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The Washington critic., 1890-02-03
AN AMusINe MlsrAKn
Leads to Senator and Mrs. McDonai'
Faring Badly.

Leads to Senator and Mrs. McDonhlh
Faring Badly.
Mrs. Senator Mcdonald recently told
good story about a trip that she took
with The Senator. On the train with
them was gentleman and his wife
who were expert travellers, and every
place where the Senator and Mrs. Nc
Donald stopped the other party stopped
also. They seemed to have the best
attention paid them and they got the
best of everything. When the train
arrived at Boston both parties registered
at the same hotel.
At dinner the Senator and Mrs. Me
Donald could hardly get anything to
eat, while the walters were breaking
their pecks to serve the other party.
This was too much for Mrs Mcdonald,
so she complained to the head waiter
He explained by saying that the other
party were distinguished people, and
that the proprietor had ordered special
attention paid them. "He believed
that their name was Mcdonald. When
the waiter was told of his mistake he
was much chagrined. His anxiety was
so great that he probably would have
had fit had he not been told that they
would say nothing further about 1t. 1t
may be stated that the Senator and
Mrs. Mcdonald had the best the hotel
afforded during the remainder of their
I visit
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TIIE Tragedy.

The calamity which befell Secretary
Tracy and his family this morning pro-
duces such shock that emotional eN-
preston concerning it is impossible.
Sudden tragedies paralyze; it is only af-
terw ard, when the mind can nationally
contemplate the influence of results,
that words can be spoken or written
possessing meaning fairly adequate.
The old platitude, lin the midst Of
life we are in death, has never re-
ceived more startling eXempliiicaton.
Here was family who had retired to
sleep surrounded, apparently, by all
the safeguards that wealth and
power could confer. From n slum-
Der careless in its sense of security
they were awakened only to meet death.
Yet, nobody was to blame, at least in
any way important enough for the at
tachment of responsibility.
The Secretary's wife, his daughter,
and the governess are dead, after great
suffering Two survivors are left tc
bear a grief greater in its ahlictior
Than lifelong pain. There desola
lion and sorrow will pail and 81
lence the voice of sympathy itself
Anything more pitiless than tn,
blow they have suffered is no
10 be conceived. May Heaven comfor
them with messages Of love from thos
who have ascended there.
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4 GERM.lNAuERIcAN

The Hon. Richard Guenther of
Oshkosh, Wis, who was last week ap-
pointed and confirmed as Consul Gen
eral of the United States in Mexico, is
one of the leading and representative
citizens of German birth in this coun-
try. Mr.. Guenther was a member of
the House of Representatives for four
terms, and made fine record as an
honest, industrious and capable legisr
lator, But Mr.. Guenther did more. He
demonstrated that he was am American
citizen first. last end all the time. lie
showed that his patriotism is as firm
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-Money on call
LOAF ed at 3 per cent. Exchange closed
steady; posted rates. 4.s4@4.ss; actual
rates, 4.s84@4s32 for 60 days and 4.s7lo9
4.S7a for demand.
Governments, steady; currency G's, 1.lG
bid; rs, coupon, 1.@3i bid; 44's, coupon,
1.C4l bid.
The stock market this morning was dull,
and aside from Reading, Lackawanua, Pa
cifc Mail and the Chicago and East
ern Illinois stocks, Rock Island and
the Sugar Trusts, there was very little
trading of moment and the changes
We're slight. At the opening the market
was firm and fractionally higher, and dur
ing the first half hour, under the lead Of
Pacific Mail, which advanced ! per cent,
prices recorded further improvements.
From 1890, however, until noon prices
were weak. Pacific Mail lost its early adj
vance. The Chicago and East Illinois
stocks were especially weak. The comm IN
declined 32@26A and the preferred & per
cent. to 40, but recovered to ~. Rock
Island dropped 2 per cent. At noon prices
were generally fractionally below the clos
ing prices of Saturday, At this writing
the market is dull.
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and clear as that Of any American, even
though the latter trace his ancestry
back TO the Mayhower or to P0cohontas.
And in so doing he voiced the scuti-
menis of the great German American
element Of the United States. The oc.
casion was when the trouble in Samoa
appeared to be Fastening to a crisis which
only an appeal to arms could solve.
The German Government, through its
civil officials and naval officers at Apia,
had assumed an aggressive attitude, the
maintenance of which could only end
in fight.
The course which American citizens
of German birth would take was source
of solicitude to Prince Bismarck Where
would their sympathes fall2 He re-
ceived his answer from Mr., Guenther,
who speaking from his seat in the halls
of Congress for himself and his fellow
German Americans, uttered these words
of fervid patriotism
We know as well as any other class Of
American citizens where our duties belong.
We viii work for our country in time of
peace and fight for Il in time of war, If
time Of war should ever come. When !
say our country, ! mean, Of course, our
adopted country. ! mean the United States
Of America. After passing through the
cruciblc Of naturalization, we are no longer
Germans; we are Americans. Our attach
meut to America cannot be measured by
the length of our residence here. We are
Americans from the moment we touch
the American shore until we are laid in
American graves. We will fight for Amer
lea whenever necessary. America first,
last and all The time; America against Ger
many; America against the world; America
right or wrong; always America We are
Americans.
There was no occasion to put this
challenge to u test For'Germany soon
after ceased her aggressions and matters
Gained down. There IS no doubt but
this utterance Of Mr.. Guenthcr's,
making clear to the German Govern
ment that the citizens of German birth
of this country are Americans in every
thing save the accident of BIRTH had q
powerful influence toward the peaceful
solution of the Samoan trouble.
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A NATIONS .sy.upATHy.

Few men, in the full Of an honored
and distinguished career are decreed
to bear the burden of grief put upon
Mr. Blaine. Few women are made to
suffer like the wife and mother who
has shared his destiny. Callous, in.
deed, the feelings that do not mingle
with their sorrow; mean the thoughts
that do not speak them consolation.
The black wings of fate, which have
again shut out the sunlight from the
old Seward home, will span the heavens
to cast a shadow over the two hemi-
spheres Men and women in many lands
will mourn to day with those who
knee bereft, bercaved. Strangers will
breathe their sympathy, while reproach
ing Reaper who could be thus doubly
cruel. Words are vain 10 Woe, The
nation peers into that room of dread
ful peace, and pauses from its strifes
and cares TO weep.
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partmcnts and by private firms, and that
The onerous nature Of their work entities
them to such decrease of hours and vo-
cation.
The convention was called 10 order
hy w. s. McGee of New York. \
committee wns appointed to place
permanent officers in nomination, who
reported as follows:
President, W. S. McGee, New York; first
vice-president, G. NJ. Little. Kansas City;
second vice president, r. j. Maulin, New
Orleans: third vice president, G.. A. Plum
mer, Minneapolis, MINK secretary, f.
Albert Shaf1er. Philadelphia; treasurer, j..
A. Wayman, Boston
After the permanent organization the
convention passed resolutions of sym
patly and coincidence and adjourned
until I o'clock, on account of the
calamity which has just beiallen Secre-
tary Tracy and family.
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MIR. BLAINE AGAIN BEREAvED
His Eldest Daughter, Mrs. COppinger,
Died Yesterday.

His Eldest Daughter, Mrs. CoppinGer,
Died Yesterday.
Secretary Blaine met with another
sad bereavement yesterday morning in
the death of his eldest daughter, Mrs.
Colonel j. j. Coppinger. She had been
i'll with pneumonia for several days and
her death was not unexpected. All
day Saturday her condition was known
to be exceedingly critical, and hope of
her recovery was practically aban-
doned. Colonel Coppinger, who had
been notified IF her condition. reached
the city Saturday and was at the bed
side until her death at five o'clock this
morning.
Following so soon after the death of
Walker Blaine, the death of his daugh-
ter is a heavy blow 10 the Secretary, and
the utmost sympathy is being eX-
pressed on every side for the bereaved
family. Mrs, Coppinger was uncon,
scious for hours before her death. All
the immediate members of her family
were present at the lastmoment
The funeral will take place from St
Matthew'S Church tomorrow morn
ing at 1870 o'clock Rev. Father
Sherman, son of General Sherman, will
| ofliciate, and the interment will be made
at Oak Hill Cemetery. Cardinal Glib
bons will be present.
The President, the members of the
Cabinet and large number of friends
called early in the morning TO express
their sympathy, and as the news spread
through the city sorrow for the ScGre
| tary and his family was universal.
Death has been busy in the family o
the Secretary of State, the most rccen
example, prior TO the death of Mrs
Coppinger, being the decease of his cid
est son and confidential co-worker, Mr.
Walker Blaine, which occurred OF
Wednesday, January 15, 1890. jus
half month previously, on Deccmbe
81, 1889, Melville G. Blaine, brother oi
the Secretary, died at the Indian trainin!
school, near Salem, Ore, of which h,
was the head teacher. On March I
1885, while Mr.. Cleveland was bein!
inauguHted President of the Unite,
States, his defeated opponent was il
Baltimore attending the funeral of hi
sister, Mrs, Eliza Blaine Walker, wifi
of Major r. 9. Walker, who died tw
days previously on Charles street, Balti
more 4 sister of Mrs. Blaine died re
Gently in Maine.
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THE sHopLIFTERs IN COURT.
Another Effort For an Adjournment
of the Trial. A

VI
When the prison van pulled up to
The door of the City Hall this morning
Kate Friday, the expert shoplifter,
stepped out as unconcerned as you
please, but not so with her companion
in crime, Sarah Lewiss, whose progress
down the steps of the van was slow and
labored. She showed evidences of her
recent sickness and did not appear to
be in condition for trial. Whether this
was affected or not was hard to tell 4,
as it is known that frequent efforts have
been made to delay proceedings in this
trial. But the imperative order made
by Judge bingham on Friday gave tile
defendants to understand that they
must be prepared for trial TO day.
Both women were very neatly attired
in black, and no sooner were they con
fined in the court cage than they were
in conference with their attorney and
friends. That they would resort to
another effort for adjournment could be
ascertained by their conversation, on
the ground that Sarah Lewiss was too
unwell TO stand trial.
81 was pressed to put in an appear
ancc in court this morning if died foi
il, said the woman to Jim Springman,
for ! want TO overthrow this impress
I sion that has gone out that it is a pre-
concerted plan on our part to delay
| proceedings What motive would We
have to lay IN jail here? Goodnes,
knows we have been there long enough
now, and we want the suspense over
/ with -
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District government Notes.

The District Commissioners have rejected
the application of George SchweitZer, l70l
Seventh street north vest, for retail liquor
license.
The application for wholesale liquor
license OF H. Gardiner, southeast corner of
Twelfth street and the boundary, has been
reconsidered and approved.
Private S. S. Smith. Seventh Precinct,
has resigned, TO take effect on the LIST.
permit has been granted to Miss Nellie
Shedd to build three two-story frame build
ugs on lot 10, block IA.
r. O. Prather has been granted permls-
sion to build a one-story frame shed on
NaylOr road
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Chicnro Postonioe CIerks Or

CnIcAGo, Feb. 3.-Something like
$50 clerks from the various divisions of
the postoflice main room met at the post
office yesterday afternoon at o'clock.
The object of the meeting was the
formation of Il permanent organization
of clerks. This was effected under the
title of the Chicago Postoilice Clerks
Association. They instructed the Sec
retary to forward 10 New York an in
dorsement of the system in vogue there,
and will endeavor to have similar
plan adopted for Chicago--eight hours
day, and graded salaries from 5000 to
81 400 wear.
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When The Clerk began the reading OF
the journal Mr.. Mcmillan demanded its
reading in full-that is, that the names
of members who voted Saturday should
be read in each case.
When the reading was concluded
Mr.. O'Ferrall said he desired to have rG.
corded IN the journal a ruling made by
the Speaker late Saturday evening re
fusing Mr.. O'Ferrilll privilege OF
incorporating in the Record as part
of his remarks certain evidence
in the then pending case. This was
ordered, and Mr.. Mckinley moved the
approval Of the journal and demanded
the previous question.
At the request Of seventy one Demo.
Gratis, the yeas and nays were ordered
on the motion TO order the previous
question.
The roll was called, the Democrats
not voting. At the close of the roll
cali the Speaker caused the
names of members not voting
TO be recorded He then an.
nounced the vote. 15i yeas and no nays.
| He declared a constitutional quorum
present and the previous question or.
| dered.
| The question then recurred upon the
motion to approve the journal, upon
! which the yeas and nays we're demanded
and ordered
\ ANOTHER RoIL.CAf.L.
| The previous question was ordered
the motion to approve the journal put
I TO the House and another roll-call was
\ proceeded with.
1 The journal was approved. A mo-
| ton to adjourn was voted down on a
| yea and nay call The Speaker then
announced the question to be upon the
resolution declaring Smith elected.
Mr.. Crisp raised the question OF
consideration against it. The
Speaker declined to entertain
| it. Mr. Crisp appealed, but the
/ Speaker declined TO entertain the ap
4 peal. Mr. O'Ferrall (Dem.) ther
\ took the floor to- address the House
upon the case. There was some confu
4 sion upon the floor
THE gentleman from Virginia" salG
The Speaker, sis entitled to the atten
tion of the House. Those who do moi
care to give him their attention vii
please retire. y
There was laugh, the noise subsid
ed and Mr.. O'Ferrall proceeded.
Capitol Notes.
The Ways and Means Committe
gave public tariff hearing .his morn
ing. Mr.. Mudermeyer of New York
representing the lIarney Peak Til
Company, appeared and argued il
favor of an imposition of duty on i'm
pOltations of tin.
The Hon. John W. Gambler, chair
man of the Worlds Fair Committee o
the House, has been selected as dele
gate by the Commercial Ciu
of Boston to represent it at tn
meeting of the Executive Counci
of the National Board of Trad
Mr.. A. j. Haford of the Associate
Press, who has been confined to hi
home by illness for some weeks, It
sumed his duties at the Capitol to-day
, The House Committee on Publ
Lands today ordered a favorable II
port on the bill creating two new Ian
offices in Nebraska
This morning copy of the secon
edition of the Congressional Diret
tory was laid on each Senator's desl
} The books are bound in bright blue.
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posroFFIcE CLERKS MEET.
Important Session Held at the Riggs
House.

Delegates representing the Postolllce
Clerks Association of the United States
met in convention at the Riggs House
this morning at 10 o'clock, The delegates
present represented nearly every first
class office in the Union, and numbered
about fifty Those offices that were not
personally represented, were voiced in
the convention by proxy,
The principal subjects Of discussion
will be the eight hour law and the de
mand for manual vacation of II days.
They ask these slight concessions from
the Government because they claim
that the duties Of postoilice clerks are
as difficult and eNdctug as those in
other departments of the public sery-
ice; that they are compelled to
work throughout the year,
including Sundays and holt
DAYS, without the usual term of rec
Yeatlon granted 10 employees in other De-
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Personal NIention.

Mr.. Thomas IL. Cayanaugh, ex-Secretary
OF State for Kansas, and ut present Superin-
tendent OF Public Lands, Is at the National
Hotel,
The question might be asked very appro-
priately OF Colonel William II. Morri-
son, Interstate Commerce Commissioner,
"Where did you get that hatYp The one he
wears almost constantly is a small felt,
which is chronic misht.
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ANALYzE THIS.

lNI,, -. ,,a,,,, o., ;,,,laa.l "A
wy ""h's are ,e'y iew, 'h"eeu' anu !
can hVe comfortably on 80 year, SAID
Mrs. Parnell.
from the public some time since, Mrs. Par
you made of itY''
'It went to pay pressing debts.'
"All Of itY"
Every cent, and more would have gone
that way had had it,
'The amount of money which was sent
you has been variously stated at different
times. Will you please tell me the exact
amounty'
'The total amount which have received
from all sources is IL, ,350.n
at is stated, Mrs. Parnell, that your
present uesiitutiOn Is due in part to yOur
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Negroes Going to Texas

BnRMrNGHAM, ALA, Feb. 3.-A special
train with LOCO negro emigrants on board
arrived here yesterday over the Georgia
Central Railroad. The negroes are en- route
from South Carolina to Louisiana. aud
Texas. They were packed into the cars
like sardines in box None OF them seemed
TO know where they were going, or what
they would do when they reached their
destination. They seemed to trust every
thing to the agents who had them in charge.
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MoNrANA's CRISIS.
Action Must be Taken by the LegisIa-
ture to Raise Money.

HELENA, MONT, Feb. 3--The vari-
Gus appropriation funds in the hands
of The State Treasurer have
been practically exhausted. The State
Treasurer has informed United States
Marshal Irvine that he will not allow
any more bills for the support of con
victs until the Legislature makes the
necessary appropriations. This is a
crisis in the situation of State affairs,
and is thought it will have the effect of
forcing the Legislature to pass some
measures this week.
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WILL SUE THE GOVERNMENT.
Chief Engineer Hairs Widow Charges
Naval Ofiicers with Fatal Neglect.

SYRACUSE, n. Y, Feb. St is be
lieved that the widow of Chief Engi-
neer G. w. Hall of the U. S. steamer
Nipsic, who was buried at Lafayette
last week, will bring an action against
the United States Government for be-
ing, through its officers, accountable for
her husbands death. After Mr.. Hall
was taken off his vessel at Apia, he re-
quested "a much needed leave of alb
sencc by letter addressed to Admiral
Kimberly, who, it is said, replied
You will see that this request is not
granted.
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WHAT CoNGRRssMBN LAUGH A
A CORRECTION.

Jay Williams did not celebrate the arrival
OF new heir mt his house last week, as one
OF our reporters caused us to say. But his
sister, Mr.. Ed. IL. Knapp, who formerly re
sided in Aurora, lately presented her hus-
band with very fine bright new baby boy.
-AWord ma Ddily Nc,cs,
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GROUND HOG DAY.
A Sure Proof That Winter is Now at
AN End.

Sunday was Ground Hog Day" and
if his hoeship followed all rules and
precedents he came out of the hole into
which he has buwowed himself all
winter and failing to see his shadow re-
fiecled upon ground, concluded that
winter was at an end aud that he would
remain out with his fellows Had he
seen his shadow, and if he was a we'll
behaved hog. he would have immedi-
ately returned to his hole and remained
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HCRRY, YE LtGGARDS

On FRIDAY. November 30, 1899, the
Washington Post said;
The Posts Extra issued at \ o'clock
yesterday afternoon, containing full ac-
count of the great fire in Boston and giving
the latest news of the SpeaRership contest,
went 0lT with q rush. 1t is not the purpose
of the Post to interfere with its evening
contemporaries in that field, but when they
abandon it, as they did yesterday, and there
is important news, the Post will feel it to
be her duty to come to the front. The
Washington public must have the import
ant news, morning and evening, if the Past
has to take the contract to furnish It all.
Was il with the notion that
the field was still abandoned
that the Pest this morning issued
an extra forty minutes after the
appearance of the extra CRITIc on the
streets containing an account of the ter
rible calamity at the residence of Sec
retary Tracy? The Post is an excellent
morning paper, but it ought not to in
dulge in overwork THE CRITIC is here
1t will fill the field from breakfast un-
I'll after dinner. Such is the muscular
mentality of TIE Critic staff that, oc-
casion demanding, it can easily issue
an extra edition from forty minutes to
an hour and half in advance
of its corpulent local contempora-
ries. The Post, we take 1t, is sim
ply interested in being able to as
sure itself that the people will get the
news; il doesn't wish to print extras
merely TO hang on its files. The Post
may contine its sense of duty to its one
superb edition with the calm confidence
that THE CRITIC will carry ort the news
contract with the Washington public
4 for the remainder OF the day.
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The NEW York World calls eX-Seu-
ator Thomas G. Platt boss, "pri
vate, and man-wolf. All this be-
cause the Hon. Platt wants the World $
Fair, if held in New York City, to be a
Republican rather than Democratic
partisan machine. 1t seems impossible
To hold it in New York without its being
controlled by politicians and manipu
lated to partisan ends. Washington is
the only place where it can be held and
be kept free from politics and be made
a truly national event.
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NR. cLARKsoMs RNsIGNlrL0N.

UR. CLARh,SON'S $ RESIG VA TION
TnE CmTic publishes this evening IA
well authenticated report that the Hon.
J, 5. Clarkson the First Assistant
Postmaster General, is going to resign.
While vague mmors Of this intention
on the part of Mr.. Clarkson have been
in currency for the past few weeks, this
is the first definite publication to that
effect.
The reason given indirectly by the
First Assistant Postmaster General is
that he is weary of the Pharisaical ways
Of the Administration. Believing in
rewarding the men who made the cleo
lion Of Harrison u possibility, he finds
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ocean steamships Arrived.

HAMBuRG, Feb. 3 The steamship Rugia,
from New York for this port, arrived here
yesterday.
NEW YoRK, Feb. 3 Arrived -Arrlni
from Liverpool; Celtic, from Liverpool.
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Epidemic of Meningitis,

reached here yesterday from the Belcher
district, twenty miles west of here, that the
meningitis epidemic, which broke out there
week ago, is spreading with alarming
raniIiiV
The Washington critic., 1890-02-03

TINS rs A Brsy cIrY in busy world.
Forty minutes is great deal of time in
Washington. TnE CRIrIc will ON all
great occasions be found at least forty
minutes in advance of all competition
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WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY 3, 1890

Mn. DnANEY. the strcet-sweepiug
contractor, says he covers the schedule.
That is not the point, the people want
him to uncover the streets.
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BATTLE STILL WACING.
SPEAKER REED HAS STILL A HAND
OF IRON.
The Names Of Democrats Counted,
Though They Did Not Note--rhs
Senate Adiourns Out of Respect to
Secretary Tracy.

The Senate had brief session, al
iourniug on account of the calamity
caused by the fire at Secretary Tracys
house.
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TIM EXTRA EDITIONS of our local
contemporaries this morning filed no
field at all They were too late for
news and n few minutes too early for
history.