The Washington Bee Newspaper, April 15, 1893, Page 1

RP ‘£64 SS ee) ae . , a z F {~@ ~ ) ° —— corms. $4.50 Per year in france, Hash) eae en RO ae mgton Bee. 5 cents per copy. you. XI | connie EAA eee ROYAL | 1 MACHINE Tue ETO CELE EDEL AOLEUEE Has 2 Positive Take-up. Has Stylish Furniture. jst src ger ange of General Work than any Sewing Machine in the World. Examine THE ROYAL for pointe of excellence; and you will e > buy noother. ROYAL S. M. €0.,-Rockford, Ill yg 8 2H NNN LT Where to carry your orders D. FREEMAN’S Studio, 1159 17th St., n. w., Cor. 17th e M RTRAITS in Crayon, Oil and edto any size from Card and ue Likeness Guaranteed, Month- y Payments taken. GREAT )UCTION FOR CASH. : Flower, andscape Painting 's class every Saturdsy, from Wto $o'clock. 25cents per lesson. FINE Paste THEY SAY. ————— The colored contingent will get there soon. The first colored appointment, will be Mathews of Albany. Grimkie of Boston, Mass., will be the next. ‘Thompson of New York wants the Freedmans Hospital. The report is that he will be appointed, The faculty ot the University will have something to say about that. Still of Philadelphia, Pa., would like to see a few colored demo- crats sandwiched in with the whites. Mr. Cleveland knows his bus« iness. When they fall thick and fast. The Pilot is not very modest in giving its age. Subtract ten from 14 and then you will have the exact age of the Pilot. The People’s Advocate is not the Pilot. There are some old maids the people support. come, they will Others are respected because there are some defects in them. The Brg will be 11 years old next June, It has not lost any of its honey as yet. The High Scool will be reorgan: ized. Banverand Sign Painting of ever description. Orders Promptly attended to, (Oppo. new city postofiice.) Practical Watchmaker and Jeweler. Manufacturer of Society Badges, Medals and Jewels of Gold and Silver. Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. Fine and Complicated Watch and Music Box Repairing @ Specialty. Ail Work Warranted. No. 632 G St., n. w. WASHINGTON, D. ©. With Wm. F. LUTZ. P The Disability Bill is a Law. SOLDIERS DISABLED SINCE THE WAR ARE ENTITLED. +Denender i | widows and parents now depen- Whose s0n8 died from effects of army ser- Vices are included. Ifyou wish your claims Speedily 2 d successfully prosectted address “JAMES TANNER: ate Commissionea of Pensions. Washington, D.C. J. H. Dabney UNDERTAKER & CABINET MAKER. Office 441 L Street N. W. “ARRIAGES FOR BIRK, Telephone 845-8 Sept 1 mo ———_- For ntormas Sisormatto 2 Out by cca Ba is brought = fentifi Aerican For f it before a Smith Wormley is a demccrat from way back. He is from the old stock, hence he should be given credit for what he says. Dr. Jerome Riley was a demo- crat when it was dangerous for a negro to say 80. Men who abuee him are now in line. Riley was a democrat principles and not for office. from Washington is full of after elec- tion democrats, Some colored republicans who want to hold their job assert that they are Cleveland and tariff re- form democrats. What kind of democrats do you call that.? They will not declare openly that they are democrats, They are democrats for revenue only. Some take the position of Judge Gresham as an excuse. If the democrats would only let the reformers wait awhile they would see how deep their democ~ racy is. 2 The American Citizen has as-~ serted that it is independent. The editors are depending too much on their job to assert their independence. Watch its editorials and the people will see that the Citizen’s editors do not know the first ru- diments of independency. The way of the tranagressor 16 hard, and colored editors in office | under a democratic administration are peculiar beings. There are fitty colored demo- cratic applicants for one office. Have patience young men until your ardor is cooled. Those colored and white repub- licans who wanted Mr.Harrison defeated are feeling the results. Some bave realized their hopes. They are receiving their ticket of leave-man every day. One negro republican from Vir- inia sore op to Minneapolis, asserted that he would rather see the democrats in. * It was amusing to witness with what grasph he tried to hold on. He was the first to go. He ie on a cart to day. His desires are being finely re~ nee lized. deep skirtlets, and are greeted like old friends. Skirts flounced from hem to waist are finished either with a bias of contrasting velvet or a fine piping of same round the foot of Once upon a time all the mem~ bers of the body took 1t into their heads to starve the stomach, &. They succeeded, but, they starved themselves at the same time. The Bag has always been will- to let well enongh alone. There are a number of republi- cans who are asking for demo- cratic indorsements, Every colored editor, except, the Brx in office has declared himself as independent. What rot this, to fool the dem ocrate: The democratic party knows that is just as hard for a negro to! change his politics as it is to change his color: A 89 called colored democrat, while discuesing the condition of the negro 1n the South a tew days ago, made a better republican talk than a republican could. He admitted that the negore were being roughly and unfairly treated. This colored den ocrat has pa- pers ou fill for a big office. Some who have made applica- tion for 4 and 5 thoueand dollar places have change their mind snd are now asking for labors and messenger position in the depart- ments. He is after a place that is being, filled by a colored republican. PARIS FASHION NOTES. New dresses are made with knee each flounce. Capes reaching to the waist wil. take precedence over those of lon~ ger length. Blouses, for spring and summe: wear, will be more fashionable than ever, although in more com- plicated form than of yore, as a large quantity of lace will be em ployed in a gracetull fashion either longitudinally or circling the body. Materials are all more or less shaded with a variety of colors in rainbow style. Hats are moderate in size and ornamted with flowers, bows ot gauffered lace, aigrettes, feathe: tips and gmall velvet pointed ear: placed in front. Dast-grey wool goods and emei- ald-green velvet is a beautiful com bination. NEW YORK FASHIONS. The seeded goods are very strik ing. They are some times chenill: seeds, gray on old ruse, pink o: blue, or green on gray, green ov black or red, blue on pink o cream. striking and the little sveds rising = pail WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 15, The combinations are ver) | above the surface, have a pretts | effect. The most peculiar among worste:: goods are what is know as hos sacking and alligator cloth. Beautiful new grenadines hav made their appearance with chen ille stripes of delicate colors tia versing the goods, the plain stripes containing a delicate flower. The quaintest, oddest, old~fash- ioned silks are brought oat thi- Spring, changeable, two colours, with a thirdcolored peppered vi these, and perhaps a stripe b+ sides. Just such silks as our gre grand-mothers wore. The same shaded appearance ix gorgeous in velvet and may br used with striking effect in comb- nations robes. As yet no traces of the dreaded and much rediculed crinoline bh:.\e made their appearance in the streets of New York. The new Elizabethan petticeat 18 made of all colors of horse hair! thus obvitating tbe difficulty tiat will be experienced in weaiix«g lined skirts as the season advancc:. The Princess May teque is a pir- | ticulariy becoming little hat made of the new shot straw, the strands { ip each plait being of a different color. 1 1893. as No CROSS-EXAMINATION, — The Witness Who Did Not See the Bullet in the Smoke. x Skillin examination is, perhaps, oneo the most important qualifications of the attorney, and in considering the big re- tainers of the present day the mind runs back to an exhibition of skill in an Ohio court several years ago, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The case was a murder, and the cross-roads law- | yer was retained for his reputed skill in criminal cases, On cross-examina- tion he went at the witness after this | manner; “Now (ahem!), Mr. Tompkins you say you saw the defendant kill the man?” “Yes, sir.” “Yes—well—how did you know it was the defendant?” “Because I saw him.” “But, sir, how did you know it was him?” ‘I’ve known him for thirty years. “You have?” “Yes.” “Known him all that time?” “Yes,” ‘You state it under oath?", ,. “Yes,” i “How did he kill him?” “He shot him with a revolver.’ “How do you know?” “I saw him.” “Did you see the revolver?” “Certainly.” i “Did you see it revolve?” “No, sir.” “Aha! How did you know it was a revolver?” “It looked like one.” “Um-huh! Did you see Bim pull the trigger?” “No, of course not.” “Ah! Then you admit he didn’t pull the trigger?” _ “I saw the blaze and smoke.” “Did you see any bullet in the blaze and smoke? Would the blazeand smoke have caused death?” “Of course not.” “Then what danger was there in fir- ing?” “The bullet was found in the victim’s head.” . “Did you see any bullet strike the deceased?” “Of course not.” The attorney solemnly arose and ad- dressed the Court. “If Your Honor please, wesvould like to introduce tes. timony in‘impeachment. Here is a man who swears he saw one man kili another with a revolver, yet he neither saw the bullet leave the - revolver nor strike the victim. He didn’t even sce the man pull the trigger.” “Are you addressing the Court?” asked the Judge. “Why, certainly, pleases.” “How do you know?” “Why, You Honor certainly hears me?” “Yes, but you neither see your words leave your mouth aor strike the Court’s ears.” The attorney sat down, if your Honor How He Saved His Neck. “I remember,” says Prof. Williamson, of Texas, “hearing one speech in my life thatI om sutisfied was delivered without preparation, and it was an elo- quent one, too. It was in California | in 49. We were busy at work, a crowd | of us, getting out gold; and one night two brothers named Burke—popular fellows—lost every ounce of their dust. Some thief had crept into the tent and stolen it. Suspicion fell at once, and without any reason, on an Englishman in the crowd, who held himself aloof from every one. A search of his tent found more dust than it seemed reason- able for him to have accumulated, and he was at once taken toa tree with a rope around his neck, and given fifteen minutes to pray, The fifteen minntes reached an hour and a half, and such a flow of eloquence upon the subject of circumstantial evidence I have never heard before or since, Its power may be imagined when I tell you that the crowd in that country and in that day was influenced to change the verdict of capital punishment to banishment and confiscation of his property. “He walked down to ‘Frisco, and took a job as bartender. A month af- ter we found ont that the cook we had in camp was the thief; and after string- ing him up, I was sent to hunt up the Englishmen and turn his proverty back to him. His name was Rivers, and he was @ ’varsity man in England, and a Senior wrangler, I found when I met vim. He hada pile of several thou- eand dollars, and went straight to En- gland. I never heard of him after- wards, but I shall never forget that eloquent and extemporaneous address.” + One Obstacle. He was not very tall, so that when the manager of the theatre looked him over he really looked over him, but be was nervy. «I came to see about getting a place in a theatrical company,” he said, with confidence. “Um—er,” hesitated the manager, as he rubbed his chin outward su up- ward from the under side, “have you had any experience?” “Some in an amateur way.” “That doesn’t count for much,” ven- tured the maracas “Possibly not, sir, confidence in my abili ~“ Se THIS. WARIS. NEWS A Summary of Current Events—The World’s Doings for the Past Six Days Gathered and Condensed for Our Readers. General. World’s Fair opening ceremonies will be held outdoors, A directory census makes St Louis’ population 574,569. Ex-Senator Eustis, Minister to France, has been made an ambassador. There were 1,183 deaths in New York last week, 60 being from the grip. | Marshall Harris, of Forsythe, Ga., was | shot and killed by a negro, who is now ‘in jail. | An aerolite, dropping in St. Louis, broke off an arm of John Brown’s | statue, A great steel works, to cost $75,000,- 000 to $100,000,000, is projected by Cincin- nati capitalists, The general impression in Washington is that there will be an early session of the new Congress. Near Owensboro, Ky., the Glenmore warehouses, with 15,000 barrels of whis- key, were burned, Mrs, Palmer has received about 7,000 applications from women for positions in the World’s Fair, The Texas House has passed a bill re quiring the railroads to provide separate coaches for whites and negroes. The trunk lines have fixed upon 1 1-3 fare as the round trip rate for 350 miles to see the New York Naval Parade. John Field, the Republican postmas- ter of Philadelphia, has tendered his tesigivation to President Cleveland. The Government awarded a contract of over $2,000,000 worth of heavy armor plate to the Bethlehem Iron Works. Young Mrs, Blaine and her sick boy have removed to Atlantic City, N. J., and the New York Hotel is being torn down, Hypnotism enabled four doctors at St. Cloud, Minn., to remove a tumor from Peter Hammergreen’s face, while he was conscious, A female baseball club, composed of American young women, was mobbed at Almendares, Cuba, several of them being injured, Gunners near Paterson came upon the body of an unknown man in the woods. The body was in a kneeling posture and was frozen stiff. President Cleveland has commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence of negro murderer Edward Smallwood, at Washington, D. C. A woman without arms has been mar- ried at Christ Church, New Zealand, The ring was placed upon the fourth toe of her left foot, A new explosive has been invented which will probably replace gunpowder in the German army, It is a brown, fatty substance and is only exploded through contact with another chemical. Colonel W. H. Gilder has asked the New York Chamber of Commerce to aid himin seeking the magnetic pole, an expedition to hunt for which would, it has been estimated, cost $25,000. Lieut. Gov. Sheehan, of New York, called on President Cleveland at the White House, and made arrangements for a conference on Friday of this week to discuss New York appointments. A “kodak” fiend is said to have stolen Baby Ruth’s picture just as she was being lifted out of the carriage to attend the children’s Easter services at Dr, Sunderland’s church, Washington. President Cleveland and Secretary Gresham are about to discontinue the discriminating duties imposed by this country on products of Venezuela, Haiti and the United States of Colombia. Secretary of Agriculture Morton has removed Robert Blaine, brother of the late James G. Blaine, from the position of chief of the Quarantine division of the Department, abolishing the position. While attending a funeral in Leverton Cemetery, near Philadelphia, a woman who is near sighted, walked into the open grave, falling on the coffin, Sev- eral bystanders pulled her out more frightened than hurt. Application to the New York Park Board to place the bronze statue of Ros- coe Conkling in Union Square, at the junction of Broadway, has been re- fused on the ground that Union Square is reserved only for statues of the great- est of American Presidents, Any other site in New York will be granted by the board. A. A. McLeod tendered his resigna- tion as president of the Reading Rail- road Company and of the Readiug Coal & Iron Company, to take effect May 1, at which time he will resign as receiver. In his letter of resignation he says the step is taken because needed financial aid can not be had unless he retires. The great Mormon Temple, which has been forty-one years in building, was dedicated in Salt Lake City, thousands of the members of the Church of the Latter Day Saints attending. Lorenzo Snow, president of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, advised the Saints not to ex- pect too much from the opening of the new Mormon Temple. He said Christ would not come until the Saints were prepared to receive him properly, and that might be ten or twelve or twenty years, | Minnesota will have a new Capitol to cost $2,000,000. Right Rey. William Ingraham Kips, Bishop of California, is dead. The prospect for a large fruit crop in South Jersey was never brighter. Atone swoop 224 miles of Reading’s street railways will be converted into trolley lines, Convicted of perjury, Colonel W. B, } Hayes, of New York, of Loe Fuller famo, has gone to Sing Sing foreight years. The Italian stearaer Stura, bound from Genoa for New Orleans, which has been reported missing, put in at St, Michael’s, in the Azores. i Owing to delays at Chicago there isa Possibility that none of Pennsylva- nia’s exhibits will be in place for the opening of the Fair. Minister Thompson, at Constantinople, has been instructed to demand repara- tion from the Sublime Porte for outrages on Americans in Turkey. The President and Mrs, Cleveland gave their first official dinner at the White House on Tuesday evening, in honor of Mrs, Daniel Manning, of Al- bany. It is reported that the Reading Com- pany’s coal tonnage contracts are to be revised and that operators along the LehighValley Railroad will deal directly with that road. Surveyors under the supervision of the two Governments are about to draw definitely the boundary line of the United States and Canada between Alaska and British Columbia. President Cleveland has appointed Caleb W. West of Utah, to be Governor of Utah, and nominated D. I. Murphy, of Washington, for Deputy Commis- sioner of Pensions. The yacht Syren, which sailed from England in October for Bermuda, ar- tived at Savannah, Ga., after a voyage of 188 days. The crew believed the owners had hoped the vessel would founder in order to recover the insurance, which was double the value of the ves- sel. The sudden termination of the contest over the will of Mrs. Josephine A. Barn- aby at Providence, R, I, is taken as an indication that the prosecution of the murder charge against Dr. Graves, at Denver, Col., will be dropped, and that when his second trial comes up,on May 22, he will go free, Chicago Buildings Collapse. The Plymouth Hotel, a World’s Fair hostelry at Seventy-second street and Stony Island avenue, collapsed during a alight wind-storm that prevailed Friday morning shortly after midnight The building was one of the largest of the World’s Fair hotels and was almost com- pleted. In its fall the building crushed another structure, which was to have been used for restaurant purposes in con- nection with the Plymouth. Both build- ings were owned by William Searls, of Plymouth, Ind., and were valued at $25,000. This makes three World’s Fair hotels that have been destroyed by wind and fire in as many days, Another big buildin; Fair district colaaael with surprising suddenness later in the same day, It is what is known as the Panorama build- ing, just outside the Exposition grounds at the corner of Fifty-seventh street and Stony Island avenue, The building was erected up to the roof line, and the fifty workmen engaged in its construction had just knocked off for lunch when a sud- den gust of wind caused the complete collapse of the structure, leaving only a tangled mass of beams and planks on its site, in the World’s Marsh Still Believes. Mr. Luther R. Marsh, the lawyer whom Ann O’Delia Salomon Diss Debar convinced of her powers as a spirit medium, was the star speaker at the celebration in the New York Music Hall concert room on the forty-ninth anniver- sary of the advent of spiritualism. Five hundred persons were present and spir- its innumerable and invisible hovered about, according to the mediums. Marsh made a long address, in which he used Scripture proofs of the existence of spirits. A Woman's Queer Journey. Miss Bess Mitchell, of Chicago, left that city three weeks ago last Monday on a wager that she could travel 10,000 miles without leaving the railroad car and she succeeded in accomplishing the feat. The route took Miss Mitchell to Portland, Oregon, thence south into Mexico, back to St. Louis and finally to Boston. She arrived back at Chicago. 18 hours ahead of time. She was weary’ of riding. Miss Mitchell promises not te write a book. Rebellion in San Domingo. An uprising against President Heureaux is reported to have taken place in San Domingo, The insurrection is said to be under the leadership of General Gon- zales, and the rebels style themselves Anti-Annexationists, meaning that they are opposed to the annexation of San Domingo to the United States, which they charge President Heureaux with attempting to bring about. Only seven out of 600 talesmen at San Francisco, Cal., have been willing to act as jurors in the Highbinders’ trial and believe a Chinaman under oath. Bamboozled by Chicago wags, Frau- cis Demasi and August Mallia, Freach- men from Cuba, shot a cow for a buffalo and paid in court for the blunder. Hee = oe -