The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 26, 1895, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1895. . to pay some interest and taxéson the land, | which was mortgaged to the Sun Insur-| atice Company. The money for the lease | all went to that company y,and I believed I had the right to lease it. “In Judge Wilson’s decree in favor of Frankie White in 1887 it was ordered-that Ishould not do away with the property, bat that I could go on and attend to my ir business. Well, my regular b 1 as buying, selling and leasing land so I thought I had a right to even seil land, for after that decree Ibought land in my own name and why sbould I have no right to lease my land? %:0f course everybody who gets intolegal | {roubles thinks he has a hard deal. But I | know that 1 have,” settling his silk hat | well forward stroking his dark chin- beard, which but for the art of the barber | would show its gray hairs. *‘But this five | vs’ durance is nothing compared to the | t (bat my wife got judgment for $100,000 | st worth $140,000. | | i [ \ \ | \ | | 2 property tb Pay up all the costs and fees and expenses | of this suit, what have I left?"” J “You were reputed to be worth much more than that,”” was suggested. “Yes, n operty was worth between $300,000 )0, but the depreciation | off in the sheep | in value: i ry have reduced it more than one- sir, more than one-half. Why, | | ged upon one of the | wtly heedless of the con- | Rohrer lou: Mr. man, of bl tache and chin b He was dressed in | suit, that seemed to sit rather As to his finement he tion, and when questioned s there for contempt n sccepting the lease from White, and he know nor did he appear to care what the outcome m ht . not even had a not be surp h I would not yalley s0 &S to possession of the proper I do not v that 1 believe this to be a fact, ¢ I would not be surprised if that 't 1t seem a little worst enemies strange appointe my property—Wil- son T. He came here six years ago as a sec gent of the Government, and claime at I was defrauding the le of Round Valley out of their prop- Is that the sort of a man to appoint I supposed they would give But you don’t | ow, do you? an even show any- along the line. There’'s another | this whole story—somewhat differ- | from that told by the thieves who en talking about me. Let the peo- | Round Valley tell their story. The | eepers and thieves have had their | | SR UG FALED The Nineteenth Century Monasti- | cism Was Not Wholly a ! Success. Monks in the New Order Grew Weary of the Life and Abandoned the Mission. NEW YORK, N. Y, The | nineteenth century monast; in the | Episcopal church appears to have been a | failure in this country, for news comes | from Jericho Mountain, Pa., that the or- der of monks, knéwn as the Community of | St. Benedict, has abandoned its monastery | and given up its work. The Gommunity of St. Benedict was the outgrowth of the | Community of the Brothers of the Church, \ | | which wa uted by Bishop Potter in St. Chrysostom’s Chapel of Trinity Church in September, 1894, when Brother Hugh | took the vows and beoame the prior of the } now religious community. Brother Hugh was formerly a successful business man in [ | i Boston and was known in the world as Raussell Whitcomb. ’ The object of this institution was to ide a place in the church where de- | vout laymen may live the religious life 1n | community and do practical mission work | among children, boys and young men on | church lines.”” The brothers were to live among those they were striving to benefit, visit them in their homes and care for the S| and needy, and to keep boys and young men from being overcome by the world, the flesh and the devil. Devoted people in the church provided a home for the community on West Thirty- | fifth street, near Ninth avenue, in one of | the crowded tenement districts in the city, and “The Priory,” as it was called, soon became known in that section. Brother Hugh was joined by other associates, and in a comparatively brief period of time young men dressed in a semi-eccle- | giastical garb were familiar figures in that neighborhood. But the brothers felt that their best work could not be done in a cos- mopolitan city, and they decided to re- move to some rural locality where they might carry on some enterprise that would the better benefit humanity. An offer of | & large and commodious farmhouse in | Falsington, Pa., was made to them, rent free, and thither they removed last April and opened a home for orphaned and crip:- pled children. In the meantime the brothers had eiven up their name and become the Fathers’ Community of St. Benedict. They adopt- ed the full habit of the Benedictine monk of history, shorn head and sandaled feet. [Le life, however, was too austere for some of the members of the community and they returned to the world to pursue their former callings. Early in the au- tumn the Falsington house was given up and the monks repaired to Jericho Moun- tain, near Pine\'ilYm Pa., where they lived 1 what was little more than a_temporary shelter and in great poverty. Recently, it is said, the two remaining members de- cided to abandon their life and to seek places for work in other directions. Father Hugh, the head of the: community, is at present with Bishop Grafton of the dio- cese of Fon du Lac, Wis., where, it is be- lieved by his friends here, he will remain to do work under that Bishop’s guidance. T SR "Was a Journalist and Scholar. PARIS, Fraxce, Nov. 25.—Jules Bar- thelemy Saint-Hilaire is dead. He was born in Paris in 1805. He was a journal- 1st and a scholar. He worked in an edi- torial capacity on the.Globe, the National and other journals; wrote a number of books, one of which, ““Commentary on Aristotle,” obtained & prize from the Acad- emy; and was for years professor of Latin .’npv{ Greek philosophy in the College of France. [res | | | | | | Did you ever know Crockers’ to do poor engraving? 227 Post street 215 Bush street ERING SEA AWARDS, |Sir Julian Pauncefote Was Surprised and Gravely Disappointed. ANSWERED MR. MORGAN. Said the Senator Had Created Prejudices That Defeated the Claims. FULL CORRESPONDENCE. HIS British Diplomats Yet Appear to Be Confident That Ample Damages Will Be Paid. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 25.—The fall correspondence between Sir Julian Paunce- fote, British Embassador to the United States, and the Foreign Office, covering the period from May 8, 1894, to August 31, 1895, respecting the claims in connection with the Bering Sea seizures, was received by the State Department to-day. An abstract of it was cabled by The Urfted Press from London a week ago, but many interest- ing points remain to be covered. It would appear from Sir Julian’s dispatch to | Lord Kimberley on the 28th of February last, that the adverse majority in the House of Representatives against a settle- ment of the claim for $425,000 was ‘“a sur- prise as well as a grave disappointment’’ to him. “‘Strong party feeling,” he con- tinues, “‘would seem to account for the re- jection of so just and desirable an agree- ment, and, as your Lordship will have noticed from theinclosures in my dispatgh, statements have been made in Congress which are entirely misleading, both as to the law and the facts of the case.” Sir Juhan then reviews some of these statements and concludes his letter with the declaration that they ‘‘were calculated | to prejudice the minds of many members of Congress and also turn public opinion against a settlement of the question, which | was equitable and advantageous to both parties.” The most interesting feature of the cor- respondence is the dispatch under date of Marck 15 last to Lord Kimberley, in which Sir Julian makes a vigorous rejoinder to the argument of Senator Morgan of Ala- bama against the payment of the $425,000. His summary of Senator Morgan’s objec- tions, which Sir Julian says the Senator was refused leave to print in the Congres- sional Record as a part of his speech and which were communicated to Ihe United Press in the form of a memoranda after the adjournment of Congress, covers the following points: “Thet the United States never agreed to | arbitrate the question of the liability for | damages, consenting only to negotiate re- specting them; that the total amount claimed by Great Britain was the items for the loss of profits should not | be allowed ; that the excess proposed to be | allowed by she Secretary of State was fully $182,000; that ten of the ships seized were owned by citizens of the United States, and that the amount claimed by British subjects, less speculative damages, was 24; that even this amount was ive inasmuch as the personal claims should be deducted, leaving only $36,289, and that $16,500 of this sum is not allow- able as a charge for the seizure of the Hen- rietta, which occurred under the modus vivendi.”” Replying to Senator Morgan’s first con- tention ‘‘that the United States never agreed {o arbitrate the question of liability for damages, etc.,” Sir Julian observes that “no admission of liability became necessary from the moment that the Paris tribunal, by its award, had rejected the legal pretensions of the United States toa special property in the fur seals resorting to the Pribyloff Islands. That decisign at once proclaimed the 1llegality of the seiz- ures and the liability of the Uniteda States to satisfy the claims. That was the basis of the diplomatic negotiation for the ad- justment of the claims, and I am at a loss how to conceive what other view could be taken without disputing the Paris award.” Sir Julian goes on to show that Senator Morgan was mistaken in fixing the total amount of the claims at $542,169. It was, he says, upward of $786,000. Senator Mor- gan, he says, would allow no compensa- tion for loss of profit of the fishery season and quotes from the judgment of the tri- bunal in the Geneva arbitration the well- known passage to the effect that no com- pensation can be awarded under the head of “‘prospective earnings,” as they depend “upon future and uncertain contingen- cies.” But Senator Morgan omits to men- tion that the tribunal did in fact take such losses into consideration in awarding a gross sum by way of indemnity, the tri- bunal allowing a large item ‘“‘in lieu of profits.” This is shown by the estimates of damages contained in protocol 29 of the Geneva conferences, in which the decision to award'the gross sum of $15,500,000 is re- corded. Continuing, 8ir Julian says: “But of all the unfounded objections which have been urged against the claims that which seems to have made the great- est impression upon the public mind is the statement that most of the vessels on behalf of which the claims are made were owned by persons whom Senator Morgan stigmatized in the Senate as ‘recalcitrant and rascally Americans who hired them- selves out to the British flag to rob the Government of the United States and to violate its laws and dishonor the coun- try. ” These “vituperative epithets,” Sir Julian says, are quite unmerited, and he shows by reference to the British navigation laws that no alien can hold any share in a regis- tered British vessel ‘under penalty of for- feiture of the vessel to the crown. The owner of a vessel may mortgage her to an alien, but he does not thereby part with his property mn the vessel—he only makes her a security for the loan. i 8ir Julian sarcastically inquires why the American citizen should be called a “ras- cal.” What Jaw has he violated by ad- vancing this money, and in what respect has the United States Government been “robbed,’’ considering that it has no prop- erty in the fur seal, as was solemnly de- clared by the tribunal of Paris? The Brit- ish flag and the law of nations, Sir Julian asserts, have been violated on the high seas, and it appears to him that any inquiry into the sources of the capital invested in the industry pursued by the vessel at the time of seizure is inadmissible. More- over, if these vessels were owned by citi- zens of the United States, they are liable to forfeiture to the British ¢rown, and the United States Government would be bound to restore them or their valué to ) J her Majesty’s Government for the purpose ’ of such forfeiture. He explains to Lord Kimberley that Senator Morgan is the chairman of the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations, that he was one of the two members repre- senting the United States on the tribunal, and it is not surprising that his denuncia- tions of the arrangement should prejudice Congress and the public against it. More- over, he adds, the great pressure and busi- ness and the strong party feeling which mearked the close of the session rendered it impossible to obtain a fair and dispas- sionate consideration of the question. “Much as the delay in the final settie- ment is to be deplored,” he concludes, “I have too much confidence in the great qualities of the American people to doubt that it will be ultimately adjusted on a sound and honorable basis.” That Sir Julian’s argument in supportof the British contention met with the ap- vroval of his official superiors is evidenced by the following extract, which is made from Lord Salisbury’s letter to him,written on the 31st day of August last: “Ineed scarcely say thatthe arguments which yvou bring forward in support of the validity of these claims have the entire approval and concurrence of her Majesty’s Government. The attempt made by Sena- tor Morgan to dispute them seems to be largely founded on misapprehension, and her Majesty's Government cannot doubt that when the full facts are before the public in the United States the liability of that country to make compensation,which has never been denied by the Government, will be generally recognized in and out- side of Congress.”” ESTIIATES ARE 00 LOW Report of the Commission on the Nicaragua Canal Con struction. To Build the Big Ditch It Will Cost Nearly Double What the Mari- time Company Stated. NEW YORK, N. Y, Nov. 25.—The Herald this ‘morning prints a special Washington dispatch giving the coneln- sions of the commission appointed to ex- amine the Nicaragua canal route. The re- port states that the project is impractic- able on the present data. It says inevit- able delay and. a further and more thorough investigation of the entire sub- ject are necessary before even the engi- neering feasibility of any canal across Nic- aragua can be decided upon. The report is at such variance with the numerous rumors and predictions which have, from time to time, been published concerning it, that it will cause great sur- prise and disappointment among those who have hoped for a generally favorable report, and who have, therefore, placed credence in these rumors, which usually stated, ‘on the highest authority,” that the commission favored the route proposed by the company, and placeit lhe cost at about $110,000,000. The report points out that it is neither practicable nor advisable to attempt the construction of the Nicaragua canal upon the data at present available, and that the undertaking would be fraught with haz- ards too obvious to be disregarded. That the necessary knowledge may be had of the physical and topographical conditions affecting the construction and mainte~ nance of a canal across Nicaragua, upon which to form a final judgment as to the feasibility, permanence and cost, the com- mission recommends an appropriation by Congress of $350,000 for extensive addi- tional surveys and examinations covering a period of eighteen months. With the data at hand, however, the commission makes a provisional estimate of costs of $133,472,803, or nearly double that of the Maritime Canal Company’s un- conditional estimate of $69,893,360. The commission makes its. estimate ‘“pro- visional,” for the Commissioners say the existing data are inadequate as a basis for estimating the cost of many structures. Some portions of the work may cost more. CRISIS IN THE DISPUTE. Administrators of British Guiana Declare That the Imperial Government Will Assert Its Rights. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 25.—Special correspondence of The United Press at Georgetown, Demerara, says that a big crisis in the dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela as to the boundary is near at hand. The administrators of British Guiana, acting upon instructions from the Government, have made a declaration that clearly indicates that unless . Venezuela withdraws its claims to a greater part of the territory in dispute the imperial Gov- ernment is preparea to assert its rights in British Guiana by force. The Colonial Legislature voted to the Government in executive council to open a check for war expenses for the colonial imperial forces. It.is only a question of a few weeks before the roar of cannon and the clash of arms will be heard in tie southern republic. RACING ON THREE TRACKS. Winners of Events at Lexington, Pimlico and New Orleans. LEXINGTON, KY., Nov. 25.—Four and a haif furlongs, Miss Emma won, Whileaway second, Bella H third. Time, :5914. Three-quarters of & mile, Wildfire won, Cerro Gordo second, Uncle Henry third. Time, 1:18. One mile, Islin won, Chenoa second, Charley Weber third. Time, 1:4815. Five and a half futlongs, James Monroe won, 01d Center second, Fred Barr third. Time, 1: Four and a half furlongs, Passed won, Lutie Lewis second, Ida third. Time, 1:00. NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 25.—Six furlones, Bloomer won, Chugnut second, Squire G third. Time, 1:16!%, Seven furlongs, Jake Zimmerman won, Chat- tanooga second, Mollie B third. Time, One mile and a sixteenth, Jim Hogg won, Tancred second, Dockstader third. Time, 1:54. One mile, imp. Woolsey won, Newhouse sec- ond, Jim Flood third. Time, 1:4614. Fiteen-sixteenths of a mile, Overella won, Potsdam second, Booze third. Time, 1:40%4. PIMLICO, Mb., Noy. 25.—Five furlongs, Belle Washington won, Medica second, Miss Edith third. Time 1:05. Five furlongs, Chiswick won, Halton second, Too Much Johnson third. ‘Time, 1:043. The Baltimore Sun handicap, six furlongs, Volley won, Defender second, Septuor third. Time, 1:1815. Oné mile, Maurice won, Pitfall second. Time, 1:463. McKee finished third, but was dis- qualified. Five furlengs, Florrie won, Shakespeare IT second, Premier third. Time, 1 One ‘mile and & sixteenth, Mars .115 won, Eclipse second, Pheebus third. Time, 1:53!4. —_——— Race-Meoting at Redding. REDDING, Car., Nov. 25.—Redding is meking arrangements for two days of horseracing, beginning on Thanksgiving day. The racing will take place on the Agricultural Society’s track, and the en- tries are filliig rapidly. Excellent sport is anticipated. el Dr. Smith Eulogized. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 25.—At the old Cambridge Baptist Church Sunday evening there was held a memorial service in honor of thé late Samuel Francis Smith, author of ““America.” During the services many of the hymns composed by Dr. ffi'if-h were sung by the congregation and GROVER'S NEW PLAN. Cleveland - Proposes Change the Old Policy. THE COMING MESSAGE. te Now He Intends to Enforce the Monroe Doctrine, at Least. RECOGNITION FOR CUBANS. It Is Said the President Will Also Ask Action on the Venezuelan Dispute. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 25.—The Sun’s Washington correspondent tele- graphs as follow President Cleveland’s friends in Washington and elsewhere, with whom he discusses public questions, con- tinue to assert that the forthcoming mes- sage to Congress will contain a chapter on the foreign policy of the administration that will be a great surprise to tho public. The leading topics to be discussed in this chapter will be the Venezuelan boundary dispute and the Cuban revolution. The surprise, it is said, will be occa-| sioned by the President’s announcement that with regard to these questions the administration has taken such advanced ground in the direction of a vigorous as- sertion of American rights as to amount to a complete yeversal of its foreign policy up to the time that Mr. Olney became Sec- retary of State. All that is definitely known with regard to the administration’s attitude toward the Venezuelan question is that some time during the paat summer Secretery Olney addressed a coramunication to the Britich Government, containing an emphatic noti- fication that the United States would ex- pect the Monroe doctrine to be respected, and would, indeed, insist on its application to the controversy between England and Venezuela with regard to the existing boundary dispute. As to Cuba the administration has taken no steps in addition to the ill-advised let- ter of Attorney-General Harmon, giving it as his unofficial opinion that America would be doing an uniriendly act toward a friendly power in taking part in public meetings, called for the purpose of ex- pressing sympathy with the cause of the Cuban revolutionists. Judge Harmon has since admitted that his letter was written without suflicient thought, and that in it he took the ground that he is now willing to surrender. That unofficial utterance, therefore, does not count against the administration, and its record on the Cuban question is still a blank page. It is now asserted that the surprise prepared for the public is nothing less than an expr n of the President’s hearty sympathy with the efforts of the Cubans to obtain freedom, and a further ‘intimation that, in the opinion of the ad- ministration, they should be_recognized as belligerents. More than a month ago the statement was published on the alleged authority of Doa M. Dickinson that the President would anticipate his annual message with the announcement of the reversal of his former foreign policy, as developed in his treatment of the Hawaiian question, and his conversion to a vigorous American policy, inclining even toward jingoism. At the time this report was in circula- tion a member of the Cabinet pronounced it to be incorrect so far as it stated that the announcement of the new policy would be made public before the appear- ance of the annual message to Conaress. In that message and not before, the Cabi- net Minister said, the President would proclaim his change of heart, and now the statement is repeated that the vigorous Americanism of the new policy will be a surprise to the public, amounting to a sen- sation, The terms of Secretary Olney’s midsum- mer ‘“‘ultimatum’’ to Great Britain on the Venezuelan question and the recommenda- tion for the recognition of the Cuban revo- lutionists as belligerents will be made public simultaneously, and the adminis- tration will devote the remainder of its life to popularizing itself with the Ameri- can people. SURED BY THE GHOSTS Four Bright Youths Who Went to Investigate Fled From Phantoms. Strange Sights and Sounds Seen and Heard at the “ Witching ” Hour in a Deserted House. HAZLETON, Pa., Nov. 25.—Many per- sons here are terribly worked up over the alleged spiritual manifestations sald to have been nightly observed in a house on Alter street. The house was owned by Thomas Wallace, and is a magnificent structure, built for two families. John Brizzy occupicd one side of it and J. H. Bachman the other. It is now vacant because the tenants were afraid of the ghosts. Gruesome stories have been afloat concerning the house since il was built three years ago. Many tenants have lived in it, but all left after a few weeks' expe- rience. ‘What Mr. Brizzy says of it is confirmed by his neighbors, Mr. Bachman and fam- ily, and %‘Srizzy on? lived in it for two weeke. He says the floors. and walls were nightly rapped, clocks ticked off the sec- onds, bells clanged, furniture was moved by invisible hands and chmuwarebxi crockery were apparently thrown abott promiscuously. These stories came to the ears of the proprietor with such frequency that he hired a number of young men to investi- g:ta the case. Arthur Ball, Alfred Walsh, muel Buck and Waiter Douglass under: took the work last night. Ball, it iseaid, was startled at midnight by a sudden electrical twitch, his flesh be- gan to creep, and before him appeared a specter. His companions are to have discovered strange phantdms moving about the room snd instantly there wasa simultaneous rush for the door. The ghost-catchers, in their haste to get out, forgot their weapons. e house is for sale at a reduced price. None of the four brave men will ever go ghost-catching again. e Will Sue the Government. LEWES, DeL., Nov. 25.—Complications are likely to result from the seizure and detention of the schooner Joseph W. Foster by the Governmenton suspicions of violat- ing the neutrality laws by carrying muni- tions of war and men to the insurgents in Cuba. Captain Wheaton has abandoned his vessel to the Government and proposes to sue for damage8 on account of the seizure and delay. e —— TWO DAILIES CONSOLIDATED. The Chicago Evening Press Absorbs the Evening Journal. CHICAGO, ILL., Nov. 25.—The first issue of the great afternoon daily created by the absorbing of the Evening Journal, the old- est paper in Chicago, by its young and en- ergetic rival, the Evening FPress, made its appearance to-day. It is under- stood that the entire staffs of both papers will be retained, except where duplication would cause confusion. The Evening Press Company, which ap- pears as the publisher of the consolidated paper, is capitalized at $500,000, It con- sists of George G. Booth, the largest stock- tolder and president: John R. Wilson, late owner of the Journal, who retains a large block of stock, and James E. Scripps of Detroit. These gentlemen constitute the board of directors. The combination will place in the afternoon field a news- paper with news-gathering facilities equal to those of any Chicago morning paper and unexcelled by any evening publica- tion in the world. The absorbing of the Journal is the re- sult of the ambition of the Scripp-Booth syndicate to complete its circle of news- papers, which now includes a number of rominent journals in various parts of the nited States. When the Evening Press Company was orgamzed five months ago by Mr. Booth there began in Chicago a de- cidedly new era in newspaperdom. The success of the Press-Mail has been phe- nomenal, and its proprietors have since seen all thespapers in the city, save one, come down to their price—1 cent. St Looted a Bank Safe. MODINE, IuL., Nov. 25.—The State Bank of Alpha, a village south of here, was en- tered by robbers last night and looted of $4700. The vault was opened by means of explosives. A SHORT LEASE OF LIFE The Poolroom Ordinance Laid Cver for Two Weeks More. Its Advocates Unable to Pass It to Print—A Home for Dipsomaniacs May Be Built. In spite of the efforts of its advocates $o push the poolroom ordinance to print at vesterday’s meeting of the Board of Super- visors the project failed, Supervisor King’s motion to lay the matter over two weeks being carried by a vote of 7 to 5. Those who desired the matter laid over were: Supervisors King, Scully, Hirsch, Benjamin, Hughes, Dunker and Wagn Supervisors Dimond, Taylor, Morgenstern, Spreckels and Hobbs voted in favor of pas- sage to print. T. H. Williams Jr. was introduced by Supervisor King to speak on the subject, but his remarks were mainly confined to the evils of foreign books, which be said would *‘sink the whole works” if allowed torun. He thought the board should iay the ordinance over for a couple of weeks to allow competent legal authority fo ex- amine it for flaws that might be evadéd by the pooirooms. The. Hirsch bicycle ordinance which, after much amending and pruning, was made acceptable 1o the wheelmen and police alike, was finally passed and is ex- pected to improve the condition of affairs existing bet ¥een the ridersand the author- ities. The board promised to print a resolution requesting the San Francisco Gas Light Company to lay mains and place street lamps as follows: One lamp on the south side of Pine street, between Powell gnd Mason; . two lamps on_ Harry street, between Sixteenth and Seven- teenth; two lamps on Dolores street, between Sixteenth and Seventeenth; two lamps on Sharon street, between Six- teenth and Seventeenth; one lamp in front of 1015 Vallejo street, one lamp on the east side of Polk street, north of Lom bard; one lamp on the northwest corner of Polk and Lomgnrd streets, and_one lamp on the north side of Lombard street, be- tween Polk and Van Ness avenue. Supervisor Spreckels introduced a reso- lution that was adopted “recognizing” the vast amount of good accomplishea by the Merchants’ Association in improving the streets, and inviting the members to at- tend the meetings of the Street Committee of the board to offer any suggestions they may think advisable. Supervisor Wagner introduced a resolu- tion providing for the building of a home for dipsomaniacs and inebriates under the direction of the Board of Health and at a cost of not more than $25,000. William Mooser Jr. was named as the architect who should draw up the plans. Supervisor Taylor objected to the meas- ure, saying that bids ior the work of draw- ing the plans should be advertised for. He moved that the matter be laid on the table. This was defeated, but a motion to refer the matter to a committee of the whole was carried, Supervisors SFreckels, Dimond, Hughes, Dunker, Taylor, Mor- genstern and Hobbs voting in the atlirma- tive. The last Legislature provided $35,000 for the building of the home. ADOLPH WICKE'S WEALTH. .show a gain of $149 per mile. He Has Been Worth $400,000 and Has Owed $250,000. Adolph Wicke, who has been ordered to pay his wife $100 a month alimony, has filed an affidavit to show that he is utterly unable to pay anything at all, as he says he is in a most imsmverishad condition. The story he tells of his ups and downs in the race for fortune is an interesting one, for it shows that, starting with but a handful of dollars, he rose by mining speculations and investments to be worth over $400,000. Then he comm->nced to lose money until finally he owed $250,000. Now he says he owns land in various parts of the State, but he cannot pay the interest on the mortgages which his lands carry, nor can _he borrow another dollar upon them. He asks the court to vacate the or- der compelling him to pay alimony. ———— MeKinley Club Meeting. A large and enthusiastic meeting of the Me- Kinley Ciub of the Forty-first Assembly Dis- trict was held at Pixley Hall, Pacific and Polk streets, last evemng. Speeches were made by Eli Wilkinson, H. C. Firebaugh, H. A. Steffens, E. W. Williams, W. W. Wade and others. The members of the club are determinea to have harmony in the district in the coming cam- g:lgn. ‘he club will attend the meeting to held at Tilton Hall Friday night_in a body. The meeting was presided over by H. C. Fire- baugn, W. Nixon acting as secrctary. The McKinley Club will meet every Monday even- ing in the future at Pixley H: { —_———— Inspector Williams Arrested. Chinese Inspector Richard Willlams was arrested for battery yesterday on complaint of & Chinese named Choo Foo. Williams says the Chinese had been doing some shady work, and that the trouble was a result of some question- able proceeding on the partof the complain- ant. Choo Foo had been carrying stories to Collector of Customs Wise accusing Williams of w;e:tlng n‘x.onvevydlmd t{:a Collector has de- mended proo; 1ams has not tho Colleotor. Tnatisns Held to Answer, Harry Stuart, a waiter, whd was arrested on Saturday night by Officers McMurry and Hol- :;ook of the Society for the Suppression of ice on the felony charge of keepin; wife in a disre) yntn?l'o‘ honse.kuz ‘;3&%‘:? held by Judge qum to answer before the Superior Court in bonds, Jra Stuart B ot Masan S ke b deatned re e of her moanr from éolo o, 5 ats Great Loss of Life Caused by an Explosion at Palma. : MAJORCA BADLY SHAKEN Powder and Old Cartridges Ig- nited While Eighty Persons Were at Work. BODIES OF VICTIMS MANGLED. Some of the Unfortunates Hurled Far Away and Burned Beyond Recognition. BARCELONA, Spary, Nov. 25.—A ter- rible accident, resulting in a sad loss of life, occurred to-day at Palma, capital of the island of Majorca, 130 miles south of this city. Eighty persons, most of whom were women, were employed in emptying old cartridees, which exploded in some un- known manner. There was a large quan- tity of powder that had beentaken out of cartridges lying about over a large area, and this was ignited by the discharge of the cartridges. A tremendous explosion followed, which shattered the masonry of the town walls, which are extremely thick, and did considerable damage to houses. A large number of people were killed, but whatth.2 exact loss of life was has not yet been ascertained. The bodies of seventeen dead have been found, but it is feared thaet many more were kille¢, their bodies, perhaps, having beett blown to atoms, as a number of those who were at work have not been ac- counted for. Forty persons were seriously wounded and some of them will die. Many. of the dead and wounded were found at considerable distances from the scene of the accident, they having been hurled bodily through the air by the force of the explosion. Some of the dead were terribly burned and mangled, so much so in a number of cases that identification will be extremely difficult, if not im- possible. An official inquiry into the cause of the disaster will be held. INCOMES OF RAILWAYS. Preliminary Report for the Last Fiscal Year Issued by the Interstate Commerce Commission. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 25.—The Interstate Commerce Commission has issued a report on the income and ex- ‘penditures of railwaysin the United States for the last fiscal year. The reportin- cludes the returns from 650 roads, whose reports were filed on or before November 9, 1895, ‘and covers the operations of 164.529 miles of line, or 92 per cent of the total mileage in the United States. 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