The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

liz reply % recent charges that the posta
clerks had not had an opportunity to vote
Postmaster General Hatton insisted tina
Che clerks in the New York post-office al
had chance to vote, and if they did no
do so, itwas their own fault.
PROF SANDERS, of the Agricultural De
partment, accompanied by several assist
ants, feft Washington recently for New
Orleans, where he will put in operation tn,
sugar crushing machinery which has beer
experimental with success fully in Della
ware The appropriation fur the conduc
of the machine at the department was OBJ
tained last year through Senator Plumb.
Influence. The crusher gives signs of revo
authorizing the growing of cane IN the
United States for sugar production. The
gentlemen who go to New Orleans viii
place this machinery on exhibition, also 6
fine chemical display from the Agricul.
tural Department.
SENATOR HAWLEY's committee, ap-
pointed TO investigate the Pittsburgh steel
works and report upoz their facilities foI
the prodgction of steel for heavy guns and
naval vessels, began ats work & few days
ago.
THE General Superintendent Sf the Life
Saving Service in his late annual repoTt
said TIE total number of disasters during 2
the year were 439; total value of property
involved, $40, ,6O7, ,940- total value of preD-
erty saved, S9,161,354; total value of
property lost, 81 $50; total number
Of persons involved, 4,432; total num-
ber of persons saved, 4,412; total num-
ber of persons lost, 80; total number of per-
SONS succored at stations, 552; total num-
ber of days of succor afforded, 1919; NUM-
Der of vessels totally lost, Ga. Investiga-
tions held after each case of loss of life
showed that twenty persons who perished
were entirely beyond human aid, and
that Ia no instance could their loss be at
tributed to any failure in duty on the
part of the life saving crews. The
total number of disasters during the
past year exceeded by twenty three the
number for the year prior, which was
seventy-Gne more than any previous year
In the history of the service. The amount
ot property moved was 1886, ,229 greater
than in the preceding year but the amount
lost was $223.4 .434 less, while the amount
saved was So, ,4S9; ;654 more. The assistance
aChuC4 GU uui ing tut y 6dI III Iuo Saving Ol
vessels and cargoes has been much larger
than in any previous year.
Three hundred and ninety vessels,
which is ffty-three more than in
The preceding year having been worked off
when stranded, repaired when damaged,
piloted out of dangerous places and SINH
larly assisted by the station crew. There
we're besides 240 instances, lis more than
ia the preceding year, where vessels run
ming into danger of stranding were warned
of by night signals of the patrols, most of
them thus being probably saved from par
tial or total destruction.
EX-SENATOR BRUCE, Register of the
Treasury, lately returned to Washington
from his trip to the West, undertaken in
the interest of the exhibits intended to
show the material development of the col
0red race st the New Orleans Exposition
The public statistics, he said, conveyed a
very inadequate conception of the subject.
Espef fally notable was the progress of. the
colored people in the matter of manufac-
lures.