Show V 2 WASHINGTON LETTER r Immense Number of Republican Republi-can Boomlets NATIONAL OPERA COMPANY Nominal FaUureTbrceJudiclal Ita Sad FailureThree lonsCorcoran the Ffcilan tUroj > lst At Home Again Etc WASHINGTON D C Feb 2S3pecial LAKE HERALDSiuce the to THE SALT receipt of Blaines letter of declination the slatemakers have plenty to do Where before there was only one name there are now a hundred Every man of any degree of prominence in the Republican Re-publican party is a candidate or hopes to be and the immense number of little boomlets that are being nursed is a sight that would make the most confirmed con-firmed dyspeptic laugh could he but L view the scene The men who could r uudouotedly maKe a good fight are conspicuous con-spicuous by reason of their refusals re-fusals to lead the Republican hosts in the next campaign Sheridan was of these the moat powerful candidate but he insists that nothing could induce him to accept the nomination Another man who could unite the entire party and steal no small number of Democratic votes would be George W Childs of Philadelphia Phila-delphia but he has refused in language but implicit guage that admits of nothing plicit belief in every word Sherman and Allison are both busy and hopeful while hundreds of eyes are watching for the first slip that either of them may make so as to take advantage of the opportunity In addition to these the staule ia full of dark horses ranging from the genuine thoroughbred down to the wornout plowhorse In the Democratic camp there is comparative peace for with the exception a word or so from David Bennett Hill there would seem to be but one man for the nomination and that man is Grover i Cleveland Prejid2iit of the United J States The great NATIONAL OPERA COMPANY came to grief in this city on Saturday night and as a coasequenca a whole I army of chorus girls and minor actors were thrown on the streets without money or hope of getting any The stars had all been engaged at enormous salaries and although i al-though their payments were more or less in arrears still they had received a sufficient sum to pay them at least as much as they had ever j before received for their vocal efforts r After much financiering it was found that a sufficient sum of money could be raised to transport the entire company I which was composed in the main of Germans Italians Spaniards and Frenchto New York and things looked brighter The troublehowever culminated on Sunday afternoon in the arrest of the manager and proprietor propri-etor Charles E Locke on a warrant sworn out by Eloi Silva and Mrs Bertha Pierson charging Mr Locko with swindling them by means of bogus checks During the disastrous weeks engagement in Richmond and Norfolk there were fre qnent complaints concerning the arrears in salaries and on Sunday the 10h inst when the company was about to return to this city Mrs Pierson refused to continue the engagement engage-ment unless some money was paid Mr Locke promptly drew up a check for 200 on Messrs Corson McOartney the well known bankers of this city and gave it to her On the following day Mr Silva struck for a portion of his salary and Mr Locke satisfied him by drawing a check on tae same firm for 9JO The checks were presented for payment and then it was learned that Mr Locke had no account with the bank on which they were drawn Still it was thought he might open an account ac-count here during theweek and frequent calls were made by the dissatified artists but the deposit was never made and on Saturday night when affairs reached a climax Mr Silva and Mr Pierson became be-came satiificd of the worthlessness of I their checks Accordingly they swore out awarrantyesterdayfor Mr Lockes arrest and it was put in the hands of Detective Half Mr Locke had just concluded a conference with the members mem-bers of the company at the theatre and was sitting in the box office watching watch-ing Mr Ludwig divide up the remains of the weeks receipts among the chorus girls and ballet dcneers when the detective de-tective armed with the warrant put in an appearance and created p A LITTLE SENSATION t Mr Locke accompanied the officer to polica headquarters and in a short time secured satisfactory bondsmen bonds-men and was released Yesterday morning the charge against him wa dismissed in the police court because both Mrs Pierson and Mr Sylva testified testi-fied that they knew when they received re-ceived toe checks that there was no I money in the bank Mr Locke had said there would be some and they had believed be-lieved him Mr Locke immedia e y entered suit against both Silva an I Pierson for false imprisonment laying his demages at the modest sum of 20000 He is a Iran man now but national opera is dead I I gw = THREE JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS were the only ones of imp rtauce sent to the Senate by the President during the past week and they were the nomi nations of associate justices for Dt I koto Montana and Washington Territories Terri-tories The first of the trio John E Car land of DakotI is comparatively unknown un-known here but the two others have many friends The Montana judge is Moses J Liddle cf Louisiana and his appointment is regarded as oeing an excellent one in every respect He was appointed on the solicitation principally princi-pally of Representative Blanchard chairman of the House committee commit-tee on rivers and harbors Judge Liddle was endorsed by the entire Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana Louisi-ana and by about thirty justices of the district circuit and State courts The third apnointment was that of Lucius B Nash of Washington Territory and there will be lots of fun over his having secured the position in spite of the efforts of Delegate Voorhees who hates him to an unlimited extent while Nash returns the feeling with interest Judge Nash is a resident of Spokane Falls and owes his appointment to Attorney General Garland whose law partner he was some years ago in Arkansas He is a good fellow a firstrat storyteller and one of the bhoys generally The secret or EXECUTIVE SESSIONS 01 THE SENATE will have to go and the many movements move-ments that are being made toward bringing about that devoutly cbe wishedfor consummation are watched with interest At present the advocates of such a course are in a decided minority min-ority but they continue to hammer away at the doors of prejudice and fogeyism in such a manner that sounds as though they meant business Senator Platt is the enthusiast Ho never misses an opportunity to doa do-a little missionary work for the good cause and that he will lu u measure succeed this session is almost certain for he has succeeded in securing from the committee on rules a favorable report on an amendment to the rules which will if adopted and there is every reason to believe it will be leave it obtional with the Senate whether it will consider anything in secret session Probibly no private citizen of the capital ever had so great a gathering of distinguished people at his funeral as the crowd that stood yesterday with bowed heads while Her Dr Leonard recited the beautiful burial service over the remains of WILLIAM WILSON CORCORAN Mrs Cleveland was present and elm had brought with her a beautiful flora pillow as her token of respect and love for the dead philanthropist The Cab net the Supreme I Court the Senate the House the army and navy the Executive Ex-ecutive Departments were all fully represented rep-resented while citizens who like ilr Corcoaujlived in tht privacy that is so common here among retired businessmen men were very numerous indeed The flowers that decked the casket wera of the rarest kind and they were present in such profusion that their kaleidoscopic kaleido-scopic hues wearied the eye It J was a fitting close to the beautiful iifE Around his grave in the chilling evening even-ing wind stood thousands of those who haa been made happier byj his munificent mu-nificent benefactionsaud when the children dren who are sheltered in the great orphan asylum he founded sang their sad childish hymns there was no heart in that vast assemblage that was not more deeply toiched The courts and the district offices were closed for the day and nearly every flag in the city was at halfmast THE PRESIDENT AND HIS CHARMING wire have returned from their flying trip to Florida and have settled down to the quiet uneventful celebration of Lent for all society respects Lent in this city that is to a certain extent Mrs Cleveland enjoys having her friends come in for the evening and those who are musically gifted are sure of her interest in-terest and appreciation The musical evenings are by no means of rare occurrence occur-rence at the Whito House and if the names of those who contribute to the impromptu programmes were printed it would create a little stir In the face of the fact that in this city is the central bureau of the United States Secret Service a firm of DEALERS IN GREEN GOODS has established itself here and is doing a remarkl ble business among those who are foolish enough to invest hard earned cash in their delusive profession A number of people who ought to know better have forwarded cash to the firm expecting to receive in return four times as much in counterfeit notes 1 that cannot possibly be detected They have been bitten and nobody regrets re-grets it but themselves A sensational dispatch arrived here yesterday and in certain circles it caused an awful howl It was only a statement that Miss Fellows of Pierre Dakota was engaged to marry a full blooded Sioux Indian who resides near theschool where she is now teaching Miss Fellows is very well known in this city and the news trays ed as such news always does with extraordinary rapidity ra-pidity Today the father of the young lady came out with a strong denial of the whole story and threatens for his daughter to sue the party who originated origi-nated the dispatch and sent it broadcast broad-cast over the entire country THE EASTERN FRIENDS Of the noble red man are now engaged en-gaged in fighting the Commissioner of Indian Affairs on a matter that they claim is of considerable weight and interest in-terest viz Tne education of Indian children in their native tongues The war has been waging for some time in the departments but finding themselves them-selves worsted there tie Indians friends have gone to Congress with their woes The amount of encouragement encourage-ment they received in the Senate was neither large nor cheering t soyesterday Mr Kayne of Pennsylvania offered a resolution which recites the allegation that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs Af-fairs has forbidden missionaries from teaching the sacred scriptures in the native language of the Indians in any schoolsupported In past by the United 0 States The resolution calls upon the I Secretary of the Interior for information informa-tion as to the authority at law under which the commissioners order was Issued |