The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 15, 1896, Page 2

CISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1896 fact three brooms (whiskbrooms were the only ones that could be found) were fast- ened in a triangie at the truck of the fignt- ing mast, while on the bow was tastened a live rooster, and on each of the turrets was painted “17.08" in big black leiters. The following is an official account of the trip furnished by one of the officers. Thetime given is chronometer, and four" hours slower than local: “Clear weather, moderate swell and light westerly breeze. Passed Montecito range 3:43:10; Santa Barbara light, 3:57:15; Gedney, 4:14:53; Pelican Point, 4:18:44; Point Conception, 6:04:04; average speed, 17.08 per hour, “‘Returning, Point Concepcion, 6:19:35; Pelican Point, 8:08:39; Gedney, 8:12:40; average speed, 16.495 p r hour; average of both runs, 16.787 knots per hour; maxi- mum run for six miles, 17.34 knots an hour. “We met with a heavy swell off Point Concepcion; wind also increased and hauled to nortkwest; shipped several seas; engines and boilers periormed very satis- factorily. Boilers made all steam engines could use. We made the turn at Point Concepcion and ran the return course without slowing.” The time made by the Oregon is a record at which the bwlders of the world can shoot. On her trial the Indiana made 15.61 knots, which was not a great deal overthe Government requirements. The Massachusetts made 16.15- knots and earned a good premium for her builders. Now comes the Oregon, however, with her 163{ knots and over and earns a8 premium of $175,000 for her builde:s. Out of this sum each fireman gets $ for each quarter of a knot over thespeed, and the engineers in proportion. As there was 160 men in the engineers’ department the amonnt paid to them as a bonus will not be incon- siderable. Av idea as to what the men in the en- gine-room had to stand can be gattered from the fact that the heat from the fur- nuces melted the pitch in the decks and water had to be constantly poured on them to keep things cool. She carried 160 pounds of steam throughout and the revolutions were from 128 to 130 a minute, or less than the Government allowance. After the trial Admiral Beardslee de- termiued to test the steering apparatus of the ship. It was then that the only seri- ous incident of t! e day occurred, and it came very near to being a disaster. The big battle-ship and the Pacific Mail Com- pany’s steamer City of Sydney were within a hundred yards of each other and bad not the mail ship promptly answered her helm there would have been a collision. 1t happened this way: The City of Sydney was on her way to San Francisco from Panama and on en- tering Santa Barbara Channel her captain saw the Oregon in the distance with all her flags flying and the brooms at her masthead. He at once dressed ship and steered a course that would take him near the battle-ship. To understand what fol- lows it must be remembered that the Ore- gon has two sets of steering gears. One is worked by steam and is on the upperdeck. Should all the upper works be shot away, however, during a fight then the hand gear which is in the hull of the vessel could be used and the Oregon could still fight on. It was the latter gear that was being used and the orders to the helmsman bad to be carried by word of mouth. Be- fore the order counld reach the steering- room the battle-ship was aimost on the mail steamer and it was only by sending her full speed astern and the prompt ac- tion of the captain of the City of Sydney in sheering off that an accident was averted. Everything on the Oregon was given a thorough test and then she was headed for Santa Barbara. She lay here half an hour and then sailed for San Francisco. On the run up she will be tested in all kinds of ways, such as stopping and going sstern when at full speed, seeing how quickly she will answer her helm and other things Captain W. H. Patterson, the well- known Columbia River pilot, was one of the guests on the Oregon. It was he who took the Baltimore, Charleston and Mon- terey up the river to Portland, and in recognition of that fact the citizens pre- sented bim with a magnificent chronome- ter watch, which he now wears. The people of Oregon sre to present the battle- ship with a $20.000 silver dinner service, and Captain Patterson made the trip in the cruiser in order to learn her ways so as to be able to handle her should she be sentup the Columbia to receive Oregon’s magniticent gif: FIGHTING THE INDICTHMENT. Charles Becker and James Cregan, the Bank Swindlers, Will Resist Requisition. NEWARK, N. J.,, Mey 14.—Charles Becker and James Cregan, the noted check raisers and bank swindlers who were ar- rested in Newark on an irdictment against them in San Francisco, will make every effort to secure their release before the California officers who have already started for New Jersey reach Newark. Becker’s wife, who lives in Brooklya, vis- ited him to-day and promised him that she would attempt to raite money among their friends to defend and possibly se. curs the release of Becker and Cregan, To Police Captain Deily she said she knew nothing of the crime for which her hus- band is under arrest and declared that he was not in the West last December, when it is said he and three others swindled the Nevada Bank of San Francisco out of $20,- 000. Sheriff Lehlback to-day issued a writ of attachment on application of Austin Van Gieson, the local representative of the American Bankers' Association, against the jewelry, money and clothing taken from Becker and Cregan when they were arrested and found in the latter's room in the Park House. —_— WILL NOT BE DISMISSED, It Is Said That Captain Healy Is to Be Suspended. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 14.—A Times special from Washir.gton says: Secretary Carlisle has before him the case of Captain M. J. Healy of the revenue marine service, recently tried for alleged offenses of g se- rious nature, It is not known what dispo- gition will be made of the case, but it ap- pears to be settled that Healy will not be dismissed from the service. It is believed among tne.department officials that he will be suspended, perhaps past the date of his retirement, if Congress shall author- ize the general Jaw for the retirement of revenue marine officers for age and ser- vice. RETIREMENT OF ~ AGED BISHOPS, An Impressive Scene at the General Conference of Methodists. NON-EFFECTIVE WORK. One of the Aged Leaders Asks Pathetically to Be Relieved From Duty. ERASING THE COLOR LINE. One of the New Bishops to Be Eiected Will Be of African Descent. CLEVELAND, Onio, May 14.—The Gen- eral Conference of the Methodist church met at 8 o'clock this morning, Bishop Mallalieu in the chair. The reports of the committee on the episcopacy were pre- sented by Rev, Dr. Buckley. Report No. 1 recommenaed the retirement of Senior Bishop Thomas W. Bowman and Bishop Randolph 8. Foster on account of non- effectiveness. A most impressive scene followed the reading of the report.. Bishop Foster arose, and amid almost breathless silence said be wished to relieve the conference from any delicacy in acting as their judg- ment dictated. He asked permission to retire. Bishop Bowman also asked to be retired, “as I have just learned,” he said, “I am non-effective. Rev. George H. Bridgeman offered a substitute which proviced that Bishop Bowman and Bishop Foster be not re- tired, and that the board of Bishops be asked to give them light work. Dr. Bridge- man said the report of the committee was kind. Dr. Sawyer said he hoped the substitute would be adopted. Rey. Chaffee said that unless the confer- ence wants to be confronted with proposi- tions of this kind to the limit of the terms of Bishops it must pass something along this line. It was no place for sentiment. The discussion of the report was the fea- ture of the conference. All who partici- pated in it spoke earnestly. During the debate Bishop Mallalleu had much diffi- culty in keeping the delegates from ap- plauding. He said that the matter under discussion was delicate, and he hoped the conference would refrain from applauding, at least until this particular matter was disposed of. The substitute was tabled, and the report adopted retiring Bishops Bowman and Foster. Dr. Buckley read report 2 of the com- mittee on episcopacy. It said that in the selection of Bishops there should be no discrimination on account of race and that the time has now come to elect a Bishop of African descent. Rev. Dr. Brooks of Washington, a col- ored delegate, said: ““The desire for a col- ored Bishop comes from all the colored people of the church. What we wantis a black Bishop, not because he is black, but a black Bishop, nevertheless.” Rev, Dr. E. W, S. Hammond of Lexing- ton, one of the leading colored divines in the church, said: “I favor the selection of a Bishop of African descent because his work is needed among the blacks of the country.” Rev. Dr. Wilson of Baltimore offered the following as a substitute for the report: “That in the selection of Bishops the dele- gates should be untrammeled and, there- fore, the race or nationality of a Bishop is not a proper subject for legislation.” The previous question was ordered and the substitute tabled. The commitiee re- port was then passed. Dr. Buckley read report 3 on episcopacy, which declared that there siounld be three more Bishops selected. Rev. John D, Walsh-of Kentucky moved to amend the report by adding another Bishop, providing one of those selected is a colored man. Dr. Little moved as a substitute that the number of Bishops to be elected be two. Dr. Bristol of Chicago moved to amend by declaring that there should be no more Bishops clected. He said the Bishops had little work to do. It is to the ambition of men whe would be Bishops,”’ he said, *‘that this report is to be credited. They have already figured out when these noble men are to die and are now figuring on How they can get their places. I hope this conference will smother this ambition that we may have more money for necessary purposes.’”’ The previous question was ordered. Dr. Buckley was given the floor and said: ““Most of the Bishops are oid and are liable to die or become incompetent at any time. Therefore I hope you will add at least two Bishops to the board.” The report was amended by making the number of bishops to be glected two in- stead of three. The report was then adopted. The two new Bishops will be be elected at 9:40 o’clock to-morrow. Politics are rampant to-night among the conference delegates, Theelection of Bish- ops to-morrow will be a field day, Trades of all kinds are being proposed. As one brother stated in the laymen’s meeting: ‘A sharp, shrewd minister can give point- ers in political methods that any politi- cian would do well to heed.” And so it was to-day, and so it bas been for a week. VALUABLE DIAMONDS STOLEW, Robbers Loot a Safe in a New York Store and Secure Twenty Thousand Dollars’ Worth of Plunder. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 14.—Eugene Akers, who keeps a confectioner’s store at 173 Bixth avenue, reported to Captain O’Brien on Tuesday that some time during Monday night he was robbed of diamonds Healy’s case has excited a good deal of | valued at nearly $20,000. They were taken interest. not only on account of the prom- inence of the accused officer, but becsuse of the general complaints against him from officers who served under bis com- mand in the Pacitic. The charges were originally published some months’ ago in these dispatches, and allege intemperance, Eince his trial Captain Healy has been on waiting orders, e ey Two Firebugs Confess, BOBTON, Mass,, May 14. — William Daley, aged 20 years, and William T. Reed, aged 18 years, of Chicago, two dangerous firebugs, were arrested by State Fire Mar hal Whitcomb to-day. = They have confessed to setting about sixty fires thatdesiroyed property valued at $2,000,000. from a safe in his store, the combination of which was out of order. Besides the diamonds there was taken $350 in money and a check for $78 50. A young man named John R. Ridell, a former employe of Akers, has been arrested on suspicion, but none of the stolen gems were found in his possession, and none of the property so far has been recovered. FIELDING’S BNITURE Taken by the Saivation Army, to Whom It Belonged. CHICAGO, Irr., May 14.—A morning paper says: The furniture of Colonel Ed- ward Fielding’s house at 882 St, Louis venue was taken out rather hastily yes- terday afternoon at 5 o’clock by emissaries of the Salvation Army. Ex-Brigadier Fielding of the army was out of the city at the time this occurred. His wife and four children, three of them infants, were left on bare floors until the arrival of new househeld foodn. which Colonel Fielding had ordered previously. The furniture taken was the property of the Salvation Army, in which Colonel Fielding resigned his commission as briga- dier six weeks azo to join the volunteers. Colonel Fielding, it is said, had requested, even imporluuefi‘ his successor, Brigadier Brewer, to remove the property of the army, but the family was by no means sure when the vans would come to take it away. e GREAT MUSICAL FESTIVAL. Competition Will Be Had for the Rubin- stein Prize at Carnegie Hall. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 14.—For the first time in America it is propased to hold a musical festival in Carnegie Music Hall, Wednesday, May 20, at which a competi- tion will be had for the Rubinstein prize of $1000 for the best pianist, and the same for the best composer. Two competitions have taken place for this prize, one in St. Petersburg in 1890, and one in Berlin in 1895. The proposed American festival will be under the supervision of the Rus- sian Consul-General, Mr. Otarovsky. and under the immediate direction of Platon Brounoff, graduate of the St. Petersburg conservatory under Rubinstein. Among the artists who will take part in the festi- val are: Emma Juch, soprano; Miss Natalie Tanoth, court pianist to the Queen of England and Emperor of Ger- many; Signor Victor Clodio, tenor; and Emil Fiscker, basso. Mr, Brounoff will conduct an orchestra of seventy - five musicians. At the festival the composi- tions of Rubinstein will be played, the only exception being a symphony over- ture by Mr. Brounoff, written for the oc- casion. JACKSON FOUND GUILTY, Must Pay the Death Penalty for the Murder of Pearl Bryan. Without a Quiver the Young Student Receives the Verdict of the Jury. CINCINNATI, Onro, May 14.—“Guilty of murder and penalty death” are the ter- rible words ringing in Scott Jackson’s ears as he paces the floor of his dark and lonely cell to-night. It took the jurors just two hours and eleven minutes to reach a conclusion. It was 12:04 o’clock as they filed into the crowded courtroom at Newport, Ky., Fore- man Shea bearing the fatal slip upon which was written Scott Jackson’s doom. A deathlike silence prevailed as Clerk Reuscher received the verdict and read, in preasured, solemn tones: ‘‘We, the jury, find the defendant, Scott Jackson, guilty of the murder of Pearl Bryan and fix the punishment at death.” Despite the stringent instructions of the Judge to the contrary, there was a mur- mur of approval in the room and a few even applauded by clapping their hands, The prisoner sat motionless, his eyes fixed on a table before him. There was not the slightest visible trace of emotion 1n any feature as he walked from the courtroom back to his cell with a firm and even step. Neither Mrs. Bryan nor Mrs. Jackson was in the courtroom. When the court reconvened for the af- ternoon session Attorney Crawford moved an arrest of judgment on the ground that the indictment did not state whether Jack- son was guilty as principal or accessory. This the court overruled. Colonel Crawford then moved that a new trial be granted the prisoner. The motion sets up eight grounds of error in the proceeding. Judge Helm fixed Satur- day, May 23, to hear arguments on the motion. If a new trial is not granted the case will go to the Court of Appeas. The prisoner’'s mother is completely prostrated over the verdict, while the mur- dered girl's iamily express gratification over the result. Jackson shows signs of weakening to-night and says the verdict is a great disappointmenxt to him, - HE SAYS PRAYERS ARE USELESS. Colonel Ingersoll Also Thinks There Is No Necessity for the Word God in the Constitution. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 14.—Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll consented to talk last night concerning the assertion made by Dr. Quayle in the Methodist Conference at Cleveland that it was idiotic to pray for him, *I think Dr. Quay was right,” said he, “‘when he said that to pray for the conver- sion of Robert Ingersoll was idiotic. He seems to take the same view of prayer that Ido; and to be consistent he ought to stop praying. He ought to tell all his Method- ist brethren to stop advising and bothering God, and that over every Methodist pulpit should be painted in large letters: ‘To Pray for the Redemption of Anybody Is Idiotic,” Dr. Quayle seems to have the true spirit of his church.” ““What do you think of the Methodists’ plan for putiing God in the constitution?'’ “I think that if the fanatics get God in the constitution there will be no room .eit for man. Our fathers in 1787 retired all the Gods from politics and estabiished a secular government, 1n which the power to govern does not come from God but from the consent of the governed. Let us keep the aristocracy of the air from gov- erning the land in which we live.” A CONSCIENTIOUS VETERAN. Would Not Receive a Pension After His Ailment Ceased. WESTCHESTER, Pa., May 14.—Samuel Fetter, a miller in Chester Valley, has led the pension authorities at Washington to suspect that something is wrong with him mentally because of his refusing to accept a pension. Durine the war he was a brave soldier and contracted -a disease that left effects which seemed likely to shorten his days. He accordingly made application for a pension snd it was granted to him. This was years ago. Lately he has become much relieved of his ailment, and believing that he is com- pletely restored to health notified the au- thorities to discontinue his pension. No attention was paid to his request and this week another pay voucher came to him. According to his previous determination he returned this with a full statement of his not being entitled to receive pay. A member of the bureau visited him expect- ing to find a lunatic, but instead he found a clear-minded and conscientious veteran, and he returned to Washington with the romise to have Mr. Fetter's pay stopped. his has been done. Treasury Gold Reserve, WASHINGTON, D. C., May 14.—The treasury gold reserve to-day was $114,192,- 853; wilbarawals $425,200, . 10 RESTRICT IMMIGRATION. Arguments in the. Senate on the Illiteracy Test. IS OPPOSED BY GIBSON. Attributes the Instigation of the Bill to the American Pro- tective Association. NELSON DEFENDS THE MEASURE Denies That H:stility to the Catholic Church Had Anything to Do With It WASHINGTON, D. C., May 14.—The Senate bill to restrict immigration by the application of the illiteracy test was to-day the occasion of the delivery of two speeches, one acainst and one for the bill. Gibson of Maryland spoke in opposition and Nelson of Minnesota in advocacy. Gibson attributed the instigation of the bill to the American Protective Asso- ciation, which he characterized as a secret, oath-bound, red-lettered, left-banded, dark-lanterned organization. The real purpose of the bill was, he asserted, hos- tility to the Catholic church, Nelson defended the bill on account of the necessity of restricting immigration, and denied thatthe A.P. A. or hostility to the Catholic church had anything to do with it. No action was taken on the bill, it having been taken up for the sole pur- pose of having thess two speeches deliv- ered. The increase of bounties on sugar re- cently proposed in the German Reichstag was noticed in the Senate to-day by Caffery of Louisiana in some remarks on a bill providing for an increase of United States duties in that and similar cases. The bill was referred to the Committee on Finance. Caffery argued that its passage Wwas necessary in order to prevent the de- struction of the sugar industry in the United States. The discussion of the question of Du- pont’s title to a seat in the Senate from Delaware came up again to-day. When it was suspended two or three weeks ago it was with the understanding by unani- mous consent that it was to be taken up again after the paseage of the river and harbor bill, and that the final vote was to be taken at 5 o’clock of the second day. When Gorman of Maryland referred to- day to that unanimous consent of agree- ment Mitchell of Oregon, in charge of the resolution, admitted the correctness of the statement, but added suggestively that what the particular vote would be on would be determined then. Platt of Con- necticut made an argument in favor of Dupont’s right. When Platt suspended his speech until to-morrow the Vice-President announced the appointment of Senators Gray (D.) of Delaware and Seawell {R.) of New Jersey as members of the board of visitors to West Point Military Academy,and of Sena- tors Blackburn (D.) of Kentucky and Hale (R.) of Maine to Annapolis. Senate bill for monuments to the revo- lutionary generals, Francis Nash and Wil- liam Davisson of North Carolina—$5000 for each—was passed. The pension bills on the calendar were then taken up and passed very expedi- tiously to the number of sixty in half an hour. Among them were the following: House bill granting a pension of $50 a month to the widow of Brigadier-General John Hough; Senate bill granting a pen- sion of §75 a month to the widow of Rear- Admiral Walter W. Queen, and of $25 a month to the daughter of Maijor-General Philip Kearney. After a short executive session the Sen- at 5:55 adjourned until to-morrow. R e SESSION OF THE HOUSE. Fifty-Three Private Pension Billa Re- ported for Passage. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 14.—Under the special order adopted last week the House spent to-day’s session in committee of the whole considering private pension bills. Fifty-three were acted upon favor- ably and reported to the House for pas- sage, among the beneficiaries being the widows of Colonel Orlando M. Poe, Gen- eral John Newton, Brizadier-General Charies D. Jameson and Brigadier-General and ex-Senator George E. Spencer and Robert Slalls, the famous colored pilot and ex-Congressman. The contested election cases of Henry P. Cheatham (R.) against Fred A. Woodara (D.) from the Second District of North Carolina was disposed of by the adoption of a resolution reported from the Eiec- tions Committee No. 2 declaring Woodard entitled to the seat. The river and harbor bill was returned to the House from the Senate, the amend- ments made by that body disagreed to and a conference ordered. Later Hepburn (R.) of Iowa entered a‘motion to reconsider that and the matter went over until to- morrow. At 5:45 the House adjonrned, AR R MAY ADJOURN IN JUNE. Congress Will Not Tinker With Tariff Thia Sesaion.. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 14.—The Republicans of the Senate will hold a caucus to-morrow at 11 o’clock for the pur- pose of considering the question of ad- journmen.. The call was circulated by Chandler and was generally signed by those who are opposed to the repeal of the free-alcohol clanse of the tariff bill, which Sherman and several other Republicans are desirous to have repealed. It is said the caucus will endeavor to reach a con- clusion on the subject of adjournment and the bills shall be considered before that time arrives. The general impression prevails that final adjournment can be had in the first week of June without trouble or inconvenience. It is the intention to engage in some plain talk at this conference and then en- deavor to show the adavocates of the re- peal of the free-alcohol clause how impos- sible it is to take up this amendment to the tanff act without coupling it with other amendments along Republican lines. It is claimed that the silver Repub- licans will notdo anything to precipitate & financial discussion, and that if Sherman and those who are with him in this mat- ter will agree to let the repeal go by the board there will be no -mmin‘g-hlozk to an adjournment as soon as the river and harbor biil becomes a law. -HUNTINGTON is sNXIOUS. Xet Trying fo Have the Funding Bill Passed This Session. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 14.—THE CALL correspondent learned to-night that Mr. Huntington and his corps of lobbyists, fearful that the funding bill will not be taken up in the Heuse at this session,'are striving to have it called up in the Senate 80 that if it passen that body it will have to be considered in the House. Senator Davis of Minnesota is one of those who is actively at work trying to get the Senate steering committee to call the bill up. e e Sale of Reservations. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 14.—The Interior Department has accepted the sur- vey made by the appraisers of the aban- doned military reservation, embracing an island in the Missouri River lying east of Kansas City. It was found to contain 131 acres and was appraised at $130,144. In- structions have been sent to the Land Office officials at Booneville, Mo., for con- ducting the sale, which is set for August 1l next. The Council Grove, O. T., aban- doned miilitary reservation will be sold on the same date. It embraces 5760 acres and is appraised at $20,230, to be scld uuder the act of July 5, 1584, SRR To Sell the Desert Lands. WABHINGTON, D. C., May 14.—The Secretary of the Interior has instructed the Commissioner of the General Land Office to continue to sell the desert lands within the limits of railroad grants at $125 per acre. A decision of the United Btates Sunreme Conrt cast some doubt on the authority of the Secretary to fix that valuation and the Commissiover of the General Land Office requested directions. B Deering’s Faluable Gifts. CHICAGO, IiL , May 14.—Real estate and securities valued at $215,000 have been grcsented to the Northwestern Universit, y William Deerin of Evanston, the well- known manufacturer. This bequest raises the total of Mr. Deering’s gifts to the uni- versity to $500,000, IN FAVOR OF ARBITRATION President Cleveland So Expresses Himself to the Conference Committee. But Says It Can Only Be Accomplished Through an International Treaty. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 14.—At the recent National conference on interna- tional arbitration a committee was ap- pointed to present to the President a me- morial embodying the preamble and reso- lutions adopted by the conference. The members of the committee were: Hon. George F. Edmunds of Vermont, Hen, J. L. M. Curry, District of Columbia: J. B. Angell, president of the University of Michigan; Judge Hitchcock of 8t. Lounis and Gardiner G. Hubbard of the District of Columbia. The committee discharged its duty to- day, being received by President Cleve- land in his private-office. The interview was altogether pleasant and satisfactory. The President told the members of the committee that he was thoroughly and strongly committed to the doctrine of arbitration for the settlement of inter- national disputes, and had so expressed himself in his communications to Con- gress prior o the Venezuelan troubles. He said he bad read the resolutions now presented to him when they were adopted by the convention and highly approved their moderation ana wisdom. He had noted with pleasure and surprise the high character of the representatives from more than forty States who had assem bled here of their own accerd to give voice to their convictions on the subject, He promised to be ready officially to utilize all proper occasions for the accomplisnment of the purpose of the conference, which, he added, “will have to be done through an international treaty.” COLLAPSE OF A DERRICK Twelve Men Badly Injured While Working in the Drainage Canal. An Immense Wooden Structure Sud. deniy Blown Down by a Storm. CHICAGO, ILL., May 14.—A windstorm of unusual severity this afternoon caused the collapse of a ponderous derrick, used in laying stone walls on the drainage canal near Sag Bridge. Twelve men were hurt, one perhaps fatally. The injured: W. A. Connors, laborer, in- ternally injured; Timothy Crowe, laborer, leg and arm cut; Edmund Fitzmorris, stone mason, arm broken and shoulder bruised, taken to Mount Forest Hospital; Charles Jones, laborer, face bruised; Charles Jordan, carpenter, hip dis- located; H. J. Knetsch, engineer, legs cutand chest bruised ; E. M. Lentz, laborer, deep gash in head, side injured; John Murphy, stone mason, rib broken; Wil- liam Norton, inspector, face cut, mov lose right eye; Frank Rago, foreman, arm broken, legs cut and face bruised; Frank Reszch, laborer, face cut; Pat Roach, stone mason, ribs broken, hurt internally, may die. Superintendent Madden’s force of fifty men was engaged in laying the stone wall on the canal, when Assistant Superintend- ent of Derricks, A. Ward, saw a slight movement of the truck wheels which supvorted the movable structure. He shouted to his men at the top of his vaice, but the whistling wind drowned his cries and only a few heard the summons. The next moment the mammoth frame- work of wood and iron crashed to the bot- tom of thecanal, the frazments collecting ina solid mass. The arms of the derrick were 120 feet long and 60 feet high, and the men were disposed of along the wall to a height of thirty feet. Yet, when men and derrick crashed to the ground only twelve were injured, and only one is thought to be fatally hurt. Sms s A Lawunch of a Steel Steawser. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 14.—The Donato Guerra, a steel steamer lighthonse tender that is being built for the Mexican Government by the Neafis & Leuy Ship and Engine Building Company, was suc- cessfully launched at 2:38 o’clock this afternoon. The christening was performed by Miss Minnie B. Picart of Philadelphia. The Mexican Minister to the United States, Matias Romero, and Mrs. Romero and other Mexican officials were present. The Donato Guerra, which is named in honor of a t!mmlncnt general of the Mexican army, 1s 142 feet in length and 25 feet beam. The vessel wlil sbo bandscmely finished. \PPROPRIATIONS | FOR CALIORM Important Items in the Bill Passed by the Senate, .. FUNDS FOR IMPROVING. First Comes the Deep Sea Harbor at Santa Monica or San Pedro. THE WORK ON THE RIVERS. Ample Sums Allowed for Benefiting Navigation in Streams of the State. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 14.—The river and harbor bill, as it passea the Sen- ate yesterday, contains the following ap- propriations for Cahfornia: For a deep- water harbor at Port Los Angeles in Santa Monica Bay or at San Pedro, the location of the harbor to be determined by an offi- cer of the navy to be detailed by the Sec- retary of the Navy and an officer of the Coast and Geodetic Survey to be detailed by the superintendent of the survey and three experienced civil engineers skilled in riparian work, to be appointed by the President, who shall constitute a board, and who shall personally examine the har- bot, the decision of a majority of which shall be final as to the location of the har- bor. Itshall be the duty of the board to make plans, specifications and estimates for the improvements. Wheneyer the board shall have settled the location and made a report to the Sec- retary of War of the same with the plans, specifications and estimates, then the Sec- retary of War may make contracts for the compiction of the improvement of the harbor so selected by the board, according to the project reported by them, at a cost not exceeding in the aggregate $2,900,000, and $50,000 is appropriated, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be used for the expenses of the board and payment of the civil engineers for their services, the amount to be determined by the Secretary of War. For improving Wilmington (San Pedro inner harbor) $50.000, with a provision that the Secretary of War may make contracts for completing the entire work at a cost not to exceed in the aggregate $392,000. Continuing the improvement of Oakland harbor $75,000, and authorizing the Secre- tary of War to contract for the completion of the work at a cost not to exceed $666,000 (exclusive of the $75,000 herein appropri- ated). For the improvement of San Diego har- bor, $50,000; San Luis Obispo harbor, $40,000. For improving the Sacramento and Feather rivers and tributaries, the Secre- tary of War is authorized to appointa board of three army engineers for the pur- pdse of making surveys and examinations of the rivers and submit the most feasible plan for the improvement of the rivers and maintenance of navigaticn thereon, and to have charge of the work by them recommended as appropriations are made therefor. The board may, under direction of the Secretary of War, expend any bal- ance now remaining to the credit of the rivers in the improvement of the same, after deducting the expense of the surveys and examinations. For the construction of restraining bar- riers for the protection of the Sacramento and Feather rivers $250,000, such restrain- ing barriers to be constructed unger the direction of the Becretary of War in ac- cordance with the recommendations of the ‘alifornia Debris Commission pursuant to he provisions of and for the purpose set forth in section 25 of the act of the Con- gress of the United States entitled ‘“An act to create the California Debris Commission and regulate hydraulic mining in the State of California,” approved March 1, 1893. For improving the San Joaquin River and completing cuts at Twenty-one mile Slough $20,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and completing cut at Head Reach $37,750, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and the balance of $24,000 heretofore appropriated may be used in dredging Stockton and Mormon channels to the head of navigation in the city of Stockton. For improving Napa River and continu- ing improyement $4000. SAYS KRUGER WAS MISLED. Secretary Chamberlain Makes an Explana- tion of His Position in Trans- vaal Affairs. LONDON, Exc., May 14,—Mr. Chamber- lain, Becretary of State for the Colonies, has sent a dispatch to Sir Hercules Robin- son, Governor of Cape Colony and British High Commissioner in South Africa, with reference to the message recently received by Governor Robinson from Dr. Leyds, Becretary of State of the Transvaal, in which the letter noted the par- tiality shown by Great Britain toward the directors of the British South Africa Company and also with ref- erence to President Kruger's expressed wish that he had been personally present in the House of Commons to refute the statements of Mr. Chamberlain during the debate on the colonial estimates. In his dispatch Mr, Chamberlain says he is of the opinion that President Kruger has been misled by reading a summarized report of the debate. He deprecates the formation of prema- ture judgments based on such reports. He denies that Great Britain champious the directors and announces that an in- quiry will be made into the affairs of the company, until which time the Govern- ment cannot decide anything concerning the company’s future, Mr. Chamberlein adds that the Govern- ment does not see how the exercise of clemency in the case of the con- victed members of the reform com- mittee is or ought to be depen- dent upon the language of unspecified pecsons who are supposed to defend the Taid into the Transvaal. He expresses bis confidence t::at President Kruger will not take any such language into acconnt, and conc lades by expressing his sympathy for Mme. Kruger in her illness. —— Given a Coloneloy. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 14.—The Senate to-day confirmed_the promotion of Lieuten W. J. Lysler, T . first lnfi::tu. lt:n:.l colonel. 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