Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17
THE WEEK,

The Maryland republicans. in convention
at Cambridge, nominated Lloyd Lowndes
for governor, Harry NJ. Clabaugh for attor-
ney general and Robert P. Graham for con-
troller. Capt. J. Van Orsdale submitted a
report on the recent BanEack trouble, say
ing that the whites, and not the Indians,
are to blame for the slaughter of game. An
exhibition and test of a new high explosive
and gun shells was given at Wellsboro, Pa;
the force Of the new explosive is forty per
cent more powerful than dynamite. The
cruiser Columbia was placed in the dry dock
at the Brooklyn navy yard, and it was re-
ported that the damage would not affect
the general strength Of the cruiser. Ex-
State Treasurer W. w. Taylor of South
Dakota, who defaulted last January, has
been sent to the peniteE tiary for five years.
Ex-Mayor Van Horn of Denver was killed
in that city by falling from window. Fire
destroyed 100000 worth of property in
Philadelphia. Gen. ]. D. Imboden, the ex-
confederate cavalryman, died at his home
in Abingdon, Va. The statement is made
that ex-Police Commissioner James J. Mar
tin has assumed the leadership Of Tamma-
ny Hall, and that the friends of Richard
Croker have sent him cableg rams urging his
immediate return. Indian Agent Teter re-
ported that the Indians threaten to leave
Jackson's Hole. A number of capitalists
are at work on plan to reclaim the Colo
RADIO desert by turning the waters of the
Colorado river over the territory. The COM
pany has a grant of SOC, 600 acres in Mex
leo that it will irrigate; the plan compre-
hends the development of the greatest irri-
eating systems in the western hemisphere.
The distillery Of Ell Sherman, in Leaven-
$4,000. Mrs. Charlotte Howell at Wells
boro. Pa, was held on the charge Of poison
ing Miss Libby Knapp of Tioga.
Foreign.
The British parliament was reopened and
the new members Of the house of commons
took their seats; William Court Gully, lib
eral member for Carlisle, was reelected
speaker of the House of Commons. The
German admiralty court. in it's decision in
the inquiry into the sinking of the steamer
Elbe in a collision with the steamer Cra-
THE. blamed the disaster on the mate of the
latter steamer. Lucien Napoleon Bona
parte Wyse, noted engineer and explorer,
is dead. A number of workmen at kiel,
engaged upon new German cruiser, were
killed by the breaking down of a gangway.
Admiral Carpenter, on the flagship Balti-
more, has arrived at Chefoo. Nicola
Pierola was elected president, and Senior
Billingsworth, first vice president of Peru.
The Irish parliamentary party reelected
Justin Mccarthy chairman: Cholera is
spreading in China, Corea and the Island of
Formosa. One thousand Bulgarians at
tackled the Turkish village of Janakli and
burned $50 houses, after killing twenty
five inhabitants of the place. The Spanish
ministry decided to pay the Mora claim to
the United States in September without in
tereSt.
In the District.
AS a result of the recent fatal accidents
at the new city post-office building the
contractors. in obedience to demand
from the public. have agreed to put
flooring across the Orders for the safety
of the iron-workers. The week was
marked by several days of exceedingly hot
weather. but fortunately there were few
prostrations by the heat. At the request
of printers throughout the country the civil
service commission early in the week ar
ranged conference with the expert board
of the government printing office and gave
full consideration to the proposition to
abolish the age limit for applicants for
service in that bureau; the rule barring
all printers above the age of forty-five will
be abolished. A conference of
free silver democrats was in session for
two days at the metropolitan Hotel and
after perfecting a free coinage
organization within the democratic party.
Judge Cole ordered the District Commits
sioners to show cause next Monday why
they should not be enjoined from filing and
recording the map of the first section of
street extension recently approved by the
Commissioners. Frank Gray, jr.. was
drowned while bathing near the Aqueduct
ir gton and Soldiers Home Railway Com
pany for obstructing the streets by the
unlawful continuance of overhead wires
was suspended by the authorities. The
Federation of Labor Endorsed the fight of
the Protective Street Railway Union
against the lexington road. Plans We're
approved and bids invited for the construc-
ton of the union street railway station in
Georgetown by the Washington and
Georgetown Railroad Company. Fruit
vendors were ordered to vacate the side
walk on 18th street. The announcement of
the sale by auction of the Bartol holdings
Of Washington and Georgetown railroad
stock caused considerable surprise in finan-
cial circles. Charles Hammond and his
wife were held for the grand jury upon
suspicion of having caused the death of
Hammond's step-brother, a ten-year-old
boy, Campbell Hall, who died from what
was thought to be cruel treatment. The
District Supreme Court put into effect the
act of Congress extending the jursdc-
ton of justices of the peace by providing
regula lions and scale of fees.