The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 25, 1895, Page 2

[&] THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1895. ROYALTY ON A HUAT, Kaiser William's Great Suecess on Letzlingen Preserves. STAGS BY THE SCORE. The Chase Followed by Nightly Festivities Participated in by the Emperor. HIS MAJESTY AS A JOKER. Notable Guests at the Hunting-Grounds Fined for Having Forgotten Their Invitations. BERLIN, GErMANY, Nov. 24.—The final spell of shooting which is allowed to the “Kaiser before his attention will be engaged in the direction of political and court affairs by the resumption of the session of the Reichstag and the opening of the win- ter session will be passed upon the royal estates in Prussian Saxony, where the Emperor will go on Monday. His Majesty has recently had a period of remarkably cessful hunting—firstat Piesdori, where he beat the record. In a single day he shot 264 hares, seven pheasants and six partridges. His next shooting was at Letzlingen, where there were plenty of wild boars and deer. At this shoot forty- one stags, two fallow deer, twenty-five wild boars and twenty small pigs fell to the Kaiser's bag, and the Grand Duke Vladimir of Russia, who accompanied him, shot eighteen stags, sixteen fallow deer, thirteen wild boars and two small pigs. The shooting lodge at Letzlingen was the scene of nightly festivities, and the Emperor put aside his dignity and joined in the fun. In the banguet room there is a quaint drinking cup fitted into a stag’s born. This cup, which has been used since the time of King Frederick William 111, requires a half-bottle of wine to fill it. The drinker's face fixes into the ant- lers, which are so curved as to keep the mouth from coming into close contact with the rim of the cup. Thbe custom is that a guest attending the hunt for the first time must empty the cup at a single draught. Upon the occasion of last week’s hunt, Chancellor Prince von Hohenlohe was at- tending as a neophyte, and the Kaiser to drink the health of the Em- of the cup, which was filled with 3 ne. Prince Hohenlohe essayed to but poured the wine over his face ollar, amid tne laughter of is a plate on the cup which bears an on signed “Fritz IIL,” directing how the cup must be used by all of his ors at these hunting fetes, r incident of the hunt is told as The guests invited to Letzlingen so numerous and the field of the was so wide that the Emperor caused tickets of identity to be 1ssued to the guests taking partin the hunt. A rme meeting the Kaiser scanned him so attentively that the Kaiser said to him why do you fix your eyes upon me? erhaps you think I have no ticket; here ’at the same time handing it to the darme. The latter replied, “I never thought of the ticket,” whereupon the Kaiser ordered to demand a ticket from each of the guests, which he proceeded to do. Princes, Dukes and other notable personages were inea for the non-production of their ets, which many of them had left be- hind, and the joke seemed to amuse the imperial mind greatly. Besides conducting the “Funciuli, Funi- cula,” as it was played by the military band at the hunting banquet at Letz- lingen, as described in these dispatches last week, the Kaiser took the baton while the band played five military marches and & composition of Count Philip von Eulenburg’s, entitled “Die Rosenlieder.”” The guests agree that the Emperor con- ducts with both vigor and precision. The Empress is occupied in selecting Christmas gifts, and for several days, ac- companied by the Emperor, has visited the Berlin stores and made large purchases of toys and other goods, including a large model of the imperial yacht Hohenzollern, with crew and guns complete, which is in- tended for Prince Adalbert, her third son, who holds the rank of lieutenant in the German navy. Her Majesty also pur- chased at the artists’ exhibition a number of water colors, which she intends as gilts to the various personages attached to the court. Ex-Empress Frederick will come to Ber- lin on November 28, and remain until the end of January. Literary and art circles will hail her advent with pleasure, and the charitable institutions will be still more de- lighted at her coming. Her Majesty is a regular patron of several of these institu- tions, and a generous contributor to many otber works of charity. Upon the occa- sion of her birthday last Thursday, which tbe ex-Empress spent with her daughter, Princess Margaret, at Rumpenheim Cas- tle, flags were flying from many private residences in her honor. The decision of the Germay Governnfent not to send a dispatch-boat to Turkey is regarded as a sign that Germany places strong reliance upon the ability and inten- tion of the Sultan to preserve order in his dominioks. Although German official opinion is not openly hostile to the action of Great Britain toward Turkey it cer- tainly is not friendly, and Lord Salisbury’s inflammatory policy and Sir Philip Currie’s want of tact in dealing with the Sultan, to- gether with bis frigid and unyielding man- ner toward that monarck, are the subjects of open condemnation in diplomatic cir- cles here and in Vienna. > The pending reforms in the old-age in- surance measures have led to a squabble between Dr. von Boetticher, Imperial Sec- retary of State for the Interior, and Dr. von Boediker, President of the Imperial Insurance Office, in which Dr. Grieseman, editor of the North German Gazetre, is also involved. Dr. von Boediker has pro- posed alterations in the old-age insurance law, which are opposed by Dt. von Boet- ticher. Dr. Grieseman published Dr. Crockers’ Post street store is pretty; but the best part doesn’t show. Engraving of invitations, cards, announce- ments 227 Post street 215 Bush street Boediker's plans at the in his paper same time pub- lishing an article applauding them as reforms which were likely to be approved by the Government. Dr. von Boetticher became enraged at this and as a consequence Dr. von Boediker, after a stormy interview with the Minister of the Interior, obtained several weeks’ leave of absence, ostensibly on account of illness, and is now recruiting his officially im- paired health and awaiting the issue of his quarrel with his superior. Dr. Grieseman is also ill and has been suspended from his functions as editor of the North German Gazette. The Reichsanzeiger, the official journal, states that there is mo prospect that the reforms published in the Gazette will become a law and declates that !th were made public through a grave in- discretion, Dr. Grieseman is actually ill, the excitement caused by the affair having brought on a stroke of apoplexy, from which he is slowly recovering. A soiree was held here last week under the direction of the Rev. Dr. Fry for the benefit of the English and American Episcopal Church here. It was a complete success in every respect. The Sonneberg Gazette challenges the accuracy of the accusations made by Mr. Dwight J. Partello, United States Consul at Sonneberg, that German firms are mak- ing fraudulent customs declarations. The Gazette especially attacks Nir. Partello’s statement 1n an interview with him pub- lished in a New York newspaper that upon his return to Sonneberg his examinations designed to prevent fraudulent declara- tions will be more vigorously prosecuted and more extensive in detail than hereto- fore. The Gazette demands that Mr, Par- tello give the names of the German firms that are practicing the frauds he alleges, declaring that the insinuations are grossly unfair and ought not to be tolerated. The best newspapers have taken up the subject of Mr. Partello’s charge and second the demands of the Sonneberg Gazette that Mr. Partello give the names of the Ger- man firms against which he makes accusa- tions. Count Herbert Bismarck has lately been stumping Prussian Saxony in the interest of the Agrarians. In one of his speeches he defended the grain bill drafted by Count Kanitz, and in another speech he came out in favor of bimetallism, protective tariffs and the introduction of an eight-hour von prematurely, day upon all of the imperial docks and wharves, to go into effect Apmnl 1, 1896. At present the employes work ten hours, An eight-hour day, he urged, running from 7 o’clock 1n the morne ing until 3 o’clock in the afternoon, with a quarter of an hour for breakfast and the same length of time for dinner, closing the work at 3 o’clock, would give the men time for daylight recréation. He strongly urged a trial of this system, which, if it should prove to be detrimental after a trial of six months’ duration, could be abandoned ana the existing system resumed. The Empress took the elder four of the Princes last evening to the Berlin shops to allow them to do their own Christmas shopping. Each Prince paid for the articles of his choosing outof his own pocket-money, and the salesmen say they are inclined to drive hard bargains and are especially emphatic in exacting whatever change may be due them. Prince Adalbert, rammaging in a basket filled with fancy goods, found a lucky pig, intended for card-players in the game of *all fours'’ and raised a terrible outcry when his mother refused to permii him to purchase it. Prince Henry of Prussia rode a bicycle a distance of eighteen miles, from Darmstadt to Rumpenheim,on Thursday, to congratu- late his mother, ex-Empress Frederick, on her birthday. The Government has ordered an inquiry into the causes of suicides among firemen and stokers employed on merchant steam- ers, and the inquiry is likely to extend to an investigation of the causes of the gen- eral increase of suicides, which has become very noticeable. The chess master, Steinitz, is giving a chess tournament here prior to his depar- ture for St. Petersburg. Ex-Chancellor Caprivi is visiting Berlin. He maintains the strictest privacy and receives no visitors. Heavy snowstorms are reported in the vicinity of Lemberg. The railways are all blockaded and traffic is almost wholly suspended. Dr. Lindau, the German representative on the Turkish debt commission, is here negotiating upon Turkish tobacco. A syndicate of Berlin and Frankfort capitalists has concluded arrangements for the conversion of the Russian railway loans, amounting to 165,000,000 marks. This arrangement implies the placing of large orders in Germany for supplies of railway material. It is the first great Russo-German financial operation that has been entered into since 1886, and proves conclusively the renewal of friendly rela- tions between Germawy and Russia. CRIME OF AN E. 1LIST. Herman Hattenhoft Kills His Two Chil- dren and Himself. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 25.—Herman Hattenhoft, who gave physical instruc- tions to sons of prominent Brooklynites in the Academy, at 1295 Broadway, Williams- burg, was found dead in his academy at 2 o’clock this morning. 'Close by his side were the bodies of his two children. All had been shot. They had apparently been dead for hours. Hattenhoft lived with his wife and their two children at 1103 Green avenve. He left home with the children late yesterday afternoon. She searched all through ‘Williamsburg, and failing to find him, got a policeman. They went to the academy. The door was locked. They forced it and found nothing to indicate why or how the father had shot the children and himself. He had been despondent lately. The wife went into hysterics. Nothing could be learned from her. Hattenhoft was 45 years old. Fourteen years ago he was a pugilist. g THESPIANS IN TROUBLE. Baggage of the % At Fort Bliss” Company Held for a Board Bill. ST. PAUL, Ms~y., Nov. 24.—“At Fort Bliss,” the military drama put on the road in New York five years ago, is “on the rocks” here, and the manager, Henry Ed- wards, has started for New York, leaving word with the company that he would send the members money enough to take them back to their homes from the East. In the meantime nine members of the company are at the Metropolitan Hotel and Manager Barker of the hotel has their baggage and scenery for the board bill. The members of the company here are Miss Emily Edwards, Carlyl Wilber, Miss Georgia Wells, Miss Lois Clark, Charles S. Titus, Percy Bowles, Henry Simon, Ed- ward Holloway and Wilbur N. Roe. Tickets had been purchased and the com- pany had intended starting for the Pacific Coast on Monday. Storms in Central States. OMAHA, Nesr., Nov. 24.— Snow fell this afternoon in Omaha and over the greater part of Nebraska and Western Towa. The weather is not cold, and the snow is not being driited, so travel will not be greatly delayed. CIVL SERVICE RULES, Postmaster-General Wilson Urges That They Be Expended. - MERIT TENURE FAVORED Heads of Departments Should Be Free From Political Mutations. : DEFICIT IN POSTAL REVENUES. Gross Abuse of Second-Class Rates Given as the Primary Cause. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24.—Post- master-General Wilson, in his annual re- port of the operations of the Postoflice Department, remarks that the financial and industrial depression which has ser- ously affected the revenues of the postal service for the past two years, and disap- pointed the estimates of predecessors, ex- tended far enough into the fiscal year 1895 to make an unusually wide gap between revenues and expenditures. It is gratify- ing, however, to report that a large part of this deficiency occurred in the first quar- ter of the year, and that since then the revenues of the department have reflected the general returning prosperity of the country. He ascribes the gross abuse of second-class rate of postage as the chief cause of the yearly deficit in postal reve- nues. He repeats and indorses the recom- mendation of his predecessors, Bissell and ‘Wanamaker, for an amendment of the law in regard to the transportation of second- class matter, and says: It is the estimate of the department that two-thirds in weight of all the matter carried in the mails is, under existing laws and classi- fications, carried as second-class matter, at the rate of 1 cent & pound, where it is not actually carried postage free. The aggregate weight of second-class matter in the year 1894 was 299,000,000 pounds. During the last year it increased to over 312, 000,000, & growth of over 13,000,000. Deduct- ing the weight of that which is known as “county free,” being the matter which is eir- culated among subscribers free of postage in the respective counties of publication, esti- mated to be 46,520,185 pounds, there re- mained 265,314,382 pounds, which returned, at the rate of 1 cent per pound, a revenue of $2,653,143 82. The ayerage cost to the depart- ment of transporting and handling this matter is estimated at 8 cents per pound. Speaking of the extension of civil service rules to letter carriers, he says: An indispensable basis of good service has been laid by placing the carrier force under the civil service system, and no effort should be spared by the department to insure a high moral 1n this force and to familiarize the idea among individual carriers thatas they enter the service by merit system alone, so likewise they remain in it by no tenure but by faithiul and efficient discharge of duty, which demands self-respect and honorable living, It is in- evitable that a few individuals here and there should interpret their stability of employment asa personal privilege, encouraging slovenly cervice and insubordination to superior officers, rather than a reform based on con- siderations of a better public service, and such instances have occurred and will doubtless continue to oceur even after the fuil meaning of the civil service system is understood and accepted. But itis gratifying to report asa whole, and by sach overwhelming predomin- ance as to make the excentions more prom- inent, the army of letter carriers is alert, faith- ful, efficient and honorable. The Postmaster-Geéneral desires civil service methods to be carried still further and higher in the postoffice department. He says: Two of my assistants are charged, each, with the expenditure of over $40,000,000 annually, together with the management and discipline of tens of thousands employes. The duties of the two are not less onerous and multiplex. If such officials are to be the real heads of the bureau, intimately acquainted with the machinery and working of them, competent to direct and able to infuse theirown intelligence and zeal among their subordinates, they should have a tenure at least as assured from the mutations and chances of political contest as those subordinates. The continuity of the department should be preserved in changes of administration, not only only the line of its subordinate and separate service, but in that larger grasp of its history, its daily work and its healthful progress, which is found alone with those who direct and control its chief buresus. I concur, therefore, in the judgment of one of my recant predecessors, that at least three of the Assistant Postmaster-Generals should hold their offices by a civil service or or merit tenure and not by a political tenure. T refrain from offering a like opinion &s to the Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General, because fourth class postmesters,yybose appointment is primarily allotted to himj are yet outside of that tenure. The question of extending civil seryice meth- ods to the selection of fourth-class postmasters has naturally received my attention since I Lave been at the head of this department. It is beset with difficulties which my experience as a representative in Congress of a large coun- try district during three changes of adminis- tration brought home to me more clearly than they might appear to & theoretical reformer, or to the representative of a city constituency. I have studied various bills introduced in both branches of Congress in recent years and wel- comed suggestions from other quarters,butl do not find myself able to make, s yet, any specific recommendations on this important subject in the line of the legislation which has been proposed. The order which you have recently approved, providing that when the Postmaster-General shall consolidate with & free delivery office any other office, such consolidation shall carry into the classified service at the free delivery office the postoflice department roster of employes of the office consolidated, including the post- master, may be accepted as the beginning and foundation not only of a better postal service of the public, a better and more business-like accounting to this department, but also a wise extension of the civil service system to post- | masters. GUZMAN RECALLED. Nicaragua to Abolish Its Legation at Washington. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24.—A dis- patch was received to-day from Managua which confirmed the intelligence previ- ously published that the Nicaraguan Gov- ernment had decided to abolish its lega- tion at Washington on account of financial relations. Dr. Guzman, who has repre- sented Nicaragua here for many years, will present his letter of recall, which is now en route, next week. 1t is Dr. Guz- man’s purnose to remain in Washington and resume the practice of his profession. DR. e ENTERTAINED AT LUNCHEON. Congressman Newlands’ Function in the Interests of a Candidate. ‘WASHINGTON, D, C., Nov. 24.—Repre- sentative Frank Newlands of Nevada en- tertained about a dozen prominent men at luncheon at his surburban residence in Chevy Chase to-day. The guests were all Republican leaders eud included Cappon of Illinois, Hepburn of Iowa, Babeock, ex- chairman Republican Congressional Com- mittee; Dalzell of Pennsylvania, General Henderson of Iilinois, Hilborn of Califor- nia and others. ._The luncheon was doubtless given in interest of Henderson of Illinois, candi- date for clerk of the House. His chances are now very good. It is believed he will receiye the support of California’s delega- tion in the House. SR A RAILROAD CONSPIRACY. Senator Chandler’s Caustic Protest to the President Against the Recent Pooling Agreement. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24.—The text of the letter which Senator William E. Chandler of New Hampshire two days azo addressed to President Cleveland on the subject of the recent agreement of railroad presidents was made public to- night, as foliows: WASHINGTON, D. C., November 22, 1895. To the President—Sir: I make complaint to you, and through you to your Interstate Com- merce Commission, against the trust and pooling agreement now nearly finished of the eight American railroad trunk lines and the one Canadian line controlling the traffic between New York City and Chicago. The agreement provides that every railroad in the combination shall make and maintain the transportation rates prescribed by a board of managers representing all the roads. This is & conspiracy in restraint of trade and com- merce under the act of July 2, 1890. The agreement also makes certain thatall competition shall be abolished, as above re. quired, by imposing heavy fines upon any of- fending road, which fines are to be applied for the benefit of the other roads. This is a divis- ionof earnings contrary to section 5 of the interstate commerce law. This trust and pooling agreement can be an- nihilated as provided by explicit existing laws of the United States—first, by injunction from the courts; second, by an order of the Inter- ission, or, third, by an the same. Itcan also easily be stopped by & vigor- ous appeal from you to J. Pierpont Morgan, whose power over the nine governors of the nine trunk lines is as absolute as it is over the bond syndicate. It cannot be possible that you intend to take upon your administration the responsibility of fastening upon your burdened and helpless people this the hugest trust the world ever conceived of, when one earnest word from you to your fresh Attorney-General, your ambitious chairman of your commission or your omnipotent hanker friend will paralyze the iniquity in its inception. Very respects fully, WiLLIA M E. CHANDLER. —_— STEWART'S VIRGINIA HOME. The Nevada Senator Buys a Farm Near Washington. WASHINGTON, D. C., Noyv. 24.—Sen- ator William . Stewart of Nevada has bought a fine farm in Virginia not far from Washington. The Senator is largely interested in breeding fine horses, and in order to more fully carry out his plans he became owner of a fine old property near Farmville, Va. The farm consists of fifty- four acres of splendid land in the vicinity of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and is said to be fully equal to the Kentucky blue grass region for stock raising. WHY GOLD WASBORRONED Director of the Mint Preston Says Our Financial Laws Are Inconsistent. Currency Acts of the United States Congress Discussed in His " Annual Report. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24.—The director of the Mint has submitted his report to the Secretary of the Treasury, covering the operations of the mints and assay offices of the United States during the fiscal year 1895, together with the sta- tiatics of foreign countries relative to the production and coinage of gold and silver and the monetary condition of each coun- try. The value of gold and silver estimated to have been used in the industrial arts during the calendar year 1894 was approxi- mately $21,541,652, of which $10,658,604 was gold and $10,883,048 was silver. The esti- mated metallic stock in the United States on July 1, 18 5 silver, $6: 3,049, a total of $1,262,084,774. The estimated production of goid and silver in the United States during the cal- endar year was: Gold, 1910813 fine ounces, of the value of $39,500,000; silver, 49,500,000 tine ounces, of the commercial value of $31,422,000, and of the coining value of §64,000,000. ‘The production of the world for the calendar year was: Gold, 8,737,788 fine ounces, of the value of $180,- 626,100; silver, 167,752,565 fine ounces, of the coining value of $216,892,200—commer- cial value, $106,522,900. Mr. Preston gives an estimate of the ap- proximate stock of money in the principal countries of the world.” He places the stock of gold at $4,086,800,000; the stock of full legal-tender silver at $3,439,300,000; stock of limited tender silver at $631,200,- 000, making a total silver stock in the world of §4,070,500,000; the uncovered notes are placed at $2,46%,500,000. He reviews in his report the monetary legisiation and monetary system of the United States, commencing with the ‘“coinage scheme,” submitted to Congress by Robert Morris, Superintendent of Ii- nance, January 17, 1782, making an analy- sis of the report of Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, upon the estab- lishment of a mint, submitted to the House of Representatives in 1791, and upon which the act of April 2, 1792, estab- lishing a mint and coinage system was based. . Mr. Preston states that the real demone- tization of silver took place in 1853, when the weight of the divisional coins was re- duced about 7 per cent. This was not an accident or oversight. It was expressly declared in the House of Representatives that the intention was to “make gold the sole standard of value’ in large transac- tions, and silver subservient to it in small ones. The act of 1873 was only nominal, and conformed the law to the actual monetary condition as far as the metallic curreney of the United States was concerned. that had existed for nearly a quarter of a century. He states that the currency laws of the United States since 1873 are not only inconsistent, but contra- dictory, obstructive of each other’s opera- tion and mutually destructive. Mr. Preston says that on January 1,1879, the date of the resumption of specie pay- ments, the only currency, except coin cer- tificates required to be redeemed in gold coin, was the $346,681,061 legal tender notes then outstanding, which the then Secre- tary of the Treasury was of the opinion that a gold reserve of $100,000,000 would be sufficient to maintain so long as there was no increase, but the paper currency re- deemable on presentation has been 1in- creased to the extent of $155,930,000 issued in gaymem of the silver bullion purchased under the act ot July 14, 18%. Of these notes there were outstanding on the 1st inst. $141,092,280, making the total Government obligations as money, $487,- 773,296, mdeam:blge on presentation. Aside from these there were outstanding Novem- ber 1, 1895, $333,456,236 in silver certificates and as the act of July 14, 1890, declared it “to be the established policy of the United States to maintain the two metals at par- ity with each other upon the present legal ratio, or such ratio as may be provided by law,” there was a total of $821,220,532, rest- ing on the basis of the gold reserve of $100,000,000, and in order to maintain the parity between the two metals the Govern- ment has been compelled to borrow $162,- 000,000 in gold within the past two years. y CORBETT WILL FIGHT The Champion Still Willing to Meet Fitzsimmons in the Ring. SEVERAL OFFERS MADE. Boston Sports Are Arranging to Bring the Pugilists To- gether. JULIAN'S MONEY IS READY Articles Signed by the Australian’s Backer for a Match on Mex- ican Soil. BOSTON, Mass.,, Nov. 24.—James J. Corbett arrived in this citv to-night and announced his intention of spending some time in the East. When seen by a Carn correspondent he was perfectly willing to talk about the wretched fiasco in the South. In regard to the affair Corbett said : “I want to tell all true sportsmen that the stories published that it would have been an impossibility to have brought off the fight are based merely on conjecture. We could have fought in private, as I sug- gested, and have easily dodged the authori- ties, but Fitzsimmons never had any in- tention of fighting, and he knows it better than I do. I wantto make this statement because I think he is a trickster and never intended to fight. Iam asready to meet him now, at any time and at any place, as I ever was.” Simultaneously with the arrival of the champion the report gained credence in sporting circles that an offer had been made to Corbett, and that every effort would be made to bring the champion and | Fitzsimmons together. The report states that a syndicate of well-known Eastern sportsmen and business men had agreed to bring off the fight in Bermuda, Canada or some other place unmolested by the authorities for as large a stake as that offered by the Florida Athletic Club. When seen in regard to this, Corbett re- fused to say anything except that he had been talking business with several parties, but was unable to make any public state- ment. Tom O'Rourke, the manager of the light- weight champion, George Dixon, stated that he was apprised of the offer, but was bound to secrecy. The general feeling, however, is that the offer will be made public during the week. e SIGNED BY FITZSIMMONS. New Articles of Agreement to Be Placed Before Corbett. DALLAS, Tex., Nov. 24.—W. K. Whee- lock, secretary of the Florida Athletic Club, and since that organization’s demise in Texas closely associated with Dan A. Stusrt in a similar capacity, returned this morning from Houston and Galveston, where he went on Friday last on a mission for Mr. Stuart to Martin Julian and Bob Fitzsimmons. Mr. Wheelock said this evening: “I met Julian and Fitzsimmons at Houston and they went with me farenough into the Gulf of Mexico outside of Gal- veston' to be out of the jurisdiction of Texas. I got them without any trouble whatever to sign all the papers necessary to insure a fight with Corbett, so far as the presence of Fitzsimmons is concerned, at any time and place Dan Stuart can get Corbett to agree to. Julian and Fitzsim- mons satisfied me that Bob's side bet of $10,000 would be all right if Corbett de- sired to have that amount wagered on the side. “I expect Mr. Stuart will start for New York to-morrow. He will carry with him documents which neither Corbett nor Brady can object to with any show of reason. I feel confident Fitzsimmons and Corbett will fight to a finish for Dan Stuart’s purse of $20,000 and a private side bet of $10,000 each near El Paso just pre- vious to or just after the coming holidays, the date to be to the satisfaction of Cor- bett and Brady.” AN S |FUTURITY STAKES ARE OFF. Youngsters Entered at St. Lonis Will Not Kun for the Big Purse. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 24.—The St. Louis TFair Association has declared off the Fu- turity stakes for two-year-olds, which was to have been run in 1897. The stake was originally arranged by the Harlem Association of Chicago, but when racing 1n that city was killed by the gam- bling law the race was transferred to St. Louis. Nearly two thousand nominations had been made to the event, and when it was proposed to reopen the stake the origi- nal nominators objected and the result was the Fair Association decided to declare the race off. The added money to the event was to have been $10,000, and the total value would have been over $40,000. A S S Six-Day Walking Match. MINNEAPOLIS, Mixy., Nov. 24.— Everything is now ready for the six-day walking match at the Washington Rink. The twenty-three men entered are in Min- neapolis and ready for the race. The last to reach Minneapolis were “Old Sport” Campana and George Stokes of Chicago. The starters are the following: George Cartwright, Gus Guerrero, Frank Hart, Peter. I-fegelman, John Glick, Tom Cox, Sam Day, Martin Horan, J. J. Engeldrum, Patrick Igoe, Norman Taylor, “*Old Sport”’ Campana, George Stokes, J. W. Paplow, W. (JPJones, George_Boltz, F. W. Good- man, Leroy Durgin, W. H. Buchanan and Tom Gallagher’s **Unknown.” s gt Field-Day Contests at Los Gatos. SAN JOSE, Car., Nov. 24.—The Santa Clara High School defeated the Los Gatos High School in the field-day contests at Los Gatos yesterday. The Santa Clara boys took the 120-yard race, standing broad jump, quarter-mile bicycle race, running broad jump and 220-yard dash. Los Gatos took the 100-vard das{, running high jump, pole vault and high kick. —_——-—— Defeated Santa Clara. SAN JOSE, Car., Nov. 24—The Boys' High School football eleven defeated the Santa Clara College eleven at Santa Clara yeslerday afternoon by the score of 18 to 0. —_— = BRAINED WITH A CHAIR. Brutal Murder Following a Quarrel Be- tween Two Negroes. COLUMBUS, Omio, Nov. 24.—Charles Carr brutally beat out the brains of George Ross in a house on Lazelle street, near Third, eazly this morning. Both men are colored. They had quarreled over a young colored woman named Mary Clemin, , and last night had a desperate fight in the room where the murder afterward oc- curred. Exhausted they sank into corners of the room and glared at each other. The Cleming woman was present at this time. but left the Flnce shortly after midnight. Ross finally fell asleep, and Carr seized a chair and beat his opponent’s brains out. The body was found soon aiterward, and Carr and the Cleming woman were placed under arrest. Ao LYNCHED BY A MOB. Probable Fate of Two Negro Murderers in South Carolina. CINCINNATI, Onro, Nov. 25.—A special to the Tribune from Greenwood, S. C., says: There isevery reason to believe that the two negroes, John Richards and Thomas Watts, who waylaid, robbed, mur- dered and then burned the body of Miss Bagwell near Greenwood, have been lynched. They were taken to Abbeville (8. C.) Jail. The last advices from there were that a mob had gone to the jail to break it open and get the prisoners. There is no extra guard at the jail, and the indications are that the mob succeeded. The telegraph office there is closed, and there is little chance of getting definite information from there at present. e PERISHED IN A FIRE, Horrible Fale of a Sick Man in a Lodg- ing-House. NORTH STRATFORD, N. H., Nov. 24.— A fire broke out in the Willard House at 6:30 o’clock to-night and spread with rapidity, destroying ten buildings, includ- ing the Willard House and livery stable, the Twohey block and several dwellings. Joseph Reilley, who was sick in bed at the Willard House, perished in the flames. Several persons were badly burned in try- ing to escape. The fire was caused by the explosion of a lamp in the Willard House office. Loss, $35,000, partially covered by insurance. s Dr. Barrows Resigns. CHICAGO, IrL., Nov. 24.—Dr. John Henry Barrows, who has been pastor of the First Presbyterian Church for many vears and who was prominent in the World’s Pariiament of Religions during {the World’'s Fair, to-day resigned the | pastorate of his church. He says he has | accepted an invitation to inaugurate the ; Haskgjl lectureship in India. s it i Fatally Injured at Football. MEMPHIS, TexN., Nov. 24.—A private | telegram to relatives in this city to-night | announced the death to-day of George | Phelan from injuries received in a football game yesterday while playing on the Uni- | versity of Virginia team. He was a son of ex-Congressman Phelan from this dis- trict. EXTERMINATING THE SEAL Startling Effect of Pelagic Sealing Reported by Officers of the Bear. Slaughter of Females Resulting in the Death of Their Young From Starvation. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24.—The revenue cutter Bear, the last Government vessel to leave the Bering Sea this fall, brought some startling evidences of the effect of pelagic sealing upon the Alaskan seal herd which frequent the Pribyloff or Seal Islands. ' In accordance with the findings of the Paris arbitration schooners are now per- mitted to hunt seals in the Bering Sea ‘with spears in a zone sixty miles around the islands after the 1st of August. This | gives them about five weeks of good seal- mg. It was thought that confining seal- ing schooners to spears and reducing the season to practically five or six weeks would put a stop to the slaughter in Ber- ing sea and allow the herds to recuperate. This year not less than sixty schooners began hunting in Bering Sea August 1 and captured nearly 40,000 peits, about 80 per cent of which were from females. This, however, dees not show the full extent of the injury done. The seal pups are dependent upon their mothers’ milk for the first four or five months of exist- ence, and without it the little creatures must suffer the lingering death of starva- tion. Acting under instructions of their re- spective superiors, both resident Treasury officers and agents of the North American Commercial Company made a careful count of the dead pups found at the close of the season, when schooners had left the sea. The census, which was just completed when the Bear lef¢, reached 27,000. It did not include those in the last stages of stavation. Thesame conditions prevailed last year, but the count was made with less exactness, on account of snow. The actual pecuniary loss to the United States and the commercial world by this needless waste of animal life will reach hundreds of thousands of dollars. The United States, which has never allowed the molestation of seals on breeding grounds, nor the killing of female seals on land, made a puny effort last year to stay the land killing to 15,000 mature males, but this simply gave the hunters so much additional prey. It is questionable if, in the light of existing conditions and the re- port ot treasury officials, further restraint will be exercised, especially as a request made last January by the United States to Great Britain for greater protection to the seals has been practically ignored. R CHOLERA 1IN RUSSIA. Seven Deaths Within Three Days at St. Petersburg. ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Nov. 24.— The official statistics show that from No- vember 20 to November 23 there were four- teen new cases of cholera and seven deaths from the disease in this city. During the past month there were 236 cholera deaths in Volhynia and 52 in Kief. Maiguas Destroyed by Fire. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Nov. 24.—The old Hannibal and St. Joseph depot in this city, together with eighteen cars of freight, was totally destroyed by fire at an early hour this morning. Loss $25 partially covered by insurance. of the fire is unknown. i L Negotiations for a Treaty. _PEKING, Carxa, Nov. 24.—The negotia- tions for a Chinese-Japanese commercial treaty are still under way. The Chinese demands for special duties render an agree- ment difficult. —_———— Sighted @ Sunken Wreck. QUEENSTOWN, E~a., Nov. 24.—An in- coming vessel reports a sunken wreck, with part of one of its masts standinE above the water, off Kinsale. The wrec is a dangerous obstruction to navigation. ,000, Theorigin e guegi s Earthquake in Mexico. CITY OF MEXICO, Mex., Nov. 24— Quite a severe earthquake shock was felt here yesterday. Four adobe houses in a suburb fell, The first shock was from east to west. R Death of @ Famous Brigand. HAVANA, Cuss, Nov. 24.—'1‘neD f?lllgl;s bandit of Vuelta Abajo, Perico Delgaco, h:g been killed by the ‘civil guard near Mariel. APPLYING THE TORCH, Sugar Plantations Ravaged by the Insurgents of Cuba. STORIES OF BARBARITY. Reports From Spanish Sources State That the Rebels Are Killing Captives. GENERAL MACE0 WOUNDED. Regular Soldiers in the Santiago de Cuba Barracks Put to Death for Insubordination. BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 24.—A special to a morning paper from Havana states that the Cuban war is beginning to assume & terrible ferocity, and that both sides show a disposition to put all civilized ethics aside and to fall back upon the most bar- barous methods. A General Gomez had hardly given time for his order that ali sugar-making should cease at once to become known to the planters before he had started to carry out his order, and reports from the interior state that the insurgents are wrecking the plantations and burning the buildings. All natives caught working on the planta- tions are given the choice of entering the insurgent army or being shot. Thus far the destruction has been confined to the« plantations owned by Cubans themselves,. the insurgents having allowed the Ameri- can plantations to remain unmolested. According to reports received, however, from Spanish sources, the insurgents arei also treating prisoners with unnecessary | cruelty and shooting them without trial. 1t 1s said that they have taken this means of retaliation for the summary vengeance wreaked on the bands of guerrillas cap- tured by General Campos and summarily executed on the charge of having blown up trains. Another dispatch from Santiago de Cuba says that the insurgents are every- where making material advances, and that" even the cordon of warships will not prove sufficient-to prevent filibustering exve- ditions being landed. 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