The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 7, 1895, Page 4

4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 7, 1895. PACIFIC COAST NEWS. The Body of a Murdered Man Found at Sac- ramento. LONG WALK OF A MUTE. Plot of Bunko Men to Keep a Lodi Witness Out of Court. 10S ANGELES BRIBERY CASE. Work on Santa Barbara’s New Electric Line About to Be Commenced. SACRAMENTO, Car, July 6.— The body of Juen Oréllanda, an aged Chilean, who for a number of years-past has been the watchman of the property of the San Joaquin Transportation Compony in this city, was found in the river shortly after 4 o'clock this afternoon. Orellanda had been missing since Tues- day. He was undoubtedly murdered and then thrown into the river. There was a deep incision under the lower jaw on the right side and a scalp wound extending from over the right eye to the center of the head, which was crushed in. A ban- dana handkerchief was tied over the dead man’s eyes. The case is a mystery and the police are at work endeavoring to find a clew. i S PLOT AGAINST A LODI FARMER. Scheme of Bunko Men to Keep a Witness Out of Court. LODI, Carn, July 6.—Farmer Jacob Brack, who was bunkoed out of $2000 a few weeks ago, and who has appeared against the swindlers, who were arrested in Oregon a few days after leaving Lodi, has been visited by a strange woman who came from San Francisco and wanted to secure rooms in the Brack residence for a short time. After her first visit Brack had been advised that the woman had been in Lodi and had confided in a certain man the fact that she expected to prevent Brack from appearing against the confidence men who robbed him. Brack therefore refused to allow the woman to take rooms in his house, but she refused to take no for an answer and came back a second time. This time she pre- tended to faint and was carried into the house, but sooner than allow her to re- main over night Mr. Brack hitched up his own rig and brought bher to Lodi, where she took the train for San Francisco. The trial of the bunko men comes up in Stockton next week, and sensational de- velopments are expected. s P LAMONT AT PORILAND. The Secretary of War and His Party En Route to Alaska. PORTLAND, On., July 6.—The Secre- tary of War, Daniel 8. Lamont, and party arrived last evening on a special train and went over to Fort Vancouver immediately. The Secretary is accompanied by Mrs. La- mont, Miss Lamont, Quartermaster-Gen- eral Batchelder, Adjutant-General Wilson, Major L. W. Dayis, military secretary to the Secretary and Mrs. and Miss Bryant. The party eame through from Walla Walla direct, General Otis of the Department of the Columbia having met the Secretary at Fort Sherman. n Last evening the party remained at the residence of General Otis at Vancouver Barracks. This afternoon a brilliant re- ception was held at the residence, attended by many prominent persons. To-night the Secretary and party will return here. They will go down the Columbia and then to the sound. Inaday or two they start for Alaska. = ——-—— SCHMIDT REACHES TACOMA. A Deaf Mute’s Long Walk on a Novel Wager. TACOMA, Wask,, July 6, — Charles Schmidt, a deaf mute, aged 20, arrived to- day from Minneapolis, having walked from there under extraordinary circumstances. He agreed with the Left-Hand Fishing Club of Houston and the Island Fishing Club of Galveston, Tex., to walk from Minneapolis to Portland, Or., over the Great Northern, and from Portland to Houston over the Bouthern Pacific Rail- way, leaving Minneapolis April1and to arrive at Houston on or before December 31. The conditions are that he is not to stop to eat, drink or sleep, but to continue in motion day and night, not less than forty-eight hours consecutively. The clubs agree, if Bckmidt is not killed on the road, to give $4000 to the Deaf Mute Institute ef Texas and $1000 to the walker. Besides accomplishing this task Schmidt must in some manner have collected $250 on the trip. e SANTA BARBARA’S NEW ROAD. Work on the Flectric Railway Will Be Begun at Once. SANTA BARBARA, Civ., July 6.—The stockholders of the new electric road held & meeting to-day and adopted a code of by- laws for the government of the company. The board of directors organized by elect- ing A. Hope Deeg president; 8. J. Keese of Los Angeles, vice-president: A. F. Ash- ton, secretary and treasurer; and W. F. Reed, mana; The stockholders raised subscriptions increasing the amount actu- ally subscribed from $40,000 to $75,000. ‘Work will be at once commenced on the road, beghmlng with the building of a power-house, which will be located in the vicinity of the Southern Pacific freight depot, and the whole road will be vigor- ously pushed forward. e LOS ANGELES BRIBERY. Sensational Evidence in the Case of Street Superintendent Howard. LOS ANGELES, CaL., July 6.—The case of Btreet Superintendent Howard, charged with endeavoring to bribe City Councilman Kingery to secure the selection of lots ten- dered by Dodd and Q’Gara, came up to-day before a special committee of the Council. The evidence placed the Superintendent in a bad light, but as there were no witnesses to the conversation at the time of the al- leged bribery, and as both men held to their story, after an exciting session am adjournment was taken to Monday, when a report will be submitted to the Council. The testimony was of a8 sensational nature and.excited much comment. The amount of the alleged bribe was $200. /e e S SANTA ROSA’S DEAD JURIST. Pathetic Scene at the Deathbed of Judge Pressley. SANTA ROSA, OCan, July 6.—The funeral of Judge Pressley, who died at ©Camp Pressley, near Cazadero, yesterday, will be held at the Baptist church here to- merrow forenoon. The members of the Santa Rosa bar met to-day and appointed a committee to draft proper resolutions in respect to the memory 5 the dead Enriet. g‘:e attorneys will attend the funeral y. Judge Pressley died in the arms of R. P. Legro, an old Union soldier, who_had his camp near that of the Judge. Just the evening before the old soldiers had a jolly wisit together, felicitating themselves upon ina the fact that all animosities that ever ex- isted between the blue and gray had been put aside. Before daylighz the Judge, who was an ex-Confederate, breathed hislast in the arms of the old Union veteran. A FALL OF A LOS ANGELES MAN. A Workman but Stightly Injured in a Descent of Sixty-flve Feet. LOS ANGELES, CaL., July 6.—A mirac- ulous escape from a painful death oc- curred this afternoon about 1 o’clock. W. W. Ham, a bricklayer, working on an ad- dition to the Philadelphia brewery, at an elevation of sixty-five feet was overcome by heat, lost his balance and fell to the ground. His fall was witnessed by a num- ber of people. Ham's shoulder struck a brace, tgm“ ing him against the wall of the building. He instinctively threw out his right hand, which fortunately came in con- tact with the brace. Hi momentum was so great that his wrist was broken, but it checked the foree of the fall, and the only other injuries resulting were scratches on the head and 5hculgers and a general shaking-up. e DYING AT ANGELS CAMP. A Sufferer ¥rom Rheumatism Takes a Dose of Morphine. ANGELS CAMP, Car., July 6.—William C. Kelly, who came here five months ago from Santa Ana, Orange County, where he was engaged in farming, tried to commit suicide this afternoon by taking morphine. He was found on Demarest %{ill by Dr. Morefield and brought to town. It is be- lieved Kelly cannot live. Kelly had been affected with rheumatism for several years and was despondent. Once before he attempted to commit sui- cide and of late has frequently threatened to destroy his life unless he could find physical relief. Several years ago Kelly conducted an_ extensive freighting busi- ness at Leadville, Wyo. He is 59 years of age and has a wife Lere. SCOTIA 15 FLAME-SWET, Fire Causes a Loss of Over a Quarter of a Million Dollars. A Conflagration Ragingat the Pacific Lumber Company’s Plant. ROHNERVILLE, CaL., July 7.—A fire started in the Pacific Lumber Company mill at Scotia at 5:30 o’clock this evening, just after the mill had closed down for the day, and in fifteen minutes the mill was totally destroyed. The fire quickly spread to the company’s store and office building, the warehouse and the eookhouse, consuming all these buildings. Through the quick work of the comvany’s employes the books were saved and a very small portion of the merchanaise from the store and ware- house. The efforts of those who were fighting the fire were then turned toward saving the remaining buildings, including the hall, saloon and hotel buildings. A strong wind was prevailing at the time and drove the flames down through the lumber-yard, where was piled 3,000,000 feet of Jumber. At midnight the fire was raging in the lomber, with no hope of checking it. A call was sent to the Eureka department for aid. In other directions the fire has been checked. It is impossible to ascertain at this time the amount of insurance, though it is known that policies for a reasonable amount are carried by thecompany. The loss amounts to over a quarter of a million dollars. e MOLASSES, SAND AND FEATHERS Whitebaps Clothe an Erring Couple in a Disagreeable Attire. BOSTON, Mass,, July 6.—A Globe spe- cial from Canterbury, N. H., says that last night a party of citizens disguised as white- eaps, who had become disgusted with the relations existing between James Nndd and Josie Carter, the latter working as housekeeper for Nudd, called at the latter’s house, took him into the front yard, coated him with molasses, sand and ieathers and then allowed him to depart. The girl,whose reputation was of the best until she went to live with Nudd abouia year ago, was given strong words of advice, and aifter promising never again to live with Nudd was driven to her home in an- other part of the town. Nudd, who isa section hand, is said to have a wife and several children in 1llineis. Frriaerdneh I8 A GENUINE BARON, Marston Not Disturbed by Reports Con- cerning His Son-in-Law. CHICAGO, IrLL., July 6.—Colonel Henry C. Marston of this city, the father of the Miss Marston who, on May 28 last, was married to Baron Rudolph Schultzbar- Milchling, evinced no concern to-night when shown a cable from Germany stat- ing that his son-in-law was a fraud. “The cable is a mistake’’ he said, “my son-in-law’s ancestry was very fully traced. Aside from this he was recognized here by the German Consulate and the Consuj was present at several of his dinners.” Beveral other people acquainted with the Baron were shown the cable message and all agreed that there cduld be no doubt of the gentleman having a genuine title. B RLC 2 VALKYEIE 111 WINS. Ailsa and DBritannia Beaten in the Hunters Quay Race. HUNTERS QUAY, Scorranp, July 6.— The great cutters Valkyrie III, Britannia and Ailsa raced to-day over the course of the Royal Clyde Yacht Club for her Majesty’s cup, valued at 100 guineas. The sky was cloudless and there was a gentle breeze from the south. The small raters also struggled for money prizes and glory over practically the same course as'covered yesterday. The Valkyrie won by fifteen minutes. The finish was: Valkyrie, 4:31:10; Britan- nia, 4:49:36; Ailsa, 4:50:57. Small raters finished: Eucharist, :50; Zinita, 3:41:55; Dakotah, 3:54:05. The Niagara gave it up. @ S Embezzler, Johnson Returned. MUSCATINE, Iowa, July 6.—W. H. Johnson, the defaulting ex-Auditor of Muscatine County, arrived here this morn- ing in charge of the Sheriff, who found him hiding in Honolulu. Johnson was running a newsstand when caught. He was a political leader here and his arrest and return to this city has caused a sensa- tion. Johnsen’s embezzlement amounted to $30,000. A portion of the amount was paid by his bondsmen and the balance was a loss to the county. g Howgate Owut on Bonds. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 6.—Cap- tam.H-nrv ‘W. Howgate, formerly dis- bursing officer of the Signal Service, who is under sentence of eight years in the peni- tentiary for forgery and embezzlement, was admitted to Bfi{in the sum_of $15,000 his afternoon and released. Three per- sons became sureties for his appearance when wanted before the Court of Appeals, one of whom isthe prisoner’sdaughter, Miss Ida Howgate. Seistls U o No Duty on Lead Ore. WABHINGTON, D: C., July 6.—In re- sponse to an inquiry from the Denver Mint the Charge d’ Affaires of the United States in Mexico has informed the Treasury De- partment, at the request of the State De- partment, that the Mexican Government :’meposes no duty on the exportation of lead re. g SANTA CLARA ABROAD Resources of the Valley to Be Advertised in the East. HISTORY OF A SUICIDE. Evntful Life and Sad Death of a Woman Famous for Her Beauty. WOES OF A SAN JOSE WIFE An Applicant for Divorce Who Claims She is Compelled to Support Her Husband. SAN JOSE, Cavr., July 6.—The meeting of the Board of Trade, the presidents of the different fruit unions and prominent fruit-growers at the Board of Trade rooms this afternoon was largely attended and discussion on ways and means for adver- tising the fruit products of Santa Clara Valley was enthusiastically entered into. The meeting was called to order by President Wooster of the Board of Trade, who was chosen president of the meeting, with J. P. Fay secretary. Mr. Stevens addressed the meeting upon the need of advertising the Santa Clara Valley. He told how he had, a few years ago, sent some dried fruit to a brother in Vermont, who had distributed it through the interior towns in that State. He said a demand was created, and now he finds a market there every year for a good part of his erop. Colonel T. P. Weaver read a paper on advertising Santa Clara County fruits abroad and creating a fund for such a pur- pose. He said the first thing to do was to create a fund for advertising purposes, and he thought that business men should each give $100 and growers subscribe $1 per acre for their acreage in fruit. He was satisfiea that thorough advertising would create a demand in the East for the entire product of the valley. Colonel Philo Hersey urged that har- mony should exist among the growers and that each grower should do all he could to advertise the product of the county. A general discussion was entered into and the merits of the paper discussed at some length. Colonel Weaver then intro- duced the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted : Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting that immediate action be taken for the pur- pese of extending the dried fruit market, and that & committee of five be appointed to formu- late plans. The following were selected to act on the committeer C. M. Wooster, W. W. Tyler, C. H. Allen, F. M. Ryder and H. S. Lord. SADIE JOHNSON'S CAREER. The Suicide Was Noted for Her Remark- able Beauty. SAN JOSE, Cax, July 6.—Eva Davis, or Parker as she was sometimes called, who ended her life at Btockton on Tuesday by taking a dose of morphine, was well known in this eity. She came here about six months ago with E. Ravali, a bartender at the William Tell House, from San Fran- cisco. Bhe had charge of a machine for stamping monograms on handkerchiefs at the Midwinter Fair. While here the woman was recognized as one of the prettiest women in the city. About three weeks ago she went to Stock- ton, leaving her trunk with Mrs, Caminetti, the proprietress of a lodging-house on North First street. This morning Chief Kidward detailed Detective Pickering to trace the where- abouts of the woman in this city and se- cure posession of any effects she might have left here. The trunk left with Mrs. Caminetti was opened, and from letters found in the trunk it was learned that her right name was Sadie Johnson, and that her home was at Sixty-fourth and Seno- man streets, Englewood, Chicago. She has a sister, Mrs. Krause, residing there, with whom she mace her home before coming to the coast. The Coroner of San Joaquin County has been notified, and her effects will be forwarded to him. The woman went to Stockton alone. Be- fore leaving, she and Ravali parted, and he can assign no cause for her rash act. MADE TO SUPPORT HER HUSBAND. Plaint of a San Jose Woman Rho Sues for Diverce. SAN JOSE, Can, July 6.—Frances E. Lovett to-day began suit against Charles E. Lovett for divorce on the groundjof failure to provide. The parties were mar- ried in this cityin 18%0. They have no children and there is no community property. In the complaint Mrs. Lovett sets forth that for more than four years her husband has neglected to provide the necessaries of life for her, and that he compelled her to support both herself and him. She asks $25 2 month alimony and $100 coun- sel fees. FIRE IN A LODPGING:HOUSE. Female Inmales Narrowly Escape With Their Lives, SAN JOSE, CaL., July 6.—Fire broke out in the Harmony lodging-house, on North TFirst street, this morning about 7 o’clock, but was extinguished before much damage was done. The house is an old landmark, built in the early fifties and opened by Professor Gates as a school for young men and women. It wasthen known as Gates’ Academy, and enjoyed a reputation along the coast as a place of learning. Of late the lodging-house has had a ques- tionable reputation, and at the time of the fire most of its guests were women: The inmates had a narrow escape, for the house was filled with smoke and the flames were rapidly spreading when discovered. The damage will amount to several hundred dollars. The place was insured for $3000. The origin of the fire is unknown. WEDDED TO TWO WOMEN. A Much - Married St. Louis Traveling Man Gets Into Trouble. ST. LOUIS, Mo, July 6.—L. Saunders, general traveling agent of the National Guarantee Savings and Investment Com- pany of this city, has been on a business trip through the West for several weeks. The register of the Hotel Rose at Golden City, Mo., shows that “L. Saunders and wife, 8t. Louis,” arrived there June 27. Anabrupt termination was put te his operations yesterday by the arrival in St. Louis of a very angry woman, who claims to be Saunders’ wife. She had traced her recreant husband to this point from Kansas City. Wife No. 1 immediately had Saunders and wife No. 2 arrested gnd they were held for examination to- ay. Being unable to give bonds among strangers, and disliking to be put in the common lockup, the court permitted them to be gnarded. During the night Baunders gave the officers the slip and fled and has not been recaptured. Vsm No. 1claimsa common-law marriage of eight years' standing, which Saunders did not deny. No. 2 was married to him #bout three months %go in Kansas City. At the local office of Saunders’ company nothing was known of his marital entanglements. His accounts are straight and he is considered a valuable man. e MUST GIVE AN A(CCOUNT. Suit Against the Ex-President of an Ele- vator Company. ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 6.—The Mer- chants’ Elevator Company to-day sued its ex-president and manager, Cap- tain D. P. Slattery, for $232,000 and asked the Cironit Court to have him give an accountof his stewardship. The petition cites that Slattery has Converted to his own use $232,000 of the assets of the company, January 1, 1887, $100,000 worth of bonds were issued, secured by a deed of trust on the company’s property. When the United Elevator Company bought out the Mer- chants’ Elevator Company, it bought it subject to the $100,000 worth of bonds re- ferred to and gave as part payment $62,500 worth of additional bonds covered by another deed of trust. Slattery had control of the bonds, and it is alleged that he converted to his own use the $100,000 of first mortgage bonds, the $122.063 net earnings and tge remaining $10,000 worth of second mortgage bonds. ON ZLoose Fielding and Reavy Batting the Order of the Day. CHICAGO, Ir., July 6.—New York shut out the Chicago team to-day with ease in an uninteresting and slow game. Rusie was as big a mystery as ever, gnly five scattered hits being made off his delivery. é{utchinson was wild. Attendance 14,000. core: e TR THE BALL FIELD. Chict New Yorl Batteries. inson ge, Rusie and Wiison. Umpire—Andrews. 8T. LOUIS, Mo., July 6.—Si. Louis vs. Baltimores, postponed; rain. LOUIBVILLE, Ky., July 6.— Lonis- villes vs. Washingtons, postponed until to- morrow, when two games wiil be played. PITTSBUR@, Pa., July 6. — Nichols itched a great game to-day. He gaye the ittsburgs only 5 hits and batted in two runs. The home club made another ex- citing finish. Attendance, 5000. Score: Pittsburgs. Bostons Batteries Ryan. Umplre—Emslfe. OINCINNATI, O=xro, July 6.—It wasa slugging game all the way from start to finish to-day. Thirty-eight hits, among them being several two and three baggers and a home run, shows the way both clubs found the ball. Attendance, 3800. Score: B BE. I «16 20 5 AP ‘118 les—~Phillips, Foreman and Murphy, Steiz, Gumbert and Grim. Umpire—Galvin and Behl. CLEVELAND, Omio, July 6.—Loose fielding and weak hitting by both teams characterized to-day’s Cleveland-Philadel- phia game. Attendance 400u. Score: R BE E Clevelands.. 3 3 Philadelphias 5 Batteries—Knell an and Buck- ley. Umpire—Keete. —_—— Al Races Declared Off. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., July 6.—All the races were declared off to-day by the St. Joseph Fair Association on account of the heavy track. MINNEAPOLIS, Mx., July 6.—Rain marred to-day’s programme at Minnehaha, and Robert J and Hal Pointer did not start against their records as advertised. The races were closely contested, particularly | the 2:23 trot, where the first three heats went to different horses. 2:19 trot, $1000, Bilena F, bl. m., by Nut- wood, won; Kate Caffery second, Queen Alfred third. Best time, 2:153. 223 trot, §1000, interrupted by rain, King Princeps two heats, Allie G one heat, Abbadone one heat. Best time, 2:18)4, 2:10 pace, $1000, interrupted by rain, Tom Ogden two heats. Best time, 2:11. B A Relic of Colonial Justice. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., July 6.— ‘While mending a readway in King George County yesterday workmen dug up the skeleton of a man inclosed in a cage of iron bars, allin a tolerably good state of pres- ervation. It is evidently the remains of some malefactor hanged in chains in colonial days. A Texas Town Inundated. JEFFERSON, Tkx., July 6.—The bayou at this city is rising at the rate of sixinches an hour, and already the bottom-land farms are entirely submerged and great damage done. Many families have aban- doned their homes for the uplands. The lower part of the city is under water. LASSOED THE SOORCHERS. How a New York Policeman Captured Two Swift Cyclists. Policeman John J. Ward of the East Twenty-second street station bought a clothesline last week, made a lasso,and for several days spent spare hours in the yard behind his house lassoing dogs, cats and gateposts. After awhile he considered himself suffi- ociently expert with the lariat to make pub- lic use of it, and last night he lassoed two bicyclists and took them to the station- house on the end of his clothesline, says the New York World. For more than a month Gramercy Park has been frequented by two boy ‘“‘scorch- ers” on bicycles, who went around the square at a rate of about twenty miles an hour. Captain Smith ordered Ward to arrest them, but the policeman could never get within a block of them. Every time the patrolman reported at the station-house the captain asked him if his beat was still in charge of that pair of cyclists. A ward detective suggested the lasso plan and the policeman adopted it and went into training. He tied the clothesline around his body when he went on duty last night. As he stood up for roll-call in the station-house the captain told him that hisclothesdidn’t fit him, and that he was getting fat. He also asked when he was going to catch the cyclists. Ward looked wise and said noth- ing: but he chuckled to himself. 'f‘fn policeman crouched under the lee of a lamppost and waited. Presently the pair came along, one after the other. ‘Ward threw hiu'llsso over the shoulders of the rear rider and bowled him over, the boy landing in an astonished heap in the street and his wheel continuing its career. The youth in the lead heard the crash and decided that something had happened. He turned around after he had gone a block and came back. By that time the policeman had disentangled his lasso and when the second rider arrived he threw the line and brought him down also. Then he tied the youths together in ‘Western cowboy style and led tiemtoa cell. They gave the names of Charles Grecico, aged 15, of 334 Second avenue, and Louis Gargare, 16, of 346 East Twelith street. It was said at the police station that gflzzly e de- Commissioner Roosevelt, being a bear hunter and a plainsman, will lighted at the lasso incidentand will send for Ward and publicly shake hands with him, B. W. Yeats, the young Irish poet, is mentioned as reminding one of Stevenson. He wears a scarlet sash and a sombrero in the streets of Dublin, and has “a tall, willowy frame, with the tint in his cheeks of the wild olive.” SERE Sir John Pender claims that $200,000,000 has been sunk in ocean telegraph cables. MARE ISLAND NEWS, But Slight Repairs Are Necessary on the Philadelphia. AN APPEAL TO DIMOND. Vallejo Citizens Endeavor to Have Company B Retained in the Guard. PECULATIONS OF A RECRUIT. A Navy-Yard Thief Tried by Court- martial and Sentenced to Imprisonment. VALLEJO, CAv., July 6.—The Philadel phia is lying in the stream at Mare Island. From Commandant Howison it is learned that the flagship is here under orders from the Navy Department merely to be docked. ‘When asked to-day if the ship stands in need of radical repairs the commandant replied: “No; shecould go to sea again to-morrow morning were her services required. Her bottom, though, is quite foul, and it is for the purpose principally of having this at- tended to that she is here. That there are many minor matters about her mechanism which it would be as well to have looked after now that she is here I have no doubt, but I have no knowledge of any serious defects in the ship. Then her long ab- sence from home makes it quite likely that officers ana crew have considerable shop- ping to do, replenishing clothing, small stores, etc. Within a few days Chief En- gineer Kutz and Constructor Baxter will visit the flagship with a view to ascertain just what attention she needs.” That the Philadelphia will remain in port some length of time there is little doubt. It will be the 22d inst. before the Hartfora is fit to come out of the basin, and small repairs will hardly be begun previous to the inevitable confusion inci- dent to docking. The recent expressed intention of the State authorities to muster out Company B, N. G. C., of this eity has created consid- erable excitement. The local company is acknowledged to be one of the best drilled in the S8econd Regiment, and the surprise was general that it should be done away with. A mass-meeting resulted in the dep- utizing of three representative Vallejo men to interview Major-General Dimond and learn if anything could be done to save the company. Those chosen were George Roe, editor of the Vallejo Times, ex-Senator James McCudden and Sergeant John A. McInnis, U. 8. M. C., retired. On Friday General Dimond was waited upon at San Francisco. While he counld not give the members of the committee complete assurances that the company would be kept in the ranks, he left the impression on the minds of his visitors thot he would favor such action. There is hope yet, and the citizens’ committee will continue its labors and use all efforts pos- sible to keep the company in the National Guard. A man named Sherardin, recently re- cruited by the marine barracks at Mare Island, has been tried by summary court- martial and sentenced to thirty days’ im- prisonment, after which he will doubtless be dishonorably discharged from the service. Sherardin seems to be afflicted with kleptomania. His peculations might have gone on for some time to come had not suspicion accidentally rested on him. A brother marine had a new pair of shoes, which he had just bought. In a short time he missed them, and, suspecting Sherardin, asked the latter if he had them. Receiving a reply in the negative, but still unsatisfied, he notified the superior officer, who ordered a search to be made, and the shoes were found 1n Sherardin’s trunk. This trunk was a study. In it were many articles which, during six months, have at different times disappeared mys- teriously. Some were carefully wrapped up and labeled. Evidently Sherardin stole simply for the pleasure of taking things belonging to others, but not with any view to realizing on them. STATED BY FREDERIC Continued from First Page. as cable correspondent of the Lendon Times in New Yorx has settled, in the minds of newspaper men at least, the question whether America has really any value asa news point for the London pa- pers. Ithas been for yearsthe most as- tonishing feature in English journalism, otherwise so prodigalof expense, that it has deliberately igncred everything save the most rudimentary outlines of the prin- cipal events in the largest English-speak- ing nation on theglobe. I have morethan once repeated the remark made to me by Sir Edward Lawson, owner of the Daily Telegraph, ten years ago, that if he sup- pressed even the regular press service of American news for six months he would never get o much as a postal card in pro- test from his English readers. * A few years later he tried the experi- ment of a resident correspondent there, but his choice of a man was unfortunate, and the thing soon lapsed. The London Times’ venture is practically the first ever made on anything approaching the scale which American readers for a generation have been accustomed to from this side. It must be a long time before the general London Times’ reader acquires the ap- petite for the new daily dish, but of its success among professional critics of all shades of opinion there can be no doubt. It is interesting to note that Mr, Smalley views the tariff question now with quite open mind, but the Irish red rag is more vividly and piercingly scarlet than ever in his eyes. ‘We can quite believe the statement that there are more Americans here than ever before. It seems almost as if Sir Charles Dilke’s old saying, that eventually all the British would be living in America and all the Americans here, were in process of verification. At the Fourth of July banquet, which was by far the most im- pressive and effective affair of the kind ever known in Europe, the difficulty was to find places for even a moiety of the appli- cants, and a large number of distinguished Americans known to be here had to be left out, simply because the corps of clerks hired for the purpose failed to discover their addresses amid the labyrinth of hotels, big and little, and whole districts of lodging-houses now devoted to the an- nual American tidal wave. This great army is expected to move bodily upon Henley next week to see what kind of a fist Cornell makes of it on the river Tuesday, and this insures an attend- ance at this water fete, and will probably cause pr§ces, 100, to exceed all precedents. There was a cordial patriotic rally at the Cornell boys’ concert last night, and every- thing was encored vehemently; but the few Britons present complained with some justice that there was an intolerable deal of banjo and mandolin to such a tiny allowance of college songs, which they really wanfed to hear, Samuel B, Curtis’ venture of “Sam’l of Posen” will also be saved from flat bank- ruptey, if at all, by the Americans here. The English have never taken kindly to our character sketches built around the personality of a single actor. Where Lot- tie Sheridan and many others have failed jt is not likely that Curtis might succeed. Nobody here has the faintest interest in the Polish Jew or would dream of trying to understand his Jiddish jargon, and so “Sam’l” was damned as a nuisance by the whole body of critics before the curtain fell on the first act. HaroLp FREDERIC. PARLIAMENT PROROGUED, ZLords Salisbury and Rosebery Exchange Parting Shots, [Cable Letter to.The United Press.] LONDON, Exc., July 6.—The House of Lords met at noon to-day. Lord Salisbury said this was the last time the House would meet before the dissolution of the present Parliament took place, and he wished to reply to the recent speech of Lord Rosebery, in which he had attacked the legislative preponderance of the House of Lords. Lord Salisbury proceeded to say that the upper house took no share what- ever in the votes through which govern- ments were displaced or inauguarated, neither did they have any part in the pro- vision of funds for the public service. As regards other matters, however, the House of Lords possessed precisely the same powers as the House of Commons. Lord Salisbury, continuing, said the House of Lords had been working to resist the inauguration of changes which were not supported by a majority of the nation. In regard to home rule for Ireland, Eng- land, he said, was certainly hostile to it. He also believed that a majority of the nation would fail to support an attack upon the Established church, and that as far as home rule for Scotland and Wales was concerned, neither could be carried without exciting the most passionate re- sistance of the people of England. 2 The policy of the Unionists, his lordship declared, was a positive, not a negative one, for they intended to legislate with a view to relieving the suffering of the poorer classes. They would try to revive the agricultare of the country, and would also give their attention to the creation of small holdings for tenants, the revision of poor laws, and would consider measures for the amelioration of the social condition of the people. Lord Salisbury’s remarks were greeted with cheers. Lord Rosebery in answer to the new Prime Minister justified his previous state- ment. He said that while one side of the House of Lords was overwhelmingly strong it was impossible for a Liberal Government to carry any measures introduced, how- ever beneficent. The distinctive feature of the present electoral campaign as compared with any previous occasion of the kind in the his- tory of the country is the number and va- riety of party manifestoes. During the week the country has been deluged with party and factional pro- grammes taking in every conceivable ground in the treatment of the issues upon which the coming election is to be *contested. The general party principles of the leaders of the various parties and factions are shown in these addresses, and this is especially tru€ of the programme issued by the Liberal leaders. Lord Rosebery sounds the battle-cry of the Liberal party in a demand for the reform of the House of Lords. Sir William Harcourt regards the local vote question as of first importance, and John, Morley alone puts home rule into the forefront of the line of battle. The Liberal and Radical conspiracy of silence against home rule has stirred Mr. Morley to the depths of indignation, as evinced by his Manchester speech, in which he said: “If at this election the Liberal can- didates shall put homa rule aside, the Lib- eral party will become the most dishonest political organization in the history of the country.” But for this honest utterance there is no doubt that the Liberals would go on ignor- ing the pledges to the Irish party, which kept them in power until Mr. Gladstone’s retirement from office and political life ruined them. Mr. Gladstone himself sent the chill of death through the hopes of +| home rule by absolute silence in regard to this measure in his recent farewell letter to his Midlothian constituents. 1 Bince Mr. Morley delivered his Man- chester speech and stung by the wide- spread reports that the ex-Premier had turned Unionist, Mr. Gladstone has found it advisable to write a brief letter advising the people of England to ‘“recognize the just claims of Ireland,” the phrase mean- ing anything, Unionism or home rule, ac- cording to the views of the reader. Lord Rosebery and -Sir William Har- court in their speeches yesterday, how- evet, found it prudent to admit that home rule was still a plank in the platform of the Liberal party, but if the Irish leaders have not by this time become disillusion- ized as to the value of Liberal pledges tuney have themselves to blame. The Rad- ical manifesto is as honest and straight- forward a declaration as any that has been issued. It simply advocates home rule, not only in Ireland but in Scotland and Wales as well, beginning, however, in Ireland. The Radical programme places democratic re- forms first on the list, but unless the bal- ance of the parties in the coming Parlia- ment shall restore the value of the Irish ' vote, which is not at all likely, the chances are that the Irish cause will be postponed for at least a decade. e o e e SERIOUS GAS EXPLOSION, Seven Men Badly Burned in a Rennsyl- vania Mine. ‘WILKESBARRE, Pa., July6.—A serious expiosion of gas'occurred at noon to-day at the No.6mine of the Susquehanna Coal Company at Glen Lyon and seven men were badly burned, four probably fatally, The men were at work fixing a drum on the new plane in the deep shaft of No. 6, and Richard Love, who had charge of the party, accidentally set off a gas-feeder. The injured are: Richard Love, aged 50, probably fatally; Charles Wifiiams, Richard Stephens, John R. Stephens, Thomas Rogers, Stanley Hyrrish and Leroy Allen. o Decides in Plitsburg’s Favor. PITTSBURG, PA., July 6.—Juage Ache- son of the United States Circuit Court this morning rendered an opinion in the suit of the Dupont Powder Company vs. the city of Pittsburg to prevent the sale of nearly $6,000,000 of bonds for public im- provements, The court’s decision was favorable to the city. NEW TO-DAY. OF ENDURING FAME The Practice of Medicine and Surgery Completely Revolutionized by Dr. Sweany. THE STORY OF HIS SUCCESS. The Great Specialist Has DMade Life Anew to Thousands and Tens of Thousands Who Had Been Given Up by Other Physicians—His Specialties and Mode of Treatment. By his skill as a specialist Doctor Sweany hag completely revolutionized the practice of meds icine and surgery in San Francisco. 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