Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-02-26

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was found on the sidewalk horribly mangled.
Her suicide was very determined one as She
had TO crawl out of the nursery window and
upon ledge above the windows of the NTH
story, an appalling height from the street and
throw herself forward with such impetus as 10
clear some rallingS below. Falling as she did
INTO the paved street. she was of course killed
instantly. The police, having received noti-
fication, brought to the sidewalk a common
Stretcher, upon which she was placed The
BODY was careleSsly covered over and with
the leet DANGLING was carried up Broadway
three blocks and down 18th street 10 the sta
uOh-louSe by Tour policemen, followed by a
crowd OF bootblackS and newSbOy&-IN y
World, -iui.
A FUGITIyE BANK PRESIDENTS PLAUSIBLE
ENCUSES.-,joSeph &. Duncan, the San Fran
cisco bank officer whose mysterious diSan
pearance and reappeaTance have been an.
nounced. denies having been guilty Of crime
and says his hands are clean as regards anV
mIsapprOpriatlon of funds. He accounts for
the failure of the Pioneer Bank by the decline
IN business since the suspension of the Bank
OF California, and the uSuriouS rates of in
terest he was compelled to pay on loans in
order 10 keep the bank atlOat. He saddles the
charge of raising the figures on certificates of
sale deposit stock upon Lawrence. his Son-iu-
law. He believes he can yet save the drpoSit-
ors much from the ruins of the bank.
INVESTIGATING THE Coal CoNRIN ATOM
The New York assembly committee on rail
roads, investigating the coal combination met
in New York yesterday and examined PreSi
dent Dickson, of the Delaware and Hudson
coal company. lie testified that the first
meeting OF the combination was i'm March
lsG7. Trade had been demOraliZed by exceS-
Siye production. and il was proposed 10 limit
the production to the demand. I'm Nav
another meeting was held TO advance prices
nifty cents ton, as prices then did not pay eX-
penSeS. The meeting in December last was 10
regulate and make the trade uniform and
central: hence the board of control. The
organization has had but little effect. The
result OF the organization would be To ad-
vance the price and regulate trade. In reply
10 question whether The combination could
not advance the price Il as readily as fifty
cents he replied IN the negative, and said
there were other interests to SubSeTve besides
raising the price of coal The blOtiing out af
iron manufactures is the chief cause of the
reduction of consumption, and the reduction
is nearly fifty per cent. by the present ar
rangement the combination has proved salts
factory To Consumers as Well as producers. It
would not be TO the interest of the cOmbina-
ton TO advance the price unless the demand
should require il. Coal had been sold in New
York as low aS So per ton, and as high rs sl3
and Sli per ton. He thought s2.15 would now
cover all expenses of putting coal into the
hands OF consumers in New York.
THE EXODUs OF FRERDMEN.-The Rev. Dr
Henry Nj. Turner, who has been travelling
through the southern states, says that the Ii
berian colonization scheme has taken firm
hold upon some of the better class of freedmen
Several hundred cOOred persons are now
awaiting the arrival at Charleston of the bark
AZor purchased with money raised entirely
by freedmen), which is 10 take them to Libe-
ria. The South Carolina Conference OF the A
with the expedition as the representative Of
the church.