Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-10-19

Richards, Maj. John w. Powell, Prof. Harry
hing, Prot. F. R. Fava, Simon Wolf, J. H Ma
gruder, Chas. s. Hill, Frank Aldrich, Col. g. 8
| Burdette, H. F. Blount w. A. Croffut, q. T.
Dunlap, E. G. Davis. w. C. Dodge, Archibald
Hopkins, Geo. F. Hardin. C. A. Langley, VIM
| +: Mattngly, Julius Lansburgh. r. s. Presbrey,
N. 3. Thompson, j. H. Soule, W. b. Moses, J.
Leavitt Smith. F. G. Pohndorf, W. H. Selden,
W. @. Whittemore, Fred Bracket, E. b. YOU
mans. Dr.. Robt. Reyburn, Charles King, A c..
Richards, E. B. Stocking, J. W. Babson.
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
GEN. J. N. LEACH, ex-Congressman from
North Carolina, who had been confined to his
bed in this city for eight weeks with a frac-
tured hip bone, returned south this morning in
the private car OF Superintendent Green Of the
Richmond and Danville railroad company, &C
companied by his son, J. NJ. Leach, IT,, for
merly chief Of division in the sixth auditors
Office.
Work SuspEspED.-Acting Secretary Batch
eilor has suspended work on the public build
| ings now under construction at Savannah, Ca,
and at Statesville, N. c., until il can be
ascertained whether Congress will author
ize the selection of new sites and
increase the limit of cost The present sites
were selected by the last administration and
the present action is based on petitions from
| leading state and civil officials Of that place.
THE TENTH INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL Con-
oREss.-Surgeon General Hamilton of the ma
| rine hospital service today received the follow
| ing letter from Prof. Virchow of Berlin: 1.-THE
| organized committee Of the tenth international
| am elected president and DIR. LASER secretary
| general. We hope to see you and many Of
your countrymen at the new session"
B. L. BRocKErr of Illinois has been appointed
to q, 600 cierkship in the Office of the first
controller of the Treasury under amended
rule 10, civil service regulations.
TIE NEW NAVAL STEAM CurrER.-The Sec
rotary of the Navy has ordered board, to con-
sist Of Capt. Bardslee, Chief Engineer Windsor
| and Assistant Naval Constructor Armistead, to
meet at Newark, NJ, at the works of the
Hohensteln manufacturing company for the
purpose of making an examination of the hull.
| fittings, boiler and appurtenances of the steam
| cutter constructed for the navy under contract
| OF February %, 1885, and to witness and report
upon her trials.
ACTING SECRETARY BATcHELLER went to New
| York this afternoon for the purpose of confer
ring with the collector and survey in regard to
| the business methods of those offices.
CoNscIENcE.-The Secretary of the Treasury
/
| morping-one Of S25 in an envelope post
marked New York and the other of $40 in an
envelope on which the postmark was indis-
| tinct The New Yorker said his contribution
Represented the duty on a diamond ring i'm
ported by him in Garfeld's administration.
CHANCES IN THE ARMY RETIRING Board
Lieut. Col. Michael P. Small, assistant com.
misssry general, and Capt. Jas. E. Pitcher. as
slstRhtant surgeon, have been detailed as men,
| beers OF the army retiring board at Governors
| Island, NY, relieving Col Robert p Hughes,
inspector general, and Lieut.. Col Anthony
| Heger, surgeon.
FAILED TO BLOW UP THE WnEcK.-The Navy
| department has been informed that the tug
Nina made an Intellectual effort last week to
blow up the wreck Sarah L. Simons and re-
| turned to Newport for better ground tackle
and more coal. She started again Thursday
| and with the aid Of lighthouse tender the
ofhcers expect to be able to remove the OBJ
! struction.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER leaves
this afternoon for Philadelphia for his usual
Sunday visit He intends to continue these
| weekly visits to Philadelphia and will not
abandon his Sunday school there, as has been
stated.
PERsoSALs.-Mr. Chas. W. Buck, who was
United States minister to Peru during the
Cleveland administration and who has been
visiting this city for week past, left Washing
ton today for his home in Kentucky.-His
Exoellency w. Won WeckerIin, the Dutch
ambassador to the United States, United States
Consul @. W. Whitman and wife and the earl of
Norbury arrived in New York yesterday on the
Germanic, from. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Eustis
attended the Frederick, Md. fair yesterday.
Jay Gould passed through Wichita, Kan, YES
terday quite Il-Mr Stilson Hutchins Con-
| gressmen Houk OF Tennessee and Snider of
Minnesota, Senator Aldrich, Judge A. B. Hag-
ner OF the District of Columbia Supreme Court.
MIR. Augustus Schoonmaker of the in
terstate commerce commission, ex-Con-
gresham Durham of Chicago, B. F..
Hon. Rodney Wallace and wife of Fitchburg.
Mass, E. Blunt and Miss Blunt of New York
Henry A. Haigh of Detroit. Mich. Mr. and Mrs.
A. l.. Allen and Miss Allen of Poughkeepsie. n.
Y, A. c. Mcknight of Chicago, Mr.. Barlow and
wife Of Brooklyn, are at the Normandie.-
w. H. Miller of Ithaca, NY, +. J..
Moore and f. H. Harrison of New
York, are at the Hotel Johnson
| L. c. Baxter and wife of Detroit and F. D..
Ganley of Boston are at the St James.-W.
Slowe of Pittsburg, R. H. Southgate of New
York, and T. Schwartz of Chicago are at Will
| lard's.-Dr. Mosley, U.S.A, E. Jones of Bos
| ton, C. Darling and L. Peck of New York are
| at the Ebbitt-J. Fox Of New York. G. Denny
of Massachusetts and J. Mclean of West Vir-
| ginia are at the Riggs.-H. Duffield of De-
troit, A. Mclean of New York, r. c. Parsons of
Cleveland and John Wright of Texas are at the
Arlington.
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