The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 4, 1896, Page 2

'HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 18936. o : e entirely certain that I serve well our en- tire people, whose servant I am, when I here testify to the benefit our country has received through bome missionary effort and when I join you in an'attempt to ex- tend and strengthen that effort. “No one charged with the duties and re- spo which necessarily weigh upan vour chiet executive can fail to ap- preciate the importance of religious teach- ing and Christian endeavor in the newly settled portions of our vast domain, Itis there where hot and stubborn warfare be- rces of good and evil is con- 3 . In these sections the van- guard of the occupation in & new settle- ment is never without its vicious and crim- inal element. Gambling-housesand dram- ps are frequently among the first estab- hments in 2 new community. It must a be confessed that removal from old homes and associations to a new and more | primitive home has a tendency among | honest and respectable settlers to smother | scruples and to breed toleration of evil | and indifference to Christianizing and ele- vating agencies. 1 “The conditions if unchecked and un- corrected fix upon the new community by their growth and expansion a character which, while dangerous to peace and order | in their early stages of settloment, de- | velops into badly regulated municipali- | ties, corrupt and unsafe territories and able States. These are serious con- rations in a country where the people, good or bad, are its rulers, because the conditions to which I have referred would ly menace within a section con- ing the safety and welfare entire body politic. 1f we could hove that churches ana religious teaching would from first be on the ground to oppose the ‘evil influences that | are apt to prevade the beginning of or- | nities.. These churches | d this r teaching were never | e needed than now on our distant | tiers, where the process of forming States is going on so rapidly, and tween th sh. stantly of the now new where newcomers who are to be the citi- { | of new States are so rapidly gather- | ogether. | For these instrumentalities at the out- | posts of our population so vitally impor- | tant in the view of Christian men as well as patriotic citizens we must depend to a | very great extent on home missionary ex- | ertion. How can we excuse ourselves if we permit this exertion ‘to languish for| lack of proper. support. If we turn from | the objects of home missionary labor to the situation of those actually to:ling in | distant fields for God and humanity and a | purer, better citizenship, our sympathy | with their work must be further quickened ann our sense of duty to them and their | cause actively stimulated. These are the | men and women who have left home and the association of friends under the direc- #ion of orranized mission boards to teach Chri nity in sparsely settied sections and to organize churches where none ex- | ist, enduring discomfort, haraships, pov- and danger for the sake of a cause to | a very comfortable and inexpen- | , we profess to be attached. These oldiers at the front, fighting our y at home cannot e the duty of providing for them and ce-enforcing them in every way if we are to continue them in our service. r hearts have recently been pro- ndly stirred the dangers that reaten the devoted men and women who have gone from among us to preach and teach Christianity in a foreign land. Our sympathy with them and those with whom they labor and suffer is made more | yainful because the arm of complete re- | lief has n us far been able to reach them. Ou mpulise should be ge enough enough for both. “While we will no: turn away from | them nor aliow di ment to destroy | in th i let us not forget our own land who need our aid, to whom we owe a duty and 10 can be reached. “It seems to me that if the Christian people of our land estimate at its real | vaiue the work which the Board of Home Missions has in charge, and if they can be | made to realize its extreme importance, the means to carry on and extend this work will be easily forthcoming, and I hope that such an unusual interest may be aroused in behalf of the cause by the movement of whych this meeting is a part | es will suggest to many heretofore in- | different tbat among the most comforting | of their possessions will be a share in the | triumphs and achievements of home mis- | sions.” When the President had concluded Rev. William G. Roberts, D.D.,offered prayer. Then Rev. Sheldon Jackson, D.D., super- intendent of missions for Alaska, made an | cloquent address. President Cleveland | then introduced the Rev. Dr. Talmage, | who received a great ovation. He said: “Our glorious Presbyterianism is in full | bloom to-night. This wil meeting and far down the years it will be told in the commercial metropolis of this Nation thatthe man who has on him the highest honors this world can give,.and twice received these honors from the American people, in-this great mass-meet- ing for God and righteousness putdown the grandeurs of his office at the feet of Jesus Christ; and if they know in heaven what is done on earth, then amid the rejoicings before the throne is the gladness of one of the early ardent friends of home m ission, the coasecrated pastor, Mr. Clevelana, once of Caldwell, N. J., but now among the great cloud of witnesses bending over this triumphal scene.” The Rev. Charles L. Thompson was the next speaker and at the conclusion of his address the ushers took up the collection, after which President Cleveland intro- duced Booker T. Washington, principal of Tuskogee Institute, Alabama, as the last speaker. At 10:30, shortly after Mr. Washington began, President Cleveland left, after which the interest in the meeting seemed to an extent to have gone. The amount of the collection was not announced, and after the benediction the meeting adjourned. President Cleveland, accompanied by Private Secretary Thur- ber, took the midnight train for Wash- ington. President Oleveland arrived in Jersey City at 5:15 this afternoon. William R. Worrill and Colonel A. P. Ketchum, a sub- committee appointed by the committee of | arrangements of the Home Mission, met the President. The party was driven to the Hotel Netherlands, President Cleveland had scarcely disappeared sithin his room when Bourke Cockran was ushered up and was calmly greeted by the President. The two remained in earnest consultation for nearly half an hour. Mr. Cockran tola a United Press representative that the call was purely a social one, and declined to say what the conversation wasabout, Mr, Cleveland declined to be interviewed. Terms of Court Changed. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 3.—The House Judiciary Committee to-day favor- ably reported the bill of Barnham, amend- ing the statutes relating to holding terms of court at San Francisco so as to provide that hereaiter the terms of the Circuiiand District courts shall be heid there, begin- nig on the first Monday in March, the second Monday in July and the first Mon- day in November eachyear. be a historical | ONE DAY'S WORK [N CONGRESS, The Passage of the Sixth Appropriation Bill in the Senate. | 1 | | | |AID FOR AGRICULTURE. As Usual, Secretary Morton Did Not Escape Some Censure. CUBAN RESOLUTION CORRECTED Allen Introduced a Measure “To Pro- tect the Treasury and for Other Purposes.” WASHINGTON, D. C., March 3.—The principal subject before the Senate to-day | was tne agricultural appropriation bill, carrying appropriations to the aggregate amount of §3, It was passed with very litile opposition or discussion, and is the sixth regular appropriation bill that has passed both houses. The only other appropriation bill that has been received from the House is that for the Indian De- partment, and it is now in the hands of the Committee on Appropriations. Somebody having blundered in the for- mal message notifying the Senate of the vassage of the Cuban resolutions in the House—the message indicating entirely in- dependent actioo by the House, instead of the fact that the House resolutions were passed as a substitute for those of the Sen- ate—the mistake was corrected to-day by the withdrawal of that message and the substitution of one making the correct an- nouncement. The matter was then re- ferred to the Committee on Foreign Rela- tions. The only important item in the proceed- ings in the Senate to-day (in addition to the passing of several bills) was a motion, submitted by Gorman (D.) of Maryland, for a reconsideration of the vote of yester- day passing a bill authorizing the enlist- ment of additional men in the navy. The motion is a privileged one and may be taken up at any time. At 5:15 o'clock the Senate adjourned until to-morrow. During the business of the morning hour a bill was reported from the select com- mittes on the internationsl exposition and was passed, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to distribute medals and diplomas awarded to exhibitors at the World’s Columbian Exposition not yet distributed, and appropriating $15,000 to defray expenses. The conference report on the army ap- propriation bill was presented and agreed o. A bill entitled “To protect the Treasury Department and for other purposes” was introduced by A''en (Pop.)of Nebrasga and referred to the Committee on Finance. It provides for the retirement of all National bank notes and the substitution therefor of United States legal-tender notes, to be issued by the treasury to the banks, the bonds now deposited as security for the redemption of National bank notes to be retained in the treasury as security for those legal-tender notes. A resolution was also offered by Allen, and went over until to-morrow, declaring that under existing laws all United States bonds and legal-tender notes are redeem- able in gold and silver coin. Chandler (R.) of New Hampshire, from the Committee on Privileges and Elec- tions, reported a resolution for the ap- pointment by the President of the Senate of a select committee of five Senators to in- quire into the fact and circumstances of the election in the State of Alabama on the first Monday in October, 1894. The resolution went over without action, Gray (D.) of Delaware stating his intention to make a minority report. A motion toreconsider the vote by which the Senate passed the bill authorizing additional enlistments in the navy was | submitted by Gorman (D.) of Maryland, and went over to be called up hereafter. Attention was called by Sherman (R.) of | Ohio to a blunder committed in baving the | House Cuban resolutions reported to the | Senate, not as a snbstitute for the Senate | Cuban resolutions (which was the inten- | tion and the real fact), but as independent | action on the part of the House. Heasked | to have the journal corrected. After a | good deal of colloguy Sherman admitted that the proper remedy was to wait for the House to gend to the Senate an authentic report of its action of yesterday. | The agricuitural appropriation bill was | then taken up. The committee amend- ment striking out of the bill the provision for a change in the methods of supplying tobacco to foreign countries was disagreed to. | A committee amendment striking out an item creat.:ng a ‘‘division of agrostol- 1 ogy,’” with a chief at $2500 a year, gave rise | to a pretty long discussior, in the course | of which the whole scheme of running the | Agricultural Department was character- | ized by Hale (R.) of Maine as an abuse. Finally a compromise adjustment was made between the advocates and oppo- nents of the division of soils and of the division of agrostology. The committee amendments having all been disposed of, an amendment was offered by Warren (R.) of Wyoming ap- propriating $15,000 for an investigation, under the Secretary of the Interior, as to the best modes of irrigation. After a long discussion the measure was moditied 8o as to appropriate $4500 for con- tinuing the gauging of streams and deter- mining the water supply by the geolog- ical Survey up to the 30th of June, 1896, and as modified it was agreed to. The bill was then passed. A message was received from the House withdrawing the House Cuban conlurrent resolutions of yesterdsy and announcing the passsge of the Senate Ctiban concur- rent resolutions with a substitute—the substitute being the House Cuban resolun- tions. They were referred to the Com- mittee on Foreign Relations. Senate bill to withdraw from the Su- preme Court the jurisdiction of criminal cases not capital and confer it upon the Circuit Court of Appeals wus passed. Senate bill to regulate mail matter of the fourth class was passed. It was stated by Wolcott (R.) of Colo- rado that the bill only applied to the Gov- ernment departments, and that its object was to shut out of the mails folding- chairs, rolling desks, electric motors, car- pets and various other truck. The text is as follows: 4 *‘That mailable matter of the fourth class shall embrace all matter not embraced in the first, second or third class which is not in its form or nature liable to destroy, deface or otherwise damage the contents of the mailbag or harm the person of any one engaged in the postal service, and is not above the weight provided by law, which is hereby declared to be not exceed- ing four pounds for each package thereof, except in case of single books weighing in excess of that amount, and except for books and documents published or circu- lated by order of Congress, or written or printed official matter emanating from any of the departments of the Government or the Smithsonian Institution, or which is not declared non-mailable under theprovi- sions of section 8893 of the Revised Stat- utes as amended by the act of July 12, 1876, or matter appertaining to lotteries, gift concerns or fraudulent schemes or devices.” Senate joint resolution authorizing Lieutenant-Commander William McCar- thy Little to accept a decoration from the King of Spain was adopted. After a short executive session the Sen- ate at 5:15 adjourned until to-morrow. St DISCUSSED APPROPRIATIONS. The House Struggled With the Question of Fees and Salaries. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 3.—To- day’s session of the House was almost wholly devoted to a discussion of the amendment proposed to the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill to make the offices of district attorney and United States marshal salaried ones in- stead of paying the incumbents with a fee. It was supported by several members, and opposed by none. But Hartman (R.) of Montana and Gardner (R.) of New Jersey attacked the inequalities in the bill, which they asserted discriminated unjustly against the officials named in those States. The matter will be further considered to- morrow under the five-minute rule, when amendments will be in order. A mistake having been made in the mes- sage conveying the Cuban resolutions passed yesterday in the Senate, whereby they were described as House concurrent | resolutions, instead of a substitute for the Senate resolution, a resolution was adopted on motion by Hitt (R.) of Illinois asking a return of them in order te” make necessary corrections. They were shortly returned in accordance with the request. Senate amendments to the House bill regulating anchorage of vessels in St. Mary’s channel were agreed to. The House in committee of the whole re- newed consideration of the fee and salary amendment to the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill. Updegraff (R.) of Iowa, who reported the amendment as an independent meas- ure, further explained its provisions and the reasons actuating the Committes on the Judiciary in coming to the conclusion expressed in the bill. The bill, he said, bad no partisanship in it, and had re- ceived the earnest support of Attorney- General Harmon and the Department of Justice. The amendment was further advocated by Swanson (D.) of Virginia, McRae (D.) of Arkansas, Brown (R.) of Tennessee and Burton (R.) of Missouri. The discussion was interrupted by Hitt (R.) of Illinois, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, who asked the adop- tion of a resolution asking the Senate to return the Cuban resolutions -agreed to vesterday. They were reported. to the } Benate as House concurrent resolutions instead of a substitute for the Senate reso- lutions, and they were brought back to be corrected in the manner indicated. The resolution was agreed to. The debate on the fee and salary amend- ment was resumed. Most of the speakers expressed regret that the bill did not go further and put United States Commis- sioners in the list of salaried officers, be- lieving that that step would do more to discourage and prevent frivolous and un- warranted prosecution than any other, but they were willing to take the amendment as the best thing that could be obtained at present. Hartman (R.) of Montana, while giving his approval to the purpose and principle of the amendment, attacked the inequali- ties of salaries carried in the measure. These inequalities, he -asserted, affected the officials in Montana most seriously. Of fourteen States Montana returned the largest net amount of fges to the treasury, but the salaries provided in the bill for the attorney and marshal for that State were lower than those of all the other thirteen save two. He gave notice that he would move a series of amendments intended to correct these faults. While Gardner was speaking the Cuban resolutions were returned to the House from the Senate in response to the request made some time previously. General debate on the amendment was closed by Connolly (R.) of Lilinois, who advocated its adoption. He would wel- come, he said, the day when the entire system would be wiped off the statute books. At 5:45 o’clock the committee rose and at5:50 o’clock the House adjourned. vOF INTEREST TO THE COAST. Maguire Presents the Petition of the San Francisco Sailors. WASHINGTON, D. C.. March 3.—The Attorney-General to-day submitted to the House a letter asking Congress for an ap- propriation to pay the ciaim of the Ban- croft Company of San Francisco for goods furnished the Government in Alaska. The House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce to-day reported favor- ably on Representative Barham’s bill pro- viding for a lighthouse and fog signal at Port Gorda, Cal. Representative - Maguire to-day pre- sented the petition of the sailors of San Francisco against a modification of the seamen’s act of 1895. Representative Johnson introduced a bill 1o pension Joseph Adler and James E, Eaton. H. F. Bergman was ngpoin!ed postmas- ter at Bergman, Riverside County, vice W, B. Catler, resigned. California patents have been issued as follows: Henry F. Dalton, Azusa, mer- chandise handbook; William E. Damon, Pomona, brick machine; Daniel Feit, San Francisco, amalzamator; Gustavus E. Kastengren, San Francisco, speed measure and alarm; Charles Staubes, San Jose, Ereaervingw unfermented grape juice; ames D. Wilson, San Diego, wrench. Pensions have been granted as follows: California: Original—Frank Toudt, Vet- erans’ Home. Napa: Increase—Anthony 'W. Sowry, 8an Francisco. - Oregon: Oricinal—John F.Shoup,Salem; James A. Tulley, Wallowa. Washington: Additional—William W. Wooding, Woodinville. Increase—Jacob Showers, Port Orchard. Mexican war widow—Eliza Ann Ernest, Garfield. LR ot AR Fifteen Buildings Gone. DANBURY, Co~x., March 8.—For four hours this morning the Fire Départment battled with a fierce fire in the center of the city befdre subduing it. Property worth $150,000 was destroyed. The damage is covesed by insurance. Captain Hoyt and Frank Eastwood, a hoseman, were badly injyred. Mrs, Sadie Carpenter, a colored woman, jumped from a window and was internally injured. Fifteen buildings were burped. % STATESMEN NOW FOR ARBITRATION. A Great Anglo-American Demonstration in Its Favor. LETTERS OF SYMPATHY. One Was From Gladstone, Who Regretted the Growth of Militarism. A MEMORIAL TO CLEVELAND. Steps Commenced to Secure Co-opera- tion in Calling a Conferemce at Washington. LONDON, Excraxp, March 3.—An Anglo-American demonstration in favor of arbitrating disputes between Great Britain and the United States was heid at Queen’s Hall in this city to-night. The Right Hon. Sir James Stansfield, who was formeriy president of the local government board, presided. There was a large attendance and the greatest enthusi- asm was manifested. The chairman read & number of jetters of sympathy from well- known men, including Mi. Gladstone; the Right Hon. John Morley, M. P., formeriy Chief Secretary for Ireland; the Right Hon. James P. Rice, M. P.; the Most Rev. Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, and other prelates. Ms. Gladstone in hisletter alluded to his share 1n the Alabama arbitration and said he regretted the continued growth of bar- barous militarism, to which Great Britain had no small share of responsibility. The chairman said he believed that the Venezuelan question, which was first fraught with danger, would prove a bless- ing. A motion made by the Right Hon. George Shaw-Lefevre, some time Postmas- ter-General, that a memorial in favor of arbitration shouid be forwarded to Presi- dent Cleveland, was carried by acclama- | tion. The Right Hon. A. B. Mundell, M. P., formerly president of the Board of Trade, then submitted a motion approving co- operation to secure the holding in Wash- ington of a national arbitration conference. This motion was also adopted amid much enthusiasm, NO DIRECT NEGOTIATIONS. A Chicago Associated Press Promptly Disproved. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 3.—With reference to the report that the British Embassador and the Venezuelan Minister at the capital have entered into direct nego- tiations for the settiement of the so-called Uruan incident, which was ‘‘learned” by the Chicago Associated Press and tele- graphed from Washington to-day to various papers, Sir Julian Pauncefote is authority for the statement that he has entered into 1o negotiations with Venezuela’s represeu- tative on any subject, nor has he had any instructions regarding any Uruan incident. Minister Andrade is also officially un- aware of the existence of any so-called Uruan incident, and is at a loss to account for the invention thus set afloat. The whole thing has been a matter of news- paper discussion only, and has never been officially brought to the attention of either of the diplomats named. EXPLOSION OF GASOLINE One Portion of a Building Blown Down and Five Men Fatally Burned. Story Many Make Their Escape From the Flames by Leaping Out of Windows. RACINE, Wis.,, March 3.—A gasoline tank in the engine department of the Racine Hardware Company, at Racine Junction, at 2 o’clock this afternoon ex- ploded, demolishing that part of the build- ing, fatally burning five men and causing a loss of $150,000. The men rushed pell mell for the win- dows and leaped to the ground below, a distance of twenty feet. Many of them were badly bruised and some have broken bones. Five of the men were more un- fortunate and were caught in a mass of flames. Before they could reach the out- side world they were terribly burned about the face, arms and bodies. The names of those burned are: A. J. King, George Nichols, John Fitch, George Btratton and G. Anderson. - Two men employed in the metal depart- ment are missing, Itis believed they were injured and carried home by comrades. ———— AT THE MERCY OF A FLOE. A Ferry-Boat Fast in the Ice on Lake Erie. ERIE, Pa,, March 3.—A partof the crew of the Shenango car ferry, which is fast in the ice on Lake Erie, reached the shore at Northeast yesterday after a trip of hard- ships and peril. The men were quite ex- hausted and badly frozen when they reached land, but recuperated guickly. They will return to the boat with a load of provisions. . The Shenango is fifteen miles from the shore, with forty feet of ice under her, and is at the mercy of the floe. - The provisions aboara are low, but there is coal enough to keep the boat warm for thirty days. Major Huidoper of Meadeville, president of the ferry company, has an _expedition fitted out here to go to the boat to-day, The crew is safe enough if the stock of pro- vigions is rmiv-i. The boat canmnot be released before spring. S A Further Trouble Feared. RALEIGH, N. C., March 3.—Governor Carr this afternoon received a telegram from Lieutenant Griffin, commanding the Naval Reserves on duty at Elizabeth City, saying the negro who was snot there vesterday was dying and that further trouble is apprehended from a negro mob. Lieutenant Griffin was thereupon ordered to remain at Elizabeth City with the re- serves until further orders. B ] Ex-Governor Ireland Dying. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 3.—Hon. John Ireland, ex-Governor of Texas, was attacked last night with' neuralgia of the heart, and his condition is considered nogeless by his physicians. His home is at Sequin, Tex., and he arrived in San Antonio Sunday morning to spend a few days. Ex-Governor Ireland is one of the most prominent members of the bar in the South, and has taken a prominent part in Texas and naticnal politics for the past twenty years. Sena i DEATB OF JUDGFE SIMS. Made & Good Record as u Sailor, States- man and Jurist. TRENTON, N. J., March 3.—Judge Clif- ford Stanley Sims, who was stricken with paralysis this morning, died at 3:40 o’clock this afternoon. Judge Sims was a native of Pennsyl- vania, where he was born in 1839. He was admitted to practice law there in 1860, in Tennessee in 1866, in Arkansas in 1868 and in New Jersey in 1894, He served in the United States navy from 1862 to 1864. He Was a mem ber of the Arkansas Legislature in 1868-60. Since 1883 be has been presi- dent of the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati. He was appointed a Judge in the Court of Errors and Appeals in 1894 and he had four more years to serve. i goises NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED. Army Officers Who Will Compose the Debris Comn ission. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 3.—The Senate in executive session to-day con- firmed the following nominations: Samuel H. Keedy of New York to be Consul at Grenoble, France. George J. Riskruge, Surveyor-General of Arizona. Colonel Charles R. Suter, Major Chatles E. L. B. Davis and Captain Cassius E. Gillette, Corps of Engineers, to be mem- bers of the California Debris Commission. Lieutenant-Colonel William R. Corps of Engineers, to be a member of t! Missouri River Commn:ission. Charles E. Wells, Unitea States Marshal for the district of West Virginia. FOUR PERSORS PERISHED Fire Swept Through the Genes- see Apartment-House at Utica. £, he Sixty Families Lived in the Flats and Many Lost All Their Property. TUTICA, N. Y., March 3.—The Genessee apartment house in this city was burned this morning. The occupants of the Genessee flats numbered 176, composing sixty families. The losses of these sixty families amount to over $200,000. The building was worth $120,000. The building was insured to the amount of §90,000 and the property of the tenants to the amount of $40,000. , Four persons are known to have lost their lives 2s the result of the fire, and it is feared that two others, and possibly more, erished. The names of the dead are: Mrs. Hugh Hughes, aged 70 years, killed by falling from tbe fourth story while being lowered to the ground by a rope; Mrs. George Wood, aged 45, a niece of the late Governor Seymour, and her daughter Mary, 15 years of age, and Noble Hopkins, aged 69 years. The bodies of the three last named are in the ruins. SEAE R A Blaze at Woodland. WOODLAND, Carn., March 3. — The Home Alliance printing ofiice and plant narrowly escaped total destruction by fire this forenoon. The origin of the blaze is not known positively, but it is supposed to have been accidentally started by a printer while 10 the act of removing ashes from a stove. There was no end to ‘‘pied” type, besides a heavy loss of paper in stock. S s drlel Flames in. a Hardware Plant. HARTFORD, Coxs., March 3.—A fire started at 5:45 o’clock to-night in the attic of one of the buildings of the Russell & Er- win Manufacturing Company’s big hard- ware plant in New Britain, and spread rapidly through the oil-soaked upper floors of the three buildings. Estimated loss is $300,000; well insured. e Fire at Phenix. PH(ENIX, Ariz., March 3.—Captain W. A. Hancock’s resigence, corner of First avenue and Jefferson streets, one of the oldest houses in the city. was totally de- stroyed by fire to-night, with all the con- tents. Loss, $1606; insurance, $600. Te g A Tannery Destroyed. LONDON, Exe., March'3.—The Rosehill Tannery in Bolton, County of Lancaster, was destroyed by fire to-day. The loss is estimated at £150,000. SEERE Hosiery Mill Burned. BRISTOL, Pa., March 3.—The Provi- dence Hosiery Mill was destroyed by fire early this morning. Loss, $125,000; covered by insurance. R BELVA LOCKWOOD'S FEE. i The Pension Commissioner Decides She In ¢ Entitled to It. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 3.—Mrs. Belva Lockwood, the well-known woman lawyer and ex-Presidential nominee, was some time ago alleged to have iltegaliy re- tained a fee paid to her 1n the caseof a soldier named Benjamin Thompson. On account of the allegation Mre. Lockwood paid back the fee, but appeated from the action of the Commissioner of Pefisions to the Secretary of ghe Interior. Mrs. Lockwood has now received a letter signed by William Lochren, Commissioner of Pensions, advising her that her appeal from the action of the bureau in requiring her to “refund $25 in the case of Benja- min Thompson, deceased,” has been de- cided in her favor and that the money will be returned to ber. SR Mourned by the Creditors. PITTSBURG, PA., March 3.—John L. Cowan of the wholesale lumber firm of Cowan & Son is missing. It is said that he took with him $100,000. About 250 creditors are left mourning. Detectives are searching for the fugitive. Forgery, raising of checks and other ugly transac- tions are freely mentioned in connection with his disappearance. It is thought that Cowan is probably en route to Nica- ragua. NEW Apollinaris “THE QUEEN OF TABLE VIATERS.” TO-DAY. NOW SUPPLIED; IN “SPLITS.” Ask for “Splits” at the Restaurants and Bars. JOHN CAFFREY, 47 First street, San Francisco, REPRESENTING = Charles Graef & Co., N, Y., for Mineral Waters N THE HOUSE -~ OF COMMONS, Information Not Yetat Hand as to the Ailsa’s Sinking. INQUIRY TO BE MADE. Passage of a Resolution of Sym- pathy for the Arme- nians. HASTY INTERVENTION OPPOSED British Forces Would Be Met at Any Landing by Vast Numbers of Turkish Troops. LONDON, Exa., March 3.—In the House of Commons to-day Right Hon. Charles T. Ritchie, President of the Board of Trade, was asked in regard to the reports of mis- conduct on the part of the crew of the British steamer Ailsa, after the collision between that vessel and the French steamer La Bourgogne in New York harbor last Saturday, resulting in the sinking of the British ship. Mr. Ritchie said the Gov- ernment has not as yet obtained the fullest vossible information, to secure which a searching inquiry would be needed. George N. Curzon, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, repiying to questions, made a statement that the Government had heard nothing of the Porte having declined to 1ssue passports to persons desiring to go to the distressed districts of Asia Minor, Turkish officials there having seized for the payment of taxes moneys which had been sent for relief purposes. Sir Philip Currie, British Embassador to Turkey, he said, had been instructed to make inquliries. Samuel Smith, Liberal member for Flint- shire, then opened the debate on a resolu- tion of sympathy with the Armenians. Mr. Curzon-followed Mr. Smith and in- timated that the Government would ac- cept the latter’s motion. He argned that the reasons against Great Britain's inde- pendent action in the Armenian matter were as much geographical as political. Between any port at which Great Britain could land an armed force and the scene of the outrages there must be encountered 200,000 Turkish troops. The crusaders of the nineteenth cen- tury, he added, must bave a practical as well as a chivalrous aspect. The Govern- ment would not in the future abate its efforts in behalf of the Armenians. Re- garding the past, Mr. Curzon said he | expected the House was convinced that the Government could not have gone fur- ther than it had, The debate lasted well into the night, the House finally adopting the Armenian res- olution without a division. Sour Stomach, sometimes called waterbrash, and burning pain, distress, nausea, dyspepsia, are cured by Hood’s Sarsa- parilla. This it accompliches because, with its wonderful power as a blood purifier, Hood’s Sarsaparilla gently tones and strengthens thestomach and digestive organs, invigorates the liver, creates an appetite, gives refreshing sle-p, and raises the health tone. In cases of dyspepsia and indigestion it seems to have **a magic touch.” “For over 12 years I suffered from sour Stomach with severe pains across my shoulders and great distress. I had violent nausea which would leave me very weak and faint, difficult to get my breath. These spells came oftener and more severe. I did not receive any lasting benefit from physicians, but found such happy effects from a trial of Hood’s Sarsaparilla that I took several bottles and mean to always keep it in the house. I am now able to do all my own work, which for six years I have been unableto do. 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NOONAN, Late of 1017 to 1023 Mission Stre £bove Sixth. houses, billiard-tablos, BRUSHES nders, candy. foundries, laundri . oa, Daper FOR BARBERS, BAK- em, bootblacks, hangers, priaters, — BUCHAN. B! 8. Brush Manufacturers, 609 SacramentoSt NOTARY PUBLIC. (CHARLES H. PHILLIES, ATTORNEY-AT law and Notary Public, 638 Market st. dn;:hnu:’m-u. 1830 !nl.l'-.' ?:: phone 57G. Eesldence telephone, “Pime 3301." Snowing in Frisco! The weather man must have evi- dently made an error and thought this was Chicago when he ordered the change of weather. Ifitkeeps on this way sleighing will be in order in the park. t Seems as though the weather, figure 7 and the people joined hands to crowd the big store for us yesterday. What a wonderful magnet the figure 7is. The people know it’s the last 7 deys of our series of great sales, and they aren’t losing any time, and they shouldn't. Never were such excellent suits, never were such clever.overcoats, stylish, up-to-date ones, offered at anything near like the price. 7 times 7 is nearer right for such clever garments. . Right above you see the clever Overcoat, a pretty Kersey in biue, with deep velvet collar; the new spring cut, 8 very swell garment. You'll see some of your very best dressers in town wearing ‘em. Just as a fitting tableau to the end of all our sales we place the They’re in our big corner win- dow; you'll see ’em there. Above you see the Suits, right smart looking garments, aren’t they? In blue serge cheviots. There's an up-toflateness about our clothing that gives ’em a springy air, an air of refinement to the garments made by our tailors. These are the suits during the final 7 days of our series of great sales that are being offered at $7.00. RAPHAELS, (INCORPORATED). THE FRISCO BOYS, 9,11,13,15 KEARNY ST