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The Southern author, MIR. Joel Chandler Harris,
"Uncle Remus, +" Is q man who is plain in his man
ners and plain in his dress. The charge Ia made
least one button Is always missing from his coat
Moreover, he has red hair aud wears rel cravats.
A curious inquiry that fas been made to learn
the actual expenditure required to convert the
average sinner in Chicago, shows that 1t costs the
Methodsts $25 to make a convert, the Baptisis $40,
the Congregationalists $45, the Presbyterians 500,
the Eplscopalians $500 and the Catholics and
Lutherans 1850.
Minister Curry, who represents the United States
at Madrid, IL said TO have won the hearts OF the
Spaniards by u series OF splendid dinner parties,
concerts, afternoon teas and dances that have
been attended by the elite OF the arlstocracy AMI
by everybody who ID anybody In the political
world. Both MIR. and Mrs. Curry are wealthy,
and the salons OF the American Legation are ntted
up with taste and luxury.
Joseph w. Fiier, who will probably be the next
Governor OF Illinois, Is 6 feet tall spare in nesh, OF n
swarthy complexion, with keen black eyes and a
heavy head OF coarse black hair that is now tlnged
with gray. His carriage Il erect, his movements
elastic and his weight Ia about 1850 POUNDS. lie pos
sesses great physical strength. He has a wife and
children to whom he Is deyotedly attached.
Miss Gabrielle Greeley, the daughter and only sur
viving child OF the great editor, Is living q quiet
aud useful life at her country home near Chappa-
qua, n. Y. She 10 a well developed, strongly built
young woman with a bright ana beautiful face.
Her features are classic and her brown hair Is
drawn back in the simplest manner and tied In a
plain knot. She usually wears a wide-brimmed
GainsborouRh hat with floating plumes that be-
comes her wonderfully.
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At the Windsor are George r. Bemis, OF Omaha,
Neb. ana Ii. G. Mutt, OF Boston.
At the Albemarle Is q. Beausoleil, who holds n
big place In the Canadian Government,
Theatrical Manager John b. Stets0n, Of Boston,
is doing business downtown to-day. He is at the
Aston.
r. W. Simmons, of New orleans, and John L.
Dempsey, of Clinton, N. Y, are at the Hoffman
House.
C.. II. Cummings. railroad contractor, of Chi
cage. and K Hamper, of Germany, are at tue
Brunswick.
Charles Fowler, IT,, OF Galveston, Tex, and
x-May0r A. b. Banks, OF Albany, are at the
Grand Hotel.
Col. Austin Lathrop, State Superintendent Of
Prisons, and L. PrentisS Bailey, postmaster at
Utica, are at the Gilsey.
DIR. and Mrs. De Blanco. well known in
- Frisco, " and w. II. Clarkson, from Buffalo, are
at the 81. James for u time.
Fifth Avenue new corners includes John w.
Chandler, OF Boston,; Wilnam Carr, OF Pittsburgh,
and L. w. Knott, OF 81. Louis.
Putting up at the Hotel Dam are Frank button,
OF Boston; A. II. Smith, Of Baltimore; II. ID.
white, OF Philadelphia, and 7. II. Cooley, of
Philadelphia.
Te-day's arrivals at the Union Square Hotel are
". A. Latham, OF Seneca tails, Il n. WhlIeu, OF
BostOu, apd,u J.. ietaVer, Of Bulaao Egui adi .,.
Thomas Drawn. John Owens end WinihmfWard,'
ae.e.alesI 10 the convention fren RophesLer, ana
ID. Cady Herrick, Of Albany, iried the coffee and
Tolls VI tile eiurleyant this morning.
Registered At the Morton House are A. d. Reiche,
OF Auourni Y. Pond, OF Bridgeport, Conn. !; X q.
AmeA, OF Washington; George X Mnier, OF
worcester ana w. II. Brahiey, OF Boston.
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HARD ON THE BOYS,

The Truant Officer, with his heart steeled
by a sense of duty. is the terror of absentee
schoolboys Just now.
If there is ever q time when playing
hockey " is excusable, tits surely in the first
real spring days. Thu unaccustomed warmth
creates a lassitude for study. and all nature
beckons the boy to play. Multitudinous
games entice him. There are balls and pen
mics to pitch, kites to fly, fish to catch, sur
reptitious and shivering swimming to indulge
in. and oil manner of outdoor fun to enjoy.
Truly. between the officers thumb and fin
ger and the maternal slipper, the hockey
playing schoolboy's lot is not happy one.
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ABOVE THE LAW.

The coal and oil m~onopolies in Pennsyl-
vania and their allies, the railroad corpora
tions, are O law into themselves.
II by any means q law is passed inimical to
their selfish interests, they proceed to nullify
it. The Anti Conspiracy law of that State il
o dead letter, except against labor organiza-
tions. although it was intended to forbid the
combinations hat exist for controlling the
production and the price of universal neces-
sites. .
And now the big coal operators have de-
liberately set aside the law passed last year
requiring semi-monthly payments to en-
ployees. 1t isn't convenient for them,
and SO the miners are to be kept out of their
earnings for a month.
Has Pennsylvania q Governor and Attor-
ney-General !?
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JERSEY cITY's WARRIORS OF THE 4TH

Capt. SIZZLING, Of Company Il, lives in Passaic,
and 30 do the men he commando
Capt. Mason, of Company F, is a great society
man and somewhat OF a ball-player.
QuHrtermaster Alvin Gran Is the youngest In APP
pearance Of any onicer in the regiment.
Major Hugh Abernethy never relaxes his upright
carriage whether drilling or on the street.
Capt Bowley's companT, A, has long borne In
patience the name OF the =. dude company"
~. Gerardln has given his name to a corps Of
young lady cadets which he has drilled to perfec-
ton.
Capt. Graham. OF Company G, 10 q politician.
He ran for Alderman last month. but Is still only
II captain.
Paymaster Frank Matthews is q prominent real
estate man and an authority on matters pertaining
to his ONCE.
In Chaplain John L scudden the bows have
found an earnest worker, who makes his onice
more than q name.
DR.. Mortimer Lampson, the surgeon Of the regi-
meut, 10 deeply interested in the development Of
the Lafayette district
Capt. John N. Bruins, OF Company d, who was
elected only II few weeks ago, has already greatly
improved his company.
Lieut.. Col. p. Farmer Wanser ia "A most impos-
ing figure when nountcd-cven more 80 than
when presiding as Police Justice.
Col. samuel d. Dickinson Is one OF the youngest
colonies OF the National Guard and knows us
much OF military discipline az the Oldest.
q, Capt. Dowa, OF Company f, is in luck. Almost
all OF his superior Officers have been captains of
this company, and his turn must come with the
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TAMMANY,s OAK PLANK.

Tammany Hall is preparing a plank against
Trusts, to be inserted in the Democratic
State platform. 1t should be of live oak,
without a wormhole or a streak of punk in it.
The failure of the Legislature to adopt any
measure to forbid these combinations from
robbinR the people on, one hand and Cypress
ing labor on the other, was themost scandalous
omission of the session. Monopoly agents in
it made q farce of the investigation and
killed every hostile bill.
It is time for both parties to define their
position on his issue. ..
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LITTLEwOOD'S PLUCKY RACE.
Travelling All Day Saturday While Suffer
Ing Excruciating Pain.

To the untutored it seems strange that
George Littlewood, the English pedestrian,
should have surpassed Champion Jimmie AL
bert's record from 10 O'Clock Saturday morn
ing down to 5 o'clock in the afternoon, being
sometimes as much as three miles ahead OF
Albert's record. and still failed to beat the
final record of GIL miles at 10 o'clock.
Had they seen the foot which the Sheffield
boy showed to the reporters at the Ashland
House Yesterday they would have marvelled,
rather, that he remained on the track SO long.
The flesh on the fourth and fifth toe of one
orally laid bare. Littlewood bad travelled
all day Saturday on that foot, the pain from
which was eXcruciating.
At 8 p. NJ. his score was COZ miles 4 laps.
At . it was only 6l1.2, and as this was ten
nile short of the record, he retired from
the contest.
How anxious he was to win the champion
ship, may be gathered from the fact that
early in the day he iinplored Dan Herty to
work alorgside of him and urge his pace, SO
He had been handicapped from the start.
On Tuesday the oil in his thigh joint was
not sufficient, and the joint worked
like a rusty hinge, giving him almost agoniz;-
ing pain. Nothing but indomitable pluck
aud will power braced him up for a contin-
uance then.
He is fearfully stiff and amt after the
race, but he says cheerily that he shall go
nome on MAY ~, ana Will cnalleuRe lne
world for the championship mi So, 600.
Gus Guerrero was as Timber and lively as
ever after the race. He danced q jig to show
how free from stiffness he was. But for the
attack of vertigo last Monday. and his faint
ing fit on the track Friday night, the Greaser
would have been a hot competitor with
Littlewood for first place. AS it was he
covered $50 miles.
The gate receipts for the week aggregated
SIS. 1896. 80. Littlewood gets So, 974. IL. For
beating the record he would have receive |
81, 200 more. Guerrero gets 81, $751;. 65 Herty,
81, 1872. 90; Norenac, $794.S2 and Golden,
1897. Al.
At 8 o'clock Donald Burns and James Col
win, who held the pedestrians share of the
gate receipts. paid each his share at the Office
of the Sporting Times.
Gus Guerrero has challenged George Cart
wright to a fifty-mile run for $500 a side and
the CHI mpionship of the world, now held by
Cartwright. The latter has accepted. and
the race will be run on the Polo Grounds on
June %, with James c.. Kennedy referee.
Donald Burns backs Guerrero.
Cartwright will start III II neutrality-suspicious.
race. twelve hours n day, in Victoria Rink,
Montreal. next Monday. He will lie in
America all summer
. Tomorrow night all the pedestrians who
finished in last weeks race will attend The
Strll Alarm" at the Fourteenth Street Thea
tire, by invitation of the management.
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raised against n building that it is n wonder
the men are not hurt o~ftener, and that acct
dents are not n common occurrence.
When persons are seen at the windows of
houses that are on fire, and access to them by
the stairways is cut off, the ladders are run
up against the house to take them down.
The long ladder is lying along the street.
Some men get Mt one end of it and brace it,
while others proceed to raise it by g~rasping
round after round, and so working it up to a
perpendicular, and getting down from the
top to the bottom, where the other men are
holding it firmly.
OF course, the crowd of men are brought
together in this way. Then each one is eager
to go up the ladder and rescue the persons IN
the burning building. Only one can go at a
lime. Sometimes, one of the fellows who is
OF the under side of the ladder, where he
has naturally found himself through working
the ladder up to n perpendicular from be-
meath it, in his eagernesst to get up will catch
hold of the ounds and begin to climb up
hand over hand. He knows he would not
have q chance IL he came round to the other
side, where several men are clustered, Just
waiting till the ladder Is in position in order
TO swarm up it.
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THE STATE CONVENTION.

Tba Democratic clans gathering for the
State Convention tomorrow appear to wear
but one color, so far as the main work Of the
meeting is concerned. They are all for
President CLEvELAND's nomination, whether
CLEVELAND men " or not.
The talk of deferring platform making
until the September Convention is absurd.
The national platform will be made in June.
The idea that the Empire State alone has
nothing to say as a N indication of what that
platform should be could only have been
inspired by cowardice or stupidity.
The people want to know, and have a right
to know, what the party leaders have to
offer.
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ONE OF HIS HAUNTs.

Onward plodsthe agent. The above is only
an incident in his days work. He visits two
or three households and finds that the boy,
or the girl-for sometimes, but not often, the
truant is q girl-bas been kept from school by
the mother.
He is now investigating the case of Johnny
Magnify, q fourteen-year-old genius. Johnny
has been away from school for five days. He
arrives ut the Magnify mansion and comes
face TO face with the truant. He is recog-
nized by the agent rs an old offender.
Johnny, you have not been at school for
five days 7"
Nav"
"Why not ?"
Been sick"
- hat with 2"
"Measles-er-no. whoopin' cough"
+" Is your mother inI"
Amt nobody in"
We'll, we had better 60 up and see."
Tell yer, mister, amt no one ter home"
They go up, however, and it turns out just
rs the agent expected. johnny had been
telling falsehoods. He had not been sick at
all. lie Will be, though, when the agent
leaves, for Mrs. Magnify is n muscular
woman and intends to make things pleasant
for John
The truancy agent has n dozen such expe-
riences in Il day.
Said one of the veterans to The EVENING
WORLD man: For many years | have been
an agent of t~ruancy. Truancy is nearly alto
gether confined to boys between the ages of
ten and. fourteen years, Many q boy / have
lad to have committed to the Juvenile Asylg
luin; l must sly, however. that truaney IL
on the decrease. H
!" during he warmer months l catch about
fifteen IA week. They generally cut school TO
go up to the Park, to play ball, and, in some
cases, TO go to matinees at the cheap theatres.
W nnd them in candy stores, In the streets
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THE FAT WAS srILLEp IN THE FIRE.

l remember u rather humorous incident
which arose from this praiseworthy desire on
the part Of the tiremen to rescue some one.
IL was ut "A fire 90 in n house on Twenty first
street, near Eighth avenue. A servant girl
WAS engaged one morninI i'll trying out fat
over the range in the kitchen. Through
some awkwardncss she upset the pan con.
tanning the fat, and il was all spilled III the
fire. Fat make a tremendous smoke, and in
a moment u big black volume OF il began TO
pour ont Of the basement windows and rise
up through the passageways and fill the
house.
1t looked as if there was n very lively fire
going on, policeman who saw the smoke
issuing from tho house thought, of course,
that II was on fire and sounded the alarm.
The engine and hook aud ladder came rush
ing to the place.
At n window on the second story stood a
nice, respectablo-looking old lady. She was
slight and of medium height, neatly dressed,
and her white hair was rolled back from her
face. The ladder was run up with the great
est celerily, and n fireman climbed up as far
as he could to rescue the nice old lady.
She was not rs much frightened as might
have been expected. Perhaps she saw there
were no flames, and the smoke, although il
wns acrid and ugly, was not so very thick on
she floors OF the house, as u good DIAL of il
escaped through the basement windows.
A policeman had gone VI the stairs till he
reached the room where the old lady was.
He entered it and tried to persuade her to 70
Go % Concluded 7O-AorrOW.)
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HENRY W. ROWLAND MISSING.
No Trace of Him Seen by His Friends Sine
Lust Saturday Evening.

Henry W. Rowland, once well known as .
hotel proprietor and manager, has been lost'o
his family sicce last Saturday evening,
He was last seen by his brother. in LAW ~
the ~latter's store in Park place. ~ M
home. l495 Broadway, it was to-day learheo
that Nj. Rowland had been suffering Win =
brain trouble for some months past. ING
members of his family are exceedingly
anxious, but hope for the best.
Relatives living out of town, have pg hds
summoned to aid in the search when ~
family 4Aa many OF f'' fttenas eE
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JERSEY CITY NEWS
Incidents of the second "Dry' SUNDAY
Under the New Liquor LAW.

There were q dozen arrests for drunkenness
in Jersey City yesterday, and five saloon
keepers were caught III the act of selling
liquor. Yesterday was the second dry"
Sunday under the new law. Louis Holman,
of 6s Essex street Henry Thompson, II bar
tender in the saloon of ex- Commissioners
Reynolds. at the corner of Bay and Grove
streets Michael Duffy, his wife and bar
tender, Joseph Brody, of the corner of Bar
ron and Grand streets, Were before Justice
Stiising this morning.
The cases were adjourned to Thursday.
Before Justice Wanser were Patrick
O'Dowd, of 4S4 Communipaw avenue, and
Thomas Angus, of 25l Pine street. Both
were held for trial.
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accompanying cut
will be recognized at
once by the numerous
of the popular
a mateur champion.
Eddie LANCE. +. d.
LANCE is an amateur
walker Of remarkable
ability, whose physi-
cal proportions are so
at variance with his
remarkable ability rs
to excite the amaze
ment and wonder of
those who witness his
performances. Mr..
LANCE has won the
amateur champion
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and in their homes. Often the mother of o
truant will shelter her child and defend him
when punishment would be the best remedy.
Some of the miscreants get to know me. and
when they see me the way they scoot is a
caution. Girls very rarely are %truqnts. When
once a boy has been caught he is not likely
to be an offender again in a hurry. We can
generally pick out a truant i'll the street
from the boy who is really kept from school
by his parents.n
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Havlin's Challenge suits "rhe Solder"

Boston. May l4.-lsaac Weir, "the Spider, 4"
having read the challenge Of Jack Havliu, open to
al me world, called at me GtoGe ONCE
is meat for me-" and he pointed
TO Havlin's challenge In the sunday Globe. $50
Jack Is open TO the world TO hght AT lS pounds,
Mar outs OF Queensberry rulrs7 Wen, that suits
me TO u i, and am just the man he Is looking for.
The weight named Is exactly wnat | nght al, and
the rules meet with my approval"
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New York is 30 big and 80 busy a town that
o convention more or less makes little differ
ence in the aspect of things. And yet be-
tween the Methodist General Conference and
the Democratic State Convention the uptown
hotels have an unusually lively and varied
appearance. The w~ire-pullers must be care
full not to get the wrong man by the button
hole.
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The body OF an Italian sailor was found noating
in the Delaware, l.aCkawanna and Western Canal
at the foot OF Nineteenth street, Jersey CITY, beside
The schooner W. II. Rowe.
Henry Dlckerd hired a furnished room a month
ago from Mrs. Jennie Newhouse, OF lI2 Essex
street, Jersey CITY, whose husband works at night.
saturday night he assaulted ner IN her own room.
Justice Stills ng held him for trial this morning.
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Coroner LEVY has q chance to do a great
public service in fixing the responsibility of
the deaths by electric wires. He says he
shall go to the bottom of the matter. The
business of making i~nquests necessary
through criminal carelessness ought to be
stopped.
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..Is there amy news to-day ~ asked a young re.
Death of Gen. Smnlly.

Gen. Henry A. smally. for many years a clerk in
the department OF Public Works, and a brother OF
B. B. Smally, who was lately appointed collector
OF customs, in Burlington, VIZ, by President
day afternoon, of pneumonia, after an illness OF
ten days. He lived at the Ashland House.
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HOWLS MARX THEIR PATH.
TRUANCY AGENTS MAKE COUNTLESS
SMALL BOYS MOURN.
Spring the Best Season for Hunting Those
Who Play H~ookey-Any Boy Between the
Ages OF Eight and Twelve May be stopped
in the street During school Hours and
Questioned-Tho Practice Decreasing.

HIS is the line Of The
year when the mind of
the small boy lightly
turns to thoughts Of
baseball and h out
door sports. 1t may
not be idle to mention
that likewise this is
the time of the year
W h the festive
agents of truancy 'bes
stir themselves, get in
their fine work and
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Gov. HILL will be a Legislature all by
his own self" for the next thirty days. He
has 4lS bills to act on. A veto would fit n
good part of them, judging by the haste with
which they were passed.
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II viii be o great time in Chicago to-day,
with the baseball mines of the metropolis of
the East and the West pitted for the pennaut.
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They say that there has been an excellent
market for rope-ladders among the gay stock
brokers since poor NAT HATcH's" fatal
jump.
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II the DIas DEBAR is mad. It must be ad-
mitted that there Is a very thrifty and prac-
sAl method IN her madness.
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TABLE DELEGATES.

shad, % cents each.
Green peas, 81 q peck.
Lettuce. 3 cents a head.
Cabbage, 10 to PS cents.
Cucumbers, I 10 10 cents
Lemons, 20 cents u dozen.
Tomatoes, % cents u quart.
Rhubarb, 10 cents a bunch.
Layer flgs, 20 cents a pound.
Asparagus, rs cents a bunch.
String beans, 2 cents a quart.
Beets, Is cents a small measure.
Porto Rica pineapples, 80 cents each.
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ROBABLY not a fire.
man in the whole de-
partment in the city of
New York would hest
tate for a moment or
finch from danger
where human life was
in question. As a rule,
there is such an eager
mess to get up the lad
dor the moment il ia
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Arrested for Pi,ch,r3 Penni...

on their way to Suud ly-school Yesterday on q
charge of pitching pennies. Botn were reuianded
this morning..
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The nny in MnlI Street.

The stock speculation continues 10 act by con-
trarles. Everybody had the cup" before the
opening 10 20 short OF the market, and the advice
was acted upon by not a few of the traders, In
stead of going down prices went the other way,
and that too at a lively gait. The advance was
equal 10 l a 2 per cent, with Terminal In the lead.
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Hannah HohenStein, OF 90 Forsyth street, stood
highest In Clasi @ at Grammar School No. 90 lest
week. Albert Mncnahh wa, the est soIo,ar in
Cigs' f OF Grammar School M 81. Thar nam .
we're Dot rvce.vvu in lime Tor publication IN me
hOll or Merit on saturday
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MEN WITH A PULL.

EX-Alderm an John Quinn has mad a slight attack
of the Congressional fever, lie says that there are
Csc Quinns in his district who would support him II
nominated.
Congr assman W.. Bourke Cochran says that his
constituents are keeping track Of the speeches he is
MAKING. Their letters are addressed care of the
Court Of Oyer ana Terminer.
cit will be the first Democratic Convention that
will not hear me shout for the party Of Jefferson
and Jackson"
A you indisposed ?"
"No, but l am in the Custom-H
Are you going to attend the Democratic State
Convention on the opening day 2"
81 am not"
Elbows that ~
81 have $500 bet ON the Brooklyn Handicap, and,
besides, Tammany Hall and the County Democracy
will go into the convention arm in arm"
Ex-warden Tom Walsh was waited upon by a
delegation OF friends, who asked permission to use
his name for Congress. The p 'rtly ex- Warden
made a humorous reply:
"From the Tombs to Congress. That platform
ought to elect one in the district. Well, l shall
consider the suggestion"
"Tlm Campbell likes Congress" put in one Of
the delegation.
"That's a good point you have made. replied
Walsh.
Ex-senator Thomas F. Grady has returned to
the fold. He ID now making speeches at Tammany
Hall district meetings, in which he says that the
Democratic party should be kept In control Of the
city, State and nation. The ex-senator does not
mention President Cleveland's name nor does he
refer to 1884. His friends in Tammany Hall say
that he will support the nominee of the National
Convention.
els there any news to-day ?" asked a young re-
porter as he approached Mayor Hewitt to-day.
Y replied His Honor, al have had my hair
cut and beard trimmed. You can put that In your
paper II you want to-"
IAN right, " replied the reporter, ''but I want
more facts. How much did you pay for the Job ?"
~ thought so; now you want to interview me.
Suppose ire next question will be, was my hair
cut with a knife and fork, - and the Mayor returned
to his deok, looking as II he was sorry he had re-
ferred to his visit 10 a barber. THIRD House.
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OnnnhI in mn nninm nsa.

su Kee, Chung Lee, Annie Smith, Annie M ~ 40
aud Annie Johnston were arrested IN arnia ~ IA
Tombs Court this morning they were held toi
animation.