The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 14, 1896, Page 2

| to be taken | the Library This Paper nox ‘0060 } from Call VOLUME LXXIX —NO. 166. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 14, 1896. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PLATT ON McKINLEY' S FINANCIAL POLICY. The New York Politician| Answers the Ohioan's | Managers. SEES DANGER TO THE | PARTY. i Says the Attitude of the Nominee 1 Should Be Known in | Advance. sented the platform of last year, which contzined declarations on a large number of subjects. F.F. Mace of Polk County offered as a substitute a platform of one plank, making prohibition the only issue. This caused the contest, but the com- mittee was overwhelmingly sustained. The platform as adopted declares against the liguor traffic and for prohibition; for woman suffrage; free coinage of both gold and silver at 16 to 1; for the initiative and referendum; for revision of the State revenue laws. The State ticket was nominated at the evening session as follows: Secretary of State, William G. Wright of Storey County; Auditor of State, J. W. Wonders | of Webster County; Treasurer of State, E. | J. Bye of Cedar County; Supreme Judge, NEED OF CAREFUL JUDGMENT | AT ST. LOUIS. Samue! Holmes of Fremont County; Rail- | road Commissioner, William 8. Pile of Lyon County; Attorney-General, F. M. Ford of Woodbury County. okl oG h) MORTON'S ATTITUDE. Has Now Its Grandest With Victory in Sight, Republicanism Opportunity. | NEW YORK, Y., May 13.—Ex-Sena- | tor Thomas C. Platt gave out a statement to-night in which he says: “The McKinley managers have under- taken to break the force of my cha that his financial record shows that he is an unsafe leader for the Republican party at this time by publishing extracts from his | recent speeches. These extracts consist of a lot of general phrases about the neces- sity of having a currency ‘as good as the besi,’ of our ‘keeping all our dollars equal in value,’ and t sort of a thing. But the McKinley managers are away from the point. “The point is not that McKinley has made no remarks and cast no votes that tend to the maintenance of good money but that he has made all sorts of remark: and cast all sorts of votes, and, in a word, that he has acted in every sitnation not from settled principles and convictions, | but in accord e with what he cons | ered at the time to be popular. * * * *‘It is believed on all sides that the man who is placed iA nomination at St. Louis | vill be the next ident of the Vnited, States. The Republican delegates there- | fore have an incomparable opportunity. It is their supreme duty to nominate a man whose developed character and | achieved record indicate that with his| leadership Republican policies will secure the longest application. They should tind | their candidate who will take oftice with the confidence of the country and not with its apprehension and distrust; who is known to be a free agent and not mort- | gaged up to his eyes with pledges that can | never be performed and expectations that can never be satisfied; who is safe and not erratic, conservative and not impulsive, y firm and not impressionable. “If these general principles are agreed to they render the selection of Major Mc- Kinley impossible, and 1 repeat that my opposition to him proceeds from the fact that I foresee the gravest dangers to the party when he has been | dand we have led down to the | estoring to this country the pros- perity of which it has been robbed by the | Democratic sectionalists and free traders.” M tt then adds that it is high time { e business men of the country to p to what is going on in the effort the nom tion of McKinley | zh the Republican convention with a nd hurrah, and says that the| highest intelligence, the soundest business | judgment, the widest experience of pub- lic affairs and the firmest resolution that the Republican party can command are not too great an equipment for the leader | on whose shoulders will rest the chief re- | sponsibility for the settlement under the | next administration of the currency ques- tion. In conclusion he says: | “The Republican party isnot in favor, as | Mr. McKinley s he is, jof the double standard; it does not want, as he says he does, to give ‘equal credit and honor with gold.” Itis without disguise a gold-stand- ard party. “f submit to the business men of this country, whose sentiments can always control a nominating convention, that they would better do something between now and the 16th of June on other subjects than the siliy twaddle of newspapers about ‘bosses and boss rule.’” —_——- WILL WORK WITH TELLER. National Republican Delegates of Colo- rado’s First District. DENVER, Coro., May 13. —A. M, Stevenson and John F. Vivian were unani- mously selected as delegates to the St. Louis convention by the delegates of the First Congressional District, which met here to-day. James Cowie and C. B. Timberlake were named as aiternates. The proceedings were routine, no contests being presented from Arapahoe County and no resolutions were adopted. Both delegates pledged themselves to work harmoniously with Senator Teller, but Stevenson announced that he would oppose any movement seeking to censure Senator Wolcott for his opinions. Eerl B. Coe declined to go as alternate, because he believed the National Convention had al- ready been pledged for the gold standard. RESET TIoZ IOWA PROHIBITIONISTS. Nominate National Convention Delegates and a Full State Ticket. | you kindl; DES MOINES, Jows, May 13.—Jowa Probibitionists held their State Conven- ticn here to-day with 300 delegates attend- ing, making the largest convention they have held in years. J. A. Hervey of Cor- rey was temporary chairman. The per- menent officers were: Chairman, W. K. Brown of Storey County; secretary, J. G. Van Ness of Linn; assistant secretary, Genevieve Fleming of Page. Thae convention nominated delegates to the National Convention in Pittsburg,a State ticket and named a new Central Committee. The delegates at large are as follows: B.F. Wrightof Floyd, J. A. Hervey of Correy, Levi Marshall of Jeffer- son, J. G. Woodward of Woodbury, Mrs. L. A. Bennett of Marshall, Mrs. A. E, Mec- Murray of Polk, T. G. Orwig of Polk, A. G. Orwig of Polk, A. C. Bondurant of Polk, Robert M. Adams of Powsheik and H. D. Smith of Jones. There was a long contest over the plat- form. The resolutions committee pre- Stands on the Financial Plank of the New York Platform. ALBANY, N. Y., May 13.—The follow- ing telegrams are self-explanatory: NEW YORK Levi P. Morton, Governor, Albany, state for publication your views on ihe money question—whether you favor the continued use of silver and, if so, at what ratio and under what conditions? Please telegraph your answer. R. C. ALEXANDER, Editor Mail and Express. ALBANY, Y., May 1. R. C. Alexander, editor Mail and Express, New York City: Re- sponding to your telegraphic inquiry of this N. | date, I have only to say: Our last Republican State Convention declared the position of New York State Republicans, including myself, on the money question. Istand on the New York platform. LEvI P. MORTON. S TR ey WYOMING REPUBLICANS. Likely to Be Conservative on the Finan- cial Question. CHEYENNE, Wyo., May 13.—The Re- publican State Convention of Wyoming, which will be held to-morrow, will elect a MoKirley delegation to St. Louis, 95 out | of the 102 delegates composing the con- | vention having been instructed for the Ohio man. Very conservative action upon the finan- cial question will be taken by the conven- tion, which will probably be content with instructing its St. Lonis gelegates to work for the recognition of silver in the Na- tional platform. The convention will select Willis Vandevanter of this city as | National Committeeman for Wyoming to succeed ex-Senator Care; ST, LOUIS STORM-SWEPT * Many Lives Are Lost and Incal- culable Damage Is Done to Property. Sixteen Freightcars Blown From a Track and Demolished at Madison. ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 13.—A severe storm unannounced by the Weather Bu- reau or weather indications fell upon the city this evening. From an almost clear sky at 6 o'clock rain fell in torrents and was carried in waves through theair by a forty-mile wind. The damage to life and property was very great. Frederick Vetz, a steamboat carpenter, was blown off a barge into the river and drowned. Agnes Bolin, aged 3, was blown over a back porch at 614 O'Fallon street and killed. William Cedarstrom, boatkeeper for the Scandinavian Yacht Club, who was on the river in a rowboat, was drowned by the swamping of his boat. Louis Traffinger, his wife and child were buried under the debris of their house and badly injured. The steeple of a church at Fifteenth and Walnut streets fell to the sidewalk, but no one was injured. Three horses and two mules were killed by the falling of the | smokestack of the Anthony & Kuhn Brewery. The smokestack of the Liberty Brewery fell, but injured no one. Incalculable loss was done to shsde trees, shrubbery and light structures. At Madison, near East Bt. Louia, six- teen freightcars were blown from the track of the Chicago and Alton Railroad and demolished. At Venice three houses were blown down 2nd the sudden rush of water washed out three culverts. Dr. Hastings of Venice, with his horse and buggy, was blown into the backwater of the river. ‘Wires are down and reports of the disaster come slowly. e ALMOST ANNIHILATED. Work of the Cyclone at Panama, a Ne- braska Village. OMAHA, NeBr, May 13.—Adaitional reports from last evening's cyclone in Douglas County show that Panama, a vil- lage several miles northwest of this city, suffered the most, being nearly entirely wiped off the earth. Not a storebuilding remains. Livery barns, hardware, implement and general merchandise stores were smashed like eggshells, and hardly a vestige of them is to be seen. One man, whose name cannot now be learned, was caught ander the timbers of a falling building and fatally injured. No other fatalities have so far been reported. During the storm in this city a runaway occurred which cost Peter Lowdall, a driver. his life. He was thrown from a w;dgou and the wheels passed over his body. P A COMMERCIAL SQUABBLE: The Russian and British Dispute Over the Occupation of the Foreshore of Chefoo, China. / W ASHINGTON, D. C., May 13.—In con. nection with the international complica- tions arising from the Russian and British contest over the occupation of the fore- shore of Chefoo, China, as a steamship landing, it is interesting to note that our sole consular representative at this port is a consular agent, Arthur K. Donnelly, who is a British subject, and simply holds -his office by uppointment from our Consul at Tientsin, for the sake of the fees he makes of it, which amounts to only a few hundred dollars a year. Donnelly is, of mgru, engaged in other business, hefoo is a treaty port, open to foreign ] stitutional way . commerce, but is not one of the iive treaty ports specitically opened to the United Stctes by the treaty of 1858, Nevertheless there seems to be many American interests represented there and *J. Smith, agent,”’ who is said to have secured the coveted landing-place, 1s ac- credited with representing the Standard 0il Company and various other American interests, There is nothing on file at the State De- partment to indicate that he has been, as asserted from Shanghai, a representative of American missions. Nothing was heard from him in this regard when Che- foo was menaced by the Japanese during the late war. The State Department will call the at- tention of Sheridan P. Reid, our Consul at Tientsin, to the matter; but it is scarcely anticipated that any international com- plications can arise out of it as affecting the United States. It isregarded as simply a commercial squabble between England and Russia, with Russia at present on top. oo Destroyed by an Earthquake. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 13.—The Her- ald’s special cable from Panama says: Mail advices received here from Guaya- quil, Ecuador, are to the effect that great damage was done in Quito and the in- terior towns of the republic by the recent earthquakes which destroyed the city of Puerto Viejo. Babahoyo and Ambato were great suf- ferers by the seismic disturbances, and the loss of life was very great. The Guayaquil corresponaent cables that the port of Bahia was visited Tuesday by a hurricane of signal violence, accom- panied by subterranean thunder. All along the coast of the province of Manaib chasms of enormous extent have opened in the earth. NOT WITHIN THE CODE. Judge Harrison Decides as to Property Assess- ments. Effort to Collect Just Taxes Frow the Market-Street Company Is a ; Failure, SACRAMENTO, CaL., May 13.—The ap- plication for a writ of mandate made by A. Clunie against Assessor Siebe of San Francisco to compel a reassessment of the Market-street Railroad property in San Francisco was denied by the Supreme Court to-day on the ground that the ap- plication was not made in a proper man- ner. This property is bonded in the sam of $17,500,000 and was assessed at a little over $3,000,000, and the writ of mandate was applied for to compel an assessment to the full valuation. The opinion, which was written by Judge Harrison, is lengthy, covering four pages of type-written matter, but a synopsis of the opinion s to the effect that the application fails to come within the provisions of the section of the Political Code it is made under, This particular section of the code makes provision for the assessment of property which has escaped taxation, and fails to apply to the Market-street Railroad prop- erty, inasmuch as said property has been assessed for a certain sum. The court furthermore holds that it is in no sense a board of equalization, and consequently holds no jurisdiction in this matter. METHODISTS ON BAPTISM A Spirited Controversy Over the Subject in the General Conference. Three Bishops of the Church to Be Retired by Reason of Ad. vanced Age. CLEVELAND, Osro, May 13.—In the Metnodist General Conference to-day sev- eral chanees in discipline recommended by the Bishops were reported by the com- mittee on revisals. A warm fightoccurred over the adoption of a section relating to in- fant baptism. Dr. Buckley said that he was satisfied that there were in the Bap- tist church over half a million members who would now be in the Methodist church if given the right to choose as to the way to be baptized. He moved that that part of the discipline be stricken out, o that adults baptized in infancy might be al- lowed to be baptized again in any way they might elect. Dr. Leonard opposed the motion, and said the motion would discredit infant baptism, and be a step backward from the great Methodist church. Rev. W. 8. Matthews (Southern Califor- nia) said he did not believe in discrediting infant baptism, but did believe that adults baptized in infancy should be given the same right as unbaptized converts have. The section was recommitted, with Dr, Buckley’s amendment, to the committee on revisals. The committee on episcopacy did not re- port 1n accoraance with the instructions it had received. Dr. Buckley stated that the committee had as yet been unable to agree upon the number of Bishops it would re- commend to be created, but that it would be readay to report to the conference the first thing to-morrow morning, after the reading of the journal. The time for the gommitua to report was extended to that our. Though the committee was unable to re- port, this much is known of the nature of the deliberations at the meeting. The members agreed to recommend the retire- ment of Bishop Thomas Bowman, Bishop R. 8. Foster and Missionary Bishop Wil- liam Taylor of Africa, on account of their inability to perform the arduous duties of their positions by reason of advanced age. This action will necessitate the election of two regular bishops and one missionary bishop. A vroposition to change the date of meeting of the General Conference from the 1st of May to the first Wednesday in May created a sharp breeze. The resolution providea for the ecalling of exira sessions of the conference upon the call of a sufficient number, and had been passed ugon by the annual confer- ences, which had adopted it by the neces- sary three-fourths vote. Dr. Leonard objected to treating the matter as a constitutional question, claim- ing that the conference has the power to fix its own time of meeting. Sargent of Indiana, Nufy and Swindell of Philadelphia and several others took the opposite ground, and on being put to a vote the chm%u were carried in the con- y & vote of 697 to 19, I DEATH IN THE SOULSBY MINE, Workmen Overcome by the Gas Arising From a ‘Blast. ONE DEAD WHEN FOUND. Others Taken Out Unconscicus and Their Chances for Life Are Slight. HEROIC WORK OF RESCUERS. Repeatedly Prostrated by the Fumes, Only to Continue at Their Labors. STOCKTON, CaL., May 13.—An accident shortly after noon to-day in the Soulsby mine at Soulsbyville, about eight miles from Sonora, caused the death of John Mitchell and a number of other miners were nearly suffocated. The mine is under the charge of Super- intendent Lundberz, and he had three men—John Mitchell, D. Sullivan and Albert Siutten—at work on the 130-foot level. They were working in the drift, and below them at the bottom of the shaft were Clarence Fane and Richard Martin. Just after 12 o’clock the men in the drift put in a blast, which they fired; but after leaving the place when the fuse was lighted they went back again before the gas caused by the explosion was out of the drift. When they entered the gas-filled drift they were overcome by the noxious vapors, and began calling for help. Those below heard them, and sent up the bucket from the bottom of the shaft. It was sent first to Mitchell, but he was not able to get into it, and fell back exhausted. Richard Martin, who had been at the bottom of the shaft, then went to their assistance, and found that Sullivan was supporting Slutten in his arms. They were unable to help themselves, as the fumes from the gas had them completely under its influence. As soon as Martin stepped into the en- trance oi the drift he too was overcome, and sank exhausted to the bottom of the tunnel or drift. Fane did not hear his comrade, who had been working with him in the bottom of the sbaft, coming back, s» he too went up to see what was the matter. When he neared the entrance of the drift he soon discovered that something was wrong, and went on up to the surface in search of help. He wentdown again with Charles Harry, but when he reached the opening of the tunnel, where the other men lay un- conscious, he fell out of the bucket and landed on timbers thirty feet below. He was badly bruised but not dangerously hurt. After this Harry, in company with Charles Roth and William Pierce, went down four times before they could rescue the men who were in the gas-fillea drift. The fumes were so dense that they could not enter, and they had to go to the sur- face repeatedly for air. They finally suc- ceeded in bringing Sullivan, Slutten and Fane to the top, and then went back for Mitchell, who had suffered the worse from the gases. When they got him to the sur- face he was dead. The others were in such a condition that grave fearsare entertained for their recovery. Thuere were twelve men in the mine just before the accident occurred, and Charles Saunders and William Bradigan had just left the drift a short time before the three men had touched off the fuse. There is great mourning in Soulsbyville to-night, and the men who are suffering from the results of their stay in the tunnel are being given every possible aid. No blame is attached to any one. T0 M THE INSURGETS Departure of an Armed Schooner for the Scene of the Conflict. She Carries Eighty Men and a Good Supply of Arms and Am. munition. JACKSONVILLE, FrA.,, May 13.—The schooner Gladiator left Fort Meyers, Fla., last night with arms end ammunition for the Cuban insurgents. She also carried forty men and will pick up more at Key Largo. Amongthe Americans on board were J. D. Rose, newspaper correspondent; W. R. Washburn, inventor of rapid fire guns and L. C. Stewart, a skilled engineer. A. H. Harris, an expert st gunpowder making, was also on board. Aifonso Gon- zales, a Cuban, commanded the expedi- tion. —_—— AN ELECTION RUSE. Alleged Scheme of Cleveland to Turn the Cuban Trouble to Account. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 13.—A Re- corder special from Washington says: From a Democrat possessing every op- portunity for obtaining accurate informa- tion comes an intimation that President Cleveland is contemplating a stroke in Cuban affairs that will create a tremenaous stir on the very eve of the campaign for the Presidency, end will inject an element of uncertainty into the situation that has not hitherto been looked for. According to this authority, the sending of Fitzhugh Lee to Havana is a political event pregnant with sensational possibili- ties. General Lee goes to Cuba next week, and it is understood that he will bear instructions from the President that will lead to a report on the situation in the island demanding immediate action by the executive. The programme, it is said, is for Lee to have this report ready just after the convention at St. Louis and just in time for effect upon the convention at Chicago. In the few weeks elapsing between General Lee’s departure and the time fixed for his report there will be hardly an opportunity for him to make as complete and conscientious an examination of | affairs in the island as might well be de- manded of one intrusted with so gravea mission. He has no acquaintance with | the Spanish language, is entirely un-| familiar with the topography of the island, and will have no opoortunity to leave Havana for the purpose of personal inves- tigation. Consequently anytning he may have to report must be wholly in line with specific instructions handea to him before | his departure. ; | Some of General Lee’s friends predict | that the Confecerate veteran will secure | from his Cuban mission & renown almost | equal to that derived by him through the fortunes of war. Lee's reputation is to be | utilized to gain National credence for the | Teport he is directed to make and upon | which President Cleveland expects to act. | In corroboration of this it is pointed out | that Consul-General Williams has as. | sumed entire charge of the Competitor affair, and that although Lee is ready to leave for his post Williams has been spe- ciaily requested to remain in Havana to look after the interests of the United | States. It is also given out that Williams will remain in Cuba after the arrival of General Lee, and that he will keep an eye out on the legal affairs of the consn]ate! while Lee devotes himself especially to an | investigation of the contentions of the in- surrection. | e — Will Be Given a “Snap” Trial. LONDON, Ex6., May 13.—The Standard | to-morrow will publish adispatch from its Havana correspondent saying that the | Juwessrer oF San Luis onises. RurNeTT (oRNELL WARE S FLOQUENL ¢ Swam AASATHING NR (wa Tosay = 4 FREE SILVER, EQUAL two prisoners last arrested, in connection with the Competitor filibustering expedi- tion, will be tried by an ordinary naval court-martial, with a view to their speedy conviction. B CIVIL TRIALS DEMANDED. Consul-General Wiiliams Presents the Claims of Filibusters. HAVANA, Cusa, May 13.—Captain. General Weyler has extended temporarily the operation of the last edict issued by him, granting pardons to insurgents who shall surrender to the authorities within a specified time, so that it now appiies to the provinces of Havana an< Matanzas, as well as to the Pinar del Rio province. United States Consul-General Williams has presented to the authorities the claims of two of the prisoners alleged to have been members of the last filibustering ex- pedition and requested that. the men be granted. a civil trial on the ground that at the time of their capture they were not bearing arms. He has also made a similar request on alf of the Frenchman who recently arrived here on an Americau ship. e SUICIDE OF MERCHANT. The Head of a New York Tobacco Firm Ends His Life. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 13.—Edward Friend of the firm of E. & C. Friend & Co., dealgss in tobacco, committed suicide last night or this morning in Leggett's Hotel, on Park row, by shooting himself in the head. He reached the hotel at3o’clock last evening, and, aiter registering as Lewis of Philadelphia, was room on the second floor. s ortly before | noon to-day a chambermaid, Iailing to get | into the room, reported the faét to the | clerk, and when the door was burst in Mr. Friend was found lying on the floor with two bullet holes in his right temple and apparently been dead for some hours. No- body in the hotel heard the shots fired. The reason for Mr. Friend taking his life could not be learned to-night. JA Jouns “FaR PLAY CN.HARRIS CHAIRMAN S.F. PELEGATION DENNISON OF ALAMEPA N A CLASS €aL D ANDANEW SPRNG Su T ssigned, to | af ST wanrs SUFFRAGE, NO FUSION, California Populists End Their Deliberations at | Sacramento. CATOR NOMINATED FOR SENATOR. Gilbert of Fresno Will Make the Race for Lieutenant- Governor. HUNTINGTON'S FUNDING BILL OPPOSED. | Appointment of a Tariff Commission Favored—The 01d Parties Denounced. | | SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, May 13, 1896. | United States Senator — Thomas V. | Cator. * Lieutenant-Governor—James | bert of Fresno. Presidential Electors: At large—J. V. | Webster of San Luis Obispo, Daniel | McKay of Sacramento. L. Gll= Presidential Electors—First District, | S. M. Buck of Humboldt; Second Dis- | trict, C. W. Thresher of Butte; Third | District, Samuel Stewart of Solano; Fourth District, Carleton H. Johnson of San Francisco; Fifth District, Judge A. W. Thompson of San Francisco; Sixth District, H. C. Dillon of Los Angeles; | Seventh District, D. T. Fowler of Fresno. | Congressmen—First District, George | W. Monteith of Marin; Second District, C. F. McGlashan of Nevada; Third Dis- trict, deferred; Fourth District, de- | ferred; Fifth District, deferred; Sixth | District, no nomination; Seventh Dis- | trict, Dr. C. H. Castle of Merced. | Delegates at large—Alfred Daggett of Tulare, E. M. Wardall of Los Angeles, M. E. Ditmar of Shasta and John S. Dora of Fresno. | District delegates to the National | Convention, First District — Frank Houghton, J, M. C. Murphy, L. Leigh- ton. J. W. Keegan and G. G. L. Brown. | Second District — F. S. Gladding of | Plumas, Thomas G. Reese of Butte, J. | H. McKune and John A. Simons of | Sacramento and J. €. Waybright of El | Iporado. Third District—S. Stewart of Solano, | W. A. Vann of Colusa, John Garner of | Lake, N. U. Brown of Alameda and Ed- ward Maguire of Alameda. Fourth District—John C. Gore, Barney, ©. N. Harris, W. E. and James Asbury Johnson. Fifth District—Dr. Y. W. Daywalt of E. S, Walker ~ GILSTRAP 0f TularE QUIETLY GivES Some ADINTS EBATE SOME OF THE BRAINY MEN WHO ENRICHED THE POPULIST CONVENTION DEBATES AT SACRAMENTO. [Character sketches mads-yesterday by a “ Call ”* staff artist.]