The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 27, 1895, Page 2

o = THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1895. AFTER SEVEN YEARS. An Interesting Report in a Singular Case. DISPUTE OF THE PLUMBS. Peculiar Suit of Marie Jeanette Against Her Doting Father. URGED ON BY HER HUSBAND. Soclety People, Army and Navy Officers Dragged Into the Controversy. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 26.—There was filed this eveninga report in a singular case, which has been hanging fire for It concerns a matter of seven ye $60,000, which had been lett to Miss Marie Jeanette Plumb, formerly of Brooklyn, with her father as guardian and trustee. In the course of a trip abroad Miss Plumb became enamored of a young Englishman, against the wishes of her her and guardian, she married him. was in England. On their return to country—and it is claimed prompted her husband—the young woman ainst her father for an ac- counting of $60,000. The case was placed in the hands of the law firm of Vanpelt, Cuming & Goodwin. That was nearly seven years ago. The details were so complicated and so far-reaching that it was only this after- noon that Referee Ernest Hall was able to file his report. The referce’s opinion is that there is §5000 owing to the woman’'s father in his capacity as guardian, which would leave $535,000 to the former Miss Plomb. The details of the case are likely to supply considerable gossip to Brooklyn and New York society circles, where the Plumbs were widely known. The referee’s report is a very lengthy cdocument. It covers the whole case from the time that the suit was begun by Miss Plumb seven years ago, and brings in the names of New York and Brooklyn’s most prominent society people. The report also involves several army and navy officials. The referee says in his report that the father *“‘supplied the place of both parents. His intercourse with his children was most affectionate, and partook more of the re- fined nature of woman than the harsher nature of man. Nothing which ingenuity could suggest or money purchase was neglected, and in fact he watched over them and cherished and cared for them in & way to commend itself as an example to s left in similar circumstances.” Not was the case interesting from these , but from the fact that in Marie’s jections to the accounts of her father she goes into the most trivial item and files objections to the expenditures of any sums for articles which were not used by her. Some of these items are for such smail ms as $250 and in the clearing up of which over $200 worth of testimony was taken. The mother of the contestant, Mrs. James Ncale Plumb, was a daughter of Abram Ives, who, on his death, left her his estate consisting of nearly $60,000 in trust for his two grandchildren, James Ives Plumb and Marie Jeanette Plumb. The mother was to have the use of the income during her life. After the death of Abram Ives Mrs. Plumb had another danghter born to her, who, however, had no share in that estate. The mother, however, managed to save $118,000 out of her large income for what she called Ler little “pauper,” Sarah Lenita Plumb. The mother died in Paris in 1887, and ac- cording to the terms of the wiil of Abram Ives, James Ives Plumb came in for the income from §: 1d real estate which yielded $5000 y additional. He was then 15 years of ge. The contestant, Marie Jeanette P! b, came in for the income from a similar amount and for $67,000 absolutely from the estate of the mother, and the youngest child, Sarah Lenita, v en the $118,000 absolutely rom the te of the mother. In 1877 a decree was entered that the father be appointed guardian for the in- faut children and that all the income from the combined estates of the children be placed in his charge, to so spend it as to keep the children in the manner that they had been used to living. The annual in- come thus given into the hands of the father, calculated at5 per cent, was about $54,000. Prior to the death of Mrs. Plumb, the referee says, Mr. Plumb was a man of large wealth, and as Mrs, Plumb also had an income in her own right the family lived in New York in great luxury and ex- pended from $40,000 to $50,000 a year, the children being used to every luxury and indulgence which great wealth could sup- ply, but at the time of the death of his wife Mr. Plumb met with losses. that made it impossible to support the family as he was wont to out of his income alone. The children’s means thus given to the father to expend made it possible to have the family supported in the style to which they had formerly been accustomed. When the son became of age, his estate was paid over to him and the accounts of the father accepted without' question. In 1888 he married, and soon thereafter, on account of differences arising out of the marriage, the father and his two daugh- ters left the house of the son, at Deer Lodge, L. I., where they had expected to spend the suromer. Some time after this Mr. Plumb and his daughters went to Bouthampton, Eng., where they occupied Norfolk House. In 1888 the contestant became of age. Just before this, Miss Plumb met in Southampton the man who is now her busband, Ramsay Nares. According to the father, Nares seemed to exert a strong-influence over the daughter, and he pbjected to Nare's attention. Here seemed to arise the friction between the father and his daughter, but matters continued until just before Miss Plumb was to become of age, when the father and daughter came to this country for the purpose of allowing the former to pass his accounts as guar- dian. On the night that the daughter became of age she left her father’s house, after having shown unmistakable evidences of sffection for him only a few hours before, wnd was married to Nares, who had come 0 this country on funds which, it is al- leged, were sent to him by his fiancee. At ance the daughter brought an action in the Surrogate Court before Surrogate Ransom ior a compulsory accounting from her ‘ather, making allegations against his stewardship, The account was filed, as Mr. Plumb was ready to file it without this and, much by brought suit a action, and then the daughter filed her objections to the report, alleging that her father had squandered $§60.000 needlessly. Surrogate Ransom appointed Colonel E. S. Dakin as referee to take testimony in the action, but the referee died a few months after his appointment and Judge Ernest Hall was appointed in his place. The separate items objected to show, according to the decision of the referee, that the con- testant found fault with every item in the account which related to presents that she had made to her intimate friends and which she seeks to repudiate. These are allowed. Then she also claims in bills for clothing that were furnished to her and charged to the estate that she never re- ceived the clothing, thus casting an asper- sion on her father, which is promptly re- moved by the referee. In this latter class is a bill for $38 41 and one for $21 50. Another item objected to is one of §4 for smilax. TItappears that when Mr. Plumb returned to England in. May, 1887, he took with him smilax plants to the value of $4, which were to be worn for decorative pur- poses at the Norfolk house. The referee, in allowing this item, says that the smilax plant is not a native of England and is rarely grown there exceptin private con- servatories and then asa curiosity. The plants were set out and grown in the ver- anda of the Norfolk house. One of the most remarkable contested items in the bill is one for§2 50. Itappears in a bill for $264 61, and the item for $2 50 for a bottle of gin is the only disputed one in the bill. It appears from the testimony of this item, which cost over $200 to take, that the bottle of gin in dispute was sent to Lieutenant Hunt, one of the officers of the Greely expedition to the Arctic regions. He was a son-in-law of Adjutant-General | Drum, and his wife was an intimate friend of Miss Plumb, When he returned from the expedition he was broken in health and soon died from the effects of the ex- posure. During his illness his physicians said that he must have stimulating bever- ages and this bottle of gin was sent to him by the father at the request of the contest- ant and while Lieutenant Hunt was dying in Washington. She disputed the item, as che claimed that she had never received the gin and that, therefore,.she could not be charged with it. The iteth was allowed, and another dis- puted item in a bill of a florist for $4 50 Miss Plumb says she never got any flow- ers. It appears that these were flowers sent on the occasion of the funeral of her aunt, Mrs. Henry Yale of 52 West Thirty- ninth street. The bill was for $9, but Mr. Plumb stood half of the expense. It was shown that the contestant had ordered the flowers. One of the contested items is a bill of Sinclair Bros.’ Bath Hotel, for $516 02. There is a story behind this item. The Misses Plumb were friends of the daugh- ters of Judge Calvin Pratt of Brooklyn, and traveled with them in Europe. It was understood that Judge Pratt was to pay the expenses of his daughters while they were thus traveling with the Misses Plumb, and bills were sent to the Judge by Mr. Plumb at the former’s request. Of this above bill $250 was paid to the estate by Judge Pratt as his daughters’ share of | the expenses, so that only $266 was charged to the estate. This bill was for the balcony that had been hired at the hotel in ques- tion on June 20, 1887. At the time of the Queen’s jubilee Miss Plumb and her father, witha party invited by her, went from Southampton to Lon- don on June 20, 1887, to observe the parade and take part in the festivities connected with the Queen’s jubilee. The party con- | sisted of Miss Marie Jeanette Plumb and maid; Sarah Lenita Plumb and her friend, Miss Hall; General and Mrs. Carry; the two Misses Carry; Major-General Farmer: Mr. and Mrs, Brinsmade, the London banker of the Pratt family, and the two | Misses Pratt, daughters of Judge Pratt of | Brooklyn. TZxe balcony, holding sixteen people, was secured at the Bath Hotel and dinner was served in the room adjoining. The referee says that the expenditure, in view of the occasion, the situation of the parties, the amount of the estate and the manner of living of the family, was proper | and is allowed. Bills aggregating $317 for wines, liquors and cigars are challenged by the contestant, but the referee finds that | Miss Plumb never drank croton water, but | always table waters and ginger apolli- naris, etc.,and that most of the wines were | consumed by Richard J. Porter, a servant | of the family, who was discharged for drunkenness in 1886. The referee says that he consumed all the gin and most of the brandy. What he did not consume was used in the entertainment of the friends of the family. He says that Mr. Plumb used some, but not habitually. The expendi- ture is allowed. Judge Hall, in his report, also has the following to say of the father and the daughters. In reference to the former, he says: “He never drank to excess, and his drinking was confined to the home and the table, which has always been bountifully supplied. He never gambled or associated with those who do. He never allowed his daughters to meet any man or woman except of unblemished reputation, and never associated with questionable persons himself. In fact he led ‘the life of a gentleman, feeling the weight of responsibility cast upon him to bring up and educate his children in a manner to do justice to their antecedents.’” The referee also says: *“The correspond- ence that has been put in evidence shows conclusively that the daughters, Marie and Sarah, had their father’s love as their dearest possession; they could not bear to be separated from him even for a short period of time. This continued, and the urgent desire is expressed to him in letters for his‘return to them and their home which they considered empty without him; in short, it would be almost impossible to conceive a stronger or more deep-seated love and devotion than is displayed by | consultation with the Cuban leaders, this petitioner in her letters to her father. “If the contestant is to be believed, their seeming love and devotion was a hol- low sham and a mockery, and all the time that they were apparently lavishing all their affection and filial endearments upon their father they had no love and respect for him, and believed he was not treating them as he should and was unkind and unjust to them. ‘“Weight should be given to the evidence of their guardian, eyen to the absolute ex- clusion of that of the daughters. It ap- pears that the youngest daughter, Sarah Lenita, who had an interest orly in what her mother left her, also left her father at the same time that the other daughter, the contestant, did. Sarah accepted her ac- count without question, but she gave evi- dence in favor of the sister.” The referee says in the conclusion of his report that the daughters, without any fault on the part of the father, have deserted him in his age and seek to charge him for the indul- gence that he has granted them. Fury of a Cyclone. FORT WORTH, Tex., June 26.—A cy- clone swept over Callapa County last night. 1t visited the town of Baird, the county seat, population 1000 people, at 10 o’clock. A number of houses were blown upon an adjoining parsonage, killing a young man named Mayes. All sorts of rumors are in circulation in this vicinity, PLANS OF PATRIOTS, Cuban Clans Hold Their Conferences in New York, AMERICANS IN DUNGEONS Steps Taken to Secure the Re- lease of Three Noted Leaders. HORRORS OF SUBMARINE JAILS. Much Sympathy for the Islanders in Their Great Struggle for Freedom. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 26—Ata meeting of the Cuban clans‘at General Rafael Quasade’s Fifth-avenue headquar- ters it was resolved to push on the work of making Cuba free with new vigor. In re- gard to the imprisonment of the three patriots who are American citizens—Gen- eral Sanguilli, Editor Walberto Gomez and Colonel Aguerrie—it was stated that earn- est protests had been sent to Washington in behalf of these condemned men, guilty of no crime except sympathy with their compatriots. Colonel Rodriques, the dynamite expert, gave a graphic description of the fearful dungeons in which these American citi- zens are chained to the 20-foot thick walls. The horrors of the submarine prisons of the middle ages were tame in comparison with the unspeakable tortures practiced on political prisoners in Cuba. The darkness is profound, the filth and odors are living death, and in those stifling tombs the tortured captives pass their few days in semi-suffocation. This, he said, alone made the Spanish system black and infamous. Here American citizens swelter amid vermin and decaying refuse until death releases the unhappy prisoners. Another Cuban leader, Carlos M. Ces- pedes, reached New York to-day and was given a quiet ovation at Editor Trujille’s house to-night. He told an in- teresting siory of his trip south with Gon- zales Quesada. He said the people of the Gulf States packed the halls when they ap- pealed for aid. He (Cespedes) alone raised $20,000. So great was the enthus- iasm in Florida that one of the halls was christened on the spot ‘“‘Cespedes” in honor of the eloquent patriot. He said the South is on fire for Cubaand in a short time the island will be free. In addition to the large assessment the Cuban ciear- makers in Florida are now paying they have volunteered to contribute 10 per cent more of their income toward swelling the glorious fund for making Cuba like the United States—free to all men. Senora Marti was seen at Mr. Trujillo’s house, but she declined to discuss Cuban affairs. She said, however, that she was very grateful to the pressof the country for the kind reception accorded her and the interest the papers took in the welfare of Cuba and her sons. Senor Enrique Trujillo, at whose house Senora Marti is staying, says she has formed 1o plans for her stay. The Senora, he said, had received numerous messages from her friends in this country bidding her be of good cheer. She would probably stay in this city till next September, when Ler son will enter a law school. The Cuban leaders in New York, be- cause of President Cleveland’s proclama- tion, are forced to aiter their plans. General Callazo will lead the next expedi- tion, “It was decided to-day to make a small island in the West Indies the point of departure for the mnew expedition. The island is owned by an Englishman who is in favor of Cuba’s independence. General Callazo will attempt a landing near Puerto Principe. This province is now practically with the insurgents. His arrival with men, money and guns will be coincident with the advance of Gomez further westward. Still another expedi- tion is led by Dr. Savas, who reached New York on Monday. He has been in active Dr. Savas is tall and fine looking, a native of Santo Domingo and a warm sympathizer with the Cubans. Dr. Savas Gonzalo de Quesada, secretary of the Cuban revolutionary party; General Quesada and ‘Benjamin Guerra secretly took a train for Central Valley, fifty miles up the State, to visit Senor Tomaso Es- trada Palma, who was proclaimed Presi- dent of the provisional republic of Cuba a few months ago. It had been decided that he should take Marti's place in the field. The delegation was met at the depot by Senor Palma, who escorted the visitors to his home. There a secret ses- sion was held. It was learned that the question of reor- ganizing the Cuban revolutionary party here was discussed. The scheme is to make Mauel Sanguily diplomatic delegate, Gonzola de Quesada and Benjamin Guer- rera to continue as secretary and treasurer respectively. Senor Quesada was wired to accept a delegateship, but he declined. Manuel Sanguily is a brother of General Sanguily, who is imprisoned at Havana. Benjamin Guerra asked to be relieved of the responsibility of the treasurer’s office, and if his proffered resignation is accepted Senor Quesada will succeed him. Letters from General Roloff and the noted Rus- sian nihilist, Messroff, in which the writers advocated the use of dynamite and power- ful explosives, were read. * “Itis likely,” an eminent Cuban said, ‘‘that high explosives will play a promi- nent part hereafter in the war against Spain.” THREE POLES ARE SHOT. All the Trouble Caused by a Barroom Dis; CHICAGO, ILL., June 26.-—Three Poles were shot, one fatally perhaps, at 1 o’clock this morning in Anton Lakowski’s saloon, 98 Cleaver street. The wounded are Frank Klinger, Noble street, shot in the right leg; John Lakowski, 638 Noble street, shot in the chin, and Julius Radzinski, Dixon and Blackhawk streets, fatally wounded in the left lung and taken to St. Elizabeth’s Hos- pital. Joseph Lynskenowski has been ac- cused of doing the shooting, The quarrel ‘was caused by a barroom dispute. Lo LR WILL14MS RETURNED, Sent Back by the State Depaviment to Havana. . ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., June 26.—The State Department admitted to-day that so far as the department is aware, Ramon ‘Williams, Unuted States Consul-General at Havana, is now on his way back, to his post. This information isin the nature of a surprise, as it was generally understood that Mr. Williams would not return to Ha- CONSUL vana, and the news derives importance from the understanding that Mr. Williams’ departure from this country was .through an important mission in connection with Cuban affairs, with which he has been entrusted. Mr. Williams came back to the United States under peculiar circum- stances. He had had considerable trouble with the Spanish authorities at Havana, and it was understood that the Spanish Geovernment was preparing to demand his recall, when he suddenly received sixty days’ leave of absence and returned to the United States. It was the general belief that Mr. Williams would tender his resig- nation on the expiration of his leave, but it is said that he was persuaded duting the last visit to give up his determination to resign. e TO SEAL UP ARMS. England Will Assist the United States in Bering Sea. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 26.—Sir Ju- lian Pauncefote, the British Embassador, has notified Secretary Olney that the Brit- ish Admiralty Office had instructed British men-of-war cruising in Bering Sea to seal up arms and equipment of American ves- sels in that sea upon application being made by the commanders of vessels. Arti- cles IV, V and VI of the Bering Sea regu- lations apply to this subject and the Amer- ican law makes American vessels found with the unsealed arms aboard subject to scizure. The same authority is not given to American men-of-war as to British ves- sels with unsealed arms. It is explained that if American vessels avail themselves of this offer of British men-of-war they will avoid all risks and stand better before the courts in case of trouble. Reports re- ceived at the treasury indicate a very light catch of seals so far this season, ASSAILED ON A HIGH RO, Two Italians Have a Fearful Battle With a Fellow Laborer. Vincezo Rafanando sud:ienly Be- comes Afflicted With Hydropho- bla and Fights Fiercely. NEW YORK, N. Y. June 26.—On top of the tall unfurnished apartment-house at One Hundred and Forty-first street and Hamilton Terrace this evening two Ttal- ians fought a desperate battle with a mad- man. One of their own countrymen and a fellow-laborer was suddenly seized with what is supposed to be hydrophobia, and, like an infuriated brute he attacked the others with his teeth. People in the street watched the progress of the fight. The figures of the men so far up in the air re- sembled pigmies outlined against the sky. The maniac was overpowered, but not until he had mangled one man with his teeth. The maniac is Vincezo Rafanando, whose address is unknown. While work- ing in the basement of a house in Union street, West Farms, June 16, he was at- tacked and severely bitten by a dog, which afterward died of rabies. He went to work on the building Tuesday at One hundred and Forty-first street and Hamilton Ter- race. The men working with him were Capello Cavallieri of 314 East One Hundred and Fourth street, and Antonio Ferrelli of the same address. It was about 6 o'clock, when Rafanando suddenly dropped a beam he was carrying and gave vent to a yell. The beam fell into the street, and withput any further warning he leaped at Capello and tried to bury his teeth in his throat. The other Italians seized him and his teeth sank into Capello’s hand. Then began the struggle, Rafanando frothing at the mouth and growling like a dog, while he fought with the strength of two ordinary men. Policemen Sullivan and Gleason rushed up to the roof and with the help of the others overpowered the maniac and carried him down to the street. An ambulance was summoned from Manhattan Hospital. Then he broke his bonds and another struggle followed. Dr. Kenyon and the attendants finally got him into a straightjacket and sent him to Bellevue. The wounds of the injured men were cauterized. LYNCHED BF THE POLICE Story of the Killing of a Cap- tured Louisiana Firebug. The Chlef of the Peace Guardlans First Beat the Prisoner With Hls Club. NEW ORLEANS, L., June 26— Joseph Stechlin, one of the men accused of being implicated in the incendiary fires in Gretna out of which grew the lynching of John Frey on Monday morning, says that the lynched man was hanged by the police, and that he was a short distance off and witnessed the entire occurrence, and would have gone to his friend’s assistance had he been armed. Frey, he says, was first badly beaten by the Chief of Police, and the officer who captured him cast the rope around his neck, two other police officers standing by to assist. Stechlin will go before the Grand Jury to testify as to the lynching. The Grand Jury is now investigating the affair, as well as the incendiary fires that have recently occurred in Gretna. Chief of Police Linden testified that many of the fires in Gretna were undoubt- edly of incendiary origin, the incendiar- ists even boasting of their work, but it was impossible to secure a single conviction because of the influence and pull of the men. Some of the leading incendiarists be- longed to the local fire companies, and after setting fire to a house would come to it as firemen and finish their work by chobping up the furniture with their axes. One of the results of these incendiary fires has been to drive nearly all the in- surance companies out of Gretna, and only a small proportion of the property there is insured. A canvass of the better element in the town shows it to be rather pleased than otherwise by the lynching, although some express regret that the rest of the gang were not lynched. oA ONE BANDIT 18 SHOT, Oklahoma Officers Have a Battle With Outlaws. WICHITA, Kax., June 26.—A posse of deputy marshals from Woodward, O. T., which had been in pursuit of the Zip ‘Wyatt gang for the past week, came upon four of them suddenly last night while the bandits were preparing supper. The men mounted horses and fled, pursued by the officers. In the running fight that ensued one of the desperadoes, thought to be Charley Black, was shot in the hip. Black’s {riends strapped him to his horse and the nxiht ‘was continued until the pursuit was cut short by night. To-day officers con- tinued the lmrsni& and were rapidly clos- ing in on the bandits, ARE NOW IN GOTHAM. |Arrival of Californians for the Shooting Fest. GIVEN A BIG WELCOME, | New Yorkers Royally Entertain the Champions From the West. PRESENT FROM "I‘HE VISITORS. On the Whole the Verein Members Will Have a Remarkable Rally. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 26.—The first delegation of sharpshooters to the first National Schuetzenfest. which will be opened here next Saturday and continue until July 8, arrived in this city to-day and received a royal welcome from the officers ot the bund and the reception committee. The delegates came from California. They are the champions of the Pacific Coast and were selected from the German-American Schuetzen Association of the far Western metropolis. With them were several American riflemen with excellent records, who will be joined later by other marks- men. The California crack shots now here are William Ehrenpfort, August Jungblur, L. Beude, F. B. Schuster, George Albers, Max Schwab, H. M. Wreden, George Helm, Adolph Strecker, Emil Bloedau, F. O. Young and D. B. Faktor, the latter being the vice-president of the San Francisco | Schuetzen Verein and acting captain of the German-American delegation. Mr. Young isa member of the San Francisco Rifle Club and will attempt to carry off some of the prominent trophies. The delegates arrived at the station of the Central Railroad of New Jersey at 6:30 o'clock this morning, and were met by President William V. Weber of the bund and the reception committee. The com- mittee consisted of Otto. Uehlein, chair- man; Fritz Baumat, Adolph Richter, Gus Zimmerman, Herman Weber and Charles F. Roedel. The delegates were provided with carriages and driven to the Union- square Hotel. They will be quartered there during their stay in the city. A special breakfast had been arranged for the party. The mena card was headed “Zum Empfang der San Francisco Schuetzen- Gesellschaft,” and read as follows: “Ome- lette au Jambon, Filet mignon, au pomme friete. Coffee and tea.” After a good breakfast the guests rested for several hours and after partaking of a hearty and tempting dinner they were driven to points of interests about the city. The com mittee took particular pains in entertaining the Western guests and a cordial welcome was extended them wherever they went. At night they were taken in carriages, accompanied by a band, to the headquarters of the National Schuetzenbund, 12 8t. Mark’s place. They were met with pyrotechics and many cheers. Accompanying the delegation is Miss Ehrenpfort, an ameteur marks- woman, who has won many prizes in California. The final meeting of the delegation of the National Schuetzenbund prior to the festival took place to-night and was largely attended. An unusually large amount of business was speedily disposed of, and all the committees reported the outlook for a successful tournament as exceedingly bright. President William V. Weber an- nounced many additional valuable prizes to the good list of honorary awards, and his humorous remarks caused many peals of laughter and frequently evoked ap- plause, The proceedings were interrupted by the arrival of the California visitors, whose approach to the headquarters caused vo- ciferous outbursts of welcome. "Under the escort of Gus Zimmerman they entered the hall, and were by him introduced to the assembiage, when again tumultuous ap- plause greeted them. After three hearty cheers had been given, D. B. Fak- tor, acting captain of the visiting delegacion, thanked the Eastern sharp- shooters on behalf of his little band, and also presented the bund with an honorary prize from the California riflemen, which consisted of a gold brick bearing the stamp of United States Assayer Selby. On the face of the brick is engraved a view of the Golden Gate, below which is inscribed: “Presented by the San Francisco Schuet- zen Verein, S8an Francisco, Cal., 1895.” This valuable gift was received with cheers and was gracefully accepted by President Weber, who bade the guests wel- come and proposed three more cheers which were heartily given. All the dele- gates then laid aside business and devoted themselves especially to the sharp- shooters from the West. So royally were the visitors cared for that several committees, which had important busi- ness to transact, were compelled to retire to rooms in other parts of the builaing, the main hall being speedily transformed into a room for jollification. Here the as- semblage indulged in genuine German sociability for several hours. HATED BY ARMENIANS. A Beautiful Wife Violates the Tenets of Her Faith. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 26.—The Ar- menian colony is incensed against Sophie Sisheim, who, according to the tenets of the Armenian faith, should be punished with death in its most horrible form. The offender is young and very beautiful and was the wife of Tannus Sisheim, a hotel proprietor at 91 Washington street, until yesterday, when Judge Bischoff directed a jury to render a verdict of guilty of charges brought by her husband. Mrs. Sisheim became deeply attached to Naun Mocarzel, a merchant, and last April they threw con- ventionalities and the Armenian moral law to the winds and fled. They have traveled since in Mexico and different parts of the country, but as soon as their offense be- comes known amorg the Armenians wher- ever they locate they are compelled to flee for their lives. When the husband became convinced of the guilt of the pair he at once instituted divorce proceedings, which, it is believed, are the first ever brought in this country by an Armenian. —_— THROUGB MERCED CANYON. Plans for Building the Railroad Are Yet in Embryo. CHICAGO, ILL., June 26.—Virgil Bogue, a civil engineer of this city, has just re- turned from a professional visit to Califor- nia, where he was sent by several Chicago capitalists to make a preliminary survey for & proposed railway through Merced Canyon to Merced Falls and the Yoserpite River, a distance of fiftv-five miles. His report on the engineering and official aspect of the projected line is in the hands of the Chicago capitalists, who are not in the city at present. In their absence Mr. Bogue said to a United Press reporter that he must decline to say whether his report was favorable to the undertaking or other— wise, while admitting that “‘everything was in a pot at present,”” and that it had not been decided yet to build the road. Sl S s MURDER HIS MANIA. An Inmate of an Asylum Kills a Fellow- Prisoner. HASTINGS, NEsR., June 26.—The fact has just leaked out that a tragedy occurred at the asylum for incurable insane. A patient named Carroll, whose hands are always kept strapved on account of his murderous mania, was out foran airing with other inmates. In some manner he managed to loosen his hands, and picking up a stone beat a fellow-prisoner to death before the attendants realized what was going on. Carroll two years ago tried to murder a Police Judge at Lincoln and nearly succeeded. He was sent to the penitentiary, but was transferred to the insane asylum. ' S R Lottery Literature Captured. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 26.—Anthony Comstock with his men made a big raid vesterday on the offices of the American Bank Note Company’s premises in Trinity place and in tbe offices of C. E. Gruber in Maiden lane. He captured 100,000 circu- lars and 1000 tickets of lotteries. The cir- culars and tickets were printed by the American Bank Note Company, Mr. Com- stock says, for the supplementary Royal Havana Lottery Company. The greater part of the lottery tickets secured were found at the American Bank Note Com- pany’s office. % EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE, Friends of a Divorced Man’s Wife Blow Up a Building in Pennsylvania. The Intended Victims Escape, but a Servant Perishes In the Rulns. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 27.—A special from Wilkesbarre, Pa., says: Because Matteo Gerard, a wealthy cigarmaker and baker of Hazleton, near here, was divorced from his first wife three weeks ago and married his second the day after, the friends of the first wife swore to have revenge. It is supposed that they attempted it early this morning, tor shortly after 1 o’clock Gerard’s house and store were blown to atoms by dynamite, and the proprietor and his wife only es- caped by a fortunate chance, while Pieto Pechinello, a servant employed by Gerard, is supposed to have been killed and burned } to ashes. It was about1 o’clock when the residents of the Italian quarter were aroused by a heavy explosion that shook all the build- ings. They rushed out and found Gerard and his wife on the sidewalk in their night clothes, half frightened to death and bleed- ing from several cuts caused by flyi glass. In a moment there was another explo- sion, heavier than the first, and the house, one side of which had been blown out by the first shock, fell with a crash. The peo- ple, startled and not knowing what to think, huddled together in the street, while many, fearing another explosion, rushed from the scene as quickly as possible. By the time some of the men recovered their self-possession part of the ruins were in a blaze and the flames were spreaning rapidly. Just about this time it was remembered that Pechinello had been sleeping over the spot where the first explosion occurred. A burried search was made for him, but he was not to be found. © A search of the ruins was immediately set on foot, but those who undertook it were driven back by the flames which spread to the buildings on each side. Three of these buildings were burned to the ground before the fire was controlled. Itis supposed that Pechinello was killed by the explosion or burned in the debris. Gerard and his wife had a remarkable escape. Awakened by the first explosion they rushed out just in time to avoid the second. It is estimated that ten sticks of dynamite were used. They were exploded by wires connected with a battery placed about thirty feet away in the rear of the house. There is no clew w0 the perpetrators of the outrage, but the relatives of the first wife are suspected. e MISER HENRY'S MURDER. Important Bvidence Againstthe Suspected “Bad Son.” BROOKLYN, N. Y., June 26. — After groping blindly in the dark nearly two weeks, with nothing but circumstantial testimony to reward them for their gfforts, the police yesterday un- earthed some highly important evi- dence in the mystery surrounding the death of Charles W. Henry, the miser, who was found murdered in his home in South Portland avenue. The authorities havg found out that William Henry, the ‘“bad son,” who is suspected of having committed the murder, changed his clothes between the time he was driven from his father’s house and the time he gave himself up to the police, and that within a few hours of the time of the finding of the body William was in a number of well-known resorts in New York spending money lavishly from a large roll of new bills. Miser Henry, it is claimed, kept nothing but brand-new bills in his house. The police claim that the fact that William had considerable money after the murder had been committed and he had changed his clothes tends to strengthen the theory that he is the mur- derer and state that at his next examina- tion they will have acomplete chain of circumstantial evidence woven about him. s i O COVERED A LARGE AREA. Great Damage Done by a Storm in the Middle West. ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 26.—As communi- cation is restored reports from last night's destructive and widespread storm are be- ginning to arrive. At Rich Hill Mo., a number of houses were struck by lightning. Large trees were uprooted by the wind and a number of outhouses were blown down. Considerable damage was done to the fruit crops. The damage to property and grow- ing crops will reach several thousand dol- lars. * At Springfield, Mo., growing crops were leveled. 3 A circus tent at Billings, Mont., col- lapsed and caused a panic, but no one was badly injured. At Quincy, Ill, no fatalities resulted from the cyclone, but the blow was the hardest in a dozen years, and the items of dnmngss are numerous, including six barns burned and a temporary demoraliza- tion of telegraph and telephone service. The storm area covered the country from Springtield, I1l,, to the west line of Kansas and south to Central Texas. A great deal of damage was done to unfinished build- ings and shrubbery in this city, CRAZED BY A DEATH, An Employer’s Demise Causes a Clerk’s Insanity. GOES ON THE WARPATH. Develops an Intense Hatred for an Associate and Attempts Murder. DEEPENING OF A MYSTERY. Peculiar Circumstances Connected With the Movements of Hotel- Keeper Brennan. CLEVELAND.On10, June 26.—The dcath in Detroit on Monday of John Brennan resulted in unbalaicing the mind of one ot his employes in this city and causing the man to contemplate and nearly to commit murder. Brennan ran the Hotel Oxford in this city and was also interested in the Morris Hotel at Santa Barbara, Cal. Brennan sold out the Oxford a while ago, but the new management was unsuccessful and he returned to this city from his California business about three weeks ago to resume possession of the place, leaving Mrs. Bren- nan in Santa Barbara, from which place she is now doubtless on her way to this city. Last Saturday night Brennan went to Detroit, assiening no reason for his de- parture. Arriving there Sunday morn- ing he registered at the Wayne, where he was immediately taken very ill and on Monday died. Physicians there said he expired from alcoholism. The first that was known of it in Cleveland was a tele- gram received from the hotel people by Mrs. Brennan, who had been communi- cated with from Detroit. Brennan's brother-in-law left on Tuesday for Detroit and on Wednesday advised Frank Vader, the night clerk at the Oxford, that the news of the death of Brennan was correct. Vader, who liked Brennan and who is addicted to the use of morphine, became instantly wildly insane. His mania took the form of an intense hatred of L. Adams, the day clerk of the hotel, with whom he had had an insignificant quarrel and whom he declared he would shoot on sight. Vader purchased a revolver as soon as morning came and ti stores were open and returned to shoot Adams, but was met by the police and arrested after a pro- longed struggle. He would have been merely fined, but on his declaring he would shoot Adams on being liberated he was sent to the work- | house. It is thought there is a mystery | back of Brennan’s death, for although his | death took place on Monday in a city only | a little over a hundred miles from here nothing was known of it generally in the city until ¢he frantic conduct of Vader brought the event to light. BOOKSELLERS ARE INJURED. They Must Meet the Inroads of the De- partment Store. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 26.—John E. McBride, chairman of the executive com- mittee of the National Association of Newsdealers, Booksellers and Stationers, in an address which he has just issued to | the publishers, booksellers, newsdealers | and stationers of the United States, calls attention to the fact that the department store is making disastrous inroads into their business, and thinks that something should be done to free themselves “from the tentacles of this deadly octopus.” Mr, McBride advises as the best and only means of meeting this competition orgnni: zation and union against capital on the same plan that it is followed in putting to. gether and building up the German Book- sellers’ League, by which means the out- put of responsible publishers could be controlled. ol Death of @ Turfman. LEXINGTON, Krv., June 26.—Wood Stringfield, the turfman, known from ocean to ocean as a jockey, trainer and owner and, in latter years, a turf writer, is dead at his home here at the age of 64. Some years ago he was injured in a run- away, and has since been unable to leave the city. He was the father of the turf statistician, John K. Stringfield of Cin- cinnati. He was a turfman of the old school, of which only Major B. J. Thomas of this city is now living. L e et Epworth League Convention. CHICAGO, IrL., June 26.—A special train bearing over a thousand Epworth Leaguers left here this evening for Chatta- nooga, Tennessee, where the international convention of the league will convene to- morrow. It is expected that the total attendance will be upward of 15,000, repre- senting the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church South and the Methodist Church of Canada. A Stitch in Time Saves nine, says the old proverb, and it is equally true that a little of the riht medi- cine in the Spring or when the first symp- toms of trouble ap- pear, will prevent long illness. Mr. J. F. Wassel, printer and pub- lisher at Dwight, IIL, says: “I neg- o lected what seemed :to be slight ailment \ until I became so broken down from \ rheumatism that I had to give up my work and became an invalid. I yielded to my wife’s proposition to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla. I used two bottles and have entirely recovered my wonted strength and activity. Inow put in full time in my office and enjoy life like a newly made man. My wife says ) . Hood's Sarsaparilla did it and insisted on my writing this let- ter of gratitude in acknowledgment of the a me.” Be sure to get Hood’s. Hood’s Pills g: hermonionty with Dr.Gibbon’s Dispensary, 623 MEARNY ST. Established [l.]' 1854 for the treatment of Privuta iseases, Lost Munhood. Debility or disease wearing on body and mind and Skin Diseases. The doctor cures when s praraateed. Chllo: wite ror guarantcod. Dr.J. F. GIBBON, Box 1957, San Francisos