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WASHINGTON
VOL.1. :tfO. 182.
WASHINGTON D. C, SUNDAY MORNING-, SEPTEMBER 16, 1894.
THREE CENTS.
Little Doubt About the Defeat
of ool. Breckinridge.
HE WAS FIGHTING FOR LIFE
But His Herculean Efforts and Silver
Tongue Didn't Save Him.
WAS A GREAT MORAL CONTEST
All the Beturns Not Tot In, but Owens Is Be
lieved to Have a Small Margin His Own
County Gives the Displaced Congressman
a Email Plurality, but All the Other Coun
ties Becord Their Verdict Against Hun
Desha Breckinridge Had Several Fights
and There Were Other Scraps in the Bis
ttiot, hut Generally the Election Was Quiet,
Lexxnqtos, Ey.f Sept. 15. At 11:30 both
Breckinridge and Owens claim victory, the
former by 118, the latter by 320. Bosult ery
close, will take official count to decide.
The Courier-Journal's dispatches at mid
tight indicate that Owens has been nomi
nated. LrxrxGTor, Ky., September 15. No elec
tion ever occasioned sueh general suspension
of business as the contest to-day between W.
C. Owens, W. C. P. Breckinridge, and E. E.
Settle lor the Democratic nomination for
Congress from the Seventh, better known as
the Ashland district
Tor months the district has been agitated
ly the most bitter personal contest. It was
not a political, not ei en a factional fight. It
was a moral contest for weeks and months,
cnl during the last few days it became m
t nscly personal, so much so that the nomi
nation is not the only issue. Col. Breckin
ridge was fighting for life, and he never be
fore made sueh speeches or displaced such
cia'iTe ability in organization. He mar
hru'l every nmn be could command, but ne
cjuij not command the women They had
r.:vute but they were the controlling ele
xlpm f f the fight.
At the oweoe headquarters to-night their
nam-, have rim up from two Hundred to two,
tre or for times that plurality, and they
;ay in their rejoicing "The Jadies did it."
lue jadies, could not get ward workers to their
jravir-rneetlujys or other meetings, but their
c ga.ni aiou of committees of one generalij
p : jt mises at home out of rotors, who
reeled no watching on entering the booths.
W itli the saloon? closed, the women pray
irg. and the best influences all around there
w s a quiet election with excitement and
" ttrr feeling at their bighoet pitch. The
gr atest surprise of the day was the good
ler everywhere. There were some per
c nal ncounters, not as many as usual at
tJoselv-contested elections. There was, how
ert r great precaution to prevent trouble.
Old fneuds and neighbors had been having
tLeir innings and they wanted only the vot
a. to-daj.
OWEI.S is ojr TOP.
If the Breckinridge men had enforced their
challenge rule stneUy.&s they had expected
ther would have been trouble. So closely
Lai the canvassing and polling been done that
tve rnaliengers knew how almost all the
Dem rats stood, and they could have kept
ir..nj Irom voting. It was generalij under
FtuoJ tuat the Bepubliean managers
f.-'tr'! Breckinridge, as they thought
i l) event of his nomination their
c nlition would not be hopeless. "Very few
1 cruf jeans, however, voted. As manypre
c ii "aro long distances from telegraph of
f s the complete returns will not likely be
Ll j wn i efore to-morrow, but Owens seems
tD be to much in the lead that it will not re
quire complete returns to settle the result.
Eeturns from every precinct but one in
rv tte county, outside of Lexington, give
Owens &5C, Breckinridge 751, and Settle 352.
Tins is a majority for Owens of 105 ana gives
Ere kinridge the whole county, including
t ty 1 y about 150. News from otherxounties
g re Bourbon to Owens by about 250 votes,
b t to Owens by about 1,000. Franklin to
Ons bj about SftO. and Woodtord to Owens
ly a' ut 100
It is alo said that Owens has carried Old-La-s
and Henrv counties and his friends hero
are Rv ing wild with delight. Thej claim his
a xir-ntion b from 1.500 to 2,500.
At lock the Daily Transcript announces
tkofu.i wing Returns are only partially in
fr m tL Congressional primary of to-day,
Lut the indieations point to a victory for W.
C Owens by about L000 irajority. There has
Lem a bitter light in every precinct in the
uisTKt hut the Owens men have succeeded
In irrvmg the day. As far as can be learned
r t1 is hour no serious difficulties hav e oc-
TCl
La Granoe, Ky., bept. 15. The vote in
V - Oldham) county is Owens' landslide.
j. p-eult iu this countv is as follows: Owens,
I rf kiendge, 241. Settle, 23. Owens'
I ri i" 1456.
l.rHA V! JSELI.ICEEirsT.
!n to. H- . ' 15 Desha Brockln
r is j ivM5. ' ir i D voting place
t 'pi iiooi- nici be -hiu J. "A alker Peak, a
t ' 'Wtti-j worker, iiwde the booth pro
I mi uflidavit. Desha spoke to him
thf window and told him that he had
l f-iu there and that he had better come
a ak replied that he would not come
' il Breekinridge went in the booth
r i- ii The two men chnchod, but were
e ri-i'ei Peak soon afterward camo out,
r l bn ekiniidge met him the socond time
ai .i eh fight followed. Both men had
t lr fai'ee bcratched, several blows being
I ' Both men bad pistols. In the last
! t' ev were separated before they had a
i to draw their weapons. Desha drove
t precinets, perconally inspecting them
Zr -? lie day.
It v i said that the Louisville and Nasb
u -n 1 Chesapeake and Ohio Bailroads hn 1
pau t j 0,000 for Breckinridge. It Is certain
1 at 1 1 liave --pent loads of money hero to
il . A rumor was current that Madeline
I ira was in the city, and had sworn that
If Brf kinridge is successful in the primary
Hat she would attempt to take bis life, but
she could not be looated.
Einvuvrn, Ey., Sept. 15. The election to
day, with ono exception, passed off with the
Dt of order and without any serious trouble
X-ie exception occurred at "Lockport, in tho
eart end of Henry county. It is claimed that
an importation of Shelby county men arrived
tt tLat precinct to be voted, when
iuey were challenged by the Breckin
ridge challenger, who was promptly
knocked down. Pistols and knlvps were
drawn, and when the smoke cleared
tway, James Hoskins, was found seriously
out and many bruised and injured. The pre
cinct will be protested. u... i.l a ernooa
J. T. "Williams and Chiet of Police James B.
Ellis engaged in u hot discussion of words.
They came to blows, but wero quieted by
friends. Trouble of a sorious nature is ex
pected, as both are game men.
Fbamifort, Ky., Sept. 15. Beturns from
all precincts in this (Franklin) county, ex
copt ono, gives Owens a majority of 537 over
Breckinridgo. This precinct will go larcely
for Breckinridgo, but Owens' majority will bo
500 in tbo county.
BiArrrD nnzcKixninQE Dcnr.a the wah.
Pauis, Ky., Sept. 15. Breckinridgo carried
Bourbon county to-day by 152 majority. At
Centreville to-day TV. A. Gaines, a Breckin
ridge man, ordered tho Breckinridgo judge to
pay no attention to tho injunction against
tho gag rule, passed by tho committee last
week. Col. 11. G. Stoner, an Owens man and
owner of Oakland stock farm, and Gaines had
some words on the street to-night over
Gnines' action. HecBlappod Gaines and
knocked him down. Col. btoncr is tho gen
tleman who slapped Breckinridge during tho
war.
Vebsaiixes, Ky., Sept. 15. Out in tho Fay
wood neighborhood, flvo miles northeast of
hero, this morning there was a pitched battlo
between eighteen or twenty Breckinridge
and Owens men, the result of a discussion of
ttio outlook, during which G. AY. Gillespie, a
Breckinridgo man. was stabbed twice with a
dirk knifo just abovo tho heart and in the
back, dangerously wounding him.
It was impossible to find out who did the
cutting, every ono of tho participants in the
fight becoming as mum as an oyster. Tho
wounded man said ho was coming to Ver
sailles to vote for Bill Breckinridgo if it
killed him. The physician who dressed his
wounds said ho would die if ho persisted in
carrying out his declaration.
it's a bad be kt, too.
CiicrMf ati, Ohio, Sept. 15. Tho papers as
well as tho people hero have taken as mucn
Interest in the Ashland district contest as if
they wero in it. The papers hav o returns
from all precincts that can be reached to
night, Tho Enquirer puts Owens' plurality at
1,025 and the Commercial Gazetto at 1,150.
Owens' pluralities are Scott, 1,200; Oldham,
144; Woodford, 100, and Franklin. 521.
Breckinridge's pluralities are: Fnvette, 205;
Bourbon, 152; Henrv, 4G3. Settle has a ma
jority of 1.G00 in his county of Owen over
both, but it is the only county ho carries, and
does not affect the result. Owens carries
his county by 1,200, and Breckinridgo his by
205.
BEST IX FORTY YEARS.
Senator Unrris Defends tho Tariff Law
and Declares the hucar Trust Con
trolled o Democratic Senator.
Tkej.to;, Tenn., Sept. 15. Senator Isham
G. Harris opened the campaign in Tennessee
hero to-day in a speech to one of the largest
crowds that ever assembled in the State, ilr.
Harris said that while tbe new tariff bill was
not entirely satisfactory to himself or to a
largo majority of Democratic Senators, he
could assert with absolute confidence that it
is tho best tariff bill for the consumer and
tax-paver that has been passed by or offered
in Congress in tho last forty 3 ears. Ho did
not hesitate to denounce as unjust, un
founded, and absolutely false the statement
that the Senate was controlled by tho sugar
trust. Ho did not believe that a single Dem
ocratic Senntor was so controlled.
Upon the sugar question tho act of 1894 is
vastly better for tho taxpaver than the 31c
Kinley act, as tho 40 cent ad valorem tax is
v ery much less than the bounty of 2 cents a
pound, and y8 of a cent a pound on refined
sugar, just a fourth of tho protection that the
McKinley act gave to the reflned or tho sugar
trust. Senator Harris said-
"The plain and practical question pre
sented to tho Democratic membors of the
Senate Tinance Committee was shall we per
petuate tho McKinley tariff act with all of its
monstrosities and wrongs or make conces
sions, tho result to be a bill tnat would still
make a great reduction upon the rates ot the
McKinlej act and a reduction upon the rates
of what are known ns tho Morrison Mil and
the Mills bill, both of which have been lnuded
an.d approved bj the Democratic party in na
tional convention and otherwise."
Speaking of tho currency question, Senator
Harris said-
"I should bo glad to have an international
agreement, but I am satisfied that no such
agreement is possible and probable at this
time. It is therefore inev liable, wo must by
our own legislation provide for tho coinage
of both metals and tho maintenance of parity.
Let us formulate and establish our own home
policy and maintain it. We are able to do it
and its our dutj to estnblish and maintain a
bimetallic standard in our country. "When wo
owe other countries wo will find a means of
payment. If not in cotton, wheat or other of
our products, we may possibly make terms
with Shjlock for gold enough to pay."
The Senator concluded with an argument
In favor of a repeal of the tax on State banks.
PALMETTO STATE POLITICS.
So ominations in Opposition to Tillman
Likclv to Be .Made.
CoLtraniA, S. C, Sept. 15 Specials to the
Columbia State report conventions held In
twenty-ilvo of the thirty-five counties to-daj to
elect delegates to the straightout Democratic
convention Monday night, which was called
to reorganize tho party in opposition
to Tillmanism, and, if advisable, to nominate
a full State ticket to make the fight at the
general eloction. Tbo result is that
ono county (Sumter), with a majority
of straightout Democrats, declined to
send a delegate; ono sends a delegation
instructed to withdraw, if nominations aro
made, ono instructed its delegation to vote
for nominations, and tho remainder send
delegations unlnstructed as to whethor or not
to make nominations.
Among the delegates are ex-Gov. Johnson
Hagood and ex-Gov. Tcter BIchardson, both
of whom advocato nominations and a fight.
Indications are that the body will bo composed
of representative men and that a fight will bo
made against nominations by a respectable
majority, who believe It too late to make a
successful issue this j ear.
REV. DR. ftlNNEGERODE DYING.
IIo Was Rector of the Church In Rich
mond That Jefferson Davis Attended
Bov. Dr. Charles Minnegerode, tho noted
divine who was "pastor of tho church that
Jefferson Davis attended In Bichmond, lies at
the point of death in Alexandria, Ta.
Dr. Minnegcroao was born in 'Westphalia
in August, 1814. While a student at tho Uni
versity of Giesen in 1834 he became involved
in tho political troubles in Germany
and was arrested. For several years
he was kept in solitary confinement! He
came to the United States in 1842,
and in 181G entered tbe ministry of tho Epis
copal Church. He was rector of a church m
Norfolk, Yn.t for several jears, and in 185G
accepted a call to St. Paul's Church, Bich
mond. Some years ago his health failed and
ho resigned, but was elected rector emeritus.
He then removed to Alexandria.
iscvv Spanish Treaty with America.
Madmd, Sept. 15. It is announced that tho
govcrnmont will forthwith instruct Senor
Muruagua, Spanish minister to tho United
States, to begin negotiations for a new com
mercial treaty to govern the trade between
America and Cuba. The treaty is to bo based
on the strictest reciprocity.
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Secretary Herbert Returns,
The Dolphin reached port at the navy yard
yesterday afternoon with Secretary Herbert
and his party on board. The trip, which oo-
cupied nearly a month, Included visits to
I most of tho naval stations along the Atlantic
Coast from Norfolk to Maine.
PEARY STILL IN THE NORTH
But His Wife and Child Have Re
turned with the Expedition.
A BABY BORN IN THE ARCTICS
Joarful Hardships Sufforod by All and Very
Littlo Accomplished Some of tho Men
Badly Frost Bitten and Bogs Trozen into
Solid Blocks Bifficult Exploration.
St. Jonss, N. F., Sept. 15. Tho steamer
Falcon, Capt. Henry Bartlott, returnod hero
this altornoon, bringing back tho whole per
sonnel of the Peary oxpedition of last yeur,
except Llout. Peary himself, Hugh Lee, a
companion, and Matthew Benson, a colored
servant, nil of whom remain at Bowdoin Bay
for another year, hoping to accomplish tho
work of tho expedition, which is still left un
fulfilled. The story of tho expedition is a cry thrill
ing. Tho first incident of noto was tho birth
of Mrs. Peary's baby on September 12, 1893, a
month after tho Falcon left last j ear. Tho
baby, Mario Ahnigito Peary, camo homo safe
to-day with her mother.
During the month of October last frightful
storms swept over Talcon Harbor, smashing
tho naptha launch and washing away largo
quantities of oil intended for uso in illumi
nating and heating purposes.
lho various scientific observations wero
pursuod all tho winter. Tho metorogical
observations were most successful. Theso
wero taken by Mr. Baldwin. On March G last
lho main exnodition started across Greenland
to Independence Bay, tho farthest point north
reached by Liout. Peary on his previous jour
noy, Tho eight men, Lieut. lV.irj , Eutrekiu.
Astrup. Dr. lucent, Lee, Davidson, Baldwin,
nnd Clarke, with twelve slodges and ninety
two dogs, met with frightful weather almost
from tho time of starting. After a week Dr.
Vincent was so used up that he had to return.
Tho storms reached their worst point dur
ing tho equinoctial gales on March 20. Tbo
party was then in enmp about fifty miles
from Anniversary Lodso, in a temporary
housoat tho head of Bowdoin Bay. lho
thermometer dropped to 55 and GO degrees
bolow zero nnd remained so for two dajb,
while a gnlo blowing about fifty miles an
hour buffeted the partj. Davidson and Llo
wero both bndly frost bitten, and Astrup, tho
Norwegian, Lieut. Pearj's chief dependence,
gavo out from hardship. The dogs perished
in great numbors and froze into solid blocks.
WEAKt:vKI S FXrOSUBE.
After the storm was over tho whole party
returned to Anniversary Lolgo, whero they
left threo sick men, together with plenty of
supplies. Tho four healthy ones, Lieut.
Pary, Entrekin, Clarke,aud Baldwin, started
again and continued onward fourteen dajs.
But the dogs continued to die nnd thosn left
w ero unnble to drag tho sledges aad prov Isions.
The party was so weakened bj exposuio nnd
tho time occupied in trav elinc was so long as to
render it Impossible to reach Independence Baj
in timo to accomplish nnv thing. Con-equentlj
Lieut. Peary decided to abandon tho atttempt
to cross Greenland and returned to headqunr
ters, which were roachod on April 20. Tho
party was absent about fortj-llvo dajs and
only got 130 miles away. It started with
ninetv-two dogs and returnod with only twenty-six,
niter having abnndoned all tho sledge3
on tho way. It covered only a quarter of tho
distance necessarj , and never made moro
than twenty miles in any day. Tho members
of the party claimed that their experienco in
tho equinoctial gales w.vs worse than that of
any previous arctic explorers All had very
narrow escapes from being frozen to death.
Davidson was sick for four months after his
experience. Entrekin hnd both his feet badly
frost-bitten.
After tho party regained health, other ex
plorations in the neighborhood wero organ
ized. Astrup mndo a surv oy of tho unexplored
part of tho coast of Melville Bav and charted
150 miles of it. He had a native crew of five
men to help him.
lieut. avd ains rEAnr's LONG JOUniiET.
Lieut. Peary and his wife mide a sledgo
journey to Olrike Bay, 100 miles distant. En
trekin and Dr. Vincent started to try and
reach Kanos winter quarters at Littleton
Islands, but the ice broke up, compelling
them to return.
The auxiliary expedition which sailed from
hero on July 7 on board tho steamer Talcon
met with verj much ice, and tho steamer was
seriously hampered in her operations, bho
had extreme difficulty in making her w?y
through tho ico floes, and onlj sighted Bow
doin Bay on July 23. Then an ico pack
thlrty-flvb miles wide prevented communica
tion with tho shore until August 11, and tho
steamer onlj anchored in Falcon Harbor on
August 20.
She found tho Peary party in good health aud
spirits and glad ot the opportunity to return
homo. While going north the Falcon searched
Carey Islands, Capo Taradav , and Cl.ircnco
Head, but found no tracesof tho long missing
Swedish explorers Eiorling and Kalsteinus,
who sailed from hero in June. 1892, in tho lit
tlo schooner Binple. Their death is now re
garded as certain. Tho Falcon secured somo
relics on Carej Islands and burled a skeleton
supposed to bo that of a sailor. She startod
on her return trip on August 26.
Lieut. Peary decided to remain another
5 ear in tho north and trv to cross Greenland
next j ear. Lee and Henson agreed to remain
with him Ho accompanied the Falcon as far
south .is Capo York, where ho h id discovered
a magnificent iron meteorite. He hoped to
put it on board the ship and send it to tho
United States, but ho found that tho ico block
ing the shore mado it impossible to get to
I and, and therefore gavo up tho attempt
Seven People Burned bj Oil.
Hudson, Wis., Sept. 15. An oil tank on a
west-bound freight on tho Chicago, St. Paul,
Minneapolis and Omaha Bailroad exploded
near BoDcrts to-day, burning up two freight
cars and a caboose. Whilo passengers wero
being transferred around tho wreck another
tank exploded, and scattered tho burning oil
broadcast. Sov en people wero badly burned
Among tho severely injured is Sumner M.
Curtis, tho Washington correspondent of tho
Milwaukee Sentinel.
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Another Mutual Concern Closed Up.
New York, Sept. 15. Tho Mutual Benefit
Lifo Association, of America, has virtually
closed its doors, under orders of tho insurance
department of New York State, and has voted
to reinsure its members in tho National Lifo
Association, of Hartford, Conn. A circular
is being sent out to its policy-holders notif j ing
them of the association's discontinuance.
Crimes nnd Casualties.
Fire In Scranton, Pa., yesterday destroyed
proporty to tho amount of 300,000.
In a street duel at Waco, Texas, vesterdny
between J. T.Goodman, editor of thePeoplo's
Voice, nnd B. C Armstrong, editor of tho
Star, the former was shot through tho heart,
the latter through tho bowels, and J. G. Boo
man, a bystander, was fatally wounded in tho
neck by a stray ball.
Frank H. Berry, of Eosomark, Trank
Tucker, William G. Thompson, and Jim
Baker, ot Kerryvillo, were jailed jostorday
under indictments for alleged complicity in
tbo lynching of six negro prisoners near
MUTlngton, Tenn., on tho 31st of August.
By tho running away ot four teams at a
funeral near Irondalo, Ohio, the carriages
were plunged down a steep hill and fifteen
persons severely Injured, five of them fatally,
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PEOPLE MUST BUY.
Senator Davis Sajs Business Will Adjust
Itself to the cw Tariff.
St. Puil, Minn., Sept. 15. Sonator O. K.
Davis in an Interview to-day said: ''Tho
American peoplo cannot help producing. Wo
hnvo 70,000,000 of people, and for sixteen
months 70,000,000 of peoplo have been econo
mizing. But mattera hnvo reached a point
wnere peoplo must buy. Thi3 will hnvo a
tendoncy to improve business conditions and
hasten prosperity. I think that tho business
of tho country will gradually adjust itself to
the provisions of tho new tnrlff, and I think
also what tho busiaess men of this country
really need is peace on tho tariff question.
''The, issuo of tho next campaign," ho con
tinued, "is tho conspicuous fniluro of tho
Democratic party to administer tho affairs of
tho government in diplomacy, in finance, in
everything. Tho Democratic party will bo
on the defensive throughout the campaign
endeavoring to justify its acts. Tho Bopub
lican party has it3 record and will stand upon
that."
WORTH MORE THAN GEMS
iMrs. Corbctt Bemoans the Loss oF
Her Husband's Training Recipes.
DOES NOT MIND THE DIAMONDS
But Those Precious Papers Ware In tho
Pocketbook Eho Lost Both She and tho
Champion Greatly Worried About Their
Bisappoarance Hope They Will Be Found.
Mrs. James J. Corbett, wife of tho cham
pion pugilist of tho world, his lost her
pocketbook, and is greatly distressed thereby,
for it not only contained coin of tho realm,
but also a set of diamond studs valued at
$500, tho gift of her husband nitor his memor
able victory over John L. Sullivan.
Yet even the value of the diamonds is noth
ing in comparison with tho valuo of tho other
contents of the purse, for in it wero many
training recipes for Mr. Corbett, given by all
tho noted trainers and exponents of phjsical
culturo in this countrv nnd Europe, nnd the
loss of which is absolutely irreparable.
Mrs. Corbett has nlwajs been intensely in
terested in all her husband's affairs, and be
sides being his constant companion, is also a
sort of an amanuensis, attending to all the
littlo affairs that aro oi such vitul importanco
to a public man.
A Times reporter called upon Mrs. Corbett
last night at WiUard's Hotel and found her
Beated at tbo dining table with Mr. Corbett
and Mr. Primrose, tho minstrel. Mr". Cor
bett is not verj well known to the public, liv
ing onlv in tho refulgent rajs cast upon her
b her husband's name, but she is well worthy
of notice.
Of medium height and petito form, her
manners nnd conversation are particularly
engaging, nnd she looks upon ono with a
pair of largo bluo ov c3 which are dancing
with fun and enjoyment. She Is a verj- pretty
woman, light Caxen curls crowning a fair
face, remarkablo for its beautiful complexion.
"Oh, I don't know where I lost it," she
eaid, "and I am vory much worried about it.
I had it this morning, and only discovered
tho loss this altornoon. Of course, the value
of tho diamonds was not very great, but thoy
wero given me by my husband, you know,"
with a bright little nod at Mr. Corbett, sitting
opposite. "I maj have lost it on the street,
or in tho hotel, I don't know where, but I do
hope ihoj will find it."
"Of course." said Mr. Corbett, "I am sorry
for the loss of tho diamonds, but I would not
caro at all about them if I could onlv get
back those training recipes. They aro of in
calculable valuo to me, nnd I don't know
what I am going to do without them. You
see, evcrj littlo cold, every indisposition, hnd
a certain treatment which I used, and the
prescription for which was iu tho lost purse,
besides tho recipes of many preparations
which I um; in training."
Tho police have been notified nnd aro mak
ing a diligent search for tho lost articles.
SAYS THERE IS A "RING.'
Ex-Pollccmnn Schneider Accuses Mnjor
JUoorc and Other Police Officials of
Having Hounded Him.
It Is understood that N. Schneider, an ex
policeman of this city, who was twice dis
missed from tho Metropolitan force, and is
now in New York, has written a letter to tho
District Commissioners in which ho savs that
Major Moore, tho superintendent of police,
and Sergt. Charles Mjers, of the Third pre
cinct, aro guilty of great injustice to him.
Myers, he snjs, hounded him day and night
because he would not mix up with dis
reputable colored women, whilo Major Mooro
was tho cauo of his being dropped from the
forco for being absent without leave fifteen
hours, when other privates wero allowed
three dajs' grace. Schneider also claims that
thore was a "ring," of which Major Mooro
nnd Lieut. Hollinberger were member, nnd
which also included Sergt. Mjers and Do
tetective Lacej-, to prevent any but their
friends from getting promotion.
Lieut. Hollinberger vas seen last night at
his house, No. 505 B street southeast. Ho
said:
"Schneider is crazy. Ho was dismised
from tho forco twice for desertion. Tho first
time ho abandoned his familj in Georgetown
and went to New York, where ho remained
for five or six months without letting tno de
partment know anj thing about himself. Aftor
a while ho camo back to Washington, nnd at
tho solicitation of Mrs. Schnoider, I asked
Major Moore to use his gooa offices to havo
tho man reappointed. The major did so, and
for somo time everything went along pleas
antly nt his homo.
"Later, however, ho took a notion to go to
New York again, and as ho had not received
permission to go ho was, in accordance with
tho rules, dismissed without trial, this being
tho courso pursued in all similar cuses. I
am surprised at what Schneider sajs, for ho
often writes to mo. The idea of thero being
a ring in tho department is absurd. I
ought not havo asked Major Mooro to havo
him reappointed to the force after ho had
been dismissed tho first timo, for ho was ut
terly incompetent; but I pitied him, and ho
promised to do better. I also warned him
several times that ho was drinking too much
whiskj-, and if he did not stop ho would cer
tainly loso his placo. Ho was married to a
very eatimablo joung woman, but he went off
and left her."
Sergt. Mjers said that so far as Schneider's
charge of hounding mm was concerned, it
was not worth whilo to pay any attention to
it. Ho simply endeavored to make him do
his dutj.
Dotectivo Lacoj said the chargo mado by
Sehneldor that he was a member of anj
"ring" was false in everj' particular.
Supt. Mooro was not at homo when tho re
porter called to see him.
In tho Held of Politics.
Tho Utah Democratic Territorial conven
tion mot in Salt Lako j esterdaj.
Congressman Tom L. Johnson has been re
nominated In tho Twenty-first Ohio district.
Thomas M. Eowen has been nominated for
Congress "by tho Bepubllcnns of the Socond
Colorado district.
Charles A. Chlckering has been renomi
nated by the Bepubllcans of tho Twenty
fourth New York district.
SENT FROM AN ALMSHOUSE
A Peculiar and Pathetic Story from
Alexandria.
MAYOR AGAINST THE COUNCIL
Lizzio Ponn's Discharge Brings on a Small
Municipal War Sho Is Bemonted, and is
Gaid to Havo Associated Too Freely with
Another Inmato Named Dixon.
Alexandria Is about to be stirred by a
municipal quarrel. Tho major and poor
committco havo each other by tho ears and
tho entire city council will shortly bo dragged
in, and ultimately tho whole town.
It is nil about a couple from tho "sub
merged tenth" who hav e for a long timo mado
their homo at tho citj almshouse. The story
involves features which enter into tho theory
that Improvidence and crime run in certain
families and thu w ay to suppress them is to
eeo that such families becomu extinct.
Yestprday Mayor Henry Strauss received
notification from tho council committeo in
charge of tho poor that his recent action re
garding John Dixon and Lizzie Penn was not
satisfactory and a thorough investigation of
tho caso and of other ihatters in connection
With tho nlmshouso would be held.
"John Dixon," said Mayor Strauss to The
Timi s reporter last nlghtm explanation, "was
tho barber out thero. Itw as learned that Li?
zio Ponn was in troublo again from improper
conduct with somo man. I called un liiquirj
into the caso nt inj office. I brought in Mrs.
Smitb.wifeof William M. Smith, keeper of the
almshouse, and two or threo other women.
They testified that thej had seen undue fa
miliarity be'tweciiDixouaud Lizzio Penn, and
Mrs. Smith said she had found them in a com
piomislng position. Tho evidence seemed to
me conclusive, and I ordered that Dixon bo
mado to char out. Thej sent me word the
woman ought to bosent too. but where is sho
to go? You can't throw her into tho street to
starve."
Tho committeo on tho poor of tho Alexan
dria council consists of C. C. Carlin. chair
man, a lawjer at No. 118 North Columbia
btreet; George H. Hinken, furniture dealer
und o.vner of tho citj express nt No. 022 King
street, who represents tho aldermen, and
Thomas J. Faunon, a druggist, and Eag.tr
I Thompson, a printer, from tho lower
board. While Carlm i at ho head, Hinken
is tho oldest man on tho committee. He is
chairman of tho light committee, and has
much mlluence. He said
"1 no committeo had a meeting jesterdaj
and we talked over the mavor's aetion in re
gard to Dixon. Wo think he is wrong.
It was unanimouslj' agreed that tho woman
ought to go too. We cant havo the poor
house made infamous. Tho woman has given
troublo boforo and tho phvsiclan of the nlms
houso sajs the onlj' vaj to keep the placo
clean is to retnovo tho cause. If Lizio Penn
Is an idiot, as thoy claim, let ner go to the
asjlum.
"Wo shall havo a council meeting on the
second Fridaj in October, and we shall bo
readj That woman will havo to go. The
council has somo power," ho said, deter
minedlv, "and the major can't do juntas he
pleases, otherwise we'd just as well have no
council.
"Thero is a law, and wo mean to follow It,
but that woman will have to go. Whj, I am
told by Gilmartin. ono of the inmates, that
sho meets men at the l w houseb up beyond
tho poorhouse. If Dixon had to go, cert.unlv
thero was no cxcuo to keep Lizzie Penn.
Wo jut won't havo that kind of thin,; out
thero anj' longer," be concluded, impatientlj.
Old John Dixon was standing in the so'lt
moonlight ntllenrj's saloon, at tno corner of
Princess an Fairfax streets, at 10 o'clock last
night. ithin half a dozen men wero drink
ing, and through tho tobacco fumes, a girl
dressed in scarlet and w ith rouged cheeks
W as been sitting in a public room.
Dixon is under-sized and thiu-visaged be
jond belief. With sunken cheat and wenrv
ejes, nnd old straw hat and clothes, tho cut,
color, and ounlitv of which would balfio the
most expert clothing man in Washington, ho
was a picturesque and pathetic representa
tive of abject poverty and ,voe. Since his dis
charge from the poornouso ho has been
hanging a tnd Henrv s, doing odd jobs for
scraps to eat
"Going to send her way," he said. "Oh,
no, thej- oughtn't to do that. hero can she
go? Sho cau't take care of herself and will
die. I tried to help her, that was all. I
wanted her to leave off her bad ways, and
tried to be good to her and persuade her to
behave herself, bho was a faithlul worker.
I havo know her to do tho washing for llftj
people over thero when there wero no work
horse folks. But sho don t know the uso of
monej- nud can't take caro of herself.
"Their putting mo out was just a grudge.
Mr. Hinken asked me something about tho
food down there, and I told him tho fish was
rotten. Dr. Gulick, tho poorhouso doctor,
camo down to see about it, and tho cook said
the fish had stood in soak too long. If he
had looked at tho barrel ho would hava found
out. Thov kept on using thnt fish till it had
to bo thrown to tho hogs. Then thov' gavo us
onlj two little slices of stale dry bread."
Lizzio Penn is a fine-looking, well-developed
woman, thirtj j ears old. She has been
jn tho poorhouso sinco her mother diod,
twenty j ears ago. Sho was then a bright
faced girl, active, talkative, foolish. Sho
now weighs 175 pounds, is robust, strong,
willing to work, garrulous, and foo'ish stiU.
She seems to havo littlo understanding of
right or wrong. Sho comes of a lino of weak
minded women.
riityjear3 ngo when Alexandria was tho
greatest fish market in this section and hogs
wnllowed in Pennsj lvania av eaue, while old
bluck Bettj sold small beer and ginger cakes
at her cabin that staod in tho cornfields w hero
tho Smithsoninn now Is. Beckj- Bye was mar
ried in Alexandria to Tom Tenn. Lizzie is
their daughter
Becky Bjo was known among her neigh
bors as oimple. She made Bonn a good wife,
as longshore fishermen's wive3 went, and
they lived hand to mouth down by tho river,
whilo Tom drank all tho whisky he could get,
working when ho felt liko it.
Beckoj''s mother before horwas not bright.
Sho was prettj' Mis3 Askm when sho mnrried
Jesso Bjo, a joung carpenter, nnd sho
brought him a good bit of propertj in farm
lands and slaves down on Hunting Creek. He
had never had any monej-, so ho bought a
pack of hounds and somo night dogs and
went after 'possums bj' night nnd foxes bj
day, while tho negroes plaj cd mumble-pegs
in tho fenco corner. "Craps" was not then
known. Ho used to go to the Alexandria
market nnd buy whisky for himself nnd pud
ding for his dogs, "so thej wouldn t injure
their teeth," ho said.
And so ho ran through tho littlo fortune.
Beokj 'smother was light headed aud prattled
along about her household work whilo thoy
sank lower and lower. Her brother, too, had
been a stupid follow who stood up and was
killed bj- a wad from a boj's Christmas gun.
His sister married John Parsons, who squan
dered tho farm ho got down on the creok in
fooling with horses, and hor noighbors said
sho never seomed to have senso enough to
care. So between drink for the mon nnd sim
ple minds for tho women it 13 no wonder
tholr daughter is in a charity ward and an
outcast.
In the Lnbor Tield.
The Spinners' and Weavers' associations
both held orowded meetings at Fall Biver,
Mass., yesterday, and as a result 38,000 tex
tile operatives of this city aro practically on a
striKe.
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INTERESTING ARMY ORDER.
Sccrctarj I.amont's Plan of Concentrating
Troops cac the Large Cities Car
ried Into Execution.
Tho general order for tho annual movement
of troops was issued bj- tho War Department
at a late hour yesterday afternoon.
Tho establishment of Fort Myer, Ta., a3 tho
headquarters of the Sixth Cavalry, com
manded by Col. D. S. Gordon. 13 tho mot
important feature of tho order, so far as this
locality is concerned. T his cavalry regiment,
which transfers from Tort Niobrara, Nob., will
bring tho regimental band nnd every
thing connected with tho regiment
East. Tho' troons at Fort Mj or. commanded
bj Col. Guj V. Henrj-, arc transferred to Fort
Biley, Kan., nnd other Western posts. Four
companies of the bixth Cavalry, which comes
to Fort Mjer, have been stationed at Chicago
since the recent troubles and will ho joined by
the remaining companies before tho move
ment E ist begins.
Tho Seventeenth Infantry at Tort D. A.
Bussoll. Wjo., with tho exception of two
companies assigned to David's Island, N. Y.,
go to Columbus, Ohio
Tho general order jostorday promulgated j
asabo.eisthe consummation of tho new i
Army policy of Secretary Lamont abolish
ing recruiting rendezvous in the East. '
Heretofore these rendezvous havo been
maintained at great expense. The War
Department has decided that tnev- are
no longer neeessnrj- for tho good of
the service, as they were ongmallj estab
lished with a view to drilling and training
recruits for coist defences and other pur
poses. The now idea does awaj- with the
wasting of months of a ncwly-enhs'ed soldier'-,
time in training for a soldier s life at
recruiting stations and then being transferred
to hi company whore tho work must bo done
all over again, whero the recruit has the dis
advantage of new associations and has to bo
drilled anew to acquaint him with the arm of
tho servico to which ho mav-be assigned. The
War Department believes that a raw recruit
will sooner beomo a useful soldier if sent at
one o to his coinnauj- after enlistment.
Tho disestablishment of recruiting rendez
vous, the principal locations of which huve
been at David's Island, N. Y., and Jefferson
B irr.icks, 31o., will lead to the concentration
of troops at points adjacent to tho large
cities in the trade centers of tho country on
the line of great railroad systems, the
object being to afford the protection of the
regulars in thoeasoof strikeior othertrouble.
Tne recent strikes in the Wet served a an
object lesson to the ar Department in thattho
movement of the tooops from remote posts to
tho scenes of the outbreak caused great de-hij-
aud a great outlij- of money. Thp scheme
of having largo bodies of troops at hand
near the popalous portions of the country, it
is thought, will avoid such difficulties in the
future should emergencies arise.
D0CRERY CAUSED IT ALL.
Devastation in the Treasury Department
Begun Yesterday with a Batch of
Dismissals More to rollovv.
As a result of the Dockerj provision lathe
legislative, judicial and executive appropria
tion bill the gudlotine fell in the Treasurj- De
partment v esterdaj, and the reorganization of
the accounting offices will go on till January
1 next, by which time it i exp-cted that man y
heads will have been ofilciallj decapitated.
The first grist of dwharges were those of
Mr. Jaon E Baker, a division chief, and Mr.
V. . D. Harriott, of the Treasurer's Offiee, to
gether with thirtj clerk. who drew salaries
ranging from r7i0 to -sl.sOO per annum from
various bureaux In toe department. Their
names aro lemporanlj- withheld. They are
scattered about in tho Internal Revenue Bu
reau, a few are in tbo I'ir-t Comptroller s
Office, and tho remainder in tho Third,
Fourth, and Sixth Auditor s office".
It is thought some dismissals will bo mado
from the offices of the Supervising Architect
and Commissioner of Custom1-. The ehanges
will go into effect October 1. and the men
di-chargod have been given a leave of ab
sence to that time.
As a provision of the legi-Iative appropria
tion bill allows $30,000 for reorganization
purposes it is likelj that 100 ot the other 126
clerks necessarj- to be discharged will hold
on uutil Jnnuary 1.
It is said that" the discharges contemplated
will bo sjstematized In such a way as to weed
out the incompetents aud retain efficient
clerk--, also confining dismissals as far as pos
sible to the bureau it i intended to abolish.
Manj- women, it is said, are included among
those di-chnrged. Tne programme will en
tail a lnrgo number of change and promo
tions, and reductions will be In order, all of
which is notc.tlcul itedto mfusenpnrticularlj
jojous atmosphere about the old building at
the end of the Avenue.
WA.TROK CINGELL IS DEAD.
For Years She Suffered from Cancer,
A Inch Terminated Her 1 ife.
Mrs. Elizabeth Gmgell, matron of the Sixth
precinct police station, died la-t night, after
a long illness from cancer in the throat, nt
her home. No. fi21 Ninth street northeast.
The cancer which ended Mrs. Gmgell's life
began to form about twentj-j ears ago. but
sho was not greatlj nnnojed bj- it until after
she had undergone a courso of treatment at
the h mds of a specialist. Immediately after
this tho cadcer began to spread, and sho waa
evcntutllj forced to go to a hospital to bo
operated bn. This again made her worse,
and last Julj- she became so ill as to bo com
pelled to take to her bed, which sho never
again left.
Mrs. Gmgell was appointed matron m 1S39,
when the law authorizing the employment of
matrons at the First and Sixth precinct sta
tions w ent into "fleet. She numbered among
her warmet friends William P. Webb, at one
timo president of the board of District Com
missioners, and Mrs. " ebb. and it was mainly
through their influence that sho received her
appointment.
Mrs. Gmgell was a native of England, but
camo to this countrj at a very earlj- age with
her parents. She was left a widow with eight
small children about ten j ears since, but bj
uutiring effort and industry succeeded in
educating thorn all. Her husband was killed
in a railroad accident at College Station in
1884. Ho left S400 of debt, nnd Mrs. GIngell
paid overy dollar of tho amount out of her
salary as matron, in order, as sho sild. that
there should bo no tarnish on her husband's
name.
One of her sons is married and, with his
wife, lived with her, as do nil tho other chil
dren, except a daughter who is married and
lives iu Isew l'ork Stnte. Mrs. Gmgell's
joungest diugbtcr, who is twelve j ears old,
is regarded as an excellent vocal and instru
mental musici iu.
Mrs. Gingcll was an attendant at a Presby
terian church, but was not a communicant.
Tho arrangements for tho funeral have not
jet been made.
Telegraphic Jlrcv itics.
neavy rains hnvo to somo extent extin
guished tho forest fires In Wisconsin and
Michigan.
Tho final argument in tho Ezeta caso was
concluded iu San Francisco v esterdaj and
tho cose was submitted to Judge Morrow.
Tho court's decision, however, was withheld
till next week.
In tho United States circuit court in Now
l'ork v esterdaj, tho North American
Commercial Company put in its answer to
tho claim of tho United States government
for 3130,1S7.50. on account of alleged breach
contract, and handed in a bill to the govern
ment for 8233,725 for alleged los3 of profit
arising out of tho samo contract-
The convention of tho Brotherhood of Lo
comotive Firomon at Harrisburg, Pa., yester
day unanimously adopted resolutions sus
taining tho position of Yico Grand Master
Hanrahan In the American Eailway union
strike of Juno and July in advising members
of the brotherhood who went out on strike
through sympathy not to work with non-
I union men.
E. KORTZ JOHNSON DEAD
He Had Been in 111 Health for Nearly
Ttv'o Years Past.
BANKER AND BUSINESS MAN
Ono of theForomostCitizansof Washington
He Was Not Quite Forty-nino Years of
Age Cane Eero from Maryland La 18 G5
A Kemher of Many Busineis Institutions.
E. Kurtz Johnson, the woH-known banker
and business man, ot this eity, died, at hia
restdenee, No. 1600 Massachusetts avenue, at
8 jO o'clock last night.
Mr. Johnson has been ailing for nearly two
years past, but it wr3 not thought until re
cently that hi3 illness would prove fatal.
Eanjin tbe summer he illness, took a serious
turn, aad he transferred his variou3 bttsinesa
interests to his son, Richard A. Johnson, and
went to the Virginia Hot Springs, where, how
ever, he failed to secure the heseflta hoped
for. IIo therefore tried New Esgtand, and
spent some time at Portsmouth, N. H., and
Boston.
Growing worse and realizing that his end
was near. Mr. Johnson returned home Sep
tember 3. He bad made up bis mind some
time ago to become a Catholic, and he sent
for Father Kerviek, of bt. Matthew's, last
Tuesday, aad profes3iDg his faith became a
member of the Catholic Church. At the
time of bis death last nicht Mr. Johnson was
surrounded by his wife, his children, and hla
brothers
In tne death of Mr. Johnson. Washington
loses one of its fore-nost citizens, and a man
who has always bn amon, the leaders of
every movement which had for its object tho
best "interests and advancement of the Capi
tal city. Mr. Jobnon was a man of pleas
ing personality, bid manners were most pol
l'hed, and the light of ms kindness and con
sideration for bfe fellows was disseminated
wherever he went among the legion of
friends with whom be came in contact in his
social and business relations.
WIAI.TH KEWVKDED rSTEGBITr.
He was a successful man, and wealth re
warded the integrity he manifested In hl3
business dealings. He was unostentatious,
and he made no greater display of hfcj money
than was neee&sary to care for his family be
comingly. His charities were many, though
quietly betowed. and many know that ho
never "refused aid to the deserving or to any
project that contemplated public or private
good.
Mr. Johnson was born in Iorchester
countr. Md.. December 13. 1845, and was one
of nine brothers, n art vail of whom havo
been prominent in Washington, business
circles. He received a liberal education at
the Vi est Biver Classical Institute of that
State, coming to Washington in 1865, where
he entered into mercantile life. By integrity
of dealing, steadfastness of purpose, and keen
bu-iness instincts he climbed through all the
successive stages of business life- from mer
chant to banker, achieving for himseila place
among the foremost of successful Washing
ton business men.
His flrst business venture was a partnership
with his brother in the grocery business un
der tbe firm name of J. H. Johnson & Co. In
1567, he. witn bi3 brother, founded the well
known firm of Johnson Brothers, wood and
coal dealers, which, under his management,
became one of the largest in the United States
in that line Ho carried on also an extensive
lumber bus-ness under the linn name of John
son & Wismatt, the latter being his brother-
in-law.
He was a director in the Great Falls Ice
Company, treasurer of the National Typo
graphic Company, viee president and director
of the Choptank Steamboat Company, of
Maryland, the Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany, and the Columbia Machine Company.
He rose from viee president to president ot
the Citizens National Bank, of Washington.
HELD I HIGH PEHSOsfVI. RKGABD.
Ho was one of the promotera and directors
of the Eckington and Soldiers Home BnJIway
Companv. from which he withdrew only when
his health failed him. His band was felt, as
director aad otherwise, in the Providence
Hospital, Emergency Hospital, and various
other charitable institutions in the District.
President Harrison, who held Mr. Johnson
in high personal regard, appointed him as
one of the commissioners to the World's
Columbian Exposition, In which eapaeity ha
represented the District of Columbia with
great dignity and credit.
He leaves a wife, four sons, Bichard, Perry,
Charles H.. and W. Kurtz Johnson, and a
daughter. Miss Sarah Elizabeth Johnson.
His sons are all prosperous men aud will
take up and managa the large business inter
ests of their father.
A wide circle of friends and employes, a3
well as the general public of Washington, wdl
mourn tbe loss of Mr. Johnson.
Tne funeral arrangements will not be com
pleted until to-daj.
FELL VITH THE ELEVATOR.
Two Laborers on the Schneider Flats Nar
rowly tscapc Death.
Jamo3 Byan, a laborer, aged twenty-five
years, and Frank Knighton, a tile-setter,
aged nineteen, fell twenty-five feet at tho
Cairo apartment house, better known aa
Schneider's fiats, on Q street, between Six
teenth and fceventeenth streets, yenerday
morning, and were painfully hurt, but thi3
probably prevented a more serious accident.
It j an had his left arm broken nt the
shoulder, and Knighton was cut and bruised
about the mouth, but suffered no other in
juries. The men were taken to the Emer
gency Hospital.
The accident was caused by the overloading
of a small elevator on which Kyan had placed
threo barrels of sand and stone instead of
two as he had been told to do. An examina
tion of the machinery ot the cable showed
that tho wire rope had begun to strand, and
that so nianv of tho wires had broken and
untwisted that only about one-third of tho
original material was left intact.
So much alarm was felt among the work
men that It was decided to put only about
one-half as much weight as usual on the
cable. A new ropo will be put in at once.
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DIED OF ASIATIC FEVER.
Capt. Bridscraan.of the V.S.S. Baltimore,
Contracted It In Korea.
Tacoju, Wash., Sept. 13. The death of
Capt. William B. Bridgeman, of tho U. S. S.
Baltimore, which occurred hero this morn
ing, was tho result of Asiatie fever, not
cholera, contracted in Korea. He arrived
here from Japan some days ago on leave of
absence and was then verv sick.
Suit Against iK.L Assembly.
BvLTnionE, Md., Sept. 15. The second
trial of tho suit of George W. Lucke against
Clothing Cutters and Trimmers Assembly,
7507, Knights of Labor, for 35.000. has begun
in the court of common pleas. Ho ulleges
that owing to a threat mado by the assembly
that his retention would result in a general
boycott against his employer's firm, the latter
dismissed him. Although willing, so he
claims, to Join the assembly, his application
was denied on the ground that too many
union men were already out ot work. Tho
assembly maintains that Lucke did not prop
erly apply for membership. The case will bo
continued Monday.
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