Evening Star Newspaper, July 31, 1894, Page 8

kk. P. Mertz’s 4 Days’ Midsummer “Price-Clipping” Carnival, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Here (s another chance to advantageously fill your medicine chests! We will inaugurate a four-day midsummer “price-clipping” sale tomorrow which will place before you high-class Drugs, Medicines, Toilet Goods, &c., at as low and many instances lower prices than most druggists pay at wholesale. In other words, druggists cculd best afford to buy of us to sell again. Every time we sell you a dollar medicine for 50c. or Glc. we wake you 41 or 39e. richer. our interests»and making up for the shortage of profit by greatly increasing the volume of trade—selling a bundred Lottles of g medicine today to prices and placed bealth-giving for ycur generous patronage. for a mere song and not lose a 3 Drugs Reduced. $1 Paine's Celery Compound $1 Hood's Sarsaparilla... (Good for the blood.) $1 Page's Sarsaparilla.. = (An excellent blood tonic) $1 Wine of Calisaya and Iron.. (or malaria.) $1 Celery, Beef and Coca... (A nerve and brain tonic Te. Warner's Celery Bitters. (For general debility.) Sec. C. S. Disinfectant... (Kills all germs.) . Lester's Little Liver Pills. . Leslie's Elixir, for diarrhoea. (A sure cure.) . Jamaica Ginger.... Bee (For all stomach disorders.) . Bromo Febrine, large size. (An instantaneous cure for headac 25e. Cleansiline... pene (For cleansing silks, clothes, &e. quire no rinsing.) Insect Powder Blowers, small size Insect Powder Blowers, large size -6le. +o0--6le. e.) -19e. Mertz’s Modern Pharmacy, Cor. uth and F Sts. N. W. We have saved the Washington public thousands of dollars by “cutting” prices. By ‘pooling the one of the days gone by. drugs within the reach of the poorest. Be that as All we ask is ycur continued co-operation and we will keep on “cutting,” “cut- ting’”’ and “cutting,” until the ailing cam buy through a bottle pericdical visits to the seashore day from work. Scan the list closely: Finest quality of Insect Powder, which selis regularly for 50 and T5e., during packages. this sale, 20e. Ib. Sulphur Candles -18e. Sticky Fly Paper (per box, 50 sheets)..42e, Hotels and other large users would do Well to lay in a supply now. A box con- tains 25 double sheets. ‘This fly paper sells regularly elsewhere at 75e. Toilet Articles Reduced. Ze. Roses and Myrrh Tooth Wi row ... < *. Queen Ann Tooth Powder, . White's Ivery Dentine, now. e. Taleum Raby Powder, now Se. Crown Baby Powder, now. Julie's Face Powder, now. Rabuteau Face Powder, now . Newman's Toilet Powder, violet and rose. soa sse «+ -42e, $1 Queen Ann Cologne, large size, now. Se, SOc. Queen Ann Cologne, small size, -48e, -58e. Extracts, all odofs, o7. seeeeeeee BBQ. Hundreds of our customers have frequently remarked that we deserve the thanks and trade of the entire community because we started the crusade = Watches F ree. against high it may, we are truly thankful and mountains $1 Julie Face Bleach, now. u de Quinine, large size, now. . 5¢c. Eau de Quinine, small size, now. .29¢. 25e. Clark's Bunion Cure, now 18¢ 0c. Clark's Corn Cure, now. Violet Orris. . (Most fragrant and lasting of all odors, for trumk, drawer and boudsir use.) Hundreds of Other —items reduced in proportion, which we have no space to enumerate. Ssseteteeseeseeteeteetonteateataatonsoeseeteeteate eoelentedtodteesodtetorte eetestondontesbostestestoatres eet eatedipeinctodtortectoetenteetede loatentonsonte iodinets orto aetieeseess aoe Only a few weeks more of the gold Watches. One each week to the soda water drinker securing the lucky number, Get a ticket: with ¢ glass of seda. ‘The customer holding the largest number ef soda tickets at the end of the season Will be given a diamond ring. ek paaneee ene ubber , --Hose | ‘ Rotting 5C. Ft. «Hopkins, on oth St. reese jy30 wv we we ee ee eet Double and Triple Cookers Reduced. ‘Think of cooking two or three dif- ‘ ferent vegetables over one flame at t a time. The lot we have left is so ° smoll we've icduced the price as follows: All $1.25 Cookers, 95c. All $1.50 Cookers, $1.10. All $1.75 Cookers, $1.30. Gas Appliance Exchange, 1428 N. Y. Ave. (Don't Broil Yourself) ‘(Over a Coal Fire, keepers whose task the preparation of is the family, meals. We've. GAS JENKS, RANGES that'll lowe ‘asta #9 temperature of the, house co bly, yet ¥ Wo 17 7TH ST. ower the. ‘contents. of Sour arse very much—they're economically priced. ar ry One Of Our ‘Gas Ranges. ( 330 ICE CREAM FREEZERS, Two-quart $ size. The 5 repu'ar $1.50 1.25. Kind elsewhere. Built on the work-guick — plan— has a small appetite for ice. IF, eco nomical and satisfactor It'll give satisfaction, or Four Incnex's refunded. L. H. Hopkins, 933 F and Housefurnist ings. Pr a DO Stafford Water Will CURE when other remedies FAIL. Used in five hospitals in D. Prescribed by physicians. Sold by druggists. gs7-m_TRY IT. On Such Hot Days Drink Iced Tea. Cooling, delicious, healthful. If you wish the best. get BURCHELL’S SPRING LEAF (ICED) pure has. strengthr—and ie jously favored. Only S0c. BURCHELL, 1925 F ST. 75 ne Duck Suits Cleaned St. Jy0. YOU SUFFER FROM BRIGHT'S DIs- EASE—DIABETES—INSOMNIA—or any LIVER or BLADDER complaint? el TEA. Is most delic To look their “smartest” by our Matchless Process. We assure that garments made immaculate gop — injury. Notify ee comes ain co Anton Fischer, 906 G St. 30 SPPPPSPOSSP POE? fame! ° If I it. ti 3 ¢ MIitation 3 3 ; ‘Is Flattery, : CREAM BLEND FLOUR—were it @ 3 nanumate toy —would indeed have % e “awell bead." Other fours are D4 attempting to walk in fs footsteps— & 4 other flours are attempting to climb ¢ by the same ladder ‘Cream Blend’* has elimbed—other flours are at- b 4 tempting to share its well won Ps Cream Blend Flour is the only “BLENDED” flour on the market. We do net doubt that “mix flours— bat to BLEND” | SBVERAL CHOICEST WINTER AND SPRING WHEAT FLOURS in exact propor- tions to get best results fs some- thing far different. Write this axiom on the tablet of your _mem- ory: THERE ARE NO OTHER EXCEPT “CREAM “BLEN ME Ack som grocer for CREAM ¥ © for BLEND FLOUR. If ne doesn't sell it “let us know, we'll serve you through him. B. B. Earnshaw & Bro., WHOLESALE FLOUR DEALERS, 1105-1107-1109 11TH STREET S.E. AND 1000-1002 M STREET 8.B. PPOSOOH OS HOS HOCEOOS EHS: et e POPOLIPOFES POSS ESI SESE OOOO 3 3 3 3 e 3 3 3 i °° © Will serve you with KENNEBEC soe ICE. It's the purest ice. It im- parts the grestest degree of cold [resold for same price as in- ferior ice. Why not order from os A We guarantee constant sup Proper delivery and lowest telephone to our orders to drivers 0" WAGONS lettered INDEVENDENT.”” lependent Ice Co. “ 10 Pa. ave. Telephone, 591-2. Yth st. wharf and 3108’ Water st. mcmama Grease For BUTTER Is what many buy. If you want the — freshest, p most delicious butt churacd, 01 ATCHLESS CREAM- ERY. Served in refrigerator boxes, insuring it firm and sweet. D. William Oyster, ERNE ON i $4444445044444b STE >| bel ve bey o3| be VE [Ri © | U IS STIL AND EXCHAN NEW 0: Bargains. , 4 ALLIGATOR Bacs. 2 | They are genuine Alligator, all ti > leather-lined, trimmed in either >< i? gilt or nickel, and various sizes. >} 2 Ba: : »2 Bags, reduced to $2.75.?: 37 Bags, reduced to $3.00.}! +7 Bags, reduced to $3.50.%; fi Bags, reduced to $4.00.}: > All the above are from our reg- ular stock, and are NOT damaged goods—all locks and catches in bs Perfect working order. Call and $4 fnspect them. 3 i? 9 te be ve be p¢ TRUNK AND LEATHER GOODS MANU- #4 i? FACTORY, ty > . AVE. NW. be +4 Good time to have us put the old trunks ?4 $4 and bags in order. We do the work right 4] $f and promptly. i?) b4 1¢ Factory, 1218 and 1220 E st. bey ‘ 5 6666068600b0000R0R20500—T SXEKRIIIITIXIXIAIIIXIIIITTY (You Can’t Make A Ilista POUND, 28c. 2 POUNDS, 55c. 8 POUNDS, 75c. 6 POUNDS, | $1.23. | large buyers. Four Famous CL MC 15 CENTS A POU butter buyers. K ST, MARKET, ibbons, oon. it a GSSSSOS S008 S No. o No. 1 No. 2 SSE SE608 = 3-qt. “Blizzard” Freezers = = $1.35. o25-ft. Garden Hose, $1.65. « oy ‘Fire Do Y ‘Kee Do you We were 300D, 1 « use ly It ox | Wholesale Flour an COR. 4% ST. AND V. 3-Light 4-Ligat ou House? I supply you through bi August Are naturally lower because it is the beginning of the end of the season, and our anxiety to close out as much of the summer goods as possible sets us to price-clipping. Galvanized Garbage: Cans —reinforced bottoms, with covers. . Snowbal 35c. and 50c. Bread Knives G7 REPAIRING YOUR OLD HOSE, 25e. 1o-in. Lawn [lowers 7 Your old mower repai ‘2-bur. Oil Stoves ’ Gas King’ BARBER & ROSS, ‘Hardware and Building Materials, Cor. G and mth Sts. Qé mM bal pated your own = do so if: always hav- 5 DY Then us | | ain 20 years with h tio. your = grocer and accept no sub- | he doesn't handle |. know bix name ml Feed Dealers, A. AVE. 8. W. It Trunks. yr tb desir ys Trunks. Trunks. Te Teles to $1.50 Kneessi, 425 7th Jy31 Letter place in the city Trunk. Trunk. TheBest$oTrunk Grain Leather Club Bags, ‘Trunks, and no lower ‘We_ offer Best $3.25 Best $4.98 $1.10. ope Cases from 6c. 0, according to size. St. Ce ;While Th ‘Sun Sh Prepare for rain. UMBRELLA of yours to us REPAIR it or RE sary. Best work, priced. lew York Umbrella Co., 717 Market Space. Jy31-e0 at e€ imes Bring that broken d let us VER it, if neces- pe Spee While The . Family’s Away Let us put in that FUBNACE, ‘G or attentl to the LIGHT- THE PLUMBIN 340 CENTER MARKET. Telephone 1285. WESTERN MAKKET. Jy31-€0 aa BEST IS CHEAPEST. The Eddy Refrigerator May cest you a little more than an tn- ferior grace, but in buying a Refrigerator © purchasing an article that should rrice for many years. The saving nd provisions alone will more than iference in one season. Not only but think of the satisfaction of hav- ing a Refrigerator on which you can al- rely. Prices, $5.85 to $1 Ask for pampblet explaining its advant- ““W. Beveridge, ¥ AND PORCELAINS, 4 pay thi iM. 1215 F AND 1214 G STS. STALL. STH AND K STS. jy3t es Weigh Them In The Balance And you'll find there's no comparison Detween our method of extracting teeth and‘ the others. Put the anaesthetic methods of painlessly extracting teeth against our painless method, which doesn't require an anaesthetic. With anaesthetics there's danger and disagree- able after effects. With ours neither. That tells the whole story. Which will you prefer? Extracting by our method, 50 cents, Other dental operations in proportion. Evans Dental Parlors, 1217 Penna. ave. n.w. dy8i ING and HEATING REPAIR of your’ house. All the muss and dirt will be over by the time they get ba . The best of work is as- S.S. Shedd & Bro., «3. Sy31 Switches at $2, $4.50 and $6.50. We've en- larged our hair dress- ing parlors and popu- larized them by low prices. Artists in hair. S. Heller, 720 7th St. Cor. G and 11th Sts. Prices $1.20 $1.55 $1.70 Makers, BSSOSSSOSSSSHGHOOSSSO86 Fluted edge, Set of 3, U1 a S S © 8 Wire Screen Doors = 85c¢.° Wire Window Screens We Make Screens to Order both for doors and windows. Drop us a card and we will send a man up to give you estimate—which won't cost you a cent—and the sereens won't cost you pear as niueh as others ask. » 21C.9 @ © “Poultry Netting, 2°" "5° Per 100 sq. feet cut....... = $1.00; Ranges. $16 $18 Heilbrun’s 32d Midsummer Clearing. CF “BARGATL LORE — ABOUND — RE" | = $4 grads of Tan and Back Shoes at.. : $2.69, Ladies’ $2.50 Tan Vici Hi ; igh Blucherettes at wee Gents’ Mand-turned = Leather Pumps, we 2) Ladies’ Russia Calf and Viel = Kid Lew Cuts, usually $2, re- 3) Patent e $2, at.. Misses’ Russet Button Blochers. Were $1.50. At and Dongola Were $1. Misses’ Boots. Button, At.. Infants’ French Lamb Skin | = Button Shoes, Were 50c.... ‘Aeilbran aC, 402 7th St. N.W. | THE “OLD WOMAN IN SHOE.” |— 4 i id Storage. We have a large warchouse, one story ef which is devoted to the storage of household goods in private rooms, which are well lighted and can be sevurely locked, and on other floors ample space for every description of merchandise. We make a specialty of carriages, which are kept covered and thoroughly clean. Vans and large covered wagons for moving. Telephone 495. Littlefield, Alvord & Co. 26th and D Sts. N.W. fy31-tu,th&s3m —*~ STLSEGEREGEOEECEEEOET E8442 2We’ve a Record Rought here. Every pair is rum- dered. If you've broken or lost yours, send us your name, and we'll make their exact counter- part. Much inconvenience and worry can thus be saved. TF We're still fitting our FIN- EST LENSES in Hard Rubber and Polished Steel Frame EYEGLASS- ES and SPECTACLES for $1. McAllister & Co., Opticians, mh F STREET. (Next to “Sun” building.) jy: e 4 4 : —s ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS Independent Order of Good Templars Met Last ‘Night. Many Interesting News Items From Down e River—Working the County Roads. The regular meeting of Talisman Lodge, Independent Order of Good Templars, was heid last night, when the excursion com- mittee reported that everything was pro- gressing nicely in the matter of their ex- cursion to River View on the 22d of Au- gust. The old officers were then elected for the ensuing term and will be installed by the grand chief templar on next Mon- day night. While handling the lines of the Philadel- phia steamer Defiance, which arrived at Reed’s wharf yesterday, one of the negro hands, whose name could not be learned, lost his footing and fell into the river. He was quickly rescued Ac bystanders, after receiving a good wetting. = All that is mortal of the late William Duckrell will be laid to rest in the tional cemetery at Arlington tomorrow morning with all the rites and honors of the Grand Army of the Republic, of which the deceased was a nember, having been a federal officer during the late unpleasant- ness. The services in this city will be held at Grace Episcopal Church, and be con- ducted by Rev. Dr. Clarence E. Ball. The remains will be accompanied to the grave by Thomas P. Davis Post of this city. Tomorrow night at Riverside Park the challenge waltzing contest between Prof. Kaplan of Washington and Mr. Shirley Keys of this city, who won the prize at the contest held several weeks ago, will take place, and there is much speculation as to the outcome. Both are good dancers and a close contest may be expected. General dancing will be indulged in during the even- ing. Nir. Wilmer Kemp returned yesterday after a stay of ten days with relatives on the eastern shore of Maryland. A meeting of the board of supervisors of Alexandria county was held at the old court house on Columbus street yesterday. It was decided to try the scheme of work- ing the county roads by contract, and bids will be advertised for. After transacting some routine business the board adjourned until Tuesday next, when the question of the city’s claim to a portion of the court house lot on which to build a new «agine house for the Hydraulicn Fire Company will come up for final settlement. The city claims four-fifths of the grous it will be remembered that at a meeting of the city council some weeks ago 53,00) was appro- priatel for building a new engine house, and in order that there mignt not be an additional appropriation for a lot it was stipulated that it should be built on this property. Ex-Mayor E. E. Downham has gone to Saratoga Springs for a short stay. Attorney General R. Taylor Scott is ex- pected in this city this afternoon, when a conference will be held relative to the re- moval of the “industrials” now encamped rear Rosslyn. It t said that Gov. O'Ferrall has made up his mind that they have got to go, and unless they consert to go quietly they will be made to move. Misses Summers and Scnofield, teachers in | the publi> schools, are at Culpeper C. H., in Trains leave B. and attendance upon the Normal School in ses- sion there. City Sergeant Wm. HK, Smith has gone to Richmond, taking with him seven prisoners, who were sentenced to terms in the state penitentiary at the last session of the cor- poraticn court. Henry Jenkins, for house- breaking, will be away for six years; James Brown, for shooting Catherine Timbers, will Stay eight years; Charlie Jackson, Albert Wood, Jim Timbers and Ed. Jamieson will tach spend two years fer robbery. All of the above are colored. Ned Miller, a young white man, for forgery, will spend four years. The proportion of black to white is always as great and sometimes even greater in all criminal cases in this city. The city jail is stocked with negroes for petty of- fenses. The old steamer City of Washington of the Alexandria and Washington ferry line has arrived in Baltimore, where she will be rebuilt. Mr. Harry Smith was taken suddenly ii while coming home from River View last night. Dr. Gibson rendered necessary med- ical attention on his arrival in this city. bout 5,000 people went to River View yesterday on the excursion of the Young Men's Sodatity Lyceum. All report having spent a delightful day. The annual excur- sion of this society is al ys looked for- ward to with a great deal of pleasure. The examination of white teachers for the public schools began in Washington school building this morning. Among those who are already teachers, and who are being | examined so as to be eligible for promo- tion, are Misses N. M. Davis, M. K. Fick- lin, Virginia Roxbury, A. E. Thomas and Mary E. Finch. ‘The results will be announced as soon as the papers can be gone over. In the auditor's office of the Southern Railway Company in Washington some eight or ten Alexandrians, who are em- ployed there, were notified that their serv- ices would not be needed after today, and as many more were advised of a decrease in their salaries. This was done to cut down expenses, in order that interest on certain bonds about to come due could be paid. It is said that similar reductions will be made in the other departments, in which event the ax will probably fall on more Alex- andrians. The boilers of the Haskin Wood Vulcan- izing Company were tested for the first time yesterday, and it is thought that operations will begin ut that plant in a few days. Judge J. K. M. Norton of the corporation court has entered a decree allowing counsel fees to the defendant in the suit of Rem- ington vs. Clarke. —_~— AFFAIRS IN GHORGETOWN, Tenteytown Wants a Carrier Delivery. The Tenleytown people are dissatisfied with their primitive postal service. They want carriers. Their town, they say, has grown to such dimensions and the popula- tion has so increased that they have a right to demand a carrier service. Tenley- town includes within her limits now all that territory lying between the Chevy Chase and Ridge roads on the east and west, and from the Loughborough road on the south to the District line on the north. Carriers are provided the section in the vicinity of the distributing reservoir, and they see no reason why they should be compelled to, in many cases, take long end fruitless trips to the post office. From the western boundary of the Tenieytown district to the post office is a distance of nearly two miles. Many arguments sho: ing the justice of their claim, the Tenle: towners say, could be introduced if neces- sary. Red Bill Caught. “Red Bill,” that notorious colored des- perado, who has a police record of inter- minable length, was last evening again at the station. He was caught for the officers of station No. 3, who have long wanted him for riotous conduct. He was found accidentally in Virginia, in the tunnel, near the causeway, where the policy men con- gregate. Offiver Birkigt made the arrest. Stock Yard«, At the Arlington stock yards Monday fifty-one cattle were up and sold: Best, 4 to 4 1-4; good, 3 1-2 to 3 3-4; medium, 3 to 3 1-4; common, 2 1-4 to 2 3-4. Seven hun- Gred and fifty-seven sheep and lambs were up and sold as follows: Lambs, 3 1-4 to 4 3-4; sheep, 2 to 2 1-2; calves, 3 1-2 to 4 1-4, Ten cows and calves sold from $20 to $5 per head. Market good. tes. Fifty-four thousand seven hundred and forty-eight barrels of flour were inspected during the year ending last month by In- spector Shoemaker of this place. A report to headquarters to that effect has just been submitted. Erhest McCobb has sold to E. A. H. Ma- gruder for $s part of lot 33 of Friendship and St. Phillip, being now known as lots 15 and 16 of Murdock’s sub, near the site of = proposed Methodist National Univer- sity. Mrs. M. E. Tavenner of ver, Col., and Miss Carrie Tavenner of Hamilton, Va., are visiting the Misses Tavenner of 3327 P street. Postal —_—— Bay Ridge on the Chesapeake. Salt water bathing. Exeelient meals. . station, 9:15 am. 4:28 p.m. week days, and 0:35 a.m., 1:30 and 3:15 p.m. Sundays. Round-trip fare, $1.—Ad. _ AYER’S Hair Vigor PREVENTS BALDNESS, Removes Dandruff AND RESTORES COLOR HAIR VIGOR | Rise HAIR. aND ™= —. Best Dressing. ARE FREE PROM ALL CRUDE AS matter. Concentrated medicine Little Pills, V4 ‘D IRRITATING only. Carter's Liver THE MODERN MIRACLES OF HEALING WHICH are indisput. fe ‘iiieme” Tok Pile Trecelve the ‘closest _luvest _flon by sick peopie and their friends ja23-tukt A bottle of A Ta monade ngostura Bitters to flavor your or ery other cold drink with, will keep you free from Dyspepsia, Colic and Diarrhoea, COLAMBIAN NOTES. The Summer Course at the University and Changes e Faculty. On June 16 the trustees of the Columbian University voted to oren a summer course, and the same is now in full operetion, Most of the subjects offered have found ap- Plicants for study. One of the most popu- lar features is the course in Russian. Other courses are history, Latin, algebra and geometry, assaying, chemistry, French, astronomy, Spanish, mineralogy, German, physics , drawing, building construction, with inspection of actual work. Courses have a'so been offered in descriptive geom- etry, perspective, Ital‘an, Portuguese, trig- onomctry, philosophy, applied psychology, Swedish, Norwegian, ete, An entirely novel feature has been intro- duced in the engineering department. All the ccursese in the surrmer school in this department are “open air courses,” that is, they include mostly work in the field or study on the spot of structures in process of construction. This applies to the courses in elementary .and advanced surveying, buildit.g construction, street railroad con- struction, photography, etc. August $1! and Ocean Beach, Md., are the time an place fixed for midsummer practice in ele- mentery surveying, railroad surveying and engineering field work. Civil engineering students attend this as a part of the regu lar course of instruction, but summer school studerts are admitted to the same, having thus the opportunity to take a course im surveying while enjoying a vacation in the country and at the seashore. Last yeag this practice was held at Harper's Ferry. Changes in the Faculty. Each academic year brings a number of changes, appointments, promotions and@ resigt.ations in the large body of men which composes the faculty of the universitys The regretted event of the resignation of the presidency by Dr. J. C. Welling has overshadowed many other changes and ap< pointments of the greatest importance, such as the creation of the chair of geography in the Corcoran Scientific School, and the appointment of Brig. Gen. A. W. Greely to fill the same; the resignation of Dr. A. F. Ag King of the deanship of the medical and dental schools, and the ap- pointment of Dr. D. Kerfoot Shute as dean of the medical school and of Dr. J. Hall Lewis as dean of the dental school; the ap- pointment of Dr. Edward Farquhar, the learned assistant librarian of the patent of- fice, to be assistant professor of English in the Corcoran Scientific School to lecture on history and literature; the establishment in the same school of the chair of fine arts, as applied to architecture, with Prof. L. Amateis to fill the same; also, in the same school, the appointment of Prof. George P. Merrill of the Smithsonian Institution to take the place of Prof. S. W. Yeates, ap- pointed state geologist of Georgia. Many other importont appointments have not yet been announced. University Notes. Secretary-Treasurer R. H. Martin is take ing his vacation in Virginia with his fam- fly. During his absence Prof. Lee Davis Lodge is acting secretary and treasurer. Prof. James Howard Gore is in Antwerp as commissioner general of the United States to the international exposition, is at present actively engaged upon the dit charge of the important duties of this of- fice. Dr. Howard L. Hodgkips, professor of mathematics, and family aPe summering at Laray, Va. The Engintering Magazine of June, 1894, contains a most valuable contribution to the literature of the trans-Siberian rail- roads from the pen of Dr. Hermann Schoen- feld, professor of German, now on leave, and United States consul to Riga, Russi Gen. Wiiliam A. Maury, professor of law, whose vacation trip, planned in connection with important legal affairs, was to take him to Lake Geneva, Chicago, Denver and San Francisco, has Leen compelled, by the Pullman strike, to add to his trip a station not originally on the program in the shape of a compulsory stoppage on the line of the Union Pacific. F. R. Fava, jr., professor of engineering, has been in attendance at the annual con- vention of the A of Civil merican Engineers at Niagara Falls. The conven- tion numbered over 4u0 members and guests, “Am. Soc. C. E.” c E.,” are also the initials for “Christian En- deavor,” and Prof. Fava says that all the good ladies of the place kept asking them what church ya the$ represented. On the return trip f. Fava made a tour of inspection cf the engineering depart- ments of McGill University, Toronto; Cor- nell University, Ithaca, where he was the guest of Prof. Fuertes, the dean of th College of Civil Engineering, and the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, Phfadelphia. Mr. W. I. Deming, who graduated as a civil engineer this last June, has been ap- pointed to a position on the engineering staff of the new Columbia cable road. New Waterway Advocated, Secretary Herbert has submitted to the conferees on the river and harbor Vill a re« port of a board of naval engineers, recom- mending, for the benefit of the navy in the Pacific, the construction of a waterway connecting Puget sound with lakes Union and Washington, which was provided for in the bill as it passed the Senate. The re~ port speaks of the great advantage which access to Lake Washington would be to the y, as well as to commerce at large, and also emphasizes the feasibility of the project. ee The Switch Was Opened. The St. Louis express on the Ohio ana Missouri road ran into a freight on the sid- ing at Cochran, Ind., twenty-eight miles from Cincinnatiyesterday afternoon,wreck- ing a dozen freight cars. The freight had taken the siding, expecting go follow the express. Some one evidentl¥ had opened the switch after the freight had run in, as the trainmen state that they left it closed. John Tittle of Washington, Ind., engineer of the passenger train, was injured, and he died an hour afterward. Daniel Cadden, fireman, of Washington, Ind, was also caught in the wreck of his engine and lost one leg. Wm. Bell of Milan, Ind., who was stealing a ride on the postal car, also lost a leg. None of the passengers or others are reported to have suffered any injury be. yond the shock of the accident. None of the cars on the express were damaged, —ee< —___ Minneapo! Big Fire. A disastrous fire broke out yesterday af. ternoon in the lumber yards of the Seviin & Carpenter Company, Minneapolis, Minn, The flames spread with remarkable rapid- ity, and before it was controlled destroyed property valued at nearly $0,000. Twenty million feet of lumber, the gas manufactur- ing plant of the Omaha railroad, the round house, sand house and turn tables, nearly forty freight cars, some of them joaded with merchandise, and the office building of the Selvin & Carpenter Company were burned. The insurance is about $550,000,