The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 24, 1895, Page 1

; S o T e VOLUME LXXVIL—NO. 116. PRICE . FIVE CENTS. CUBANS ARE CLEARED, Acquittal of the Twenty Accused of Being Filibusters. JURORS WITH SYMPATHY. Cuban Flags and. Buttons Are Displayed by the People of Wilmington. RECOGNITION OF INSURGENTS. It Is Sald That the Next Congress Will Approve of Annex- ing the Island. WILMINGTON, DEL., Sept.23.—Judge Wales t 1z charged the j the trial of t ged Cuban_filibusters, : The Judge's is of the law e was mainl review of the evidence. It was not e to the accused. The court- rowded. Many women friends 1dants were present. returned by sembled in urtroom. After some preliminary on the men were discharged from cus- and for half an hour they and their nsel’ were given a general reception. - women in particular were very demon- District Attorney Van Degriff 8 ot forgotten, and even some of the acquitted men shook him by the hand and nized the position his duty to take. Some of the| s embraced each other and there | was a general feeling of happiness and jol- lification. | Cuban and American flags and buttons were worn by scores of people. The. verdict is a popular one here. ‘Ihe future plans of the men are not known. The hotel where the men have been stopping was decorated with flags immediately after the verdict was announced, and tlags were also displayed on private building: Market street resembled a gala day. | Crowds gathered around the front of the | City Hall and gave vent to cheers. It was almost similar to a scene after a victory during the il War. Joseph K. Adams, City Treasurer, hoisted a Cuban flag under the American on the pole over his store and the act was | greeted with chee The stars and stripes | was run up on the City Hall flagstaff. The ( gathered on the halcony of the hotel and cheered the American flag and sapg tk Red, White and Blue” as the City Hall flag was run up. The fri is of the Cubans to-night pro- cu band and formed a procession and murched to the house of Ralph Desoto, where they met the twenty acquitted men. They then marched in turn to the resi- Seuator Gray and Judge Wales, ades to both of these gen- her Senator Gray nor Judge de any remarks to the serenaders, There were probably 2000 per- in Jine and on the sidewalks. re of the incident was the viger- ng of the City Hall bell and the of red fire in the tower of the build- The procession broke ranks at the sidence of Ralph Desoto, one of the men accused. Speeches were made by promi- | nent citizens. Among the speakers was | Gonzalo de Que: f New York. Many houses in the city were decorated with Chinese lanterns and illuminated. WILMINGTON, N. C., Sept. 23.—Cap- tain Dillon ard the crew of the supposed filibustering steamer Commodore were on ial to-day in the United States Commis- er’s Several witnesses were ex- ned, and aft guments the court tenderin, ordered the discharge of the defendants. | The yeneral at Washington will | for. FOR THE T CONGRESS. Cuban Recognition and Annexation Must | Be Considered. | WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 23.—Tt is | agreed on all sides that one of the big| questions for the next Congress to deal | with will be that of Cuban annexation, or rather recognition of the rebels as belliger- ents, which would be tantamount to an expression by Congress in favor of the freedom of Cuba and possible ultimate annexation. Senator Sherman is the ranking Repub- lican member of the Foreign Relations Committee and if the Senate committees are reorganized next winter he will be chairman. In any event he is considered an authority on foreign relations and his influence is considerable. It is, therefore, significant that he has expressed himself in favor of some action of Cengress con- cerning Cuban affairs. Senator Sherman favors the appointment of a committee of Congress to inquire into this subject and this proposition is regarded as friendly to Cuba. It would be a rebuke to Spain and at the same time would demonstrate the interest this country feels in Cuba’s welfare and assert our right to inquire into the matter. This is what Cubans wish and they prom- ise that if the American Congress does this much they will do the rest, meaning there- by a petition for annexation. Senator Sherman is anxious for Cuban independ- ence, but is said to oppose annexation. Many Congressmen, however, are known to favor annexation. It is rumored that the Spanish authori- ties at Madrid are waking up to the change in this country. The President’s procla- mation respecting the enforcement of neu- trality laws was for a time very assuring, and led the Spaniards to feel that reports of sympathy with Cuba here had been ex- aggerated. The President’s course, they find, is one thing, and the sympathy of the people is another thing. 1f there is truth in this rumor of the appointment of a special committee by Congress to inquire into the Cuban sitna- tion, it might lead to some moyement by England in Epain’s behalf. That would make things decidedly interesting. Eng- land values her West Inaia possessions very highly. May she not produce a sort of Monroe doctrine of her own, and an- | defeated with great loss. nounce that she will not view with com- placency the setting up of a republican form of government so close to her inter- estsin the West Indies? This phase of the matter was to-day broached by a State Department attache. LR es CUBA TO HAVE A NAVY. This to Be Secured After Her Recognition as a Belligerent. NDW YORK, N. Y., Sept. ‘23.—A morn- ing paper says: According to reports cur- rent among those interested in Cuban af- fairs the patriots are in a fair way to have anavy before the first of the year. It will be a good navy, too, they think, and one which will be able to compete with the Spanish “tinclads” on duty in Cnban waters. Itis positively asserted by those who claim to be conversant with the facts -that Cuba will have the rights of belliger- ency accorded to her by Mexico and sev- eral South American republics before a month has passed. Facilities for coaling stations will be provided for the patriot navy and all vessels sailing under letters of tarque issued by officials of the repub- lic of Cuba. There will be several of the latter, which will be manned by naval men from differ- ent countries, and there are many appli- cations on file at Cuban headquarters here for positions in the flecet. The mission of Secretary Quesada in Mexico, which has been kept from the public, was to arrange the details in connection with this plan. They are now practically completed. The recent capture of the port of Banes, on the north coast of the island of Cuba, was the initial step in the plan. Cuba can hold this seaport, the leaders believe, and thus have a harbor for the accommodation and refitting of prizes which may be cap- tured by the revolutionary cruisers. This seaport, one of the most important fruit- shipping points in the island, is situated in such a peculiar manner that the war vessels of the Spanish cannot interfere with the occupation of the place by the rebels. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 23.—Cap- tain C. A. Abbey of the Winona, who cap- tured the schooner Lark of Key West, Fla., suspected of being abont to engage in a filibustering expedition to Cuba, has made a detailed report of the arrest to the Treasury Depariment. It confirms the press reports that the Lark has since been released for want of evidence. Captain Abbey expresses the opinion that there is some rendezvous not yet known among the Florida keys where parties for Cuba meet to take passage for Cuba to join the insurgen HAV , Cupa, Sept. 23.—News has been received here that General Luque, with a force of 330 troops, has captured a rebel camp at Jaelita, after an engagement in which seven of the insurgents were illed. The loss of the Government force is not stated. Tt is officially announced that on Sep- tember 21 General Luque, with his com- mand, surprised a rebel hospital guarded by a large force of insurgents. The rebel guard resisted the attempt of Luque to capture the hospital, and in the fight re- sulting thirty-seven rebels were killed and a number wounded, possibly exceeding 100. The Government trcops have captured the rebel camps at Peralta, Pailita, and also taken possesion of the Banquete Hos- pital. The loss to the Government forces was one killea and eight wounded. DEFEATED BY THE MACEOS. Spanish Soldiers Thrice Routed in Furious Battics. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. The Cuban revolutionary party was in receipt of complete news from the seat of war to- day. One of the letters received by Thomas Estrada Palma describes a fiercely fought battle, in which the Spanish forces were A Spaniard who had escaped from a hospital at La Bimenta, near where the battle wasfought, had gone to Quantani and told the Spanish suthori- ties there that General Maceo was sick in the mountains and had only thirty men with him, which was true. On August 30 last, before General Maceo had quite recovered, he received word that a column of Spanish infantry, numbering 1200 men with a company of cavalry and two pieces of artillery, was advancing on him. He ordered eight of his men to go forward and hoild the mountain pass of Bacona, firing on every one who ap- proached. The pass is very narrow, and the rest of General Maceo’s force was behind it. It was the only way to reach Maceo’s position, and was so commanding that a few men stationed there could keep a host at bay. Before the Spanish forces arrived there Maceo contrived to send word to his brother, General Antonio Maceo. of his peril. On the morning of the 3lst the Spaniards appeared. The Spanish forces gained the pass, from which a body of men could protect the hospitals, but were driven back again by a Cuban colonel named Cebreco and several men. Again the Spaniards gained the pass, but were driven back by General Maceo, with Col- onels Cebreco and Minult. Matters were looking serious for the Cubans. Just then, however, a relief force under General Antonio Maceo arrived and attacked the Spaniards in the rear. The Spaniards had gained the pass for the last time, but were forced to evacuate it. The Spaniards then found themselves attacked front and rear by the men under Generals Jose and Antonio Maceo, and over sixty of them were killed. Besides these, eighty of them were wounded and carried away on stretchers. The Spaniards fled, but were headed off by General An- tonio Maceo, while General Jose Maceo attacked them in the rear. Next day the Spanish forces returned and renewed the fight in an open plain named lzuabanana, where they could use their artillery, but were routed. Reviewed Garibaldi Veterans. ROME, Itavy, Sept. 23.—King Humbert this afternoon reviewed the Garibaldi vet- erans and others who took part in the wars for independence and urification of Italy. The war veterans numbered 10,000 and’ carried colors of 200 companies and other military subdivisions. Queen Mar- guerita, the Prince of Naples and all the members of the Ministry were present. The review was witnessed by an enormous crowd of spectators. e Plot to Use Dynamite. LONDON, Exa., Sept. 23.—The St. James Gazette this afternoon prints a dispatch from Constantinople saying that Turkish police have discovered a plot among the Macedonians to destroy by the use of dyna- mite Yildiz Kiosk, the palace of the Sultan, and some of the Government buildings. As a vesult of the discovery the most exten- sive precautions are taken to prevent any damage to the palace and vossible injury to the Sultan. CLEARING THE GROUND AT THE CORNER OF THIRD AND MAREKET STREETS FOR THE NEW “CALL” BUILDING. [Sketched by a “ Call™ artist.] WORK ON THE FOUNDATIONS WILL BE STARTED TO-DAY. CHOOSING THEIR MEN Meeting of the Silver Conference Board at Memphis. CHAIRMEN FOR STATES. Some of the Favored Ones Named, but the Work Is in Secret. NOT OF THE CLEVELAND KIND. Democrats Who Believe In the Free and Unlimited Coinage of the White Metal. MEMPHIS, Texs., Sept. 23.—The ex- ecutive board appointed at the recent sil- ver conference in Washington met at the Gayoso Hotel in this city to-day for the purpose of naming chairmen for the sev- eral States, whose duty it shall be to su- perintend the organization of the silver forces with a view to securing control of Democratic county, State and National conventions next year. The board is composed of Senators Har- ris of Tennessee, Jones of Arkansas, Tur- pie of Indiana, Governor Stone of Missouri, Hon. W. H. Hinrichsen of Illinois and Casey Young of Tennessee. All the mem- bers were present with the exception of Senator Turpie, who wasdetained at home. ‘When the members of the board met this morning they were confronted by a mass of correspondence, relative to men whom they should appoint and the manner in which the campaign for free silyer should be car- ried on in the several States. Theseletters were carefuily considered, and, when ad- journment came this evening, much, though not all, of the work of perfecting the National silver organization was done. Several of the State chairmen had been named and many details decided upon. The names of the men who were selected to-day to lead the silver forces were not given out, however. Senator Harris, upon this point, said to the United Press re- porter: “In view of the fact that all of the chair- men have not been selected and the organiz- ation being therefore only partly perfected, we have decided not to make the names of those chosen public. We do not care to publish, as the result of this meeting, the consummation of only a portion of the plar: decided upon at the Washington con- ference. It might convey a wrong impres- sion. Within ten days—some of the gentle- men think within a week—we will have selected chairmen for all of the forty-five States, and will then make their names public. “We have an abundant fund of informa- tion relative to the situation in the various States, and men who have been suggested as chairmen, but in several in- stances we desire to make one or two minor inquiries before taking final action, in order to make no mistake, and in order to secure the best and most active work. We want men for chairmen who are in the first place, of course, sound in their views, and, secondly, who are willing to take charge of the work and rush it vigorously and constantly to the end for which we are working. All the gentlemen who have been suggested have the first qualification. In some cases, however, we want to inquire further about the last named. This can be done through the medium of letters, and the other appointments can be agreed upon in the same way. Therefore, we will hardly have another personal meeting of the executive board. “The men we bave agreed upon will be notified immediately, so they can proceed at once to their work and advance it as quickly as possible. The others will be notified after the same manner. In addi- tion to naming some State chairmen we have discussed in a large measure details of mnking the efforts of the organization effective.’ William Hart’s Condition. Hart of San Francisco, who has been for some time at the Pasteur Insiitute under- going a new treatment for cancer, was said to be feeling well to-night. His condition is unchanged. KRUTTSCHNITI PROMOTED. Succeeds Towne as General Manager of the Southern Pacific, CHICAGO, IrL., Sept. 23.—President C P. Huntington, who was in town yester- day, said: “‘General Manager Kruttschnitt hasbeen promoted to Mr. Towne’s place as second vice-president. He will be second vice- president and general manager of the At- lantic and Pacific divisions. You can say so officially that there will be no change in the passenger service of the Central Pa- cific which will interfere with through transcontinental service. The trains in question do not pay, but we do not hesi- tate'to keep non-paying trains in service if we can see a chance of their being profit- able in the future. My wishes lie more in finding employment for men than in any other direction. I wish I could give every one a situatio FOUGHT ON THE STREET. Veteran Editor Harris “Mixed” With an Alderman’s Son. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Sept. 23.—Major Harris, editor of the Evening News, and Thomas Holt, son of Alderman W.H. Holt, had a personal encountzr on the street this morning. Harris stabbed Holt in the abdomen tiiree times, and also cut a policeman who attempted to separate them. Alderman Holt is alleged to have re- cently reflected upon the bravery of Con- federate soldiers in a conversation, and Harris personally denonnced the Alder- man through the columns of his paper. This led to the fight with the Alderman’s son. SWINDLED BY EMPLOYES Nebraska’s State Fair Had a Big Attendance and Small Receipts. Dishonest Ticket Sellers and Tak- ers Cleared Up Fifteen Thou- sand Dollars. OMAHA, NEesr., Sept. 23.—A gigantic fraud was practiced upon the State Fair management by a number of its employes. The result of the fraud was the loss to the fair of an amount of money estimated in the thousands and a loss of attendance in proportion. Early in the operation of the fair and notably on Tuesday it was seen the trains and streetcars, not to mention the private conveyances, were haulinga vast number of passengers to the ground not at all harmonizing with the number reported from the gates. Later the extra- ordinary number of special trains from outside the city bringing passengers to Omaha for the fair seemed to show very little increase over the ordinary receipts. A watch was set and the result was that six sellers and takers of tickets were quietly called before members of the board and sd closely questioned that their guilt was shown to be a matter of fact. They were escorted from the grounds. The total paid admissions reported is 64,465, while trans- portation companies report nearly 85,000 round-trip tickets to the fair from Omaha, to say nothing of people from country towns. The discrepancy is over 30,000 ad- missions or over $15,000. No arrests have yet been made, but are expected within the next day or two. ¢ g -l INVOLVES A BIG CATTLE DEAL. Sensational Suit Growing Out of Some Worthless Notes. WICHITA, Kans.. Sept. 23.—A suitis on trial in the United States District Court here, which involves a big cattle deal of the Jinglebob Land and Live Stock Com- pany of Roswell, New Mexito, and Lib- eral, Kansas. William Robert, the plain- tiff, sold for the Jinglebob Company 25,000 head of cattle to M. J. Farris, president of the First National Bank of Danville, Ky., and in the settlement turned over to the ‘mpany notes against Holmes & Son, cat- tlemen of Elmdale, Kaus., to the amount of $10,000. The notes proved worthless and the plaintiff sues for the amount due, claiming that the defendant knew the notes to be worthless when' he indorsed them to the Jinglebob Company. Robert isone of the pest known cattlemen in the NEW YORK, N.Y., Sept. 23,—William | West. LEES OFFER TAKEN Soon to Be Provided With a Son-in-Law From St. Louis. AFTER A CHINESE GIRL. The Ambitious Man Is a Scribe Employed by a Chicago Press Association. GREAT THE YOUTH'S ANXIETY. After Having Haunted the Telegraph Office, He Falls to Recelve an Answer, ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 23.—If nothing intervenes Hip Sing’ Lee, the wealthy Chinaman of San Jose, Cal., will soon be provided with a son-in-law from St. Louis. As stated in The United Press dispatches last night, Lee offers a bonus of $5000 to any young American of good character who will marry his handsome daughter. This announcement caught the eye of W. Milton Glenn, the night reporter of the Chicago Associated Press in this city, and his promptness in wiring an offer of him- self was a ‘record-breaker. There was nothidg to hesitate about, for there can be but one choice between working for the Chicago concern and the eiegant ease of matrimony tinged with Orientalism and a bonus. Mr. Glenn is a man of 30 years, a dresser to the point of punctiliousness, nicely well behaved after the manner of the Chi- cagoese, and about five feet high. Colonel Lee could do far worse than choosing Mr. Glenn. The candidate hov- ered about the delivery office of the West-' ern Union Telegraph Company up to 11 o’clock to-night, becoming perceptibly anxious for a reply as time wore on and no reply came. ¥ At last he gave up hope for to-night, at least, saying that some one was evidently holding his message back in order to get ahead of him. Mr. Glenn is quite serious in his offer, and received the encourage- ment and consolation of the newspaper men, ‘who hope to eat rice and shark’s fins at the wedding feast. PHESI'I][NH_AUHE'S TOUR Will Be Present at a Grand Demonstration of For- eign Fleets. Varlous Matters of Grave Import Sald to Be Connected With the Visit. BERLIN, Germany, Sept. 23. — With reference to a report that President Faure had decided to visit St. Petersburg next spring, and had arranged with the Russian Foreign Minister for a grand demonstra- tion of the united French, Russian and Danish fleets at Copenhagen, the Paris correspondent of the Lokal Anzeiger tele- graphs that President Faure will be es- corted by a French squadron to Copenha- gen, whence, after visiting the King and Queen of Denmark, he will proceed to St. Petersburg and thence to Moscow to at- tend the ceremonies of the coronation of Czar NicholasIIL. During his stay in Russia, President Faure will be lodged in the imperial palace. | He will return by sea, visiting en route the Swedish and Dutch sovereigns. The correspondent also says that M. Hanotaux, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Prince Lobanoff-Rostovsky, the Russian Foreign Minister, who is now visiting France, have agreed regarding Armenian and East Asian affairs. France, it is said, will support Russia’s inevitable attempts to oust the Japanese from Korea, in return for which Russia will aid France in her attempts to dislodge the British from Egypt. PALACE OF THE POPES. It Will Be Restored by the Town Council of Avignon. LONDON, Exc., Sept. 23.—To-morrow the Daily News will publish a dispatch from Paris saying that the Town Council of Avignon, acting upon a suggestion of Deputy Pourquery de Boisserin, who is Mayor of the city, has voted carte blanche for the restoration of the historical palace of the Popes, which has long been used as a barracks. It is estimated that the work of restoration will cost 4,250,000 francs. It is proposed to convert the palace into a “museum of Christendom.” A prominent resident of the city declaresthat the sacred college will elect the next Pope from Avignon, where he shall reside. B Gold in the West Indies. COLON, Corowmsia, Sept. 23.—Advices from Trinidad, West Indies, state there has been an immense influx of minersand prospectors in the gold mines in Carse- venne and on the island of Cayenne. Large quantities of gold have been found and the indications are that thereis a goldén belt extending from Venezuela to Brazil. i g e Pastenr Is Paralyzed. PARIS, FraNcE, Sept. 23.—The Dix-Neu- vieme Siecle announces that Louis Pas- teur, the famous chemist and discoverer of the Pasteur treatment for_the cure or prevention of rabies, is suffering from paralysis of the legs, and asserts that there are no signs of his condition becoming im- proved. THE PEARY EXPEDION Members of the Party Pack- ingRelics and Returning Home. Styry of the Discovery of Bones of Some of the Greely Ex- plorers Denied. ST. JOHNS, N.F., Sept 23.—Professor Salisbury of the University of Chicago, second in command of the Feary relief ex- pedition, left here to-day, being offered ‘passage on the cable steamer Minia, bound for Sydney, as it is imperative that he reacl: Chicago by Tuesday next. The other members of the expedition will await the departure of the steamer Silvia, which sails on Thursday direct for New York. They will carry all their Arctic collec- tions, which to-day they are busy prepar- ing for shipment by steamer. The collec- tions are exceedingly valuable and more varied than any ever before obtained from the region visited. The party’s collection of photographs is also unique, comprising several thousand and covering every point of interest in West and North Greenland. The story of the discovery of the bones of some of the Greely party is not gener- ally credited. Lieutenant Peary assured a representative of the United Press that there was no truth in it, and others of the party corroborated him. Nevertheless, the crew contend it is'a fact that such remains were discovered. g s SR g DUEL TO THE DEATH. P Georgia Lotharios Fought Over a Girl and Both Were Killed. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 24.—A Re- corder’s special from Atlanta, Ga., says: A duel to the death was fought near Camilla, Mitchell County, Sunday, butthe particulars of the affair were not known until yesterday. Beverly Regan and Will- jam D. Shaw are prominent young men living in the southern part of that county. Both have been in love with Miss Netta Carteret, the belle of the community. They were at a bacheior’s dinner given by a friend Sunday, and the wine flowed freely. Just how the two got into a dis- pute over the young woman does not ap- pear, but it soon became a quarrel, and then Ragan dared Shaw to shoot it out. Without any unnecessary preliminaries they walked into the road, took their posi- tions, thirty paces apart, and at a signal began firing. Regan was instantly killed. Shaw was so badly wounded that he has since died. WATE OF THE WARPATH Colorado’s Ex-Governor De- livered a Sermon in Ohio. Having Been Opposed by the Meth- odist Conference He Assailed the Ministers. CANTON, Omnro, Sept. 23.—When ex- Governor Waite of Colorado arrived here yesterday to deliver a Populist speech he was informed that the Methodist confer- ence now in session here had endeavored to suppress him. He then changed his plans and wrote a sermon for Sunday aft- ernoon. He chose for his text, *‘Render unto Cesar that which is Cwmsar's, and to God that which is God’s.” “I want to know what the Methodist people are doing for this country,” said he. “They spend their time and money trying to convert the heathen. While they are engaged in converting one heathen in the Orient 800,000 souls are born. How long will it take them to evangelize the heathen nations at that rate? “Look at the bloodsucking bondsellers and money-lenders. When Christ was upon earth he made a lash and drove them from his Father’s house. Are the preachers who claim to be following his example do- ing anything of the sort? The Master said : ‘I was sick and in prison and ye visited me not.” Have you heard of any Method- ist conference visiting Eugene Debs? “The Northern Pacific Railroad stole $70,000,000 from this Government. Have the preachers condemned the action of any of these railroads? I wonder how many of them rode to this conference on a hali-rate pass? Imagine Christ riding from Galilee to Jericho on a half-rate ticket, countersigned by Pontius Pilate Brice. What are the Christian churches doing for the Armenian people whom the imbecile Sultan of Turkey refuses to pro- tect? My swear words and the preachers’ prayers are very much alike. Neither of us means anything in particular by them.” ‘Waite went on in this'vein for an hour, roasting everything in sight, and in closing insisted that he was going about the country trying to render to Cewsar that which “was Cemsar’s, and he wanted the preachers to render to God the thin which are God’s. His remarkabie caused a sensation among the conference members when they learned of it. BATTLE OF FACTIONS, Leaders Amongthe New York Democrats to Meet. DELEGATES ALL THERE. Promises of Great Strife Be~ tween Tammany and Its Opponents. NO CONVENTION PROGRAMME, Senator HIill*and ‘““Boss” Croker Among the Men Who Are Ex- pected to Fight to a Finish. SYRACUSE, N. Y., Sept. 23.— The Democracy of the Empire State is here in full force. Crowds fill the streets, flags fly from housetops, bunting is plentiful, and as for enthusiasm and candidates there is a surplus of both. Of all recent conventions the one which will meet to-morrow promises to be the most interesting. It will be a convention run by the delegates. There isno slate with an invincible machine behind it and no cut-and-dried programme. Platform and candidates and the con- tests will be fought over on the floor of the convention. There will be strife between Tammany and the State Democracy. Sen- timents all over the State seem to favor liberal treatment of contestants, and at least partial recognition of the Grace- Fairchild people of New York City, but Tammany men say ‘‘ No,” and to all en- treaties and appeals Tammany again says “No.” Senator Hill is for admitting the Grace men. Senator Murphy is for shutting them out. “Boss” Croker is not here, but his influence is felt, and it is all against letting in the men who helped to defeat Tammany yesterday and shared the vic- tors’ spoils with Republicans. Upon the admission of some the Democ- racy depends in a large measure on’the action of the German-American Liberal treatment of the Grace-Fairchild men. which will mean the gain of many Ger- man votes. Another great question to be settled which will affect the German vote is that of excise and Sunday opening. From all that can be learned the Demo- crats will not dodge the issue, but will make the most radical utterance that has found its way into a party platform in some time. All the big leaders are here—Senators Hil and Murphy; ex-Governor Flower, who will be permanent chairman; Edward M. Shepard, who leads his faction into the convention with a one-third representa- tion, and all the big Tammany leaders are on the field ready for the business of the INOrrow. The preliminary draft of the platform has been made. Some of the planks are being smoothed down, so that no one need trip over them, but the materialisin place. United States Senator David B. Hill at- tended the meeting of the Democratic State Committee to-night for the first time in ten years. The committee was called to order at 8 o’clock by Chairman James W. Pinckley of the Democratic State Com- mittee. The committee resolved to rec- ommend to the convention the selection of a five-pointed black star as the emblem of the Democratic party in this State, which is to head the column containing the Dem- ocratic candidates on the blanket ballot. The committee named the Hon. Perry Belmont of New York as temporary chair- man of the convention, which is to con- vene to-morrow. The Richmond County contest was settled by submitting one of the names of the contestants in place of that of one of the regular delegates. At 12:20 o’clock the committee adjourned un- til 9:30 to-morrow morning, when it is un- derstood that the scheme for enlarging the membership of the State committee will be considered. FROM NEW XYORK TO HAYTIL One More Cable Being Laid Under the Great Atlantic. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 23.—The United States and Hayti Cable Company has chartered the cable steamer Mackay- Bennett, owned by the Commercial Cable Company, for the purpose of laying the first section of a submarine cabie to con- nect New York direct with Hayti and the West Indies. The Mackay-Bennett ar- rived here on Friday, and to-day sub- merged the heavy, or shore-end type of cable, a length of about ten knots. The cable, which terminates near the landing- place of the Commercial Cable Company at Coney [sland, will be completed as soon as possible to Hayti. R A Peary’s Important Work. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 23.—The dis- patch published yesterday giving an ac- count of Peary’s North Greenland travels during the past spring was read with great interest. Dr.Fred A. Cook of Brooklyn, who accompanied Peary’s expedition of 1891-92, said yesterday that while it was to be regretted that hebad not accomplished all he had set out to, he had done some- thing of more value. ‘‘His studies among the glaciers, increased knowledge of the Ingelfield gulf region, added to the record of annual meteorological observations and descriptions of the Arctic highlanders, the most northern people we know of—all these, I think, are more important,’”’ Dr. Cook said, “‘even than the firding of the North Pole.” For Pacific Coast Telegrams see Pages 3 and 4. SMOKE LaBelle Creole CIGARS, 3 for 25¢--10c Straight--2 for 250 ASK DEALERS FOR THEM. RINALDO BROS. & CO., Pacific Coast Agents, 300-302 BATTERY ST., S, F,