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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1896. THURSDAY .......dULY 23, 1896 AMUSEMENTS. CALIFORNTA THEATER.— Carmen.” BALowiN T REATER.—" Bohemia,” next Monday evening, COLUMBIA THEATER—*‘Moths.” MOROSCO'S LrrRA-HOUSK—Irish Inspirstion.” TivoLr Opera-Housk.—«I Pagliaccl.” OnerxUM—High-Class Vaudeville. SUTRO BATHS— Bathing and performances. SHooT THE CHuTEs—Dally at Haight street, cneblock east of the Park. AUCTION SALES. L By Smarnwarp. BUCKBRE & Co.—This dav lny). Real Estate, at sslesroom, 218-220 'y street. BY Gro. F. Lamsox—This day Furnfrure, at O'Farrell street, near o'clock. Thursday), aylor, st 2 SK BUTTERFIELD — This _ day tock and Fixturesof s Dairy Store, , near Sacramento, at 11 o'clock. 8. BascE—This day (Thursday), Groceries, at enta street, at 11 o'clock. OITY NEWS IN BRIEF. The Board of Education made numerous changes among the teachers last evening. The California Fish Commissioners are pre- paring a fine fish exbibit for the Mechanics’ Fair. The resignation of John W. Butler as execu- tor of the will of Natnsniel W. Cole has been accepted. Auditor Broderick called Mayor Sutro a fakir at the meeting of the Election Commissioners yesterday. Angel Island infantrymen are practicing at long-range targets at the Presidio with the new army models. Mrs. Nora Cunningham, alias several other names, is accused of cruelly neglecting her two small children. The First Congregational Society hopes to reassemble for worship in the church building within a short time. The Woman's State Republican Club held an enthusisstic meeting in Judge Groezinger's courtroom last night. Billy Jordan, market inspector, seized 800 watermelons which were wilted and saved 8000 boys from stomeach ache, Major-General N. T. James has appointed Colonel J. C. Currier as assistant adjutant- general and chief of staff. Members of the Union-square Free Baptist Church held & jubilee lst night over the dis- charge of the church debt The annusl meeting of the Produce Ex- change was held yesterday, at which the newly elected officers were installed. Woman Suffrage lecture work will be in- augurated next week among the colored peo- ple of this Cily and the interior. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is endeavoring to stop the sportof setting fox-terriers upon rabbits. The second day’s meeting of the Pacific Coast Gas ciation terminated with a ban- quet last night at the Palace Hotel. Annie K. Brenham has petiticued to be ap- inted guardian of the estate of her husband, obert Is. Brenham, an incompetent. Clondy weather with conditions favorable for showers and southwesterly winds is the best the Weather Bureau can offer for to-day. James J. McKinnon has been appoi ecutor, without bonds, of the will of MeMillan Hollis M. gus £ The estate is valued at $8500. 226 Howard street, dropped eceiving Hospital early yesterday ng from, it is supposed, heart disease. The single-tax leaders are planning to stump the State and educate the people to single-tax principles and the advantages of 10cal opiion. Billy Galiagher, the pugilist, attached Young Mitchell's place yesterdsy for ®440 for his %hue of the purse in the Smith-Gallagher ght. JA'Sistant United States Attornéy-General J. M. Dickinson, now here on & pleasure trip, - s the Populists would be foolish to indorse an. The British ships Cedarbank and Cambus- kennetn arrived vesterday after unusuaily long pussages. Reinsurance was paid on both vessels. Considerable speculation is being indulged 1 by Federal employes as to who will succeed Captain Talbor s chie! inspector of hulls and ilers. William Watts, the fruit peddler accused of eooping up the boy George Walker in = barrel, was arrested yesterday afternoon on a charge of battery. The will of Peter Kehoe has been admitted to probate. Cornelius Snay and John O'Con- nor were appointed executors. The estate is worth $5200. A contest to the probate of the will of Caro- line Vetier was filei yesteraay by Rosine Grant, sister of the deceased. Property worth $75,000 is involved. George M. Rogers has begun suit egainst the Emporium Company for alleged breach of con- tract in not allowing him to establish a de- parument hardware store. T. D. McKay, the Oriental passenger.agent of several transcontinentai and trans-Pacific transporcation companies, is to return to his Ppost of duty next Thursda: The Chinese Merchants' Association, at a wmeeting held last night, determined to make special inquiry into the death of Lee Tie, who was murdered Sunday night. For the fiscal year ending June 30 there was imported from Hawaii merchandise to the amount of $9,915,448. The export trade was s little over one-third of this. A suit to oust the directors of the American Pipe and Pile Armor Company: was filed yesterday. Itis claimed that they have juggled the affairsof the corporation. The Painters’ Union will ask the assistance of Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald in the en- actment of laws for the improvement of the condition of the laboring classes. Hugo D. Keil has replied to the charges made by the carnival committee against the Merchants’ Associstion in stinging terms, ac- cusing the former oi & lack of liberality. The Supreme Court hes affirmed the decision of the lower tribunalin the case of John W. Mackay and Richard V. Dey, executors of Mrs, Theresa Fair, vs. the City and County of San Fraucisco. Exclusive information in THE CALL concern- ing the demage caused to the Channel-street sewer by the running of irains above it has caused a sensation among householders and taxpayers. Rosje T. Oliver yesterday filed a complaint asking for the annulmeut of her marriage with Manuel E. Oliver. She claims Oliver isa disreputable character and-that she was not of age when she married him. A rate war hss begun again among the steamers'on the San Joaquin River. Yester- day the California Navigution and Improve- ment Compauy ‘cut therate between San Fran- cisco and Stockton from 50 to 25 cents. Julius W. Raphael, presidentof Raphael's (incorporated), returned irom New York las night.” He urges prompt measures for main. taining the supremacy of San Francisco in Oriental and Central American commerce. A. R. McFarlane, an old man, who was tricked out of $56 worth oi diamonds last Thursdey, which he wes trying to sell, has become insane through worrying over it and is now in & cell in the Receiving Hospital. District Attorney Barnes is at present look- ing up the legal power of the Grand Jury o take steps against the Supervisors who voted 10 reduce the assessments of the railway com- peny and other corporations last Monday. The Wasbburn Sisters, Blanche and Lfllian, now playing at the Orpheum, are putting on their famous act of the “Newsboys.” It has reapea many a dime for the boys in the East, and seems about to repeat the success here “Uncle” George T. Bromley, the venerable Bohemian, was taken suddenly ill at Belvedere Monday morning. He is nearing his cightieth birthday and this, his_first illness, has fright- :lnedlnlm almost to death. He is recovering slowly. «“Billy"” Develin, an old-time employe of the Mgeil Company and brother of the District At- torney of Solano County, died at Champerico of yellow fever recently. He was General An- tonio Ezeta's private secretary at the time of his death. 5 The local United States Shipping Commis- sioner has been mnotified by the Treasury De- pertment that in future ail seamen be provided with a leather ketbook, in which 10 carry all records relating to voyages, time discharged, etc. Charles Arms, tailor, 402 Jones street, for whose arrest Louise Schwegler swore out a warrant on Tuesday on the charge of grand larceny, hled a sui’ in the Justices’ Court yes- terday, clnimlnLus from her for damage to his carpets and bedding. v General Wade Hampton, United States Rail- road Commissioner, arrived 1n this City on his annual inspection of the Government-aidea roads. His secretary, Charles E. Thomas, has been made chief clerk to_the Commission at ‘Washington made vacant by the death in this City of F. 8. Storma. FOR McKINLEY, An Enthusiastic Meetihg ; of Mission Repub- licans. DEMOCRACY DENOUNCED The Thirty-Fifth District Club Listens to Elcquent Ad- dresses. OVER FOUR HUNDRED PRESENT Scores of Persons Had to Be Turned Unwillingly Away From the Crowded Hall. The Thirty-fifth Assembly District Re- publican Club held an enthusiastic meet- ing last night at the club headquarters, 1339 Valencia street. The hall, which has a seating capacity of nearly 400, was to- tally inadequate ‘to accommodate the crowd which had assembled and scores of people had to be turned away. The hall was appropriately decorated for the occasion. Large portraits of Lin- coln, Grant, Garfield, Harrison and other Republican heroes were hung about the walls, and back of the president’s chair, upon a background of the National colors, was placed a large picture of tbe present standard-bearer of the party. s President Northrop in a few brief re- marks introduced General Friedrichs as “one of the most gifted and eloquent orators in the State, nd promised the audience that they would be sure to be entertained by the general and the speakers who were to follow him. - General Friedrich modest'y jdisclaimed having any such repusation as the presi- dent had given him, but repeated the president’s promise that the audience should be well entertained by the speakers of the evening. “In the notice I received,” said the gen- eral, "'it was stated that there was to bea ratification meeting. However, I do not come here to ratify. Ihave been ratifying ever since the nomination was made. What I have come here for is to see and become acqnainted with the. famous Thirty-fifth District Club, of which I have heard so much. “Although I have heard flattering ac- counts of the organization, I am neverthe- less surprised at seeing a body of men so intelligent and so earnest. I can say with pride that it is an assembly such as only a Republican club can furnish.” General Friedrich then proceeded to draw a vivid comparison between the St. Louis and the Chicago conventions. “The two conventions have already passed into history,” he said, “after having each nom- inated a man to bear its standard pext November. The Democrats have put up a man whose reputation is based upon speeches made at county fairs and Populist picnics—a man who went to the convention a contesting dele- gate, and by pouring forth yards of piati- tudes and glittering generalities captured the nomination at tbe hands of awe- struck, bewhiskered Democrats. Three days before his nomination not one man in five thousand thought of him as a Presidential possibility. The man was practically unknown. “Contrast this man with the nominee of the St. Louis convention. Long before the gathering at St. Louis men had turned their faces toward William McKinley. As the clouds of industrial inactivity thick- ened, as factories shut down and the despairing cry for food arose from millions of starving men and women, the gaze that was centered upon the great Republican became more and more fixed, and the peo- ple at length arose,to demand that William McKinley should be the standard-bearer in the campaign for prosperity in 1896. “You have passed through four years of Cleveland, of political stagnation—of po- litical damnation, I mightalmost say, and you must certainly know'when youn have bhad enough. We now demand, and aye will have, four years of McKinley, four years of prosperity, four years of protec- tion.” At the conclusion of General Friedrich’s speech, President Northrop introduced Samuel M. Shortridge as an orator who was known from one end of California to the other, & speaker whom people came to hear a second and a third time. When the applause which greeted his introduc- tion had subsided Mr. Shortridge began: “Many years ago one of the grandest men who ever trod this earth, one of the most eloguent orators that ever stirred the hearts of men, a patriot devoted to truth, wedded to liberty, declared: ‘Where the feet of my youth were planted, there my manhood and my age shall march.’ Allow me but to appropriate these words of the immortal Colonel E. D. Baker and say that I was born a Republican and that I shall continue to walk where the feet of my youth“were planted. “If there_is present a Republican who fought under the banner of the divine Abraham Lincoln, who has followed the fortunes of the invincible Ulysses S. Grant, who has listened to the words of the spot- less James A. Garfield, or who has been stirred by the words of our grand departed champion, James G. Blaine—if, I say, there are present any who have followed, the banners of these great Republicans I can say to you that you may rest assured that in the person of our present standard- bearer you have a worthy successor to these great patriots. “William McKinley stands pre-emi- nently for the principle of the protective tariff which has made America what she is to-day. He represents a party knowing no east or west, no north or south, the party which alone has the ability, learn- ing and patriotism to successfully conduct the affairs of the American Republic. “1 bave no doubt but that the American people will call the Republican party back to power, if for no other reason than that it is the only party that conducts the affairs of this country in a business like manner. The question that confronts us is a question of homes and firesides; of factories, of farms; a question of National honor and National success. g “All over the !ana there is misery, want and unrest. The aifficulty has long been to place the band upon ‘the seat of the dis- ease. Some have even as yet failed to grasp the cause of this distress. Depend upon it, the American people will under- stand what is the cause and what party it The British Ships Cedarbank and Cambuskenneth, Which Arrived From Antwerp and Hamburg Yesterday After Unysually Long Passages. They Encountered Several Hurricanes Off the Horn and Were Becalmed Off the Golden Gate. is that will restore to them prosperity and success. *‘‘Put not your trust in princes,’ was said of old. ‘Put not your trust in the Democratic party,’ we say to-day. Even if the intentions of the Democrals are good they lack the ability. Put not your trust in the Democratic party—a motley crowd of rainbow-chasers who know not what they do. Put your trust in the party which was founded to further the interests of American workers and puta crown, not of thorns but of glory, upon the brow of human labor.” After the conclusion of Mr. Shortridge’s speech, which was frequently interrupted by applause, Ernest Wakeman drew a graphic picture of the misery and desola- tion caused by the Democracy, and in con- clusion he urged all present not to fail to register, so as to vote for Republican pros- perity at the coming election. Andrew Branch followed with a ringing denunciation of Democratic misrule, inter- spersing his remarks, however,with many humorous recitals which convulsed the audience. A recess was then taken while refresh- ments were served and a musical pro- gramme rendered by Messrs. Branhall, Closson and Todd. Afterthe meeting had again come to order stirring speeches were made by Colonel Eddy, Major Kyle and John T. Dare, who all prophesied a glorious yictory in the fall campaign. At the conclusion of the speeches a general reunion and introduc- tion of new members followed, after which the meeting adjourned. The Thirty-fifth District Republican Club, which is one of the most prosperous in the City, has at present a membership of some 800 Republicans. The clubrooms, where last night’s meeting was hela, are open every evening from 6 to 10 o’clock. Foliowing are the officers of the ciub: V. F. Northrop, president, 11 Juri street; C. M. Depew, vice-president, 303 San Jose avenue; R. H. Stafford, secretary, 725 Twenty-second street; C. L. Hedemark, treasurer, 1052 Valencia. Executive com- mittee—James McKnight, 911 Twenty- third street; D. F. Mulville, 20 Fair Oaks; J. W. Murphy, 620 Twenty-fourth; Perry J. Smith, 1307 Valencia; W. W. Macy, 2308 Mission; M. J. McPherson, 1309 Dolores; E. A. Grant, 1020 Capp; J. N. Rawe, 1422 Guerrero; Buron Kelley, 127 California avenue; P. C. Francis, 29 Chapultepec; E. H. Herrick, 105 Prospect avenue; Dr. E. N. Torello, Silver avenue and Mission road; H. Collins, 25 Chat- tanooga; G. W. Debenham, 1620 Valen- cia; W. R. Plumbe, 812 Twenty-fourth; D. 1. Newkirk, 2727 Mission; Elgin Mc- Nab, 927 Dolores; George Dean, 1507 Guer- rero; R. B. Fredericks, 11 Eugenia avenue; A. J. Styche, 705 Bank; J. M. Rhodes, 205 San Jose avenug; P. J. Hyde, 235 Bartlett; S. Gamble, 1307 Dolores; J. ¥. Butler, Twenty-ninth and Alabama. e RALLYING FOR McKINLEY. An Army and Navy Republican League Camp Elects Its Officers. William McKinley Camp No. 1, Army and Navy Republican League of Califor- nia, held a large and enthusiastic meeting last night at the headquarters, 26 O’Farrell street, for the purpose of electing offi- cers. The following were elected and in- stalled: Colonel commanding, W. F. Randall; lientenant-colonel commanding, E. H. Herrick; major, M. J. Collins; quar- termaster, 8. W. Carpenter; officer of the day, W. P. Harrison; officer of the guard, J. M. Cowley; adjutant, E. W. Bushnell. The executive council seiected consists of E. H. Herrick, T. C. Masteller, James Kip, M. J. Collins and J. S. French. Stirring remarks were made by Captain Leon E. Jones, commander of McKinley Club No. 1; W. F. Randall, W. H. Wharff, F. P. Burgess, R. T. Melvin, member of the Kansas Legislature; Adjutant-General James Kip of the department. g National Republican Club. The National Republican Club was re- organized last night at 520 Bush street, and the following officers were elected: President, H. J. Hess; vice-president, Edward Bottorn; recording secretary, F. G. Robrecht; financial secretary, Max Haas; treasurer, K. A. Lundstrom; sergeant-at- arms, J. D, Barry; executive committee— Robert Little, J. T. Quarrels, F. W. Am- man, Peter Hanson and Charles Smith. The meeting was well attended and a large number of applications for mem ber- ship were received. The club decided to hold its next meet- ing at California Hall within a few days. e Perkins Republican Club. The Perkins Repubtican Club met last night at their ball, corner of Powell and Green streets. The following permanent officers were elected: President, W. J. Loudon; first vice-president, E. Drey- polcher; second vice-president, A. Suarez; recording secretary, Frank Aicher; finan- cial secretary, E. Wackenreuder; treas- urer, H. Nellman; sergeant-at-arms, R. Seveaing; executive committee—C. Dona- hue, J. Cohn, J. Nevraumont, J. Cruse, A Vergez; committee on uniforms L. Stronl, G. raber, W. Welsh. Remarks were made by W.J. Loudon, L, Strohl and E. Dreypolcher. Before aajournment three rousing cheers were given for Mec- Kinley and Hobart and J. D. Spreckels, NS T <y Golden Gate Valley Club. The Golden Gate Valley Democratic Club, Willlam Wright temporary chair- man, held a meeting at their hall, on the corner of Filbert an d Filimore streets, last night. There was a large and enthusias- tic gathering of Democrats, over fifty new members having signed the roll. A reso- lution indorsing the nomination of Joseph P. Kelly for Congress was adopted, In Spanish obituary notices the death is always given. * s STORM AND CALM DELAYED THEM. The Cedarbank and Cambus- kenneth Finally Reach Port. A FATALITY ON BOARD. An Apprentice Boy Fell From the Royal Yard and Was Instantly Killed. DEATH OF “BILLY” DEVLIN. He Was Well Known in the Mail Service, and Was Ezsta's Private Secretary. The overdue fleet is gradually making port, and .the general impression is that the losses rounding the Horn during the last season of heavy weather will be con- fined to one ship. That one has gone seems to be undisputed, but as to whether it is the American ship Santa Clara from New York or the Undaunted from Balti- more remains in doubt. Both vessels | carry general merchandise, and consider- | able reinsurance has been placed on them. Two more of the long-delayed vessels got in yesterday. Both made unusually long voyages, the Cambuskenneth being 181 days from Hamburg and the Cedar- bank 187 days from Antwerp. While | rounding the Horn the former lost one of | ber crew and the Cedarbank was swept | from stem to stern. The storm was dn | awful one, and both vessels had a hard time of it. The captain of the Cambus- kenneth was the first to tell the tale yes- terday. **We sailed from Hamburg on the 23d of January,” said he.. ‘‘We crossed the equator twenty-three days out and had light, northerly airs to latitude 20 south. *On March 20 our trouble commenced. A heavy southwest gale struck the ship and we had to strip down to a small show of canvass. High cross-seas were raised, several of which were lbigved, sweeping | the decks fore and aft. The fore end of the forecastle was stove in, the topsail halyard wince was carried away and other slight damage done. “We were thirty-six days from 50 deg. in the Atlantic to 50 deg. in the Pacific. A succession of northerly gales were found on this side. The balance of the voyage | | | young Camplin.” Samuel Camplin was only 19 years old, but during the storms he took all the risks and did more work than the oldest A. B. on the vessel. He escaped every danger, and it was during comparatively calm weather that he met his death. He was at work on the rofll yard when his foot slipped and he fell heavily to the deck. Every bone in his body was broken and he died instantly. He was buried at sea. The Cedarbank sailed from Antwerp on January 17 and had fair weather up to March 21. On that date she was caught in a gale, was thrown on her beam ends and nearly toundered. The crew had to cut away three lower topsails to save the ship and, although it was a work of great danger, they had to do it as it was a case of life'or death. From 50 south in the Atiantic to 50 south in the Pacific the Cedarbank encountered nothing but heavy weather. For days it was nothing but a constant struggle to make headway and the crew was almost frozen in the attempt. On April 27 the Ceaarbank ran into a hurricane and heavy cross seas swept her from stem to stern. Part of her rail was carried away, the harness casks went by the board and the port lifeboat was re- duced to kindling wood. From that time on the Cedarbank had fair weather, but for three days wus becaimed off the Faral- lones in a fog. On one occasion the weight of water thrown on the decks of the big ship was so great that forty feet of the heavy iron bulwark was bulged by the strain. Both the Cedarbank ana Cambus- kenneth bad all they could do to round the Horn. The Pacific Mail Company’s City bf Syd- ney arrived from Panama and way ports {iestemny two days ahead of time. From azatlan the run was made in 4 days 18 hours, which is the best on record, sav- ing the same vessel's first run from tue same port, which she made in 4 days 9 hours and 22 minutes, in April, ‘When passing Pigeon Point Captain John- son sighted the wreck of the Colombia, but neither he nor anybody else on board surmised for an instant what vessel it was. Everybody seemed 1o think it was one of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company’s vessels and no one ever connected the dis- aster with the Colombia. Captains Clark and Johnson were warm personal friends and the latter was very much affected wli‘an he :urdb:: '-ha‘:mk. 'he Sydney brin e news of the death of W _G.ds illy) Devlin at Cham- rico from yellow fever. “‘Billy” was lor years in the employ of the Mail com- pany on the dock and for several trij went out as !reiEM clerk on the Rio de Janeiro. When eral Antonio Ezeta went to Panama he went along as his private ncrezg? and was the cnh{el engi- neer of the filibustering expedition that ended so disastrously on the coast of Sal- vador. At that time Devlin had a chance to return to San Francisco on the tug Barclay Golden, but rafused, saying ne would stand by Ezeta. The latter’s mone; begar to run short, however, and “Billy’ started on a reconnoitering expedition up the coast. At Champerico he was taken was uneventful, save for the sad death of down with the yellpw fever and suc- cumbed. His brother is Prosecuting At- torney of Solano County and his reiatives live in Vallejo. The first of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company’s steamers under :.ihe new schedule sailed for Portland yester- ay. Formerly the cut-rate was $5, and the Columbia took 250 cabin passengers at thai figure. Yesterday the rate was $12, and the Mexico bad only sixty passengers aboard. The vessel was loaded down with freight, however, as the cut-rate on mer- chandise still prevails. The merry rate war on _the San Joaquin River has begun again. Last year therate used to be 25 cents, but finally an under- standing was reached, and both the Cali- fornia Navigation and Improvement Com- pany and the Union Transportation Com- any advanced rates to 50 cents a passage. 'his rate has prevailed for some time, pbut now a cut to 25 cents has been made by the California Navigation and Improve- ment Company, and it is expected that the other company will follow suit in a few days. Traffic is pretty heavy on the river just now, but as the old company'is running iwo steamers a day it expects to have no difficulty in handling the rush that is sure to follow the reduction. HIS MIND AFFECTED. ‘Worry Over the Loss of Some Diamonds Has Placed A. R. McFarlane in a Padded Cell. ‘Worry over the loss of some diamonds has driven A. R. McFarlane, an old man, insane and he is now in a padded cell in the Receiving Hospital. g McFarlane was a salesman for W. J. Street, jeweler, Bush and Kearny streets. Last Thursday, on Bryant street, between Seventh and Eighth, he tried to negotiate a sale of diamonds worth $56 with a young man standing beside a wagon in front of a macaroni factory. The young man took them into the place to show them to a friend and did not return. He was not known at the factory. Peter Shivo, the driver of the wagon, 'was arrested for grand larceny. The case came up in Judge Joachimsen’s court yes- terday morning and McFarlane admitted that Schivo never had the diamonds in his possession. Schivo denied knowing the young man who got the diamonds and said he was only talking with bim to kill time when McFarlane offered the dia- monds for sale. The Judge dismissed the case. Yesterday afternoon Street took Mec- Farlane to the Calfornia-street station. He said the old man had been worrying so much over the loss of the diamonds that he had turned quite crazy. Policeman Burnett took McFarlane in the patrol- wagon to the hospital. All the way he talked wildly and wanted to go to a place where there was nothing but grass. A COLORED LADY ORATOR Mrs. Naomi Anderson Is to Lec- ture Here on. Woman Suffrage. Miss Anthony Will Speak To-Day in Oakland at the Salvation Army Mass-Meeting. At the Woman Suffrage Bureau visitors are daily becoming more numerous. 1In- terest of the liveliest character is being manifested in the cause by ladies who formerly had not given a thoueht to the ballot. Among yesterday’s callers was Mrs. Laura Riddell of S8an Diego, who re- ports a most encouraging state of things in the “bay and climate’’ city and its vi- cinity. “We have a large and enthu- siastic county campaign committee,” she remarked,“ and have flourishing clubs in all the wards of the city. The foremost society ladies bave thrown themselves, heart, soul and purse, into the movement, and all our meetings are thronged. “Jtisnot only in San Diego that thisstate of thing prevail,” wenton Mrs, Riddell.* In the interior towns of Soutnern California & similar sentiment is plainly apparent. I have been charged with a general super- intendency of the precinct clubs in the south and I anticipate a deal of work from now until after the elections. At thesame time I find it a joy to meet the devoted women whom I have come across in my labors. In general I have observed much interest in the canse among women of all classes, excepting salesiadies, who, strange to say, appear to be entirely indifferent re- garding the matter.” Miss Hay, the chairman, reported that active work among the colored residents of this City and vicinity wiil commence next Monday. Mrs. Naomi Anderson, an eloquent colored orator and an ardent apostle of the cause, will lecture in San Francisco every night next week and in Oekland during the week following, after which she will commence & lecturing tour in the interior. To-day Miss Anthony, Mrs. A. A. Sar- gent and Mrs. Riddell will attend the Sal- vation Army mass-meeting in Oakland. Miss Anthony will deliver an address and a8 large attendance is anticipated, as inter- estin the movement is yvery noticeable among tke American-born hallelujah las- sies. B Saturday at the CIiff. The officers and members of the Harvard Club are preparing for a grand banquet to be given at the Cliff House next Saturdayevening at 7 o’clock. George B. Merrill, the president of the club, will preside on the occasion, and the members are looking forward to a grand time. The ciub xlm ‘wneeg‘wd -nmm':::ni:n 8 e obinson £iorrs “Hathe Tn the atternoon, after which the on go’n o(. the ni?n»nrd Club: George B. . Mer- rill, president; M. P. Michael, Vanderlynn Stow, vi idents; R. C. Harrison, secre- tary; J. 8. ce, Ter. e Horrr's Sehool for Boys, Burlingame. Sixth year begins Aug. 4. Ira G. Hoitt, Ph.D., Mastyr* WUNCLE" GEORGE SERIOUSLY ILL. First Sickness of the Ven- erable Father of Bohemia. IN HIS EIGHTIETH YEAR. The Attack Came Suddenly and Frightened Friends Con- siderably. HE IS STILL VERY WEAK. Members of the Bohemian Club Greatly Worried Over Their Nes- tor’s Condition. Near the close of four score years “Uncle’” George T. Bromley has been seized by his first sickness, and he is almost frightened to death. The genial, venerable father of Bohemia, who has been the last man to give up wherever mirth held sway at Bohemia or Press Club jinks, or at any other place for that matter; who has been a complete stranger to disease of any kind, has at last been compelled to bow to the inevitable. But, fortunately, *Uncle” George is improving rapidly and his physician gives hopes that the vener- able octogenarian will be quite well in a few weeks. At present he is resting easily at Belve- dere after a very severe and, indeed, an alarming attack brought on by some dis- order of the daigestive system. There is some doubt it seems about the cause of Mr. Bromley's illness, which he will be called upon later to explain to the full satisfaction of Bohemia. The secret is told in the fact that he had been visiting some very dear friends in Belvedere and switched off suddenly on home cooking. This, however, is the diabolical conclusion arrived at by one or more husbands of the picturesque suburb. Saturday night last Mr. Bromley paid a wvisit to Captain and Mrs. Thompson in Belvedere. In the evening he went to the Pacific Yacht Club with a large party and enjoyed a spin about the coves in a launch. He danced three quadrilles—one each with Mrs. Mary Sherwood, Mrs, J. D. Maxwell and Mrs. Horace Ball—and re- turned to the homeof his host in excellent spirits. Bunday was spent with Captain and Mrs. Thompson and friends, and in the evening ‘‘Uncle George attended a Bohemian gathering at the home of Mrs, | J. 8. Mattoon. On retiring he was in the enjoyment of his usual good health, but between 2 and 8o'clock A. M. an attack suggestin, irritant poison seized him. All day Mon- day he suffered intensely. Nor did his condition improve Tuesday morning. His friends called in a physician and Raphael ‘Weill, his old companion, secured the as- sistance of Dr. Bazan, who has since been in constant attendance on the patient. | The result is that Mr. Bromley has im- proved considerably, though he is still very weak and terribly scared over his first sickness. All through he has been nursed by Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Ball, | and this has worried him constantly, as | he said he prevents them from enjoying themselves. At the Bohemian Club yesterday many of the leading spirits of Bohemia gathered to talk about ‘“Uncle George.” Tueyeach and every one wanted to start for Belve- dere and visit the patient, but desisted when told that the attending physician would allow no one to see him. Raphael Weill and Colonel Maddox went over in the afternoon, carrying with them a large bundie of letters. from Mr. Bromley’'s friends in Bohemia, all couched in the tenderest and most solicitous language possible, and all conveying to *‘Uncle George'’ personal wishes for his recovery. Mr. Bromley is an honorary life mem- ber of the Bohemian and Pressclubs, in both of which there will be sincere satis- faction to-day at knowing they may par- ticipate in celebrating his eightieth birth- day, now near at hand. A BIG TAX BILL The Supreme Court Says the Executors of Mrs. Fair Cannot Recover. The judgment appealed from in the case of John W. Mackay and Richard V. Dey, executors of the will of Mrs. Theresa Fair, against the City and County of San Fran- cisco has been affirmed by the Supreme Court. The action was brought by the executors to_recover $31,687 90, theamount of City and State taxes for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1892, levied upon certain railway mortgage bonds and other per- sonal property belonginz to the estate, which sum had been paid under protest. The property taxed represented a value of $1,921,803. Owing to evidence baving been presented to the effect that the valuation set upon certain bonds was excessive, the lower court decided that the executors were entitled to recover $1911 55, with ia- terest and costs. The apveal was taken on the ground that the railway bonds were not taxable, since they represent property owmned by the Southern Pacific Companyin Arizona; How good it looks! How _good it is!........ And how it hurts. Why not look into the question of Pill after Pie? Eat your pie and take Ayer’s Pills after, and pie will please and not paralyze. AYER’S Cathartic Pills CURE DYSPEPSIA. [ errrr—— revision, if thought proper, while as to the third, namely, that the bonds were exempt by legislative enactment, it wag untenable, since the code had been amended so as to exclude railway bonds from the section referred to. The decision affirming the judgment of the 'lower tribunal is signed by Justices Temple, Henshaw and McFarland. —————— A CRUEL SPORT. Views of Mr. Holbrook on the Practice of Setting Fox Terriers Upon Rabbits. Secretary Holbrook of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says he is bent upon stopping the practice prevalent at the Presidio Athletic grounds of setting fox-terriers upon rabbits. Ha describes the atleged sport as brutal be- yond expression, and vesterday succeeded in preventing an exhibition which was to have taken place. ““A_man named James Stratton,” said Mr. Holbrook, ““told me it was a great sport in_England; but if possible I will prevent its becoming popular here.”” ——————— Joseph Getz’s Will. The will of Joseph Getz has been filed for probate by Reuben Cohen, who has been named as executor by the heirs of the de- ceased. The estate is worth sbout $10,000, but a large amount of property was tranferred to Johanna Getz, wife of the testator, before his death. Of the remainder of the property, $2000 ig left in trust for Mildred L. Phillips, grana- daughter of the deceased, and the balance to Johanna Getz, the widow. The document goes on to state that others of his descendants are intentionally omitted from the will for the reason that testator has full confidence in the devotion of his wife for them. ————— Wants His Team. R. W. Payne has sued the Foxhall stables for the return of a §625 pair of horses and coupe hired to the stables some time ago. He also asks for $200 damages. e e NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. AL HAYMAN &_C_O"S THEATERS. To-Night at 8. AT THE CALIForNIA EXTRA 2| TO=DAY profissionaL At 2 MATINEE ——OF—— B 1IN PRICES—25c¢, 50c and 75c. MERCHANT OF VENICE Grand Reopening AT THE Monday, July 27— Churles’ Frohman's EMPIRE THEA- TER CO. of Aew BALDWIN | 7 Presenting Clyde Fitch’s Play, BOHEMIA. First time in San Francisco. «Better than Trilby.”— World. w8 good as Trilby. '—Times. «More artistic than Trilby.”—Sun. SEATS READY TO-DAY. FRIEDLANDER GOTTLOD & o+ LESSES ATD MANAGERS - - THERE 1S ONE WAY, AND BUT ONE, Every Theater Goer in Frisco Wants to See "‘MOTHSY Presented as Only the FRAWLEY COMPANY Can, and That Is Why We Pui on That Beautiful Play TO-NIGHT, With MARGARET CRAVEN as Vera, Monday Next—+THE HIGHEST BIDDER." TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE MES. MENESTINE KRKLING, Proprietor & Manages Season of Italian and English Grand Opera Under the Direction of ME. GUSTAV HINRICHS. —THIS EVENING— 25th Anniversary Gustav Hinrichs' Directorship: ——SPECIAL BILL: ‘I PAGLIACCI? Orchestral Selections from “HANSEL AND GRETEL.” Friday and Sundsy Evenings, Ambroise Thomas' Romantic Opera, “MIGNON.! ~——Saturdey Eveniwz- ‘'MARTEHA." NEXT WEEEK—“CARMEN" AND “FAUST. Popular Prices—25c¢ and 50c. MOROSCO'S Next Monday, that such taxation was void under the fourteenth amendment of the constitu- tion, and that the Legislature of California had declared that such bonds were not property for the purposes of taxation. The lower court decided that these con- tentions could not be sustained, since the situs or locality of the bonds was here. The second contention, the court decided, might be carried to the Supreme Court for e NEW TO-DAY. Where wine is good, much wine is drunk. When beer is good, much beer is drunk. Where tea is good, much tea is drunk — that is not in America; that is only in Japan and China and other tea countries and England and Russia,where tea is pure and fresh- roasted. If we have anything to say about it, California will have good tea too — your money back if you don't GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. The Handsomest Family Theater in America. WALTPER MOROSCO, Sole Lessee and Mauags: THIS EVENING AT EIGHT, Return Star Engagement of the Popular Comedian —EMMETT SHERIDAN— In Howard P. Taylor's Latest Success, “IRISH INSPIRATIONI! " A Picturesque Story of the Emerald Isle. Evening 250 and 500, 254 Family Circle and Gallery, 10¢. Usual Matinees Saturday and Sunday. O'Farrell Street, Between Stockton and Powell. ' Week Commencing Monday, July 20. THE NOVELTY OF THE DAY! ——SEE THE GREAT— BIONDI ! —BIONDI ! Only three nights more of Prot. Macart's Dog, Monkey and Baboon Ci:cus. 8——. KEAT AuTISTS! —28§ 2 renorvad ieats, 365+ Bialcony, 106; Opera ORaizs and Box Seats, 50c. THE CHUTES, CASINO! And Greatest Scenic Rail way on Earth! EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LAST TIMES OF VIRGINIA ARAGON, Queen of Wire Walkers, MARLO-DUNHAM FAMILY. Continued Success of the Marvelous Feature Pric “JOEL” “JOE!” ————AND OUR GREAT BILL!——— ADMISSION 10 CENTS. Children, including Merry-Go-Round Ride, 5 cents. like Sc/ulling's Best. - | Sutre Baths. AND PLEASURE GROUNDS, Open Daily from 7 A. M, Until 11 P, M+