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j. GOLDsBoROUGH BRUFF.
A Venerable Citizen at the Point Of
Death.

J. Goldsborough Bruf, now in the 85th year
OF his age, is lying AT the point of desth at mis-
residence, 1908 oath street northwest. but q few
squares from his birth place. Capt. Bruff was
a son of DIR. Bruff, the first regularly estab
lished dentist in this section, and was born in
one of the six Buildings" on PENNSYLVANIA
avenue, between 2lst and 22d streets. October
2, ls0i. DIR. Bruff. the father, before the war
of 1872, invented machine for making bullets
by COMPRISING them from cold lead, and q
machine having been built and tried at the
Washington navy-yard, an agent Of Great
Britain offered the inventor a large sum OF
money to take it to Great Britain. and the offer,
though TEMPTING, was Indignantly refused.
Capt. Bruf, when a small boy, left Alexandria
in a sailing vessel, and for some years Travelled
in many foreign lands. He early developed .
taste for drawing and painting, and on reach-
ing manhood he found employment in the en-
gineer bureau as a draughtsman, where he con-
tinued for many years. While IN this service
he was employed on many Of the defenses OF
the sea coast, among them the rip-raps near
Fort Monroe. Mr.. Bruf, when youth,
engaged the attention Of General jackson, and
when the latter became President he recog-
nized in the draughtsman at the Rip Raps the
boy who, ten years before, had. by some of his
sketches, attracted the generais attention, who
presented him with box Of paints He was
also, in his younger days, brought into contact
with many Of the leading men Of the day, in
cludiug Gen. W. II. Harrison, who was elected
President in 1s40, President Adams, and host
of others. For many years he has been en-
gagged in the Office of the architect OF the Treas
ury, and notwithstanding his advanced age he
had been able 70 perform his work up 10 a few
months since. Much of the ornamentation of
the Treasury building is from his designs. In
ls49 like many others, he left this city for Cal
ifornia, going overland in command OF Q com
pany formed in this city.
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THE ENGLISH FEELING.
Some Think that Bouianger should not
be Allowed 60 Stay in London.

LONDON. April s.-The announcement thss
rooms had been engaged at London hotel for
Gen. Boulanger and the friends who have
chosen 20 share his self-imposed exile from
Trance has excited some Of the more hot
headed sticklers for international reciprocity
and the conservation OF existing institutions az
home and abroad that the bette noire OF the
French re public be met upon his arrival on
English soil by an official refusal TO permit him
to remain here and conduct his warfare against
the French government Ridiculous as II NAV
seem there are many intelligent Englishmen
Who regard Bouangers immediate expulsion
rom Great Britain as the duty of the govern
ment regardless Of the fact that the constitu-
nonalliy Of such action would be very ques-
uonabie: that no reason exists for preventing
him from coming TO England and rem aiming AZ
long he likes: that England has been from
time immemorlal. and still is a harbor of refuge
for still more important political exiles from
almost every civilized nation on the globe In
support Of the idea that Boulanger could be
legItlmately turned back upon ms arrival in
Eugland, the advocates OF has exclusion cite
the case OF Herr Johann Most who was i'm
prisoned for expressing in his paper. the Frei-
hett, hls great JOY that Emperor Alexander III
of Russia had been removed from the trials and
trlbnlations of life by an explosion Of a bomb
which shattered his neither limbs IL IL was
just to imprison a man IN England for rejoic~
ing over the death of "A Russian sovereign. il 10
certainly proper 20 cNpcl a man who Is plotting
TO overthrow the government of France. This
IS the argument used. and perhaps. II is wor-
thy of consideration. sun, in the present
democratic temper of the people OF
England. 1t would be almost suicidal for
the government to interfere with Boulangers
perfect liberty TO establish himself in London.
and do whatever he pleases not in conuaven-
tion of British law. The pretty-well-yeritied
statements that Boulanger has conferred with
Prince Victor Napoleon since his arrival in
Brussels have resulted in disgusting a great
many persons who have hitherto maintained at
much cost OF argument that the general was
earnestly working for the purifcation Of the
republic and not. as he has been accused OF
dong, for the restoration of a monarchical
government. Nobody can be made 20 believe
that Prince Victor II anxious for the strengthen
ing of the republic. and il il be true, as it
doubtless is. that Boulanger is fraternizing
with the royal enemies of Frances govern
mental system, in whose association he can be
nothing better than a tool, be left France none
too soon TO save his neck.
HIS TRIAL. To BEGfS FRrDAY
PARIS, April s.-Ihe Senate will hold its first
session a tribunal for the trial of Gen. Bou-
langer on Friday next
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RAILROAD AGENTS PUZZLED.
Twenty Years Methods Upset by the
Interstate Commerce Amendments.

CHICAGO, April s.-A local paper says: The
badly puzzled lot of men these days. Their
way of doing business for twenty years has
been upset by the amendments Of the interstate
commerce law of March 2, and with the season
upon them they know not what to do. They
have given ever since they were established
through bills of lading TO the seaboard and to
Liverpool on the grain they carried. Their
rates. lake and rail, they were technically
called, were on sliding scale to correspond
with the fluctuations in lake grain freights to
Buffalo. With their advantages in giving
through bills of lading. whereby shippers es-
capped Buffalo charges, the propeller lines were
always at an advantage over outside or tramp
boats. They made rates TO give their steamers
cargoes, which varied from day to day, as lake
grain freights happened to be.
All this is now changed The amendments to
the interstate commerce law provide that five
days notice shall be given of reduction in
through lake and rail rates, and ten days no.
tice OF an advance. The propeller agents are
puzzled. If rates go down it will be five days
before they can take grain on through ship
ment because the shippers will, of course, all
go 10 the outside boats and have the grain
handled at Buffalo. If rates go up it will be
ten days before the lines can profit by the ad-
vance, in that time enough freight will be
forced on them to fill their boats for a month.
Grain freghts dropped Friday and Saturday a
half cent, for instance.
The lines cannot meet the drop for five DAYS
at best, but it is believed rates will go up TO 3
cents as soon as the fleet in port gets away. No
notice of drop has been given. Neither can
a notice of an advance be given, because there
Is no telling for a certainty whether grain
freights will go up or down. If they go up it
will be ten days before the lines can advance
their rates to meet the raise, and by that time
the furry will probably be over. The opinion
prevails among the agents that through bills of
lading will have to be done away with; that
they will give fixed rail rate from Ogdens-
burg and quote the ruling lake rate to that
DOlnt
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THE OKLAHOMA BOOMERS.
They Don't Propose to Allow Any In
flax of HOmesteaders.

CHICAGO, April S.-A dispatch from Kansas
City, kas., says: The officials of the Santa Fe
railroad were busy yesterday investigating the
story that the boomers concealed in the woods
of Oklahoma had banded together for the pur-
pose OF destroying the railroad bridges on the
night of April q. in order to obstruct the in
hux of homesteaders until the men concealed
IN the country could make perfect their claims.
1t appears that the boomers in hiding are des-
perate. They have selected and watched their
claims for years. and they now fear that the
newcomers. with the assistance of rapid transit
may get the best of them. There was
meeting of these boomers held in
the timber near Oklahoma CITY
last Thursday and they canvassed the
situation. After the meeting adjourned the
Santa Fe agent received notice that the bridges
would be burned and the trains stopped on
April %. as the old boomers did not propose to
jeopardize their chances by allowing food of
tenderfeet to drop in on the land they had
picked out. Detectives have been sent along
the line through the country and every pre-
caution will be taken to prevent railway OBJ
struction. There are twice as many people
now on the borders as can be accommodated
under the homestead act i'll Oklahoma. Yester-
day fully 300 passengers arrived in this city,
all bound for oklahoma. Many of them repre-
sent colonies, and are here as the advance
agents. There are men here representing
colonies from Washington. California
Utah, Colorado, Nebraska. Iowa, Illinois.
Indiana, Wisconsin and Alabama. The colo
MES number from twenty to 500 persons.
Last evening twenty empty passenger coaches
pulled into this city on the Santa Fe. attached
to the regular freight train, and were run into
the yards to await the 22d. raiIroader said
that the Santa Fe company had 100 cars already
engaged by parties who desired household
goods removed to this point before the Dist
The crowd has increased here to such propor-
tions that persons who get their mail at the free
delivery window at the post-office are COM
PEELED 10 form into n procession. and then it is
frequently five or six hours before they can get
to call for their mail. As consequence of this
large influx of people here real estate COM
menced changing hands. The sales of Saturday
amounted to S62 600
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THE INTERNATIONAL TRAMPs.
Score of the Walking Match at Pittsburg
af Noon.

PTrrsBURG. April S.-Ihe score of the inter
national walking match now in progress at the
Central rink in this city, at noon, was: Hegol-
man, II miles; Connors. 20 miles; Day. SO
miles; Cartwright 81 miles; Messier. 6S miles;
Noremec, 60 miles: Adams, SO miles: Golden
55 miles; Nolan. "a miles: Dillon. So miles; Cox
"A miles; Williams, 20 miles; Siebert. 80 miles:
Horan, So miles; Lorgen, 81 miles: Engle. 5s
miles; Brown. So miles; Yockum, 55 miles;
Mackie. SO miles; Taylor, 80 miles; Turner. As
miles; lilly, 43 miles. The men had been
walking eleven hours and fifteen minutes when
the above score was taken. After making u
miles, Hoagland. the eastern heel and toe
walker, dropped out and will watch the inter-
ests OF the Pedestrians in the box-office.
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From Wall Street To-Day,

New YORK, April Sill a.m.-The reaction in
the stock market begun Saturday extended
into this morning, and the new week opened
with moderately active but weak market.
first prices being from = to q per cent lower
showing the largest loss. Atchison, Missouri
Pacific, Union Pacific and Northwestern were
the most active stocks, with fair business in a
half dozen others, while the general list was
again dull and uninteresting, and the whole
market toward the end of the hour became
quiet and quite stagnant. The early losses.
however, were supplemented by further de-
clines of from Is to IS per cent generally,
though Missouri Pacific yielded q. The press
ure was then removed and the market re-
manned stationary and without special feature
for the remainder of the hour and at IL o'clock
it was quiet ard steady, but generally at about
the lowest prices reached.
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ONE KILLED AND MANY INJURED.
A Passenger Train Derailed on the IL. a.
d. at Chicago.

CHICAGO, April s.-A detective switch de-
rallied the four rear coaches of an inward
bound Baltimore and Ohio passenger train be-
tween ColehoGr and South Chicago Yesterday
morning. The coaches were thrown with ter
rihc violence against several coal-oil tank cars
standing on the side tracks and broken to
pieces. One man was killed and dozen others
injured. two or three of them very severely.
The train was nearly two hours behind time
and was running fast. just north of Tooth
street and PARALLEL with the main tracks are a
series of side tracks and switches and long
strings of tank cars near the great oil tanks As
the train was crossing the switches opposite ono
OF the tanks the seventh coach was suddenly
wrenched loose from its couplings and shot
dlagonally across the track 10 the left The
ordinary day coach, following just after, was
thrown from the track. and with awful force,
against the oil-tank cars to the right. The en-
tire side of the ear was ripped and torn aud
smashed into pile of twisted iron. splintered
woodwork and broken seats. The car was full
Of men. women and children. who yelled and
shrieked and cried as Nley were thrashed about
mangled and bruised under the wreckage. Tho
forward end of the Pullman sleeper was stove
in. while the rear car derailed and its pas
sengers no more than shaken up. The auto
matte air-brakes had meanwhile stopped the
forward section of the train. The unlnjured
passengers and the tralnmen gathered around
the wreck and soon extricated the wounded
and uninjured from the wrecked car. James
Hanna, OF Smiths Basin, y. Y. was found with
an iron rod thrust through his head and died
shortly afterward.
Henry Houk. farmer, of Adamsville. Iowa,
had leg broken in two places and received in
ternal injuries. Among others severely bruised
and cut were: Frank Shelton. Of Smiths Basin.
y. Y; John II. MacDonals, of Autidonish, y. s;
B. .. RambO. Shelby, Ohio; ii. Straley. Cleve-
land, Ohio; John L. Wood, Cuba, \. Y: Mrs.
John L. Wood. Alexander Wood. Cuba, \. Y
and \ (lgNglnnI 81
these are fatally injured Several other men
were slightly cut and shaken up, but went
away without reporting. All those found by
the railroad o4cials 10 be injured were sent to
I'll. Il
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DETAINED BY BAD WEATHER.-Informatio
received at the photographic Office from Lieut..
Norris, in charge of the longitude party at La
Libertad, Salvador states that the work there
is about finished. He expected to leave for
San Juan del Sur on the oath of March, arriv-
ing there on the 9th, and thought he would be
able to finish at that point by the 9th of April,
so as to leave on that date for Panama Lieut.
Laird, with his section, was all right at Salina
Cruz, but having very bad weather. As the
rainy season was coming on Lieut. Norris ex-
pected to be Obliged to stop work very soon,
but hoped to be able to establish the longitude
of San Juan. 1t is expected that the longitude
party will reach home the latter part Of April
but if. on account of the weather, they miss
the steamer Of tomorrow from San Juan to
Panama, they will be detained until the 9th of
April, in which case they will not reach the
United States until the middle of May.
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The Astounding Cashier

NOTHING FURTHER KNOWN OF HIS wHEREABoUra
CHICAGO, April s.A dispatch from Anoka.
Mimi. says: Nothing further is known of the
whereabouts of the absconding cashier Pratt
As near as can be learned now the amount OF
his stealings is $4,000 from Mrs. Nell. S45. 600
from st. Paul and Minneapolis correspondents
of the bank. and $4,000 raised by the sale Of
his own and other peoples stock. New York
and Chicago correspondents of the bank are
yet to be heard from. Mrs. Nell who is nearly
eighty years old, has always trusted Pratt as a
son. and left the management of her affairs al
most entirely in his hands She can hardly be-
lieye that he has robbed her. aud attributes all
his trouble to the ''woman in the case" :"
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La Main in Boston.
AN ITALIAN ORGANIZATION To CIRCULATE coUN-
TEGFEIT MONEY.

An ITALIAN ORGANIEATION CIRCULATE COCN-
TEgFEIT MONEY.
BosroN, April s.-The Herald states that re-
cent developments leave no room for doubt
that a branch of the wing of the Italian camorra
known as La Mafia is now in woraing order in
Boston. Its meetings are held almost nightly
generally i'll a north end bar-roOm, having a
large room IN the rear, or in one of several
tenement houses. The chief is a resident of
the north end, and is known at the north end
station. Captain Caine. of that police division,
states that he has the names of fOrty-two MEM
bers and is well posted regarding the proceed
ings of the organization, although he might
find it difficult to convict them of the COM
mission of any of the petty crimes with which
he has known the members TO have been con-
nected. The members are active in passing
counterfeit money. Within three days it has
become known that large package of counter
felt 10-cent pieces recently came from New
York to a member of the order here. and that
some of the pieces have been put in circulation
by banana vendor. The saloon before-men-
toned will be closed as soon as its license ex-
pireS.
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Gen. Boulanger Notified to
Leave Belgium.
DESPERATE OKLAHOMA BOOMERS.
A Serious Railroad Accident at
Chicago.
THE NEW YORK DYNAMITERS.
THE "TIMES' DILEMMA.
Its Very Existence as Newspaper
Threatena6.

Special Cable Dispatch to THE EVENING STAR
LONDON, April S.-People are beginning
seriously to question whether the Times will be
able to survive the consequences of the Parnell
case. At first this was thought mere baga-
telle, but now it gets some color from the fact
which reaches me on the best authority that
not one of the Times counsel has yet received
a single penny in fees, and that only the ex-
penses Of witnesses have been paid The ex-
PLANTATION is that the Times entered upon the
commission business confident of an ultimate
grant from the government; but the collapse
OF the letters alters the situation and a grant
now is utterly out of the question. The Times.
therefore, has to face an unexpected expendi-
ture of fifty thousand pounds of law expenses,
plus another fifty thousand for libes OF course
MIR. Walter is very rich man, and he may come
to the rescue of his fellow proprietors; but the
very existence of the Tunes, as the Times is
now threatened.
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The EirminAlam Election.

POSTPONED FOR A WEEK AND 1T Is EXPECTED
THE TORIES WILL PULL THROUGH.
Special Cable Dispatch to THE EVENING STAR
LONDON, April S.-The Birmingham election
is fixed for next Monday. This delay will save
the seat for the government. Schnadhorst.
who speaks with unusual authority, says if the
election took place to-day the liberals would
win. but that the tories will pull themselves to-
gether during the week.
We expect Boulanger's expulsion from Bel
glum soon, The latest rumor is that he intends
coming to Brighton.
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The Late James Christie.

BosToN, April S.-The remains of the late
James l. Christie, assistant doorkeeper of the
United States Senate. arrived here to-day i'm
charge of the following guard: Capt. Bassett
head doorkeeper; Charles b. Reade of Maine;
Clifford Warden, George W. Boyd, T. II. Shi-
vers. David S. Corser. W. n. REYNOLDS and
Frank NJ. Evans. They will be taken TO Dover,
n. H., this afternoon, and the funeral will be
held tomorrow at ll:30 am. in the Episcopal
church
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The Sioux Reservation.
INDIANS INTERESTED IN THE REPORT THAT co
MISSION WILL sooS BE APPOINTED.

INDIANS INTERESTED IN THE REPORT THAT CON-
MISSION WILL SOON BE APPOINTED.
CHICAGO, April S.-A dispatch from Bismarck
OAK. says: The report that the commission
would soon be appointed by the President 20
confer with the Indians for the opening of the
great Sioux reservation is received with much
interest among the Indians at Standing Rock.
who are headed by Sitting Bull, Gall, John
Grass and other notorious chiefs. The Indians
are pleased with the action OF the government
in increasing the price to be paid them from
SO cents per acre to S1.25, and many of them
have expressed their willingness to accept the
Gall. who were SO bitterly opposed to the
treaty submitted last year, have given utter
ance TO friendly expressions, and there is still
doubt of success among the whites who visit
the reservation. A recent arrival from the
Sitting Bull and Gall viii accept the treaty.
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A Railway Mail Clerk Arrested.

ST. PAUL, MIMI, April s.-Herbert G. Stout,
a railway mail clerk on the route between ST.
Paul and Council Bluffs. was arrested on Satur-
day evening, charged with stealing letters con-
tanning money from the mails. His stealings
have been going on for nearly eight months
and amount to several THOUSAND dollars. Most
of the letters stolen were addressed to the
Louisiana lottery agents at New Orleans. When
arrested Stout broke down ana admitted his
guilt. He Is forty-two years of age and q
brother Of the Rev. James f. Stout, Of the
Clinton Avenue Methodist Episcopal church Of
this city.
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The Women Suffraoists Rejoice.

New YORK, April S.-The woman suffrage
party is rejoicing over the action OF the United
States Court of Claims in appointing one OF its
members. Miss Mary +. Seymour. of this city,
court commissioner for the whole country
The members or the party claim that the court
has thus settled that a woman can legally hold
office.
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THE MORRILL-wISE DEAL.
Boston Hopes to Secure Ward, but that
is not Likely.

BosroS, April s.-The release of Morrill, and
Wise to the Washington club has led many TO
suspect that Ward might come to Boston as
part of the deal. II is stated. however. on the
authority of the Boston directors that such is
not the case. There has been no deal of any
nature which comprises a transfer of players
between Boston, New York and Washington.
The transaction as far as the Boston club is
concerned was bargain by itself, in which
neither the president of the New York club nor
Ward himself had any hand. As matters now
stand Ward will not play on the Bostons.
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A Light Sentence for Murder.

ELKHART. ND, April s.-The trial of Ben
Scott, the Texan who killed Con. Crowley. a
young business man here, on the 9th of last
after being on. all night, sentencing him to five
years imprisonment. The lightness of the
sentence created general surprise.
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Boys Not to Have Tobaccoin i'm Michigan.

LANSING MICH, April S-The bill prohibit
ing the sale Of tobacco to minors under seven
teen, without the written consent of their pa
rents and guardians, has passed to the order of
third reading, and will likely become law. 1t
will be followed by an iron-clad BILL prohibit
ing the sale of cigarettes i'll any form, which
has many advocates
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Women Voters I'm Detroit.

DETROIT, MICH, April S.-An examination of
the poll lists OF all the election districts in this
city shows that despite the many difficulties at
tending the first time, over 1000 women voted
for school officers at the city election. They
were courteously received at the polls and the
latter in most districts were kept very quiet
and ORDERLY
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They Pleaded Not GuiIty

TIE ALLEGED NEW YORK DYNAMITEEs ARRAIGyEp.
New YORK. April s.-John O'Connell. Thos
Roardon, and Patrick :. Close, the alleged dy-
namIters. who are supposed TO have made the
attempt TO blow up Steyenson's brewery on 40th
street last February, were arraigned before
Judge MARITIME this morning and held in 5000
ball for trial. All three pleaded not guilty.