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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-30
TOOTHSOME SHAD.
The Finest Grade is Found in the
Potomac.
THE YIELD OF THE PRESENT SEASON
The Means Adopted for Capturing
the River Beauties.
ALL SORTS OF NETS USED
THE YIELD OF TEE PRESENT SEASON
ALL SORTS OF NETS USED
r e S H POTOMAC

r e s H POTOMAC
shad" has heen the
cry of the 8 t re e I
huckstars fo- several
weeks. b ut until a
very few days ago, a
s ar reporter w a s
told, n o n e of them
had fish of this va
riety, for the reason
that it was not until
t his week that the
catch as larg e
enough to supply the
market dealers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-30
An Optimlst.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
my husband" said Mrs. Sharp. 'Is one
of the most cheerful Of optimists~
"Indeedr'
"Oh, yes; he never doubts his own Judg
ment."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-30
Some New Houses.

rams LUZ q tHTee-SIOTy apartment house,
to be located on Goth street between R and S
streets. have been prepared by A. B. Nor
gan, architect. The building will be 2OxG5
feet, with a brown stone front. The owner
is Frank D. Foster.
The same architect has completed plans
for three houses on Kenesaw avenue be-
tween 18th and 10th streets. The houses
will oe 11x65, but with fronts of garnet
Roman ale, buff brick and red stone.
Three lsuses will be built on R street be-
tween North Capitol and 1st streets from
plans prepared by A. B. Mullett & Co.,
architects. The houses will be two stories
high, with fronts of stone and brick
]. w. and C. M. Campbell have taken out
a permit for the erection of six-story
brick addition to the apartment house now
standing at the corner of 14th street and
Park street. Mount Pleasant 1t is to be
of brick with tin roof, and the dimen-
sions of the proposed addition are 55xS5
feet. The cost of the improvement is to be
$4,000.
Plans have been accepted and the ground
broken for handsome residence to be
built at 1921 P street for Mr.. Henry Calver
The house is to be four stories and base
ment, stone and brick and ornamental
front. with a bay window the entire height
Hot water is to be used In heating. The
he use is expected to cost about $4,000.
Cook Bros. have taken out permit for
the construction of a handsome three-story
brick dwelling. 25x75, at 1906 18th street
The lower part Is to be used as a store, and
the upper part as a dwelling, with a rec
tangular show window on the first floor. w.
L. Conley is the architect, and the esti-
mated price is $4,000.
Chas. Mades is erecting another store on
It'll street, at an estimated cost of $4,000
1t Is No. 1240. and is to be of brick, three
stories and basement The upper part of
the building is to be used as dwelling
A number of permits have been issued by
the building inspector this week for smaller
and less expensive improvements, but
which foot up to such an amount all told,
that they more than bear out the infer
ences already made in these columns that
the building season. which is just getting
under fair Roadway, is to be one of very
considerable activity, and will go far ahead
of last year, both in the number and char
acter of the buildings erected.
Plans have been prepared for another
handsome apartment house in addition to
those which have already been noticed in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-30
A Cemetery Project.

A number of citizens are interested in a
rev enterprise which proposes to provide
a new and spacious cemetery for Washing
ton. The projectors will say nothing
definite about the location. 1t will not.
they say, lie west of the Rock Creek Park
One Of them told a Star reporter that
within the next three days deeds will be
recorded which will disclose the whole
project. 1t has just transpired that for
ever five years purchase after purchase of
contiguous tracts Of real estate have
quietly been made with this specific end
in view. The result is the securing of
tract of between four and five hundred
acres, described as possessing great nat
ural beauty. 1T is of about the same alti-
tude as the Soldiers Home Park" said
The Star reporters informant. quite as
accessible. and almost near the center
of population. yet without danger of en-
enactment from the city. It's facilities
for shady drives are unsurpassed by any
thing even in the Rock creek region while
there is also water in abundance for lakes
and fountains even on the highest knolls".
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-30
Favorable Local Conditions.

The conditions which exist at present are
believed to be favorable to carrying out
enterprises of this character. as well as
other building schemes. Building ma
terial. it is said. Is much cheaper. and It
is also stated that land can be purchased
at favorable figures. Owing to these cir
cumstances. as we'll as the natural impetus
which Is given to building operations at
this season of the year. 1t Is predicted by
those who are in a position to be well in
formed that there is going to be a good
deal done in this line during the present
year. If these favorable local conditions
are coupled with continued Improvement
in business throughout the country, 1t is
thought that the prospects are encourag
ing, and that there will be considerable
for the building trades to d. as well as
something for other branches of business
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-07-26
BLOW TO F~AvORlTlSM.
President Cleveland Makes an Important
RulinY Recnrlinr prnyoctJopS

President Cleveland Makes an Important
Ruling Regarding Promotions.
WASHINGTON, July ls.-The presi-
dent has just promulgated a new rule
modifying the old customs rule of the
civil service, the effect Of which is to
greatly limit the number of promo
tons in classified customs districts,
except after appropriate examinations.
The necessity for.the change in the
rules arises from the fact the extern
sion of the classification in the Gus
toms service on November 9, last, over
positions paying salaries of less than
$500 opened the doors for promotion of
many persons who had entered the
service through personal political
favoritism. The old rule. would per-
NIT these persons after they were
brought into the classified service to
be advanced to many Of the best pay
ing positions in the office without ex-
animation. Under the new rule pro-
motions a be made only to a limited
extent without examination, and no
promotions can be made from one
grade to another without an ]appropri-
ate examination.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-07-26
NEWS BREVlTlES.

E~x-Speaker Crisp is going to Enc.
land to visit his birthplace.
White caps drove two women Of
Freeport, Ind, from home.
Thomas Radcliffe of Hot SPRINGS,
Ark, killed himself by shooting.
The Rio Grande is falling, after hay
ing destroyed nearly fifty homes.
Mayor Hastian of Sedalia and Coun-
cllmen were arrested for contempt OF
court.
Rev. Arthur Brooks, brother OF
Phillips Brooks, died on the steamer
Fulda from Southampton.
Earnings Of nearly all roads for the
half year ending on June 80 show q
gratifying increase.
Inspection of the agricultural de-
partment shows q hard stone bed road
with dirt road alongside the best road
for farmers.
Promoters of the cooperative road
from the Pacific coast to Salt Lake are
making an effort to secure the neces-
sary funds, but the scheme is generally
regarded as chimerical.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-07-26
HOLMES BAD BREAK.
CONFESSES TO
THE KILLING.
U Discriminating Remark Made by hi
Philadelphia Insurance swindler-An
Alabi Will be Hin Defenfe-Identifed
BY . Toronto Fxpressman.

PHILADELPHIA, July 18. - Herman
Mudgett, alias III. II. Holmes, the in
surance swindler in prison here, has
virtually confessed sthe murder of the
two Pietzel children, whose bodies were
found in the cellar Of a Toronto house
Monday. During the two hours inter
view he haa yesterday with three
members of the district attorneys
staff he said: II suppose I'll swing
for this"
The district attorney thinks that
this is a practical admission of Holmes
guilt. Notwithstanding Holmes re-
mark, his counsel says that he can
prove an alibi in his clients case. He
says that Holmes was not in Toronto
when the Pietzel children were muir
dered. This, he says, can be proved
by Mrs. Howard, Holmes third wife,
who is at present living with her
mother in Franklin, Ind.
The authorities place but little con-
fdence in the alibi story and are salts
fed Holmes is tho murderer.
ToRoNTo, Ontario, July 17.-Detec-
tive Geyer is hard at work. To-
day he found the eSpressman who took
the trunk, which had invariably ac-
companied Holmes in all his journeys
into the St. Vincent Street house, and
this man had no difficulty in picking
out Holmes photograph from a number
Of others.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-07-26
CONDITION or FRUITS.
The Government Report Shows! : De.
cline During June.

The Government Report Shows : De.
cline During June.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE report
Of the agricultural department for
July on the fruit crop says The con-
dition Of apples has been materially
lowered since the report of June.
Losses have keen especially marked in
important states having already low
conditions, viz: the New England
states, New York, Pennsylvania,
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
In the Piedmont region the outlook is
decidedly more favorable.
In Missouri and contiguous states,
the decline has been light, not above
three per cen in any case, but the con-
ditions are not quite as high as in the
Piedmont orchards On the Pacific
coast conditions fell about IL per cent,
but the prospects there are still good.
Frost at time of bloom. subsequent
droughts and heavy droppings are the
main causes of the impaired prospects.
The peach crop returns are un-
favorable. New Jersey has lost IL
points and now stands at 70, Delaware
ID. standing at 20. Maryland has ad-
vanced from Ga to &c. Michigan has
prospects of less than half a crop,
while Ohio is %, lowest of all. In CAL
ifornia the condition declined from So
on June l to - on July /.
Grapes: Frosts have done much darn
age to this crop and especially in the
more northern belt and central west.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-07-26
Shot His Young Wife.

ARDMoRE, Ind. Ter, July ia sad
tragedy was enacted here about i
o'clock yesterday morning. DR.. A. E.
Adams, leading dentist of this city,
living on Court street, shot his young
and beautiful wife, killing her in.
stantly. Mrs. Adams had gotten up
in the night to close a window and her
husband was awakened by the noise.
There had been several burglaries in
the neighborhood lately. In The dark
ness, surprising the form of his wife
was that of a burglar, he seized his
pistol and fred. A scream and his
wife's voice answered the pistol shot.
Mrs. Adams sank to the floor e corpse.
She never spoke. DR.. and Mrs. Adams
had been married less than two years.
Dr.. Adams is nearly crazed with grief
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-07-26

Secret CT the Attack Upon Ex-Premlcr
Stambulofy of Bulgaria.


BERLIN, July Is. The Vossische
Zeitung says that the S%tambuloff out
rage was political. The Bulgarian
government is pronounced an accesso.
ry to the crime, and Prince Ferdinand
is also declared an accessory. The lat
ter always preferred the better part of
valor, and went abroad before very
great trouble. With the death of
Stambuloff the banner of Bulgarian
independence will sink to the ground
and the land become a Russian govern
ment.
The National Zeitung says that July
Is was a black day for bulgaria, for
not only Stambulof. but most proba-
bly, also independent Bulgaria received
its death blow.
The S~tambulof outrage caused a
great sensation at Carlsbad. Prince
Ferdinand is staying in the English
quarter there incognito, surrounded
by detectives. He is rarely seen, and
sits at a corner table in the Posthof
cafe outside Carlsbad every morning
with a large suite. He is almost in
visible for the rest of the day. He
now, as at the time of Major Panitza's
shooting for treason, goes about in
fear OF his life.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-07-26
NEWS NOTES.

Spain has extended the privilege Of
copyright-to foreign authors.
L. T. Parish, cashier of the Farmers
bank at Orrick, Mo-, is missing.
Over $1o0.O 600 was spent in improving
the upper Mississippi river last year.
Mayor Mcdowell of Columbus, Miss /,
shot and fatally wounded Ben Story.
Ira johnson, who murdered a young
white man, was lynched at Greenville,
S. C.
Aldermen Finkler and MARTIN of
Chicago, indicted for soliciting brides,
gave bonds.
James Webb, Of N~orthport, Ala. .
was waylaid, shot and beaten nearly
to death by a negro.
A. Cogstill of Lincoln county, Ark.
was held up in his own house and
robbed of $l,6i4.
Dora Burns escaped from jail at Nc
Leansboro, Ill, where she was incar-
cerated, charged wish infanticide.
The postofice department has not
taken any action in the d%efalcation OF
Postmaster Weeks Of H~artshorne, /. Z.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-07-26
IN THE CUSTOM u
Statement for the Year of Imports, Ex.
ports and Immigration.

Statement for the Year of Imports, Ex.
ports and Immigration.
WASHINGTON, July lS.--A statement
of the imports, exports and immigration
of the United States during the
fiscal year ended June 30, 1898, shows
MS follows: Merchandise, exported,
Sso7, 593, 261; last year, 1891, 9o7, 700;
merchandise imported, 1871, $50, 319, of
which about one half was free of duty;
merchandise imported in 1894, $s47,-
775,Ol7 of which SS3377s2 S 1881 was free
of duty. The gold coin and bullion ex-
ported during the last fiscal year
amounted to $66,i31, 1873, and the inn
ports, $$35 ,984,449.
The exports last year, therefore,
$3O9, s44, 449 in excess of tn i'm
ports. In the previous year the port
exceeded the imports by.s s.. 53s. a42.
The exports Of silver during the last
year aggregated s49, 2as6,6l3, against
s., 518,,928 in imports. This is a Slight
falling off from both exports and Inn
ports of the previous year. During
the fiscal year 1895 the number Of i'm.
migrants who arrived in this country
was 276 l36, against 81 ,6l2 during the
previous year.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-07-26
LATE PENSION DECISIONS.
Assistant Secretary Reynolds Hands Down
Three OF Them.


WASHINGTON, July ls.-Assistant
Secretary Reynolds has rendered three
decisions il pension appeal cases. In
the first he holds that while the com
missioner of pensions is forbidden by
law to suspend payment of a pension
pending proceedings t. annul or re-.
duce it, nevertheless, in case such pen
sion is annulled, all unpaid pensions
apparently accrued at the date of the
annulment becomes illegal and must
not be paid.
In the second case the secretary
holds that the law forbidding the com
missioner to reduce pensions without
thirty days notice does not apply to
cases acted on before it's passage.
In the third case il is held that as
The act pensioning the children Of a
sailor who are under Ii wears Of age
expressly provides hat the pensions
shall begin from the date of the fling
of the application for the pension, a
claimant who was over 16 years old
when the act was passed has 40 claim
for pension at all.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-07-26
WOMEN ELECTloNEERlNG.
They are Very Much In 1t in the English
Election Contests.

LONDON, July is.-The greatest cx-
element prevails in the southern
division of Lancashire to-day, where
the Hon George Curzon, the sitting
candidate and a Conservative, is con-
testing his seat against Sir Robert
Naylor-Leyland, the Liberal candi-
date. The two candidates, Geo
panied by their wives, are driving
about rallying their forces, and great
squads of men and women cyclists, as
well as hundreds IN horses and in rigs,
are to be seen or all sides wearing the
favors of the rival politicians.
All the bicyclers had their party
colors streaming from their handle
bars. The Curzon riders formed
an escort for Mr.. and Mrs. Cur
zon, while the Naylor-Lcland wheel
men also formed themselves into a
body guard. While ITO cycle riders
were cscorting Sir Herbert and Lady
Naylor-Leland, several drunken Con-
seTvatives, wheeling a barrow painted
with Curzon colors, dashed among
them and sem many of the riders
sprawling right and left. A lively
scrimmage followed.
There are also lively times at Leeds,
especially in the west division, where
Colonel North, the Conservative candi-
date, is said to have good prospects of
defeating the Liberal candidate, the
Rt. Hon. Robert j. Gladstone, son Of
the Rt. Hon. w. e. Gladstone.
Up to midnight the returns from the
parliamentary elections show the fol
lowing results: Conservatives, 200;
Liberal Unionists, 81; Liberals. A;
Parnellites, 4; McCarthyites, y; Labor,
!. The gains which the Unionists
have secured in the elections thus far
held insure them a majority of thirty
two In the next house, even if the re-
lnainder of the seats to be voted on re-
main the same as heretofore.
The chief event yesterday was the
defeat Of ex-Postmaster General Nor
ley, making the fourth ex-minister in
Lord Rosebery's cabinet who has been
sent TO seclusion.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, speak
Ing at Abercairne to day, said that he
accepted the honor of contesting West
Monmouth in the cause Of temperance.
He added that he was a firm Liberal,
and would stick to the grand old man,
ever if everyone else deserted him.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-07-26
HOMES MELTING AWAY.
The RIO Grande Bursts Its Banks and
Floods Ell Paso.

Ell PAso, Texas. July 1.-THE Rio
Grande is pouring a greater food of
water into this valley than for many
years before. It has steadily risen for
several days, and last night it jumped
up nearly a foot, covering alarge part
OF the lower town. This part of the
city was supposed to be protected by a
well-built levee, but the river broke in
below the termination of the levee
and backed up nearly to the Santa Fc
tracks.
The houses in this section of town
are chiefly adobe or unburned brick.
and as the water surrounds them they
melt away. If the river rises much
higher hundreds of houses will dis
appear in the food. Already moro
than a score of them have succumbed
to the water, and many families have
taken refuge in the houses of their
friends on the higher ground. Citizens
who live in comfortable adobe houses
in the Second ward were hurried out
OF their houses before daybreak this
morning, some of them barely getting
out before their dwellings went down.
1t is reported that the overflow in the
valley near the towns of Ysleta and
San Flisaris, is doing great damage to
crops. Not less than 100 houses have
been swept away. and many poor
Mexicans are left homeless. There Is
no telling what course the channel Of
the river will take before the food
subsidies. Floods like the present one
always change the bed of the river,
and it is believed Uncle Sam will lose
several square miles of territory bv
the river moving further northeast.
Information from San Marcial. N. NJ.
is to the effect that the river is still
visinr.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-07-26
AT MERCY OF BRUTEs.
Terrible Plight OF the Women OF Armenia
Bought by Tax Farmers.

- L. on
LONDON, July ls,-The Associated
Press correspondent now in Armenia,
IN a letter from Van, June 9, declares
that the prison in which the Armenians
are confined is in such a low spot that
1t receives the drainage Of the rest OF
The city and is constantly wet. There
r SIX long narrow rooms and five
small cells, always crowded, and the
prisoners suffer in every way.
The correspondent declares that in
scores OF villages in Armenia there is
hardl.,,, a woman, young or old, who has
not been subjected to the brutality OF
Kurds and Turks. When a Turk has
bought the tax privileges Of a village.
1t has been held hat he has bought the
women OF the village, and these poor
creatures are sold to the friends of the
tax owner. The women who suffer the
most are the brides.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-07-26
CROP CONDITIONS.
Report OF the Weather Bureau for the
Week Ended DULY I5.

Week Ended July I5.
WASHINGTON, July ls.-The weather
bureau, in its report of crop condi-
tions for the week ended July Is, says:
Droutl has been broken in Iowa and
partly relievedin Wisconsin and South
ern Minnesota, but continues in Ohio
and with great severity over the South
ern half Of Michigan. Excessive rains
have delayed threshing in Missouri,
Kansas, Northern Texas, kentucky
and Tennessee, and caused grain in
shock to sprout.
Corn needs rain in Ohio, Northern
Indiana, Southern Michigan, Wiscon-
sin and South Dakota, and would be
improved by rain in Nebraska, where
the blades are beginning to roll. In
the Southern states the finest crop Of
corn for years is promised. Frost on
Tuesday morning caused slight dam
age in Wisconsin.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-07-26
v REPUBLICANS.
Candidate VIII BE Pledged = Follow
$780,. So. r~r vs.rn~-.,p

Candidate Will Be Pledged to Follow
Congress. Says Gov. Mcconnell
PORTLAND, Ore, July ls.-Governor
W. ]. Mcconnell OF Idaho, speaking
of the policy Of the silver Republicans
next year, said: "sThe friends of silver
will not force the financial issue in the
national Republican convention next
year further than to secure q declara-
ton III the platform that the nominee
Of that party shall sign any measure
that passes congress that not only
affects the financial system of the
country, but also the pensions of the
soldiers Of the rebellion, the building
OF the ~Nicaraguan canal, the annexa-
ton Of the Hawaiian islands and other
issues of paramount interest to the
country. The individual who heads
the. ticket is of little consequence to
nc as long, of course, as he is a sound
protectionist. l. don't care what his
views on the financial question are as
long as he stands on the platform of
the party and that platform contains
the declaration we propose" (
-
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-07-26
a TRAITORS END.
Suicide in Public Follows the BETRAYAL
OF Port Arthur.

OF Port Arthur.
SAN FRANCISCO, July ls.-The ease
with which the japanese captured
Port Arthur during the recent war
with China is explained to some ex-
tent by an article in the Japan Gazette,
which arrived on the last steamer
According to this the. commander of
the Chinese forts was a native Of
Japan, who had acquired favor in
Chinese councils through a long resi-
dence in the flowery kingdom. He in
tentionally caused the shots from the
guns to be misdirected SO they would
fall short Of the Japanese warships.
Having betrayed his adopted land for
the land Of his birth, the disgraced
commander appeared before the victo-
rlous japanese and acknowledged his
treason and committed suicide in their
presence.