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THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1896—-TEN PAGES. SPECIAL NOTICES. ALL PERSONS HAVING CLAIMS 4GAINST JNO. B. Seott for Howard House and the National Hotel will pleose present them te me on and after THURSDAY next ard receive their dividend. H. BROWNING, Assignee, ‘oS Pa. ave. HAVING GOODS ON DEPOSIT with H. K. Fulton, upon which interest 1s due one year or more, are hereby notified to call et ouce and pay interest, o: the goods will be sold at auction ‘TUESDAY, SEPT. 1, 1896. ° H. OK. FULTO: ite Pawnbroker. > it gains frleuds dally. No reason why it best whisky made. new shouldn't—for it's Just what you need if your appetite 1s poor. $1 at. JAMES THARP, 812 F ST. N.W. aul9-10d PECIAL COMMUNICATION OF ‘Lodge. No. 15, F.A. AY, 19th instant, at Work,’ M. M. degree. MASONIC — A Beajamin B will be held WEDN o'clock p.m. sharp. By order of the Y¥ FOR at Sherman ave. and Irwin at. 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Hodgkin, 913 7th. auls-16d Kansas Prohibition Bolters. The Kansas state convention of the na- tional party, representing the bolters from the national prohibition convention, met at Topeka yesterday. Forty persons, includ- ing six women, were in attendance. J. W. Forrest of Chanute was made permanent chairman. A Icng set of resolutions was adopted. Allegiance to the national party organized in Pittsburg in May last 1s af- firmed and the platform of that convention fs indorsed. J. R. Silver of Shawnee county was rom- inated for chief justice, Henry F. Douthart of Brown county for governor; Edward Clark for lieutenant governor, T. $.Walker for secretary of state, Levi Belknap for auditor, J. H. Murray for treasurer, Mrs. Lucy O. Case for attorney general, C. H. McClerkin for superintendent Botkin for Congressman-at- Mr. Botkin 1s the democratic-populist fusion candidate for Congressman. The Proposition to indorse the Bryan and Sew- all electors was voted down after a spirit @d debate and a straighiout electoral ticket was nominated. and J. D. Tee. ++ ____ Primaries Carried by Platt. As a result of the republican primaries held In New Yerk city last night to select Gelegates to the district convention, the Platt faction seem to have won an over- whelming victery. Only four of the as- sembly districts were claimed by the anti- Platt faction. These districts were the first, second, twenty-ninth and thirtiet districts. It was generally admitted that Public Works Commissioner Collis was beaten in the twenty-ninth district. It would appear from the returns that the Platt faction will elect Friday nigat et least 110 of the 135 delegates to the state convention. ——— ee Bryan and the Ratlways. Mr. Henry M. Cowan of Raleigh, N. ©., has received from W. J. Bryan the follow- ing letter, In answer to a charge made that he was in the employ of the Missouri Pa- cifle railway, which charge Mr. Cowan no- tified him of: My Dear Sir: Your letter received, and in reply will say that I am not now and never have been in the empicyment of the Missouri Pacific, or any other railway cor- poration, In any capacity whatever. Gigzed.) W. J. BRYAN. aoe FREE TO ALLIr WATCHES, KMVES, KAZORS, PICTURES, PUES and other valuavle articles ia exchange for €eupons with MAIL POUCH TOBACCO. «Sold by all dealers.) Ove cou; In each S-cont COUPONS "LAIN HOW TO THE ABOVE. Vackuges (now on sale) ng ne coupons Will be acceptel ag coupons— empty bag xs one coupon. Send for illus- G-ounce) package. RECUR logue giving compiete Ist and descrip- t articl’s; also t to get them. File LOCH BROS. TUBACCO CO., Whéeling, “W. Fa. ‘my 25m, w Ett THESE DID WRONG The Usual Daily Parade in the Police Court. PEMIY OFFENDERS OF ALL DEGREES Sick Women Receive the Mercy of the Court. ; IDLE MEN ABOUND “Well, old man, what are you doing in here?" was asked of a colored man who was seated on a bag of clothing behind the bars in Judge Scott’s court this morning. “I ain't doin’ nothin’ but sittin’ here,” was his response, “and ‘deed I ain't done a thing to be fotched here.” “Where are you from?” “Down in Richmond,” he answered, “and Y’se been workin’ on dat ‘lectric road up in *Gomery county.” His appearance verified the statement that he was sick, and he explained that he had left the country and come here to get in a hospital. “What's your trouble?” “I don’t know, but I does know dat I'se sick from head to foot.” 5 “And were you drinking?" : “No, indeed; I ain't drinked nothin’ for a long time, and I ain’t been in town for three years.” A Ceneccaled Weapon. It developed that he had been found with shaving utensils on him, and because he had the razor a charge of concealed weapons was preferred against him, and his case was transferred to Judge Mills’ court. This explained his absence from Judge Scott's procession, in which a num- ber of colored females figured. Two of them were Edith Applegate and Clara Devine, and the charge against them Was vagrancy. These young women were well dressed, and were very much envied by some of their companions in misery. “They certainly do dress well,” one of the working women remarked. “Well, they ought todress well,” sald an- other, “ "cause they live in a bad part of the city and don’t have to work in people's kitchens.” “I know they don’t,” answered the first woman, “but then people who live in shady houses and wear good clothes ain't got no religion, and I wouldn't lose my soul just to make myself look pretty.” “Neither would I,” answered number two, “because they don’t live easy lives and are never happy.” An Interrupted Journcy. Policeman Flathers appeared on the wit- ness stand and told of the arrest of the women, who have been living in one of the houses of ill-repute in the “Division “If these women were let alone down there,” he said, “they would run that part of the town. The other day they beat a cabman, anu were on the street drunk. Their conduct has been such that they have been regular nufsances there.”* “If I've done anything,” said one of the women, “I don’t know it. I think I was arrested just because of some gossip in the house among the servants.” “And I was going away today,” said the other woman. “Where were you going?” ‘To New York.” “You will have to remain here a short the judge said. “Bonds or fifteen days each.” The woman did not give bonds, but went down. A Case Advanced. In the procession was Mary Bell, a ¢ol- ored woman who was soon to become a mother, and she was suffering so much that Clerk Washburn advanced her case on the docket, in order that she might get out as soon as possible and get the necessary treaty ent. Policeman Curry had arrested the suffer- ing woman and Sadie Howard on a charge of trifling disorder, and twe colored girls had been summoned to appear against them. teesey wre It did not require the statement of a phy- sician to tell the condition of the woman, for wher Judge Scott noticed the expres- sion on her face he remarked that she should never have been brought into court. ‘But I don’t know just what to do witn her,” the judge said. “Her condition shows that she reeds treatment.” Prosecutor Pugh came to the poor wo- man’s rescue. He knew that the woman should never have been brought into court. “And,” he said, “I'll nolle pros. the case and let ker go home.” “It seems to me,” sald the court, “that the police should use some discretion in these cases, and not lock up a woman who is in this condition.” ‘The women were thereupon discharged. Another Sick Woman. Mary was not the only sick woman in the lock-up, for when Emma Washington, colored, appeared she was so sick and weak that she could scarcely stand. e the woman a seat,” the court said to the bailiff, and when the woman had en- tered a plea of not guilty to a trifling charge of disorder, Colored Policeman Stewart lodged complaint against her. “She was disorderly,.and I heard her swearing,” he told the court. Emma then filed herself as an exhibit, and showed part of the wounds and bruises she had sustained. 4 “A woman cut my head with a brick,” she said, “and I’m bruised all about my ack and shoulders. I was sick and was on my way to the hospital when I was as- saulted.” “This woman is surely sick,” the judge sald to Mr. Pugh, “and what I would lik to know is how the is going to get treated. “That's an easy matter,” said the kind- hearted prosecutor. ‘There's no doubt about her condition, and if she is sent down in the van she won't get much better dur- ing tht trip. I think the best thing to do in this case is to dismiss the woman and let her go to the hospital at her own ex- nse, instead of having to be sent there by the District.” “Your suggestion is a good one, Mr. Pugh,” the court said, “and the woman is discharged.’ A Swampoodle Stone Fight. The judge's boyhood days were recalled when two gangs of small colored boys ap- peared to have the court settle a dispute as to which side was victoricus in a recent- ly fought stone battle. “Its an ordinary ‘Swampoodle’ stone battle,” Mr. Pugh told the court. “Just such @ battle as every boy has figured in and nobody hurt.” “Jackson alley against Defrees street,” Policeman Lynch said. The former byway was represented by Willlam Robertson, Charles Raeder,Charles Adams and James Marker, while those from Defrees street were Walter Williams, Richard Cole and Lucius Rtvks, This particular battle was fought in Jack- son alley, and as the alley’s boys were the aggressors they were the parties charged. But there’s another day coming, so the alley’s boys said, and then their opponents will be in court. “When we went in the alley,” said one of the street boys, “they asked us, ‘Can you trot?" “And what did you say?” the prosecutor asked. “We told "em no, of cow was the boy’s answer, “’cause we don’t trot until things get too hot for us.” “Did they get hot this day?” “You bet they did, cause they had two to our one.” "The other Defrees street boys gave simi- Jar evidence, and then the alley quartet stepped forward. The Story Told. “Well, boys,” said Mr. Pugh, “what was the trouble between the two crowds?” ‘Nothing ‘tall, but we made ‘em trot.” “Why did you do it?” “Don’t they meke us trot when we go over there?” “J don’t know,” remarked the prosecutor. “Well, they do, if we ain't got too many in_our crowd.” Charles Adams was exonerated. “So far as you boys ere concerned,” said the Judge to the remaining three defend- ants, “you must understand that when you are having your sectional fights other peo- ple are In danger. This stone throwing THE OFFICIAL aan Ur EXPLANAIORY NOTE: bars, or lines cf equal alr ‘i L\ WEATHER MAP. O Crear sacks0O"l® 9 Croudy Observations taken at 8 a.m., 75th meridian time. Solid lines are 1s0- pressure, drawo for each tenth of an inch. Dotted ues are tsotherms, or Ines of equal temperature, drawn for each ten degrees, Shaded areas are regions where rain or snow has falicn during preceding twelve hours. The words “High” and ‘Lo’ and low barometer. Small arrows fy with the wind. areas of high CONTINUED COOL WEATHER. The Weather Bureaus Predictions for Twenty-Four Hours. Forecast till 8 p.m. Thursday: For New England, generally feir; continued cool northerly winds, becoming light, variable. Fer eastern New York, eastern Pennsyl- varia, New Jersey and Delaware, fair; continued cool north to east winds. For the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, fair; continued cool northerly winds, shifting to easterly. Weather conditions and general forecast: The barometer has risen, except in the northwest, where it has fallen rapidly; it is highest near Lake Superior, and an area of high pressure covers the country east of the Rocky mountains. It 1s cooler, except in the Missouri valley and over the Dakotas, where the tempera- ture has risen slightly. The weather is generally fair this morn- ing, except on the eastern slope of the Rocky mountains from Texas northward over the Dakotas, where showers are re- ported. The indications are that generally fair weather will continue from Tennessee northeastward over New England, with cool northerly winds on Thursday morning and slightly warmer in the interior Thurs- day evening. Local showers are likely to occur alorg the south Atlantic and gulf coasts Thursda; show location of The following heavy precipitation (h inches) was reported during the past twen- ty-four hours: Kingstree, S. C., 1.78; Sa- vanneh, 2.6 Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of water at 8 a.m.: Great Falls,.temperature, 76; condi- tion, 16; receiving reservoir, temperature, 83; condition at north connection, 36; con- dition at south connection, 36; distributing reservoir, temperature, 62; ‘condition at in- fluent gate house, 36; effluent gate house, 36, Tide Table. Today—Low tide, 11:07 a.m. and 11:25 P.m.; high tide, 4:12 a.m. and § p.m: Tomorrow—Low tide, 12:05 a.m tide, 5:15 a.m. and 6 p.in. The Sun nnd Moon. Sun rises 5:17; sun sets, 6:49. Moon sets 2:19 tomorrow morning. The City Lights, Gas lamps all lighted by 7:57 p.m.; extin- guishing begun at G6 a.m. The lighting is: begun one hour before the time-named: Are lamps lighted at 7:42 p.m.; extin- guished at 4:41.° 3 * Range of the Thermometer. The following were the readings of the thermometer at the weather bureau today 8 a.m., 64; 2 p.m., 73; maximum, 74; mini- high should be stopped before somebody is kill- ed. You are fined $2 each.” They Toll Not. Mike Garvey was in che toils again this morning, and he was so well pleased with mum, 56. ys |THE TAR HEEL DANCE Boige-Podge--of Politics -ie North’: Cato: the idea of being charged with mere disor- derly conduct that he said “guilty” and went down for two weeks because he could not pay a fine. “I ain’t no vagrant,” said Thomas Mor- ton, a colored boy. inj ‘He works about the market lin the officer, “but most of his time he loiters about among the wagons and causes trouble.” The officer detailed the actions of the boy about the market and the court imposed 4 sentence of ten days on the farm In default of security. Marcellus Green and James Dobson, col- ored, were given a hearing on a charge of disorderly conduct, preferred by Policeman Lynch, and Dobson was discharged. ain’t guilty of what the policeman says,” was Green's statement, “and { can “My uncle.” : “I'm going to take your personal bonds to appear in court tomorrow with your uncle,” said Judge Scott. “He's just got out of jal volunteered the policeman, who did not appear to like the idea of his being released. “That makes no difference,” said the judge. “And it ‘tain’t so, nohow,” said Green. He was releazed. Threw a Stone. There was a stone thrown through the window of Moy Sing’s Chinese laundry a few nights ago. The missile missed the ce- lestial’s head, but fell upon some dishes and caused him the expenditure of a few cents to replace the dishes. This troubled John Chinaman more than the loss of a little blood, and an investiga- tion resulted in the arrest of James Bailey, a small colored boy. ; “Bu said the boy, “I didn’t throw any stones at the Chinaman.” The rice eater and clothes washer declar- ed that he had the right boy, and a fine of $2 was imposed. ————— CAMPAIGN IN GEORGIA. Gov. Atkinson Opens It With a Speech at Savannah, Governor Atkinson opened the campaign for Bryan and Sewall, cs well as his own campaign for re-election as governor, by a speech at Savannah, Ga., last night. Savan- nah has been regarded as a center of dem- ceratic disaffection, many prominent citi- zens having publicly announced their in- tention of voting for McKinley. Governor Atkinson made a strong appeal to those whom he termed Cleyeland democrats. ‘The main part of his speech was indorse- Mert and support of free coinage. The campaign for silver, he declared to be a campaign that is being mainly fought by the masses. While there are many wealthy and broad-minded men aiding the move- ment for financial emancipation, it is the battle of the common people, and never yet have the common people failed to tri- umph in the end. Free coinage of silver, he declared, would put new vigor into every channel of trade and renewed life in every struggling enterprise. The man opposed to tree coinage is either designedly or ignor- antly working to obliterate silver entirely and make the country dependent solely on gold as primary money. Referring to his own candidacy, Governor Atkinson said that he was unqualifiedly op- posed to again leasing convictS on such terms as would leave them at the mercy of the private individual. He was also op- Posed to convict labor being brought, through its products, in competition with skilled, honest labor. He advocated meas- ures putting all county chain gangs under state supervision, protecting Georgia from the disgrace of abusive, inhuman and un- ratural treatment of helpless prisoners. +—____ Hotel Arrivals. Raleigh—C. Y. Hopkins, Charleston, S.C.; Cc. T. Carter, Knoxville, Tenn.; W. D. Dean, Richmond, Va.; J. V. Sloan, F. M. Bliss and W. B. Middleton and wife, New York; P. Evans, Philadelphia, Pa.; J. H. Parish, G. P. Barton and H. C. McGuire, Chicago, IL; J. H. Owen, Minneapolis, Minn. Ebbitt—J. M. Geacie, Little Rock, Ark.; W. B. Grimes and T. C. Fenton, Philadel- phia, Pa.; F. B. Richey, St. Louis, Mo.; W. B. Randolph, New - York. Oxford—B. J. Weatherly, Chicago, Ill. Cochran—P. Hunt, New York. Normandie—W. F. Dutton and H. I. Ful- ton, Cleveland, Ohio; J. A. Esten and C. M. Stoever, Philadelphia, Pa. Arlington—R. E. Collins, M. L. Collins, M. R. Collins and wife and M. S. Fried- man, St. Louis Mo. Shoreham—A. 8. Bell, New York; F. T. Chambers and C. F. Taylor, Philadelphia, Pa.; G. P. Keeney, San Francisco, Cal.; J._N. Stevens, Denver, Col. Riggs—H. W. Clark, Jacksonville, Fla. Willard’s—J. F. McGuire, New York; M. D. Holmes, Galveston, Tex.; 8. A. Caldwell, Boston, Mass.; J. J. Jordan, Chicago, Ill; C. R. McMullen, Philadelphia, Pa. Johnson—L. C. Herr, Louisville, Ky.; W. H. York, Pennsylvania; C. Arthur Marshall, Virginia; J. W. Seol, North Carolina; W. EB. Chisolm, Baltimore, Md.; T. J. Simpson and wife, Richmond, Va.; E. 8. Hommill, Nor- folk, Va. —_—-.—— Pearce Atkinson in Alive. A, cable message was received at the Sta® Department today from Consul Gea- eral Lee at- Havana denying the report that Pearce Atkinson of Chicago had been Rilled in Cuba. He says that Atkinson was geen at Pinar del Rio on the ist instant, several weeks after his death had been re- perted in the United States, and that he was alive and well at last accounts, |He says he will | issues. lina. No Gold Democrats There and Mc- Kinley and Protection Gain- ing Hendway. Special Correspondence of: The Evening Stars RALEIGH, N.‘C., August 18, 1896. Amazement at the most Peculiar political complications in this state 4s not lessened. The populists are to‘a considerable degree mystified. Speaking of thelf ticket, the ed- itor of the Progressivé Farmer, the organ of the National Farmers’ ;Alliaace, say: “The personnel of the ticket nominated is g00d. Tt ts a strong’ ‘ticket, and the plat- form fs not bad. But ‘we dgfi't’ ktibw what 1s behind ft, before ft. yor. around it. .The whole thing fs enveloped inimystery.” The editor is quite strongly opposed to Senator Butler's political plans and“metheds. It is quite pointedly. asuerted by the sup- porters of Senaor butler, who so triumph: antly carried the day at the populist con vention, that Congressman Skinner, who came here as the real head and front of the aitempted tevolt against Senator But- ler, was.s0, completely conquered that when he left he had not over a third the strength he had-on arrival. Cyrus Thomp- son, who was Skinner's associate leader, and almost as daring a one, was captured by the Butlerites by the free gift of the nomination for secretary of state, a $6,000) a year place. Now they have in ‘Thomp- son an earnest supporter. ‘There are those who cay Butler was not surprised at the indorsement of his ticket by the republi- cans, Republican Prospects. The Farmers’ Alliance again makes a cut at ihe populist national committee "by binting,.-.ia- a half-concealed: ‘wey, that there Is talk to the effect that some of the committee sold out and that some were deceived. The republican compaign begins at Hendersonville next Saturday. D. L. Russell, nominee for governor, opens it. particularly discuss state He says frankly he regards his election as sure; that it is a mere question of how large His plurality, will be. He de- elares ‘He make an earnest fight-ifor McKink It fs said im paign fund for North loina this vear will be $200,000, Thr, Grant of the repub- lican central committee laughs at this and Says there is no truth In it; that at present the committee has not a dollar save what it raised in the state, and that it may be Wecks before any funds come. Cer- tainly he does not expect over $10,000 or $15,000. Scme weeks ago James H. Young, colored, member of the republican state committee, bolted the nomination of Mc- Kinley and declared. tor Bryan and Wat- son and free silver. Last week the com- mittee disciplined him and made him sign thé resolutions adopted indersing McKin- ley and the national platform. One Democratic Gold Club. 80 far only one sound money democratic club has been organized in the state. It Is at Newbern. It sends as delegates to the national convertion at Indianapolis W. W. Clark and Charles Reizenstein. The state Prohibition convention meets here Friday. On the same day the national or free sil- ver party will hold. {ts convention at Greensboro. The farmers’ state alliance has adopted resolutions condemning the ninety-nine-year lease of the North Caro- lina railway (in which the state is two- thirds owner) to the Southern railway, and declaring in favor of a constitutional pro- hibition of the purchase, lease or rental of parallel or competing lines of railway, and pledging all alliance men, regardless of party ties, to refuse to vote for any candi- date for governor, attorney general or member of the legislature who will not Pledge himself to use his best endeavors to have the sentiment of these resolutions enacted into law. “he silver party, lke the prohibition’ party, cuts no figure in A ee Politi¢al a#ffairs. Such is uM ent made ;py the other parties. W. A. Guthrie, Papi SEE for go ernor, requests Rubkell,''the republican, and Watson, the detnocratic candidate, to have a joint discussion. 1:Russell has al- ready refused to debate with Watson, giv- ing as a reason that dighurbances might result, but the demétrats nd some of the Populists think this pesitiéh untenable and also a sort of refledtion di the law-abid- ing people of this stkte. McKinley and Protection. Republicans assert: that {Senator Butler made the remark that he was determined the democrats should bé”beaten in this state. Some of then; go s0 far as to de- clare that at heart,;Butler wants Bryan beaten, fearing that if the latter were elested the populists would become an an- nex to the democratic party. Republican headquarters were formally opened toda: in charge of R. 0. Patterson, A: E. Hollo and -W. E. Hyams. Three or four of the central committee will be on duty all the while. John B. Respass is to be the re- publican candidate for Congress tn the first district. Leading democrats, when asked today how many democratic votes Bryan would fail to get in this state, said 10,C00; that while some of these would vote outright fcr McKinley, the far greater part will not vote at all. It was further said that this anti-Bryan movement 1s in- creasing and that milil-owners are at the bottom of it. These favor it, not.so much for McKinley and sound money, as for the protection idea, which has struck in deep among the mill men. Democratic commit- teemen complain of the lack of. sympathy the majority of democrats show for their earnest effort to induce populists to fuse and carry. the state.for Bryan. the, kepublican cam- VOLUNTEER WORK Department Clerks Helping the Dem- ocratic Committee, HANY AT HEADQUARTERS AT NIGHT Questions Raised Concerning It Answered by Various Officials. > NOT A CIVIL SERVICE MATTER A question has been raised which may affect the management of the work of tie democratic congressional committee in this city. It is about the practice of xovern- ment employes going to the headquarters of the committee during the evening aud giving their services in sending out cam- paign literature free of charge. Last evening the first floor of Wormlcy’s Hotel was brilliantly lighted, and there was plainly visibte to all passers-by about seventy men hard at work putting docu- ments in envelopes,- addressing them. a placing them in mail bags ready to be shipped to all parts of the country. As has been told in The Star, th s force of volunteer workers was the result of a lack of funds on the part of the congressional committee, which was sorely hamper.ng the committee until volunteers came forward and offered to give their time without money and with cut price. These volunteers were ardent free silver men. After the idea of volun teering their services had once taken hold of the clerks there was no lack of men who wanted to woik in the cause of silver and the democracy. Last evening all the avail- able space of the committee was occupied, and until more rooms are secured by the committee no more volunt< can be ac- commodated. As it was the force at work last evening filled and addres32d $,000 en- velopes and packed them ready to be taken to the Pest Office Department, beside dang any other work for which they were called upon. A g00d many people walked by the head- quarters of the democratic congressional committee and saw the band of men hard at work, and the result was that thi: morning the question is being widely aske. whether government employes have a right under the civil service law and the rulings of the departm to devote their leisu time after the close of the departments in doing work for a political party without pay. Lots of people want to know whether that action constitutes offensive partisan- ship. Senator Faulkner's Viéws. - A Star reperter called on Senator Faulk- ner, chairman of the congressional com- mittee, this morning, and asked him how he regarded the action of the clerks. “They have a perfect right to come here and work in getting out campaign litera- ture, if they want to do s0, and we propose to protect them in maintaining their rights if it becomes necessary. A clerk can do what he pleases after office hours. He is the master of bis own time, and there is no impropriety m having them at work here.” “What proportion of the volunteers who work for the committee during the even- ing ere in the employ of the government?” Mr. Faulkner was asked. “Well, I should suppose a large majority of them are so empioyed. The people ha charge of this campaign, and these men come here simply because they want to ad- vence the principles in which they have fi Their services free of charge allows us to expend our money in having printing done, and naturally we are enabled to gel out much larger amount of literature than would otherwise be the case. There can be nothing in either the civil service law or in any department ruling that could r.ghtfully be construed against a clerk do ing the work the clerks are doing here.’ What Officials say. A Star reporter talked to a number of government officials and found that their views were in accordance with those ex- pressed by Senator Faulkner. One acting head of a department, who did not wish to be quoted, eaid: “Clerks in my department have come to me wanting to know whether there would be any ir propriety committed if they should work at night at the headquarters of the democratic congressional committee. I told them I did not wish to decide that question, but that my personal view was that they had a right to occupy them- selves as they saw fit, provided they dia the work for which the government paid them. At the same time, I said that in view cf the fact that the administration changes every four years, I thought it would be to their advantage to tend strict- ly to their own business and not mix in politics in any way. They might maki enemies, and through them might get in trouble.” Not a Civil Service Matter. Chief Clerk Doyle of the civil service commission did not consider that the ques- uon involved in the clerks’ action in work- ing for the congressional committee was one that the civil service commission had anything to do with. He did not wish to express any opinion about it beyond say- ing it was a matter that related entirely to the goverment of the departments. Judge Thomas, assistant attorney general for the Post Office Department, said he had never been called upon to decide such a case, but his own view was that the gov- ernment was not interested in the way a clerk spends his evenings. He had been called upon to decide whether a clerk might take a position during the time the government a.iowed him for his annual vacation, and he decided that he had a right te do so. If a clerk should work ail night and unfit himself for his duties dur- ing the day, then that would be a cause for the department to act on, but the ac- tion would be based on the inability of the clerk to perform his duties, and not on the fact that he had worked at night. Mr. Preston, director of the mint, said he did not see that the government had any- thing to do with the way employes might See fit to occupy themselves during the evening. “I know there are a good many silver men in this department,” said Mr. Preston. “Some of them are rampant, too. I do net know of any one in this department who Is working at either of the political head- quarter3, and if I did know that some in my bureau were so engaged, I would not consider it a matter with which I had any- thing to do.” The Cabinet Officers. Representative McMillin of Tennessee scouted the idea that the clerks could be interfered with in their work at the head- quarters of the congressional committee. He suggested that it would be the height of inconsistency for any head of a depart- ment to entertain such an idea in view of the part cabinet officers take in political matters. The work of the volunteers at the h€aa- quarters of the democratic congressional committee, it is estimated, is saving the committee about $125 per day, and if this volunteer force is enlarged, as it is thought it will be later on, the saving will amount to fully $300 per day. In fact, it is said the committee is so short of funds that it echld not carry on its work on a large schle if it were not for the assistance of the volunteers. sete see Combining in Idaho. The Idaho democratic and populist con- ventions met yesterday afternoon, effected temporary organizations and adjourned until 7:30 last evening. In both conven- tions the speeches made broadly hinted at fusion between the two parties, and the manper of reception Indicated that they met the approval of delegates. The leaj- ers of the silver republicans, including Senator Dubois, are on the ground. At the evening session of the democratic convention a committee of one from each county was appointed to confer with the pepulisis. On a vote of 108 to 31 it was decided that the conference should be held with the populists alone, and that the sil- ver republicans should be left out. The populist convention -lid not-proceed so far, only appointing ordinary committees. The evident plan was to force the initiative upon the democrats. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. EXCURSIONS FINANCE Qliscellancous)... SALE (Bicycles)... SALE (Houses). & (Lots) (iLcellane ES AND VEHICLES, FOR HOR! A MEDICA\ Jee Seameneeneeeeteusaaaam 4 4 4 NOS AND ORGAY 5 POTOMAC RIVER BOATS "age 4 PROPOSALS Page 4 RAILROAD: Tage 5 SPECIAL NOTICES. Page 3 STORA! Page 4 SUBURBAN PROPERTY. Page 4 ¢ Page 4 DERTAKERS. ‘Page 4 WANTED (Help), ge 4 WANTED (Iouses)... Page ¢ WANTED (Miscellazeous). Page 4 WANTED (itoom: Page 4 w "ED (Situations). Page 4 DRIED FRUITS ABROAD California Goods Sold as a French Pro- duct. Ways That Are Not Direct in Han- dling Our Fraits in Euro- tries. pean Co Mr. Eugene Germain, United States con- sul at Zurich, has made a report to the State Department in regard to the French and Swiss markets for American dried fruits, in which certain business pecullari- ties of the foreign markets are described. A large quantity of California French prunes were shipped to France last season, and gave general satisfaction. They were not sold as California prunes, however, but as the genuine French-grown article, and are said to be fully a= good in quality and appearance. One of the dealers in France has naively made the following suggestions with regard to future ship- ments of such articles: Under French Labels. “Goods must be packed in cases similar to those used by the French. Net weight must be marked on cases in kilograms, and prices made per kilogram and not in Amer- ican pounds. Eliminate all marks, names of firms or place of origin, so as to enable French importers to sell the goods as a French product. The size of fruit being determined by its number to the pound in America, the same mcthod prevails im France, with the difference that, instead of figuring by pound, the size is determined by so many to the kilegram, and, in order to be successful, Ameri T™ust adopt the French way and quote accordingly. Small fruit is not wanted, only such as run from forty to sixty and,'a few, at eighty to the pound, or its equivalent’ figured by ktlo- gram, will find a ready market.” Building Up a Market. In commenting on these suggestion: sul Germain says: > “My idea is that prunes should be shipped in good, strong sacks. This will not only save freight charges, but also allow the French to pack the fruit in boxes of sizes and form best adapted to their trade. As sorg as we have not our own American houses abroad, we must submit to have our product sold without getting due credit for it, and let foreigners reap the lion’s share of profit out of our goods. I reiterate what 1 have written on previous occasions, that the only way we can successfully introduce our goods, compete with other points of production, get all the traffic will bear, and thereby establish a permanent market abroad for our products, without, however, going to extremes, is to establish agencies at some of the principal European ports, with some of our own interested people as agents, and from these points work all Europe. Con- Our Fruits There. “I have investigated of late the market for American dried fruits in Switzerland, which, when I first came here, was poor. None were to be found; only once in a while a box of stray apricots found its way to this country, and retailed at 48 cents per pound. Today one can find American ring apples, Catifornia dricd pears, peache: apricots and nectarines in nearly every re- tail store. “The French prunes sold here under French label probably hail from California aiso, but the prices of all our dried fruits are still too high to make them popular. While apricets now retail at 20 cents per pound, peaches, pears and nectarines are held at 30 cents per pound, which is ridicu- lous, when, as 1 know, apricots sold ‘free on board’ California points last season at 5 to 6 cents, while nectarines and choice and fancy peaches went begging at from 3% to 4% cents per pound, the former for good average and the latter price for fancy unpeeled stock. a American Fruit Well Known. “The reason for this discrimination is n doubt to be attributed to the fact that ap: cots are already well and favorably known throughout Europe, and are shipped in lerge quantities, while peaches, nectarines and pears,which can be produced as cheap- ly, and, in the case of pears or peaches, more cheaply than apricots, have only been sent here, so far, in a small, experimental way. Swiss customs statistics do not show how much dried fruit was imported during 1sM4 and 1895 into Switzerland from the United States, because none, so far as I ean learn, reached the dealers in a direct way; hence I cannot at this time give sta- ustical informaticn. “Ali such fruits are bought from the Ger- man, French, Italian and English import- ing firms by jobbers, who, in turn, seli to the retail trade, and this has a tendency of increasing the price of these commodi- ties materially.” -—___—__+-e+____ Political Notes, B. F. Havens, a Ife-long democrat, and ex-mayor of Terre Haute, Ind., will stump Indiana for McKinley. Col. John R. Fellows of New York will address the convention of the Maine gold democrats at Portland tomorrow. The Vermont gold democrats elected dele- gates to the Indianapolis convention and presidential electors yesterday. Resolutions were adopted denouncing the Chicago plat- form and urging a united effort for sound money. z Nearly all the democratic county conven- tions of Colorado have indorsed Senator Teller and Congressman Shaffroth (republi- can) and Congressman Bell (populist) for re-election. Bourke Cockran has engaged to speak in the democratic gold-standard party’s inter- est In Maine, Michigan, Ohio, Virginia and Illinois, and may possibly extend his tour into otker of the western siates, At a meeting of gold democrats in Cincin- nati yesterday a call was issued to the gold democrats of Hamilton county to mect to select delegates from the first and sec. ond districts to the national convention at Indianapolis. The call was signed by over fifty democrats of Cincinnati. It has been decided to present the name of D. D. Woodmansee, ex-president of the Ohio State Republican League, as the Ohio candidate for president of the National Re~ publican League at the meeting at Milwau- kee. Mr. W. J. 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Philadelphia, Boston and Baltimore bought and sold. A specialty made of investment trict ‘and all local Raiiroad, G: and Telephone Stock dealt savin Bell Telephone Stock bought acd sold. the afternoon of August 28, the Jay after speaking in Buffalo, John E. Colley, secretary of the Rhode Isiand democratic state central committee, yesterday {ssued a call for a convention to be held August 26, for the selection of presidential electors. Wm. J. Bryan has telegraphed Chairman Moore of the Erie county, Pa., comm! that he will be at Erie Wedne: Augu: 26, to address the state convention of dem- cratic clubs, which assembles then. Erle democrats are making prep. £ great demonstration. ———— journed till this morning. Cooke was recommended hy the on permanent organization for chairman. The convention held scesion in order to enable the de attend a Bryan and Sewall ratin pe manent no night ner to