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o soled themselves in non-success and re- joiced in successin the consumption of thampagne. In this way he accounted-for the dealings in 1,200,000 extra bottles of thampagne. After referring to the great increase in the excise and death duties the Chancellor turned to the expenses ot the Government which he said had reached the total sum of £97,764,000, leaving a surplus of £4,- 206,000, which would be applied to the national defenses as explained in the naval works bill. During the year, be continued, the national debt had been re- duced £8,134,000, the largest reduction on record with the exception of the reduction during the year 1894-95. The unfunded debt stood at the lowest point it had reached in twenty-one years and the funded debt had not materially increased since the Crimean War. In thirty-nine years, he explained, £190,000,000 of the debt had been paid off, £100,000,000 of which had been paid in the last thirteen years. [Cheers.] Some person, he said, had tried the wisdom of this, but it was his opinion that by this self-denying course, the country had raised up a reserve of incalculable im- portance. 1f a time of need should come when the country would again bave to fight forits life, the reserve would enable it hout imposing a penny of taxation to raise £200,000,000 for defense without im- posing an atom more debt upon the pecple than the nation had borne in 1857 without a murmur. [Cheers.] The total deposits in the savings banks, Sir Michael stated, were now £144,000,000, which was a matter for congratulation as far as it was due to the thrift of the work- ing classes. He did not think, however, that a large proportion of the deposits in savings banks belonged to the wage- earners and he dia not see why the State should undertake a banking business for persons who wereable to take care of their own depo: and he could not see why the State should pay two and one-half per cent for savings bank deposits while money could be produced for less. Before long, he said, there might an alteration in the law which would reduce the interest on large amounts. The country, Sir Mi- chael said, might be proud of the enor- mous revenue, but it was in his judgment a grave question whether the expenditure was not increasing faster than the perma- nent capacity of the nation could bear. |Opposition cheers.] If the expenditure increased while the revenue was unelastic the country would be within a measurable distance of having to choose between put- ting an end to the reduction of the nation- al debt and an increase of tbe taxation. Coming to the receipts and the expendi- tures for the ensuing year, Sir Michael said that the estimated expenditures were £100,047,000, and the estimated revenue £101,755,000, leaving an estimated surplus of £1,708,000, which it was proposed to ap- ply to the reduction of the maximum rate on land from 4 shillings in the pound to 1 shilling. 1t was also intended to increase the grants for education. In conclusion the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer proposed to allot the sum of £975,- 000 to the reduction of the agricultural rating and £433,000 for educational pur- poses, leaving a moderaie surplus for any contingencies that m LION NEH[IMEETS DEATH Bob Fitzsimmons’ Pet Gets a Shock and Is Strangled on a Roof. The Pugilist Badly Burned While Trying to Rescue the Animal. ' CLEVELAND, Onmo, April 16.—Bob Fitzsimmons’ pet lion Nero is dead and Bob himself received a very close call at the time of the animal’s demise. Fitzsim- mons is filling a week’s engagement ata local theater. He kept the lion chained on the roof of the Natatorium. To-night at 12 o’clock Fitzsimmons, accompanied by Rober, the wrestier, ascended to the lion’s quarters to feed it. The pugilist was exhausted when he reached the roof. He leaned for support upon the first available thing, which happened to be an electric light wire. It snapped in two under his weight, and one end of the wire fell upon and clung to Nero. The frightened brute sprang over the edge of the roof, the wire clinging to it and burn- ing its flesh. Fitzsimmons grabbed the chain, and after a hard struegle pulled his pet back on to the roof, but not until it had been strangled to death. In taking hoid of the chain Fitzsimmons made him- self a part of the deadly current, and was terribly burned about.the hands. AN INSANE MAN'S DEEDS. Shoots His Wife and Son and Then Tries to Commit Suicide by Cutting His Throat. DENVER, Coro., April 16.—At 6 o’clock this morning J. I. Kennedy, a clerk in the auditor’s office of the Denver and Gulf Railroad Company, shot his wife, Mrs. Heloise Kennedy, in the right temple, and his son in the mouth, inflicting wounds that, by the most providential chance, will not prove fatal in either instance. He was temporarily insane as the result of long iliness, being now in the last stages of consumption. Immediately after he had wounded his wife and boy Kennedy attempted to end his own life bv cutting his throat with a pocket-knife. The interference of his wife and J. H. Stimson, a neighbor, prevented his carrying his attempt to a successful conclusion. In the city prison at 10 o’clock he again endeavored to kill him- self by severing an artery with a broken pocket mirror which the officers had failed to take from him. e SCHAEFER AND IVES. They Defeat Their Opponents in the Bil- tiard Match. BOSTON, Mass., April 16.—The fourth and fifth games in the international bil- liard match were played in Bumstead Hall to-day and each was of the cushion-carom style, 300 points up. The contestanis in the afternoon game were Jake Schaefer and Maurice Daly, both ex-champions. After a series of brilliant shots on each side Schaefer came out vic- torious, making the required:300 points, to Daly’s 250. The highest rans were: Schae- 35, Daly 23, and the averages were: Schae- fer 5 10-58, Daly 4 28-58. This evening’s game was between Frank Ives and Alfred Garnier. A large number of spectators were present and the usual interest was manifested in the plays of the two champions. Ives went out in the fifty-first inning, the score standing: Ives 300, Garnier 208.” The highest runs were; Ives 32, Garnier 21, and the averages were: Ives 5 45-51, Garnier 4 4-51. i il i Surrounded by Officers. DES MOINES, Iowa, April 16.—The Peru Bank wreckes, Davis, who escaped from the Winterset jail yesterday, has peEdh il by a Shepifs podse af SIX miles north of that place. He wifi be ca tured dead or alive. b5 HILL_OPPOSES INVESTIGATION, Says There ‘Is Nothing Wrong With Recent Bond Issues. DEFENDS MR. CARLISLE. Populists Accused of Attempting to Stir Up a Scandal for Political Purposes. ALLEN MAKES A COOL REPLY. D:clares That the New York Senator Gets as Mad as a Mussassugua Snake in August. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., April 16.—Sena- tor Gray concluded his argument to-day against the right of Mr. Dupont to the va- cant seat in the Senate from the State ot Delaware. The case then went over till some future day, and the resolution offered by Peffer of Kansas for an investigation into the facts and circumstances connected with the secret bond issue was taken up. Hill opposed the resolution in a speech which attracted attention irom both Sena- tors and spectators for nearly three hours, and which he had not finisbed when the Senate at 5:30 . M. adjourned until Mon- day. After the routine morning business Mor- rill (R.) of Vermont, who celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday a few days since, addressed the Senate toshow the necessity of a new builaing for the National Museum, At the close of Morrill’s remarks the bill for the new museum building was placed on the calendar. The Dupont election case was taken up and Gray (D.) of Delaware continued his argument begun yesterday against the claim of Dupont to the vacant seat in the Senate from the State of Delaware. Gray closed his speech at 2:20 . M. and the elec- tion case went over without action. Under the unanimous consent Peffer’'s resolution for an investigation of bond issues was taken up for consideration after considerable antagonism by the Appro- priations Committee. Hill (D.) of New York addressed the Senate in oppesition to the resolution. It was, Hill said, a Populist resolution. It had its inspiration in the Populist party. Investigation was pressed without formal charges, without specifications, without allegations of wrong-doing, of irregulari- ties or of corruption. The only reason assigned for it by the Senator from Kansas was “‘public curios- ity.”” The resolution was to be passed in the dark. The resolution did not charge wrong-doing, but insinuated it. The “farmers” of the Senate—the BSenators from Kansas, Nebraska and South Caro- lina—Peffer, Allen and Tillman—had at various times denied the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to issue bonds under the act of 1870. There was no ques- tion to be investigated. Everybody knew what had been done and that it had been done in pursuance of law; therefore, it was silly, it was undignified, it was unworthy gatineg committee to determine facts which every Senator was absolutely familiar with. Hill commented upon the resolution in detail. One of the points to be investi- gated was, he said, whether any officer of the Government had received & commis- sion or a personal Teward in connection with these bonds. ‘“What Senator,”” he exclaimed, “dares to rise in his place and make the allega- tion? No one. Has anybody made an affidavit to that effect? No. Where is the Senator who rises in his place and says he expects to prove that Mr. Carlisle or any subordinate gained one dollar of ad- vantage? I pause for a reply.” Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska spoke of Hill “getting as mad asa Massassugua snake in August’” when questions of this kind were approached. Hill asserted that the resolution had been got up in aid of a speculative lawsuit against the Secretary of the Treasury. The House of Representatives, he said, was open to bave impeachment proceed- ings begun against the Secretary of the Treasury if he had violated the law in any particular. But the trouble was that the resolution was only a part of the clap- trap of the times. It wasa partof an en- deavor to get up a scandal in order to affect a political question. Stewart (Pop.) of Nevada asked Hill whether the administration was opposed to the investigation. “T am not authorized to speak for the administration,” Hill replied. “I have never exchanged a word with any officer of this administration, high or low, on this subject, and I don’t propose to. 1 oppose it as I would oppose any foolish, silly, un- necessary investigation which can only (in my humble juagment) add disgrace to the Senate. I would oppose it whether the Secretary of the Treasury were a Democrat or a Republican. If this resolution should pass the men who instituted the investigg- tion will be covered with humiliation and shame, and will deny that they ever charged anything wrong ageinst Mr. Car- lisle and his subordinates.” Hill then went on to analyze Peffer's speech in support of the resolution and to ridicule the pretension that Peffer and his Populist friends were the representatives of the people, and he compared the pre- tension with the proclamation of the “‘three tailors of Tooley street,” beginning, “We, the people of England.”’ He characterized the Populist Senators as deserters and as having offered to sell or exchange their votes on the tariff question. They had no settled, fixed purpose. ‘*And this Senate,”” he said, “is deliber- ately to agree to this Populist resoiution of investigation, on the eve of a Presiden- tial election, so as to enable these men to throw mud at the Democratic party and at the Republican party. It is about time for the Senators who represent States in- terested in this question to act together, ““The object ot the resolution,” Hill con- tinued, ‘is to disseminate scandal. The Populist party lives and thrives on dis- seminating scandal against the two old parties.’”’ Then he took up the Presidential ques- tion and sent to the clerk’s desk and had read his views as to Senator Chandler's charge about the McKinley “boodle fund.” He would not say a word, Hill said, against Mr. McKinley. He admired the man i many respects. Mr. McKinley had the of the Senate, to appoint a special investi- | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1896. courage to say that he was a candidate for the Presidency. He did not say, as others did, that he was “in the hands of his friends.” That usually turned out, Hi_ll said, that the politician found himself “in the hands of his enemies.” [Laughter.] McKinley had the right to aspire to the Presidency and Hill supposed that he was making an honorable canvass for it. Therefore he had been startled on reading these charges of “boodle’’ which had been spread before the country. After the newspaper articles had been read Hill said: “I have too much confidence in the Sen- ator from New Hampshire to think that these allegations were made thoughtlessly or unadvisedly. I think that he knew what he was talking about. 1 think that he believed the allegations. They have not been answered. They have not been met. Abuse of that distinguished Senator is not an answer to the allegations. A re- flection on his motives does not meet the charges., Here1sa distinguished Senator making an allegation against a Ieadin_g candidate of his own party for the Presi- dency—against the candidate who is to be nominated—charging the corrupt use of his money to buy his nomination. He charges the levying of contributions on the protected industries for the purpose of securing a platform and a candidate suita- ble to those interests. Yet no Senator, not even the Senator from Kansas, has asked for an investigation. The charge affects the elective franchise. It affects the purity of our primary meetings. Itis astab at the foundation of our Govern- ment. Iam not proposing any investiga- tion of the charge. Iam only suggesting it. Why has it not attracted more atten- tion ?”’ Hill then went on to comment upon the sugar trust investigation as another re- markable instance of silly investigations. He described the humiliation of Senators in having trailed upstairs to the commit- tee-room and in being put through a lot of questions as to whether they had specu- lated in sugar stock. “And under oath, too,”” Hawley (R.) of Connecticut suggested. “Of course, under oath,” Hill replied. “They would not take a Senator’s word. And what was theresult? They found one Senator who came before the committee and said: ‘Yes, I did buy some sugar stocks. I should do it again; I have a| right to do it. What are you going to do | about it?’ and to-day that distinguished Senator (Quay) is the candidate, the favor- ite son of the leading Republican State of | the Union for the Presidency, and he has | got as many and as warm iriends as any | man who is a candidate for the Presi- dency.” In that connection Hill created amuse- ment by referring to 8enator McPherson’s maid and Senator Ransom’s son as other speculators in sugar stocks—the latter having invested $10 or $15 in a bucket- shop speculation. And that, he said, was the net result of that great investigation which had been gof up on account of news- | paper clamor. He mentioned this, he | said, simpiy to show that Seuators be- | littled themselves in the eyes of the | people by ordering an investigation with- | out a sufficient cause. He asked Senators | to pause before entering on any such | ridiculous proceeding again. { Without concluding his speech Hill | yielded for a motion to proceed to execu- | tive business, and at 5:30 ». . the Senate adjourned until Monday. LINED UP FOR BATTLE. Rival San Pedro and Santa Monica Delegations Arrive at Washington. Huntington Actively Scheming to So. cure Legislation to Favor His Interests. WASHINGTON, D. C, April 16, — A battle royal will take place before the Com- mittee on Commerce of the Senate to- morrow. The rival San Pedro and Santa Monica delegations arrived to-night and will appear before the committee to.mor- row. The San Pedro delegation is quar- tered at the Hotel Shoreham, and one block away, at the Hotel Normandie, is the Santa Monica crowd. W. C. Patter- son, Henry T. Hazzard, ex-Mayor of Los Angeles, Albert M. Stephens and H. H. Hawgood, a civil engineer, are here in the interest of San Pedro. The Santa Monica crowd is at the Hotel Normandie. D. P. Hatch, C. Cole, Jobn W. Mitchell, J. 8. Stauson and J. B. Lankershim are in this party. Quite naturally they went to the Normandie, where C. P. Huntington is stopping, together with Tweed, Corthell and other agents of the railroad. The Santa Monica people held a conference with Huntington at the Hotel Normandie | to-night. Representative McLachlan was present. They are here ostensibly for the purpose of securing ‘‘all the money they can get for Southern California”; that is the way one of the delegation put it. *“We want all that Congress will appro- priate for both San Pedro and Santa Mon- ica,” said this gentleman. “We do not ‘propose to fight San Pedro and are anxions for the inner barbor at that point to be improved, but we are also anxious to secure that §2,800,000 for Santa Monica. ‘We should pull together and not lose all becauss we are not able to agree.” This is the shrewd plan of campaign adopted by the Santa Moniea crowd at Mr. Huntington's instigation to-night. They will pose as representative citizens of South- ern California who are here to “‘get all they can for harbor improvements in that sec- tion of the State,” This is not only shrewd politics to se- cure Santa Monica’s appropriation, but, in truth, Hontington is anxious for the inner harbor project at San Pedro to be provided for. He owns considerable prop- erty at San Pedro, but not in proportion to his interests at Santa Monica. The Santa Monica agitators at the Nor- mandie sent emissaries to the San Pedro people at Hotel Shoreham to-night and proposed that the rival delegations “stand on common ground” and work for both San Pedro and Santa Monica, but the San Pedro crowd thought the ground would be ‘too common,” as Patterson said, and they rejected the overtures of Mr. Hunt- ington. Messrs, Patterson, Hazzard and Hawgood said to the CALL correspondent to-night that they would never consent to an appropriation being made for an im- provement of the outer harbor at Santa Monica. SR Robbed by the Son. DES MOINES, Iowa, April 16.—Samuel R. Reynolds, & grain-buyer of this city, has been robbed of $3500 which he had secreted in the wall of his cellar when his wife died eight years ago. He imparted hus secret to his son, then 13 years of age, | soldiers who had taken it was $100, and showed him the seal which covered the hole, To-day Reynolds discovered that the money had disappeared. His son is now of age, and has leit the parental roof. Officers are looking for him, FRANKLIN WILL STAV IN OFFICE, Defeat in the House of Those Who Opposed the General. SOLDIERS’ HOMES AGAIN Continuation of the Argument on Some of the Alleged Scandals. THE MANAGEMENT UNCHANGED Irregular and Negligent Methods Employed in Keeping the Accounts. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 16.—The fight against the re-election of General W. B. Franklin asa member of the board of Managers ot the National Soldiers’ Home resulted in the defeat of those opposed to bim, the House to-day voting 59 to 149 to contioue him on the board, as recom- mended by the Commitree on Military Affairs. There was a three hours’ debate before a vote was reached, traversing largely the same ground gone over yester- day, the admimstration of the Leaven- worth Home and the policy of the board in retaining Colonel Smith as governor being the principal point of attack. Tracey (R.) of Missouri, Hepburn (R.) of Iowa, Kirkpatrick (R.) of Kansas, Calderhead (R.) of Kansas, and Blue (R.) of Kansas, favored.the amendment proposed by the latter to substitute the name of General O. 0. Howard as manager in place of General W. B. Franklin, and it was opposed by Mahon (R.) of Pennsyivania, Grosvenor (R.)of Ohio, Ray (R.) of New York, Sperry R. of Connecticut and Hull (R.) of Iowa, chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs. The resolution named General W. B. Frankiin and George W. Steele to succeed themselves, General T. J. Henderson of Iilinois to succeed John C. Black and Gen- eral G. L. Beale of Maine to succeed Francis Fessenden. By request of Henderson (R.) of Iowa, chairman of the Committee on Judiciary, it was agreed by unanimous consent that Wednesday and Thursday of next week be set aside for consideration of the bank- ruptey bill, the vote on the passage of the bill to be taken the first thing Friday after the reading of the journal. The debate on the resolution providing for the election of members of the board of managers of soldiers’ homes was then re- sumed, Tracey (R.) of Missouri, the first speaker, opposing the re-election of Gen- eral Franklin. Tracey said he had versonal acquaint- ance with but two members of the board of managers ‘and that his opposition to the re-election of Franklin had no basis of per- sonal feeling. What he had to say had its origin largely in the reports of the board. The administration of the board, he said, ought to show the cost of the maintenance of the inmates of the homes. “I make no charge of dishonesty,” he said, “but I do say that there have been loose, irregular and negligent methods em- ployed in keeping the accounts of the board; that it has grown into a close cor- poration, which has grown up outside of and independent of Congress, regardless of criticism.” Tracey denounced the Keeley cure main- tained at the homes. He saia the records showed that the average cost of it to the This he said was wrong—absolutely wrong— and should be remedied. Mahon (R.) of Pennsylvania, advocating his amendment to the joint resolution providing for Congressional investigation of the Leavenworth home, Colonel Smith’s connection with it to depend upon the finding of the commission, said that it was the only manly, fair way to get at the truth. He would not vote to throw down General Franklin on ex parte testimony. Blue—I want to say to the gentleman that any investigation of this board made by the Senate or in which it engages will be a roaring farce. Grosvenor (R.) of Ohio warmly defended General Franklin and deprecated the course of Blue in bringing ex parte affida- vits to the House and making them part of the permanent records. Hepburn (R.) of Iowa, supporting the motion to strike General Franklin’s name from the joint resolution, said it meant no reflection upon General Franklin. It meant only that the House proposed to exercise its judgment and to replace him by another man after sixteen years of un- requited service. The House, by a vote of 55 to 130, re- fused to strike General Franklin’s name out of the resolution providing for the election of managers of the soldiers’ homes. A vote by ayes and noes was or- dered. The vote by ayes and noes was: Ayes 59, noes 149. The resolution naming Generals Franklin, Steele, Beale and T. J. Henderson was then passed. The amendment was opposed by the unanimous Democratic vote, and, except McLaurin of South Carolina, sustained by all the Populists, and the following Re- publicans voted for it: Allen of Utah, Baker of Maryland, Baker of New Hamp- shire, Barney, Bartholet, Blue, Broderick, Burton, Calderhead, Cannon, Connolly, Cooper of Wisconsin, Crowther, Curtis of Kansas, Dolliver, Doolittle, Eddy, Ellis, Fletcher, Graff, Grout, Hager, Hainer of Nebraska, Hartman, Hepburn, Hicks, Hopkins, Huling of West Virginia, Joy, Kirkpatrick, Linney, Long, Lorimer, Marsh, Meikeljohn, Miller of Kansas, Miller of West Virginia, Milne, Minor of Wisconsin, Mosely, Northway, Prince, Reeves, Shafroth, Snover, Spalding, Ste- phenson, W. A. Btone, Suiloway, Thomas, Tracey, Trelour, Updegraff, Warner and Wood. The joint resolution was then agreed to—electing General W. B. Frank- lin and General Steele members of the board tosucceed themselves, General Beale to succeed Francis Fessenden andT.J. Henderson of Illlnois to succeed John C. Black. Halfan hour was spentin unavailing efforts to pass some private bills and at 4:35 o’clock, on motion of Dingley (R.) of Maine, the House adjourned until to-mor- TOW. Before announcing it the Speaker stated that Cobb (D.)of Missouri would be ex- cused from serving on the Committee of Banking and Currency and take the place on the Ways and Means Committee made vacant by the unseating of Tarsney of Missouri, that Aldrich of Alabama had been assigned to the Committee on Bank- ing and Currency and Van Horn (R.) of Missouri to the Committee on Labor. GOOD RUNNING RACES. Four Favorites Win at the Weeting. CHICAGO, IrL., April 16.—Faully 3000 peoble attended the second day’s racingat Forsythe to-day. Six races were carded, four of which were captured by the favorites. The contest of the day came in the fourth race, in which Remedy beat Anna Mays by a nose. Five furlongs, Margaret Ann won, Hinda second, Connemara third. Time, 1:03%{. f a mile, Devoir won, Mi mes second, Calla Lilly third. Time, :513{. Six furlongs, Redskin won, John Hickey sec- ond, Dominico third. Time, 1:1615. Five furlongs, Remedy won, Anna Mays sec- ond, Cossack third. Time, 1:02. Onemile and seventy vards, Sull Ross won, Little Matt second, Pat Malloy Jr. third. Time, 1 Forsythe Tivs furlongs, Midlam' Bewon, Salvabion second, Queen Faustus third. Time, 1:02. MEMPHIS, TExN., April 16.—The Lassie stake was the feature of to-day’s racing and took on an extra degree of interest through the rather unexpected outcome. Blitzen’s sister was installed as favorite. The 3start was made with the flags and Olean, though third in the books, soon took the front and held it easily. 8ix furlongs, Minerva won, Crusader second, King Michael third. Time, 1:17%;. # Four and a half furlongs, Suisun won, Scribe second, Moncreith third. Time, 14 Half a mile, Lassie stakes, two-year-old fillies, $1000 added, Olean won, Izeyl second, Full Hand third. Time, g One mile, Flying Dutchman won, Rey del Mar second, Mercury third. Time, 1:433{. One and an eighth miles, Presidio won, Cap- tlnin Kidd second, Robert Latta third. Time, 59, Six furlongs, Roy Lochiel won, Valet second, Tower Street third. Time, 1:1 NEWPORT, Ky., April 15.—To-day’s races furnished some lively sport, the fin- ish between Toots and Basso in the third race being the most exciting of the meet- ing. Favorites and second choices divided the card. Track fair, weather clear and warm. Attendance 3000. Six furlongs, Nana won, Hands Off second, Cashier third. Time, 1:183{. Four and a half furlongs, Cynthia H won, Let Fly second, Covington third. Time Handicap, mile and a sixteenth, T Basso second, Booze third. Time, 1:49! Seven furlongs, selling, Doorga won, Fred second, Rapalatchie third. Time, 814 Four furlongs, selling, Nina Louise won, Margaret Dyne second, Leo Wicka third. Time, aster 817 x furlongs, selling. Tit for Tat won, Uno second, Judge Denny third. Time, 1:28!%. Semmitioss RO NEW CIRCUIT URGANIZED. Glories of the Past to Be Kenewed in the East. DETROIT, Mick., April 16.—On the ruins of the old Grand Racing Circuit, broken and dismembered by inimical legis- lation in many States, a new circuit was organized to-day in the office of the Detroit Driving Club, that promises to renew the glories of the past. The cities represented were Detroit, Cleveland, Columbus, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Saginaw and the Fleetwood track, New York, and these cities will constitute the ‘‘New Grand QCircuit.” The new towns admitted are Fort Wayne, Columbus and Indianapolis, they taking the places of Rochester, Hartford and other cities which adverse betting laws have driven out. The purses offered in the circuit wiil aggregate nearly ,000. Detroit heads the list with $58,500; Fleet- wood follows with $45,000; Cleveland offers $40,000; Columbus and Fort Wayne $25,000 each; Indianapolis $20,000, and Saginaw $15,000. Buffalo sent greetings and promised to be in lineif the friendly legislation now before the New York Legislature became a law. Philagelphia also promises to join the circuit if satisfactory trotting laws are enacted in Pennsylvania. e LATEST L, A W. BULLETIN Rules to Govern Racing Wheel- men During the Coming Year. Hints to Ardent Young Cyclists Who Are Apt to Fly the Track. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 16.—The following L. A. W. bulletin has been given out by Chairman Gideon: Declared professional—0, L. Stevens, Ottum- we, Jowa; own request. Sanction granted—July 4, the Silver Wheel- men, Denver, Colo. A rule to the following effect has been quite generously quoted as & part of the L. A. W, racing rules, viz.: ““Any cyclist céases to be an amateur by rid- ing after April, 1896, in a bicycle race upon any make off bicycle offered for sale or manu- factured in any factory, store or other place of business in which he’ is employed in any capacity whatsoever.” Taere is no such rule in our racing rules, and it is not intended there shall be this year. Clause F of the amateur rule in the L. A. W. constitution provides that any racing man emplo{ed ina cycle estabMshment may, by a vote of the racing board, be transferred to the professional ranks. This does not mean that the board will make wholesale transfers of such employes, but that it may use its dis- cretion in transferring racing employes against whom it may be impossible to obtain other evidence, and by whom the board may believe that advantages are received contrary to the spirit of the amateur definition. Race-meet promoters and managers of school and college track teams will please note the following: Every year about this time the ‘various colleges and schools begin to develop Tacing men to represent them at the intercol- legiate and interscholastic outdoor games. It is customary to run off one or more trials to pick out a team. Racing throughout the nited States is governed by the L. A. W., and the L. A. W. requires that every track race be sanctioned. A man competing in an unsanc- tioned event is liable to suspension. Now, young men in particular may not care whether they are suspended or not, but they are sure to find somebody at the final meet from some other college who does care, and will not allow them to ride if under suspen- sion. The trouble occurs every year, when by a little caution it can be prevented. Remember that every race on a track, be it one event or more, must be sanctioned. If you are to have any trials, send for sanction every time. For open races a fee is charged, but no fee is required for closed club or school events; but in all cases sena for sanction and save your men from suspension, which in one or more cases last year affected the standing of the school in points won at the champion: ship meeting. NATIONAL CIRCUTT. Date PrAcR Assigned. Date Asked for. Oakland, Cal. Santa Hosa, San Jose, Cal San Francisco. Santa Monic: Aay 30 New Orleans, La. Little Rock. Ark St. Touis, Mo.. August 23 Kansas City, Mo.... [June 23.. 7" [0 Peoris, Tl June 26, 26,27 Galesburg, July 1 Davenport, Chicago. 111 Applecon, Wis Milwaukee, Wis Battle Creek, Mich. Detroit, Mich, ledo, O. Aug. 20 Sat. or holid’y Not Saturday July 18 July 18 July 20 Day.on. O. 2,34 Nashviile, Ten; Evansville, Ind. Cincinnati, 0 g Saturday Louisville, Ky. August 10, 15| August 10, 15 Erie, Pa... August 18.... August 20 Washington, A T e il Deadly Colliery Explosion. LONDON, Ex~c., April 16.— Eighteen men were killed by an explosion in the Brancepeth mine at Wellington, Durham, yesterday, BASEBALL ON SIX' DIAMONDS, Great Crowds Witness the Opening Games in the East. “CRANKS” ALL ATTEND. Good, Bad and Indifferent Play- ing Characterize the Contests. WINNERS OF THE STRUGGLES. Chicago, St. Louis. Brooklyn, Pitts- burg, Boston and Washington Nines the Victors. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 16.—The largest crowd that ever gathered at the baseball park saw Chicago defeat Louis- ville in the first championship game of the season this afternoon. It isestimated that 10,000 people were present. The city offi- cials came down to the park on gayly dec- orated cars. After Manager McCloskey and Financial Manager Pulliam had been presented with gorgeous floral designs Mayor George D. Todd pitched the first ball across the plate and Umpire Weid- man called ‘“play.” Chicago won the game by hard and timely hitting and su- perb fielding by Flynn, Lange, Truby and Ryan. Both teams scored in the first in- ning, and then it wasa pitchers’ battle un- til the eigntnh, when the Colts rolled up three runs on Dahlen’s three-bagger, sin- gles by Lange and Ryan and Krazer’s wid throw. Louisville could do nothing with Friend’s delivery. Score: .100000001-2 3 2 10000003%—4 8 1 Waraer; Friend and Kit- Umpire—W eidman. ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 16.—A perfect day and the champion Clevelands for an atiraction drew 14,700 baseball admirers to Sportsman’s Park for the opening game to-day. Breitenstein had better support than did Young, though long, hard drives rather fayored the visitors. Up to the eighth inning the game looked like a shut- out for Tebeau's men, when a couple of three-base runs and a single netted two runs. Local baseball veterans are en- couraged and believe that St. Louis will not make the wretched finish of the season that has prevailed for several years. Score: St. Louls.. 00110021*5 11 0 Clevelands. 000000020-2 7 5 Batteries. cnstein and McF; 0’Meara and O'Connor. CINCINNATI, Onto, April 16.—It was tredge. ‘Ifl an ideal day for baseball and 14412 peo- | ple witnessed the first game of the Na- | tional league season between Pittsburg and Cincinnati, 2000 of whom were ladies. This breaks the record for attendance on an opening day. There was a street pa- | rade before the game with brass band ac- companiment. Of the game little can be said. The visitors outplayed the home team at every point and found Rhines just to their liking. Score: Cincinnati 010000000-1 10 3 Pitisbur s ©010003280-9 13 Batteries. isher and Peitz; Hawley and Merritt. Umpire—Emslie. BALTIMORE, Mp., April 16.—There was no band of music nor street parade to incite the ball-loving Baltimoreans to par- ticipate in the opening of the season, but more than 13,000 persons, a quarter of whom were ladies in summer attire, passed through the gates of Union Park before the vame was begun. The early part of the contest was marked by loose fielding, the champions particularly being accredited with some very harmful errors. Anderson found McMahon to bis liking and scored three of Brooklyn’s eight hits. After the first inning only four hits were charged against Brooklyn’s twirler. Score: Baltimores Brooklyns Batterie! and Srim. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 16.—The opening game of the season between Bos- ton and Philadelphia was witnessed by 25,000 persons, the largest crowd that was ever on the grounds of the local team. The visitors played the better game in the field and at the bat, and won by a score of 7to 3. Boston hit Taylor freely in the first inning, Low and Duffy making doubles and Tacker securing a single. The local A Life—Saver CARL BEAUMAN, Stockton, Cal. THE SMITH A MIGHTY MAN IS HE.” Carl Beauman is a Smith—a black- smith—now strong, vigorous and rugged. It was only a short time ago when he was a sick man, a tired, weary day laborer. He could digest no food, had pains in his liver and pains over the kidneys. He suffered from exhaustion, exposure, cold and over- work. In his own words: THE EDWIN W. JOY COMPANY—Gentle- men: Imaynot be able to tell you in fine language the great gratitude I feel, but I can tell it just the same. A short time ago I was on the flat of my back with pains all over my body and pains in my stomach. I used Joy’s Vege- table Sarsapariila for two weeks and my bowels became regular, and I could feel that 1 was getiing on. I continued to use Joy's Vegetable arsaparilla until I was well enough to work, and now I dm strong again. Say, God bless Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. K is a great remedy. Signed, CARL BEAUMAN, Stockton, Cal. Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla is the great California remedy of which so much has already been said. More than 10,000 testi- monials are in the office of Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. It is good for the blood, liver and kidneys. Itisa fine remedy for peo- ple on!;fering from constipation. It will cure the worst case of chromic constipa- tion. Ask your druggist or dealer for Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. itcher was fairly effective thereafter, but Nichols was an' énigma tnrougliout when hits were needed. Score: oston. ... .810200010-710 1 l‘hllndel&:}:. 2 0020000103 7 & Baueries—Nichois and 6anzel Taylor and Clem- ents. Umpire—Lyn] WASHINGTON, D. C., April 16.—The baseball season of ‘1896 was opened auspi- ciously for the Washington club, they win- ning from New York by better”all-round work. Gleason’s two low throws and Clark’s wild pitch in the fifth inning al- lowed five runs eventually 1, be scored. There was a crowd present numbering 9500, and they filled every seat in the grounds. The day was just the kind for a spirited game, the weather being warm enough to loosen the kinks in the players’ arms. Score: Washington New York Batteries. Umpire—Hu; -000051000-6 6 8 010000200-3 9 & MeGuire; Clark and Zear- IF | SPEGAL YOU ¢ Friday, WANT; Saturday, To Make Money Buy Your Clothes Now—During Our DISSOLUTION SALE. GREAT BARGAINS. MEV'S SACK SUITS ALL SIZES. PRINCETON. Tt’s as good value as other retailers give you for $10. LESS THAN MANUFACTURERS' COST. OUR PRICE During Our Great Bona-fide Sale. HYAMS, PAUSON & CO0, ‘Wholesale Manufacturerers OF FINE CLOTHING, Selling Direct to the Publie. 34-40 Kearny Street. SALAD 011, Gallon Tins 65c. Above “Special” thi “Smith's Weekly" the Speclals. Removal Sale now in progress. Freight prepaid 100 miles and over. 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