The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 20, 1896, Page 2

(& THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JAN ¢ UARY 20, 1896. m [N THE REALM OF THE KAISER Emperor William at OQuts With Several German Princes. TWO FAITHFUL ALLIES. Triple Alliance Not Affected by the Hostility of Great Britain. RETURN OF AN EXILED EDITOR Herr Gehelsen Stirs Up a Political Scandal in His Resurrected Newspaper. BER sence of Pr . the K LIN, GERMANY, ce Luitpo f Wu r and other | the celebd German Princes, from tion h took place in Berlin yesterday upon | i of the twen fth anniver- the occa f the founding of the German em- s been widely commented upon as | tence of some tension in ons with the Kaiser. The ex- ven by Prince Luitpold, in re- or's invitation, ex- the others as well as sent. Prince Luitpold, in regretting his ina- bility to attend, informed the Emperor u er obligations to preside | brations beld in comiemo- | his own failure 1o be p wperor of Germany. This | good reason for his non- | it nevertheless, had desired to make himself. the center of a grand state function at which all the heads of the Federal States had been in at- | . his Majesty sent his highest urt off Prince von Hohenlohe- Ochringen, to Munich, with a pressing tion for the Prince Regent to be | tat the Berlin celebration, but the ince Regen urned a courteous re- | his plans. Similar refusals were received from other princely quarters, and th > Emperor in the worst of humor: h state of mind he re- covered, upon receiving prom- ises from Prince tpold and the other | Princes that they would be present at the | | | on the occasion of the birthday of the Emperor on y 27 will be the cu ti £on, and it is understood Soutk German Princes, the Grand Duke of | d Duke of Baden, and a | equally exalted person- | p nt. | ow been arranged that the Crown | nd his brother, Prince Eitel- ck, will not go to Ploen for the | purpose of pursuing their studies until April 18, and it is likely that all the chil- dren of the imperial family will accompany their parents to Abbazia in April. The Emver are projecting_a | editerranean, and e Grand Duke George, Czare- | , in the Riviera, the court | , at some French port. The in the course of his stay at also meet the Emperor ph of Austria, at some place which has not yet been fixed, or if it has been it has not been made known. es in circulation to the effect iple Alliance has been shaken | This function | z point of the sea- that besides the | Hess num 1 gland’s hostility to Germany i-ofiicially denied and said to be ion, foun None of the d, according to this au- sted the slightest modi- s of the Dreibund or desire to withdraw there- from. Both the Berlin and Vienna Goy- | ernme: e interested in the ventures of | Ttaly nia and are fully conscious | of the conse drain upon the resources which are weakening her as an ally, but is held to be no sufficient reason why e stability of the Triple Tlliance should | There is gtii cou a scandal attaching to the ction between Mme. Vilva Parlaghi, ist who was so highly favored by | ror. d M. Rosenthal, the Pa- risian jo professionally known as Jacques who is now in prison in Paris under charges of biackmail in con- nection with the cessful schemes to blackmail M. Lebaudy, the young million- aire who died recently while serving out his term of conscription in the French army. Mme. Pariaghi came to the full front of notoriety when the Emperor, against the verdict of the Berlin Academy, decided to award to her the grand gold medal. Of course the Kaiser had his way, but despite this mark of imperial favor, the German art world has continued to refuse recognition of her claims, and the court for certain reasons did not encourage any advancement of such-claim. Madame Parlaghi became acquainted with Rosenthal in Paris. According to common report here Rosenthal visited her at her studio in Berlin and promised to tain for her the French Cross of the | iew with the Emperor or | to converse with him by an apparent: idental meeting with him in her studio. This may or may not be true, but according to an interview with Madame Parlaghi published in the Frank- fort Zeitung the lady admitted having seen Rosenthal in her studio, but declared that the meeting took place in Paris and not in Berlin as alleged. Rosenthal, she continued, asked her to obtain for him an interview with the Kaiser and promised in return for the favor to get her the deccora- tion of the Cross of the Legion of Houor. Madame Parlaghi told the Zeitung inter- ver that she positively declined to enter- tain the idea, informing M. Rosenthal that she would neither mix herself up in poli- tics nor accept a mark of distinetion | which she had not earned as an artist, Whatever may have been her part in the Rosenthal affair, it is now plain that the Kaiser has totally withdrawn his favor from her. Herr H. J. Gehelsen, onge notorious as an editor of an oid Berlin Naper called the Reichsglocke, has returned to Berlin after twenty years’ residence in London, where he lived under the name of J. B. Keller. Prince Bismarck suppressed the Reichs- glocke twenty years ago, and Gehelsen disappeared from Berlin. For ten years even an oppor | ovation. he acted as the London correspondent of the semi-official Berlin Post. Since his return to Berlin he has re- | suscitated tie Reichsglocke, and in recent articles has made disclosures which involve Herr Tiedemann, an attache of the For- eign Office, who is accused by Gehelsen of having dictated articles to the editor of the Berlin Post. He further promises to pub- lish proofs that a certain German Socialist leader was in close connection with the late General Boulanger, their letters being exchanged in London, Gehelsen knowsa good deal that is likely to add to the already numerous political scandals, The Vorwaerts, the Socialist organ, char- acterizes as idle fiction the Emperor’s mes- sage delivered in the White Hall of the Schloss yesterday, in which his Majesty asserted that the empire realized the hopes of the people. “Happily,” the Vorwaerts says, ‘‘the present form of the empire is not the last in the world’s history. Out of the anarchy of capitalism will arrive the order of so- cialism.” The celebration which took place in Dresden vesterday in honor of the twenty- | fifth anniversary of the founding of the empire was very immosing. In the even- ing there was a grand torchlight proces- sion, in which 3000 persons participated. The populace was very enthusiastic and the King on hisappearance received an In Munich the celebration ter- minated with a grand state banquet, at which Prince Regent Luitpold toasted the Kaiser in the warmest terms. The Em- peror was heartily cheered. The Emperor, at last evening’s banquet at the White Hall of the Schioss, congrat- ulated Baron Hammerstein-Loxten, Prus- sian Minister of Agriculture, upon his anti-agrarian speech in the Reichstag in the debate on Count von Kanitz’s grain monopoly biil. The police dispersed several Socialist mass meetings in Dresden yesterday be- cause of the violence of the language in- dulged in by the speakers, who protested against the threats of the Government to | | curtail the suffrage. The banking firm of Muller & Thomson of Hamburg is about to float a loan of 12,000,000 marks for the Government of Guatemala, for the purpose of constructing a railway. Mrs. E. H. Sunderland and Miss M. F. Potter, of the United States, are visiting the Berlin elementary schools for the pur- pose of studying the system. A special edition of the Reichsanzeiger enumerates 2000 decorations that were be- stowed in honor of the twenty-fifth anni- versary of the founding of the German empire. PROCLATAA MARTIAL LA, Efforts to Prevent an Outbreak of the Revolutionists in Barranquilla. The Governor Invested With Military Power and the Police Doubled. COLON, CoroMprA, Jan. 19.—A dispatch | from Bogota states that martial law has been proclaimed in the province of Bar- ranquilla, State of Bolivar. Six hundred trooops are proceeding from the coast up the Magdalena River to the city of Barran- quilla. The Governor has been invested with military power and the police have peen doubled. The Government is vigil- ant and i8 said to be preparing to putdown any attempt at revolution. It is reported here that the Mosquito In- | dians, including Chief Hendy, will mvite Chief Clarence to return to the Mosquito territory. Chief Clarence was deposed by the Nica- | raguans in 1894, and subsequently went to Jamaica, where it was said he was in re- ceipt of a pension from the British Gov- ernment. Great Britain refused to recog- nize the new Nicaraguan Governmentthat was set up at Bluefieids after the deposi- tion of Chief Clarence, and out of this rew the troubles that resulted in Great jritain sending a squadron to Corinto te enforce the payment of the indemnity de- manded by Ereat Britain for the expulsion of the British vice-consul at Bluefields. Chief Hendy was appointed as the succes- sor of Chief Clarence. The strike among the laborers on the Panama Canal continues. KNEEBS HAS A SURPRISE, Claims He Will Produce the Real Racing Mare Bethel in Court. The American Horseman’s Case May Lead to International Corre- spondence. BERLIN, GermaANy, Jan. 19.—The case of the American horse-owner Bobert T. | Kneebs, who was convicted last Monday and sentenced to nine months’ imprison- ment and to pay 1000 marks for starting on the German tracks an entry alleged to have been the mare Bethel under the name of Nellie Kneebs, has taken developments which may lead to diplomatic communi- cations between Berlin and Washington. One of the German Consuls in the United States, it appears, in certifying to the sig- natures s?{pendcd to the depositions of some of Kneebs’ witnesses, characterized the witnesses as unworthy of belief and de- clared that their testimony was only worth so many dollars, implving that they were paia for what they had sworn to, and had sworn to only what they had been paid for. Such a statement accompanving the documents received here is held to be a breach of the law. The Consul, it is con- tended, has no right to communicate to his Government hig personal ideas of the char- acter of the American witnesses, nor has he the right to take any other course than to send the papers to Berlin for what they were worth and without comment. The authorities are fu.ther puzzled to know what to do with the mare Bethel or Nellie Kneebs, which according to the judgment of the court was forfeited to the state. Kneebs has given notice of npgnl against the verdict and sentence against him, nng pending the hdecinlonlo{nthe Im- erial Court upon the appeal, the mare, {‘vhich has been‘:iud ir accordance with the judgment of the court of trial, must be kept at the expense of the authorities. If Kneebs succeeds in his appeal he will claim damages from the authorities for any deterioration in the form or condition of the mare, and if he can prove that there has been any there can scarcely be any successful appeal against such a finding. Kneebs says he was very much surprised at the verdict of the jury in his case, and declares that he wifi produce the real Bethel, which is now in America, before the Imperial Court when the hearing of his appeal comes up. e Many Visitors to the Vatican. ROME, Irary, Jan. i9.—An immense number of people this evening attended the Vatican 1o witness the ceremonies ar- tending the beatification of the theologian Da Courte. HIS GENIUS MADE A NATION LAUGH, Death of Bernard Gillam, the Noted Cartoonist of Judge. REMOVED BY A FEVER. Stricken Down While in the Prime of His Life and Popularity. FAMOUS FOR HIS SKETCHES. For Years He Furnished the Ideas for p a Corps of Clever Artists, CANAJOHARIE, N. Y., Jan. 19.—Bern- ard Gillam, the/ famous cartoonist of | Judge, died suddenly at 3:25 o’clock this | morning at his home here. He was 38 In 1861 he went to England, where he de- feated the English champion runners. In 1863 he returned to this country and took part in races in New York and Chicago, defeating all comers. *Deerfoot’s” great- est record was made in London, where he ran ten miles in fifty-two minutes. RS Passing of a Popular Divine. LONDON, Exc., Jan. 19.—The Rev. William Rogers, a popular divine and the intimate friend of many distinguished persons, died to-day. He was 76 years of age. L Judge Brauzwetter 1s Dead. BERLIN, Geeyavy, Jan. 19.—Judge Brauzwetter, who presided at many trials of editors for lese majeste and other press offenses, died yesterday from paralysis. s b Rev. Dr. Reed Gone. TORONTOQ, Ox~r., Jan. 19.—Rev. William D. Reed, D.D., rector of the Presbyterian Church of Canada, died to-day, aged 80 years. —_— Death of Bishop Haygood. COVINGTON, Ga., Jan. 19.—Bishop At- ticus Haygood, of the South Methodist Church, died this morning at Oxford. POISON IN THE CUFFEE. Evidence That Caused the Arrest of a Murdered Man’s' Wife. CHICAGO, Irr., Jan. 19.—Jacob Joahen- son, a saloon-keeper at 2328 Cottage Grove avenue, was found dead in bed at 11 o’clock to-night. His wife was found in another room in hysterics. She managed to tell the police that three or four men had broken into their house, killed her husband and robbed them of $1500 in money, which she drew from the bank yes- terday. The case looked suspicious, and the po- THE LATE BERNARD GILL MAN, FAMOUS FOR HIS CARICATURE_S IN JUDGE. [From a recent photograph.] years of age. Death was caused by a heart | clot resulting from a severe attack of | typhoid fever. Mr. Gillam was born in Bambury, Ox- fordshire, England, on October 28, 1856. His father was a foundryman, or, as men of that crait are called in England, a furnace man. His mother had decided artistic ability, although she never culti- vated it save for her own amusement ‘When Bernard and his three brothers were mere children the father decided to try his fortune in the States, and the | family settled in Brooklyn. After leaving Brooklyn High School Bernard became a student in the office of a Brooklyn lawyer, but one day he drew a comical sketch of his employer and lost his position. After that Gillam did a little of every- thing for a year or two, sketching taking up most of his time. In 1879, however, a place on Frank Leslie's Weekly was offered him. Soon after he made this connection Mr. Leslie died, the policy of the paper changed and Mr. Gillam went over to the Graphic. During the Garfield-Hancock campaign he made cartoons for Harper’s Weekly, working with Thomas Nast. His work with the Harpers attracted attention, and in 1881 Keppler & Schwarzmann of Puck engaged him at wbat was said at the time to be the highest salary ever paid to & cartoonist. In 1886, in company with W. J. Arkell, he purchased Judge, being convinced that there was ample room for two papers of the kind of opposite political faiths. From the time Messrs. Gillam & Arkell took hold of Judge the paper was a suc- cess, and Mr. Gillam, more than any other man, was responsible for that success. ‘While the paper had alwavs had a corps of clever cartoonists, Mr. Gillam directed the work of all.of them and furnished the ideas of many of their cartoons. Beven years ago Mr. Gillam married Miss Bertelle Arkell, the youngest daugh- ter of ex-Senator James Arkell of Canajo- harie and the sister of his business part- ner. . After his marriage Mr. Gillam made his home in Canajoharie. s OWNED A BONANZA MINE. Mrs. McAdow, Made Rich by the Spotted Horse, Passes Away. DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 19.—Mrs, Clara A. McAdow, aged 58 years, died at her residence here this morning from a com- plication of diseases, after anillness which lasted nearly six months. She was the wife of Hoyt A. McAdow and was a Michi- gan woman. ' She and her husband went to Montana many years ago and became interested in mines, one of which, the Spotted Horse, proved a bonanza. She re- wurned to Michigan some years ago and settled in this eity. # Mrs. McAdow represented Montana on the Board of Woman Managers of the World’s Fair in 1893. The gold for the base of the famous $50,000 silver statue at the fair was taken from one of her mines and was contributed by her. Mrs. Me- Adow leaves a fortune estimated at $2,000,000. —_——— DEFEATED ALL COMERS. Death of ““Deerfoot,’” the Famous Indian Zong-Distance Kunner. BUFFALO, N. Y., Jan. 19.—*Deerfoot,” the famous Indian long-distance runner, died on the Cattaraugus reservation yes- terday. His proper name was Louis Ben- nett, the name “Deerfoot” being given him for his professional gnnnlng. : H= was born on the reservation in 1828 | ‘GOLD USEDTO BEAT QUAY, lice, in searching the place, found a coffee- cup partly filled with a fluid sus- pected to be poison. The woman was placed under arrest and taken to Mercy Hospital, where she will be guarded until able to stand an examination. Threemen who were seen about the saloon early in the evening were also arrested. BROADEMING THE MONROE DOCTRINE Senators Will Adopt the Foreign Relations Report, ONLY TWO TO OPPOSE. Sewell and Gray See No Menace in the Encroachments of England. FATE OF THE TARIFF BILL. Jones of Nevada Holds the Key to the Situation in the Upper House. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 19.—The re- port from the Senate Committee on For- eign Relations on the Monroe doctrine resolutions to-morrow will probably cause the subject to divide the time with the Senate free coinage substitute to the House bond bill, which is still the unfinished business. The extreme position taken by the Committee on Resolutions in one di- rection and those of Sewell of New Jersey in the other will give the debate a wide range. Davis has been instructed by the committee to urge prompt action on the resolution, and while it cannot supersede the financial question as the unfinished business, it will probably receive much discussion this week. Sewell may address the Senate to-mor- row during the morning hour on his reso- Intion, which declared that the President has gone too far in his message in enunci- ating the Monroe doctrine. The commit- tee resolutions will doubtless be discussed by Morgan, Sherman, Cullom, Lodge, Frye, Davis and othersin favor, and an- tagonized probably by Gray. It is be- lieved that the result will be almost unan- imous in favor of their adoption, and the vote may be taken this week. Teller and Daniels have given notice that they will speak this week on the financial question, and White and Cockrell may also speak. Additional interest to the week's proceedings will be given should the Finance Committee report the tariff bill. This will be done, it is under- stood, without another meeting being held. The nature of the report will depena upon the position taken by Jones of Ne- vada. Should he still insist upon increas- ing the duty on raw sugar an adverse re- port will be made; should he vote with the Republicans the bill will be reported as it came from the House. As soon as Jones signifies how he desires to vote the bill will be reported. This may be to-morrow. In the House of Representatives the pro- | gramme of business for the coming week | is aboutas follows: The yrgency deficiency bill will be reported by the Committee on Appropriations Monday, and it is ex- pected that immediate consideration will be given it. Following that the bill making appro- priations for the military academy for the next tiscal year will be taken up. But lit- tle;time will be occupied in considering these and opportunities for action on bills by unanimous request will be numerous. It is expected that next Friday the Com- mittee on Invalid Pensions will invoke the rale providing for the night session on that day to begin the consideration of pri- vate pension bills. During the week the Committee on ‘Ways and Means will have several hear- ings. On Monday advocates of a bill to Inside History of the Fight in Pennsylvania Given to the Public, Attempt to Bribe Chairman Barker of the Montgomery County Delegation. NORRISTOWN, Pa., Jan. 19.—From a statement made to-day by Thomas H. Barker of Lower Marion Township, this county, the fight to overthrow the power of Senator Quay last summer by his oppo- nents in the party was more desperate than ever appeared. Mr. Barker was chairman of the Mont- gomery County delegation to the State con- vention last summer. The fight between Quay and his opponents for the State championship hung in the balance before the convention, and if it had not been an- nounced openly that the seven votes of Montgomery County would have been cast against Quay, it might have changed the result. It will be remembered that both sides held a caucus the night before the conven- tion, and Quay had a majority. Mr. Bar- ker asserts that before the caucus he was approached by a Philadelphian, who of- gered him $5000 if he would not go into tke Quay cancus with his delegation. He re- fused the money, and the offer was in- creased to $6000, to $3000 and finally $10,- 000. When it was found that even this sum would not bribe Mr. Barker the effort to make him prove false to his pledges was abandoned. Mr. Barker asserts the absolute truth of this story, and says he has corroborative witnesses to it. —-——— CABLE TO AUSTRALIA. Landing Places Will Be Made on British Tervitory Only. SYDNEY, N. 8. W., Jan. 19.—At & con- ference of the postmasters-general of the. Ausiralian colonies the Hon. Duncan Gillies and Sir Saul Samuel, agents-general in London of Victoria and New South Wales respectively, were appointed Aus- tralian delegates on the Pacific Cable Com- mission. The conference adopted a resolution de- glnrir:ig‘that Great Britain, Australia and ana of the cable; that the landing places should be on British territory only, and that the route from Fiji should be to Nor- folk Island, from which Elwe the line should bifurcate to North lsland, New Zealand, and to Morton Bay, on the east coast of Australia. prona R Maoris Ready to Fight. AUCKLAND, N. Z.,Jan. 19.—The Maoris of North Island have telegraphed the Earl of Glasgow, Governor of New Zealand, of- fering to form a guerrilla resiment;,{or ser- vice in the Transvaal should such service be deemed necessary. should each pay a third of the cost |- establish a sub-ireasury at Savannah will be heard and on Wednesday will be held the final hearing on the customs adminis- trative act. B> Bl TIME TO ARBITRATE. Salisbury Urged to Settle the Venezuelan Question. LONDON, Exc., Jan. 19.—The Daily News will to-morrow say that it regards the adoption by the Committee on Foreign Relations of the United States Senate Fri- day of the resolution of Senator Davis, supporting the Monore doctrine, as a most serious step. It adds: **The sooner Lord Salisbury discovers a method of arbitration the better. The Venezuelan commission hangs fire, not, perhaps, without President Cleveland’s connivance. If he is giving us time we would be foolish not to take it.” The Chronicle will to-morrow say itis probable that England and Venezuela will order inquiries to be made into the state- ments and cessions of land in the dis- puted territory. This will offer a basis for a renewal of negotiations and, it is now thought, will be the form of arbitration that will be resorted to. | JEOEEE TO SETTLE WITH GOLD. ngland’s Rumored Plan to Gain the Disputed Territory. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 19.—A special cable dispatch to the Herald from Havana says: The Havana papers print a story to the effect tbat England, if she succeeds through Chile’s good offices in resuming diplomatic relations with Venezuela, will offer President Crespo £1,000,000 to recog- nize the Schomburg line. BIG FIRES AT CHICAGD, Two Apartment-Houses on the South Side Are Razed by -a Conflagration. Excitement Ambng Occupants of One of the Structures Becomes Almost a Panic. CHICAGO, Irn., Jan. 19.—Two of the finest apartment-houses on the south side of the city were destroyed by fire this evening. The buildings were owned by Lincoln Brooks and located at the south- | west corner of Wabash avenue ana Thirty- sixth street. The one on the corner con- tained forty apartments and was unoccu- pied, being just about completed. The building next door was filled with tenants and contained over thirty flats. Both buildings area total loss. The walls of the occupied one still stand, but the, empty structure burned like tinder and even the outside walls fell out into the street. The fire started in the corner building on the fitth floor through the falling of cne of seventeen salamanders which were being used to dry the plastering. - Before assist- ance could be called the fire had gotten beyond control and communicated to the adjoining building. Oniy a little furniture was saved from the wreck. Occupants of buildings for & block away packed many of their things in readiness to move out, expecting the fire to spread. Holes were burned in the clothing of many of the spectators, who came from every part of the city, being attracted by the illumination. The excitement in-the second building which burned amounted almost to a panic, and rumors were started that many people had been burned to death. Several people were injured by fire and stray bricks from falling walls, but no one was fatally hurt. The horses attached to a hook and lad- der truck ran away and dashed intoa crowded street, rolling many people over into the water-covered streets and bruising several severely. The totel loss is estimated at $300,000. WILL SAIL FOR TURKEY. Red Cross Society Will Ignore the Warning of the Sultan Against Aiding Armenians. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 19.—Secre- tary Olney stated to-night that he had re- ceived no reply as yet to his telegrams of inquiry to Minister Terrell at Constantino- ple asking whether or not the Sultan had directed that the Red Cross officials should not enter his dominions for the purpose of distributing relief among the Armenians. | In the meantime, Miss Clara Barton, the president, is busily engaged in perfecting preparations for the voyage to Turkey, which she and her associates will under- take despite the report that they will not be permitted to discharge their charitable trust. She will leave Washington Tuesday and go to New York, sailing from that port a day or two later. FAESIOOFFERS 10 AT, Will Make a Strong Fight for the Four- Year Tenure. Test Case Before the Supreme Court to Settle the Question of County Offices. FRESNO, Car., Jan. 19.—Already a vague unrest has begun to manifest itself among the county officers of this State | over their office tenure. In Southern Cali- | fornia the county officers have formed a league, offensive and defensive, to retain their offices for four years each from Jan- | uary 1, 1895. Many of these officers have heretofore had but two-year terms. The Legislature of 1893 changed section 60 of the county government ast to read as follows: ‘‘All elective county and town- ship officers, except as otherwise providea for in this act, shall be elected at the gen- eral election to be held in November, 1894, and every four years thereaiter.” This seems plain enough, but this legis- lative tinkering contains ‘‘a joker,”’ it seems. In referring to Fresno County, the following subdivision of section 170 is made to read: “The officers mentioned in section 57 of this act (which section names all the county officers except Superior Judges, Assessors, Supervisors and Superintend- ents of Schools), shall be elected in tne year of 1894 and every two years there- after.” This is a general election vear. If the sub-division cited shall be construed by the Supreme Court as the law, then the successors to the following officers of this State will have to be elected next Novem- ber: Sheriffs, Coroners, Public Adminis- | trators, Clerks, Auditors, Recorders, Treas- urers, Surveyors, Tax Collectors and Dis- | trict Attorneys. Lawyers differ as to the probabie view the SBupreme Court will take on the ques- tion. There have been many decisions affecting the act of 1893. Section 60 has been passed upon, it is said, and declared unconstitutional. @ One thing seems evident—this county will furnish the test case before the Su- preme Court. The two-year-term act was passed in 1891, COULEE CITFS TRAGEDY. Three Boys Suffocated by Smoke While Asleep in Their Couches. Lose Their Lives in a Fire That De- stroys a Shack in the Outskirts of the Town. COULEE CITY. Wasm.,, Jan. 19.—A small shack situated on the northern limits of Almira was discovered to be on fire last night. When neighbors arrived the fire had gained considerable headway. Henry Taylor, Henry Lewis and a younger brother were still in the building. When the citizens had partially subdued the flames their bodies weré discovered, all three having been suffocated by smoke while in their beds. Henry Taylor was a son of Isaac Taylor of Waterville, and was visiting north of Almira with his brother-in-law, J8hn Q. Drinkard. He was attending a meeting at Almira and stopped with the Lewis boys for the night. Henry Lewis and his brother were attending school at Almira and were boarding themselves. The sup- position is that the boys went home after the meeting closed, built a fire in the stove and utireg. Taylor was 17 years of age and the Lewis boys 14 and 16 respectivelys TIRTING GUN CARRIAGES. Drawn Over a Road Filled With Ob- stacles of all Kinds. A curious track has recently been con- structed in an open space near the Artil- lery Arsenul at Spandau, Germany. This track bas been constructed for the pur- pose of testing gun carriages, wheels and springs, used in the Artillery Park, etc, A cable and electric machinery are used for the propulsion of tne various vehicles drawn over the track. This track is cov- ered in its entire length with obstacles of all kinds. ACTIVTY N T WAR DEPARTIVEN, Oontinued from First Page. at any pointin this State within thirty hours, duly armed and equipped for sery- ice. Nearly all of the State militia are within a few miles of the railroads, with the exception of one company at Eureka, Humboldt county. This company would take a little longer to join the other State forces, as it would have to come from Eureka by water. *“In this vicinity, that is San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Petaluma and Santa Rosa, there are two regiments of infantry of twenty companies each. Besides these there are two naval battalions of 100 men each, well trained and equipped for ser- vice. In fact, I am sure that if the occa- sion should demand it, we could in thirty hours furnish the navy with 375 good and efficient men. Thenaval battalion at Santa Cruz could be called out in a very few bours’ notice. *‘From San Francisco alone we can raise twenty-five companies of infantry and cav- alry. Then in the Sacramento Valley there isone regiment of eight companies and a cavalry company. In the Salinas there is also a cavalry company. In the southern part of the State, Los Angeles and vicinity, there are twelve companies of infantry, one naval battalion and one cav- alry company, making in all in the State fifty-seven compani As I said, these can be mobilized at any point in the State in thirty h “There is no doudbt that if the ne- cessity demanded it we could increase our National Guard to 25,000 by a very little recruiting. In this State 203,000 men are subject to drafting and military duty. So it is seen that California could put a large force in the field upon a very short notice- ““As to the equipage I will say that all our men are well provided with arms and ammunition. The National Guard has several companies that are not well pro- vided with blankets and overcoats, but blankets could be easily obtained, eithez from the Government or private estab- lishments. It would take a little longer to get the overcoats. “Our arms are all in excellent conaition and the returns from the companies show & wonderful improvement in marksman- ship. The cavalry companies are not so well provided for as the others, having only revolvers and sabers. They require carbines. “There is plenty of ammunition in the State. Besides ahat the companies have at their armories we have 75,000 rounds, 65,000 of which is in this City. If necessary, we could call upon the Govern- ment for additional arms and ammuni- tion, for the arsenals are well stocked with both, and both could be distributed upon a very short order. ‘‘Should there be any occasion for call- ing out the State troops I will say that the officers and men of the National Guard will always have the preference over all others. It is only fair that the volunteers should have the preference over drafted soldiers.” PREDICTED BY DICKINSON. England’s Flest Might Block the Ports of Cuba. Hon. Don M. Dickinson’s address on “Cuba’’ before the Detroit Mannfacturers’ Cldb Baturday night will now attract great attention and be regarded as significant. In the course of his remarks he said that we were not to be overawed by England’s mobilization of her fieet. Her action might scare the German Emperor and the ruler of the Transvaal, but if we had not a ship or a coast defense she could not scare us. Englapd, he said, has had her eye on Cuba since 1840, and he believed that Lora Salisbury had nothing else in view in the Venezuelan boundary dispute than to establish the precedent that the Monroz doctrine did not obtain, and thus get possession of Cuba. The time had come for every r _nufactur- ing concern to take up the Cuban question and press it on Congress as a matter of business. Complications might arise at any time. Engiand believed that in Cuba is her only security for the payment of Spanish loans, aud almost any day tne English fleet, in spite of the Monroe doc- trine, might take possession of every Cuban port and force the collection of this money. Chyistian Women to Meet. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 19.—The twenty-eighth annual convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association wil be held in Washihgton January 23 to 28, Miss Susan B. Anthony, president, and Miss Harriet Taylor Upton, treasurer of the association, are here arranging the de. tails of the meetin, —————— NEW TO-DAY. FIGHTING DEATH. An Occupation That Everybody Should Be Engaged In All the Time. Few people realize how much we can do In warding off that grim monster. death, Our days are not ‘‘numbered”’—we cannot determine the number ourselves, but we can add or subtract from it. We are continually though wuncon- sciously doing things that shorten our life by hours—days—years. ‘We work too long, too hard; we eat food unsuited to us, too much or not enough we overstrain certain muscles, lim%l, senses or hcultiul while others remain nnused or undeveloped; we expose oure selves to excessive heat or cola, air; we squander our viulug. '!'rue, with most people these things are the necessary consequences of the struggie for existence. It is to the millions who cannot continually think of their health that this is addressed. Itisto them that Peruvian Bitters is recommended. With them Peruvian Bitters is to the body what oil is to machinery; it kee; the entire system so toned that it worz: with the least possible friction and waste of vitality, with greatest power of resist- ance to the germs of disease. Peruvian Bitters is an infallible tonic, which, when vitality has been reduced by poor diges- tion, overwork, sickness, trouble, puts the various functions in such normal condi- tion that nature, unhampered, soon re- stores wasted tissues, vigor and energy. Mack & Co., San Francisco. All drug. gists and dealers. gg.Gi’bbon’s Dispensary, KEARNY ST, Established in 1854 for the treatment, = of Privats to impure Itis built in imitation of bad roads in one place, crossed by a ditch atanother and mountainous and difficult roads are also represented. When a new gun is mounted on a carriage it is brought to the end of the track and _ the cable is fastened to the pole, where ordinarily the horses are hitched. The power is turned or and the officers go alongside to note how the jolting and passing of difficult places affects the new carriage. Instead of making these trials in the mountains at some distance from the arsenal, the tests can now be made in front of the buildi; with as much, if not better, pncticl:} 25, N ts. r. J. F. PILLS, Purely vegetable, mild and reliable. Sec: plete digestion and absorption of the food, cauge action of Liver and renderthe Bowels a hllllhly Datural in their operat on without griping