The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 11, 1896, Page 11

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1896. 11 AFTER THE FIRE COMMISSIONERS, Ex-Foreman Buchanan Ob- jects to Their Tri- bunal. DENIED HIM COUNSEL He Was Tried and Convicted Outside of the Regular State Courts. THAT FUND FOR THE WIDOWS He Says It Was Handled by the Heads of the Department, and Not for Charity, Either. ela America is defending Venezu ot R % i 1 ////// b ////m EX - FOREMAN BUCHANAN OF ENGINE 9, WHO HAS SOMETHING TO SAY REGARDING THE FIRE COMMISSIONERS. [From a photograph.] England she might give a little | turned to charity. The firemen, who are n to the San Francisco Fire Com- | fair and frank about the matter, are very accuse men of felonies | Much worked up over tkis manner of g . | hanaling the fund, and no man who has | CETm pras "% |any regard for his dead companion’s them to be represented by a lawyer. | widow likes to see her deprived of money That's what th did to me,” said ex- | that was intended for her. Foreman Buchanan of engine 9. “In the case of the Page-street fire, when “Iwas simply found guilty and dis- | three men were killed, we subscribed about missed without being permitted acounsel. 1t happened right in this City, a portion of America, the land of the free, etc. Wh; ess things than that have plunged cou tries into war, but here in this City the rire Commissioners take the law into | _‘During the whole twenty years of Chief their hands and sit as a court Scannell’s reign as the head of the Fire “Here is the way they did it: On the | DEPEFIETt nGthing of that kind was ever 7th of December, 1895, Hoffman & Alex- | widow. woald gt the fall omernt. SVew ander’s wholsale clothing-house _caugnt tire, and among other engines No. 9, of h I was foreman at the time, answered alarm. Six days after that I revorted neglect in not keep- . On the next day, ays aiter the fire, Kennedy re- wh cov ec e bad seen some clothing on the apparatus that looked as though it had been taken from the fire on the 7th. He said that it was stolen, and the Commis- yners forthwith tried us for petty larceny December. on the 26th of There were five of us altogether—William H. Cronin, John Hol James Collner, Thomas Mul- and myself. the Fire Commissioners to have the case laid over until the man who had made the charge would get oui a proper complaint through the proper authorities, and that we be tried in the Superior Court just the people. They refused to listen to such a proposition, although I told them that 1f - -4 Rz same as other | about 500 firemen in this City, each of whom is expected to, and does put up his dollar | 1n case of the death of any of the firemen. Up to the death of Chief Scannell this rule, which was thought to be a good one, was in force and the widows received the revenue. | _ *“The amendment afterward put through { by Chief Sullivan cut the amount from $500 to $200 and it prevailed for some time. | I must not forget to state, however, that | the firemen continued to put up $500on | each death and the balance left each time went into the res fund until it got to be somewhere in the neighborhood of $7000. g “When the driver of my company died I got up at the next meeting of the Board of Foremen and did the very rare thine of | asking that his widow be voted $150 extra | over the regular ). Istated that the amily was in distressed rcumstances nd that they were in need of all the money we could give them. Four mon after the th of Driver Teason, whose widow got §150 extza, one of the extramen —-Thomas McCarthy—died, and his fam- ily needed assistance worse than Teason’s. I went again before the board and begged | that somiething more be given Mrs, M | Carthy she needed it the worst way. took considerable pains to set forth the fact that I had known them all for some | time and that this case was worthy of un- | limited cha The result was I got the extra but it was anything but | pleasant to the heads to givéitup. On | other occasions other members of the Fire | Department did the same thing and the heads then took steps to stop the whole thing by passing an amendment setting forth the fact that under no circumstance ! should more than $200 be given a widow of a fireman, “This proposition may be all right from the outside, but all the same we are ex- pected 10 and do pay in $1 each on the ath of every fireman. It is simp icaseof giving $500 and only $200 of it is | $1500, yet only $600 of it went to the three | widows. The other $900 went into the | reserve fund, which was used for heaven knows what, and the families of the dead firemen did not get what was intended- for them. long ago a paper was bro around to the foremen asking them to sign it and thus authorize the heads of the Fire Department to expend something like $7000 for the purpose of employing special | coungel. This ‘special counsel’ was em- | ployéd about the time the Legislature was | in session, and the tiremen who put it up | are wondering where 1t went. “Do you suppose it would be po: for anybody to think that the Fire missioners thought ita good plan to get rid of me because I opposed taking tha money from the widows and orphans?”’ Foreman Buchanan looked out of the cor- ner of his eye and puffed on the cigar be- tween his teeth. “Let me give you another sample of how true Chief Sultivan is to his dead superior, David Scannell. When Assistant | Chief James Reilly died, Sullivan, who | | | | | | succeeded him, immediately made a mo- | tion as Chief of the department, acting in that capacity during Scannell’s 'iliness, to we were tried in the manner Jaid down by | the Jlaw of the State and found euilty from the service of the Fire Department. To this proposition they turned a deaf ear, and 1 finally asked if we would be per- mitted to have our own attorneys. This also refused and the trial proceeded. called ten witnesses, all of whom tes- tified that there was nothing of the kind charged in the complaint of Kennedy; that they had observed and that they had seen no clothing that did not belong to the accused. On the other hand Engineer Kennedy and Driver Cain testified that they saw a bundle of something on the apparatus that appeared to be clothing. They had nothing, mind you, as evidence were then at liberty to dismissus | erect, with money from the reserve fund, | a monument over Reilly’s grave. Inside | of sixty days aiter Reilly’s funeral the | stone was in_place and the firemen had | paid for it. Shortly after that the brave | Scannell passed away, and Sullivan, who | took his place, thought nothing of him. | Last Decoration day. when we were out to | the cemetery, I noticed that Dave Scan- | | nell’s grave had no monument over it, and at the next meeting I protested against | such treatment of the best Chief San Fran- | cisco ever had. I said in my remarks | that we ought to erect a monument to | Dave Scannell, dead nearly three years, | before the newspapers observed the ab- | | sence of one, as it would reflect discredit upon tne firemen who pretended to be his to prove this charge, not even a collar- | friends, The result of this is known to button, but their word was taken as against ten others, and Cronin and Holmes were found guilty as charged #nd immediately dismissed from the service. Now that is not the end. Wait until you hear me out and you will get an insight into how 2 man can be persecuted. At that trial the rest of us were exonerated, but in a short time after that I was charged with two more offenses. One was not changing the wet hose for a dry one, as is the custom after wil fires. The other was for not reporting the men who were alleged to have taken the clothing. How could I repert them when I did not know and did not believe that they took the clothing? On the charge of not changing the hose I brought in to the Fire Commissioners the books of the clerk of engine 9 and proved that I did change the hose and that it was done immediately after the fire. On the charge of not reporting the men who stole tfie clothing I was dismissed, probably be- cause I did not believe they were the thieves. Is that the way for a body of Commissioners to do business with men who happen to come under them? It may appear to the laymen that I was not alto- gether straight'and that they wanted to get rid of me, but it was not that at all, but because I fought them on the proposi- tion of converting the Widows' and Orphan’s Fund into a political fund. That, sir, and nothing else was the cause of my dismissal from the rire Departmentand I can prove that they wanted to getrid of me for that reason and that reason alone. “I have been in bad odor because I have been the only defender of the fund and because I have taken every occasion to fight for the widows and children of dead firemen—men who died in their attempts to save property to the citizens of San Francisco. I will explain_ to you how the fund is created. In case of the deathofa fireman from accident or natural or other causes we all chip in $1 apiece and give the total amount to the widow or his orphans, provided he has any. There are | the people of this City, as next Sunday a handsome stone will mark bis resting | place, but it will be through no action of | Ehief Sullivan. | “*Certainly, we propose tosettle this case | of dismissal in the right courts. We have | employed an attorney to sue the Commis- sioners for back salary and reinstatement, to say nothing of a suit for damages to our reputations. We intend to see whether or | not the Board of Fire Commissioners are better legal bodies to handle the law than + the Superior Court. Iam not so anxious about that as I am about the money for the widows and orphans, whom the fire- men want to see treated properly, regard- less of any viewsthe Chief or any other member of the board of Fire Department heads may have, All I want is justice to all hands, and particularly to the wives and children of the dead heroes who died doing their duty.” LABOR COUNCIL. Organization of an Association Having for 1ts ORject the Collection of Laborers’ Wages. The Labor Council met at 1159 Mission street last evening. It was reported to the council that hundreds of complaints were coming from workingmen who had diffi- culty in getting wages due them. In many cases the sums were 3o small and | the employers, generally small contract- ors, being so irresponsible financially, that the employes could not afford to attempt the collection of their debts by an action at law. After a consideration of the subject a workmen’s defense association was or- ganized, similar to those now in existence in other cities. By this method the mem- bers combine with the object of making bad aebt collections without needless ex- pense. | BABCOCK 1S TO REMAIN Judge Troutt Holds He Is the Real Superintendent of Schools. HE WAS LEGALLY APPOINTED. Power of the Board of Education to Fill Vacancies Under the Con- solidation Act. Judge Troutt hassustained the demurrer of Madison Babeock to the suit of Charles S. Young, in which Young endeavored to have Babcock removed from the office of Superintendent of Schools and haye him- self declared the incumbent. The suit was brought by the people upon Young’s relation. The complaint alleged that after the death of A.J. Moulder on October 14, 1895, Young was duly appointed to the office by the Board of Supervisors on November 4, 1895, but that since that act the defendant, Babcock, had usurped the office. The demurrer to this complaint was submitted by Babcock on the ground that ient for a cause of action had not been stated. In support of his de- murrer the defendant cited the Legislative act of April 27, 1865, which provides that in case of a vacancy in the office of- Super- intendent of Schools the Board of Educa- tion may appoint & person to fill the, vacancy until the next regular election when the office shall be filled by the peo- ple. The defendant contended that this act had not been repealed, and hence the appointment of Young by the Board of Supervisors was without warrant in law. Responding to this the relator, Young, cited the county government act of March 14, 188 This act in subdivision 21 of sec- tion s that the Boards of Supervisors of the various counties have the power to ill by appointment all vacancies which 3 ounty or town- excent in those of Judge of the perior Court and Supervisor. Section of this county government act declares all previous acts and parts of acts in ict with it are repealed. It was argued by counsel for Young that the county government act was a general | law and hence was applicable to the City and County of San Francisco, to some ex tent at least, and that it conferred upon the Board of Supervisors of this City and County, as well as upon those of the counties, the power to appoint the ccessor of a Superintendent of Schools dies before the expiration of his term. Tie question raised therefore, whether or not the act for the government. of counties applied in the City and County rancisco, or in another form, the 1estion of whether in the eyes of the slature San Francisco is a city or a s su \menting upon thls point Judge ¥s 1 his opinior v and County of San Francisco isa ion of the old municipal corporation Franeisco by virtue 19, 1856, commonly known consolidation act. This act defines the s of said City and County and trans- s the nda d all the property an ts of both, the s corporation of the v of San Fr: 0 and the Cou of San 0, to the said | City and County, formed by the consolidation | of both. ou_ provides that all | of ‘its adoption, and | erewith, shall remain in effect until repesled by the Legisla- Hence the aforesaid consolidation act was not repealed by the adoption of the con- stitution ir But it is beyond dispure that the Legislature has the power to passa | perinanen. law which wil) affect the charter of | this City and County without its consent. We find that the general provisions of the Political Code as to the control of the City schools by the Board of Education are applica- ble to this City and County, and that it is not governed by the consolidation act alone. The court then_cites the duties of the Legislature as laid down by the constitu- tion, in making general laws for the g ernment of all counties and for the class: fication and government of cities. In obe- | dience to these requirements, he said, the Legislature passi the act of March 13, 1883, entitled, “‘An act for the organiza- tion, incorporation and government of | municipal corporation: and also the | county government act. The Supreme Court, in reference to this of March 13, 1853, declared that it rested with the peo- ple to determine by their votes if they would organize under the actor frame a charter under the ‘‘fifteen freeholders’ clause of the constitution, or by non-action abide by the charter as it existed. ntin- uing on the suggestion conveyed in that decision, Judge Troutt says: s that tne aforesaid act of March ng to municipal corporations, t1his City and County only in ent that the of the City and should determine by thefr votes 1o be- come organized thereunder, why should the county government act of March 13, 1883, be held to affect this municipality when no action been taken by the people in regard to such act? Evidently it shoul Furthermore 1 am satis said subdivision 21 of se of the said county government act should be construed as conferring power to fill certain vacancies only reated by said of Superyisors by the consolidation act. Conse- notwithstanding the views of the counsel who appeared for the plaintiff, and who most ably and admirably urgea their construction of the stetute, I am of the opinion that the county government act in question did not repeal the aforesaid act of April 27, 1853, and that therefore the Board of Educi tion of this City and County still retains the power to appoint a person to fill a vacaney in the office of Superintendent of Schools. Accordingly the defendant’s demurrer fs sus- tained, without leave to plaintiff to amend the complaint, and judgment will be given in favor of the defendant. WAITING FOR NEW RATES. Shippers Watching the Pacific Mail’s Dictum—Clipper Ships Aga The Pacific Mail officials stated yester- day they were not in a position to say when the advanced freight rates via Panama would become effective. In fact, they were not prepared to quote the ad- vanced, rates, and it will likely be some days before the new schedule is issued for the delectation of merchantsand producers of Californian articles of commerce, The transcontinental rates as advanced and adopted on low-class commod ities by the Southern Pacific (lom{:'uny have been published in THE CALL, and now the inter- est of shippers is direcfed toward the new tariff of the Pacific Mail Company. There is a differential rate of $3a ton in favor of the water route, and it is generally believed by railway men that this stand- ard will be maintained under the new order of things. It is an open question if the low-class commodities, such as wine, iron, etc., that have come under the corporation’s ban can afford the additional tax. In nota few instances the advanced rate may com- el shippers to cease exporting to the Jast, since the small margin of profit on those articles prohibits the payment of high freights. The only possible way out of the dilemma is the clipper ship line, to which the Traffic Association will at once turn_ its attention in the interest of Cali- fornia merchants and producers. ————— Amateur Press Association. The forty-first regular meeting of the Golden State Amateur Press Association, President McCarthy in the chair, was held last night at Forresters’ Hall on O’Farrell street. Sixteen members were present. After transacting the usual routine of business these officers were in- stalled: Harry C. Morris, president; George A. Hinkel, vice-president: Miss L. Lohmeyer, recording secretary; Leon M. Voorsanger, cor- responding secretary; Franklin C. Mortimer, treasurer; William A. Day, official editor. upon the Board of Supervisors act, and not upon the Boar: created | for the paving of the street. | zen. I had business in Burope, and know- | we traveled together as far as Berlin, | until the return of their father from Rus- | literary readings ard vocal solos. Followingis a list of the members present: Miss Ethel Neal, Miss Laura Lohmeyer, Daniel T. Mc- 8. T. Bush, F. C. Mortimer, H, C. Mor- iam A. Day, W. Radius, R. Block, R. Fancompre, F. P. Scully, C. L. Asmussen, Wil liam Leibey, Leon M. Voorsanger. MWGAUGHEY IN TROUBLE, The Slayer of Dr. Plouf Charged by His Employers With For- gery. J. D. L. McGaughey, the slayer of Dr. Plouf, is being sought for by the police with a warrant charging him with forgery. The charge is made by John T. Brennan, manager of the San Francisco Paving Company, for which McGaughey has been acting in the capacity of solicitor for street-paving contracts. Manager Brennan says McGanghey was engaged on commission to secure signa- tures of property-owners on Grove street, between Baker and Lyon, to a petition to have the street paved. McGaughey pre- sented a petition containing the names of three-fourths of the property-owners and a contract between them and the company Thereupon THE CONVENTION CALLED, Mayors of Four Large Cities Issue a Stirring Mani- festo. TO BE HELD NEXT SATURDAY. Delegates to Be Divided Into Three Classes, and No Proxies Will Be Allowed. The call for a State convention, which the opponents of the funding bill trust will tesuit in the crushing of that measure when it is brought up for consideration be- ooy mas (ll'uid §ecommission. of | fore Congress, was issued yesterday, signed | $100. Subsequently, when the pav | by Mavor Sote St e was ready to begin = work, | oy o ayor Sutro, Mayor Davie of Oakland; | company Manager Brennan learned that all the signatures were forgeries. e sought Me- Ganghey for the purpose of exactingan explanation, but he could not find the solicitor. McGaughey and_his wife_sailed yester- day in the Walla Walla for Victoria. HOMER WILSON o7 LOST A Berlin Sensation of the Disap- pearance of Two Men Exploded. Mayor Baggs of Stockton and Mayor Hub- bard of Sacramento. It is as follows: To the Mayors of the Cities and Towns of Califor- nia and to the Chairmen of the Boards of vis0rs of the Counties Theréof—GEN 3 Huntington and other railroad magn 1g 10 force Comgress into passing a {1l is & patent fact y shall be consummated either | imately give the Ce and Un tral i #80,000,000, and thus cancel a just debt ¢ b the people; or if the bonds are redeemed, t California in particular, together with the I cific Coast States, will' be compelled (o pay these $80,000,000 in the form of increased freights and fares. | Ii a funding scheme is passed it will bea governmental condonation of & most gigantic | crime. Such legislation precludes for years all | transcontinental railroad competition &ndi leaves us in_the grasp of & single godless mo- nopoly. Believing that we should make a final suu{vgh‘ ngnin&ft gln-xlvr ! ‘ 2 St o0d citizens of this State are opposed to any Count Novossiltzoff Not a Nihilist, but | finding ccheme, we have tuken the liberty of | Glaims 'fo) Bol i Wealthy | inviting you to aid in cailing a State conver- | tiom Nobleman. Phe purpose of that body shall be to express | the united opinion of the citizens of California against this vicious legislation and to send a memorial to Congress, protesting Against it as &an outrage on our rights as_American citizens. | So inspired, we ou to appoint one or more reputable ci ens as delegates toa State convention, to be held at San Francisco, at the Metropolitan Temple, at 1 P. M., on Saturday, January 18, 1896. The delegates shall be ap- portioned as follow: First—For cities, one for each 5000 people, to be appointed by the Mayor. . Second—For towns, one for each town having over 500 inhabitants and less than 5000, to be appointed by the Chairman of the Bosrd of Trustees thereof. 3 : Third—For counties not containing incor- orated towns or cities, one for the county aving at least 500 inhabitants, to be ap- pointed by the Chairman oi the Board of Supervisors. ¥ hese appointments to include all the cities, towns and counties in the State of California. Jf the delegates cannot attend in person they are requested to send resolutions containing an expression of their v Please make your appointments at once issue creden- tlals to each delegate. No proxies will be allowed. As the time is short and precious the demand for action is urgent. In the name of our grand State we respectiully demand your co-opera- tion in this hour of danger to our honor, and feel confident that your response will be prompt and patriotic. January 9, 1896. ApoLPH SUTRO, Mayor of San Francisco. J. Mayor of Oakland. I. BAGGS, Mayor of Stockton. C. H. HUBBARD, Mayor of Sacramento. Mayor Sutro was not 1n a sanguine mood vesterday over the prospects of the fight against the bill. His lack of confidence was occasioned by the receipt of the fol- lowing telegram from the agent of the committee of fifty, who is now at the Na- tional capital, in response to a query as to how matters are progressing: WASHINGTON, D. C., January 10, 1896, Adolph Sutro, San Francisco: Huntington is S | not here now; doesn’t need to be. Half House he left his davughtersin my charge. These | gnq Senate are his attorneys. Great reason I placed in an American boarding-school, | why he may expect to wim Only chance where they will be properly looked after | against him in the Senate. ‘While expressing a fear that the plans of President Huntington of the railroad will prevail during the present session of Congress Mayor Sutro insists that the fight must be carried out to the bitter end and that the more gloomy the prospect of de- | feating the bill sppears the harder the | committee of fifty must labor in the cause. SILVER CONFERENCE. Coast Secretary Keeney Leaves for Washington in Advance of the Other Delegates From This State. George P. Keeney, Pacific Coast secre- tary of the American Bimetallic Union, left Thursday for the East, in advance of other delegates, to attend the conference of the silver leaders to be held at Washing- ton, D. C., January 22. George W. Baker and Thomas J. Clunie of this City, Colonel John R. Berry of Los Angeles and other prominent leaders in the cause of bimet- allism have been invited and will probably be present at Washington on that date. Mr. Keeney will do considerable political work on his way, and has been invited to be present at St. Louis January 17, when the meeting of the National Committee of the People’s party will be held. Before he left he said: The conference at Washington will probably consolidate all the different movements and | In a cable dispateh from Berlin yester- day it was stated that quite a sensation had been created in that city by the mys- | terious disappearance of two American | gentlemen named Homer Wilson and Pro- fessor Novi. This item of sensation lacked somewhat of the full force of a dark and deadly mys- tery by the locating of one of the dis- appearing persons in the Mills building in this City by a CaLL reporter yesterday, who met and conversed with Homer Wilson, and from whom the following | account of the disappearance of himself and the Russian Count from the German capital was obtained: “There was nothing mysterions about our appearance in or disappearance from | Berlin,” said Mr. Wilson. ¢My acquaintance and trip with Profes- sor Novi occurred in this wise: I had been well acquainted with Count Novos- | siitzoff, or Alexis Nowy, the name by | which he is known as an American citi- ing that Nowy was about to go to Russia, - Mr. Nowy became Count A. Novos- , and here he met his nephew, Gen- ral Trotzky, who is the military general of the first province of Russia joining Ger- | many, with the capital at Wilna. Here | by the aid of General 'Irotzky the Count | was to obtain a passport to visit St. Peters- burg, where he claimed to have sufficient influence to enable him to recover his estate, valued at §3,000,000, which had been confiscated by the Czar over twenty years ago. “Before Count Novossiltzoff left Beclin sia or the arrival of their mother, who has | suddenly disappeared from this City. i “So far as my sudden ‘disappearance’ from Berlin goes this can hardly be mys- terious, because I left in company with Colonel Hovarth and Lieutenant Garfield, of the Russian army, and we all arrived in v on December 21, 1895. At the present time I do not know the whereabouts of Count Novossiltzoff. Prob- ably he 1s in Russia. He carries with him gilt-edge credentials signed by the Secre- tary of State and the Judges of the Su- preme Court av Washington. “The last Isaw of him was on Novem- ber 10, when he left me in Berlin, and I have no reason to believe thatanything serious has befallen him. Tam at & loss to understand to what the Berlin correspond- ent could aturibute our ‘mysterious disap- pearance.” There is nothing mysterious about our movements. ““As regards what has been said about the Count being an impostor, I know of my own knowledge that his wife drew from the Olympia bank, in the State of | Washington, the sum of $80,000 coming from the estate of her husband. “This and other matters connected with | him have impressed me with the belief | that what he says about himself and fam- ily is the truth. Heis not a nihilist and | has never been charged with any crime against the Russian Government. His banishment from Russia was of a personal | nature with the Czar. The late Czar, Alexander I, fully restored him to favor, this slavery, and that the |* NOW 99 YEARS OLD. 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THESUCCESS OF THE SEASOY THE LADIES' GRILL ROON ——OF THE— PALAGE HOTEL, DIRECT ENTRANCE FROM MARKET ST, OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT. Baj.a Califor.nia Damiana Bitters Ts a powertul aphrodisiac and specific tonic for the sexnal and urinary organs of both sexes, and & great remedy for diseases of the kidneys and blad- der. A great Restorative, Invigoratorand Nervine. Sells on its own Merits—no long-winded test monials necessary. NABER, ALF 323 Market S NE, Agents, & BRU L3, nd ‘for Circular.) t., S but died before the confiscated estate had been returned to him. It is to get this property that he is now in Russia.” ON MARINE INSURANCE. Decision of Federal Judge Morrow in the Case Against La Fonciere Compagnie 4’ Assurance. United States District Judge Morrow rendered a decision yesterday of great importance to marine panies. Frederick A. Koons and Hapgood & Co. of Portland, Or., against La Fonciere Com- insurance com- It was in the admiralty suit of organizations favorable to the remonetization of silver, and thus ratify the meeting and ac- tion had at Chicago December 14, 1895, reports of which were subli!hed in the press dis- patches. The indications are also that the People’s party may nave a representation at Washington in the form of a conference com- mittee, looking to united action with the sil- ver party in some form during the coming Presidential clm‘}\algn. Many eminent men will be present,including Genersl A. J. War- ner, Senator Stewart, General J. C. Sibley, Sen- ator Marion Butler, Senator Tillman, Paul Van Dervoort, National chairman, and H. C. Tau- beneck of the People’s party—all representin; the leading thought of the Nation in favor of monetary reform and a reconstruction of our financial system. The tendency toward unify- ing all reform elements into one great move- ment is evidently spontaneous and very rapidly growing. pagnie d’Assurance of France. This is a libel to recover $1110 30 as a balance due on insurance of 500 cases of salmon. An insurance policy for §3000 was made to Hapgood & Co. of Portland, Or., on 500 cases of salmon in July, 1892. The month following the salmon was shipped on the bark Belle of Oregon for New York, but the vessel, encountering a storm down the coast, sprang a leak and put into the port of San Francisco in distress on September 21, 1892. On discharging the cargo here it was found that it was very much damaged and 392 cases of salmon were sold for $1415 85. The market value of the salmon if not damaged would have been $6 £0 a case in New York. It was in- sured on a valuation of §6 a case. The libelants contended that the loss sustained by the forced sale at San Fran- cisco was a salvage l0ss. Against this the insurance company insisted on a50 per cent basis of adjustment. Judge Morrow decided that the settlement of the adjust- ment on the basis of the salvage loss was in accordance with clause 3 of the policy and therefore gavé judgment in favor of the libelants for the amount demanded. ———————— Failed to Provide. Louis M. Fietcher, & contractor who resides at 114 Collingwood street, was arrested yester- day on & bench warrantissued by Judge Camp- bell. Fletcher was arrested some time ago on the charge of failure to provide for his five children and was to have been tried on Thurs- day, but failed to put in an appearance, hence the bench warrant. Mr. Keeney will be absent several weeks. Meanwhile his office in_the Miils buil ing will be in Chairman George W. Baker’s hands. MRS. HEINECKE ANSWERS. The Wife Tells a Tale of Brutal Cruelty From the Husband. Mrs. Frances B. Heinecke has filed an answer to the complaint of her husband, Paul Heinecke, for divorce, and has also filed a complaint of her own in which she asks for a divorce on the ground of cruelty. In her answer Mrs. Heinecke denies that she used vulgar language to her hus- band, or that she ever struck him, and she further denies each and every one of his allegations against her, and asks that his complaint be dismissed. In her complaint she alleges acts of the most brutal eruelty, which continued, she says, from just after her marriage in March, 1894, until recently, when they separated. he says her husband is a gripman, and is earning $240 a day, and she asks the court to compel him to provide for her, to dismiss his complaint and to grant her a divorce, allowing her to resume her maiden name of Frances Christman. = ey THAT FORGED CHECK. It Causes a Suit Between the Crocker- ‘Woolworth and the Nevada Banks. The Crocker-Woolworth National Bank is suing the Nevada Bank for $21.988, the amount of its loss upon the raised $12 check cashed by A. H. Dean on December 17, 1895, The circumsiances of the forgery are all set forth, and the amount sued for repre- e Very Rich Indeed In the elements that supply the human system with bone, muscle and brain substance isa circula- lation fertilized with ‘the supreme tonic, Hostet- ter's Stomach Bitters, which begets thorough as- similation and digestion, and gives & healthful impulse to every function of the body. Dyspeptic and weakly persons give strong testimony in its bebalf. S0 do those troubled with biliousness, ma- The council adjourned to meét Friday evening. After the meeting a very interesting enter- tainment was given consisting of recitations, sents the difference between the actual Iaria, rheumatism, constipation and inactivity of e value of the check and its apparent value. the kidneys. 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