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Show PULLED KIMpS KAIL The Insult That Eesulted in the Murder of Fx-Conursssraan Taulbae at tha National Capital. OTHEE NEWS FROM WASHINGTON Statistics From tho Flack Bolt A ?al-entiua ?al-entiua Ecrin Decision Wara:naker and tin New Postal Subsidies, Washington, March '.Ml. A number of witnesses In the Kincaid trial were examined this morning. William Mo-Cormick, Mo-Cormick, one of tho doorkeepers of the house said hs heard Taulbeo call Kincaid Kin-caid a liar before the shooting occurred. About nu hour and aquartcr afterwards Kincaid returned and asked the witness' advice as to what he should do in r gard to the trouble, 'the witness replied that he had uo advice to give. Kincaid said: "I am not ablo to cope with such a man as 'J'nulbee, I have been sick and w eak; more than that, 1 w as not armed. I did not even have my cane." Then Kincaid ieft and walked rapidly to the head of the stairway. In a short time about naif a minute the witness heard the report of a pistol. On cross examination he denied having hoard Taulbee called Kincaid a "dirty liar," "monkey," "mon-key," or "damned little coward," nor did he bear Taulbeo tell Kincaid to go anil arm himself. Kobert Woodhridgo another doorkeeper, door-keeper, substantially corroborated Mccormick's Mc-cormick's testimony, except that he tesiiiied having seen Taulbee pull Kin-caid's Kin-caid's ear. nt.ACK I1K1.T statistics. Tho census bureau has in preparation a bulletin giving tho population of the south Atlaulic and south central states of Missouri and Kansas, by races. The total population embraced in this count is given as 2.'(, H.5.2 A of which 1 O.Wirt, -'.'(lo aro white, xt.UlMi.16U colored and 1(),HH Chinese, Japanse and Indians. In the states included were found in 18W0 fifteen-sixteenths of the entire colored population of the LInited States, so for the purpose of ascertaining the percentage percent-age of iucrease of the colored population popula-tion the returns of these states are adequate. The abnormal increase in the colored population in what is known as tho "black belt" during the decade ending in 1HU0 led to a popular belief that negroes were increasing at much larger rale than the whites. The facts now ascertained sustain that the high rate shown in ISM) was apparent, not real, and was due to imperfect enumeration enum-eration in tho southern states in lr(70. During the past decade the colored race has not hold its own against the whites. In but threo decades de-cades that is from 1800 to 18110, during part ol which time the slave trade was in progress the colored race increased more rapidly thau the whites. Since 1W tho whites have steadily increased st a more rapid rate than the colored people. This increase is not effected by immigration, for, with the exception of Kansas and Missouri, these states received re-ceived comparatively few immigrants. In 1S:J0 there were nearly six colored inhabitants to ten white, but this proportion pro-portion has been reduced to a trifle more than four at the present date, or by nearly one-third of its amount. A VALENTINE SCKIP DECISION. Secretary Noble yesterday rendered a decision affirming the action of the commissioner of the general land oflice in rejecting the application of Cyrus P. Clapp to locate Valentine scrip on 320 acres of unsurveyed land adjacent to the town of Port Angelas, Wash. The ground for the action is that the land sought to he entered is within the Port Angeles townsile reservation, and held iu reserve under the act locating tbo townsite, and therefore uot subject to location. Y THE NEXT STEAM KK. The attorney-general has received a letter from Judge Rugbee, judge of the district court of Alaska, acknowledging acknowledg-ing service of the rule made by the United States supreme court to show cause why a writ of prohibition should not bo issued in tho case of the British sealer Sayward, and saying that he expected ex-pected to make a rcturu by tho next steamer. WANAMAKKK IS ALL UKiilT. Postmaster General Wanamaker has invited the diplomatic representatives of the various South American countries coun-tries to confer with him regarding plans for facilitating the mail service under the new postal subsidy, etc. He has also bad a number of conferences with representatives of ocean steamship lines. It has been made clear to these gentlemen that while the purpose of the postmaster-general is to be liberal to American shipping interests ho will insist upon making contracts that shall really be for the interest of the government. |