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2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1896. TEN LIVES LOST WHILE SLEEPING. Frightful Holocaust in a Brooklyn Tenement House. ONLY SEVEN ESCAPED. Every Member of Two Italian Families Perishes in the Flames. EVIDENCE OF INCENDIARISM. The Fire Burned So Fiercely That It Was Difficult to Save Adjoining Buildings. BROOKL N. Y., April 1.—The four- story brick tenement house at 36 Union street was burned at 3:30 o'clock this morning, and ten persons lost their lives. There were seventeen persons in the house at the time of the fire, seven of whom es- caped. The following are the names of the dead: Nicollo Traglia, 50 years of age; Lina Traglia, 44 years of age; Domino Traglia, 4 years old; — Traglia, 17 days old; Camelia Caino, 25 vears old; Au- gustin Buone, 44 vears old; Maria Buone, 35 years old; Sandy Buone, 5 years old; Johanna Buone, 13 meonths old; Lina Calabria, 18 years old. The ground floor was occupied as a fruit- store by Joseph Esposito, who with his family tived the secord floor. Tie third floor was occupied by the Traglia family and the fourth floor by the Buones. John Calabria, who married Lina Buone less than a year ago, also lived with the Buones. The fire was discovered by a man named Holst, who gave the alarm and tried to arouse the tenants. He kicked in the street door, but the flames burst out into his face, and he had to abandon further efforis. The hallweys and stairs were then a seething mass of flames. So rapid- ly did the fire spread from a place imme- diately behind the street door, where it undoubtedly originated, that Holst saw there was danger to the inhabitants of the adjoining houses, and with the aid of the police got the tenants into the streets. In the mean time the occupants of the burning building were awake and trying to make theirescape. The Esposito family made their way to the front windows and by means of the cornice over the front crossed to the building at No. 38and thence to the street. The Traglias and the woman who lived with them on the third floor apparently did not awaken, and were burned to death without making any sign to the watchers in the street. John Calabria, who married the eldest daughter of the Buone [amily, is the only one of the family alive to tell the tale, He said he tried to carry his wife to the win- dow, but could not, and hurt his hands in get out. He had called for help, but nene came. The Espositos were aroused by the calls of “Fire!"’ and said this morning that five minutes later they eould not have got out of the building. The firemen drowned the fire out in a short time and without damage to the ad- joining buildings. The bodies were removed by an under- taker at 10 o’clock this morning. They were badly burned, but not beyond recog- nition. The loss is about $4000 to the building and its contents. The fire marshal will make an investigation. Laterin the day Fire Chief Dale saia that John Calabria, whose wife lost her life in the fire, was fully dressed when seen on the street, and no other occupant had time 10 dress. 'He told two different stories of nis escape from the house, which are not considered satisfactory, and he is under police surveillance until further in- vestigation is made. BUWERS' KEEN SARCASM, The California Congressman In- troduces Mock Resolutions in the House. Says He Is Tired of All This Talk About Silver Cranks and Sound Money. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aprit 1.—The House, in committee of the whole, to-day completed eonsideration of the sundry civil bill, with ‘the exception of the pro- vision for the Bureau of Eugraving and Printing. which = Bingham ° (R.) ‘of Pennsylvania desires to.amend. Before the bill shall be reported to the House there will be a general debate, at the sug- gestion of Hainer (R.) of Nebraska, upon the amendment making the provision ‘for Howard University. So it is among the strong possibilities that the .bill will not be finally disposed of until late to-morrow afternoon. - The only material amendment made to the bill to-day aside from the one relating to the Howard University was the one di- rectiogg the Secretary of War to expend $75, on_the new military post estab- hished at Spokane, Wash. The discussion -of the bill was inter- rupted several times by political inter- jections. Grosvenor (R.) of Ohio charged the Wil- son tariff law with being responsible for the condition of the treasury, which for- bade many necessary appropriations from being made. Patterson (D.) of Tennessee replied, charging the onus of the present condi- tion upon the Republican party and the gentleman’s particular champion, Wil- liam McKinley. 'In this matter Patterson said, in answer to a question, that he ap- peared as the representative of the admin- tration of Grover Cleveland. This in- spired Bowers of California to indite the followlng set of mock resolutions: Resolved, That in the judgment of this Hor the so-called silyer members of this body are dangerous cranks, threatening prosperity and rpetuity of the busiuess interests of the Nation, and therefore ought to be expelled. Cries of ““Vote!”” “Vote!” Bowers—We will vote on the resolu- tions together. The next is: Resols That in the judgment of this House Bnmen?‘#e'rcunba a m‘wd ublican or good Democrat who does not get into the platform and stay on the platform invented, constructed and patented by Grover Cleveland and in which it appears the Republican party has secured a reversionary interest. [Laughter.] Resolved, That, while we consider silver members, owners or representatives of silver mines who come among us seeking to benefit their mining industry through legislation as dangerous and a mexnace to the country, Wwe at the same time welcome the residents, direct- ors, stockholders and regresenmuvel of Na- tional banks who come here as members to protect and benefit their business; and we ledge them our earnest support in their ef- Jorts: to, establish an elastio currency which may be increased or diminished in amount as the interests of bankers may seem to require, and also in their efforts to be authorized. to issue more currency and less security, to the ©end that a system of “sound money” may established, every dollar of which shall be re- deemed in gold purchasea by sale of United States bonds, in accordance with the new system of “sound finance.” Barham—Mr. Chairman, I join my col- league in asking unanimous consent for present consideration of those resolutions. Bowers—The resolutions are before the House. = Grosvenor—The gentleman from Cali- fornia_had better Took out or he may be taken in earnest. He may have some con- stituents who will not understand the sar- casm of those resolutions. [Laughter.] Bowers—Well, Mr. Chairman, I ‘wili take chances with my constituents. My constituents understand that the miner and silver member have as good a right to come here and work for the interest of men who dig the gold and siiver out of the-hills as the banker has to come here and work to protect his banking interest. There are two sides to this question, and I have got a little tired of this talk about “silver cranks’’ as men who threaten the interests of the country. You have not got any business interests. They went to th'e devil long ago under your “sound money” system. [Laughter.] SIS A SENATE PROCEEDINGS. Call’s Cuban Resolution—Perkins Talks for American Shipping. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 1.—In the Senato to-day Call (D.) of Florida intro- duced a joint resolution reciting the con- tinual violations of the usages and rules of | war in Cuba, the inhuman and brutal out- rages on men, women and childen and directing that an adequate naval force of the United States shall be immediately sent | to Cuba as- shall be sufticient to protect (by force if necessary) citizens of the United States in Cuba from wrong and from the violation of the treaty obligatiors; also requesting the President to communicate this resolution to the Government of Spain and to inform that Government that the United States will forcibly intervene to protect the rights of American citizens and in the in- terest of ciyilization 1f there shall be a re- currence of murder and outrage or of the shooting or putting to death of prisoners of war. It was laid on the table. A Morgan (D.) of Alabama gave notice | that he would next Tuesday call up the | resolution offered by him on the 9th of March instructing the Committee on Pa- | cific Railroads to report back the bill in- | troduced by him and referred to the com- | mittee, giving to the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia jurisdiction over suits upon the liens of railway corpora- | tions. The postoffice appropriation biil was | taken up, the question being on the amendment reported by the Appropriation | Committee allowing = $80,000 additional | compensation to the Oceanic Steamship Company for carrying the mails from San Francisco to New Zealand and New South Wales. Vilas (D.) of Wisconsin argued against the amendment. In the course of a colloquy as to the subsidies paid by Englana to mail steam- ship companies, Perkins (R.) of California declared that as an American citizen he favored the fostering of American ship- ing as_agawnst English sbipping. E land, France and Russia had last yvear, he said, given $18,000,000 in postal subsidies, but his friend from Wisconsin (Vilas) would not give a dollar to American ship- ping excepting the postage. | At the suggestion of Allison (R.) of Iowa, chairman of the Committee on Ap- propriations, the amendment was aliowed t0 go oyer without action until to-morrow. THENCAPAGUM TROLBLE Critical Point of the Revolution Thought to Have Been Reached. The Ultimatum of the Liberals Is That President Zelaya Must Leave the Country. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 1.—Central Americans in Washington think that the critical point of the Nicaraguan revolution has been reached and the next move will either involve Honduras and Salyador in the dispute or settle the matter in favor of the revolters against the assumption of dictatorship of President Zelaya. This belief is founded -on the very pe- culiar political conditions resulting from Zelaya’s abandonment of the Liberal party which elected him to the Presidency, the strong sentiment against dictatorships in all the republics and the weakness of the clerical or church party in the more popu- lous sections of Nicaragua. It is predicted that the Clericals will not make eny great sacrifices in support of Zelaya’s dictatorship, as he is one of their bitterest enemies, and it is said has only sought their support for - his personal agsrandizement. The ultimatum of the Liberals is that Zelaya shall leave the country, turning over the executive department to Vice- President Boca and the old Cabinet until the next legal election can take place, and unless this 1s shortly agreed to it isthe impression that opponents of the Clericals in glondur&q and. Salvador may join the Liberals in} their effort to upbold the Nicaraguan constitution. It is said.that Zelaya has been offered | the vacant post of Minister to Washing- ton, provided he promptly accepts the ulti- matum. -On the other hand, Zelaya de- mands the surrender of Vice-President Boca and all the Liberal leaders and. their trial before a.military tribunal, and this extreme demand arouses the Liberal sym- pathy of the other two republics that were glrtles to the recent alliance of Amapala, t is sdid that there is no possible contin- gency under which Guatemala and Uosta Rica can be drawn into the controversy. kil g PACIFIC CABLE RIVALRY. Charter and Subsidy Seeking Companies Defeat Each Other anc' Delay the Project. WASHINGTON, D. C,, Apri] 1L.—The rivairy between the two companies seek- ing a charter and a subsidy for the con- struction of a Pacific cable has resulted for the time being at least in the failuce of either company to secure the prize. The sub-committee of the Senate Com- mittee on Foreign Relations reported to the full committee a bill along the lines of that pro\?oaed by the Scrymser Company of New York, but left the name blank so that the full committee could act thereon. This bill was considered the best proposi- tion because for the same bonus larger ad- vantazes were offered to the Government. ‘When the proposition came up in the committee this morning the Spalding ad- vocates found ready allies in ‘he four Democratic members of the committee who were opposed to subsidies of any sort, and their votes were sufficient to defeat the proposition to favorably report the Scrymser bill. The opponents of the CHANDLER MAKES AN EXPLANATION. He Tells of His Connection With an Incongruous Resolution. AN AWKWARD DILEMMA Why New Hampshire Republi- cans Indorsed Both Reed and McKinley. TO KEEP PEACE IN THE FAMILY The Senator Denounces Political Cow- ardice and Insists on Honest, : Manly Warfare. CONCORD, N. H., April 1.—Senator Chandler’s paper, the Evening Monitor, publishes a letter to-might which the Sen- ator sent to Senator Lodge last evening. 1n it he savs: “The ludicrous incongruity between the delegates-elect and the last resolution of the series adopted by to-day’s convention needs an explanation from me. A short time ago a McKinley movement was or- ganized in Manchester under the lead of Henry M. Putney of the Mirror news- paper. The pretext for the out- break was my denunciation of the cam- paign methods of Messrs. Osborne and Hanna, which the Mirror represented as an assauit upon Mr. McKinley personally. The argument seemed to be because Mr. Chandler had injudiciously told the truth about Osborne and Hanna, therefore New Hampshire ought to abandon Mr. Reed and support Mr. McKinley. An assumed virtuous indignation was to change men’s deliberately formed opinions. The move- ment did not seem to threaten anything serious. Publicopinion settled upon eight persons for delegates known to be fayor- able to Mr. Reed. “Yesterday Mr. Putney came to Concord as the advance guard of the Manchester delegates. He had been designated by the State Committee with two other gen- tlemen as an advisory committee on plat- form. He called on me for my views. 1 began by saying that 1 assumed that no resolution concerning Presidential candi- dates would be proposed, as we had not done that even during the exciting days of the Blaine canvass. He said that if resolutions instructing for. Reed were pro- posed tbe Manchester delegates would op- pose them. I replied that no such resolu- tions were desired ; that delegates ought to | be uninstructed and free and uncontrolled by resolutions of any kind, as they always had been. Iasked bim to assent to this plan. “Just before starting for the convention I heard accidentally that the committee on 1esolutions, the night before, had de- cided to add to the platform, wnich had been shown to me, a resolution declaring that Mr. Reed was noble and illustrious and that McKintey was pure and able; that New Hampshire could be bappy with either and preferred one or the other, I also learned that it had been arranged to keep this information from me unti! as late a moment as possible. “I immediately asked the committee to my room, also such candidates for dele- gates' as could be found and a few other friends, and we consulted hastily. The candidates said that they had all been known for weeks as un- reservedly for Reed; that they were sure of an election by acclamation; that a disturb- ance in the convention was undesirable, and that it was possible, although not probable, that of the 700 delegates then vouring into town from the cars, a majority might be found against us if we had an acrimonious debate on an attempt to de- feat a resolution, and that they thought we had better let the whole platform pass without a quarrel. “As I was embarrassed by the fact.that T was to preside at the convention and had no time to arrange the programme of a fight, I reluctantly yielded to their opinion and we went to the hall. We nominated the delegates by ac- clamation and adopted the platiorm asa whole unanimously. A motion was made by a Boston broker to substitute for the currency plank the single gold standard resolution of the Massachusetts conven- tion, which was opposed by Senator Gal- linger and others, and only received one vote, that of the broker himself. It was unsuited to the opinion of New Hamp- shire and to the candidacy of Mr. Reed, who is a bimetallist. The convention ended before 1 o’clock, joyous and enthu- siastic over the prospect an overwhelming victory in State and Nation. This expia- nation may not be satisfactory, but it is all I can make. “I confess I was unprepared at the mo- ment of entering the “convention for the device which was the ultimate develop- ment of the Osborne-Hanna movement in New Hampshire. Our self-restraint was cowardly. It was the opinion of good judges, and it was clear to me after all the delegates had assembled in the hall and cheered, first the name of Reed and later the name of McKinley, that the conven- tion was for Reed two or three to oné, I have acquiesced, in such an act of cow- ardice once before, when weallowed to pass the resolution of the New Hampshire con- vention in 1877 that the Hayes administra- | tion was good and pure rather than have a bitter controversy over the question whether its conduct bad been honorable in surrendering to Democratic usurpers the lawful Governments of Louisiana and South Carolina, whose title was as good as that of Mr. Hayes. “I once denounced another such act of cowardice when, on a foolish pretext that it was necessary to count in Mr, Hayes, it was agreed by Oh1o statesmen to make the aforesaia surrender of two lawful Southern governments. Hayes and Packard and Chamberlain and Republican honor might all have been saved if the Republicans had shown the courage of their convictions. BSo the mongrel resoiution of to-day mizht have been easily defeated if men had not cried peace when honest manly warfare was required. But the delegates are all for Reed and I'do not think Hanna can capture any one of them at any stage of the contest. ‘WirriaM E. CHANDLER.” oty Spalding measure were equally stubborn, and likewise voted with the Democrats to refuse to support the other measures., Be- tween the committee factionsin the Re- publican ranks the proposed cable fell through. Lither Reed or MoKinley. MANCHESTER, N. H., April 1.—At the Republican District Convention held here to-day delegates were chosen to represent the district at the National Convention in St. Louis. The convention adopted reso- lutions favoring either Reed or McKinley. g e PREPARING ¥OR WORK. American Republican College League Opens Headguarters at Chicago. CHICAGO, ILvL., April 1.—Headquarters for the American Republican College League, which begins its annual conven- tion Friday, were opened to-day at the Auditorium Hotel, where the banquet will be held that evening. The delegates will be here by to-morrow night, when a recep- tion will be tendered by the Marquette Club at their clubhouse. Addresses will be delivered in the convention by three ex-presidents of the league, James F. Burke of Michigan, Delmer E. Hawkins of Syracuse, N. Y., and Theodore Cox of the City of New York University. The other speakers will be J. Howard Fry of Prince- ton, James Jay Sheridan of Yale and James P. Whyte of the University of Chi- cago. Among the orators at the banquet will be Senator Thurston, Governor Bradley, Robert - T. Lincoln, Congressman Mc- Cleary of Minnesota and General E. A. McAlpin, president of the National Re- publican League. James Martin Perkins of Karvard, Stepken D. Demmon of the Northwestern Law School (formerly of Harvard), E. C Lindley of the University of Michigan and E. J. Henning of the Columbian Law School are candidates for the presidency. —_——— £HODE ISLAND ELECTION. Republicans Make the Customary Clean Sweep of the State. PROVIDENCE, R.I., Aprill.--Returns from the elections at midnight 1indicate that Lippist, Republican for Governor, is elected by almost 10,000 plurality. The city returns are deiayed on accountof a heavy license vote. The entire Republi- can ticket is elected by slightly reduced pluralities. 'The campaign was apathetic in the extreme and disorganized, the Democracy made practically no fight There will be but six Democrats in the Legislature against eight last year. There was something of a fight against license in this city, but the no-license movement was defeated two to one. The entire Re- publican city Assembly ticket was elected by over 2000 plurality. The city went Democratic last fall. MURDEREDH EMPLONES Ghastly Find of Laborers While Digging on a Farm in' Illinois. One of Many Crimes Laid at the Door of a Man Who Committed Suicide. ROCK ISLAND, Irr., April 1.—Sheriff Heminway took possession of the farm of the late Henry F. Bastian in Black Hawk township, near here, to-day, and a force of laborers began to dig it up. Bastian com- mitted suicide on March 13, after having been accused of the murder of his hired man, Fred Kuschman, whose body was found on the highway the day before Bas- tain killed himself, but the Coroner’s jury declared Kuschman came to his death in some unknown manner. To-day a body identified as that of John Lauderbach, another hired man of Bas- tian’s, was found buried on the farm and the latter will be dug up for the purpose of aiscovering,tif' possitiey the bodies of Mar- shall, Lewis an | Franz Kiernzen, who dis- appeared in 1804, while employed by Bastian. It developed shortly after Bastain’s death that he had forged his mother's name and succeeded in borrowing $1300 on a piece of property, the principal of the loan being due at the present time. Sus- picion also attached to him of baving known something about the burning of a barn belonging to a neighbor named Mc- Laughlin. An attempt was made to rob McLaughlin'’s house while the barn was burning, but the identity of the thief was not disclosed. NEITHER 10 GET A DEEP HARBOR, [ Continued from First Page.] the chamber in favor of San Pedro. A large part of the time was taken up with discussions of the meaning and intent of Congressman Hermann’s letter to President Paterson, in which he pointed with pride to the fact that the Committee on Rivers anda - Hatbors had been persuaded to recommend an appro- priation for Santa Monica as well as San Pedro, and that under this arrangement Santa Monica would get the larger appro- priation. It was this portion of Her- mann’s letter that worried most of the directors’ minds, They did not relish the idea of seeing the Southern Pacific Com- pany get away with the lion’s share of the spoils after the people here had begun to consider the prize practically won for San Pedrs. Some of the directors while professing to stand firm for San Pedro were nevertheless of the opinion that it would be unwise to oppose the proposed appropriation for Santa Monica, as doing so might defeat both appropriations. Others argued that it were better to- defeat both and waita year or two than to permit the Govern- ment to become committed to the expendi- ture of a large sum at Santa Monica, which would surely mean death {o the deep-water project at 8an Pedro, Director J. 0. Koepfli introduced some peppery resolutions, drawn up by Colonel H, C. Otis, who, as chairman of the Free Harbor League Committee that went to Washington 1o lobby: for S8an Pedro, is leading the opposition against Santa Monica. The Otis resolutions were deemed too sweeping by some of the more con- servatives, and tinally the whole question was disposed of by the adoption of the fol- lowing brief substitute, in which all refer- ence to Santa Monica is left out: Resolved, That the directors of the Los An- geles Chamber of Commerce hereby declare their steadfast adherence to San Pedro as the true and proper site—as the people’s as well as the Government's—for further harbor improve- ments, e ] ANOTHER WEAK DIVINE. His Affections Alienated by One of the Congregation. PERRY, 0. T., April 1.—In the District Court, Rev. J. M. Talbee, a Covington (Ky.) Methodist preacher, was yesterday assessed $1000 alimony for the benefit of his wife. Talbee is nearly 50 years of age, and married a 15-year-old girl eight years ago at Barbourville, Ky. A young lady member of Mr. Talbee's church began to visit the Talbees' home, and soon the preacher and his young wife separated. Talbee came here aud sued for a divorce. His wife, attorney, asked for alimony. Talbee wfnbslamiu h{-' sutt for divome? % BIRTHOAY OF THE IRON CHANCELLOR, Boundless Enthusiasm of the Multitudes at Fried- richsruhe. GENERAL CELEBRATION. Carloads of Valuable Presents From Every Part of the Empire. THE PRINCE MAKES A SPEECH. Women Sob and Men Cheer Themselves Hoarse—A Gift From the Emperor. FRIEDRICHSRUHE, Germany, April 1.—The eighty-first anniversary of the | birth of Prince Bismarck was celebrated | to-day with great enthusiasm. 'The| weather is clear and cold. From the rail- way station to the postoffice the castle gates and buildings generally flags are fly- ing in profusion. By noon there were evi- dences of a general celebration. Crowds of villagers and strangers assembled at the entrances to the castle park, which were guarded by gendarmes, who rigorously ex- cluded the public. Cartloadsof flowers ar- rived at the castle, together with a great number of presents for the ex-Chancellor. | The mail brought a package from Na- | ples conteining a present from the Em- peror. | Prince Bismarck was out of bed at 11 o'clock as usual. After breakfast the | Prince was congratulated by Count Von Waldersee and a delegation of three offi- cers of the Halberstadt Cuirassiers and Ratzeburg Chasseurs. Presents arrived throughont the day from all parts of the empire. They were costly and varied, and comprised many samples of special indus- tries. The usual pilgrimage to the House Under the Elms at Friedrichsuhe is going on to-day, the delegations coming from | this city as well as from Hamburg, Bonn, Leipsic, Munich, Frankfort-on-the-Main, Nuremberg, Bremen, Stuttgart, Chemnitz and other places. The *‘Iron Chancellor’ received in the large hall of his residencea delegation from each of the deputations, | with him being-Count Herbert Bismarck | and wife and his son-in-law, Count von | Rantzau, and wife, and afterwird wit- | nessed from the balcony a procession of the delegations. Three special train s which reached here this afternoon brought about 2000 persons to take part in the torchlight procession | which was held this evening in honor of | the ex-Chancellor. The paraders, with | bands playing, marched to the castle and halted in front of the terrace. At abour 8§ o’clock Prince Bismarck, attired in the uniform of a cuirassier, over which he wore a gray cloak, appeared upon the ter- race and was greeted with enthusiastic cheers by the thousands who had assem- bled to do him honor. The bands played a thanksgiving hymn, after which Herr Staelin, a merchant of Hamburg, deliv- ered an address, thanking the Prince for what he had done for Germany, which, he declared, would ever be faithfully re- membered. Prince Bismarck returned thanks in a brief address, in which he quoted the words of Martin Luther, that “the good- will of one’s neighbors is a necessity for a German Christian.”” He rejoiced, he said, that his Hamburg neighbors had preserved for him their goodwill and grace, although he had lost the goodwill of the people in many places. He was glad, too, that they i were not ashamed to display their kind | feeling for him, and saw in that expres- sion an acknowledgment of his former | deeds. He rejoiced that Hamburg had flourished, finding in its progress a proof that its hinterland was ina good state. No maritime emporium, he declarea, could prosper without a prosperous hin- terland. The ex-Chancellor dwelt upon the inter- ests of the professional, mercantile and agrarian classes, which he said were inter- | independent and all worked in the com- mon cause. If one declined the others would not prosper. He hoped that Ham- burg would continue to prosper, for the sake of his own interest as a farmer, even though he was not a passionate agrarian. Hearty laughter greeted this remark, and when this had subsided Prince Bismarck called for cheers for Hamburg, which were heartily given. The procession then resumed its march, each division as it passed cheering enthu- siastically for the Prince, who remained standing, supvorting himself by a table, The ladies, a large number of whom were present, threw flowers to the ex-Chancel- lor and expressed a desire to shake his hand, but were prevented from doing so by Dr. Schweninger, his pbysician. Be- fore retiring from the terrace, Prince Bis- marck, uncovering his head, said: “My body is unable to stand long fatigues,’” and added, in faltering tones, “My heart goes out with you.” At this the women sobbed and the men cheered and shouted ‘Wiedersehen, Wied- ersehen,” and the cries were continued until the last of the crowd had taken their departure. The present of Emperor William, which was forwarded by mail from Naples, con- sisted of a small photograph of the Em- peror and his family, upon which was inscribed in pencil: *First of April, 1896, Wilbelm, Imperator Rex.” IN THE CALORIMETER. 4. M. Smith Completes the Eighth Day of His Experiments. HARTFORD, Coxx, April 1.—A. M. Smith yesterday completed his eighth day in the calorimeter at Wesleyan University in Middleton. Part of the time he has spent in hard muscular labor and part in study and reading. Yesterday morning he was well and hearty and expressed his determination to stay in the box until Saturday. He was engaged yesterday in filing a hard piece of iron, and as a result the record of his temperature showetl a de- cided rise, and the heat generated by his exertions caused a moisture to collect on the copper sides of his apartments. The calorimeter is lined on the iuside with copper, next to a lining of zinc, and the outside is finely matched yellow pine. The air is sent in through a freezer, which removes all the moisture. The air is warmed later by an electric light, All the | strations of | to the “application of its air that is expelled isdrawn out of the cage through pipes, in which are chemi- cale which collect the carbonic acid gas and other ingredients. Over 300 sheets of foolscap paper have been used so far in recording the results of the experiments. s s WOMEN CAUSE A SENSATION. They Undertook to Run a Fillage, and They’re Doing It. KALAMAZ0O, Mich., April 1.—Marcel- Lus, the little village in Cass County,which is run almost entirely by women, is greatly excited over the action of the School _Bunrd. which is also composed of women, in 'removing Principal Schelzam of the Union School. The malo portion of the population held an indignation meeting, at which the husbands of the offending trustees were present and took an active part. The female members of the board promised a sensation as soon as they got in power, and the male population, with whom Professor Schelzam is very popular, thinks it has been sprung, ————————— A DESPERATE THIEF. Pursued and Cornered by a Crowd of Angry Citizens He Deliberately Cuts His Throat. CHICAGO, Ivw., April 1. — Hezekiah Jones, colored, a desperate thief, fleeing from a crowd of angry citizens, deliber- ately cut his throat before the eyes of his horrified pursuers and expired almost in Nfeir arms shortly after 7 o’clock last night at the entrance to an alley leading off from Fifty-first street in Lexington avenue, A few moments before he had snatched a purse from the bhands of Mrs. Lillian Brown at Rosalie court and Fifty-seventh street, who was riding in the seat imme- diately behind him on an east-bound Cot- tage Grove avenue gripcar. Her icreams had aroused the passengers and attracted the attention of wayiarers, and. headed by Conductor J. A. Joyce, an excited crowd of men had given chase to the robber. _Jones Ituped from the car when his vie- tim cried out, and darted toward the friendly ailey opening. A glance, how- ever, showed him his escape was hopeless, and taking a razor from his pocket he coolly faced his pursuers and drew the keen blade twice across his throat. Reel- ing for an instant he sank to_the ground, and died almost instantly. Jones was 55 years old. = OIZ ON THE DOCTRINE, Mexico’s President Favors the Ultimatum of James Monroe. Believes It Should Be Defended by All of the American Republics. CITY OF MEXICO, Mexico, April 1.— Congress was opened to-night. President Diaz in his message said : Among the events relative to that great republic which since my last message have attracted most attention and roused the interest of the American nations, there is one respecting which national motives of decorum and propriety oblige me to say some words, Owing to an ancient dispute over the boundary between Venezuela and the ter- ritory callad British Guiana—a dispute exasperated recently by causes which need not be considered—the President of the United States of America sent a mes- sage to the. Congress of that country, re- calling as applicable to said contention the famous opinion of the doctrine whicn, in a similar document, President Monroe expounded, and which since 1323 has had such acceptance among the people. Very naturally, recurrence to the doctrine which condemned every attempt at European usurpation, and_every monarchical tendency to change republican’ institutions in the new world, created intense enthusiasm in the free nations of this continent, causing demon- sympathy from the people even from governments them. of the American countriss, The Mexican Government was not lacking in invitations of an international character to at once give its opinion on so grave a measure, but the executive believed that it ought not be in a hurry to give its opinion in a matter which at the time involved not only the Monroe doctrine, but was extended rinciples to the D her question and selves case of Great Britain with Venezuela. Not as fully under- standing this Guestion a&s it was perhaps understood in the United States, which had received special information from Venezuela, we were 1ot in & position to pre- sume that the claims of England constituted D attempt at usurpation. Moreover, we could not believe that the very boundary quesion in its essence, and even treating of controversial points, should be & case for the application of that wise doctrine. On the other hand the simple fact that Eng- land should refuse to submit to arbitration her nims to one part of the disputed territory, taking it for granted that she admitted to ar- bitrate for the remainder, could not be in our judgment sufficient reason for an unfavorable {‘resumpnon since the Mexican Government tself had decided more thanonce that it would not admit arbitration for certain territorial questions which, in our opinion, involved the honor of the country. Thus it was that I declined to make any manifestation. through the press Tespecting a matter which affected the Interest or the most delicate sentiments of three nations equally deserving our esteem, but _confined myself to_the rePly that, nat- urally, I wgs a partisan of the principles of the Mouroe doctrine, I‘vlrapgr]y understood, but I could not say whether it was applicable to the Ppresent case or not. ~Now that happily and aswas to have been Sxpected the crisis is passed that threatened war between the two great nations in which tie Anglo-Saxon race is divided; now that our sister_republic of Venezuela is proceeding at Washington in peaceful negotiations with her powerful adversary, it does not seem inoppor- tune to acceae to the desires of those who re- quested that the Mexican Government should glive its- opinion respecting the Mo.roe doc- trine. Without entering into an examination of the origin and hlsmri of the occasion which gave rise to its promulgation; without descendin, to particulars as to thcd’u!t limitations whiel its author himself would bave fixed, and which with so much prudence President Clevelant stated, the Government of Mexico cannot do less than show itself & partisan of the doctrine which condems as aggressive any invasion by monarchial Europe of the republics of America—indepenaent nations to-day ruled by a popular Government. Our history in general and signally the struggle of our people to throw off the yoke of an exotic eml)ire of European origin, form and elements and the torrents of blood shed in that seyere contest give testimony before the world of our Spring Is the time when nearly every one needs to take a good blood purifier. The system has become run down and debilitated, coughs and colds are frequent and are easily contracted, indigestion and bilious attacks are common, and all be- cause the blood has become impoverished and impure. The best spring medicine is Hood's Barsaparilla, which acts directly upon the blood, purifying, vitalizing and enriching it, and thus ensuring good health to the whole system. Hoods . Sarsaparilla Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. 81 Be sure to get Hood’s and enly HOOD'S. Hood’s Pills 3 s petsiter-dinner worship of independence and our abhorrence of all foreign intervention. g But we do not understand it to for the object to which we aspire, thatorl upon the United States,in spite of thelt P hEe resources, is the obligation incumbent to aid the other republics of this o shere against attacks of Europe. CYeE ll this can be considered ossible, i each one of said republics, by metit of a declaration similar to that ol Rineresri Monroe, shoald proclaim that any ati g, e foreign power to reduce the territory L e dependence, or to change the ms"t:l‘i‘ ony e single one of the American republict, SHOU T Do considered as a personal affront if 746 [0 public sustaining an attack or thrent of tHC Bature should appenl for aid. In this way (o doctrine to-day called the .\lonmema e would be the American doctrine, in i s 4 fense, and_alholEh W, mbng the iterna- Tnited States it sho! 1 fig:lxnel rights of all Americans. \lu:‘l‘mly‘hh‘: the practical, proper means of reac ldngot = result is & -question of which it wou! opportune to treat in this message. ————— SOUTH AFRICAN NOTES. Cecil Rhodes® Movements—The Effort to Suppress the Matabeles. CAPE TOWN, SouTH AFRICA, April 1.— Cecil Rhodes, ex-Premier of the 'Cnpe Colon, who is on his way from .Belru to Buluv;'nya, has arrived at Fort Salisbury in safety. Ad};ices received here state that the Mafeking coach has reached Buln_wpy‘o with a quantity of arms and ammum(t:lol i Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of ape Colony, has authorized ‘the raising of a force of 500 men in Mafeking for service in suppressing the revolt in Mutab_elelan;l.u The report current at Pretoria that the Government of the Transvaal will offer to Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of Cape Colony, the assistance of the burgher "mi‘le' against the Matabeles has been officially confirmed. The assistance offered will ex- tend. to the protection oi the women and children in Matabeleland. e | Hayt?s New President. X NEW! YORK, N. April 1.—Tbo Haytian, legation has received a cablegram announcing the election of General Tiresins Simon Sam (Minister of War under Hippolyte) as President of Hayti. 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