The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 9, 1895, Page 1

VOLUME LXXVII._NO. 16 PRICE FIVE CENTS LED A DOUBLE LIFE “Major Bond” of Kansas Was “Jacob Brown” of California. CONFESSED WHILE DYING With Money Taken From His First Wife He Amassed a Big Fortune in the West. THEN HE T0OK A SECOND SPOUSE Made Mysterious Trips During Which He Supplied His Daughter With Funds. WICHITA, Kaxs,, Nov. 8.—The mys- dual life of Jacob tery surrounding the Brown,or Joseph Bond, as he was vari- ously known in the States in which he lived at different periods of his life, who died recently at Humboldt, this State, 1s the subject of general comment in the community in which the latter part of his life was spent. For over thirty years Major Bond’' lived in Humboldt, Kans where he married and engaged in many 1portant and successful enterprises. Not 1 he was upon his deathbed did he dis- bse the fact, hitherto unsuspected by his most intimate friends, that he had been wearing a false name and covering up im- portant chapters in his life history. The revelations which he then made seemed so incredible that for days the watchers at his bedside believed them to be only his deli dreams. 1563 a tail man of military bearing came to Allen County, Kansas, giving his name as Joseph Bond, claiming to hail from Pennsylvania. In those days people didn’t inquire closely into the antecedents of a stranger, provided he was on the right side of the slavery question. He settled in the town of Humboldt. Bond possessed considerable money and invested in land and in various in tries that sprune up at the ciose of the Civil War. In 1863 he married a woman about 35 years of age—a Miss Turner—who possessed beanty and some wealth. Bond was successful in a financial way, making money rapidly in all his ventures. He claimed to have been a graduate of a Pennsylvania law school and a classmate of Sam Randall. He possessed a fine general education and, having a splendid knowledge of law, sub- sequently held many positions of trust and honor in the county. People who k2w him considered bim & just man, but Olre who would €ake advantage in a deal if there was any money in it for himself. He adaed farm after farm to his posses- sions until about two years ago, when called upon to fill a bond, he stated under oath that he possessed in the neighbor- hood of 100,000 acres of anincumbered land in the States of Kansas, Missouri, Califor- nia, Jowa and Nebraska. In addition to this he was interested in a great many local enterprises and was for many years the vice-president of the First National Bank of Humboldt. During the early seventies he built a bridee across the Neosho River at Hum- boldt at a cost of $10,000, and for two or three years kept the tollgate himself and made an immense amount of money, the pts often overrunning $100 a day. It was currently reported that the bridge d for itself the first nine months after its completion. In addition Bond ob- ned a subsidy from farmers as an in- ement 1 build the bridge. He sold it to the town subsequently for the original cost. Throughout his thirty years’ resi- dence at Humboldt, Bond made frequent pilgrimages away from home, telling his wife on each occasion that he was going away on business and would be gone a ated time. There was nothing remarka- le in this, as his large business, which was managed entirely by himself, would warrant his absence irom home much of the time. Not long since he was taken violently ill and the attending physician told him that he had a very short time tolive. Upon learning this he sent for George C. Barber, cashier of the Humboldt Bank, and an- other man, Paul Fisher, in whom hLe had great confidence. When they arrived at his house he told them that he had a mar- ried daughter living at Salt Lake City Utah, and requested them to send lor her. He also stated that he thought he had another wife somewhere in the West. They thought his mind was wandering and paid no attention to his requests. However, after repeated visits and earnest solicitation on the part of the sick man, they at length concluded to humor his whim. Bond had forgotten his married daughter’s name, but told them to tele- graph to the Bank of California “Give nsme and address of Jacob Brown's daugh- ter.,”’ In due time the reply came “Mrs. Frank Kinney, Salt Lake City.” The Bond family and friends were thun- derstruck. They immediately sent a dis- patch to the address and an answer was received saying that Mrs. Kinney would leave on the first train. In due course of time the lady arrived from Salt Lake She brought her own marriage certific and that of her mother. Bond died just before her arrival. She stated that in 1853 her mother married Bond in New York under the name of Jacob Brown. Subse- quently they moved to California. Her mother possessed considerable property at the time of her marriage with him. Bond, it appears, schemed to get this property in his possession, and after having lived with the woman seven years, until the opening of the Civil War, and having had three children born to tkem, all landed property was sold and all personal property con- verted into cash preparatory to leaving for the East. Bond left his home in Sacra- mento County with all the money one night and was never seen there again. ‘Where he went no one knows, but it is now supposed that he went to China and en- gaged for a time in the trade that was just then developing so rapidly with the United States. He left the family without a cent. His wife managed to obtain assistanee from some friends and kept her family to- gether. Two of the children died and the one that was left, a girl, was one day notified ity. through a bank that money was on deposit | there for her education and a school that had been selected by some unknown bene- factor as the one she should attend was suggested to her. She started to school, remaining there ten years, ana during all this time money to pay all her expenses kept coming from some unknown source. At the expiration of her school days she met and shortly afterward married a promising young lawyer named Kinney. They only resided in California a short time, cmigrating to Salt Lake City, where they still live. Mrs. Kinney’s mother lived with them until-her death, which occurred about two years ago. Until the last she believed that her hus- band was true to her and held to the opinion that he had been murdered and robbed. Mrs. Kinney stated that her father had practiced medicine in Southern California, and a diploma found among his many sealed packages shows that he had graduated with high honors from a New York medical college. He was a member of the California Legislature pre- vious to his mysterious disappearance. All of the statements made by Mrs. Kin- ney were substantiated bevond question, and then came the question of what was to become of the second wife, or Mrs. Bond. 2 Mrs. Kinney telegraphed for her hus- band. Upon hisarrival there was a long secret conference between them as to how the estate should be divided. This was satisfactorily adjusted. All the deeds were taken possesion of by Mr. and Mrs. Kinney, while considerable bank stock, farms and personal property were trans- ferred to Mrs. Bond. This strange and unexpected revelation set all the people who had known Bond through three decades to speculating, and it has since developed that Brown or Bond had relatives in Junction City, Kans.—a sister and her family. He was in the habit of visiting them occasionally, and this is where he went when he left with the story that he was going away on busi- ness. He went under the name of Brown in Junction City, where he had a large number of acquaintances. There he passed as a Californiar, and was supposed to be interested in Eastern industries. In reality the visits he made to Junction City were stopovers on his way to and from California. It came out after his death that he had sent money from Junction City to a bank in California for a number of years to pay for the education of his daughter. His wife said to him as he was passing away, “Oh, why didn’t you tell me all this be- fore?” He replied, “Never mind; you will be well provided for. You were noth- ing, only a law wife.”’ There are three years of his life that cannot in any way be accounted for. Itis believed that in these years he was en- gaged in commercial enterprises in China. WILL BE A GREAT SHOW. Prizes Offered by New Yorkers Who Take an Interest in the Exhibition. Two Special Cars With Horses Are to Be Run From Gotham to San Francisco. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 8.—Heary J. Crocker and George A. Pope of San Fran- cisco, who are visiting New York in the interest of the Horse Show Association of the Pacific Coast, report very encouraging prospects ahead for the coming horse show in San Francisco next month. Several New York firms connected with carriage and harness supplies bave taken much interest in the San Francisco exhibition and have donated several prizes. Among them Martin & Martin of Fifth avenue have notified Mr. Crocker that they will offer a complete hunting outfit, from saddle to boots, as & prize in the saddle class. Harris & Nixon offer a $50 special prize. Mr. Crecker states that this makes twenty-five special prizes now donated for competition. W. J. Taylor Jr., editor of the New York Rider and Driver, intends accompanying Messrs. Crocker and Pope on their return to San Francisco for the purpose of publishing a special San Fran- cisco horse show edition of the Rider and Driver. The two special cars with horses for exhibition in San Francisco, containing Mr. Crocker’s commission and personal purchases and the entries of Eastern owners, Mr. Crocker states, will make the trip from New York to San Francisco in four and a half days’ running time. By the kindness of Colonel Fred Crocker of the Southern Pacific road, who is now in New York, special courtesies and cares for the comfort of Messr: nderhill, Carman and Bloodgood, who will judge the coast show, will be provided for when they leave New York for San Francisco. Mr. Crocker said that he and Mr. Pope were much pleased to find that in the East the regular hackney horses were not now as much fancied as standard-bred horses crossed with hackney or Morgan strains. This class has superior advantages in speed and in staying powers. Mr. Crocker, however, as has also Mr. Pope, has come to the con- clusion that in the future the San Fran- cisco show dates must be set much later after the New York show than is now pro- vided for, and both gentlemen will taike steps for such action when they return home. Mr. Crocker has found that with one week of show ard one week of sales exhi- bitions have only a week for transporta- tion, thus leaving only a few days for horses to round to form for the long over- Jand trip. Owners of first-class horses re- fuse to take the risk. If intending exhib- itors at the San Francisco show had a month or so for their horses to be fitted in a large number of them would be exhibit- ors. It is probable that Mr. Studebaker and Mr. Kimball, the big carriage-builders of Chicago, may visit San Francisco for the show and exhibit some of their specialties. They so informed Mr. Crocker in Chicago. Mr. Crocker has almost closed negotiations for one of the crack four-in-hand teams in New York. 1 Fret Kiamil Pasha Very Il CONSTANTINOPLE, TurkEY, Nov. 8.— Kiamil Pasha, who was recently deposed from the Grand Viziership and appointed Vali of Aleppo, bas been taken suddeniy ill with an acute attack of bronchitis. His physicians declare that he is not fit to travel to Aleppo. He is 72 years old and much anxiety is felt regarding his con- dition. ) “GUESS I'LL GO IN THERE.” STORY OF DUNRAVEN. It Takes Four Columns to| Set Forth All His Grievances. DEFEAT OF VALKYRIE. Says It Was Due to Unfairness | on the Part of the Cup | Committee. JUGGLING WITH MEASUREMENT | The Defender, It Is Alleged, Did Not Sail on the Stipulated Load Water Line. LONDON, Exc., Nov. 8.—The Field will to-morrow publish a four-column state- ment from Lord Dunraven relative to the contest for the America cup. Lord Dun- raven opens by saying that so much has been written and said logsely concerning ‘the races, and as he has received so many requests for fuller information he thinks it due to the yachting and general public and himself that he make a statement. He would, he adds, confine himself to the cause of his withdrawal of the Valky- rie from the races—namely, overcrowding; | but that other matters had been mentiond | in the cup committee’s report to the New | York Yacht Club. He relates what oc- curred at the meeting of the committee held for setting the conditions of the con- test, and says he disapproved of the method of making the load water line with copper tacks on deck instead of the yacht-racing association’s methods of visi- ble marks on stem and stern; but he made no protest. A few days later he wrote to Mr. Can- field in regard to this matter, and received | a verbal answer that the committee did not see the object of reconsidering the matter. Lord Dunraven did not press the matter, but signed the agreement. The following day the race was sailed. Con- tinuing hesays: “Iam of the opinion that the Defender did not sail on her measured load-water line & length in the race.” He remarked that nobody interested in the Defender lived on her or her tender, the Hattie Palmer, but much material, the crews, etc., was transferred backward and forward from the Defender to the Hattie Palmer and vice versa. Those on board the Valkyrie were well able to observe the Defender when they were alongside of her in the Erie basin. After her first trial with the Vigilant, when the Defender went to the Erie| basin to be measured on Sentember 6, it | was obvious to everybody on board the | City of Bridgeport, the Valkyrie’s tender, | that she was floating materially higher than on a former occasion. This, of | course, was unobjectionable. The Hattie | Palmer was alongside the Defeuder all | night. Her crew was at work from d;srkJ until 1 o’clock in the morning. Early Saturday those aboard the City of Bridge- port noticed that the Defender was visibly deeper in the water than when she was measured. ‘When he put Mr. Henderson aboard at 9 o’clock Lord Dunraven was perfectly certain that she was four inches deeper than she was when she was measured. He was reluctant to formally complain, as it was impossible for him to verify his be- lief. Anyhow,—mothing could have been done before the race, but when Mr. Fish went on board the Valkyrie Lord Dun- raven told him the whole case and as- serted his belief that the Defender was sailing fully a foot beyond her proper length. He asked Mr. Fish to induce the committee to send a member aboard of each boat immediately after the race and have both measured forthwith, but if that was impossible to have the member stay in charge until the yachts were measured, He also asked that the load water- line be marked visibly externally. No action was taken that evening beyond ordering that the boats be remeasured 1 | and marked on the following day. No- body was placed in charge. The Defender lay all night with the Hattie Palmer alongside of her. The result was that | Sunday’s remeasurement obviously af- | forded no proof that either or both yachts | had not exceeded their measured lengths in Saturday’s race. Lord Dunraven says: “My action in | making this complaint has been severely | criticized. 1 will only say that I consider | it my duty toactas 1 did. I1did not ask | anything that [ was not ready and willing to submit to myself.” He then proceeds to discuss the crowd- ing at the starting line, which was ren- dered so dangerous by the many steamers that it was impossible for the yachts to | maneuver safely. Vessels were constantly passing in front of the mark boats, making | it impossible to pick up the line accurately. ‘When the Valkyrie came near the line the | mark boat was completely hidden from | view. Not knowing where the line was, and fearing that she might be too soon, the Valkyrie bore away and thus spoiled her start. He gives the details of the steamers washing and blanketing the racers on the reach home. The Defender, he says, was doubtless interfered with, but nothing like to the same extent as was the Valkyrie. The Times to-morrow, commenting upon Lord Dunraven’s statement, will say: ““The general impression that the state- ment will leave on the minds of the im- partial persons is that no effort, however strenuous, on the part of the cup trustees could possibly secure a fair race under con- ditions on which they feel themselves bound to insist.” In regard to the alleged alrerations of the Defender’s load water line, the Times says: “Itisamost unpleasantstory. While everybody must deeply regret that any- thing occurred to give rise to the sus- picions explained by Lord Dunraven, it can hardly be doubted that it was his duty to act as he did. “Not the least regretable incident was the misunderstanding of the proposal that all the matches be resailed. The whole | statement contains nothing to lead us to hope that British competitors can again challenge with a reasonable prospect of a fair field and no favor. That cannot be obtained until the trust deed is adminis- tered in a different spirit and the concur- rent jurisdiction of so many committees and bodies be abolished.” JUDGETHURMAN INJURED Ohio’s “Old Roman” Said to Be in a Dying Condition by the Doctors. He Fell From a Sofa in His Library | and It Is Feared He Will Not Recover. COLUMBUS, Onio, Nov. 8. —Ex-Senator Allen G. Thurman fell from a sofa in his library last Friday and suffered injuries which have become very serious. He can- not possibly recover. On Tuesday he was so much better that he wished to go to the polls to vote, but on the advice of his phy- sician he did not. On Wednesday he was much worse and yesterday he fell into a stupor from which it is altogether likely he will never recover. His son, Allen W. Thurman, said at noon that there was lit- tle hope that he will live more than a few days, and death may occur at any time. | At 11 o’clock to-night the condition of | Judge Thurman was somewhat improved, The members of the family have relired'J leaving the distinguished patient in the care of his nurse. Dr. Whittaker, his physician, saw him at 10 o’clock, and will not call again to-night unless sent for. He does not now think there is immediate danger of death. Judge Thurman is sleep- ing quietly. His pulse is regular, but weak. His condition isthat of collapse, and the physician says it is altogether im- probable that he will survive long. No bones were broken by the fall, and the only wound noticeable is a slight abrasion over the hip bore. Ina young person the accident would have been trivial. SR Zimmerman Defeated. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 8.—News was received in this city to-day of the defeat of Champion Arthur Zimmerman in his first race in Australia. The cable simply stated that he haa finisked second to J. Parsons in a five-mile race. Parsons is the ten-mile champion of Australia, and re- ported to be a-very remarkable rider. The friends of the ‘‘skeeter” who heard the news said that he could not have been in strictly first-class form. His more impor- tant races take place the latter part oi the month, FEARS OF A FAMINE, Starvation Said to Stare Newfoundlanders in the Face. MEASURES FOR RELIEF. Special Meeting of the Legisla- ture Called to Consider the Subject. DISTRESS AMONG FISHERMEN. Stormy Weather and the Depredations of Pirates Have Increased the Misery. ST. JOHN, NEWFoUNDLAND, Nov. 8.—A special meeting of the Newfoundland House was called to-day to take measures as to the plan to be adopted to combat the famine which is sure to prevail in Newfoundland this winter as it did last. The food supply isthe lowestthat has been known for years, and even now a large number of people are starving in the im- mediate vicinity of this city, while from the small fishing villages along the coast the most terrible tales of starvation, dis- | ease and hunger are brought. Last winter was the worst ever known in the history of the colony and had it not been for the relief expeditions sent from New England, Europe and Canada the death rate would have been something enormous. But even last year the food supply was larger than this and the out- look for the winter is a gloomy one. The fishing season has been very un- profitable owing to the stormy weather which has prevailed and the depredations of the pirates off the coast. This latter evil has been the greatest to contend with, as fishermen have abso- lutely feared to go to the fishing grounds. From the little town of St. Pierre, which has been visited twice by the pirates this fall, a story of the most dire distress is brought. It is stated that already there is not a single family properly fed owing to the scarcity of provisions, and that the weakest are dying off daily without there being any means to help them. The island will doubtless have to depend on outside countries for nearly their entire food sup- ply for the winter. A message has been sent to the British Home Coloniat Office, asking that meas- ures for relief be passed at once in order to prevent the famine from spreading over the entire island TRIED 7TO KILIL, A GOVERNOR. Assassins in Brazil Quickly Tried and Publicly Shot. RIO GRANDE DO SUL, Brazri, Nov. 8.—Tuesday night when Governor Castilho was retiring he heard a noise in his room. He discovered two men, on whom he fired, killing one and wounding the otker. The fire was returned and one shot grazed Cas- tilho’s shoulder. The firing attracted the attention of the guards, who rushed in and were fired on in the hall. During the fight that ensued four other assailants were killed, six wounded and one escaped. The prisoners were tried Wednesday and shot in public this morning. Itis feared that similar attempts will follow. Severe fighting is reported in the interior. redbg vt} T0 HEAD OFF THE BRITONS. English Forces Not to Be Permitted to Cross Brazil. PARA, Braziy, Nov. 8.—The Governor has received orders from Rio de Janeiro not to permit any English forces to cross the national territory, and if necessary to repel the same by force. He has been advised that re-enforcements are coming and soldiers have been sent toward Mis- siones to head off the English already in the couatry. 5 To Influcnce the Strikers. LONDON, E~G., Nov.8.—The Govern- ment has deputed Gerald Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, to use his influence with the Belfast and Clyde ship-builders to induce them to arrange terms with their dissatistied employes, the Belfast strikers and the locked-out Clyde engineers and other workmen. FORFEITED HIS LIFE FOR A KISS. Fate of a Young Man Who Insisted on Em- bracing a Plucky Woman in Florida. BRAIDENTOWN, Fra., Nov. 8 —To save herself from a fate worse than death Mrs. Annie Chappell shot and killed a man yesterday. Mrs. Chappell, with her hus- band and little daughter, lives on Sneads Island, on the Manatee River. She was alone with her child, her husband being at court. While in the yard Mrs. Chappell saw a strange white man, young and well dressed, land at the wharf. The man ap- proached and tried to embrace Mrs. Chap- vell. She ran into the house, foliowed by the man, who seized and kissed her. Mrs. Chappell broke away and got her husband’sshotgun. Pointingitshe warned her assailant to leave. He laugled and said, “Don’t shoot till I getanother kiss.”” As the man tried to seize the gun Mrs. Chappell fired a charge into his breast. The man turned and the woman gave him the contents of the otker barrel. The fellow staggered to tne' wharf, gotin his boat and rowed sway. Mrs. Chappell fainted and remained unconscious until her husband returned. She told him her story and search was made for her wounded ailant. He was found dead in the boat, which was drifting down the river. Semngs b FOUNDERED OFF CARIBOO ISLAND. News of the Missing Steamer Missoula Re- ceived When Four Members ot the Crew Arrived. SAULTE STE MARIE, Mics., Nov. 8.— News of the missing steamer Missoula, which was seven days overdue, was re- ceived to-night, when four of her crew ar- rived here and told the story of the wreck. The vessel foundered off Cariboo lsland on the north shore. The foundering was caused by the break- ing of the outboard shaft. After it was found that it would be 1mpossible to save the steamer, Captain Wilson gave orders to abandon her, and the crew all escaped safely in small boats. Four were picked up by a down-bound steamer and brought here. The others are now on the north shore, 100 miles from here. A tug will leave for them in the morning. The Mis- soula was owned by Captain Thomas Wil- son of Cleveland, and was valued at $30,000. Her cargo consisted of 70,000 bushels of wheat, valued at $50,000. BESEds A SANDBAGGED BY ROBBERS, Mrs. Emma Hobbold of Chicago Found in a Dying State. CHICAGO, Iin, Nov. 8.—Emma Hob- bold, wife of the superintendent of the Western Starch Association, was attacked by robbers in her home at 3218 Wallace street, between 5 and 6 o'clock this even- ing, and sandbagged into insensibility. Early in the afternoon a man called and expressed a desire to rent the middle flat of the Hobbold home, and said he would return with his brother in the evening. The two men called betweea 5 and 6 o’clock, and after paying Mrs. Hobbold $10 earness money, they attacked her with a sandbag. They secured $50 from her dress pocket, ana by ransacking the house secured $300 worth of jewelry. Mrs. Hob- bold was found in a dying condition on the floor of the vacant flat half an hour afterward. PREPARED FOR THE DEED, An Elaborate Will Made by a Man Who Committed Sui- cide in Iowa. Directed That He Be Buried in a Pine Box While the Moline Band Played. DAVENPORT, Iowa, Nov. 8.—Friday morning Joseph Sweigert, employed at he Moline Plow Works, committed sui- cide by taking morphine at Moline, IlL He had been on a spree and vowed Thurs- day night that he would kill himself. To humor him a friend drew up his will. Sweigert claimed to have $5500 in the bank, and this amount he leit to his brother, W. J. Campbell of Markeville, Perry County, Pa. Upon his death a tele- gram was sent to the Democrat-Register at Bloomfield, Pa. Regarding his funeral he directed that he wished to be buried in a rough pine box, and as it was lowered into the grave the Moline Light Guard band was to play “The Girl I Left Behind Me.” His friends were then to fill in the grave, tramping down the earth and leaving no mound to mark the spot. He signed the name of Joseph Campbell to the will. Only bankbooks calling for $100 could be found after his death. Among his effects was 2n accident insurance policy for $1000, taken out in Canton, Ill, last July. He was found to belong to K. of P. Lodge 268, Middletown, Ohio, and Mutual Lodge, I. 0. 0. F.,at Dayton, Ohio. He had been at Moline since August, but nothing was known of his antecedents. e FORGERY WAS HIS FORTE. Arrest of a Man Who Raised a Fortune in a Year. ST. PAUL, Mixx., Nov. 8.—W. C. Faye, the forger, who in a little more than twelve months Las put in circulation over $30,000 in for:ed bonds, is in the hands of an officer at Moorehead, Minn., to-night, the arrest having been made on a telegram from a Chicago detective that Faye was on his way to Winnipeg. Faye’s last forgery was a bond for $1000, to which he signed the name of H. G. Gardner of La Grange, Ill. He sold the bond for its face value to the Omaha Brewing Company. A Chicago officer will meet the prisoner here to-mor- row morning and ke will be taken to Omaha and thence to La Grange, IlI. SER Haggin Not Seriously Ill. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov.8.—At the home of J. B. Haggin, 587 Fifth avenue, it was said this evening that the report that he was seriously ill was unfounded. Mr. Haggin is simply suffering from a swollen kneejoint whicnfirevents him from being able to walk. e was up’this evening and hopes to be out soon, e Kun Into and Sunk. FORT MONROE, Va., Nov. 8.—The tug Kate of Norfolk was run into and sunk in Hampton Roads by the Norfolk and Washington steamer Newport News about 7:30 o’clock this evening. The cook and fireman were lost, CAMPOS 15 IN DANGER, Frequent Attempts Being Made to Assassinate the General. BOMBS ON THE TRAINS. In One Explosion a Car Was De- molished and Three Soldiers Were Killed. PLANS TO BLOW UP A BRIDGE, Now the Marshal is Attempting to Pacify Cuban Farmers by Con- ciliatory Measures. BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 8.—A special to a morning paper from Havana states that frequent attempts are being made to as- sassinate General Campos, and that twice during the past week bombs have been exploded at the trains in which he has been riding. Such an attempt was made on Wednesday, and it came near having a disastrous effect. The train in which General Campos was riding consisted of three carriages. The general himself was in the second when the bomb exploded and escaped injury, but the entire rear part of the train was demolished and the munitions and pro- visions blown for a considerable distance around. Three soldiers were kiiled. A similar attempt was made on Tuesday by blowing up a bridge over which the general’s train would pass. Fortunately the discovery was made in time or the train would have gone over. The most rigorous treatment has been ordered for all those caught making ate tempts to biow up trains, as they will be shot immediately without the formality of the trial. Another dispatch says that Rolof, theine surgent leader, who has beea operating in the province of Santa Clara since helanded there last June, has issued an order to the peasants of that province to remove at least three miles from the towns and forts of Santa Clara under penalty of being shot. General Campos, in order to counteract the effect of thisorder, is re-enforcing the garrisons of the towns ir: the province, and has ordered the country people to concen- trate around the towns and has granted the farmers the use of all available lands near the towns. This is part of the policy which he has determined to adopt, as it is manifestly impossible for him to makeany further advance in the field, owing to the demoralization which prevails among the Spanish troops. COMING TO THIS COUNTRY. Diplomatic Agents of the Insurgents om the Way to Washington. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 8.—The Her~ ald special from Key West, Florida, says: The Cuban revolutionary sympathizers here have private advices from Kingston, Jamaica, to the effect that General Bare tolome Masso, the rebel Vice-President, left a Jamaican port on Wednesday as a. passenger in a British fruit steamer sailing for New York direct. It is believed here that Dr. Castillo accompanied him. It is understood that they propose to take up beadquarters in Washington about the time Congress meets, as diplomatic agents of the Cuban republic, and lobby to obtain early recognition by the United States Government of the republic. SHOT BY THE TOUGHS. Two Brothers Fired Upon and One Fa= tally Wounded. ‘WINSTON, N. C., Nov. 8.—Particulars were brought here to-day of a horrible affair which occurred a few nights ago near Stone Mountam, Surrey County. While Charles and John McBride, b:oth~ ers, were on their way to Stokes County, to visit their sister, they were met in the Toad by a party of six toughs. A contro- versy arose over which should give up the road, when the toughs opened fire on the brothers, some twenty-five shots being fired. Charles McBride was fatally wound- ed. After the battle in theroad thetoughs, who are still at large, went to the residence of a woman living near and proceeded to demolish things generally. They threw all the clothing and bedding into the yard and made a bonfire of it, and then set fire to the house. . NUN-PARTISAN W. C, T. U. At the Next Convention They Will Strike Out the Word “ Women.”” OBERLIN, Onro, Nov. 8.—The Non- Partisan Women’s Christian Temperance Union convention closed to-day after a heated session. Mrs. Paul of Maine was removed and Mrs. Ingham put in her place on the publication committee. A motion to appoint two National organ- izers was reconsidered and the ladies be- fore appointed were re-elected. A railroad secretary was appointed to look afterrates. Resolutions were ndoéned by the conven- tion and ordered condensed and published. Several new by-laws referring to new de- partments established were passed unani- mously. Notice was given thatat the next conven- tion, which will be held in Boston, an amendment will be offered to the constitu- tion, by which the word ‘‘women”’ will be stricken out and men will be allowed to join the union. L TR The Express Company Must Pay. LYNCHBURG, Va., Nov. 8.—Six months ago F. M. Treadgill of this city won a suit against the United States Express Company, involving over $50,000. The time for taking an appeal has expired, and as no appeal has n taken the judgment is wrreversible, Mr. Treadgill will get be< tween $55,000 and $60,000. For Pacific Coast Telegrams see Pages 3, 4 and 5. Crockers’ could use second- rate paper, do second-rate “en- graving, and lose in a month their reputation of fifteen years, They won’i. 227 Post street ‘ 215 Bush street