The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 9, 1895, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1895. swallow up the convention thatits identity and prominence would be practically de- stroyed. Information was received this afternoon that the committee of New Yorkers who will visit Washington in its behalf will not reach here until a late hour to-morrow. They will also establish headquarters at the Arlington. The Pittsburg committee appears to be a little late reaching the field, but word was bad io-night that two Pullman cars had been chartered by the delegates from that city, and that they would leave the Simoky City to-night, arriving in Washington to- morrow morning. The Ohio people are scrupulously re- fraining from participating in the struggle for choice of location, contenting them- selves with booming the candidacy of Gov- ernor McKinley, and leaving the choice of placeto the friends of the various cities. They express the hope, however, that the convention may go to some central city, and are inclined to believe that ultimately either Chicago or St. Louis will be selected. SESSION OF CALIFORNIANS. Every Honorable Means to Be Used to Secure the Convention. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 8.—The California convention boomers were in ses- sion until a late hour to-night at rooms in the Arlington Hotel. The following were present of the regular executive com- mittee: General Chipman, General Freid- rich, H. Z. Osborne and M. H. de Young, National Committeeman for California, and the following members of the auxil- y committee: George A. Knight of n Francisco; Frank Rader, Mayor of Los Angele: A. Hale of San Jose, Lippman s of San Francisco, and Representatives Grove L. Johnson, Bar- ham, Maguire, McLachlin, Hilborn and Bower: ( ne and Rader. who were the first of the California committee to arrive and who have been hard at work for a week, were called upon to report progress and to give their views of the situation. Osborne responded and stated thathe and Rader had canyassed among committeemen and leading Senators and Representatives and believed that there was a good chance for San Francisco to win. General Chipman and General Fried- rich also addressed the meeting, stating their views of the situation, for the inform- ation of Mr. De Young and the other late | arrivals. After De Young and Hale and Sachshad the situation explained to them it was re- solved that each man present should be ziven an gnment to interview some member of the National Committee. It decided that the presentation of Cali- should be made by Calijornia’s representative on the committee. On mo- tion of Osborne, General Chipman and George A. Knight were selected to make esses in behalf of San Francisco. nal Committee list was checked iteen or nineteen votes were counted who would support San Francisco ral more were probable support- committee decided to make no sed by Osborne, to stand pat. Colonel Isaac Trumbo, who arrived this morning, stated that he had seen the ex- tive committee and had presented Salt for the honor of entertaining the vention, but that his suggestion was received wsth anv degree of favor. The co tteemen said thatif thecon- | vention went to the far West they would rather go all the way to San Francisco. Colonel Trumbo thereupon said: “Well, gentlemen, you can .countusin wer selection will be tage to Utah and to Cali- fornia.” Colonel Trumbo said that the committee appointed to come bere in Utah’s behalf would work energetically for San Francisco, as Salt Lake stood no chance. Colonel Trumbo was assigned to look after Mr. Youngblood, Alabama’s v vet be brought for San of mutua ided by leading 2o, St. Louis and Pitts- ancisco must not be the prize, and the Louis were greatly strength- ened to-day by the arrival of twenty prom- inent Mi who announced that d $75,000 against Chicago’s Louis crowd proved to be nd as Chicago is not well e St. Louis stock went up. were not inclined to agree tion against San Francisco, when reminded that in 1888 the ians virtually gave the Democratic ion to St. Louis. lifornia men supporters of Ch that San burg wired Governor of Missouri to remind the St. uis men of that fact. Francis was Mis- souri’s committeeman at the time of that est and he well remembered that C ifornia had come to the support of St. Loy He telegraphed the St. Louis dele: gation here to support San Francisco if St. Lounis could not win. Congressman Joy of Missouri, who spent considerable time in San Francisco with his brother during the past year, also opposed any combination against San Francisco and favored San Francisco in case St. Louis could not win. Congressman Frank, now Mayor of St. Louis, was also partial | to San Francisco. In short 8t. Louis has concluded to do some flirting with San Francisco and endeavor to secure her sup- port in order to ‘‘do up” her great rival, Chicago. On the other hand San Francis- co is coquetting with St. Louis in the hope that if the city cannot win she will throw her strength to San Francisco. A dinner was given by Stephen B. Elkins at his residence to-night at which were present General Clarkson, Senators Quay and Carter and Committeemen Hahn, Manley, Campbell, Kerens and Fessenden, Thomas ¢. Platt and Colonel Isaac Trumbo. Those present denied that this dinner had "any_political significance. Senator Quay acknowledees privately that Pitts- burg stands but little chance. He believes the convention lies between Chicago and St. Louis. i R e L In a Position to Dictate. The New York Herald of December 1 announced that if San Francisco did not get the convention in 1896 it would be able to dictate where it would be held. Declined to Fight Maher. NEW YORK, N.Y., Dec. 9.—A special to the Herald from Houston, Tex., says: Robert Fitzsimmons to-day declined to sign articles for a fight with Peter Maher for Dan Stuart’s $10,000 purse. He says his terms are a $20,000 purse and a $5000 side bet. RIS Captain Bassetvs Condition. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 8.—The condition of Captain Bassett, the vener- able doorkepper of the Senate, was un- changed to-day. Some of the things at Crock- ers’ are almost too pretty to use —the sort of presents people like. Writers' articles, bags, calendars. 227 Post street 215 Bush street WORK FOR CONGRESS, Filling of the Committee Vacancies First in Order. CLAIM OF THE SEALERS. Senator Morgan Will Score the British Embassador for His Statement. OPPOSE THE BIG AWARDS. Cullom Will Make a Speech on His Resclution Relative to the Monroe Doctrine. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 8.—The sec- | ond week in the Senate will be an undeter- minable quantity. Pending the filling of committee vacancies but little business can | be transacted, and it is not expegted that | these vacancies will be supplied before the | latter part of the week, if then. There is | no calendar and no order of buliness has | been agreed upon. To-morrow, however, Morgan will call up his resolution referring that part of | the President’s message relating to the | payment of the British Bering Sea claims to the Committee on Foreign Relations, with instructions to examine into the ques- tion of liability to Great Britain and re- port to the Senate by bill or otherwise. | The speech which Morgan has carefully | prepared to accompany his motion will | consume the greater part of the afternoon, It is said to be a severe arraignment of the administration and a caustic criticism |on the ‘“‘officious intermeddling,’’ as he | terms it, of the British Embassador, who, | in an official dispatch to the British For- | eign Office, made public first in London | and afterward in this country, controvert- | ed some of Morgan’s statements on the | floor of the Senate. Morgan originally | strongly antagonized the proposition to pay great Britain the lump sum of $425,000 for the allezed illegal seizure of Canadian sealers prior to the award of the Paris wribunal (of which he was a member) without an investigation, and as the Presi- dent has again recommended such pay- | ment the Alabama Senator, it is under- | stood, will present his reasons for oppos- | ing the payment of the British claim in | detail and in his most vigorous style. His ate a considerable [‘ speech will probably cr | sensation. | On Tuesday Cullom will address the | Senate on his resolution relative to the | Monroe doctrine, and the Illinois Senator | will take strong grounds for a pronounced | American policy in our dealings with other nations. | To-morrow a special meeting of the | Judiciary Committee will be held to con- sider nomination of Rufus W. Peckbam, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme | Court. As there appears to be nocbjec- | tion to this nomination it is believed his | confirmation will speedily follow the | favorable report it is expected the com- | mittee will make at the next executive session. | Senator Hill reached Washington last | night and will be at the meeting of the Judiciary Committee, of - which he is a member. It is asserted that the notable visit which Senator Hill in company with Secretary Lamont paid to the Attorney- General “‘on legal business” a few weeks ago had reference to Judge Peckham’s nomination. No programme of business has been ar- ranged for the House this week. nor any can be until Speaker Reed announces the committees, and thus provides the neces- sary machinery for the full operation of the body. Two diametrically opposite re- ports were in circulation yesterday re- garding the Speaker’s intentions. One was that the committees would be an- nounced Monday or Tuesday; the other, that the list would not be made up until | just before the adjournment for the holi- | days. | The best judgment seems to be that the Speaker will not be prepgred to-morrow to name the committees, and that the House | will adjourn, after a brief session, until | Wednesday or Thursday, and thus permit | members to attena the meeting of the Vational Republican Committee, called to select the place of holding the convention in 1896. THIED N SHORT ORDER, Rapid Conviction of the Slayer of Ida Gaskill at Omaha. Made a Record for the Disposition of a Murder Case in the State of Nebraska. | { OMAHA, Nesr.,, Dec. 8&—The jary in the case of George Morgan, accused of the murder of Ida Gaskell, a girl 11 years of age, November 3, went out last night and brought in a verdict to-day finding Mor- gan guilty and sentenced him to be hanged. This is one of the most radid murder trials in this State. Only five weeks ago to-day the body of the girl was found in'a closet in an old, deserted building, with | evidence that she had been criminally as- saulted and murdered. Suspicion was directed to Morgan, who roomed in the same building as the girl and her mother. He was arrested after midnight and blood was found on his clothing and hands. An attempt was made to lynch him the next night, but he was sent to the State Prison at Lincoln and thus saved. The trial lasted but a week and the evi- dence was strong, though wholly circum- stantial. It gives almost unanimous sat- isfaction. ARt AWFUL DEEDS OF A MANIAC. Valentine Hibbs Shot Himself and Stabbed His Wife DEXTER, Iowa, Dec. 8, —The Valentine Hibbs home, four miles northeast of Dex- ter, was the scene to-day at 1r. M. of one of the bloodiest tragedies ever enacted in Central Iowa. Grant Hibbs, aged 32 years, fired one shot at his wife, then turned the 38-caliber revolver and shot himself twice through the head. Then he grabbed a knife and inflicted twelve dangerous wounds on his wife before falling from loss of blood. At 5 o’clock to-night Hibbs is slowly dying, his brains running out of both wounds. The wife isin a precarious condition, but may live. Hibbs was released from the Mount Pleasant Insane Asylum as cured five weeks ago, but his insanity returned suddenly in a violent form. Pt g S FOUGHT FIRE FOUR HOURS. Chicago Laddies Made a Gallant Struggle “to Save Property in the Wholesale District. CHICAGO, ILL., Dec. 8.—Fire in the no- tion house of Wolf & Co. to-day caused a loss of between $200,000 and $300,000 on the stock and about $80,000 on the building, which was owned by the Conrad Seipp es- tate. The stock and building were fully insured. The house of Woli & Co. isat the corner of Market and Madison streets, in the heart of the wholesale district, and for four hours the firemen fought the fire to keep it from spreading. A.W. Hay- ward & Co., wholesale shoes, and the Steuben County Wine Company suffered slight losses from water. The fire started in the fourth floor of the building and was caused by the burning of an over- charged electric wire, One fireman was badly injured and narrowly escaped death. John Dore of a book and ladder company was in the building when a burning ceiling fell and, while he managed to extricate himself be- fore being burned to death, he came out seriousiy injured and badly disfigured about the hands and face. He wasre- moved to bis home in an ambulance. FSCAPED FROM FLAMES Several Men Had to Fight for Their Lives During a Chicago Fire. A Watchman Overcome by the Smoke and With Others Was Rescued Just in Time. CHICAGO, TvrL., Dec. 8.—The four-story brick building at 178 and 180 Wabash avenue, occupied by piano, fur and shoe firms, with its contents was almost en- tirely gutted by fire at 11 o’clock to-night. The fire started in the boiler-room in the basement, and soon spread to every part of the building. The first floor of No. 178 was occupied by Joseph Bohman, with violins and other musical instruments, and the remaining floors were used by Meyer & Weber, who are agents for the Stieff make of pianos. On the first floor of No. 180 was D. Sauer, dealer in fine shoes, and C. Devere & Co., furriers, and C. Hanson Frost occupied the floors above. Sleeping in the store of Joseph Bohman was a watchman who is now in the County Hospital in a very critical condition. He was overcome by smoke. In 180 two men were sleeping on the top floor in the rooms of C. H. Frost. Mike Aschbrewer, one of the men, made his way to the second floor, but finding the flames had cut off escape by the steps he jumped from a second-story window into the alley, spraining his left leg, but sus- taining no permanent injuries. Arthur W. Watson, the other man, was rescued by the firemen. Nothing in the building escaped dam- age, and the loss will be over $100,000, though no accurate estimate can be made at this hour. Meyer & Weber and Joseph Bohmann will be the greatest losers. Many of their goods were saved from the fire, but totally ruined by water. Sauer suffered more from water thian from fire, and Devere & Co., who were being sold out by an assignee, lost many expensive furs. — GRANTING MANY PARDONS. Governor Brown of Kentucky Grows Very Lenient. FRANKFORT, Ky., Dec. 9.—Like Luke P. Blackburn, Governor John Young Brown is exercising his pardoning powers before vacating the Governor's chair. It was said last night that before the inaugu- ration of Wilham O. Brady, Kentucky’s Republican Governor, to-morrow, Gover- nor Brown will pardon the famous Ken- tucky forgers, Hume Clay and Frank Scearce. Clay forged his grandfather’s name to negotiable paper amounting to about $100,- 000, while Scearce transferred to himself property belonging to his father to the value of §500,000. He cut the property up into town lots and manipulated mortgages, releases ana deeds in such a manner as to put to blush the most artistic work of “*Jim the Fenman”’ After trying to obtain his pardon in vain for several years, Clay’s wife secured a divorce. Scearce’s wife has proved faithful, although when his forgeries were discovered it was found that he was bagk- ing in the smiles of a young widow whom he had equipped in luxury. She isstill pleading for his pardon, and his father has turned her out of her home. e DESTROYING A WHOLE TOWN, Great Damage Done by a Fire in Con- nectiout, RIDGEFIELD, Coxx., Dec. 8.—A fire which broke out at 9:30 to-night threatens to destroy the entire center of the town. The fire originated in the biz wooden block owned by G. S. Gage, located on Main street. Bediend & Mead were soon burned out _and the Western Union tele- graph office also ruined. By 110’clock the flames had consumed the Gage block, and fifteen minutes later the fire had attacked the town hall, on the opposite side of Bailey avenue. The Western Union tele- graph office was destroyed. Then came the grocery store of Barhite & Valden and a few residences. These buildings were burned before 11 o’clock. On Bailey avenue, to the west and rear of the Gage block, was a plumbing-shop and a row of wooden buildings recently built. These were all burned. On Bailey avenue is also located Scott’s stable, a big puilding, and this was destroyed. On the south side of the town hall, on Main street, was the building occupied by the Ridgefield Press and a residénce and two stores, one occupied by Mr. Gilhert and the other by Hibbard' & Sherwood, fish- dealers. In'Gilbert’s store the central sta- tion of the Southern New England Tele- phone Company was located. > THE ANDREWS FAILURE. Plan to Sell a Quantity of Furniture in This City. CHICAGO, IrL., Dec. 8.—At a meeting yesterday of the merchandise creditors of A. H. Andrews & Co., the furniture deal- ers who failed last week,a plan was de- cided upon by which it is believed the as- sets of the company will be placed in the hands of the assignee. Weber & Co., a San Francisco firm, vas negotiating with the Andrews Coz:f.ny before the failure for the purchase ,000 worth of school furniture. The County Court and Sheriff wil! be asked to_agree to the sale of this furniture, and the sale will result in a fund out of which the claim of the Globe Na- tional Bank of $25,000 can be paid. This will release the assets from the control of the Sheriff and the assignee will be able to take full charge, This plan will be sub- l‘ed to the court on Tuesday next. INWILLIAM'S DOMAIN The Emperor Recalled by the Dissensions in the Cabinet. ABANDONED THE FETES. Suddenly He Left the Hunting Party and Started Back to Berlin. COALITION AGAINST KOELLER. But the Minister of the Interior Is Firmly Upheld and Will Resume His Duties. _BERLIN, Germany, Dec. 8. — The Kaiser returned to Berlin last Wednesday and devoted a part of the day to inter- Vviews with the various Ministers. Atnoon he started for Hanover to participate in the annual grand hunt in the forests of Springe. The two days’ shooting in these forests, as a rule, complete the hunting season. The imperial hunting party in- cluded eighteen guns, and the hunters were reckoning upon killing at least 350 wild pigs in the beech woods of Springe, besides enjoying a battle for red deer in the adjacent forests of Landendau. The programme included a banquet Thursday evening in the royal castle, which was to be followed by a gala performance in the theater. / On Friday there was to be & grand | parade of the troops of the Hanover garri- son and a dinner at the castle, enlivened with singing by the Hanoverian Choral Union, followed by a musicale by tne officers of the corps, a quadrille, riding, etc. The Emperor had arranged for a short spell of relaxation from the cares of state, and all telegrams, dispatches ana other papers were ordered sent to him only if they were urgently important, until the hunt should be over. Suddenly on Friday he countermanded this order and Dr. von Lucanus, chief of the Emperor's private cabinet, was sum- moued to Hanover. The doctor arrived in due time and remained in conference with the Emperor from the time of his arrival until both made their appearanee at the dinner in the evening. The Emperor seemed preoccupied. He talked very lit- tle and immediately after dinner he re- tired with Dr. von Lucanus for another conference. Nothing was known by the hunting party, of course, as to the reason for these conferences, but the guests sur- mised that the Ministerial crisis had be- come more acute. The expectations that surprises were awaiting the country be- | came certainties on Saturday when it was i made known that the Emperor had aban- | doned the hunt and started on his return to Berlin. It transpired later that before | leaving Hanover the Emperor had con- | ferences with Herr Heydebrand, pro- vincial prefect of Breslau, Dr. von Putt- kamer, formerly Minister of the Interior, and now prefect of Pommerania, and Herr von Studto prefect of Westphalta, who had been summoned to Hanover by Dr., von Lucanus by the order of the Emperor early Friday morning. Although there is a coalition of Minis- ters against Herr von Koeller, Minister of the Interior, that gentleman appears to be firmly upheld. The Berlin Post, com- menting on the situation, declares that the best informed circles expect that von | Koeller's leave of absence will terminate very shortly, when he will resume his du- ties at the head of the Ministry of the In- terior. A letter written by Professor Hans Delbrueck, editor of the Preussische Jahr- bucher, whom von Koeller recently at- tempted to prosecute, has been published here. In this letter the writer says that while not seeking to commend von Koel- ler’'s methods of socialist repression he de- sires to correct the statements made in the press in regard to the Minister’s behavior toward him, which, he says, was not! chivalric. Meanwhile, despite the Cabinet troubles arising from differences between Herr von Koeller and the other Ministers and the impending crisis at Constantinople, fash- ionable and official circles in Berlin are looking forward to a brilliant winter sea- son. The ex-Empress Frederick arrived in Berlin Saturday for a stay extending over the carnival festivities, and Princess von Hohenlohe and her daughters resumed their residence at the chancellerie on Thursday. The presence of these person- ages in Berlin always implies the coming of numerous members of the Continental aristocracy for the season. M. de Szogeny-March, the Austrian Minister, inaugurated a series of dinners on Thursday, at which United States Em. bassador Runyon, Prince and Princess An- ton Radziwill, Count and Countess Potoci, Count von Lochenfell, Dr. de Araujo, the Brazilian Minister, and other distinguished persons were guests. The inspection of the old Schloss in Ploen, preparatory to Crown Prince Wil- liam and his brother, Prince Eitel Fred- erick, taking up their residence there while attending the gymnasium at Ploen, has revealed the necessity of thorough sanitation and renovation of the entire in- terior of the building, and an army of workmen are now employed on the prem- ises. The work is being done under the supervision of Court Marshal von Lincker. The inhabitants of Ploen are having a rich harvest of applicants for lodging as the re- sult of the expected presence of the young princes, hundreds of rich parents having decided to sent their sons to the college there while the princes are also studying there. Herren Heydebrand and von Studtand Dr. von Puttkamer are now in Berlin, and each of them seems to be a candidate for the office of Minister of the Interior. Among the chorus of press declarations against President Cleveland’s references to Germany in his recent threatsto Con- gress, and threats of bringing into action Germany’s power to make reprisals, the Vorwaerts, the principal Socialist journal, is notably impartial, and its clear-sighted article stands almost alone in warning Germans that the industrial supremacy of the United States must be admitted. “It is based,”” the article says, “‘upon the inex- haustible natural wealth of the country and is enormously developed by enterprise and the technical skill and intelligence of workmen who are less oppressed than the workingmen of impoverished Europe. The prosperity of America is growing yearly, and even its steel and iron products are now excelling those of European coun- tries.” The Vorwaerts advises the critics of l President Cleveland to place less reliance upon the argument that America needs German wares. The census of Germany, which was taken last Monday, was the most careful ard thorough ever known. The questions asked involved every particular of em- ployment, physical condition, nationality and religion and everything calculated to place the_ authorities in possession of all the facts of social and. individual life. Many of the newspapers complain, how- ever, that the system has become too in- quisitorial. The sum of the results will not be known for some time, but the fig- ures show the population of Berlin to be 1,674,112, which is an increase of only 6 per cent during the last five years as com- pared with an increase of 20 per cent in the previous five years. As the suburbs, where ghe population overflows, are not included in the city the return gives a false impression of the spread of the capi- tal. A meeting of the Brandenburg Rural Economic Council was held on Wednes- day, at which the Emperor approved the proposal for the maintenance of the sugar premiums and also a limitation of the pro- duction. The Posen delegates, however, protested against the present form of the sugar bill. Baron von Hammerstein-Lox- ten, Prussian Minister of Agriculture, Domains and Forests, stated that the Gov- ernment would enter into negotiations for the suppression of sugar premiums. If the Governments of Austria and France would agree to suppress them Germany would concur. The Freisinnige Zeitung expresses the opinion that only the United States and England would benefit by the opera- tion of the sugar bill., The Tageblatt says that under a tanff war with America Ger- man sugar exporters would be severely punished. The Handels Zeitung expresses the hope that the new Minister of the Interior will cause a revision of the sugar bill and withdraw the cancellation of the licenses of American life insurance com- panies to do business in Germany. Six German delegates, including Dr. Arendt, Baron von Mirbach and Herr von Kardorff, will attend the international bimetallic conference to be held in Paris. The committee of the Berlin Bourse has been obliged to communicate with the committee of the Vienna Bourse in regard to the refusal of Austrian operators to pay the differences due from them to Berlin operators. Several firms in Vienna, who were pinched by Wednesday’s settlement, paid up in Vienna, but dishonored their engagements in Berlin. The Vienna com- mittee, aware of the grave results which would follow such a dishonest course, forced the delinquent operators to com- promise on the basis of a reduction of 40 per cent of the amounts due. The credit of Vienna dealers has through this inci- dent suffered very much in the estimation of German operators. Charles de Kay, United States Consul- General here, has secured twelve charter members of the fencing club which is form- ing in Berlin, including Professor Miller, J. B. Jackson, secretary of the American embassy, and Lieutenant Vreland, the American naval attache, Secretary Squires, United States Vice-Consul Zimmerman | and Lord Greville. Herr Dowe, the tailor who invented the bullet-proof coat, is dying at Wiesbaden. He has been married to his companion on the recent tours, Miss Drane, the cham- pion ritle shot. The Vorwaerts, commenting on the Post’s references to Herr von Koeller, says: “We can only hope that Von Koel- ler will remain in the Ministry of the in- terior, and would still more rejoice if he should become Chancellor and ,Prussian Premier with an entire Ministry of the same mind.” The gales which have prevailed through- out Germany, with their resultant dis- asters, still continue. At Bremen, Ham- burg and Kiel there have been numercus shipping casualties, steamboat traffic has ceased, and inland traffic is greatly im- peded. The rivers Fulda, Saale, Jagst, Kocher and Kinzig have overflowed their banks and inundated great tracts’of land. The loss of life and property has been heavy, but details are difficult to obtain as yet. At Oldenburg, a workshop was blown down . yesterday while twenty-five men were at work within. Three were killed and seven were seriously injured. The Hankhausen Inn at Oldenburg was siruck by lightning and set on fire and destroyed and three persons were burned to death. The dykes of the Baltic-North Sea Canal at Rendsburg, Holstein, have burst, and other damage to the canalis reported. The Copenhagen mail has been stopped, ves- sels not daring to venture out, and an im- mense loss of property in Jutland is re- ported. COLORADD'S MINIG BOOM Predictions Made of Great Returns in the Cripple Creek Region. Leaving Leadville Behind the Camp ‘Will Soon Surpass South Africa. DENVER, Coro., Dec. 8.—Ex-Governor James B. Grant, of the Omaha and Grant smelter, who returned from a trip through the Cripple Creek country yesterday, be- lieves the future of that region will sur- pass even all anticipations of those who had great hopes for Leadville. He thinks Cripple Creek mines will produce more gold in the next twenty years than any camp ever known. ‘““‘When they have been mining seven- teen years at Cripple Creek,” said Grant, it is safe to say the camp will have pro- duced over $500,000,000. The preduction from Leadville will also probably increase from now on, as the craze is widespread.” Mr. Grant is of the opinion that the Cripple Creek mines will soon excel the South Africa region, both in money value and actual tonnage, because the ore from the Kaffirs is low grade. COLORADO SPRINGS, Coro., Dec. 8.— During the first week of December the sales of Cripple Creek mining stocks aggre- gated 11,852,457 shares. For the same time in November but 500,000 shares were sold. The sales for the present month promise an enormous total, as the three mining exchanges will be re-enforced the coming week by a night exchange and an open board. The calls are now made twice daily, and at all hours the streets in front of the exchanges are almost impassable. Mining experts see no end to the present craze, based as it is upon Cripple Creek— thirty square miles of rich low-grade and frequent bonanza ores. During the week just closed twenty-four mining companies to operate at Cripple Creek were incor- porated. SR Tnok a Dose of Morphine. CHICAGO, IuL., Dec.8—Mrs. Walter McMahon, wife of Walter McMahon, a special artist of San Francisco, took a dose of morphine to-night with suicidal intent. She is now in the County Hospital and is not expected to live, i y ALL OFFERS IN VAIN, Campos Finds It Wholly Impossible to Bribe Leaders. CUBANS ARE PATRIOTIC. Generals Maceo and Gomez Much Prefer Liberty to the Gold of the Enemy. SUGAR PLANTATIONS RUINED. A Source of Revenue to the Spaniards Cut Off, and This Will Shorten the War. BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 8.—A dispatch to a morning paper from Havana brings some very interesting intelligence regard- ing the war in Cuba. 5 The dispatch states that the Spanish in- habitants and natives are each day grow- ing more demonstrative, owing to the strictness with which the military regula- tions are being kept up. The one object of attack is General Campos, and what friends he had in the Colonial Govern- ment are fast falling away from his standard and are condemning his policy in granting leniency to the insurgents. Even the captain-general himself, it is claimed, has been made aware of the fallacy of his reasoning that more success could be gained by pursuing a lenient policy than a severe one. He has discov- ered that this time those in the field are fighting for nothing short of liberty, and that bribes or other methods of intimida- tion or cajolery are not sufficient to make traitors to the patriotic cause, Itis known for a fact that since the opening of the war General Gomez, General Maceo and other insurgent leaders have been offered great inducements, but in every case they have shown the whole affair in its true light. The sugar-planters of the island are at last finding out that it will be practically impossible for them to continue the indus- try until. more definite settlements are ar- rived at. The sugar piantations have so often been the scene of constant changing of hands that work is absolutely sus- pended. This in itself is a factor that promises an early termination of the struggle, notwith- standing the reports to the contrary. The income from the plantationsis over $60,- 000,000 a year, and it was on this fact that the Spanish home Government had rested such weight as a certain source for money to carry on the war when the royal coffers were empty, but by the loss of this revenue there can be only one result, and that is that Spain, already bankrupt by a war which has caused her untold loss, will surely be obliged to give up the struggle from lack of money. Another dispatch from Santiago de Cuba states that word was received in that city on the 29th of November that the com- bined insurgent army was rapidly pushing the regulars back toward Havana, and al- though no large battle had been fought the patriots had been successful in a number of sanguinary skirmishes. GIVEN THE RED CROSS. Churchill and Barnes Decorated by the Spanish. MADRID, Sparx, Dec. 8.—A dispatch to the Imparcial from Havana says that the military decoration of the Red Cross has been accorded to Lieutenants Churchill and Barnes of the British army for the gallantry displayed by them during the recent engagement between the Govern- ment forces and the rebels commanded by Gomez and Maceo. Lieutenant Churchill is a son of the late Lord Randolph Church- ill. Both he and Lieutenant Barnes were with the Spanish forces under General Snarez Valdez in the battle on December 2 at La Reforma, and were complimented in the official reports. CONFISCATION OF AN ESTATE. Minister Baker Was Not Negligent Protesting Against Nicaragua’s Act, £ WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 8.—The al- leged confiscation of the estate of Joseph issmaier by the Nicaraguan Government because his American citizenship was not proved and no heirs appeared, and about which some friends in this country appear to be indignant against Mr. Baker, the United States Minister to Nicaragua, at- tributing to him the loss of Hissmaier's property, has been made a matter of in- quiry at the State Department. The docu- ment on file there does not indicate any lack of diligence on Mr. Baker’s part, and it is stated that it was only yesterday that he discovered that Hissmaier was an American citizen. Hissmaier was murdered, and about six months ago his alleged murderer was lynched by persons said to have been Americans. At any rate, some Americans were arrested as parties to the lynching, but were dealt with leniently by the Nic- araguan Government. The statement that Mr. Baker appointed a curator of Hiss- maier’s estate on the assumption that the deceased was an American is true, but it is said at the department that proof of Hissmaier’s naturalization could not be produced within the time provided by law and the estate was accordingly confiscated. This case, it is understood, has been re- opened on representations made by rela- tives of Hissmaier in Chicago. RO L, in FOUNDED BY HARVEY. Incorporation of & National Secret Polit- iecal Order. CHICAGO, ILL., Dec. 8.—A morning pa- per says a National secret political order founded by William H. Harvey, the anthor of *“Coin’s Financial School,” will file articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State at Springfield within the next few days. Itistobeknown as the ‘‘Patriots of America,” and its sole object is the restoration of the bimetallic standard. Cnarters, it is said, bave been made out and will be sent immediately to at least 1000 lodges in various parts of the United States. The immediate purpose of the order, as voiced by its founder, is to take such steps as will compel recognition of the claims of the bimetallists from the representatives of ! the Democratic- or Republican parties, or both, when they assemble in National con- vention next summer. Since September a persistent and thor- ough canvass of every county in the United States has been in progress and thousands of letters were sent out to the sympathetic leaders of all parties from Harvey’s office in the Fort Dearborn building. Thousandd$ of replies came from every section of the county, except, it is said, the New Eng- land States, where the canvass was less aggressively conducted, and where the in- terest was less intense. P SO Cable and Electric Cars Collide. CHICAGO, ILy., Dec. 8.—In a collision between a cable train and electric car here this morning Mrs. Mary Struck was seri- ously injured, several other passengers were badly frightened, and the electric car was wrecked. The accident occurred at the corner ot Madison and Clark streets, where a Madison-street cable train ran into a southbound Clark-street electric car. The Clark-street car was knocked from the track and its side was stove in. ey Shaving on Sunday. CHICAGO, Irn., Dec. 8.— Master bar- bers, at a meeting this afternoon, refused to accede to a proposition made by the Barbers’ Sunday-closing Association that they keep their shops closed until after the Supreme Court has passed on the re- cent decision of Judge Gibbons that the barber closing law is unconstitutional. The opponents of Sunday shaving now threaten to serve about 200 warrants which they claim to have for violating of the law. A SAL MIKACLE. Story of a Cure Wrought by Faith in Healer Schlatter. SALEM, Og., Dec. 8.—Rollin Budlong, a thirteen-year-old boy living with his par- ents in Central Park Addition, was taken sick over a year ago with bone disease and has not walked since, but had to be wheeled about and his parents had re« signed themselves to the conviction that he would always be a cripple. The boy, however, bearing one day of the cures effected by Schlatter, made up his mind to send him a handkerchief in the hope of being cured. Rollin sent a handkerchief to the healer on the 24th of October and waited pas=: tiently for a month for its return, until yesterday it arrived. The remarkable part of the affair isthat from the day he, sent the article he began to improve i heelth, to feel more cheerful and grow per< ceptibly stronger. In the month he has gained just eight pounds. His appetite has grown robust and_he feels sure that he is going to be greatly benefited. SO W ALBANY’S BOY MUERDERER. Lloyd Montgomery Declared by a Physi= cian to Be Sane. ALBANY, Ogr., Dec. 8.—Lloyd Mont- gomery, the slayer of his parents, has set« tled down to quiet life, and whiie heis a somewhat peculiar fellow he is displaying no more of his wild pranks. Dr. E. L. Irvin has made.a thorough study of his case and is convinced that he has been feigning insanity, and is not in- sane. Even if he had an epileptic fit 1t would not have resulted in the murder. The doctor is satisfied that when the mur+ der was committed Montgomery was im his right mind. — Fall of @ Sacramento Lineman. SACRAMENTO, CaL., Dec. 8.—A young man named Fisk, a lineman in the em- ploy of the Electric Light and Power Company, fell a distance of thirty feet to the pavement from a pole on which he was working this afternoon. One arm was broken and he was otherwise severely injured. e Petroleum on a Lompoc Ranch. SANTA BARBARA, Can, Dec. 8.—A fine vein of crude petroleum wasdiscovered on Hobbs’ ranch, not far from Lompoc, by Messrs. 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