The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-06-09
A CRACKED CAP F!
Washington's Monument a
Target For ThunderboIts,
Which Crack 1t.
Railway Mali Clerks win Stay
Inf Competent hut wooden
Heads Must Go.
The Apache Assassins stir
Butchering Miners--A Luna
tic Asylum Burned.
Starving in West virginia. Burn
ing in Old Virginia, Terri
BILE storms in Other Places.
Commander CIurE,s sudden DE

Washington, June s.-Gen. w. ).
Rosccrans, recently appointed regis
ter of treasury, assumed the duties of
that office this morning.
Secretary Whitney received q tele-
gram to-day announcing the death of
Commander Lewis Clark, command
ing the United States ship Alliance at
Key West. yesterday. The Alliance
was at once ordered by telegraph to
proceed to New York with the re-
mains of Commander Clark. No par
tieulars OF his death were given.
The secretary of the treasury has
been informed that Aufdemote, the
defaulting officer AT the sub-treasury
at New Orleans, has fled to Mexico
where he is interested IN some mines.
The secretary of state has received n
dispatch from the consul-general at
London, saying there is no founda-
iion for the rumor of an outbreak Of
Cholera in England.
Postmaster General Villas TODAY
denied that he had sent n dispatch to
Chicago touching thethreatened strike
among the railway postal clerks AS
has been stated IN Chicago. lie says
that there need be no apprehension
of strike among the railway mail
service employees. 1t was possible
that few clerks who felt that from
their inefiiciency, they had no chance
of remaining in the service
had endcavored to affect
a combination among the
the older and more efficient men but
they had failed in their attempt. The
official postal guide for May contains
notice over the signature of the
postmaster-general that efficient and
honest railway clerks who have not
turned their attention to political la
bors during their service need have
no fear of being disturbed in office.
Chat declaration in regard to postal
clerks and their retention says the
postmaster-general "has never been
departed from in one single lust nee
believe one single mistake was made
but when discovered il, restored the
man to the service. There have been
very consideratc number of remov-
ais made but think that not less than
three. fourths or perhaps nine-tenths
of them were made because of inetlic-
iency, because they were not good
llltN NtIt WIN II
known in the service as dead wood.
A very limited percent age have been
removed because they were partisans
and il is likely that many clerks who
were removed for inefliccncy have re-
ported at their localities that they
were removed for partisan reasons;
but the truth is just as have stated,
the examinations just completed
show that during the months OF
March, April aud May the morals of
the service has greatly improved and
| better results have never been OBJ
| tanned in an examination.
| The president to-day made the fol-
lowing appointments To he United
States marshals- Edward NJ. Boykin
for the district of South Carolina
Robert 5. Kelly, for the territory o.
Montana; Thomas Jefferson Carr, for
tho territory OF Wyoming; RomelC
Martinez, for the territory of New
Mexico. To be United States ator
neys: John Eabblctt Gibson. for the
eastern division of Virginia; Gusta
vus Van llorakc, for the southern
district of Illinois; Hthony Z. Camp
bell, for the territory of Wyoming.
The examination of the Washington
} monument to-day confirms the re
/ port that the cap-stone had be0l
shattered by lightning. The breal
was made by lightning on the north
east corner OF the cap-stone and lou
fragments fell to the ground, wher
they were found to-day, nearly fort
feet from the base of the monument
The engineer in charge is spendin
,, the day at the top of the shaft car,
! fully examining the injury to til
% stone To repair the damage Will n
i quire the rcsetting of several stones.
= The order of business of the ma
ional conference of charities and co
rcctiOns this forenoon was the repo
of the committee ON provisions f.
e the insane, with papers and discu
F. sions. The report was .fcad by
@ Chapiu, chairman OF the comuIittC
i who plainly sketched the progress
10 public sentiment in the last iii
years in the treatment of insane.
the $1,000 insane persons in the I'm
ed States lac said 5000 were not
- the asylum. He set forth the adval
d. tage TO be expected from the sup,
o. vision OF asylums by state boar
lis of charities on the repression
abuses, and the adoption of improy
methods OF treatment and he ,
scribed the evils which sometimes
IL suited from loose forms of comm
ny ments. He commended the establi
Ms ment of training school at Buff
Tor the hospital attendants and the
tension of the state civil SCI vice /,
uiI TO the section of attendants and III
ps. ical officers. lie said many asyll