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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-01-25
EIGHTH WARD REPUBLICANS.
Charter Amendment ExpiainsA
by Mr.. Dole.


by Mr.. Dole.
The Eighth Ward Republican Club held
its regular meeting last evening and their
rooms at the corner of Kentucky and High
streets were crowded with enthusiastic
Republicans. After transacting the routine
business. such ~ receiving reports from
the various committees at work in the
ward, DIR. Crichton was introduced and
discussed the proposed charter amend
ments. Most OF the amendments ex-
planned by DIR. Crichton were well re-
ceived except possibly that clause which
proposes to abolish the board Of park COM
missioners and the superintendent Of the
city parks. After talking these matters
over in . friendly way and answering
many questions the doctor said that in
short time copies of all the proposed
amendments could be obtained and they
could then be discussed fully until tho
club members would be prepared to vote
upon them inteliigently at the coming
election.
Then Mr.. II. r. elise, on behalf Of the
executive committee. arose and stated that
the committee had invited Mr.. E. T. Dole
q distinguished Republican from the Sixth
ward, to address the meeting. Mr.. Dole
gave most interesting address. dealing
with national affairs At first and gradually
drawing toward the city government. and
il was then that his forceful and pungent
remarks drew out continued applause. In
the midst Of his remarks he took occasion
of exempting from criticism the admins
tration of the legal department. under Mr.
Donworth and Mr.. Howe, of whom he
spoke in the highest terms. His remarks
about Hawaiian matters were especially
interesting, and at the end of the meeting
Mr.. Dole was warmly congratulated and
thanked for his excellent effort at enter
tanning the club.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-01-25
AULD LANG sYNK.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
Aud never brought TO MINI
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days o lang syne?
For aud lang syne, my dear,
For aulc lang syne,
Well tax cup o kindness yet,
For aud lang synes
We twa hae rim about the hraes,
And hu'd the sowans dae;
But we've wandered mony Q weary foot
sin aud lang syne.
For auid lang syne, etc.
We iva has psidPt i the burn,
Ffae moruiu sun till dine;
But seas between W braid has roared
SIN auld lang ayne.
For auld lang syne, etc.
And here's hand, my trusty Ger,
Aud gie'a hand o. thine;
And Well tax . right guild willie-wauGht
For auld Lang syne
For auld lang syne, etc.
And surely yen be your pint-stowp,
And surely I'll Be mine:
And We II tax cup o. kindness yet
For suld lang syne.
For suid lang syne, etc.
Robert Barns
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ADMITS THAT HE DESERTED,


e" @sHS AstS1nhsy
Asleniine d. Sittle, the heavy and light
weight inggser whose stage name Is ''prof
Morris. Vas arrested yesterday by Baigisf
Bob Hamilton, Of Judge osborn's depart.
fneni OF the superior court, On . charge OF
being dsserter from tho United States
army. siftls Is only Fl ysars old. He
admits that Re is deserter.
Little. who Is . native o.. Bavaria, says
that when % years old be enlisted .. .
private ct Fort Smelling. MINI. As be
vas under age he believed that he could
desert without punishment. He has been
IN Seattle bot short time For two
weeks Re was employed At the Standard
tnea,sr and he says that he vas 10 havs
SLATED in On N sagsSsnant as CerdrAy' Z
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-01-25
rnE LEVEL, OF THE OCEAN.

MARYsvILLE, Jan. 20 1894.
To THE EpIroE: Is the water Of the Pa
cific ocean any higher whore the proposed
isthmus canal is contemplated than the
waters on the Atlantic side, or are they of
the same level? J. NJ. K.
THE waters are Of the same level. The
tides. of course, have an effect. so that
there would be q current setting through
the canal
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The Ninth ward Republicans will meet
Saturday evening at Goddard's Hall. FIRE.
mont. AZ 7:So. A large attenance Is sx-
pected and desired as matters of import
ance will likely come up.
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The Seventh Ward Republican Club win
meet this evening at Pinekney's Hall. cor
nsr Broadway and Depot streets at 80
IL is especially desired that the Repnhli.
cans from the Seventh ward will be present
and become members. All are invited,
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SEATTLE. rHrssDAE JAx. %.
The evening world., 1894-05-01
May Day Echoes from Abroad.

tBy Associated fTChs.)
BERLIN, May Inlay Day passed on
quietly here, generally speaking. a mob
OF about a thousand Anarchists assem-
bled and It's leaders commenced deliver
ing seditious speeches, They were dis
persed by the police.
VIENNA, May l.-There were three
meetings OF workmen and others mere
to-day, but they were dispersed by the
police without any disturbance.
MARSEILLES, May lat a meeting
OF workmsn and others numbering aoont
ten thousand people here to-day Il num-
Der OF violent speeches wer made and
the meeting passed resolutions In FAVOR
Of q minimum wage and eight hours per
day as a legal days work.
MAESTRlCHT, Holland, May Ia
number OF Socialists who were celebrat-
ing May Day to-day hung Il red BAN
ner 10 the telephone wires across one
OF the main thoroughfares. n pan
ner YVES removed By the police.
BUDAPEST, May Ia demonstrh,
tion In which about fifteen thousahu
people took part occurred at ctsneElu
Park. here. to-day. There was no d'S-
WARMsDoRF, Bohemia. May The
police to-day dispersed, a MOP "n,un
was threatening 10 attack me DOLCE s.h-
ton. Two persDps were hurt uuiins
me abort ccaascL
The evening world., 1894-05-01
POISON FOR HORSES.
East Side ExpresSmen Accuse
Rivals of I%nhumanity.
A Veterinary Surgeon Recalls Thirty
Cases Of This Kind.
Says in Some Instances Tongues of
Horses Are Cut Out.

There Is a big field for the 8. p. c. A.
to labor In that seems just at present to
be left to itself. Horses are being poi
soned at the rate of two or three per
week, and there Is no evidence of n
efforts being made to prevent the cru
city or apprehend the PRISONERS. This
poisoning Is being done on the east side,
including the lower part Of Hester,
Grand, Essex. Delaney and Clinton
streets.
Business rivalry is said to be RESPONSE
BILE for 1t, 1t Is alleged. For instance.
one eXpressman with a good horse and
wagon Is doing a lively business, while
his rival with a stand on the opposite
corner, whose horse is old or spawned,
is unable to make both end meet.
Instead of improving his rig and making
a fair bid for his share of the bust
ness of the neighborhood, he, so 1t is
stated. places Paris green or some other
poison In the manager of his rivals horse,
covers 1t with a sprinkling OF oats and
the next day a dead horse is hauled
away, and the stealthy p%oisoner has a
monopoly of the stand.
The last case to be recorded Is that of
Morris Yatt, a general expressman with
q stand at the oorne OF. Grand and
Ystt had 'e done a p good % pus iane rr'f His
horse was only eight years old, and
was everything to be desired. When
he put him up on Thursday, night the
n next morning the poor animal could
scarcely keep on his feet in the stable.
John Dougherty. a veterinary surgeon,
ing, could be done; The horse died
within q couple Of hours.
re nsi xat tths seld af .Ths nvs , r h w0r Mas
on the psrpstrato Gso Of r the deed a,s nf bu'
that while he might possibly prove a
tion were very slight. Only two months
another horse of his was poisoned.
Mr.. Yatt said he had made no com
would be taken Of it unless he would
make charges against some person OIL
Or. Dousherty stated that to his knowl
poisoned In the last six months.
81 have no doubt" said the doctor,
that there have been more than one
has been soing on for Several years. Bui
poison Is not the only means used
Tongues are cut out, and ham-stringlnl
Is not of infrequent occurrence
pr. Dougherty %recltes this case in point
Isaac Cells. a butcher In Essex
street, between Grand and Hester streets
on entering the stable one morning
floor and covered with blood. Inyesti.
CATION showed that the horses tongue
had been cut out, evidently with a razor
This was about eight months ago. Ar,
rests were made, and the case was tried
in Special Sessions, but no conviction
resulted"
he had a case OF horse poisoning in Cow
alley. OFF Delaney street, but as he
could do nothing for the animal he
made no record of 1t, and had forgot
ten the owners name.
Other victims are NJ. Hammer. who
lost one horse, J. G. Arritt. who los,
five animals within two months. and
Samuel SHAPIRO, who lost two horses last
August.
The evening world., 1894-05-01
STREET RO|7S IN CLEVELAND.
Motor Cars Overturned by Mobs
of Parading Men.
Many Pistol Shots Fired, but No One
Killed Outright.
ny Associated Press.

'pN hhsoc'hteu TVess.
CLEVELAND. May l-scven thousand
unemployed men paraded the streets
to-day after listening to speeches In
Monumental Square. In the line were
many unruly spirits.
on the Central viaduct a motorman
refused to stop his train while the
procession passed, and the mob attacked
and wrecked a car.
Later, nearly one hundred shots were
PEELED to stop. Several persons were
knocked down during the march, and
others were injured by missiles thrown
by the mob.
On Pearl street another riotous scene
occurred. A street car was totally
wrecked by the mob and the motorman
assaulted and perhaps fatally injured.
A policeman who was on board drew his
revolver, but before 1t could be used the
mob closed IA on him and he received
very rough handling.
Pistols were fired In every direction.
Many plate-glass windows were smashed
and Il panic ensued in the crowded
thoroughfare.
There were many narrow escapes. but
fortunately no one was killed outright.
The police, who were early in the day
massed in the various stations, have
been called out.
The evening world., 1894-05-01
FOUND DEAD IN HIS HOUSE.
Police Believe that Robbers MUIR
dered Silas Anderson.

NEWARK. N. j.. May 1.-Si.as An
derson. a r~ecluse. aged about sixty
years. was found lying dead near the
front door of his home on Valley road.
near Milburn, early this morning. A SUI
perficial examination would seem to in
dictate that death was caused by a fall.
but from bruises on the neck and shout
ders, 1t is suspected that he had been
beaten. His neck was broken and his
skull fractured. John Nasle, who found
the body. notified the Milburn police.
who In turn sent word to DR., Elliott,
the County Physician, of Essex County,
at Newark.
The latter will view the body this ar
ternoon. The police are making an in
vestigation. and believe Anderson was
murdered by robbers, who were after
the money he is reputed to have hoard
d in the house he occupied alone. His
son-in-law, Anderson Reeves, who lives
at Milburn, declares that the old man
committed suicide, but there is no evil
dence OF this.
The evening world., 1894-05-01
SAVED FROM SUICIDE.
Mrs. Meiuecke's Hand Stayed as
She Was to Take Poison.
Lawyer Schnitzer Grabs the Glass
in Which Was the Morphine.
The Dependent Woman Says She
May Yet Kill Herself.

Mrs. Jessie Meinecke. of ll2 West One
u,.a.o, 49,, ,r,.a,,. a,,, .,roo, uhoso
iiunureu anu i"e"'s-'i'" s''ee'' W"'
husband left her, while clad only in
his nigh IT, robe. about two weeks ago, at
,au.t., .,,,an,a -, ,.,i,u ,,ornbira
'e'nPteu su'ciue ny 'a"'"s "'
about 3 o'clock this afternoon.
Since Mr.. Meinecke left his wife, he
Y. -, -. -. -,
pers's'e".'y e'uneu nef anu sem u Nv
money with which to maintain the eX-
pensiyely furnished fat In which the
con,l, I,,ad ,,,th ,bo,, three small
'oup'e "Neu VIZ" 'N" "'' ~
Through his Ia wyer. w. J.. Hardy, of
ron,nIo Gov, NJ Nainocke cent bis
I,pe ~, " l>' 49,
wire WORD ina ne would never i've
with her again, or be responsible for
The evening world., 1894-05-01
MUST REINSTATE COYLE.
Court of Appeals Also Puts Costs
on Police Commissioners.

Lawyer Louis j. Grant received a
dispatch from Albany to-day announc-
ing that the Court OF Appeals had re-
versed the decision OF the General Term
In the case of ex-Patrolman John s.
Coyle. of the West One Hundred and
Twenty-ffth street station, who was
dismissed from the force In July on a
charge OF conduct unbecoming a. police
man.
Inc decision. which reinstates Coyle
and allows him his back salary since
the dismissal. also say that the Police
Commissioners must pay the costs.
amounting to about 5000.
Coyle was dismissed from the force for
assaulting Policeman william Mildrum
in April. 1892. He claimed that he acted
In self-defense.
The evening world., 1894-05-01
HOTTEST DAY so FAR.
It's Going to he MuEgy, and a
storm Is on the Way.

This is the warmest day of the season.
In fact, Gothamites experienced the first
touch Of real Summer weather. At noon
the mercury In Forecaster Dunn's Their
mometer on the roof of the Equitable
Building stood at "a. while down on
the sidewalk below 1t was from two to
three degrees higher. according to the
location.
A regular epidemic Of that tired
feeling broke out.
The warm wave extends to-day. ali
and is warmest in u.e Ohio Valley.
where later reports this afternoon say
the thermometer ranges all the way
between so and 30 degrees. .
A storm with considerable rain and
hig winds is rapidly working its way
East. 1t will reach here by Tomorrow
morning, and be preceded by close,
muggy weather.
The humidity in New York to-day was
rs per cent.
The evening world., 1894-05-01
FRAss HANGS HIMSELF.
DespOndent Over His Daughters
Death and His Wife's Illness.

Otto Frass, the respondent old shoe
maker, who lived In a furnished room In
Delaney street. committed suicide early
this m0sning in his little shoe shop. at
"a Beaver street, by hanging himself.
The cause for the suicide was grief
over the recent death of his daughter
and the illness of his wife, who is In
a hospital
The old man had also been ordered
to move out of his shop. which he had
occupied for twenty years, because the
owner wanted it for other purposes.
When Janitor Donohue ound the
shoeshop closed this morning he burst
In the door There hanging oven II
chair, a rope around his neck, the other
end around a gaspipe. was the shoe
maker, dead.
and a few trinkets were found in his
clothing. The Coroner took these.
The evening world., 1894-05-01
FOUR WERE BURIED ALIVE.
The Scene of Quebec's Landslide
Marked by Great DcsOIRtiOn.

Uy Associated PresS)
ST. ALBANS, Quebec, May SAMUEL
Gauthler. a farmer of st. Adams. County
of Port Neuf. aged nfty-four; his wife.
aged ffty-five; their son., Joseph. aged
eight, and David Gauthier, Samuel's
brother, are buried under a hundred
feet OF earth by the terrible landslide Of
Friday last. Some say hat Nine.
Gauthier was caught while running
away from the wild maelstrom.
For miles around the scene OF the dis
aster there is nothing but desolation.
Where the st. Anne River was once
nearly a mile wide. II Is now only a
narrow stream Woods, houses, cattle
all are gone, and moth . is left but bar
rem ground for six nuIes back. Here
and there the debris OF the Inflated
farm-houses, granaries and ~outhouses
are seen In little heaps. tangled up with
u~prooted trees and c~arcasses of dead
cattle, u most buildings were swept
into the river and carried away.
The evening world., 1894-05-01
Browne and Jones Must Answer
Charges of Unlawful
A~ssemblage,
A CHASE BY MOUNTED POLICE.
commonweal Chiefs Flank Move
ment Through the
Shrubbery.
ny Associated Press.)

wAsIJTNcToN No, r-.,...
m"y EAcItins
scenes marked the attempt OF the Cox
es..es " carry OUT ,ne prosramme lot
and q sn.aas ,sa.. ~. .ceps, "SI
49,. ~ Wy zen SoAey
Pennsylvania avenue to the CapttoI.
urounds the nroce..,o, NO. a.csrs.S
" q ueneu.e"
hill, where a broad expanse Of avenue
sWeeps towards the east front A. az
80" ~ 'e e"'' i'osA ~
This was Coxey's goal and there was
every preparatIon to turn into ,hs go
'uf" n"to inc avg
nue.; but as the opening wal reached
seen The stra,oh.a go nnsh 49,
"." i"e' s'e'e"eu rum curp 70 curo'
making ingress towards the Capitol I'm
possible Ihe squad OF police ahead q
.'Ne' 'a''"se "e"t s'ra'sht aheau.
IL was a ruse to carry the procession
past the capitoi.
49, ~. people hhowea .ne'r
cn"sr'h' Out ioiio"eu out d street.
Hurried signals were passed from Coxey
to Browne. II was clear thew wouId
not be thus led willingly away. Half q
block up b street. Browne halted his
col Imn and dismounSd He turned over
his horse to an attenSlnt. Then he went
to Coxey's carriage and spoke TO the
General.
COxey Tries n Flank Movement.
tried 70 restrain MIN Vi. nn,aa5 All
kissed her. Ther he snran g rom jhjs
carrIags and mate bis vax hacL amno
wards the entrance to ne capitol. a
fiank Movement was annrecis la
Rrnwp. foi,owed hearino hannsr
The rank and file of the army stood In
The s1uad Of notice suddenly discov-
cred thai Coxey had turned back. Quick
Iy the oficers spurred throush the crowd
after Coxey and browne. fhe two had
70 the heavv stone nsiink whicS mrs
rounds tho foliage Of the sast front az
the Capitol Grounds. and with a bound
the tansiies %sbrubberv' Br nnS 1rs ol,oweSl
S'ha moi sho,ited 81 fheir di.annearancs
The police We're not to be dsuntsd 81
this escape to the shrubbery.
Dashed Into the Shrubbery.
m,oa r.. .moou o,o,. a.. 49,
Inc hrst omeer; m9untea IN y me =
tneh morse ana riuer cleared .ne iemcs
and dashed INTO the ~shTubbery' The
other mount 9rncers toiioweo. Suihii
before the sweep OF h2rsemeh ana tns
ye.ilng crowa Which totleWsu
Coxey and Browne lodged through
pushes 10 the open arena az tne eass
front. Here a b.ue-coaled mass swaitsd
tne onconers; lnere was CRASH " tne
officers and the mob from the street met.
the wall OF ofiicers ana people IN y
open. The onslaught was so sudden thet
the ofncers broke Tor a moment I'eopte
were lost for the time. The poiicemen
steHInen .ne rusn AFTER d MINUTE, uul-
tns winch one o'aceI useu ms pae8n
Freely
~
Coxey had slipped unobseryed through
the struggling mass. and before am, 2
entrance TO the Capitol. He was M.
to the tenth step before he was reeodx
,n!zed. Then the officers closed In aboys1
Ths' great !, crowd now rssosnissS hin:
The evening world., 1894-05-01
ELECTION BETS ILLEGAL.
Judge Mccormick Decides the Car
~rOlI-SmIth Suit.

ELIZABETH, N. j., May Judge
Mccormick this afternoon. In Court
OF Common Pleas. reversed the deci-
sion Of District Court Judge Gilhooley
in the matter of an election bet made
between ex-Assemblyman Carroll and
Thomas l.. Smith. The bet was on the
G~oyernorship. as to whether Wcrts would
have a majority of 500 over Kean.
The stakeholder gave the money to Mr..
to recover
Judge Gilhooley decided In favor OF the
defendant. and Smith appealed to the
higher court.
Judge Mccormick declared betting on
elections to be illegal, and awarded
Smith a verdict with interest and costs.
The evening world., 1894-05-01
SAY FRISCO WAS MURDERED.
The other Half II the Rope Identi-
fled To-day.

NEW BRUNSWICK. n. j., May /.
That Frisco was murdered has been
proven. the authorities say. by the iden-
tlacatlon to-day Of the other half of the
rope with which he was tied.
The tolls are gradually being drawn
around two Italians, who are under sur
NnlllhnCe.
The evening world., 1894-05-01
WOMEN USE KNIVES.
Two stabbed in n Fight over Some
Wood,

Maria Parelo. ffty-two years old. and
Rusaline Nerna. twenty-one years old.
were held in the Harlem Police Court
without bail this afternoon to await the
result Of injuries inflicted on Madeline
1ruCo.
The three women live at 500 East One
Hundred and Firth street. They got
into a dispute over the ownership OF
some wood In the cellar.
Madeline received four stab-wounds
in the head and Iosaline a severe stab
wound in the left arm.
The former is at the Harlem Hospital,
and the physicians say she VIII recover.
The evening world., 1894-05-01
LONDON "REDs" M0BBED.
An Anarchistic Meeting in Hyde
Park broken Up.

LONDON, May IA small May Day
meeting in Hyde Park to-day led to an
exciting scene, during which Il number OF
Anarchists were roughly handled and
dispersed by a mob.
The Anarchists assembled with the
object of expressing sympathy with
Henry, Fornara and other Anarchists
now In prison.
The chief English and foreign Anar-
chist leaders were present. and the speak
ers included Louise Michel, the famous
Communarde of Paris. and Editor sam
uels, OF the Commonweal, an Anarchist
organ.
The evening world., 1894-05-01
SEIMAN TRANSFERRED.
He VIII Hereafter Serve In Part L.,
General Sessions.

The escape OF Gee Sing from Part l.,
General Sessions, yesterday morning,
has resulted in the transfer OF Court
Onlcer Peter Seiman. from Part II. TO
Part l.. Judge Cowing has not admon-
ished the court officers who permitted
Gee Sing to escape, but Mr.. Sieman was
transferred TO the court In order TO
strengthen the service.
He has been connected with the Cen
eral Sessions for fifteen years, and Ii u
most capable and efficient officer,
The evening world., 1894-05-01
Despondent, Hanged Himself.

NEWARK N. j., May Jacob Eliers. a hat
ter, Of s5 Hayes street. was found dead in his
room at II o'clock to-day. He had hanged himself
during the night with a rope fastened to a hook
In the wall. He was thirty years old and came
here three years ago. lie had no relatives In this
country. He was out OF work an. despondent.
The evening world., 1894-05-01
ALBANY CHANGES MAYORS.
Republicans Return to Power After
"a Ten-Ycar Interval.
ny Associated Press

ALBANY, May l.-At noon to-day the
reins Of the municipal government here
passed into the hands OF the Republic
cans. for the first time in ten years, the
late DIR, John Swinburn being the last
previous Republican Mayor.
Mayor Oren T.. Wilson was cordially
greeted by the retiring Democratic
Mayor, James II. Manning. The Board
OF Aldermen, which is also Republican.
was organized. A salute OF 100 guns
was fired in honor OF the event.
The evening world., 1894-05-01
Weather

The weather forecast for the thlrty-six hours
sadiaS s p. N. to-m morrow 10 as follows; Fair
10. morrow warmer; southNesterly wlnda
The following record shows The changes IN
the temperature durtns the norslAe hours a. In
IA M.,..ss,s A A-.,Als ~ A,,.sis2 A..-V,
The evening world., 1894-05-01
browns Victim buried.

NEW BRUNSWICK, n J.. May Michael
Cody, who MAS shat and killed by George Brown.
a nesrO. was buried here to-day. The police say
the two men had been paying attention to .
young WOMAN named Liby s%cuddsr, and that
jealousy prompted Brown to shoot Cody,