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-~ 1 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1896. LATEST FVENTS. 16 Yokohama, had the body disinterred, and on examining tbe swelling in the neek fophd it swarming with the plague ‘bacillus, which Dr. Kitazoto giscovered in Hongkong two years ago. Every precaution dictatea by medical IN .IlHF UHIENT | science was at once taken to prevent the L I | spread of the disease, but it was felt that, Inwardness of the Treaty| Between Germany and Japan. CONCESSIONS ARE MADE Attempt to Connect Subjects of the Mikado With the Death of Korea’s Queen. 1 - | | ABOUT FORTY SLAIN SO FAR.| Alarm Caused by the Importation of the Terrible Plague From Hongkong. TOKIO, Jarax, April 10.—Very mislead- ing telegrams have been published with refere to the revised treaty between Japan and Germany, which was signed on the 4th of April in Berlin. The public has been lea to believe that the treaty’s pro- visions for the abolition of consular juris- diction differ essentiaily from those em-i bodied in the Anglo-Japanese treaty of | July, 1894, and that important reserva- | tions are made in favor of German sub- | jects, and therefore of foreigners in gen- | eral. Thatis altogether a misconception. | The treaty is on precisely the same lines | as the Anglo-Japanese. It is accompa- | nied, however, by a consular convention, such as that existing between Germany | and Russiz, and Germany and Italy, | which defines the privileges and immuni- ties enjoyed by Consuls, and the notarial or magisterial functions that they are em- powered to discharge in the case of their own nationals under certain circum- stances. The procedure authorized by this con- wvention is strictly reciprocal and differs in no respect from that followed by Consul s in Europe, but since it is not England’s habit to conclude such conventions, and since consequently no convention of the kind accompanies the Anglo-Japanese treaty ignorant critics have been misled. The long delay thatoccurred in conclud- ing the new treaty with Germany was wholly because of the latter’s large de- mands for extended tariff concessions. The Berlin statesmen sought to cbtain special treatment for some 300 articles. Japan declined altogether to negotiate on such a basis, and after much discussion | Germany withdrew the great bulk of her | demands. She has succeeded, however, in getting slightly improved terms for im- ports representing about 5,000,000 yen out of a total trade of 129,000,000, but of these 5,000,000 yen 2,500,000 represent staples sold by England to Japan and only 1,500,- 000 staples sold by Germany. By direction of the Kingof Korea, a court has been held under the presidency of the Vice-Minister of Justice, for the purpose of investigating the circumstances attending the Queen’s death. The revort | compiled by the court shows that its main purpose was to incriminate the Japauese | and extenuate the part played by the Koreans themselves. It will, of course, | tend to render the Japanese still more un- | popular in the peninsula—a result doubt- less desired by the statesmen now in power in Seoul. 1t would seem that the Korean avthori- ties were privy to an attempt recently made against the life of the prince-parent. | A man armed with a dagger was caught just outssde of the old Prince’s bed-cham- | ber on the night of the 19th of March. He | was seized, tied up and questioned, but | the police, to whom no intelligence had been conveyed, suddenly appeared upon the scene and carried him away, thus proving that they had previous cognizance of his doing, | Up to March 28 the number of Japanese subjects murdered or badly injured by the Korean insurgents was forty, in addition to seventeen soldiers killed. Great fears had been entertained on account of eighty Japanese merchants residing in Phyeong- yang, but they reached Ninsen safely on the 28th of March under secret escort of a small body of police. It appears from their account that they were never in any visible danger, and that, had they not sold off their stock in trade in the begin- ning of the insurrection, they might have found it convenient to remain. Negotia- tions with reference to the outrages against Japanese life and property are going on between the Governments in Seoul and in Tokio. The strength of the insurgents in Korea is broken by dissensions among them- selves. On the 22d of March their strong- hold at Kwang-fu, not far from Seoul, was attacked by the King’s soldiers and taken without much difficulty, the rebels leaving more than a hundred dead upon the field and a score of prisoners. This success dispels any fear of a movement against the capital. It is said that provisions sufficient for a year's use were found stored in Kwang-fu. The block in the Japanese silk market continues. Foreign buyers expect that if the European crop be up to the average the Japanese will have to sell at prices even lower than those now ruling. The native silk merchania of Yokohama have applied to the treasury for a loan of 4,000,000 yen without interest, which they propose to pay back in- six years. Their idea is to devote 1,000,000 ven to pur- chasing 10,000 bales of silk at 100 ven above the present price, this silk to be held until an oprortunity offers for selling at a profit. Meanwhile the remaining 8,000,000 yen is to be banked and its interest applied to repaying the loan. There is not the smallest probability that the treasury will entertain this modest proposal. Alarm has been caused in Japan by the importation of the terrible plague from Hongkong. Among 600 Chinese that took passage in the Oriental and Occidental Steamship Company’s Gaelie, which reached Yokohama homeward bound, on March 29, was a lad of 17, who, when three days out from Hongkong, had fallen sick. He determined to land at Yokohama, and succeeded in doine so without attracting attention, being still able to walk. That evening he found his way to the Chinese hospital, where he died at 2 . m. on April 1, and was interred the same day. The bubonic swellings, characteristic of the discase, had developed in his neck ana choked him at an early stage. Belore death he had been seen by a Japanese physician, who, suspecting the nature of the malady, telegraphed to ihe Tokio experts. One of the latter proceeded as the Chinese phvsicians had failed to diagnose the malady before death, and as | consequently a considerable interval had elapsed before vigorous prophylactic meas- ures could be adopted, a great danger was imminent. Two days * later — April 3—another steamer, the Chittagong from Hongkong, reported a suspicious case upon arrival, | but in this instance the bacillus was ab- sent and the man soon began to mend. Most unfortunately, however, the Gaelic having sailed for San Francisco via Hono- lulu on March 31—that is to say, before anything was known about the plague- stricken lad in the Chinese hospital—no measures to disinfect her had been taken, and as the crowd in her steerage had been increased by 500 Japanese emigrants for Hawaii, great anxiety was feit for the safety of all on board. Telegrams were at once dispatched to Washington and San Francisco to warn the sanitary authorities there. In Japan the system of medical in- spection and disinfection resorted to in cholera epidemics has been put into force with respect to all vessels coming from Hongkong or any port on the Chinese coast. It should be noted, however, that the plague has not yet developed serious dimensions in Hongkong. The daily aver- age of patientsis only six or seven, but there is a tendency to increase. Mutinies among Chinese troops are so frequent that the outside world has ceased to think much of them. case occurred in oneof the celebrated Taku forts, on the Peiho River. Itcommenced on March 17 and went on for three days. The authorities say that it had its origin in a gambling affray, but probably the old cause—official squeezing—was chiefly re- sponsible. The mutineers, using swords, killed five officers on the first day. Had they possessed rifles they would probably had been deprived of their rifles and were | awaiting transports to carry them south | for disbandment. The general command- ing a neighboring fort marched up his men and gave the mutineers a volley that killed three of their number. Two compa- | nies of the Viceroy’s body-guards, arriving subsequently from Tientsin with machine guns, settled the business. The mutinous garrison were driven on bdard a transport, twenty lives having been sacrificed in all. LINE OFFICERS ~ ACTIVE: Desire to Prevent Congress From Giving Actual Rank to the Engineer Corps. Secretary Herbert and the Cabinet Will Take a Hand in the Con- troversy. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 24.—As a result of the affray yesterday between Congressmen Hall and Money, Secretary Herbert will take some action with regard to the bitter feud between theline and the staff of the navy, which was the primary cause of the conflict in the Naval Affairs Committee room. The bitterness of the two factions has been increasing until it is now at fever heat, and the more conservative men who take an interest in the matter believe that the personnel of the service is being in- jured, and that vigorous action is neces- sary on the part of the Secretary to bring about better relations between naval offi- cers. The bills before Congress giving actual rank to the members of the Engineer Corps form the basis for the present ten- sity of feeling. Lobbying has been freely indulged in for and against the measure, and social and political influence has been brought to bear on every member of Con- gress. The line officers are determined that the staff shall not secure actual rank, and have formed an association for the purpose of fighting the measures propos- ing such an arrangement. Commodores Phythian and Matthews, who ‘were in the Naval Committee room when Hall and Money had their battle of inkstauds and sponge-cups, are prominent members of the Line Association, The Cabinet, it is understood, discussed the matter at its meeting to-day, and ac- tion may be looked for by the Navy De- partment. It is not unlikely that charges will be preferred if the matter goes much further. Some time ago the subject was given consideration with a view to stop- ping the growing enmity between the two branches of the service, but no definite action was taken. T L OF INTEREST TO THE COAST. Provision Made for a Steam Vessel for This Harbor. ‘WASBHINGTON, D. C., April 24.—John W. Mitchell of Los Angeles was to-day ad- mitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, on motion of Senator Daniel of Virginia, Representative Johnson to-day presented the petition of citizens of West Point,Cala. veras County, Cal against placine the statue of Pierre Marquette in the halls of the Capitol. - Pensions have been granted as follows: California—Increase, Jacob D. Hine, Oakland. ‘Washington—Original, Alexander Jol- ley, EJma; increase, William E. Reinoehl, Mount Hope. The Senate to-day adopted the follow- ing amendment to the sundry civil bill: “For additions to an alterations in the courthouse and postoffice building at Los Angeles, $12,000; San Francisco harbor- light vessel—for constructing, equipping and outfitting complete for service first class steam light vessel with steam fog signal, $80,000.” The Asiatic Fleet. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 24.—A cablegram received at the Navy Depart- ment from Rear-Admiral McNair, com- manding the Asiatic naval station, reports that the cruisers Boston and Detroit and the g\mboug Machias ana_Yorktown ar- rived at Shanghai to-day. No explanation of the reason for this unusual congrega- tion of warships was contained in the dis- patch, but it 1s presumed at the depart- ment that Admiral McNear has brought them together for the purpose of hav! ng fleet evolutions. The naval regulations require that squadrons shall assembls for maneuvering once every six months. e Civil Service Examinations. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 24.—The United States Civil Bervice Commission will hold an examination in Washington and other large cities May 15 to fill two vacancies for the position of scientific assistant in the Fish Commission, the salary of one position being $720 per annum and the other $1200. Persons de- siring to compete should write to the Civil Bervice Commission, Washin D, C., and obtain an application-b ank, which should be filed with the commission a8 soon as possible, A rather serious | | have done much greater mischief, but they | GRAVES' FHIGHT WITH CARLISLE, An Answer to the Suit of the New Yorker by the Secretary. THAT BID FOR BONDS. Refutation of the Claim That Notice of Acceptance Was Not Received. THE DEAPLY PARALLEL DRAWN Statements in an Exhibit Not Found in the Original Correspond- ence. WASHINGTON, D. C,, «April 24—In the suit brought by William Graves in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia against the Secretary of the Treasury, in which he claims that he was, through the unlawful and hostile action of the Treas- ury Department officials, prevented from securing $4,500,000 of the recent issue of 4 per cent bonds, Mr. Carlisle to-day filed an affidavit showing his side of the case. The affidavit charges Graves with with- holding from the court a tull recital of the facts, and with attempting to create wrong impressions by false recitals and by gar- bling correspondence. The main ground of the Graves com- plaint is that he did not promptly receive notice of the acceptance of his bid, be- cause it was simply directed to him at New York, and by reason of that refusal of the Secretary to extend the time for de- positing the first installment of gold he was wrongfully deprived of the benefits of his contract. Mr. Carlisle states that Graves’' bid gave no other address than “New York”; that while in the body of the bid he named two places for delivery of bonds he gave no special address; that the accept- ance was mailed in Washington on Febru- ary 9, with the address given at the head ot his proposal, and that this was received at the New York postoffice on February 10; that publications were made in the New York papers and papers generally throughout the country on February 9 showing the successful bidders; that Mr. Graves knew on February 10 that he was a successful bidder and sent a telegram to the department on that day showing this fact; that a duplicate of the notice of acceptance was sent as soon as he wired his special address and was received by him February 11, which was four days be- fore he was required to make any pay- ment; that on February 13 Mr. Graves made an application for an extension of time on the ground that the first notice was misdirected, causing a loss of two days, but stated distinctly in such appli- cation that, notwithstanding the delay, he was prepared to make his deposit on Feb- ruary 15, Mr, Carlisle’s affidavit further recites that Graves, after he failed to get an ex- tension of the time for payment, or to get the bonds sent to New York before pay- ment, made a second bid on February 15 of 113)4 for all bonds that the Secretary might consider in default on that date, in- cluding those awarded him on his first bid. No reference to this new bid is made in his petitions It is further charged that Graves filed as an exhibit to his petition ‘what purports to be a copy of a letter writ- ten by him February 15to the Secretary, but which contains statements which were not in the original letter and omits state- ments which were. The letter exhibited with tue petition and what purports to be the original letter are printed side by side. The copy of the original letter given in the affidavit contains the following: “I inclese to Mr. Nailor the sealed letter from you that you may see it. Because of this delay, caused by a clerical error, I could not get my gold from the Bank of California, to whom I referred you, until I produced the letter of acceptance from vou; then honds went down, and I could not collateral them at the price, and I was on the market as a borrower.” “Again: “Do not allow me to lose my good name because of my failure to mect conditions over which 1 had no control, viz., the drop in values after your notice came to hand. but on the other hand, give me what you are in a position to do in jus- tice. Allow and believe me.’”” Neither of these passages appear in the letter as it appears in exhibit J of the pe- tition. In regard to these statements the affidavit says: “It appears from the genuine letter that he could not get the gold in the Bank of California until he produced a letter of acceptance.from affiant; that at the time he could not use them as collateral at the price he had bid; that he was on the mar- ket as a borrower, and that what pre- vented him from complying with his bid was ‘the drop in value after your (my) notice came to hand.’ The affidavit states thaton the 15th of February Graves was insisting on his sec- ond bid, having abandoned his first bid, and that the facts in regard to his second bid were suppressed in his petition. The affidavit denies the statements in the petition that Graves made a tender at the New York substreasury on account of his allotment and says that never at any time was any tender made by or for him. All of the charges in the petition that Graves was treated in any wise differently from other bidders are denied, as is the statement that bonds were sent to the sub- trearury at New York for other persons before their deposits were made. First Case of the Kind. WASHIN GTON, D. C., April 24.—The first interstate commerce case involving the conviction of a railroad official for vio- lation of the law was docketed in the Supreme Court of the United States to- day. . 8. Wright, agent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroaa Com?)any at Pittsburg, was convicted in the District Court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania and fined $1000 upon the charge of making a special rate on car- load lots of beer.” He asks the Supreme Court to reverse that verdict and sentence. —_— Timber on Publio Lands. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 24.—In the Senate to-day Dubois intraduced a bill repealing that section of the timber cul- ture laws regarding the sale of timber and making it unlawful to issue grants to any persons, corporations, etc., to cut any tim- ber on the public lands free of charge, ex- cept that the Secretary of the Interior may permit, under proper regulations, those of timber and stone free of charge to bona fide residents and prospectors for miner- als, exclusively for individual use, for fire- wood, fencing, building, ete.. but not for the purposes of manufacture, sale or spec- ulation. e HARRIET MONROE'S SUIT. 1t Has Been Docketed for Hearing in the Supreme Court. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 24—The case of Harriet Monroe, who wrote the ode for the opening exercises of the World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago, in Oc- tober, 1892, against the New York World for damages, caused by the unanthorized publication of the work in advance of its delivery at Chicago, has been docketed in the Supreme Court of the United ‘States. ’{he&)hinti(fi obtained juagment against he World for $5000 d costs in the Cirenit Court of ;‘h‘em{fi:i:e:nstnes for the Southern District of New York, and that judement was affirmed by the Court of Appeals for that circuit. From that judgment the World brought the case to the Supreme Court on a writ of error. i g CHANGES IN CONTEMPT LAW. A Sub-Committee of the Senate Consider- ing an Important Bill. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 24.—Sen- ators Hill, Thurston and Vilas, as a sub- committee of the Senate Commiitee on the Judiciary, to-day considered the bill now before that committee regulating contempt of court, a bill that is the out- growth of the Debs case. No conclusion bas been reached, but it is understood the sub-committee will amend the bill so that in the charge of airect contempt there shall be no appeal, and in indirect_con- tempt proceedings’ it shall be optional with the court whether or not there shall bea jury trial. The report will be made to the full committee on Monday next. S N ek Miss Stevenson to Be Married. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 24.—It was announced to-day that the marriage of Miss Julia Stevenson, the elder daughter of Vice-President Stevenson, and the Rev. Martin D. Hardin of Kentucky would be solemnized on May 28 at the New York avenue Presbyterian Church in this city. Mr. Hardin is the son_of Hon.P. Watt Hardin, the Kentucky Democratic politi- clan. Bt g o Approved by Secretary Smith. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 24.—Secre- tary Smith has approved a school land indemnity selection of 15,112 acres made by the State of Czlifornia in the Stockton land district. YE SEEKING THE TRUTH, Experts to Be Sent to The Hague by the Venezuelan Boundary Commission. Counsel Scruggs Points Out Incon- sistencies in the British Blue Book. WASHINGTON, D.C., April 24.—The Venezuelan boundary commission reas- sembled to-day after a recess of ten days. Its most important business was a de- cision previousiy foreshadowed in these dispatches to send one or more persons to ‘The Hague to examine the original Dutch manuscripts relating to Guiana. No se- lection of such agent or agents was made, however. An additional mass of testimony in behalf of the Venezuelan claim was filed with the commission to-day. Mr. Scruggs, the Venezuelan counsel, also filed a brief criticizing the blue book. A voluminous amount of testimony from Caracas was likewise presented to the commission. The brief presented by Mr. Scruggs answers the various contentions of the British Government as given in the pub- lished blue book, mainly through histori- cal notations, with comments of his own. He mentions the statement of the blue book that in 1595 ‘‘Dutch settlements were formed near the mouth of the Orinoco."” “But,” says Mr. Scruggs, ‘‘it was pre- cisely in 1595 that 8ir Walter Raleigh made his first voyage to the fsland of Trinidad, and thence through Boca de Navois up the Orinoco to the mouth of the Caroni. He reported that after first overcoming the Spanish force at Trinidad, he ascended the great river as stated, where he found ‘the Spaniards had previ- ously traversed the whole country’; that they (the Spaniards) had been ‘cruel to the Indians’; that he had made friends of the Indians and told them he had come to deliver them from their Spanish con- querors and oppressors. ‘‘And iv is gravely asserted in the blug book that in 1596 ‘the Spaniards did not hold any part of Guiana,’ and a care- fully selected (I will not say garbled) ex- tract from a letter from Don Roque de Mon- tes, the Spanish Colonial Treasurer at Cumana, is produced to prove this. But even this carefully selected extract proves just the contrary. The writer says he had ‘instructed Captain Felipe de Bantiago’ of the Spanish service to ‘ascend the river Orinoco and arrest two Englishmen whom Raleigh had left there as spies and informers,’ and ‘to advise the Indian chiefs not to admit or receive any foreigners except Spaniards’; that these instructions were faithfully car- ried out; that the only surviving English- man had been arrested, and that the Indians were warned against the intrusion of ‘any more foreigners.” * * * “If the Spaniards were not then in actual possession of the Lower Orinoco and in fact of the whole of Western Guiana, how were they able to arrest the only foreigners found there and to warn the Indians against similar spies and in- formers in the future?’’ A second chapter considers the boundary auestion from the date of the English acquisition of title to British Guiana and a third chapter takes up the latter phase of the case. LONDON, Exe., April 24.—The Times will to-morrow publish a dispatch from George W. Smulley, its American corre- spondent, affirming the statements in his dispatch on Thursday last as to the views of the American executive. BSmalley says he might have used stronger language without exaggerating the approhension existing in Washington. The Times com- menting upon Mr. Smalley’s dispatch ex. presses surprise at the condition of affairs that he sets forth, and argues that Wash- ington is under a misunderstanding. ERTIET R Leaves the Lieutenant. PERRY, 0. T., April 24.—Kate L. New- man, wife of Lieutenant Betrand 8. New- man of the United States steamer Charles- ton. was given a divorce here to-day. She is the daugnter of Captain A. B. Dawson of the United States army. SR PR O Ended by a Eetraction. BRIDGEPORT, Coxx., April 24.—The slander suit by Mlle. Jane May, the French actress, against Rev. Joseph Puliman of this city for heavy damages, practically has m'.‘.' brought z-n end by a public re- traction by Dr. Pullman, AMENDMENTS ARt DISPOSED OF Progress in the Senate on the Sundry Civil Bill. PRACTICE OF TEE HOUSE Objection Made to Dodging Re- sponsibility of Swelling the Expenditures. OTHER CAUSES OF COMPLAINT. The Cutting Off of Funds for a Hos- pital Attributed to Religious Bigotry. WASHINGTON, D.C., April 24.—The Senate made considerable progress to-day on the sundry civil bill, having disposea ot all the amendments revorted toit by the Committee on Appropriations. Some comment was made on the prac- tice attributed to the House of Representa- tives of appropriating sums only sufficient to cover the cost of service for six or nine months in the year and throwing on the Senate the responsibility and blame or swelling the appropriation bills. The advice proffered by Mills of Texas to cure that evil was for the Senate tc pass the appropriation bills just as the House sent them, leaving to the President the duty of notifying Congress that additional appropristions were necessary for the pub- lic service. There was also some little criticism of the action of the House in cutting off appro- priations for the Providence Hospital, in ‘Washington—that action being attributed to religious bigotry and intolerance. The fact that the First Comptrolier refused to audit the accounts of the Venezuelan- Guiana commission for office rent was also commented upon severely. e PENSIONS ARE INCREASED. Favorable Action Taken vate Rills. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 22.—Nearly five hours were given by the House to-day to a further consideration in committee of the whole of the general pension bill. The speakers generally supported the bill, but all criticized one or the other sections, es- pecially those which authorize the pen- sioning of soldiers who previous to their honorable service in the Union army had served in the Confederate army or had not received an honorable discharge. The speakers were Layton (D.) of Ohio, Tracey (R.) of Missouri, Andrews (R.) of Nebrus- ka, Burton (R.) of Missouri, Overstreet (R.) of Indiana and Connelly (R.) of Illino and their efforts were marked with no i cident of choice. Bills were passed authorizing the town of Tucson, Ariz., to issue $100,000 worth of water works bonds; authorizing the free entry into the United States of articles or animals exported for exhibition in other countries, and nine private pension bills favorably reported at the last Friday night session. The Senate request for a conference on the Indian appropriation bill was agreed to. The report of elections committee No. 2 upon the contested election case of Cor- nell vs. Swanson, from the Fiith District of Virginia, in favor of the sitting member (8wanson, D.), was received, and the minority given until Wednesday next to present their views. At 5 o'clock the House took a recess until 8 o’clock, the evening session to be for the consideration of private pension bills. At the night session the House, acting as a committee of the whole, ordered to be reported with favorable recommendation twelve pension bills. One of these pro- posed an increase to §50 a2 month of the pension of the widow of Major-General Samuel Sprigg Carroll, who is now and has been all winter an inmate of the Providence Hospital of this city, an in- valid cripple. A bill providing a pension of $100 a month to General Morris of New York was reported unanimously from the Committee cn Invalid Pensions, but Pick- ler (R.) of South Dakota, chairman of the committee, moved to reduce it to $75a month, and that was agreed to—73 to 20. Another bill increased tia pension of the widow of General W. H. Enochs from $50 to $75 a month. General Enochs was a member of the Fifty-second Congress from Ohio. Favorable action on this bill was prevented by the expiration of the session. on Twelve Pri- PROTECTION OF STAPLES. Johnson Heard in Support of the Bill for Export Bounties. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 24—The ‘Ways and Means Committee to-day heard Representative Johnson of support of his bill for the agricultural staples and A in the foreign trade by au payment of bounties on e: cultural products of the United conditioned on their or foreign vessels. Representative Skinner (Pop.) of North Carolina said he was framing a bill on the lines of that of Johnson. Siace he had be- come a convert to protection he wanted to see the same measure of protection ex- tended to the field as was extended to the shop. The committee took no action on the matter. GIFTS TO RE MR, CLEVELAND. The Retired Pastor ¥et Has a Good Following. WATERTOWN, N. Y., April 24—The Rev. William N. Cleveland, the elder brother of the President, who was retired from the pastorate of the Presbyterian church in Chaumont recently, was the recipient of a handsome testimonial from friends in that village last night. A notice was given a few days ago that a donation party in Mr. Cleveland’s behalf would be held last night. A large crowd responded. Besides gifts the pastor re- ceived the assurance that something would be done toward haying him con- tinue his work, and another congregation may be organized, with him as pastor. Cleveland said last night that he had not decided to accept a call from any other church. Mrs. Cleveland is in poor health, and that prevents him from making plans for the future, If he receives a call from a Cleveland (Ohio) church he says he will consider it. carriage in American e R Reorganization Progresses. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 24. —1It is officially stated that holders of over 9214 per cent in amount of the Northern Pacific seconds, thirds, aividend certificates, con- sols, collateral trust notes and preferred and common stocks, also of Northwest Equipment stock and Northern Pacific and grst mortgage bonds have been de- posited under the plan of reorganization. The plan and agreement are declared operative. Holders of certificates issued by the Mercantile Trust Company under the bondholders’ agreement of February, 1884, if not already stamped must be stamped on or before May 7in order to secure the benefits of the plan. ot g EE Fought a Savage Duel. CHICAGO, Irwn., April 24.—Because they loved the same woman Oscar Orland, aged 33 years, and Emanuel Rugjak fought a savage duel at midnight with stilettos on the street in the vicinity of Orland’s Canal-street home. Before becoming un- conscious Orland told of the duel and said they stabbed and slashed each other for nearly an hour. CHOATE SCORES BOWLER Interesting Phase of Argument in the Sugar Bounty Cases. The Officious Comptroller Styled a Pebple in the Cogs of the Government. ‘WASHINGTON, D, C., April 24.—The Supreme Court of the United States to-day heard the concluding arguments of counsel upon the sugar-bounty cases, by Joseph H. Choate in behaif of the claimants and by Solicitor-General Conrad for the Govern- ment. In the course of his speech Choates brusquely paid his respects to Comptroller Bowler, whose action necessitated the liti- gation, and who was an suditor of the argument throughout.. He was speaking of the nower of Cougress to make the ap- propriation that had been withheld from the claimants, contending that the courts had no jurisdiction to review that action. “Why,” said he, ‘“the cases are here merely by accident. A big pebble was found in the cogs of the Government and these claimants were compelled to come here to get it removed so that the wheels might be allowed to go round.”” At another period of his address Choate referred to the appropriation of money made by Congress to Lafayette. “That was made,” he continued, “to partly dis- charge what they believed to have been a debt of gratitude for great and valuable services rendered to the United States in the Revolutionary War. And yet (with a significant look at Mr. Bowler) if some persons had been inthe Government at tbat time Lafayetie would not have re- ceived that money on the ground that Congress had no power to make that ap- propriation.” —_—— ETTA BANORO¥T DISAPPEARS. Mystery Connected With the Movements of a California Girl. CHICAGO, I, April 24—Miss Etta Bancroft, 18 years old, daughter of a wealthy mine-owner, who has been living with H. E. Procunier, at 126 South Oak Park avenue, Oak Park, hes been missing since Wednesday noon, and her friends are at a loss to account for her disappear- ance. J. D. Bancroft, the father of the girl, is in the mining business at Citrus, Cal. He is well-to-do, and formerly lived in Oak Park, where he still owns the beautiful house on Oak Park avenue, which is leased ;:_y dPx-ocunier. with whom his daughter ived. The father will not be notified of the child’s ahnspennnce until every effort been made by the authorities to locate the girl. Etta was to have joined her NEW TO-DAY. Apollinaris NATURAL MINERAL WATER. MALICIOUS STATEMENTS having been disseminated that the APOLLINARIS WATER offered for sale in San Francisco is not the Natural product of the APOLLINARIS SPRING in GERMANY, notice is hereby given that every arrival of APOLLINARIS WATER is accompanied by a CERTIFICATE from the Proprietors of the APOLLINARIS SPRING stating that the shipment consists of Apollinaris Natural Mineral Water, bottled at the Apollinaris Spring near Neuenahr, Rhenish Prussia. Such Certificates are invariably declared and sub- scribed to by the said Proprietors in the presence of the CONSUL of the United States of America at COLOGNE in GERMANY, and are filed at the San Franecisco Custom House where they can at all times be inspected. A REWARD of $1,000 will be paid for information which will lead to the conviction of any person or persons selling spurious Apollinaris Water. JOHN CAFFREY, 47 First Street, SAN FRANCISCO, Representing CHARLES GRAEF & CO., New YORK. Sole Agents of the APOLLINARIS COMPANY, LIMITED, LoNDON. her in Califorhia in June, at the end of lip&,n of the Jschool. Mr. and Mrs. Procn':iz?wsm’v much worried over the affair last pight; and wereA\u’terly unable to'assign‘a: éguse for the girl’s ac- left of her opn accord, as they say the relitions: them were of the pleasantest character. The theory of the police is that the girl has been enticed away from home. e WILL RETURN 10 THE B8STAGE. Mrs. Henry E. Abbey Readv to Win Fresh Laurels. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 24.—The Herald says this morning: Mrs. Henry E. Abbey, wife of the well-known theat- rical manager and impresario, will return to the stage next season. The announce- ment will no doubt be a surprise to some of Mrs. Abbey’s most intimate friends, but it is said on good authority that she has positively decided to take this step. Her plans are not fully matured, but they are well under way, and will probably be made public in a short time. As Miss Florenee Gerard, Mrs. Abbey is well known on the stage, from which she retired a few years ago. She is a native of Cambridge, Mass., but her early profes- sional experience was obtained in Eng- land, where she made her debut at Plymouth in 1877. She made a hit in 1830 as Fanny Tarbox in Boucicault’s “Bridal Tour.”” and the following year she played leading roles with Edwin Booth. Miss Gerard’s American debut was made at the Fiith-avenue Theater in this city on October 8, 1883, when she appeared as Clara Douglass in “‘Money,” and later on she played Blanche in “The Duke's Motto.”” She returned to London and played leadinF roles with Mme. Modjeska under Abbey’s management during the season of 1835-86, and was engaged to sup- ort Mme. Modjeska in this country the folxowing year, but soon after herarrival she married Mr. Abbey in Boston and re- tired from the stage. ARy Death of Publisher Munros. 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