval officers hold that It will take a special act of Congress to legalize the appointment of Commodore Erben as ad- miral over the heads of Commodores Pam- say, Skerrett, Fyffe and Stanton. O.aers contend, on the contrary, that the same object can be legitimately accomplished by nomination by the President and contirma- tion by the Senate. There are said to be many cases that could be accepted as pre- cedents for the latter contention, enly, however, so far as it applies to the Pres dent's constitutional power in the matter of appointments. None of these are exac ly like the present case. They are mostly instances of where officers have been re- moved from the service by the simple nomination and confirmation of their suc- cessors. Such action was in apparent con- travention of the statutes, but whenever in question it was sustained by the courts on the general ground that the statutes were in conflict with the constitutional powers of the executive. It is argued by the friends of Commodore Erben that this principle can properly be applied to his case. They say that the equities of the case are all in his favor, and that he is willing to tuke the chances of the legality of his promotion in the manner indica-ed. Promotion by selection, which is practi- cally the question involved in the case of Commodore Erben, is a matter of vital in- terest to the navy. It is one of the prin- cipal features of the plans proposed by Sec- retary Herbert and Senator Hale for im- proving the personnel of the navy. Con- sequently the President's action on the ap- plication of Commodore Erben will be awaited with considerable anxiety by the naval service. It is not at all improbable that in case Erben is nominated and con- firmed as an admiral over the heads of his seniors on the list of commodores that the courts will be called upon to pass on the legality of the transaction. There is an impression at the Navy De- Pariment that the President will avoid legal entanglements that “might possibly srise from a radical departure from the system of promotion by seniority by ignor- ing the claim of Commodore Erben. Owing | to the high grade of the officers involved in this controversy the President's action upon it will necessarily have a far reach- ing influence in the service. ——— os, FOR STAMPED ENVELOPES. The Post Office Department to Con- sider New Bids. The Post Office Department has issued an advertisement announcing that sealed proposals will be received at the depart- ment up to noon of March 28 for furnish- ing stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers in such quantities as may be call- ed for by the department during a period of four years, beginning on the Ist of Oc- tober, 18M. The paper must be watermark- ed with such design as the Postmaster General shall approve. The right is reserv- ed by the department to change the color of any or all of the papers at any time dur- ing the existence of the contract, but in making such changes no more expensive colors shall be selected than those used in the contract samples. All papers furnished or used shall be subject to the supervision and approval of the Postmaster General or his authorized nt before and alter being manufactured into the finished product. The Postmaster General shall have right to cause inspection to be made, when, in such manner, and as often as he may desire it, of the process of manufacturing the paper in all its several stages and of stationing an agent at the place of manu- facture. Condemned water-marked paper shall be reduced to pulp, and must not be made over for stamped envelopes aad wrap- pers. The water-mark designs in the d: dy-rolls shall be destroyed when no longer required for use. The Postinaster General reserves the right to increase or diminish at any time during the contract term the standard weights of any of the different qualities of paper, upon condition that he shall pay a proportionate increase or de- crease of price, to be determined upon the actual cost to the contractor of the paper in use at the time of the change. ‘The Post- master General also reserves the right to impose a fine upon the contractor, to be deducted in the settiement of accounts, for the failure to have on hand at any time a sufficient supply of envelopes and Wrappers. Failure to furnish the goods within a rea- sonable time after order may be regarded by the Postmaster General as a sufficient cause for annulling the contract. The pay- ments will be made monthly and not at ir- regular periods, after proper verification of the accounts. ALEXANDRIA, The city council will hold its first March meeting at the chambers of the respective boards tonight. Heretofore, for some time, action in regard to public improvements has been made somewhat uncertain by the fact that amendments to the charter and other measures in relation to the powers of the council have been pending before the gen- eral assembly. As all these matters ere now settled and the council will have clear sailing it is probable that the boards will take up tonight the proposal to issue street and sewer improvement bonds. ‘The act for this purpose must be approved not cnly by the city council, but by a majority vote of the freeholders of the city The Ladies’ Auxiliary Association of Lee Camp, Confederate Veterans, was fully cr- ganized at Peabody Hall yesterday after- noon, and the following officers were | chosen: President, Mrs. G. Wm. Ramsa) vice presidents, Mrs. Henry Straass, Mr Jane Green, Mrs. J. E. Pierpoiat,sirs. Mary C. Windsor, Mrs. Wm. H. Bacon and Miss Annie Henderson; recording secretary, Miss | Gertrude Johnson; correspon-ling secretary, | Mrs. John R. Zimmerman; executive com- mittee, Mrs. Frank Hume,Mrs. Edgar War- field and Mrs. R. L. Wood. Judge Wallace of Fredericksburg opened the March term of the corporation court here today, vice Judge Norton, who is tem- porarily absent in Chicago on business. There will be no criminal cases of interest tried in this term, and no time has yet been fixed for the third trial of Jefferson Phillips, indicted for the murder of George S. Smith. Postmaster Agnew has served four years most acceptably, and his commission is now expired. The candidates to succeed him are ex-Mayor John T. iteekham, ex- Collector W. W. Herbert, John A. Marshall and Thomas Perry, all excellent citizens. There is a general satisfactiva felt here that the Virginia conference has returned Rev. Wm. H. McAllister to the pasvorate of Trinity Methodist Church here. It is expected that tonight Mr. Millard Vincent, who has been appolnted deputy collector of customs, will resixn his place as clerk of the board of aldermen, and that Justice Luther H. Thompson will be ch in his stead. Pose er ree elling Bad Exes. Along the line of B street northwest be- tween 7th and 12th streets, where country people are permitted to stand and dispose of produce, persons posing a® farmers have imposed upon the unsuspecting purchasers, Several alleged bogus countrymen or coun- trymen engaged in selling limed or cold storage eggs have been complained against, and today Food Inspector Mothershead had two cases in court. John Ridgeway and Marcus Cooley were the defendants. The charge against them was selling unsound eggs, and they forfeited $5 collateral each. a Strack With a Bottle. In a fight between Minor Johnson end Joseph kK at ith and P streets last | emplo: | ing ; the tendency to rise superior to disas' night the latter was struck on the head with a botile and seriously hurt. He was sent to the Freedman’s Hospital IN HOTEL CORRIDORS. ‘A jolly party was enjoying stories at the Normandie last night, when the conversa- tion turned on exhibitions of bravery and courage under trying circumstances. Ern- est McGuirk of the Great Northern rail- road shrugged his shoulders at Proprictor Cake’s recital of a ‘longshoreman’s cour- age in diving under a ba>ge and rescuing a child which had fallen overboard. “That was a splendid act,” he remarxed, ‘and desorves a life-saving medal, but the most sublime thing that ever occurred, in my opinion, in the way of bravery, was an levent I participated in away out in the state of Washington four years ago next August. I had been up in the neighbor- hood of Lake Chelan looking at the vari- ous passes in the mountains which might present favorable features for railroad con- struction and returned to Seattle, when I learned that something was up in the vicinity of the British boundary. I took a train on the Seattle, Lake Shore and Northern and started northward. Early in the morning, just after daybreak, our train came to a stop with a sudden joit that threw me out of my berth and clean across the car. When I recovered my sense! which had momentarily been knocked out of me, I got into my clothes and went cut- side. Then I saw why we had stopped. ‘The train in sight consisted of the passen- ger cars alone. Right ahead of them and piled up in a narrow cut, through which ran a little creek, were the engine tender and baggage car. The trestle had broken just when the cow-catcher reached it and the only thing that prevented the whole train going down was the shallowness of the cut. I walked up to look at the wreck, when I heard some one say that ‘poor Jim Boyle would neve> run another engine, be- cause he would be drowned down there even if his legs hadn't been crushed cff already.’ I went forward and peered down to the stream, and there I saw two train hands holding a man’s head up and out of the water, while a foot away was the g-eat wall of the wreckage, rising threat- in; above them. In a few minutes I was made acquainted with the facts. The stream into which the engine had pitched was very low in the morning, as there were some Chinamen working at placer mining several miles above, and they dammed up the water over night and kept it until they got ready to wash their dirt and gravel in the afternoon. The man whose head was being held up and out of the creek was Jim Boyle, the engineer, and he was pinned down there by a hundred thousand pounds of railroad wreckage. From just above his knees his body was uninjured, but the lower part of his limbs was crushed flat and held in a vice which knew no un- loosening. “The water was too high to admit of a physician getting to the man to amputate his limbs, even if a doctor had been pres- ent, and, of course, there was no moving the wreck until a wrecking train arrived from Seattle. Another danger threatened the prisoner also. When the Chinam2n be- gan to wash their dirt in the afterncon a large volume of water wouid come down and that would settle poor Jim's fate sure. Now, the man himself iay there in what must have been agony certainly, and, with the water barely below his mouth and ley cold at that, and never whimpered. He in- quired calmly if a coffer dam coulda’t be built around him, and when this was found to be impossible he asked that his wife be sent for—he lived a few stations back—to come up on the wrecking train. Then he asked for a smoke, and puffed away at a pipe as contentedly, to all appearances, 2s if he had been in his engine cab. The trainmen relieved each other, and the pas- sengers also took turns in holding up Boyie’s head above the water, and as the hours wore away everybody seemed to feel the awful strain but Boyle. Shortly Lefore noon a welcome toot was heard to the ee _ Boyle heard it. “I'll bet the cigars that Clara's that train,” was all he sald. Rem “It was the wrecking train, and the first person off of it was a white-faced little Woman with tightly compressed lips. She knew the state of affair, and went Straight to the cut and down into its awful bottom with unhesitating steps. She took her hus- band’s h in her arms and kissed hin. ““My legs are gone, sure, Clara,’ said the man, with a smile. “Well, your heart’s all right,’ she re- sponded cheerily. There was no hopeless- ness in her appearance, no matter how full her heart might have been. Some one came rushing down with a startled ery ‘The Chinamen have begun washi iuher the man or woman showed a bit of fear. et me have the gun, ‘You'd die with a sin’on your soul,” she replied. ‘I'll do it, darling, an live toj| square myself.’ “That woman, gentlemen, had come pre- pared to kili the man she loved in prefer- ence to letting him die a more horrible death in a flood of dirt and cand a r el. An Englishman, who 1ad been a pa: on the train, appeared at this junc- ture with an implement shaped something like a mattock. No one xnow where he got it. “Maybe we can scrape ihe bottom away under Boyle's legs and drag him out, or what's left of him, anyhow,’ he suggested. “He went to work. Every now and then he’ would strike the crushed legs of the engineer and ejaculate, ‘I veg pardon,’ and every time Boyle would invariably reply, ‘No harm done, general.’ In ten “ninutes he asked Boyle to brace nimself a: mo- tioned to the men at his side. Boyle's arms and shoulders were quickly grasped by muscular trainmen; there was a strong jerk and Boyle was released. Even in that su- preme moment of agony, when he was iaid on the side of the cut, with masses of bleeding, crushed, quivering flesh and bore, where his feet and shins ind knees had been, he looked up at the En; sald: ‘General, thanks, you a and then fainted in his wife’s arms. Ten minutes later the cut was ten fect deep, with a bubbling, hissing, rapid stream of yellow water. How was that for bravery all the way through?” Early this morning a man wandered into Willard'’s, looked around with something like uncertainty in his glance and then started for the bootblack’s headquarters. The laborious manner in which he climbed into the chair bespoke a weariness super- induced by an arduous and determined dalliance with nocturnal recreation. As he put his foot on the foot rest one of the colored porters named Henry, who is somewhat below the medium size, in and proceeded to rub up the shoes of the customer. The latter regarded Henry sleepily for a moment and then closed his eyes. Just then something demanded Henry's attention elsewhere and he beck- oned to Berry, the enormous colored man hotel, to finish the polish- operation for him. When the proper shine had been secured Berry tapped the sole of the man’s foot and remarked that job was done. The sleeper opened ‘8 and when they rested on Berry a jump that nearly carried him out of the chair. Scrambling out he gave arter and without saying a word s eyes off the immense figure he made haste for the bar. “Gimme an absinthe, quick,” he exclaim- ed; “a ccon started to black my boots in there. He weighed about a hundred and sixty when he began and over a ton when he finished. I reckon I'm on the very verge of the wizzy-wuzzles. 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The western man, indeed, is like a rubber ball; the harder fate throws him down the high- er he seems to rebound.” Mr. Patrick Egan has been in the city for a few days, his temporary domicile be- ing La Normandie. He was asked this morning what he thought of John Red- mond’s recent manifesto, which seems to have stirred up quite a rumpus in Ireta “I have not read i said Gen. Egan. hope the Irish people will have no differ- ences, and that they will all work together toward a common end.” “What effect will the change of premiers have upon the cause of home ruie, in your opinion?” “As far as I can see, it will have none. I cannot appreciate why the retirement of Mr. Gladstone and the elevation of Earl Rosebery should change the policy of the liberal party in Great Britain. It is pledg- ed to home rule, and should it endeavor to recede from that princtyle it would imme- diately go out of power. You see, the lib- eral majority in parliament is only forty, which is assured by the support of the eigh- ty Irish members. It is not difficult to fore- see what would become of the liberal party if it should desert the principles of home rule and thereby lose that powerful assist- ance. Oh, no, I do not believe the change in the head of the government will have any bad effect upon the Irish question Whatever.” “The general run of people have no idea of the stagnation in business all over the country,” said Walter Harris, a traveling nan who brought his sample case wo the National this morning. “I have just left our heuse in New York, where there has been a round up of our commercial trave!- ers, and we all had the same story to tell— the worst season for orders on record. Mer- chants who order for their fall trade at this time of the year are withholding their fa- vors entirely, while those who buy along as their stocks become diminished are shorten- ing their purchases in all lines of goods to the smallest possible pinch. I believe the cause of it all may be summed up xs na- tional apprehension. The business men feel hike Kansas people do when a dark cloud appears far off on the horizon. ‘They don't know what is coming, but they believe it wise to take to their cyclone cellars any- how. So the business men are taking no chances. A friend of mine, empioyea by Hilton & Co., the suecessors, you know, of A. T. Stewart, toid me on Sunday in New York that his people were simpiy amazed at the small number of orders they were receiving for future delivery. I don’t know whether the condition is caused by the de- lay on the tariff or not, but as everybody Says so, | reckon that’s the reason.” ——__ For Ei cipation Day. The committee of arrangements for the South Washington division of une emanci- pation celebration met at the headquarters of the McKinley Tariff Leagae, No. 522 3d street southwest. The report shows they are making extensive arrangements for the occasion. The commit?» so re- ports that a number of clubs und organiza. tions have been invited, and say th ey will attend. The prospect for a large turncut for the division Is very bright. The co mittee will meet again on Friday night, the 16th, THE COURTs. Equity Court, Division 2, Ju Magner. Yesterday—Ross et al. agt. uvail; A. B. Duvall and 8. R. Bond appoint»4 trustee: to sell. Stansburg agt. Ing rt et al. auditor's report finally ratified. Circuit Court, Division 2, Bingham. Yesterday—Kelly agt. Wigzin drawn and case off caiendar. DON'T CLING to imperfect things. Cereal foods need the best cream. Chief Justice 3 Jury with- BORDEN’S PEERLESS BRAND EVAPORATED CREAM is decidedly superior in richness and flavor to ordinary milk or cream. 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Ae # resulé of the affair John Cummings of 168 | Taylor street and James McNamara of 9 _lierman street lie very dangerously wound- 7 \ed at St. John’s Hospital. Cummings and McNamara, with a ber of companions, all more or less under the influence of liquor, entered the saloon and ordered drinks. Michael Kennedy, the proprietor, refused to let them have liquor because they were drunk and Gisorderty, This so enraged the party that they started tg demolish the bar and fixtures. Kennedy ew a revolver and fired three shots into the midst of the crowd. The first shot pierced the head of Cummings, while the second and third struck McNamara, ong bullet Passing through his lung. Kennedy is in jail. —+e+—_____ The Nashville cotton mills have assigne® for the benefit of creditors, whose claims | aggregate S6v,1H), Nearly Died from biljous beadmacs. She com- plained and moaned, and im three imonths paid a doctor... And while she was complaining | sufiering she took medicine con- istantly. 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