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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-23
TEN CENTS BUsHEL FOR PEARLS.
The Craze in Wisconsin Likely to Sub
side, as the Jewels Are Valueless.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel
rusty-looking old hayseed from the vicinity
Of Sugar creek, where the pearl craze has been
rampant for week and half, walked into
Stanley & Camps jewelry store Saturday. In
one hand he tightly clutched red bandana
handkerchief tied in bundle and the other
held q knotted hickory stick. His trousers
were tucked into a pair OF boots that had seen
better days, and his general appearance was
that Of man who wasn't over particular about
his personal appearance. He looked suspiciously
around, as though anticipating that some one
had evil intentions with regard to himself, and
then he slowly united the knots in the hand
kerchief, unfolded it on the showcase and dis
played good-sized handful of pearls.
''What'l We gimme for emp" queried the
stranger, addressing Mr.. Camp.
There were large pearls and small pearls,
white pearls and yellow pearls and pearls of all
kinds Of shapes. Some were as big as an ordi-
nary pea and some were only one-fifth that
size, but they were undoubtedly pearls.
''Where did you get them2" the pearl-gath-
erer asked.
'Out of the oysters in Sugar creek down near
Albany" he responded. Found them my
self and walked all the way in, too. wasn't
going to have any train robber hold me up
after going to the trouble of wading in the river
and picking up the clam shells. Not much''
importer in the store, an expert in judging the
value Of precious gems, and he took up the
handful of pearls and examined them carefully.
They are not worth ten cents "a bushel."
said he as he carelessly allowed them to sift
through his fingers. They are genuine pearls,
and some of them have a very good creamy
color, but their commercial value is spoiled by
their lack of roundness. You see there isn't
perfect spheroid in the whole lot They re-
semble in shape the shell of a snail. Such
pearls have no market value"
But they are all that way down around
Sugar creek, p" persisted the old man, who looked
disappointed and at the same time seemed sus-
picious that he was being fooled.
''Then they are all worth just about ten cents
a bushel. Their shape spoils them. You can't
cut pearl the way you can a diamond. When
you cut it you spoil it, because pearl is formed
of layers of a secretion, and when you attempt
to cut it the seams show and ruin the gem.
There may be some valuable pearls found in
Sugar river clans, but doubt it."
And the old man tied up his bundle in hard
knot and went in quest of another jeweler.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-23
A Laster's Lockout Likely.

At Cincinnati the outlook is that there will be
general lockout of all lasters in the shops be-
longing to the shoe manufacturers association.
AT koppendorfs factory yesterday there were
but I'VE lasters of the eighty at work and these
were not members of the union.
One of the strikers said: 'All this trouble
comes about from the firm trying to inaugurate
piece work or the task system. Girls who were
making sl2 per week last year are now making
but IS and "a. The firm promised to keep the
wages mp till December, but two weeks after
the promise was made, they began the work of
reduction"
The manufacturers are determined not to re-
cede from their position to recognize no labor
organization or committee under any circum-
stances. They maintain that their shops shall
be free for all
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-23
A HUDSON RIVER INCIDENT.

From the Kingston Argus.

From the Kingston Arzus.
You do not remember old Sam Hammond
of Hudson, who built the steamboat Legislator.
which ran between Hudson and New York
forty-five years ago?" said an old resident to an
Argus reporter. "Oh, no. you had not seen
the peep Of day then. But will tell you an
amusing story connected with old Sam and his
boat Hammond was a wealthy man for his
time, liberal with his money, but Indifferent
and careless with his dress. His appearance
was slovenly, while the knot Of his necktie gen.
orally rested above his shoulders.
''Old Sam thought he would take trip to
New York upon his boat, and when the gong
sounded for supper the old man found his way
TO the table, and took a seat at the side of a
hnely-dressed lady. The clerk of the boat.
only employed the day previous. and never
having heard of its owner. espied Hammond.
and immediately made for him. Say, old
man, he said, you will have to get up and eat
at the next table,. Hammond was little deaf,
and either did not hear him or pretended not
to, and kept on munching mis- food. The clerk
rushed to the captain and asked permission to
.yank dirty-looking old top from the supper
table.
The captain came into the cabin and gave
one glance at the offender. Good heavens,
young man. he whispered, do you know who
that isP No. replied the affrighted clerk.
That is old Sam Hammond. answered the
captain, who owns twenty-nine buildings in
the city Of Hudson. and owns this boat
The paralyzed clerk was speechless for a
time. Finally he said. Cap. lend me two dol
lars, and let me off at the next landing"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-23
Funerals in Venice.

Where is the person who, upon the first eager
introduction to the gondola, has not felt that
he is stepping into his coffin when, with scant
grace, be creeps into the black cabin Of the
little black boat? With me the impression was,
perhaps, deepened, because in our passage up
the canal we twice made way for funeral pro-
cession bound for the island cemetery to the
north of the city. The one funeral was that of
a girl. She lay under blue pail in the middle
of the boat, a crown of white flowers, symbol
ical of her virginity. being over the pail. The
other was a youth, whose tender age was
marked by the crimson pail. Both were
flanked by tall candles. After the bodies came
the friends in other dongolas, priests in violeh
and acolytes in scarlet. The sun blazed upon
all from the blue heavens, SO that even this
dolorous scene, enacted TO the smooth purpled
water, between the big widowed old 'palazzi,"
was not wholly melancholy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-23
ACCIDENT TO ExCURSIONIsTs.
Three Men Killed and Forty-one Badly
Injured.

A terrible wreck, which resulted In the death
Of three men and the injury Of several others
occurred on the Knoxville, Cumberland Gar
and Louisville railroad at Flat Gap creek, q
miles from Knoxville, Tenn, yesterday. The
train was the first to 60 over the new road and
carried a select party of excursionists, com
posed of members of the city council and the
board Of public works, representatives of the
chamber of commerce and the very flower Of
the business and professional men Of Knox
vile. The train Of two cars left the track at a
crossing and the rear car went down tressle.
Only one man was uninjured. 1t was impossi-
BILE to obtain medical aid for long time and
until 4:3O pm, when the train reached Knox
Wife, scanty attention was rendered. Many
had to brought back on fat cars and the last
part of the journey was made in driving rain.
THREE MEN DIED FROM THEIR INJURIES.
and others cannot live. The dead are Judge
George Andrews, the most prominent lawyer in
east Tennessee; s. 7. Powers, the leading mer-
chant and former president of the East Tennes-
see fire insurance company. and Alexander
Reeder, a leading politician who has held many
offices of trust.
The injured are Alexander A. Arthur, presi-
dent of the chamber of commerce.; Isham
Young, president, and Peter Kern, member Of
the board of public works; John T. Hearn, edi-
tor of the Sentinel; W. w. Woodruff a leading
wholesale merchant; Charles S. Rimour, attor-
ney, and Alexander Wilson, assistant chief en-
gineer Knoxville, Cumberland Gap and Louis
vile road. County Judge Maloney. Aldermen
Barry and bookings, Gen. H. s. Chubert of the
governors staff, A. ]. Alberts, a Wholesale mer-
chant; Rev. r. ]. Cook. professor of U. S. Grant
university; City Physician West, Judge H. H.
Ingersoll H. R. Wetzell, W. B. Samuels, G.
Abbie, Capt H. H. Taylor, S. McKelden, Ed.
Barker, ]. f. Kinsoll, John b. Hall, Phillips
Samuels, aged ten; R. Schmidt W. A. Park and
one of the train crew.
Out of fifty persons on the train forty-one
were injured
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-23
HACKMEN FIND A FRIEND.
A Farmer Worth $4,000 Bequeaths
1t All to Found a Home for Them.

From the st. Louis Republic.
Among the wills recently admitted to record
by Judge Myers of the Hancock county pro-
bate court in Findlay, Ohio, was the testament
of A. B. Arthur, an eccentric farmer of Marion
township, who departed this life some time in
June and left behind him an estate valued at
about $4,000 Arthur had never married and
his nearest of kin living are a number Of
nephews and nieces, who naturally expected
that his earthly accumulations would be divided
among them in an equitable manner by their
wealthy uncle when he made his will.
But after his death, when this important
document was made public, none were more
astonlshed than the expectant heirs when it
was found that the old gentleman had devised
and set aside his entire possessions to be sold
by his executors and the proceeds invested in
the building and maintenance of a home for
INDECENT hackmen," the institution to be
erected ON ground which he designated in
Marion township, remote from even a village,
much less city. In fact, the spot selected for
the home" is seventeen miles from Findlay,
in an open field surrounded on all sides by
large farms.
Here he directed that building capable Of
accommodating at one time fifty INDECENT hack
men should be erected and furnished, and ap-
pointed his executors and trustees to carry out
his wishes and to keep up the establishment at
an annual expense of $4,000, until all his
funds were exhausted, by which time he in
dulged the hope other requests will be made
by parties in sympathy with his ideas to carry
out the freak to which he SO freely donated his
wealth.
What adds to the queerness of this ''last will
and testament" is the fact that there are not a
half dozen hackmen in the country who are
ever likely to need such .'home," and none in
the township in which Arthur-who had always
been a farmer-lived and died. Besides all
this, II such a home was provided its proposed
location is so remote from the natural haunts
Of hackman that one would have to be in pretty
bad shape, financially, physically and mentally,
If he accepted the hospitality Mr.. Arthur so
generously provides for in his viii. 1t is hardly
necessary to add that the relatives Of the dead
friend of the hackman have already commenced
proceedings in the court Of common pleas OF
this county to have the will set aside, on the
ground that the old man was not in his right
mind when he executed the document, and the
case will come up for hearing at the September
term of the court in this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-23
THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS.
The Excursion Provided by the Gov.
eminent for the Delegates.

On the I'd Of October the international con.
gress will convene in this city. II is expected
that there win be present some fifty or sixty
delegates, including some Of the most distin.
guished men in Central and South America.
The congress will perfect its organization and
on the next day will start upon an excursion
rendered by the United States government A
special train of parlor cars will be provided for
the party. They viii leave this city on the
morning Of October 8, and take the FAN River
boat at New York that evening. The next ten
days will be spent visiting the commercial and
manufacturing centers of New England and
northern New York. with day at the West
Point military academy, and the party will
reach Niagara Falls to remain over Sunday, Oc-
tober Is. On Monday the journey will be re-
sumed and continued TO Chicago, with stops at
Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit and other cities.
POINTS TO BE VISITED.
1t is proposed to visit Harvard university,
Yale college, Michigan university, and several
benevolent and reformatory institutions en-
route. The next Sunday, October 20, and the
two following days will be spent at Chicago.
when the largest cities of the northwest will be
visited. From Minneapolis the special train
will run down via Sioux city and Omaha to
Fort Leavenworth and return to st. Louis via
Kansas City. The capitals of Illinois and In
diana and the natural gas region will be visited
en- route to Cincinnati. From Cincinnati the
party will be taken to Mammoth Cave and then
journey eastward, stopping at Pittsburg. Al
toona and other cities en- route. From Harris
burg the train will be run to Menlo Park, where
the party will inspect the laboratories of Mr..
Edison. and return to Philadelphia. Here
three days viii be spent, and Wilmington and
the ship yards at Chester will be visited on the
way to tins city. where the party will arrive on
the 14th of November.
1t Is proposed to take a trip through the
southern states after the adjournment OF the
c Ongress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-23
Gum I'm Felt Hats.

from the Mems Outntter.
Of late some complaint has been heard as to
the wearing quality of these hats. 1t is stated
that they are over stiffened and over finished,
and that the gum soon appears upon the sur
face and the structure is easily broken. This
is a fault which In years past logged the steps
of the American halter and wearied the retailer.
hat when sold would seem to be perfect.
with no trace of gum on the surface In few
days it would be brought back looking as
if glue pot had been upset upon the brim.
1t was difficult to convince some customers
that the retailer was not aware beforehand that
such condition would ensue
The reasons why the gum showed itself first
upon the brim was that the brim was more
heavily stiffened than the crown and was
handled more in use. The discovery and the
application of the wire edge for brims enabled
matters to dispense with much of the stiffening.
and crowns well as brims were gummed
lighter, and thus the whole hat became flexible.
Freedom from the gum nuisance and ease of
adjustment to the head were both secured by
this improvement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-23
Train Wreckers Arrested.

At Pittsburg, Pa, John Wilson and Wilbert
Douden were yesterday afternoon committed
to Jail in default of $3.50 bail each, charged
with attempting to wreck the ''Owl" train on
the Pennsylvania railroad. Monongahela divis-
ion. On the night of July 20 two heavy oak
planks were wedged over the rails at the curve
near Lostock station. The engine and train
fortunately passed safely over the planks. A ter
rible humping the only injury re-
ceised. Detectives discovered that the two
young men named, together with George Gales,
who lives at Georges Creek, Nd, were the
perpetrators. Wilson and DOuden confessed
stating that they had sat ON the hillside to
watch the train go to pieces. They say that
Gales suggested the crime and that they as
sisted from pure hellishness." Gale will also
be arrested
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-23
ENOUGH OF MARRIED LIFE.
The Bride of Rabbi Kohane Has Re-
to the Home OF Her Parents

About six months ago the Rev. Joseph Ko-
hane was installed as rabbi of one of the Jewish
synagogues at Rondout, N. Y. One day the
rabbi announced to one of the church officers
that he was about to marry and settle down.
He said that soon after his arrival
in New York from Europe he became
acquainted with a young Jewish maiden
to whom he had become betrothed. This
pleased the members of the congregation, who
felt satisfied that they were going to have a
settled pastor. On May % the Rev. Joseph
Kohane was united in marriage to Miss Esther
Schmelzinger Of New York city. reception
couple by members of the congregation. The
salary of the rabbi was also increased.
Hardly month had passed, says dispatch
| to the New York Sun today, before it became
noised about that Mr.. Kohane was ill-treating
his young bride. Soon the auarrels were so
violent that they attracted crowds of people to
| the front of the residence occupied by the
newly married couple. Officers and members
of the church interested themselves, and the
young bride said that /her husband
when she refused to accede to his
demands threatened to do her bodily
harm. She was about to invoke the law when
members of the congregation induced her not
to make matters worse by publicity, and effected
a reconciliation. Mrs. Kohane charged her hus-
band with spending money she had given him
to settle bills. A handsome gold watch she
presented him as wedding gift, costing 800,
he pawned for quarter of that amount. As he
did not spend money extravagantly, it was q
mystery what he did with it.
The congregation finally requested the
rabbits resignation, and about month ago he
went to New York, whittier his wife followed
him. He left her there with her parents, while
he went to Philadelphia ostensibly to take
charge of a synagogue in that city. The
deserted bride says Kohane robbed her of
about 81 500, and even tried to get possession
of her diamonds and jewelry. When asked if
she intended to get divorce she replied that
she would not, but had enough of married life
for the present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-23
One of the New Poets.

FROM current Literature.
Mr. William Ernest Henley, whose verses
have just been published by scribner, is a
Scotchman, a literary protege Of Robert Louis
Stevenson, and the editor Of SCOTS Observer.
He is one of the men who have had literary
greatness thrust upon them, and he has paid a
fearful physical price for his mental develop
ment. He began life as a laborer, unconscious
of latent intellectual power, IMMERSED in the
primary elements of education, and a man of
dissipated habits. He met with a terrible acct
dent, both lower limbs being crushed beneath
boulder, and while at the hospital for treat
ment met Robert Louis Stevenson, who was
also a patient in the institution Then COM
menced the mental existence which has led him
through the stages Of newspaper correspondent,
art editor and magazine contributor to the
rank of poet. His limbs still completely
paralyzed, and he does all his work in an in
valid chair, out of which towers his massive
blonde head, set on magnificent pair of
shoulders. His conversation is brilliant and
he counts his friends among the cleverest and
most brilliant literary men of London.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-23
The Only 6 O'clock Dinner In Maine.

FrOm inc Lewiston lMeD Journal
The only Maine summer hotel, so far as heard
from, where down casters and their guests can
get 1 o'clock lunch and O'Clock dinner is
the Menawarmet at Boothbay, that the VOL
colts of Hotel Vendome (Boston) fame are run
ming. Here the presence of imperturbable
colored walters and the Interpolation of finger
bowls and solid silver plate astonish the new
corners. The Menawarmet il a novelty in
Maine, and folks who chat, chat ON the Mena-
warmet, for it is an ideal house with an ideal
cuisine. The o'clock dinner is sometimes
served table d'hote and sometimes a la carte,
but it gets there, so to speak, justas eloquently
even after six hours on the ocean wave, just as
profoundly as corned beef and cabbage and
baked beans and brown bread ever could do,
and oh my! amt it nice!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-23

To ATLANTIC CRY VIA BALTIMORE AND OHIO
Special train leaves Baltimore and Ohio depot.
Washington, at 4:3O pm. August "a Parlor
cars Washington to Philadelphia Parlor cars
Philadelphia TO Atlantic City. Thirty minutes
Ior supper at Baltimore and Ohio Philadelphia
station. Round-trip rate 50, including transfer
IN both directions. Arrives at Atlantic CITY at
10 pm. Tickets valid for return passage on
all regular trains until August 26 inclusive
Train leaves Atlantic City Sunday at 4:45 pm,
arriving IN Washington at II pm. The Balti-
more and Ohio is the shorest quickest and
best route. The view of the harbor and ship
ping OF Baltimore and Fort McHenry to be
had from Baltimore and Ohio train is perfectly
charming. The view from the great Baltimore
and ONO bridge across the Susquehanna at
Hayre de Grace is worth the price of the trip.
Let everybody take the Baltimore and Ohio
Adrt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-23
Miss Murfree's Dialects.

From the Nashville American
For Miss Murfree, the chief writer of Ten
nessee mountain dialect stories, have a pro-
found respect-for her talents, for her womanly
courage and industry, and for her descriptive
powers. In justice to her it must be said that
she sometimes, but seldom, uses words not
found here and there spoken by mountain peo-
pie. Her chief fault lies in giving false view
of the people by making them speak in dialect
which doesn't exist, using words which the
closest observer will hear only at very rare in
tervals by few people, but never forming the
basis, the wool or the warp of daily colloauial
speech. Hence she has woven language for
her characters which is composed of words SO
rarely heard that they are scarcely noticeable.
1t is not and doesn't resemble the speech of the
people. This is violation of the truth of
fiction, and fiction has its own inviolable laws
of truth which can not be violated with i'm
punity, nor without making the art picture
utterly false. Although little uncouth these
people speak good. pure English. Another
is a lack of facility in colloquislism. Her
speeches are never like the speeches of living
men and women. This is a correctable dialect
the other is a radical fault
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-23
Nebraska Prohibitionists.

The prohibitionists closed their state conven-
ton in Lincoln, Neb., last night, the session
lasting two days. There were about 400 dele
gates in attendance. The convention was OF
one mind in everything but the adoption of q
resolution in the platform relating to the non
partisan amendment league, which evoked con-
siderable discussion and some sharp personali-
ties. plank expressing sympathy with the
movement was at length adopted. Candidates
for supreme judge and regents for the state
university were nominated-L. p. Wigton OF
Norfolk for the former position and Mrs. Jennie
+. Holmes of TecumsAh and L. B. Palmer OF
Hastings for the latter. Large mass meetings
were held each evening in charge Of promi-
nent speakers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-23
Tragedy on a Fish Boat.

Yesterday, on a fish boat in the Ohio river
near Shawneetown, Ills, Waunel Brooks shot
his wife in the head with pistol, inficting a
fatal wound. He then shot himself in the
cheek and in the right temple. The wounds
were necessarily fatal, but Brooks succeeded in
running to the river and jumping in, thus
drowning himself while dying from the CHASTITY
bullet wounds. Mrs. Brooks had separated
from her husband and was keeping house for
George Bates, the owner of the fish boat.
Brooks had been drinking hard and it is be-
heYed he preme ditated the deed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-23
WashIngton's Work Completed.

At Olympia. W.T., the constitutional conven-
ton completed its labors yesterday and all the
delegates are hurrying home. No business of
importance was transacted yesterday except
that clause was passed confirming ali govern
ment patents in tide lands. The closing hours
were very orderly and there was not the slight
est indecOrum.