The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 21, 1896, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 1896. TWO WOMEN BURNED TO DEATH, Mrs. Johnson Perishes in an Ohio Street Tene- ment. A MAN BADLY INJURED. Narrow Escape of Half a Dozen People From the Burning House. MISS ANNA LAWTON'S FATE. Literally Roasted to Death by the Overturning of a Coal-0il Cooking Stove. The bodies of Mrs. Henry Johnson of 14 Ohio street and Miss Anna Lawton of | 643 Folsom street are lying in the Morgue, being a very fleshy woman her strength failed her and she perished miserably. When the alarm was given in the house Lureaes in the top floor sprang out of bed to the door. One glance down the fiery stairway showed him that escape in that direction was impossible. He quickly closed the door, and, calling upon his wife to take the younger child, he com- manded her to jump out of the window to the roof of the adjoining buiiding at 16 Ohio street. She did so, and he, taking the other, followed. It was a clear jump of fifteen feet, but fortunately no bones were broken. By the time they reached the other side of the roof the flimes were bursting out of the window from which they had just escaped. From 14 Ohio street the fire spread to the Porcari Hotel, E. Del Carlo proprie- tor, at No. 12, and to Figoni’s steble ana W. Vannucet's dwelling at No. 16. The estimated loss on building and contents is as follows: No. 12, $700; No. 14, $1800: No. 16, nominal. Superintendent Comstock of the Fire Patrol believes that the fire was caused by the explosion of a coal-oil lamp at the foot | of the lower stairway, as an overturned lamp was found there. The peO{fle in the house, however, claim that all of the lights were out at9 o'clock, and they think that it started from fire-crackers. o DIED IN AGONY. Roasted Oil Miss Anna Lawton to Death by Coal Flames. Miss Anna Lawton, who lived in a little cottage in the rear of 643 Folsom street, met with an agonizing death yesterday in consequence of the overturning of a coal- oil stove upon which she was cooking her dinner. She owned the property on which she lived and rented the house that fronts on Folsom street. Miss Lawton had been cleaning her both women having experienced the most painful of deaths—by fire. The account . Jobnson’s was briefly pub- lished in THE CALL yesterday morning, taken place atalate | The house in which | the accident hav hour Friday night. she lived was gutted by flames and Angelo Figoni, who lived in the lower tenement, | y burned about the head, part of his body. Several | with a few burns and ses. The death of Miss Lawton was caused | by the overturning of a coal-oil stovein a | small shed in the rear of her cottaze. In | attempting to put out the flames her skirts | ire and in less than three min- y part of her body, except that protected by her corsets, was roasted to a | She died in the Receiving Hospital . M., two hours after the accident. | Words cannot express what she suffered in those two hours. SE_ S nra BURNED TO A CRISP. Mrs. Henry Johnson Burned to Death In a Tenement-Hcuse on Ohio Street. A few minutes before 1 o’clock ycster-‘ day morning the people living on Ohio street, between Broadway and Pacific, | near Sansome, were aroused by the shrill cry of fire, followed by the clanging of the rm bell from box 18. When the engines ed the place the wildest excitement prevailed, for it was known that nearly a zen people lived in the tall, narrow ooden tenement-house which was in ames, and only a few of that number to be found on the street. The situ- was horrifying to even the stout hearts of the fire-figiters, The ground floor was occupied by Joseph Figoniasa stable. Leading to the small apartments | above was a steep, narrow stairway. The second story was occupied by Angelo Fi- | goni and his wife and son. Above them was the Johnson family, and the top floor was the dwelling of Lerdo Lureaes, with hig¢ wife and two children. The hesitation was but a sscond, and the firemen dashed up the stairway with | their hose and in the flame and smoke | L began the search for the occupants. first found was Angelo Figoni. He The was almost unconscious and frightialiy | burnsd abont the head, face, hands and | lower part of his body. He was sent to the hospital. Up the flaming stairs the men fought their way against the heat and smoke and | reached next landing. Johnson, who is a poor street-sweeper, was with them, hunt- ing for his wife. After the flames were partly extinguished the body of Mrs. Johnson, burned to a crisp, was found near the kitchen window, which opened out upon a roof yard on the second story. The body was removed to the Morgue. The top story was empty. The building was completely gutted. i | The experience of those in the house was | Yrilling in the extreme. It was Mrs. Figoni who discovered the fire in the hal way of the second landing, and, after call- ing her husband, she fled, screaming, down to Pacific street to give the alarm at the | eugine-house. Her husband thought to | stay the progress.of the fire by throwing water on the burning walls, all the time crying *‘Fire” to the ton of his voice. was his cry that aroused the Johnsons. When Figoni started to escape he found that he could not passdown the flaming | stairway. so he started for the front win- | dow of his bedroom. There he was over- | come by the heat and smoke, and when the | firemen found him he was lying on the bed, which was on fire, while overhead was a canopy of flame. e A search was made for Figoni’s 15-year- old son, who was believed to have per- ished. He was nowhere to be found, but Jater it was learned that he wa« safe. He was aroused by his mother’s cry and escaped by making a flying leap from a window into a yard on the east, and was only stightly scorched and bruised. Mr. and Mrs. Jounson had in the mean- time started downstairs to escape, John- son in the lead. When he reached the first landing he turned to speak to msl wife, but she had turned back. evidently to sezure something that she prized. He ran up the two flizhts of stairs again, bat jouna the upper doors shut. He opened one and the fire drove him down the stairs again. It was evident from the position in which Mrs. Johnson’s body was found that she endeavored to make her final escape through the back window, but| Mrs. Henry Jobnson, Who Perisbed in the Flames While Trying to Escape to the Roof Yard Through the Win- dow Marked by the Cross. house, and about 11 o’clock she went into the shed across tne narrow yard in the rear and started the coal-oil stove to cook her midday meal. The wind blew in through the open door and caused the | flame to flash up so she put a wooden brace against the door. While passing the stove Miss Lawton’s foot struck the brace, which feil on the stove, overturning it. 1In an instant the oil was spread over the floor, a large flame following. Some of the oil splashed upon the woman’s uress, and before she was aware of what had happened she was enveloped in fire from foot to head. She ran back and forth through the vard several times, shrieking for help, and, at_last overcome by the agony she was suffering, she fell unconscious in the yard, near the kitchen door. The neigh- bors responded to her cry and sounded an alarm of fire from box 6i, for by this time the little shed was burning briskly. The Fire Patrol boys found the woman where she had fallen and removed her into the house. Her only covering was her corset, even her fine head of bhair having been consumed to the scalp. Short work was made of extinguishing the fire in the shed. The houses of E. H. Windser and Mrs. 3 slightly scorcied. The total damage was about $300. e As quickly as possible Miss Lawton, who had regained cousciousness, was removec to the Receiving Hospital, where the doctors at once pronounced her case fatal. They sent for Fire Marshal Towe and Police Sergeant Jesse B. Cook, to whom she made the following statement: Iam from the State of New York, and have one nephew there with Robert Ingersoll; two with their mother in Mexico, and one at work in Oskland in the blind fsctory. Their names are Lawton. Iam only friendly with the one who is with Robert Ingersol, Ileave every- thing to the care of Charles Cushing, my in- surance agent, who lives on Clay street, near Larkin. Anyand every thing he does will be satisfactory to me. I am a single woman without any brothers or sisters living. The way the fire started was as follows: I was cleaning the house and did not wish to dirty the stove in the kitchen, so I started a fire in a coal-oil stove in the shed in the rear of the house to get a littie lunch. I placed a board in front of the stove so as to stop the draft. I think the wind blew the board over and set the grease on fire that was in the pan. Ithen grabbed the pan off the stove, and somehow I knocked the stove over. I tried to put the fire out and my dress caught fire. 1do not remember what e 100k play ITown the house and cotiage Cushing. There is no morigage on the place. A little later she passed awav. Miss Lawton was about 40 years of age and was regarded as a little eccentric. The late Alexander Almey, the senior partner of Redington & Co., was her uncle and her brother was once well known in Olympic Club circles. Her other relations she mentions in her last statement. No one seems to know the extent of her estate. She owned, as stated, the two houses on Folsom street, and it is believed that she had some money in bank. A HOTEL BURNED. The Well-Enown Acheson Destroyed by an Incendiary. BERKELEY, CaL., June 2l.—About 5 o’clock vesterday afternoon the Acheson Hotel was discovered to be on fire. The Berkeley Fire Company turned out and worked until after midnight, but to no purpose, and at this hour, 14a. ., all hopes of saving the big building have been abandoned. The hotel will no doubt be burned to the ground by morning. It is suspected thatthe fire was started by some one who desired to destroy the property, and the officers of the law are at work on the case. Tie botel has not been occupied recently, e Good morning, have you read Thomas Siater’s advertisement for men on page 32 ? MERELY DID 1T T0 TEASE HER, Why Mine Host Lawrence Pressed Miss Ashley’s Waist. AN EXPERT ON HUGGING No Make-Believe About It—Was Not a Simple Shoulder Clasp. MRS. ALVER§ON IS EXAMINED. She Had Forgotten the Name of the Second One of Her Four Husbands. Two new witnesses enlivened the pro- ceedings in the Ashley-Baldwin trial yes- terday. Melville Lawrence, a mild-man- nered and meek little boniface from Lake Tahoe, told of Miss Ashley’s conduct while she was staying at the Hotel Oak- wood in Southern California, of which Lawrence was the proprietor. The recital of his huggings of Miss Ash- ley furnished an interesting story to the few favored spectators in Judge Slack’s court yesterday. Lawrence is evidently quite an exvert in the hugging line, for he declared there was no make believe about his embraces—he bhad his arm ®bout the waist, not the shoulders of the blonde. The matrimonial ventures of his sister, Mrs. Nellie Lawrence - Frisby - Comstock- Reisner-Alverson, also furnished an inter- esting diversion from the main issues of the case. In her confession over her ex- spouses she te mporarily forgot the name of No. 2, but aiterward remembered that it was Comstock—‘‘Joe’” Comstock she thought. Her testimony was mainly corroborative of what her brother had sworn to. The cross and re-direct examinations of Witoess O’Kefe were completed at the morning session of the court. Nothing new was elicited in the examination, which had long since become tedious and tiresome. At the opening of the afternoon session Melville Lawrence, the proprietor of the Tallac House at the southern end of Lake Tatoe, was put on the stand. In the early months of 1893, he had kept the Oakwood Hotel at Arcadia, Los An- geles County. He had met Miss Achley and introduced her, among other guests, to Mr. Baldwin. He never saw Miss Ash- ley and Baldwin toget:er except in com- pany with the other guests of the hotel. Miss Ashley used to ride horseback a great deal with her brother, E. Porter Asnley. Lawrence had aiso seen her out riding in a bugey with J. F. Falvey. Quite often she went out on horseback, but would retura with Falvey in the buggy later on. There were also amusements in the evening, dances, card parties and other gatherings. One evening when there was a little card party in progress in the room in back of the office, Lawrence heard a commotion going on in the office. He heard noise and Jaughter and also heard a Mrs. Harold laughingly calling Mr. Fal- vey and Miss Ashiey, and asking them wkat they were doing together upstairs so long. Besides the rides which Falvey and Miss Ashley used to take in a one-seated buggy, there was a theater party organized among the guests. The members of the party did not come to T.os Angeles together, but were to meet at the gHallenbeek Hotel later. Miss Ashley did not arrive on the train she was expected on, but came in later. Lawrence admitted he had jested with Miss Ashley about Mr. Falvey. When he saw Mr. Falvey coming Lawrence used to put hisarm around Miss Ashley because he found that teased her more than any- thing else. On such occasions Miss Ash- ley begged him to desist. There was a croquet ground where Baldwin and Miss Ashley, among other guests, used to play, but Lawrence never noticed that Baldwin lmud any particular attention to Miss Ash. ey. On cross-examination the witness said that he leased both the Tallac and Oak- wood hotels from Mr. Baldwin. He had been proprietor of the Oakwood for six years and of the Tallac for eleven or twelve years. He haa first met Baldwin some_twelve vearsago at the Baldwin Ho- tel. Before he came to California he had been in the hotel business in Cntario, Canada. He first: met Miss Ashley in March, 1893. He had received letters from her from the Westminster Hotel in Los Angeles, and thought she had pot come to the Oakwood from Coronado. Miss Ashley had come alone to his hotel. He didn’t remember whether or not Mr. Bala- win haa come on the same day as Miss Ashley. He was sure they didn’t come on the same train. Miss Ashley remained at the hotel about a month, and Baldwin re- mained for several weeks. He nhad seen them together a number of times, but never alone together. In regard to the occasion on which Falvey and Miss Ashley were together in an upstairs room, Lawrence testified he saw them coming downstairs together. He made no objections to such conduct, although he declared that he never al- lowed anything improper in his hotel. He supposed that the two were going to be married, so he did not think anytning of their intimacy. Lawrence had never seen anybody else riding with Falvey He thought nothing of Falvey and Miss Asbley riding to- gether; it was quite a common thing and not improper. Falvey’s interest in the hotel increased greatly during Miss Ash- ley's stay. Lawrence thought his visits during that time were four times as fre- quent as before. Lawrence had seen Miss Ashley return with Falvey after starting out with her brother, several, perhaps half & dozen, times. Mr. Crittenden asked Lawrence further about the commotion caused by Mr. Herold’s question on the evening when Falvey and Miss Ashley came down-stairs together. He admitted that there wase piazza upstairs where gentiemen might go to smoke, but they very seidom did so. There were parlors upstairs which were always kept open for the guests. These parlors were not kept lighted, but anybody might light them. ‘When _he tad put his arm about Miss Ashley, Lawrence had done it openly in the presence of other guests. There was no make-believe about it—he had put his arm about her waist, not her shoulder. He had done it to tease Falvey, and at the saume time when he pressed her waist he whispered in her ear: ‘‘Falvey is coming.”” This was another little pieasantry of the genial host. Lawrence came down from Tallac last Tuesday to testily in this case. He was to receive no compensation from Baldwin, He had not come merely to testify—he had business in this City as well. He admitted that he was indebted to Baldwin on ac- count of a ranch near Arcadia, in which Lawrence and his sister had an interest. Mrs. Nellie Alverson, a sister of Mr. Lawrence, was next sworn. She admitted, with a smile, that she knew Mr. Baldwin. She also knew Miss Ashley and had met her often at the Oakwood Hotel. She had never seen Buldwin paying any attention to Miss Ashley and had never seen them together. She also had seen Miss Ashley return with Mr. Falvey after going out riding with her brother. On the evening which her brother had mentioned in his testimony she had seen Miss Ashley and Mr. Falvey embracing each other on the veranda. She had seen them throuzh the window of her own apartment. Mrs. Alverson went down- stairs, but did not find Miss Ashley and Falvey there. A few minutes later the two returned, and Mrs. Herold, Baldwin’s daughter, laughingly said she had driven them in. On cross-examination, Mrs. Alverson admitted that she came tothis State about twenty years ago with her husband, Ly- man A: Frisby. She did not remember when, where or by whom she had peen married to him. She married a second husband after she came to California. She had forgotten not only where and when she married him, but Who he was. Later she remembered his name was Comstock—Joe Comstock, she thought. Number three was W. Reisner, with whom she lived at Tahoe. She also lived at Tahoe with Frank D. Alverson, her fourth and last matrimonial partner. She, had known Mr. Baldwin a long time. She had stopped at the Baldwin Hotel for a long time. She did not re- member whether or not she had stopped there with her husband. In 1893, when she was living at the Oak- wood, she was Mrs. Reisner. She did not remember of having had much to do with Reisner while she was at the hotel. How- ever, her recollection of seeing Miss Ash- ley and Falvey together was quite clear. She had seer them riding together, but saw nothing improper in it. On the evening when she had seen Miss Ashley and Falvey together on the ver- anda they were kissing. They also saw her, but said nothing about it. Miss Al- verson had told it to her brother, but had not suggested to him to turn them out of the house. Like her brother, she thought NATIVE BORN IRISH REPUBLICAN LEAGUE From a Nucleus of Eighty- Eight the Organization Grew. STAND FOR PROTECTION Southern Sophistry No Longer Misleads the Loyal Im- migrant. FOR HOME AND COUNTRY The Casuistry of Deposed Bosses Ex- ploded by the Experience of an Advanced Age. In the political history of San Francisco prior to 1876 it was a difficult matter to find an out-and-out Irish-born Republican, PROMINENT OFFICERS OF THE IRISH REPUBLICAN LEAGUE, 1896. that if the two were engaged to be married their conduct was quite proper. At the conclusion of Mrs. Alverson’s ex- amination, Attorney Highton announced that he had three more witnesses to tes- tify. Court then nd{?umed until Monday morning at 11 o’clock. FONEBL OF G, DIOND Salute to Be Fired To-Day at _Half-Hour Intervals in His Honor. Arrangements for the Obscquies Next Wednesday—Official Orders Are Issuel. The death of Major-General W. H. Di- mond is announced officially in the follow- ing orders from Sacramento: GENERAL HEADQUARTERS STATE OF CALIFORNIA' Adjutant-General's Office, BACRAMENTO, June 18, 1896. General Orders No. 7. L It is with profound sorrow that the com- mander-in-chief announces the death of Ma- jor-General W. H. Dimond, which occurred ihis morning in New York City. W. H. Dimond was appointed captain and assistant_adjutant-general United States Vol- unteers, from New York, March 3, 1865 signed July 8, 1865. Served also as a captain of cavalry company in Honolulu, H.I. He was uppoinied lieutenant-colonel and aid-de- camp on staff of Governor George C. Perkins January 26, 1880; promoted to brigadier-gen- eral commanding Second Brigade, Nationah Guard of California, on December 14, 1881; reappointed January 30, 1883, and February 7, 1887, and was promoted to major.general commanding division September 28, 1887, and reappointed April 8, 1891, and May 15, 1895, fl;i‘iu was at the (ime of his demise holding said office. To the exceptional force of character dis- played by him throughout his career he joined a simplicity of manner and geutleness of disposition which endeared him to all with whom he came in contact. There is no one living of his acquaintance who will not grieve upon the receipt of the tidings of his death. ?L The funeral will take place from the First Presbyterian Church, corner of Van Ness ave- nue and Sacramento street, San Franelsco, on Wednesday afternoon, the 24th inst. 1. The commanding officer of the division, .G, will issue orders that the usual appro- priate military honors be rendered. IV. On the day next succeeding the receipt of these orders, the National flag will be dis. played at half-mast on_the armories, as pro- vided by paragraph 447, Rules and Regula- tions, N. G. C. V. The regimental colors will be draped for the period of thirty days. (Two streamers of crape, 7 feet long and about 12 inches wide, at- tached to the ferrule below the spearhead, will be used.) VI. On the day nextsucceeding the receipt of these oraers a ealute of thirteen guns will be fired at San Franciscoat hali-hour intervals, commencing at 8 o'clock A.M., as per Section 429, U. 8. A. Regulations of 189 finute guns will also be fired while the remains are being borne to the place of interment, as also the salute at the grave, provided by Section 430, said U.S. A. regulations. VII. Members of the staff of the commander- in-chief will assemble in full-dress uniform at the California Hotel in San Francisco for the purpose of attending the funeral in a body. Jolonel F. 8. Chadbourne, paymester on the staff of commander-in-chief, will make neces- sary arrangements for carringes for the staff. VIIL The usual badge of mourning will be worn for the period of thirty days, By order of the commander-in-chief. A. W. BARRETT, Adjutant-General. The salute at half-hour intervals will be fired at the Presidio to-day. Asthe pro- cession _moves on the day of the funeral (next Wednesday) guns will be fired at intervals so as to make the number thir- teen while the column is in motion. After the casket is placed in the grave the major-gencral’s salute of thirteen guns will be fired. : As_General Graham, commanding at the Presidio, has the proper facilities at his command_he will attend to the firing to-day and Wednesday. He will also send a caisson with the proper detail to receive the remains when the train arrives. ————— Napa Republicans Rejoice. NAPA, Can, June 20.—The nomina- tions of McKinley and Hobart were rati- fied by the Republicans here to-night. Frank L. Coombs and others spoke. G. M. Francis presided. On the contrary the good, generous-hearted son of Erin had imbibed bhis politics from the steamship agents of Boss Kelly of New York, who, without any remorse of con- science, had informed the green emigraut on his way to the land of freedom and plenty that the Republican party was the Government, and as such it was their bounden duty to be opposed to it on gen- eral principles. This doctrine imparted to the new- comer was all-sufficient in consequence of the crushing blows dealt out to the peas- antry of Ireland by a tyrannical and op- pressive English Government, and the emigrant arrayed himself against the party in power, and unconsciously dropped into the Democratic party, where be remained and where he was a welcome addition to the established Southern De- mocracy, which needed votes to keep the chivalry in office and the shovelry out in the cold. So long as the Irish-born American citi- zen did the voting under instructions of the Southern planter,, by which his kith and kin got into office, the poor good- hearted Irishman was rubbed down the back and made to believe that by voting the Democratic ticket he was crushing the British iion’s skull into a jelly, and de- stroying the power of the Government under which he lived. The civil war, however, bronght about a change, and that change opened the eyes of the Irish-American peopie. In the proclamation of the aaintly Abra- ham Lincoln, which declared that all men should be frea and that all should have an equal share in the government of this reat country, the Irish emigrant for the first time learued that the “‘government’” he had been taught to despise and hate had in reality been the very power that bestowed on him blessings, rights and privileges which had been denied him by the imposing and _untruthful South through its paid New York agents, Having once got his eyes open 1t was no | longer heresy to believe in the principles of the Republican party. Thus the light dawned on the Irish in San Francisco, and in 1876, when the memorable Hayes and Tilden campaign was on, eighty-eight Irishmen signed their names and organized what was known as the “Irish Republican League.” Foremost in this movement was John J. Coffey, who mnever did belong to the Democratic party. With Coffey were State Senator Thomas Maher and Edward Gal- lagher. Those three men faced the brunt of abuse and organized the league with headquarters at the old Horticultural Hall on Stockton street, between Post and Sutter. Thus the nucleus of the first Irish Re- publican Ciub was started in £an Fran- cisco. From this small beginning the club increased, and four years later, when James A. Garlield was elected, there were 400 members enrolled. Tue Biaine cam- paign four years later increased it to 1500, and now in the McKiniey campaign there are 2000 names on the secretary’s books, with a fair promise of many more before 1897 dawns on this City. The Irish-born American citizen has discovered that under the Republican Government he is not only permitied to vote, but he can hold office with impunity and without having to doff his hatto a scion of a cotton plantation, who, accord- ing to his hereditary training, looked down with supreme contempt upon the plebeian who haa to toil for a living; and no mat- ter what his natural abilitics were he could not, through Southern Democratic eyes, be capable of filling any office other than one ot manual labor. Having thus got his eyes open to the generous treatment- accorded him by the rty of progress and protection, the Irish- g:rn American citizen threw his political influence with the great and grand Re- pubiican party. With this spirit and a fixed purpose to stay by the good old party which recoa- nizes merit and worth irrespective of lantation birth the Irish Kepublican P‘eague reorsanized for the campaign of 1896 on last Friday night witn the follow- ing officers: President, John J. Coffey; vice-president, Jumes Gilleran; secretary, Captain H. P. Filgate; treasurer, Arthur McGurren. Those four are, nominally speaking, the officers elected at the first meeting. The working committees will be named at the next meetine of the league, when the or- ganization will assume active campaign work and assist in the election not only of William McKinley and G. A. Hobart, but the entire municipal ticket. OUT OF THE DESERT. Mystic Shriners Will Go to Alaska ‘With Their Families Next Month. Among the many pleasant proposed summer excursions, the Alaska trip of the Mystic Snriners will not be surpassed for attention to detail of entertainment and unique surprises in store for those par- | ticipating. The party will leave July 3, and have re- | served the best part of the steamer Queen, which they will transform into an Oriental floating palace, in accordance with the | traditions of their mystic rites. The par}y expects to be gone twenty-six days, and their itinerary provides for every hour of the trip. The particular incentive of this Alaska trip to the Shriners was the fact that there is little or no night at this time of the year in that region. It is to be an oasis in E | the desert of life. The following are now booked, with a few more to hear from: C. L. Patton and wife, J. Z. Davis and wife, E. P. Foster and wife, Colonel F. W. Sumner and wife, M. W. Belshaw and wife, George Haas and wife, Dr. J. H. Hatch and wife, O. H. Curtaz and wife, Mrs. Ella A. Judson, Miss Sophie Peurl Judson, Miss Edith Bass, C. L. Field and wife, C.8. Benedict and wife, Colonel C. Mason Kinne and wife, Colonel V. D. Du- boce and wife, Dr. Wright and wife, Martin Jones and wife, J. Harry Scott and wife, M. | Gruenhagen ana wife, Miss Charlotte D. Jud- son, Miss Emily Wilcox, Mrs. John Gillson, | Mrs. E. G. Denniston, Mrs. W.S. Cragin, Miss | Haas, Mrs. George Spaulding, Miss Beckwith, Mrs. Will E.Fisher, F. H. Pitman, Bert Bene- dict, J. H. Jennings Jr., Chester Judson, 1. A. Wilcox, W. Dutton and wife, Miss Busie ittie McGowan, Mrs. A. W. Jack- son, Mrs. J. C. Smith, L. Morton, | Miss Heppner, Mrs. C. Miss R. Jenni T.J. B J onnelly, Miss Miss An- iss Anuie — . o o = | THE COACH IS CLIFTON'S | ? | His Lordship Denies Having Given His Prize Vehicle to ‘“White Hat'’ MecCarty. From a claim filed with Sheriff Wieland yesterday it would appear that ‘‘White Hat” McCarty, the man of the woolly beaver, 1s/not the owner of that famous | coach that J. Taibot Clifton once drove as | a passenger conveyance from this City to Burlingame, but merely holds it in trust for his patron. When Clifton left for Eng- } land, McCarty gave out with a great | flourish of trumpets that he had been | made a present of the coach, while hisson | had been made glad by a present of ‘“his | Lordship’s” horses. The boast acted quite differently then | McCarty had intended, for his creditors, | who had long been vainly waiting for | something with which to satisfy their claims, pounced on the gorgeous vehicle | and attached it for $1552. | Now Clifton, by an attorney, has made claim to the coach as bis own personal property, and says that McCarty never | owned it. | A similar claim was filed a day or two ago to the furniture of Clifton’s Maison Riche apartments, which, McCarty said, after Clifton’s departure, had been pre- sented to him, and which was aiso at- tached by an eager creditor of the former | horseman. NEW TO-DAY. 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Tue Pacific Mail Steamship Company was sued in the Justice Court yesterday on two counts by J. H. Rix, formerly third mate of the steamer City of Para. One complaint alleges that on April 26 lasr while the vessel was lying at San Blas, Mexico, he was assaulted by other em- ¥loyes of the vessel and seriously injured. “or this he asks $299 damages, and in a second complaint demands $77 25 for wages, which, he claims, aredue and un- paid. 2 segRige Sl Republicans Will Organize. BERKELEY, Car., June 20.—County Committeeman John W. Striker has called a meeting of local Republicans for June 24 for the purpose of forming a Re- publican club. The call was issued in re- sponse to a petition presented to Mr. Striker with the signaturesof a large num- ber of Berkeley Repunblicans. The meet- 1 ing will be held in Odd Feliows’ Hall. and Surgery in By his skill and as a specialist Dr. Sweany has completely revolutionized the | practice of medicine and surgery in San | Francisco. Standing to-day, as he does, far in ad- vance of any specialist or medical institu- | tion in the country, his wonderful success | and skill are the outerowth of several con- | ditions by which alone what he has done | in San francisco could be accomplished. ’ First, the qualifications with which na- ture has endowed him, as evidenced by | his keen perception into the mysteries of | ail diseases with which those who apply | to him are afflicted. He is thus enabled | to clearly distinguish the exact character | NEW 'ITD-DAY. e o A A e A A R R R R e e~ s REVOLUTIONIZED Has Been the Practice of Medicine San Francisco by Dr. Sweany. THE STORY OF HIS SUCGESS. The Great Specialist- Has Made Life Anew to Thousands and Tens of Thousands who Had Been Given Up by Other Physi- cians—His Specialties and Mode of Treatment. vantages in his favor, natural ability, study, experience and a mind devoted to his profession Dr. Sweany should have achieved his enviable reputation for curing distressing and obstinate cases which have been given up as incurable? As yet no case of failure can be discov- ered against him, and such aoility and skill to combat and conquer all diseases of r:en and women have never before been demonstrated. The Doctor’s services are of great value, and if any one thing be worth more than anything else 1t is certainly the services of a competent and successful physician and gpecialist who never loses sight of a single of the chmplaint and to conceive the | cace until a perfect and permanent cure is proper and most effective kind of treat- ment for its entire cure. Second, he is wholly devoted to his pro- fession, having no other desire for achieve- ment than to make still grander the com- plete success which he has thus far at- tained. His great stability of character, his unceasing study and untiring energy to accomplish that which he sets out to do, together with many more great and noble qualities, which one soon recognizes in him, all serve to advauce him in his most worthy ambition. Third, his great advantages of study and experience in the leading and hest col- legzes and hospitals in the land, where he served in all departments, and where his great natural ability was acknowledged in all branches as being superior to his quite worthy but less successful associates, have all helped to assist him in his work. Is it any wonder that, with all these ad- | effected. Those who are afflicted should | not waste time, money and health dosing | with cheap treatments, cheap medicines and nostrums. The Doctor gives his services free of charge to the poor and worthy who call at his office every Friday afternoon, and many expressions of gratitude and praise go out daily from the poor as weli as from those who have paid him well for valuable and successful services rendered. As a man Dr. Sweany is truly upright, conseci- entious and charitable, and as a physician he is thoroughly competent, earnest and successful, and any and all persons who may be suffering from any human ailment whatever will do themselves a great injus- tice if they do not call upon him, even if their troubles have resisted all other ef- forts to cure. He treats nervous debility of every kind, name and nature far in advance of any other institution in this country. He also treats private and chronic dis- eases; blood and skin diseases; female complaints; kidney, bladder, liver, iung, throat, stomach and heart diseases: piles, ruptare, hydrocele, varicocele and kindred troubles without pain or detention from business. He acddresses himself in par- ticular to young and middle-aged men who are suffering from the awful effects of early indiscretions, and are thereby un- fitted for study, business or the proper enjoyment of either married or single life. Office hours—9 A. M. to 12 ., and 2 to 5, 7to8 p.M. Sundays, 10 A. M. to 12 M. only. The Doctor’s office is located at 737 Mar- ket street, where he will always be pleased to see all his old patients and as many new ones as may need his services.