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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-27
An Aged Mans Marriage.

DEMANDING AN INQUEST OF IrN, CY-A STEP
MOTHER AT TWENTY To a SON OF FIFTN-SIN.
A Baltimore dispatch OF June 26th says: An
inquest OF lunacy is now pending in Carroll
county which promises To become one OF the
celebrated cases az the state. Joshua Sellman
is q weu-known farmer, who nves near West
minister. He has number Of large FARMS aud
for twenty years he has been the largest stock
raiser In the neighhorhood. He is reputed 20
be worth nearly Sooo00o. In 1871 hts wife
died, and the old gentleman appeared to he In
consolable About year ago, although be was
nsn %ep Years T 81 a he a.es
great Indignation among his children, eight
In number, the oldest Of whom has
reached the age of ffty-six years. Mr.. Sollman
his real estate and purchased house in West
minister and has been living there since that
time. Last year he made A deed 90 his wife of
the town residence. and in January. being de-
veyed II to Charles T. ReifSnider in trust To he
soid. MI. Reifsnfder was to pay TO Mrs. Sell
Han $4,000 or the proceeds in lieu OF her
DOVER interest therein. Mr.. Reifsnider adver-
tished The property, but before the day OF sale
arrived some of the children OF Mr.. Sellman
nied bill In equity enjoinin the trustee from
selling the property, and praying the court to
wife and the deed of trust TO MIR. Reifsnider.
10 this bill the defendant demurred, and the
demurrer was sustained by the court. The
case was taken to the court OF appeals and the
Yesterday John b. T. seuman, a son, and
Isaac w. Buckingham and wife, son-in-law and
daughter Of Joshua Sellman, aled their petition
asking an Inquest to have their aged father de-
clered iunatic ana a committee appointed TO
taEe charge Of his personaltproperty. The effort
70 establish the old gentleinanS mental failings
y not apt 70 be successful, as be is hale and
hearty. he says that he thinks he has as much
right 70 wife as any one. He is @ first cousin
or the CAROLS of Cafrollton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-27
MIR. BURCHARD SUSPENDED.
Mr.. James r. KiunbNlI, OF pennsyl
vania, Appointed His Successor.

0 ThA Resident to-day suspended Mr.. Burchard,
direstorOf the U. s. mint, to date from July 1sk
and appointed In his stead James p. Kimball,
OF Pennsylvania. Mr.. Burchard declined to
talk about the matter.
DR.. James p. Kimbali, Of Bethlehem, Pa, Is a
university. He Ia q mining engineer
and metallurgist by profession. He
was educated at Harvard university,
and At the mining school of Frieberg, Saxony,
receiving the degree of Pho from the Univer-
sity OF Gottipgen In 1857. He has held
ment surveys. During the war he
served in the army Of the Potomac rs assistant
adjutant general on the stats of Gems. McClel-
Ian, Burnside, Hooker, and Meade, success
sively. He Is now president of the Everett
Iron company of Pennsylvania, and is
ofiice. He Is a member of the Union. Century
and Down Town clubs of New York city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-27
The Clark Investigation.
ALLEGED DEFECrS IN THE NEW WING OF
CITY HALL.

William Y. Robinson, one of the stone-cut-
ters' committee, was called as the first witness
In the Clark investigation to-day. He testified
to examinations he had made of the new wing
of the City Hall building. He described num-
Der of stones which were cracked and broken,
and criticised the construction in other ways
Many of the stones, he said, were defaced with
iron rust. One stone he described as looking
like q piece of calico. He thought the mp
Rearance Of the material showed that
noticed several defects about the porticoes.
On the west side he said there were evidences
that the arches had been repointed, but he
could not say whether 1t had been done since
this Investigation was begun: He particular.
lied various arches ON this side, which he said
had dropped" The pointing over and under
window on the northwest corner had been
done since the investigation of Mr.. Clark had
been commenced. He did not consider it
first-class job. He would not consider It
anything but a second-class job. In the east
room, in the northeast corner Of the building.
he said the center arch OF the ceiling was wider
than the Others and 1t was an inch two
wider on one end than the other, the joists or
Orders not having been placed properly. He
did not know of any reason why they should
not have been placed properly in position.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-27
They Ate the Hard Tack and Bean
Scum.

AND AFTERWARDS ACCUSED SAILOR CHARLIE
WEBSTER, THEIR ENTERTAINERS, OF THEFT.
Charles Webster, goOd-looking sailor boy on
board the Wyandotte at the navy yard, was
before Judge Smell to-day ON q charge Of lar
ceny. A young woman giving her name as
Cecilia Cook. who said she was separated from
her husband, testified that she went on board
and Charlie showed her through the ship with
her companion, Annie Burroughs. While In
the fre-roOm she said he grabbed her and tore
her dress sleeve. After she had looked through
the ship and was about to leave she missed her
gold chain which was worth $40. Annie Bur-
roughs cOrrObOrated her testimony.
Charlie testified that the girls came on the
boat to tiirt and to have good time more than
to see the boat. He started through the boat
and the girls showed considerable freedom, and
when in the fire-room he showed his freedom,
and accidentally tore the girls sleeve, which he
sewed up. When in the dining room they asked
for something to eat. They must have been
on the ooat He ' gave them some Rasd tack
and bean soup, which he said they seemed to
relish. He denied the larceny and the judge
dismissed the case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-27
Lucky" Baldwin and Sharon.

THE PENALTY THE CALIFORNIA MIILI0NA1RES
PAY FOR THEIR MOCK MARRIAGES.
San Francisco Letter to the New York Herald
Behind the brief dispatch sent you'd day or
two ago, saying that q Miss Louise C. Perkins,
of Los Angeles, has commenced suit against r.
]. Baldwin, the millionaire, for breach OF prom
Use and $500, 900 damages, there lies much that
has not been told. From the facts that the
plaintiff In this, as In the Sharon case, claims
TO be possessed of marriage contract, that
both defendants are accidentally rich men,
that both are proprietors OF immense hotels :
from these and scraps Of unwritten history IL
lilo flavor, of why Ralston built the Palace hee
tel, Is true, and that Lucky b. put up the
Baldwin for a similar purpose.
i. j. Baldwin has not always been lucky
and. up to the opening of the Consolidated Nir-
ginia bonanza, in 1873, he was a poor stable
stock in his pocket, sold it On the top turn and
made pilliOns. AT that time Baldwin was
married to a German woman, and was the
well-known Jockey, Budd Dob!e soon very
soon, after the death of his first wife, Baldwin
married again, but almost Immediately sepa-
rated from wife No. and settled S1.0O0,O00
on her as q salve for the loss of his company.
Next he Joined hands with a Miss DeXier--a
some of his children. Mrs Baldwin No. lived
but briefly after her marriage, and. dying of
consumption, left the millionaire free again
a very startling demand upon his attention
was next made on January 8, 1883, when
another slender brunette, named Verona Bald
win-a distant cousin OF his-leaped out OF the
bellbOy's closet beside the Baldwin hotel elc-
vatOr and shot the proprietor I'm the arm.
The girl was arrested, brought to trial and
told the same old story OF betrayed and broken
promises. She was acquitted about the same
time Baldwin took his arm out OF the sling and
was exiled to Washington Territory. The amor
Gus millionaire, had, however, received shock,
and he went off to Los Angeles ~ recupcrate
There he met still another little brunette, a
Miss Lille Bennett the child-ike daughter of
well-known architect But, though very
little and very ingenue, Miss Bennett was a
canny body, and gray-haired Granpa Baldwin
had to make her his tiny wife. Scarcely had
bride and bridegroom got accustomed to each
others society when still another slim brunette
appeared on the scene with thunderholt i'm
the shape OF a complaint and a marriage con-
tract The complaint alleges that as long ago
as April II, 1883, Miss Perkins gave herself up
to Baldwin on the strength of signed promise
TO marry her. No wonder Baldwin staggered
and dropped into a chair when the papers were
served on him, while the beads of perspiration
started to his forehead. He and Sharon may
have enjoyed their stolen pleasures, but neither
Ia very happy man just at present
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-27
The Posts Financial Review.
NEW YORK. June q

The Evening Post, in its financial article, saws:
London was q seller of Pennsylvania railroad
stock this morning again as well as yesterday,
in consequence of the recent discOuraging
statement of the earnings of the lines east Of
Pttsburg in May. The stock has no market
here but the decline in Philadelphia was at
first reported here as being 8 per cent from yes
rect, the lowest being 46as this forenoon. Never
theless, it is stated on good authority that the
to pursue the same policy toward the Sou. h
Pennsylvania that the New York Centraltis
pursuing with the West Shore, and when the
time comes, to reduce rates to the starvation
point, even If 1t IL obliged to pass its own div-
dentis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-27
Seeking Hidden Treasure.
MAN WHO Is SEARCHING FOR NOM
BURIED Ry PIRATES

A NAN WHO IS SEARCHING FOR MONEY
BURIED BY PIRATES.
James Crabtree, who lives in Croton town
ship, Newaygo county, Mich, has left home on
an extraordinary mission. During the Mexi-
can war, in which Mr. Crabtree served. he be-
came intimate with man named Antonnia
with whom he chummed until the close of the
war, when the two men went to New Orleans
where Antonna died soon afterward. ON his
dying bed he told Mr.. Crabtree that In his
younger days he was a first Lieutenant on board
q pirate ship commanded by Paul LEVER aud
that ON one Of their cruises they landed ON
one Of the islands about SO miles below
New Orleans and there buried about 81. 800, 900
In gold and silver. He also declared that he
was the last member of the once famous crew.
Mr.. Crabtree is now S3 years old. and has been
blind for years. but he still thinks that from the
description given him he can 20 TO the exact
spot where the treasure is buried. Hei accom-
panied by his son and one neighbor. Mr.. Crab
tree has started twice before but was taken sick
each time and forced to return home. a fact
that has made his family little superstitiouS
So sanguine is he that the MONEY Is there and
he will find 1t that he mortgaged his farm to
get money to go with. The matter has created
some excitement among the nelghborS-not
that they think he will be successful, hut be-
cause he is SO earnest. He is a man of undoubt-
ed yeracity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-27
Anairs I'm West washt6ranNe,,l

THE DEATH OF WILLIAM Kitf fA
body found On Thursday morning at Haneocks
lodging house, on North Gay street, baltimore.
was identified as that OF WIN. Keating OF this
decided not to hold an inquest, as he was GER
tain that the man had died from suftoaation
from gas. The body was removed to the un-
West Fayette street. Mr.. John Heating, of
this place, sent for the body and 1T has been
brought here.
AT 7 A. M.-Great Falls, temperature, ~: con-
dition, So Receiving reservoir, temperature,
connection, 80. Distributing reservoir, tenn
perature, IS; condition at infiuent gate-house,
3d. cflluent gate-hOuse, SO. High tides in the
river to-day at 7:13 O. IN. and TAO d. M
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-27
Chicago Mark ets.

Mrs. TRUMAN's SUIT FOR DIyoHCr-rhe
truman divorce suit, wherein Mrs, Truman.
wife Of George z. Truman, the Chicago Gambler
seeks 10 compel him To pay her alimouy was
resumed In New York yesterday before Reteree
Thomas. The first witness was "Budd" Kirhy.
Well known to the sporting fraternity. He WIS
q friend Of the defendants and he denied that
Truman had any interest In New York gamb-
ing houses: Kirby, when asked a. to his own
business, refused to eliminate himself Jas f.
Mliiikeii, q theatrical manager and play writer.
testihed 10 crossing the ocean with Truman. bu{
denied that he had ever acted a. Confederate
with him to cheat others at cardA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-27
Changing tho POstmaSters.
Mr.. HAY CARRYING OUT THE PRESIDENTS

Mr.. Malcolm Hay, the First Assistant Post
master General, has come in for good share
of the criticisms made by politicians and others
in regard to the slowness with which changes
have been made. A STAR reporter
learned to-day that during the past ten
days 567 cases of removals, vacancies,
and appointments have been personally exam
considered. Ont of this humber 344 appoint
ments were m:fae and 900 cases were held over
for the purpose of further inquiry into the
merits OF applicants, because where no
vacancies existed reasons were filed
for removal. These cases are again taken up
when the deficiencies are supplied. Mr.. Hay
attends to these duties, which is only branch
of the work of the Office, and as may be seen
methods he has adopted he is simply the agent
of that policy which is laid down and defined
by President Cleveland as the policy of the ad-
ftlinistrafiOn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-27

1t was learned at New Haven yesterday that
Charles II. Northrup, compositor on the
Morning Ne,rs, had run away from his wife and
children and elOped with Miss Lizzie McCaffrey.
a compositor on the same paper. Two weeks
ago Mrs. Northrup found letter from the girl
in her husbands pocket, which proved that he
had been unfatthful 70 her. She upbraided
him, and he promised to reform. Last week
confronting her husband he avowed penitsnce
and said he was sincere In his promises to cease
his intimacy with the girl. Thereupon he was
again forgiven. Last Saturday Northrup. in
company with his wife aud children, went to
New York, telling his wife that he wanted to
leave New Haven forever. Mrs. Northrup and
her two children left New York for this city
sunday. leaving her husband in the city, where
he had secured work, he said. She heard moth
that he had eloped. This information was con.
yeyed by g telegram nom Northrup's mother,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-27

Boy MANGLED by BULLDoG.-John
Shannon, the siA-yearOld son OF James Shan
non, living In the rear OF Mo- 485 Main street,
Hartford, Conn.,, was playing In his yard Thurs
day with q large bulldog belonging to Robert
Cooper, who works la a store a few doors away,
when.toe dog buried Its teeth In the lads arm
Co9pey hearing the boys screams, attempted
T1kEs 8Ba Nus then struck on the head with a
Matched, cutting him badly, but incensing him
30 that he dug his teeth deeper in the boy =
muscles, mangling tue arm badly. The dog
was then shot, but still retained his hold and
his jaws had to be pried open. Thursday night
the boy was In great agony, and the doctors fear
that he will die,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-27

THE BELL TELEPHONE PATENT SUSTAINED.
A decree was entered In the United States cir
cult court. In philadelphia, yesterday, granting
telephone company a perpetual injunction re-
,straining the Rogers telegraph and telephone
company, Robert klotz and John Lenkel from
containing Improvements declared to be in.
fringements upon Alexander Graham Bells
patent. The court appointed master to
take testimony aud assess damages coming
To plaintiffs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-27
A PosrHUMous wonk ny Cor. Brpy.nx

Col. Fred Burnaby, who was killed at the battle
of Abu-klea last January, left the complete
manuscript OF political novel, which his exec
work contains fierce and merciless criticisms
upon certain of the authors political adverse
ries, and lis bitter arraignment OF the liberal
policy In Egypt has an additional sting now
that It's arthur has been killed in one OF the
useless battles caused by that policy. The re-
caused the executors to decide upon the publi-
cation OF the book, which Is sure To cause both
o political and literary sensation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-27

STRUok By A LOCOMOTIVE AND TORN nv A
bEAR.-lienry Meyer, hotel keeper at staple
Ton, L.. l., owns large pet cinnamon bear
Yesterday morning Meyer took the bear down
TO the waller tor bath. Hans Clausen. sailor,
came along and stood watching the antics OF
Inc Dear In the water. \ train came along and
Inc engineer blew lie whistle. Clausen did not
hear II, however, and was knocked uncon-
sciois ana thrown twenty feet into the air and
landed with splash in the water beside the
bear, which savagely sprang upon the sailors
body, tearing his face with Its long claws Mr.
Meyer and the train men tied up the bear and
eot the injured sailor out of the water. Tho
police ambulance took him to tho Smith inSir.
fatally hurt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-27
A Murderer at Eighty Years.

HUGH BROWN CHOPS OFF A SLEEPING CON-
PANION'S HEAD WITH AN AXE.
special to the New York World from Erie,
Pa, June %, says: At West Mill Creek Hugh
Brown, nearly eighty years old, has been ar
rested for murder. He invited Charles Dunn, a
Grand Army veteran, to share his shanty until
better times came, and Dunn, who is about forty
years old, moved over there. This morning
Dunn was found outside the Shanty with his
head severed from his body, his heart cut in
twain, and the trunk gashed and hacked with
an axe belonging to Brown. The accused says
he came home after midnight and thought
Dunn was sleeping on the floor, and that when
ne awoke this morning he saw the pools OF
blood and found the body as described. He de-
clares the crime was committed before he came
home. The assault was evidently committed
In the house and the billet of wood which the
victim had for pillow served the assassin for
a block upon which to perform the deed of de-
capitatiOn. The axe passed through the neck
and buried itself in the block Of wood. The
body was then. probably dragged outside the
door and placed where 1t was found. Brown
has the reputation of being a demon when in
his cups. A few years ago he was sent to the
penitentiary for shooting Thomas Thornton
and previously he had done time for arson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-27

BALTIMORE, Mp June 27-virsinia skies. con-
soldat.d ..:; past Coupons 5Ila: ten.for-
ties ~; North Carolina skies. DID, fO9l. Virginia
new threes. 53 bid to-day.
BALTIMORE; Nd. June 27.-Cotton dull--mid-
ding. lU&s. Flour steady aud quiet Wbs,f-
southern dull: western frmer and quie southern 20,
old. 3ias5 new. Local ID: southern amber g.aI m
No. Maryland, 07l7 bid; No. 2 western winter r.i
spot 92ia93: June S2l4 bid. July. y3a9;3ls: August
eosa9tAs September, V9sa99ss October, IO2i. bi,i
torii-southern higher. western hrmer and dull.
southern white 64a65; do. yellow, 5tao7: western
mxe'i. spot. 5sis asked: July. 524. bid Oats firm
and guet-southern. 31a:s9 western white 3,.a:,ss.
western mixed 36aSS: PENNSYLVANIA, :;.a.;S i've
lower. 8Sa12. Provisions steady and quiet SuenrN
copper refined quiet, lOs Whisky steady j 2sk,1 IN
Other articles unchanged. Freights to Iiyernooi
per steamer dull-c0tlon. b-S2d.: Hour, lsaiss
grain, Is Sd per quarter Receipts-honr ssi barrels:
wheat. 10000 bushels: corn, 10000 busheis. oar
500 bushels Shipments-hour, $3.50 barrels coT1'
1850 bnshe< oats 1000 bushels rye 7U1
bushels. Saies-wheat. l67 ,UOO bushels corn 42tE0
bushes. -'~
Chicago Markets.
CHICAGO. June 27-l p. m.-Wheat market ru,aa
ative but heavy toward the close and closed under
september, oi.s Corn easer-Cash, !7N July 49,;
iAsugust 21l Rye 81 Fiaxseed, riner. i.ai a
July; 10: august. lo3S sep,ember,a ffE.'
August. go
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-27
Firemen HppoiptEd: ao',|

The District Commissioners to-day appointed
the following privates on the fire department
force: Silas w. Donaldson and William Meyers,
to No. Z engine company; Charles Nicholson,
to No. 8; VIM. E. coleman and Arthur M.
Donaldson, to No. 2; A. F. Albers, to No. L;
No. 6; Francis w. Mulhall. to No. 3, and John
NJ. Sweeney, to truck IA.
These are to fill the places of other firemen
who have been detailed for the new engine COM
pany, No. Z.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-27
The New York Appointments.

TAMMANY AND TILDEN NOT LIKELY TO BE
PLEASED WITH THEM.
Neither Tammany nor Tilden comes in for
anything in the Presidents New York APP
pointments to-day. The appointments are
beyond criticism, but they will occasion much
bitter disappointment. Tammany has long
since given up the hope OF getting either Of the
three great places, and their whole efforts were
directed towards preventing the County democ-
racy from getting the collectorship. With this
view they were trying to bring about the ap-
pO1ntment OF some man outside OF the city.
Tflden recommended Simmons, and conf
IDENTIFY expected, it Is said, that the weight of
his endorsement would be sufficient to
tip the balance in his favor. Hubert
y. Thompson recommended Mr.. Hedden,
but the appointment will be disappointment
to him, as he wanted the place himself and had
no ideo Hedden would get 1t. Yet the fact
that Thompson recommended 1t will be suffi-
Gent to make Tammany irreconcilable to He'd
den's appointment. They claim that ThOmp-
son will control the custom house. But none of
the politicians got just what they wanted, and
the appointments are sure to be In perfect ac-
cord with the policy laid down by the President
from the first. Hedden represents the business
men, with a little leaning towards the County
democracy; Beattie Is q county democrat, but
is more particularly Whitney's man, and for
that reason, Ii for no other, will not be accept
able to Tilden; and Burt is mugwump, rep
resenting the most pronounced type of mug
wumpery, going back among the "astrays'
from FOlger.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-27

SHE SAW HER HUsBANps MrRDERER
MWAiiSSsGED.,John MckeSyeT coored, who killed
OF Memphis, Tenn, Friday. The condemned
man attempted Ia commit suicide Thursday
legs with n rough piece OF tin shaped like .
hhlie, which he made out OF a tin snuffbox.
Nhen The turnkey entered the cell Friday
morning The convict was unconscious crom lOso
ol blood lie soon rallied with medical aid.
Mrs Trainer, widow OF the murdered man. oc-
cupleo chair near the gallows and witnessed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-27

Henry @. Denhard, the saloon keeper who
killed himself In Baltimore yesterday, a. stated
IN IHk STAR, was Respondent because OF In
ability TO pay his taxes
At Fort Smith. Ark, James Arcin and VIM.
Farchmeaa. full blooded Cherokce Indians, were
Henry Feigel. IS years ago.
Mrs. John Dieter, OF Gardenviiie, Baltimore
county, was gored to death by q vicious COW.
Peel family in England have Committed sui
eide.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-27

CHINAMEN COMING EAsr.-Many Cinnamon
are passing through Pittsburg for the east.
Thirty-eight Of them, on their way nom San
day. One OF them said that there were too
many of his countrymen in California and Orc.
10 try the eastern states. They say the ssMcli-
can man" il down ON them In California and
those In the east receive fair treatment