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a = Ra ee 5 cents per copy. I _ WASHINGTON. D ©. SATURDAY, = N . 42. THIS WREK'S NEWS, A Summary of Current Events—The World’s Doings for the Past Six Days Gathered and Condensed for Our Readers. THE COLORED DETECILIVE. First Auditor Baldwin, of the Treas- ury, has ordered that no account shall be made special—first to come shall be first served. Armed bands of revolutionists have appeared in the interior of Cuba, and the province of Santiago de Cuba has been declared in a state of siege. The severest snow of the year raged the early part of this week in Wyoming. The storm was general throughout the Sele Thousands of sheep are reported lost. An Ontario Western train ran into a mass of rock which had slid on the rails at Fishs Eddy, N. Y., Thursday night. The engine rolled over the bank twenty- five feet into the Deleware River. The THEY SAY, Lacy Makine a Recorp: Since the appointment of Lacy the colored detective many impor ‘wot things Fave been discovered by him, which goes to show what ancgrocan do 1n all branches of the Government. Whether his appointment will prove a benefit to the city is left to be seen by the record that be is making 1n the police department. Up to date be has proved io be a terror to evil doers aud his name at this Lem Baily is a candidate for food inspector. The inauguration committees have turned some people’s heads. General. No gold was shipped from New York last week to Europe. Over fifty-five Chinamen registered under the Geary law at Pittsburg. The hog industry is flourishing in North Carolina. There is an increase of ' 100 per cent. over last year. Of course they are democrats. They may join the people’s p:rty in 96, 1f that party should be suc- eessfal. ATTOKNEY GENERAL OLNEY Has recalled his rash resolution not to give the public a portrait oi himselt and has visited apho ogr+ It will not be until after the elec- tion, however. ¥ 0 Hee i a z The big meat packers are storing their a time strikes terro wherever he After election democrats are na- haa ola ow late picture) reg iu a Saesiane remand jumped and et: products in Eastern cities, in expectancy a goes. meroneinow. took, by Mr. Olney seule of a switchmen’s strike in May. What is now needed is the ap- pointment of another negro de- tectiveto work in the Southern | part of the city. have been so timid on this -cor is rather a mystery, as his faze |- certainly not one to be ashe mec | His wife’s Death by Poison Laid at His of S Door. Dr. Robert W. Buchanan, who has The Trenton master builders are likely to give the increased wages demanded by the bricklayers and plasterers. By the capsizing of an Arab dhow, in which 120 slaves were being conveyed Their ardor is about over now. DR, BUCHANAN GUILTY. The American will give every man a record if he hasn’t one. se a 5 xe High Arm. : f 2 1 SA. Q MON been on trial for the past few weeks be- south of Madagascar, all were drowned. a Sclf-sotting Needle. |“ARE WE A PRSPEROUS aici on that basis 18 a fail- LOONS AMO a COLORE fore Recorder Smith, New York, By a Court of Appeals decision, leaf | PEOPLE ?” : PEOPLE, charged with the poisoning of his wife, tobacco importers will recover nearly | To The Editor of the washington Bee, $2,000,000 in duties from the Govern- Did you hear the news? was found guilty of murder in the first ntact Adjustment + : cTito| tumnily) ts) of Goody Utjivia)| Gere Tie) larg remained) cue ton 2S }iasa Positive Take-up. | wo hundred colored repubiicans | sz d inatituti d + _| hours, an seir lengthy deliberation he President and Mrs. Cleveland ¥ Has Stylish Furniture. | From The American Economist. Pp! a Sacred institution, an eminently q J . r e b Good Set Quslitiesana= | res i hav. r é gave the defendant and his counsel the | moved from the White House to their coor Range of General Work= | This is the question at the head Charmed soiboldemocrats, fitted, when made what it should hope that they would at least disagree | summer residence, “Woodley,” this ; ingMachinein the World. 2 | ..f an article in the January Arena| The democratic purty cannot be be, to promote the well being o1| The verdict was in the nature of a sur- | week. } |It by its editor, B. O. Flower, | fooled that way. the Church and of the State. It is | prise. The Buchanan case has excited | Insurance Agent Thomas E. Wards, excellence; and you will ph arkicnne opening paragra; Z 3 ; every thing to intaney, childbood | @ good deal | of interest, following so | of West Shokan, near Roundout, N. ¥. : buy no other. - se | “ grap) Don’t be annoyed should you see| and youth, asd determines, ae lit- | closely as it did the case of Carlyle W. | is missing and forgeries are charged = = | shows the aim and m-~ hod: baneh your) , | Harris, and was similar i E ¢ = LS. M. €0., Rockford, = Disses aici itin the Bug. ue eise can, the character aud de- | : RUN AU Yarea bec ee Beguine & Mit ROYA S.M. sy HOCKTO! , Ul. = Eseayists and politicians are , ne 2 ‘dividual al oi | to that celebrated case. Buchanan, like Leaders ordered a strike of the union E ssniah ‘umumentnmeane | continually descanting upon the They are still here apd don’t. ai ole cee eae a ba | Hares was fe physician pee mnattied a | dockers in London and the men went a co i et. yvoman much older than himself. i i A Wiere to carry your orwes | Marvelous prosperity of our vation} Don’t be alarmed, the country is| {les forever ae qienion SEhanmi |. Thowonai (anes B sithaanaenes Lee ee ; nah wh:le comparatively few seem to| gafe. ness here and hereafter Pp chanan) had amassed considerable money ae si i ; 4 p>. FREEMAN’S imagine it necessary to cousider : : - re ae ian Ge pean ree | be ee es 4 a whet elements are exvential to the | Tbey are making a-still hunt for] ‘Therefore, whatever tends to! ‘erly house in Newark, N. J. The | Aberdeen, Miss. while ees tudo, real prosperity of a people, The food inspector. enuovle ny and eer 4 oe ot | couple did not live very happily together, | were away at work. hile their parents Seater eee 7 ; zs reat usefuluess shou e brought | and when tl i 2 é S 1159 17th St. n.w., Cor. 17thaM|accumulation of great wealth) why is it that colored men wil Se acre SaueatEhSUbonis fea | desi auabieloder cif al aaa While things are outwardly quiet at FINE PORTRAITS in Crayon, 00 and | Within @ country’s borders does | not apply for places held by white Z i Belfast, Belgium, there is an increased will in which she bequeathed all her property to her husband, an old admirer of the woman called the attention of the authorities to the case. An investi- gation by them resulted in Buchanan’s arrest and his subsequent trial ended in his conviction. Another peculiarity of the case was that Buchanan was divorced from a young and beautiful woman to marry his second wife, and remarried his first wife within three weeks after the death of thesecond. Counsel for Buchanan will apply for a new trial on the ground that had Juror Paradise not fainted the jury wouid have disagreed, necessitating a new trial. things which are vile, things whic: destroy bealth aud happiness, things which render the bhume a factory of crime and crimnals should be excluded from tbe tami ly and its surruundings. Why then dotbe colored people of Wash- ington give their written cou- seut year after year to a horde ot moneysecking adventures to du among them what they can not do among their own people namely. Eurico themselves by running so.ouns of the lowest and mvs lawless kind in residence streets ¢ | Pas ved to any size from Card and , 1 1 ness Guaranteed, Month- GREAT not necessarily indicate that the nation is proSpercus; indeed, this is the vnal point wuich apologists for present conditions iguore, though no fact is more incon- trovertible. For example, if all the wealth of the Usted Sates was controlied by five men, while over sixty million people, were practivally vassals or slavese it couid not be said that ours Was a prosperous peuplein the true sense of the term. And it 1s equ=- ally true that if conditions are such that each succeeding year bitterness of feeling between the Catho- olics and Protestants. Sam Small’s daughter, Letta Jackson, of Knoxville, Tenn., sues Arthur and Luther Wright for $10,000, which sbe alleges her husband lost in gambling. Miss Carrie Granville, playing with a troupe at a Newark Opera House, acci- dentally swallowed some creosote and laudanum used for a toothache, and died. The naval authorities of Spain have been ordered to prepare war materials to be sent at once to Cuba to suldue the : revolt which is gaining strength there daily. Justice Andrews, of New York, over- ruled most of the demurrer of Colonel men? ek |) ments taken. EDUCTION FOR CASH. Flower, wandscape Painting n’s class every Saturdey, from o'clock, 26cents per lesson. Banner and Sign Painting of ever description, Orders Promptly attended to, Be on the alert for the enemy. They are patiently waiting for the plums. C.H.J. Taylor is in great de- mand, A. oO, Hutterty, (Oppo. new city postofiice.) Pract Watchmaker and Jeweler. Manofactarer of Society Badges, Medals and Jewels of Gold and Silver. If he dosen’t get the recordership he has them all thinking so. Itisanice thing to get persons to think sometimes. Some people will not think. ae ; 3 “ae It 18 reported that the American) ‘Iuiuk of 1t! South Washiugto- Found After Ten Years. Ingersoll to Rev. Dr. Dixon’s answer to Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. | drives millions of oar couutry- editors will also be given an oppvr- | hus a bar-room to every 151 Ge itg | _ The son of Thomas Schless, who with | the libel suit, and the case will now be men nearer the dark sea of want) tonity. inhubitanta and these inhab:tante his sister, was lost ten years ago at Med- | tried. Fine and Complicated Watch and and dispair, even though a few » ford, Wis., has been found, and returned | Jesse Marden, of Baltimore, Md. are chief.y colured, iu the section where the bar-rovms are thickest Isit any wonder that out ol the to his home. When the children dis- | appeared it was thought after a search for them had failed that they had been hundreds or thousands cf indivi- duals b+ come vastly weulthier, we are not iva prosperous Condition, They want more time to edit their paper. succeeded in saving 1,000,000 po: stamps. The lady began her collection three years ago, dating back from Octo- Music Box Repairing @ Specialty. ; ; They shall have it, remarked a| colored families of tbis city 14,000 devoured by wild animals, but it seems | ber last. In this paper 1 shall give a few 2 : now that they were stolen by Indi It} iral G } Y - Wy 5 jored democr: few days ago. lug last a y stolen by Indians. t has been arranged by Admiral Ghe- All Work Warranted. | facts taken from different authentic] “° pores Bete a | cous cles ginal Ca os a uring ey The boy escaped from the red skins, and | rardi and the railroads that oue hun- j- sources which Some editors have more time|e#r for some infraction of law! found work on a farm near Mishicott. | are studiously avoided by those whose trade itis to anaethestize the public mind and conscience. ~* Mr. Flower is animated by an earne-t wish for the people’s good. He writes adly and with trank siu- cerity,and is not to be classed with demagogues or reckless par- tisans. The Americin Economist has publisheda good many hke dred of the visiting Admirals and offi- cers of the Columbian fleet shall visit the World’s Fair. Blaming himself for the fire that de- | stroyed Cornelius Vanderbilt’s Newport house last winter, Michaet Helsin, a head servant, shot himself on Sunday | last in New York. Rev. Sam Small has retracted scan- : i ' Go through this ci:y, and you wil. see every where the proof of the statement I am abyut to make, namely: that, eX-ept among theves. class of Afro-Americaus, bar- rooms exist im _ regideuce streeis wherever culored families are 1 the majority, and es a rule, dis appear wuerever white famil predominate, aud ‘as migit be ex- | He speaks the Indian language fluently but very little English, and it was only through words dropped here and there to his employer who happened to be acquainted with his folks that he was finally recognized. His father arrived and took charge of him. The boy says | he knows where his sister is. He was 5 and the girl 7 years old when they dis- appeared. than they want. No. 632 G St., mn. w. WASHINGTON, D. 0. With Wm, F. LUTZ. It is strange that some people want so much time. Pensions The Disability Bill is a Law. It is natural for lazy people to ask for more time. Active colored editors, under this administration, are not in need of time. dalous remarks he made about young women, at Griffin, Ga., because they at- tended dancing parties. A committee of the young girls’ brothers waited on A Big Oil Deal. 2 i he “Evening Star” wants to| pected, property, iu tue tromer iu-| yj 4 from Findley, O., that | hi 5 SOLDIERS DISABL' NCE w: fact nd may be held free from T ’ i 9 pFe i | is announced from Findley, O., that | him. migualamiaamamicn 57 yadionsly avoid the| Know ifthe Recorder’s office is re- | stance tor residence, purpuces, COL- the Standard Oil Company has secured | The National World’s Fair Commis- ; ARE ENTITLED. oped h a J mind or| £8tded a colored man’s office. stuntly depreciates because of th: entire control of its chief rival, the Man- | sion, met in Chicago Weiinesday. @ so pick paca Riis aiuto or 20 ene a presence, of these saloons ane batted Oil Company. rane Markee Though most of the members favor Sun- A jut ieom eneeatoraperr| Crone ee : Z Not any more than thousands of/ 510i, fruits of iniquity avd ComPiny was organized OY tthe Lima | 2% Opening the commission will respect ; cd. Ifyou wish your claims| A travesty of his opening word offices held by white men and bave ‘i il Sa cthel New York millionaire who sold the Lima | the action of Congress and keep the Fair successfully prosectted,address | _ 5 : Essayists = crime; while oun the Otc! jj Company outto the monopoly with | closed, . might read as follows: Esvayists| hoon he'd by them since the organ-|h 44 property, in the tesided.: a capital stock of $2,000,000, and within |" yy¢ JAMES TANRER: aud politicians are continuully | jzation of the government. ang eProp a2 apres’ & es ‘When the train bearing 200 Zulus for late Rien sorctincry a tung on the growing poverty stree e, from which saloons, ans the past six months has acquired proper- | 4 Fair reached Chicago, the savages Washington, D.C. “sti = le wns com Sais, {facolored man holds an office| their harvest of crime and eri cern Se ee earner: | were in possession, having locked the } : ————— oe P under two administrations white dial are shut out, enbances 1 P It is Oe S ree : conductor and brakeman in the baggage few seem to Imagine it necessary to give any but & one-sided and pessimistic view, or to cousider facts wich disprove their state- mente-facts from authentic sources which are studiously avoided by those whose trade it is to fill the public mind with prejudice and to 48 cents per barrel. lost millions on its late contracts. The property transferred is valued at $15,000,- 000. It is believed oil will take a heavy drop. J. Hi. Dabney car because one of their number had lost some property. Latest reports from the tornado swept Oklahoma territory made it certain that at least seventy-five were killed and 200 injured. In the vicinity of Norman 150 farms are swept clean of buildings,’ fences, orchards and crops. It is proposed to set up the big mono- f value every day. Is it any matter of surprise tha their landlords, who wish toren their bouses to the best tenants, aud atthe very bighest figures, anu when willing to sell at a baud some profit, so often refuse to reui to a people, the majority of whose men assume that colored men ree gard them colored officers. UNDERTAKER & CABINET MAKER. Office 441 L Street N. W JARRIAGES FOR HIRE. Telephone 845-8 Be kind to those who aid you io idleness. Abe Buzzard as an Evangelist. | Abe Buzzard, the former outlaw of the Welsh Mountains, who was recently par- doned from the Eastern Penetentiary, The recorder’s office will not be vacant for a year. Sept 1 lmo Scientific American gloom and hates. ‘ This 18 vot charging it The Arena with being in that trade, but to uggest that it gives too much heed and follows too far, the bad method of these traders. fice. We have hud a great deal of} a exaggeration on the ove side, and doubiless somewhat of dimiuation Dan Brooks would like to be re- garded a great man. If Taylor is made recorder, he imagines that he will run the of- pointor Dan. Pat it in your pipe and smoke it. families surround themselves wit. the very worse influences I say worse for there are no ivftuences which are more ruinous than thos which eminute from tre low gro- geries, which has spruog up ia residence neighborhoods in thic city at the touch of black men’s where he experienced a change of heart, on Sunday last appeared as an evange- list in several Philadelphia pulpits to turn sinners from their ways. He proved to be an interesting speaker. the story of his conversion in a way which convinced those who heard him that he had had a long struggle with himself, but had won the battle. lith quarried at Prentice, Wis., as a monument to James G. Blaine. It is the biggest stone ever quarried. It is 115 feet long, 10 feet square at the base and 4 feet square at the top, and is 46 feet longer than Cleopatra’s Needle. Roehl, the murderer who escaped from Sing Sing prison, has strong reasons for not getting caught. The New York Court of Appeals has handed down a de- He told i i en’s. cision since the escap2 affirming the con- By |on the other. We — the _ A white roan will be recorder. | P' 1 appeal, therefore, to every Piste! neg cee + the | Teton for murder Lape oe i 4 ; 4 5 ? a a 8 y ae i : DESION PATENTS, which lice ae auia year®| Some men are wise in their own | Afro American of Washington ss ee on ee will surely F i g ns roc . , = a fee Handhoue wniete Desa culated magui- paumetions he Tespects himself, a8 he ship Naronic, which, without doubt, : eae a 2c way, NEW YORE. have studiously circulated mag' honors wife und children as bv ‘The Bank of Australasia, with branches ig patent foundered with 70 people aboard after : rout before the vessel sailed from Liverpool Febru- ary 11 for New York, and the wife of Chief Officer Wright, second in com- mand, have both gone insane. Despair, caused by the loss of their husbands, un- | settled their | minds. Both have been allay the panic. placed in an insane asylum. | wees _ e s President Cleveland has decided not to | _ A council with the Navajo Indians is accept the resignations of the delegates | to take place today, at which Lieutenant to the International Monetary Con- Plummer will demand the surrender of ~ ference. The commission will, there- | Rauchman Welsh’s murderers. The fied reports of form mortgages and other froofe of alleged dis- tress. For instance, Michigao farm mortgages have been widely given at six times what the official re- + port of that State make them. Stories and essays, and figares made to lie by being one-sided, bave shown heavy and and con- stant toil, coarse and poor living us is brought before The President has returned. e.ven free of charge Stientiic American in Australia and agencies in most cities of the United Kingdom, was forced to suspend, the head offices being in Mel- bourne, The liabilities are £7,500,000, and assets, £10,000,000, Efforts are making in various parts of Australia to loves the race, and the best people- all the people of this great nation, to do for his own family what the other people have done for theirs.— Keep the saloon out of residence streets. This you can do by re- fusing to sign petitions for saloons which are to be opened at your very doors, and protesting against The appointment, will be Mat- thews, of Albany. The next will be Stewart, of New York City, or Peter H. Clark. Ross, of iowa, will follow. Astwood, of New York City, will be next in line. ~ scientific paper in the ._ No intelligent 00 3 sen maseat Pope, Austin 4 5 = hery of the Indians is feared, and if I them at such a time us this, fore, remain unchanged, unless some of | eachery , com 8 despair under croel i = : — ‘ "they refuse to agree to a peaceful ar- saad in youn and ances el ¥ of the farmer, Smith, of Alabama, is looking at W ALTER H. Brooks, the eee oe et ee a eas rangement at once, war will be declared. vofes Ticlime: Mig meaty oreo: | STEADDY OS far Westt Liberia and often consults the map Pastor 19th St, Bapt. Church ference wit meet Riy O cnent will rest 1!00ps are now on the ground, ready rogeh ‘ilure unknown among Uhem. especiaily in the far Wes' as to the best route to take. i postpo: > EW and wonderful. Partien; entirely with its members, for immediate service. _