The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 20, 1895, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1895. 3 STOCKTON, MANUFACTURING METROPOLIS OF THE: SAN JOAQUIN | boats to and from San Francisco. This | | competition insures the lowest possible rates for transportation. Boats leave The Tidewater Center of a Great and Wealthy Inland Empire. FOUNDED BY A PIONEER. Now Attracts Attention as the Starting Point of the Valley Road. BUSINESS ITS INTERESTS. An Energetic People Are Develop- ing the City and Its Tributary Territory. STOCKTON, April 19.—This fertile val- ley of San Joaquin, which extends from the coast range of mountains on the south- west to the foothills of the snow-crowned Sierra Nevadas on the sone of the greatest, if not the greatest, valleys on the American continent. San Joaquin County | 1 Stockton in the evening laden with fruits | and melons, which are landed at daybreak in the markets of San Francisco. This fact is leading to the cultivation of veget- ables, melons and the smaller fruits by | peovle who have secured small holdings in | thi vicinity,because of this blessed water- | way over which their products can be car- | ried expeditiously and at a rate which al- | lows them to live and build themselves | | little homes. | The advent of the San Joaquin Valley | Railroad, it is expected, will lead to a sub- division of the great ranches of the vslle:\', | which have remained thousand-acre grain felds simply because small holdings could | support a family and the Southern c magnates at the same time. Small will cause villages and towns to | spring up, and there will be more of gen- | | eral prosperity along the lines. The era of railroad building in California is just dawning, incipient projects for the building of electric lines are met with at every turn. Animportant line waich has passed the state of incipiency is the Stock- ton, Lodi and Terminal electric. Colonel Hartzell, the chief mover, when spoken to on the subject,said: ‘““We have the most important parts of the road secured, rights of w ave been granted within the lim- its of Stockton, and H. Barnhart, a large values had not advanced. The general | feeling among all classes is to keep down any such tendency. Stockton is a prosperous manufacturing city of about 22,000 inhabitants. Thirteen million dollars is the annual output of her mills and factories. A million and aquar- | ter dollars is paid annually in wages to 1600 or more mechanics. Such disburse- ment of money brings about general pros- perity—makes the tradespeople active. Stockton has two good building and loan associations. M. R. E. Wilhoit, secretary of the Stockton Land, Loan and Building Association, said their association had 700 members. Mr. Wilhoit was proud to say as a positive fact that more workingmen owned their own homes in Stockton than anywhere in the State. 1f asked to guess Stockton’s leading ar- ticle of production, it is easy to answe: flour. The wheat raised in the San Joa- quin Valley has no superior to that grown in any other grain district of the world; and as Stockton is the market for much of this valley product, it is not strange that here mills of wonderful capacity are lo- cated, which make brands of flour which win foremost place in every market it has been able to reach. The principal mills of the well-known Sperry Company are lo- cated here; Colonel George B. Sperry, manager. They have recently bought the Golden Gate and Union mills, which are immediately adjoining the large Stockton STOCETON HARBOR, LOOKING TOWARD HEAD OF THE CHANNEL. de our en- n, aChi-| nterested in | the line, is in Stockton | chief owner and resident manager. City and Sperry mills near the wharf. The Stockton Milling Company runs the Crown Milis, of which J. D. Welch is the This | thing from electric and cable cars down— | walks in the residence vortion, of their | combined harvesters, hay-presses, boilers | public buildings—their chief and just pride | and engines. Everything in the heavy |isin the public school system. My atten- machinery line is made in this busy shop. | tion was drawn particularly to this depart- There are two large carriage factories, | ment by Hon. James A. Louttit,who takes which turn out prime work. Planing-mills | an active interest in the welfare of Stock- | and lumber-yards are all about the wharves. | ton. : The largest lumber company and plan- | The Stockton schools are on a very high ing-mill is that of P. A. Buel & Co. They plane, largely brought up through the efforts of James A. Barr, an enthusiast on he only road which wi is a large plant also, from which is shipped | in the ear] | carry a complete stock of redwood and pine | | lumber amounting to 10,000,000 feet. One | | block of ground containing 90,000 square | feet is covered with sheds, in which is | stored an immense amount of finishing t lumber. | The most attractive factory, from the standpoint of art and color, is the Stockton | | Terra Cotta Company. They make an ex- | | quisite line of vases, jardinieres, pedestals, | in fact, all kinds of bric-a-brac. If it was | put on sale as imported ware, the expres- | sions of praise would be deafening. Asit is the Stockton Terra Cotta Company is | | being justly rewarded in both praise and profit. This is the only factory of the kind on this coast, and they are reaching out to | a large trade. It is impossible to mention in detail all | the many enterprises of this city of mar- velous promise, all the progress up-to- | date business men and public-spirited men and women. The women are active factors in the life of Stockton. It is said there are some silurians, but only a sprinkling com- pared to the energetic men who are say- ing, “We will be a great city,” and are willing to put their shoulder to the wheel and bring their prophecy to pass. Thisis | not a slough city; such an appellation is | now a misnomer, since the last slough was ;filled up three or four years ago. There, | are many handsome homes here, modern | | in architecture, with beautiful lawns. The San Joaquin County Courthouse is a mag- | nificent piece of architecture, builtof white | granite in the midst of a green plaza in the | heart of the business portion of town. It | is a most restful piece of architecture; in | looking at it one thinks of Mme. de Stael’s | |idea of good architecture being “‘frozen music.”’” The Methodist Church is a mag- nificent building. The Sunset Telephone | Company has a gem of a place—red brick, with white marble wainscoting, most pe- culiar. The inside, with flowers, birds and pretty girls, is a perfect bower. But the place of all places and that to be prized above everything is the superb Hazelton Library building. Dr. Hazelton | of Tarrytown, N. Y., left $75,000 to Stock- ton for this public library because he re- ceived his first business start in life here. | | Faity thousand dollars was put in the library building, which is of the Ionic type of architecture. It is constructed en- | tirely of brick, marble and iron. All| | modern ideas of library construction have | been carried out. The necessary wood- | work is polished oak. The ceilings are ribbed with beams of hollow steel. Mas- sive marble columns, forming a half circle, sustain the gallery floor, which is used for a reading-room, where all papers and mag- azines are on file. For the sake of safety for the 25,000 books that will soon be on | the shelves the space where the books are shelved can be separated from the main office by three steel drop curtaius, thus The Lodi country is well ing roads into, as it is the gar- den spot of the county. Major J. D. Peters, president of the| Captain ( four carloads of flour per day. The output | rendering the book-storage portion abso- of the Sperry mill is something enormous, | lutely fireproof. It is a munificent gift, something like 3000 barrels per day. | which has been applied with taste and The Stockton Woolen Mills manufacture | judgment. Stockton is to be congratulated s per acre; 50,000 up to 105 bushels acres in oats San Joaguin 1t 1800 acres are put in water- ear, from which a crop of oduced. It is enough to say, v of experience, that all enous to the temperate Zones can be grown in this an old, old story in this itural products—in this ve, the orange and the vine; borderland, Califoruia.” On Stockton, the shire town of San Joa- all ex e turned since it is a set- ike of the people’s driven here. The first hammer will be the death- oly, but the welcome sound ce be perceptible on the air of this r humming. Stockton, founded in pioneer days, has had a steady, permanent growth without spasmodic fictitions booms. Being the outlet of the riche: State agri way of water which h uninterrupted commu tion with the metropolis of the western sea, San Fran- , 127 miles away, what could stand in the way of this becoming an industrial center, second to mone in the State, except San Francisco? and surrounded by lands rieh in The California Navigation and Improve- | ment Company and the Union Transpor- tation line run daily freight and passenger 1 town, where the factories ‘ st mining region of the | aral products, with a natural high- | as given cheap and | Union Navigation Company, one of the | best known men in the Stat id in an- swer to the CALL’s question as to whether the new road would help Stockton to the extent of the sanguine hopes entertained -day by the majority of her citizens: “Help Stockton! Why it will help the en- tire State. I have more faith in California’s future greatness than when I walked across the plains to live here in 1849. This strong company in the field will down Huntington, and California will be free. People wil]l come here then without fear of becoming slaves, and once here they will feel like I do.”” On being asked to what he referred, the old gentleman an- <« swered in a characteristic fashion. “I would rather be hung in California than live anywhere else.” Judge Budd, father of Governor Budd, was seen in his chambers where he was busy in the intricacies of an important case, but he cheerfully put aside his work to say: “Stockton has reached the point wher city is wlthin her grasp. If the people pull together and carry out other improve- ment, particularly irrigation ideas, Stock- ton will be second to Los Angeles in a very short time.” plained that the last Assembly had passed an enabling act by which the city of Stock- | ton and county of San Joaquin could issue | bonds for the purpose of building a ditch running north and south from the Calave- ras River, which would preclude the possi- | bility of an overflow during spring freshets, and would serve for irrigation ditches as well. It is expected this improvement | will soon be commenced. J. M. Kile, an enterprising young attor- | ney, said on the subject of the new road: “Nothing can stop Stockton’s progress but acyclone. We want outside capital, and we waat to assure those thinking of com- ing here that there will be no fictitious values placed upon real estate.” H. H. Hewlett, president of the First National Bank, speaking on the same sub- ject said: “‘Real estate has come up grad- uvally in Stockton, a healthy advance from the first. There is no sign of a boom | in the dangerous sense of the term, which | presupposes a reaction. consider one of the greatest benefits to both the county and town. I most heartily indorse and support it.” Mr. Hewlett also | emphatically asserted that real estate < E 3 A the opportunity to become a great | The Judge kindly ex- | The valley road I | RBESIDENCE OF W. W, WESTHAY, STOCKTON, CAL, fine cloth and blankets. Their goods are sold ali over the Pacific Slope, and the | on having such a library open free to all. | There are many social, literary and miscel- RESIDENCE OF J. H. HOSKINS, CORNER SAN JOAQUIN AND SONORA STREETS, STOCKTON, CAL. said Mr. Patterson, the manager. boilers, engines, mining pumps and well- boring machinery. (E. F. Cadle & Sons) manufacture engines, horse-power pumps, in fact, everything in the machinery line, but make a specialty of dredging machinery. The plow works of H, C. Shaw is one of Stockton’s most individual establishments. Mr. Shaw manufactures all kinds of farming imple- ments, but the specialty of the works is the H. C. Shaw reversible gang-plow, of which Mr. Shaw is the patentee. This plow isin constant demand. Mr. Shaw keeps about thirty skilled mechanics constantly at work in his factory, the engines of which are run by natural gas. Natural gas is a great feature of Stockton. It is used in both heating and lighting. In the vicinity of Stockton there are more than twenty wells, which yield a half million cubic feet of gas daily. This gas comes up from a depth of 800 to 2000 feet with a strong flow of water. in itself of yreat service to Stockton; it has sulphur, magnesia and other medicinal properties which are said to be an excellent specific for rheumatism and blood diseases, Two large swimming-pools are filled with this water. Both are well-conducted, use- ful institutions of the city. The county owns a large well in the jail- yard, which heats and lights both the Courthouse and jail. The great range in the jail kitchen accomplishes good work by the use of the gas. Many private resi- dences use it for cooking. The State In- sane Asylum has a large well, which fur- nishes all the light and most of the heat used in the mammoth establishment. There is an unpleasant odor about the dry natural gas of the Eastern States, but this vapor gas seems perfectly odorless. The people here appreciate the fast that natural gas is destined to play an important part in the development of the manufacturing interests of California. The Stockton Car, Machine and Agricul- tural Works really seem to make every- blankets are in such demand even in the | laneous clubs here where one can feel an East that the mills will be enlarged this | air of genuine social life. season. The capacity will be doubled, so | | The Stockton Iron Works manufacture meet in Masonic Temple for the purpose The Globe Iron Works | alive of the artistic. The water is | Stockton has an art association of two | or three years’ standing. The members mutual criticism and the keeping In the studio or soci- ety-rooms, which are shared with the Camera Club, any members can exhibit or have on sale any of their work. There is an outdoor-sketch club in connection with the association who do some good work. When the *‘outing’’ days come members of the Art Associasion are hoping some ldcal philanthropist will emulate Dr. Hazelton (and give or will them money for an art | school. The Stockton Athletic Club of 300 mem- | bers is organized “‘to foster athletic train- | ing, promote aquatic and field sports;” so | said John Budd, the faithful and enthusi- astic president of the association. Mr. Budd says all the time he can spare he is giving to the work of building up an indi- | viduality for himself, as he thinks it high | time he had a separate identity—‘Jim | Budd’s brother” is all the progress toward an individuality he has so far made. The | directors of the Athletic Association are John E.Budd, L. E. Doan, Orin S. Hen- | of study, derson, C. F. Hutchinson, W. H. Lyons, | A. H. Wright, John W. Kerrick, F. J. Vic- brock and Robert Fye. They are incor- porated and have a very attractive club- house built, which is well equipped as a modern gymnasium. The best instructors | are to be engaged. Best of all. the ladies | and young people are to share in the bene- fits. The Philomathean Society, composed of fifty ladies, is something after the Century Club idea, its object being the cultivation of literary taste and the promotion of study. Mrs. J. E. Budd is president for the year. The practical affairs of this in- land city are very numerous, but it has its school work, and its high place in the life of the nation. Within the last few years, it is said, the eity school system of Stock- ton has undergone a rapid growth toward ideals in education, so that to-day the term *‘Stockton schools” has come to have a special significance here and in the East. The course of study has been gradually | remodeled along modern lines until it compares favorably with those of the most progressive Eastern cities. Recent addi- tions to the grade subjects have been nature study, substantially that used in Chicago and Indianapolis training schools. The latter consists of woodwork, and a special building has been provided. Wal- ter Kenyon, a student of the Swedish and German training schools, and for seven years with Frances W. Parker in the Cook | County (Illinois) normal, from which he graduated, is the teacher of the manual training department. The main under- lying idea is to dignify labor to all classes and to train the mind to exactness. As Mr. Kenyon expressed it, ‘A truthful hand makes a truthful soul.” This teacher also has charge of the drawing department in all the different schools of the city. This department has been received with great favor by pupils and parents. Stockton is particularly fortunate in having its school board free from corrupt local politics. To find a Board of Educa- tion free from such influence is always conducive to the good of the children. Stockton sadly needs several new school buildings and, as behooves a progressive city, they are going to have a new High School building and two grammar school buildings. One hundred and fifty thou- sand dollars bonds will soon be issued to build these buildings, which will be up to the most modern standard. The bulk of Stocktonians are inclined to the belief that however good the instruction may be, it avails little while growing children are crowded into narrow space. The matter is being discus: and the people appear universally in favor of this rather whole- sale building of schools. Stockton can ac- complish anything it determines on doing. Itis a pleasure to breathe the atmosphere of hope and energy. The three daily papers of Stockton are progressive and up to date, and do much toward making the wheels of life move swifter and surer in this Gateway City of the great valley of the San Joaquin. ALL STOCKTON AIDING. Entertainments of Every Description to Swell the Fund for the Valley Road. STOCKTON, Car., April 19.—There is little thought of here save the valley road at present. To-night a concert was given in the Yosemite Theater by the ladies’ committee for the benefit of the valley road. Some of the best local talent par- ticipated. A string quartet, composed of Theodore Elliott, Professor Steel, Samuel Frankenheimer and Ed Haas, lent its services, as did also Robert Lloyd of San Francisco and the Euterpean Circle, a musical organization of this city. To-morrow will be a day of general re- joicing here over the prospect of securing the new road. A monster picnic will be held at Goodwater Grove,and the Stockton Athletic Club has been arranging its first tield day, to be given in conjunction with the picnic. All of the local athletes have entered in the contests, which include a 100 and 220 yard dash, a half-mile run, pole-vaulting and jumping contests, fol- Jowed by a football game between teams from the High School and the Stockton Athletic Club, the latter captained by Charles Nicewonger, captain of the fresh- man team of the Stanford University. The proceeds of the picnic will go to the ladies’ contributions to the cash fund for the val- ley road. Even the theaters here are giving a per- centage ot their receipts to swell the fund. The surveyors, under the direction of Assistant Engineer Graham, are busy on the line through the county between here and Burneyville, at which point the road will in all probability cross the Stanislaus River. Companies A and B, N. G. C., have been busy to-night rehearsing their battalion drill, which they are to give at the military ball to-morrow night in Mozart Hall. The reception committee on that night will be composed of Colonel George B. Sperry, Colonel Nunan, Captains Simpson and Johnson, Mayor McCall and all of the city officials. The proceeds will go to swell the fund for the valley road. On Tuesday night there will be another mass-meeting in the Yosemite Theater for the purpose of finishing the raising of the necessary coin to carry out the agree- ments made with the directory of the road. The ways and means committee of the Stockton Commercial Association held an- other meeting last night, at which it was reported that enough subscriptions had already been raised. The German Turners are holding an en- tertainment to-night, and a portion of ;hei; receipts will go toward the railroad jund. Meeting of Leather Men. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 19.—The mem- bers of the Leather Belting Association of the United States met to-day at the Astor House. At the conclusion of the meeting, which was held in executive session, Mayor Schieren of Brooklyn, who is a member of the association, said the meet- ing was held in order to take action in ref- erence to the unprecedented advance in hides and leather. il g b !;.Intelligem housewives will have the best. hat's why they all use Dr. Price’s Baking Powder. 7 - Collapse of @ Derrick. CHICAGO, Irn., April 19.—Two men were killed and five injured by the collapse of a large derrick in the Chicago Ship Com- pany’s yards at South Chicago to-day. The dead are Pat Harley and Henry Blake, Michael Cusic was probably fatally in- jured. The other four men, although suf- fering bad bruises and broken bones, will probably recover. —— Hicks Secures Freedom. ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 19.—A special to the Republic from Pine Bluff, Ark., says: J. W. Hicks, who, after making violent attacks upon Catholicism in his lecture here, was jailed on the charge of slander and using profane language, was released after paying a fine and costs amounting to over $100, and upon his promise to leave town. it Wateh Manufacturers Fail. CHICAGO, ILL., April 19.—The Schwau- other side, its cultured social life, as well. | ker-Chalmers Company, wholesale dealers The churches are all prosperous and well [ in watches, have made an assignment. attended ; the young people are particu- | Assets are placed at $61,000 and liabili- larly well organized. Froud as the people | ties at $90,000. The tailure of the Chicago are of their active commercial life—their | Watch Company, which owed this com- fine streets, which have cost so much, of | pany about $30,000, was the cause of the their great elm trees which shade the side- | assignment. BEATEN AND ROBBED. Parnell’s Mother Found in an Unconscious Condition. VERY BADLY INJURED. Misfortune Continues to Pur- sue the Unfortunate Woman. ASSAILED IN A LONELY SPOT. Officers Trying to Capture a Man Who Is Suspected of the Crime. BORDENTOWN, N. J., April 19.—Mrs Delia T. Parnell, mother of the late Charles Stewart Parnell, who lives at lronsides, overlooking the Delaware River, near here, was found bleeding and unconscious late last night by Charles Casey, a son of the farmer who has charge of the farm at Iron- sides. While descending a hill which marks the boundary of the property for- merly occupied by Mrs. Parnell’s father, young Casey heard moans. Hurrying to the spot he found Mrs. Par- nell lying beside the fence, with her face covered with blood. By her side were two small pieces of board, a piece of fence pal- ing about three feet longand a brick. Help was obtained and she was carried to the home of Farmer Casey. Dr. W. H. Shipps, who was hastily sum- moned, made an examination and found that, besides several bruises about the face, the woman had a lacerated wound on the right side of her head. Mrs. Parnell is unconscious’and because of her advanced age her condition is regarded as critical. Her handbag was found alongside the rail- road track near by. her pocket-book miss- ing and papers scattered in all directions. This circumstance lends probability to the theory that she was brutally assaulted and robbed. Mrs. Parnell frequently came to this place at night and remained until a late hour. She was here last night. At noon Mrs. Parnell lay in an uncon- scious condition. The authorities are con- vinced that she was assaulted and robbed, and have sent telegrams to all the near-by cities and towns asking that a lookout be kept for a man of medium height with a smooth face, wearing a light overcoat and a derby hat, who was seen in the vicinity about the time the assault is believed to have been committed. Mrs. Parnell’s house on the hill, about a mile from Bordentown, is known as “Iron- sides.” It is a big, old, two-story frame structure and was built by her father many years ago. It is as dreary a place as one could imagine, The aged woman has no close acquaint- ances in Bordentown, and previous to 1890 had been living in destitution. In that year Congress granted her a pension of $50 per month. At that time she lived alone in a bleak house, the only other person about her 300 acres being a gardener. During 1838 and 1889, in a fit of despera- tion, the aged woman stripped the house of furniture in order to obtain food, and the rooms have never been refitted. Mrs. Parnell had often expressed a desire to go abroad before the death of her son, Charles Stewart Parnell. Sie was once asked why she did not ask him to 2id her. She re- piied, “He is at the end of his means.” NEW FOUR PER CENT BONDS. ZLondon Buyers Have Sold an August Delivery Below the Syndicate. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 19.—The Evening Post says: An interesting story was current in well-informed Wall-street circles to-day concerning the new 4 per cent Government bonds and the operations of the syndicate. It was to the effect that the successful bidders in London for the new 4 per cent bonds had sold a large amount through arbitrage-houses in this | city, deliverable here in August, at prices considerably below the price prevailing in this market, due allowance being made for the difference in interest, exchange, etc.: that the managers of the syndicate, assoon as they learned of the facts, “‘read the riot act” to the arbitrage brokers, members of the syndicate here, and that J. P. Morgan, who is now in London, did the same thing immediately upon his arrival there, and stopped all further sales of the bonds on the terms mentioned. Now it issaid no bonds can be obtained in London except at the equivalent of the New York prices, with the necessary allowance for the differ- ence in interest, etc. Arbitrage brokers, members of the syn- dicate, were unwilling to talk about the matter to-day, denying any knowledge of any such transaction. They admitted, however, that bonds had been sold in Lon- don deliverable here in August. The life of the syndicate will not expire until Octo- ber. e et True in its results as the needle to the pole is Dr. Price’s Baking Powder. St e Rt EDITOR SCOTT BURIED. Chicago’s Well-Known Newspaper Man Laid Away by Friends. CHICAGO, ILL., April 19.—The funeral services of the late James W. Scott, pro- prietor of the Chicago Times-Herald, were held at St. James Episcopal Church at 11 o’clock yesterday. The funeral was one of the largest ever held in Chicago. Vice- President Stevenson was present, escorted by the Judges of the city, all the courts having adjourned. All the principal clubs sent representatives and floral offerings were profuse. The full Episcopal funeral service was rendered by Rector E. M. Stiles and an address was delivered by Rev. Dr. Frank Gunsaulus, president of the Armour Institute. The burial, at Graceland Cemetery, was private. The American Newspaper Publishers’ Association, of which Mr. Scott was presi- dent for six years, was represented by its president, Charles W. Knapp of the St. Louis Republic; one of the members of the executive committee, Colonel Driscoll of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and its secre- tary, W. C. Bryant of the Brooklyn Times. Other members of the committee who had hoped to attend the funeral ceremonies were prevented at the last moment, in some cases by sickness and in others by unavoidable business engagements which could not be put aside. ZULU EXILES. 4 Prince and His Followers Now Held at St. Helena. NEW YORK, April 19.—A special to the World from the Isle of St. Helena says: Prince Dinuzulu, son of King Cetewayo of Zulu war fame, and his followers are likely to die in exile like the great Na- poleon on this lonely isle. They were sent here after the Zulu war, in which so many English soldiers and the young Prince Napoleon fell. The Zulu Prince was accompanied by Chiefs Nota- buku and Tshingana, their servants, wives and children. They have been weaned from savage life and reconciled to civilized customs, but all are miserable in exile. The national government has twice con- sented to their release, and the steamer Umziki was sent out from England re- cently to take the Prince and his followers back to Zululand. After the steamer left England a fresh outbreak between the Boers (Dutch) and Zulus in South Africa warned the British Government against releasing the Prince, and the British war- ship Swallow was dispatched to prevent the Zulu Prince from leaving the island. The Swallow arrived here while the Prince and his followers were preparing to leave. Thus ends his dream of freedom for a number of years, at least. e DOC MINCHON ON TRIAL. The Man Who Helped ’Brien to Escape Must Answer. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 19.—A special to the World from Rome, N.Y., says: “Doc” Minchon is on trial here charged with aiding the escape, in April, 1892, of Tom O’Brien, the bunko man, now held in Paris, France, for killing Reed Waddell, the gold-brick swindler. O'Brien had been extradited from Eng- land and convicted of bunko work in which he beat an Albany County man out of $10,000. He was sentenced to ten years. Before he had been in prison long he was taken before Judge Coxe in Utica on a writ of habeas corpus and got away. James Buck, a keeper who was in charge of O’Brien, was recently sent to State prison for permitting him to escape. Minchon was with O’Brien in Utica. It was afterward reported that Minchon and O'Brien were together in Buenos Ayres. A short time ago Minchon was ar- rested in Chicago and brought here. I% was shown that Minchon applied for the writ of habeas corpus for O’Brien and de- posited the $100 with the Warden of Dan- nemore prison required to defray the exe penses of taking the prisoner to Utica. Porter Critically ITl. INDIANAPOLIS, Inp., April 19.—Exe Governor Albert G. Porter, who was Min- ister to Italy during President Harrison’s administration, is critically ill. While walking on the street to-day he fell to the pavement with an acute attack of vertigo and was carried home in an unconscious condition. He soon recovered his senses, but being 71 years of age he is in a critical condition. o B SR Responsible for the Disaster WHEELING, W. Va., April 19.—The Coroner’s jury inquiring into the responsi- bility of the death of the six victims of last week’s disaster on Main street finished the work this evening, and rendered a verdict that the division wall was faulty and that Hutchinson & Co. and W, Chap- son & Son wereresponsible. Any question of criminal responsibility was left for the Grand Jury. e A Chicago man owns a genuine auto- graph of Avon’s Immortal Bard. Thecity of the inland sea, likewise, has Price's Cream Baking Powder Co.’s great plant. % —_—— Mincrs Returning to Work. OTTUMWA, Iowa, April 19.—The troops have been witndrawn from Cincinnati and many miners are going to work. Word comes from Boone County to the effect that 500 men weut to workthere to-day. This is believed to be the end, with each operator paying what he pleases.’ LI agin Sy Opening of a New Canal. DAVENPORT, Iowa, April 19.—The west seventeen miles of the Hennepin canal was formally opened for traffic to- day. The completed section pierces the coal fields, and plans for hand ling coal by barge lines to Davenport are being made. SIS T Manager Stinson Dead. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 19.—Fred Stinson, the theatrical manager, died to- day, aged 47 years. He was for four years manager for Miss Julia Marlowe, and pre- viously looked after the interests of Mme. Modjeska. ——-——— Schedule of Wages Raised. NEW BEDFORD, Mass., April 19.—All cotton manufacturers of this city have raised the schedule of wages in their mills 10 per cent. NEW TO-DAY. [TIS FOLLY For us to tell you who we are—every busi- ness house on the Pa- cific Coast knows us— knows our goods and knows our mode of doing business. Of late we find it more profitable to sell to the public direct. We are absolutely sure of our money that way. We guarantee you a saving of fully i & Over what the Dealers charge, as you pay us no go-between profits. HYAMS, PAUSON & C0, 25 and 27 Sansome Strest. EZ" On May 6th we will oc- cupy the premises now occupied by the Chicago Clothing Com pany (in conjunction with our present premises), and will then give the public a few lessons in “Clothing as it should be sold.”