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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-21
A Mixed Wrestling Match.

SEATTLE, W. T., Jan. 21.-A mixed wrestling
match between James Faulkner. light weight
champion of America, and Peter Schumacher.
was won by the latter yesterday. The first
bout, Graeco-Roman was won by Schumacher
In eleven minutes twelve seconds The sec
ond bout. catch-as-catch-can, was won by
Faulkner in seven minutes. The last bout.
catch-as-catch-can on Faulkner's choice, was
won by Schumacher in six minutes. Faulkner
weighed 136 pounds and Schumacher 153 pounds.
1t was fair contest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-21
Must. PAY Up or Be Sold.

kEoKUK, Iowa, Jan. 21.-Judge Love, in the
United States court, has entered decree or
dering the Keokuk and Northwestern railroad
company to deposit with the court S729 go SO.
the sum due upon bonds and coupons received,
by mortgage, to Andres b. Stone. within the
next ten days, in default of which the court
orders that the property, franchises, &C., of
the road be sold at nnhlic ancfinn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-21
The Vanderbilts i'm Full Control.

PITTsBURG, Jan. 21.-It is stated upon infor-
nation received from a source said to be most
reliable that Herbert HOstetter has sold to the
Vanderbilts all stocks and interests of the late
DIR. Hostetter in the Pittsburg and Lake Erie
railroad. This gives the Vanderbilts full con-
troll of the line, and at the annual meeting of
the board here tomorrow some important
changes will be made
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-21

SToREKEEPERs AND GAUGERs.-The Secretary
OF the Treasury has appointed the following
storekeepers and gaugers: Geo. W. Sanders,
Bullitt county. KY; Thos J. Arnett, Salyers-
vile, Ky; Louis r. Thomson, Fredericktown.
Me; Daniel I. Donohue, Brooklyn, N. Y, and
Marcus Il. Asbury Claysyille XIV
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-21

FIRST LIEUT.. WRIGHT P. EDGERToN, second
artillery, has been ordered to duty at the mill
tary academy, relieving First Lieut.. George l..
Anderson, fourth artillery, who is ordered to
duty at the artillery school at Fort Monroe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-21
The vandalia Detained bv Fog

San Francesca. Jan. 2l.-As a heavy fog
hung over San Francisco Bay and entrance
thereto yesterday the U. S. man-of-war Van
dalia, after reaching THE city from Mare Island
navy-yard. anchored here for the night. She
will leave for Samoa to-day
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-21

ARMY LEAvEs.-Second Lieut.. Robert A.
Hasbrouck, jr., fourth infantry, one months
extensions First Lieut.. Richard T. Earle,
second infantry. five months extension. with
permission to go beyond sea; Second Lieut. j.
A. Penn, jr., thirteenth infantry, one months
extension
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-21
Miners Strike Against a Reduction.

Fort DODGE, Iowa. Jan. 21.-The miners
in the coal mines at Boonesborough,
which employed 800 men. are out on
strike because of a reduction in the rate
from A to cents. The mine-owners claim
that the strike will benefit them by limiting
the output and raising the price, while the
miners are obstinate and say they are out to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-21
Charged With Petty Thefts.

THREE LIGHT-FINGERED MEN SENT TO JAZZ. FROM
THE POLICE COURT.
This afternoon in the Police Court a colored
man named John Stewart, was arraigned for
stealing ham from Clement Krogmann' stand
in the Center market. He was arrested by
Special Officer Miles, who saw him take the
ham from the stand Saturday night. Stewart
denied the charge and muttered: II don't eat
ham," Whether he eats ham or not he will
certainly not eat any during the next two
months the length of time he was sentenced to
serve in Jail.
Joseph Blundon was Charged with stealing an
umbrella from Jennie Clark while she was in a
lunch room near 14th and streets Satur-
day afternoon. John Diggs, colored testified
that he gave Blundon 40 cents for the umbrella
and afterward had it pawned for IS cents. The
defendant testified that he was drunk and
could not say whether he stole the umbrella or
not. A fine of S5 was imposed.
James Henderson. colored, was arraigned on
a charge of stealing a pair of gloves from in
front af A. I. Lewis store, on 7th street, Sat-
urday night. He was arrested by Special OIL
Ger Courtney. Thirty days was the sentence of
the court.
ELIAsoS's SENTENCE AFF1RMED.-The case of
james @. Eliason was decided in the Court in
General Term this morning, Judge Hagner de-
livering the opinion of the court affirming the
yicted ON March 7, 1883, Of embezzling letters
from the Georgetown pest-ofice, where he was
employed as clerk, and on the 18th inst. was
sentenced to the Albany penitentiary for one
year. The case was taken to the General Term
on exceptions, and these were passed on this
morning and overruled, leaving the Judgment
TO be carried. into effect
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-21

The STEEL CRUISER ATLANTA left the Brook
lyn navy-yard at $50 o'clock Sunday morning,
with Capt. Howell in command She has been
ordered to report to Admiral Luce at Hayti,
but will stop at Norfolk, Va, for coal and pro
visions
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The Miners win Not Strike.

CHICAGO, Jan. 21.-A dispatch from Spring
Valley, ILL.,, says: The threatened strike Of the
1900 coal miners decided ON Saturday will
probably be settled to-day. Thomas Mulkey,
the man whom the company refused to dis
miss has notified the miners that he viii quit
work, and as this was the only bone of conten-
ton the others will probably resume their
nlarea aa uaual
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-21

NAVAL ORDERs.-Capt. Francis NJ. Ramsay
has been detached from command of the u s.
S. Boston, to take effect February IA, when he
will be relieved by Capt. Jas. Kane, who has
been detached from the Portsmouth, n H.
navy-yard. Lieut. A. p. Nazro, ordered to
special duty at New York. Commander w. S.
Dana, granted one years leave with permis-
sion to leave the United States. Lieut.. T. G.
c. Salter, granted six months extension of
leave from March "a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-21

YE Cha YUN, secretary of the Corean lega-
ton, and his suite were at Chicago yesterday on
their way to Washington. The secretary passed
through Chicago two months ago with the
Corean minister. who was taken sick in this
country and who was too ill to go home unat-
tended. Cha Yum is now coming back to
Washington prepared for permanent resi-
dence. Mrs. Cha Yum is with her husband. In
the party of the secretary is Ye Wah Yong, a
high Corean official, who, with his wife, is
travelling for pleasure
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-21

THE GALENA AT KEY WEsT.-The Secretary
of the Navy has received telegram from Rear
Admiral Luce, at Key West, January 20, an
nouncing the arrival of the Galena at that
port, and saying that the health of the officers
and crew is excellent
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Two Savage Prize-Fights.

ONE OF TEN AND THE OTHER OF ELEVEN ROUNDS.
CHICAGO, January 21.-A ten-round fight
between Mike Barrett. of Peoria. and Dan.
Washburn, of Elgin, attracted large crowd of
sports to the town of jefferson YESTERDAY.
Washburn tried rushing from the first, and re-
ceived severe punishment. Barrett clearly
had the best of the fight from the second
round. In the eighth round Washburn's face
was SO badly swollen and cut that his features
were hardly recognizable. Barretts left eye
was closed. but he showed no other signs of
punishment. The men had been together but
moment in the tenth round when Barretts
right suddenly shot out and landed with crush
ing effect on Washburn's neck. The youngster
went down like log and lay on the floor for
fifteen seconds. The fight and the money were
then given to Barrett
BOTH FIGHTERS TERRIBLY PUNISHED.
HURLEY, WIS, Jan. 21.-A desperate fight
with two ounce gloves, Queensberry rules took
place here yesterday between Joe Sheedy. of
East Saginaw, Mich, and Pat Harrington. of
Duluth. Eleven bloody rounds were fought
Harrington gained first blood in the second
round and Sheedy the first knock-down in the
third. and by swinging right handler knockd
Harrington out in the eleventh. Both men
were punished terribly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-21

ISAAC BELL, jr., ex-United States minister to
the Netherlands. died yesterday at st. Luke's
hospital, New York city, from the illness with
which he has suffered for several months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-21
DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF ST. AsApH.

LONDON, Jan. 21.-The Right Rev. Joshua
Hughes, DID,, bishop of St. Asaph, is dead
He had been i'll for year, and was unable to
attach his signature to resignation. The dio-
cese, in consequence, has virtually been with
out bishop during that time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-21
General Foreign News.

DEATH OF THE AUTHOR GEoGHEGAN.
LONDON, Jan. 2l.-Mr. Geoghegan, author of
''The Lancashire Witches" John Barleycorn"
and other works is dead. He was seventy-four
wears old
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CAPT. wrssMaNN's MrssroS-

BERLIN, Jan. I.-Capt. Wissmann, who was
appointed by the foreign Office to perform
special services in east Africa, will also fill the
position of consul-general of Germany at Zan-
Oil
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-21
SPECIAL NOTICES.

-, TO ALL TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
- All parties indebted to Lewis Flemer for
druEs will call at and settle their bills, and
thereby. save cost of suit or warrant.
W. Is. MATHEWS, Assignee,
ja1S-3t' Atlantic Building, $50 st.
SOyEREIGNS' COOPERATIVE AsSO-
CIATION.-Members get the TRADE
CARDS and TRADE CIRCULARS for 1889, pay
nlent Of 25 cents annual dues, from:
j. r. Page. Grocer, 1916 + St;
NJ ID. Peck. Patent Attorney, Q:}4 + ST;
Thos. g. Hensey. Real Estate Office, 1900 + st.,
and from those whose names mentioned in the
lsSS Trade Circular, or by sending 27 cents in
postage stamps to JAMES A. EDGAR.
Ja1S-12t Secretary, S03 81.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC:
OS Having been appointed receiver by the
Supreme Court Of the District of Columbia in the
of John W. Morgan Henry L. Tatum, in equity
cause No 11573 hereby give notice that all bills
due the late firm Of Henry T. Tatuin 4 Co. are col
lectibe by and payable to and to other person,
and all persons holding claims against said firm
hereby requested to nle them with me.
JOHN +. DOUGLAS,
jail S-3ts Receiver.
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Wrecks on the Massachusetts Coast.

THREE OF THE CREW OF BAR6E ARE DROWNED
BosToN, Jan. 2l.-Advices from Hull state
that there is a vessel ashore ON Hardine,s
Ledge, which is thought TO be the tug II. r.
Morse, of Bath. Acoal barge has been wrecked
on Point Alerton, and it is thought TO be the
Josephine that was in tow of the tug Morse.
The tug Morse is a large vessel with two masts
1t is not positively known whether the vessels
are the ones mentioned above
IT WAS THE yosEPHrNE.
Early this morning the bark Josephine camo
ashore on the southeast bar, Point Allerton.
with crew Of four men, three Of whom were
drowned. So far il is impossible to learn their
names. A large three-master Is ashore on Bug
Light spit. high and dry, and is lying on her
side. Harding's ledge is one of the most dam
gerous places on the shore, and wreck there
is one of the most dangerous kind. The Morse
is the largest tug in the harbor and has been
considered the finest vessel of the kind afioat
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-21

GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Interna
revenue, $774, ,669.01; customs. 81, ,03O, ,826.69.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-21

A WHE's SUIT FoR DrvoRcE.-To-day Flor
ence B. Solger, by Mr.. e. A. Newman, fled .
blll for divorce against Julius Solger on the
treatment. She states that they were married
November 23, 1881, and she charges that about
January following he entered upon course
OF dissipation, by reason Of which he lost his
employment, and that, after having been treated
In various hospitals for the liquor habit, he has
not reformed: She charges further that he
threatened to kill her.
Of New York, grow larger a. the investigation
into his accounts proceed, and il IL now prob
able that they win reach e75,O0Q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-21

WALTER s. cox, President.
WILLIAM GAIT, FRED'K l.. MOORE.
WI. L. RILEY, CHARLES EDMONSTON,
j. W. H. LONEJOY, W. w JOHNSTON.
WILLIAM KING, S. THOMAS BROWN
District Of Columbia:
Personally appeared FRANK 7. RAWLINGS, Secre-
tary of the Arlington Fire Insurance Company, who
made Oah in due form of law, that the above is cor
rect and true report of the condition of 1.-The Arlington
Fire Insurance Company for the District of Columbia
on the 31st December. A. D., 1855.
FRANK T. RAWLINGS, Secretary
Subscribed and sworn to before this nh day of
January, A. ID. 1889. ID. RITTENHOUSE
tal4-3t Notary p11hic
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-19
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The prospect of settling the strike Of the
Amslgamated men in the new Steubenville
Iron Works is slim, and the raw material
which WAS to have been worked up at Ali
kama is being shipped TO McKeespOrt. II
is now said that the employment Of Sleu-
benvilIe puddlers was another cause OF the
strike in addition 10 reservations made IN
the scale by the management that 1t would
conduct the affairs of the mill to sult itseli.
-iSteuJenriHe Gdzette.
Oil lands are being leased between Cadiz
and st. Clairsyille, and between Cadiz
and Flushing. The Standard IL taking
leases as far north as Cadiz Junction.
Now let them drill the wells Don't ask
the lease of all creation without develop
ing the territory. The farmer who leases
TO speculator, who is leasing for specula-
tive purposes, should ask fair price FOR
the lease. Cddiz SentiHei.
At the Laughlin mill nearly all the
machines have been on during the present
week. On Wednesday, however, the iaiI-
ure of the shearman to get the ten ana
twenty plate sheared caused the machines
of that size TO be of yesterday. The heat
ers also laid of yesterday to allow the
shearman TO catch up.
Messrs. Sweeney & Son have contracted
to build a new boat for the Belmont Coal
Company. of Bellaire. The dimensions
are l22 feet by % feet; 10-inch cylinder.
4 feet stroke engines, with one boiler ~
inches by 20 feet long and Fix 5-inch
flues.
Over at the Etna mill mines, the
strikers are still out, and their places
have been filled by seventeen non-union
miners. All the non-union men are
strangers except three. The miners eN-
nee. President Mcbride to come on 10 tfy
and settle the trouble in come way.
Steam will hereafter be used exclusively
in Paige, Carey & Co.'S stone yard ior
hoisting Gearing has been pat on al the
cranes. including the large "trayeler''
A new and stronger steam litter or
trigger has been put in on plate mill
No. ; at the Standard.
The work of blasting out the Riverside
blast furnace, at Steubenyille, is still going
on.
A test well is TO be put down at BOweTs-
ton
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-19
DECEITFUL PROMISES.

A Land of Oklahoma Not Land oi
Homes.
TOPEKA, KAN, April 1S.-The great
majority of those whose faces are turned
toward Oklahoma have been misled and
the men who, through their misrepresenta-
tons are responsible for it, will have much
to answer for when Gabriel blows his horn
The word oklahoma" means "Indian
country" and is applied to 800, 600 acres
of land. That means that II, $50 farms oil
100 acres each lie waiting to be titled.
From this must come eight farms out
of every township reserved for the
government, leaving TO-, ,547 farms lot
the great horde 10 settle upon and
when the settlers arrive they are
bound TO be disappointed, not onl IN the
Quantity of lana but az to its quality:
Fully one-third of the tracts are considered
unfit for grazing purposes and the land IS
not even fair to look upon, except 10 the
vicinity of the rivers.
Away from the streams the country
changes its aspect entirely, and instead oi
fertile fields of rolling green is seen MOTH
inc but the rocky and sterile hills OF the
vide expaDss of sand and alkali flats,
whose baked surface means death, not
only to vegetation but to animals Uns.
long remain in the locality. 1t Is not
alone the land that is dead, but the poison
ons yspors that constantly arise so inject
the very air and water that it becomes
Variable terra del muertO, or lend OF death,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-19
THE LATEST NEWS.

Mr.. O. W. Potter, the North Chicago
mill man, expresses the opinion that tin
plste will be made in this country In less
than five years.
DIR. T. f. McKennan, the well-known
microscOpist, of Pittsburg, was married to
Miss Sallie Ruff, at the Leland Hotel, Chi
csgo, Yesterday.
The ST. Louis Browns have released
pitcher Freeman to the Toronto club.
Lewis. Elmer & Co., of Baltimore, have
brought suit for 800, 900 damages sgainst
Fleischmsn & Co., of the same place, for
conspiring to destroy their trade.
Grain warehouses at Osyuga, Ont, were
burned; loss $40, 900.
The Illinois House of Delegates has
passed the Merritt antitrust bill.
Minnie Meyers an abandoned woman
of Kansas City, was found murdered in q
railroad cut. der paramour has been ar
rested on suspicion.
The Dayton Coroner's jury has returned
a verdict that the KILN of Dora Webster
by her cousin, Charles Heath, was acci'
dental.
The sale of Secretary of the Navy
Tracy's trotting horses netted Sll3,soo'
an average of 81, 200 per head.
There are twenty-five cases OF small poS
at Nanticoke, Pa.
At West Farms, Massachusetts,, Joseph
King, wealthy citizen, aged IS, WAS shot
dead by nrofiigate son, who then COM
mitted suicide.
Walter P. Cowen, arrested in st. Loui;
as Walter B. Smith, the bank robber, ha;
been released.
A package containing S15, 900 in gold hs'
mysteriously disappeared from the express
Office at Brsinerd, MINI.
George Black, of Gay, Maine, has beer
arrested charged with attempting to poisor
his father.
B. Cavagns, promin'nt business mar
OF Cincinnati, died yesterday, aged 80.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-19
FLOWING WITH BLOOD
THR NEW DARK AND BLOODY GROUND OF
THE wBST.
Five Men Killed Among the Oklahoma Boomers, and
the Strife Bas Just Begun-Thousands
Rushing in Where There is
Room for Hundreds.

CHICAGO, April 1s-A dispatch from
Fl Smith, Ark, Gays four men were killed
on the border of Oklahoma yesterday
Word was received here last evening of q
conflict between party of boomers, cattle
men and Chickasaw police, at the ford at
Chisholm's cattle trail, forty miles west of
Oklahoma City, on the Canadian river.
The cattlemen were taking several hun
dred families from COlbert's rancho, in the
Chickssaw Nation, to Kansas, bat the
mounted police guarding the northern bor-
der Of Oklahoma, refused TO psrmit them
to use the celebrated Chisholm trail lead
ing through the new territory. A fight
re ulted, In which the cattlemen were re-
inforced by party Of boomers from Texas.
One Of the guards, two cattlemen and one
boomer, named Geiss, were killed in the
melee, besides the loss of some valuable
horses. The cattlemen took the old Abil-
enc trail and went around through the
Cheyenne reservation.
THE FIRST BLOOD SHED.
A dispatch from Wichita, Kansas, says
the first serious affray among the boomers
Occurred yesterday about ten miles north
of Kiowa. Two boomers clsimed certain
quarter section, and one named George
Kramer undertook to put the other,
Charles Heidke, of the land. Both men
drew revolvers and Kramer was shot
through the head and instantly killed.
Heidke was shot through the groin aud
may die.
A dispatch from Arkansas City, Kss,
says: If the bearing and general get up
of the men who have arrived here thus
far 90 for anything, it may be pretty safely
assumed that Oklahoma after the open
ing days will be the scene of many bloody
conflicts. The men that fill the streets
are walking arsenals. Everybody that
arrives here and takes in the warlike ap-
pearance Of the surroundings begins
strsightway 10 look out for the authority.
and most well disposed settlers are
startled 10 hear that in Oklahoma there is
scarcely any law other than the strong
hand
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-19
CORNER VS.. TRUST.
An Attempt to Squeeze the Great Sugar
Combine.

An Attempt to Squeeze the Great Sugar
Combine.
NEW YORK, April 13.-There is an evil
dent attempt to corner the raw sugar mar
ket OF the part Of somebody, who is trying to
take revenge on the Sugar Trust for squeez-
ing the producers. The stock in the bands
of importers is now only - 600 tons,
agsinst 100, coo tons at this time last year
p GOO OF the 40, 600 tons in this city last
Saturday having been bought mp.
Az TO the Trust itself, Roger A. Pryor,
counsel for the Senate Trrs Investigating
Committee, expresses no doubt that it has
been reOrganizsd by assignments to indi-
viduals, bat says the prosecution will be
pushed Just TIE same. When Attorney
General Tabor brings his suit to forfeit the
Havemyer 4 Elder Cowpany's charter, he
will seek to discover the assignee and will
claim that the assignment is Illegal, if
made to defeat the ends of justice.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-19
THE SOUTHERN QUESTION.

Eminent southerners DO Not Believe
That Mr.. Harrison vynl Solve 1t.
PHILADELPHIA, April Is The Phila-
delpAia Rqsirer will publish tomorrow
interviews which it has collected, with
prominent men and politicians of the
Southern States. Only men yell known in
their sections were applied to, and to
these the following questions were put;
First-What is the Sauthern question?
Second How should it be met to produce
the greatest good 10 the South?
Governor Richardson, OF South Carolina;
Governor Lee, Of Virginia; Secretary OF
State Adams, OF Kentucky, and Others,
answer the questions. TIE concensus OF
opinion is that the Federal Government
should not interfere with the Internal az
fairs Of the South, and that the South will
be able to work out her own salvation.