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4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH oq; 1895. THEIR FORTUNE GONE Alexander Majors’ Wife and Daughter Are Destitute. TO A POOREOUSE HOME, Application Made to a County Judge for a Private Com- mitment. YET FASHIONABLY DRESSED. Rather Than Appeal to Millionaire Relatives They Prefer Becom~ ing Public Paupers. K AS CITY, Mo., March —Once rich,and that not many years ago, pos- se! a wardrobe and diamonds deemed consistent with women of their reputed means, eling in Europe as wealthy tourists travel, Mrs. Alexander Majorsand her daughter return finally to Kansas City, their old home, their diamonds in pawn, their costly wardrobe almost depleted, and being no longer able to pav for even the meanest lodgings they confessed to Judge Stone of the County Court that they were destitute and asked to be sent to the County Poorhouse. They are of the family of Alexander Majors, once classed among the wealthiest citizens of Kansas ( He was one of the pioneer freighters across the plains. The Mrs who now wishes to be- come a irge is his second wife. She told Judge Stone she had a er liv- ing in Chicago whose husband was a mil- lionaire, but rather than appeal to them for help she chose to go into the oblivion of Poor Farm with her daughter. riendless women were waiting at ome at 3032 Prospect ave- ¢ evening when he returned - says he could hardly e in earnest when they r wants known. The mother, the g , wore a dress that must have cost $100 and it w: for wear, and the daughter, a comel of 21 or thereabouts, was also clad. The parted from and that while they become penniless in California and wrote them that he could not provide for them. Since then everything of value they owned had gone to the pawnbrokers for means to none the worse girl take them home and keep them alive. Judge Stone ed them why th did not make an rt to find work, and Mrs. Majors replied that they could not, whether meaning that they were physically unable todo so or were not so disposed Judge Stone did not inquire. He says they both looked in good health. Judge Stone told the applicants that while he regretted the necessity they would ear before the County Court, as ity to act in the matter alone. The women asked to be excused from that ordeal and Judge Stone replied that his colleagues bad to sign the order of committal as well as himself and that they would be spared any unnecessary publicity. - They went away saying that they would appear before the court yester- day, but they did not. Alexander Majors is one of the most widely known pioneers in the Southwest. He is living in Los Angeles, Cal., to-day at the advanced age of About & year ago he published a book about travel on the plains in the early day: He was an over- land freighter and a friend of the noted F. He lived at Westport and still calls this place his home. Mr. Majors was one of the freighting firm of Russell, Ma- jors & Waddel and was reported to be a man of great wealth in his palmy days. | The noted Missouri River steamer Alexan- der Majors was nam fter him. He would not allow his teamsters to swear or abuse the animals and he dpily held divine worship in crossing the plains. Adverse fortune of late years deprived him of most of his means. He has recently been em- ployed as a mining expert, ALL FOR IRRIGATION, Smythe Says the Causeof the Westis the Cause of the Nation. BOSTON, Mass., March 26, —Chairman William E. Smythe of the National Irriga- tion Committee, representing the Irrigation Congress of the Western States, inaugurated an earnest campaign for his cause last night. Edward Everett Hale presided over the meeting and made a vigorous speech in favor of an organized effort to divert the surplus population to the sur- plus lands, Smythe declared that “The cause of the West is the cause of the nation.” He presented telegrams from the public offi- cials of Wyoming, Idaho, Washington and Montana announcing that each of these States has passed legislation accepting a grant of 1,000,000 acres of public lands on condition that they be reclaimed and set- tled. Lot THE STEAMSHIP DIEGO LOST. At Least It Is Peared That She Has Foundered. MEXICO CITY, Mex., March 26,—A telegram releived by Senor Joaquin Redo states that fears were entertained in Mazat- lan of the foundering on the 24th inst. of the steamship Diego, bound for La Paz, Lower California, from Guaymas. A steamer has left the latter place in search of the missing vessel in San Francisco to replace the’ steamship Alejandro, recently purchased by the Mexican Government for the transportatien of troops to Oaxaca. AU o SYBIL SAILS FOR PARIS. Miss Sanderson Says She TWill Retire From the Stage. NEW YORK, N.Y. March 26.—Sybil Sanderson, the prima donna, sailed for Paris om La Gascogne last Saturday. An- other passenger is Don Antonio Terry. Miss Sanderson is reported to have said to Ler close friends before her departure that she would never again return to this coun- try, her native land, where, she said, she has been terribly abused. It isalso stated that she will retire from the stage. I T Was Jeff Davis’ Classmate. CUTHBERT, Ga., March 26.—Solomon D. Bell died to-day. He was a classmate of Jefferson Davis at West Point and was first mate on the steamship Brandywine, which took Lafayette to France. He was 69 years of age. Work for ex-Pullman Men. HIAWATHA, Kaxs, March 26.—The " thirty-two ex-Pullman workmen_ brought |. here last fall have succeeded in interesting apitalists to start them in the manufac- turing business. A building and two acres of ground have been bought for them and they hope to be at work for themselves in- side of a week. 5 A JEALOUSY ‘D LA GRIPPE. Failure of an Attempt to Murder a Housekeeper. LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 25.—In a fit of jealous insanity, brought on by remorse and the grippe, James W. McGarvey made an attempt to-day to murder his house- keeper, Sadie Martin, and kill himself. While the woman'’s back was turned Mec- Garvey struck her on the head with a hatchet. She tore herself from his grasp and holding a chair before her kept him away. John McGarvey, a son, threw his father to the floor and dragged Miss Martin out of the room. Later McGarvey tried to beat his brains out with a hatchet. His neck and head are badly cut, but the injuries are not necessarily fatal. A long gash” was cut on Miss Martin’s head just back of the left ear. Her chances of recovery are slight. e MAGGIE TILLER CONDEMNED, She Will Be the First Woman Hanged in Chicago. CHICAGO, Iin., March 26. — Maggie Tiller, colored, was to-day condemned to be hanged. If the sentence is carried out, it will be the first execution of a woman in Chicago. Maggie was infatuated with Charles Miller, colored. On December 14 she found Miller in company with Freda Hunting- ton, colored. She drew a revolver and Miller rushed to the third-story window. As Miller leaped to the sill Miss Tiller fired two shots, striking him in the head. His foot caught in the drapery and he hung head downward from the window, dying in view of a large crowd. The de- fense was insanity. RECALLS A REAL ROMANCE. NOAH STREVILLE ARRESTED ON A CHARGE OF MURDERING His FATHER. BY STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCE THE AC- cusep NEVER MET His PARENT UNTIL LasT JULy. FORT SCOTT, K March 26.—Noah Streville, aged 28 years, son of Stewart Streville, the ranchman who was found before his own lonely hearth on his ranch, near this city, about two weeks ago, with his throat cut and his head crushed, was arrested to-day and charged with the mur- der of the father whom he had never seen until last July. This arrest revives the remarkable ro- mantic incidents of the murdered man’s life. In 1866 he left his wife, now Mrs. Boling, and an unborn babe in Bates County, Mo., near Crescent City. The babe was born a son and the mother having received word from Kansas City that her husband, who had so mysteriously disappeared, had been killed at Kansas City and thrown in the river married James Boling and moved to Bourbon County. The son grew to be 27 years of age and last July, by a strange coincidence, identi- fied his father, Stewart Streville, who had been married twenty-six years ago te an- other, and who was living on a ranch not twenty miles from where the boy and his mother had finally located. LA S T GADD PLEADS GUILTY. Sudden Conclusion of the Trial of the Embezzler. OMAHA, NEBR., March 26.—A special to the Bee from Lincoln, Nebr., says: The trial of Nathan T.Gadd for embezzling over $2300 of Government funds while at Broken Bow Land Office came to a sudden end this afternoon, Gadd pleading guilty. The case was one of great importance, the title to about forty homesteads in the State having been at one time jeopardized by Gadd’s embezzlement and theft of im- portant papers connected with final proofs and entries. Gadd was at one time in the ministry. e BLEW OPEN THE VAULT. Burgiars Used Dynamite and Made a Big Haul. ROCKFORD, Inx., March 26.—The vault in the Bank of Mount Morris was blown open with dynamite by burglars early this evening, wrecking the vault and fixtures. Nearly $10,000 was in the vault, but it is not believed that they secured any part of this. It is known that they got away with several hundred dollars in silver. The rob- bers stole a team and escaped. e THREE MIKLIONS INVOLVED. The Nashua Savings Bank Forced to Close Its Doors. NASHUA, N, H., March Nashua Savings Bank closed its doors this afternoon, an injunction having been issued against it on application of the Bank Commissioner. The principal reason given for taking action is the very large falling off in deposits. Nearly $3,000,000 are in- volved. The officials claim they will be able to pay dollar for dollar. 25. — The il el Phgmon’s Mrs. Stowe's Health Improving. HARTFORD, Coxx., March 26.—During the past few days the family of Harriet Beecher Stowe has been deluged with in- quiries as to the condition of the noted novelist; owing to the publication in New York of a storythat she had become vio- lently insane. Edward Beecher Hooker, her physician, to-day issued a card in which he states that Mrs. Stowe is in bet- ter health than usual. e Reed Makes No Speeches This Spring. PORTLAND, Mg, March 26.—Hon. Thomas B. Reed stated to an Associated Press reporter to-day that he will make no speeches this spring unless an extra session of Congress calls him to Washington. He will remain in Portland until the summer, when he will sail for Europe with his family. R Victory for Crusaders. ST. LOU1S, Mo., March 26.—The Sunday- closing Association scored a-victory to-day after a great legal battle in the conviction of Jacob Kurtz, who was charged with selling whisky on Sunday. The crusadeis to be pushed vigorously. it L Without Military Protection. NEW ORLEANS, La.,March 26.—The ne- groes went to work on the levee this morning without military protection. The soldiers are held in the armories in case of trouble. —_—— Massachusetts Business Failure. DEDHAM, Mass., March 26.—The Steel Edge Stamping and Refining Company to-day filed schedules of insolvency. Liabilities $193,000, assets $100,000. ket v Sullivan Is Al Right. BOSTON, Mass., March 26.—John L. Sul- livan was bright and chipper to-night and will be able to be about in a day or two. e e ALL THE new cards, booklets and Easter nov- elties are here. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. ¥ * v L0SS OF A MILLION. Fire Destroys Business Blocks in the Heart of Milwaukee. SPREAD OF THE FLAMES. Worst in the History of Wis- consin’s Enterprising Metropolis. CHICAGO ALSO A SUFFERER. Damage Done in a Big Store and Several Persons Badly Injured. MILWAUKEE, Wis.,, March 26.—Fire broke out to-night in a five-story block on Grand avenue, owned by the Plankin- ton estate, and completely destroyed the building and contents. It was occupied by Landaur & Co., wholesale dry goods, and Tanner & Co., furnishing goods. The loss will be very heavy. At 1:45 A. a. the fire is believed to be under control. It has now become one of the worst fires in the history of the city. The flames were carried across the street to the Y. M. C. A. building on the north, one of the handsomest and most com- pletely equipped in the West, and that is now a total loss. To the north the flames have secured a foothold on the Plankinton building. At this writing the loss exceeds $1,000,000, the heaviest losses being: Plankinton estate, five - story build- ing, loss unknown; Tanner & Co., wholesale and retail furnishings, loss $100,000, insurance $80,000; Belden Com- pany, retail clothing, adjoining Plankinton block, loss unknown; Groebet & Rhein- hart, art goods and picture frames, par- tially burned and wholly ruined by heat and water, insured $60,000; Y.M.C. A. building, $75,000. There are many minor losses, including small stores and flats. CHICAGO, IrL., March 26.—A fire which broké out in the basement of the Bell Clothing-house, at the corner of State and Quincey streets, to-day, destroyed the en- tire contents of the establishment ahove the second floor and left only the walls of the building from that floor to the ground standing. Occurring at the busiest hour of the day, with the store crowded with cus- tomers and employes and the flames run- ning through the building like a train of | powder, filling every nook and corner with smoke, it was remarkable that no lives were lost. In attempting to escape from the build- ing the following persons were injured: C. H. Smith, leg broken in jumping from the second floor and bruised about the body; Dick Burns, elevator-boy, slightly burned about the face; Grace Mertell, clerk, bruised by a fall and carried from the building; Helen Ceesar, clerk in store adjoining the buriing building, overcome by smoke. Samuel Cohn, salesman, and John Dichel, the engineer, had a narrow escape from death. They were on the third floor of the building and did not hear the alarm of fire when first given. Both tried to get down- stairs and were about to jump, but the shouts of the crowd below warned them not to do so. It became too hot for them in the window and both men, grasping a sign which extended across the building just below the third-story window, swung off and held on to the projection until they were taken down by the firemen. The loss on the building was $16,000 and on stock $50,000. The building was in- sured for $30,000 and the stock for $80,000. Five buildings were destroyed by fire at South Chicago this morning at Ninety-fifth street and Commercial avenue. In one of the buildings was located Conboy’s Hall, where a great amount of regalia of secret societies that hold their meetings there was kept. The occupants of the house had to flee in their night clothes. The loss is estimated at $50,000. SCANDALS OF THE TRUST. DISCLOSURES THAT MONEYS WERE NOT PROPERLY ACCOUNTED FOR. RAILROADS FAVORED THE COMBINE Wit ENORMOUS SuwMs AT REBATES. CHICAGO, March 26.—To-day’s disclos- ures of the extraordinary management of the whisky trust under the Greenhut regime was quite as startling as anything that has heretofore been developed by the examination of the books and papers. The inspectors appuinted by the reorgan- ization committe have, it is said, discov- ered that n'elrly $400,000 was paid by rail- roads, presumably for the benefit of the trust, but that not one dollar of it appears among the credit items on the books. The money was paid on rebate on ship- ments, and the men who received it, it is alleged, were among the highest officials of the trust. Only the outhnes of the story were allowed to leak out. In itsen- tirety it was preserved to be presented to the reorganization committee at its meet- ing in New York, and by the committee to be used as a basis for its future action in court against certain officers of the trust. The experts, it is said, accidentally hit on a clew which, followed up, disclosed to them that the trust had been a favorite of certain railroads. Extending over a con- siderable period they found that each car- load of spirits shipped was given a con- cession. The rebate amounted to from $7 to $11 a car, e PR Convention of Coal-Miners., SPRINGFIELD, Iuis., March 26. — A delegates convention of miners of Spring- field sub-districts was held here yesterday in answer to a cut in prices made by the operators at the Sangaman coal camp and the anticipated cut at all the mines. Reso- lutions were adopted requesting all miners in the district to refuse to work at any reduction in the scale. e Feud and Shotguns. BIRMINGHAM, Ava., March 26.—In a fight with shotguns in Macon County to- .| day, the result of a long-standing feud be- tween the Riddle and Christian families, Slab Riddle was killed and Charles Andrew was fatally wounded. ikt Michigan Election Law. LANBING, Micn.,, March 26.—The act recently passed by the Michigan Legisla, ture prohibiting the names of candidates for office from appearing on more than one party’s ticket was sustained by the Su- preme Court this afternoon. The question was raised by a mandamus proceeding brought against the Election Commissioners by Albert Todd of Kala- mazoo, who was a candidate for Congress- man on the Prohibition, Populist and Free Silver tickets. The court, while declaring the law valid, decided that it does not apply to Todd, as he was named by one party and indorsed by another before the act took effect. ——— .COVERS MANY DISTILLERIES. Big Quitclaim Deed FExecuted to the Whisky Trust. MILWAUKEE, Wis,, March 26.—A quitclaim deed to the largest amount of property embraced in any deed filed in Milwaukee in recent years was put into the hands of the Registrar of Deeds to-day. The deed recorded covers, besides the old Meiners distillery in Wautotsa, thirty- one other distilleries scattered over the country from New York to Galifornia. The deed was given at the direction of the United States Court for the Northern District of Illinois, by which President Greenhut was ordered to call a special meeting for the purpose of conveying propererty to three receivers. The distil- leries included are the Bay View of San Francisco, Pacific of San Francisco, Inter- national of Des Moines, Towa, and twenty- seven others in different parts of the country. Mr. Fisher of John Meiners & Sons stated that the deed was given by the Dis- tilling and Cattle-feeding Company, on account of the difficulties arising out of the charges which have been brought. The trust acquired possession of the distillery from the Meiners cogcern under highly satisfactory arrangements to the Messrs. Meiners. DOUGLASS DAUGHTER ACTS, AFRAID SHE WILL LOSE HER SHARE OF THE FREED- MAN'S ESTATE. ALARMED BY THE FAILURE OF THE Wipow 10 FILE THE WILL OF DECEASED. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 26— Rosette D. Sprague, daughter of Frederick Douglass, filed to-day a petition asking that pending the granting of letters of administration of the estate that letters of collection shall be issued, to the end that there may be no waste of the property. This petition recites the failure thus far to file any will or other papers on the part of the widow or kinsfolk of the dead man. Mrs, Sprague says she has reason to fear that it is the intention of those having the custody of the estate to delay any proper | proceedings looking to its lawful adminis- tration and that by such delay in the proper steps of the taking out of letters testamentary or of administration her rights will be impaired and the estate in a great measure be diminished and become wasted. i Mrs. Sprague says she believes the per- sonal estate of her father to be at least $40,000 in value. She also asks that letters testamentary may be granted to her. The estate, she recites, has been since Mr. Douglass’ death in the control of Helen Douglass, the widow, and Louis Douglass, one of the sons. FRUFTMEN AMALGAMATE. Three Organizations in New York to Be Merged Into One. NEW YORK,N. Y., March 26.—An amal- gamation of the fruitand produce interests of New York, after more than a year’s dis- cussion, has at last been decided upon. The consolidation will embrice the New York Fruit-buyers’ Union, the New York Fruit Exchange and the New York Fruit and Produce Exchange. The two former will be dissolved and the members will join the New York Fruit and Produce Exchange. The entire member- ship of the three will aggregate 450 fruit merchants. The governing committee of the New York Fruit Exchange has unlimited au- thority to act with similar committees from other exchanges to perfect the details of the scheme. ANNA DICKIN ON'S SUIT. The Famous Woman Gives Testimony Regarding Conspiracy Charges. SCRANTON, Pa., March 26.—Anna Dick- inson, the widely-known writer and lec- turer, was on the witness stand for three hours in the United States District Court here to-day. - The case was that in which she bronght suit to recover $125000 damages from James Courtwright, George B. Thompson, George Underwood and H. L. Bruden of Pittston and Dr. James Oglesby of Danyille on the charge that her confinement to the Danville Insane Asylum in 1891 was the result of a con- spiracy. Miss Dickinson told her story in a most dramatic way, at times rising to ner feet excitedly and once springing in the witness-box. She will be cross ex- amined to-morrow. ———— Triat of Banker Spurr. NASHVILLE, Texx., March 26.—Judge W. H. Taft of Cincinnati is holding a special term of the United States Court in this city for the trial of indictments against M. A. Spurr, charging him with violations of the national banking act. A jury was soon empaneled and the trial commenced. Frank Porterfield, the cashier of Spurr’s bank, and who is serving a ten years’ sentence in the Kings County prison for aiding in the wrecking the bank, is in the city and will be a witness for the Gov- ernment. ey Death of a Veteran Editor. CAMDEN, N. J., March 28.—Augustus 8. Baker, said to be the oldest newspaper man in New Jersey, died at his home in Woodbury, aged 86. He established the Constitution as an advocate of the Whig party, and was active in the management of his paper until four years ago, when he transferred it to his son, - Waylaid, Shot and Robbed. OCONTO, Wis., March 26.—J. A. Haines, treasurer of the town of Armstrong, was waylaid by two highwaymen to-night and shot and robbed of $900. On account of litigation which the town has with a tax- payers’ association he was ordered not to deposit the money in a bank. He is not fatally injured. Kentucky Dostor’s Sutoide. WARSAW, Kv., March 26.—Dr. D. B. Allen, one of Warsaw’s oldest and most srominent citizens, committed suicide to- ay. AR S McKinley Recovering. + THOMASVILLE, Ga., March 26.—Gov- ernor McKinley is rapidly convalescing | from a slight attack of the grip. e Ayt Langley’s Directory has 2594 more names than the opposition, Two maps. WITHOUT A REQUEST. Minister Thurston Left Washington for the West. REGARDED VERY KEEN. No Longer a Thorn in the Side of the Department of State. ON HIS WAY TO HONOLULU. Anxious to Confer With the Dole Government Before Action Is Taken. N\ WASHINGTON, D. C., March 26.—Min- ister Thurston has decided to leave this country without waiting for formal notice from his Government to return. He said he would start for San Francisco to-day and take the steamer sailing for Honolulu next week. He gave out the following au- thorized statement to-day: “I have received no information from my Government or from Gresham that my recall has been requested, and up to the present time there has been no change in my official relations with the State Depart- ment. Whether my recall bas been re- quested or not I do not know. In any event I shall not remain in Washington. There is nothing of especial importance to keep me here at present, while there are several matters requiring my attention at home. I shall therefore return to Hono- lulu immediately, leaving San Francisco on April 4.” Thurston declines to discuss any of the details of his departure, or the significance of it, pending the request of his recall. Frank P. Hastings, secretary of the lega- tion, will become charge d'affaires for Ha- waii. It is understood Mrs. Thurston will not make the trip with her husband, but will visit relatives in Michigan. Mr. Thursfon’s departure late this after- noon put an end to previous comment as to his purpose to remain in Washington as athorn in the side of the State Department. His statement does not make clear, how- ever, whether his absence is temporary or permanent and the Minister will not go into details. It is regarded as final, how- ever, in showing that he will not seek to remain in Washington as a source of any irritation.. There have been reports, be- lieved, however, to be baseless, that if he persisted in remaining in a private capac- ity the law would be evoked to have him deported, but Mr. Thurston’s statement is regarded as settling that there will be no occasion for forcing him out of the country. In some quarters Mr. Thurston’s move is regarded as a shrewd diplomatic stroke. It is recalled that he left unexpectedly about fifteen months ago, when the question of restoring the Queen to the throne wasata critical stage in Hawa. The Hawaiian Government was on the point of reaching a decision but had not yet done so. At this jnncture Mr. Thurston left Wash- ington.suddenly, his departure not being known until he was well on the way to San Francisco. He had full information as to the sentimentin the United States, and when he reached Hawaii his advice had much to do in the final action of the Government. It is being suggested, there- fore, that his departure at the present juncture, before it i¥ known what action the Hawaiian Government has taken on Secretary Gresham’s demand, may result in his being at Honolulu when final action is taken. No information has yet come from Hawaii as to the course of the Goy- ernment. The first ship to arrive is the Australia, expected at San Francisco to- morrow. The departure of Mr. Thurston from the United States without being recalled by his Government will leave the relations between this Government and Hawaii in a peculiar condition. It cannot be said that there is a rupture of diplomatic relations, but they will certainly be severely strained. It is customary in ordinary cases when a Minister leaves the United States perma- nently for him to present his letters of re- call to the President and take his leave, But as Mr. Thurston has not been recalled he cannot do this. Then when a Minister leaves the United States temporarily he usually addresses a note to the State De- partment and informs it that he has left the legation in the hands of a charge d’af- faires. Probably Mr. Thurston has adopted the latter course. But in the celebrated Catacazy case, in which the Russian Government had been requested to recall its objectionable Min- ister and the latter before his Government had passed upon the request notified the Department oi State that he proposed to leave the United States on a leave of ab- sence, Secretary Fish strongly objected and insisted that the United States would ac- cept nothing less than the Minister’s re- call. In the end Mr. Catacazy did leave the United States without being realled, just as Mr. Thurston is about to do, turn- ing over the business of the legation to a charge, and our Government accepted the situation and so expressed itself assatisfied. It was a long time before another Minister came from Russia to Washington and the similarity in other features of the two inci- dents leads to the supposition that the par- allel may be carried on further and that Mr. Hastings, the Hawaiian charge, may be left here in that position for many months. From a diplomatic point of view this cannot be regarded as a complete rup- ture of relations, but such a situation simi- lar to that in which the Italian legation was left by the withdrawalof Baron Fava, four years ago, is generally regarded as very unsatisfactory and is calculated to make Mr. Willis’ position as Minister at Honolulu untenable. OF INTEREST TO THE LOAST. Engineers to Be Appointed to Survey the Nicaragua Canal Route. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., March 26.—The Presi- dent is now considering the appointment of a board of engineers to survey a route for the Nicaragua Canal. Ten thousand dollars was appropriated for this purpose in the amend- ment offered by Senator Pasco to the sundry civil bill. The route is to be surveyed and a report made before November 1 next, as a pre- liminary to the construction of the waterway. It is stated on good authority that Colonel Craighill, formerly one of the War Department engineers stationed on the Pacific Coast and now in' charge of Maryland and Virglnia en- neering work, will be one of the three mem- 8. A. G. Menocal of the navy may be the second member, while the third will be an engineer appointed from civil life. It isnot known who this will be. postoffice was to-day established at Lytton, Humboldt County, Cal., with Alford Burk as Postmaster. s Mrs. Pheebe Hearst gave a young ladies’ luncheon to-day at her residence on New Hampshire avenue. Among the Pacific Coast arrivals to-dav are: « N rts, San Francisco; Thomas Corlett, BN, Boberts Soh Xhors, Saceamento. Pensions have been granted as follows: Ce fornia, additional — Jacob B. Andrews, San Jose; 'John R. Fleak, Redding. Original Widows, ete.—Susannal Blodgett, Geary; Mex- jcan War widow, Maria A. Easton, \'hlm ngton. —p— BEING BROKEN IN. Wilson Learning the Duties of the Post- master-General. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 26.—Ex- Representative Wilson, who will succeed Postmaster-General Bissell, probably next week, spent part of the day with Mr. Bissell at the department. It was the second time the two had met since Mr, Wilson’s nomi- nation, and they reviewed the work al- lotted to the Postmaster-General. Postmaster Hesing of Chicago, who has beer in the city several days, was at t.l)e department and had an interview with both theretiring and incoming Postmaster- Generals, Mr. Hesing’s visit is principally in connection with the new Chicago post- office building and the temporary struct- ure and he reviewed the plans with Secre- tary Carlisle to-day, making a number of important suggestions. Practically all of them were adopted and he left for Chicago to-night. E Detained Diamond-Cutters. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 26.—Dr. Semmer, Commissioner of Immigration at New York, in a telegram to Secretary Car- lisle, states that the sixty-one diamond- cutters in New York are likely to be dis- charged on a rehearing of their cases, and recommends that an offer of the steamship company to give bonds in case they will not become public charges be accepted. - Printing Stamps Is Counterfeiting. WASHINGTON, D.C., March 26.—Attor- ner-General Olney has decided that the printing of fac-similes of foreign stamps is a violation of the act of 1891, which inhibits the counterfeiring of foreign obligations or securities. FOR A NEW TORPEDO-BOAT. CONTRACT SIGNED BY SECRETARY HERBERT FOR A MODERN CRAFT. Mvust BE oF DOMESTIC MANUFAC- TURE AND A SPEED OF FIF- TEEN KNOTS. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., March 26.—A contract was signed to-day by Secretary Herbert with the John P. Holland Tor- pedo-boat Company for the construction of a submarine-boat for the use of the navy. The contract, which may mark a radical departure in naval construction, was signed only after a thorough consid- eration extending through a period of nearly two weeks on the subject of the submarine-boats and after various plans for such craft had been examined. The appropriation for ‘a submarine tor- pedo-boat was made over two years ago. The dimensions of the vessel contracted for are to be: Length 80 feet, diameter 11 feet, displacement (total when submerged) 13814 tons. All parts of the vessel and the steel to be used in her construction are to be of domestic manufacture. She is to be completed within twelve months from date under time penalties. The contract calls for a speed of fifteen knots when the boat is in a light condi- tion. The Secretary may refuse to accept the boat if it falls half a knot an hour be- low the speed named, or accept her at a reduced price. The price to be paid for the boat is fixed at $150,000. It is express- 1y stipulated that the United States shall bave the optional right to acquire the patent right for the Holland type of boat, the price to be paid for the rights to be de- termined by a board of three naval officers; the option to run until thirty days after the first session of Congress succeeding ac- ceptance of the vessel. This provision is to give an opportunity to enact legislation for the acquisition of the patent if desired. e Ohio Courthouse Fire. Onro, March 26.—The Trum- Jourthouse, erected in 1792, was nearly destroyed by fire yesterday, causing a loss of $20,000, which was cov- ered by insurance. Dr. PIERCE’S “® PLEASANT = PELLETS “® CURE~ SICK HEADACHE, BILIOUSNESS, CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, POOR APPETITE, J and all desangements of the Stomach, Liver and Bowels. \ OF all druggists. ONCE USED, ALWAYS IN FAVOR. YOUNG SPIRITS, a vigorous body and ro- bust strength fol- low good health. But all fail when the vital powers are weakened. Nervous debility’ and loss of mauly power _result from bad habits, contracted by the young through ignorance of their fuinous conse- quences. Low spirits, melan- cholia, impaired memory, morose or irritable temper, fear of impending ca- lamity and a thousand and ome de- rangements of body and mind, result from such pernicious practices. All these are permanently cured by im- proved methods of treatment without the patient leaving home. A medical treatise written in but chaste language, treating of nature, symptoms and cnmiility of such diseases, sent securely sealed in a pl_at:‘:n envelo;:e,.on receipt of this notice, with 10 cents in stamps, for , Address, WORLD'S Dlsg;}qflgypofigg; CAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N. Y. PROPOSALS For Repairing and Heating the Pea- body Primary Sehool Building. lain the gEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED L3 by the Superintendent of Common Schools in open session of the Board of XEducation, new City Hall, on Wednesday, April 24, 1895, at 8:30 ». 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