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VOL. II. NO. 111.
fAT THE WHITE HOUSEI
Interesting Gossip from
President's Mansion.
tin
HARRISON WANTS MORE ROOM
The Plumbing of the
Presidential Kesid
ence Has Been Overhauled-
Mrs. Kusnell Harrison Kecover frnn
liar Indisposition A llusy AVcek in Ar
m; Circles 1 He Struggle for Adjutant
General Drum's Foltion lteelnniiic t
Look Warm Counting tho Cash at tin
New York Sub-Treasury.
Washington, April 15. A local writer
argues that the Kxeeutive Mansion is n(
proper place for business: that the easterr
portion of tho house occupied by the fieri
cal force should be turned over to the f am
ily of the President; and that the practice
of Presidential hand-shaking should bo di
contiuued.
Iu conclusion the writer says: -'I aoi in
formed on the highest authority that tk
President contemplates taking tho wholi
ISouth front, first iloor of tho Btato depart
meat for executive ofiices, and establishing
a routine of oflico hours.
Mrs. Russell Harrison has recovered
from her indisposition, and Mrs. Scott
Lord is the latest on the sick list. Coi
John "Wilson has had tho plumbing of the-
White House thoroughly examined by ex
pert plumbers and it was pronounced lr
excellent condition.
The invitations for the coming centennial
ceremonies at New York have been issued.
Mrs. Harrison having tho distinguished
honor of being the only lady, who has - re
ceived cards lor the entire series of festivi
ties.
The invitations include nine separate
cards of an unusual size, with green, red
and yellow colors stamped ou one corn er.
with the Washington iiedai fastened in
imitation of red, white and blue rib
bons.
A smaller pasteboard anuouuees that tho
recipient will be forwarded an extra invi
tation for the banquet within three days ot
tho celebration. Inclosing these is a printed
sheet of highly-finished paper, stamped at
tho top with a cameo of Washington and
couched iu the following terms:
"Tho honor of your presence is requested
at tho literary exercises to bo held
at the Sub-Treasury building in New York,
at 10 o'clock ou tho morning of April 30,
1SSD, iu commemoration of George V ash-
ingtou, first President of tho United States.
With tho Lydecker court-martial findings
in the hands of tho Secretary of War, tho
opening of the Armes court-martial, and
the proposed order abolishing Sunday
jno ruing inspections, army circles here
have been considerably agitated during the
past week.
Although the sentence of the Lydecker
court has not yet been made public, it is
quite genera'ly behoved the Major will get
two years suspension from rank and duty.
Tho Armes caso has a peculiar side to it,
and many think it is liable to stir up old
matters that it would be better to allow
time to heal.
Nothing new has been developed during
the weekiu regard to tho Sunday rest or
der. The proposition, it is said, does not
come from representative army men. A
large number of protests against any
change in the existing order of things have
tnn.. ... T.- nr.. .,...1
President Harrison is examining carefully
all tho papers ou tho subject. Somo decis
ion is looked for within tho courso of tho
next few days.
The struggle for the position of of Adju-
tant-Gcueral of tho Army is commencing to
look warm as the date for the retirement, of
Gen. Drum draws near.
Col. Kelton is tne officer most spoken oi
for the position. Gen. McKeevcr and Col.
W. D. Whipple are his strongest rivals.
There will be a tremendous amount
of influence, social and otherwise, brought
to bear upon Secretary Proctor and Gen
eral Harrison.
General Drum retires on May 10, when he
will at once go to his country homo near
Tenleytown, 1). C.
The committee or sixteen Treasury ex
perts, which includes Major Meline, of the
Secretary's office, Captain Mc Mullen, of the
First Auditor's, and Samuel C. Lovejoy, of
the Register's office, appointed by Socro
tary Wiudom to count the New York Sub-
Treasury cash before it is transferred to
Mr. Roberts, tho new Assistant United
States Treasurer there, left for New 'York
city yesterday. Tho examination and count
commences to-day and will probably last
three weeks.
Tho wife of Rear-Admiral Pcbiger was
thrown from h,er carriage while driving
along F street last evening and perhaps fat
ally injured. Her skull was fractured and
one of her arms broken. Late last night her
physicians expressed little hopes of her re
covery.
The colored people of Washington and
the District of Columbia will to-morrow
celebrate tho twenty-seventh anniversary
of thoir emancipation. If tho weather is
fair, the parade will probably be the larg
est of its kind ever known in Washington.
There will bo five thousand men in line.
A number of visiting colored militia and
civic organizations from Baltimore, Rich
mond, and other places will form a prom
inent feature of the parade.
HnflTalo's IWotous Strikers.
. Buffalo, N. Y., April 15. Somo striking
Erie switchmen entered the Fillmore house
last night and quarrclle 1 with some men
boarding there who have taken the places
of strikers. Ono of tho boarders drew a
pistol, but a policeman interfered in time to
prevent further treuble. Saturday night a
similar invason of another hotel was made.
The Scoopers' Union, at a meeting to dis
cuss the question of striking against an ob- j
noxious boss at the Niagara elevator were
so turbulent that tho polica cleared the hall.
A crowd then formed iu the street and
grew so tureatenib, that the polico charged
on thorn with drawn clubs and cleared the
block. Ono arrest was made. It 13 feared
Miat more serious trouble will follow.
McAllister Wouldn't Have It.
New Youk, April 15. Ward McAllister
has resigned as manager ot the Centonuial
ball and banquet.owing to the action of the
Entertainment committee in desriving him
of the discretion usually vested in th?
ioluer of such a position.
Killed by Train.
Amsterdam, N. Y.. April 15. Smith
Walton, aged U0, was struck and instantly
Killed by the Albany and Syracuse accom
modation on the New York Central near
Rectors Crossing 9 miles east of here.
CAPTAIN READ'S SUICIDE.
No Known Reason AVliy Ho Mioulil HiV4
Taken His Own Life.
Plattsbvro, N. Y., April 15. Captait
Ogden B. Read, of the Eleventh Uuitec
States Infantry, stationed at Plattsburj
Barracks, committed s.uieide by shocth.g
himself in the head Ho bad just returnee
from town, where he had gone to obtain
admission to go to the court house to-ihn
to hear tho arguments in the Harrison mur
der trial now being conducted there.
After greeting his wife he went into tin
sitting room. A moment later Mrs. Keac
heard a shot, and ran into tho room, whert
she found her husband lying ou the floor,
with blood flowing from a pistol sho'
wound in his mouth. Ho had placed a ro
volvcr iu his mouth, and tho ball penetrated
tho brain.
Captain Read was 4(5 years old, and t
native of Colchester, Vtv. He enlisted as s
private iu the Tenth Vermont Volunteers ii
ISC'2, and gained promotion by brave anc
meritorious scrvico to the rank of brevet
Major. He took part in niauy battles, in
eluding those of tho Wilderness and tin
siege of Petersburg. He was severelj
wounded by tho explosion of the Petersburg
mine in 1S04.
He was for somo time in the general re
cruiting service iu tho West, and for twe
years has been commanding officer at th
Plattsburg Barracks. Ho was highly re
spected in this community. He leaves a
widow and three children.
The motive for the suicide is not known
NEW YORK'S PAPER WAR.
A Great Conflict Induced by the ltiso Is
Sunday l'rices.
New Yokk, April 15. Tho
contest be
"combine" tweeu tho newspapers in the
which has raised tho Sunday rato to five
cents per copy, and the Star which main
taines its price at three cents grows very
hot.
Mr. W illiam II. Sullivan, the general man
ager of tho Star, was invited into the com
bination, but refused to enter. For the
past week Mr. Sullivan has had a multitude
of men employed in boomingthc circulation
of the .Star. Saturday he had nearly out
hundred ouiploj-es distributing placards,
handbills, etc.
Yesterday tho Star published tho follow
ing at the head of its editorial pago:
'The edition of tho Sunday Star this
morning is 100,000 copies. The demand, ow
ing to the advance in the price of the other
papers, justifies this. Ten large wagons
will distribute the Star to the dealers who
thus suddenly increaso their orders. In
many cases the dealers have dropped other
papers and ordered Stars. Thoro is a rov
olutiou, gentlemen of tho Newspaper Trust,
and the people will let you know what they
are going to do about it."
The newsdealers are in arms against the
combination papers and are working iu the
interest of the Star.
Kx-Coiigrosman Chittenden Dead.
New York, April 15. Ex-Congressman
Simon B. Chittenden died yesterday at his
home in Brooklyn after a long illness. Ho
was 75 years old. He was born in Guilford
Connecticut, whero his ancestors had re
sided from 1619. Ho acquired a fortune in
the ' dry goods business, and since 1SG0 had
boen prominent in politios, serving several
terms iu Congress. He was a Republican
and an ardent protectionist. Ho was a very
liberal contributor ' to charity and public
iustitutious. Among his gifts were $100,033
to Yalo College, $50,000 to theJBrooklyn Lib-
ray and $35,000 to Rov. Dr. Starrs, of
whose church ho was one of the founders
Tried to Kill Ills Wife, Too.
New Yoiik, April 15. J. R. Gyles, aged
65 years, for forty years a physiciau in this
city, committed suicide yesterday at hi
home, No. 417 West Twenty-third street, by
taking strychnine. His wife was in the
room while he was making tne potion and
ho asked her to driuk some of it, not saying
what it was. She thought it was magnesia,
and said sho did not need any. After she
left the room she heard groans and return
ing, found her husband dying. He had evi
dently intended that his wife should die
with him. Ho had suffered from melan
cholia for tho past few years, owing to fin
ancial and professional troubles.
Killed by Exploding l'lro Damp.
Wilkesdakke, Pa., April 15. Charles
Hodges and Evau Meddio were instantly
killed by an explosion of gas in the Grand
Tunnel colliery, -Tanticoke, yesterday.
Hodges is an experienced fire-boss and
Meddie a pump runner. They were exam
ining the mines, looking for dangerous
flows of gas irt order to warn tho miners of
danger when they entered the works to
day. Hodges approached an old abandoned
working filled with standing gas. Ho had a
naked lamp, and au explosion ensued. Both
men were terribly mangled and burned.
He Lost Ilalf a Million In Wheat.
St. Louis, April 15. The letters left by
Mr. John Jackson, who committed suicide,
indicate plainly that the suicide was caused
by heavy losses in May wheat. Reports on
'Change have placed the loss at $500,000. An
investigation into the affairs of the Elevator
company with which Sir. Jackson was con
nected will be begun at once. Mf. Jack
son's real estate holdings amounting to over
half a million dollars, are said to be heavily
encumbered.
Tlio Corpse Paid For the lleer.
New Haven-, Conn., April 15. Just be
fore ho died F. B. Ploeger, ex-Lieutenant of
the City Guard and member of Canton Au
rora Lodge, I. O. O. F., requested that every
one who attended tho funeral be provided
with as much lager beer as desired. He
was buried with military honors yesterday,
His last request was so faithfully carried
out that soveral ot tho paraders were,
through either fatiguo or hilarity, forced to
leave the ranks of tho parade.
ltnther Young to Elope.
New Haven, Conn., April 15. Ada Arm
strong, aged 15, left her home in West Au
sonia several days ago, and cannot be
found. She is au expert banjo player, and
is supposed to have eloped with a member
of Hill's opera company. The girl's parents,
who are very respectab.e people, are greatly
grieved over their daughter's disappear
ance.
D.-etittito Coul Minor.
PuiLLirsnuuo, Pa. , April 15. Many of
the miners in tho Clearfield coal district are
In destitute circumstances and from necesi-
ty are seriously considering the matter of
applying for relief from the Township offlc
lals. Mauy of them have been without
work sinco January 1 and have not the
means to pay for tha commonest food.
To it-crease the Tonctier' Salaries.
Buffalo, N. Y., April 15. Superinten
dent Crokcr has submitted his report to the
Common Council in which he estimates the
salaries of the public school teachers at an
advance of from 5 to 6 per cent. The in
creaso will affect about 800 teaohers. The
proposed increase, if allowed, will amount
to about $21,000.
WATI
NEWS FROM EUROPE
Littlo Interest Regarding Kng-
land's Tax Budget.
EXTRAORDINARY EXPENDITURE
Ln Increase in the Requirements on A
count of the New Haval Schenu
Many Mnnlirn of Parliament Showing a
jLeuning Tiiwanl l'l-otnctiou Kditoi
O'ltiit-ii llm Iiisltiut.d a Libel Suit
Asainnt Lor. I Salisbury Prehistoric
Coiiix and Ancient Jewelry Found in
Sc!ilowi-H-:1a! H n - Foreign. Jollil:.
Loxdox, April 15.-This afternoon the
budget will bo submitted to the Houso of
Commons by Mr. George J. Goschen, the
Chancellor of tho Exchequer.
Surprisingly small interest has been tak
en iu the budget by the press and no fore
cast of its provisions is obtainable at the
present writing.
The only question exciting the concern of
tho people aneut the submission of the esti-(
mates is the one whether the taxes will b
increased in order to meet the requirements
of the new naval scheme. It is hoped, how
ever, and by many expected, t hat the profits
of tho recent conversion of the funds will
off-set tho extraordinary expenditure de
manded by the Government's plans.
Sir Lyon Play fair has announced bis in
tention to strenuously oppose tho second
reading of the Sugar bill iu tho House, and !
will receive assistance in thin action from
other members.
The bill will come up on Thursday, when
Mr. John B. Maple, Conservative member
for Dulwich, will ask the Government to
submit a list of the other articles fostered
by foreign bounties, with a view to having
them placed upon the saino footing with
sugar.
This move indicates a decided leaning on
the part of many members hitherto ardent
free traders toward protection.
Tho Weekly Despatch says that Mr. Wil
liam O'Brien has instituted suit for libel
against Lord Salisbury in consequence of
the latter's remarks concerning him in a re
cent speech delivered at Waterford.
.
At a Boulangist banquet held at Versailles
lust evening, M. Laguerro read Gen. Bou
langcr's manifesto and in a speech con
trasted the doings of tho sham Republicans
of tho present with those of the Republi
cans cf 1779.
The centennial anniversary of tho acts of
tho latter, ho declared, must witness tho
completion of the reforms then initiated.
MM. Laguerre and Horisso were ar
rested on leaving the banquet, but were
subsequently released.
Gen. Boulanger -haa taken a house in the
Avenue Louise, in Brussels, together with
stable accommodation for seven horses. It
is expected that his famous black charger
will arrive in a day or two.
A man of distinguished appearance, call
ing himself Baron Schellerup, was arrested
in Berlin a few days ago for swindling a
horse-dealer out of 20,000 marks. He was
Arraigned in court and released on bail
pending his trial.
W hue he was in custody he wassearched
and Russian money to the amount of 0,000
roubles was found concealed beneath the
lining of his coat.
After his release on bail the police at
tempted to arrest him on other charges but
were unsuccessful. Subsequently it was
discovered that Schellerup is none other
than the famous swindler "Prince Sovine,"
who served a term of imprisonment in
Brussels in ISSo and afterwards escaped
from the custody of officers who were con
voying him to Russia for trial on the charge
of incendiarism.
Since his escape uothing has baen known
of him until his arrest in Berlin. He has
disappeared from the German capital and it
Is suspected that he is in London.
Upward of 5,600 prehistoric silver coins
and a quantity of jewelry of ancient manu
facture have been discovered at Win berg,
iu tschleswig-Holstein. The collection is
very valuable, and the finders expect to re
alize a large sum from its salo to curiosity
hunters.
It is expected in Berlin that the
position of Dr. von Stephan, the Imperial
Minister of Posts, has become exceedingly
shaky owing to his recent severe criticism
of Herr von Maybach, the Prussian Minis
ter of Public Works.
Von Step han's utterances are held to have
been not only unjustifiable as statements of
fact, but also a breach of ministerial court
esy which Prince Bismarck and, of course,
the Emperor, are not disposed to permit to
pass unnoticed.
The steamship Etruria, which arrived
from New York yesterday, reports "that the
steamer Wisconsin is returning to Liver
pool. She has not as yet, however, arrived
at either Liverpool or (jueenstown.
NEWS FROM THE PACIFIC.
Interesting Advices Drought in by the
Steamer Alenieda.
San Francisco, Cal., April 15. The
steamer Alameda brought news that tho
American bark C. D. Bryant, which was
seized by tho Hawaiiau government for
smuggling sixty tons of opium into Honolu
lu, was condemned on tho trial and ordered
to be confiscated.
The case is now awaiting decision on ap
peal. The bark has been allowed to load
and will sail under bonds of $19,000.
The action of the Hawaiian government,
it is thought, is not such as will stand under
the termsflbf the international treaties.
The Alameda also brought news that the
schooner iNorthcru Boll foundered Febru
ary 28 off the Motlab Island Banks group.
and four white men and sixteen natives
wore drowned.
A Steuiuer Damaged by Fire.
New York, April 15. The steamer Rio
Grande, of the Mallory line, was damaged
to the extent of $25,000 by fire at her dock
yesterday. The vessel was being prepared
at Roach's yards, uud would have been
ready to sail next Saturday, but the fire
will delay her two weeks longer. The oil
gin of tho fire is unknown.
Buffalo' Grain Shovellers.
Buefalo, N. Y., April 15. The grain
shovellers held their first spring meeting
yesterday at which the only action taken
was to fix shovelling rates, the same as
those of last year.
- UBUIIY. -CONN;, MONDAY,
CONNECTICUT SHAD CATCHING.
Preparations on the Houiatonle River for
the Season's Work.
Bridgeport, Conn., April 15. There is
much activity aloug tho shores of the
llousatonlc river from Stratford to Birm
ingham and Derby preparatory to the an
nual catch of shad. Fishermen are placiug
their seines in readiness by spreading tfeein
upon the river bank, repairing the breaks
and strengthening places made weak by
last season's work, the lines at the upper
and lower edges of the seines are being
tarred, windlasses are taken from the
storehouses to the river and every prelimi
nary attended to which may serve to save
time when the fishing begins. The nets
average three hundred yards long and are
examples of good substantial work in that
line. They are each operated by a crew or
five men, and in some instances horse
power is applied at the windlass.
For some yearspast, despite the effort
of the Fish Commission to avert it by cast
ing young fry into the river, the shad catch
has gradually fallen off, and the expecta
tion is that there will be less than the aver
age return tois year for labor expended.
The evidences of u shiall catch in the Hous-
n tonic aro very marked. In former years
the river veterans wore able to coin each
from $500 to $1,000 in cue ae'osou. Figures
so largo or anything near an approxima
tion, they say, are uow out of the ques
tion.
The decline in the quantity of shad of
late is attributed whether the theory is
'correct or uot to the operations of shad
fishermen in Southern waters, who, by
taking tho fish early, encroach upon the
schools of shad destined for Dong Island
Sound, and thus intercepted thoy never
reach it.
The principal fishing grounds aro at Old
Field, Old Port, Scanty, Fellows, Juniper,
Long and Carter's islands. New Meadow
and Meadow Orchard. Thoro are no very
troublesome restriction to tho work of
catching shad, enterprising persons with
nets often coming to the rivor from points
thirty miles away and paying no fees or
royalities to tho owners of property where
the operotiogs aro conduced.
The season begins in April and terminates
by statute limitatiou June 15.
CARS RUNNING IN ROCHESTER.
Comparative Quiet Iiolgus Over
the
Strike of Street-Cur Employees.
Rochester, N. Y., April 15. There was
comparative quietness yesterday in the car
strike. Cars ran ou many of the lines
without troublo. It was reported that one
car had boen thrown over on Hudson
street but ho one was injured. Several cars
had windows broken by stones thrown.
Early last evening a mob surrounded a
boarding house on Clinton street where
four drivers live. The four men got fright
ened aud as their landlady could not speak
English they were sorely troubled. At last
the woman disguised herself ;and getting
into another house, succeeded in passing a
note to a telephone station asking for aid.
The police patrol wagon was quickly on
hand and six men were arrested. The driv-
ers were taken to the Main street barn
where they will stay in f utm-e.
Hit by a Pitched Kali.
Pailadelphia, April 15. Short-stop J. T.
Scott, of tho University baseball- nine, who
was hit on the head and knocked senseless
by a pitched ball in the University Lafay
ette game Saturday, is in a bad condition at
his home on Walnut street. He rested - un
easily and awoke iu the rnornjng with ter
rible pains in his head and dizziness which
lasted during the day and evening. He can
not speak without stuttering. Dr. Wood,
the attending physiciau, explained that his
patient's loss of speech was due to the ball
hlttitfg his head above his speech centre.
causing local concussioh in this part of the
brain. The doctor thinks that while Scott's
power of articulation will bo regained, yet
there is a grain of improbability.
.lb Sulooukeepor Must Pay.
St. Ai,?9, Vt., April 14. In the County
Court here the jury returned a verdict of
$1,400 for the plaiutiff in the case of Rich
ards vs. Moore. Tho plaintiff, a widow,
sued to recover for the death of her hus
band, while intoxicated, on the ground
that tho defendant who keeps a hotel in
East Berkshire, had sold to her husband the
liquor, the drinking of which caused the
accident which resulted in' his death. The
case is a leading one in this State under' tht
Civil Damage act.
The "Courier" Prrsident Indicted.
Buffalo, N. Y., April 14. The Grand
Jury of the Court of Oyer and Terminer
has indicted George Belsthin, President of
the Courier on a complaint for libel made by
Penitentiary Superintendent Stickney, who
charges that the Courier has falsely and
malloiously attacked his management of
the institution, with epecial reference to
the case of Jennie Follet, a prisoner who
made damaging chargos against the man
agement.
Tho Paper Attached.
Holtoke, Mass., April 14. The daily
Transcript has been attached in a suit for
libel brought by Michael McKillop, a saloon
keeper. Alexander Terrin, the proprietor
of tho American House here, will possibly
enter a similar suit. The suits are based on
the fact that on Monday last the Transcript
printed the complainants' names in a list
of owners of saloons where liquor was al
leged to have been sold on Sunday.
No News of the Danmark's Passengers.
New York April 15. None of the vessels
which have thus far arrived in port have
brought any news of the fate of the passenj
gers oi tne aDandoned steamer Danmark.
The Amsterdam from Rotterdam and La
Champagne from Harve both reported
heavy weather. The Amsterdam passed
the spott weare tho City of Chester hab the
day before sighted the Danmark, but noth
ing was then visible.
Big Flro at Castle ton, N. Y.
Albany, April 14. The most destructive
fire that has occurred in Castleton since
1873, originated at an early hour this morn
ing in the barn of W. L. Gigner. The
flames destroyed the San ford House, gen
eral store of J. W. Van Hoesen, which was
alsd used as a postofflce, the public halL na
tional bank, and the residence of James R.
Deriter. Estim ted loss, $25,000; partially
insured. .
Spinner .still on Strike.
Newark, N. J., April 15. The strike in
the Kearny O. N. T. thread company is still
on, and it is not expected that any of the
men will return to work to-day. The mill
has closed entirely, throwing several hun
dred people out of employment who bad no
interest in the strke whatever.
A Race War In Demerara.
New Yokk Asrlt.15. According to advees
received by McMilleu, New York agent of
the Loyd, a serious conflict has broken out
between the Blacks aud Portuguse, who are
the paiuclple tradesmen have been soaked
nulling au estimated loss of faooDOta
APRIL li, 1889.
THE SAffiOAN STORM
latest News About tho Great
Naval Disaster.
ADMIRAL KIMBERLY'S BRAVER??
He Was the Last Man to Leave His Sinn
i Ship, the Trenton.
Battering tho Uolle of the Drowned
Sailors lor Hurlal Ab-olul ely I u jxxul-
bl to Identify Some or lite Kvtualas,
They Wero So Dinfleurnl The VtjMt-
vt Situation In Samoa U L'.ichujAl.
M4taafa audtMwlletoa.
Ba .Francisco, April 15. Additional
Samoan advices regarding the recent disas
trous storm say the Admiral commanding
the American fleet was tho last to leave the
Trenton, his flagship. The Americans, offi
cers and sailors, were alike clad in "blue
Jacket" uniform, that being the only sort
of clothing accessible after their trying ex
perience. Admiral Kimberly said he considered
faulty construction or the Trenton hawse
pipes as indirectly the cause of her wreck.
Within a few days after the storm a con
dition of things resembling order had been
brought about. The marines and Mataaf a'l
police had been actively at work in this di
rection. The safes of the Trenton and Van-
dalia had been recovered, together with
a considerable quantity of other property,
from the wrecked vessels.
The Germans and Americans held memor
ial services at different dates for the dead,
At the German service Admiral Kimberley
and all of the American officers attended,
Only about one-fourth of the bodies have
been recovered. Some of these were very
badly mutilated. It was difficult to identify
them-or even to tell the nationality, and it
was finally determined to bury all at one
SDOt together. The interments were made
as speedily as possible, owing to the ex
tremely hot weather, some of the bodies,
including that of Paymaster Armes, were
wrapped in some Samoan matting
burial.
A body, thought to be that of Captain
Schoonmaker, was found Up the coast some
miles distant from the immediate scene oi
the disaster. The bodfes of some of the
lost officers had not been recovered at last
accounts: or. if they came ashore, they
were so mutilated that they were not posi
tively identified.
The Admiral wants to send the jn ipsic
home for repairs if she is able to stand the
trio.
Mataafe shows great concern for the
American sailors. He has offered to them
the use of the Samoan houses to protect
them from the elements, but it was thought
best to continue to keep the men together
They can best be controlled by the officers
in the tents, where they were when tne
steamer left Apia.
Tho political situation in Samoa remains
unchanged.
Mataaf a declared some time ago that all
the blood that had been shed was on ac
count of German Interference in Samoan
affairs. Ho believed that tho war would
end if the Germans would cease giving as
sistance to Tamosese, as the latter would be
powerless alone.
Mataaf a hoped that Admiral K.lmDeriej
would formally protest against the part the
Germans had taken. Should Malietoabe
released bv the Germans and return to Sa
moa. Mataafa says the question of who
should rule would be settled between Mail-
etott and Mataafa.
There would be uo trouble on this account,
as Mauetoa nau resigned in Aiuuiaiu s
favor.
no Eloped With a Factory Girl.
Bridgeport, Conn., April 15, C. W.
Cook, of the manufacturing firm of
Holmes, Edwards & Co., has eloped with
Miss Kittie Semon, a pretty girl of sixteen,
who. until recently, has been employed in
the same establishment. Large Saturday
nitrht Mr. Cook drew a large sum of moeey,
6aylng that he was going on a short vaca
tion. He has a wko and one child, with
whom he resided in a handsome house on
Kossuth street. His domestic relations
were apparently happy. The real fact
were not disclosed until yesterday morn
lng, when a letter was received from botL
Cook and the young woman stating mat
thev had eloped and would never return
Inquiry at the factory showed that Cook's
accounts were perfectly straight.
Deserted by His Bride.
Nbwark. N. J.. April 15. After less thai
a month's trial of married life Lizzie T1U-
vcr. of No. 414 Bank street, left her hus
band's board and took his bed ana several
other domestic articles with her. Joseph
Tillyer is an iron puddler living at Dover,
N. J. On March 10 he married Ldzzie bu-
lett of this place, whom he had known for
a year. On Saturday night, a weeic ago.
when he returned from work he found that
his bride had fled to her parents. Failing to
Induce her to return he advertised that be
would not be responsible for any debts she
might contract. He says his wife is young
and giddy and was dissatisfied with him be
cause he could not earn enougn money w
satisfy all her demands.
Cut His Way Out of Jail.
Elizabeth. N. J.. April 15. John Qulnn,
a deperate prisoner confined In the Union
county laU. broke out of the cook house
last nisht and escaped. He cut one oi tne
iron bars in the windows and lumped
through the opening to the Jail yard and
took to the woods. Qulnn's trial is set
down for the May term of court. When he
soaped be had on a red shirt and striped
trousers. He Is five feet ten inones mgn,
with light hair and mustache, twenty-twr
years old and weighs 185 pounds.
Mysterious Death of a Woman.
Jerset Citt. Aoril 15. Mrs. Johanna
Roche left- her home at No. 117 Sixteenth
street, at 10 o'clock Saturday night to pur
chase some . groceries, one procurea me
goods and started toward her home. She
did not reach there and her husband search
ed for her all night. At daylight yesterday
her lifeless body was discovered in a gutter
in the rear of her house. Tho cause of
death is unknown. She was fifty years
Did. .
Boyeottlng Ale aud Porter.J
Newark, N. J.. April 15. The labor
unions have pu a boycott on the Morton
Ale Brewing Company of this city. The
company recently discharged a number of
men. and a committee from the Ale and
Porter Brewers' Union waited pon the
fUm. to . secure their rebutaWmeat. The
committee was treated with scant courtesy
AN INGRATE'S THEFTS.
jHrnard Shroeder ef Newark, N. J., Kotas
Ills liene factor.
NaVARK, N. J., April 15. Bern ard Shrce-
r, head salesman for R. G. Salomon, the
Newark tanner of alligator and other skins,
is confined at the Newark Police Head
quarters on a charge of having stolen or
iwindled his employer out of about $10,000
worth of skins.
Two weeks ago Mr. Salomon received an
anonymous letter telling him that some one
in his employ was robbing him extensively.
Detective Stainsby wae put on the case and
forked until he got sufficient evidence to
warrant the arrest of Schroeder. After be
ing arrested Schrceder confessed that he
began his evil course two years ago. His
first crooked work was in billing first class
goods at the price of third class, and then
ilveiing:the difference with unprincipled
customers.
As Sbrceder has been iu Mr. Salomon's
employ since boyhood, aud was implicitly
trusted, even making out the bills for
goods sold, he had unlimited opportunities,
and When ols customers became aware of
Ms crookedness, he says, they began to
systematicallp impose upon him, compcll-
him to rend them skins for nothing by
threatening to expose him.
He was in their power, and had to do
their bidding, and ho citc.l u case where he
shipped three dozen ulligator skins to a
man for nothing on pain of exposure.
He admitted that he had disposed of large
quantities of kangaroo skins of favorod
cvstomers at the price of imitation goods,.
and that ho had several customers of his
owd to whom ho sold skins at greatly re
duced prices, aud whom he drew On for the
money. His confession wits extracted from
him by the display of begging letters writ
tea by him to tho men who were squeezing
him. These letters Detective Stainsby man
aged to secure and put in the hands of Mr.
Salomon.
Schroeder's employer thinks that the
clerk's speculations will exceed $10,000, and
he says that while he has always implicitly
trusted and had a great deal of respect and
kindly feeling f oy the young man, he owes
it to his busiuess to make an example of
him. Ho will endeavor to recover from
those who assisted in the thefts by buying
the goods, and warrants have been sworn
out for several of the men who led him to
deeper into crime, some of whom are iu the
city. Schroeder lives at 1&3 South Orange
avenue, Newark, and has a wifo and two
children.
SHOT HER AND FLED.
Oarry J. SpUsx Attempts to Kill a Girl
iu a Ituflalo Bagnio.
Buffalo, N. Y., April 15. About ton
.o'clock last night a young man said to be
Harry J. Spiesz, attempted to kill Ruby
Nelson at the house of ill-repute No. 5'i3
Michigan street kept by a Mrs. Henderson.
Spiesz escaped and has not yet been cap
tured. About 9 o'clock Spiesz entered the par
lor and requested that Ruby bo called to
.driuk with him. The girl was summoned
and the two drank together and chatted.
both apparently being on good terms.
Shortly after Spiesz left the house and in
a qurter of an hour returned while the girls
'were at lunch.
About 10:15 the bevy of women in the din
ing room were startled by the cry of a girl
! ,who had gone to the sitting room, "Ruby is
shot I"
j The girl had come down tho back stairs
ttuu itiaou uu u auitv ub iuu uq ui iuo
room. Blood poured from a wound in tne
left eye, showing that she had been shot
Ithere.
The thoory of the police is that Spiesz se
creted himself in Ruby's room, and when
she went up stairs to prepare for lunch he
I shot her from behind the door.
The shot was not heard by anyone iu the
ho use.
Five Prisoner liicak Jail.
Salem, Mass., April 15. Five prlsouors
escaped from the Salem jait yesterday aud
are still at large. They are William Mar
low, E. A. Dennis, Felix Goldlng, P. J. Han-
ley and Thomas W. Flynn, all burglars.
Marlow had been employed about the office
and evidently knew whero the safe Key
Was kept The men concealed themselves
under their beds and did not attend chapel.
After the watchman had passed their cells
they came out, the doors having beeu un
booked to allow the occupants to Join the
line going to chapel. Thoy got tho sale
key, opened tho safe, took out the key to
the odter door and after unlocking the
door, returned they key and locked the
safe up agaiu. Marlaw was the Only one
who wore a prison suit. He went to the
clothes closet and put on another suit-, and
also took two revolvers and $100 from tho
safe. The prisoners had been gone half tin
hour beforO their escape was discovored.
Discouraged by His Wife's Waywardness.
Utica, N. Y April 15. Charles Griffin,
a carpenter, aged so years, cut nis tnroat
iast evening. The jugular vein was severed
and he died in a few minutes. His wife
was leading an improper life and after sev
eral effort to reclaim her he became dis
touraged and ended his life.
Knocked Out Iu Six Rounds.
NrwYor, April 15. Jack Dougherty of
Philadelphia knocked out Billy Burns of
.Worcester, Mass., in six rounds yesterday
at Staten Island. The men aro lightweights
and it was Burn's first fight. He did wolL
but was badly punished.
The English Syndicate In Newark.
Nkwark,1T. Jm April 15. It is understood
that the Christian Trefz brewery has been
Old to the English syndicate for $000,000.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The most productive gas well in the world
was struck at Findl'ay, Ohio, last week.
Its capaoity is 40,000,000 cubic feet per
day.
John Williams, an alleged "White Cap,"
charged with the murder of Henry Lee in
Dallas county. Ark., was sentenced to pris
on for twenty years.
The Georgia division of the Travellers'
Protective association will hold a State
Convention of the Southern Travellers' as
sociation in Savannah the first week in May
next
The report that the members of the Ma
honing Valley Iron Manufact?-ers associa
tion has signed an agreement to shut down
M av 1 and not resume for sixty days is de
nied.
There has been no chango iu status of tho
strike of street railway employees in Min
neapolis. Mayor Rabb has issued a procla
matlon warning the strikers uot to iutcrf ero
vita the running of cars.
Weather Indications.
NW Yor April 11 Wcathor indlonUons
for New York. Eastern Mew Jersey aud New
England: Fair, followed bv light rain, station
ary tempcraturet variable winds.
For Western New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
Delaware and Maryland: lialn, slightly
alaM) winds becoming northeasterly.
MAKERS OF MONEY.
The Largest Mint (in the World at Blr-
lulngbam, Eng.
It is by so means generally known that
an appreciable proportion of our bronze and
silver coins at present m circulation never
saw the dies of tho Royal mint on Tower
hill, but are mako in Birmingham, says tho
Pall Mall Gazette.
Have you never noticed a little letter H
on some of the pennies you have had from
time to time in your hands) This is the
superscription of Messrs. Ralph Heaton &
Sons, the proprietors of tho Birmingham
mint. The grandfather of the present
Ralph Heaton who invented the hot 6hot used
at the siege of Gibraltar was pointed out by
General Elliott as "the man who saved
Gibraltar." Money has been made in Bir
mingham for a long timo back. Matthew
Boulton issued a large quantity of the old
fashioned copper coinage, and in 1S50 the
Heaton s bought the machinery of the Soho
works when it was sold. Of course, the
machinery which they use at present is es
sentially modern and of their own construc
tion. So successful has it been that they
havo supplied all the now used presses to
the royal mint, and have entirely fitted up
the brand-new imperial mint that the
Chinese Government has recently gone in
for, and as this establishment covers more
than six acres of ground, and will contain
ninety presses, -while our own Tower hill
mint can number only sixteen, the impor
tance of the work may be understood. The
new Chinese mint is, indeed, tho largest in
the world. But Messrs. Heaton have made
money for nearly every civilized and un
civilized country. Every colony has had
money from Birmingham. Among foreign
orders may bo mentioned between 3,000 and
4,000 tons of quarter-aunas for India.
As to the coming trade, it may bo briefly
said that money making is very much like
button making. You prepare your metal
and stamp it out and there you are in either
case. The chief difference between the two
industries appears to be that, whilo there is
a demand for buttons all the year round,
coining necessarily proceeds in a series of
"bursts." At the mint the visitor is first
shown the stores. In tho bronzo depart
ment there were some twenty tons of cop
per ingots piled up and about as much
metal for alloy, aud a good deal of rolled
copper. The intrinsic value of coin varies
according to the country. Our coinage is
about the best. The bronze is made from
ninety-five per cent, of copper, four per
cent, of tin aud one per cent of zinc. Tho
silver contains 9.25 of silver to 1.75 of cop
per. Tho copper and silver stores and
weighing out departments aro kept sepa
rate, one metal being of more value than
the other, and it being necessary to be moro
exact in tho case of tho bronzo than in tnat
of the silver coins. The process through
which the metal goes from which bronzo
coins are struck is simple. First, it is
melted up in crucibles ; second, it is formed
into bars bv means of the moulds into
which it is poured ; third, it is rolled ; fourth,
it is heated to soften it; fifth, it is thrown
into cold water, bv which means it
is prevented from cracking when, sixth,
it is again rolled; seventh, the copper
strips are dropped into diluted acid
baths in order to be cleaned; eighth, they
are rolled again. The strips arc then taken
to tho cuttine-out machine, in which, the
metal being inserted, the blanks are rapid
lv and automatically struck out. In tho
room whero this is done a peouliar small
coin for the East was being cut out during
my visit there aro blanks all about tho
floor. Trampling over them, the visitor no
tices a little machine into which two girls
push blanks through a tube as fast as they
can crush them in. This apparatus mills
the edges of the blanks, and, when they
have been milled, they aro ready to bo an
nealed. The annealing is done by placing
the blanks in air-tight pots and putting the
pots into a furnace. On being emptied out
of the pots the blanks are black and scaly,
An acid bath and a good rubbing in a re
volving barrel half full of sawdust soon
polishes them, however, and they aro then
ready to receive tne impress oi me dies.
The metal which is made into silver coins
practically goes through tho same process
In weighing the copper blanks (by the hun
dred) more "tolerance" is, of courso, per
mitted than could beallowed in tho case of
silver coins. The annealing to which the
coins are subjected is done to make them
less brittle, and, therefore, more lively to
take the impress of the dies properly. To
ascertain when the rolled-out metal has
reached tho requisite thinness, one bhmk is
struck from the middle of each silver strip
and weighed. The copper strips are judged
simply by gauge.
It is much easier to coin silver and copper
than gold. A bit of copper or silver lost, or
a few blanks unaccounted for, do uot maka
much difference, but the smallest loss of
irold is a more or less serious matter. Even
when the commoner metals are being minted
the men have to account for what is en
trusted to them, and they stand on gratings
that metal may not stick to their boots, and
in certain parts of the money factory they
are not allowed out from morning till nignt,
their dinners being brought to them.
As has been said, the pieces are not
weighed singly, but in quantities. The
process of impressing the inscription on
both sides of the blanks is a superlatively
simple ono where modern machinery is con
cerned. A dozen large coining presses, one
the bisreest in the world, stand together
in one room. Each machine is furnished
with a brass tube like the mouth of an of
fice-speaking pipe, and into the aperture in
ouestion erirls simnlv drop the blanks as
ouicklv as they like. The almost noiseless
machine is quite automatic ; the blanks are
quietly pushed by it one by one between the
ODVerse and tne reverse uiea, mo uica tuiuo
together, and the blanks move on and
smartly rattle down a tubo into a box
nlaced to catch them. The biggest press is
sufficiently powerful to have stamped such
large affairs as the jubilee medals, which
are three inches in diameter. When the
blanks have been converted into coins by
tho dies thev are. for easier and more cer
tain inspection and for counting, spread out
on "counting boards" which have exactly
a hundred holes. When fi nally passed, they
ore packed into strong boxes or barrels.
Surgical Operation on a Nose.
New York's fashionable world is gossh
ing overta remarkable surgical operation
which has changed the decidedly tip-tilted
nose of an aristocratic young woman into
an orean of puro Grecian design. Tho sur
geon's bill amounted to $1,300. The opera
tion was long aud tedious, involving much
suffering. But the patient is satisfied and
happy for the present. Those who knew
her before tho change maintain that the
new nose does not suit the general confor
mation of her face. Others meeting hei
now for the first time notice a lack of har
mony somewhere, but can not tell what
causes it. Another sensitive creature, who
had her teeth straightened at great ex
pense, is tortured by the horrible fear that
people will say they are false.
jt in n
A Plausible Explanation.
The many autograph letters of George
Washington in existence induce the belief
that at least 1,000 of the 2,700 of his body
servants who have died during the last
thirty years were employed by the Father
of his Country to write his letters.
PRICE TWO CENTS.
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Spring Announcement.
CONTINUES.
CARPETS,
CARPETS!
CARPETS !
At Bottom Prices.
LOOK AND COMPARE
QUALITY AND
PRICES-
Five Frame Bod) Brussels
99 Cents a Yard.
Ingrain Carpets 49 Cents Yard.
w
Lave a full line of
all
the
grades of Carpeting in
Latest Spring Styles at Rock
Bottom prices. Our 5-Frame
Body Brussels, Lowell and
Ilartfoid make, cannot be beat,
at 99 cents.
Elkins & Wake,
and i2 South Main Street
Bargains in Building Lots.
8 lots on Summer sti-eet at $1 000
a lots on Beacoistreet at 1,000
Several on Bishop street at 8800 to 1,00
Several on Pearl street at $1, COO to 1,250
Several on Baldwin near Washington street
$700 to 1,000
A trood corner lot on Hawkins and Pearl
about 73 X ICO 2.500
A strip about 75 feet ou Hawkins. 332 on
I'earl and 4i) on Bronson street, room for
8 houses, at 4.S00
1 North Main street at 1,060
1 North Main street at 9tO
Near North Main a section 130 x 1st) for 1.8C0 "
On Farm strte'. Vine street, Ward street.
walnut street lots 0 to 750
On Division, Griges, Braneh and Grant
streets lots at 500
80 lots on Town 1'lot 300 to 500
SO lots on West Side Hill 300 to 750
100 lots on W atertown rid SCO to 1.000
50 lots on Buck's Hill road about 800
1 lot on klrersuie street CO x Sib, street at
rear also a. COO
Fiue lots at W atertown suo
3 lots on Ashley street, 50 x 130 TOO and 750
1 lot oh J ewelry street 2.000
50 lots in Simonsville 100 to 6C0
1 lot South Mam street opp. Buckle Co.
50x150 ! 1,760
GOOD BUSINESS LOTS.
On South Main street near Union, 40 x 100.. 6,000
On South M in street near Liberty, 45 1-8
xlOO s.OOO
On Bank street about 32x90 7,500
Rear of Bank street. 95 x 126, with old build-
in irs renting for SI, 100 to S1.200 a year 15.600
North Main streeet cornet Kingsbury street
per front loot 100
West Main street, between Central and
Holmes avenue, per front foot 900
A fine corner. Meadow and Field streets. ...10,0uO
A Rood lot Canal street 4.E00
On Grand street, a large lot 10,000
On Jefferson stret. 50 to 110 feet, per foot. . B
Corner Sperry and Wst Mala about 90 x 120
with brick house 6,000
On Seovill street, lot about 70 x 108 with old
building renting about 1900 per year at 6,500
CHOICE RESIDENCE LOTS.
On Cliff street at $55 per foot. North Willow
street at 5r per foot.
cnestnut avenue s-15 per it. w atemue avenue
$30 to $40 per foot.
On Holmes avenue JBOto 0 per loot.
At Valley View Park, 1 lot at $40 p"rfoot.
On Hillsiue avenue, $100 per foot.
On Prospect street, $75 to 100 per foot.
On Highland avenue, $15 per foot.
On Kingsbury street, $50 per foot.
On Pine street a nice corner for $3,500.
Call on us when you want a good lot in any
pai t of town.
ur tor rtiKKiio jukams. rtn ana aixi
DENT INSURANCE, or First-class Investments.
A. F. Abbott & Son.
100 BANK STREET.
t? Onen Tuesday and Saturday erenlnn
7:30 to 8:30 o'clock.
Some Foolish People
Allow a cough to run until it gets b5
yond the reach of medicine. They often
say, "Oh, it will wear away," but in
most cases it wears them away. Could
they be induced to try the successful
medicine called Kemp's Balsam, which
is sold on a positive guarantee cure, they
would immediately see the excellent
effect after taking the first dose. Price
50c and $1.00. Trial siz free. At all
druggists.
The Handsomest Lady In Waterbury
Remarked to a friend the other day that
she knew Kemp's Balsam for the Throat
and Lungs was a superior remeay, as it
stopped her cough instantly when other
cough remedies haa no enect wnatever.
Soto prove this ana convince you or its
merit any druggist will give you a Sam
plo Bottle Free. Large sizes ouc ana 91.
Wake
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