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, 1890-05-11

New YORK, May lO.-A special from
Washington says the statement is made
that during the last two or three days
a corner in silver has beeh consummated
in New York. The uncertainty IN regard
to silver legislation helped the manipu.
lators greatly. The government is now
compelled to bring silver from England.
The amount of silver held by the New
Workers is estimated by some at $40. 0OO,-
900 In bullion and certificates. but CON
sentative accounts place the total bullion
at 81, 900, 900. While these figures would
cover the bullion it may be increased
several millions by silver certificates. 1t
is a fact that the government has been
compelled to buy silver in London and to
complete the deal the New York people
have been keeping even with the govern.
ment in purchases abroad. They have
almost cornered the market In London.
1t is also a fact that the silver offered the
government at the assay Office in New
York has been at a premium of 2(G3c.
Director OF Mint Leach this morning did
not deny the rumors of a corner, but said
no silver had ever been offered the govern.
ment at New York: that it bought bullion
in London and was storing it in the assay
Office at New York. 1t was also storing
what silver it had in the West and issu,
ing certificates.
, 1890-05-11

CHICAGO, May l0.-The old master
carpenters association. which refused to
take part in the arbitration proceedings
with the striking carpenters, is making a
strong fight to secure men. II is forming
a union of non-uni IN men in opposition to
the regular union and has agents at va
rious points in this country and Canada
e~ndeayOring to get men. The carpenters
council has secured the presence here of a
government agent tu look out for Cana
dian carpenters imported under contract
and have pickets out watching all con.
tracts in the hands of the old asso iation.
The new bosses association is receiving
union carpenters are at work.
The old masters association is making
a strong fight on the new bosses, having
made arrangements with the dealers in
lumber and other supplies by which the
new bosses can not get material except
for cash, while the old masters get from
thirty to sixty days time. This will Grip
pie many of the small bosses seriously.
The old ASSOCIATION has also decided TO
bid for all contracts in competition with
the new bosses at prices which will allow
little or no profit. The union carpenters
will rely chiefly upon their ability to call
out the other building trades from jobs
where o union men are employed and
upon keeping carpenters from accepting
service under the old bosses. In view Of
all these things it would seem that the
eight hour tight has only lust begun in
, 1890-05-11

WASHINGTON, May 10.-The house
amendment to the senate bill to increase
the limit OF cost for a pubic building at
Sacramento. Cal was concurred In.
The army appropriation bill was then
taken up. Hale's amendment providing
that no alcoholic liquors, beer or wine be
sold or supplied to enlisted men in any
canteen or building in the garrison or
military post wasp agreed to-ayes 30,
nays Is.
Cockrelfs amendment striking out the
words beer or wine," was disagreed to.
The bill then passed.
The calendar was her taken up and
the following bills, among others, passed:
Senate bill appropriating $40, 900 for two
wagon roads through Fort Candy military
reservation, in the state of Washington.
senate bill appropriating $l2, 600 for a
steam launch for the collection district of
Puget Sound.
The senate then took up the individual
pension bills on the calendar and passed
all of them (S5) in an hour and a half.
After an executive session, the senate
adjourned.
, 1890-05-11
FREMONT TAINTED.
FREMONT TAINTED.
A Debt of Nineteen Hundred
Dollars Wiped Out
By the Discovery of a Long
Lost Voucher.
New Workers Working a Cor
ner in Silver.


New YORK, May lO.-A Wash
ington special says: When John
G. Fremont was a lieutenant in lS4S in
California, his accounts with the govern
ment were left in such a state that he has
always been regarded as an official debtor
to the government. The amoun is sI9,-
900 and it has been one of the Chief sor-
rows Of Fremont in later years that he
was unable to square this balance against
him. The other day Fremont called at
the office of the second comptroller of the
treasury and said his financial circum-
stances are such that if his salary as re.
tired major general were retained to meet
this alleged shortage he would be for
some time in actual want. At his request
the comptroller investigated the accounts
and discovered that instead of Fremont
being a debtor. the government had ac-
tually owed him Tor over forty years
$2l 900. The records are perfectly clear
and it was proven beyond dispute that
through a mistake in bookkeeping Lieut..
Fremont had been charged with a voucher
which was on file. When Fremont called
again to ask whether some arrangement
might be made to pay his supposed in
debtedness by iDstsllments, he was so
unprepared for the glad news waiting him
that he tainted. Yesterday a warrant
for the amount due bin was made out
and duly approved and signed.
WASHINGTON, May l0.-The statement
in a special dispatch to a New York pa
per that the government is indebted to
Gen. Fremont in the sum OF $2l, 600 is
inco rect. The amount involved is 81
900 and congress will be asked to pay it.
, 1890-05-11

LONDON, May l0.-During the session
oil the house of commons today jesse
Ceilings, Liberal Unionist, asked whether
the government would take steps to en-.
courage British manufacturers to send ex-
hibits to the worlds fair at Chicago il
the Mckinley tariff bill should become a
law in view of the fact that the bill prao
ticaily prohibits the importation of Brit.
ish goods into the United States. Sir
James Ferguson, parliamentary secretary
OF the foreign office, said the question Of
otheial participation in the proposed fair
ton OF the advantages to British interests
when an invitation to take part in the ex-
hibition had been received from the
American government. Probably. he
SAID, the manufacturers of Great Britain
would to a great extent be deferred from
sending exhibits to the fair if the tariff
precluded profitable sales in America.
, 1890-05-11

1t having been alleged that the Aus
tralian government had refused to allow
NJ. Pasteur the reward of e20, 900 offered
10 the person who should suggest the best
plan for the destruction of the rabbits
that infest the a~ntipodean colonies, the
savant has been Intercepted on the mat
ter. He says that he has not been re-
fused the reward, for the simple reason
that he never sought it, and that owing
to circumstances over which he had no
control he could not claim such a reward.
When he read In the newspapers that
the Australians desired to get rid of their
rabbits he Immediately thought Of his
method. Experiments of a necessarily
restricted character enabled him to ar
rive at the conclusion that rabbit virus
was most violent, and that, by ~inoculat-
ing a few animals with it, it could be
rapidly communicated to any number of
them. He accordingly sent NJ. Loir, his
nephew, and another of his assistants to
Australia in order TO try the experiments
which he had made in his laboratory on
o more extended scale.
The assistants returned to France after
a few months, discouraged. According
to M. Pasteur, they were not allowed by
the commission appointed by the Austria
liam government to effect any important
experiments. This commission permit
ted the assistants to i~noculate a few rab-
bits, and the experiments were success
full enough to warrant a further extern
sion of the authorization; but all sorts of
delays and ad~journments were caused
until the assistants abandoned all hope of
being able to carry out the purpose for
which they had undertaken the voyage
to Australia. Such is NJ. Pasteur's al
most vertabim version of the affair of the
antipodean rabbits.-Chicago Herald.
, 1890-05-11
Garrison Answers a Question.

WASHINGTON, May lO.-The postmas-
ter general has made an answer to the
resolution adopted by the house inquiring
what inspectors or special AGENTS have
been employed to investigate the standing
and claims of rival applicants for ap
pointment as postmaster. He says: 81
know Of no instance where an inspector
under thus administration has been de-
tailed merely to ascertain whether Or not
an applicant was a Republican, Democrat
or member of any other party, unless it
was where a charge of deception has been
made in seeking an appointment The
postmaster general adds: The practice
OF occasionally sending an inspector to re-
port upon an applicant is not new AMI
has been followed by all postmaster gem
erals Tor years past"
, 1890-05-11

Think of a Pullman palace car cathe-
dral. 1t is both a paradox, and is to be
a fact, Bishop Walker. of North Dakota,
having decided to have a Pullman car so
constructed as to afford seats in it for
eighty or more people, and to contain a
font, an altar, a lectern and n cabinet
organ and whatever might be necessary
for conducting worship and performing
the rites and sacraments of the church.
Notice will be sent in advance to the
people of a certain town announcing the
date of the bishops visit there. On the
appointed day the car will be drawn to
the village and switched off on a side
track. AT the proper hour the religious
services will be held in the room of the
car. Next day the car will be moved on
and the services repeated elsewhere
New Orleans Picayune.
, 1890-05-11

Thursday morning, after most of the
citizens of West Medford had started to
pursue their usual avocations in Boston,
a gang of laborers, acting under instruc-
lions of the road commissioners, began
IN act of vandalism which has aroused
the greatest Indignation among the people
of the beautiful village. A most mag
nificent elm, estimated to be about 225
years old, over 100 feet high and thirteen
feet in girth ten feet from the ground,
has stood on the side of the highway, the
admiration of every lover of the beauti-
full. Its graceful limbs spread entirely
across the street, and every tiny twig that
marked its slender tracing against the sky
was bursting into bloom, and the tree
was never in a more f~iourishing condi-
ton, but because its trunk ~encroached
upon the street a trifie the commissioners
resolved secretly upon its destruction, and
it now lies beside the road, majestic even
in its fall. Several times before has this
tree been threatened, but the almost
unanimous protest Of citizens has saved
it. But this time no notice was given,
no hearing was allowed, and the destroy
er has done its perfect work.-Boston
Post.
, 1890-05-11

NEW YORK. May IO.-Stocks today
were ieverish and irregular and prices
sagged away during the greater portion of
the session, although the general feeling
is still very bullish and the undertone re,
mains strong. The close was active,
strong and generally at small fractions be.
low last nights figures.
Government bonds steady.
Money on call easy with no loans.
Petroleum irregular Spot opened
steady at s49, advanced and closed firm at
S5t; June opened firm at $50 and closed
dull at S5t.
Following are closing prices of stocks:
Pacific 6s. ll6; American Express, lis:
Canada Pacific, 7ss; Canada Southern,
$50; Central Pacific. 341; Burlington,
list; Delaware, Lackawanna & Western,
1863; Denver x Rio Grande, 1871; Erie.
2St; Kansas & Texas. l6i; Lake Shore,
ll0s; Louisville & Nashville. Oh; Michi-
gan Central. 100: Fargo Express, 40;
Western Union, S6l; Missouri Pacific, 7S4;
Northern Pacific, &c; preferred. s2I;
Northwestern, 1851; preferred, l4GI
New York Central, lO9; Oregon I'm
provement, 52L; Oregon Navipa-
ton. LOG; Oregon Short Line, 5l4;
Iransc9ntinental, 43t; Pacific Mail,
43s; Reading, 43s; Rock Island,
g5i; Milwaukee 4 st. Paul, 76i; Texas
Pacific, 23t; Union Pacific, GOT; United
States Express, "a American cotton
oil sit.
CHICAGO. May l0.-Cattle-Receipts,
5000. Market slow and weaker. Beeves,
s5.OO(G5.25; steers, SO 5O(G4 90; stockers
and feeders, 81. SOFA 400; Texas steers,
81 60Cd4 90.
Sheep-Receipts .. 500. Market steady.
Natives, $4.0096. 80: Western corn fed,
IS 0o(G6 ID; Texans, 81. S0(G5. 40.
Wheat-Unsettled. Cash, 954(G 90;
June, 94i; July, 94s.
Corn-Market Steady. Cash, 34l; June,
34s934!; July, 35t
, 1890-05-11

LINDEN PARK, N. j., May lO.-Half
mile-Umpire Kelly won, Claudine sec
ond, Relay (cOlt) third. Time, 5Oi.
Mile and an eighth-Taragon won
Tristan second, Castaway third. Time,
:57t.
Mile and hree-sixteenths - Monsoon
won, Manola second, Reecho third. Time,
l:23t.
Eleven -sixteenths of a mile-Amboy
won, La Grippe second, Extra Dry third.
Time, l:lOt.
Seven eighths ola mile-Tippstaff won,
Prodigal second, Marian Russell third.
Time, 1924.
Mile-St. Paris won, Lotion second,
Larchmont third. Time, l:44.
, 1890-05-11
WRECKED BY The WIND.
The Tswn Of Akron, o., Torn
by a Terrible Cyclone.
One Hundred Buildings Com
pletely Demolished.
A Number Of People Injured,
but no Loss of Life.
Two Persons Killed by a
Storm in Kansas.

CLEVELAND, May 10. "A Lender
Akron, Ohio, special says: At $50 this
evening, ia the midst of a most terrible
cloud burst, this city was struck by the
worst tornado ever known hereabouts.
The storm struck the south part of the
city and tore through the fifth, fourth and
second wards, doing damage which can
not be estimated at this writing, but fully
100 buildings were completely demol
ished and hundreds badly damaged.
The house Of Dominick Greader was I'M
rooted and Mrs. Greadsr slightly in
jured.
Passing along Brown. Kline and
Wheeler streets a dozen or more houses
were moreless damaged some being moved
bodily from their foundations. and others
completely wrecked.
The wind struck Gebhart Herman's
house as the family, consisting of nine
persons, ha just set down to supper and
the house was badly damaged. All the
occupants were more or less bruised.
Herman was pinn0 down in the debris
and only the energy of despair, when he
saw the tire near him, enabled him to ex-
tricate himself. Recovering, he saw his
kIi Nv du OfCttufutu btONe
and before the flames could be extin-
guished she was frightfully burned about
the back aud limbs. The hurricane then
struck the Burkhart brewery squarely,
wrecking it utterly.
o. G. Bakers grocery was then torn to
pieces. His wife and daughter were IN
the building but escaped to the cellar and
were saved. Baker is missing and it is
feared he is dead in the ruins.
q. S. Harrington's house was crushed
in upon his four children, but luckily all
escaped.
Mr.. Irish is probably fatally injured by
a heavy timber of his house falling upon
him. The extent of the tornado at this
time is uDsxplored and the damage in
dollars cannot be stated. 1t is. however,
large as It falls on laborcrs. whose all is
in their homes. All descriptions of the
storm show it was rotary in its motion by
the skewIng OF buildings it struck and
the twisting of of big trees in its path.
The track was clean from fifty to $50 feet
vida
, 1890-05-11
sIavin Laughs at McAuIide.

LONDON, May lO.-In an interview TO-
day Siavin ridiculed Joe McAulitfe's pro-
posed challenge and asked why be should
fight a badly beaten man who was not
worthy to meet him, especially as there
was no money to be made. He said he
was waiting for a reply to his challenge to
Sullivan and was also willing to meet
Jackson and Corbett. Slavin thinks
Sullivan broken down and will never
meet either himself or Jackson in the
ring. Some London sports have offered
to put up a purse of fl.000 for the
winner should Slavin and Corbett come
together.
, 1890-05-11

History repeats itself. The German
youth who is now emperor would do
well to ponder over the following episode
in the record of King Rehoboam:
But he fOrsook the counsel of the old
men which they had given him, and con
suited with the young men that were
grown up with him.
80 Israel rebelled against the house
of David until this day. There
was none that followed the house OF Da-
vid but the tribe of Judah only"
For Rehoboam read William, for Da-
vid read Hohenzollern, for Israel read
Germany, and for Judah read Prussia.
London Truth.
, 1890-05-11
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

Rev. Father Keegan, v~icar-general of
Brooklyn, died yesterday.
Yesterdays temperature-New York
SO, New Orleans 400, st. Louis go, Gin
cinnati SO. Chicago 40o. Winnipeg $40.
A freight train on the Burlin ston road
was derailed last night at Aurora, Ill
The engineer and iremen were killed and
a brakeman is believed to be buried in
the wreck.
The attempt to organize the Western
States Passenger association for the resto-
ration of rates has fallen through owing
and other roads to Join il.
1t is given out that a grave ~irregularity
has been discovered in the accounts OF
the Norristown, Pa, water company.
The directors admit a large shortage in
cash, but will give no figures.
The bail of Lee White and Frank Cody
who committed highway robberics at
Lamy, N. NJ, was fixed at S., 900 each.
and they were committed to jail to await
the action OF the grand Jury at the next
term Of court.
A New York silversmith is at work
upon a solid silver loving cup to be pre-
sented to Blaine by the Latin American
delegates to the pan-American conference.
to be presented in Washington on the
l7th of May.
The American steamship Illinois ar
rived yesterday from Antwerp and re-
ports tina yesterday she passed the
steamer Aller broken down and proceed
ing to New York. The Illinois offered
to tow the Aller, but the captain declined
assistance. The Aller has LAT cabin pas
scngers and $50 steersge ~passengers. The
steamer arrived at quarantine in the af-
ternoon and then it was learned that the
delay was caused by the breaking OF a pin
in one of the engines.
, 1890-05-11

AT the Vienna general hospital the med,
ical officers are at present watching a
man about "a years of age, who was a
NAVY up till last year, when he hurt the
forefinger of his left hand. The finger
had to be amputated. Since then the
left hand has always been in motion,
and now the nervous affection has
spread over the whole body, and the
patient is obliged always to urn to the
left side. When lying in bed he gives
sudden jumps into the air like a fish
lying on dry ground. A similar case at
tracted recently the attention of medical
men at Paris, who called the disease
clownism, on account of the movements
of the patient.-New York Telegram.
, 1890-05-11

CHICAGO, MAY 10. President Spald-
ing of the Chicago ball club arrived home
from New York this morning and says
positively there was no meeting of the
National League in New York. He
denies there will be any changes and says
the schedule will be played. The League
is in the isht to stay and there will be no
transfers of clubs as has been rumored.
Messrs. John G. Eckel and Frank Con
n~elly.of the Chicago Times have issued a
universal base ball guide containing much
of interest to all leagues as well as tn e
base ball public generally. One feature is
special letters from the shining lights Of
both the League, Brotherhood and As
ISOLATION.
, 1890-05-11

ST. LOUIS, May l0.-In the Southern
Methodist conference today Judge East
of Tennessee introduced a resolution con-
demning the traffic in and the use OF
liquors and holding that legal prohibition
is the duty of the government. DIR.
Whitehead, of Virginia, opposed it. We
have no right, said he. under the law
and constitution of the church, to take
any position in regard to civil laws.
While | am as firm in my belief in tenn
perance as many men. | do not believe as
a church we have the right to make any
utterances on the subject. After a lengthy
debate the resolution was referred to a
oonnmittoa
, 1890-05-11

LEXINGTON. May 10.-Mile and fifty
yards-Spectator Brookful second,
Silver King third. Time, l:5li.
Mile-Sallie Byrnes won, Liederkran1
second, Headquarters third. Time.
l:49f.
Mlle-Camilla won, Pearl Pet second
Dollikens third. Time. l:4S4.
Nile-Portugese won, Chin Music sec
ond, Lean II third. Time. 1854.
Five eighths Of a mile-Raceland won.
Green Leaf second, Laura Angus third.
Time, l:061.
, 1890-05-11

SCRANTON, Pa, May 1O.-The entire
plant of the Consumers Powder company,
near Winton, was destroyed this morning
by explosion and fire. The force of the
explosion was terrific and was plainly felt
in this city. 1t happened in the canning
mill, and in rapid succession the glazing,
mixing and packing departments fol-
loved. Three workingmen are reported
instantly killed and several Others badly
injured. All buildings in the vicinity are
partially destroyed. Some families had
very narrow ,s.tn,s.
, 1890-05-11

WASHINGTON, May lO.-The bill to
prohibit the transportation of intoxicating
liquors from any state or territory of the
United States into states where prohibi.
tory laws are in force will be called up in
the house at the first opportunity.
Senator Sherman celebrated his 9th
birthday this evening by a dinner which
was attended by President Harrison,
Vice-P President Morton, Gen. Sherman,
Gen. Beale and others.
, 1890-05-11

The queen does not shrink from incur
ring spiritual responsibility. She is, at
her own wish, to be godmother to the
infant daughter of the Duke and Duchess
of Portland. 1t would be interesting to
have a list Of the children on whose be-
half the sovereign has stood sponsor, and
who, in consequence, are fifty named
Victoria. 1t is said hat in this case the
desire was signifed because of the report
which was current at the time of the
dukes marriage that he was not in favor
at court.-London Figaro.
, 1890-05-11

WASHINGTON, May lO,-Information
was received at the treasury department
to-day that thirty Chinese laborers we're
trying to enter the United States from
Mexico neal Nogales, Ariz. The special
agent at that place was instructed to call
upon the federal authorities to assist In
keeping them out and to assist in the ar
rest OF any who may have entered.
, 1890-05-11

NEW York, May 10.-The exports of
specie last week amounted to $l2, 900. all
gold. Imports s60s. 900. of which 3d.
600 were gold and $500, 900 silver. This
= the first week in many years that no
silver was exported. This exception is
shooubtedly due to anticipated silver leg
= ltaon. The abnormal import of silver
v Que to the same cause.
, 1890-05-11

Edison, when in Paris, laid great stress
upon the fact that it was dangerous to
be sending side by side with gas con
duits through subterranean Paris cleo
trical currents by wires charged with
high tension currents, and predicted that
explosions would be the result. Many
explosions from this cause are now oc-
curing in Paris, and the newspapers of
that city are reverting to Edison's warn
inU
, 1890-05-11

ALBANY, N. Y, May lO.-The defal-
cation in the City National bank of nearly
$4,000 has been traced to Geo. P. Whit
ney an individual bookkeeper who managed
it through the overdraft system in collision
with a prominent Albany firm. An effort
will be made among Whitney's friends to
scttln tho affair
, 1890-05-11
FOUND IN A BOX.
The Remains of a Woman
Horribly Mutilated.
A Colored Woman's Fatal Mis-
take While Making Bread.
Slavin, the Pugilist, Looking
for Big Game.

KANSAS CITY. May l~0.-Evidences OF
a ghastly crime were discovered at Union
station this morning. In a pine box two
feet long was found the horribly mutila.
ted body of a woman. Most of the flesh
had been cut from the bones aud the face
was mutIlated beyond recognition. The
body was packed in charcoal. Life could
not have been extinct more than twenty
four hours. The box was checked through
from st. Louis last night.
, 1890-05-11

PHILADELPHIA, May l0.-The heavy
batting OF the home team enabled them
to defeat the Brooklyn Brotherhood
club this afternoon. Attendance 3,7OO.
Philadelphia ......2 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 Sig
Brooklyn. ...........3 90 O0O4 0 o. I
Base hits-Philadelphia Is, Brooklyn
I. Errors-Brooklyn 6. Philadelphia 8.
Batteries-Husted and Milligan; Murphy
and kinslow. lmpires -Ferguson and
Holbert.
, 1890-05-11
McCalla Probably suspended.

WASHINGTON, May lO.-Lieuts. Garst
and Slayton arrived here today with the
record Of proceedings and findings of the
court martial in the case of Commander
McCalla- The impression prevails among
naval officers that the court sentenced
McCalla TO suspension from duty and to
be reprimanded by the department.