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The Washington critic., 1888-03-03
Grand jury Indictments.

The grand jury to-day presented indict-
ments as follows; John Ready, alias Cody,
forgery, twelve cases, four counts each,
name Of John Edwards TO checks for $40
in 1885; Wm. Miles, alias Moore, forgery;
Wm. Jefferson, alias Thomas Carter, alias
VIM. Davis, larceny; Frank Whitney,
alias Wilmington, and Judd West, larceny
from the person. George Graves and
Emil Montrop, robbery; James Wright
embezzlement George Brumbrey, Rich
ard johnson and John T. Thomas, making
false aflidayits in pension claims.
Mrs. Henry Woods's East Lynne
has reached sale Of l2j,OOO copies.
POTOMAC FAIR Admission, 10 cents,
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The washington Monument.

Immediately south OF the White House stands
the Washington Monument, the loftiest
structure erected by man, and the most
imposing obellsk ever constructed. IL is
built of marble, b55 feet high above its
base, which is 42 feet avoye tide-water. Its
cornerstone was laid July 4, 1913, and the
cap-stone, forming the apex, was placed in
position December g. 1884. In II are 1871
blocks of inserted stones or copper, gifts
from various countries and societies. The.
total cost will be over Si,350,000. IL Is sit
uated in what will ultimately be beau
tiful park. Inside the Monument Is a large
hydraulic elevator, used to raise the blocks
OF stone during its erection. When an ap-
preparation is made. which will probably be
done by the Fiftieth Congress, this elevator
will be fitted for passenger use, and the in
terior of the Monument lighted by electric
ity and opened 10 the public. In the apex
OF the Monument are eight windows, closed
by marble shutters, aifording an unsur-
passed view Of the city and surrounding
country. At present no one Is admitted TO
the Monument,
The Washington critic., 1888-03-03
DUFFY'S FORMULA
A CERTAIN CURE for the FIRST
STAGES of CONSUMPTION.

It's main ingredients are raw beef and Duffy's
Pure Malt Whiskey, and 1t stimulates the ener-
ges and builds up the tissues as no other
scientific discovery has ever done
81 am Presbyterian clergyman and Doc
tor Of Divinity, but am not afraid TO rec
ommend DuGy's Malt Whlskey and Dufy's
Formula as the purest and most efficient prep
aratons as n medicine know Of, and my ex-
perience is large one"
REV. b. MILLS,
Meade Centre, Kan.
Duffy's Formula is for sale by all druggists
and dealers, Price 81 per bottle.
THE DUFFY MALT wHIsKEY CO.,
Rochester, n. Y,
The Washington critic., 1888-03-03
West Washington.

The funeral of the late John A.
Waters will take place tomorrow after
noon, at 30 clock, from the chapel in Oak
Hill, and will be escorted by Potomac
Lodge, No. 5; Potomac Chapter No. 8;
Scottish Rite and Potomac Commandery,
Knights Templars,
Temperature and condition of water
at a. M: Great Falls, temperature Al;
condition, O. receiving reservoir, tempera-
ture 40; condition at north connection, 7;
condition at south connection, o.; dis
tributing reservoir, temperature 80; con-
dition at influent gate-house 8; condition
at eiliuent gate-house, 6.
East Washington.
BOLD Boosters is Pastor Il. Hez
Swem's subject Sunday night.
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NAIdornoy Dairy WAGONS. ~

PoroMAo FAR-Admlssion, 10 cents.
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POTOMAC FAn--Admission, 10 cents.
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Lafayette square.

ImmedIateIy north OF the Whte House Is
Lafayette Square, the first public reserva-
tion In Washington that was improved; IL
contains the equestrian statue of Andrew
jackson, by Clark Mills. Many of It's trees
are old forest monarohs, hundreds OF years
old. It Is In part specimen OF the old for
NAL landscape gardening so fashionable In
England two hundred years ago, style
that was imported into this country. LaJ
ayette Square was, one hundred years ago,
part Of graveyard that inclosed the
Ii built, and the square east, on which are
situated the Attorney ,General's office Uor-
merly the Freedman's Bank), the Surgeon
Generals office and Riggs Bank (both In
the building formerly used as the United
States Bank), Commodore Decatur's house.
corner Fifteenth and a-half and IL streets,
and the old Club House, near which
Siokles, Member of Congress from New
York. The last bodies from this grave.
yard were not removed until 1919,
The Washington critic., 1888-03-03
~. Johns p. Il. Church.

81. Johns p. II. Churcn, which mas been often
called the State Church because more Presi-
dents have worshiped there than at any
other, stands at the corner of IL and Six
teenth streets. II was built In 1916 and en-
larged in 1890. In II have worshipped Presl,
dents Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Ad-
ans Though the latter was Congrega-
tionalisO Martin Van Buren, though he be-
longed to the Dutch Reformed Church,
Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore
Though the latter was Unitarian), Pierce,
Buchanan and Arthur, Presidents Lincoln,
johnson and Grant have also attended Dl-
vine services here although not steadily It's
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9he Botanical Gardens.

Passing eastward over the railroad bridge
that spans Sixth street and the railroad
tracks leading to the B. and P,depot, and
through the pretty park lying between
Maine and Missouri avenues the visitor
comes 10 the entrance on Third street, Just
south OF Pennsylvania avenue, of the B0-
tanical Gardens. These interesting
grounds are open daily from 0 In the morn
Ing to in the evening They were estab'
lished 30 years ago, The conseryatories are
filed with the choicest and rarest foreign
plants. Around the gardens are extensive
collections of trees and shrubs In the cen
tire of the lawn facing the centre oonser.
ySat9Fy to famous oc 5ar.ho poa'an o an
Philadelphia Centennial.
The Washington critic., 1888-03-03
The U. y. Fish CommIssIOn.

Across Seventh street from the Medical Mu-
mory, are the headquarters OF the u. S. Fish
Commission The building is an old one and
was used during the war as hospital. IL
contains the most improved scientific ap-
pliances for fish Matching and Is open 10 The
public till p. M
The Washington critic., 1888-03-03
Medical MUSEUM.

The Army and Navy Medical Museum Is on
the corner Of Seventh and b streets south
west, adjoining the NationalMuseu The
building was finished this year, and Is In
part occupied by clerks of the Surgeon.Gen'
erals office and the hospital records OF the
late war. The Museum Is on the second
floor and Is full Of interesting surgical rel
les of the war. and has the largest medi-
cal library In the world. Among the curl
osities within It's walls Is the artloulated
dent Garfield.
The Washington critic., 1888-03-03
The Naval CONSERVATORY.


This building is situated east OF the Monu.
ment. II is inclosed by the most beautiful
and glowing flower garden in the country
and the grounds contain the most complete
arboretum probably In the United States.
Attached to this Department are the Exper-
diateiy west of the main building. The Belt
Line cars go right western wing Is the libra
ry and the second past the grounds. On
the first floor OF the floor of the centre of the
building devoted to an extensive agrlcultu-
raj museum.
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rhe Printing and En- craving Bureau

The great money mill OF the Government is
located at the corner of Fourteenth and b
streets southwest, southeast from the Monu.
ment and southwest from the Agriculture
Bureau. 1t is reached by theBelt Line Cars,
and is opened to visitors on Saturdays only.
Here are engraved and prin ted the paper
money, bonds, postage and revenuestamps,
etc, used by the Government.
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ployes. in this city, is located on F street,
near the Ebbitt House. The Interior De-
partment building immense as II Is, Is en-
tirely too small for the accommodation of itsS
bureaus, two of which. besides the Educa-
tional and Geological Observation-Disclosures
and Pension are located In other quarters.
largest under the Government.
A large number OF places of interest are at
such distances that q special trip must be
made to see each one Of them Some are ac-
cessible by street-cars, others by carriages
only, but all well repay visit II the visitor
has the time to devote TO them.
The Washington critic., 1888-03-03

One OF the curiosities of Washington is old
Davy Burns Cottage 'on Seventeenth street,
near the river. II may be reached by the
drive south of the Presidents House or by
the Metropolitan or Avenue line of cars.
Next door to il is General Van Ness once
stately mansion, where he brought his bride,
Marcia Burns, one of the original helresses
of Washington.
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The NntIonnI NIuseum.

The National Museum is In the Smithsonian
grounds,a few yards east of the Smithsonian
building II contains thousands of the most
in teresting cnrlosities, samples, OF the life,
open daily TO the public from 0 a. m. 10
d. m.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-02-17
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle STATE.

At Gallitzen. Penn, four Poles were div
ing a can of blasting powder. Fire fir
cigar exploded 1t and scattered the n d
fragments. Two men were fatally - In
very seriously hurt. mi two
THE big dry goods store of
gerer & Co, at Buffalo. \. y <Seefaes, Hen
smaller GT pres adj adjOipng wer 6s ned s ~ifb
thrown out of employT !vhdsod people are
REV. CORNELIUS T t,
lister, seventy years IL baptlst mn nun,
at Somerset, PEI e4si WIS frozen TO death
house leu near liz
ah2 Io"L or Lee, Eess, has an epidemic
OF sca[leI 1eVe r, and there have been seven
eeeh Ue Aths 1T of ninety cases.
N4NE huJ ldred convicts at Sing Sing. NY,
are locke in their cells in enforced idleness,
because the Legislature has not passed the
appr0 Jriations necessary to carry on the
prise N Industries.
HERBERT JOHNSON, prosperous merchant
of Elmira, n. Y, has misappropriated S40,-
} 600 and fed TO Canada.
THE Office of the County Treasurer at
| Monticello, n. Y, was robbed of valuable
| records covering the period from 1873 to 1898.
Mrs. EMMA EDWARDS. of Erie, Penn, in
order to escape the brutalities of her husband
and mother, committed suicide by cutting
| her throat with razor.
A COMMITTEE of experts has declared the
ceiling of the Albany On. ~ Assembly room
unsafe, and the Legislature has vacated and
sought another place of meeting.
CAPTAIN RITCHIE, of Boston, who saved
! the shipwrecked crew of the steamer Trium-
! plant, has been presented with gold watch
! by President Cleveland in recognition of his
! heroism-
THE bodies of murdered twin babies were
! found on the railroad track near Fernwood,
/ Penn.
THE elevator rope broke in Holiss Wool
! dressing Factory, New York city, and three
men plunged from the fifth story to the Gel
! lar, all sustaining serious in jurieS
The steamship Blanche Henderson, loaded
| with bananas and cocoanuts, sank when only
| ten feet from the Philadelphia wharf and
! fourteen of her crew were rescued with diff
! ficulty.
TWENTY striking miners of the William
| Penn Colliery, at Rockbank Penn, attacked
gang of Hungarians and Poles who had
! taken their places and injured number of
| them. The Coal and Iron police charged the
rioters, when they opened fire on the officers,
and compelled them to retreat
| WILLIAM LAVELY and Thomas Larney in
mates of the Soldiers Home at Bath, N Y
| had fight, and Larney killed his adversary.
WOoNSOCKET, r. l., has had over a hun
dred deaths from scarlet fever, and public
funerals are prohibited until the epidemic
subsidies.
THE police authorities in New York City
seized and burned the carcasses of fifteen
COWS affected with pleuro- pneumonia just as
the owners were placing them sale.
The trouble between the coal miners and
the police at Shenandoah Penn. was renewed
and three Poles and two Coal and Iron
policemen were shot.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-02-17
South and West.

A BIG cotton warehouse fire in Charleston,
5: e., destroyed property to the value of
100000.
ELIZA RANDALL, sentenced to be hanged
for butcherlng her father with an ak, has
had her punishment committed to life i'm
prlsonment
JOHN DONAvIN, while making repairs on
a cornice in Baltimore, Md, fell fifty feet
and was killed.
WHEN John Stumbaugh. of LogansDort.
Ind, was sentenced to five years imprIson-
ment for burglary, he threatened to kill
Judge Winfield, who thereupon increased
the period of punishment to fourteen years
COLONEL BRIGGS, Postmaster at Cottage
Grove, ILL.,, fell dead on the street from
congestive apoplexy, and when his body was
conveyed home his wife swooned and died
also
Mrs. MATILDA CARLSON and Miss Amelia
Mowers were killed at railway crossing in
Chicago.
THE boiler of a portable sawmill on the
farm of Lafayette Bolan, near GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, exploded, killing John Arnold and
Charles Sullivan and seriously injuring Ben
jamin Travis. Samuel Stubb, Joseph Stubb
and Frank Warwick.
SHERMAN HUBBARD, of SEYMOUR Ind,
was to have been married; but he was too
bashful to go through the ordeal and COM
mitted suicide in order to escape it.
JAMES POPE, of Long View, Ga, made
his ten-year-o.d brother in-law drunk In
three small children by beating them to in
sensibillty with an iron bar and then i'm
mersing their bodies in a kettle of boiling
water.
AN unknown dead aeronaut and battered
balloon were found in the woods near Du-
luth, MINI.
FIVE men were killed and several seriously
wounded by a boiler explosion at Belmont,
Ohio.
LESTER SINGLETARY, of Columbia, S. c.,
locked his six children in the house and went
to church During his absence the house
caught fire and the children, ranging in age
from thirteen years to thirteen months.
persisted in the flames
JIM CORNELIUS, a colored boy, aged II
years, was hanged in Webster Parish, La,
for the murder Of Ernest Wren, a white
child, aged 3, by beating his brains out with
a club.
AN explosion of natural gas at Anderson
Ind, fatally burned three women and
wrecked a large tenement house.
Tom ELLIS, editor of the Hornet, of Biz
mingham a Ia, was fatally.shot by Policeman
Sullivan, who accused him of libel
AMOS GRANT, of Newton, Ga. murdered
his wife, his thirteen-year son and his
wifeis sister, with an axe, and then commit
ted suicide.
jim CORNELIUS was hanged at Minden.
La, for the murder of a boy four years old.
AN epidemic of winter cholera is raging in
Atchison, Kan, and $50 patients are suffer
ing from it.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-02-17

IS a the provisions or the act or March :,
81, in reference to agricultural stations
The Senate has confirmed the following
nominations: B. Mackey, of South Carolina,
80 be Consul at PasSo del Norte, Mexico; d
F. Ehininger. of New York, to be Consul at
Cienfuegos; James r: Roosevelt, Of New
York, to be Secretary OF Legation at Vi
emma; Sigourney Butler, of Massachusetts,, to
be Second Comptroller.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has approved and
promulgated the new Civil Service rules
which are to go into effect on the 1t OF
March next. The Civil Service regulations
have also been revised to conform TO the
new rules The general rules are nine IN
number, and are applicable, except IN one or
two particulars 10 all parts of the classified
service, and to some parts of the service not
yet classified under the law or rules
OWING to the alarming frequency OF at
tacks bv robbers on mail trains the Post
master General has decided to arm all postal
employees, at the expense Of the Government
SENATOR BLACKBURN, of Kentucky, was
taken suddenly i'll and was carried home In
an unconscious and precarious condition
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-02-17
Foreign.

THE cashier of the Trans Caucasian Rail
wsy, in Russia, was murdered by two n1hn-
lists and robbed of Il, 900 rubles.
Mr. Cox, member of Parliament from
County Clare, Ireland, has been sentenced TO
a months imprisonment for melting tenants
to resist eviction.
a SHARP earthquake shock has been felt in
Scotland.
Or. THOMAS ]. BOSWELL, England's great
est botanist, died few days ago in Scot
land.
PROFESSOR VIRCHOw has made a final
microscopic examination of fragments from
the German Crown Princes throat, and de
clares there is no trace of cancer.
A CHEMIST, of Manchester, England, made
desperate by poverty, murdered his wife and
six children by administering poison, and
then committed suicide.
THE treaty of alliance between Germany
and Austria has been made public. 1t is
purely mutually defensive one, and Russia
has been formally notified that to attack
either is to attack both.
Four persons were killed by an explosion
in gunDowder factory at Hanau. GERMANY
THOMAS CALLEN, of Lowell, Mass, and
Michael Harkins, of Philadelphia, Penn,
who we're on trial in London, England, for
been sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment
each.
LONDON police authorities are closely
guarding the House of Parliament to prevent
the use of dynamite.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-02-17
AN INFANT FIREBUG,
Mary Wilson Fires New York
Hospital. Causing a Death.

The origin of the three mysterious fires
which have occurred in the New Yorh
Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled have
been traced to the agency of a little wry
neclled inmate named Mary Wilson The
first fire caused a panic among the hundred
helpless inmates of the hospital but they
were all rescued, with the except n
of Mary DOnnelly, who was suffocated to
death. The second fire was thought to Lave
been caused by overheated register and
was discovered in time to prevent damage
The authorities then placed a watch upon the
building and the young frebug was caught
in the act of lighting the third fire and the
following confession extracted from her:
Il am Ii years old. 1 have been here for
three years. l made all the fires in the hos
pital. don't know why did it. 1 went in
the doctors room, saw some matches there.
and made the fire on his bureau. Then went
to the bath room and got matches there an
set fire to the clothes in the hamper. To-day in
the dining room found box of matches in
the closet. and made the fire in the drawer.
1t was l who put the matches on the register
In the Doctors room. | do not know why
did it. l am very sorry that did it. Nv
fathers nameis Richard Wilson He lives
in l29th street, 11S East. MARY WILSON,
She is directly responsible for the death of
Mary Donnelly and is now under arrest
charged with murder and arson
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-02-17
w ashinoton.

SENIOR SoUzA Rosa, Portuguese Minister
to China, has been appointed Minister at
Washington to succeed Senior Nogueiras, who
recently died.
DURING January the national debt was re-
duced SIS, 49,, $40. The total debt now is
81, 200, 191 ASP.
COUNT OKUMA has been appointed by the
Japanese Government Minister of Foreign
Affairs 70 the United States.
THE total coinage of the United States
MINIS for January was: Gold, S3.210 600;
silver, 81, 761, 565; minor coin, Sl26,657.
THE President has approved the House res
olution accepting an invitation to participate
in the celebration of the founding of New
South Wales; the act making appropriations
for the fiscal year ended June 80, 1887. and
the act making appropriations to carry into
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-02-17
A. HEROINE DEAD.
The Nebraska School Teachers Who
BraVed the Blizzard.

Miss Eta Shattuck, the Nebraska school
teacher who was imprisoned for three days
in hay stack during and after the great
January blizzard, has died. Both her legs
below the knees had been amputated.
The teacher who spent the whole night
fighting death to save her three little pupils
in an open field. Miss Louise Royce. has had
part of one foot and one hand removed, and
the surgeons have amputated the other foot
below the ankle.
A fund of about 81, 900 had been raised for
Miss Shattuck and subscriptions are in prog
ress for Miss Royce and Miss Minnie Free
man. who saved sixteen children by tying
them to one another and TO herself and lead
ing them three-quarters of a mile through
the storm. Miss Freeman has had twenty
nine offers of marriage since the storm
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-02-17
LOST IN A GALE.
A British Bark Goes Down With
TWentY Men.

Advices were received at San Francisco to
the effect that vessel, supposed to be the
British iron bark Abercorn, bound from
Maryport, England, to Portland, Ore, was
wrecked on the Washington Territory coast
recently.
The vessel arrived off Columbia River bar.
but being unable to get over the breakers put
to sea again. She was caught in the gale,
driven northward, and during the night was
wrecked on the coast near Grays RarbOr.
The sea was so high that the officers and
crew could not leave the vessel They tried
to do SO but failed, and all persisted except
Two seamen and an apprentice. 1t is thought
that 1ulIy twenty lives were lost.
The Abercorn's captain was named McCul-
Iom. The vessel had a cargo of iron ore and
ship and cargo were valued at $3.50, 600.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-02-17
Ten Civilians Killed.

In an encounter between Rio TintO SPAIN
miners, who were out on a strike, and the
troops, ten civilians were killed and five
wounded, and two soldiers were wounded.
The miners had Joined the peasants living
in the vicinity in protesting against open air
calculations The Civil Governor of Hueiva,
accompanied by two companies of troops
and some civil guards, arrived at the
scene on Saturday, and found the streets
occupied 10y thTeatenmg MOP num- numOf frn
the balcony of the municipal building.
and tried to restore order, but the crowd
drowned his voice with shouts and
fired pistols and threw dynamite cartridges
at the soldiers. The troops were then ordered
to fire The crowd was hnally dispersed.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-02-17
INCREASE OF PENSIONS.
Bill to Aid Utterly helpless Sol
dierS and Sailors.

The United States Senate has passed the
dill reported from the Committee on Pen
sons to increase the pensions of certain sol
liers and sailors who are utterly helpless
from mi rieS received or diseases contracted
while in the service of the United st ties.
The bill provides that all persons who are or
who may become totally helpless from in
juries received or diseases contracted while
in the military or naval service of the United
States, shall be entitled to receive pension
of S72 per month, and that the increase al
lowed by this act to those persons who may
hereafter become totally helpless shall be
made to begin in strict conformity with sec
ton sos, Revised Statutes
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-02-17
An Increase Refused.

At the recent meeting of representatives of
the miners of the Wyoming region, it was re-
solved to ask for an increase of ID per cent. in
wages Officers of the Lehigh and Wilkes
barre Coal Company, the Delaware and
Hudson Coal Company, the Hillrnan Vein
Company, the Susquehanna Coal Company
and the Red Ash Coal Company, being the
principal coal operators Of the Wyom-
ing Valley, were seen by reporters.
They all emphaticalIy declared that they
would not grant ID per cent. advance to
the miners at this time The reasons given
were to the effect that they were paying all
they can afford to at pres mt.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-02-17
Important Foreign Treaties.

The treaty by which Germany and Austria
have combined for mutual protection in
case of an attack upon either coun-
c cfeme3t throaghout Enrope It is 6e
Iieved in many quarters that it is
slap in the face for Russia, which
she must resent somehow. Germany
and Italy also made a treaty which stipu-
lates that if France attacks either country
the other shall send army of BOO, OjO men
to the French frontier