Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-03
WASHINGTON WHIsPERINGs.
A Young Man Crazed by Rum Wanted
TO End His Life.

A Young Man Crazed by kum ~Shtoo
10 End His Life. -
WASHINGTON, May "A young Baltimo-
rean, named j. Henry Clampitt, who came
here some two months since, was commit
ted for the action of the grand jury for
shooting at a man named klenk. it seems
that Clampitt went into q saloon kept 0y
John Schlotterbeck, on o street near Sew
enth, about 1880 o'clock last night, and,
after drinking glass of beer, presented
paper TO Mr.. Schlotterbeck to read, at the
same time
Drawing q Pistol
and placing it at his own head. The paper
was a farewell letter to his mother and
Emma Sullivan. Schlotterbeck asked him
not to kill himself in the saloon, and Mr.:
Klenk came from the dining room and
tried to disarm Clampitt. The latter then
opened fire upon Klenk. a ball going within
q short distance of his head. Clampitt was
drunk and declares he had no motive Tor
committing suicide or killing anyone.
The Sugar Commission.
Secretary Folger is understood to be de-
sirous of having outsiders upon the CON-
mission to investigate the questions con-
nected with Hawaiian sugar importation.
He will relieve such special agents as have
pronounced views on the subject, and re-
place them with men who are open to con-
viction in relation to the recent discoveries
of science bearing on the tests that are re-
liable in sugar testing.
Sounding the New jersey CoastI
The United States Coast Survey steamer
Blake has been placed under orders from
the Treasury Department to take the sound
ipgs of the New Jersey coast. She will run
various lines of soundings out to 100
fathom curve on Long Island, which was
surveyed last season, down and OIL the
coast of New Jersey. Some three months
will be consumed in this work, which is
of considerable importance, no sounding
having been taken off this coast for many
years.
at this time and the fact that crude instru
ments were used at the period when the
former work was done render the present
survey imperatively necessary. Great i'm
proyements have been made in the appa-
ratus for deep-sea soundlngs in the last
few years, and results are now easily at.
tanned which were thought to be sur
rounded with unsurmountable difficulties.
Nantucket shoals is the next locality to
be surveyed.
The Cruisers Named.
The President selected Boston, Atlanta
and Chicago as the ames for the three new
steel cruisers of the navy.
Missed His Break fast.
Rev. J. H. Raddeck, a well. known col
ored NJ. z. clergyman, formerly OF Balu-
more but now of Staunton, arrived in Bal
tmore yesterday on train from Washing
ton over the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
aud at once made complaint that his civil
rights had been denied him and that he
had been ill-treated and elected from the
Viaduct Hotel at the railway station,
owned by the railroad company. He states
that when the train arrived at the station
he went into the hotel with other pas
sengers
To Get His Breakfast,
but was refused by the manager OF the
house. who stated that John w. Garrett
had given orders that colored people
should not be served there. The clergy
man says he attempted to demonstrate,
but he was again ordered out.
Special Meeting of the Cabinet.
WASHINGTON, May "A special meeting
of the Cabinet was held to day, to consider
the civil service regulations now awaiting
the Presidents action. All the members
were present except the Attorney General.
The session last ed about two and half
hours, and the regulations as presented by
the Civil Service Commission were agreed
to without
Substantial ChanRe.
although it was deemed advisable to change
the mode of rules. There was one ques-
ton which the Cabinet found it difficult to
decide. The custom which is now observed
in making appointments in several OF the
Executive departments, and which in the
Treasury has force of law, is to distribute
them among States and territories
Upon the Basis OF Population.
1t is questioned whether strict adherence
to this rule would not in any case hamper
the administration of civil service, and the
msjority of the members of the Cabinet in
cline to view that appointment under the
new civil service rules should be made
strictly upon merit as determined by the
competitive examination regardless OF the
residence of the successful candidates.
Supplying stamps.
WASHINGTON, May 2.-Rogers, Acting
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue, to-day
telegraphed Collector Sturgis at st. Louis
in regard to supplying the demand for
stamps under the lew law, as follows: "In
addition to the stamps already sent, 5000
twenty pound tobaccs stamps will be ship
ped you to-day. We will try to keep you
supplied for the current demand
and hope to stock the trade fully
within ten days. The short time elapsing
between the passage of the act and the
Date It Took Effect
has made it impossible, with all the ma
chinery availvable, thus far, to meet the
regular demand and put out q three
months supply in addition. Every press
is at work, and has been since the emer-
gency arose"