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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1896. o LOS ANGELES BANK ROBBERS. Officers Discover a Tunnel to the First National's Vaults. STARTS IN A SALOON. Excavated Beneath Cellars in the Heart of the Business Section. DUG IN VAIN FOR RICHES. The Safe-Crackers Frightened Away After Weeks of Diligent Labor. LOS ANGELES, CaL., June 25.—A re- markbly bold scheme of bank robbers one involving weeks of cautious labor in | the heart of this city—has been unearthed by Los Angeles officers. The police have discoverea a tunmel which had om Commercial street under celiars to the vaults of the First National Bank, robbers at their first opportunity. Had they been succe 1, they would have se- cured about $300,000. The bank is one of largest institutions in this section. Some time ago Chief of Police Glass learned that an attempt was likely to be been rua | | five yards from where he was standing. He crawled up and saw a man tearing through the brush, closely pursued by two wild steers. That was all. —_———— 600D TEMPLARS MEET. Resolutions Declaring for Equal Suff- rage Are Adopted. LOS ANGELES, CAr., June 25. — The | District Lodge of Good Templars of South- ern California met in A.O. U. W. Hall here to-day. Grand Chief Templar Rev. J. W. Webb of Fresno was in attendance, with the following delegates: nte—Amos Wright, Emory Metealfe, A Drake. Jennie E. Smith, Mary E. Mitchell, arvanza—Archie Gamble, oW, Fletwcher Burr. Esgle Rock Lodge—Flora Henser, Mrs. Charles Garden 8. Smit) Greene, Brierle Merrill—Fred Askew, F. Plaistridge, George Telford, J. Wateon, E. Braunton. Ward, Sr. Gertrude Sr. Myrtle Shaw. H. Taits, Sr. Mrs. P. 8. s. F. M. Tafts. nile Templte, El Monte—E. G Pasadena—Mrs. Metealf de Juvenile Temple, Santa Monica—H. S.Hubbard, airs. H, §, Hubbard. Garvanza Band of Hope— Pasadena Crown Temple Redondo—Mr. Hayward. Pomona—J. G. Hansler. West Saticoy—John A. Madison, Ernest Du- val. Alhambra—C. H. Winsor, Dora Blackburn. San Pedro—H. M. Dakin, Tropico—Mr, Prior. The committee on resolutions submitted the following reporis We reaffirm the Good Templars' platform, adopted by the R. W. G. Lod; We recommend that Gooa Templars do not vote with any party which has not a plank for the extermination of the liquor saloon. We, &5 Good Templars, indorse the amend- ment of the constitution to be voted on this fall, giving women the right of suffrage, and sll Good Templars to do all in their Ppower to help carry said amendment. Sk SCORED BY VETERANS, Denunciation of a Pastor Who Would Not Drape His Church With Flags. LOS ANGELES; CAL., June 25.—Stanton vhich were to have been “cracked’” by the | Post, Grand Army of the Repubiic, and the Women’s Relief Corps, paid their respects to Rev. Mr. Finley of the M. E. Church South in the following terms at a meeting here last night: members of the postand corps declare that there is no spot so sacred but it may be nonored and glorified by the presence of that made on a local bank, but as nothing was | illustrious banner, more dear to us than life done the rumor was forgotten after a time. The Chief went to Atlanta, Ga., in May and then, it is supposed, the gang began operations. Detectives had been cautioned to be on the watch during the Chief's ab- sence, and shortly after his departure they | &0 learned that *‘Billy”” Matthaney, Gillespie and Rierson, a gang of clever safe-crackers, were in the city. The first clew to their plans was found when Detectives Auble and Hawley searched Matthaney’s rooms. In a satchel | | | itself; that no day is too holy to bring to grate- ful remembrance the struggles and sacrifices » | of our foretathers for liberty &nd independ- ence; that that church or denomination that refuses to inculcat ons of patriotism and veneration for our National emblem is derelict in its duty; thsl any so-called minister of the 1who so far forgets his obligations to patrio and who so outrages every senti- nent of loyalty and memory of our patriotic dead 8s to deliberately insult the flag of his country, is in no sense & true follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, and is unworthy the protee- tion of the stars and stripes and the blessing of liberty and peace which they guarantee. ley had refused to drape his church F they found s suit of dirty, stained clothes, | in National colors or preach a patriotic which led the officers to believe that the gang was trying to dig into some bank. The point at which they were at work could not be found, however, so after vawly foliowing the trio for several d. tpe officers arrested them and ordered them out of town. Early in the present month Chief Glass learned that an attempt had been made to rob the First National Bank. The steel vault rests on a brick arch built up from the cellar. The arch consists of four layers of brick, then cement, and on top of this two gridiron layers of steel rails separated by cement; cement upon the top rail, then steel axles, more cement, and then the four-inch steel floor of the vault. 5 Several layers of the brick had been re- moved, while in the cement floor was a hole hidden by some old bricks. The of- ficers could not get into this tunnel, as the way was blocked by a big jackscrew. Further investigation proved that the other end of this tunnel was in the neigh- borhood of the Anaheim Brewery saloon, at 112 Commercial street, just arouna the corner from the First tional Bank, which is at 226 North Main street. On the 17th Detectives Auble and Brad- ish broke into the cellar of the saloon and there found the other end of the tunnel. The place had been run by a man named F. L. Jones. The bar was partitioned off into winerooms, and the entrance to the cellar boarded up and floored over, a trap- door being cleverly concealed in the floor. Tn his cellar, which is 35 by 45 feet in dimensions, the work has been progecuted with a care that was fully worthy of tne magnitude of the project. It was exactly 102 feet from the cellar to the point under the vault, and the robbers bad figured out with such mathematical exactness, that the tunnel is almost in a direct line. Itis about two and a halt feet square, just iarge enough to accommodate a man working on all fours. Picks, shovels, crowbars and other tools were used to dig with. The dirt was packed in a piece of carpet and hauled out of the cellar with a windlass. A small bell was the signal. As the air was foul in the tun- nel a piece of rubber hose was stretched and fresh air was supplied by a bellows at the cellar end. The drift was carefully timbered. The officers watched ‘both entrances carefully for several days, but at last learned that the gang had flown, so the place was thoroughly searched. The tocls were found inside the drift, carefully hid- den by earth and sacks. In the cellar was a tub of wager and in this were thirty-one sticks of dynamite and a cigar-box half full of giant powder, all wrapped in oiled paper. Some of the dirt from the excava- tion had been piled in the cellar. James K. BStephens was arrested on Tuesday ana charged with being impli- cated in the attempted burglary. His was the only capture made, as the balance of the gang decamped, frightened away by some unknown cause. The police are reticent regarding Steph- ens. 1tis believed that Matthaney’s gang is at the bottom of the job. Its members are expert safe crackers and no doubt agreed with the less experienced men to blow up the vault if the others would do the tunneling. Jones, the saloon man, disappeared two weeks ago, and has not been heard from since. The police are anxious to get him. ) S RETURNS TO LUS AMGELES. Sheriff Burr Finds 1hat He Has Been Chasing a Bogus Dunham. LOS ANGELES, CaAL., June 25.—An in- nocent and unoffending prospector, by name Tom Connell, is the Erskine Creek “Dunham,” who was seen by Pinney and Richards, Sheriff Burr and a formidable posse, heavily armed, after having made a triv of many miles on horseback from Caliente Station to the Mojave desert, re- turned to-day. They left Catiente on Sun- day with a guide and reached the Bright Star mine camp, near Kernville, on Mon- aay afternoon. Inquiry revealed the fact that no stranger had been seen in that section for many a day. Here Sheriff Burr learned that the man whom Pinney bad seen at Erskine Creek was Tom Connell, a prospector, who had beer: in camp for the past six months. He was informed luter on thata miner named Stanley, who had a cabin about six miles further on, had seen a stranyer a few days ago while out prosrecting. Burr was soon at Stanley’s cabin, but the owner was away. He awaited Stanley’s return. Stanley informed him tbat while pros- cting in a canyon a day or two ago he sermon, as requested, next Sunday. el SPIRITUALISTS WANT NO GOLD. None Attempt to Win a Purse Offered by a Woman. LOS ANGELES, CaL., June 25.—People were on the qui vive here to-night over the challenge from Professor Tatum of the spiritualists to T. C. Alexander, an alleged exposer of spirit tricks, and in consequence Burbank Theater was filled with people to witness the contest. Tatum failed to aps pear, and in_consequence the show fell tlat. Alexander made repeated requests for any medium to come forward and do slate-writing to the satisfaction of the audience and he would immediately fill out a check signed by Edna B. Sherman for $500 and turn it over to the successful medium. He read the following letter from Miss Sherman and exhibited the check, but no one came forward to com- pete for it: Los ANGELES, Cal., June 25, 1896. T. C. Alezander—DEAR Sik: Iinclose check for $500 (o be paid toany medium who can produce spirit-writlng on slate at your performance in the Burbank Theater this evening. If no one finds the conditions favorable enough,I willcall for my check at the box-office Lo-mOFTow. EDNA B. SHERMAN. B NDAY CLOSING. WAR ON Angelenos Protest Againat the Petition of Reformer: LOS ANGELES, Car., June 25.—The contest over the proposition before the Common Council of this city for Sunday closing of all business places promises to be a warm one. Two monster protests, containing about 2500 names, have been addressed to the Council in opposition to the petition and movement for a Sunday- closing ordinance. The pratestants base their opposition on the ground that such an ordinance would be unconstitutional, for the reason that “it would deprive a certain class of an inherent right to six days of labor and one of rest. Second— Because it would destroy the equality of all men before the law. Third—Because it would be religious legislation. Fourth— Because it would be discriminating in its nature. Fifth—Because the constitution of the United States guarantees one day of rest out of a week to all who care to | assert that right without designating what day of the week it shall be.” STOCKTON ASYLUM SHORTAGE. Complaint Filed at Sacramento Against the Several Bondsmen of Ex- Treasurer Orr. SACRAMENTO, CaL., June 25.—Deputy Attorney-General Charles Post filed a complaint in the Superior Court to-day on the part of State Controller E. P. Col- gan, H. O. Southworth, A. Thornton, J. D. McDougal, A. McDonald and Joseph Steffens, directors of the State Insane Asylum_at Stockton, against N. M. Orr and H. H. Hewlitt, Frank Stewart, T. W. Newell, 1. D. Bostwick, R. B. Parker and George West, who were the bondsmen of N. M. Orr when he received the appoint- ment of treasurer of the State Insane Asylum in Stockton. The complaint, which is very lengthy, after detailing the conditions under which Orr accepted the office, states that he has failed to account for about $10,000 of the funds of the institution, although he has been repeatedly requested to do so. On April 24 E. P. Colgan had a demand served on Orr for the dum of $10,000, to be returned within twenty days. Orr had failed to produce the money, and in con- sequence Colgan added to the gross amount 25 per cent damages. By so doing there became due to the State and payable from these bondsmen the sum of $12,501 08, no part of which has been paid. Then follows a copy of the bond, signed by all the defendants, approved by the board of directors. SEEN NEAR PASO ROBLES. Another Dunham Engages the Attention of the Constabulary. PASO ROBLES, Car., June 25.—The local constabulary was notified this after- noon, that a stranger answering to the de- scription of Dunham, the murderer of the McGliney family at Campbells, had camped last night at the Ryan Ranch, eight miles east of town. A posse was or- ganized and started for the ranch. ) Santa Barbara’s Street Railway. SANTA BARBARA, Can, June 25— Well-borers who have been sinking for the Santa Barbara Consolidated Electric Street Railway Company on the lot se- lected for its fpmmr-house to-day struck ata depth of 375 feet a splendid artesian flow. This development establishes the location of the power-house and encour- ages t.e company to hasten its comple- tion. A large force of men is laying rails along the already-graded track, and the road will be in perfect running order by the 1st of September, the date specified in fiim a noise in the brush about seventy: l the company’s franchise. FATHER FERGUSON ON “FALLACIES." The Eloguent Priest Ad- dresses an Immense Gathering. DEFENDS THE CHURCH. What Emperor Frederick Said to Philosopher Benjamin Franklin. DEFINES “STALL-FED” CATHOLIC Declares the Catholic Church to Be in the Vanguard of Thought and Progress. Father Ferguson lectured at Metropoli- tan Temple last evening under the aus- pices of the Young Men’s Catholic Union, on the subject of. “Exploded Fallacies.” The lecturer was in his best voice and was frequently interrupted in his discourse by | the applause df his large and sympatheiic audience. Prior to the lecture there was an interest- ing prelude of a musical and literary character. - The performers were all encored. As Father Ferguson arose and was introduced by the chairman the an- dience burst into prolonged applause. “Iintend to lay before you thiseven- ing,” he began, “‘the proof of certain fal- lacies regarding the Roman Catholic church. These proois are so cogent and convincing that even the beam in the most skeptical eye cannot obscure them. +‘One of these fallacies is that the Catho- lic church is an enemy of human free- dom. Why, in the broad light of history, any being can so hold is more than I can tell you. Itisoneof those things thatisa marvel unto the philosophical mind. “Until a very late period such was the bitterness against those of our faith that | they were not permitted to enter any of the learned professions. Men of honest minds, who did not realize that this state of affairs was due wholly to bigotry, came to the conclusion that the Catholic church { is an enemy to freedom and all progress. *Then look at the prejudices that have flooded Protestant homes in the form of partisan literature. This is one reason why the Protesiant world, not so very | long ago, believed us to be followers of a crude, if not corrupt, religion. “But of late years there has come an im- portant change. The diffusion of Catholic literature, the writings of unprejudiced Protestants, and even of liberalists and in- fiflels, have done much to do away with such a flagrant error. “Let me tell you right here, that the wisdom of hunting down these disreputa- ble tales is manifest. As Macaulay says, we cannot consider it strange that Protest- | tants believe even the most strange and outlandish tales about us when we let them pass unrefuted. “This is something for you Catholics who may be termed ‘stall-fed’ to consider.” | After the laugh that ereeted this sally had subsided Father Ferguson continued his discourse in elucidation of the term “stall-fed.’” “A ‘stall-fed’ Catholic,” he declared, while the faces of his audience showed that they anticipated something witty, ““differs from the ‘jeliy-fish’ Catholic in | this: The ‘jelly-fish’ Catholic, while he | will not answer, will let it go at that, | while the ‘stall-fed’ Catholic will neither answer himself nor will he Ist others answer, They call this ‘dienified silence,’ but it oucht rather to be called ‘dignified cowardice.” ” N Pausing for the applause and laughter to subside, the lecturer drew a deep breath and then launched forth azain, his manner becoming more impassioned as he warmed to his subject. “They tell usthat the Catholic Church is an enemy to civil and religious liberty, that her head has been whitened by the snows of the ages while her countenance has been kept hooded and away from the sunlight of toleration and beneficence, that like some hideous animal from the shades of the underworld she lies in wait with her talons ready and itching to pounce upon and rend him who would sink broader and deeper in the rock of human liberty the foundations of the social fabric. “How any man can pretend to believe this and then hold up his nead before his fellow-men and assert that he has ever glanced inside the pages of history isa mystery so profound ana marvelous that | in grappling with it the brain reeis and the senses become utterly confused. I now and forever will maintain that if it | were not for the Catholic church the pres- | ent liberty of the United States could not be maintained. “What have the enemy to say of the valor of our chivalrous sons who, in the tremendous charge between the cross and the crescent, bathed the soil of Europe crimson with their lifeblood in preventing it from being overrun by the Moslem hordes? Nothing whatever. Their silence is as deep and unbroken as the grave. Listen to what the Protestant historian, Lecky, has to say: No humau pen can write its epitaph, for no human imagination can adequately realize its glory. In the eyes of those who estimate the greatness of sovereignuy, not by the extent of its territory nor by the number of its soldiers, but the influence it has exercised over man- kind, the Papal Government has no rival and can never have a successor. . Father Ferguson then mentioned more instances in which the archives of history demonstrate the obligations of the world to the mother church, and then took a new tack. “Who wasit,”’ he demanded, “that es- tablished the present system of trial by jury, with the good that it has brought to us? Wno was it that founded all those cardinal laws that have insured peace and prosperity to nations and peoples as long as they obeyed them in spirit and in letter? Who but the Roman Catholic church, which is and ¢ Iways has been the tender mother of civil and religious lib- erty and of individual right. *‘The Protestantscannotclaim the honor for these institutions. Why? Because they existed long before that form of re- ligion ever came into the world ‘with its attendant string of evils. That is why. Isn’t it enough?” b “Now” continued Father Ferguson, “Magna Charta is commonly supposed to be the document that forms the basis of all modern governmental liberty. To whom was its origin due? Let me tell you—it was owing to the stren- nous endeavors of that grand and noble man whose memory shall for- ever linger with us as an odor fresh from the balmy groves of the Gar- den of Eden, Stephen Langton, Arch- bichop of Canterbury. On his memory Sunset Cox, late envoy to Persia, pro- nounced a eulogy so fitting that [ am going to read it 10 you tonight. I am going to let you know something of this man to whom the civilized world is so greatly indebted.’” Here the lecturer read a rather long arti- cle by the author mentioned, showing the estimation in which he personally neid father ended with & plea that his hearers would not forget that the man of whom tbis tribute had been written was a Roman Cetholic.” He was | once interrupted by deafening applause | while reading the article at a paragraph empasizing the fact that Magna Charta is the direct predecessor of the American Revolution and the Declaration of Inde- pendence. ¥ “Now,” he continued, “I am not eager to draw the deadly parallel in matiers re- ligious, but it might be apropos under the circumstances to ask what those on the Lutheran side of the fence have to say for themselves during the years that have elapsed since the Reformation.” The manner in which Father Ferguson asked the question was so inimitable and the slight, sarcastic emphasis he threw upon the word ‘‘reformation” so fetching that the audience was instantly convulsed with laughter. “What have they performed? I ask. Has not the Enghish Parliament passed so many bad laws that the fair pages of history have been sullied by numerous ‘redresses of grievances. § “If Catholics are such enemies of liberty why did they stand in and assist this re- public in the days of its infancy, when it was bardly able to stand upon its feet? “How about the Protestants during those stirring times? Did they assist the Americans? To be sure they did'’—tais ironically. k . +All those Hessians that were shipped over to keep us under the iron hand of the tyrant were Catholics, weren’t they?’ ather Ferguson's tentative tone, and the comic expression of his features when he made this query, again brought down the house. “I defy any man to_show me,” ke thun- dered, ‘‘that any Catholies were ever shipped over to help subdue this country. No, they are too liberty-loving a people for that. There were enough Catholics in ‘Washington’s army alone to disprove any such assertion. “What nations were they that gave us recognition in those times? Compare the reception of Franklin at the court of France ana of Prussia. At the former he was welcomed. At the Istter Frederick told that eminent philosopher, who snatched the lightning from the skies and the scepter from the hands of tyrants, that he was born to rule, and did rule, and didr’t intend to lend any assistance that would harm the trade. “Then how about the republics of Genoa and the surrounding territory, as well as the cantons of Switzerland, who owed their existence to the favor of the Popes? Instead of fostering them they might have taken away their liberty had they so de- sired. “What was the results produced upon the Governments of Europe by the refor- mation? Kor fully 250 years absolutism Teigned, and it was not until the year 1843 that the tyranny of the ruler of Prussia was hedged about with restrictions. Itis about the same with Sweden and Den- mark.” Hereupon the lecturer paused to quote from historical authority to prove that the condition of the peovle of many of the districts of these countries is, in many re- spects, as crude as it was hundreds of years ago. *As the great Cardinal Newman said,” he continued after reading certain ex- cerpts, **‘There’s not tongue that wags against the Catholic church to-day that doesn’t owe it to her that it can wagat all.” “The fabric of freedom in this country was first reared by Lord Baltimore, when he came with his faithful band of followers and worked for the establish- ment of peace, liberty and happiness. “Jefferson, when he wrote that para- graph in the Declaration of Independence stating that the attributes of all men are ‘ife, liberty and pursuit of happiness,’ was foreshadowed by Fenelon, a great French archbishop, who used nearly the same words in requesting an English king to ailow his subjects greater liberty. “In conclusion, let me say that the Cdth- olic church will ever be found in the van- guard of progress, holding aloft the torch- | 1ight of liberty and reason, that the nations may see their way clear 1o higher planes of thought and existence." The gathering was dismissed with the announcement that a grand patriotic dem- onstration would be geld under the aus- ices of the Young Men’s Catholic Union in Metropolitan Temple on the evening of Tuly 8, at which all were invited to be present. VILLARD HIMSELF AGAIN The Old-Time Railroad King in a New Transcontinental Scheme. Unlimited Backing From Europe and the Rockefeller Interests in This Country. CHICAGO, IrL., June 25.—The name of Henry Villard of Northern Pacific fame was associated to-day in railroad circles with & story of a new transcontinental railroad scheme, embracing the Baltimore and Ohio, Chicago and Northern Pacific Company’s terminal property in this ¢ity, the Chicago Great Western Road from this city to St. Paul and the Northern Pacific system from that city to the Pacific Coast. It is said that Mr. Viliard has re- gained the confidence of his former finan- cial backers in Europe to the extent of having enough money, with the help of the Rockefeller interests on this side, to accomplish the gigantic scheme he is credited with cherishing. The reported plan is to buy in the Northern Pacific property when it is offered at foceclosure sale next month, and the Adams reorgani- zation committee is said to be cognizant and friendly to the project. Then the Chicazo and Northern Pacific Terminal system, which was built during the Villard regime, is the next connectin link which is to be added to the nllegeg transcontinental chain of the property now in the receiver’s hands, if put up at fore- closure sale next October. If it develops, as reported, that the Vanderbilts are after that property for a Michigan Central terminal the bidding will run far ahead of the court’s upset price of $10,000,000. The Baltimore and Ohio, which is to be the Eastern section of the chain, 1s to be sold by the receivers this year to the hich- est bidder, and it is said Villard and the Rockefellers have been quietly buying all the securities of that road they could get since the road joined the receivership ranks. A majo of the holders of the Chicago Great Western securivies are European, and it is said the lourth link bas been assured by a combination with the backers of Villard there to make that line an integral part of the new transcon- tinental route. 4 Burglar Enters His Kesidence and Makes a Haul. CLEVELAND, Onro, June 26.—Hon. Mark Hanna's Lakewood villa was en- tered by a burglar at an early hour this (Friday) morning. The thief secured $300 worth of jewels and $70 in money. He did not arouse the occapants of the house, but was detected on leaving it by Mr. Hanna's private watchman. The Lakewood Marshal was notified and he with his two assistants chased the burelar JOHN P, IRISH ON WHITNEY'S LETTER This Elequent Goldbug Dis- agrees With the New Yorker. HE CRIES “NO QUARTER!’ Says- an International Agree- ment Is Remote, if Not Impossible. OPPOSED TO ANY COMPROMISE. Irish Says the Sound Money Men Shoula Stand Together Under the Two-Thirds Rule. John P. Irish is one of the gold Dem- ocrats who do not agree with W. C. Whit- international agreement they will be disap- apointed, and we will have an acute renewal of the present dangerous agitation. In my judgment the sound money men at Chicago, being more than a third of the con- vention, should stand together and vote sol- idly for a sound money candidate—Russell, Carlisle, William L. Wilson, Secretary Morton, anybody who stands for the old Democratic faith. No party authority capable of deliver- ing a National canon has ever yet declared that the iree, unlimited, independent coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to1 isa Democratic principle. We are under no obligations to accept that novelty at the dictction of recent Republicans like Boies or anarchists like Alt- geld. Let them find ways and means to nomi- nate their candidate. The two-thirds rule in i Democratic conventions was intended to be the Iast refuge of principle. Let it be used to that end in this emergency. What is the situation? We measurably re- deemed the party's pledee of tariff reform. The silver men by violent agitation have so salarmed the country and the world as to con- gest and stagnate business enterprise and in- dustry, with the result of deficient revenues, not due to the tariff per se, but fo industrial paralysis caused by the fear of a silver stand- ard. The silver men thereiore have played into the hands of the Republicans by enabling them to revive protection and reseat it in the law. Original silver propogandists in the Democratic party were protectionists, like General Warner of Ohio, who is now out with & declaration in favorof 16 to 1 and *‘incl- dental” protection. The party owes to such men the coming overthrow of every resultof thirty years’ education of the people on the tariff. 7 They are going into this battle repudiating the whole record of the party since 1861, and re- jecting the only successful leader we have had since the Civil War. Isee no good in attempt- ing vo reason them out of it. They prefer Till- man to Cleveland. Let them test the coun- try's judgment on that preference. JoHN P. IRISH. N “Sound Money” SN val Officer John P, Irish, the Leading Democratic Champion of Gold or on the Pacific Coast. ney of New York, whose recent letter, written in an effort to in some measuge stem the silver tide in the party, practically acknowledged the defeat of the gold forces, pleads for a compromise and re- ports that the march of the ‘‘other na- tions” to the bimetallic goal is plain to the ear on the ground. In the following statement of his views Mr. Irish, with customary force, declares for ‘‘no quarter,”” deprecates persuasion of silverites and asks that in this party emergency the two-thirds rule be made what it was intended to be, “the last refuge of principle”: I have carefully read Mr. Whitney’s letter, | and disagree with him. The extreme silver men have a majority, and we have more than one-third of the conven- tion. Why persuade. them tp conservative ac- tion such as resting on an international agree- ment? Such an agreement is impossible, or" 80 remote as to lose paraliax. Mr. Whitney overstates the European situation. If the ex- treme silver men are inducad to depend on an OARSMEN AT PRACTICE. The Sportsman Says the Yale Crew's Work Has Surprised Their Eng- lish Critics. LONDON, Exg., June 25.— The Yale eight were out again this afternoon and rowed over half the coursein 3:325 ata stroke of from 34 to 36. The New College crew Towed the same distance in 3:24, at a | stroke of from 35 to 38. The Sportsman will to-morrow say that the latest performance of the Yale crew has surprised their critics. It is abuna- antly evident that they will take a lot more beating than anybody expected. The Trinity Hall crew were out on the Thames this morning and rowed over half the course in 3:32, at a stroke ranging from thirty-eight down to thirty-five. The | Yale men were in better shape this morn- ing. They were out on the water at 11 o'clock and rowed for an hour. 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Y., June 25.—The Her- ald’s special cable from Caracas, Vene- zuela, says: News received here from Guiana is to the effect that nineteen Englishmen were arrested with Mr. Harrison, a civil en- gineer, and are now held in EI Dorado station, on the Cuyuni River, for their at- tempt to build a road in Venezuelan terri- the Archbishop of Canterbury and what homage his memory deserved from all enlightened nations. The reverend H. SUMMERFIELD & CO. 922-930 MARKET STREET. SAVE MONEY---BE IN TIME. lo?' ‘here was no bloodshed when the ar- rests were made. We've made the same great ALTERATIONS in the price of everything, Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s Clothinz, Farnis! | | A Sheet Anchor In all conditions of muscular wasting, nervous debility and fever, good in shock and fainting, a valuable help to dyspep- tics. This eulogy, one of many, has been pronounced upon that sterling stimulant, Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey A Sheet Anchor holds a ship from drift- So does this medicinal whiskey retard consumption of tissue, and ing on the rocks. thus preventsthe body from drifting into a condition of disease. Is not this worth remembering at a time when a change of temperature may be fraught with danger to blood and nerves? No wide-awake druggist or grocer thinks of being out of Duffy’s pure malt. $85.00. REDUCED T0 $47.50 CLOSING-OUT SALE. s “HUSEBY” FULLY GUARANTEED. The Only High-Grade Wheel on the Market at $47.50, We challenge comparison withjany and all bicy- cles in the world, possessing radical advautages superior-to any bicycie manufactured. LARGE ASSORTMENT Of ladies’ and gents’ wheels must be soid in ten days for cash. All I request is acritical, impar- tial and scratinizing inspection. E.J. THELEN ;&% Open Evenings. Tel. Main 1 N RESPONSE TO THE DEMANDS OF MANY of our patrons we have concluded to establish a+Table d’Hote” dinner, bezinning Thursday, June 25, from 5 to 8 P. ., the priceof which will be #1. The high siandard of excellence tha t we have 50 carefully preserved for 8o many vears will recom- mend this new feature to the public. SWAIN BROS.. UNITED STATES BRANCH STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION AND AFFAIRS OF THE LANCASHIRE INSURANCE COMPARY F MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, ON THE 31st day of December, A. D. 1895, and for the year ending on that day, as made to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of California, pursuant to the provisions of sections 610 and 611 of the Political Code, condensed as per blank furnished by the Commissioner. ASSETS. Real Estate owned by Compan Cash Market Value of all Stoc ‘Bonds owned by Compan: Cash in Company’s Office. Cash in Banks Premiums in due Course of Collec- {77 S $385,585 72 Total assests.... LIABILITIES. Losses Adjusted ana Unpaid......... $70,460 18 Losses in process of Adjustment or in Suspense..... B, 119,953 00 Losses resisted including expenses. 38,589 95 Gross preminms on Fire Risks ran ning one year or less, $1,545 961 90, reinsurance 50 percent.. 772,950 98 Gross premiums on Fire Risks run- ning more than one year, $882, 766 10, reinsurance prorata... . 480,830 62 All other demands against the Com- pany 45,000 00 Total lisbilities. 1,587,814 70 INCOME. Net Cash sctually received for Fire FremalUnid l oo % s oA vl o $1,896,651 43 Received for interest and dividends on Bonds, Stocks, Loans and from all other sources. 65,964 26 Recelved for Rents.... 3,443 83 Total Income. 1,966,059 52 EXPENDITURES Net amount paid for Fire Losses....$1,118,679 61 Paid or allowed for Commission or Brokeraze 313,603 94 Pald for Salaries, Fees and other charges for Officers, Clerks, etc.. 171,951 02 Pald for National and local taxes........ All other payments an ate, 42,987 96 49,964 34 expenditure: -$1,792,156 87 Total expenditures. . Fire Losses incurre a during the year....81,062,339 00 Premiums. RISKS & PREMIUMS. | Fire Risks. Net amount of Risks written during the| ear. .. ve.... |$324,395,432 92,584,042 18 Net amount of Risks| i expired during the, year. Net amount December | 217,651,094/ 2,562.295 59 |.208,943,226| 2,428,728 00 E. LITCHFIELD, Mansger. Subscribed and sworn o before me, this 35th day of January. 1896. C. K. VALENTINE, Notary Public. MANN & WILSON, Managers, PACIFIC COAST DEP‘AB“IN’T. N. E. Corner California and Sansome Sts., SAN FRANCISCO CAL. UP-TO-DATE BICYCLES. Crawford -- “Unsurpassed,” $10, $50, $60, $75. Phonix “Stands the Racket” $100. The guarantee of the Crawford same as that given with $100 wheels. 3 31, 1895 EDWIN MOHRIG, Agent, 1510 Market St., San Francisco, Cal. S THE VERY BEST OXE Tu EXAMINB your eyes and fit them 0 S les and Eye- with Instruments of own inveation, I it = W [Z Hours—1210 4 7. & 5