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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-15

Gov. HovEY ISAUGURATED.-Gov. Hovey was
tnaugurated in Indianapolis yesterday after
sage he recommended better election laws to
prevent corruption Of the ballot, local option
measures against monopolies and carriers
trusts, DC Gen. Harrison and Gov. Hovey
were roundly cheered as they left the Opera
house. President-elect and Mrs. Harrison at
tended the Inauguration ball last night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-15

CoALl CokE. WooD,
JOHNSON BROTHERS,
Wharves and Rail yards, 18th Water SITS Southwest
Offices:
1909 F ST. new. 1915 9TH st. Nv
Sd and X ST. n. W. 17i0 Pa. ave- n W.
11129 st. NV. Alb 10th st n. W.
Exclusive agents in the District for the sale of some
OF the best coal mined Supply more families than any
retail yard in the United States
HONEST MEASURE, FAIR DEALING, PROMPT
DELIVERIES AND REASONABLE PRICES have
made our business a success n2l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-15

At Conway, N. c., Eli Ward colored, broke
into the house Of Henry Farmer assaulted him
with q razor, stripped Mrs. Farmer of her
clothing, and ma de his escape, Mr.. Farmer is
a man Of wealth, and has been married but two
months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-15

The chief work done by the New Hampshire
constitutional convention was the adoption of
the prohibitory amendment, which forbids the
manufacture and sale of all intoxicating liquors
in the state, with the exception of cider.
Mrs. Caroline Sharkey, q widow, living near
Eaton, Ohio. was found murdered in her bed
Saturday. Her only son, Elmer, who lived
with her, is suspected. Mrs. Sharkey was a
relative Of ex-Congressman Milton Sayler.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-15

Mr.. SHAw's SWEEP WAS CLEAN-John A..
Moody, receiver of the defunct Columbia Build
ing and Savings association in Chicago. has
just made his first report. This is the institu-
ton alleged to have been wrecked by W. f.
Shaw, who is under arrest for handling stolen
bonds. The report shows available assets of
sl65 and liabilities of $4,000, in round num-
bers. There are Intangible assets" consist
ing of notes by the other men who are under
arrest with Shaw, but they are worthless. Even
Shaw's bonds of $1,000 are signed by the same
men. SO the stOckholders will get nothing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-15
TNHE GREAT
PFN\SyT vANrA por-rr

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CORNER SIXTH AND B STREETS. AS Fol-
FOrPittsburg and the West Chicago Limited Express Of
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with SLEEPING Cars from Pitts9ure TO Cincinnati,
day to Chicago, with Sleeping Car Altoona 70 Chi
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BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD.
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For Willismsport. Lock Haven and Emira, at Boa
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- except Sunday.
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WAY, AND ALEXANDRIA AND WASHINGTON
RAILROAD.
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1907 IN, 2 30, :O1, 5 :05 and lO:O5 D. m
Accommodation for Quantico, Z rs a. N. and 100
y. N. week days
For Richmond and the South. 30. 1857 a m daily
y, and 3:4O p: IN. daily, except Sunday.
Trains leave Alexandra for Washington. Cos Or
s;V0 S;5o, 1913; II 20! Am: 20. $500, 1921,
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Sunday at 9 10 and l 07 a. IN; 200 5: iO Z .05,
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Tickets and information at the office Northeast c,r
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General Manager. fia1l Az
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-15

The New York anarchists who are opposed to
John Most as leader have organized into the
radical arbeiter bund, and issued a circular
denouncing Most.
An effort is being made to have a marriage
license law in South Carolina, and one of the
reasons is the story of a trick PLAYED upon
Rev. A. Durham, of Piedmont in that state.
who married two men, one of them being
dressed up as a woman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-15

In presenting THE EVENING STAR In "a. new
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peculiar merits a neos and ganaily paper as
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to advertisers.
high professional authority-which in this in
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With these general objects in view, what The
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AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. To these
the paper has been unsweryingly devoted since
Its present management assumed its direction.
and this policy will characterize the future career
Of the paper as prominently as it has marked It's
past history.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-15

LIGHTED PIPE CAUSED HIS DEATH.-Milton
Reed, an East Taunton, Mass, woodchopper,
met his death Saturday night in a peculiar
way. While at work his clothing became sat
urated with pitch. Returning from carouse
he lay down on his doorstep to sleep, leaving a
lighted pipe in his pocket. The matches in
the pocket were ignited, the woodchopper's
pitch-saturated clothes caught fire, and very
soon the heavy slumberer was mass of flames.
Before help arrived he had burned to death,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-15
THE WEEKLY STAR

Is especially commended to that portion Of the
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current events worthy Of note. In the state
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The low price at which IL ID published. ''
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AS AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM.

The EVENING STAR claims 70 be, and can con.
clusvely establish that it Is The best local oUert
inc medium an The ,oorld' No orHKs PAPER PRINTED
cIRcuLATEs so MANY COPIES IN TIE CITY or RS
PUBLICATION, IN PROPORTION TO POPULATION. IL
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OF subscribers and of new advertisements printed,
each year in the history OF the paper shows large
0'0i i'7 PieNeSeSSoi' 1of eAaHpie, curing
the first nine months Of the present year
the average daily circulation Of the paper
has been 26.6sI copies. and the whole
number of new advertisements printed 3e.es3.
against average daily circulation Of 25,4o7
copies and 1854 new advertisements dur
ing the corresponding period I'm 1887. In short
THE STAR has neuer taken backward step, and
its conductors are determined that &c never shall
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-15
POTOMAC RIVER BOATS.

Nyr VERNON! M yLEAuA!
STEAMER w. W. CORCORAN
enves wharf daily sunday for N,
vernon aud hiver Landings tar down as IGlylnons
az 10 O'Clock u. IN Returning, reaches Washin0tns'
about $3.50 p s'0-
$40 i. l. BLAKE Captain
IrOR POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS
Il NEW IRON STEAMER "NAKEFIFIDr
Leaves nth5stieet wharf on M0NDAlS S, THURSDAYS
and SATIkOANS az 8. M. Returning TUESDAYS
fh1DAlS ana SUNDAYS II. IN. touching AT River
Lsndngs as far as Nomi Greek. Va; ST Clements Bay
ara leolardtown, Md. Connects with and % ri n al
Shepherds. See schedule JOHN b. PADG FTT Al
G. W. RIDLEY. Manager ta1S
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-15

Gov. GORDON BUYS STOCK FARM-Gov. Cor
don. of Georgia, has decided to become a stock
farmer, and will probably retire from politics
altogether. He has bought a river plantation
OF 100 acres in Taylor county, to which he is
adding other lands. His purpose is to make it
the most complete stock farm in the south. He
has agents out purchasing brood mares and
fine strains of cattle, sheep and swine. OF late
years Gov. Gordons close confinement to Office
work has caused him much sickness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-15
RAILROADS.
DIEDMoNT AIR LINE.

D1EDMoNT AIR LINE
l. schedule in effect January 9th, 1889
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Pullman Sleeper New York TO Atlanta Pullman Parlor
cars Atlanta 70 Montsomery: Pullman Sleepers Mont
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for birmingham. Vicksburg and Shreveport. Pullman
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S:3O r M-Dally, except Sunday, for Manassas.
Stras burg and intermediate stations
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Daily arrive Round Hill II 30 A. NJ and 1:2O p NJ
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Through trains from the South via Charlotte Dan
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-22
THE o1rurA1 COMBINATION BROKEN,

Cedar Rapids. Iowa, April 21.-It leaked out yes,
erdsy that the meeting Of the officers Of tho Oatmeal
Trust with the owners Of certain mills that are IDLE
held in this city early In the week. was stormy one,
and ended In the avowed determination Of the idle
mills to start again, each looking out for lite own IN
ago the mills at Yonkers NJ Y, Joliet and Rochelle
Ill. and Des Moines, Cedar Falls and Sioux City,
Iowa. were given bonus as high as $4,000 year
I'm some cases TO remain idle, and oatmeal went uT
from SO rs per barrel to s5 go There were fifty
one mills In the United States at the ume but the
number has increased to fftyfve and the tax on the
operating mills had become so burdensome that they
refused longer 10 pay the former bonus, but offered
a smaller consideration. This was refused by the
owners OF the idle mills at Des Molnes and Cedar
Falls and the latter have announced, 1t is alleged
that their product WIN be ready for market again
May 10, The other mills win follow, and the old
war VIII be renewed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-22
4 KNIFE BURIED IN HIS WINDPIPE.

ONE BUTCHER HURLs BLADE AT ANOTHER
AND WOUNDS HIM, PROBABLY FATALLY.
Morris Hartnett lives at No. 600 West Fify-ninth-
St, and is a butcher at Eastmans slaughterhouse,
at Eleventhav and Fifty -nInth-st. Thomas Nolan,
of No. 437 West Fifty-sixth-st, is a helper at the
same place. Yesterday morning both the men were
at work. and Hartnett called TO Nolan to help him
take down a quarter of beef Nolan did not move at
once and Hartnott threw a bullocks hoof at him.
1t whizzed by his head and he turned quickly and
"daredo Hartnett TO throw another hoof at him.
Hartnett was not slow in taking up the challenge
and he threw another hoOf which Nolan lodged
Nolan slipped on the Hoor and as soon as he
recovered his balance no 1rled dressing knife at
twenty-five feet away, but the knife came so quickly
upon him that he could not dodge 1t, and the
blade entered his windpipo about two inches below
the chin. The blade went clear through the flesh
In the neck and the point was imbedded In the
splne Hartnett dazed for moment. and then
coolly pulled the knife from his neck and stuffed
his hand into tho wound to stop the hcmorrhase
and kept It there until the arrival Of an ambulance
from the Roosevelt Hospital
The wound was dressed and Hartnett was taken
to the hospital. Secondary hemorrhage set In In a
short time and the house surgeon said that he
feared the wound would prove fatal. Coroner
MESSENGER took Hartnetps ante-mortem statement
Nolan was arrested. Hartnett and Nolan have been
friends for long time and both arc said by Mr..
Eastman TO be quiet and sober men. They never
ouarrcled before. Nolan admits throwing the Knife,
but says that he did not intend to do Hartnett any
harm
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-22
BRUTALLY BEATEN BY RUFFTANS.
A PoICEMAN's SKULL FRACTURED WITH
BILLIARD CUE-sEvERAL ARRESTS!

BILLIARD CUE-SEvERAL ARRESTS!
A crowd Of rufIlans were annoying passers-by in
Ferry-st, Newark, at late hour on Saturday night
when Officer William Tighe, of the Third Precinct,
ordered them to dsperse. Tghe is trusty man,
and has been terror to the oafers Of the neighbor
hood on more than ono occasion. When ono Of the
men made an nsolent reply to the policeman, Tighe
selSed him. but In instant the entire gang leaped
upon him and bore him 10 the ground. They kicked
and clubbed him numerically, but ne succeeded in
regaining his feet after terrific struggle and brought
his stick into effective For moment the tide
Of battle turned. but, the gang about to
break and scatter, a young scamp rushed out Of a
barroom with heavy btllarl-cue in his hand. This
he brought down upon the head of the officer with
force enough to stretch him senseless the sidewalk
Fearing that Tighe bad been murdered, the gang fled,
and few eye witnesses Of the carried the sense
less form of the officer TO tho police station
Police Surgeon Clark was summoned, and said that
Tigho's skull bad been fractured by the blow Of the
cue. Early yesterday morning Frederick Peunethng,
of No 113 Monroe-st., arrested on suspicion Of
having struck the officer with the cue A number of
Others supposed to bo implicated IN the assault were
aftcrwad arrested, and Will be held until Tlghe can
Identify them. Tho officer is now In the hospital and
his condition is considered critical.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-22
TO CAPTURE THE LIoUoR-sELLERs.
EMITTED STATES AUTHORITIES TAKING PRE-
r.rvrro,vs. rN THE NEW LANDS.

wichita Kan, April 21.-A dispatch to The Daily
EaRIes from Oklahoma City says: The soldiers st1
continue TO guard the station and TO keep out all
would be settlers. lieutenant Adair and his troops
are-doIng efficient work In this respect Now and
then men allght at Edmonds or at other stations
whore thers are no troops but they soon arc found
by the scouts and compelled to leave the country.
DEPUTY varnum stated that he had special orders
from Marshal Needles, of the Indian Territory, and
Marshal Jones of the Kansas District to arrest all
perons selling liquor In Oklahoma Marshal Jones has
placed deputies at the principal stations to Keep
order and enforce tho Law. The wire service has
proved inefficient at Arkansas City, and no specials at
all can be cent from the Oklahoma country. AS re-
suit thousands Of words have been filed that never
reached their destination at all. Yesterday morning
the operators were still at work upon matter filed the
precedtpg afternoon for the morning papers The
South Canadian was crossed this morning, and the
water appeared to be rapidly subsidng. II there
are no further rains, the river VIII not seriously In
terfero with the crossing Of the @boomers" on the
opening day.
Kansas City, April e1.-A dispatch to The TiInes'
from Arkansas City says that Is reported there that
General Merritt has issued orders to the troops to take
possession Of all guns and pistols carried by the
aboomers.s They are not to be confscated, but the
idea Is to hold them until the oxcitement E over as
q precautionary measure against bloodshed IL Is ALSO
SAID that liquor viii be ngidly excluded
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-22
THE DYNAMITE CRUnsER,s GUNS,

Philadelphia, April 21-The tests being made Of the
rapdity Of fire OF tho guns Of the dynamite cruiser
Vesuvlus viii DO followed by the official test by
Lieutenant Bradley A. Fiske who has been connected
with the official board for many months and who,
with Lieutenants Schroeder and Cowles, conducted
the recent speed trial Of the boat The contract be-
tween the Government and the Dynamite Gun Com
pany stipulates that before tho vessel can DO ac-
oepted each of tho three 15nch guns must be fired
Ave times in ten minutes; or, on an average. once
in two minutes AS the guns of the Vesuvius arc
Axed at constant elevation of IL degrees, the range
Of her prujectlos be changed only by varying the
amount Of air admitted TO the gun-barre in the rear
Of tho she'll The air IS admitted from the firing
reservoir to the gun at pressure of 1000 pounds
per square inch, but the valve which controls the
admission of air must be so decately adjusted that
the amount admitted may be varied at VIII, and so
perfect that the final pressure upon the shell may
be diminished from 1000 pounds per square inch TO
the pressure just sufficient to drop the Shell snort
distance from the muzZle.