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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, intended 10 waive its right to impose any such liability.” MAGUIRE TRE DECISION. 1t Is a Precedent That California Courts Can’t Follow. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 2.—Rep- resentative Maguire was asked by THE Cais correspondent to-night what he thought of the decision in the Stanford case and he said: “The decision is, in effect, that a stock- holder in & corporation under the laws of California is not liable for his proportion of the debts of the corporation unless at the time of the contraction of the debts the creditor had in mind the stockholders’ liability and intended to hold them for the debt. “I would not advise a stockholder of any ordinary corporation in California to make such a defense to a creditor’s suit, because 1 feel certain that the doctrine of the United States versus Stanford will not be followed out by our courts. I thiuk it will be overruled in the next case that arises. But it is conclusive for the purposes of the present case. “It is unfortunate that cases have arisen in judicial procedure to obstruct the regular current of decisions, because the failure to apply ordinary rules of construc- tion and decision to them tends to bring our judicial system into disrepute. “It would be much better if such decis- jons could be avoided by a general law declaring that any claim in excess of say $5,000,000 is beyond the jurisdiction of courts of this country.” Maguire was asked what he thought of Attorney-General Harmon’s letter to the Pacific Railroad Committee. He said: “I think the Attorr eneral’s opinion on the gquestion of the liability of fraudu- lent directors of Pacific Raiiroad com- panies was unwarranted and inopportune. Heis notthe adviser pf committees of Congress and skould have refused to give ON an offhand reply to nestions. His answer, of course, is unofficial and merely personal. “He may be called upon hereafter to investigate that very matter officially, and should have. avoided the embarrassment which teo much unofficial talk and writ- ing in advance may occasion him. His predecessors, so far ways refused to answer such conundrums from committees of Congress.” BY “THE CaLL.” PREDICTED Therefore No Little Surprise Californians. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 2.—The decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Stanford case, handed down by Jjustice Harlan to-day in favor of Mrs. Stanford, occasioned no surprise among Californians in Washington, as it has been almost & foregone conclusion since the arzuments were made that Mrs. Stanford would win. Among road. The decision was foreshadowed in Tree Carv’s dispatches February 1 as follows: WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 1.—THE CALL correspondent learned to-night that there is a probability that the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Stanford case will be handed down This news from the highest au and further with a strong indication that the decision will be in favor of Mrs. Stanford. PP STUDENTS. JOX the Great 1s Rejoicing University. STANFORD UNIVERSITY,CAr., March 2.—This morning about 11:30 the rumor becante current that the final decision in the great Stanford suit had been handea down’ and that the result was favorable to the university. at Stanford | | | { It was conceded by lawyers | who were not in sympathy with the rail- | | | | | | my attention as soon as I as I know, have al- | ranging an electrical display which at- tracted much attention later in the even- ing. Itwas nothing less than the Stanford vell in cardinal letters. Worked by alter- nating flashes of electricity, the immense red lesters showed out in briliiant rays which caused great enthusiasm at each touch of the electric button. In the evening at 7 o’clock the quad- rangle was crowded with students carry- ing lanterns, torches and eyery conceiv-' able ear-torturing device, from a shotgun with blank cartridges to saucepan and pewter soup-ladle. Cardinal was inter- mingled everywhere with the colors of the American flag. The co-eds were out in force; their dresses and hats were trimmed with the prevailing hue, countrasted with their torches, and made a pretty picture, one seldom seen in any institution. For more than an hour this vast con- course of howling students marched about the quadrangle singing university songs mingled with Nationalsongs. At8 o'clock the march was taken up to Encina Gym- nasium, where speeches were scheduled to take place. Fully 1000 people managed to jam them- selves inside the doors. A band had been brought out for the occasion, and the roof was fairly lifted off its supporting walls by the din. President Sheldon of the stu- dent body introduced each speaker with approvriate remarks, and with every sen- tence of the speakers the audience broke into cheers. Mrs. Stanford was not present, but the following letter was read from her: To the Students: 1 cannot refrain from saying that I am profoundly thankful to the ministers of the law at their just decision, and I thank you one and all for your loyalty througnout the pest year of doubt and uncertainty, and now you can rejoice to your hearis' content, while T will remain quietly at home and be thankful. Yours, always, JANE L. STANFORD. San Francisco, Cal., March 2, 1396. President Jordan sais “Friends and students: You may not have noticed it, but I have made my speech while you were yelling. I believe this is not the second time I bave spoken to-day. I have spoken very many times since the news was received. It came to had received this message that the world has seen many changes. remember once when I was traveling down in Kentucky that I slept one night on the floor with Judge Harlan. That was twenty years ago. I was thinking this afternoon that I was almost sorry that it was over. We have been for the last three years under a cloud. “One gets used to that kind of thing and I more than any one elso, because I wasa college president. I was leading a forlorn hope. As Senator Stanford said once he thought I made a better president at Stan ford than I wouid at Harvard. “Then, too, I had made up my mind to finish up my college career in a pictur- esque way. All this is passed away, and the forlorn hope is passed away too. Down in San Antonio there was an old padre who sold tiles and geese, | and T had made up my mind to flood the comes | quadrangle here, live all alone and sell tiles from the chapel roof and geese like the old padre, but this hope is now banished. 1 was going to say something | about the way in which these three years Instantly the whistle on the power-nouse | sounded the Stanford slogan and at each toot swarms of students came running from their recitations and the quadrangle have solidified us—how they have given us strength and bope for the future. I tnink all of us can feel what this must mean to the woman who has waitea for so long a time for this result. What a lesson in self-devotion that must be,in order, as Mr. Stanford once said, ‘that the children of California shall be my children.’ (Three cheers were given for Mrs. Stanford.) And now that is all that I have to say to-night.” Lester J. Hinsdill spoke for the class of ’95, and said that this time marked the be- | ginning of the students’ real career at the was soon black witn a shouting, gesticu- | lating multitude of men and co-eds; every- body seemed wild with excitement, and, while the result was generally expected, the removal of suspense was off the guard from a steam boiler—there was an explosion. Soon everybody began asking everybody else just what news had been received, but no one could answer authoritatively. “On to Dr. Jordan’s home!”’ became the cry, and in the rain struggled a thousand | students toward the president’s residence. | B : B ° | to Palo Alto and, aiter some cheering, dis- Dr. Jordan was already on his way to the office and met the students half-way over. He wanted to know whether any authentic | news had been received, and stated to the disappointed students that he had had no personsal informatian concerning the suit. *‘However,”’ said 1he president, news should be as you have guessed, but [ don’t want to become excited until we as- certain pesitively. In case the favorable opinion has been rendered my ideas about it have been made known so frequently that T could add little to them. I may say that if it is as we hope, the students are at liberty to paint everything cardinal except the statues in the museum. “With drums and cymbals Dr. Jordan was then escorted to the chapel, which was jammed with a shouting mob, and yet it was not & mob, for the student body execu- tive committee had already partly decided on its plan of action. It was several min- utes before the chairman could make him- self heard, and Dr. Jordan announced from the platform that the decision ended the long litigation which had weighed so heavily on the noblest woman in the world. He told something of the sacrifices that Mrs. Stanford bad made, and concluded with “No one can ever understand or ap- preciate the magnitude of the trials and sacrifices which Mrs. Stanford bas been forced to undergo during the past three years, for this university.” President Sheldon of the Associated Stu- dents then announced that the executive committee and band members should meet directly after the meeting. Cheers were given for everybody, from Mrs. Stapford and Dr. Jordan to Rufus Choate and Jus- tice Harlan. A collection was voted for fireworks, which amounted to $90 or $100. Students then took to wearing the stars and stripes and the flag was run up on the campus and cheered to the echo. Many students got along without lunch, so ex- cited were they all, and as the sun began shining small bands marched about the campus with gongs and horns, making the walls resound with their noise. A cannon was procured at Mayfield and salutes were fired at regular intervals throughout the afternoon. From noon until night excitement here continued to increase. During the after- noon a cannon was procured from a neigh- boring town, and while it would never be of much use in war it filled the purpose of firing salutes admirably. School children from adjacent districts gathered on the campus to assist in the celebration, and horns were kept blowing constantly. Small crowds of students gathered at corners ‘and between Stanford yells dis- cussed the probable results of the decision Each one had his own idea what would result now that Stanford is really the rich- est university in the world. Most of the students, however, were too much excited to talk rationally on any subject, but acted fairly hysterically. Electrical engineers spent time in ar- “‘the | | for ber. university, E. A. Ross spoke for the faculty. H. H. Brown addressed the assembly for the class of '9% and made a very eloquent ike taking | SPeech, specially praising Mrs, Stanford. Burton M. Palmer, for the class of '97, read an orfginal poem on the occasion, which was very clever in thought, and elicited salvos of applause. The students concluded the evening with a display of fireworks on the campus, wuile a few of the most entbusiastic, un- deterred by the cold wind, marched down persed. -— TRIBULATIONS OF THE SUIT. Mrs. Stanford Tells of the Silent Grief Suffered. Mrs. Stanford came up from Palo Alto yesterday morning and went to her resi- dence on California street. About 11 o'clock a telegram came from Senator Per- kins, expressing congratulations and say- ing that the decision had been unanimous After that congratulatory mes- sages came in thick and fast from different Senators and from friends all over the Union. A representative from the student body called during the afternoon and requested Mrs. Stanford to be present at the evening celebration on the .campus, and insisted that she should go back to Palo Alto. “But, I told him,” said Mrs, Stanford, “that the excitementof the day had been so great that I hardly dared to take part in that celebration. And then I wrote a little note in pencil, for he said the stu- dents would rather have itin my hand- writing than typewritten by my secretary, and the young man went away happy. *1 shall be with them in sympatby, but I want to stay here and answer those tele- grams; and there is such a lot of them, they keep piling up all the time. Iam going to have them bound and preseved in the archives of the university. They will be interesting reading in after years to the students who have stood so faithfully by the university and by me during the long period of uncertainty. ““A person at my age 1s past a feeling of wild hilarity over any event. I had just settled down quietly hoping that it might come and trusting in God. I have given up thinking sadly over the great griefs I have experienced. My life and ambition | bave been in the university and to see it succeed has become the cherished object of my existence. “My friends thought that I ought not to go on to Waslrington, because I was not well erough. But the telegram came and I asked them who else there wastogo. I went and I came back better. The divine providence in which I have constantly trusted has rewarded me and this is the result. “Why, the peqple in W ashington are as much elated as the people of California. I was surprised at the interest taken. Oh, no; itis not for me alone; it is for the university they rejoice. It is a causeof humanity, Inafew years I shall be dead and gone, but the university and its use- fuiness shall live on.” And then Mrs. Stanford spoke of a stu- dents’ prayer-meeting in the university chapel that she had attended the evening before; how she sat in the back of the room listening to the individual expres- sions from some of the several hundred students that regularly and voluntarily as- semble there and conduct their own meet- ings and farmish their own singing, join ing in the Moody and Sankey hymns. “As different ones called for a favorite hymn,” remarked Mrs. Stanford, “I asked for ‘More Holiness Give Me,’ for that is my favorite; and then I called for the Senator’s favorite, ‘Let the Lights Be Burning.”” Turning from the students, to whom she fondly reverted again and again, Mrs. Stanford spoke of her husband, and con- fessed, now that it was all settled, there had been during all these years’ trying ordeal of uncertainty attached to the Gov- ernment suit a personal tribulation that the public had never realized. It was her silent griei that the existence of the suit imputed to her husband the slightest wrong ever done or intended to the people of California. e PRESIDENT JORDAN'S VIEWS. Tells How the University Will Be Bene- fited by the Decision. President Jordan of Stanford University, when seen yesterday afternoon regarding the favorable decision by the Supreme Court, said that the $15,000,000 suit bad meant either that Stanford University should in future be among the little strug- gling colleges of the country or one of the great universities of the land. The settle- ment in Mrs. Stanford’s favor, he declared, found the estate in good condition and every debt paid. The estate cannot be again imperiled. Contrary to common supposition, how- ever, the university will not be immedi- ately at liberty to use the funds freely, as, first of all, the legacies, amounting to $4,000,000, must be paid. Of this amount $3,000,000, by the provision of Senator Stanford’s will, goes to the university and $1,500,000 is for individuals. But even of this sum $1,000,000 will eventually be re- turned to the university, for this is the legacy left to Thomas Stanford of Sydney, Australia, the millionaire brother of the late Senator. Thomas Stanford some time ago declared his intention to endow the university with the amount of his legacy as soon as it should be paid to him. The legacies will be paid as soon as pos- sible, but it 1s not likely that the railroad will wish Mrs. Stanford to withdraw so much cash on short notice. The result is, continued Dr. Jordan, that it may bea year or two before everything is settled so that the university may be the only claim- ant upon the Stanford resources. When asked how the defeat of the fund- ing bill would affect the university now Dr. Jordan expressed reluctance to be identified with the matter, but said that Mrs. Stanford’s loss in such an event would probably amount to only $300,000 or $400,000, 8 small matter compared with the great suit just settled. Remarking upon the income from the estate Dr. Jordan said it nsed to amount to $1,000,000 per annum, but he could not say what it is now since the depreciation of some of the properties. Dr. Jordan left the university for this City by a late forenoon train, but shortly before his departure he was apprised that something had happened, as huadreds of boys came rushing over to his house from the recitation-rooms in the quadrangle, beating drums and yelling, all with one wild accord, instinctively celebrating the favorable result of the suit, but none knowing where the news had come from. At Palo Alto Dr. Jordan received a con- gratulatory telegram from Banker Lilien- that of this City, and that was the first plausible information he had. During the afternoon, as he was busily engaged in the Academy of Sciences, the news seemed to come from everywhere. and Dr. Jordan be- coming convinced, arranged to leave last night's meeting in charge of the vice- president and started back to the univer- sity, as he smilingly expressed it, ‘“to be with the boys."” DENOUNCED BY NEGROES, Washington Pastors Cry Out Against the Leniency Shown Miss Flagler. Had She Been Colored They Declare She Would Have Been Shown No Mercy. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 2.—A Her- ald special from Washington says: Inan- ticipation that the clergymen would speak on the trial and sentence of Miss Flagler for the shooting of the young ne- gro Ernest Green some months ago, the colored churches here were more largely attended than usudl yesterday, and when there were harsh criticisms of the Judge and the District Attorney they were fol- lowed by applause. By far the largest attendance was "at the Shiloh Baptist Church, to which Ernest Green belonged. The Rev. J. A. Taylor, the pastor, made no reference to the affair, doing so, he said afterward, out of defer- ence to the wishes of the Green family. Rev. George W. Lee, pastor of the Ver- mont-avenue Baptist Church, the largest colored congregation here, said that every negro in the district ought to repudiate such a failure of justice as occurred in the Flagler case. He declared that if the pris- oner had been a negress she would now be in Albany serving time, but because Miss Flagler was a white womau, and the daughter of a wealthy and influential man, her violation of the law haa been countenanced, and even the Judge had partaken of the iniquity of her crime. Dr. J. T. Jenife, pastor of the Metropoli- tan Church, the leading church of the African Methodist Episcopal denomina- tion, said it was gratifying to him that both white and colored were unanimous in de- nouncing the outrageous outcome of the case. He believed it showed to the coun- try how much justice the negro received in the National capital, so far as Judges and courts were concerned. He thought the entire populace should join in de- nouncing the conduct of Judge and Dis- trict Attorney, and in praying for the opening of a new era for the colored people here. Dr. Walter H. Brooks of the Nineteenth- street Baptist Church expressed himself as shocked at the outcome of the case, but said he was not surprisea, as it was almost impossible for the negro 1o secure. justice in any of the courts. He thought such in- justice would be continued until the Na. tion awoke to the miquity of the discrim- ination. It is not improbable that during the week the colored residents of Washington will meet and put themselves on record as disapproving of the conduct of Judge Cox and District Attorney Birney. Ty Gy The Baltimore and Ohio Receivership. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 2.—Judge Lacombe of the United States Circuit Court late this afternoon appcinted Presi- dent John K. Cowan and Vice-President Oscar F. Murray of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway Cnmrany auxiliary receiv- ers of the property of the company in this State. The application was made at the instance of the Mercantile Trust Company, and was not opposed. ROUTINE WERK OF CONGRESS, Protest Against Placing the Marquette Statue in Statuary Hall. EARNINGS OF RAILROADS Allen of Nebraska Desires Some Information About the Pacific Lines. IMPORTANT BILLS PASSED. One Authorizes the Enlistment of Additional Men for Service in the Navy. WASHINGTON, D. C., Marctl 2.— Among the petitions presented in the Sen- ate during the morning hour was one from the American Protective Association of ‘Maine, by Frye (R.) of Maine, protesting against placing the statue of Pere Mar- quette in the Statuary Hall of the Capitol. A resolution was offered by Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska and agreed to, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish a statement of the gross earnings, operating expenses and net earnings of the Pacific railroads from their organization till the end of June, 1894, by years. The credentials of Allison (R.) of Iowa for his new Senatorial term, beginning March 4, 1897, were presented by his col- leage, Gear, read and placed on file. A conference was ordered on the appro- priation bill. The President’s veto message on the bill for Jeasing school lands in Arizona was presented and read, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Senate bill to prevent the carrying of obscene literature, etc., from one State or Territory to another State or Territory was taken up, amended and passed. The Senate then, by unanimous consent, proceeded to the consideration of the bilis on the calendar unobjected to, and the following bills were passed : Senate bill authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to enlist additional men for ser- vice in the United States navy. £ The bill authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to enlist for service in the navy ,as many additional men as he may deem necessary, not to exceed 1000, and it ap- propriates $380,000 for the purpose. It also authorizes the Secretary of the Navy, whenever an exigency may exist which in the judgment of the President renders their services necessary, to enlist for two years (unless sooner discharged) such of the naval militia and other men as wmay be required for the purpose of man- ning vessels of the navy net having full crews and such other ships as the Presi- dent may desire to call into service. It aliso authorizes‘tl®e Secretary of the Navy, whenever in the judgment of the Presi- dent an exigency exists rendering such action necessary, to charter for temporary service any private vessels that may be re- quired for the transportation of officers, men or freight for naval purposes. Among the bills passed were the follow- ing: Providing for vessels propelled by gas, naphtha, fluid or electric motors; to commission passed assistant surgeons in the navy and to provide for the examina- tion preliminary to their promotion to surgeons. Authorizing Lieutenant 8. 8. Jordan, Fifth United States Artillery, and Captain E. C. Carter, assistant surgeon, U. 8. A., to accept medals from the British Govern- ment, and Rear-Admiral Kirkland to ac- cept a gold box presented to him by the Emperor of Germany; providing for a naval training station on tbe island of Yerba Buena (or Goat Island), in the har- bor of San Francisco. Omnibus bill authorizing the construc- tion of several bridges across the Mis- souri, Mississippi and Des Plaines rivers and to describe the character, location and dimensions of the same. To authorize the St. Lonisand Oklahoma City Railroad Company to consiruct and operate a railway through Incian and Oklahoma Territories. - To promote the efficiency of the revenue- cutter service by providing for a perma- nent retired list at three-fourths pay; to promote Commodores L. C. Bartoris and 0. C. Badger, now on the retired list of the navy, to the rank and pay of a Rear Admiral on the retired list; for the con- struction of a steam cutter at a costof $150,000 for service in the Gulf of Mexico; the amendment of the law in relation to the marking of vessels’ names at the bow and stern and to provide for marking the draft. To authorize the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to place Lieutenant-Colonel and " Brevet Major-General ‘Alexander Stewart Webb on the retired list of the army. The bill to prevent the desecration of the National flag was made the special order for 2 o’clock on Friday next. After a short executive session the Sen- ate at 4:45 p. M. adjourned until fo-morrow. iR ROUTINE OF THE HOUSE. Defeat of the Senate Bill Rewarding a Naval Hero. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., March 2.—In the House to-day a bill authorizing the con- struction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at Aitken, Minn., was agreed to; also a bill authorizing the Arkansas and Northwestern Railroad Company to con- struct and operate a road through Indian Territory. N\ The Senate bill authorizink the appoint- ment of Lieutenant-Commander R. G. M. Brown to be a commander on the retired list was discussed in committee of the whole and defeated by a vote of 58 to 82. This officer was retired because of injuries received during the great hurricane at Apia, Samoa, and the promotion wi urged on sccount of the conspicuous brav- ery he displayed on that occasion. In the morning hour a number of bills were passed by unanimous consent or under suspension of the rules, among them being the Senate joint resolution directing the Secretary of Agriculture to purchase and distribute -seeds, buds, etc., as has been dore in preceding years. After considering the legislative appro- priation bill until 4:30P. M. without con- clusion, the House then adjourned until to-morrow. ol A PR Commodore Sicard Overruled. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 2.—Secre- | TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1896. tary Herbert to-day decid=d a little family quarrel in the naval service that has been thé subject of several conferences with the officers concerned. The question at issue was a mere matter of detail concerning the installing of the mounts of a turret, but it caused some feeling. The only import- ance attached to the matter is that Secre- tary Herbert in his decision overrules Commodore Sicard, commandant of the Brooklyn Navy-yard, in favor of Mr. Bowles, the naval constructor there. e N FINANCES OF THE NATION. An Increase in the Public Debt During February. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 2.—The debt statement issued this afternoon shows a net increase in the public debt, less cash m the treasury, during February of $15,- 978,764 88. The interest-bearing debt in- creased $75,252,350. Thenon-interest bear- ing debt decreased $115,886 50, and cash in the treasury increased $91,115,228 38. The balances of the several classes of debt at_the close of business February 29 were: Interest-bearing ‘debt, $822,615,170; debt on which interest has ceased since maturity, $1,667,630 26; debt bearing no interest, $375,491,679 14; total, $1,199,774,- 479 40. The certificatés and treasury notes oifset by an equal amount of cash in the treasury outstanding at the end .of the month were $558,551,273, a decrease of $3,991,600. The total cash in the treasury was $858,811,860 91. The gold reserve was $100,000,000. The met cash balance is $162,707,006 65. In the month there was an increase in gola coin and bars of $68,002,641 89, the total at the close being $167,695,998 46. Of silver there wasan increase of $1,843,641 33. Of the surplus there was in national bank depositories $24,394,556 83, against $14,803,- 803 55 at the end of the preceding month. e g Cleveland Going to Gotham. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., March 2.—Presi- dent Cleveland will leave Washington to- morrow morning for New York, where he will preside at the meeting of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church at Carnegie Hall in the evening. It is expected that Mr. Cleveland will make an address. The President will leave for Washington immediately after the adjournment of the meeting. Mrs. Cleveland will be unable to go, as she ex- pected. —_———— Cruise of the Alert. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 2.—A dis- patch to the Navy Department reported the arrival to-aay at Acapulco, Mexico, of the United States ship Alert. At Aca- pulco the commander of the Alert found irecting him to return at once to aragua, on account of the in- surrection in that country. The Alert will sail for Corinto when she has coaled. — The Battleship Indiana. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 2.—The battleship Indiana went over from Nor- folk to Hampton Roads to-day and was at- tached to Admiral Bunce’'s mysterious North Atlantic_squadron of evolution. Captain Robley D. Evans, her commander, was at the Navy Department to-day. He wiil return to his ship to-morrow evening. el et Gold for the New Bonds. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 2.—Of the $110,000,000 for which the recent $100,- 000,000 issue of United States 4 per cent bonds sold $95,804,722 has been paiud in gold on account. The treasury gold at the close of business to-day stood at $123,626,- 999, and the withdrawals for the day amounted to $169,000. e A Third Dividend. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 2.—-The Comptroller of the Currency has declared a third dividend of 10 per cent, making in all 40 per cent, on the First National Bank of San Bernardino, Cal. THRDINS I THE MK Holmes, the Murderous Swindler, Appears to Be in a Repent- ant Mood. Sends for a Spiritual Adviser and Abandons the Plan to Commit . Suicide. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 2.—H. H. Holmes, the murderer of Benjamin F. Pitzel, has thrown aside the mask and embraced the opportunity for consul- tation with a spiritual adviser. Ever since his arrest on the charge of defraud- ing the Fiaelity Company of $10,000 in- surance Holmes has assumed an air of bravado. He was so self-possessed that even when the charge of murder was made, following the investigation by the author- ities, he never flinched. Like many other murderers, Holmes now appears in his true light. The air of bra- vado assumed for the occasion has disap- peared and Holmes practically says that he is afraid to die. A few daysago he wrote to Archbishop Ryan, asking that the prelate send to him a priest with whom he might confer. This request was com- vlied with, and the Archbishop wrote to the Rev. Dr. P. J. Daily, rector of the Church of the Annunciation, in whose parish Moyamensing prison is. Father Daily has paid three visits to Holmes, but he declines to say what took place, except that he gave the murderer good books to read. He speaks kindly of . Hoimes, but beyond that is reticent. The change in the man’s demeanor is favor- ably commented upon by attaches of the District Attorney’s office. Foralong time it was rumored that Holmes would never be hanged and that if convicted he would cheat the gallows by committing suicide. Assistant District Attorney Barlow said that the fact that Holmes is conferring with the priest is sufficient evidence that he does not intend to commit suicide. Barlow firmly believes that Holmes will retain his self-possession, although he has deserted the stand he had taken and is un- doubtedly frightened by the prospects of death in the near future. I e WILL ATTEMPT GERMICIDE. There Appears to Bo No Limit to the Faluo of the Ray. MILWAUKEE, Wi, arch 2.—Dr. Horace Manchester Brown of this city made what is believed to be an important discovery in the useof the X ray, by which he 100k two photographs situated practi- cally at_right angles from ‘the direction of the ray. This was accomplished by the use of a magnet with a lifting power of one and a half pounds. 3 With this he deve!o%ed the ray, making a photograph of one object with the direct ray and another at a right angle to it. This method requires twice the length of time for the exposurs, as the strength of the ray is weakened in developing it. Brown yesterday photographed a bullet’ in the leg of Sevier Klein, whith had been imbedded against the bone since February 23 by an exposure of one hour. He cut into the leg and found the bullet at the point shown in the photograph. His next experiment will be to try to killipus germs wish the X ray, which is believed to be a germicide. T2 e s L Did Not Say When. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 2.—Ex-Pres- ident Harrison yesterday announced that he would start for his home in Indianap- olis next Wednesday, and would not re- turn until the time for his marriage to Mrs. Dimmick. He did not, however, say when the day was. KID MCOY THE WINNER, Surprises the Spectators by Defeating Tommy Ryan. N BOTH FIGHT PLUCKILY. Victory Won in the Fifteenth Round by a Most Vicious Uppercut. RECEIVES SEVERE PUNISHMENT Ryan, Who Was Thought to Have an Easy Thing, Beaten Un- mercifully. MASPETH, L. I, March 2.—A 20-round “go” between Tommy Ryan and “Kid” McCoy was the principal attraction at the Empire Athletic Club to-night. A large crowd was in attendance. Ryan’s last appearance at the Coney Island Ath- letic Club in his battle with the ‘‘Myster:- ous” Billy Smith lingered in the minds of many of the spectators, and oddsof4tol were laid on him. Tim Hurst was referee and Frank Sheehan held the watch. The curtain-raiser was an eight-round bout be- tween Jack Downey of Brooklyn and Larry Burns of Cohoes.” 1t resulted ina draw. The stars of the evening were the next to put in an appearance. Ryan said he scaled 148 pounds; McCoy weighed 155 pounds. Time was called at 10 o’clock, and Ryan immediately began his rushing tactics, but was met by McCoy with several hard knocks on the face. From this on Ryan acted more on the defensive. McCoy showed great cleverness, and sur- prised the spectators. Up to the sixth round it was easily McCoy’s fight. In the seventh round Ryan once more assumed the aggressive and the “Kid” clinched to save himself. In the eighth Ryan attacked and punished his man with the left hard on the head. The “Kid"” rushed again and Ryan turned. Ryan swung his left on the jaw and nearly sent McCoy against the ropes. McCoy rushed at his man and punished him right and left on the jaw, knocking him down. Ryan took nine seconds and then got up. McCoy rushed him again and punished him almost to a standstill when the bell rang. In the ninth McCoy rushed -his man all over the ring and floored him again with a left-hand swing on the jaw. Finally Ryan clinched to save himself. Nothing much was done in the tenth round, but from the beginning of the eleventh till the gong sounded McCoy punched his opponent right and left.’| Ryan’s face presented a horrible sight. He was groggy and only saved himself by clinching. Ryan was floored again in the twelfth by a right-hand swing on the jaw. From this on McCoy did about as he pleased with Ryan, who remained game to the core. Finally, in the fifteenth round the *“Kid” uppercut his man with the leit, drove his right on the stomach and knocked Ryan down twice. Ryan got up only to be pushed down again. This time Ryan stayed down and was slowly counted out. The round lasted 1 minute 54 seconds. The result of the fizht was one of the biggest surprises in the fistic arena for some time. 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