Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 51, Petersburg, Pike County, 4 May 1894 — Page 2

? K- McC. STOOPS, Editor sad ProprietorPETERSBURG. - INDIANA. Gov. Flower of New York has vetoed the bill allowing1 Sons of Veteran posts to carry arms. It is said that the president declared to two gentlemen who visited him on the »5th, that he was opposed to the income tax. Hon. Frank Hatton, editor of the Washington Post, who was stricken with paralysis recently, was, on the 26th, pronounced much better. The steanfers plying between Hamburg and South American ports have ceased calling at Lisbon, owing to the prevalence of cholera in the Portuguese capital.. The National line steamship rHelvetia, Capt. Froliche, was abandoned in a sinking condition of Cape Finisterre, Spain, on the 26th, and her crew and passengers were landed at Gibraltar. ] . It is stated on the authority of the German foreign office that Germany will not permit the annexation of Samoa to New Zealand, which act -would be a flagrant violation of the Berlin treaty. t A royal decree has been issued in Portugal organizing a medical commission to advise the civil governor in regard to measures to be taken in o»der to check the spread of the cholera in Lisbon. The impof-ts of dry goods at the port of New York for the week ended on the 27th were 61,676,891, and the amount marketed, 61,612,331. For the corresponding week in 1893, the imports were 62,855,510 and the amount marketed 61,9^3,217. There is a scarcity of bituminous coal in New York, caused'by the miners’ strike, which has caused the output to dwindle to almost nothing. Coal dealers say they anticipate a condition of affairs that will come near being a coal famine. The coal miners' strike is beginning to have an effect upon the different industries. Railroad companies, it is claimed, have been appropriating coal billed to private consumers, and there is already a ‘coal famine at certain manufacturing plants. At a meeting of the New York coal sales agents, on the 26th, no changes in prices were made. The estimated output for May was placed at 2,800,000 tons, or about per cent, of the total capacity* The output for May last yea^ was 3,700,000 tons. P. N. Lund, a prominent citizen, was burned to death, on the 26th, at his farm, two miles fromFairmont, Minn., while fighting a prairie fire. He was overcome by the heat and smoke and fell forward into the flames, and was bo horribly burned that he was scarcely recognizable.

When “Gen.” Kelly received advices ihat the federal government would resort to military force to prevent the industrial army from entering, Washington, he discredited the report, but said if it were true he would appeal to moral and legal measures to remove the obstacle. The trials at Indianapolis, Ind., of Francis and Percival Coffin and A. S. Reed for complicity in the „ wrecking of the Indianapolis national bank, brought to a sensational close, on the 25th, by the disclosures of jury corruption, was on the 26tli, ordered taken Up again May 1st. A peputation of British coal mine owners called upon Lord Rosebery* on the.24th,to present their reasons for opposing the eight-hour bill. The premier said he could promise nothing definite as to the action of the government, as the ministry were not unanimous on the subject The pnly coke plants in operation In the Connellsville (Pa.) region, on the 26th, were the Davidson and Leisenring, of the Frick company; Moyer, Fort Hill and Rainey, of the Raipey company, And Clarissa and Nellie of the Cochran company. None of these, except the two Frick plants, were running full. Congressman Jerry Simpson, of Kansas, was reported, on the 23d, to be in a critical condition at his residence in Washington. He had a change for the worse, on the 22d, following two chills, and his friends in the Kansas congressional delegation were informed that he could hardly recover. -; Several hundred stand of small arms and repeating rifles have been received at the treasury department from the war department. The small arms were turned over to Capt. Putnam of the treasury watch, and the repeating rifles plaeed at convenient point! about the treasurer's end of the building. A conspiracy to corrupt the jury which had been trying the officers of the Indianapolis Cabinet Co., at Indianapolis, Ind., was brought to light on the 25 th, .and A ben Armstrong, the twelfth juror, was arrested on a charge of offering to sell his influence to the defense for $5,000. Frank Stannard, of Lawrence county, the go-between, was also arrested. f • ■ - ■ ■■ Greece was visited by another heavy «hock of earthquake on the 27th. The destruction of Thebes was complete, and Atalanti, a city of 3,000 inhabitants, was nearly leveled to the ground. Other towns suffered severely, and many human lives were lost. The death list from the previous shocks is still growing, having' reached, on the the enormous aggregate of 300.

CURRENT TOPICS. THE HEWS IH BRIEF. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. In the senate, on the 23d. the credentials of Thomas Jordan Jarvis, appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Vance, of North Carolina, were placed on file. Sir. Peffer's resolution for the appointment of a committee to give hearings to the Coxey army was rejected. Several matters of no general interest were considered, and the tariff bill was taken up_In the house, it being district of Columbia day, the session was devoted to matters of local interest.. In the senate, on the 24th. after preliminary business, debate on the tariff bill was resumed. Mr. Mills closing the general debate on the democratic side in favor of tbe measure. He said the bill did not meet bis entire approval; he doubted if it met the entire approval of any gentleman on his side of the chamber, but such as it was, it should hare his cordial support_In the house the post office appropriation bill for the year ending June 30,1895, was passed. In the senate, on the 25th. the income tax on building and loan associations was discussed, and the tariff bill was taken up—the formal reading of the bill in extenso being dispenced with. The first line of the bill—fixing the date for the measure to go into effect—furnished matter for discussion which occupied the entire session.In the house the diplomatic and consular bill was discussed. *> IN the senate, on the 26th. ;Mr. Jarvis, the new senator from North Carolina, appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Vance, was sworn in. Mr. Allen’s resolution as to the rights of Coxey and his followers to visit'the capitol, to assemble and petition for redress of grievances, was further discussed, being vigorously denounced by several speakers. The tariff bill was then token up, Messrs. Higgins and Dolph addressing the senate_In the house the diplomatic and consular bill was further considered in committee of the whole, reported to the house and passed. In the senate, on the 27th, Mr. Aldrich, republican leader of the opposition to the tariff bill, challenged the democrats to a vote, at 3 p. na., on the bill Os it passed the house; also as it was reported from the finance committee. The latter challenge being accepted by Mr. Harris, the democrat having the bill in charge, both propositions were withdrawn on the ground that they bad not been accepted promptly. Mr. Cullom made- an earnest speech against the bill, and Mr. Dolph delivered the fifth installment of his speech against it_In the house twenty-five private pension and relief bills were disposed of by unanimous consent. Nearly the entire day was spent in committee of the whole upon the private calendar. • PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A great fire swept away many buildings in the principal street of San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, on the 23d. R. Rykfogei., third officer of the steamer Los Angeles, who was in charge of the vessel at the time of the wreck, was held" by the coroner’s jury in San Francisco, on the 24th, on a charge of manslaughter. Secretary Smith, on the 24th, ordered the disbarment of six pension attorneys from practice before the interior department. They are John G. Chapman, New Haven, Conn.; F. H. Barker, Kansas City, Kas.; S. A. Hill, alias Albert D. Hill, Pensacola, Fla.; Christian Quien, Danbury, la.; James Cooley, Richmond and York, 0., and William H. Bush field. Cambridge, O. All of them were charged with violating the pension laws. Crawford county (Kas.) officers arrested Ed Johnson, a negro miner at the Central Coal and Coke Co.’s shaft at Weir City for being an accomplice of Tuggle in the murder of Alfred Haimont near that place on the night of the 22d. He was at once taken to Girard, the county seat of Crawford county, where, it is said, he made a full confession. The American North Polar expedition under command of Walter Wellman sailed, on the 24th, from Alesund, Norway, for the island of Spitzbergen on the steamer Ragnvold Jarl, which has been chartered for the purpose of the expedition. Experts pronounce the steamer to be the best ice-boat belonging in Norway. W. J. Elliott, the well-known edi-tor-convict, serving a life term in the Ohio state prison, attempted suicide on the 25th, by poison, while smarting under punishment inflicted for infraction of prison rules. Frank Hatton, ex-assistant post-master-general, and one of the proprietors and editors of the Washington Post, was stricken with paralysis while at work at his desk. Luke H. Miller, one of the oldest iron safe manufacturers in the country, widely known throughout the United States, died in Baltimore, Md., on the 25th. The United States government, which does not insure its property, sustained a loss of about ?50;000, on the night <»f the 25th, by the burning of the south wing of Jefferson barracks, near St. Louis. A large amount of commissary stores was contained in the building. There were some narrow escapes, and the soldiers acted promptly and effectively in saving the other buildings. Fire gutted the Union house, an old two-story shell in Cheboygan, Mich., on the 25th. Every room was occupied, and most of the guests had to jump for their lives. Dr. Howell, a horse doctor, and a woodsman named Cluno, who , occupied a room together, and who, it is said, retired in an intoxicated condition, were suffocated. The flouring mill and elevator of C. W, McDaniel^at Franklin, Ind., was burned, on the 25th, together with a large quantity of flour and grain. With great difficulty other buildings were saved. The loss is estimated at (25,000; partially insured. Napoleon (“Old Sport”) Camp ana, the pedestrian, applied in Chicago, on the 24th, for a license to marry Miss Mary J. Dalton. His request was granted. “Old Sport” is 66 years old, he says, but at the marriage license window he was just 58. Judge Henry W. Scott, of the district court at Oklahoma City, on the 25th, sentenced J. J. Burke and E. E. Brown, publishers of the Daily TimesJournal of that city, to the county jail for ten days and to pay a fine of (200 each jpr contempt of court in commentihg upon his judicial character. A great sensation was created. Representative O’Neill, of Missouri, on the 25tli, introduced a bill to protect free labor from the injurious effects of convict labor, by confining the sale of the products o{ the .latter class of labor to the state where they are produced. . •< §1

Shearing was begun in the three sheep camps southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, on the 25t|h. The sheep were driven in from the desert where they were wintered. It is estimated that at the three camps fully 400.000 head of sheep will be sheared this spring. Last season the record was 325,000, but the number of wool bearers in the western part of the territory has increased materially during the year. Reports received at the United States geological survey from twenty-three states and two territories give a total production of 11,507,007 long tons of iron ore in 1893. This amount is smaller than that recorded for any year since 1887, and is a decrease of almost 29 per cent, over 1892. Gen. Nelson A. Miles has ordered that charges be preferred against Lieut. Maney. recently acquitted of the charge of murdering Capot Hedberg at Foft Sheridan, Chicago, and that he be tried by court martial for conduct prejudicial to discipline in the service. Wai. A. Pence, a prominent farmer, died near Huntington, Ind., on the 25tli, from a peculiar trouble. A bony substance had grown around and incased his heart, causing heart failure. Rev. Nathaniel Butler, who was Vice-President Hamlin’s private secretary from 1861 to 1865, and who served in the Maine legislature in 1880, died at Burlington, Wis., on the 25th, aged 70 years. On the 25th Gen. R. S. Granger,United States army, retired, died in Washington, aged 83 years. The president has approved the act authorizing Commander Dickens, United States navy, to accept a decoration from the king of Spain. The government of Great Britain has demanded of the government of Nicaragua an explanation of the withdrawal of theexequateurof the British consul at Greytown (San Juan del Norte). Representative Jerry Simpson, of Ivansas, was able to sit up a few minutes on the 26th. He was considered out of danger, but it will be some weeks before he will be able to resume his public duties. During a terrific thunderstorm near Glatz, Prussian Silesia, on the night of the 25th, several farm houses were struck by lightning and burned, and three persons were killed. By the burning of Philip Schneider’s (dwelling in South Scranton, Pa., on the morning of the 26th, three of his children, who were' in an upper room, wer^ burned to death. Gen. Frye’s army of the Commonweal arrived at Indianapolis, Ind., on the 26tli, on a freight train which they had seized at Brazil. Ind. In a coroner’s inquest, on the 26th, over the death of J. Smith, who was said to have been burned to death in a small fire which destroyed a South Omaha (Neb.) hotel, five of the six jurors found that Smith had been murdered, and that Nick Martin, the sixth juror, committed the crime. Martin returned a minority verdict finding himself innocent $md demanding his own release. A destructive fire occurred in the Place de Ligne, Buda-Pesth, on the 27th, involving a loss of 500,000 florins. It is asserted that the fire was the work of socialist incendiaries. The New York legislature adjourned sine die on the 27th at noon. On the 27th the committee of the Hungarian house of magnates approved Premier Wekerle’s civil marriage bill.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. In the senate, on the 28th, Mr. Hale (Me.) resumed the tactics pursued the day previous by Mr. Aldrich, of taunting- the democrats with their changed front upon the tariff question. Several speeches were made on the bill, after which eulogies on the late Representative Tilly, of Pennsylvania, were delivered.In the house the army appropriation bill was taken up and general debate thereon exhausted. It was considered a short time by paragraphs for amendment when, the point of no quorum being raised, the house adjourned. A mob of twenty-five men, armed and masked, visited Bert Will’s saloon at Burlington, Ind., on the night of the 37th, knocked in the heads of barrels with axes, broke the bottles, and after chopping the fixtures into kind-ling-wood, removed them to the stx-eet and made a bonfire of them. A year ago the same place was blown up with dynamite. The statement o& the associated banks of New York city for the week ended the 28th showed the following changes: Reserve, increase, $1,409,925; loans, increase, $1,882,900; specie, decrease, $546,600; legal tenders, increase, $942,000; deposits, increase, $4,314,700; circulation, decrease, $513,500. While sixteen miners were descending tlue shaft of a coal mine at Boies de Luce, near Mons, Belgium,on the 28th, the-cable broke and the cage was precipitated to the bottom of the shaft. Thirteen of the occupants were killed outright, and the other three were fatally injured. On the 28tli Judge Bradley overruled the motion of counsel for Representative W. C. P. Breckinridge for a new trial of the celebrated BreckinridgePollard breach of promise suit. Bend was fixed at $100 for an appeal to the court of appeals of the District of Columbia. Chicago, since its school census of 1892, has added something over 100,000 souls to its population. Two yearsago the count revealed the presence of 1,438,010 dwellers within the city limits. To-day there are between 1,500,000 and 1,600,000. Ninety-three delegates, representing the entire coke region, met in convention at Scottdale, Pa., on the 28oh. The sentiments expressed were al together in favor of continuing the strike. The trial of Anarchist Emil Henn in Paris ended, on the 25 th, in the prisoner’s conviction and sentence to dea oh. I

FROM HOOSIERJDOM. Telegraphic News of Interest to Warned Not to Employ Neiroe*. Elwood, Ind, April 26.—Trouble will result in Alexandria, 10 miles east of this city, over the importation of ne groes from Louisville, Ky., to work in the Kelly ax works. The citizens have always been hostile to negroes and but few have ever remained there long at a time. As a result of these coming there to work and thus displacing that much local white labor the superintendent received the following notice Tuesday. It was written in red ink underneath the uoual skull and cross bones, the insignia of white capism. and signed “White Caps Board.” ••Kelly, Superintendent: Discharge all colored men in your employ within three days, or you win be shot, tne works blown up and the negroes lynched." Mr. Kelly proposes to stand by his men and the negroes will be protected. A detective is now engaged in trying to find the writer of the notice and he will be arrested. Held Both for MurderMuxcie, Ind, April 26.—The preliminary hearing in the trial of Frank Benadaum, Michael Gorman and William Watson, charged with the murder of Attorney Letnanuel Bailey, closed Wednesday afternoon and at night Judge Behymer rendered his decision. Benadaum and Gorman, each of whom accused the other with the crime in their testimony, were held for murder and remanded to jail without bail. There was no evidence against Watson and he was released. Beaten Fatally by a Tramp. Huntington. Ind., April 26.—A tramp entered Bryant’s stove factory about midnight to sleep, but was ordered out by Alonzo Emly, the watchman, who chased him with a hammer when he refused to go. Later in the night Eply was attacked from behind by some one, presumed to have been the same tramp, and beaten on the head so badly that he will likely die. The tramp escaped. Said to Be a Defaulter. Goshen, Ind., April 26.—It has been learned that Edward G. Walker, ^rho deserted his family and left the city a few weeks ago in company with a woman of the town, left the latter stranded in Chicago and has fled to Canada. A thorough examination of Baker & Miller’s books, of which firm he was a member, shows that the missing man is a defaulter for about $2,000. Farmer Shoots His Sister Twice. Kokomo, Ind., April 26.—Two years ago Frankie Pierce, daughter of a wealthjL, farmer near Greentown, eloped with a hotel clerk. Her elder brother threatened to kill her if she returned. Tuesday she came home to see her sick mother, when her brother, Marion Pierce, slipped up behind her and fired two shot at her, both balls inflicting scalp wounds. He was arrested. _ Forty Days Without Sleep. Warsaw, Ind, April 26. —Forty days have passed since Frank Woodruff, a wealthy farmer of this county, has slept. He was afflicted with the same strange malady two years ago, when he went eighty days without sleep. He is to all appearances healthy and works every day. His physicians have failed to produce even a stupor with drugs.

Ativgv «urj vurru|muu. Indian apolis, Ind.. April 26.— The bank case in which Francis A. Coffin, Percival B. Coffin and Albert' S. Reed are charged with having helped wreck the Indianapolis national bank, came to a sudden ending Wednesday by the filing of an affidavit on the part of the defense alleging jury corruption. The case will be begun next Tuesda}* with a new jury. _ Think Beck Killed Himself. Indianapolis, Ind., April 26.—It is now generally conceded that Attorney Beck, who was found dead in bed Tuesday morning, with a bullet-hole in his head, had committed suicide. Investigation shows that he was deeply in debt, financially embarrassed and had been recently borrowing money freely. _ Ex-Soldier Killed by Cars. . Tipton, Ind.. April' 26.—Christopher Creogmile was killed by a Lake Erie & Western train 5 miles south of here Wednesday. lie was an ex-soldier and a member of Company I, One Hundredth and Fiftieth volunteer, and enlisted in Coles couafcy, I1L He was 55 years ol d and a carpenter. Boys Plead Guilty. Valpakaiso, Ind., April 26.—Wednesday afternoon Dennis O’Keefe and J ames Twohey, the two Chicago lads who held up Mrs. Fisher last week at this place, had their preliminary examination. They entered a plea of guilty and were bound over to the circuit court A Mill Burned. Indianapolis, Ind., April 26.—The flouriDg mill and elevator of C. W. McDaniel, at Franklin, burned, together with a large quantity of flopr and gram. With great difficulty other buildings were saved. The loss is estimated at $25,000. Partially insured. Bruggist Stricken with Remorse. J Richmond, Ind., April 26.—H. H. Meerhoff, a druggist, committed suicide Wednesday. Regret over a recent mistake by which he gave out morphine instead of quinine, the result proving almost fatal, is the probable cause of his act. Found Bead in Bed. Andekson, Ind. , April 26 -Elias Skinner was found dead in his bed Wednesday morning with a box of morphine at his side. Skinner was a well-known wagoajna ker. He had domestic trouble. Bled Suddenly, \ Ind., April 26.—Mrs. Peter H. Johnson, aged 35, while sitting on a sofa Wednesday forenoon with her husband suddenly fell over dead. Heart disease was the cause- /

WITH LOSS OF LIFE Th# Old St Charles Hotel, New Orleans. Whisk Coast One Million Dollars, Went Down Before the Forjr of the Fire Klsf —Two Persons Killed by Jumpier, end Many, It is Feared, Were Burned In Their Booms. New Orleans, April 28, 10:11 p. ra. —The SL Charles hotel, the largest building m the city, is burning. One oerson burned to death so far. New Orleans. April ■29.— At least two lives were lost at the St. Charles hotel and how many more will not be known until the ruins of the handsome structure are searched. The fire was discovered at about 11 o’clock in the kitchen of the hoteL Everything was quiet around the building at the time, all the servants having disappeared from that part of the building and most of the guests having retired for the night. The origin of the fire is not kpown. It had gained a good headway in the rear portion of the structure before its presence became known to the clerks in the office. An alarm was at once turned in, and every one of the employes of the house who could be found at that hour, was started through the halls to awaken the guests. It is thought about 200 persons were sleeping in the hotel at the time the fire broke out, though the exact number of guests is not known, and the register, with everything else of value in the office, is destroyed. Some of those who occupied rooms on the upper stories were less fortunate, and the two known to have been killed were men who jumped from these upper windows. The bodies of both had been severely burned before the leap lor life was made and in both cases the clothing was nearly gone. The bodies i were so mangled by the fall that recognition was impossible and there Vffas nothing about the little remaining clothing of either to indicate the identity of the unfortunates. The fire burned its way with great rapidity to the freight elevator in the rear of the St. Charles hotel and soon spread to the upper floors, so that the third, fourth and fifth floors on the Commerce-street side of the hotel were ablaze. Most of the guests were on the SL Charles-street side, and they soon began to make their appearance at tjhe windows on that side. Many of them were in their night clothes and in scanty attire, and most of them, with the aid of ladders brought quickly into use by the firemen, made their escape to other hotels near by. How many others we/e left upon the upper floors; how many who failed to reach the windows in time or, reaching the outer walls, with the flames close upon them suffered a horrible death by suffocation rather than make the hopeless attempt to save their lives by jumping forty or fifty feet to the stone pavement, can only be conjectured. The hotel was gutted before the firemen had made the slightest headway in checking the flames. Indeed, it required their most heroic efforts to save the human life imperiled in the fastburning wooden structure. Nothing of the contents of the hotel or the baggage of the guests was saved, and it is doubtful if in their rush for their lives any of these frightened people took time to gather up any valuables they may have had near them at the time the alarm was sounded. When the fire was at its greatest heat burning embers were carried in great clouds across St. Charles street and rained upon the roof of the building on the opposite corner of SL Charles and Gravier streets, in which are located the offices of the Western Union Telegraph Co. (This building could not be protected .and was soon ablaze in a dozen places. The St. Charles hotel was one of the finest establishments of its kind in the south. ,It was built in 1856 at a cost of about 81,000,000.

TH£ HORROR GROWS. Later. News from Greece Detailing the Destruction by the Late Earthquakes. Athens, April 30. — The latest reports from Atalanta say that on Friday 365 shocks of earthquake were felt there in eight hours. For two hours tiie trembling of the earth was almost continuous. For a radius of three and a half miles, on^every side of the town, the fields and highways have been torn with deep fissures. The sea has encroached upon the shore about sixty feet. Vast masses of rock have been loosened in the mountains and have tolled down into the lowlands. The people were warned almost constantly on Friday and Saturday by rumbling and loud reports under the mountain sides. The shores of the large island of F.uboca, which lies off the coast Boetia and Attica, has sunk six feet and a half. The Aidipso sulphur springs are emitting torrents of boiling water. Dispatches from all parts of the kingdom indicate that former reports of death and damage to property have underestimated the losses. The list of dead and injured grows hourly. The misery in the smaller towns of the stricken districts is extreme. Hundreds who were prosperous householders before the earthquakes, are now without food and shelter for their families and are begging for help. The government continues to do all in its power to relieve the suffering, but the burden is beyond its means, and scores of families are already on the verge of starvation. $> He Held Four Aces. But They Weren’t In ' ( It with Death’s Flush. Philadelphia, April 29.—Arthur S. Poulterer, champion skittle player of the United States, and well known at the race tracks, while playing poker Friday night with friends, dropped from his chair and died almost instantly. The game had been in progress but a short time and Poulter had just discarded two cards. Hardly had he picked up those given him when he was noticed to drop his hand and a moment after he reeled and fell. When his cards were picked up later it was found that he held four aces.

ON FEDERAL GROUND. Comj’i IUcrmI and Foot-Sore Army Enter the District of Columbia—Rrpori of District Detectives—To Be Inspected By Health Oflicers and Possibly Quarantined and Isolated—To Assemble on the Steps of the Capitol If Permitted. Washington, April 29.—Coxey ts ragged and fool sore army marched into the District of. Colombia today, and are encamped to-night on Federal territory within a few miles of the capital. Coxey sleeps at a hotel, v/liere he joined his wife and child this afternoon. The rank and file of the “army” lie on the damp ground in Brightwood Driving park, where thousands inspected them to-day. - , There was no incident in the march from Rockville until the advance guard arrived at the junction of the Brookville pike,; where about 150 bicyclists, including Spooner, of Chicago, the amateur long-distance champion, were drawn up in line. They asked for a speech, and Coxey complied. A toll gate was shortly afterward reached, and. after remonstrances, the general paid 08 cents and passed through with his mounted men. ’ ' Mountebank Smith, ‘‘the unknown,” with his meager contingent of deserters, had marched his men from Rockville irf advance of their former comrades, and they established a temporary camp at Silver Springs near the district line. < " A squad of a dozen cavalrymen of the regular service from Fort Myer, who were giving their horses an airing, likewise bivouacked at Silver Springs and waited there until the army came along, which they did early in the afternoon, marching by twos, each commune divided from another by a big wagon. There were 886 of them by actual count, including the advance guard and the Jones contingent from Philadelphia. At the entrance of the driving park was a sign stating that no admission would be charged to the park, but sightseers were expected to contribute something to help along the cause. Many contributions were collected ia this way. Precautions in Washington Against the Cominouwealers. Washington, April 29.—Yesterday afternoon Chief of Police Moore issued a general order concerning the conduct of his men during the Coxey invasion. It is as follows: Your number will be increased temporarily, and it is exp^pted that members of the thus augmented force will conduct themselves, with that discretion at all times as will meet the expectations of the community and reflect credit UDon the department. Remember that you are serving the people, and should conduct yourselves as gentlemen. Pay especial attention to the protection of persons and property within the tontines of your beat. ? Extend to strangers in the city every courtesy.

auspicious and idle persons caught lounging about public places or institutions, begging upon the public streets, or from door to door, should be dispersed or apprehended. Do not use force in making an arrest unless absolutely necessary, and never make a personal matter of an arrest. Keep your heads clear and eyes open, and make no distinction in persons in maintaining the law. The first principle to be remembered is the - prevention of disorder and crime. The two Washington detectives who joined the Coxey army at Cumberland have made their report to the chief of police. They say the army is mostly composed of disreputable crowds of '‘bums” and “hoboes,” numbering 275; about forty have labor union cards, but the rest-would not work, if they could get it, and those belonging' to labor unions were of the kind that never stick to a job longer than two weeks. One of the officers saj’st “The army is in a badly disorganized state. The men are dirty, and some of them are covered with vermin. Take them all in all, they are the most forlorn Set of men that ever walked through the Maryland flails.” Osman, one of the Coxey lieutenants, arrived in town yesterday to arrange with Col. Redstone, the local Commonweal agent, for a route to the capitol and for the meeting on the capitol steps. He and Redstone saw several populist congressmen. Residents of that part of Washington outside the eit.y limits are trying to devise means for their protection while the army is in the vicinity of their homes, and it was decided to ask the commissioners for police aid in so doing. Dr. Hammett, the health officer, said yesterday that he would visit the camp Monday with a number of inspectors and physicians to decide whether the sanitary laws have been violated. “In thes event that any contagious disease appears in camp,” said Dr. Hammett, “it will be necessary to quarantine the entire crowd and isolate any person or persons afflicted with the disease; Leonard van Harken, the Commonweal bugler, and Tom Murphy, vyhom Coxey dismissed from the army, were arraigned in the police court yesterday for begging on the streets and sent to the workhouse for thirty days. A sergeant of police was placed on duty at the White House yesterday, there now twenty-two. Fifteen policemen will be on duty in and about the White House every night and seven in the day, in addition to the ushers and messengers, who are authorized to act as police officers. Col. Redstone says he has secured a tent that will hold 1,500 people, and he will send it to Brightwood park to be used for Coxey’s meetings. He says Coxey’s circus tent, of which so much has be^n heard, will hold 7,000 people. There’s No Vacancy Contemplated In theWashington, April 29.—It is understood that Inspector-General James A. Dumont of the steamboat inspection service will not be disturbed from his position, notwithstanding the efforts of numerous candidates, among whom Mr. Dewitt C, Cregier, of Chicago, was prominent. The president has intimated that as there is no vacancy contemplated in the office he does not care to examine any applications for it. Gen. Dumont was appointed to his position during Gen. Grant’s second administration. making the total Inspector-Generalship.