The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 12, 1895, Page 1

A= = A : iy G By {5rad ) " VOLUME LXXVIL—N 134. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 12, 1895. PRICE FIVE CENTS. KEPT WELL GUARDED. Squads of Detectives Are Watching Presi- dent Cleveland. BULLET ON THE WATER. One Little Fishing® Incident That Caused Increased Vigilance. GREAT RUSH TO GRAY GABLES. “] Don’t Look Much Like a Dead Man,” Said the Chief Execu- tive to Visitors. BUZZARDS BAY, M were very lively allday at Gray es, and the quaint little cottage occu- picd by the President saw more visitors an ever before in its history. This < due to the report which was scattered over the country that the assassinated. As soon ans of locomotion could rry them the town was invaded with newspaper men, special detectives and nt business men from all over the and the one objective point was the vied by the chief execu- s.,, Oct. 11.— adcast all nt had béen kest his fam' nen TuEe CALL correspondent called on nt Cleveland he was seated in the 1 library overlooking the bay, reading the mountain of telegrams which had been received from all over the country. He seemed to take the whole affair as a h joke, but he made it his first object to send dispatches to all the press associa- tions and newspapers discrediting the rumor. ~I don’t look much like a dead man, do 17" he asked of the knot of newspaper men gathered around. it is all a hoax, and one with lightest foun- dation.” In the afternoon he went out fishing, and by night the quickly arrived guests 1l departed. The matter has been very secret, but it is known that dur- e past month the force of private detectives scattered in the vicinity of the President’s summer cottage has been large- ly augmented. Itk vs been the custom for two or more to stay during the entire season, e one ed at other times. Now, and at no time day or night is ance ralaxed. A person who is imate with the President states only of late that he has decided on the advisability of increasing his body- rd, and it was only by the greatest per- on that he consented to do so. Dur- e whole summer the Jocal police and the special detectives had nearly a score of persons under surveillance. None showed any disposition for as- sassin-like tendencies, but the watch was not relaxed one bit. They have arrested several of these people, but were unable to fasten anything on them more serious than the charge of vagrancy. Mrs. Cleveland has had considerable to do with the increase in the guard of de- tectives. Even those who knew her at ‘Washington recall the solicitude which she always ed for the proper pro- tection of her husband, and it was at her “special request t special detectives were taken to Gray Gables at all. A fact has j eaked out which has considerable bearing on the wild rumors which have been afloat. A few weeks ago, when the President was out fishing, let struck the water only a short d away, having been fired irom the shore. No special significance is attached to the fact, as it was probably a random shot fired by some imprudent gunner, which had spent its force and bad landed merely by chance near the President’s boat. The effect, however, was considerable on Mrs. Cleveland, and even the President himself was rather nonplused. Since that time whenever he has gone fishing the bay has been pretty well patrolled by detectives, so that it has been impossible forany one to walk along the shores without being under observation. Another fact is that even here in the pri- vacy of his summer home the Chiel Execu- tive has not been secure from cranks. Thus far they have been harmless, their wvisits being mainly for the purpose of in- teresting the President in some wild scheme, or to solicit monetary aid. All these different inconveniences and the prospect of some more murderous in- dividual making his appearance have caused an air more or less of vigilance around the President’s home. The in- creased forze of detectives will stay until the departure of the Preswdent and his family for the winter. An effort has been made to keep the matter quiet, but it has at last leaked out, and during the last few days the President has been in receipt of a constant stream of telegrams and letters from detective agencies and private men from all over the country offering their services. that it i — OFF ON THE ONEIDA, President Cleveland Returning to Wash- ington on the Steam Yacht. BUZZARDS BAY, Mass., Oct. 11.—The President has concluded his vacation as far as Gray Gables is concerned, and left at 5:15 this afternoon on the steam yacht Oneida, as the guest of Commodore Bene- dict. Private Secretary Thurber accom- panied them. Mrs. Cleveland, the chil- dren and other members of the family will leave next Tuesday in a special car. The President’s entire journey to Washington will be made on the Oneida, a trip never be- fore undertaken, as the President generally sails only as far as New York,where a train - is taken to Washington. They will pro- ceed leisurely along the sound. The Presi- dent's plan 1s not to arrive in Washington before Monday, and possibly not until Tuesday. In speaking of his vacation this year the President said it haa been a most enjoyable one. He oftentimes kept at work until midnight or after. He has enjoved excellent health and he plainly shows it. In fact, he is fully rested and in the best of health and spirits, and in splen- did condijtion to take up the management of affairs in Washington, EVIDENCE AGAINST HOLMES. He Carried a Key to the Cottage Where Pitzel Was Murdered. INDIANAPOLIS, Ixp., Oct. 11.—Inter- est in the H. H. Holmes case was revived here to-day by the reappearance of Detec- tive Geyer of Philadelphia. He turned up unexpectedly in Irvington this afternoon. Going to the house where Howard Pitzel was murdered and his body burned Geyer fitted a key from his pocket in the front door night latch. It worked perfectly. The key had been found on the person of Holmes after his arrest in Philadelphia. Dr. Thompson, who lived in the house be- fore Holmes occupied it, recognized the key as the one he had himself carried for two years. ‘The detectives regard to-day's discovery as final in identifying Holmes as the man who moved into-the house with Howard Pitzel. Geyer has arranged to take Dr. Thompson, Dr. Byram and other witnesses from Irvington to Philadelphia on October 26. He will take with him the remains of the Pitzel boy. PLAINT OF A PASTOR. Rev. John Cornish Swes His Beawutiful Wife for a Divorce. WICHITA, Kaxs,, Oct. 11.—The town of Fort Scott, Kan in a fever of excite- ment over the filing of a sensational divorce petition in the District Court by Rev. John Cornish, pastor of the United Brethren Church, in which he charges that his wife, Laura, has been guilty of intimacy with J. E. Mayberry, who is an active member of the church. Rev. Mr, Cornish says his wife went to Kansas City, Mo., recently and stayed at different places under assumed names, and while there received the visits of Mayberry. The defendant is a beautiful woman and gifted with many accomplishments. The Rev. Mr. Cornish asks for the custody of the child, Jess, aged 10 years REMOVL OF RECENERS, Hearing of the Application Re-~ lating to One Northern Pacific Trio. All Efforts to Bring About an Ami- cable Agreement Have Failed. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 11.—The hear- ing on the application for the removal of Thomas F. Oakes, Henry C. Payne and Henry C. Rouse, receivers of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, appointed Au- gust 15, 1893, was resumed before Judge Lacombe in the United States Circuit | Court to-day, an effort made this week in Milwaukee to bring about an amicable agreement between Receivers Edward H. McHenry and F. C. Bigelow, recently ap- pointed by United States Judge Jenkins in Wisconsin, and Andrew Burleigh, the re- ceiver appointed by United States Judge Hanford at Beattle, Wash., having failed. It is conceded on all sides that such an agreement is most desirable to protect the interests of all holders of bonds and stock of the company, and with this end in view, Judge Lacombe last Thursday adjourned the hearing until to-day. The motion of Michael H., Corgose, on behalf of the second mortgage bondhold- ers, to have the chairmen of their respect- ive committees made parties defendant to the suit, was this morning laid over tem- porarily. Elihu Root suggested that nothing be done toward accepiing the resignation or removal of Oakes, Payne and Rouse until after they had rendered an accounting to the court of this circuit. \An adjournment was asked for by the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company, in or- der that a further attempt might be made to arrive at an agreement between all the parties interested in the suit. Mr. Root said he would not oppose such a motion because he fully believed that more time was needed for bringing about a desirable agreement regarding the receiy- ership of the road. Judge Lacombe said he certainly should not think of finally disposing of a case in which such material and important in- | terests were involved without allowing all parties, however remotely interested in the suit, to be heard, whether they were par- ties to it or not. He then adjourned the hearing for one week. Joseph H. Choate, with Charles C. Bea- man, the Republican candidate for Jadge of the Supreme Court, in behalf of the Adams reorganization committee, was present to waich the proceedings, but did | not take any active part. Losire i) ENOUGH FOR THE WORLD. An Inexhaustible Supply of Sulphur Found in Louisiana. CLEVELAND, Omnro, Oct. 11. — The Cleveland World to-day publishes an article over the signature of Robert P. Porter regarding the development of the sulphur industry in Calcasieu County, Louisiana. The mines are being developed by a syndicate of Cleveland men, among them Frank Rockefeller and F. P. Squire of the Standard Oil Company and the Van- derbilts. One bundred tons of sulphur per day are being raised to the surface through quicksand. In a short time the product of the mines will be great enough %0 supply the world with a fine quality of sulphur, and the United States will be for- ever emancipated from the Sicilian prod- uct. The United States has been paying $3,000,000 anaually to Sicily for sulphur. A big drop in priceand an equally large increase in sulphur consumption is pre- dicted. Sl R Gold-Beaters on a Strike. CHICAGO, Irn., Oct. 11.—The gold- beaters employed by Andrew H. Reeves, lis:rmnn Horn and Julius Hess, 100 in number, are out on a strike. They de- mand an advance of §5 per beating and 214 cents for every book over the eighty books required of a beater. The bosses have refused to pay more until the New York firms yield. All the gold-beaters in New York, Boston, Balti- more and Cincinnati are now out on strikes. LR Sickness Caused a Swicide. LOUISVILLE, K., Oct. 11.—Edward 8. Kepler, agent of the National Tobacco Company, committed suicide this after- noon by shooting himself through the brain. e was worth $200,000. The deed was due to a protractgd sickness. S Ege s Clara Doty Bates Ill. CHICAGO, Iin, Oct. 1L—Mrs. Clara Doty Bates, the well-known writer of chil- dren’s stories, is seriously ill, and her phy- sicians have no hope of her recovery. NOT QUITE PERFECT, Dr. Parkhurst Talks of New York’s Fusion Ticket. SOME MISTAKES MADE. This Caused by the Dickering Propensities of Partisan Conferees. PATRONAGE NOT OVERLOOKED. The Chance to Deal a Stinging Blow to Small Manipulators Was Unembraced. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 11.—Dr. Park- hurst issued a statement this evening regarding the political situation in this city, in which he says he is sadly disap- pointed at the outcome of the efforts .that have been made at fusion, but he will nevertheless support part of the ticket. He says: “Excellent, surprisingly excellent, as the fusion ticket is in certain portions of its personnel, no one who has been for any considerable time resident in this city can examine the ticket without instantly dis- covering that the influences largeiy opera- tive in its construction were distinctly indifferent to, not to say antagonistic to, all that makes for the best interests of the city. “Idonot like to seem presumptuous,” he declared, “‘but I venture to think that we should be in better plight to-day if, after having discovered the dickering pro- pensities of the partisan conferees, the sub-committee of five had stood upon their dignity and self-respect and said: ‘“ *Gentlemen, there is no wisdom in our doubling these matters unless we can meet one another ona broad and generous plat- form, and consult together with aneye that is single to the exigencies of this city. Some of you are purchasable by judgeship, some of you by a city clerkship; some of you estimate your tender devotion to this city in terms of Sunday beer. We are not in the dickering business, gentlemen, our preference is to deal with men who do not want to go around tagged with a cost mark. You must excuse us from further attempts at meditation.’ “The responsibility of failure would then be distinctly seen to rest squarely on the shoulders of the politicians and so would have been a stinging blow to the whole breed of small manipulators.” g i PREDICTS A MAJORITY. Senator Skerman Speaks of the Republi- ecan Outlook in Ohio. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 11.—A Re- publican majority of 50,000 or 60,000 is what Senator Sherman of Ohio predicts in that State next month. The Senator ar- rived in Washington to-day and will re- turn west to-morrow. He asserts that the Legislature will also be Republican; that in this regard much depends upon Hamil- ton County, but that the indications there are favorable to the Republicans. Speak- ing of the general political outlook Senator Sherman regards it as unfavorable to the Democratic party. Their administration of affairs, he says, has not met with approval. Mr. Cleveland has many friends, but the people have no confidence in his party. Allsigns point to a Republican victory this year. “Do you think there has been a substan- tial and permanent improvement in busi- ness conditions?”’ Senator Sherman was asked. “Times are better than they were. Busi- ness conditions have improved over what they have been, but there is no substantial revival, and no promise of return of gen- eral prosperity under the present circum- stances. In some branches of business there has been material improvement, but the revival is not general.” ErEim s THEY DEBAT FINANCES. Money and Politics Discussed at the Farmers’ National Congress. ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 11.—The Farmers’ National Congress developed into a finan- cial debating club to day. Ex-Comnvtroller William Lawrence of Ohio precipitated the discussion by an address on bimetallism and how to secure it. He took the free silver side and made a strong argument. He wanted a confer- ence of those countries which favored sil- ver, leaving out those countries favoring old. gHnn. J. ¥. Shaffroth, member of the Congress from Colorado, followed and said that the United States was big and great enough to maintain the parity of the two metals, and that this Government could maintain the ratio of 16 to 1. Judge Offut of Indiana offered resolu- tions reciting that the demonetization of silver was the result of a conspiracy of the chief commercial nations of Europe and requesting the President to call an inter- national monetary conference. The resolutions were referred to the committee on resolutions. KEPT A SCHOOL FOR THEFT Arrest of New York Women Who Taught Little Chil- dren to Steal. Blackmaliing and Other Charges Connected With a Peculiar Establishment. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 1L.—Agents of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children have unearthed a school for stealing on the East Side, and already have made several arrests, six of the prisoners being children of tender years. The arrests grew out of a charge of attempted black- mail made by a gentleman residing on Fifth avenue, who said that the Fagin of the school, Kate Fitzzerald, alias ‘“Little Chicago May,” had taken advantage of his position in ‘society to try to make him give to herand her companions large sums of money. Agents were detailed to investizate the story he told and on Tuesday they arrested three children in & dry-goods store on Eighth avenue, where they were reaping a rich harvest under the very eyes of the store detectives. The children were taken to the society’s rooms and the fact of their arrest was kept a secret. A middle-aged woman, accompanied by a little boy, was arrested on Tuesday evening and on Wednesday morning she was committed by Magistrate Crane. The boy was kept at the rooms of thesociety. Kate Fitzgerald, who is well known in the tenderloin, was arrested on Wednesday evening and re- manded to the society’s Tooms in the Jei- ferson Market Police Court yesterday. She is 15 years old and was born in San Fran- cisco and came to this city a year ago. Last night Agent Watson arrested a well-dressed young woman, who said she was Madge Kennedy. She was locked up on a charge of being a procuress. The agent refused last evening to give any in- formation, alleging that he had a warrant to serve on a man who was wanted on a much more serious charge than the others. This man is said to be a well-known actor. The society’s agents expected to arrest him last evening, but up to & late hour had failed to find him. Three complaints, all of a similar nature, have been lodged against him. It was learned last evening that Kate Fitzgerald and the Kennedy 'woman are charged with teaching the children to steal and with sending them out to the big dry-goods stores to shoplift. The two women and the children had a room in the neighborhood of Fourteenth street and Fourth avenue, where they lived. FIGRTERS SENT TO CUBA, Hundreds of Men Going From the East to the Disturbed Island. Expenses Paid and Large Bonuses Offered to Volunteers for Bravery. CINCINNATI, Onro, Oct. 11.—The Tri- bune will publish to-morrow morning an expose of a movement which has been go- ing on in Cincinnati for the past two months on the part of a Cuban agent to recruit men for the revolutionary cause. This agent acts under the Cuban Revoiu- tionary Club of New York, and has shipped 300 men from this city to Key West, Fla., in the last five weeks, and has organized a band of 150 more who will leave here Mon- day morning. He stated that New York has sent over 2000 men to Cuba, and that Chicago is now shipping carloads daily. He does mnot offer fixed salary, but guarantees all ex- penses of every kind and $300 bonus when the war is over, with a ticket back to America, and says the Government makes a special offer of a grant of land to those who prove exceptionally worthy and ex- hibit marked courage and gallantry on the field. BOSTON, Muss., Ort. 8 —Segretary Ol ney, altnough several times questioned about the matter to-day, declined to dis- cuss the qnestion that the administration has notitied Minister Dupuy de Lome “that there is a necessity that Spain should act promptly in her efforts to crush the insurrection in Cuba.” The fact that the report was published immediately following an interview be- tween the Secretary and the Minister yes- terday seems to give a color of truth to the statement, but in view of the near ap- proach of the date of the meeting of Congress and of the fact that President Cleveland must almost necessarily refer to the subject in lris annual message to that body, it is more than probable that there has been no communication made to Min- ister Dupuy de Lome imparting any change of policy on the part of the admin- istration to take effect before the meeting of Congress. Dupuy de Lome makes weekly visits to Washington from Bryn Mawr, where he is spending October with his family, to call upon Secretary Olney on the regular diple- matic day at the State Department. He was seen yesterday by a represent - tive of the United Press, to whom he stated that his presence in Washington at that time bad no especial signilicance. He returned to Philadelphia this morning. BURNED BY HOT METAL Four Men Killed and Seven Fatally Injured in a Casting-House. Without Warning and in a Manner Unexplainable the Structure Collapsed. CLEVELAND, Onio, Oct. 11.—Four men were killed and seven others probably fatally injured as the result of an unex- plainable accident at the Cleveland rolling- mills at 9 o’clock to-night.. The furnaces were carrying heavy fires, and the casting department was working a full force. ‘Without warning and in a manner wholly unexplainable the casting-house, the largest bnilding of the plant, col- lapsed, burying many of its occupants in the debris. As quickly as possible relief came to the imprizoned men, and when all were rescued it was found that three were dead and eight badly injured. One of the injured men died soon after being removed. Of the killed Charles Wakefield was cooked to death by molten metal. The dead: Charles Wakefield, Vett Xesarth, Anton Gorman and a mid- dle-aged man not yet identified. The injured were taken to hospitals, and none of them can give their names. —_————— Hayward's Plot to Escape. MINNEAPOLIS, M1xx., Oct. 11.—A plot has been discovered to effect the escape of Harry Hayward, the murderer of Cath- erine Ging, from the County Jail. Dupli- cate keys were made in some way which fitted his cell door and the outer door. These keys were found by a deputy, and they fitted the locks perfectly. A’ bribe had been offered to one of the "deputies to aid in the escape, a fact which the deputy reported to the Sheriff. Sioroie Judge Cyrus L. Cook Dead. CHICAGO, Irr.,, Oct. 1l.—Judge Cyrus L. Cook, the Republican candidate for Congress in the Eighteenth Illinois Dis- trict, who was nominated last week to suc- ceed the late Congressman Remann, died suddenly at the Gr Northern Hotel in this city at9o’clock this morning. The cause of death was nrobably heart disease. FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY. Definite Stand Will Be Made by the Congre- gationalists. APPEAL OF CHAMPIONS. It Is to Be Favored Almost Unanimously by the Council. ALL CREEDS TO BE RECOGNIZED. Topics of Great Interest Belng Considered by the Gathering at Syracuse. SYRACUSE, N. Y., Oct. 11.—The Con- gregational church of America, by its tri- ennial council now in session at Plymouth Church, in this city, will to-morrow take a definite stand for Christian unity, the broadest, heartiest stand taken by any de- nomination in this country. There will be rare eloquence in the appeal of the champions of the great cause when the report of the committee is presented to the council, for the members are soulbound in the movement. The chairman of the committee is Wil- liam Hayes Ward, LL.D., editor of the Independent, and his associates are D. W. Dike, Rev. Alonzo B. Quint and Rev. George E. Hall. These gentlemen have labored long and earnestly in the matter, and have debated the various propositions from every point of view. But so unani- mous have they become on the result of the report that when the matter comes up for debate and the action of the council to- morrow it will pass with but slight oppo- sition. The committee recommends: That the two committees be constituted as standing committees, the one hitherto known as the committee on Christian unity to be designated as the committee on denomina- tional unity, and the committee known as the “Committee on union with the Free Baptists and other denominations” to be designated as the ‘“Committee on union with other denominations.” The duties of these committees shall be respectively those indicated by their titles. That it be the duty of the committee on union with other denominations in cases where it may seem wise to attempt specific union with any other denomination and to conduct negotiations with such denominations by means of persons whom it may select. That as a basis for such union in ac- cordance with the constitntion and or- ganis declarations of the National Coun- cil adopted at Oberlin in 1871, declaring the Holy Seriptures the ‘‘sufficient ana only infallible rule of religious faith and practice, their interpretation thereof being in substantial accordance with the great doctrines of Christian faith, commonly called evangelical,”” and that “the liberty of our churches affords the ground and hope of a more visible unity in time to come,” we as Congregational churches, recognize no creed of human origin, no matter how venerable or historically hon- ored by us and by the Christian chnreh, to have authority over our faith, which authority belongs only to the word of God. In any union contemplated, those who join together have, accordingly, the right to maintain their conscientious varieties of faith and order. The triennial council of Congregational- ists devoted the day to the consideration of its six leading missionary societies. The morning session was opened by Assistant Moderator Brown of 8an Francisco. After a brief business session, Secretary Hazen read an invitation from the First Congrega- tional Church of Portland, Or., to the council to meet there in 1898. At 10 o’clock Rev. L. H. Cobb, D.D., read his report on the work of the Congre- gational Church Building Society. A com- mittee on the work and needs of the Na- tional benevolent societies was appointed. The secor.d society to report was the Congregational Home Missionary Society. Its secretary is the Rev. Washington Choate, D.D., of New York. The afternoon session opened at 2: o'clock with the moderator in the chair. The first anniversary celebrated during the afternoon was that of the Sunday- school and Publication Society. The moderator introduced Rev. George M. Boynton of Boston. Mr. Boynton was fol- lowed by Rev. William E. Barton of Massa- chusetts, who spoke on the same theme as Rev. Mr. Boynton. Rev. E. M. Noyes was then introduced. For the next forty min- utes the American Educational Society ‘was the topic of the speeches. President Eaton then introduced two res- olutions. In the first the council recom- mended that the pastors be more careful about fittingly keeping the day of prayer in the colleges, which is the last Thursday in January. The second recommended that pastors set apart the Sunday previous for preaching suitable educational ser- mons, They were adopted. At the evening session it was voted to hold the next council (in 1898) at the First Congregational Church in Portland, Or. The report of the foreign mission board was given by Rev. C. H. Daniels. Ad- dresses were made by Rev. F. W. Bates of East Africa, Rev. Charles W. Lampson of Connecticut, Rev. John W. Simpson, pres- ident of the Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio; and by Samuel B. Capen of Boston. e INTRUDERS TO BE REMOVED. Final Passage of the Bill by the Chero- kee Legislature. . SOUTH McALESTER, 1. T., Oct. 11.— The bill providing for the removal of the in- truders from the Cherokee Nation has just passed both houses and been signed by the Chief. By the provisions of the bill 315 heads of families will be paid for improve- ments made in the nation. The amount of land held is estimated to be 100,000 acres, and worth $168,000. The bill just passed by the Council ends the struggle that hus waged for the past twenty years between the Cherokee people on one side and the so-called intruders on the other. el T AR Failure of Hatt KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. il.—George F. King and 8. E. King, doing business at 1016 Main street under the name of the King Hat Company, closed and assigned their stock, fixtures and accounts to William T. Kemper, trustee. The National Bank of Commerce, Sweet, Dempster & Co. of New York, and the Dunlap Hat Company hold chattel mort- ga%es dpon the stock amounting to $9,378 42, ol S R TWO YOUTHS ELOPED. They Walked a Long Distance Before Being Married. SERGENT, Ky., Oct. 11.—Betty Mul- lins, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a Methodist minister, and James Short, the sixteen-year-old son of a well-to-do farmer of Wise County, Virginia, were married here yesterday by Justice of the Peace Adams. The young couple slipped away from their homes shortly before last mid- night and walked together over the mountains to this place, a distance of over thirty miles, in less than six hours. Mr. and Mrs, Short set out on their long jour- ney back over the mountains, where they had no doubt forgiveness awaited them. — = HUNDREDS SHED TEARS. Earnest Religion at the Pemnsylvania State Brethren Convention. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Oct. 11.—At the State Brethren Convention here yesterday a remarkable scene was witnessed. 1t was during the discussion of mission work. In the addresses it was shown that mission work in this State had been sadly neglected and that many brethren in the State had no vlace of worship, owing to the manner in which the churches are distributed throughout the State. Rev. E. E. Hastings of this city was the first to discuss the matter, and he forced matters by offering as his donation hisgold watch, which had been given to him when he was 11 yearsold. In amoment the con- DID DURRANT CONFESS A Strange Statement Miss Cunningham Says He Made. HE SAW THE MURDER, A Tale of a Struggle With Two Men on the Belfry Landing. HER PROMISE AND HER DUTY. Once the Prisoner Is Said to Have Asked Her If He Should Not Own Up and Ask for Mercy. Has Durrant confessed ? Did he under pledge that she would keep his secret tell Miss Carrie Cunning- | ham that he had seen the murder of | Blanche Lamont? And have his attorneys now in their possession a sealed p containing the truth about the case? During the afternoon session of the trial yesterday the District Attorney, by his MISS CUNNINGHAM. vention was aroused. Watches and all sorts of valuables were thrown into the contribution basket with the money, and the scene was so affecting that hundreds shed tears. FOR POISONING HIS WIFE Landlord of a Held Hugh Crowe, Nebraska Hotel, for Murder. May Rambo, a Guest and Friend of the Accused, Also Had a Hand In the Crime. WILBUR, NEBR.,, Oct. 11.—Hugh W. Crowe and May Rambo were charged before the County Jucge to-day with the willful murder of Mrs. Ella A. Crowe by strychnine poisoning at DeWitt, October 8. The deceased was taken sick Tuesday and died the next day, the physician said from heart failure. The conduct of Crowe and Miss Rambo since gave rise to a sus- picion of foul play and an inquest was ordered and held. The stomach was sent to Lincoln for an analysis. As a result yesterday the Coroner’s jury held the defendants for murder in the first degree. Crowe is the landlord of the lead- ing hotel at DeWitt and Miss Rambo bas resided there for some time. They are now in the custody of the Sheriff and will be kept apart. Their de- fense is that the poison was self-admin- istered. e T TSN Union Pacific Liens. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct, 11.—The $10,- 000,000 to be provided by the syndicate or- ganized to underwnte the Union Pacific Railway reorganization plan, is to be used to pay off the past due coupons on the underlying liens and also the coupons on the same liens during the coming two years. By this action the right will be securad to foreclose the first mortgage. R Anxiety for Two Steamers. OWEN SOUND, Oxt., Oct. 11.—Much anxiety is felt here for the safety of the steamers Groh and Atwater, which left Cleveland October 3 for this port. They are five days overdue. A strorag ale has revailed on Lake Huron and Georgian ay since Monday. Date for the Wedding. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 11.—TIt is now announced that the Marlborough-Vander- bilt wedding will take place Tuesday, November 5, at noon, in St. Thomas’ Church. Pt SR e e el S SR For Pacific Coast Telegrams see Pages 3, 4 and 5. questions, intimated that Theodore Dure | rant had made these statements to the newspaper woman, and had showed her a package inscribed ““to be opened in case of my conviction, and to be returned to me it I am not convicted.” Miss Cunningham will take the witness« stand in rebuttal of Theodore Durrant’s testimony, and her statement will be sen« sational in the last degree. The District | Attorney declines to tell just what her | evidence will be, and the young lady her- self 13 reticent under the orders of Mr. Barnes. If Miss Cunningham on the wit- ness-stand repeats the statements she has already made to the authorities she will swear that Durrant told her at the jail that he had seen Blanche Lamontin the grasp of two men on the second landing of the belfry of Emmanuel Church on the afternoon of April 3. She is further ex- pected to state thatshe asked him who the men were and that he answered that he did not care at that time to say, though the names were mentioned in a statement of the case prepared by him, which was then in his possession. The statements made by Durrant were given under a strict promise of secrecy. Miss Cunningham came to see him daily in the jail, remaining hours ata time. The case against him was showing blacker and blacker, and though he kept a front of brass before the court and jury it was breaking him, and to the girl who was his constant visitor and with whom he became s0 well acquainted he did not keep up the pretense of indifference, according to Miss Cunningham’s story. Indeed at one time he is said to have been so near an utter breakdown that, according to the story Miss Cunningham is expected to tell, he asked her if she did not think it would be a wise idea on his part to make a full confession and then throw himseli upon the mercy of the court. All this ana & great deal more the prosecution expects to prove by Miss Cunningham. The question naturally suggests itself, _— SMOKE LaBelle Graole 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,