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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 14, 1395 g emee e aele 0 T CRNRTE TR OB s e e e e INGLAND AND ITALY, An Alliance to Check the Avarice of Russia. WARNING TO THE CZAR. Great Britain Stands Ready to Aid the Southern Kingdom. THE ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS. An Immense Stream of Lava Still Pouring From the Crater. [Special cable to the New York Sun.] LONDON, Exg., July 13.—Nothing is to be gained apparently by further discussion of the week’s unfortunate events at Hen- ley. The Cornell men wisely concede that v would have been beaten, even if an ent to one of their men had not hap- race with Trinity Hall. They will be wiser stilt if they admit that the de- feat was due to their unscientific method wing, instead of a glish climate. The woather in En in the past month been wonderfully equable. The ci have been far less sudden and extreme than they would have been sure to encounter at home. Three men of the Cornell crew were undonbtedly ion, but it is unreasonable to out of conc hold the weather responsible. All Ameri- cans who went to Henley this week are strong in the opinion that if the winners of the New London '¥; y race next sum- mer will come the following week to Eng- land they will capture the Henley grand challenge cup with ease. rere has been no such fuss in diplo- natic cire 1 along time as that made over the Fi ’s pretended interview with Embassador It is a veritable tem- pest in a teapot, and it never would have attained the dignity of diplomatic inci- dent had not M tis co cended to explain too much. The interview carried its bogus character on its fa for how- ever indiscreet the American Embassador may have been at this or any other time, nobody takes him for a fool, which he would have been if he had expressed the sentiments bed to him to any stranger. Toward the close of Lord Salisbury’s u the Liberals frequently ing entered into an en- e or understanding with e was always parried in r, and was never unre- le When the 1892 they, of cours truth, but no publ ever made on the subject, and the Liberal rank and file ceased to inquire about it evidently on a hint from their leaders, thereby confirming the belief strong! in well-informed quar of an arrangement of some kind. Everything connected with the vi the Italian fleet at Portsmouth this week has tended to demonstrate that there is something more than friendship between the two Governments. The visitors have been treated with sumptuous hospitality. which could not have been afforded by British naval officers without Government assistance, and which ordinarily is not eountenanced by the Admiralty, which holds strong views upon the simplicity of naval life. The speeches, too, have been quite distinct from former utterances al on such occasions, the Duke of Genoa, for instance, going out of his way to say, “Ttaly’s strength depends largely upon England’s friendship.” It may be confidently assumed, there- fore, that the Portsmouth demonstration wag deliberately arranged to show Europe that Engtand and Italy are definitely allied and as the British reply to the osten- tatious display of the Russian and French fleets at Kiel. It may be well, too, that the two Governments think the moment opportune to let Russia know that her designs on Abyssinia concern England as well as Italy and that she will not be al- lowed to establish another Vladivistock upon the flank of the " British line of com- munication with India. The Sultan’s Government is apparently expecting to have scme hard fighting to do somewhere or other soon. It is tryiug, without much success, to obtain fresh sup- plies of arms and ammunition. The diffi- culty in the way is the venerable one of want of cash. The remittances from the provincial Governors lately have been barely sufficient to meet fixed charges and keep the Sultan’s privy purse sup- ptied. Various creditors are becoming clamorous and bringing diplomatic pres- sure to bear upon the Porte. Among these is the claim of Krupp, to whom $250,000 is owing in connection with the Dardanelles fortification work and who now is making Constantinople ring with his demands for payment, thereby scaring away would-be creditors in the rifle and cartridge line business. The Sultan’s personal needs being satis- fied, he does not worry much about this awkward state of things, but Hassan Pasha is in sore distress and is urging a general change in governorships in order to raise wind from new placemen and equip the Turkish army for the work which he be- lieves it will soon have to do and of which he is not a bit afraid. = One of the first rows in the new Parlia- ment is certain to be over the question of the right of the peers to interfere in a gen- eral election. Parliament was dissolved on last Monday and the Duke of Devon- shire, in the course of a speech at Darling- ton, said that thereafter, until the elections were finished; he would have to keep silence, “in accordance with constitutional law, which prohibits peers from taking part in politics.” Lord Rosebery on the same’ ground canceled all his public en- gagements, mostly made before the crisis came. General astonishment, therefore, is caused by the action of Lord Burton, head of the famous brewing firm of Bass, in sending out a flaming circular to members of the liquor trade beseeching them to use every effort to secure the defeat of the Liberal candidates, and denouncing Sir William Harcourt for his advocacy of re- strictions on thav trade. The letter is signed by Lord Burtor and was dated the day after dissolution, so his Lordship will find it difficult to defend or explain away his impudent interference in matters with which the constitution says he has no con- cern. The Liberals have resolved to make the most of this lordly indiscretion, although they will not be likely to get much solid satisfaction out of it if the Tories have a neajority in the next Parliament. The Shahzada has outstayed his welcome, berals acceded to power in soon ascertained the announcement was but still shows no disposition to clear out, although the delights of Paris have been told him by the elogquent tongues of the exalted civil and military officers, who are utterly weary of attendance upon him. A variety of causes have been assigned for this precrastination. One report is to the effect that the young man is deeply smitien with the charms of one of the Prince of Wales’ daughters, but this may safely be dismissed as baseless. Cupid also figures in another version, which has more probability in it, and the third confidently asserts that Nazrrilah is merely waiting for the arrival of a consignment of goods from his father, which he is to distribute as presents among those who have been kind to him here. But whatever may be the real cause the fact is that the Shahzada remains, and is even contemplating giving a great recep- tion at Dorchester House next week, to which he has invited the Prince and Prin- cess of Wales and & big crowd of notabili- ties, three-fourths of whom have gone out of town in consequence of the abrupt sus- pension or collapse of the fashionable sea- son, and who certainly will not come back to dance attendance upon the Afghan Prince unless it should be announced that the Prince of Wales has accepted the in- vitation. The experiment of making tobacco an ally of religion promises success in the estimation of those who have undertaken it. The invitation to partake of a free smoke at Christ Church Chapel in the East- end on last Sunday was responded to by more than 200 men, who are the poorest of the poor. A few came smoking; others carried a pipe in their mouths with the bowl inverted to denote emptiness. The gentleman who was to conduct the services and who ~himselt blew a cloud from a brier-root, commenced to distribute the tobacco. It was done economically. The supply was contained in a bag, and each recipient received enough to fill two pipes. By the time all were served and plentiful wresths of smoke were curling roofward, several ladies who were there to assist in the service took seats on the plat- form and the religious part of the proceed- ings began. First there was a prayerful exhortation, and though apparently it was attentively listened to, it was curious to see the pipe bowls and tobacco smoke half screened by one hand, while the eyes were reverently covered with the other. Then there wasa hymn, in which the female portion of the congregation joined, but not many of the men, it being difiicult to smoke and sing at the same time. They were as quiet and orderly as could be desired. After that came what they evidently en- joyed more than all else—a hymn sung With much sweetness by a lady. Probably they would not have ventured to applaud it, but the chairman, who still puffed his brier, clapped hauds, and they all followed with great vigor, their faces testifying how much they were in earrlest. A chapter was read from the Bible and the chairman took up the theme. It was the miracle of the six barley loaves and two fishes. He delivered a simple dis- course that lasted half an hour. By that time the limited allowance of tobacco had been smoked out, and after the crowning hospitality of a cup of tea, with slices of bread and marmalade for all, the proceed- ings came to an end. The Sunday afternoon sacred smoking concert is likely to become & permanent in- stitution in Whitechapel. There is much agitation among the Paris conservatoires because of the threat- ened abolition of the department class. Professor Petitpas, the patriarchal pro- fessor of maintien, has reached the limit of age and retired. It was he who taught all the best actors and actresses and sing- ers of this generation to salute, place chairs, sign treaties, courtesy, plunge dag- gers into their own and others’ bosoms, faint and otherwise intermingle stately gesture with declamation and song. M. Mounet-Sully of the Theatre Fran- cais and M. Gailhard of the Opera are en- deavoring to convince the Ministry of Fine Arts that unless the chair of Pro- fessor Pettipas is filled the French stage will suffer. Their opinion is shared by most of the playwrights and composers. There is a good deal §f comment in Paris because Lord Dufferin has dismissed all his French servants at the British embassy in that city. The necessity of this action was imperative, and it is a startling expose of one phase of European diplomatic methods in this day and generation. A coupie of months ago a servant was observed open- ing the Embassador’s dispatch-box. The box was given to him locked by Austen Lee, whose office is on the ground floor. The servant procured a false key and tam- pered with the box on the staircase. A sec- ond time he was sent upstairs with dummy dispatches, and was caught reading them by the Embassador’s private secretary. He, of course, was packed off, and the serv- ants received notice to leave, and have been charged with excellent characters. Some years ago, when the same measure was taken at the German embassy, one of the secretaries said it was no use keeping French servants. Through patriotism, whether or not strengthened by love of gain, a certain number invariably endeav- ored to spy. The English law is a peculiar thing. For instance, the Court of Appeals has just de- cided thata bequest of $10,000 to a British yachting association, the income to be used to purchase an annual cup for the best yacht, isillegal. The law says that prop- erty can only be tied up in perpetuity in favor of a charity, and though, for this purpose, to charity is allowed the widest possible meaning, by no court has it been extended to cover a wide variety of objects. The cup, it was urged, would benefit the community by encouraging yacht-building and good seamanship, but there are few sports which do not indirectly benefit the community, and the Court of Appeals could not see its way to regard the en- couragement of sport as being charitable, even in the mildest sense of the term. The failure of the fleet of fishing-boats in the neighborhood of the Elbe-Crathie collision last winter to go to the assistance of the sinking liner has at last been ex- lained. The men of the fleet saw the ilbe rockets distinctly, but the fishing- boats use rockets so frequently signaling among themselves that no attention was paid. Itis now suggested that rockets of a particular color be used to call for help and that their use for other purposes be forbidden. The eruption of Vesuvius, which is still in progress, is extensive. The new lava- stream has a frontage of more than 300 feet at the end, its height varying from fourteen to twenty feet. At one part the lava has piled itself up to a freightful height on the edge of the ravine, and the fear is lest it give way and fall. Thedirector of the observatory caused a dam to be built of scorie in the hope that it would turn the lava should it us:anca upon the building. Near the new crater two little extracones have formed, from one of which is heard a constant whistle likea locomotive. Etna is still more alive. Bmall shocks have been felt on the mountain, and the crateris emitting lava and gases. The people around Vesuviusare more curious than prudent. They climb the mountain in all directions, some even crossing with foolhardy bravery the still smoking stream. Crowds of little boys play on its very age, where it does not emit unbegrable heat, and pick up smok- ing bits to®hrow at each other. | READY TO AID SILVER, German States in Favor of a Monetary Con- ference. WILL ISSUE THE CALL Other European Powers _Sig- nify a Willingness to Participate. ENLARGING THE KIEL CANAL. It Has Been Found Necessary to Widen and Deepen the Great Waterway. BERLIN, Germaxy, July 13.—Before the Prussian Landtag closed on Wednesday. Baron von Hammerstein-Loxten, Prussian Minister of Agricultural Domains and Forests, vindicated the action of the Gov- ernment in carrying out the recommenda- tion of thé State Council in regard to the promises made to the farmers that various measures would be proposed end enacted to relieve the prevailing distress. Not- withstanding this, the land-owning party, a distinct and exclusive class, has just reason to be pleased with itself. Besides getting proofs of the Government's appre- ciation of its power, it overrode the re- newed opposition of Dr. Miquel, the Prus- sian Minister of Finance. Besidesthe con- tention of their members for a repayment of a good part of the land taxes. they also were able to defeat the Government’s pro- posal to appoint a committee to inquire into the Ministry’s scheme, the design of which was to facilitate the division of the great estates of the empire, many of which comprise tillable land now devoted to hunting preserves and the like. Dr. von Boetticher, the Vice=President of the Council of Ministers and Imperial Secretary of State for the Interior, prom- ised a few days ago, in the Upper House, that immediate reference to the Bundes- rath would be made of the replies of the Federal States to the proposal for an inter- national monetary conference, received since the.Landtag adjourned. The nego- tiations on this subject have, with two or three exceptions, been distinctly in favor of the proposed conference. A conference was held yesterday by Count Posadowsky-Wehner, Imperial Min- ister of the Treasury, with the Finance Ministers of Wurtemberg and Bavaria, the only German States that have held more or less strongly against the idea of calling a monetary conference. The result was that Bavaria assented to the proposal and Wur- temberg reluctantly promised to follow Bavaria’s lead. All the other States have willingly, and some of them anxiously, concurred. { is understood that the Emperor, hav- ing conferred with the Ministers on the subject, is heartily in favor of maintaining a gold standard; yet thereis a prevailing opinion that Germany ought not to refuse to call a currency conference in view of the fact that several of the powers have in ad- vance signified their willingness to join such a gathering. J Count Posadowsky and the Federal Min- isters also discussed a scheme of financial reform to be introduced in the Reichstag at the coming session of that body. Baron von Hammerstein has at last been definitely compelled to resign his post of editor-in-chief of the Kreuz Zeitung news- paper, and at the same time he ceases to be regarded as among the leaders of the Right in the Reichstag and Landtag. His final retirement after the hard and sue- cessful fight he mwade against those who had persisted in their endeavors to force bim out is attributed to the advice of his friends. The Baron did not want to retire under fire, nor did he wish to evacuate his present position, but it has long been known that for personal reasons he desires to be unfettered in his action and left per- fectly free to conduct his journalistic cam- paign against his enemies just as he pleases, whether in control of a paper or not. The actions for libel which he has brought against the hleine Presse and the Kleiner Journal are engaging his attention to a great extent, and it is believed that he cares mofe for the prosecution of these than he does for his position. Outside of a limited circle nobody be- lieves, however, that the Baron will make his reappearance in politics. The import- ance of his family can hardly be overesti- mated as infiuencing the policy of the Counservatives. He has for many years ex- ercised a degree of despotism in the con- duct of party tactics that almost invested him with proprietary rights. His ten- dency has always been toward reaction. He was the head and front of the Agrarian party, led the Agrarian cam- paign and organized the agriculturist movement against the Kaiser’s policy and led the movement in favor of sectarian education, which led to the downfall of Minister von Zedlitz. In brief, he was the soul of the reaction and the advocate of every retrograde movement, including the attempt to ally the party of Rector Ahlwardt and other anti-Semitic factions, now dead and gone, with the party of the moderate Conservatives. When the latter party came to the front he reverted to the old policy of steadily supporting the Government. Better news has been received to-day in regard to the Baltic-North Sea canal. The chief engineers report that the work of deepening the waterway is progressing rapidly and that the canal will be soon open to vessels of eight meters’ drait. The traffic of the canal has greatly increased, eighty vessels having been recorded as passing through in a single day. They were chiefly steamers plying be- tween German ports, but a number of large Englisb steamers, including a 2000- ton ship, effected the passage, the latter going through in eight and a half hours, The Hamburg Neueste Nachricnten states upon authority that as soon as the canal is excavated to a mean depth of nine meters, as it soon will be, the largest Ger- man watships will be able to make free transit of the canal. The Vossische Zeitung persistsin the con- tention that the depth of the caral will never suffice to make the waterway secure against blocks. The article, evidently written by an expert, declares that the canal must be widened and kept constantly dredged and embanked, a work which will involve great expense. Prince Bismarck upon a recent occasion told a party of visitors to Friedrichsruhe that the attacks upon the canal madein the newspapers and otherwise should be disregarded. There was, he said, no finer product of engineering art in existence. If it bad faults, they were trifling and could beremoved readily. He predicted that the canal would prove a boon to Ger- many and to the world as well. The ex-Chancellor suffers from an occa- sional recurrence of neuralgia and com- plains very much of an increasing stiff- ness in the joints of his legs and arms. He is unable to walk upstairs without great effort. A few days ago some visitors re- marked that he looked well, whereupon he replied: “‘Possibiy I do, but since my severe ill- ness at Kissingen I have felt much broken up. I cannot walk as easily as I could, and I move with great difficulty from one seat to arother in the park. I can see that I am growing weaker, because in the last few weeks I have not been able to reach the points in my walks where I used to go every day.” The Austrian Government has decided to proceed with the construction of a canal to connect the Danube, Moldau and Elbe rivers. The chief cities of Austria and Bohemia have offered in the aggregate 12,000,000 florins to construct a canal which will link the Danube, Moidau, Elbe, Oder and Vistula rivers, and the project is being seriously considered REED TO' LEAD THE FIGHT. The > Coming Congress Will Make War on the Monopolies. Lower Pullman-Car Rates the First Reform Republican Leaders Will Undertake. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 13.—‘“As Speaker of the next House, Thomas B. Reed will shape legislation against mo- nopolies and trusts.” This declaration is made by one who has always stood very close to Mr. Reed. Itis said that Reed is anxious to aispel any idea that the Republican party is the party of monopolies and trusts. The gentleman making this statement is quite positive about Mr. Reed’s policy, otherwise it might reasonably be doubted that he would pursue it, for it is well remembered that in the last Congress he advocated the passage of the pooling bill. It is understood that one of the things to be attempted, and which Mr. Reed anrd his backers think would be popular with the people, is the regulation of the Pullman- car charges. They are generally regarded as very high. The company is independent and saucy. State Legislatures and notably the Illinois bedy have tried to say what charges shall be made but without success. It is believed they can be effectually taken in hand by Congress. The Committee on Interstate and For- eign Commerce of the House has large jurisdiction. This committes will have many matters of importance to deal with, and the Pullman rates question is said to be one of the matters that will ateract at- tention early in the session. Infactitis known here at this time that both Demo- crats and Republicans will offer bills on the subject. : Mr. Reed will have the help and advice of a great many strong men. If all things heard be true the next Congress will surely be after the trusts and corporations with a sharp stick ROOT ROT A HYPNOTIST. Judge Woods Decides That He Is Just an Ordinary Mortal. Acquitted of the Charge of Exercls- ing the Occult Power Over Henry W. Dixon. CHICAGO, IrL., July 13.—Judge Woods of the Cook County Circuit Court yester- day decided that Henry A. Root of New York does not and did rot possess hyp- notic power. James W. Dixon, actirg for his rich relative, Henry W. Dixon, had undertaken to convince Judge Woods that Mr. Root could persuade people to release their fortunes by merely making a few mysterious passes with his hands and fixing his bright eyes on a victim a la Svengali. Root strenuously denied that he was gifted with any such power. Root has become famous as the man who broke Millionaire Andrew J. Davis’ will in the Montana courts. He is a nephew of the old millionaire, and for mearly five years has been fighting in the courts for his share of the estate, variously estimated at from $6,000,000 to $9,000,000. Some years ago he was attorney for Henry W. Dixon, son of United States $enator Dixon of Connecticut, who formerly lived at Hart- ford, Conn., and later at Fiushing, L. T. Dixon was not regarded as being very ro- bust mentaily. His relatives became alarmed and charged that Root had him under a peculiar spell and was taking ad- vantage of his power to use Dixon's fortune for his own benefit. The trial eame off here before Judge ‘Woods, who found that there wasno un- due influence by way of positive or aggres- sive acts exercised by Root over Dixon, and that there was no aetual fraud in any of Root's dealings with Dixon. As to Henry W. Dixon the court said: “There is a great conflict in the evidence; bat, after a careful and painstaking con- sideration of it in all its bearings, the court has reached the conclusion that while there are many evidences of marked intel- ligence in certain directions in Henry W, Dixon, and, in a literary way, it may be said that he had more than the ordinary capacity, vet he was for many years prior to May 31, 1881, a weak-minded man, and it sets aside the trust made by Dixon to Root and Stern.”* As to James W, Dixon the court said: “The court had reached the further con- clusion that the man appointed by the New York court, James W. Dixon, as shown by the evidence, is po% such a person as the court would deem it ad- visable to give the custody of Henry W. Dixon’s estate to. It seems unnecessary to the court to discuss or characterize the actions of Dixon as shown by the evi- dence,” Judge Woods ordered that the trust fund be transferred to the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank, and that Henry A. Root be required to accoant to the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank for all moneys received by him for the account of Henr ‘W, Dixon, and that Root be credited witl all payments made by him for or on ac- count of Dixon which were necessary, rea- sonable or proper, or which were made by order of Dixon. St i Burglars Crack Two Safes. SALINA, Kax., July 13.—Burglars blew open two safes at Durham this morning. From the postoffice safe they secured $600 in money, $500 worth of stamps and some watches. The other safe belonged to a hardware firm and contained a small sum only. There is no clew. Thisis the third case of safe-blowing in two weeks in small towns in this vicinity. B e b Mr. Stevenson Goes to Maine. 8T. LOUIS, Mo., July 3L.—A special to the Chronicle from Bloomington, IlL., says that Vice-President Stevenson this morn- ing started for Bar Harbor, Me., with his family. He will aipond several weeks there. No mention is made of the condi- tion of Mrs. Stevenson, and it is assumed that her condition is improved. OUTRANTHEIR HORSES A Brutal Negro’s Wild Race to Escape Lynchers. HIS PURSUERS MOUNTED. For Hours the Fugitive Keeps Ahead of the Angry : Mob. FINDS A SAFE HIDING PLACE. A Bullding He Enters Is Surrounded, but the Runner Cannot Be Found. VINELAND, N.J., July 13.—A good portion of the male residents of this place are to-night scouring the city and sur- rounding country for Walter Squarrell, who is charged with attacking the six- year-old daughter of Charles Mingin. The search has been going on since last night. The crime occurred yesterday, and be- came known in town last night. Harry Chandler, a wealthy manufacturer, offered a reward of $100 for the capture of Squar- rell. Liveryman Carto followed this up by offering all his horses and wagons for the free transportation of those wishing to take part in the search. About 200 men started on the hunt. The negro made for the swamps, three miles away, and remained there in safety last night and to-day. To-night, however, he found the swamp getting {oo hot for him, and about 9 o’clock made a break to get away in the darkness across the coun- try. Constable Nickerson and his son were on guard not far from the point where Squar- rell broke from the swamp, and gave chase. Nickerson fired his pistol to signal another constable that the negro was in sight. The constable for whom the signal was meant started on a run. There was a group of men with him. The horses avail- able were pressed into service,and men started down all the roads and paths with as many as could follow the trail taken by the fugitive, and Nickerson was but a hun- dred yards behind the fugitive when the race began. The negro ran diagonally away from the town toward the north. He was close to a vike when one of the wagon-loads of men that set off down that road came up, and to avoid them Squarrell had to turn about. The change in his course headed him di- rectly toward this place. He had mno choice, for the hunters were on the other three sides of him. The negro showed great endurance. About 10 o’clock this evening he reached the northern part of Vineland. He ran down a street and was less than twenty yards in front of a dozen men. Squarrell was winded, and so were his pursuers, The man passed close to a young woman etanding by her gate. She says he was pant- ingand seemed ready to drop. Heturned into a yard ashort distance down the street. The house in the yard was oceu- pied by a colored woman named Crawford. The pursuers surrounded the house. Within ten minutes a howling mob of men, women and boys were about the place. Nickerson,with the leaders, searched the house from the roof to the cellar, but did not find Squarrell. Meanwhile every outbuilding and possible hiding place in the neighborhood was searched by others without success. Those who took part in the chase across the country say the negro set a stiff pace and hesitated at nothing, going through brooks, fields and ditches in the darkness as easily as he would run on the country roads. The general opinion is that if caught before the officers lay handson him Squarrell will never nave to stand trial for his alleged crime. The men searching for him were armed. Squarrell has a bad reputation. CALFORNANS N COTHM The Metropolis Made a Way Station on the Route to Europe. Three Young People of the Golden State to Figure in the New Play *“Horace.” NEW YORK, N.Y., July 13.—Califor- nians, for the most part, are making of the metropolis a mere way station to Europe and the summer resorts just now. John W. Mackay is an exception. Heis still in town, but goes to Europe soon. Mrs. E. B, Crocker, her daughter, Mrs. Harry Gillig, Mr. Gillig and Frank Unger are at Larchmont for the summer. Mrs. Lake, formerly Mrs. Dr. Toland, of San Francisco, is at the old Lake estate at near-by Mamaroneck. Lily Jones Harvey and Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Hall, of San Fran- cisco, are at the Hotel Kaaterskill, Kaaters- kili Mountain, Mrs. Leila Ellis and her daughter, of Oakland, have gone to Lake Mahopac. Before leaving town Mrs. Ellis gavea reading from Southern authors that was well recelved. Mis. Ellis leaves for the coast July 26. Mrs. Clara Koltz, who has been in New York for some time, sailed on the Paris Wednesday for Europe. Miss Bessie Beardsley and Mlle. Pillar Morin of San Francisco sailed a few days earlier for London. Not a few maf be pleased to learn that Miss Olive L. Oliver, formerly of Oakland, Hugo Toland and William Morris (Will Block) of San Francisco have all been cast for telling roles in the new play of “Horace,” which Richard Mansfield will Eimduce at the Garrick early in August. iss Oliver, who has, perhaps, been best known as Tronchet’s favorite pupil in fencing, has the part of a Hindoo damsel, which is said to be full of dramatic and picturesque possibilities. San Franciscans at hotels to-day were: J. Levy, at the Savoy; Dr. Corson and H. Bingham, at the St. Denis; C. H. Strong, E. H. Adams and Mr. and Mrs. J. J. McCoy, at the Sinclair; W. A. Buttimer and W. Gosse, at the Astor; B. B. Huie and Alex- ander Del Mar, at the Hoffman. M. M. Jones of Los Angeles is at the Astor. AN S BUCHANAN WAS CHILDLESS. S The Girl Who Bears His Name Was One Whom He Adopted. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 13.—A special from Sing Sing to the Mercury says: It now turns out that the child looked upon and spoken of as being the daughter | of Dr. Buchanan, executed at the prison recently, was the child of neither Bu- chanan nor his wife. The day before the execution a prominent official called at the prison. While visiting the condemned man he said to him: “Buchanan, I want to ask you a question and you need not answer it unless you want to, and that is regarding your little child. Is she yours?” Buchanan looked at his questioner a moment and then said: “Well, I must admit that she is not mine. My present wife never had a child. The child now in_her possession is an adopted daughter. We adopted Ker when she was two days old. The child never saw her mother and I never met her again after I took the child from her. I promised the woman to adopt the child over eizht years ago. The child looks upon my present wife as her mother.” Buchanan and his wife claimed to the last that the child was theirs. Before Buchanan’s death Mrs. Buchanan’s father. in an interview, stated that the child was not his daughter’s. Mrs. Bu- chanan claimed that her father was wrong in the interview and claimed that the child was her own. The man who spoke to Buchanan on the subject was with the condemned man more or less every day during his confinement in the death chamber. Just thirty minutes be- fore Buchanan was executed, and while kneeling down in prayer, he asserted his innocence to God of the crime for which he was executed. MAY BECOME RECONCILED Maude Lascelles Touched by a -Letter From Her Convict Husband. It Is Thought Her Action for an Absolute Divorce Will Be Withdrawn. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 13.—Maude Lascelles, the wife of W. S. Beresford, alias Lord Charles Beresford, alias Sidney Las- celles, was visited yesterday at her homein Yonkers by an embassador for her hus- band, who is now serving time in a lumber camp at Kramer, Ga. Beresford, who in times past has proved himself a most accomplished impostor, was recently senténced to five years at hard labor for forgery. He has professed re- pentance for his offenses and a desire to lead an honest life. Many promineht per- sons in Georgia believe he is in earnestand have asked the Governor to pardon him. The press throughout the State, with few”| exceptions, have favored his pardon. It was announced a few days since that Mrs. Beresford had beeun suit’for an ab- solute divorce from her husband. Sheis a charming young woman, of an aristo- cratic family, who ran away from home and married Beresford before she knew his true character. Until recently she was loyal to him through all his troubles, in spite of the protests of relatives and friends. What seemed to her conclusive evidence of his infidelity finally turned her against him. Beresford’s friends claim that theycan establish his innocence of the charge of infidelity anda that the evi- dence in this respect against him, if any exists, was purchased or is black perjury. Several attempts have been made in the past few days by Beresford’s friends to place his letter in his wife’s hands. Sheis so surrounded by relatives opposed to him that the matter was a difficult one. The friends did not dare to send the letter by mail for fear that it would be intercepted. Yesterday, however, the letter was placed in her hands and read by her in the pres- ence of her husband’s representative. - The letter, in part, is as follows: KRAMER, GA., June 26.—My Own Darling Maude : Iwould to God you could read my Yery heart as it goes out to you. There is never an hour in my life, whether awake or asleep, but 'you feshich and occnpymy: thonghts While my own vicissitudes have been more than it seems possible to have been borne, par- amount to the grief and remorse which I expe- rience is my solicitude for you. The pangs which I know bave stung your tender and sym-athetic heart have contributed more to my humiliation than all else. That I have repented all my past transgres- sions is sure and certein, and all my future life shall be spent in honest, earnest, Christian, Godlike endeavor to obliterate the unhappy episodes of the pest by a spotless and blame- less career, inspired always by an unrelenting and ceaseless effort to make the pathway smooth and peaceful for you. In all these tribulations, though appear- ances may be against me. I have remained faithful and true to you. The deepest wonnd of all was the information that you had in reality asked the courts to sever the sacred ties that bind us together, and I am satisfied that you have been persuaded to the conclu- sion ‘and coerced by Barr and by others, prompted by their enmity and their avaricious greed for gain. There exisis a very strong probal y that the Governor will grant me an unconditional pardon within & very few days, a equest for which is prayed for by every offi- cial here and many of the influential cifizens of this and other States. Indeed, the Georgia ress, almost withont exception, favors my re- ease, The only objections emanate from D. B. King, and all that has appeared against me is traceable to him. Will you, whom I have loved beyond the natural degree and with un- speakable devotion, constant and true as the stars, secured by any hope of & home in Para- dise when life’s conflict is_over—can you, the only tie that binds me to the world—leave me forever? In conclusion, T earnestly pray the Master to bless and keeuou always from narm,and to rmit me to be the means of brightening your uture life. - With all my heart’s love, your affectionate husband, SIDNEY. Mrs. Lascelles was evidently deeply affected by the reading of the letter. She expressed the hope that her husband might be pardoned, and that he was sin- cere in his professions of repentance. She made no promises of a reconciliation, but conveyed the idea that if her husband were pardoned and proved himseif worthy of consideration a reconciliation might be effected in spite of all oppesition, She said she would write to her husband in reply to the letter at once. - . Waved Adiew From the Water. WICHITA, Kax.,, July 13. — Lizzie Thomas, a chambermaid and domestic, o-day threw herself into the Arkansas River trom the Maple-street bridge. 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