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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1896. the report of the committee on order of business. The friends of Dr. F. B. Mc- Neal. candidate for the nomination of Food Commissioner, won a victory last night in the committee and had the nom- ination for Food Commissioner placed before the State Board of Public Works. This was unfriendly to John Stillwe who comes from the same county— Miami—and who is a candidate for the Board of Public Works. The enemies of McNeal, the Wholesale Grocers’ Association and Siillwell's friends joined in trying to have the report aaopted so as to provide for the nomina- tion of the member of the Board of Public Works. Chairman Foraker decided the report adopted, but ex-Master of the Na- tional Grange J. H.. Brigham of Fulton County demanded to be heard, and voices all over the convention hall demanded an- other vote on the questicn. With the con- sent of the convention, Chairman Foraker put the question on the amendment offered by Brigham changing the report, but it was voted down. ressman R. W. Taylor read the re- 1e committee on resolutions from he stage, and on his motion it was opted as the party platform. n was largely the regulation party rent with a few new features. It de- | nces the Democratic National admin- | atio tirms the policy of protection, | 1 incidental recipro denounces free-wool provision of the present f as an attack upon an important in- c y, and stands for bimetallism and McKinley’s candidacy for the Presidency. The currency plank isas follows: or honest money; for a cur- er, with which to | all be as sound as untarnished as its 1 to that end we favor bimetallism the use of both gold and silver as | ther in accordance with a d by an international agree- | n be obtained, or under such | such provisions to be deter- ure the main- | parities of values of the two port of The plat- | 1 HOMR CHAMPIONS SPAIN'S CAUSE The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Is Attacked. |SPANIARDS AS ALLIES. Oppressors of Cuba Praised as a Nation Friendly to the United States. GOADS SHERMAN AND MORGAN Angry Responses Called Forth by Bitter Words—The Argument Not Concluded. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 11.—Sen- ator Hoar’s resolution to postpone the conference report on the Cuban concur- rent resolutions till Monday, the 6th of April, was taken up early in the morning hour to-day, and after a speech by Hoarin support of it, lost its place in the morning hour and went to the calendar, from which there will probably be no effort to restirrect i But the ng and debt-paying r of silver, paper | times equa. candidacy is indorsed as | 1 o take satisfaction in (he‘ yming from every section of our | v of popular approval of their llow-citizen, William McKin- debate in the Senate go on all the same to-morrow and until the subject is | disposed of, as the conference report is & privileged question, at least until 20’clock to-morrow, when it comes into conflict with the resolution for seating Dupont as question of still higher privilege. advocate of protection, who | stood for America, its fac- | and its firesides, finds his re- | confidence and sffection of the erests have been hisconstant | has all tories, ward in candidate for the Presidency the | 1s of Ohio pledge him anew the oyal and unswerving support of his ional convention, and instruct o represent Ohio to re- | ominations ing in order, ex-Con- man W. C. Cooper of Mount Vernon made a speech, closing with the offering of & resolution that the four delegates-at-| large to the National Republican Conven- | tion at St. Louis be as hereinbefore named. | Alien T. Brinsmade of Cleveland seconded | t otion. The question was put at once | and carried with a shout of ayes. The | negative wasnot put; it was not necessary. | Robert Neven of Dayton presented the | of the alternate delegates and moved be declared such delegates. The | man Grosvenor then presented the names of the Presidential electors-at- large. These nominations were made with unanimous acclamation. Mr. Mack is edi- | tor of the Sandasky Register and Douglas is an attorney of Chillicothe. Kinney was nominated for Secretary of State on the first ballot over Doty of Cuya- | hoga and Wikoff of Franklin. Judge Wil 1 was nominated by acclamation. Blackburn for Food Comm the second ot, and Huffman for mem- ber of the Board of Public Works on the | first vote. | The eagle w | v vacancies occurring in the State | t and the convention adjourned sine —_——— EHODE ISLAND DEMOCRATS. National Issues Ignored in the Conven- tion Resolutions. PROVIDENCE, R. I, March 11L.—The Democratic State convention was held this morning. Thomas H. Vance placed in | nomination for Governor the name of | George Littlefield of Pawtucket, which | nomination was unanimously ratified. | The remainder of the ticket was nominated as follows: Lieutenant-Governor, August S. Miller, Providence; Secretary of State, George L. Church of Tiverton; Attorney-General, T. Brown of Providence; General Treasurer, John G. Perry of South Kings- town. e committee on resolutions then pre- It made no mention ffairs, treating merely of State The convention then adjourned. B g Nebraska’s De ratic Convention. OMAHA, Nesr.,, March 11.—The State Central Committee, representing the ad- ministration wing of the Democratic party, met to-night and set April 20 as the time for holding the State convention to nominate delegates to the National Demo- cratic Convention. The convention is called to meet in Lincoln. The vote cast for T. J. Mahoney in 1895 for Supreme Judge was taken as a basis of representa- tion, and, allowing one delegate for every forty votes cast or fraction thereof, will give 625 delegates. The proposition made by the silver wing of the party to settle the question of representation at Chicago | at a primary election was ignored alto- gether. George S Al for McKinley. EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark., March 11.— The Republicans of the Fifth Congressional District held their convention here yester- day. Charles M. Green and Thomas J. Hunt were sclected as delegates and reso- lutions were passed unanimously instruct- ing the delegates for McKinley. This completes the selection of the delegates for Arkansas, fourteen of whom are white and two colored, and all instructea for McKinley. L o e Montana’s Delegation Divided. CHICAGO, Ir, March 11.—Paul Me- Cormick, a wealthy ranchman of Billings, Mont., 1s in town. He says that the silver ssue is about all that is considered in his State. The Montana delegation will be divided between Allison, Reed and Me- Kinley. The Queen’s Drawing-Room. LONDON, Ex6., March 11.—The Prin- cess of Wales held the first drawing-room of the seagon in behalf of the Queen at Buckingham Palace this afternoon. Among the Americans presented was Mrs. W. J. Ritchie, wife of the California millionaire, who was formerly Miss Roach of Cincinnati. Goluchowiski’s Misston. PARIS, Frasce, March 11.—Concerning the visit'to Berlin of Count Goluchowski, Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Figaro suggests that Austria may wish the Hoar's speech was largely an arraign- ment of the Committee on’ Foreign Rela- tions for reporting the concurrent resolu- tion without having any facts to justify such action. He appealed to Senator Sherman, whom he placed on the same with Lincoln, Grant, Fish, Seward | own illustrious brother, General Sherman, to recede from the position which he had taken, and the only reason for which was, he intimated, because a | Presidential election was at hand. Hoar said some very severe things about the action of the Committee on Foreign Relations, and said that when it wrote the word *‘concurrent” at the head of the reso- | lution it meant. it was to be distinctly un- | derstood, that this was to be a Pickwickian resolution. Hoar deplored the idea of | rushing matters through Congress that | properly belonged to the function of the State Department. He did not agree'with | Secretary Olney politically, but he knew | him well; he was a generous, square, hon- est, old-fashioned Massachusetts Yankee, and Hoar said he was not afraid to trust him in the diplomatie affairs of this Gov- ernment. Hoar then related a story of one of the old Emperors who was walking along a narrow path, accompanied by a fine lady | ot his court, when they met a laborer car- rying a hedvy burden. The lady refused to step aside, when the Emperor com- manded her to respect the burden the man was carrying, Applying this to existing conditions, Hoar said the people and the press, in criticizing the President and the administration in the Venezuelan and | Spanish question, should respect the | burden that rested upon them and the re- | sponsibilities that belonged to the Execu- | tive alone. It was to be lamented, Hoar said, that the youth of the Spanish universities had been so excited as to offer indignities to | the American flag, and that the Minister from Spain, a gentleman of great accom- | plishments and the representative of a friendly power, was stung into breaking over diplomatic propriety and making an | appeal, in an irregular way, to the people | of the United States. Hoar spoke in that connection of Spain | as the ally and friend of the Amerlcan colonies in the war of independence, and as having exercised a potent influence in preventing armed intervention by France and Great Britain in the Civit War. The Senate, Hoar declared, must do its duty with courage and firmness. What- ever the Senate did should be doneina | calm, quiet,-dignified spirit, as befitted the action of a great people. Itought to imitate not the excitement of mobs; it ought to indulge not in the impassioned eloquence of orators and not in the stimu- lant appeals or the love of liberty, or to any other public passion, good or bad. | This was a time and an occasion for the | judicial faculty. Hoar said he had authorized his col- | league some weeks ago to pair him in favor of Senator Cameron’s resolution asking the President to use his good offices with Spain for the recognition of Cuban independ- ence. For that reason he stood to-day and was prepared to defend it if necessary. He said that the question of belligerency was a question of fact, and it was reasona- ble that the usnal precauions should be taken. The Senate should have before it the “finding of facts by the proper com- mittee charged with the investigation. “This subject was discussed 1n_the com- mittee for several daysand was brought into the Senate without any report, but accompanied by a speech from Senator Morgan, who laid his sword on the tabte | and asked Spain to take it up, and de- clared his belief in the power of Congress without the President to grant belligerent rights. The other speech, that of Sher- man, contained quotations from a work that was repudiated. Upon these state- ments and without any presentation of facts Congress was asked to act. Hoar accused the Foreign Relations Committee of pasing its resolution upon a statement contained in a letter from the agent of the Cuban Junta. Sherman took exceptions to this statement, declaring that the letter came from the State De- partment itself. 2 Hoar was complaining of the lack of in- formation before the Senate on the Cuban question when Sherman called his atten- tion to a vrinted document of 200 pages, containing a message from the President and all the correspondence conducted by tae State Department. “This document has been before the Senate for more than two weeks, and was open to the Senate all the time,’”’ said Sherman, somewhat petulantly. “I don’t believe anybody ever read it,” retorted Hoar. *“‘Whether the members of the committee did I do not know.” “Iquoted from that document in my speech liberally,” said Morgan, “and that speech was in the nature of a report from the committee.” “Then,”” said Hoar, with apparent glee, Kaiser to explain his ‘Russophile leanings. “you spoke for the committee when you Senator from the State of Delaware, a | | laid the sword on the table and asked Spain to take it up. Isthat not so, and did you not speak for fhe committee when you said there had been 45,000 prisoners sxecuted in Cuba?” “"Morgan said he did not speak for the committee with regard to the execution of prisoners. Morgan said the record had been deliberately misquoted. He gave that as a quotation from a printed work and not as a statement of his own. After reciting the definition of an old Democra- tic judge in Massachusetts in circumstan- tial evidence, Hoar said the recent activity on the part of the somewhat sleepy Com- mittee on Foreign Relations was circum- stantial evidence, not that war was approaching, but that an election was approaching. During the morning business a joint res- olution was introduced by Allen (Pop ) of Nebraska and was referred to the Commit- tee on Foreign Relations authorizing and requesting the President of the United States to cause a thorough and rigid investigation to be made into the manner in which war be- tween Spain and the belligerents in Cuba is being conducted; whether in accordance with the established rules of civilized warfare and whether unusual and exceptional cruelties, barbarities and atrocities are and have been perpetrated by either party toward the other, and par- ticularly toward non-combatants. The joint resolution appropriates $10,000 for the expenses of the inquiry. The resolution heretofore offered by Chandler (R.) of New Hampshire, for an inquiry by the Committee on Civil Service into the expenses of the Senate for the past year, was reported back favorably and placed on the calenaar. HUNTINGTON'S PLANS. Favors a Straight-Out Funding Scheme and Will Oppose the Hubbard Plan. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 11.—Collis P. Huntington to-day disappointed the House Pacific Roads Committee, which assembled by appointment at 10:30 o’clock to hear his testimony. Mr. Huntington sent word that he was unable to appear, but would be on hand to-morrow. Reports have been sent from Washing- ton to the effect that the Union Pacific and Central Pacific roads had agreed on the Hubbard plan of settlement, and that a bill embodying this scheme would prob- ably be reported. TrE CALL correspondent is able to state that the roads have reached no agreement and that Mr. Huntington will to-morrow say to the House Committee that he pre- fers the bill introduced in the House by Representative Smith and in the Senate by Mr. Frye, to the plan favored by the Union Pacific (the Hubbard plan). This information coincides with what THE CarL correspondent has wired from time to time, viz.: that Huntington favored a straight-out funding scheme and that the Smith and Frye bills would be reportea. RIGHTS OF THE BANNOCKS, Supreme Court to Decide as to the Killing of Game in Wyoming. A Case Growing Out of the Recent Indian Uprising at Jackson Hole. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., March 11.—The famous habeas corpus case of John H.Ward, Sheriff of the county of Uintah, Wyo., vs. Race Horse, was argued in the Supreme Court to-day. It came to the court on ap- peal from the Circuit Court of Wyoming, where the case against Race Horse was be- gun after the trouble with the Bannock Indians at Jackson Hole last summer, pursuant to a friendly understanding be- tween the Indian Bureau officials and the authorities for the purpose of securing a judicial construction of the treaty rights vleaded by the Indiansin justification of their killing of game. The origin of the trouble was the Kkilli ng of elk by the Indians, which was _pro- | hibited by the laws of the State of Wyo- ming. The right to hunt game on unoccu- })ied public land was reserved to the ndians in the treaty oy which they were located in the present reservation. The State law forbade the killing of game under the conditions then existing, and a conflict between the Indians and peace officers of the State ensued. Subse- quent to the outbreak Race Horse,a mem- ber of the Bannock Indians, was arrested on a warrant of the District Court of Uin- tah County, charged with a violation of State law in the killing of seven elk. He was released on a writ of habeas corpus is- sued by the Federal court in Wyoming, and Sheriff Ward appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States. The questions before the court are: 1. does the State'statute forbidding the kill- ing of game restrict or annul the rigats of the Indians to hunt under the treaty with the United States? 2. Do the words “un- occupied lands’’ used in the treaty mean lands that have not been surveyed, subdi- vided and platted ? The affirmative of these was argued by Benjamin F. Fowler, Attorney-General of Wyoming, and the negative by Attorney- General Harmon. A CABLE TO HAWAIIL The Republicans of the Senate Committee Favor the Project. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 11.—The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to-day considered the two propositions before it providing for the construction of a telegraphic cable from San Francisco to Japan via the island of Hawaii, and from the same city to Hawaii. No conclusion has yet been reached by the committee, but it is believed that one of two com- panies will be granted the right to can- struct the cable, and be given a bonus by the Gorernment. Messrs. Gray, Turpie and Mills, Demo- cratic members of the committee, are opPosed to the granting of subsidies, and will vote against the bill, but the Repub- licans say they have enough votes to make a favorable report to the Senate. BTy i Pensions for Coast Veterans. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 11.—The following pensions have been allowed: California: Original—Benjamin Hayes, Ban Francisco; Alfred Roberts, Moreno. Renewal—John R. Williams, National Military Home, Los Angeles. Original widows and children—Elizabeth Cole, ?al&llnd. Reissue—Mary A. Drake, Oak- and. Oregon: Original—Hubert Bascombe, Beavertown; John Dumphy, Portland. Washington: Reissue—Jesse Gunning, Vancouver. Original widow—Harriet B. McNeal, Skamaki S LS Land Grants Approved. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 11.—Sec- retary Hoke Smith to-day approved the following grants of lands to railroads: Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, six acres; Southern Pacific, 4807 acres in the Visalia (Cal.) land district; Oregon and California, 4162 acres in the Oregon City gr. land district, and 2941 acres to the ntral Pacific Railroad in the Marysville (Cal.) land district. WINERAL LIS CLASSIFCATION California Senators and Rep- resentatives Reply to Lamoreaux. WANTS OF THE MINERS. Errors of the Commissioner of the Land Oifice Pointed Out. PRESENT LAWS INEFFECTIVE. Prevailing Conditions Are Satisfactory to the Railroad Companies Only. WASHINGTCN, D. €., March 1L.—The California delegation to-day sent the fol- lowing letter to Hon. Fred T. Dubois, chairman of the Committee on Public Lands of the Senate: Regarding H. R. 5819, and letter 3, from the honorable Commisstoner of the Land Of- fice in relation thereto, dated March 4, we de- sire to say: The criticisms of the Commis- sioner may be briefly indicated as follows: First—The honorable Commissioner says: “The lands to be classified under the bill be- fore me are situated within old and well set- tled communities, are generally surveyed lands and presumably have been thoroughly examined and éxplored by prospectors.” The Commissioner then draws the conclusion that the lands which have been thus explored and prospected should not be made the subject of further examination and classification. From our personal knowledge of the situation, we are able to state that the Commissioner has fallen into error as to the result of former pros- pecting in the mineral regions of California. The hasty, superficial and methodless prospect- ing of earlier years in ourState is but now giving place to scientific and skillful methods. Abandoned mines are being reopened, more at- tention is being paid to the development of our mineral resources, and, in short, capital is being attracted to the mineral regions of Cali- fornia as never before in the history of the State, since the nrst few years of feverish ex- citement following the discovery of gold on the American River in 1848. Furthermore, many small claims in the mountains are held by men of humble means, which claims have not yet been patented. but are held by work and possession under the Federal mining aws. The owners of these small mines, living, as they do, in isolated districts, far removed from populous centers, frequently have no notice of intended patents to railroad companies, and their claims are consequently swallowed up by railroad patent. It is impossible within the brief space of a letter to explain the situation as it exists or to state all the reasons why the classification sought for should be made. We may say, how- ever, that it is s well-known fact among the miners of California that prospecting along methodical and scientific lines has just begun in California, and that it would be a severe blow to the development of the mining indus- trg as well as a grave financial loss to the United States to permit any considerable por- tion of the mineral lands of that State to be patented to railroad companies. Second—The honorable Commissioner says: “The cost of examination and expenses in the Idaho aistrict was 6.2 cents (per acre, of course), the cost in other districts (Montana) ranging from 1.15 to 2.3 cents per acre.” Just why the classification in Califoruia should cost 6.2 cents per acre and why Idaho should be taken as & standard of comparison is not clear. The contested lands in California lie mostly in the Central Pacific and California and Oregon grants, The unpatented lands within these grants comprise altogether 1,331,- 494 acres, or less than 1,500,000 acres out of 7,500,000 to be classified. A good many thou- sand acres of Central Pacific and California and Oregon grants lie in the Sacramento Val- ley, in Butte and Tehama counties, while other portions thereof are in barren regions of Lassen and Modoc counties, Less than a mil- lion acres within the two grants above men- tioned would require careful examination. Proceeding southward through the San Josquin Valley and over the Tehachapi Mountains into Southern California the work of the Commissioners will not be difiicult. This matter was fully explained orally at a recent meeting of your committee and need not be repeated here. We can see no reason why it should cost more in California than in Montana. On the contrary the very fact, as stated by the Commissioner, that California is an older State and her lands better known and understood would make the task of the Com- missioners for California easier. The evidence of witnesses would be more easily obtained and an examination of contesteda lands more quickly made. Third—The honorable Commissioner sug- gests the following amendment to section 3 of the bill under consideration, namely, by adding to section 3 the following language: “‘And provided further that this act shall not apply to any lands in which publication has been made or been ordered made by the Gen- eral Land Office under a circular of the De- partment of the Interior, approved July 9, 1894, and that all such land: published or ordered to be published shall proceed to patent under now existing regulations. The exclusion of published lands as sug- gested by the Commissioner, while it might save the Government the small expense of publication already incurred, would lose to the United States and to the miners a large portion of the very lamds sought to be saved by the creation of the proposed commission. It is apparent that the eflicacy of the proposed measure would be seriously crippled if the lands already published but not patented were excluded from its operation. The min- eral lands within these published lands belong to the Government and not to railroad com- panies, and the reasons that apply to the set- ting apart of mineral lands in other portions of the railroad grants apply with equal force to the published but unpatented lands. Fourth—In speaking of the recent precedure in the land department, the Commissioner says: “This procedure has protected the rights of mineral claiments so well that no com- plaints has been made of its action by them.” Has the Commissioner fallen in%o an error as to facts? The dissatisfaction with the present procedure is strong and universal among. the miners of California. The California Miners' Association, which is composed of leading mining and business men of that state, ex- pended over $5000 in the year 1895 in fruit- less efforts to prevent the patenting of mineral 1ands to railroad companies. The records in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Oftice have been considerably augmented by protests, briefs, ete., proceeding from the California Miners’ Association. The associa- tion sent a personal representative to Washing- ton in the summer of 1895 to lay the above matters before the proper officials. The fact is the miners of California have been compelled to l:k Congress for the relief which they now seek. Referring to the suggestions made by the members of your committee to the effect that the proposed inquiry should be limited by the exclusion of known agricnltural lands, we de- sire to say that we know of no feasible way to accomplish this ontirely desirable result. The California Miners’ Association, through its ap- propriste committees, discussed this very question with a view to modifying the pro- posed bill as above suggested. They discov- ered, however, that it was impracticable to designate a geof hical boundory line that would properly 5‘;- ignate the lands sought to [ be classified. A designation of lands by alti- tude was also found impracticable. They also found it impossible to designate lands by coun- ties, since nearly every county affected by these land grants lies partially in valleys and par- tially in mountains. ‘The people of the State of California are just as anxious to have this work expeditiously done as are the officers of the Government, for until these lands are properly c'assified mineral titles in California must remain in a large part in an uncertain condition, and prospectingand development of our mineral resources corre- spondingly retarded. We feel, however, that ‘we can safely assure your committee that any commission that may be appointed by the President will have no difficulty in segregating and setting apart with small expenditure of time and money large tracts of agricultural lands that may be found within the railroad land grants. The result of the consideration of this matter by the California Miners’ Asso- ciation was that the only safe and practicable method to be employed was that adopted in the so-called Idaho-Montana act, with which act your committee is familiar, namely: The designation of lands by land districts. No one not familiar with the conditions in California can appreciate the deep interest taken in this subject, notonly by those directly interested in mining, but likewise by the peo- ple generally. The criticisms which have been made, entirely irrespective of party, upon the plan heretofore adopted for the issuance of railroad patents, have been emphatic and practically universal. The laws and regula- tions now in force are utterly ineffective, and as far as California is concerned, we do not hesitate to say that no interest disconnected with & raflroad company is satisfied with the prevailing conditions. Every member of the California delegation favors this bill, to say nothing of the representative gentlemen from that section who are here solely in furtherence of its enactment. Yours, ete. STEPHEN M. WHITE, United States Senator. GEORGE C. PERKINS, United States Senator. ‘W. W. BowkRs, Member of Congress. TIREY L. FORD. Representing the California Miners’ Associa- tion. Tue CALL correspondent learned to-night that the Senate Committee on Public Lands expects to report the California mineral lands bl favqrably, with the fol- lowing amendments : First—Reducing the compensation of the Commissioners to $10 per day, without ex- penses. Second—Limiting the time within which lands are to be classified to four years. Third—Directing the Commissioners to class- ify large bodies of well-known agricultural lands upon testimony taken and without per- sonal examination, by legal subdivisions. This last amendment is intended to ex- pedite the work of the commission and to enable it to more rapidly classify valley lands, about which there is no contest. The committee endeavored to find some means of eliminating the valley lands of known agricultural character, but found ho practicable means of so doing. The above plan of directing the Commissioners to thus set apart undisputed agricultural lands was at last practically agreed upon. It is understood that Senator Berry of Arkansas will offer the above amend- ments, and their adoption will remove all further objection in the Senate and insure executive approval. Tirey L. Ford has wired to the secretary of the California Miners' Association for instruction as to the above amendments upon the return of the bilt to the House. If the House refuses to concur in the Sen- ate amendments a conference committee of the two houses will finally dispose of the matter. LIBELED BY A CARTOON, C. L. Magee and Senator Flynn Sue the Pittsburg Commer- cial Gazette. Object to an Illustration in Which *X Rays Had Exposed the Politician’s Brain. PITTS BURG, Pa., March 11.—C. L. Ma- gee of the Pittsburg Times and State Senator William Flynn entered suit before Alderman McMasters to-day against the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette for criminal ibel. The information against the Gazette alleges that that paper published a false and defamatory article, which stated that Magee and Flynn had entered 1nto a deal with Mark Hanna, the Cleveland million- aire, to boom McKinley for President, and had received $150,000 for so doing. Mr. Flynn’'s action against the Press is based on the publication of a cut, in which X-rays turned on his brain showed a bag of money labeled *“McKinley Campaign Fuands,” and some having blocks marked “Popularity.” The time for the hearing of the cases has not been set. Civil action, claiming $100,000 damage s in each case, will follow 10-mOTTOW. e STRUCK BY A TRAIN. Coachman and Two Children of a Chi- cagoan Killed. CHICAGO, I, Marcn 11.—While the three children of Willis L. Blackman, a prominent Board of Trade operator, were returning home in a carriage from a party last night the carriage was struck by a Burlington train at the railroad crossin, in Hinsdale and the coachman, Samuel Russell, and two of the children—Carlos H. Blackman, 8 years old, and Willis L. Blackman J. Ig vears old—were killed. Marguerite Blackman, 10 years old, the remaining child, was seriously injured, her right leg being broken and her body badly bruised. W}‘;en the carriage reached the crossing the gates were not down and there was no sign of the approaching train. The coach was smashed into kindling-wood and scat- tered for hfty yards along the track. Both of the horses were also killed. S e e Ay KENRICK’S BODY INTERRED. Archbishop Kaine of St. Louis the Cele- brant of Requiem Mass. ST.LOUIS, Mo., March 11.—The funeral of Archbishop Kenrick took place this morning, the services being held in the old ‘Walnut-street Cathedral. The interment was at Calvary Cemetery. The doors_of the cathedral were thrown open, and within ten minutes the church, which seats but 800, held a congregation of nearly twice that number. In the ca- thedral Cardinal Gibbons occupied the throne on the epistle side of the altar and Archbishop Ryan was seated on the oppo- site side. Archbishop Kaine of the St. Louis dio- cese was the celebrant of requiem mass, assisted by Rev. Father William Walsh. At the close of the mass Archbishop Ryan -of Philadelphia, an intimate friend of de- ceased for over a score of years, delivered the funeral sermon. Cowen Succeeds Mayer. NEW YORK, N, Y., March 1L—At to- day’s meeting of the board of directors of the Western Union Telegraph Company the resignation of Charles F. Mayer, late president of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road Company, as a director of the tele- gram company was accepted and John K. Cowen, the new president of the Balti- more and Ohio Elill‘bld Company, was elected in his place. e Greater New York Bill Passed. ALBANY, N. Y., March 11.—Lexow’s greater New York bill passed the Senate this afternoon by a vote of 33 fb 8. The bill was not amended to-day and now goes to the Assembly for concurrence, A POLICE RAID SAVES M'AULIFFE Lavigne Has the Champion at His Mercy in the Sixth Round. THE FIGHT IS STOPPED. Officers Clamber Into the Roped Arena and Prevent a Knockout. SHORT BUT LIVELY BATTLE. McAuliffe’s Poor Form Tells Against Him After the Third Bout. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 11.—Aftera long absence from the roped arena Jack McAuliffe appeared to-nightin a six-round bout with *Kid” Lavigne at Madison- square Garden. At times the light-weight champion showed some of his old-time quickness and cleverness, but he was 1n no condition to antagonize the “Kid,” who had the best of the argument. McAuliffe’s poor condition told on him fast and he was nearly out when the police stopped the bout. Owing to the action of the authorities no referee was appointed and the men sparred fora popular verdict. McAuliffe held a warm place in the hearts of the epectators because of his previous reputa- tion, but there was only one verdict possi- ble, and that was in Lavigne’s favor. Fully 8000 persons witnessed the bout. After the contest McAuliffe challenged Lavigne to a finish fight within ten weeks, and negotiations are pending. Round 1—McAuliffe was the first to land with the left and followed up with the right on the ribs. Lavigne came back and swung right and left on McAuliffe’s head. ‘The Kid led with the left and caught Jack on the ear. A moment later the Kid got right and left from Jack. The fighting was very fast and McAuliffe showed almost his old-time speed. Lavigne rushed just be- fore time was called and caught Jack’s left | flush in the face. Round? —McAuliffe shot hisleftinto the Kid’s face. The Kid followed up, but was shoved back on to the ropes. The Kid sent his left on Jack’s nose. Jack tried to rush, and took another left hander on the face. McAuliffe was short, and the Kid crossed the righv on the neck, and followed up on the ribs. A moment after the Kid put his right on Jack’s ribs. The round ended with the two close together, doing some hard and fast in-fighting. Lavigne showed to good advantage. Jack was evi- dently not the McAuliffe of old. Round 3—Jack led. but the Kid ducked and evaded. He swung his left, but the Kid parried neatly. Jack essayed another lead, but the Kid again ducked. Jack swung a hard left on the ear, which straightened the Kid for a second. Jack seemed to be tiring a little. Round 4—McAuliffe rushed at his man and put the left lightly on the face. Jack swung right and left lightly on the Kid’s face. Lavigne rushed in and Jack caught him and swung the left on the jaw. Jack broke away from Lavigne's leads.. The Kid kept after him and rushed him to his corner. So far it was Lavigne’s fight. Round 5—Jack led with his leit, but was short. The “Kid” followed Jack into his corner and landed a left swing on the face. They clinched, and after breaking away the “Kid'’ put both hands hard on the body. Jack broke grounda and the “Kid’’ went after him and planted his left straight on the face. Round 6—They started at a hot pace. Lavigne rushed and Jack swung a hard right on theribs. They indulged in some in-fighting. Both were trying to force !h'e' fighting. Jack was tired and the “Kid" jabbed him on the face and body, Me- Auliffe being caught several hard punck_:es from Lavigne. Both were fighting viciously when the police clambored through the ropes and stopped the fight. A Corbett Signa Articles. PITTSBURG, Pa., March 1L.—James J. Corbett to-day signed the articles of agree- ment forwarded by the National Sporting Club of London to fight Robert Fitzsim- mons before that organization next June for a purse of $10,000, tne winner to take all the money. Each man is allowed $500 for expenses, provide his own gloves and fight under the Marquis of Queensbury rules. The articles will now go to Fitz- simmons. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 11.—John 8. Hoey, the well-known sportsman and ref- eree, died at Long Branch this afternoon of heart trouble, followiny a severe attack of the grip. DUCK-HUNTING AGAIN. President Cleveland and Party Sail on the Maple. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 11— President Cleveland sailea away from Washington to-night at 11 o’clock on another of his duck-hunting trips. His destination is Widewater, Va., about forty miles down the Potomac, where Colonel Richard Waller has several ducking-blinds. Asusual the lighthouse tender Maple conveyed the party, which consisted of Mr. Cleveland, Commander Lamberton of the navy, who is the light~ house inspector for the Potomac River district, and Dr. Reilly of the army, the President’s physician. The President and his friends arrived at the Washington and Norfolk steamboat wharf at 11 o'clock in the White House carriage. Immediately after they went on board the Maple the lines were cast off and the little vessel steamed down the river. The weather is of the kind thatis supe posed to delight the duck-hunters’ heart, and the snow had just ceased falling when the Maple started. The party will probe ably return to-morrow. BRITISH COLUMBIA GOLD. Eaxplorations of Mining Country to Be Made by an Expert. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., March 11.— Frank T. Nason, a young Rutger’s College professor, left to-day to explore the gold fields of British Columbia. He goes as the manager and engineer of a gold-min- g company which has been formed by local men. They have put $100,000 into it on the basis ot discoveries made by Nason when he prospected last May in the vicinity of the Big Bend River in British Columbia. Professor Nason says he has struck a claim which will assay $224 a ton. The engineering will be done by hydraulics. Freight for the enterprise has been already sent. NO TROUBLE Departure of British Cruisers Believed to Have No Significance. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 11.—A Sun special from Washington says: The latest reports from Hawaii received here by Minister Hastings and the State Departe ment give no intimation of any troubles in the islands, and it is not believed that the reported departure of the British ships from Vancouver for Honoluiu has any tcgnneczion with the political conditions ere. The United States ship Bennington, which has been there for several weeks, is soon to be relieved by the Ad”fi; now ten IN HAWAIL days out from San Francisco. ijst even- ing it was said at the Naval Dfpartment that the administration has no intention of increasing its naval representations. il e Travels of a Boy Tramp. LACON, Irn, March 11.—George Ham rold, the boy tramp, on his trip from Oak« land, Cal, to New York, reached hera yesterday, having completed 5100 miles. He gets his twenty-fifth pair of shoes at Peoria to-morrow. He isin good health, has $180 more than his wager calls for and is ahead of time. Harrold wears a coat of Carter Harrison’s, John Wanamaker’s trousers and Governor Morton’s vest, and carries a Danish valise. S S Satolli at Chicago. CHICAGO, Irn., March 11.—Cardinal Satolli arrived in this city from Omaha at 9:45 o’clock this moraing. 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