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The record-union., 1895-02-02
CANAL BETWEEN THE LAKES.
Congress to Be Asked to Authorize Its
Construction.

New YORK. Jan. IA special from
Washington says: An effort is to be
made before the adjournment of the
Fifty third Congress to authorize the con-
struction of canal between the Great
Lakes, the ST. Lawrence River and tide
water in the Hudson River. Articles of
incorporation have been drawn up and
the bin will be presented simultaneously
in the House and Senate. The capital
stock of the company Will be $4,000, OOO,
divided into shares OF 500 each. AS soon
as 10 per cent. of the capital stock has
been subscribed and 10 per cent. of the
subscriptions paid IN the incorporators
win call a general meeting Of the share
holders for the election of directors. The
offices of the company will be in New
York, or such city as the directors may
determine.
The record-union., 1895-02-02

DR.. WILEY headed the Worlds Fair
jury that found DR.. Prices Baking
Powder absolutely pure.
The record-union., 1895-02-02
Accident to the Patrol Wagon.

In backing the patrol wagon from the
shed last night, in answer to call. it be-
came cramped in the narrow alley-way
and was overturned. officer Ash, who
was seated in the wagon, was precipitated
head-tirst through the side curtain, and
the horse in falling pinned Officer Balsz
against the fence.
Happily. no serious damage resulted to
either of the men, though it was almost a
miricle that they escaped.
The record-union., 1895-02-02
Kennan,s Lecture.

At the Congregational Church this
evening George Kennan, the celebrated
Siberian traveller, will deliver his lecture
on Scamp Life in Siberia and KANT
chatka," before the Sacramento Lecture
Association.
Mr.. Kennan is one of the most noted
travellers and lecturers in the world, and
his treatment of his subjects is always in
teresting. At one time he resided in
Sacramento and has many friends here.
The record-union., 1895-02-02
THE INCOME TAX
Collector Stairley Preparing to Ca
in rna InS.

Collector Stairley Preparing to Call
in the Tax.
Internal Revenue Collector Stairley is
in receipt of the regulations relative to
the assessment, levy and collection of the
tax on incomes, under the provisions OF
the Act of Congress of August 2S, 1894.
The document is very interesting read
ing to those whose incomes exceed 81. .OOO
year.
Section 80 of the Act provides that there
shall be levied, collected and paid on ali
salaries of persons in the civil, military,
naval or other employment OF the United
States, including Senators and Repre-
sentatives in Congress, when exceeding
$1,000 per annum, tax of per cent.
Salaries due TO State, county or municipal
officers are exempt from the tax.
The record-union., 1895-02-02
A Ouartat of Yacs.

George T. Beeler, one of the members
of the Citizens Safety Committee. last
night arrested four men named William
Johnson, William Harris, j. Taylor and
L. Long. and lodged them in the Police
Station on charge of vagrancy.
The mon have been under surveillance
for several days, and Beeler claims to
have sure case against them.
The record-union., 1895-02-02
ERlEF NOTES

A special train of seven carloads of sill k
passed through the city last night ell
route to England.
The old Mechanics Exchange Hotel is
to be thoroughly remodeled. Upward of
5000 will be spent in improving its APP
pearances and supplying needed modern
conVenienceS.
The record-union., 1895-02-02
THE POPULATION.


hOma Farmer.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 1.-Olzlahoma
has again proven a source of mystery.
Eight miles east of this city the wife of
Douglas Balts, farmer. has given birth
to three girl babies, all of whom are alive
and doing well. The trio, who have been
named Mary, Maggie and Myrtle, weigh
in the aggregate nineteen and one half
pounds. The father is 45 years of age
and the mother is &c. They have been
married eighteen years and sixteen chill
| dren have been born to them. Three
times there came twins and now triDlets
Already they have received offers from
enterprising showmen to exhibit the
children, but the parents declare they
| are not in the show business and, like
| true Oklahomans they are, will contin ue
to pursue the even tenor of their way.
The record-union., 1895-02-02
4 Very Sick Man.

A man named Henry Rust was brought
to the Receiving Hospital last night suf-
fering with an acute attack of bronchitis.
He was in very bad way.
The record-union., 1895-02-02
At 10 O'Clock this morning Bell &, &C

At 10 o'clock this morning Bell & Co.
will sell at auction large assortment of
furniture and carpets. AT 2 and p. NJ.
they will resume the sale of books at
auction. In the evening they will also
sell two fine paintings, "The Hawaiian
Guitar Grip and ga Zulu Maiden" by a
noted artist. They are now on exhibi-
The record-union., 1895-02-02
Auction Sales,

The auction sales of fine chinaware.
glassware, ETC., still continue at 2 and I
P. NJ. daily at SIS ] street, where r. r.
Greer is selling off the choicest of goods
at bidders prices.
The record-union., 1895-02-02

DIR. PRICES is the foremost Baking
Powder in all the world, because it's alb
solutely pure.
Evening star., 1895-06-08
TRYING TO GET EVEN
The Gate Receipts Of the Coming St. Louis
Games Ordered to Be Attached.
The Action Due to the Club With
holding Over $1,000 From the
Washington Club in 1S93-'94.

During 1893 and 1884, and upon the oc-
late visit to ST. Louis, the St. Louis man
agement withheld s2,134.T1 of the gate re-
cepts due the Washington club. Now, the
local team proposes to return the compli-
ment. Hence, this afternoon the man
agement of the Washington club instructed
erland, to attach the St. Louis clubs share
of the gate receipts today, Monday and
Tuesday. A formal suit at law was filed,
therefore, by Presiden. ]. Earl Wagner,
charging that the ST. Louis club is justly
indebted to the Washington club in the
above stated amount, and stating that the
st. Louis aggregation is a nonresident
by Manager Schmelz, whereupon a writ
was issued directing the marshal to at
tach the gate receipts in satisfaction Of
the Washington clubs claim.
. Original Cause of the Trouble.
Mr.. Sutherland stated to Star reporter
that in 1892, when the American Assoaia-
ton was swallowed up by the National
League Chris Won der Abe, the owner Of
the st. Louis club. advanced r certain
amount to carry the Cincinnati club
through, and he claimed that the other
Hence, said Mr.. Sutherland. the Washing
ton clubs share of the st. Louis gate re-
ceipts was thereafter sumnarily withheld
and turned over to Won der Abe, although
the Washington club had never become re-
sponsible for his claim.
Evening star., 1895-06-08
SILVER IN ALABAMA.
Gov. Oates Doesn't Think n Fusion
with POpulists Likely.

While Governor Oates Of Alabama was
in the city he expressed himself forcibly
upon the silver movement in Illinois.
Perhaps nobody in the United States has
given more thought to the populistic move
ment than Governor Oates, whose
counters with Kolb in the gubernato,ial
race in his own state are familiar to every
one. Governor Oates is not 4 populist, ard
he is not one of those democrats who think
that the party of jefferson should receive
reinforcements from populistic quarters
Il do not think" said Governor Oates,
that the silver movement in Illinois is al
important as has generally been believed.
To my mind, the democrats who took part
in this movement showed their weakness
in their alliance with populists. / have no
idea that the Al.geld faction will dominate
Illinois democracy
In past years, while In Congress, Govern
or Oates was regarded as extremely friend
ly to silver. but he is now classed as an
administration democrat, who shares in the
views of Mr.. Cleveland on the subject of
money. While In converse ton with friends
here Governor Oates declared that he
thought there was no danger of a fusion
Of democrats and populists In Alabama.
There is an extremely radical sen tmeat On
the subject of free coinage entertained by
n wing of the democratic party in Ala
bAma, but that is not the wing to which
Governor Oates belongs, and he does OF
regard 1t as in any way representative OF
the democracy of his state.
Evening star., 1895-06-08
Proposed Military Organization in
Chicago.
EXPLANATION BY One OF THE LEADERS
Property to Be Properly Protected
in Time dEroubIe.
COM MENT AT THE CALL

. CHICAGO, June S.-Trade unionists have
been called to attend a meeting. to be-
held Thursday evening, June 49, TO form a
military organization, to be COMPOSED ex-
clusively of union men. The call which
was signed by The Committee" is said
to have had its origin with some of the
leaders of the trade union movement
This open effort to connect the trade
union movement with the militia Of the
state is radical innovation 1t occasions
a good deal of excitement among the rank
ard file of the organizations, and every
where the coming meeting was being talk
ed about
I'VE have come to the conclusion that we
owe 1t to ourselves and our families to see
that the laws Of the state are properly ad-
mlnistered, and that property is protected
one of the leading organizations.
This can be done in no better way than
by having our members in a position 20
enforce the law themselves. During the
railroad strike of a year ago President
Debs issued a card, in which he distinctly
SAID that any one who DESTROYED property
or interfered with the new men must be
considered the enemy of organized labor.
Yet, in the face Of this cars were over
turned and burned, men We're assaulted
and The peace gen rally broken. What we
intend to do is to stand guard ourselves
and we Will then he in a position to tell
the public who violates the law. shall be
much disappointed If the new military
organization does not have 1905 members
from labor when It is proposed to have it
make its first public appearance"
Evening star., 1895-06-08
DEPARTMENT CHANGES.
There Will he Good Many In the
Treasury.

There Will BE n Good Many In the
Treasury.
Numerous changes will occur in nearly
all the executive departments on the 1st
proXimo a resul. of the legislation of
the last Congress.
In the Treasury Department more Of
fees are created than have been abolished.
The office Of assistant and chief clerk in
the supervising architects Office is abol-
ished, and Mr.. Kemper it's former incum-
bent, has been appointed chief executive
officer CT that bureau. In the office of the
controller of the treasury the force is re-
duced by the dismissal of one law clerk
at 200, two law clerks at $2VOO and one
clerk at s1,200 In the Office of the auditor
for the Interior Department four clerks
at s1,GO0 and one clerk at $40 are dropped
SIX reductions are made in the office of the
II leasurer-one clerk at $500, two CLERKS
at 81 400. two clerks at $500 and one book
keeper at 81, 900. One clerk at 81 200 in the
bureau of immigration is dropped, and the
office of microscopist in the internal rev.
enGe bureau is abolished
To Offset these reductions the following
new offices We're provided for:
Customs division-One clerk at 81, 500; one
clerk at $500.
Controller of the treasury-Two clerks
at 81, 600.
Four clerks at 1,SO0.
Auditor for the State Department-On
clerk at $500.
Treasurcr's Objective clerks at $1,000.
one clerk at $1,000.
Bureau of immigration-One statistic!an
at S1,So0 one messenger at $50 and one as
sistant messenger at S12O.
Auditor for the treasury-One clerk at
81 S,So0, two Clerks at $1,000, three at ST. 400,
TIN ee at S1,20a. fifteen at $1,000 and three
at 5000.
In making these appointments provision
will be made. so far as possible, for the
persons who have beer legislated out of
cflice. 1t is expected that all the neces-
sary changs will have been made before
the eXpirat tion of next week.
The clerical force of the War Depart
ment sustained loss of about Seventy-five
clerks but by allowing vacancies to remain
untitled the Secretary finds that he had
but to dismiss forty-two clerks in all. OF
these seventeen were in the record and
pension Office twelve in the war records
Office and eleven in the surgeon generals
Office. They have all been given leave of
absence to the 1st of July.
The only change in the State Depart
ment is the dIscontinuance of the services
of two clerks at 5000. No change whatever
was made in the clerical force of the Navy
Department.
Evening star., 1895-06-08
KENTUCKY AND MAINE,
Two Candidates for hn Assistant COM
missiOncrship.

Two Candidates for hn Assistant COM
missionership.
The friends of w. H. Anderson, chief of
the lands and railroad division of the In
terror Department, are urging his appoint
ment as assistant commissioner of the gen.
eral land office. which place has become
vacant by reason Of the transfer OF Mr.
Bowers to the assistant contrSllership of
the Treasury Department. Mr.. Anderson
Is kentuckian, a native of Shelby coun-
ty. He has been In the interior Depart
ment almost two years. and is thoroughly
familiar with the work of that office. He
has not filed a formal application. but the
Kentucky delegation has indorsed him, and
a number of kilograms have been received
here from prominent Kentuckians pressing
his case. 1t is believed that an appoint
ment to the office will soon be made
- But democrats from the state of Maine
think that the assistant commissionersniD
of the general land Office should be filed
by man from their state, as they claim
that since the removal of Mr.. Morton from
the Office of auditor of the treasury for the
Navy Department the state Of Maine is
not represented in any important place I'm
der the administration in this city. 1t is
understood that H. D. Hall Of Bangor, Ne,
is warmly indorsed for this appointment
by members of the Maine democracy. 1t
is said that Mr.. Hall has always been ii
Cleveland man. and his friends want him
to receive recognition.
Evening star., 1895-06-08
INCAPABLE AND INHUMAN,
Serious Charges Made by a Survivor
of the CoiimR.

serious Charges Made by Survivor
of the Coiima.
SAN FRANCISCO, June s-Gustav
Rowan. one of the survivors of the Colma,
has sent a communication to the Call, in
which he = Us:
Il want to make a statement now il you
will allow me to do so. You can find out
what l say is true IL you will see the other
men picked up. Some of them will not
dare to tell the truth, as they have been
promised money to keep still.
THE Colima was lost because she was
badly handled by officers without capacity
and bad men when the gale struck u.s.
When 1 saw that the ship was going to
sink, l went aft to the life preservers and
commenced to give them out to the pas
sengers. The steward told me to let them
alone and ordered me forward
4 was saved because / got a life pre-
server, and If the others had been allowed
TO get them, too, many would have been
saved with me. The passengers were kept
penned up until the last moment and then
made to go down in the ocean like a pack
OF dogs. II some Of the passengers had
killed the steward, who kept them from
eetunE to safety, it would have been a
told me l kept on giving out life preseryers,
and by this saved some of the people from
death" -
Rowan, who was badly injured in the
wreck. also says thae he did not receive
proper care on the San Juan, and charges
the surgeon of that ship with gross negli-
gence
Evening star., 1895-06-08
DEATH OF HENRY sEMKEN.
An Cid Resident, Lending Merchant
ana Respected Citizen,

An cid Resident, Lcntiing Merchant
ana Respected Citizen.
Mr.. Henry Semken, an old and respected
resident of this city, died this morning at
his home, 140I K street northwest.
This announcement will bring genuine re-
gret to large circle of friends and ac-
quaintances who knew and respected the
deceased. To those who had an intimate
acquaintance with Mr.. Semken the news
Is not unexpected, as his death was the
end Of long sickness. In fact Mr..
Semken has not been well man for the
past two years. He experienced quite a
shock to his nervous system as well as an
injury to his spine in an accident which
happened to him while, endeavoring to
board a cable car. ~T
MIR. Semken was born sixty-nine years
ago In Hanover, Germany. He learned
the trade of jeweler in Bremen and in
other places. and in 1850 he came to this
country with the expectati ton of embark
ing in business for himself. His first resi-
derce inl. this country was in Baltimore
where he was employed as a clerk in a
jewelry store. In 1852 he came to this
city and established a business here which
he carried on with much success for nearly
forty years. He had store on the north
side of Pennsylvania avenue between 9th
ana 10th streets, and when the Vernon
building was erected at the corner of the
avenue ara 10th street he removed his
business to that place, where he carried it
on until about five years ago, when he
retired. While in Baltimore he married,
and his wife survives him.
The deceased was one of the leading
business men of the city, and was actively
Identified with many of the institutions
here. He was director in the National
Metropolitan Bank. in the Riggs Fire In
slrance Company and in the Children's
Hospital.
The funeral services over the remains
will be held at the late residence on Mon
day afternoon at 3 o'clock. Rev. DIR.
Mackay-Smith, the rector of ST. Johns
p. E. Church. of which the deceased was
an attendant, will officiate. The interment
will be in Baltimore.
Evening star., 1895-06-08
What Senator Brice is Trying to Do
in Ohio.
STOP TIE CONVENTION TWO MONTHS
Higher Prices of Staples Lessen
ing the Silver Fever.
MR.. WILSON'S LETTERS

There is but ore question before the de-
mocracy of Ohio today. That question is
silver.
Senator Brice is now at his home busily
engaged with leaders of his party in en-
deaporng to delay the calling of a conven
tion to nominate a governor. The KEY to
the situation, in his opinion, lies in the
date when the convention is held. Ordi-
narly this convention would have been call
ed to meet in the latter part of June. but
il it is possible for MIR. Brice to hold it
off until the 1st of September he will do
SO.
Delay the Word.
In fact, the byword of every sound
money and administration democrat today
is delay" The object to be gained by de-
lay is perhaps shown as well by numer-
Gus letters that have been received by
Postmaster General Wilson as in any other
way. Mr.. Wilson today received a score
of letters from his friends in West Fir-
ginia and the following may be given as
an example of all of them:
while the free silver sentiment is every
where shown, and While vote taken To-Day
would undoubtedly show an enormous IA
vor for the white metal, yet the advance
in the price of wheat, corn and cattie
is bringing the people to believe that the
real trouble with the country exists outside
of money question. They that wheat
has reached eighty-fiVe cents a bushel and
there'is a very hopeful feeling that the up
ward tendency VIII Lot stop until 81 Is
reached. This view of the case is having
an enormous effect voters everywhere.
It's confidently believed that within a
couple of months the present upward ten
dency in the price OF staple products VIII
be SO decided that the people Will no longer
believe that low prices are the result OF a
scarcity of money"
Postmaster General Wilson has in his
~nSl ion 1lEI.C nf a TO
in general tone to the above. Those letters
indicate why Senator Brice is endeavoring
to put off the date for holding guberna-
tcrial convention.
What Drice is Trying to Do.
The nomination of any silver man in Ohio
is apt to cause as great factional fight
as was developed in the recent republican
convention. Senator Brice and his friends
will contend that the proper thing for his
party to do is to simply adopt the plank of
the platform Of the national convention of
1872 on the subject of money. That is prac-
tically what the republican convention did.
and Mr.. Brice thinks that the success of
his party can be gained in no other way
He believes that a man nominated for gov
ernor by the democrats on a free silver
platform will mean the loss to that party
of an enormous vote. He does not enter
tain much hope of making any considerable
show of fight with a free silver candidate
This idea he is constantly communicating
to his followers. He firmly believes that
the upward tendency of prices and an edu-
cational campaign on the money question
will result in securing a sound money plat
form, and that is why he is trying to de-
lay the assembling of the convention until
near September as possible
Evening star., 1895-06-08
SHORT COMMON SERVICE.
Not Voice Against 1t Mt Hagcrs-
town.


HAGERSTOWN, Nd, June S.-Immedi-
ately after the devotional service this
morning the general Lutheran synod took
up again the question of adopting an
abridged common service for use by con-
gresaions not desiring to use full service.
which theme has caused lively discussion
in the last and present synoGs.
A proposition was submitted to have the
abridged service printed in leaflct form and
adopted, and this was carried. There was
not a dissenting vote The committee pre-
pairing the same were granted an extern
SiCn of time en- orders of ministerial acts.
A long discussion occurred in deciding
what disposition to make of the question of
the new translation of Luther's catechism,
in the hands of a joint committee of Luth-
eran bodies, and the synod decided to refer
it back to their committee to be again sub
mitted to the general synod.
The same course was taken with the
German hymn book, undergoing revision
by committee. The translated Augsburg
confession was ordered published.
Rev. L. E. Albert, DID, Germantown,
treasurer of the pastors fund board, re-
ported S1O,O01G6 received from synod dur
ing the biennium: $S,775 paid bcneflciaries,
and a sum of S11, 100 invested.
Mayor Schieren of Brooklyn appealed to
laymen to help this work, and a number
of lay delegates responded with ind ,rse-
ment. while Mr.. ]. Walter Hack of Ale
Gheny, Pa. subscribed $50. 1t was decided
to double the apportionment for the pas
tors fund, making 1t 10 cents per capita.
Evening star., 1895-06-08

Kentucky Representatives Holding
Out That to Their Constituents.
1t may be that the next House of Req
resentatives will have a colored man for
its chaplain. At least Representative-eleet
Walter Evans of the fifth Kentucky dis
trict is holding out that promise to the
colored people who were very instrumental
in his election. Mr.. Evans is now working
up the republicans of Kentucky for the
support Of the republican nominee for the
governorship. He has among the people
there a good many followers who are min
listers of colored churches, and while it is
not known that he has promised any one
of them his support, he has declared his
belief that, the Fifty-fourth Congress be-
ing republican in politics, should recognize
the colored race by having colored man
from the south as it's chaplain. 1t is un-
derstood that all of the five republican Rep
resentativeS elected to the next Congress
from Kentucky concur with Mr.. Evans in
this view, and that this movement among
the colored people is solidifyng them in
the support Of the republican nominee
Evening star., 1895-06-08
Secretary Herbcrt's Return.

Secretary Herbert returned here from
Annapolis on the Dolphin at 10 o'clock this
morning, and spent the entire day at the
Navy Department, hard at work He will
leave bere tomorrow for short trip to
his home in Alabama. and will deliver an
address at the Auburn University on the
18th instant. The Dolphin will leave here
in a few days for New London, where she
will iemain until Secretary Herbert is
ready to make cruise of inspection of The
northern navy yards, which will be about
the middle of July
ANNAPOLIS. Nd. June S--Supt Cooper
of the Naval Academy received 4 pigeon
message this morning from Secretary Her
bert, announcing tac arrival in Washington
of the Dolphin. The bird WAS sent by water
and came back in three hours. The Mon
on8ahela will drop into the stream this af-
ternoon and start early Monday morning
on her cruise.