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2 v THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1896. UBLE LETTER FAON BERLIN. Current Events That Are Agitating Press and People. DUELING IS PARAMOUNT England’s Action Against the Transvaal Comes Next to Importance. CAN SHE CONDUCT TWO WARS? Hostile Criticism of American Inter- vention in Behalf of the Cubans. BERLIN, GErMANY, April 19.—The time of the introduction in the Reichstag of the Centrist interpellation in opposition to the practlce of dueling bas been fixed for Tuesday next, and if the Government should fail to make a satislactory state- ment in regard to the matter the Centrists will either offer motions demanding the suppression of dueling or support the res- olution of the Freisinnige demanding that the chief authorities of the respective fed- eral States shall exert all their powers to put a stop to this custom, especially in the army. The debate upon this matter will afford the Freisinnige and Socialists a splendid opportunity to assail the Emperor’s re- peated remissions of sentence imposed upon duelists after they had spent brief and easy terms of confinement in a fort- ress. The Government will find it peculiarly difficult to answer the Centrist interpella- tion in terms which will be sufficiently satisfactory to obviate the introduction of & motion calling for the total suppression of the practice of dueling. Both the Cen- ter and the Freisinnig parties are desirous that the Government shall issue an edict of such a character as will absolutely prevent recourse to dueling without refer- ence to a military court of honor, whose decisions have frequently rendered duels imperative. It was the action of the military court in expelling Lieberecht von Kotze from his rank as anofficer for neglecting to challenge Baron von Schraeder and suing him in a civil suit instead, that eventually caused the fatal encounter be- tween the two men. The Emperor him- self thought that Kotze ought to fight, and consequently quashed the decision of the military court, thus enabling Kotze to regain his position as an officer and fulfill the requirements of the military code by sending Schraeder a challenge. It is not expected therefore that the Emperor will instruct the Ministers to promise what the Centrists and Freisin- nige demand. The utmost that can be hoped for from the debate is an abatement, but not the extinction, of the evil. The Kaiser’s pre- rogative of extending clemency is abso- lute and cannot be controlled by the Reichstag, but the aim of the Centrists is to make the Ministry so far responsible for tue remission of sentence imposed upon duelists as to enable the Reichstag to de- mand explanations in cases where sen- tences are remitted. This will act as a partial check to dueling if the Government assents to the Centrists’ aemand. Next to dueling the leading cause of popular excitement is the preparation which England is making for action against the Transvaal. All of the Austrian and Italian influ- ences in the councils of the Dreibund which have been thrown on the side of England will become paralyzed if events shall confirm the suspicions entertained by Germany that Great Britain intends to co- erce the Boers. The peaceful assurances given by the British Ministers and the British Parliament are distrusted here. The North German Gazette cautiously advises delay in the dispatch of English troops to South Africa in deference to President Kruger's peace policy, but the unofficial and more outspoken Tageblatt sees a plan on the part of Great Britain to use the Matabele rising as a pretext for sending forces to the Cape Colony. The Vossische Zeitung approves the ac- tion of the Boers in arming themselves to protect their independence and predicts another Majuba Hill disaster to England. The Boersen Zeitung declares that the British army is wholly inadequate to the task of conducting two wars at the same time—one in the Soudan and the other against the Boers. If England refuses an entente with Germany, through jealousy of the growth of German influence in South Airica, the paper adds, the loss will not be Germany's. Although the report that President Cleveland has offered the friendly services of the United States in settling the Cuban troubles is not confirmed, the North Ger- man Gazette, in an intensely hostile criti- cism thereon, written upon the assump- tion that the report is true, tells Spain to decline positively to admit that the Presi- dent of the United States has any right to tender his advice in the Cuban matter, or rather to tell the American Government to mind its own business. The Vossische Zeitung says: If the United States Government gives effect to the resolution passed by the two houses of Congress recognizing the Cubans as belligerents Spain must tolerate the act. She cannot go to war with the United States, but America cannot expect any European State, however weak or dis- trested, to submit without protest to such interference. The Unitea Press finds excellent reasons for stating that the views expressed by tha two newspapers above quoted do not represent the opinion of the Kaiser, who thinks that Spain ought not to reject the iriendly diplomacy of the President of the United States, but rather should show & willingness to negotiate with and assist the Government at Washington to find a way to settle the Cuban question. Professor Eulenburg, the eminent Ger- man physician and assistant to the clinic of the University of Berlin, has writien a letter to the Medical Gazette in which he declares that there is no cause for a hostile campaign against Dr. Behring’s diph- theria serum, which, if properly injected, he says, is perfectly safe. Even if it were not quite safe, he continues, it would not cause death with such rapidity as in the case of the infant son of Dr. Langerhaus, the medical director of the Moabite Hose Sy pital, who died two weeks ago from the effects of a precautionary injection of the serum. Professor Eulenburg thinks that Dr. Langerhaus was himself to blame in mak« ing a mistake in giving the injection so that an embolism was induced. The arti- cle of Professor Eulenburg has helped greatly to allay the serum scare. The United States Consuls in Germany have published in their respective con- sular districts the regulations governing the export of American meats from the United States, with a view of dispelling the German prejudice against the Ameri- can product. TheStrasburg Post in commenting on these regulations says: “The provisions of the American law are clear and suf- ficient. nevertheless official examinations of American meats made here prove that the meats imported are bad and that the law therefore cannot be stringently en- forced.” The Berlin Neuste Nachrichten pro- | fesses to know upon good suthority that practices exist in the American meat- packing business that would so disgust foreign consumers did they know of them as to forever deter them from touching American-packed meats. In view of these and other expressions inspired by commercial jealousy, Ameri- can meat does not grow in favor in Ger- many. The Berlin employers have agreed to give their employes a general holiday on May 1, for the purpose, as they allege, of enabling them to attend the opening of the Trades Exhibition, which takes place that day. The Socialist press is jubilant over this concession on the part of the em- ployers and ascribes it to the recent Social- ist manifesto threatening a boycott against all employers who do not join in the cele- bration on May day. The North German Gazette, comment- ing upon the communication sent by Mr. Chamberlain to President Kruger, giving the reasons for an increase of the British miiitary forces in Cape Colony, says: *“We are glad that Mr. Chamberlain has done this, as it shows the intention of the Brit- ish to avoid irritation of the Boers.” Fritz Friedman, the absconding Berlin lawyer, who is still in custody in Bor- deaux, has written to friends here saying that the death of Baron von Schraeder, who, he declares, pursued him with 1m- placable hatred and incited his pecula- tion, has altered his intention of publish- ing the court revelations contained in the so-called Kotze letters in his possession. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says it is reported there that the Sultan of Turkey has accepted an autograph invitation from the Czar to visit Moscow and Et. Peters- burg. Thedate of the Sultan’s visit has not been fixed, the dispatch says, but it is possible that it may occur at the time of the Czar’s coronation. Mrs. Runyon, widow of Hon. Theodore Runyon, late United States Embassador to Germany, and her daughter, Miss Julia Runyon, will sail for New York at the end of this month. Either J. B. Jackson, first secretary, or H. G. Squires, second secre- tary of the United States embassy, will see them safely on board the steamer. WILLIS TAKES OFFENSE, The Minister Calls President Dole’s Attention to an Attack. Angered by the Republication of an Article From an American Newspaper. HONOLULU, Hawair, April 11. -United States Minister Willis, being about to sail to the East for a sixty days’ furlough, on the 9th inst. paid his official farewell visit to President Dole. After the customary interchange of friendly speeches the Minister took occasion to express his dis- satisfaction with a paragraph in that morning’s Advertiser, intimating that it was the organ of the Government, an em- ploye, Collector J. B. Castle, being & principal stockholder therein. Foreign Minister Cooper assured Mr. Willis that the Advertiser was in no way controlled or inspired by the Government, and promised to speak to the editor about the offending article, which was done. The offending paragraph was one quoted without comment from an editorial in the Washington (D. C.) Star, the most an- noying words of which were: “Mr. Willis has no value whatever in Honolulu. If anything, he is a standing affront to people for wnom the people of this country feel a warm sttachment.” The next issue of the Advertiser pointed out that the paragraph was copied from the Star without comment, and asserted t e paper’s absolute independence of the Government. It expressed regret that the American representative should have been misled by rumors, and sincerely hoped that Mr. Willis would fully recover his health, which had been sadly broken by the nervous strain incident to the trying position he occupied. Since the disagreement of the 17th of January there has been no direct exchange of social courtesies between Minister Wilfiu and any member of the executive. On ac- count of smallpox on the Gaelic Minister Willis’ departure was again postponed un- til the 16th. e Activity on the Clyde. LONDON, Exc., April 19.—The Clyde trade shows a wonderful expansion. The orders for 40,000 tons of new shipping were placed there in April. Steel vessels are especially in demand. The greatest of the J{Plneu shipping companies, the Nippon Yuzen Kaisha, intends to start a line of steamers to Europe. It has ordered six vessels that are to be buiit at Belfast and on the Clyde, The contracts call for their completion by the end of the year. el e Lost a Trusted dervant. LONDON, Exc., April 19.—The Queen has lost a trusted servani, Hugh Brown, who was a relative of the famous John Brown. Hugh Brown was her Majesty’s favorite page. She provided him with a residence at Frogmore and a cottage at Balmoral, His fEmily will be given an ample pension. S PR The Whitford Released. CCLON, CoromeIA, April 19.—The Amer- ican schooner George W. Whitford of New. York, which was seized by the Colombian gnnboat Cordova off Manzanillo on April on the charge of having contravened the custom laws, was released to-day under bonds. She will proceed to Carthagena, g To Fight the Matabeles. JOHANNESBURG, Soura AFrIcA, April have offered the Governmont of Cape Col- c:{ 1000 men to assist in quelling the re- volt —————— Cruelties Toward Grandohildren. Bell, accused of revolting cruelties toward her grandchildren, Percy and Oneita tenced to life iraprisonment. sy Osma Digna Retreating. report that Osman Digna is retreating from Adarama, and that the friendly schief 18.—The Australian residents of this city among the natives in Matabeleland, OTTAWA, ONTARIO, April 19,—Mrs, Short, was found guilty to-day and sen- CAIRO, Ecypr,April 19.—Friendly Arabs Omar has reoccupied Agaba. JAPAN EEARS THE RUSSIAN, Has Made No Attempt to Avenge Murders in Korea. MANY PUT TO DEATH. Thirty-Eight Subjects of the Empire Known to Have Been Slain. APPROACHING ANOTHER CRISIS Downfall of the Present Premier and His Faction Believed to Be Imminent. TOKIO, Jarax, April 7.—It is believed that affairs in Korea are rapidly approach- ing another crisis which will involve the downfall of the present Premier and his faction. The idea is that Li Pon Chin will evade the difficulties of his position by proceeding to Russia, ostensibly as embas- sador to attend the coronation ceremony, and that Pak Yong-ho, now in the United States, will be summoned to head the Gov- ernment. Rumor now alleges that the flight of the King to the Russian legation was entirely due to the machinations of Li Pon Chin. He deceived both sides: tie King by a cleverly fabricated story that the Russian representativewas highly desirous of his Majestv’s secret removal to the lega- tion so that he might escape the fate of his late consort. and the Russian representa- tive by an equally ingenious pretense that the King eagerly wished to seek asylum under the roof of the Russian legation against murderous projects on the part of the Japanese. Both were imposed upon, and thus the affair of February 11 took place. The number of Japanese subjects mur- dered in Korea since February 11 now totals thirty-eight, in aadigion to five who are missing. Great patience has been shown by the Government and people of Jepan in the face of these outrages, the nation’s 1ndignation being curbed by a conviction that any resolute employment of force to quell the insurgents and pun- ish the murderers might involve a collision with Russia. Butit being now evident that Russia’s designs in the peninsula are not 80 matured or far-reaching as was origin- ally supposed, the Japanese will probably adopt vigorous measures to protect the lives and property of their nationals. Of seven Japanese working in Carcline Bay to float the Cbinese cruiser Kwang-yi, three have been murdered by Koreans. Four of the little party had proceeded to Chemulpo on business and when they re- turned to the scene of operations, they found their comrades dead and their houses reduced to ashes. The four men themselves were violently assaulted and barely escaped with their lives. The colony of Hongkong is suffering from an epidemic of something like rinderpest. The dairy farms have been almost annihilated, and the colonists are deprived of their supply of fresh milk, The bubonic plague also is again asserting itself. Its reappearance is attributed to want of thoroughness on the part of the sanitary authorities, who, instead of burn- ing the hovels where the disease germs were most likely to find a nidus, pulled them down and sold the materials by auc- tion. The caterpillar plague continues to de vastate the district of Kowloon. Nineand a half tons of the insects have been col- lected there, but they have not as vet made their appearance in Hongkong. The diplomatic corps in Peking has been greatly exercised recently about the choice of a language for use in their offi- cial intercourse with the Chinese. English used always to be employed, but a set has been made against it. On the occasion of the Imperial Audience at the Chinese New Year, the doven of the diplomatic corps made his speech in English. The reply was interpreted into English, where- upon the Ministers of Russia and France called upon the interpreter to render it in their respective - languages, which was done. Happily, all the other Ministers sent did not insist upon similar consider- ation for their various tongues. Subse- quently the diplomatic body held a confer- ence to determine which language should thereafter be employed, and Enghsh gained the day by one vote. But the mat- ter was not allowed to rest there. Further meetings took place and circulars were sent round advocating the use of French, At the imperial banquet French was exclu- sively employed, the United States repre- sentative, who is doyen of the corps, hav- ing, for some inexplicable reason, con- sented to the veto against English. Some of the German officers engaged in organizing and drilling the new army in Nanking have been roughly handled by a Chirese mob. Before nis departure from the city, the former Viceroy, Chang Chih- tung, purchased a piece of ground and set preparations on foot to build there a mili- tary school, barracks and houses for the foreign officers. The situation is said to be particularly choice as to its scenic sur- roundings. On March 16 several of the German officers—there are thirty-five in Nanking—went to look at the progress of tbe work. They did not ride together, having no suspicion of peril. The first to arrive, Major Baron Reitzenstein, was im- mediately set upon by two or three hun- dred yelling Chinese and received a nasty beating with poles and clubs before he' succeeded in extricating himself and riding away. Several of his brother officers, coming subsequently, were similarly treated, bug happily all escaped without serious wounds. It issupposed that the mob be- lieved the new Viceroy, Liu Kun-yi, to he hostile to the foreign-drilled army scheme and were anxious to give practical effect to their belief. The Viceroy has issued or- ders for the arrest of the rioters. After all the talk about the reappoint- ment of the Black Flag chief, Lin Yung-fu, to hig'former post of brigadier-general in Kwangtung—an appointment that would have signified the Chinese Government’s approval of Liu's opposition to the Jap- anese in Formosa—the place has been given to another official, which means that Liu has been dismissed from the Chinese service, F. BRINKLEY, General Booth’s Zeal. LONDON, Exc., April 19.—General Booth, the commander of the Salvation Army, celebrated the anniversary of his birth on April 10 by holding a series of councils from early ¥n the morning until late at night. He has concluded arrange- ments for reconstructing the official staffs of the army in the United States. India, South Africa and elsewhere. The War Cry says that the General's zeal does not abate, and that he is able to work fifteen hours a day. The paper adds that he is not afraid of a split in the army in the United Btates, becanse salvation ‘is inter- national. Fet s (LM BURGOMASTER OF VIENNA, Dr. Lueger Elected a Third Time by the Municipal Counocil. YIENNA. AvusTRIA, April 19.—The Mu- nicipal Council has again elected Dr. Lueger, the anti-Semite leader, to the office of Burgomaster of Vienna. This is the third time that Dr. Lueger has been elected to this office. Upon the first occa- sion he declined to accept the office be- cause he did not think his majority was large enough. The second time he was elected by a larger majority of the®mem- bers of ‘the Council and the Emperor promptly dissolved the Council and an- nulled Dr. Lueger’s election, whereupon much rioting ensued. Yesterday the Coun- cil elected him by a still larger majority, ninety-six votes being cast for him. It is expected that the Government will again dissolve the Council and take the appont- ment of Burgomaster inte its own hands. e WOULD SUIT WEXLER. Scheme to Employ Cubam Insurgents on the Panama Canal. PANAMA, Covomsia, April 19. — The Star and Herald prints the statement that Senor Emilio Clare will leave Colon on the 2st inst. on his way to Havana, to which vlace he will proceed by the most direct route. He is commissioned by the new Panama Canal Company to employ 5000 laborers on the canal work, and bears a letter from the Spanish Uonsul here to Captain-General Weyler. Itis said to be Senor Clare's intention to endeavor to take men from the ranks of the insurgents in the hope of weakening their forces. siemit-eion Russia and Great Britain. LONDONgENG., April 19.—The United Press is prepared to state on official au- thority that the relations between Russia and Great Britian concerning Korea are satisfactory. Lord Salisbury has received assurances that Russia does not aim to in- terfere in that country. e e Over Cockerill’s Remains. CATRO, Ecyer, April 19.—A brief cere- mony was conducted by the clergy of the American mission, prior to sending the remains of the late Colonel John A. Cockerill to New York, and was attended by the American colony. The Khedive was officially represented. e Leon Daudet’s Challenge: PARIS, France, April 19.—Leon Deu- det, the son ot Alfonse Daudet, the novel- ist and playwright, has challenged an artist named Steinley to fight a duel in consequence of a circular recently pub- lished in the Echo de Paris. —_— Senor Canalejas Reisgna. HAVANA, Cusa, April 19.—The Herald announces the resignation from the Cortes of Senor Canalejas, Liberal Deputy for one of the districis of Cuba. CLEVELAND 45 ARBITER Engaged in Settling a Dispute Between Italy and Co- lombia. Enormous Mass of i!vidence and Ar- gument in a Case Involving $1,500,000. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 19,.—Presi- dent Cleveland is now engaged in the arbi- tration of the claim of Italy against Co- lombia, all the papers in the dispute hav- ing tinally been presented in accordance with the convention between the disput- ants. The case involvesdamages amounting to nearly $1,500,000, on account of the perse- cution of Ernesto Cerrati, a wealthy mer- chant and Italian consular representative during a revolution in Colombia about ten years 8go. The Italian brief—which was delivered to the President by Frederick R. Coudert and 8. Mallet-Prevost some time ago, and to which Calderon Carlisle for the defense has only recently filed an elaborate techni- cal reply—declares that Cerruti, who had during a long residence in Colombia amass-d a considerable fortune, establish- ingone of the greatest mercantile organiza- tions in that country, was accused of vio- lating the neutrality laws between the contending parties in the revolution of 1885, and that all his estates were confis- cated. After vainly endeavoring to secure reparation, [taly broke off diplomatic rela- tions with the South American State and sent 8 war ship to rescue Cerruti and his family from the country. Through a protocol arranged by the Co- lombian and 1talian Ministers at Paris, in 1886, Colombia agreed to return all Cer- ruti's property, and the question of his peutrality was referred to the Government of 8pain, which in 1888 decided that Cerruti bad not violated the neutrality Iaws and had not lost the rights and privileges of a neu- tral foreigner and was entitled to in- demnity for the injuries sustained. For the next five years negotiations continued between Italy and Colombia, finally re- sulting in the agreement of August 18, 1894, to leave the matter to the arbitral de- cision of President Cleveland. This agreement was reached only after Cerruti bad declined Colombia’s offer to settle for 1,000,000 francs, gold. It is understood that one of the first offi- cial duties of Assistant Secretary of State Baldwin has been to study the enormous mass of evidence and argument that has been presented by the distinguished coun- sel on both sides. et A A RORK BEFORF CONGRESS. The General Pension Bill to Come Up in the House. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 19.—To- morrow is “‘suspension day’’ in the House —that is to say a day on which it is in or- der to take up bills for immediate passage under suspension of the rules. That order will ke followed by the general pension bill reported on Friday last. By the terms of the bill discontinuances or reductions of pen- sions, except for fraud or error or recove: from disabilities, are made unlawful. Chairman Pickler estimates that the restor- ation of pensions and additional expendi- tures authorized by the bill will amount to $2,000,000 or §$3,000,000 a year. Cannon wili afterward call up the gen- eral deficiency bill. Wednesday and Thurs- day have been set aside for a discussion of the bankruptcy bill, upon which a vote is to be taken by the House on Friday, In the Senate an effort will probably be made to antagonize Peffer’s pending bond Yumh:se investigation by calling “g the ndian appropriation bill. The naval aj propriation bill has been ready for cunsid- eration for ten days and Hale is very anx- ious to dispose of it. Gorman is credited with an intention to attack the provision for four new battle-ships. He ;raposu to reduce this number to two and to substi- tute for the battle-ships stricken out small sized gunboats for use in rivers and shal- low water. MCKINLEY AND THE DELEGATES, Weekly Campaign Bulletin Favorable to the Ohioan. RESULTS AND PROSPECTS Grosvenor’s Predictions Said to Have Been More Than Fulfilled. ELECTIONS YET TO BE HELD. Unless the Unforeseen Occurs There May B: a Nomination on} the First Ballot. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 19.—The following is the statement given out by General Grosvenor pursuant to the custom which has prevailed to announce the pro- ceedings of the McKinley campaign in the press of each Monday. General Grosvenor said: “Before giving you the situation as it stands to-day, I want to call attention to my first bulletin, which was issued before any delegates had been elected. At that time I predicted that the vote for McKin- ley on the first ballot would be stated as below. I place now within the first column my prediction at that eariy date and in the second column I place the results in all of the same States in which the full complement of delegates has been chosen: Alabama. : Arkansas, 18 California. ;.. s North Caroiina.. North Dakota. ‘Wyoming Totals : “It will be seen that Kentucky, New Mexico and Utah have fallen below my estimate—five in Kentucky, one in New Mexico and one in Utah, while Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Illinois, North Dakota, | Oklahoma, South Carolina and Wisconsin bave all gained. This comparison of the original estimates, which aggregate 433, with the actual results from elections in eighteen States, shows very clearly that the estimate was too low. “There have been elected delegates in States that I did not claim in that esti- mate — Minnesota 18, New York 4 and Pennsylvania 2. And it will thus be seen that if the same ratio of gain is maintained to the end of the States forming my origi- nal prediction there will not only be the 433 delegates claimed, but there will be a clear majority of the convention in these States alone and those in which I claimed nothing in my orieinal estimate. “Following is the present condition of the McKinley vote, inciuding as usual the full vote of Ohio and Indiana: 12|Ohio . 'S () RRERGE oIS &l glo “The New York Tribune of this morning gives McKinley 318 practically uncon- tested and instructed votes. In my report 1 exclude doubtiul votes and have failed to claim a number known to be for Mc- Kinley. I point to the vindication of my original estimate with some degree of satisfaction, and 1 state now that my present estimate of safe votes for McKin- ley on the first ballot is below the actual facts. “The most significant feature of the last week’s election is the number of second- choice instructions for McKinley. In this category may be classed New Hampshire, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and New York, and it is safe to say that there are now of well-defined second-choice delegates, thoroughly committed to McKinley as such, not less than 125. “During the remainder of April there will be elections in Connecticut, Mary- land, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Indian Ter- ritory, Alabama, ‘Georgia, Illinois, Ver- mont and Arizona—in all, eighty-four votes. Out of this number it is a very low and conservative estimate to claim for Mec- Kinley fifty delegates. “Then will follow in the month of May conventions in the following States: Cali- fornia, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada, West Virginia, Montana, Missouri, Delaware, Colorado, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming and North Carolina, with 152 delegates. It will be seen that the McKinley situation has not only constantly improved, but is rapidly approaching a triumphant conclu- sion.” (et gt AS SEEN BY A CALIFORNIAN, Political Situation in the Golden State Described. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 19.—A Tri- bune special from Washington says: R. M. Hitchcomb, a well-known commission merchant of San Francisco, who is here to advance the interests of the proposed Ha- waiian cable enterprise, describes the present political situation in California as follows: “‘California, as far as the great mass of its people are concerned, is for free silyer, though the managing people of both po- litical parties are solidly against it and everything that looks that way. There is considerable doubt, however, that they can stem the tide, and the present outlook is that both parties at their coming con- ventions wilfuundost the free-silver ex- pressions they passed at the lsst conven- tions simply because the active political managers will not be able to prevent it. The preponderance of the sentiment of the Republicans is for McKinley all the way through, though Reed’ ‘and’ Allison' have many friends tfier'e. 2 J It is generally recognized on the Pd+ Eific cfi“" as it 1s h?ir that this r,; beh;: .epublican year, an t little is thoug of or said in <:onneeti§|l with ge Demo-'| cratic Convention. Cléveland will be in- dorsed by the State Democratte Cofiven: tion as against any other Democrat, un- less, before it is held, he indicates in a public way that he does not desire an indorsement. Senator White may be strong in the southern part of the State, where he resides, but he cuts no figure in California Democratic politics in other parts of the State, as is evidenced by the fact that every Democratic holder of leading Federal positions in San Francisco secured his appointment in the face of Whize’s opposition. “The Democratic situation will be just as Mr. Cleveland makes it. Personally he can have what he asks for, but he will have to ask for it, though the gift will go %o him on a silver salver.” —_———— FROM A REED STANDPOINT. A Friend of the Speaker Differs With General Grosvenor. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 19,—The weekly bulletin furnished by Representa- tive J. Frank Aldrich of Tllinois giving the results of the Republican rresidential canvass from the standpoint of a friend of Mr. Reed, issued to-night, is as follows: “The developments of the past week in the Republican Presidential contest have resulted in no material change in the rela- tive standing of the leading candidates, notwithstanding the prediction last week that McKinley’s strength ‘will grow rap- idly by the conyentions in Kentucky, Ne- braska and New Jersey.” Of the t votes confidently counted upon by him in Kentucky Governor Bradly has captured sixteen, and the failure to instruct for Mc- Kinley the fourteen delegates elected from New Jersey was a significant disappoint- ment. . “‘My last statement gave Mr. Reed 111 delegates, McKinley 169, to all other can- didates 166 and 48 doubtful. In that table Icredited Mr. Reed with two uninstructed delegates which, upon later information I deem it fair to place in the doubtiu column. With this single exception my figures of last week cannot be seriously disputed. “The fizures herewith presented have been carefully compiled from reports re- ceived from day to day and verified by re- plies received from telegrams sent to vari- ous States yesterday. I have placed six- teen additional delegates in the doubtful column. twelve of which are from New Jersey. Of the 604 delegates elected to date McKinley has justabout 35 If he continues at this rate to will have 325 votes out of a total of 918 when the convention assembles; exactly the number that the friends of Mr. Reed and the other candidates have conceded to him from the active commencement of the campaign, The table by States fol- lows. Ireserve the right to change the estimate for Tennessee upon further infor- mation from that State. STATE. Arkansas.. Reed. McKinley. 16 8 North Carolina. 2 Norih Dakota. 5 [ 34 H Tennessee Texas. Virgini Wisconsin . Oklaboma. District of Columbia. .. Totals 214 All other candidates, 198. Doubtful, 64. Total, 804. 128 JOHNSON’S WARNING. Declares the A. P. A. Will Certainly Defeat MecKinley. NASHVILLE, Texw., April 19.—C. P. Johnson, State president of Illinois and a member of the executive committee of the National Advisory Board of the American Protective Association, is in Nashville. Regarding the dispatches stating that Congressman Linton said he was not a candidate for President he said: “Mr. Linton is a candidate for renom- ination to Congress from his district, and by his own action or consent is not in any sense a candidate for the Presidency, but ty | ina Presidential ‘E;m aign circumstances requently arise which no individual can controk Meén ihaye been nominated for President and for§ Governor whose names were never formally presented to the con- il ’I‘Bhe‘lu Inozic?uble insmr‘hce is overnor Bushn, of Ohio, where Major CKTOIEY"s cihdidate was defeated. This was laréely the result of McKiniey’s rec- ord as Governor. In my opinion history will repeat itselfin the St. Louis Conven- tion. Before that convention meets the members of the A. P. A., together with the members of all other patriotic societies in the United States, will oppose the nom- ination of Major McKinley as one solid mass, representing over 4,000,000 patriotic voters.” —_———— COUNTING UNHATCHED CHICKS. McKinley May Be Opposed by Part of the Indiana Delegation. INDIANAPOLIS, Ixp., April 19,.—In all the tables sent out from Washington each week by General Grosvenor the thirty dele- gates in Indiana have been placed in the McKinley column, and they have been conceded to McKinley on all hands, though only twenty-six of them have been elected. Itis believed, however, that four- teen or fifteen of these votes will never go to McKinley, whether the name of Har- rison is brought before the convention or not. These men on the delegation who threaten to bolt McKinley are warm per- sonal admirers of Harrison, and their re- sentment ! as been aroused by the charac- ter of the McKinley campaign in Indiana, led by Chairman Gowdy of the State Com- mittee. Gowdy has declared that the State convention shall instruct for Me- Kinley, even if it requires a bitter fight, and the Harrison people accuse him of in- spiring certain paragraphs that are ap- pearing in the country newspapers, tc the effect that Indiana would have been for McKinley overwhelmingly even had Har- rison been a candidate. FATALLY z Result of a Separation—Arrested After Wounding an Officer. TROY. N. Y., April 19.—John Kaiser, a German residing at Sand Lake, who sepa- rated from his wife two months ago, went to her house early this morning and de- manded that he be permitted to remain. She refused, whereupon he drew a revolver and fired two shots at her. One bullet entered just under the left shoulder and entered the woman’s spine, causing com- plete paralysis of the lower limbs. She cannot live. Atter the shooting Kaiser went to the farmhouse where he had been living and went to sleep. A Sheriff’s posse of several hundred villagers was organized and ar- rested their man after a hot fight, during which Deputy Sheriff Horton received a | bullet wound in the hand. SR e WAS A WILD RIDER. Mrs. Deila Baker of Buffalo Bill’s Cown- 3 pany Dies. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 19.—Mrs, Della Baker, wife of “Jobnnie’’ Baker, the adopted son of Colonel Wiltiam F. Cody, died suddenly Friday at the New York residence of Jule Keene, treasurer of the “Wild West ’ show. 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