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THE EVENING STAR. FUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. llth 8, by 8. H. KAUF! , Pres't. Tow York Office, 49 Potter Building. ‘The Evening Star is served to subscribers in the ity by enrriers, on thelr own account. at 10 cents week, or 44 cents per month. at the Bounter 2 cents each. By mall—anywhere in the United States or cents per moath. Saturday Quintuple Sheet Star, $1 per year, with foreign postage added, as mail matter.) [7 All rail subscriptions must be paid in advance. Rates of advertising made known on application. Star. No. 13,814. RIVERS ON RAMPAGE Damage by Flood Reported From Many New Englan¢ Points. RAILROAD BRIDG®S SWEPT AWAY Log Boom at Turner's Falls, Mass., Goes Out. HUDSON RIVER RISING —————— nd SPRINGFIELD, Mass., June 10.—Special dispatches to the Union from the towns along the Connecticut river indicate that much damage is being done by the flood. The boom at Turner's Falls, Mass., broke at 4:30 o'clock this morning, with about 80,000,000 feet of logs. ‘Phere is no way of stopping this boom or the one that broke at Bellows’ Falls, Vt., until they reach Mount Tom, near Northampton. The dam of the Warner Manufacturing Company at Green- field broke this morning. It was built of solid reck, and was fifty feet long and twelve feet high. A portion of the dam of Eddy & Son also gave way. At Charlemont, Mass., the saw mill dam owned by H. T. Ford went out this morn- ing. Mousin River Raging. SPRINGVALE, Me., June 10.—The water in the Mousin river has risen three feet since 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The heavy rains have washed out roads and small bridges in several districts. Rain continues to fall there, and further floods gre probable. Trains are behind time on the Portland and Rochester road. Washout at Rochester. ROCHESTER, N. H., June 10.—A wash- out has occurred on the Portland and Rochester railroad at East Rochester, and Train No. 5 is stalled near that station. Train Stalled at Crockett’s. SOMERSWORTH, N.H., June 10.—Tratic on the Rollingsford branch of the Boston and Maine railroad was stalled today by the derailment of a train at Crockett’s Crossing, by a weshout, at 5:30 o'clock this mcrning. There were twelve passengers aboard, none of whom wes injured. Heavy Rains at Bellows Falls. RPELLOWS FALLS, Vt., June 10.—For the past thirty-six hours the rainfall in this eection has been continuous. The Con- necticut river has risen several feet, and all its small tributaries are badly swollen. The kighways are washed out, and a boom just north of here, helding 12,000,000 feet of icgs, belonging to the Vandyke drive, burst this morning, and unless the boom at Terner’s Falls, Mass., holds, a large part of the drive will go cn toward the sea. Two trestles were wasked out on Rutland Taflroad last night, one at Chester and one at Rockingham, and it is thought travel will not be resumed fer two or three days. No fatalities had been reported up to 10 O'clock today. The following telegram has been received at the local weather bureau from the ob- server at Albany. N.Y.: ‘“Hoosic and Mo- hawk rivers running bank full, and low- lends flooded. Hudson at Albany will rise at an average rate of one and a_half inches per hovr until 2 p.m. today. River wHl fall tonight. Watershed soaked and acditional rainfall will find its way tw rivers very rapidly. No serious damage will be experienced, as all interested have ample warning, and will guard movable property. a DID NOT PAY THE DUTY. Customs Officers Seize a Valuable Package of Furs in Denver. DENVER, Col,, June 10—The Denver customs officers, acting on information re- ceived from the inspector at Sault Ste. Marie, on the Canadian border, have seized a valuable package of furs, containing six Canadian mink skins and three beaver skins, which had been consigned by express to “Miss E. Hart, care of the Deanery, Denver,” and on which no duty had been wid. Miss Hart is the daughter of Kev. i. Martyn Hart, canon of the Episcopal @athedral, one of the wealthiest congrega- Mions west of Chicago. Dean Hart explains that the furs were gent by a friend in Canada without his knowledge. He says he does not think the SS realized that he was violating the we. a BANK OFFICIALS INDICTED. Charged With Borrowing Funds From Their Own Institution. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 10.—The grand jury has indicted four officials of the failed Washington State Bank, A. C. Haughen, the president, who at the time of the failure was also city treasurer, and is now under indictment for his conduct of that office; J. H. Field, the cashier of the bank; A. E. Johnson, the well-known steamship agent, and Olaf Searie of St. Paul, who were directors. The indictments have been reported to the court, but as no arraignments have been made, their contents are not yet known. The charge in each case ts supposed to be, however, borrowing money from the bank in viola- tion of the state law which prohibits bank officials from so doin, _———————— MAHER AND SHARKEY RELEASED. Magistrate Cornell Finds They Had Not Violated Horton Law. NEW YORK, June 10.—Peter Maher and Thomas Sharkey, the hcavy-weight pugi- ists who were arrested last night during their fight at the Palace Athletic Club, were discharged by Magistrate Cornell in the Harlem pelice court today. The magistrate admitted that the con- duct of the men in the seventh round might have been disorderly, and said he was glad they had been locked up, but that nevertheless, as far as he ceuld see, ba had been no violation of the Horton we. ———.@]+_—_ JOHN W. FOSTER ENTERTAINED. His Mission Meets With Sympathy of Russlan Ofictuts. PETERSBURG, June 10.—At the banquet last evening at the United States legation in honor of Jehn’W.:Foster, ‘the United States seal copsmingioper, the minister for foreign affairs, Count Muravieff, and the minister of imperia®s @emains, M. Yermo- loff, were présent. It is reported here that Mr. Foster’s mis- sion is meeting with great sympathy and support in offictak circies. RESPITE FOR DURRANT SUGAR SCHEDULE UP Execution of the Sentence Deferred Till July 9. Reached in the Senate’s Discussion of the Tariff Bill, AMERICAN PRODUCTS FOR AMERICANS Mr. Tillman Ridicules the “Tariff for Revenue Only” Policy. Gov. Budd Wishes to Test the Ques- tion of the Right of Federal Courts to Interfere. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 10.—Theo- dere Durrant, the murderer of Blanche Lamont, wil be reprieved teday. Governor Budd has decided upon this course in or- der to settle the question of the rights of the federal courts to interfere in the exe- cution of a sentence imposed by the state court. He has named July 9 as the day upon which the senteace shall be carried out. The object of the reprieve, as the attor- ney general explained last night, Is to avold the necessity of resentencing the con- victed men. If the position taken by the governor be supported by the state supreme court, the sentence will be carried cut on July 9, just as it would have been tomorrow but for the habeas corpus proceedings. Today the necessary telegrams ordering a stay of execution will be sent to Sacra- mento by the governor. The sition taken by Governor Budd is that the habeas corpus proceedings and the appeal incident to the denia! of the writ sued out by Durrant’s attorneys does nox act as a stay of proceedings. In other words, the governor desires that the su- preme court pass upon the opinion render- ed by Attorney General Fitzgerald, hold- ing that the proceedings do constitute a stay. Durrant is still in the condemned cell, and until definite orders are received he will not be moved to other quarters. Governor Budd's reasons for granting Durrant until July 9 is that the legal poiat he has raised could not.possibly be decided before the time fixed for the execution to- morrow. He was advised, however, that it might take thirty days to decide, even though the questions be presented at once to the su- preme court; hence the reprieve was deem- ed_necessary. The governor has stated that it is his intention for the law to take its course against the murderer of Blanche Lamont. This. he said when he decided not to in- terfere in behalf of the condemned man. Now he says that the sentence must be carried out, or he must learn that the fed- eral courts have the right to interfere with the state courts in cases such as the one at issue. Charles Garter, who is special counsel for Durrant in the habeas corpus proceed- ings, said he did not feel the slightest ap- prehension in the matter of the ultimate decision in the habeas corpus proceedings. He said that he had been unable to obtain any information from the attorney general in regard to the proposed course of the governor, but he added: ‘The attorney general is a good lawyer, and he knows that the position he has taken is correct, and thet the appeal from the denial of the court of habeas corpus acts unquestionably as a stay of execution.” The attorney general, when informed last evening that the governor had decided to reprieve Durrant, declined to make any statement. He said: “I will not say whether I have prepared papers or not. When I commence proceedings it will be in the courts, not in the newspapers.” >—_— IN THE PUBLIC GROUNDS. SESSION OF THE HOUSE The Senate began work at 11 a.m. today, and the tariff bill was taken up as soon as the routine business was out of the way. Mr. Tillman (8. C.) took the floor on the pending amendment of Mr. Cannon (Utah), providing an export bounty on agricultural products. He said he desired the attention of his associates, and as the attendance was meager he noted the absence of a quorum. The call disclosed 54 senators Present, nine more than a quorum, and Mr. Tillman proceeded. He said the tariff debate had disclosed a nebulous condition in the minds of sena- tors. The republican senators sat quietly, apparently controlled by the caucus, re- fusing to discuss the iniquities of the bill and unanimously voting for the exactions in behalf of trusts and monopolies. “On the other hand,” proceeded Mr. Till- man, “the democrats are in a period of transition. They don’t know where they're at. The older, more experienced, proclaim their allegiance to the old, time-honored doctrines. We had an innpassioned speech yesterday (by Mr. Mills) in behalf of the Walker tariff principles, brought forward at this late day as democratic doctrine. Secession, nullification and other issues which have passed out of the minds of men_ might as well be brought here. The tariff is merely a question of policy, as to how the government will raise its revenue. I say without hesitation it is to the best in- terest of the American people that the er- ticles consumed by our people should be produced by our people. If that is republi- can doctrine, well and good. If that is not democratic doctrine, It ought to be.” Mr. Tillman went on to show that diver- sified industries gave diversificl means of labor. As to the farmers, the need was not for more farmers, but for a tariff which would no longer rob the farmers we have. The farmer stood, his skinny, bony hand outstretched, asking this export bounty -to overcome the robbery of the present sys- tem, and yet senatcrs sat in stony silence expecting this idiotic farmer, with the mortgege gnawing on his home, not to know that they refuse to give him relief. Mr. Tillman vchemeatly pledges his word to his colleagues that if deceived the farm- ers, the 9,000,000 followers of the plow, “will settle with you at the ballot box.” Referring to any bill not giving adequate relief to farmers, Mr. Tillman exclatmed: “I am prepared to throw some rocks that will stagger some of you men. The senator analyzed the extent of agri- cultural interests throughout the country, including the south, “the Ishmaclite, the section that has had no rights since the war.” While that section had labored under the ban of secession, paying billions ns a result of its attempt to secede, it was still face to face with the demanl] of the horse- leach, crying ‘More, mor, imore.”” This section and the agricultu: interests al- ways had been #t the mercy of tariff bills which found their genesis in the benefits conferred on New England. Spoke in qn Argumentative Style. As Mr. Tillman spoke the galleries filled, in anticipation of a lively time. While speaking with his usual vehemence of voice ‘and gesture, the senator adopted an argu- mentative style to show that the farmer was receiving the burdens, without the benefits, of the tariff. When he referred at one point to the Chicago platform declaration on the tariff it brought Mr. Veet.to his feet in expiana- tion. He voted in the Chicago convention, amid greut uproar and confuston,-said Mr. Vest, for the leng and in part nebulous plaiform. He never knew, until it had come out here, that the word “only” had been left out of the declaration for a “tar- iff for revenue.” a. “If I had known it,” proceeded Mr. Vest, “I would have risen in my place and moved to insert it, for it is the creed of the dem- ocratic party. And I believe a majority of that convention did not know of the omis- sion, as all our attention was concentrated on the money issue.’” Proceeding, Mr. Tillman turned to his democratic associates, and said they now had a chance, with the votes of a few. re- publican senators, ‘‘not lost to all sense of shame and decency,” to give some measure of relief to the farmers. They would receive little or no benefit from the duty on cotton and cereals. They asked for bread and were given a stone. They asked some relief, and democratic senators set up a mummy and labeled it a “tariff for revenue only.” “Great God, such democracy!” exclaimed Mr. Tillman, with dramatic emphasis. Democratic senators had svoken of a “new evangel,” he said, and had twitted him and others of leading the democratic party into the republican camp. These senators, instead of offering the cardinal democratic principle of equality, gave the Sodom apple of “tariff for revenue only” to their constituents. “You are holding the telescope with the big end to your eye,” declared Mr. Tillman, addressing his associates, ‘and at the little end you see the legend ‘tariff for revenue only,’ instead of that great doctrine of democracy—equal rights for all, special privileges for none.” In conclusion, the senator said he be- Heved in securing for the seuth as many benefits as possible. He ub- Mcan senators for the inequalities of their legislation, and for ‘“‘keeping Cuba under the heel of Weyler.’ they claimed, he said, to be followers of Lincoln, “hut you are unworthy to tie the shoe latches of that great man.” The democratic senators claimed to be followers of Jefferson, while they were abandoning Jefferson's cardinal principle of equal rights to the people. Mr. Allen of Nebraska briefly spoke in favor of an export bounty. Mr. Perkins of California announced his readiness to support the export bounty amendment, if modified so as to confine the bounty to goods exported in vessels flying the flag of the United States, and documented in custom houses of the United States. He proposed an amendment to this effect. ‘ ‘There was some opposition to this from Mr. Tillman and Mr, Allen, but Mr. Can- author of the original amendment, he was di |, @8 @ meang of se- curing the support of Mr. Perkins and others on the republican side of the cham- ber, to accept this new proposition if 75 per cent of the bounty go to the agricul- tural exporter and 25 per cent to the Ameri- can vessel. Over 300,000 Plants Set Out in the Parks Last Month. There were 10,897 visitors to the top of the Washington monument during the menth of May, of which number 9,081 made the ascent by the elevator and 1,816 by the stairway, making a total of 1,396,985 per- sons who have visited the top of the shaft since it was opened to the public, October 9, 1888, according io the report of Colonel Bingham, the engineer officer in charge cf public buildings and grounds. Minor repairs were made to the Execu- tive Mansion and a portable derrick for hoisting materials was made and placed upen the roof. In all the parks the usual work was done to keep them in good con- dition. Lawns were mown, gravel roads and brick gutters weeded, their lawn bor- ders edged and the sidewalks, asphalt roads and walks kept in a cleanly cendition. The remeval of tulip, hyacinth and crocus bulbs from the flower beds and storing them for next season's use was commenced and the planting of suinmer bedding plants was continued. During the month 513,807 tropical, subtropical and bedding plants were sent out for planting in the various parks. A statue of Daguerre has been placed in position in the Smithsonian grounds by the authorities of that institution. ——___-e— DISTRICT IN CONGRESS. A Bill to Encourage Prompt Payment of Tax Arrears. Senator Faulkner has proposed an amend- ment to the deficiency appropriation bill providing that on all arrears of taxes in the District which shall be paid on or be- fore sixty days after the approval of the act all penalties and charges, except 6 ber cent interest, shall be remitted. District Supreme Court Jurisdiction. Senator Faulkner has introduced in the Serate the bill offered in a previous Con- gress by Senator Pugh, amending the juris- diction of the Supreme Court of the Dis- trict in several particulars. ——_——__+-2+___—_. MINNEAPOLIS LEAVES GREECE. The New York Of for a Cruise—Late Navy Notes. Rear Admiral Selfridge, commanding the United States forces in Turkish waters, telegraphed the Secretary of the Navy to- day that the cruiser Minneapolis left Piree, Greece, this morning for Gibraltar on her Way to New York, and that the -cruiser Cincit rati left the same port bound for Smyrna. If he said anything about the political situation in the Levant it was not made public. - According to advices received at the Navy Department today, Admiral Sicard, com- manding the North Atlantic squadron, left Boston this morning on the flagship New York for a cruise along the Atlantic coast as far as Hampton Dr. Washington B. Greve hasbeen ap- pointed an assistant surgeon in the navy. Frederick K. Hunt has been appointed pay clerk for the Concord. <———____ Personal Mention. Major Lewis Smith, 4th Artillery, has been assigned to duty at the Washington barracks. Lieut. J. A. Hoogewerff of the Naval Academy is here today being examined for promotion. we % : Lieut. D. Settle, 10th, Infantry, ts in the | sidy for city. # Col. H. W. Lawton, inapector generat, at_1314 Connecticut avenue for a few days. Capt. W. A. Miller, retired, ie at 10 Secretary Bliss went to New York this afternoon to attend the banquet to i Mr. Perkins declined to accept this sug-|_ WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1897-FOURTEEN PAGES. TWO CENTS. BY WIRE FROM FoRT ASHING TON. The Star's Private Telegraph Line to the National Guaré Eacaimpment. The Star has baé cor ted a@ private telegraph line from thé uarters of the National Grara ené t at Fort Washington direct to The?-Star office -in this city. Thitebas been‘doge in order.that the Washington publle maf-be pept fully advised of all the happenings in gamp each day up to the last morhent ef going to press. Waskington will not, therefore, be cut off from direct communteation, with the loca} scidier boys: when in| camp, ag hes been- the ecse-in past yéars. The project required considerable trouble and expense, but The Star was not detetged by any ob- stecles, and its patrons wil this afternoon be able to read a telegraphic account of the arrival ot the troops in ‘camp and of all the news incidents of the day. The court- esies of the te.egrarhic service have been extended ty The Evening, Star, through Gen. Ordway, to the officers of the National Guard, and the offer is highly appreciated. ee THREE IMPORTANT TOPICS. Some Republicans Want Them Con- sidered by House Cofamittees. Speaker Reed is receiving solicitations from members of his‘own” party in the House to permit the appointment ef com- mitteees to consider the ‘ignkruptcy bill, the proposed appointment of a monetary commmissicn and the Cubpn belligerency resolution. \e, One prominent repubifcan “representative who went to the Speaker within the past day or two urged him-to appoint a com- mittee to take up the bankruptcy bill at an early date. This gentleman suggested that this might be done as soon ag the sugar schedule was disposed of by the Senate. He took the ground that when the sugar schedule is out of the way the. tariff bill is Practically on the road to speedy comple- tion. There would be no further necessity then, he claimed, for continuing the pres- ent policy of the House, in #9 far as such continuance might cut off theconsideration of the bankruptcy bill. g It was urged, that if ‘this, course were adopted, the bankruptcy Hill and the mone- tary commission propositidn could be dis- posed of by the House while the tariff bill is being shaped up in thé! Senate and the finishing touches put on 4 in ‘€onference. Congress would then be Séady %o adjourn aampediet ty after the taf bilf became a wr ey It cannot be learned thet Mr. Reed has given any assurances to", the «gentlemen who have gone to him im ‘this connection that he would acquiesce ‘fm their view of the matter. His attitud@ it said, is still non-committal upon ‘the appointment of any committees at thig ti There is no doubt, however, that thie motletary com- mission bill will be pas: somé time, but it may not be brought up th the’House-un- til after the tariff bill is eémpleted. BIG GUN BLOWN 0’ PHECEs. Terrible Premature Explosion While Testing at Indidé ,Hékd. Certain experiments t ordnance officers of the navy ha’ makitig at the Indian Head’ proving gfounds with a shell intended to permit’ the use of high ex- plosives in ordiary guns came to a sud- den and alarming stop yesterday: by the bursting of the shellin the gun, which in turn was.torn to,pleces with a tremendous+ explosion. Fortunately, the: witnesses of the trial escaped unharmed, though pieces of the burst gun and shell fell atound the tug upon which fhe officers were watching, and the officer who dischgrged the gun escaped only bécause he had sheltered himself behind an embankrgent instead of resorting to the. ysual corner in the bomb- proof, where the force of the explosion was So. great that it collapsed a; small wooden cabin used to shelter the igstruments. This particular shell ‘wag’ loaded witn over three hundred pounds of gun cotton, and it is supposed that it was unable to withstend the shock of the explosion of the powder charge in the gun,, which in this case was much less than ugual, the pres- sure being only about three tons instead of fifteen tens per square inch, The gun de- stroyed was a jacketed tube, intended, in the end, for a 13-inch gun!but so far only bored out as a 12-inch tube. .; The ordnance officers have never been satisfied as to the possibtlity of using gun cottcn in this way, but.were obl to meke the experiment by diréction_of Con- gress, which made a special: appropria- tion for the purpose. The-value of the property destroyed is beingsgacertained by a board, and it will be charged against ‘the apprcpriation for this set af experiments. It is roughly estimated at $20,000, ——__—_+-2-+______—_ THEASURER ROBERTS’ ‘COMMISSION. ‘ . Not Likely to Recei¥e'-It Until the Presiden’t Return. Although Mr. Ellis H: Roberts of New York has been confirmed: by the Senate as United States treasurer, he has not yet re- ceived his commission from the President, and is not likely to get if before the latter returns from WNashviflé. Consequently there will be a slight delay’in the transfer of the office from Mr. Morgan, the incum- bent, to Mr. Roberts. It 1s understood that Mr. Roberts, who is now in New York, wiil file his bond and qualify es.scon.as he re- celves his commission. ‘fhe treasurer gives bond in the sum of $150,000, -and ts held personally. responsible. for the safe- keeping of the $700,000,000. in cash and bonds in the vaults of the treasury. Until he arrives here, it will not be ‘positively la:own whether he intends to exact a bond from each of the 325 employes of the treasurer's office:for the faithful discharge of his or her duty. He d that policy wher assistant treasurer at New Y and it is_reported that he te introduce it Sito the treasurer's offic®. : ————_- e+ * NO ACTION FAKES. Senate Interstate efce Com- mittee and the net Bil. The Senate committee om fiterstate com- merce held @ brief meeting today and ad- journed for a week witlipiit ‘ ting any business beyond a jcilkgory” discussion ‘of the advisability of repasting remarked that so amittees were not app; for, the Senate to work The indications now are. is not given at the next the bill action be beginning of the or at least until the tariff bill is disposed of. THE STAR BY MAIL. ~ Persons leaving the city for any period can have The Star mailed to them to any address in the United States or Canada, by ordering it at this office, in person or by letter. Terms: 18 cents per week; 25 cents for two weeks, or 50 cents per month. Invariably in advance. Sub- ecribers changing their address from one Post-office to another should Give the last address as well as the Tew one. a WALES’ HORSE SALE Fifty-Three Lots to Be Sold at Wolfer- ton Today. SOME OF THE FINE STOCK HE OWNS Oonclusion of the Ruis Incident Not Im- With Jadge Day Home Tonight. Prince Takes the Keenest ‘Interest in the Hackney Division. Mr. Calhoun was again at the State De- partment today, al he had another long conference with Assistant Secretary Day. This being diplomatic day, the Spanish minister, Senor Dupuy @e Lome, was among the callers, and had an opportunity to exchange views with the special counsel in the presence of Judge Day. Mr. Calhoun interds to go home to Dan- ville, IIL, tonight, having delayed his de- parture so long only for the purpose of a further conference with Assistant Secre- tary Day. For one thing, the special coun- sel made it clear to the assistant secretary that he had not been guilty of the indis- creet utterances attributed to him in some newspapers upon his arrival at New York recently. Dr. Congosto, the Spanish consul at Phil- adelphia, who, with Consul General Lee, formed the commission to inquire into the facts connected with the death of Dr. Ruiz, is expected in Washington tomorrow. He will bring with him probably two reports, one the joint report signed by himself and General Lee, and the other a report of his own, such as General Lec submitted to the State Department through Mr. Fishback, though not by any means reaching the same conclusions. It is expected that Dr. Congosto’s individual report will go to show that Dr. Ruiz died in jail from self-inflict- ed injuries while suffering from temporary aberration of mind, und that he was well cared for during his confinement. It is also probable that Dr. Congosto has given some attention to the subject of the n: uralization of Ruiz, and has endeavored to show that there was at leastea reason- able doubt upon that point, which justified the treatment of the case In a fashion dif- ferent from that usually adopted. The reports of the commissioners are il- lustrated with excellent photographs show- ing the interior of the jall at Guanabacoa and all of the features of Dr. Ruiz’s con- finement that will admit of illustration. It is not the intention of either side, the State Department nor the Spanish minister, to make these public. Probabiy Senor Du- puy de Lome will furnish the State De- partment with a copy of Dr. Congosto's report, and he will in turn be furnished with a copy of General Lee's report, but that is as far-toward publication as these documents are likely to go, at least ac- cording to the intentions of the officials having the matters in charge, until Con- gre: shall call for the correspondence. Then copies of all these documents must be sent to Madrid, from which capital the inquiry was originally ordered, and the Spanish officials can properly claim due op- portunity to consider them, so that the conclusion of the Ruiz incident cannot be éxpected to be attained, if the usual meth- ods and courtesies of diplomacy are fol- lowed, for some time to come. —__-+—___—__ “LIGHTING THE PARKS. A Legal Opinion Wanted on the Right te Erect or Lay Wires. Mr. Meiklejohn, acting secretary of war, has asked the Attorney General for an opinion on the question “whether either the Commissioners of the District of Co- tumbia or the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, under the terms of the act approved March 3, 1897, making ap- propriations for the government of the District of Columbia, can authorize the laying of conduits of overhead wires for €lectric lighting purposes in any. park or reservation for the purpose of lighting the park or reservation.” As the present contract for lighting the parks expires on the Ist proximo an early reply is requested. Col. Bingham, the engineer officer in charge of the parks, has recommended that the contract for lighting the parks for the next fiscal year be awarded to the Potomac Electric Power Company at its bid of $91.25 per light per annum, and his recommenda- tion_hes been approved by General Wiison, chief of efigineers. The bid of the United States Electric Lighting Company was $10 per light per annum, but it was not considered because its acceptance in- volved the laying of additional conduits to the parks, a course the officials believa@l to be in direct conflict with a specific pro- vision of the appropriation bill referred to by the acting secretary of war. DEPARTURE. GREAT CROWD ATTENDS LQNDON, June 10.—The fourth biennial sale ‘of Prince of Wales’ hackneys and harness horses was held this afterncon at Princess siud farm at Wolferton, near Sandringham, Norfolk. The sale was pre- ceded by refreshments served to the vis- itors and intending bidders, most of whom had come down from London by the Great Eastern railway during the fore- noon. Prior to the sale an opportunity was given to view the horses, of which there were fifty-three lots, necrly all of them bred by the Prince of Waies at the Wolfer- ton farm, under the supervision of Sir Dighton Probyn. First in importance came the thoroughbreds. The stud consists of thirteen choice brood mares and their pro- duce, which includes Perdita II, dam of Persimmon, last year’s derby winner, and Sandringham, also Pinbarket, Thais and some of the mare of whose preduce much is expected in the near future. Draught Horse Section. The second section of the Sandringham breeding establishment is devoted to shire or draught horses, of which there are at present about 100 head of breeding ani- mals. The hackney division is the one in which the prince is reported to take the keenest interest. Chief among the stallions at Wolferton is Field Marshal, by Cadet, @ 3,000-guinea stallion that combines, through his sire, the best Yorkshire blood with that of old Confidencé, a sire that left more money in Norfolk than any other stallion of that horse-breeding county. He combines substance, symmetry and quality of body and limb in a way that emphati- cally marks him as well calculated to pro- duce the highest type of ride-and-drive horses. Golden Promise, by Danegelt, out of Primrose, a prize mare by Cadet, is a fine speciment of a weight-carrying hackney. His best points are the beauty of his shoul- ders and forehead, strong back- and quar- ter and big bicod-legs. Both Field Mar- shal and Golden Promise were bred by the Prince of Wales. Twenty Lots Were Breeders. In tho fifty-three lots included im today's sale twenty belonged to the breeding sec- tion, seven of them being blood: mares and their foals, which wéfe sold together, and thirtéen were yearlings, two-year-old and three-year-old fillies. The remaining thirty- three: lots included four ponies, all bays, and so well matched that they would make @ perfect team, and ten matched pairs, broken and driven together in double har- ness. All these were shown in harness and proved their thorough steadiness, handiness and tractability in leather. The remaining nine lots were harness horses and hunters, all thoroughly broken to their work, and fine-looking animals of their re- spective classes. —_——__—_. TO GET RID OF THE JAPS. China Will Negotiate a Loan to Pay 2 War Indemnity. VANCOUVER, B. C., June 10.—The Em- press of Japan brought the following ad- vices from the orient: Rumors are in circulation in Peking and Shanghai that the Chinese government is anxious to get rid of the Japanese garri- son at Wei-Wei, and have decided to ne- gotiate another loan to raise sufficient money to pay off the war indemnity at once. Mr. Wolf, a German traveler, who re- cently visited Cheng Sha in the anti-for- eign province of Hunan, and for whose safety much anxiety has been felt, has ar- rived: safely at Ichang. Owing to a rise in Japanese coal it is stated that a large amount of branded Australian coal would be imported by Ja- an. The Japanese foreign department has -re- ceived information that the Brazilian gov- ernment has approved the application of the Kissa Immigration Company to send immigrants to Brazil; and arrangements are ead made to dispatch 1,500 men this month. : —__+-e GEN. RUGGLES’ Has Gone-te West Point to Deliver the Diplomas. Gen. Ruggles, adjutant general of the army, left here this morning for West Point, N. Y., where he will deliver the di- plomas to the graduates of the Military Academy tomorrow. He will return to his duties in Washington next Monday, and will remain here until the end of the month, when he will go to Vineyard Ha- ven, Mass., to spend a two months’ leave of absence with his invalid wife, who has gone to that resort for the benefit of her health. Gen. Ruggles will retire for age Septem- ber 11 next. Inasmuch as he will be away from Washington during most of the in- terim, he will practically close up his act- ive service in the army within the next two weeks. Gen. Samuel Breck, the senior assistant adjutant general, who is now on duty at headquarters of the army in this city, will act as adjutant general during the absence of Gen. Ruggles, and will undoubtedly suc- ceed him in that office on his retirement in September. He will be abie to serve for a few months only, however, uch as. he reaches the retiring age himself in Feb- ruary next. The-officer next in line of pro- motion is Col. Henry C. Corbin, and urless —_———__ LUTHERAN GENERAL SYNOD. Election of Officers at Mai Order of Business. MANSFIELD, Ohio, June 10.—The thirty- eighth biennial Lutheran general synod formally convered in the First Lutheran Church at 9 o'clock this morning. Accord- ing to the order of the synod, the delegates were seated by lots drawn from a basket. At the conclusion of the ensuing short pre- liminary service President H. L. Bau- gher declared the synod open for work. The first order of business was the election of officers. Preeident Bavgher said he had beard he was to be made a candidate for re-election, but respectfully declined the honor. The following officers were elected Rev. Dr. M. W. Hamma, Altoona, Pa. president; Rev. Dr. Wm. 8. Freas, York, Pa., secretary; Louis. Mars, Cincinnati, treasurer. President-elect Hamma was escorted to the chair by the retiring president, Dr. H» ‘L. Baugher. In a short speech he thanked the synod for the honor conferred upon him. The synod decided that the hours for session should be from ¥ to 11:30 o'clock in the rrorning and from 2 to 4 o'clock in the afternoon. After eld First + —_____ THE NEW CITY POST OFFICE. Convenience of the Postmaster Gen- eral is Consulted. @ recess until afternoon. eS ONLY ONE MINE LEFT OUT. Big Deal in Kentucky, and Tennessee Properties. the sundry civil appropriation bill for the year ending June 30, 1898, which, he says, provides specifically for the removal of the Post-Office Department to the post office building now in course of erection in Coal involved will be between $5,000,000 and “for the completion of the base- $10,000,000. The Coal Creek and Jellico Ree ee nee accommodation mines, which it was thought might not be installation of the SOME DELAY LOOKED FOR SOLDIERS ‘The residents along the route IN CAMP District National Guard Takes Possee- tion of Fort Washington, VIGOROUS ATTACK ON MESS TABLES General Albert ‘Ordway and Staff Are in Command. ————— ee INCIDENTS OF THE TRIP ——— eee By special wire. HEADQUARTERS EVENING STAR, CAMP WASHINGTON, June 10, 1897. The District of Columbia National Guard is in camp at Fort Washington, Md. The brigade departed from the national capital at 10:20 o'clock this morning and exactly two hours later Camp Washington was an established reality. The soldier boys disembarked from the steamer at 11:20 o'clock, and before the lapse of fifteen min- utes the entire command was on the camp ‘To the Boat. > ground. It was a question of only a few minutes to erect @ canvas city of white tents, and then the militie men drove tight the tent pegs, using axes with artistic vigor. While every one was stowing away bag- f®age and cleaning up, mess call sounded, and no time was lost in reaching the tents, where appetizing and welcome meats were in waiting, these having been supplied by the officers of the quartermaster’s depart- ment and their assistants, who preceded the brigade to camp by a day. To the uninitiated who visited the mess tents it seemed that the District National Guard had.been with- ut commissary facilities since 18%, when the last encampment wi held, judging from the way the guardsmen disposed of the good things set before them. Every one lingered at the tables as long a8 pos- sible, and then attention was again di- rected to tidying up the camp. Bustle and Ac! ¥- It is safe to say that the District guard has been looking forward, more or less eagerly, to the preseat cutirg for the past two years. All was bustle and activity at the several armofties as carly as 7 o'clock this morning. An hour later all the com- panies were in readiness to start, there being nothing to interfere in the way of baggage and heavy equipment, all such having been. forwarded vesterday. By 9 o'clock the troops were on their way to the wharf, procexiing along 7th street. At the Wharf. were out in force to bid adieu ani tender well wishes to the departing soldier boys. The atten- dance was larger than had been anticipat- ed. The personnel of tne companies in- cluded men of intelligence und ability, and it was dpparent that the recent radical reorgan! move in every way. ization of the brigade was a wise From casual imepec- tion it seemed that Companies B and C, 2d Battalion, were stronger in nembe; than the others, each parading not less than forty men. ped in Every member of che brigade was equip- heavy marching order, including