The National tribune., 1892-08-04

| this committee, Chairman Carter SAID, Wouio
not be made public even after they have been
appointed. In the afternoon Messrs. Carter
and Clarkson took luncheon with President
Harrison, and in the evening number Of
| prominent Republicans called and were ad'
mitted to the conference with the party leaders
Among the gentlemen present was J. X. Gowdy,
Chairman of the Indiana Republican Commit
| tee who outlined the situation in the Hoosier
State. 1t was said that Mr. Tanner, the mem
| Der of the Executive Committee from Illinois,
would resign in Difference to the Presidents
intimation that he did not think it right for q
Federal Office holder of such prominence as MIR.
Tanner to be identified with the management
Of the campaign. Mr.. Huston was asked 10 take
charge of the branch headquarters of the Ma
tionai Committee which is to be established at
| Chicago, but said he could not afford the time
which should be devoted to that position He
would, however, willingly accepta place on the
subcommittee, and give as much time to the
duties as he could spare.
IS.
The Washington and Georgetown Street
Railroad Company are using every exertion to
have their cars running in time for the Ma
tional Encampment, when every facility for
transporting the public about the city will be
taxed to the utmost. On Wednesday night the
cable was laid from the power house on Four
teenth street to the Georgetown end Of the
line This cable is 2360O feet long, and was
laid between l and o'clock in the morning.
The section of cable running to the Navy
yard was also laid last week. This cable is
longer than the Georgetown end, being 100
feet long. How these cables were to be gotten
inside the track was mystery to the unin-
itiated until they saw the operation. The
cable is wound on big spool at the power
house, which is on an axle. Forty horses were
hitched to the end of the wire cable, and when
they started on their journey tie cable I'M
wound from the spool as they advanced. But
few Thousand feet Of the cable weighs enor-
mously, and although it runs over numerous
wheels, as it pays out it becomes hard to drag.
Consequently relays of horses were stationed
along the route, and as the cable was dragged
along more horses were hitcbed to it, and in
this manner the work was easily accomplished.
The cars of the road will be run entirely by
the cable in two weeks time, so the company
states.
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The detectives who have been working to
find the murderers of Peter Young, who was
waylaid, murdered, and robbed in thickly-
settled portion OF Capitol Hi; last week, have
obtained confession from one Of the sus-
pected parties they had arrested. There were
three young colored men who committed the
decd, although the one who has given States
evidence was no: with the other two when the
foul deed was committed, but he was watch
ing them while they were doing their Inur-
dsrous work. One of the party went to the to-
baeco store of the murdered man just before
he closed for the night and purchased a
package of cigarets. He waited for his victim
to close his store, and then followed the unsus-
pect;Rg man TO dark place in The street. Be-
fore the murder Was committed he was Joined
by his partner il the crime, and they passed
Young waited for him to overtake them, and,
as he was passing them, one of them struck him
with a pickhandle in the stomach The blow
doubled Yonng up. and then he was struck
again on the back Of the head twice, which
killed him. The murderers then took small
sachel containing some $40 and made their
escape. They ri1ed the sachel and threw it
down a sewer. The Oldest of the three impli-
Gated men is bat q years, and all of them are
well known TO the police, all having been in
the clutches Of the law for various crimes.
Sc
DR.. Albert Georg, an attache of the Swiss
Legation in Washington, complained to the
State Department last week of violation of
- L. sl,.4 l. ri
Swiss Legation, had been arrested for high
crime and misdemeanor by officers of the coun-
try to which the embassy had been sent, which
is contrary to international law. 1t seems
that DR.. Georg took trip to Bay Ridge, Sum-
mer resort near Annapolis, on the Chesapeake
Bay. A Mrs. Borde was purchasing some eat
ables at stand, and laid her pocket book and
fan, as she thought, on a showcase on the
counter. When she picked up her fan she
found her pocket-book was missing. There
was but one person near by, strange man,
and Mrs. Borde thought he had appropriated
her purse. She called upon Deputy Sheriff
who was on the ground, and demanded that
he arrest the stranger. The officer went up to
the man and tried to persuade him to give up
the pocl1et-book. The stranger started off.
and Mrs. Borde demanded his arrest. The
stranger was taken into custody under pro-
test, and taken to Annapolis and when
searched (also against his protest. nothing was
found on him to indicate that he had stolen
the pocket book, and the Justice of the Peace
before whom he bad been taken discharged
him. The stranger was Dr. Georg. and he has
complained of the indignites heaped upon
him, and Secretary of State Foster has tele-
graphed Gov. Brown, of Maryland, to forward
to him the facts of the case. The pocket book,
with its contents untouched, was subsequently
found on bench where Mrs. Borde had been
sitting. The case is liable to cause an inter-
national complication.
s"s
petition was placed on the desks Of the
Senators last week from the Wage Workers
Political Alliance, which requests Congress to
"orier the Secretary of the Treasury to pre-
pare 100000 of the declaratory, full legal
tender money of the United States, and place
that sum to the credit of the Congress of Wage
Workers, for the purpose of enabling them to
pay three members from each Congressional
district 81 per day, in addition to travelling
expenses to assemble in National Convention,
70 devise ways and means of aiding Congress to
establish and operate a system of universal
| public operation at cost, in competition with
existing systems of almost universally English
corporations for profit"