The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 10, 1895, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, T DAY, DECEMBER 10, 1895 —— tions were invalidated, while others are of the opinion that each declaration was com- plete in itself, and that the motion to adapt as a whole was superfluous, and_ns adoption or rejection by the convention could neither add to nor take from the declarations previously made. “[nmy judgment the latter pesition is the correct one, but I have not been called upon to render a decision upon the ques- tion, ana to satisfy those who have enter- tained doubts in the matter, I ask that you clearly define the position you intend to hold along political lines. Whetherthe declarations made at the Denver conven- tion are approved or disapproved by you, the self-evident truth confronts us that wage-workers cannot hope to be free in the shops, mines and factories while trudging in party slavery to the polis. We cannot close our eyes and thus con- ceal the glaring effects in our Govern- mental treatment of inaustrial labor, nor will we be permitted to much longer neg- lect our duty to the people’s interest and to allow to go on unchecked and unchanged a system of distribution in the value of labor's production which had its greatest achievement during the last decade, ac- cording to the late census, in the phenom- enal growth of wealth, pauperism and crim ‘We are compelled to admit, as we have long- recognized, that the denial of that liberty of action which permits men and women to organize for mutual aid and protection comes largely from corporati engaged in operating plants of a public | character and the franchises of which they obtained from the people. The railroad, | telegraph and telephone corporations in a | National sense, and the street railway, | ric plant and water works corpora- | tions in a municipal way, are more re sponsible for the curtailment of liverty on the part of the employes than is all the | manufacturing and producing capital in | ry. To destroy this species of 3 and oppression and to restore and maintain for employes the greatest indi- ele vidual liberty consistent with public good [.tion of Labor until late in the year. will necessitate the nationalizing of rail- roads, telegraphs and telephones, and the municipal ownership of street railway electric t, gas and waterplants. The interests can be better subserved | oying public servants than they can by the people themselves remainir servants and serfs to individuals and co porations of the character named; besides, the profits of operation should accrue to the people rather than ‘o individua *‘As an organization we may decide to leave politics alone, but unfortunatety for this organization and its members politics will not let -us alone, hence we are com- | velled, not from a sentimental but from a | ndpoint, to con such a manner a 1 yield i movem the wage-workers We may not be agreed e of political work needed, differ as to the methods em- | political reform work, but re- | erences in opinion as to | r meth of doing ness s der | and act politically ir ch line re- something and a manner that will insure the -operation of all our forces. The | e of society, or form of Govern- i | s State socialists, philo- chists, Populists, single- | nd others should not he permitted | nd in the way of immediate and tical efforts, because the ideal state of - hoped for can only be reached, if ever it is reached, by un educational evo- | ary process, which means too great | to suit the masses of our wage- e asking for relief from ating for | comfort and happiness of coming g ations. “According to the most reliable statis- tics obtainable there are fully twenty-three ersons employed, or should | occupations in this country, | wof the fact that about one- that number are members of zed labor, and only a small portion tter in the American Federation it would be a useless waste of | time and effort for you to attempt politi- | long independent party | While disagreeing over different lines. isms, we all agree that reforms are needed, and it should be our purpose at this time toact only on matters of moment upon which all are in hearty accord, and if this is done it will be an easy matter to form a | plan of action—both political and co- operative—that will succeed in taking | from our Federal courts powers which have lately been arrogated by and not dele- | gated to them; to agree upon a method | for shortening the hours of labor, by legis- lation, to eight per day, or less, thus en- hancing the value of work and wages. At | this time it is not independent party, but independent voting that will accomplish | beneficent and speedy results. By co- operating in the support of men and measures favorable to labor interests you would soon have all parties striving to se- cure the votes of organized labor. By this means the nationalizing of the means of transportation and communication should be accomplished, and the municipal ownership of water, heat, light and power plants be assured.” On the recent issue of Government bonds President McBride talked some vigorous Engiish. He saia: *The greatest crime of the nineteenth century, and the most remarkable ever perpetrated upon our people, was that com- mitted by the present National adminis- tration in adding to the bonded indebted- ness of our cointry during a time of peace. The attempt to retain a gold reserve of $100,000,000, by a contract such as was made with the Belmont-Morgan syndicate, was farcical to say the least, but a farce only in so far as it was intended to blind the people to the fact that they were being robbed, deliberately and unmercifully, in the interests of Eastern bankers and bond- holders, whose only desire has been and now is the perpetuation of a system of bonded indebtedness on the part of the Gov- ernment. The wickedness of the bond deal was exposed to the syndicate advancing gold to the Government one day to in- crease the reserve, and the next day de- creasing the reserve by handing in National securities and getting gold for them, and with this gold purchasing new bounds hay- ing a long lease of life. “The Eastern bankers, if permitted, will continue draining the gold’ réserve until new bonds replace the old ones and an interest - bearing inaebtedness has again been established and the life of the National banks prolonged beyond the present gen- eration of men. The bankers are not in business for their health, and they don't care what misery they piunge the people into, how embarrassed the Government becomes or how heavily the l3eonle are taxed, so long as their profits aré assured, and why should they. They are not to blame. “It is himiliating, however, to think at —ee Christmas ! : Lots of pretty “pocket-books and card-cases_at_Crockers’, 227 Post street | 215 Bush streety | compared to those of the previons two and | numerically | Federation | than larce prolonged | purpose of protecting men and methods the clase of the nineteenth century, that a | National administration can be found supine enough, or corrupt enough, to per- mit the Government to be held up and plundered, as ours has been plundered dur- ing the last year and a half. In the earlier days of this Government, when statesmen and not politicians were guiding the ship of State, the banks were subordinate to the Government, but to-day the Government is at the mercy of the banks, and the bankers dictate our system of finance and laugh at the protests of the people against tbe tyranny of their rule. Youshould not only protest by resolution against the crime commutted, but bring your influence to bear upon your representatives in Con- gress, to the end that they may provide against a repetition or a continuance of this great crime. “W hat stronger evidence can be given {o the world to demonstrate that the spirit of liberty and progress still lives than that of Cuba, formerly the slave mart of the Western World, now shaken from center to circumference by a revolt for freedom on the part of the men, or sons of men, who a few years ago were sold as slaves to the highest bidder? The Cuban revoltis in itself deserving of a consideration and recognition at our hands; but when we re- member that the Spanish dynasty has al- ways evidenced hostility to republican governments, even in the case of this country, we should be all the more de- termined to insist upon fair treatment be- ing extended by the Congress of the United States to the revolutionists of Cuba, and I trust ere this convention ad- journs you will bave adopted resolutions petitioning Congress to at least recognize Cubans as belligerents. “While there has been, and is now, & ma- terial improvement in trade conditions as a balf years, yet the improvement has not been as pronounced as press reports would lead us to believe, and such as it was, beneficial as it has been, it did not re- lieve the strain upon the American Federa- “Regardless of the many disadvantages | under which the federation labored during the year, such progress was made 1 our work that Iam able to con- gratulate you upon the fact that both nd financially the American tronger to-day than it was at the end of 1894, and to assure you that the prospects for the future are full of promise for the success of the trades-union movement. “The year 1895 has been noted for the | large number of small or local, rather strikes. The most | pleasing feature of contests of thischarac- ter between employer and employed was the uniform success met with in the way of obtaining higher wages and improved | conditions of employment. | “The constitution of the National and | many of the State governments stands to- | amonument to the past greatness | grandness of our country. These con- utions were made and adopted for the now dead. They are not suited for the changed industrial conditions and im- proved mental status of the present time, | hence if the modern environments of labor | are to be ameliorated by legislation, in | keeping with the progress of our people | along commercial and industrial lines, it might be well to turn our attention to the | cutting away of these constitutional bar- riers which invalidate legislation enacted in the people’s interests.”” The reports of the secretary and treas- urer followed. The report of the secretary saysin part: “The receipts of the fiscal year, begin- ning November 1, 1894, and_.ending Octo- ber 31, 1895, have not been as good "as the average of recent years, The causesof this are well known to all of you. The effects of the panic of 1894 extend far into this current year, and many of our unions, while holding up bravely, have suffered considerably, nevertheless, in common with all industry. Our members thrown out of employment wandered into other fields, and thus the unions lost their sup- port. Lately, however, signs of improve- ment have been noticed. Our unions are reviving slowly but surely, and many advances have been made, increasing wages | and reducing hours, during the past few months, and we can confidently hope for better things in the near future. During the year we spent for the defense of miners | and other unions, for the defense of Debs, | the lecturing tour of Burns and Holmes, | etc., $3467. The receipts for the year were $18,493 54; expenses, $15,612 42; leaving a ance on hand October 31, 1895, of $3331 12. The totalamount contributed to the Debs fund this year and last was $1386 41.” He continues: *“While we cannot report any great apparent gains in the field of | labor during the past year, the agitation | and education that is proeressing aiong | economic lines is particularly noticeable.” I The report of John B. Lennon, treasurer, shows that the total income during the year was $18,493 54; total expense, $15,612 balance in hand of treasurer, 31 1 At the conclusion of the reading of the reports, John Swinton, the well-known writer on labor subjects, addressed the convention. The speaker denounced the methods of treating strikers by the authori- ties and instanced the sending of troops to Chicago by the “unspeakable Cleve- land.” The militia, he said, had become the tools of a plutocracy so base - that no army in Europe would “do the dirty work of shooting women, as they did in Brook- lyn. Conlin, the chief of the New York police,” he continued, *had talked of grape and canister for the suppression of strikes. “‘Shame upon that creature Conlin,”’ ex- claimed the speaker, “‘who is a meaner foe than his predecessor. The time for strikes had mnot yet passed. How else shouid the workers meet: the op- pression of Government and plutoc- racy? If American labor found that new methods were necessary to preserve Ameri- can freedom, now imperiled as never be- fore, let them adopt such new methods as would meet the situation and the ex- isting conditions.” Rev. Father Ducey also delivered an ad- dress and at its conclusion the convention adjourned until to-morrow morning. NEW YORK, N, Y., Dec. 9.—To-night a mass-meeting was held at Cooper Union. Addresses were made by Samuel Gompers, President McBride and others. Into a Receiver’s Hands. CINCINNATI, Oxro, Dec. 9.—The A. E. Burkhardt Company, dealers in’ furs at’ 256 and 258 Race street, went into the hands of a receiver-this afternoon. The liabilities are said to be $250,000, assets $380,000. The trouble was caused by New York people and local banks pressing for a settlement of overdue accounts. It is be- li_edved] Burkhardt is solvent as an indi- vidual. et gy Threatened With Destruction. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 10.—Chilton, a town with a population of 2000, is threat- ened with destruction by fire, which started in the business portion of the town shortly after midnight. Milwaukee was called” upon for help at 2 o’clock this morning, Green Bay has sent an engine and ten firemen in response to a telegram from the Mayor. MORGAN'S HOT SHOT, Address of the Senator on the Bering Sea Claims. SIR JULIAN ANSWERED. Comments of the British Em- bassador Are Classed as “Intrusive Arrogance.” DAMAGES PLACED TO0 HIGH Many of Those Who Seek Awards for Seizures Are United States Citizens. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 9.—The Senate was addressed to-day by Morgan (D.) of Alabama, chairman of the Com- mittee on Foreign Relations, and formerly a member of the Bering Sea Paris tribunal, in support of his resolution offered on De- cember 3, referring to the Committee on Foreign Relations the President’s special message of February 13,1895, and his re- cent annual message relating to the pay- ment by the United States of the claims of Great Britain arising out of the Bering Sea controversy, with instructions to ex- amine mnto the question of liability on the part of the United States and of liability on the part of Great Britain or Canada. Morgan, who read his speech from printed slips, was very severe on the British Embassador, Sir Julian Paunce- fote, characterizing as “offensive” the Embassador’s comments upon the action of Congress in refusing an appropriation to pay the indemnity for losses of British subjects owing to the seizure of ‘‘sealers,”” and asserting that as to many of those “sealers”” they were the actual property in whole or in part of American citizens, who had no such claim upon their own Govern- ment. The British Embassador, Morgan stated with emphasis, had no right to question members of Congress for words spoken in debate; and his doing so in diplomatic papers which he had handed over to the American press for publication was an act of “intrusive arrogance.”” At one point of the speech he indulged in a touch of sar- casm at the expense of Sir Julian Paunce- fote, who had, he said, “*buried him under his ponderous logic,”” and of the Xarl of Salisbury, who bad ‘“‘exhumed him for snch use as he might be found most con- venient.” He asserted that the question whether a negotiation respecting the liability of the United States to Great Britain for the seizure of sealing vessels in the Bering Sea under the orders of Cleveland’s first ad- ministration should take place under the treaty of February 29, 1892, was still an open question and had not been closed by the award of the tribunal of arbitration. On the contrary, as he proceeded to demon- 'strate by copious extracts from the treaty and the award, the tribunal expressly re- fused to make #ny decision of such-liabil- ity or to declare that the seizure of the vessels under Cleveland’s order was illegal. These questions, he said, were distinctiy remanded by that tribunal to the further negotiations of the treaty powers as origi- nal questions. Great Britain, however, con- tended that the tribunal of arbitration con- sidered and decided this question of lia- bility. “If the President,” said Morgan in his most impressive manner, “had sent to the Senate the diplomatic agreement made by him with Great Britain, in which a com- mittal to the British contention is sought to be apparently avoided by a compro- mise, but in fact, admitted without re- serve or qualification, the vote of this body would have settled the attitude of the country by accepting or rejecting that agreement. “If Congress had thereafter paid the coveted ‘lump sum’ to satisfy the British demand, we would at least have been free from the acceptance of the humiliating attitude of accepting and indorsing a falsehood as the decision of the tribunal of arbitration, and of paying citizens of the United States for criminal wrongs done to their country. The reassertion by the President of the justice and righifulness of the demand of the British Government, made with lhe 1nsulting arrogance of an ultimatum, requires of Congress that its refusal at its last session to vote the ‘lump sum’ of $425,000 to satisfy this demand should be defended upon the principles | and facts that justified that vote.” Morzan said that the statement sent by the late Secretary Gresham to the House of Representatives, December 20, 1894, in regard to the seizure of British sealing vessels in Bering Sea, was seriously in- correct and misleading, and referred to Sir Julian Pauncefote’s statement that the Senate in the last Congress had refused him leave to print a detailed analysisof the claims, presented as a ‘‘paltry fling,” the fact being that one Senavor (Gray of Delaware) for some reason objegted, and he had not time in the closing hours of the session to ask a vote of the Senate on that request. “Having now plenty of time,” said Mor- gan, “I will now read the document,” and he proceeded to do so. It showed the actnal amount due, excluding the claims of American citizens, to be only $96,102, instead of $425,000, as proposed by Mr. Gresham. He renewed his contention that the further negotiations in regard to this, as provided by the treaty, could only be entered upon by and with the consent of the Senate, and gravely suggested that the Senate should not be deprived of its constitutional power because it may suit the present views of the President. He closed by asking a vote on his resolution. Morgan occupied two hours in the de- livery of his speech, and then the resolu- tion was agreed to, «The two first bills of this. Congress were passed to-day—one of them to allow the Superior Court of Pennsylvania the use of the United States courthouses at Scranton and Williamsport, and the other making an appropriation of $100,000 for a survey and plans of improvement at the entrance of Biscaine Bay, Fla. Senators Hill of New York and Caffery of Louisiana made their first appearance at thig session to-day in the Senate cham- ber, and the latter took the oath of office under his election for the fuil term, begin- ning March 4, 1895. S A joint resolution granting to the State of Pennsylvania permission to use for five years the United States courthouses at Scranton, Pa., and Williamsport, Pa., was reported from the Juaiciary Committee, and was passed. This is the first bill pussed at the present session. ’ +Cullom (R.) of Illinois gave notice that he would address the Senate to-morrow on the subject of the Monroe doctrine. Berry (D.) of Arkansas introduced a bill to form the Indian Territory into the Territory of Indianola, and gave notice that he would hereafter address the Senate on the subject. Among the number of pension bills in- troduced and referred was one by Voor- hees (D.) of Indiana to pay a pension of $200 a month to the widow of the late Secretary of State Gresham. A bill to preyent citizens of the United States from accepting titles, patents of no- bility or degrees of honor from foreign nations (under the penalty of fine and disfranchisement),was introduced by Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. It ex- cepts from its provisions ecclesiastic titles, A bill for the establishment of a cannon factory on the Pacific Coast was introduced by Squire (R.) of Washington, with some remarks as to its importance, and was referred to the Committee on Coast Defenses. A resolution calling on the President for copies of all correspondence in the State Department on the subject of the trial and imprisonment of John L. Waller by | the French authorities 2t Madagascar was introduced by Baker (R.) of Kansasand was agreed to. The Senate at 3:40 ». M. proceeded to executive business. SESSION or THE HOUSE., The First Bill Passed Related to the Port of Chicago. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 9. — The House in session an hour and fifteen minutes and almost that entire time was spent in the discussion of resolutions for the appointment of minor officials and employes of the House, including those by courtesy given to the minority and se- lected by the Democratic caucus. The first bill passed this session was that changing the collection limits of the port of Chicago so as to include the State of Illinois. Price (D.) of Louisiana made his first appearance at this Congress and took the oath of office. The consideration of a resolution calling on the Secretary of State for the corre- spondence in the Waller case and calling on the Commissioner of Pensions for the names of all pensioners dropped from the pension rolls or reduced met with objec- tions. The House then, at 1:15 o’clock, on motion of Thomas (R.) of Michigan, ad- journed until to-morrow MARCH OF INSURGENTS, Soon They Will Fight the Biggest Battle Since the Revolu- tion Began. Generals Maceo and Gomez Con- centrating Forces for the Final Struggle. BOSTON, Mass., Dec. A special to the Transcript from Santiago de Cuba dated November 28 via Tampa, Fla., states that considerable activity is again manifest in the war and that the insurgents are in every manner striving to bring matters to a crisis. The well-known patriot leader General Perequilo Perez with a large force isonce more invading the Guantanomo dastrict. For some time past he has not carried on any exfensive field operations with his army owing, it is said, toa jealous feeling that he did not have any power in the councils of the war party. This action on his part therefore means a great deal to the cause, as by this action over 2000 trained men, well armed, will en- ter the field. Hisinvasion of Guantanomo was so sudden that the small force of Spanish was taken unawares and retreated across the mountains without risking a battle. Matias Vega, another insurgent chief, is also once more active in Mayari, his latest exploit being the capture of a small bark on the Cauto River. The bark was from Nives Bay and was loaded with pro- visions and munitions for the regulars. Another dispatch from Havana states that the combined insurgent forces, under Generals Maceo and Gomez, have begun their forward march toward Santa Clara, and it is only a matter of a few days when they will conflict with the regulars form- ing the major portion of the Spanish army in the field, so that there is sure to bea large battle, which will undoubtedly be the largest of the war. Both of the Cuban leaders are showing considerable skill in the method with which their campaign is being carried out, as they are purposely avoiding all small encounters with scattered derachments of the regulars, as this action would mean the crippling of their numbers for the assauit without working materially to their advantage. Private advices received in this city to- night by the steamer Ethelwynn from the agents of the Patriot League, at the seat of war, states that what slight jeal- ousies existed among the different leaders a month ago have been smoothed over and that the patriots will go into the coming, and what promises to be the final, struggle of the war with a better confidence than they have ever shown before. The men are all in the best of health, have unbounded confidence in their lead- ers, ard are well armed and have an ad- vantage of position. Knowing this they will not neglect to bring the war to an issue at whatever cost. —_— RIOTS WERE FEARED., So the Madrid Merchants Kept Their Shops Closed. MADRID, Sparx, Dec. 9.—The shops in the city were all closed to-day, their pro- prietors fearing that rioting might grow out of the great public demonstration against the scandals in the municipal council and the passive attitude of the Government in regard thereto. Forty thousand persons paraded the sireets. Among the prominent men who took part in the demonstration were several members of the Jate Ministry, including ex-Prime Minister Sagasta. Senor Silvana, a dissident Conservative; Senors Margall and Salmoron, the Republican leaders, a:1d a number of Senators and members of the Chamber of Deputies. The route of the procession was lined with people, who entliusiastically cheered the paraders. There was a gisphy of gendarmes and °‘Yfl‘5y- but their services were not re- quired, as the demonstration was orderly throughout. ¥ U LT AN You Koeller's Resignation. BERLIN, Germany, Dec. 9.—The Em- peror has accepted the resignation of Herr von Koeller, Prussian Minister of the In- terior, who was succeeded by Baron von der Recke Vonderhorst, president of the province of Dusseldorf. —_——-— Siw of the Crew Drowned. LIVERPOOL, Exg., Dec. 9.—The steam collier Ringsend was in collision to-day with an unknown vessel off the mouth of the River Mersey. The Ringsend sank. Five of the crew were saved, but six were drowned. | | Blixt. RAVINGS OF HAYWARD Katherine Ging’s Slayer Is Probably Feigning Insanity. SAYS STRANGE THINGS, And Pretends to Have the Most Horrible of Visions. OFFERS BRIBES TO ESCAPE. But There Is Little Hope for the Con- demned Man and He Promises to Die Bravely. MINNEAPOLIS, Mixx., Dec. 9.—Harry T. Hayward, the murderer of Katherine Ging, is bordering on the verge of insanity. Sleeping or waking he sees before him the faces of those conuected with the trial wherein he found his doom. Muttering in- the dead of night, waving his hands be- fore his face in the daytime, he seems al- ways to see something of which the physi- cian who stood by knew nothing, saw nothing. “What is it, Harry?”’ has often been asked, and his reply was: “Don’t you see them? They are hereand there,” pointing in the dark corners of his cell and crouch- ing back as if at last he feared something. “They talk to me,” he contirued. This is all he would say to County Phy- sician Burton, who attended him through- out the long watches of the night and ad- ministered opiates to quiet the famous prisoner, whose fitful starts and lunges gave him worriment. To a reporter, how- ever, he exclaimed: | “Say, do you know last night I saw the devil. He stood at the foot of my bed and spoke to me. Another stood at the other corner, and I also saw two corpses. I wrestled with the devilsand threw them out, but it did no good. 1 told them that I was not afraid, and the guard will tell you the same. Then I saw the face of Kittie Ging. She spoke to me, but I did not answer. Blixt came, too, and asked me to forgive him, but I would not. Oh, if my brother Adry had only come, I could have strangled him and been contented to hang,” with a Jaugh that sounded harsh in the echoing cellroom. A deputy was sent to his cell, and he ar- rived in time to hear Harry cry, “Good, T've won a thousand; let her go; deuce, then an ace; ha! ha! I win again!” Then an oath fell from his lips and his talk be- came rambling and unintelligible. A lucid moment dawned and he was asked how he felt. *‘Great,” he exclaimed. “I never spent a happier day in my life,”” and the laugh too horrible to find response from his hearers rang out. The old life was lived over again in his sleep, and with a quick start Harry would exclaim words of triumph as if engaged once more in a faro game. If Hayward has not a hope of commute- ment of sentence throngh the play of in- sanity, he has lost his reason indeed, for but last evening he endeavored to open an avenue of escape by the offer of a large sum of money. The plot was as foolish as one could possibly be. Calling to his cell Adry, the brother who gave deadly testi- mony against him, he asked forgiveness for all the harsh things he had said against him, and then asked his aid in escape. “‘You know that I cannot do it,”’ an- swered Adry, and Harry broke forth in invectives, shrieking: “I will meet you at the gates of hell with a redhot poker.” To the guard he offered $1000 to aid him, but he might as well bhave asked it of an in- fant. A million could not hLave lent him aid. Although an iron door separated him from the hanging-court, Harry heard the sounds of the hammerings as they nailed together the parts of the scaffold that was to relieve him. ‘“They’re off,” he exclaimed with a horrid laugh. “Go it, you fellows. Make it strong, for I don’t want any slip.” Then turning to the guard who stood by he demanded: ‘‘Say, after the drop and they cut me down, if I get upand walk, do you suppose that they will let me go?” The guard assured the prisoner that he was a free man should be verform this feat. *That's all right,”’ laughed Harry, “T will kick the top from my coffin at the morgue anvway.’’ The gnard immediately turned away and the conversation was over for the moment. Hayward declares that he will prove to the world that he is a man of nerve, when the final moment arrives, “I will walk to the gallows with a firm step.’” said he to the United Press man this afternoon. “The papers for months past have won- dered if T was possessed of nerve or wasa man withont a soul. When lam done the press will say whether or not I had the | nerve.”’ All through the day the noise arising from the erection of the gallows smote the ears of the condemned man; but under it all he grew calmer, excepting the re- peated statement that he would return in spirit and haunt his brother Adry and He was rational in the evening. | He declares that he will make a statement on the gallows Wednesday morning and the most expert of the court reporters of Hennepin County have been engaged to take his' words. It is believed, however, that Harry will not make a confession, but will simply make arehash of his former statements regarding his escape plot and his avowed innocence in connection with the death of Kitiie Ging. Everything is to-night completed for the execution. The gallows has been erected 1n the court where the Barrett boys were hanged and where narrow cells have held condemned prisoners heretofore. Sheriff Holmberg himself will pull the lever that will spring che trap. The structure is not the shaky affair used in former executions. Instead huge and solid timbers have been | least. used, and the spectators will not hear the praseiois Rttt ittt b it Remember That good health, strong nerves, physical vigor, happiness and usefulness depend upon pure, rich, healthy blood. Remem- ber that the blood can be made pure, richy and healtny, by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla {The One True Blood Purifier. §1; 6 for $5. /lood’s Fills cure biliousness, headache. 206 horrible booming in the echoing room of loosely constructed planking at the fall. Hayward bas softened under his-long imprisonment, and the physicians who made the last examination of his body state thal there is danger that at the fall the head may be jerked from the body, so great is the weight of the eondemned man. The hanging will occur about 1:30 o’clock Wednesday morning. This Is the first exe- cution occurring in the State upon a day other than Friday, Governor Clough lead- ingin the precedent in the belief that the | superstition that. Friday is ill of luck | should be done away in public affairs at Hayward refuses to emusbrace re- ligion. i WANT FAURE TO RESIGN. | Strange Rumors Concerning an Alleged | French Campaign. PARIS, Fraxcg, Dec. 9.—Strange rumors are printed in various papers concerning an alleged campaign to compel President Faure to resign. The object is believed to be to obtain a meeting of Congress at which the question of a revision of the constitution might he raised. La Liberte says that the rumors emanate from the same groups that caused ex-President Casimir-Perier to become disgusted with the office. STRUCK OF A OcK Wreck of the Steamer Principia While Fire Was Raging Aboard. Twenty-Seven of the Vessel’s Com. | pany Drowned in a Disaster Off Cape Wrath. ] LONDON, Kxe., Dec. 9.—A dispatch | from Leith says a report has reached there | that the steamer Principia was discovered to be on fire under the forehatch when 140 | miles off Cape Wrath, the most northwest- erly point of Scotland. The steamer was put before the wind and ran for the Faroe Islands. On approaching the island she struck a rock and went down in twenty fathoms of water. Twenty-seven of the ship’s company were drowned and one was rescued by a boat from the shore. A passenger named Jackson was also drowned. | The circumstances that led to the | steamer striking the rock grew directly out of the fire. The captain’s object in | running his vessel before the wind was to counteract whatever draft mizht be created by ber forward progress. Some time before the steamer struck the fire burned through the forehatch and a great volume of smoke and flame poured out of the hold, com- pletely obscuring the view ahead, The vessel, therefore, had to be navigated | blindly, and she struck before it was known that she was so close to land. There is about $75,000 insurance on the vessel. ‘The Principia is the second vessel | lost by the Arrow line in two weeks. On | November 26 the Madura from Hamburg | for Port Royal, 8. C., foundered in mid- | ocean. The officers and crew took to the | boats and were picked up two days later. | Captain Stannard of the Principia was | master of the Arrow line steamer Crystal | when she was wrecked several years ago. 1 NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 9.— The| steamer Principia belonged to the Arrow Shipping Company, the managers of which are Dent & Co. of Newcastle-on- | Tyne. She had a general cargo. 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