Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-11-18


The Cattle Growers, Convention.
| COMMISSIONERS coLMAN's ADDREss-REPoRT OF
THE CHIEF OF THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL In
DUsrRY
The third annual convention Of the Nationai
Cattle Growers association assembled In chi
cago yesterday. Henry e. Avord, OF new
YORK, was made temporary chairman OF the
convention. There were delegates present rom
twenty-three states and territories as well as
Canada
Commissioners Of Agriculture Colman, in his
address on the cattle industry Of the country
and its needs, was listened TO with great inter-
est. Few people, )" said Mr.. Colman, "have any
IDEA OF the magnitude OF the industry. col
nent from New York to San Francisco and back
again to Boston would contain about the num-
value this vass ase Is The
product of these animals exceeds Ia value TOUR
Times the yearly earnings OF all the railroaos OF
this great source of food Is contagious disease.
What Is needed" the speaker said, us ma
| tie and the stamping out OF disease by exter-
mination. For this purpose Congress should be
as Re 70 appropriate money! yy.,r.ton chief Of
the bureau of animal industry, read his report,
IN the course of which it was shown that the
is 1000, 900 head: export trade, 122, 900 head;
annual product of the swine industry, 29,OOO,-
600 head; values OF the product which goes into
Gladstone's second speech.
BE WILL PAY NO ATTENTION 10 PARNELLS
DEMANDS.
In his speech at West Calder, Scotland, yes
terday, Mr.. Gladstone said that Mr.. Parnell
had conveyed to him Through the confidential
medium of the newspapers, suggestion that
had better frame q plan for the local govern
ment of Ireland. 1propose now to reply to Mr..
Parneil In an equally confidential manner. But
my reasons for not complying with Mr.: Par,
wishes and deserves respectful and favor.
able attention, yet until the elections the
M Irish wishes are constitutionally unknown"
"The Soudan question was the most difficult
matter of recent years. We fell into error, but
pan ameunts to ths that we did not Commit
more or greater errors Then the Afghan from
tier question arose. We adopted frontier lines
adopted lines already laid out, and therefore
credit him with agreeing to their lines. The
present government saw that carrying out our
adopted it. They obtained our best support"
Referring to the depression Of trade, he said
There is much distress in the agricultural and
coal industries, but it cannot be denied that
food and clothing are cheaper than ever. The
proposals OF certain conservatives to estab1, s
countryss prosperity and advancement were
due to the benefcent and grand effects of free
trade" The London Times pronOunces the
speech the most effective of the campaign.
The Billiard Tournament.
THE SECOND GAME RESULTS IN VICTORY FOR
vIGNAUX OVER sCHAEFER.
The second game of the 14-inch balk line bill
lard tournament was played in Chicago last
evening by Vignaux and Schaefer, resulting in
victory for the former by score of 600 to
AS. Schaefer was q favorite before the game
at to 1. At one time in the game Schaefer
was POI points ahead-217 against Vignaux's
4S-Dnt IL
schaefers run of 132. the cheering was loud
and long, and again when he tied Schaefers
score. W hen at last the foreigner stopped at
1877 on hard One-cushiOn shot the call was Wig
naux, 800; Schaefer, 1913.
Both men showed nervousness, and, at times
during the fluctuations of the game, both made
weak shots. Vignaux closed, in the twenty
fourth inning, the most remarkable game in
billiard history-a game without single blank
inning on his side, and with an average of 25.
<O>------
Mrs. Loud Granted Divorce.
The divorce suit of Helen G. ]. Loud agt.
Thomas ]. Loud, q wellknown banker, was
decided In Boston yesterday, and Mrs. LIQUIDS
petition was granted on the ground of cruel
and abusive IHe.1 Treatment The case has excited
prominence OF the parties.
=, ASKING THE SALE OF, RAiLRoAD.-In
the federal court at indianapolis, Indiana,
Monday the Mercantile Trust company
OF New York, and Noble c. Butler, trustees Of
isville, Evansville and st. Louis railroad, filed
q cross bill asking for the decree of foreclosure
and sale for 100000 and accrued interest. The
bill asks that an accounting be had of the in
debtedness and property OF the road; that it be
continued in the hands of George +. Evans as
the priority of the liens be established and that
the road be sold under decree of foreclosure.
AN ALLEGED FRAUDULENT LAND SALE.-A
deputy sheriff in New York yesterday arrested
nv mi AnAr in,
preme court chambers in proceedings brought
by Simpson @. Mingle, who charges that they
representations. Mingle was the owner of
5000 acres of land in Pennsylvania, and the
defendants were connected with the United
States Land and Investment company. He
agreed to sell them the property for SO, 900,
they representing that the company was per.
feet 1eesly solvent and d.. owned property in Texas
and unable to redeem the bonds given him in
payment for his property.
How ALICE POWELL WAS MURDERED.-A
telegram to THE STAR, from Norfolk, Va,
Monday, stated that Noah Cherry, the negro,
Anne county, on Friday last, was taken from
jail Sunday night and hanged to a tree He at
first stated that another negro committed the
deed. but upon being told that his wet clothes
had been found with three books rolled up in
them. he confessed the truth, and said that re-
Venge was his motive. He said that the deed
was committed with an ak. one of those which
had been seen by the searching party on the
premises Vi MS SronumOLncr. He described
how he waited in the road for little Alice, who
was on the opposite side of the road, coming to-
wards him, singing sweet Bye and Bye;'' that
she evidently tried to avoid him; that when he
attacked, she made no cutlery and did not
scream, but that when he dragged Ler into the
path she said, 80 Lord, have mercy on my
soul;" that he carried her into the pine thcket,
where he killed her with the AK, and, that after
wards hearing some one coming down the road,
he took hold of her feet and dragged her farther
into the thicket.
WARDS HEALTH IMPROvING.-Dr. Ward
the physician at Sing Sing says Ferdinand
Ward, the convict broker, is Improving in,
health, and is not the broken-down creature
that some of the reporters have pictured him
He Is engaged in selecting castings for the
stove contract. The work is light and not
fatiguing. He has made only one call upon the
doctor since he has been there, and that was
after he had been in uniform q few days. He
complained of q lame back. The doctor gave
him a capsicum plaster, and since then he has
had no complaint to make. He says he is
being treated well.
THE EDITOR HAD THE DROP-There was a
personal encounter on the streets of Orlando,
Fla, last Friday afternoon, between MrSt. Clair
Abrams, president of the Tropical Construction
company, and ]. A. Mathews, managing editor
of the Daily NeaCs. The trouble originated in