The Washington Bee Newspaper, May 27, 1893, Page 8

TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. Northern Michigan had a heavy snow storm. Edwin Booth, the famous actor, is sinking, and not expected to live long. President Cleveland started on Monday for a trip to Cobb's Island for afew days’ fishing. A New York woman bicyclist run over and badly bruised 17-year-old Patrick McMahon. Heirs of the $33,000,000 Spang estate, in Germany, are being searched for in Reading, Pa. British yachtsmen fear that Lord Dun- raven’s new cutter Valkyrie is not fast enough to win the America cup. John B, Riley, ex-Indian Commis- sioner, has been appointed by the Presi- dent as Consul General to Ottawa. Fifteen thousand prisoners, exclusive of women and children, are awaiting de- spatch to Siberia in the prisons of Mos- cow. Home Secretary Asquith has drafted a bill to give the British courts greater powers of restraint over habitual drunk- ards, With a cleaver, John Marlo, of near Fort Howard, Wis., killed his wife, who sought divorce, and hanged himself to escape a mob. It is believed in Lancaster, Pa., that Katie Zeizert, whose body was sent there from Philadelphia, was the victim of a criminal operation. Henry G. Monks, an American, is among the latest of those who blew their alleged brains out at Monaco, after hav- ing lost at gambling. Through being bondsman for State Treasurers Harshaw and Guenther, of Wisconsin, ex-Senator Sawyer w ill lose $125,000 of his fortune. F. B. Milburn, son of the blind chap. tain of the House of Representatives, committed suicide by shooting himself ; at his hotel in Chicago. Rockafellow, the Wilkes-Bar rebank- er, was served with nine warrants charging him with embezzle.nent and had to find $26,000 bail. Dr. Seward Webb, the New York mil- lionaire, is building about his private park, in the Adirondacks, a wire fence ; 53 miles, that will cost $50,000. Thomas Adams, formerly a Philadel- rhian,acook in Dennett's restaurant, | New York, committed suicide by jump- ing out of a third-story window. Edward Hoerner, of Steelton Pa., who killed George Phillips. a green goods op- | erator, at Greenpoint, told the coroner's jury that he acted in self-defense. Trying to drown himself in the river, at Topeka, Kan., James Dalton, supposed to be one of the Dalton gang, was rescued by a policeman and found demented. Lord Salisbury, in an address at Bel- fast, declared that union had not proved a failure and said the Conservatives if = pone would never pass a home rule ill. Bismarck in his remarks to the stu- dents of a high school, who called on him recently. said that the shedding of blood was a thankless task, He hoped for peace in the empire, Attorney General Olney has informed those who are interested that the Gov- ernment will see that the law of Con- gress relating to the closing of the World's Fair on Sunday is enforced. The President has commuted to im- prisonment for life the death sentence of Edward Pickens, a full-blooded Chicka- ‘saw Indian, who was convicted of mur- | der in the district of Kansas, Gen. Greeley, chief signal officer, will have charge of the government military balloon, “Gen. Myer, ” at the world’s fair. Daily ascensions will be made for meteor- ological purposes. A petition in favor of the reinstate- ment of the Rev. Dr, Richard L. Binstel to the rectorship of Epiphany -Church, New York city, was presented to Arch- bishop Satolli in Washington on Sunday. De Guzman, the Nicaraguan Minister, at Washington says that he believes the ultimate issue of the revolution will be that the United States will be asked to establish a protectorate over that coun- try. Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt has made a report upon the Terre Haute, Ind., post office case, in which he states that Mr. Donham, the Democratic ap- pointee, transgressed the civil service laws, Farnham Post, G, A. R., of New York, which was disbanded for making a dec- laration that frauds existed in the pen- sion system, has reorganized as the Noah L, Farnham Independent Veterans Association No. 1. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad com- pany has received 32 of the 100 locomo- motives ordered from the Baldwin Lo- vomotive works, Philadelphia, and will dereafter receive two a day until the en- sire number has been delivered. The wedding of the Duke of York and Princess May of Teck has been fixed for July 6. Mr. Gladstone has sent outa denial of the report that he will propose the making of any special grant by Par- liament in connection with the Duke of York’s marriage. Bernard Gueterback, city editor of the New York Staats Zeitung, was mysteri- ously killed by a pistol shot at his home in New York. Mrs. Gueterback says he shot himself, but it seems that there wa a quarrel with one Ota Baesse, a Custom House inspector, and an investigation will follow, Ex-United States Consul Webb, who was converted to the Mohammedan faith four years ago, announces that his mis. sion to this country, in addition to spread- ing the principles of the religion, is to purchase lands in the Southern States, with a view to establish thereon colonies of Islamites. The Norwegians in New York and Brooklyn are getting ready to receive the Viking ship and itscrew with becoming honors. The vessel has been sighted off Newfoundland and is expected to arrive at Newport, R. L, next Saturday. Th vessel is supposed to bea model of the ship in which Lief Ericsson discovered America in the thirteenth century, STAMPEDE OF ELEPHANTS: Barnum’s Herd of Elephants Make Trouble at Bridgeport, Conn. When the unloading of the animals of the Barnum & Bailey show was in pro- gress at Bridgport, Conn.,a stampede of | the thirty elephants connected with the circus took place, and for an hour the winter quarters of the show was the scene of much confusion. The train ar- rived during the night, and the place selected to exhibit was near the winter quarters, the tracks on which the cars stood being in close-proximity to the buildings, The work of unloading pro- gressed without interruption until the elephants were reached. Of the herd of thirty, thirteen had been placed a short distance from the others. Suddenly one of the smaller of the herd let forth a ter- rible trumpeting and started in the direc- tion of the winter quarters. The remain, der of the herd followed ata rapid gait- making a great noise. The attendants were powerless to stop the animals, and the pathway of the beastsjto the old quar- ters was unobstructed until they reached the high fence surrounding the grounds. Although substantially built, when the first elephant dashed against it the boards gave way, and an opening was made through which the followers passed, The long, low buildings where the elephants | had passed so many days were the point they were seeking. They crossed the ' yard, and, although the doors leading to the stalls were closed, they afforied no | protection, and singly and in pairs they ' dashed through them and went to the stalls, The loud trumpeting as if of joy continued, but in a short time they quieted down. It was at first thought best to feed them in the stalls, but Head Keeper McDonald would not countenan: e this. He decided to quell the rebellion at once and selected the huge elephant Manderain as the subject. With his long | hook he fastened upon the trunk of the animal, It went along in a docile man- | ner and with plenty of prodding by the | other attendants the whole herd followed and at last were securely chained near the tents, The statue of the late P. T. Barnum, which is to be placed in Seaside | Park, is boxed up at the winter quar- ters. Itwasin the way of the fleeing elephants and was overturned. Lvter when it; was raised to position again, investigation showed that it had not been injured. HELD UP BY HIGHWAYWOMEN. New York Has an Epidemic of Female Garroters and Highwaymen. Charles Baumold, a young man 20 years old, a clerk for a firm of tailors at Broome | street and the Bowery, had an adven ture on Saturday night which he will not soon forget. At 11 o’clock Mr. Bau- mold was passing through Twenty-first street. Near Seventh avenue he met four negro women who were walking abreast. Withsuspicious politeness they made way for him to pass, and as he walked through the lines one of the women suddenly threw her arms around his neck and pulled him backward. An- other went through his pockets and secured $15, while the other two kept their eyes open for the police. When Mr. Baumold recovered from his surprise he raised his voice in loud cries for help. It arrived in the shape of a policeman of the Nineteenth Precinct, who came up onarunand the women fled. After a chase of a few blocks the policeman cap- tured two of the women, but the others escaped and took with them Baumold’s $15. In the Jefferson Market Police Court : Monday morning the prisoners were held in $1,000 bail to await the action of the Grand Jury, John J, Clair, a plasterer, living at 206 East Fourth street, had a somewhat sim- ilar experience, Clair was held up and robbed by the’ two women at Fourteenth | street and Second avenue. They took $23 from the frightened plasterer, but Detectives Hock and Mallon of the Four- teenth Precinct happened to come along and they escorted the highway women to the police station, where they were locked up. BRIGGS’S TRIAL. The General Assembly Likely to End the Case This Week. The trial of Prof. Charles A. Briggs, of the Theological Seminary, New York, upon the general charge of holding gross error in teaching, began Monday before the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church at Washington. The case comes up on appeal from the judgment of the Presbytery of New York, which ac- quitted the professor after a ;trial last- ing several weeks last fall and winter. No witnesses will be introduced, the evi- dence being before the Assembly in the records, It is proposed to give the Pros- ecuting Committee four and a half hours in which to open and close. Prof. Briggs is to have seven hours in which to pre- sent his argument, and the members of the New York Presbytery two hours in which to set forth their defence or ex- planation of the action of the Presbytery, The Assembly has voted to sit morning, afternoon and night until the case is dis- posed of, Allowing two hours for the night session the Assembly will be in session eight hours aday, so that two days will afford ample time under the committee’s arrangement for hearing aud disposing of the case. DR. It May Win the Cup. The new yacht now being built at Bos- ton by John Paine, jr., is exciting the attention of yachtsmen. It will have the smallest displacement and carry the least weight with a large sail area of any yacht ever built of the same tonnage, The boat is known as a centerboard-fin boat, a new departure in yacht building. It is essentially a racing machine, and is attracting the attention of yachtsmen all over the world. The Atlanta at Greytown. town, announcing that the U. S. cruiser Atlanta has arrived there and, on ac- | | MADE FRIENDS WITH A TIGER. An Animal Tamer Overcame the Dislike @f a Brute He Had Chastised. A noted wild beast tamer, on being asked how he so successfully tamed, re- lated his experience as follows, says an exchange: “I was a- bareback rider in a well- known circus, and in my leisure hours found great delight in playing with the monkeys in the menagerie. One es- pecially pleased me and I often fed him on figs. One day while standing near his cage about to hand him a fig ] heard a fierce growling near me, and turning about saw a fierce looking tiger stick his great paw out between the iron bars of his cage and reach for me. One inch nearer and he would surely have struck me, This unexpected and unwarranted attack so aggravated me that I raised my metal-headed cane and struck the beast such a terrific blow that he quickly retreated to the corner of his cage and howled and bellowed furiously. On the following day the whole operation was repeated. The tiger was now my deadly enemy and displayed such fierceness on my ap- proach to the cage that I became in- terested in his actions. “To test his powers of memory I in- tentionally absented myself for several days, but he seemed to know my step, and the moment he caught sight of me his eyes flashed fire, he beat furiously against the side of the cage with his tail and fairly shook the cage in his rage. Suddenly the thought of tam- ing the animal came to me. My first step wasto cause the beast to forget his wrongs, and in this I succeeded wonderfully. ForhoursI would talk to him in soft sweet accents and ocea- sionally hand him little bits of meat. In a few months we had become so in- timate that he ate ont of my hand. Little by little he permitted me to rub his head, and whenI spoke to him hr would close his eyes and lean his head lovingly against the iron bars. I now considered the time ripe to take the last great step—namely, to enter the cage. I told the keeper of my inton- tion, but he was frightened and said I had gonemad. But I insisted. Un- willingly he consented. He opened the door at the rear and allowed me to enter, while trembJingly he held the door latch in one hand in order to open the door quickly in case of accident, and in the other hand he helda long pointed rod in case of an attack by the beast. As I hurriodly entered the cage the tiger drew back infright and stared at me. Heseemed to be expecting an attack and prepared to spring. But I stood motionless aud apparently careless. Then I wrapped at the door; it was quickly opened and Ijumped out. “Two weeks later Irepeated the visit and from that time daily. I talked pleasantly to the tiger and each time he became quieter. At my tenth visit I ordered him to lie down, and he obeyed. As a reward for his obedience I gave him little pieces of meat. This always had a magical effect. But he soon expected meat at every visit, and when it was not forthcoming became restless and a little vicious. But 1 Boon overcame this—in fact, I treated him like a spoiled child and did almost what I pleased with him. Up to this time the keeper had always stood back of the cage with his hand on the latch, ready at a moment’s notice to open the door. I now ordered him to lock tho door and step around to the front. The tiger had stretched himself full length and allowed me to sit on his back.” Fish Recognize Their Food. It is a well known fact that sea ane- mones have a sense by which they rec- ognize food. This has been studied by Herr Nagel, at the Zoological Station in Naples, aud he has endeavored to localize it. Among other experiments a small piece of a sardine was brought carefully to the tentacles of one of the animals; the tentacle first touched, then others seized the food and-sur- rounded it, and the morsel was swal- lowed. A similar ball of blotting paper saturated with sea water, brought near in the same way, was not seized. Ii, however, the ball was soaked in the juice of fish, it was seized with tho same energy as the piece of fish, but often liberated again after a time with- out being swallowed. Blotting paper saturated with sugar acted like the other, but more weakly. If saturated with quinine it was refused, the tenta- cles drawing back. Names for Japanese Girls. © Many of 'the pretty and suggestive little words that serve as names for Japanese girls are as charming in Eng- lish as in Japanese. It is not uncom. mon fora Jap girl to bear the name of a flower. On the other hand, however, many girls in Japan bear the names of aome domestic utensil, as frying pan or dust brush. Doubtless “this results from the cuistom common among some peoples of naming a child for the first object that strikes the eye after the lit- tle one has come into the world. It Wasn’t Lighted, A mother was calling the attention of her little boy tothe moon, which was to be seen clearly, but pallidly, in the early afternoon. “Why, you can’t see the moon in the daytime?” replied the youngster. “Oh, yes, you can; there it is over the trees!” The little fellow looked, and had to admit the fact that he saw it; but he added, “Tain’t lighted, anyhow.” Common Sense, « Arrah, thin, Pat, do yez raily think the wor-r-rld is as round as that?” (pointing at a globe). “Av coorse I Secretary Gresham received a dispatch | do!” “Thin phat I can’t get trough Monday from Consul Braida at Grey- | my skull is phwhy the folks on the un- ther soide don’t fall into shpace!” « Yez make me toired!” “ Well, but count of the unprotected condition of | piwhy is it, I ax yez?” “God has the property of the canal company, he ; given thim common sinse, man aloive, + had consented to the landing of marines, ' an’ they simply howld on!"—Life. _; CANNONADING MADE RAIN. The People of Eight Counties Helped to Bring on 3 Downpour. An effort is being made by citizens of Western Kansas to produce rain by use of explosives. The first experiment was made by the simultaneous explosion of vast quantities of powder and chemicals at Wellington, Winfield, Newton, Cald- well, Arkansaw City, South Haven, Hutchinson and other southwestern cit- ies in the wheat belt, and was followed by the heaviest rainfall of the present year. Inaddition to the firing of can- non, hundreds of men and boys joined in the fusilade with rifles and shotguns, the bombardment continuing from noon until 8 o’clock, at which time the rain was general throughout eight counties. Further experiments will be tried. In Financial Trouple. The Elmira National Bank closed its doors Tuesday morning. The bank’s failure is the result of the recent finan- cial troubles of Col. D. C. Robinson. The deposits in the bank amount to about $200,000 and will be paid in full. The suspension of the bank caused a big run on the Elmira Savings Bank, but all demands were promptly met. The big toy firm of Ives, Blakeslee & Williams, in New York city, with branch stores at Bridgeport, Conn., Elkland, Pa,, and Chicago, Ill.. has gone into the hands of a receiver. The liabilities are 261,848, and assets $70,298, The National Bink of Deposit in New York city was forced to suspend and is now in possession of the Comptroller of the Currency. : The Exchange Bank of Tingley, Iowa, has suspended, and the cashier, Robert Bennet, has left for parts unknown. The cash has also disappeared. Deposits were received up to the day of closing. Farnham Post to Appeal. The officers of the Noah L, Farnham Post in New York, the local organization of the Grand Army of the Republic, which was expelled from theG, A. R. on account of the expressions of its mem- bers on pension matters, said that the course they would pursue would proba- bly be to appeal first of all to the National Organization, in order to get a hearing atthe next Grand Encampment Their ulterior purpose seems to be to force the National Organization to take some definite action on the question of pensions and the present system of spreading them, and thus compel from Grand Army men an official expression of opinion on that subject. Landslide in Norway. Another and more serious landslide has occurred at Vaerdalen, Norway, just north of Trondhjem, destrdying tyventy- two homesteads and fifty cottages. A vast area is flooded and many persons are missing. Residents of the vicinity are taking to flight in expectation that there may be a recurrence of the calamity, The Government has sent four hundred soldiers to the locality to assist in the work of rescue and to preserve order. Dr. Briggs to Be Tried. The Presbyterian Assembly at Wash- ington, by a vote of 409 to 145, decided to entertain the appeal from the decision of the Presbytery of New York in favor of Dr. Briggs of the Union Seminary. This decision is adverse to Dr. Briggs, and brings the whole question up for solution before the General Assembly, which is heavily opposed to Briggs. The debate has been most exciting. Dr, McGlynn Goes to Chicago, Dr. Edward McGlynn, who has for some time contemplated visiting Rome with a view of making his peace with the Pope, has arrived in Chicago, He was accompanied by his sister, Mrs. Smith, and her two little boys. This change in the doctor's programme will no doubt astonish the Catholics of this country. It isnot known now when he will go to Rome. Ex-Secretary Foster Falls. Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Charles Foster, of Fostoria, 0., failed, making an assignment to J. B, Gormley, of Bucy- rus, Mr, Foster said his liabilities would amount to $600.000, The failure of the banking company involved a number of manufacturing concerns in which Mr, Foster was interested, and the town of Fostoria is much alarmed in conse~ quence, S Prohibition of Candy. A Prohibitionist clergyman in New York named Gates proposes to broaden the platform of his party by putting candy and mintstick and jujube paste under the ban with whisky and beer, Much of the candy, he says, is sticky and nasty, bad for the stomachs and re- tardative of the physical growth as well as moral development of children, Mile in Twenty-Five Seconds. A new locomotive on its trial trip on the Ontario and Western Railroad, near Wilkesbarre, Pa., ran a mile in twenty- five seconds. This is at the rate of two and two-fifth miles a minute and 144 miles an hour. It is claimed to be the quickest time ever made by a locomo- tive. Mr. Cleveland a Church Communicant, It is announced on the authority of Rev. Wilton Merle Smith, of New York, that President Cleveland is a communi- cant in the Presbyterian Church, having been admitted to membership upon pro- fession of faith at Mr. Smith’s church two years ago. Sullivan Was Punished. John L. Sullivan did not appear in court at Biddeford, Me., when his case for assaults on Lawyer M. L. Lezotte | came up. His counsel, however, plead guilty for him, and he was fined $100, In addition, he lost $1,200 he paid to get | clear of the case, Russian Seals to be Protected, The English and Russian Governments ; have agreed to prohibit sealing within ten miles of the Russian coast and with- in thirty miles of Robin Island. The Canadian authorities have notified the Dominion sealers. $ ) Thos. H. Clarke. REAL ESTATE AND LOANS. 606 F Street, N. W., WasHineTon, D. C Ce eel Subscribe to and advertise in the Brx, THE INDUSTRIAL BUILD- ING AND SAVING CO. Loans money to buy or build homes, Shares $1 each, payable monthly. Dividends declared ev- ery January. Secretary’s office: 609 Fst.,u.w. Open9a. m to 5 p.m. Monthly meetings at Lin-~ colon Memorial Uburch, cor. 11h and R ats, n. w., first Monday night in every month. Heyry E Baxerr, Secretary Acvertise in the Bex. Rooms with Board: In first cass house and in a popular purtt of the city, Cars pass the doo 922—11 stno- Special Overcoat SALE, We have been cutting right and left into oar OVERCOAT SALE evor since we have put them before the public. For the aeason, that the Styles and Qualities of these Over- coats cannot be purchased at the manufacturing price for what we are selling them at. Don’t miss this slaughtering sale, as there is only a small lot left. JULIUS COHEN'S CHEAP CORNER, Seventh and L Streets, n. w. Established Fifty-five Years. RAVEN & BACON, —Now— RAVEN PIANOS, 13 East 16th Street, New York City. BUY FROM THE MANUFACTURER AND SAVE 50 PER CENT. 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