The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 18, 1896, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1896. o, At Simsonia two stores, two churches, a schoolhouse, several farmhouses and barns were destroyed, but no loss of life is reported there. Five coffins were sent to Elva and the Anderson family will be buried in one grave. i DESTRUCIT AT SENECA. Many Casualties in the City and Sur- rounding Country SENECA, Ka~s., May 17.—Five people were killed and several injured by a cyclone, which devastated tnis part of the country, at 6:40 o’clock thisevening. The dead are: Two children of M. R. Connell, two children of M. E. Voorhees and a son of Peter Assenmacher. 5 At Oneida, Kans., eight miles east, four people were killed, three of them in the amily of James Shearn. Part of the town of Baileyville was de- molished. At Seneca the cyclone was followed by a storm, hail as large as walnuts falling. About seventy houses were totally wrecked. The opera-house was s8wept away. A new $40,000 schoolhonse was wrecked and the courthouse completely demolished. There are few nouses in the city that are not more or less damaged. The entire north partof the city is covered with debris. The loss in this city will be about $200,000. The cvclone lasted about ten minutes. At Oneida the damage is heavy. Great destruction it reported in the country northwest of there. The news of the storm is being sent from a field south of this city, nearly all the wires being down. Sy e b SHERMAN'S LIST OF DE.D. One Hundred and Five Vi Iecent Cyclome. SHERMAN, TEx., May 17.—Six people injured in Fri cyclone died here to- da; Their numes are: — Jenkins, aged 16 (every other member of the same fam- ily killed outright); Nellie Slozan, aged 5; Charles Weddle, Mrs. Lyman and child and an unidentified woman. It was learned this afternoon that the Dooley family, consisting of fatber, mother and four children, living on Grays Hill, were blown away in the storm, and as none of them have been heard from, it is be- lieved all are dead. The spot where their house stood was swept bare. The deatn list now reaches 105. Montgomery, a furniture-dealer, whose family, consisting of a wiie and three chil- dren, perished, is now confined in jail, a raving meniac. The people of Sherman have buried their dead and are ta of the wounded, but fuliy 700 peop city and county are left destitute. News is received to-night that at Carpen- ter's Bluff live are dead and eight seriously injured. The relief committee left Deni- son at 9 o’clock this morning and has been laboring among the dead and dying ail day. The loss is so much greater than was anticipated that floats have been pressed into service to supply the stricken district with bandages, medicines and food. A s WIND-SWEPT. ims of the L. H. ILLINOIS Buildings Blown Down and Trees Up- rooted by a Gale, CHICAGO, Ir, May i7.—Dispatches received to-night from interior pointsin Iilinois report much damage done by a heavy wind and rain storm last night. At Galesburg the telegraph and telephone service was demoralized. At Peoria trees were blown down and great damage done to buildings under corstruction. An engine on the Burlington Railway ran into a cornerib which bhad been blown across the tracks at St. Augustine and was de- railed. The engineer was badly hurt. At Pekin lighining wrecked the new St. Paul’s Church, uprooted trees, blew down fences and unroofed houses. The country contiguous to Toulon was storm-swept and many farmhouses were wrecked. ON THE DIAMOND. CHICAGO, Iin, May 17.—The Balti- mores hammered Griffith’s curves as they pleased in io-day’s game, and gave the Colts their worst defeat of the season. Tke crowd was a record-breaker, and almost 196,000 persons saw the slaughter. Score: 010000000-1 4 6 102 :02510-13 16 3 and Kittridge; Hoffer and ‘mpire—Sheridan. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 17.—Fraser was an easy mark for Washington to-day. Mer- cer split a finger by catching Hassamer’s liner in the filth, and German took his place. After that Louisville only got one hit. Attendance 9000. Score: St. Louts 113000100-6 6 3 Washingt 21021881-13 17 5 Baveries—Frazer and Dexter; Mercer, German and McGuire. Umpire—Hurst. CINCINNATI, Onio, May 17.—After the visitors had scored nine runs in their half of the first inning, tke locals won in a walk. The features of the game were the batting of Burke, Miller and Hoyt, and the base running of Miller. 12,000. Score: Attendance -108343500%-16 18 3 901000000-10 17 6 Batieries—Fisher and Peltz: Harper, Payne, Grim and Burrell. Umpires—Keefe and Weid- man. —— HOMING-P1GEON RACES. Los Angeles Rirds in Training for the Coming Contests. LOS ANGELES, CaL., May 17.—Pigeon fanciers are looking forward with interest to the coming race between Los Angeles and San Francisco birds. The local pigeons of Girton, Crawford and Zahn have been put into training. The birds are lhiberated at different points on the road, =0 as to accustom them to the route and add to their muscular development. Last Wednesday they were liberated at 8 A. M. av Lang, torty-four miles from here by rail. They arrived in twos and threes until all were home. The first arrived af 9:35 A. M. Considering the high moun. tains crossed in the trip the time is con- sidered good. To-day the pigeons were liberated at Tehav_‘hngi (distant 120 miles by rail) at 8 A. M. by C. D. Chamberlain. The first bird arrived at 11:55 A. M. The California Homing Club, of which H. Whitman of Alameda is seeretary, has arranged to have races among its mem- bers while training their birds toward Los Angeles. They are as follows: May 17 from Salinas, May 31 from Paso Robles, June 14 from Santa Barbara and July 4 from Los Angeles. e SHUT OUT BY SANTA CRUZ. Exzaminers of San Francisco Prove Themselves Noviers at Baseball. SANTA CRUZ, Can, May 17.—The Banta Cruz_Electrics defeated the Exam- iner baseball team of San Francisco this afternoon at Vue de I'Eau Park, in this town, by a score of 47 to 0. They played seyen innings. Toe Examiner team had been adver- tised as great baliplayers, with a record of ceventeen games to their credit, but they proved themselves to be novices at the game. The Banta Cruz boys are amateurs, and their work so far this season has shown well. To-day’s victory would have been of greater encouragement had the Examiners showed any particular skill. st el iy Puget Sound Norsemen Celrbrats, SEATTLE, Wasn., May 17. — Puget Bound Norsemen held a grand celebration on Vashon Island to commemorate the signing of the constitution eighty-two ears ago to-day. which is re-arded as the {eginning of the modern life of the Nor- wegian people. The exercises were con- ducted under the auspices of nine Norse clubs of Seattle, and from 4000 to 5000 éwo- ple from Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, Sno- nomisi, Port Townsend and Victoria were present. THE AT NAL DEMGIRATIC CONVENTIO N. Ry LATE FLORAL QUEEN. GOSSIP FROM THE GERMAN CAPITAL, Unusual Interest in the American Presidential Campaign. FEARS FOR THE RESULT McKinley’s Success and the In- evitable Return to Protec- tion Is Dreaded. WHAT LEADING PAPERS SAY. Sequel fo the Crusade Against the Sccialists—Bismarck’s Continuous Stream of Visitors. BERLIN, Germaxy, May 17.—The ap- proaching Presidential campaign in the United States is creating unusual interest throughout Germany, particularly in the manufacturing centers, in consequence of the prospect that McKinley will be suc- cessful in securing the nomination in the Republican Convention, with more than e¥en chances of bis election. Mr. McKin- ley’s success in the election next fall is greatly dreaded here, as his election would be regarded as an inevitable return to ex- ireme protection in the United States. In an article on the subject the North German Gazette ascribes Mr. McKinley's renewed popularity in the States to the fact that the masses are realizing by ex- perience that the Democratic party during their present administration of the Gov- ernment have been unable to achieve the economic wonders which were so freely promised in the last Presidential cam- Dpaign. The Vossische Zeitung laments the deep wounds which McKinleyism has inflicted upoun trade and exchange, and expres-es fear that McKinley’s chances of success are only too brilliant. The Berlin Post discusses at length the possibilities of a reaction from the present drift of McKinleyism in the United States, especially if Mr. Cleveland should allow himself to be persnaded to accept the Democratic nomination for a third term, The Altdeutsche Blatter, a journal most advanced in colonial jingoism, waxes wroth in behalf of the German planter, Bulow, and against the action of the American Chief Justice of S8amoa, H. C, Ide, in refusing to deal with certain com- plaints made by Bulow against native Samoans because the charges were lodged in the German language, which Judge Ide does not understand. Pursuing the sub- ject, the paper remarks that the Germans in S8amoa pay more than two-thirds of Judge Ide’s salary, and demands that the German Government intervene to the end of securing fair treatment for Germans coming under his jurisdiction. The startling crusade against sccialists inaugurated last November by Herr von Kocller, the Prussian Minister of the In- terior, upon which occasion the houses of many prominent socialists throughout Germany, including the residences of several leading Socialist members of the Reichstag, were raided and many impor- tant documents and large quantities of socialist literature seized by the police, together with subsequet arrests of social- ists and seizures of letters, books, etc., are having a sequel in the Berlin courts in the trial of forty-seven socialists under charges of lese majeste, sedition and the like, Among the defendants in these trials are Herren Auer, Bebel, Singer and Geriscn, prominent members of the Socialist party in the Reichstag. At the opening of the trial, which began on May 15, the Judge remarked that fthe question at issue was whether there had been any breach of the laws governing as. sociations and warned the defendants he would not permit any political declara- tions in the course of the proceedings. The public prosecutor declared that the documents which had been seized by the police in the house of defendants proved [ the existence of a secret organization which was in communication with various branches through secret agents. Herr Auer denied the truth of tie public prosecutor’s assertions, and the trial was adjourned. The charges against the accused social- ists are based upon the Prussian associa- tions law enacted by the Prussian Diet in 1850. The conviction of the defendants is extremely doubtful, but in any event the case is likely to arouse attention to the various laws relating to associations which are enforced in different parts of ithe em- pire, and lesd to the framing of an im- perial law which will remove the vexatious complications which exist in Prussia and other sections of the empire. The Socialist members of the Reichstag have decided that Herren Bebel, Lieb- knecht and Singer be selected as delegates to represent the BSocialist party in the coming international labor congress in London, during which a special conference of the members of various parhiaments at- tending the congress wili be held for the purpose of deciding upon a plan of actien to be pursued in common for the protec- tion of the interests of labor. Herr Lieb- knecht is already in England, and his col- leagues will shortly follow him there. Prince Bismarck still continues to be1in fair health and high spirits and receives visitors at intervals as formerly. It is necessary, however, that the number of his visitors should be greatly restricted, for if he should receive all who express a desire to call and pay their respects to him the time of the aged ex-Chancellor would be wholly occupied with receptions. A party of Mecklenburgers visited the Prince at Friedricshruhe on Saturday and presented him with a small model of the Friedrich Franz monument. The ex-Chancellor chatted in a lively manner with his visit- ors and related many reminiscences con- nected with Mecklenburg, Eugene Woli, the explorer, has just pre- sented Prince Bismarck with a collection of curios and natural mementos which be gathered in Madagascar. The Prince has ordered the cotlection to be exhibited in a tent in the park at Friedrichsruhe. Prince Bismarck lately excited the dis- content of the inhabitants of the Duchy of Lauenburg by his action in connection with the time-honored Muyday celebration in the duchy. The day has long been a legal church holiday, when prayers were offered up in the churches for a good harvest. The fes- tival is called the *‘Hagelbittfeier,”” and on that day all farm labor is forbidden. Prince Bismarck, for alleged economic reasons, procured the issuance of a decree repealing the prohibition of farm labor on the festival day, but the usual services were held nevertheless. The future of the holiday now depends upon tne support of other landowners than Prince Bismarck. The Emperor and Empress on May 13 paid a visii to the new chateau erected by Duke Ernest Gunther of Schleswig-Hol- stein, brother of the Kmpress, at Prinke- nau. Their Majesties were welcomed by the local officials and the veterans’ unions. The chateau and the houses in the town were gayly decorated in honor of the im- perial visitors. The Emperor and tae Duke afterward enjoyed a day at deer- stalking. The rector and the senate at the high school at Karlsruhe have declared against the practice of dueling and issued & mani- festo warning the students that any viola- tion of the prohibitory order will be pun- ished with the utmost severity. The Emperor has promulgated an order forbidding any one henceforth to include a copy of the Cologne Gazette among the newspapers brought to any of his castles or residences or to have a copy of that paper in his possession while within the precincts of such castles or residences, This probibition is evidently in conse- queace oi the recent publication of articles in the Gazette which were inspired by the officials of the Foreign Office and directed azainst the Emperor's military ana civil Cabinets. Bob Kneebs, the American horse-owner, ‘who is in jail here awaiting the resuit of his appeal from the judgment of the court convicting him of having entered the mare Bethel in races on the German trotdng tracks under the name of Nellie Kneebs, has renewed his petition for release from custody pending the rebearing of hie case, which was ordered by the Superior Court, The petition was rejected, and Kneebs will nave to remain in jaul until his case is decided. Destructive storms in Italy. ROME, ITaLY, May 17.—Great damage to growing crops and other vegetation has been done by bailstorms which prevailed to-day in several piaces in Iialy. A severe thunderstorm passed over P; nd four rsons were killed and five injured by ightning. | CARLISLE STATES IS ATTITUDE, Admits That His Views as Regards Silver Have Changed. NOW FOR GOLD ALONE. Willing to Stand Upon dis Rec- ord as Secretary of the Treasury. FORMER SPEECHES EXPLAINED. Favored Increased Use of the White Metal, but Opposed Free Coinage. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 17.—The Cour- ier-Journal tbis morning prints a letter from Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle to Hon. John H. Johns of Prestonburg, Ky. It is in part as foliows: TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, % WASHINGTON, D. C., May 12. Hon. John H. Johns, Prestonburg, Ky.—My DEAR S1R: Your favor of April 28, in which you state that in the discussion of the cur- rency question with your free-silver friends you find that their strongest arguments seem to be that I had made a speech in favor of the free coinage of silver on one occasion, was duly received, but my official duties aud other im- portant watters have so.occupied my time that na opportunity could be found to answer you until now. The report that Imade a speech In favor of free coinage of silver was circulated for the first time about three years ago and has been kept constantly in circulation by the advocates of free coinage ever since, notwithstanding the well-known lact that the only speech I ever made upon the subject and which is printed 1in the official records of tae proceedings of the House of-‘Representatives shows clearly that I was opposed to that policy. Perhaps it will not be improper, in answer, ing your letters, to state briefly what my posi- tion upon the question of free coinage then was, as shown by the speech of February 21, 1878, which is the one from which garbled ex- tracis are being made by the advocstes of that policy; and in doing this I distinetly diselaim any purpose to vindicate myselt against the charge of inconsistency, because in my opinion such a charge, whether true or false, is of no consequence whatever in the discussion of this or any other question. The fact that a man is wrong at one time in life constitutes no reason why he should be wrong always, and even if it were true that I had advocated the free coinage of silver cight- een years agoIwould have been & political coward if 1 had refused on that account to fol- low my honest convictions and oppose such policy when satisfied that it would be injurious to the country. Iam more anxious to be right than to be consistent, and if the gentlemen who quote garbled extracts from au old speech, made when the conditions were entirely dif- ferent from what they are now, can convince me by fair argument that any of my present opinions upon that or any other subject are efroneous I will not hesitate to abandon them. The speech made in the House of Representa- tives on Februery 21,1878, is the only one to which the advocates of free coinage ever re. fer, and that was made in opposition to free coinage and in favor of striking out & free coinage provision from a bill and inserting in place of it & section requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase not less than §2,. 000,000 worth nor more then $4,000,000 worth of siiver bullion each month and coin it into #tandard silver dollars on account of the United Stats overnment and giving the Gov- ernment the benefit of the gain or seigniorage, instead of giving it to the owners of the bul- lion, as would be the case under a system of free coinage, At that time the silver dollar bad dropped entirely from the colnage by the act of February 12, 1873, and such as had been coined previous to that date were legal tender only to the extent of $5. By the actof 1874 the difference between the value of a silver dollar and the value of & gold dollar, at tne ratio of 16 to 1, was only about 7 or 8 cents, and I, together with many other genilemen who were opposed to iree coinage, then believed that the small difference be- tween the value of the two dollars would be removed if the United States should resume fl::“colmn and ase of silver as full legal tender. O the 5th day ot November, 1877, a motion was made in the House of Representatives to spend the rules and it passed a bill which, among other provisions, contained the follow- ing clause: And any owner of silver bullion may deposit the same at any Unitei States coining mint or assay office to be colned into such dollars for his benefit, upon the same terms and conditions as gold bullion deposited for coiuage under existing laws. Finally, after a long discussion in the Sen- ate, the bill was amended by striking out the free-coinage provision and inserting in its place the following: And the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to purchase from time to time silver bullion at the market price thereof, not less than 82,000,000 worih per month. nor more than $4,- 000,000 worth per month, and cause the same Lo be colned monthly as fast as 50 purchased; and a sum sufficlent to carry out the forezoing provision of this act is hereby appropriated out of any money In the treasury not otherwise appropriated. And any galn or seigniorage arising from this coinage shall be accounted for and paid nto ihe treasury s provided under existiug laws relative tothe subsidiary coinage. The bill, with this amendment, was sent back to the House for the concurrence of that body, and on the 21st day of February, 1878, while it was under consideration, I made the speech which has been so often referred to during the last three years by the advocates of {ree coinage and a few sentences from which they have frequently published. In this speech I said, among other things, the over- loaded taxpayers of this country, already stag- gering and sinking under the burdens im- posed upon them by unwise legislation, would have been subjected by that provision to & new exaction of several millions of dollars an- nually to pay for coining the bullion of capi- tal at home and abroad. I cannot become the advocate of such » system, either as to go!d or silver, and althougu my vote was given for the bill as it passed the House under a suspen- sion of the riles, with this feature in it, I did not approve of it and then hoped that it would be amended in the Senate. My position upon this subject is briefly this: 1am opposed to the free coinage of either gold or silver but in favor of unlimited coinage of both metals upon terms of exact equality. No discrimination should be made in tavor of one metal and against the other, nor should any discrimination be made in favor of the holders of either gold or silver bullion and against the great body of the people who own other kinds of property. A great Governmeut should treat all its citizens alike, and whenever it attempts to do otherwise it will engender a spirit of discon tent which, sooner or later, must disturb the harmony if not the peace of society. It is scarcely necessary to say that a gross dis- crimination would be made between the two metals if the owners of silver bullion were per- mitted to have 51 or 52 cents worth of silver coined and stamped as a dollar when the own. ers of gold pullion were required to present 100 cents worth of gold in order to have their metal coined and stamped as a dollar. The two metuls are coined upon terms of exact equality only when a dollar'’s worth of silver iscontained in the silver dollar and a dollar’s worth of gold is contained in the gold dollar and when no more is charged for the coinage of one than for the coinage of the other. In the speech referred to I showed that the ratio established by the coinage actof 1792 overvalued silver and drove gold out of circu- lation. In conclusion Mr. Carlisle says: After a careful review of the speech of 1878 I think it would be & perfectly fair interpreta- tion of it to say: First—That I was opposed to the free coinage of silver. Second—That I then belfeved the restoration of the standard silver dollar to the coinage of the United States and a larger use of that metal in this country wou:d not only arrest its depreciation, but would ultimately restore it to & parity with gold at the ratio of 16 to 1. Third—That when parity at this ratio had been restored I was in favor of coining both metals upon terms of exact equality. Fourth—That I was opposed to the total dis- use of silver as legal tender money in this country. Fifth—That I was in favorof an international monetary conference to consider the adoption of a common ratio between gold and silver for the purpose of establishing internationally the use of bimetallic money and securing fixity of relstive value between these metals. Upon some of these propositions my opintons have undergone a complete change and I have made no attempt to suppress or conceal the fact. My official course as Secretary of the Treasury, and my speeches upon the subject of the currency are sufficient, I think, to show quite clearly what my present opinions are, and it is not necessary therefore to restate them in this letter, which {s already much too long. Very truly yours, J. G. CarLIsLE. WILL BOLT AT CHICAGD, Warner Miller Predicts Trouble at the Convention of Demo- crats. Neither Silverites Nor “Sound” Money Men Will Relinquish Their Claims. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., May 17.—Ex- Senator Warner Miller, one of New York's ‘‘Big Four,” was in the city yesterday. Speaking on the political situation gen- erally he thought Cleveland could have the Democratic nomination if he wanted it. He made the interesting prediction, however, that there would be a bolt at the Chicago convention and that two Demo- cratic Presidential candidates seemed as- sured. “If the sound-money men,” said he, “carry the Convention, then almost cer- tainly the Western and Bouthern dele- gates will walk out and refuse their sup- port to a sound-money man. “If, on the contrary, the free silverites carry the convention or a straddle pl form is adopted, the Eastern men will have to go out to preserve their dignity and self-respect. 1n any event, a bolt is certain.’ e GROSFENOR’S BULLETIN. His Figures Give to McKinley iz Hun- dred Votes. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 17.—Gen- eral Grosvenor gave out his final bulletin to-night. 1In it he said: ‘‘Last week closed the election of dele- gates Lo the St. Louis convention and Mc- Kinley was indorsed by all the States which expressed an opinion during the week—Washington, Wyoming, West Vir- ginia and North Carolina. The free silver States, of course, refused the indorsement of McKinley and their delegates are unin- structed as to persons, but they have re- ceived peremptory orders as to ptinciples. There are now elected 918 delegates, but four in Arizons, four in New Mexico and four in Oklahoma must depend upon the future action of the National Convention for seats in that body, the offic al call authorizing them to elect only two dele- gates in each of the Territories. *“The following States have elected either solid McKinley delegations or delegations with a majority of McKinley men, so that it may be conceded that McKinley’s fol- lowers will control these Siates, to w Alabsma, Arkansas, California, Connec cut, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iilino! Indians, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ne- braska, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon. South Caro lina, Bouth Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, W st Vi nia, Wisconsin, Wyoming and the Territories of New Mexico and Oklahoma. Only three of these States have contests for the entire deleanunnl. and throwing them out there would be left twenty-nine McKinley Btates and Territories to elect members of the committee on credentials.” ‘Labor and Capital May Be Given a HOUSE BILLS PENDING, Among the Most Important Are Measures to Regulate Immigration. Day—Appropriations to Keep the Scnate Busy. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 17.—The programme of business in the House of Representatives depends largely upon the developments from day to day, so thata forecast for the week, especially of the order in which measures shall be consid- ered, cannot be given. To-morrow, under the rules, will be sus- pension day, and Dalzell (R.)of Pennsyi- vania will for the Committee on Ways and Means the passage of the bill which is known as the “package bill.” This pro- vides that packages of imported wmer- chandise weighing less than 100 pounds and valued at less than $500 may be trans- vported in bond over the Canadian railroads to their destination. Scranton (R.) of Pénnsylvania has given notice that he will ask the House, imme- diately after the reading of the journal to- morTow, to reconsider the vote by which it refused some days ago to order to a third reading the bill 1o provide for the election of a Delegate to Congress from Alaska. An effort wilt be made to lay that mo- tion on the table 1n case Scranton presses it, but should that fail the subject will be open for discussion and may occupy a good portion of the day. Should there be any time left after the = Hbuse has disposed of the motions to pass bills_by suspension of the rules, it will robably- be. given to the Con_zmlflfee_lfl]n wmigration for _the consideration o blbi: reported by it. This committee will_pro lb?;” have Tuesday’s session. It will pre- sent the McCall bill to regulate lmmliira- tion from Europe, and the Carliss and Ma- hany bills, intended to relieve the cities on the Canadian border of the competition of labor from Canada which does not find an abiding-place in the United States. The Committee on Rules 1sinclined to give the Committee on Lahorndai:fur the Pmihps commission bill and the Erdman arbitration bill, the latter embodying the roposition of the then Attorney-General glney, proposed at the last session of Con- gress and which it is understood the labor organizations approve. The Phillips bill appropriates $500,000 to enable a commis- sion to make an exhaustive investigation into the relations between !abor and capi- tal. The Appropriations Committee intend to keep lge Senate hard at work on appro- priation bills during all of the week. The fortifications bill will be reported to the Senate to-morrow. Considerable of an increase is understood to have been made to this bill. When this comes up German will offer an amendment, providing for an issue of fifty or one hundred millions of low-interest bearing certificates, and will make another speech bearing upon the financial condition of the country in con- nection with the appropriations that are being made. This certiticate amendment will in all probability cause a discussion that will run over two or three days, but it will not be permitted to indehnlle_ly postpone the final vote on the appropria- tion bill. Gagged and Bound Cashier Confesses. SPRINGFIELD, Irn., May 17.—Carl Kloppenbarg, cashier of the bank at Buffalo, who was found gagged anc bound in the bank after the robbery of last Thurs- day, and his brother Joe,” who works in Ryan’s drugstore 1n this city, have con- fessed that they robbed the bank. The Kloppenburgs are well known in this city and quite wealthy. NEW TO-DAY. & TO-DAY IS THE DAY FINEST CLOTHES For the first time you are to have an opportunity to buy at POPULAR PRICES the fine clothes made by Stein=Bloch under conditions never known before and not likely to occur again—A RECEDING MAR- KET. WILL YOU MISS THE THIS CHANCE? HUB (CHAS. KEILUS & €0.), KEARNY AND SUTTE R. It Brings Power. When You Are Broken Down in Your Nerve Power It Will Make You Strong in Mind and Body. Dr. Sanden has issued a neat pamphlet, in which he has re- produced the letters of fifty prominent citizens of San Fran- cisco and California who have been cured by his famous Elec- tric Belt during the past few weeks. 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