Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1895, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1895-TEN PAGES. SPECIAL NOTICES. —Ask for “Palmer's” Belfast Ginger Ale at soda fountains—order it from your grocer, or here di- rect—It equals the imported, but COSTS ONLY HALF AS MUCH. SAM'L ©. PALMER, Soda and Mineral Waters, 615-621 D STREET S.W. "PHONE 480. aul5-14d BAM'L A. COLLINS 1S AT 731 12TH ST. N.W., with first-class watcbmakers: personal examina- tion of every watch; fine work; excellent results. WM. H. COLLINS & ©. B. COLLINS. aul4-6t* TSPPCIALIZE THE FIXING OF FINE ENGLISH ocd Swiss watches. Prices modest. Work guar- ented. L. E. COLE, 1201% F st. n.w. oul4-3m IF YOUR FAMILY is away take your meals here. Our 50c: Dinners, from 4 to 8, are famous for their goodness. BRITZ REUTER'S, COR. PA. AVE. & 4% ST. ault-10d SPIRITUALISM.—MRS. DT. McNEI, MEDIUM, has returned to the elty, and will be at home daily until further notice. 1914 Pa, ave. aul3-3t* USB GOLDENROD CRUAM FOR CLEANSING THE akin and eradicating lines and wrinkles from the face; sent postpaid to any address on receipt, of 81. For sale at all druggists and VES MAURREL MEDICAL TOILED CO., 1222 New York ave. aul0-6t* PERSONS HAVING GOODS ON DEPOSIT th H. Fulton upon which interest is due twelve months or more are hereby notified to call AT ONCE and pay interest, or the goods will be sold at auction August 20. aud-10t® H. K. FULTON, Pawnbroker. H. LM N, PRINTER AND PUBLISHER, FINE AND JOB PRINTIN 1116 B ST. N.W. TELEPH FOR COUNTRY RESIDENCES—ALL “ANDIRONS, fenders, spark guards and fire sets in stock wili he sold’ at cost until further notice. Je22-t J. H. CORNING, 520-522 18th at. wit SPECIAL NOTICE -DENTISTRY DONE ON WEEK- Jy and monthly installments—10 per cent discount r cash. Dr. T. W. B a Je7-tt ith and F sts. n.w.—Mertz bldg. 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Some fine office rooms in the. company's build- ing, 507 B st. n.w., for rent, with steam heat, gas and other facilities. 20-1meo The Most Popular Riding School In Washington 1s located at 1325 14TH ST. N.W., as the hundreds of satisfied patrons can testify. Hours for ladies—9 a.m. to 4 p.m., 6 to 10 p.m. 10 tickets for $2.00. Hours for gentlemen—7 to 9 a.m. and 4 to 6 pm. 5 tickets for $1.00. “Special pains taken with backward pupils, as the boarding school circulars put it. Open every evening but Sunday, rain or shine, only We prefer not to teach pupils in the rain. 8,500 square feet of space, with sandpapered surface, and the most lofty and star-spangled canopy of am riding school in the U. S. Lighted by elec- tric lights in the evening. GORMULLY & JEFFERY MFG. CO., 234° Washington, D. ©. = Agra Asp Cyranna Cured by the ESPIC’S CIGA OR POWDER. Oppression, Suffocating, Coughs, Colds, Chest, Neuralgia, &c. Paris: J. ESPIC, 20 Rue St. Lazare. New York: FOUGERA, MILHAU. Bold by all chemists of America. mh21-1415 = A Strange Pair of Pets. From the Philadelphia Record. There is a young lady in this city whose father is a wealthy hotel keeper and from whom she inherits a love for cats and dogs. In her home, in West Philadelphia, there are fully twenty cats and just as great a variety of dogs. One of the strangest sights in West Philadelphia on a pleasant after- rcon is to see the young lady in question take her favorite pets out for an airing. The. pair consists of a thoroughbred bull- dog and a genuine Maltese cat. Usually they are chained together, and it is a beau- tiful sight to see the tender solicitude with which the big dog watches over the safety of its little companion. If a strange dox should happen along and make a dash at pussy she doesn’t seem to have the least fear. She runs beneath the big bulldog, and instead of arching her back after the fashion of the feline race, purs softly and contentedly. The strange dog never cares to come too near. eee Vultures and a Dead Tiger. From Thirty Years of Shikar. The vulture is seen at Its best when a dead tiger, brought Into camp to be skinned, 4s exposed in the open. Overhead is a cloud- less sky, and not a bird to be seen in that great void by the human eye. The tiger's body is thrown from the pad to the ground, and before the skin has been removed there, above one, and always nearing the earth, are the vultures circling, posing Ifke things of alr; now a dozen of them, in a few minutes a score or two, and then a hundred strong. Then, when the flayed carcass of the tiger 1s left by those who skinned it, the vultures descend; down they come like feathered thunder out of the sky, and from east and west and north and south. The very emifodiment of power, while they whirled aloft and in their quick descent to the earth; and now, as they waddle around that ‘carrion beast, mis- shapen ghouls, whose only apparent strength {s that of the ravening jaws which tear and gorge the tiger's flesh, until within the hour naught of that splendid brute re- tmaing but a clean-picked skeleton. +o+_—____ The Star Out of Town, THE EVENING STAR will be sent -¥ mall to any address in the United \tates or Canada for such period as may be desired at the rate of fifty tents per month. ©7But all such orders must be ac- companied by the money, or the Paper cannot be sent, as no ac- counts are kept with mail subscrip- tions. | | f A PLAN ADOPTED (Continued From First Page.) country have been bound hand and street,” and are likely to be made hewers\ of wood and drawers of water forever.” “Grover Cleveland and John G. Carlisle will go down the ages, hand in hand, amid the execrations of mankind, as two of the most stupendous frauds of the century,” cried Mr. Hill of Missouri. The chairman announced that ex-Con- gressman Turner of New York is a recent convert to free silver, and he introduced Mr. Turner, who told of his conversion. Repregntative Jones of Virginia was then called upon and responded to an- nounce that he still feels the same in- terest In silver that he has always felt. He said the free silver men can control the next national convention. He ad- vocated making the fight for silver entirely within the democratic party, and If failure is met now to continue the fight later. Representative Lockhart of North Caro- lina was called upon and made a brief but Pleasing speech. He is a new member of the House. Mr. Lockhart is a man of commanding presence, good address and has a ready flow of language and a mag- netic manner. Mr. Lockhart said the free silver people cannot win the respect of their opponents by denouncing them. The way to success Hes through a cali, business-like presen- tation of the principles of free coinage to the people of the land, showing them why siiver coinage is best for them. Mr. Bodine of Missouri spoke of the mis- répresentations of the metropolitan press upon the silver situation throughout the country, and sa‘d delegates should tell the conference the facts. The Committee on Resolutions. At this point the committee on resolu- tiors, which had been struggling with the question of policy and program sinf€e yes- terday afternoon, came in. Senator John W. Daniel of Virginia, as chairman of the committee, made its re- pert. Senator Daniel said the result of the deliberations was the work of severai subcommittees. Governor Stone of Missouri then read the address to the people prepared by the committee. He said it is the same address issued by the democratic conven- tion in Mississippi. 1t is as follows: Address to the People. At a conference between a number of democrats from different states who at- tended tke non-partisan convention re- cently assembled at Memphis, Tenn., for the purpose of promoting the cause of free silver coinage, which conference was held after the adjournment of the conven- tion, a committee, consisting of Senators Jones of Arkansas, Turpie of Indiana and Harris of Tennessee, was appointed and authorized to invite representative demo- crats from the several states to meet them at Washington tor consultation, with the view of securing co-operation and concert of action among those democrats through- out the Unicn who believed in adhering to the cardinal democratic policy of actual bi- metallism, and who are opposed to com- mitting the party to the plutocratic doc- trine of gold monometallism. The present conference is the result of the action then taken. This is purely a voluntary assem- blage. Therefore it does not assume to speak with party authority. Disclaiming all right to bind any person by our utterances, but profoundly con- scious that the democratic party today confronts a crisis the most momentous in its history _and fraught with far-reaching perils to the people and the country, Wwe are assembled as individual democrats to take counsel together and for the undis- guised purpose of inaugurating and pro- moting a thorough and systematic organ- ization of the democratic masses, so that they may go forward as cone man with a resolute purpose to rescue the old party founded by Thomas Jefferson from pluto- cratic domination. Gold and Silver Money. Therefore, with this object in view, this convention of American demccrats, com- posed of representatives from twenty-four of the leading states of the Union, make the following declaration on the monetary question, which has been forced into the leading place among the issues of today: The federal Constitution names silver and gold together as the money metal of the United States. The first coinage law pass- ed by Congress under the Constitution made the silver dollar the unit of value and ad- mitted gold to free coinage at a ratio meas- ured by the silver dollar unit. From the beginning of the government, following a policy formulated by Thomas Jefferson and firmly established by Jackson, the democratic party has been the party of bimetallism, favoring the free coinage of both silver and gold at the national mints, and opposed to farming out to banking corporations the government’s sovereign power of issuing and controlling the money of the people. i The act of 1873 demonetizing silver was surreptitiously passed without the approval or knowledge of the American people, and from the time when the effect of this act in fastening upon this country the single gold standard was understood, the demo- cratic party has consistently and persist- ently urged that the grievous wrong be righted. Result of the Act of 1873. Failure to accomplish this object has re- sulted in the steady appreciation of gold and a corresponding fall in the price of commodities produced by the people. A heavy increase in the burden of all debts, public and private; the enrichment of the money lending cluss; paralysis of irdustry and the impoverishment of the people and unexampled distress tn oll gold standard countries. Experience has shown that while under the gold standard there may be an occasional revival of business activ- ity, accompanied by enhanced prices of a limited number of commodities, s1 Te- vival is due to artificial and temporary causes, and cannot permanently alleviate the sufferings due to the falling of prices brought about by the appreciation of gold and the inadequate supply of primary or redemption money. The rights of the American people, the interests of American labor and the pros- perity of American industry have a higher claim to the consideration of the people’s law makers than the grced of foreign creditors or the avaricious demands made by “idle holders of idle capitalists.” The right to regulate its own monetary system in the interests of iis own people fs a right which no free government can bar- ter, sell or surrender. This reserved right is a part of every bond, of every contract and of every obligation. No creditor or claimant can set up a right that can take precedence over a nation’s obligations to promote the welfare of the masses of its own peopie. This is a aebt higher and more binding than all other debts, and one that is not only dishonest, but treasonable to ignore. The land and its products are the basis of all development and prosperity, The productive capacity of a country must be the basis of its credit in opposing tke policy of contraction, which must inevita- bly further depreciate the value of land and its products. We are the supporters of property rights and sound credit and stand between the homes and estates of the people and the red flag of the auction- eer. Disastrous Financial Panics. The policy of gold monometallism has Castoria For Infants and Children. CASTORIA PROMOTES DIGESTION, and over. comes Flatulency, Constipation, Scur Stomach, Diarrhoea and Feverlshness. Thus the child ts rendered healthy and its sleep NATURAL. Cas- TORIA contains no morphine or other narcotic property. “CASTORIA {s 0 well sdapted to children that I recommeid {t as superior to any prescription kvown to me” H. A. ARCHER, M.D, 11t Bo. Oxford st., Brooklyn, N. ¥. “For several years I have recommended ‘Casto- Ha,’ and shall always continue to do so, as it has favartably produced beneficial results.” EDWIN FB. PARDEE, ¥.D., 125th st. and 7th ave., New York city. 8 THE OFFICIAL WEATHER MAP. £0°® Partly Cloucy onvill 0 Gouey, L Okan. - EXPLANATORY NOTE: Observations taken at 8 a.m., 75th meridian time. Sold lines are Asobars or lines of equal air pressure, drawn for each tenth of an inch. or lines of equal temperature, drawn for each ten degrecs. Dotted lines are isotherms Shaded areas are regions where rain or snow has fajlen during preceding twelve hours. The words “High” and ‘Low’’ show location of areas of high and low barometer. Small arrows @y with the wind. A COOL WAVE, But It is in the Missouri Valley and No Good Here. Forecast till 8 p.m. Friday—For New England, fair; probably cooler in the in- terior Friday evening; variable winds. For eastern New York, generally fair; cooler in southern portion; variable winds. For the District of Columbia, eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland, generally fair; slightly cooler; variable winds. For Virginia, fair, preceded this afternoon by showers on the coast, probably showers Friday afternoon; variable winds. The above map shows a ridge of high pressure extending from the middle At- lantic to the Pacific coast. This condition is favorable for strong radiation of heat at night and a cooling of the air, but for high insolation and more heat during the day. There is in addition a cool wave in the Missouri valley that ought to reach the middle Atlantic states tomorrow night or Saturday morning. The gulf storm has remained stationary, but the wind circula- tion indicates that there is still a disturb- ance in the central gulf that may devel- op violence. Rain has fallen in the south- ern states, mostly along the coast and in the lower Missouri valley. ‘The ridge of high pressure will give clear skies for about forty-eight hours, and will probably prevent any immediate marked development in the gulf storm. Students of the weather map, however, may look for interesting changes as soon as this high pressure moves into the Atlantic, thus removing the barrier from the gulf storm. Tide Table. Tcday—Low tide, 9:14 a.m. and 9.08 p.m.; high tide, 2:30 a.m. and 2:58 p.m. Tomorrow—Lew tide, 10:18 a.m. and 10:22 p.-m.; high tide, 3:32 a.m. and 4 p.m. The Sun and Moon. Sun rises, 5:13; sun sets, + moon sets, 3:19 p.m. The Bicycle Lamps. All bicycle lamps must be lighted at 6:55. The police regulations require “all cycles, bicycles and tricycles in motion after sun- down shall carry a suitable light.” The City Lights. Gas lamps all lig by 7:12 p.m.; ex- tinguishing. begun at a.m. The lighting is begun one hour before the time named. Condition of the Water, Temperature and condition of water at S$ a.m.: Great Falls, temperature, 83; condl- tion, 36; receiving reservoiy, temperature, §S8; condition at north connection, 36; condi- tion at south connection, 36; distributing reservoir, temperature, 86; condition at in- fluent gate house, 36; effluent gate house,36. Range of the Thermometer. The following were the readings of the thermometer at the weather bureau.today: 8 a.m., 76; 2 p.m., 90; maximum, 91; min- imum, 68. been characterized by repeated and disas- trous financial panics. The farmers have found their prosperity and independence constantly waning under its blighting fa- fluence. Manufacturers are interested to cppose it, for they find the prices of sale falling below the cost of production. Mer- chants should oppose it, for with falling prices they are often compelled to sell for less than they paid for manufactured goods. Neither- the manufacturer nor Merchant can prosper unless the mass of consumers realize such prices for their products and labor as to supply them- selves liberally with the necessities and luxuries of life, nor can the wage earner prosper, for under depressed conditions there is less and less competition for his labor. The democratic party is the traditional friend and champion of bimetallism. Its strength and power and popularity has been largely built upon its steadfast oppo- sition to the demonetization of siiver, and its record of unwearied effort to restore it to its historic place as a full money metal equal with gold. The effort at this late day to make it par excellence the champion of gold monometallism, the enemy of the policy it has upheld and the defender of the crime it has denounced, is an effort to dishonor its record, its promises and its Frinciples. The moment the democratic party is forced Into this position it heaps obliquy on its own past and crowns its great adversary with glory and honor. The Resolutions. Duty to the people requires that the party of the people continue the battle for bi- metallism until its efforts are crowned with success. Therefore, be it Resolved, Tnat the democratic party, in national convention assembled, should ‘de- mand the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold into primary or redemption money at the ratio of 16 to 1, without wait- ing for the action or approval of any other nation. Resolved, second, That it should declare its irrevocable opposition to the substitu- tion for a metallic money of a panic-breed- ing, corporation-credit currency, based on a single metal, the supply of which is so limited that it can be cornered at any time by a few banking institutions in Europe and America. Resolved, third, That it should declare its opposition to the policy and practice of surrendering to the holders of the obliga- tions of the United States the option re- deserved bythe law to the government of re- deeming such obligations in either silver coin or gold cin. Resolved, fourth. That it should declare its opposition to the issuing of interest- bearing bonds of the United States in time of peace, and especially to placing the treasury of the government under the con- trol of any syndicate of tankers, and the issuance of bonds to be sold by them at an enormous profit for the purpose of supply- ing the federal treasury with gold to main- tain the policy of gold monometallism. With a view to securing the adherence to a re-adoption of the democratic financial policy above set forth by the democratic national convention to be assembled in 1898, and of the nomination of a candidate for the presidency, well known to be in hearty sympathy therewith, we hereby pledge our mutual co-operation and urg- ently recommend to our democratic breth- ren in all the states to at once begin and vigorously and systematically prosecute the work of a thorough organization, and to this end the adoption of the plan of or- ganization herewith submitted is recom- trended. The Executive Committee. Ex-Senator Jarvis of North Carolina, as chairman of the subcommittee on organiza- tion, presented the report of that body. ‘The plan names Senators Harris, Jones of Arkansas and Turpie, Gov. Stone of Mis- sourl, W. H. Hinrichsen of Illinois and Casey Young of Tennessee as an executive ccmmittee. This executive committee {s to appeint a national committee, consisting of one man from each state and territory and the District of Columbia. The national committee “shall have full control and direction of the efforts of democrats to secure in the next national convention the maintenance of the time-honored principles of the democratic party.” Each national committeeman shall organize the silver ferces in his state; shall appoint such com- mittees as he may deem best, and organize clubs to promote the irterest of free coin- age. Every democratic voter Is called upon to lend his aid to the campaign. and to enroll himself in a free silver democratic club. ‘The address to the people and the plan of campaign were unarimously adopted by the conference. Senator John W. Daniel of Virginia was then called to the front for a speech. “I am a democrat,” said Senator Daniel, “and as such cannot help being for the solid, hard, shining gold and silver money of the Constitution. The party of the peo- ple must stand for. the money of the peo- ple. Whom God hath joined together, the Feople will not permit plutocracy to put asunder.” Gov. Stone of Missouri, Mr. Carmack of Tennessee and ex-Senator Jarvis ex- cvsed themselves from making speeches, and upon motion of Representative Living- ston the conference adjourned sine die. Plan of Organization. The resolution providing for the plan of organization, of which a summary is given above, is in full as follows: “Ist. There shall be a national committee of democrats who are in favor of both silver and gold as the money of the Constitution, which shall be composed of one democrat from each state and territory and the Dis- trict of Columbia, and the executive com- mittee hereinafter provided for. “2d. That until otherwise ordered by the national committee Senators Isham G. Har- ris of Tennessee, James K. Jones of Ar- kansas and David Turpie of Indiana and W. J. Stone of Missouri, W. H. Hinrichsen of Illinois and Casey Young of Tennessee be and they are hereby constituted the ex- ecutive committee, shall have full power and authority and it shall be their duty, at as early a day as possible, to appoint the members of the national committee herein provided for and to ‘fill wacancies in the same. “3d. That sald national committee shall have full control and direction of the pa- triotic efforts of the bimetallic democracy of the nation to secure in the next national democratic convention ‘the maintenance of the time-honored principles and policies of the democratic party, and, when the nation- al committee he Provided for is not in session the executive committee shall have all the authority and discharge all the du- ties hereby conferred upon the national committee. “4th. It shall be the duty of the mem- ber of the national committee from each state, immediately after his appointment, to take such steps as he may deem best to or- ganize the bimetallic forces of his siate, and it is earnestly srecommended that in each county and election precinct of each state bimetallic democratic clubs be or- ganized, and for this purpose he may ap- point such committees and subcommittees as he may deem best. “Sth. That fully realizing the fact that this nor any other plan of organization can be successful without the nearty co-opera- tion of the voters themselves, we urge upon every voter in every state in the Union who is in sympathy with this movement and who wishes to restore permanent prosperity to his home and country to lend his aid and penuenced to perfecting this organiza- at each of! pon wend atta tNeacl them shall enroll Exccutive Committee Meeting. The executive committee held a meeting immediately after the adjournment of the conference. The purpose of the meeting Was to consider the best method of ap- Pointing the national committee. It was decided that inasmuch as all of the states Were not represented In the conference it Would not be advisable to attempt to ap- point the national committee today. A Subsequent meeting of the executive cem- mittee is to be called by Senator Harris, as Chairman, at which further steps toward ie appointment of the national co - tee will be taken. ea ——~ ACCUSED OF FRAUD. Suburban Lots Said to Have Been Sold to Several Parties at Once. William A, Murray of the Agricultural Department today, through Fulton and Edwards, attorneys, filed a civil action in the Supreme Court of the District against Hannah L. Kelly of 1763 P street northwest, and James Madigan for breach of contract, and to compel them to refund certain money claimed to have been paid in part for certain small lots in Miss Kelly's sub- division of College Park, Md. According to the bill the lots in question Were sold by Howard F. Johnson of 1316 1gh street northwest, said to be Miss Kel- ly’ sole agent and manager, and whom Murray accuses of false representations and fraudulently attempting to declare bis QMurray’s) contract void, and all the pay- ments made thereon, amounting to $116, for- feited, because the defendants cannot de- liver the lots sold by Johnson. x Johnson is also accused in the bill of com- Plaint of having sold the same lot to several different people, and of collecting money from them severally on the same lot at the same time. The full price of the lots in question. it is stated, Is $160 each, of which $100 is supposed to go to Miss Kelly for the broperty, and the balance of the first money collected on each lot is retained by Johnson as his commission. In his bill Murray declares that Johnson is acsiduous in his collections and attentions upon the purchasers of lots, until he hag collected nearly the full amount of his com- missions, when his calls relax, and then he Keeps out of the way until the purchaser fs mere than four weeks in arrears, when, ac- cerding to the terms of the contract, he is empowered to declare the lots and all the mecney paid thereon forfeited. In the present case Mr. Murray has not been in arrears, he s@ys, and has several times offered the money due on his lots to Jehnson, which he (Johnson) has persistent- ly refused to accept, under various pretexts until more than the required four weeks had elapsed. Murray avers that Johnson told him that one of his (Murray's) lots had been sold in March last to James Madigan of George- town, who ts also made a defendant to this suit. Murray claims that this was done in anticipation of the forfeiture of his lots, which Johnson intended to effect. In conclusion, the complainant prays that Miss Kelly may be restrained from execut- ing any deed to the lots in question, pending the settlement of the suit. ee ee The Newman Case Dismissed. Judge Scott today rendered his decision in the case of Myer Newman, charged with belng an unlicensed pawnbroker in doing a money-lending business. The judge held that Newman’s manner of doing bus- iness did not come within the provisions of the law, and dismissed the case. sgn The Aman Estate. An inventory of the personal estate of the late Scbastian Aman, returned today by Martha Aman, the administratrix of the estate, shows the same to amount to $8% 618,33, with an additional $7,594.49 in cash. UNDER THE GARBAGE RULES The First Prosecutions Brought in the Police Court. Severn] Cases Heard Today — Gates Without Numbers and Houses With- out Proper Garbage Cans, Garbage complaints are increasing, and today an additional inspector, A. O. Nash, was put in the service by Health Officer Woodward. Today there were about thirty complaints, while yesterday there were about thirty-five. Two days ago the gar- bage contractor paid $60 in fines for non- collections, and now Health Officer Wood- ward is doing what he can to have the citizens do their part in the matter. In the investigations made by the inspectors all sorts of conditions are found to exist, and hundreds of persons are said to be violating the regulations. Today there were several cases taken into the Police Court for alleged violations of the regulations, the first prosecutions be- gun under the regulations, and Health Officer Woodward and Deputy Health Cfficer McLean were in court, as well as Inspector George A. Howe, who had been given special charge of this important class of cases. Without a Proper Receptacie. In the first case called Joseph I. Waters was the defendant, and he was charged, under the second section of the regulations, with not having a !egal receptacle. This section provides that “Occupants of dwelling houses, proprietors of boarding houses, commission warehouses, hotels, restaurants and other places where gar- bage is accumulated, and owners or cecu- pants of apartment or tenement houses, shall provide for the use of such premises a sufficient number of water-tight metal receptacles to contain all garbage which may accumulate on said premises during the usual interval between the collections of garbage therefrom, and shall kcep such receptacles at all times water-tight and in good repair. Each such receptacle shall have a tight cover, provided with a handle. No person, without a permit from the health officer, shall use for the reception of garbage any receptacle having a capacity of less than three or more than ten gal- lons, nor more than ore receptacle con- taining less than ten gallons.’ Mr. Waters made a fight on the law of the case, and Judge Scott neld that the law was all right. There was no question about the facts, and a fine of $ was im- posed. _Mr. Luke Corning was charged with a similar offense, and his personal bonds were fake as he has already complied with the law. No Number on His Gate. John T. Smiley and George Freeman were charged under the section of the regula- tion8 with not having their gates num- bered. The latter promised to have his gate numbered, and his personal bonds were taken. The former had already com- plied with the law, and his case was dis- missed. Without a Permit. A colored man from the county, named Charles Peters, was given a hearing on a charge of collecting garbage without a per- mit, in violation of section 9, which pro- vides that ‘No person or persons other than such as hold permits from the health officer shall haul any garbage through or over any street, alley or avenue in the city of Wash- ington or its more densely populated sub- urbs, and each cart or other vehicle used for such purpose shall have the word ‘gar- bage’ and the number of the permit in large white letters on a black ground plainly painted or attached to each side of the wagon bed. No cart or other vehicle shall be used for the collection of garbage except such as are watertight and provided with tight-fitting covers and such as have been approved by the health officer.” He had a paper of some kind from the health office, and he thought it was a per- mit. He had aljso failed to have the word “garbage” painted on his wagon. In his own behalf the defendant admit- ted his guilt, and said he hauled garbage from the Harrison flats, where complaint had been made that the regular collector had not appeared. Peters promised that he would comply with the law and was not fined. Interfering With Garbage. There will probably be a case brought in court In a few days under section 8 of the tegulations. This section says that “No person other than the owner cr authorized collector shall interfere with or disturb any garbage after it shall have been put in a garbage receptacle end placed in an ac- cessible place for coljection; nor shall any unauthorized person molest, hinder, delay, or in any other manner interfere with any garbege collector in the discharge of his duty.” Under this section will be instituted prosecutions against persons who have been visiting one of the markets and pick- ing over the garbage for the purpose of getting food. In doing so some of the poor people scatter the garbage on the pave- ment, and Health Officer Woodward thinks this section will cover the offense. —_._—_ THE COURTS. Equity Court No. 2—Judge Cole. In re Harry H. Stanford, Geo. R. Wal- ton, Jno. B. Roberts, Geo. W. Wakenight, Lillian M. Bradford, Frank Rooney, Jennie Usher and Mary Ybell, lunatics; order con- firming inquisition. Walter agt. Walter; appearance of absent defendant ordered. Funk & Wagnall’s Co. agt. Quinby Hutch- inson Pub. Co.; rule to show cause return- able August 22. Manogue agt. Washing- ton and Great Falls Electric Railway Co.; order denying injunction and dissolving re- straining order. Circuit Court No. 2—Judge Cole. Geare agt. D. C.; judgment in certiorari. Probate Court—Judge Cole. Estate of Chas. A. Beavans; petition for probate of will filed. Estate of Mary J. Jones; will proved. Estate of Adolph Buchholz; petition for leave to sell letters patent filed. Estate of Edwin Y. Robbins; supplemental petition and assent of next cf kin filed. Estate of Lincoln S. Brad- ford; inventory and assignment of Mary V. Bradford to Luzana A. Bradford filed. Estate of Sebastian Aman; Inventory filed. Estate of Helen J. Wood; petition for let- ters of administration and assent of next of kin filed. In re Genevieve W. and Isa- bella A. Whitlock, minors; Jennie Wilson eppointed guardian; bond, $1,000. ——E Lawyer Ruffin’s Complaint. Samuel G. Thompson, a colored broker, was arrested today by Detective Lacy, on complaint of R. D. Ruffin, the colored law- yer and real estate dealer. A desk in which were deeds, notes and other papers, alleged to be worth $10,000; two office chairs and cther furniture were articles alleged by Ruffin to have been stolen from him by Thompson. Ruffin, it is claimed, rented an office from the defendant (Thompson), and the latter says he took the goods because Ruffin was behind in his rent. Bond in the case was fixed at $1,000, and there will be a hearing in the case tomorrow. ee He Ha@ a Knife. Henry Bolden and Edward Burrill, col- cred men, the latter a bootblack, engaged in an altercation near the Baltimore and Potomac depot yesterday, and Bolden at- tempted to use a knife on Burrill. He was arrested, and today he was given sixty days in jail by Judge Mills. ——_—_. Space for Air and Light. The Commissioners are strictly adher- ing ‘to their regulation prohibiting the erection of a building that does not allow a space ten feet equare in the rear. An application to build three houses at the corner of 18th and S streets with this pro- vision waived came up for consideration yesterday. The Commissioners refused to qualify their regulation, and the plans were ordered changed. —————— “a Knight of the Nets.” The first installment of an interesting, wholesome story, entitled “A Knight of the Nets,” by Amelia E. Barr, will appear in Saturday’s Star. The scene is laid in Scotland among the honest, pure-minded fisher folks, and the story is charmingly told. It will be continued several days next week, INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS ATTORNEYS .... AUCTION SALES, BOARDING . RUSINESS CHA CITY ITEMS....,.. = COMMISSIONERS OF DEEDS. COUNTRY BOARD... COUNTRY REAL ESTATE, CHIROPODISTS . DEATHS DENTIST’ EDUCATIONAL EXCURSIONS . FINANCIAL , FOR EXCHANGE. FOR RENT (Flats). FOR RENT (Houses) FOR RENT (Miscellaneous). FOR RENT (Offices) FOR RENT (Rooms) FOR RENT (Stables). FOR RENT (Stores)... FOR SALE (Bicycles), waeoe u 4 4 5 5 5 0 4 4 4 4 4 if 4 5 4 4 5 3 5 4 4 5 5 PROPOSALS RAILROADS SPECIAL NOTICES. STEAM CARPET CLEANING. STORAGE . SUBURBAN PROPERTY. SUMMER RESORTS. UNDERTAKERS WANTED (Help). WANTED (Houses) WANTED (Miscellaneous). NTED (Rooms). WANTED (Situations). WORKMEN AT NAVY YARDS. Appointment Clerk Peters Talks on the Law and Regulations. “There seems to be a general misunder- standing among veterans as to the laws end regulations which govern their em- ployment and retention as workmen at navy yards,” remarked Mr. B. F. Peters, appointment clerk of the Navy Depart- ment, in the course of a general conversa- tion with The Star reporter and others to- day. “The only laws on the statute books,” hé continued, “that affect the employment of veterans as workmen at navy yards are contained in sections 1544 and 1754 of the Revised Statutes. The former provides that ‘Labor shall be employed in the sev- eral ravy yards by the proper officers in charge, with reference to skill and eftl- ciency, and without regard to other con- siderations.’ Section 1754 provides that ‘Perscns honorably discharged from the military or naval service by reason of dis- ability resulting from wounds or sickness incurred in the line of duty shall be pre- ferred for appointment to civil offices, pro- vided they are found to possess the busi- ress capacity necessary for the -proper discharge of the duties of such offices.’ The Department Regulations. “The Navy Department regulations gov- erning the employment of labor at navy yards,” said Mr. Peters, “provide that in taking on workmen the names of all veter- ans registered in the trade in which they are needed are certified in the order of their registration, beginning with the first and ending with the last name on. the list. After the names of veterans are exhausted in a trade, those who have bad navy yard experience and given satisfaction in navy yard work are certified, and then follow all others on the register in the order of their registration. However, after they are tak- en on, the provisions of section 1544 of the Revised Statutes govern, and the Navy De- partment regulations provide as follows: ““*When discharges are necessary from want of work they shall be made by the head of the department, subject to the ap- proval of the commandant, and those whose services are of the least value shall be first dispensed with.” “The head of each department shall be personally responsible for the performance of the duties enjoined upon him by the pre- ceding paragraph, and it shall be his duty to familiarize himself from time to time, so far as may be, with the quality of the services rendered by each workman in or- der that he may himself decide upon dis- charges. When making discharges for want of work the head of the department before taking up cases of individual work- men shall first decide what proportion of first, second, third and fourth class work- men respectively should be retained. Tak- ing as the basis the force as it will be when the reduction is effected, discharges shall then be made accordingly of those whose services are of the least value, in the sev- eral grades from which the reduction Is to be made.” “The commandants of the various navy yards and all persons charged with the employment or discharge of employes have been instructed that in discharging work- men, other qualifications being equal, they are to give preference for retention to vet- erans; but where,the qualifications «re not equal, the retentlon of mechanics and !a- borers depends upon their skill and effi- ciency. The department has no other prac- tical way of determining the fitness of me- _| chanics than to accept the opinions of of- ficers who are in charge of work at yard: but it has been the uniform practice of Secretary Herbert to give every considera- tion to the claims cf deserving soldiers and sailors to suitable employment.” ——___—_-«.+____—_ Transfers of Real Estate. Deeds in fee have been filed as follows Edmuna H. Brown et ux. to Jos. E. Cran- dall, lots 31 and 32, sq. 892; $10. Albert A. Wilson (marshal) to Charles G. Mueden, lof 45, sq. 360; $55. Francis W. Baker et al. to Jennette M. Bradley, lot 34, bik. 32, 10. Arthur W. Fergus- son et ux. to Charles P. Williams, part of Resurvey, on Peter’s Mill Seat; $10. Edw. H. Breckinridge, trustee, to Elizabeth J. L. Crenshaw, part lot 8, sq. 213; $6,7: . Winfield 8. Crowa et ux. to Alfred D. Stid- ham, lot 16, sq. 275; $3,800. Katherine Pine to Alma E. Nixon, lot 86, blk. 1%, Hast Deanewood; $125. Martha J. Stidham to Winfield S. Crown, lot 84, sq. 910; $3,200. Thos. HE. Waggaman and B. Southard Parker, trustees, to Frank H. G. White, lots 1 to 17, bik. 1, Park View Terrace; ¢. Joanna Swander to M. Viola Granger, lot 14, sq. 43; $100. Wm. H. Swander, assignee, to same, same property; $1. Maria Taven- ner to John Miller, lot 27, sq. 1075; $10. Rose B. Gray to Laura 8. Thornton, lot 5, blk. 7, Grammar’s Addition to Takoma Park; $1,720.20. Mahlen Ashford and Aldis B. Browne, trustees, to Jos. R. Johnson, lot 46, blk. 8, Le Droit Park; $2,600. Same to Thos. F. Barry, lot 49, blk. 5; $2,600. Danie: Birtwell et ux. to Clarence F. Nor- ment and Odell S. Smith, part of lot 3, sq. $10. Andrew Clark et ux. to Morriss} 8. Kconce, part of original lot 13, sq. 1010; $100. Jos. Cooper to Susan Cooper, part of lot 26, sq. 387; $10. Thos. Carden et ux. to Joseph Manning, original lot 30, sq. 38S; $1,600. Albert G. Drane et ux. to John Becht, part of lot 3, sq. 996; $1,350. Allen Johnson et ux. to Lucy V. Dugan, lot sq. 70; $10, Jno. H. Lochboehler et ux. to Madison Whipple, lots 37 and 38, Bellevue; $10. Calvin Payne to George Freeman, lot 51, sq. 1189; $10. Madison Whipple et’ ux. to Jno. H_ Lochboehler, lot 28, bik. 11, Bloomingdale; $5,000. Laura S. Thornton to Catharine Connor and Annie Schrider, lot 5, bik. 7, Grammar’s Addition to Ta- koma Park; $1,720.2). Harriet R. Wattles to Ewing 0. Tade, lot 73, sq. 987: $100. Allen E. Miller et ux. to Hiram J. Banes, part of lot 3, bik. 88, Brookland; $100. —_—.__ Successful Cattle Shipment. Samuel Degen, a cattle shipper of Chi- cago, who recently sailed for England with 308 fat cattle, has returned here, and reports that not a single one was lost on the trip. When the cattle arrived in En-, giand they were in a little better condition than when shipped, averaging about 1,360 pounds. The cattle were, as a rule, well graded. The Polled Angus grades brought the highest price, The whole 308 averaged about $97.50 a head. It is stated at the Agricultural Depart- ment that the Polled Angus grades are more in demand in Europe than any other cattle, Herefords coming next and Dur- ham last. 2 Going to Mexico. “Mr. Kurino, the Japanese minister, will leave this city for the capital of Mexico next Monday. Mr. Kurino is accredited both to the United States and Mexico, his contemplated visit to the latter country merely being to present his credentials. ——$—SS FINANCIAL. AMERICAN SECURITY AND TRUST ©0., 1405 G st. Capital, $1,250,000. Surplus, $200,000, You will never regret storing your silver ware, valuable bric-a-brac, &c., in the silver vaults in the mammoth storage warehouse of this company, for it is absolutely fire and burglar proof, and the vaults have withstood tests made by government experts, In the warehouse there is space for the storage of everything inanimate. The charges are moderate. AMERICAN SECURITY AND TRUST Storage Warehouse, 1140 15th st. A. 3G REED, Safe Deposit Boxes For Rent. 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The electric light wires, cased in wood, covered with tin, run down the side of his stall. The fire- men have touched the coverings almost nightly in getting down the horses’ beds. This morning Sam was found stretched out on the floor. Investigation proved that he had hit one of the nails with his hoof in the evening, and it had bent and passed through the central part of the wood cas- ing, puncturing the insulation, and the pcint lodging against the live wire. This charged the tin. When he lay down his ear fell over against the tin. His body lay on the damp straw and over the cess- pool, which made connections with tht earth. ———_+e+ Frenks of the Upper Air. From the Boston Transcript. ‘An Incident occurred only the other day, showing how dangerous an element is the upper air for a flying machine that de- pends upon its good behavior. 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