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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-15
IRREGtL.ARITIE CHARGED.
investigation Into the Conduct of In
ternal Revenue Officers Here.

An Investigation has been in proe-ess for
several days past into the truth of charges
preferred against Thomas b. Farrell and
Maurice j: Clagett. both of MARYLAND. and
employees in the branch Office in this city
of the collector of the internal revenue for
Maryland. Delaware and the District CT
Columbia. Both men were suspended or re-
heved from duty by Collector Vandiver 10
await the result of the investigation While
the charges. as preferred, indicated that
some crooked transaction had taken Mace
III Is stated at the office of the commissioner
OF internal revenue that The exdmina ton
thus far made shows that while some ir-
regularities existed, no evidence of fraud
hal been discovered.
1t Is said that the charges came from
person who thought that he was being I'M
justly Disseminated against because at
the office in this city, along with his tender
of the license fee for the year, which was
offered on the day after the expiration of
the iicenSs year, payment was asked of the
penalty for failure to pay the license with
In the year. II was claimed that others
had rendered their license fee after the
year had expired, and that 1t had been re-
ceived without the addition of the penalty.
further charge was made that people
from whom license fees We're due could nav
their license even after the expiration of
ths year without the penalty by Swing a
slight sum to the proper persons.
1t is claimed that the Investigation devel-
oped the fact that the employees of the
brar oh Office in this city, following the
custom that has prevailed here for some
years. had kept the office open after office
hours on the last day OF the license year
and had, after the regular hours, received
payment of licenses without charging the
penalty. 1t was further shown, as II is
alleged, that person not connected with
the office visited on the last day of the Ii
cense year those who had not paid their
licenses, and offered, for a slight consid-
Grafton, 10 pay the licenses without the
penalty. 1t was not found that this person
paid these licenses on any time except per
maps after office hours on the last day
Those who We're delinquent or about To he
delinquent could have come to the office
II is asserted, and paid their license as well
as this individual 1t is said that the above
In ief.compfises all the alleged irregulari-
ties. 1t is also asserted that the proba BILE
end OF the affair will be that the investiga-
ton will be closed and the suspended en-
ployeS reinstated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-15

Mr.. Vest looked up The Senator from
Maryland" said he. suggests say some
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-15
Chart of the Sky.

From Longnan's Magazine.
An internationa congress met in Paris in
1887 and resolved to make a Photographic
chart of the whole sky. The work was be-
gun in 1891. and, as 1t Is expected to occupy
about ten years. 1t will form fitting close
to a century which has been so rich in as
Economical discoveries. Eighteen observa-
tories, scattered over the world, are taking
part in the work. Similar Instruments and
plates of exactly the same size-four square
degrees-will be used. Each photograph is
to be duplicated to prevent mistakes, and also
there are to be two series Of exposures so
that some 1900 photographs in all will be
taken.
A short exposure series will form cataI
logue of about 100000 stars down to the
eleventh ma gnitude, while the other series
will be exposed forty minutes and will form
chart containing about 22,OOO,OOO stars
down to the fourteenth magnitude The en-
tire map of the sky when finisfed Wit cover
a globe seven and a half yards in diameter.
In two or three generations astronomers
By comparing this chart with their own. OBJ
servations, will know much more than wa
do about the relations and relative motions
of the sun and systems of space AMI whittier
our own little solar system. is bound an 4
with what velocity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-15
Washington stock Exchange.

Loan and a, o9ll,I2 Oelo mwashinstOu
bid o' i'm sskd sOndi-g Is rssl,tsEed IIs
asked I. $. 5s. ll7le hid IIs asked
District % Columbia Bonds Oyear fund IS,
f fSsn bid Se,yssr f9.s G. sod ms bid Se5..
Miscellaneous Ropas.-wa.hiur,ou and George.
Town lsailrOad COW. a., LIST. lS4 hid Washington
and Georgetown Railroad conv. is, I'd l34 bid
Metropolitan RaiDead 6s. III asked Eek
ington Railroad 6s. ~ hid. Washington Gas Com
fesSS1 S. ss ~ s ,Si ssS es siSn sac
sSurty and Trust b. s..d D. Ies ia NssSaiai
Infantry list Gs. 100 hid washington I.sit i,,.
faniry I'd Is. 100 bid. los asked
as N%onT Rnns a1s s S k g THhsg0S $50
Metropolitan. 30 bid. 2gI asked. Central. 2sD
bid. Farmers sndr Mecsnaies'l iise hid S~roDd
$50 asked. Citizens, 1875 bid. ! - asked. Colum-
bia. 100 asked Capital Ii2 lid. /, West End, 10
bid, 10 asked Lincoln. 80 bid. 20 asked. ohio
Safe Deposit and Trust Companies tinnai Safe
and Trust. 100 Ia Y2i ssRea A%s.isn 's san
curity aud Trust, 40 asked. Washington safe De
Railroad sio,'ks. Washington and Georgetown
2S5 bid. $40 asked Metropolitan. 90 asked Co
Gas and Electric nfeiit Stocks. -wasllngfon Gas
- bid, 80 asked %e.rgci9wn Gas, 80 lid. L. 3
Insurance SiockS.= Firrmeu's. SO asked. Prank
I'm, - bid - asked. footu'ss. ~ bi5,;Si asked.
German American. rs I'd Natio9nl dnion. u
ia. aske. iii Foes. 81 Ga ssk.d Ti6con
~ hid. asked Commercial 6 asked
lille Insurance SrHils. 4humlffa ffflr. Tis hid
Trlethone S'o,ls. Chesapeake and Potomac Is
asked American Grapho. hone. 81 did. y asked
Pneumatic Gun Carriage. 20 ~.
l55 asked Norfolk and Washington Steamboat,
~ bld. t-r~eI rU
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-15
The National Strike Commission at
Chicago. :. $500
ITS SESSIONS BEGUN THIS MORNING
Vice President of the A. ~R. u.
Testifies.
HIS VIEW OF THE TROUBLE

CHICAGO. August 15.-The strike COM
mission appointed by President Cleveland
to investigate the Pullman and railroad
strikes began Its work today. The sessions
were held in the government building, in a
court room and attracted many spectators.
After preliminary work. Vice President
s. w. Howard of the A. r. U. was called
as the first witness. Mr.. Howard began his
statement by expressing the hope that the
commission would use every effort to get to
the bottom of the matter under consfdera-
ton.
Commissioner Herman assured him that
the investigation would be thorough, and
asked the witness numerous questions as to
his past and present occupations. and the
nature Of his official position in the A. r. U.
Now" said the commissioner. tell us
what in your opinion, caused the railroad
strikes" -.
The strikes were caused" answered Mr..
Howard, by the statement of the general
managers that they would back up Mr.. Pull
man during the strike"
Who told you that?"
The newspapers printed the statement
creditlng 1T to General Managers Egan and
st. John" $500
MIR. Howard then entered into an ex-
haustive recital of The troubles leading up
to the original Pullman strike. The men
had announced their intention to strike
ne Sdlu, out on DelnS assured Dy the COM
pany's officials that the employees griev-
ances would be Investigated. he had urged
the men to go back 10 work This they did
on the promise of the company that those
who had hand in the trouble would not be
discharged or otherwise injured because OF
the part they had taken In the matter.
And after that PROMISE" continued the
witness, three of those committeeman
were discharged. Then the men struck.
Our union. after having failed to get any
satisfaction from the Pullman company,
then endeavored, by boycottiEg the COM
Iany's cars. to bring the matter to a salts
factory termination. We ordered no strike.
We simply desired that the Pullman cars
be left off of the trains.
AT this point we were again met by the
General Managers Association. They re-
fused to haul mail cars unless the Pull
mans were attached to the trains. Such
action was entirely uncalled for. The Pull
mans were in no wise necessary for the
transmission of the United States mails.
1 can cite various cases when, mail trains
were run without Pullmen coaches or other
palace car equipments"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-15
A SUBTERRANEA OCEAN,
1t is Believed to Underfic Nebraska.
Kansas and Indian Territory,

From the st. Louis Republic.
The best scientists of the land favor the
opinion that Nebraska, Kansas and part of
Indian Territory are situated over an i'm
mense underground lake or sea- 1t is a
well-known fact that in several places in
Kansas whole sections of land have sud-
denly disappeared. leaving only fathomIess
-lakelets to mark the spot where they were
once situated. Proof that there is some
thing peculiar with the foundation of the
section of the country mentioned may be
found in the celebrated tide wells of Polk.
Butler and Colfax counties in Nebraska
Polk county Is best provided with these
curious wells, having between a dozen and
twenty. which roar and ebb and flow with
an unseen tide. The roaring of these re-
markable curiosities-they cannot be called
natural wonders, because they are the work
of man, at least so far as excavation Is
concerned-is caused by the inhalation and
exhalation of immense quantities of air
There are hours, regular and uniform in
which the air will rush out with q loud
kissing sound, ard again an equal space of
time In which 1t seems that all the air of
the Platte valley will be sucked into the
cavernous depths of these wonderful wells
The period of this ebb and flow does not
seem to depend upon either the seasons or
the St tie of the weather, but is thought to
have NJ mysterious connection with the
high I'D low tids ,psyiods of the Atlantic
and -c,"!fic oceanst A .meteorologist of ma
mystery of the Platte river tide wells"
and who issued IA little pamphlet with
the title "Roarin$, Mells of Nebraska"
gave it as his opinion that the roaring phe-
nomenon was in some way connected with
the prevailing DIRECTION of the wind, being
stronsest in in timS Of west est or southwest
mentioned as being best provided with these
tide-regulated. affcexpelling wells believe
that the water subpltoi is connected with
body large enough TO, nave a regular ebb
and flow of tide. Allthe wells In the coun-
uIated are of about the same depth, those of
Colfax being deeper. 6ht all extending to a
porous stratum having the same general
~ ma rae teriSticS. - M
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-15
Medals of Honor Awarded.

medal of honor has been awarded to
Loron F. Packard. late saddler sergeant
company E. fifth New York volunteer cav
airy, now of Bolivar, n. Y, for distinguish
ed gallantry in a reconnaissance at Raccoon
Ford. Va, November "a 1868. This nom
commissioned officer imperiled his life and
liberty In reScuing a comrade from certain
death or capture, by voluntarily going to
his rescue. and being exposed all the way
10 a hot fire from both confederate and
Union troops. A medal has also been
awarded to Joel II. Lyman. late quarter
master sergeant company b. ninth New
York volunteer cavalry. for distinguished
gallantry in action at Winchester, Va,
September 10. 1864. this non commission ed
ofncer having, in an attempt to capture a
confederate flag, performed the gallant act
Of making one of the confederate officers a
prisoner, and bringing him within the
Union lines. He is now a citizen Of Ran
dolph, y. Y.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-15
NEARLY ALL GONE.
Today VIII Close Up the Industrial
Army.

1t is more than probable that when night
falls the last of the industrials who came to
Washington TO impress upon Congress the
necessity of Immediately relieving the de-
pressed condition of the country uy furnish
ing work to the unemployed az 81 per day
or eight hours will have made his adieu 10
the national capital and the curtain will be
rung down on the pitiful drama that has
dragged its length on the public stage ever
since May. One hundred and thirty OF the
men whose homes are in the west were
loaded in two second-clfss passenger cars
on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad last
night and started for ST. Paul. Mimi, at
the rear ends OF two fast freight trains.
Mr.. Frank Hume. upon whose bountiful
generosity the industrials have been de-
pendent for their sustenance during the past
week, furnished both cars with provisions
sufncient TO feed the travellers ON their long
journey. About thirty-fve men, who reside
IN the east. were left here but the Commits
sioners Will undoubtedly provide for their
transportation away from the city during
Inc DAY. Al any rate, while they remain
here there will be no semblance of or
ganization among them and no further agi-
alton on their part, at least of Industrial
principles The much-advertised scheme of
the industrals TO leave TWENTY-FIVE men in
Washington and vicinity to act as a nucleus
around which combinations of tramps from
all over the country might gather from time
" liiiie VIE given up, anu tne Men who had
been designated to stay here on such duty
departed with the others last night for 81
Paul Gen" Jacob 5. Coxey yesterday
went out 10 the Stegmaier place at High
lands and took away seven of his horses
that remained there and had them sent 10
Massilon, Ohio. He also visited the Mary
land house of correction TO see the common
wealers confined there as Migrants but was
allowed TO see only g. T. Mckee who was
the marshal Of the camp at Highlands in
the absence of the other leaders. Coxey
will leave this city today for Columbus.
Ohio, and has employed a firm OF lawyers.
so 1t is said, to make application in the
Maryland courts tor writ of habeas cor
pus by which the release of the common
WealerS at Jessups may be secured
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-15

From the London Daily News.
The sculptor Nickolaus Gelger Is putting
the last touches to his statue of Bar
barossa, which is to symbolic the ancient
kingdom in the Kyffhauser monument, to
be unveiled in 1895. The Barbarossa ap-
pears at the end of vestibule in the style
of an ancient castle, on the steps of the
throne upon which he is sitting like the
sleeping figures of the courtiers, with fabu-
lous animals of the old mythic world Bar
barussa is represented at the moment of
waking from his long sleep. In his right
hand is his sword. his left hand strokes his
long, waving beard. Contrary to all other
figures of the old hero, he is here repre-
sented as an actual emperor, with the fea-
lures of a noble man. The whole mOnu-
rlent, hewn from the rock. will be about
eighty feet high. The figure of the seated
monarch is about thirty feet high.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-15
MACHINE Gun TESTS,
The Naval Board Fails to Agree I'm a
RccOmm n dn ton.

The report Of the naval board which con-
Quoted the recent competitive trial of ma
chine guns Tor the use of the navy in this
city has been made: The members of the
board failed to agree-two of them recon-
mending the Maxim gun and the third men,
Der recommending the Calling gun. None of
the guns submitted were of the caliber
adopted for the naval service, viz: q MN.
,Qr .23G inches, hut varied from O.30 to o3I5
AS The difference in caliber and ammuni-
ru0p may considerably influence the eff
cheney of the gun Capt. Sampson. chief of
the naval bureau OF ordnance, recomme nds
that the owners of the Calling and the
Maxim gun be invited to construct a gun
of MN caliber, to be tested in competi-
tion,, The gums will be required to use
ammunition furnished by the bureau at the
expense of the exhibitors. AS the agents of
the Accles improved Calling have requested
that n new Acties gun of g MN caliber be
tried he also recommends that each of the
exhibitors be permitted to present a gun
of 6 MN caliber under the same conditions
as the 'Gatlfng and Maxim guns, the date
of such trial to be at early a day as
the guns can be Manufactured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-15
SOME STATISTICS.
Regular Monthly Meeting of the So.
ciety Last Night.


The regular monthly meeting of the Ma
tional Statistical Association was held last
night at the Columbian University, Judge
Lawrence of Ohio presiding. Ex-vice
PRESIDENT Levi p. Morton, Senator Chand-
Ter. Senator Hill and Senator Walsh were
elected honorary members of the associa-
ton, and It was decided to extend the hon.
orary membership to the members of the
cabinet
The first paper of the evening was pre-
scented by Prof. Armin K. Shumna, special
agent of the census, and related to sta
tlstics or manufactures in this country. In
lSsS, ne stated, there We're BOO, AS manu-
featuring establish nents with a total cap-
ltal of s6,525, lJ6. 4S6. They employed 41l2-
o. people, and furnished support to H.
WnGO people
The wages paid We're 81. 2Sa. so, and
the annual value of the product was 1892,
f3f,2S3. The materials used in the work
were valued at 81 l62, Oh, 076 The wages
amounted TO n per cent of the value of the
product the materials IS per cent, expenses
Ia per cent and miscellaneous expenses Z
Ter cent.
In 1880 the imports of nine classes Of sta
pie articles amounted to Sal ,e0.0O0 while
the domestic product of the same reached
a total of s5S2,OO0G00.
The PAPER was discussed at considerable
length by Mr.. Joseph Nimmo. Mr. Henry A.
Robinson. Col. J. Edwards Clark and Mai.
c. s. Hill.
resolution was adopted in relation 20
the requests received from boards of trade
and other organizations TO be supplied reg
ularly with the journal published by the
association. This resolution provides that
all such bodies may desire shall be rep
resented in membership by the election Of
the secretary Of such body and by the pay
ment of the membership fee shall be en-
titled to receive the Journal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-15
Strength Of lna0~so.
From Tarson's Weekly.

From Harsons Weekly.
WHAT living creature is possessed of the
greatest bodily strength In proportion to its
sizeT The honor must be divided between
The cockchafer. the hive bee and the flea
IL Is rather difficult to apply a test to prove
which particular insect among the borers,
the jumpers and carriers is the strongest
but there is no question that in proportion
10 thelr size insects undoubtedly possess the
greatest strength among living creatures
Inc nea can jump foot RICH. more than
iVo times its own length, and, taking its
average jump as thirty times it's own length
IL is as II man jumped as high as the
gallery OF the monument. The spring OF the
tiger and the leap of the Kangaroo are in
slgnificant when compared with this A
cockchafer is strong enough 10 lft ~ ,
times its own weight, a small hive bee "a !,
times the weight of itself. Judged by this
standard there is nothing comparable 10 in
amorg other insects or among the larger
animals, and IL may be safely asserted thar
these three insects divide the donors between
them. fer, though boring insects pierce the
hardest wood, il is by the wonderful adam
tation of their boring instrument. rather
than by abnormal strength.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-15
PICTURE OF, THE MOON.
wonderful New Photographs taken
by French Scientists.

From the London News
NM. Puiseux and Loewy, photographers
to the Paris observatory have Our CORE
spondent in that city says afforded the
Academy of Scier-ces the clearest view thai
body ever had of the moon. This was done
by means Of photographs of the moons
surface, done I'm sections, which fit into
each other like the different parts of a map.
when the component parts are placed to-
gether they form circular Image having a
diameter or one meter fifty centimeters
there Is besides a negative on glass of WON
derful perfection, and having a diameter of
nifty centimeters. The latter bears exam
nation with a magnifying' glass of high
power. The images on It are Of astonishing
delicacy and clearness The space of a
millimeter Of the thousandth part of a
meter represent an area of l,GUD meters
Were there towns, forests, rivers they
would be perceptible. 1t Is possible to
measure the heights of lunar mountains
from the shadows which they cast on the
plains. Gentle undulations of ground are
continued for hundreds of kilometers. as
cending into mountains as If on a symmet-
rical plan A peculiar ity of the lunar land
valleys of vast depth and great regularity
of formation. Many OF the valleys seem
like chinks in the mountains and are sin
Ious. but different in aspect from those Of
this planet, which are beds for watercourses
The Puiseux and Loewy photographs con-
hrm the theory that the moons surface was
modelled under conditions widely differing
from those which gave to the earth's its
present relief.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-15
Great Potato Plantation.
Esreu-,hc New York Tribune.

Erss,.. the New York Tribune. -, =
A potato plantation of 100 acres on which
two crops aggregating about 5o,OoO barrels,
or ,125 900 bushels. are annually grown, is
difficult to imagine. Such one exists,
however, and its virgin soil is 80 rich that
abundant crops are raised without the use
of any fertilizer. This great potato farm
is In Ashwood, Maurey county, Tenn, about
six miles west of Columbia, and fifteen
miles south of Nashville. 1t is a part of
the Polk estate, owned by the ancestors of
President Polk. The potato farm is owned
by Clawson & Stevens, two enterprslng
young Indianaians The first crop of the
year is from 5000 to 10000 barrels. and
the second crop, for which only JU5 acres
are planted, from 1000 to 22,ooo, making
bushels a year CIawson & Stevens employ
about one hundred negroes, manv of whom
are women, and have eighty-ive giant
mules. They have factory on the plan
tation in which all the barrels used by them
are made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-15
[l,, IIlA!lE=RlEE:.W,.A!!ss,.:Too MUCH WINE
Match Between vigilant and Britannia
- .-,s. Postponed.
fsMEifsil Maflfd faeturer Reioiced Over
N' thte'N eksHTAS6-Other Notes by
''a19'st ''''' e7NC'abler Today.
FRESH WATER. Is

FRESH WATER, Isle of Wight, Aug
18th match :. faranged between Mr.
George j. Gould and the Prince of Wales
TO sail the Vigiiant and Britannia fifteen
miles to .Yipdward and return for a cup
offered by Lord Wolverton was postponed
Indefinitely this morning, owing to the fact
mat gale of wind was blowing, making
II impossible for the yachts to put to sea.
Consequently neither of the racers left
Cowes
Interest in the yacht races is declining.
and many of the faces in the Royal Yacht
cubs regatta today were not filed In the
nfst race the Cariua sailed over the course
alone, and In the one-raters the Norwena
did the same. $3.50
The failure of the Messrs. Gould to race
the Vfgilant yesterday is adversely COM
mented upon on all sides. One newspaper
says: we hear so much about what the
Nigilant can do in hard wind that IL
would have been only sportsmanlike to
give the Satanita a chance of proving her
The excuse that the Vigiant was preparing
for today does not hold. 1t must be noted
that the Britannia does not need to go into
training"