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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-17
THE ALLEGED CANAL INVESTIGATION

FOUR WITNESSES HEARD. BUT no FACTS OF
IMPORTANCE BROUGHT OUT.
Albany, June 16 (SpeciaD.-The alleged investigation
of the Canal Department was begun again to-day.
As before, canal officials were examined. II was
reported that General James W. Hustled was still in
the woods; so, also, apparently, Edward Han,
man, the head Of the Canal Department, and John
Bogart the state Engineer, neither Of whom has yet
been subpornaed. What makes the inquiry especially
worthless is the fact that there no lawyers pres-
ent for the prosecution. The committee, up TO the
present day. has not complied with the request Of tho
Canal Union, that George Clinton, Of Buffalo, the
president of the union, and devoted friend Of the
canal system, should be permitted To crossexamina
the witnesses. Only four witnesses were examined
TO-DAY and the committee did not seem 10 be at all
dspleased at learning facts OF importance om any
OF them concerning the canals.
Edward F. Walker, former senator from the dis,
trict composed OF the counties OF Niagara Genesee,
Wyoming and Livingston, was the first witness. He
had never heard Of any scandals concerning the canal
contracts executed In his district.
s. S. Hawkins (Rep), OF Jsmesport suffolk County.
who formerly represented the Ist Senate District,
which consists OF the counties OF suffolk and Queens.
was the next witness. lie asked If he thought
the appropriation bill he introduced for the improve.
ment Of Peconc Bay in the interest of the State
lie said he thought 1t was, or he should not have
introduced 1t. Edward Hawkins Democrat, brother
OF the previous WITNESS, ana present senator from lo
district was the third Witness and gave testimony
regarding the Appropriation OF 100000 for the inn
provement Of shnnecock Inlet and Peconic Bay. lie
thought the appropriation needful one. and thas
II being expended in proper manner. Assembly,
man Dempsey Of Clinton, member OF the Assembly
from Oneida County, Democrat, gave testimony
CONCERNING his canal appropriation bills OF course he
thought they ought 10 have been passed.
sergeantat-Arm Redmond, Of the investigating com.
mlttee and his deputy Edward Moore have been busy
since the last meeting of the committee. and have
subpoenacd over thirty witnesses 10 come 70 Albany
to testify before the committee. Among those who
have been subpoenaed senators Erwin and Collins
Henry G. Burleigh, exState Engineer Enalhan Sweet
Canal Contractors Myers and Paine, OF this city j. j.
Cunningham sandy lin " Wcmple and Isaac
Thomas Of Fultonyllle John Alden, president of the
Rochester Bridge Company William Fuller and James
Robinson, OF Rochester: Frank Barrett Doonvlle.
Philip Mcclure Forestport; John Brommelkamp and
George Dinehart, Of Syracuse Martin sullivan William
Patrick, Of Phoenix; J. ). Nelson, Of Fulton, ana
President Fitch. Of the Groton bridge Company.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-17
HOT WEATHER IN CAMP
pR ais SUSPENDED ON ACCOUNT OF THE
HEAT-SAvING THE WATER SUPPLY.


HEAT-SAvING THE WATER SUPPLY.
State Camp, Peckskill, n. Y. June 10 sPecial).-It
began to look and feel this morning as If the camp
wes going to dry mp and disappear The mercury IS
four degrees higher at O'Clock than it yesterday
when ii registered "a, and throughout the morning
it kept four degrees In advance Of yesterdays
phenomenal record. At 2 O'Clock it registered 1O4
degrees in the shade, and the thermometer hang
ing In the shade Of tent the bluff, which is one
OF the coolest spots IN camp Over in the camp where
the air Mas STILL several thermometers registered a
much higher temperature than this. During the
battalion drill yesterday so many men overcome
by the heat that Colonel Partridge thought 1t unsafe
to send the men out for battalion drill to-day In the
brong sun.
The quails began to whistle Bob White" in the
brush below the camp this morning, however, and this
sound was taken by the weather prophets as a sure
indication of an approaching storm. The quail
proved knowing prognosticator and shortly after
O'Clock the clouds gathering over Dunderberg
and half an hour later the rain began 10 fall. Not
much water came down. but ii tempered the heat ana
welcome to everybody. In the evening right after
dPess-parade the bad to make up for their rest
In the morning and called out for battalion drill
Captain Leigh and the members of the detail from
the Second Brigade signal Corps had intended to climb
to the top of Dunderberg and Communicate with the
camp to-day by means OF photographs But In con-
sequence Of the heat they ordered to give up the
trip and they contented themselves by establishing
several stations about the camp where the "wigwas
ging" could be done in the shade. The heavy gun
squad under Corporal Dawson wac not to be scared
by the heat so the men went out and had lively
drill with the 10inch PARROTS this afternoon The
athletic games given up, too, In consequence of
the heat and they win be held tomorrow the weather
permitting.
During the drouth and heat the prompt action OF
Colonel story the post quartermaster prevented the
water supply from being cut of and thus making the
camp practically unnhabitabe. The steam pump at
the well from which the entire weter supply is derived
broke down early yesterday morning and the only
way in which the damage could be remedied was by
getting a new pump. Colonel Story said nothing, but
he instructed his mon to watch and see that no water
wasted. Then he sent some men 10 New York
and they secured a pump and brought II back on
passenger train. II put In place at O'clock last
light small pump was BROUGHT into reqnisition
aud worked TO It's full capacity and as the supply had
been uscd spaIin.ly the water In the tank had not
been lowered TO a great extent.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-17
A SENTENCE CONDUCTIVE TO DISHONESTY.

Aver, Mass, Jun 16.-The bank examiner has I'm
ished his eAaminatn Of the books Of the North Mid
dleseX Institution ft Sayings and finds that the total
amount Of ex-CasIr spauldings defa1cation is S52,
600. President AtVod. OF the bank, said this morn
ing, spaudlngs list sentence is felt by the bank 10
be an outrage, ant one conducive 10 dishonesty.
The District Attorneyhad the power 10 bring spaud-
g into court for scntuce at any time, and he used it
in the most srbitIarymanner. We wanted to have
something 10 say In theentence but were not nOti
fed" The COntrolle viii levy assessment on
stockholders Of the bak In a short time probably
about fifty PEI cent be business Of the bank has
not been inteffered Wit by 6pauldnk's dsfaicasi.--
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-17
perfect deluge About seventy telephones burned
oat by the lightning.
ELECTRICAL WORKS SHATTERED.
THUNDERBoIr CRASHES INTO TIE Bull

THUNDERBoLT CRASHES INTO THE BUILD
ING-sEvERAL PERSONS INJURED.
terrific electrical storm swept over Central New
Jersey nate yesterday afternoon. The storm had
nearly spent its force in Plainfeld when suddenly
from almost clear sky, two broad sheets OF lightning
Sprang fOrk-like from ominous1ookng cloud and
flashed to the ground. One Of the lightning bolts
dashed IN on the MadisOn-ave. power station OF
the Plainfeld Gas and Electric Company.
moment later the second bolt Mashed down on inc
common. bounded by sixth-st. and Madison-ave. and
Fifth-s and exploded when about ten feet from the
ground j. j. sharp, a carriage manufacturer, had
just left Ids factory the borders Of the common.
companied by dog. Both were Frustrated.
The damage to the electric Hight company's station
Is large Valuable dynamos were entirely destroyed.
None of the company's employees were fs'ally hurt,
slthough several were badly shocked.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-17
LIGBrNIyG,s WORK IN ELIZABETH.

Lightning struck in half dozen places in Elizabeth
n J.last night. The MOravian church in seventlrst
was struck and considerably damaged. large shed In
FFontst at EzabetpOrt set on fire by the electric
current but the flames were subdued by the Fire De
pfpnent bed in Rola engine house was sal on
nre by lightning and numerous trees throughout the
elt were Shat tered. At Ehzabetport haiIstones fell
hgger than cherries, while the rain came down In a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-17

NO DIVIDEND BY THE STOCK YARDS COMPANY.
1t was rumored yesterday that the Chicago Junction
and stock Yards Company directors had declared a
dividend on the stock. The directors did hold meet
ing but 1t for routine business and the dividend
question not discussed Cbauncey NJ Depew, who
is director arrived late, and TO atone for his delay
he eloquently described ts horrors Of the Chicago
Whifechanel Club.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-17

an clubhouse in Forest Park for shelter They had
scarcely got inside the building when lightning struck
1t. wild scene of confusion followed. Nearly all
were more or less injured being killed and three
seriously hurt Following is list of injuries Miss
sadie McArhur ageT Twelve. dead Mrs. Lizzie Golden,
badly injured Miss Kate Bender, burned and otherwise
seriously hurt Miss Laura Beauclearc, seriously in
jured. None Of the injured Is fatally hurt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-17
, srrnENr WOUNDED IN A RIOT.

Exeter n. H.. June 16.-Durlng the usual bonfire and
cheering the faculty by students OF Phillips Exeter
Academy at midnight Monday. the students rotous
and broke windows In houses. At house they
were fired by the Inmates snd OF the students
ceived small rin6 bah in the thigh.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-17
EFFECT OF A cLoUDBURsT IN TEXAS.

Cincinnati, June 10.-A Knoxville Tenn. dispatch
SAYS: AT Neumanvie, Greene County Saturday
cloudburst did great damage. The place is remote
from railroad and telegraph, but information comes
today Of the calamity. The fall Of water was some
thing terrific, and small creek became raging river
100 yards wide The store-house residence and out
buildings OF T. n. King were swept away, the food
coming 30 quickly he did not have time even to close
his store doors. The postooe was kept In his store
and everythin lost. An iron safe weighing 1900
mounds was carried one-ourth OF mile by the force
of the water number of other houses were carried
away and all crops along the creek bottom lands dc
s.roved The water came down fast that the peo.
I harev had time 10 fee TO the RIDGE and this had
pof been near there would have been serious loss OF
life Considerable stock drowned, but no life lost
so far as reported"
11GHrNINa DEALS DEATH TO A PICNIC PARTY.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-17

A SCHOONER DRIVEN ASHORE IN THE STORM
The coal-lsden schooner Cynthia Jane, Captain Mullen
driven ashore from the XIII Ku during the storm
last night She lost her masts and lies helpless on the
Bsyonne shore The schooner is 100 tons burden from
Perll Amboy to Middletown Conn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-17
DROWyED IN Blue MOUNTAIN LAKE.

Troy, " Y. June 16.-At Blue Mountain Lake on
Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wanstal were capslzed in
u boat. Mr. wanstall caught overhanghg limb and
was saved. His wife was drowned. He unable
TO swim. Mrs. WanStau sss formerly Of CLANS Falls
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-17
SEA BRIGHT ABLAZE.
A HUNDRED FAMILIES HOMELESS, AND
$3.50, 900 DAMAGE DONE.

GREAT SCARCITY OF WATER FOR THE ENGINEs@
THE FIRE SAID TO HAVE BEEN STARTED
BY A DRUNKEN sTABLEMAN-THoUsANDs |
OF SPECTATORS FROM NEIGHBoR-
ING PLACES ON THE COAST.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUSEI
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-17

LIGHTNING DEALS DEATH TO A PICNIC PARTY.
81 Louis june i6.-During severe storm thfs after
Noon penic psaty Of twenty i've huddlod together In
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-07
\ Dessl.v Ea~my.

The United G .mmittee on Native
Races and the liquor traffic Of Great
Britain have addressed an interest
i'm letter t. Gungunhana, chief Of
0nZaland, whose ENJOYS have been
for some ime in this country.
they inform him that the Govern
me.lts of Europe have agreed that the
white mans strong drink" Is not to
be forced on any chief or people
against their wishes. I'VE who write
to you are men who strongly oppose
drunkenness in this country. and earn
esilv warn all chiefs in other countries
against the entrance Of strong drink.
Keep it out of your country OF Cana
land entirely; it's a deadly enemy
alike to the chief, to the headmen,
and the common people" The letter
is signed by the Duke Of Westminis-
ter and others.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-07
WOMEN CLOSED THE RUMSHOPS.
Temperance Crusade Started In .
MissOari Town.

Missoari Town.
Col. G. J. Holt, the Temperance &c.
turer OF Decatur, ILL.,, under ths aus.
pices Of the WOmen's Christian Tom
Perance Union, has been stir.
ring the people Of Seneca, No., by
o series Of forcible lectures.
For three or four years there have
been three blind tigers" where in
toxicants have been openly sold in
violation Of the law. To these Illicit
dramsEops the attention Of the cru
saders was directed, and a petition
signed by 125 adults was presented to
the mayor, asking that the blind
tigers" be closed. No action beina
taken by the officials of the city, the
ladies took matters in their own
hand, and notified the proprietors
that their places must be closed, OF
they must abide by the consequences.
At an early hour the ladies met at
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
They formed in a procession and
marched into the "blind tiger kept
by Jake" Anderson, armed with
hatchets, hammers. and nail pullers,
and demolished the contentA The
whisky, beer, wine, and alcohol were
spilled in the streets. They next
marched to the place Of Mart
Sherer, who. upon being apprised Of
their approach, closed his doors. The
crusaders. twenty in number, held a
prayer meeting in front Of the BULL
ing. after which they left and will
await results. Their leaders, Mrs. ].
c. illen Of this city and Mrs. John
Hall, a-missionary to the Modoc In
dams, exhibited great GOODNESS. Col.
Holt was eggei. guarded when on the
street, but displayed courage and pro-
ceeied with his work.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-07
Roth Of Them Wrong.

Charles c. Moore editor of the
Blue Grass Blade, Lexington, KY,
is an infidel advocating Prohibit
ton, an unusual association; his
enemies are churchmen advocating
whisky, an illogical but very com.
mon sight.
Put him and them on trial be-
fore God to receive judgment on
their moral merits, he an unbe-
lever. but fighting Gods and
mans worst foe; they, believers,
but serving the biggest anti Christ
devil this side of hell.
If his punishment be a warm
place, then theirs must be scorch-
ing hot.
Editor Moore has nothing to
fear on being weighed along with
those that kiss the Master and
then betray him.
"They that knoweth the Mas
ter's will and doeth it not shall
be beaten with many stripes.
God mercifully pities a fool,
but righteously hates a hypocrite.
The NASHVILLE ISSUE
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-07

Irish and low white men and mig
gers sell them, can recOmmsn nd to
the Christian church in Licking
ton, KY, its dear friend Reverend
Colonel William Campbell Pres
ton Breckenridge d. d. L. l.. ID.
as friend and champion of the
liquor traffic." and therefore a
most fitting parsonage to address
young people in a Sundsy-school;
and this church, whose pet horror,
next to sprinkling babies, is Cal
vanism, at the suggestion of the
Chicago Champion. selects this
head and front of all Calvanistic
offending to poison the minds of
the youth of this city with his
ideas Of religion and morals.
The Champion quotes that l
said of Breckenridge and Abbott,
Damn such men,"
To this l now add Damn such
a church.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-07
lSO.OOO ACRES OF LAND
WANTED.

An Eastern Steamship and Col.
Onization Company have written
to the General Passenger and
Ticket Agent of the Queen &
Crescent Route. to find for them
a tract of land in either Kentucky
or Tennessee of about 10000
acres. The land is to be suitable
for truck farming, also for raising
corn, wheat, trees and shrubs, and
near enough to railroad to make
shipping facilities handy. Any
one having a body of land suitable
or this purpose. will please CON-
municate with the undersigned,
giving price, terms, location, and
all particulars.
ID. G. EDWARDS
G. p. 4 T. A.
Cincinnati, O.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-07

But for these fine churches that
stick their steeples away up in the
sky, and these fine preachers that
try to stick themselves up as high
as their steeples l have no use on
earth. They do not make an
honest dollar in a year. They are
magnificent dead beats, and are
not worth their salt.
l do not mean somebody else s
preachers away of yonder.
mean that priests and preachers
right here in Lexington, are a
worthless set. They have been
having their big churches here for
a hundred years and blowing
their big horns and organs, and
are living in palatial style, and
dress finer than did when was
the only son of a daddy that had
hundred thousand dollars, or
even finer than / did when 1 was
married, or was drummer for
Levering's coffee, and they are
the slickest articles that walk
these streets; and yet after the
thousands and thousands of dol
lars that are annually paid them.
when it comes to an election there
are only 81 people in town of
nearly 10000, that under the be-
nign influence of the Christian re-
ligion are even willing to rote for
common decency.
In the early days OF the Chris
tian religion the preachers. were
always getting whipped and
kicked about by the bad men they
were working against; but in Lex
ington to-day every saloon-keeper
in the town, and every distiller
and gambler and thief in the
whole town pulls off his hat and
smiles when he meets any priest
or preacher; and 1, an old gray
headed benighted heather, with
bay-window on my front elevation
like premium punkin, am the
only fellow in town that these fel
lows want to kill because he says
anything againt them.
Yes, put all these preachers to
honest work shocking corn and
wading around in the water,
building water-gaps, like l have
just been doing, knock the steeples
off these churches and make bust
ness houses of them; tear out
these old organs and sell the big
horns in them for stove pipes and
the rest of them for butchers re-
frigerators, and let the honest
Christian people meet when neces-
sary to consult about helping
their fellow men, and you will
make more honest converts to the
Christian religion in a week than
all of these fine gentlemen have
made in a hundred years.
You hold while l skin, Bro.
Rolf, and We will get even with
some of them.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-07

and "Allerton' will have come,
and the race track in Lexington
would be muddy and slow. 1T Is
estimated by some that there will
be as many as fifty Thousand peO-
pie to see that race. The main
feature of the excitement will be
to see if Nancy can reduce her
record one quarter of second
and thus equal MAUD s., or
possibly reduce it one half a sec
ond, and thus make the fastest
trot ever made. For "Nancy
Hanks" to do that would require
the most favorable conditions, and
a muddy race track would almost
certainly be fatal to such an
achievement.
While the real interest of hui
mainly is that we should have
rain and make bread, if left to a
vote of the people of the United
States they would sacrifice the
whole wheat crop of the Bluegrass
Region in order that Nancy Hanks
might have a mile of road to suit
her. for little more than two
minutes.
s, that even it we had absolute
control of the rain. not only could
re nof get the people to agree as
70 when they would have it, but
We could not anticipate the me-
trOric conditions that would make
such a rain desirable.
1t is not infrequently the case
that years that have. what for the
time are regarded disastrous
drouths, prove ultimately to be
signally successful crop years.
Such year as the present one.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-07

Suing the Farm Away.
Fine old farm for hundred year,
Kept In the family name:
Cornff Ids rich With golden ears
OF as the harvest came
Crowded harm and crowd ID bin.
And st:l the loads kept coming in
Rolling In for u hundred years
And the fourih in the faml " line apussr~
Orchard covered tho slopes Of the hin;
Cider-forty barrels they say
eure In season to come from tire mill:
To b tasted round Thanks giving Day.
ana tney drank a. they worked. and shsy
drank a. they ate
Winter and summer carly and lass
Counting II as . great mishap
To be found without . barrel o. nA"
Dut. while the seasons orsps s,one
And pas sions into habits new.
Their sppetites became a. strong
~ ever wretched drunkard know.
And they laborsd lees and thev sousuder,d
more
Onieny for rum q the village store,
I'll called by the sheriff. ono bitter day
TO sign the Homestead farm away
INC father shattered and scented with rum:
The mother. sick and pale and thin.
Under the weight Of her sorrows dumb
In debt for the bed she was dying tn;
W. saw the wrecked household around hsf
stand
Ana the tustice lifted her trembling hand
aeipins her "a in her pain she lay.
10 sign the homestead farm away.
Al. how she vepti And the Hood Of tear,
swept down her temples barrel
ana the father already bowed with yeaxs
Bowed lower with despair!
Dfink! Drink II has rfpenef into woe
FOR them and all they loved below
And forced them poor. and old and Grsy.
To sign the homestead farm away,
On, many scenes have mot In nfs,
And many call to pray
But the sad,iest Of all was the drum ksrd's Win,
Signing tbs farm away:
Home once richest In ali the town.
Home In that fatal cup poured down,
worse than nre or foods dismay-
Drunkard signing the farm axayi
Rev. W. R Cochrane, In Union siepsl.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-07
THE BREWER WON'T PAY.


The Government InsPeeser Il ssirrinS
Up tho New Haven B0sR Men.
Brewer Weibel Of New Haven,
Conn, who has been fined $500 for
using kegs that hold too much beer
saws that he will never pay tho fine.
He will fight the Government Col.
Haines. with force Of men, IL still IN
speeding all the kegs in the city.
Ii is said that the complaint against
the local brewers for giving their Gus
toners more beer than they bought
was first made to the Government by
q New York brewer who came into
competition with the New York brew.
ers. This man complained because
the excess If beer. in his opinion, wa.
not mistake, but was done by the
brewers to give customers more beeI
for their money than others could WIT
Sold only a standard keg with tn,
pr, per stamp on it.
Brewer Weldeman has settled his
fine by paying one-half the origina
amount, which was 81 500.