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The times., 1897-10-28
EXAMINATIONS TO BE HELD.
Nautical Exper,s and Assistant
Treasury Agents 20 BE Appointed.

The Civil Service Commission announces
that on November 81 an examination viii
be held for the position of nautical expert.
From the register thus established two Sc
lections will be made 10 fill the following
vacancies in the position mentioned: One
atthe branch hydTogr aphic office at sault
STE. Marie. Mich, and one at Duluth,
Mimi. at salary of 81 on0 per annum
each.
The Civil Service Commission announces
that the same day an examination win be
held for the position Of assistant treasury
agent, Seal Island, Alaska, From the Re <
ister thus established a selection viii be
made to fill vacancy in the position men
toned.
The times., 1897-10-28
Crnun ouickly cured.

Mountain Glen, Ark. -''our children Were
suffering with Group, when we received a
bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. 1t
afforded almost instant relief. F. a.
THORNTON. This celebrated remedy is
for sale by Henry EyaDs, Wholesale and
Retail Druggist, sss street, and Con
necticut avenue and S street northwest,
ana 142s Maryland avenue northeast.
The times., 1897-10-28
cinn service Commission, neport.

The annual report of the Civil Service
Commission is under preparation. An ih-
creased appropriation will be asked for
At present the commission has over forty
five clerks detailed from the several de
partmerts for temporary service with them.
Assistance secured in this way is said to he
much less effective than that of employees
regularly employed by the commission,
The times., 1897-10-28
Lighting Company Incorporated.

Articles OF Incorporation for the IL. p.
Hill Lighting Company We're taken out yes
terday. The incorporatoIs are Mcssrs. II.
p. Hin, F. j. Whitehead and A. L. Began.
The object or the concern is 10 furnish
electric lights in the District The capital
stock is fixed at $4,000. The principal
works are TO be located at Ninth and F
streSUs
The times., 1897-10-28
kicked hY n Horse.

Walter Donaldson, a commission mer-
chant, residing at No. 227 Thirteenth
street southwest, was kicked on the head
by an unruly horse last night, and sus-
tanned a deep laceration OF the scalp.
His injury was dressed at the Emergency
hospital.
The times., 1897-10-28

Earnings continue fairly good and in some
eases excellent, but there are also dis
appointments. st. Paulis one of the latter.
The gross earning OF st .Paulfor September
Increased $333,0o0, and the net $141,-
900, which Is certainly nothing surprising
1t may be mentioned, however, that in
the quarter ending September 80 this
road earned .93 per cent on the common
stock as against 0.81 per cent III the same
time In 1896. Great things are promised
of Burlington Its friends say that traffic
has continued very heavy all this month
and that the car movement will show at
least 112 900 for the month. It is also
said that the gross earnings for October
win be $4,000 900, or nearly that. There
Will be an advance in Burlington stock
between now and the monthly statement,
probably. 1t should be It good purchase
as speculation. If these figures are
realized the earnings viii be the best shown
by any road for long time.
The times., 1897-10-28
Ievvinn the lakes.

The Commissioners have made their an
nual order, according TO law, Ievying the
real estate and personal property tax for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1898
The rate is unchanged, S1.5 on each 500
value of real estate, except on gricultural
real estate. where the rate is 81 for every
SIO0
The times., 1897-10-28
lyn.ilinr,nn $50 r.cnnryc.

Sales-West End National Bank o al
1913 l 2. Capital Traction, 20 at SO II
United states Electric Light, l o at II Is.
Pneumatic Gun Carriage, 90 at So cents:
100 at SIS cents; 100 at 90 cents; 100 AT
so cents; eco at 81 cents.
After cali Metropolitan Railroad b
Certificate 81 600 at III Ii. Mer-
genthaler Linotype, 10 at 142 2.
.CVEuS4ESr KuSL
The times., 1897-10-28

Chicago, oct q Although cables were
somewhat disappointing the December
wheat here snow ed an advance at one time
Of cents and held fairly well There
was buying fdrore early led by the bull
houses. The market lost its edge toward
the close on tLenews that 200, 900 bushels
of wheat are to be brought from Duluth.
Bought by elevator people. The export
business at the seaboard was about forty
loads.
The times., 1897-10-28
Enelish cycltst Breaks Record

London, Get. 27.-At the Crystal Palace
today. Palmer, the bieyclist, broke all
records for from "a to 90 miles. pys
rode the latter distance in 1;5a,ss 81.
He also broke the record Cor two hours
riding covering in that time So miles.
400 yards.
The times., 1897-10-28
The International Seal Conference

The sessions Of the International seal
conference will be resumed next Monday
Prof. Thompson, one OF the British eX-
perts paid his respects to Secretary Sher
man yesterday. He has been in informal
conference with Prof. Jordan, the Ameri
can expert, respecting the coming con
ference between Great Britain, Canada and
America, hui all formal conference is post.
poncd until the arrival of Mr.. Macoun, the
Canadian expert
The times., 1897-10-28
snit Agnlnst the pistrict.

Abraham Wolff filed suit against the Dis
uict yesterday FOL S25, ,O00 damages. Mr..
Wolff on October 27, 1895, fell over a
carriage stone On louisiana avenue. near
Sixth sU-eet, breaking his right leg. J.
Miller Kenyon anu David NJ. Neuberger are
his attorneys.
The times., 1897-10-28
Gen. Flagler,s Report.

Gen. Flagler, chief of the bureau Of ord
nance, has submitted his annual report to
the Secretary of War. The amount ex-
pended was $4,9o1,109. During the
year "a 564 rifles We're furnished the militia
OF the States.
The times., 1897-10-28
Tryinp 10 Break the Tie4.

divorce from Robert i. Joyce. The parties
were Married in Baltimore, September II
$50. Mrs Joyce charges deSer ton.
Padgett and Forrest are her attorneys.
The times., 1897-10-28

Gas looks well. The New York Times
says there is a chance of the shorts ia
Gas being canght, should the supply of
the old stntk give out in the transfer
Ia the PeoIl-'s Gas Company.
The times., 1897-10-28

The Northern Pacific people feel bullisii
on the preferred stock in the expectation
OF commencement of dividends. There
seems very good reason to believe in these
dividends.
The times., 1897-10-28
Broke His Finger PLAYING Ball.

Joseph R. Beymer, q basketball playe
broke the ring finger OF his left hand
while playing the popular game last night
The fracture was reduced at the Emergency
Hospital.
The times., 1897-10-28

The buying Of Sugar is good 1t has
been nay opinion for some weeks that
rise in Sugar is coming and that It VIII
be good one. There is very little fiO,.t-
ing stock III tie street.
The times., 1897-10-28

The Pennsylvania statement for Sep
tember Will be out Saturday. IL is said
that the statement VIII be very favorable
one
The times., 1897-10-28

Chicago G rain and PROVISION Market
Corrected daily by w b. Hibbs & Co.
BANKERS and Brokers. Members of the
Y. Stock Exchange, 1427 street.
The times., 1897-10-28
CORSON & MCCARTNEY,

Members of the New York Stock Ex-
change, 1919 F St, Glover building.
Correspondents OF HesSTs- Moore x Schley,
No. 50 Broadway
Bankers, and Dealers ia UOs ernInent Bonds.
Deposits. Exchange Loans.
Railroad Stocks and Bonds and all
SeCuuUscs listed on the exchanges of
New York, Philadelphia, Boston anu Baltl-
more bought and sold.
y speciality made OF investment seCuri-
ties District BOuds and all local Rail
road, Gas, Insurance anu Telephone Stock
dealt in.
American Bell Telephone Stock. bought
ana sold. mil 1S-I
The times., 1897-10-28

The PennsyIvania Railroad to PhiIa-
delphia-A Perfect Line TO a Per-
feet City.
Only $500 next Sunday Trains leave
Baltimore and Potomac Station at TOO,
500, 800 and HOO a. III, oc28 3
The times., 1897-10-28

showed an increase OF $61 500. Pacific
Mail for five months increased $4,000.
The times., 1897-10-28

Dow, Jones & Co. say of Texas Pa
ciric:
The increase In Texas Pacific earnings
for the third week in October amounted
to about > - per cent, the gain being over
S37 900. This is partly the result of tie
Increased movement of cotton, and partly
due to the lettns-up OF quarantine reeu
iationS Oh sofae portb,ns OF the line
The times., 1897-10-28
Sew YORK stock Marhe.

Corrected daily by W. b. Hlbbs & Co..
Bankers and Brokers. Members Of the
n. Y. Stock Exchange. 1927 street.
The times., 1897-10-28

are made at 6 per cent inter-
est per annum, repayable in
monthly instaHments Settle
ment in full OF in part may be
made at any time. Interest Is
only charged 10 date Of settle
ment. When part Of a loan is
settled the monthly instaIlInents
are reduced proportionateIy-
For further information III reference to
the object and advantages of the Associa-
ton apply at the Office,
EQUITABLE BUILDING, 1903 F st. INV.
Thomas somerviIIe, President.
"A. j Schafhirt, Vice President.
Geo. ". Casiiear, I'd Vice President.
John Joy E.ison, Secretary.
au9S-tf
The times., 1897-10-28

j. A. RREEN & CO. BROKERS.
Stocks, Bonds, Cotton, Grain, and Pro
visions.
CoTTespOndents-PuTne HagaTnan & Co.,
members New York Consolidated Exchange;
Atwood, Violett x Co. members New York
Cotton Exchange; LamsOn Bros. 4 Co.
Board OF Trade, Chicago.
rooms .s..u s., sun Building.
oc6-tf
The times., 1897-10-28

wabash for the month of septemtc'
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30
The Strike Situation.

WHEELING, w. Va, Aug. 3O.-The
strikers camp near the Montana mines
gained about fifty recruits to-day, but
the operators had nearly as many new
men to 60 into the mines. In the New
river region few men were brought
out but the district is working practi-
cally full. Thus far no effort has been
made to start the Clarksburg mines,
but it is given out to day that unless
the old men return to work before the
end of the week the operators will be-
gin importing men next week.
PITTsBURG, Pa, Aug. 90.-A meet
ing of coal producers who do not ship
to the lakes has been arranged for to-
morrow when plans will be formulated
to start their mines at the So cent rate,
if permission can be occurred from the
miners officials to allow their men to
return to work.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30
Foreign News.

PARIS, Aug. 30.-The Journal says
the Car will visit Paris at the end Of
this autumn.
BERLIN, Aug. Boa collision be
tween passenger trains took place near
Vohwinkel, at midnight last night.
Three locomotives and six carriages
were wrecked, two persons were killed
and IA were injured. Of the latter it
is thought probable that twelve, will
succumb to their injuries.
, BAsLE, Switzerland, Aug. 3O.-At to-
days session of the Zionist Congress
the delegates present unanimously
adopted with great enthusiasm, the pro
eramme for reestablishing the Hebrews
in Palestine, with publicly recognized
rights. A dispatch was sent to the
Sultan of Turkey thanking His Majesty
for the privileges enjoyed by the He
brews in his empire.
LONDON, Aug. 30.-The Mark Lane
Express reviewing the crop situation
says the wet weather has seriously de-
layed the harvest and the new wheat is
bound to suffer. Continuing, the paper
asserts that advices show the Russian
crop is probably below the average
while the American crop is probably
above the average. In this connection
the Mark Lane Express Gays that in.
formation regarding the American crop
appears to be kept back and adds that
the experience of recent years "leads
to the American government advices
being placed upon much lower level
of authority than those of European
countries"
s1MLA, Aug. So.-The shinwari and
Kahi police posts on the SANTANA
range were attacked, evacuated by
their garrisons and burned by the enc
my on Sunday night. In addition, the
Orakzais, on Sunday night, looted the
Nariab, SANTANA, Bazaar and burned
the school. The Kohal Pass Afridia
are still loyal, in spite of the Mullah's
strenuous efforts to excite their chiefs.
They promise not to oppose the Pesha-
wuri troops who are marching on Ko'
hal.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30
TO-DAY'S TELE6RAPHIC NEWS
The Grain Markets.

CHICAGO, Aug. 3.-The grain move.
ment into and out Of. Chicago the past
forty-eight hours is record breaking.
Exactly 5,065 cars of all sorts were re-
ceived including 1855 cars of corn.
Shipments aggregate 2,400, 900 bushels
of all kinds Of grain including 1000
bushels of wheat, 100000 bushels OF
corn and over 5OO,000 bushels of oats.
The receipts in bushels we're: Wheat
LIS, 500; corn 1,244 600; oats 55S 900.
The remainder was rye and barley.
There was an easy feeling at the open
ing in wheat to-day caused by the
weakness at Liverpool. This was off
set by foreign estimates of the wheat
shortage. The Austrian minister OF
agriculture estimates the wheat crop,
so 800, 900 meteic hundred weight short.
Beerbohms estimate made the net
wheat shortage 120,0O0,000. Worlds
shipments were large, 1881 900 bush.
els. A great deal of changing from
September to December was done,
which resulted in the almost total dis
appearance of Saturdays 2ac. difference
between the two options. December
opened II lower at SS4 a SOC. adj
vanced to so, reacted to S9s and re.
covered to S95. September opened 13e
lower at go and slowly declined to 89s
recovering to 90c. Corn was active
and showed remarkable strength in
view of the enormous receipts. Decem-
Der opened irregular at 31ta314 cents, q
decline of { a J, but advanced steadily
to 80. Oats were slow but firm.
NEW YORK, Aug. S0-Wheat had an
uneventful opening to day and fea'
tureless trade during the early hours,
except for a good strong undertone
based on the decrease OIL ,256, 600 bush
els in the visible supply, the strength
in corn, and higher French cables
December opened sc. higher, at 94ac
sold off to 934c., and then climbed to
95!, receding to 94c by o'clock under
local realizing. Foreign houses sold
Corn acted strong until confronted with ar
increase of nearly six million bushels in the
| visible supply, when prices slid off little
The bull factors were bad crop news and q
| predicted falling off in receipts soon. De
cember sold from 36a4 the opening figure, t.
Btu and back to 81 % at o'clock.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30
New York Politics.

NEW YORK, Aug. 3O.-To nights
conference between republican readers
and representatives Of several indie.
pendent organizations is likely to have
an important bearing upon the que.
ton as to who shall be the first Mayor
of Greater New York. Seth Low has
placed himself on record as willing to
accept nomination to the mayoralty
only with the distinct understandir &
that if elected he should be entirely e1-
empt from dictation by any political or
ganization or so-called party leader,
and this fact is regarded as an obstacle
to his acceptance by the republicans. At
the conference there may develop, also,
the facts as to the reported differences
between Senator Platt and Jacob
Worth, chairman of the republican Or
ganizstion ofKings county, upon which
democrats have been counting to some
extent. The democrats plans for the
msyorslty campaign appear TO be even
more nebulous than those of the repub.
licans. There is no one whose name is
in an overshadowing position for the
Office.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30
FROM THE KLONDIKE.

A dispatch from Port Angeles, WASH,
says The steamer Portland, which ar
rived from ST. Michaels, at the mouth
of the Yukon river, Saturday night,
brought number of miners from the
upper Yukon district. They say that
the remarkably rich claims on Eldorado
creek will number 140.
MIR. OgliYie estimates that at the rate
these claims are now producing, and
considering groundyet to be worked in
the next three years, $50, 0OO, 900 should
be produced. There have been other rich
strikes on Stewart river and Hunker,
Henderson and Indian creeks, but none
of these is az rich as claims on Eldorado
and Bonanza creeks.
The most important news from st.
Michaels is that the Yukon river
steamers left there two weeks ago tor
their last trip up the Yukon. 1t was
not certain that they would reach Daw-
son this fall, in which event passengers
who left the sound on the steamer
Portland as early as July % would only
reach Circle City before navigation
closed.
This makes it certain that hundreds
of miners who have left Puget Sound
and California since August l for St.
Michaels will have to winter there. All
vessels touching al St. Michaels this
summer have had great difficulty keep
ing their crews, who have caught the
gold fever very soon after arriving.
One schooner from Victoria was entire.
ly deserted and her crew, from captain
to cook, departed up the river for Klon-
dixie. The Portland lost several of her
crew, but was able to obtain new men
by paying high wages.
a dispatch from San Francisco says :
W. A.. Ryan, en- route to Yukon gold
fields, writes from st. Michsels, under
date of Aug. Is, to the effect that there
is grave danger of a famine on the Klon-
dixie this winter. According to all reports
received from the upper country 1t will
be impossible to land sufficient food at
Dawson City to support the popula-
ton already dependent upon that base Of
supplies. r. T. Lying, local agent of
the Alaskan Commercial Company, at
st. Michaels, declares that there are al
ready over 900 idle men in Dawson,
and new parties are arriving every day
via Chilcoot Pass, while the total
amount of freight landed there this
year will not exceed four thousa nd
tons, of which not more than three
fourths are provisions. Miners return
ing from Klondike, who left there in
July, report that the food was running
very low then, and it was disposed OF
as fast as discharged from the steam
ers. Old-timers realize the situation,
and predict distress and death as re-
suit of the Klondike craze. People are
warned to stay out till next spring.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30
RAILROAD MISSION NorEs.-Anotbe

RAILROAD MISSION NoTEs.-Anotber
interesting service was held in the
auditorium yesterday afternoon at 4
o'clock by Mr.. Samuel Stokely, who
gave an earnest aud effectual talk on
Faith" During the service quartet
of young men composed of Messrs. Will.
lie Wilkins, Henry Hunter, VIM.
Owens and John Zones rendered two
very pretty selections which were much
enjoyed, one of which was church raj.
lying song; after this the congregation
sang as they never sang before Savior
wash me in the blood" After service
the executive committee met and
decided to celebrate their first anniver-
sary on the first Sunday in October.
A series of two weeks meeting is COM
templated by the workers" The
service tonight in the Reading Room
will be conducted at 7:45 o'clock by
Mr.. A. ]. Groves, sr., and promises to
be very interesting. Every one is in.
vited.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

BErTINA GIRARD, once. a beautiful
courted and feted society queen, and
subsequently, comic opera singer and
actress of note, is in New York in Be-
we're financial straits. She has made
application to the managers of a num-
Der of theatres there for work, saying
that she was in such need of money as
to make it necessary for her to apply
for anything she could get to do, even
in the chorus. When Miss Girard was
Mrs. Paddleford, the wife of one of the
wealthiest and most highly connected
men in Baltimore, she was considered
the most beautiful and accomplished
member of society in that city. She
was the mother of Padelford's little
girl. who is still living, and who, ac-
cording to Miss Girard, is heiress to
$500, 900 from her fathers estate
New York Telegraph.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Gen. Nelson A. Miles, of the United
States army, witnessed parade of the
Berlin garrison aud was presented to
Emperor William on Saturday.
Delaware's peach crop is shorter this
year than for many years past. The
shipments from Georgetown, Milford
and Bridgeville last week we're 300 per
cent less than last year.
Thomas M. Arlington, formely in
spector of the Postofice Department in
charge of the Washington division, was
arrested Saturday on charge of en-
bezzlement and released in $1,000 bail.
Pebble phosphate for paving is being
ivocated for portion Of the streets OF
Tampa, Fla. A test of it has proven
satisfactory, and its cost is only
thirty to thirty-fve cents per square
yard. A roadway thirty two feet
wide can be put down for not more
that s., 900 per mile.
A hurricane struck the picnic grove at
Laurelwood Park, Chicago, Saturday
evening and demolished the dancing
pavilion in which several hundred per-
sons had taken refuge from the storm.
One woman was killed and eleven per-
sons were seriously injured.
The Admission Pipe and Fly Com
pany's iron pipe works at Annlston,
Ala, were burned yesterday. The loss
is upward of half million of dollars, al
most fully covered by insurance. This
was one of the largest pipe works IN
the south, its daily capacity being 5Oo
tons, and employing several hundred
men.
George Stulz, the assistant sexton OF
Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church,
Brooklyn, was murdered in the Vesti-
bule of the church early yesterday
evening by robber. The body was
| found by his son, Nicholas, and the
sexton, George Russt. There were
signs Of a fearful struggle. Mr.. Stulz's
watch was gone.
The body of an unknown woman,
we'll dressed, was found in Big Elk
Creek, near Elkton, Md, yesterday.
There was cut on the throat, and it is
believed that the body was held down
by a rope, as it was gotten from the
water with some difficulty. The pre-
vailing opinion is that the woman
either committed suicide or was muir
dered.
Twenty steamers-one third of the
number belonging to the fire depart
ment of New York city-were kept
busy for over two hours yesterday
afternoon pumping water into the six.
story factory building at Ats and 4SC
Pearl street, which had taken fire from
some unknown cause, and was threaten,
ing to ignite the Five Points Mission
} Home, on Park street. After stub.
born fight, the flames were confined to
the building in which they originated
The structure was Quilted, however,
and the roof fell in. The total loss is
estimated at SIS, 900.
One of the largest transactions Of
years in West Virginia lands has just
been completed by the sale OF the
greater part of what is known as the
| Cheat river wilderness to New York
syndicate, of which Cornelius Wander,
| bilt, DR.. W. Seward Webb andl J
Mckay Twombley are the principals
This syndicate has purchased from
Hon. John T. McGraw, member OF the
national democratic committee from
West Virginia, tract of about 100000
acres for the sum of $500, 900. a small
fraction of this amount is represented
by the interest which Mr.. McGraw re-
tains in the syndicate.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30
THE Baltimore Sun says: "The Sur

THE Baltimore Sun says: "The Sun
is not q republican paper" From the
efforts the Sun made last year to defeat
the democratic ticket; from the mild
manner in which it has treated the
commissions and omissions of the re-
publican party ever since, and from its
persistent opposition to the regular and
recognized democratic party, many peo-
pie supposed the Sun was republican
paper. The democrats among them
will be glad to know that that SUPPOSE
ton was erroneous.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

Col. W. P. REND, of Pittsburg,
openly charges Mr.. Ratchford, the presi-
dent of the striking miners, with TAX
ing brides from certain coal operators,
and dares him to refute those charges
by judicial investigation. The CREST
trouble with most of the labor leaders
is their inability to resist the malign in
luence of bribery.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30
Triple Alliance.

PARIS, August 30.-Mr. Gerville
Reache, member of the Chamber OF
Deputies from the Island of Guada-
loupe, is the author of q article headed
"The Franco Russo-American All I.
ance," published to-day. in which
the writer points out that the
United States has no ground for con-
fict with France or Russia, while she
would bring into the alliance an I'M
limited naval power, and he asks pub.
lcists and politicians to boom such an
alliance in order that it may be. reali-
zedat the dawn of the twentieth GEN.
t1rrV