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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-08
18th CENTURY MIRACLES,
BUILDERS EXCHANGE HALL THE
SCENE Of STRANGE DOINGs.
The Hall Crowded With the Elite of
Washington to Witness Dr.. Damon's
Power Over Disense-These Marvel
Gus Cures the Talk of the City.

The greatest and most popular men are those
who have done the most for the advancement Of
the human race-and the man who stands prom-
nenty before the public today in the cure Of
disease is Or. =. !. Damon Of Washington
by special request of Loo ladies the doctor
gave another one Of his popular lectures aud
healing clinics yesterday afternoon and the hail
WIS crowded. usual. The lecture. which was
fully Illustrated by charts and drawings was
listened TO attentively. The greatest interest.
however. centered upon the treatment that
has made this nan famous all over the world.
Case after case of seemingly helpless cripples
was taken 10 the stage and in less time than
went upon their way rejoicing. An aged lady
who had been using crutches many months walked
like a girl in about three minutes. Several cases
of deafness were made 10 hear a whisper in from
two to four minutes. Large eoitres were reduced
at least one-half in size in few moments. while
rheumatism seemed but toy in the hands OF
DIR. Damon or his associate. One thing certain.
these cures facts beyond the shadow of
doubt, they largely Washington people
and well known The ladies present requested
the doctor 10 give another free clinic. This the
doctor has decided TO do Wednesday next same
time and place yesterday. Dr. Damon's Office
at COS 18th street northwest filled daily with
sucn able and willing 10 pay for treat
ment. the clinic at the hall being given for the
benefit OF those who unable TO paw. No in
valid should miss the chance of seeing this great
specialist, he will tell you frankly just what
can be done in each individual case, and no pa
tient is taken that does not warrant a reasonable
chance of success 1t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-08
TAKE CARE OF THE TREES.
Sessions of the Forester
at Albany.

The second days session of the Ameri-
can Forestry Association meeting at AL
bany, y. y, was devoted to discussion on
varied topics briefly ha..il"t, and at the
evening session the principal feature was
the illustrated lecture by Professor Roth
rock of the forestry commission of Penn
sylvania.
Among the papers Of the two sessions
may be mentioned those of Bishop Doane
on forest preservation, DIR. Loomis of New
York, who spoke Interestingly upon the
subject OF the forests DIS a means for tn a
preservation of health and the cure of pull
monary diseases; Verplank Colvin CT the
state land survey, who argued for a better
establishment of the boundary lines and
the securing by the state of better and
clearer titles to land, so that there could be
no doubt of the ownership of the land to be
included in the state park, and Arthur s.
Hamilton of Rochester. who is president OF
the Genesee Forestry Association.
The latter speaker said that II the farm
ers of the state would allow nature to 90 its
own planting in the lands on their farms
where there were wooded strips, fair re-
suits would follow, and there would I'M
doubtedly be profit for them. He believed
it would be wise for the state to remit its
tax on all wooded lands which were proper
ly inclosed or protected so that the young
timber should grow, provided the owner
files map with the county clerk and cuts
the timber according to forestry rules and
under the direction of the commissioners
Trees should be planted by the state on
the banks of the canal and roadside: plant-
ing should be encouraged. He believed that
every city in the state should have a fores-
try association.
The meeting closed last night with the IL
Illustrated lecture of Professor Rothrock
who. with the aid of the stereopticon, kept
a large audience interested for over an
hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-08
Disguised With His Neighbors.

Moore Baker, whose wife and child were
foully murdered at Franklin Park, NJ j.,
On March by the negroes Henry Baker
and Willard Thompson, is sick of the whole
affair. He says he was praised the first
two days, sympathized with the next two
days. and is now criticised because he sold
the effects of the bed chamber where the
tragedy occurred to a museum representa-
tive. He offers his house and farm and all
the contents at auction, and will leave the
state as soon as possible. He authorized
this statement as to what he sold: Il sold
the crib ak, shotgun, blood-stained car
pet on the bed room floor; the broken pitch
er. my night shirt and corners of the bed
clothes. l sold nothing of my wife's or my
babys. L told the museum people that !
would burn the bedclothes, so they only
took pieces of the corners. The clothing of
my wife and child, which l regarded as too
sacred / have burned"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-08
To Reduce Her draft

1t appears that the reasons for the sug-
gestion by Chief Naval Constructor Hich-
born that four of the eight-inch guns of
the battleship Indiana be taken off have
been misunderstood. Probably because the
suggestion was referred to the board which
is now examining into the question of the
stability of the new vessels. ii has been as
sumed that the change was recommended
because 1t would correct lack of stability
in the great battleship. AS matter of
fact, the chief constructor says the reason
for the change is desire TO tighten the
vessel There has been complaint when ever
a vessel exceeded her designed draft Of
water. and IL has been determined that here
after the weights will be kept well In hand,
so as to avoid such complaints in the fu.lre.
The removal OF the four guns in the case of
the Indiana would result In reducing the
draft by three and half inches.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-08
Not Opposed to Science.
Explorers of the Polar Rerlons.

The monthly meeting of the Geographical
Club OF Philadelphia last night was re-
markable from the fact that addresses were
made by two men who are completing ar
rangements for polar expeditions, and a let
ter was read from another who will make
an exploration of Labrador. Dr. E. A.
Cook outlined the plans he had made for
his proposed antarctic expedition. Walter
Wellman. who will sail for Europe next
Wednesday to prepare for his arctic ex-
petition, gave an interesting talk on tie
preparations he had already made Prof.
Hite Of the University of Pennsylvania, in
a letter to the club, stated that he would
start with party of ten on June rs for
an exploration of Labrador. He asked the
loan of certain instruments, and in re-
turn he will give the club the honor CT
fathering the project. The request was
granted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-08
To Consolidate Three Roads

An Annapolis special says: Mr.. George
Hakei, representing the Edmondson Ave-
nue., Gainesville and Eilicott City, the Bal
timorc and Washington Transit and the
Burnt Mills and SaEdy Springs Railway
companies, was here today with a bill pro-
viding for the Incorporation of the three
roads into one, to be known as the Balti-
more and Washington Transit Company
Under the three charters of the existing
reads railway with electric or any other
rapid transit motive power can be built
from Baltimore to Washington. The pur-
pose of the bill is simply TO consolidate the
three roads. which are now under the same
or friendly management. The bill will be
presented in the house.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-08
BIG RAILROAD DEAL,
1t Is Said That the ROckefelIers and
VanderbiIts Are Interested

Information regarding big railroad deal
said to be on foot came out at Louisville
yesterday by the authoritative statemen,
that an agent is now in that city to ar
range for the carrying out of the plans.
Those interested are the Rockefellers and
the Vanderbilts.
The roads concerned are the Chesapeake
and Ohio, the Louisville Southern. the Louis
Vile. Evansville. ST. Louis and Missouri
Kansas and Texas. The plan is to secure
continuous traffic arrangement between
Newport News and Galveston.
This means shortening of time between
the two points of ten hours and will mean
much to shippers. The Air Line is worth
in the nelghborhood of s1,0O0,OO0 The bond
ed debt is $4,000; the floating debt is ST.
100000, and the stock is s2,OOO,0OO 1t is to
be bought outright If possible. The Louis
vile Southern is willing to go into the
scheme
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-08
"Nature Before Science"

Carlsbad picturesquely Nesting in an arm Of the
bohemian mountains, is worthy Of visit from the
traveller bent on pleasure but it brisles with still
greater beauty In the eyes of the invalid, racked
with the pain Of diabetes, govt, catarrh, gravel,
cardalgia, spenetic tumor, liberated stomach gall
stones. stone in the bladder and tall heap of
OTHER diseases mentionable and unmentiona BILE
the Carlsbad Sprudel is unrivaled by any other
natural spring In the world. and in its remedial
power and the wide field of usefulness it covers
is without equal. The chemist may have dis
covered Its ingredients by analysis but he cannot
convey to you in a questionable copy the benefits
Of that body which nature intended should be a
most important factor in its curative value The
water is bottled as 1t bubbles up hot out OF the
earth and supplied genuine to all dealers under the
seal OF the City of Carlsbad by the Eisner &
Mendelson Co., Sole Agents. 152 and 154 Franklin
St, New York
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-08
TRIAL OF THE INDIANA.
She Will Average Over sixteen Knots
an Hour.

The battleship Indiana, which left Cramps
shipyard in Philadelphia Tuesday morning,
dropped anchor off the breakwater late yes
terday afternoon, after a most successful
preliminary trial trip. She will be back at
Early yesterday morning the ship. which
arrived Tuesday night, was put to sea and
given a hard run of four hours over the
course usually chosen by the Cramps for
their builders trials. This course is off
Five Fathom banks, extending between the
southwest and northeast lightships, the dis
lance being nine and sixty-five one hun
dredths knots. Three trips were made over
this course. The first, under natural
draught, was accomplished at a speed of
fourteen and one-tenth miles The second,
under half forced drauSht, in trihe less
than fifteen knots, and the third. under
forced draught, at fifteen and thirty-five
hundredths knots.
The guarantee speed of the Indiana Is
fifteen knots. The engines, which behaved
splendidly, reached maximum velocity of
Us revolutions minute, the average under
forced draught being 122. With selected
coal and speed over deep water there seems
TO be no doubt that the big battleship will
average Ii H. knots an hour when the Of
fetal trial trip is made.
The result of yesterdays test was so far
ahead of expectations that Edwin S. Cramp,
who has charge of the ship, gave orders
last evening that she should return TO the
yard this morning, instead OF taking the
hard run at sea customary with ships on a
first trial. Everybody aboard is well pleas
ed with the behavior of the Indiana. Her
machinery seems perfect. She is steady as
a rock, and there seems to be no doubt that
she will take her destined place as the
queen of battleshipS of the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-08
The Associated Press Leased Wires.

The leased wires Of the Associated Press
have been extended to the Pacific coast bv
virtue Of a contract which was perfected
yesterday for a line from Denver to San
Francisco. With this addition, the leased
wire service of the Associated Press row
includes some eleven thousand miles of
line, stretching from st. John, New Bruns-
wick, via Bangor and Portland, Me-, Bos-
ton, Springfield, Mass, Hartford, New
Haven. New York, Albany Syracuse, Roch-
ester. Buffalo. Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washington, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Toledo,
Detroit. Columbus, Ohio. Cincinnati, In
dtanapolis. Louisville, st. Louis, Chicago,
Milwaukee. st. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth,
Omaha, Kansas City, Nashville, Memphis,
Little Rock, Dallas. Fort Worth, Waco,
Austin, San Antonio. Houston. Galveston,
Topeka, Pueblo, Denver. Salt Lake City,
Ogden, Reno. and Sacramento to San Fran
cisco.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-08
PERILS OF THE RAIL,
An Express Ditched Near Syrncuse-A
Freight Swept Into a River.

The st. Louis express on the West Shore
read. shortly after leaving Syracuse at 5
o'clock yesterday morning, ran into a heavy
freight, with the result that its engine and
cars were thrown from the track
The wreck was bad one and the track
and roadbed for d distance of a hundred
feet were torn up
Many of the passengers were shaken up
and suffered severe bruises. but SO far as
learned no one received serious injuries.
While engine pa and five coke cars on the
Pittsburg, Youngstown and Ashtabula
branch of the Fort Wayne road were pass
ing Kenwood Pa, yesterday morning, a
heavy land slide came down the hill and
swept the train into the Beaver river The
trainmen narrowly escaped death, but all
got off with injuries of a more or less serious
nature. Their names were: Engineer NJ
Hubbard. Fireman George Jones and Brake
man Thomas Reed.
The slide covered the tracks with hun
dreds OF tons of earth and delayed traffic
several hours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-08
Caught in a COllapsing Building.

Few three-story font and two-story
rear building in process of construction col
lapsed last night at Stoneham, Mass, fatal
~ injuring one man and badly injurine
others. The front and rear walls of the
building were of wood and the side walls OF
brick, and 1t was one of the side walls thai
fell out, thus precipitating the front wal
into the street. Mr.. y. Loud was PASSING
at the time and was crushed under the fall.
ing wall, and so badly injured that he died
a few minutes after being extricated. One
woman was injured so badly that she will
probably die, and several others were more
or less injured. The building was to have
been used on the ground floors as stores and
the two upper stories on the front were de-
signed for halls, while the rear was to have
been occupied as tenements
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-08
Anti-Mckane Meeting Broken I'm.

Some Of the representatives of the various
organizations at Gravesend who We're OPP
posed to Chief McKane and his friends
met on Monday night in a Gravesend en-
CINE house on Crapsey avenue A mob of
the Mckaneites, headed by officials swoop-
ed down on them and broke up the meeting.
The meeting was held for the purpose of
select an independent candidate for su-
pervisor to succeed John y. McKane, now
in Sing Sing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-08
OPPOSED TO REFORM.
The Maryland Senate on QualiRca-
lions of ONCE Holders

A dispatch sent last night from Annapo-
lis says: The Maryland legislature put it.
self on record today as being unqualifedly
opposed to civil service reform A bill SINH
lar In its provisions to the Massachusetts
law was introduced early in the session by
a senator from this city and came up on its
passage today. Efforts to save it were
made by friends of the cause Offering an
amendment limiting its provisions to BaIti-
more city. but both amendment and bill
were dereated by decisive majorities. The
leading democratic member OF the senats
created something of a sensation by saying
that the democracy Of Maryland added to
the Jeffersonian test questions. rs he hon.
est is ne capable?' propounded to appli-
cants Tor office third question, rs he 10y
al to the party whose favor and patronage
he asks?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-08
AWARDED "A CENTS,
"iven to Man Who Wanted $1,000
Tor Failure tn Honor His Check.

william II. Burroughs brought an action
al Brooklyn yesterday for 5000 against
the Tradesmen's National Bank of New
York, for damages alleged to have been
sustained by reason Of the failure of the
institution to honor mis- check when he had
sufficient money on deposit to meet il. JUS
tice Brown said he did not see how the
plalntlH could recover anything beyond "a
cents, the amount of interest on the deposit
for the five days payment on the check
which was withheld after demand
The court decided that the error had been
made through a mistake of the banks book
keeper and was, therefore, uninten tional
In the absence of proof to show any dam
age. the court directed verdict in his
favor in the amount of "a cents
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-08
Ten Years for AsxauIt.

David Houck, aged forty-five. was SEN
fenced to ten years in the penitentiary at
Frederick, Md, yesterday morning for
attempted assault upon a young girl last
summer. Houk was released from the peni-
tertiary one year ago, where he served a
term for a similar char.e.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-08

A>O ~ - ~
Both the method and results when
Syrup Of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys
liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn efectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup Of Figs is the
only remedy Of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing. to the taste and &C
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in iu
effects, prepared only from the mos.
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 800
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gista Amy reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. DO not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA Fie SYRUP co.
SAY FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE. N NEW Y0ak. M
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-08

The brig Albert has arrived at San Fran
cisco from Honolulu. She left there Febru-
airy 2S. five days later than the date of the
last previous advices. Nothing of import
apce has transpired on the islands,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-08
AN IMITATOR OF PRENDERGAST.
of u Boston Alderman by a
Crank.

Alderman Martin NJ. Lomasney was shot
at Boston Yesterday afternoon by James n.
Dunan he was about to enter the private
chamber OF the aldermen in the second floor
Of the city hall Mr.. Lomasney passed
Dunan, who was just to the left of the Goor
to the aldarmen's room, and started to open
the door when the man drew revolver
from his hip pocket and fired five shots in
rapid succession.
The first shot struck Mr.. Lomasney in the
hip and he sank to the floor AS the man
was raising his hand to fire the last shot one
of the policemen seated in the corridor
rushed upon him and caught his hand just
he pulled the trigger, sending the bullet
up into the casing of the door at the en-
trance to the mayors office instead of to-
ward the alderman, who was then kneeling
upon the floor.
The man was hurried away and Mr.. Lo-
masney arose unassisted and walked into
the mayors office. and was taken In a car
riage TO the Massachusetts General HOSPITAL.
The assailant was taken to station two I'M
mediately and locked up.
A Churchman'S Narrow Escape.
At the time of the shooting the corridors
of city hall were filled with people, as, in
fact they almost always are. and several
persons were standing near the head OF the
stairs when Mr.. Lomasney came up. All
of these people have a different story to
tell of how the man appeared before the
shooting and some Of them think they
noticed, previous to the entrance of the
alderman, that Dunan was nervous, as
though he was waiting for some one.
When the man began shooting the police
men thought he was a crank using blank
cartridges for notoriety, but when they saw
Mr.. Lomasney sink to the floor they all
made a rush for the spot.
One OF those standing in the corridor was
Councilman Boyle, who was just at the en-
trance to the mayors Office, and one of the
bullets went through his overcoat, which
was unbottoned, and passed into the wall.
Dunan is a tall. slight man, with a sandy
complexion and light mustache. He looks
like laborer and lives at Billerica street.
For the past four or five years he has been
known around the city hall and has spent
most of his time standing about the corri-
| doris with his hands in his pockets, and be-
| cause he hardly ever spoke to any one he
| has come to be known among the other
| idlers there as the silent man."
Lomnsney Not Badly Hurt.
He is about thirty-five years of age, and
it is said he has served sentence for man.
| slaughter for killing woman with whom
he had quarreled about money matters. At
the station house Dunan is reported to have
said in answer to a question as to why he
attempted to kill the alderman:
| Il had a good reason for doing it. If you
| 1t yourself. He is a villain and anything
but friend to the unemployed" He would
| say nothing beyond this and is believed to
| be crank.
At the hospital it is said Mr.. Lomasney
will be able to be out In few days. The
bullet has been extracted from his hip and
| no permanent injury will come from the
| wound.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-08

From n common pimple on the face to that
awful disease. scrofula, cured by DR.. Kennedy's
Favorite Remedy. II drives every faint of i'm
purity from the blood and restores the complex
ion to health and beauty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-08
All Quiet in Hawaii.

Today's prices, groceries. Page 5.-Advt.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-04
a DREAM RAILROAD.

George Martin refers to the Gulf and
Interstate railway enterprise as ''The
Great Arctic and Antarctic Dream Rail-
road" But George is Missouri river
man. besides he has no faith in anything
advocated by the Pops. That enterprise,
or the Wichita scheme, or some other
line, will be constructed at an early day
clear through the grain belt of the trans
missouri, from the British possessions to
the Gulf of Mexico. There is a strip of
country one hundred miles wide lying on
the face of the inclined plane west of the
Missouri river and running through the
Dakotas, central Nebraska, central Kan
sas and Oklahoma, at an average alti-
tude of from nine to twelve hundred
feet above sea level, known as the golden
belt, which no other strip on the face OF
the globe can equal in the production of
of wheat. From one end of the belt to
the other and on to the sea, will be built
the great north and south trunk line
railway of the continent, all sneers
touching the Great Arctic and Antarc-
tic Dream" to the contrary notwithstand-
ing
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-04
KANSAS IS FOR SILVER.

The entire Kansas delegation in con-
Eress, Republicans. Democrats and
Populists, voted for BANDS seieniorare
bill. There is no question but that they
represented the sentiment of the state.
not that Kansas goes so much on the
seigniorage dodge, but that the people
are for any and every measure which
recognizes silver to be just as important
as gold for the worlds money metal. 1t
hasn't been three months since the
Capital and other papers were mad
enough at the EAGLE because of its
silver talk to read it out of the party.
But they will find that the Republican
party of Kansas is as radical for
silver as the EAGLE. Evertbino
in America, every conceivable
value of labor or CT product, Including
silver Itself, is today depressed in price
because of the Cleveland policy of a
single standard, which standard is the
boarded metal of Wall street, New York
and Lombard street. London,-gold.
An ounce or pound, troy, Of gold will
buy, today, almost double that of any
thing that it would ten years ago. Why?
Because OF the enforced policy of gold
monopoiis's The single standard OBJ
tains and the material oe that standard
has been cornered. Its volume is alb
solutely controlled by combination Of
law and greed, which combine has
forced an immense premium on gold.
not as compared 10 the face of other
Legal tenders but as 10 actual values