Show J I NEWS OF THE DAY i All the lady clerks in the Baltimore post office have been notified that after Septem I her 30th their services will not be required The round trip fare for members of the G A K to San Francisco from New York at their reunion next year is expected to be about 75 I If Gerster can leave her babies it is said I that she will fill an American engagement next fall Patti is also expected to make another farewell tour t Stanley Huntley a popular journalist I and author of the 6 Spoopendike Papers l died on Thursday night at his residence on WEst Fortyfifth street in New York I A magnificent floral memorial was re ceivfid at tbeJSrant cottage last evening from I exGovernor Stanford of California I and Mrs Stanford representing The Gates t Ajar 1 The meals for the Grant family at the I Drexel cottage have been supplied from the neighboring hotel at 57 per day for fourteen four-teen persons and Mr Drexel has sent a I weekly check of 399 to the hotel proprietor Adjutant General said yesterday I that any or all of General Grants uniforms or swords were at the disposal of Mrs Grant I it having been regretted that tKo General was not to be buried in one of his uniforms I with a sword by his side Judge Terry who killed Senator Brod oricks in the early days of California attacked at-tacked an attorney in the Sharon case yesterday in San Francisco The attorney drew a revolver and Terry also drew one when the former fled No shots were exchanged ex-changed J Captain James Coogan of New York City is negotiating for the purchase of the house at Point Pleasant Ohio in which U General Grant was born with a view to 11 having it set up in Central Park He offers 5000 for it The owner Michael E Hirsch wants 10000 Roach the patriot and Whitney the dude is the way the organs refer to a couple of prominent citizens Roach is the man who attempts to put himself above the law and Whitney is the peoples representative who insists that the law applies to Roach as well as everybody else Mr Edwards president of the Cleveland Cleve-land Association telegraphed W H Vanderbilt Van-derbilt Thursday night that he believed Maud S could trot in 207 Yesterday Vanderbilt Van-derbilt wired the following Wonderful mare I congratulate Mr Bonner you the mare Mr Bair and all hands May she yet do what you predict In Rising Fawn Georgia some unknown person tore down a flag that had been placed at halfmast in front of the postoflice in Honor of General Grant E G Chadwick the postmaster replaced it threatened to kill any man touching it and stood guard over it all night with a shotgun There was no further attempt to molest the flag Several months ago a masked body of I men visited the residence of Professor P J Slocum a school teacher near Horse Cave Kentucky Slocum fired into the crowd and I I killed three of them Slocum yesterday bean i be-an a suit for 25000 against nineteen of tho j best citizens of Hart county charging them with conspiracy to drive him out of the I county A New York dispatch says Nine men got into bnckeHo day to be hauled to the top of a shaft connecting with fheaiew Croton acqueduct When sixty feet up tlie bucket caught on a projection and tipped Fou men were thrown out Two clung to the bucket and the other two William Cunningham Cunning-ham and Timothy Harrington were dashed to death The programme at Mount McGregor on Tuesday is as follows Scripture reading 90th psalm Prayer by Rev Bishop Harris of the Methodist Episcopal church New York A hymn My Father Looks Up to Thee Discourse by Rev J P Newman Hymn 4 Nearer My God to Thee Benediction Bene-diction Contralto solo Beyond the Smiling Smil-ing and the Weeping Samuel J Tilden wrote Mayor Grace of New York regretting that the delicate condition con-dition of his health would not allow him togo to-go to the city to attend the meeting He would nevertheless have a melancholy satisfaction satis-faction in cooperating in such measures as the committee may desire for the erection of a monument to commemorate the transcendent transcend-ent services of General Grant to our country The incoming Leadville passenger train due at Denver at 930 last evening exploded a dynamite I cartridge about two and a half miles south of that city The engine and j tender were badly wrecked and one length of the track was torn out The passengers distinctly were uninjured The explosion was tinctly heard within a radius of ton miles The popular belief is that the outrage is the work of strikers Ed H Gillman issues challenge to any oarsman in the world and especially to Beach of Australia to row Hanlon on the Detroit De-troit river any distance at any time agreed upon for 5000 a side Gillman will put up 500 or 1000 forfeit with any reliable newspaper news-paper in the United States and will put up the whole 5000 before Beach leaves Australia Aus-tralia if necessary Baranquilla has been taken by the forces of the Colombian Government and is soon to be open to commerce Preston who since his escape from Aspinwall after its surrender to the national troops has been operating with the rebels at Baranquilla was made a prisoner and will be tried for the part he has taken in the rebellion There are no leaders left who are able to do anything any-thing with the remaining shattered forces of tho rebels That interesting corporation known as the Wood Preserving Company of Boston which a committee of naval officers recently declared had a process that was absolutely worthless now wants to put the law on somebody for libel This Wood Preserving Company was organized to preserve wood for the government It got about 200000 out of Robeson and Chandler and then it ran a stump Mr Whitney had an investigation up vestigation and found that the wood that had been preserved was considerably more rotten than some that had not been and he declined to have anything further to do with the game Three negroes George Wilson Charles Davis and Mathilda Jones were executed yesterday at Plague Mine Louisiana for the murder and robbery of Mrs Harriet witness The principal i Cole last January colored against the prisoners was a little girl the servant of Mrs Cole at the time of the murder She heard the murderers conspire con-spire to rob her mistress and gave them the information about Mrs Cole money and the in l jewelry and saw them with jewelry their possession after the murder The con I 1 i cr Vnnrs entered Mrs Coles dwelling i strangled her to death and robbed the house diamonds and other valuables I of the money all at S did not sleep ables The prisoners I Mathilda Jones said in the morning I die and thought I she was ready to I would to heaven She appeared i she go g allude Ito t I cheerful and did not peared quite crime On the scaffold she was extremely i to the Good and after saying tremely nervous t I and singing to all and while shouting I bye and fell from tho I completely she gave way drawn was as the black cap < scaffold just fainted face When the woman over her Davis and then fell off the she fell against and caught Davis lost his balance j gallows to the right which held hold of the ropes the I i that position when j 1 and was in i the trap standing cooly all trap fell at 1245 Wilson of i fell the ropes j the time After the trap i the woman and Davis were hands twisted loose together in her I j 1 The woman got her at everything in and grasped I I struggling reach Life was declared extinct fourteen j minutes after the trap fell |