The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 27, 1896, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 27, 1896. 0. Flower of 2 . - ek g " Johnson of Pennsylivania, B. Democratic National Campaign Commit- tee. At New York he will confer with gty Aeod M islieteiyall of The object of the nnion is to advance and business wel- William P. St. Jobn regarding arrange- ments for the big Bryan-Sewall notifica- tion meeting in Madison-square Garden. He will be in charge of the Nutional Silver headquarters. A. H. Pile ot San Francisco will be his assistant in charge of the office. It was he who captured the young Democ- racy in New York, and his work here dur- ing the past weuk has been no less striking or effective. R. E. Ditendorfer, the permanent secre- tary of the National Cohvention, is & Philadelphian. He was one of the execu- “tive committee of the old party organiza- tion and is now-chairman of the Pennsyl- vania State organization. Hugo Hornlein left to-night for Mil- waunkee and after paying a short visit to his parents wili return to San Francisco. All of the Californians seem very much pleased with the result of their work, Fravk McGuIRs. SR S MR. CLEVELAND'S ATTITUDE. The President Said to Have Decided to Issue a Statement. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 26.—A gen- tleman prominent in Democratic circles who has within a few days conferred with President Cleveland at his summer home at Gray Gables, Mass., is anthority for the statement that the President has decided to write a statement bearing on the politi- * cal situation which will cause a furor. While he declined for obvious reasons 10 be quoted, he said that Mr. Cleveland had freely expressed displeasure at the Chirago platform and the nominating work of the convention and had assured him that he would within a few days write a letter in which he wonld re- pudiate the nomination because of the free-silver platform. The President fur- ther expressed hims:lf, according to the gentleman, as looking with favor upon the proposed sound-money convention. SEOUEL T0 A FST FIHT, Two Young Kentuckians Settle a Drawn Battle With Revolvers. One Is Instantly Killed, the Other Wounded and Fleeing From the Officers. WILLIAMSTOWN, Ky., July 26—Out on a country road, in the Fork Lick Hills, five miles south of this place, was enacted a tragedy about 11 o'clock last night that resulted in the death of one of the participants and the wounding of the other. Carl Hightower and Noah Reade- nower, the sons of well-to-do farmers, whose farms join, had a fist-fight a few days ago at the wedding of a neighbor’s daughter. Readenower has since threat- ened to kill Hightower. Last night- they met at Mount Pleasant Church. Hightower was riding home, accom- panied by a friend,swhen he was overtaken by Readenower, who stopped him, and, after a few words were passed, struck bim in the face with a stone, which he took from his pocket. Hightower drew a revolver and fired two shots at Reade- nower, each shot making a slight wound, and then wheeled his horse and started to Tun. As he started, Readenower,who had got his gun irom his pocket, fired at him, the ball striking him in- the back and kill- ing him almost instantly. Readenower took to the hills and is still at large. The Sheriff with a posse of men are in pursuit. If he is found a lynching will likely occur. - TORNADO IN MICHIGAN. Appalling Destruction of Life and Prop- erty Reported—MWires Prostrated and News Meager. DETROIT, Mica., July 26.—At a late bour to-night meager reports were received here of a diastrous tornado, which swept throuczh the southern part of the State early this evening. The most alarming reports come from Homer, Calhoun County, from the vicin. ity of which it is said great damage was done to farming property, with probably serious loss of life. Farm houses are re- ported overturned and wrecked, barns thrown down and all crops laid low. The wind and rain following the storm were 8o severe that it has interfered with with both telegraph and telephone ser- vice, and it is practically impossible to se- cure more definite returns before morning. The storm in this vicinity was very se- vere. Fully two inches of rain fell inside of two bours, doing considerable damage by flooding the basements of business houses. The electrical display accompanying the rai n lasted from 7 o'clock to midnight, and made the heavens as light as day. Every streetcar road in the city suffered. Rodeme sy Drowned in the Ohio. BELLAIRE, Onro, July 26.—While re- turning from a pleasure trip down the Ohio River this afternoon Mrs. Mary Long,’ aged 43, her daughter Daisy, aged 17, Thomas Bennett, aged 18, and William Francis, aged 22, rowed too close to the wheel of the United States snaghoat E. A. Woodruff, which is moored near the moutn of McMeeschan Creek, and were sacked in by the swift current, capsizin, their boat and drowning Mrs. Long an her daughter. The water at this point is about 30 feet deep, and nothing was done to recover the bodies to-night. Mrs. Long leaves a husband, two sons and one daughter. The captain and crew of the ‘Woodruff did all in their power to rescue them, but were helpless. R One Man Causes @ Big Strike. BUFFALO, N. Y., July 26.—Two hun- dred men employed by the Snow Pump ‘Works quit work yesterday afternoon be- cause one of their fellow-workmen had been discharged for eating while on duty, which was arainst the rules of the com- pany. The workmen have other griev- ances in regard to pay for extra work and the abolishment of the lunch system. It is said that the pattern-makers and others employed in the shops will go out unless the strikers’ demands are agreed to. S Four Persons Drowned. QUINCY, Iiv, July 26.—Fred Gross and Fred Baumgartner, aged 20 each, both of prominent families, while out at a fish fry to-day went in bathing, and both were drowned. Two other drownings occurred to-day alse, one in the river below the city, which took off a man named Peter Peters, and the other a man near Marcel- line. The latter’s name was not learned. ‘The latter two were also members of fish- ing parties. ol e Strange Drowning Accident. CROWN POINT, Ixp., July 26.—M. Briggs of Chicago fell out of a boat at Cedar Lake this afternoon and was drowned in five feet of water before the eyes of hundreds ol spectators. One of the largest tailors’ shops in the world isat Pimlico, where there are always in stock sufficient goods to clothe 85,000 at least. This is the army clothing depart- ment, from which come the uniforms of the British rank and file. BRHANEING OF THE PORULETS The Chaotic Conditions That Led to the Nebraskan’s Nomination. WEAVER'S CLOSE CALL. Elected Chairman of the Plat- form Committez by Oaly One Vote. RESULTS TkAT SEEM STRANGE. Two Reasons Why the Middle.of-the- Roadsters F i cd to Control the Convention. ST. LOUIS, Mo,, July 26.—1I resume my review of the conditions which made the inevitable and gave color to the proceed- ings, and I shall close with a succinct statement of the actual political sitnation. I premise that my twenty hours of close contact and hand-to-hand encounters with forty-five of the best men in the Populist party who constituted the com- mittee on platform and resolutions—men who are thoroughly schooled in the eco- nomics and philosophy of the Populist system, and coming to the work in hand thoroughly equipped by intellectual train- ing and made practical by political and official experlence—zave me a complete mastery or the purposes and methods both of the straight Populists and our Bryanized associates. It is also important that I state a tact with regard to the choice of chairman of the committee, for it is generally known that General Weaver was elected by but one majority, and-two belated members arrived just as the vote was declared who would have voted for Judge Jerome C. Kerby of Texas, Populist candidate for Governor of that State, and he would have been chosen by one vote instead of Gen- eral Weaver, who said to mein a tone of defiance just before the vote was taken: “I shall be elected by a two-thirds vote, for I represent two-thirds of the conven- tion.” That was no doubt the belief of all Bryanized Populists.+ Probably General ‘Weaver never went through a more excit- ing event in his life than while the vote was counted. His face was purple with excitement. But from the moment the vote was announced the word was passed rapidly to all the leading Bryan Populists not on our committee, and they at once moderated their attitude toward the straizht Populists. When the convention reversed the order and decided to elect the Vice-Presidential candidate first, and then proceeded in spite of all obstacles raised by the Bryanites to elect Tom Watson, the actual strength of the straight Populists asserted itself. ? In the face of these results it may seem strange to some people that ths straight Populists did nct thereafter rule the con- vention and even go so far as to nominate Colonel Norton or some other man as they did Watson, but a look at the facts be- neath this space will make this seeming inconsistency perfectly clear. There are two reasons: First, the straight Populists never intended to refuse alliance with the other reform forces which stood for free silver and more money, and they were agreed that Bryan stood for perhapsa full third of these forces, ana was in fact at heart at Populist; second, they recognized the fact that the country was in the first stage of a great Bryan fever, and half the people of the whole country were gone daftin favor of Bryan, and that it would be necessary to keep the convention here perhaps ten days, in order to change pub- lic sentiment and make it safe to ignore the claim and pretensions of the Bryan- ites. 1t was known to all that the poverty of the delegates would force two-thirds of them to return on Saturday; hence, a nomina- tion became necessary and Bryan had to be the man. It may help to make the proceedings of this most extraordinary corvention a little more comprehensible if I call attention to the fact that four States were organized and consolidated with the ablest leadership to force the issue of nominating Bryan on the vast unorgan. ized majority, who had no plans laid, no candidates agreed upon, no concert of aclion of any kind, except to secure a genuine and unimpaired declaration of the party’s faith in the platform. Those four States were Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado. Weaver in Iowa, Allen in Nebraska, Llewellyn in Kansas and Tom Patterson in Colorado led the fightin their several States. They soon succeeded in dividing the delegations in several of the States west of Ohio. It was a comparatively easy matter for these four States, with their large delegations under the inspira- tion and direction of the State leaders, to invade the defenseless delegations of all the other Btates and win over a part of them, and thus create dissensions and distrust, with all the attendant weakness and distraction of a divided delezation. I must abruptly close. The heat has been &0 prostrating that writing was out of the question till late in the afternoon, and it is now half-past 6, with the ther- mometer at 98 deg. and no preparation yet made for our jouinay, aad we are to start in two hours. We are all well except Dore of Fresno, who is worn out and half sick to-day with work on the National ex- ecutive committee; but he will be able to g0. I will resume the analysis of the sita- ation to-morrow. JosEPR ASBURY JOHNSON. e C0-OPERATIVE CUNVENTION. After Three Days’ Session a National Union Is Organizea. ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 26.—After three days’ session of delegates from a number of Btates the National Co-operative Union Wwas organized at entertainment hall in the Exposition building last night. Its officers are as follows: President, Alonzo Wardall of Kansas; vice-president, Sheri- dan Webster of 8t. Louis; secretary, Mrs. L C. Fales of New York; treasurer, C. K. Demoree of Missouri; directors—N. O. Nelson of Missouri, James Rhodes of Mas- ;:oh:na:h, % Rovo' g_.lphh Alpertson of ortl rolina, ravath of Nebraska, C. B. Hoffman of Kansas, )(?Wf(wukcn- of California, A. 5. Edwards of Tennessee, Henry D. Lloyd of Iilinois, R. A. South- worth of Colorado, J. M. Moore of Califor- nia, Rev. H. M. Cassin of Massachusetts, Rev. N. W. Lermond of Maine, Helen B. the educational, social fare of its dress of the fessor T. B, raiiindia: MRS. BALLINGTON BOOTH. An Enormous Crowd Gathers at Peekskill, N. Y., to Listen to the Popular Volunteer Commander. STATE CAMP, PEEKSKILL, N. Y., July 26.—One of the largest crowds that ever gathered to hear religious services in camp since the days of Beecher and Tal- mage was the one that surrounded Mrg, Ballington Booth in the Y. M. C. A. tennis court this afternoon. At 3:30 o’clock the commander of the Volunteers, escorted by the commander of the post, General Mc- Alpin, marched through the crowd, fol- lowed by all the State officers in fatigue uniform and with swords. In introducing Mrs. Booth General Mc- Alpin spoke briefly of the circumstances that | up to the secession from the parent organizatign and the formation of the Volunteers. He also .spoke very highly of the work Mrs. Booth has done and is aoing. Mrs, Bootfi stood upon a chair, that her voice might the better be heard by the audience. She said she came to speak to the soldiers, but she was very glad to see so many other people present. Then fol- lowed one of her bright talks, full of simple lessons. A crowd of soldiers fol- lowed her to the stage when she had fin- ished, and as it moved away their hats were waved to ber until the stage rounded the bluff and was lost to sight. A STRIKING TAJLORS. Twenty Thousand New York Coatmakers Leave Iheir Shops. NEW YORK, N.Y., July 26.—The strik- ing tailors held several meetings to-day, but no definite acticn was taken. It was announced at the afterneon meeting of the strikers that all of the coatmakers in New York, Brooklyn and Brownsville, to the number of 20,000, bad left their shops. The United Clothing Salesmen’s local union, No. 24, met to-night and indorsed the action of the strikers. Both moral and financial support was offered. A meeting D'p the contractors will be held to-morrow, when some agreement may be reached. - AR AR Death of Edward E. Eckert. ASBURY PARK, N. J., July 26.—Ed- ward E. Eckert, superintendent of the Exchange Metropolitan Telegraph and Telephone Company of New York and a brother of Thomas T. Eckert, president of the Western Union Telegranh Company, died of heart disease in Asbury Park to- aay. BAIN SPOILS h MEETING Forty Thousand Socialists Get a Drenching at Hyde Park, London. No Speeches Are Made, but an Anti- Landlord Resolution Is Put Through. LONDON, Exe., July 26.—A deluge of rain which began early this afternoon and continued throughout the remainder of the day had the effect of spoiling the in- ternational peace demonstration in Hyde Park. organized by the International So- cialist Congress, which will begin its sit- tings to-morrow. A number of trade societies and many Bocialists assembled upon the Thames embankment st noon and marched to Hyde Park. It is estimated that 40,000 persons were in line when the procession started, and this number was augmented s:endilg aiter Hyde Park was reached until the rain began to fall. Eventually the heavy downpour com- pelled the assembled crowd to break up into grofl{pl. which took refuge under trees. Before dispersing, however, a reso- lution was proposed and adopted declar- ing that the only way to secure inter- ndtional peace was through the abolition of the capitalist-landlord system in which wars have root. Among the speakers whom it was in- tended should address the meeting were MM. Jaures, Miller and Guesde, mem- bers of the French Chamber of Deputies, and Herren Liebknecht and Bebel of the German Reichstag. The list of speakers included no members of the House of Commons, but Tom Mann, the labor leader, and a number ot other socialists were, according to the programme, to ad- dress the meeting. o it LAURIER'S PULICX DEFINED, Canada’s New Premier Delivers an Im- portant Speech. MONTREAL, Quesec, July 26.—Premier Laurier delivered an important speech at St. Johns, Qnebec, yesterday. In the course of his remarks he said nothing would be doneat the next session of Parlia- ment except to pass supply bills, and that the consideration of the tarlff would ke deferred until the regular session in Jan- uary. Changes will be made with the greatest caution, 8o as not to interfere with the business interests of the country. The Government, he said, would settle the Manitova school guestion within six months by methods of conciliation,and would also devote its attention to the agri- cultural interests of the country; to the development of the Northwest and to streng henlnf the' commercial relations between England and Canada and between Canada and the United States. L Wi S ROWED FOr HIS LIFE. Oarsman Hanlan's Shell Collapsea Far From Shore. HALIFAX, N. 8, July 26.—Edward Hanlan, the oarsman, had a narrow escape from drowning this afternoon while taking a practice spin in Bedford Bastn. About half a mile from shore his shell collapsed. Hanlan headed for the shore at t! ighest speed he could com- mand, and when about three feet from dry land the boat sank, he having to wade ashore. Hanian will probably borrow a boat for the single-scull race to-morrow. —_—— BRITISBE TEOOPS REPULSED. Driven Back by Matabeles in the Matoppo Hills. A CAPETOWN, Bours AFrica, July 26.— A dispatch from Buluwayo says that the Matabeles have repulsed the british forces under commend of Captain Nicholson in the Matoppo Hills and that the Imperial troops In a&c Colony have been ordered to take the field. Prince Maximilllan Ordained. DRESDEN, Avstria, July 26.—Prince Maximillian of Saxony was ordained a priest to-day. His father, Prince George, Duke of Saxony, and his sisters, the Princesses Mathilde and Marie, were pres- ent at the ordination ceremony. The Po sent his blessing to the newly o ed priest. e iy Monument to Ferry Unveiled, PARIS, ¥rance, July 26.—A monument erected in honor of M. Jules Ferry wasun- veiled at Saint Die, Department of Vosges, to-day. Addresses in eul: of the dead statesman were delivered by M. Meline, the Prime Minister; M. Hanotaux, Min- ister of Foreign Affairs; M. Loubet and others, EUROPE'S PEACE IS IN JEGPARDY. The Comings and Goings of High Diplomatic Officials. CAUSE MUCH ANXIETY. The Powers at Loggerheads With Regard to Crete and Macedonia. HARD FIGHTING EVERY DAY. Unspeakable Crimes Allowed to Go Unpunished Through Inter- national Jealousies. BERLIN, Germasy, July 26.—Count Goluchowski, Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, returned to Ischl for the purpose of holdin: an interview with Emperor Francis Joseph, after baving had a con- ference with Prince Hohenlohe, the Ger- man Chancellor, at the latter’s chateau at Alt-Ausse, and reached Vienna on Thurs- day. On the day of his return to Vienna Count Goluchowski had an interview with/ Count Nigri, the Italian embassador to Austria, and since then Count Nigri has been summoned to Rome by the Marquis Visconti-Venosta, the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, These comings and go- ings of diplomatic chiefs cannot be at- tributed to any other cause than the gravity of the situation in the East. A concert ot the powers has failed to per- fectly result, as has already been stated, and the events which are now taking place completely overwhelm diplomacy. According to the telegraphic advices re- ceived here yesterday, the rising of the insurgents in Macedonia has become ex- ceedingly formidable. Greece, while pre- tending to take stringent measures against any Greeks engaging in a raid on the Macedonian frontier, hus allowed upward of 600 men, all of them armed with Ebel riflcs, to enter Macedonia from Greek ter- ritory. These men, after surprising and cutting to pieces the Turkish troops at Moussa, succeeded in repulsing a strong force of Turkish soldiers which had been sent from Salonica to re-enforce the Moussa troops. A dispatch to the Vossiche Zeitung says that the Redifs (reserves), who have been called out under an irade from the Sultan, are showing a disposition to revolt in con- sequence of the fact that their pay is very much in arrears and the rations which are being issued to them are very bad in quality and very small in quantity. A special dispatch received by the Neue Freie Presse from Salonicaon Thursday says that statements made by the Turkish officials concerning the-situation are all calculated to conceal the desperate condi- tion of affairs in Macedonia. Hard fight- ing is going on nearly every day at Drum- nits Seres and at nearly all points in the mountains. The Turkish reserves at Priz- rend Preshtima and élsewhere in that sec- tion are being equipped and sent to the front as rapidly as possible, and it is es- timated that the total number of Turkish troops concentrated on the Macedonian and Bulgarian frontiers exceeds 7000 men. Even this force, however, has not been found sufficient to make any headway against the insurrection, which, under the influence of successes already achieved by the insurgents in the field is becoming stronger every day. . Stirzulated by these and similar reports, semi-official newspaper organs like the North German Gazette and the Cologne Gazetie, are taking a more definite tone in their articles commenting upon the gray- ity of the situation. The North German Gazeite reproduces an article from the Cologne Gazette which declares that unless the powers interfere in an energetic way, instead of submitting proposals to the Porte, the troubles in Crete and Macedonia will never end. The Reichsbote (Conservative) publishes a letter written by a German lady living at Monatstir wherein the writer narrates atrocities which are practiced there every day without the slightest attempt at inter- ference on the part of the authoriti Among the horrors of which the la treatsin her communidation, she details the fact of Turks assaulting Magedonian women and girls publicly in the streets, before the eyes of their husbands and pa- rents. This letter has stirred up a strong feeling of public indignation here, more in fact than the remoter massacres and out- rages in Armenia. The Reichsbote, in an article accompany- ing the letter, appeals to the powers to cease their jealousies, and interfere in be- half of the Macedonians and Cretans in the interests of humanity. The Bismarckian organs, on the other hand, are strongly opposed to any policy of interference on the part bf Germany. The Neuste Nachrichten-declares that the powers musi maintain Turkish rule in Crete and Macedonia, which the insurgents are trying to shake off. If they continue their efforts to throw off the Turkish yoke, the paper adds, they must suffer the consequences. Europe canmot stake the peace of the world on their account. x After the meeting of the Emperor with King Oscar of Sweden-Norway on Thurs- day the imperial yacht Hohenzollern, with the Kaiser on board, steamed up to Maerk, at the head of Geiranger Fjord, which is about the end of the Emperor’s northern tour. Advices from Molde Fjord say that the Emperor had a week of better weather than that which he experienced at the beginning of his trip. The entertainments on board the Hohenzollern have beenex- cellent throughout the week. A choir of sailors, comprising 100 men whose voices were tinely trained, were heard to advane tage at the Bunday services, and their chorals were accompanied by the ship’s band. Upon these occasions the Emperor read a short disconrse and two prayers. Berlin has hardly ever before witnessed such a searcity of notable persons in the city., Dr. Miquel, Minister of Finanoce; Baron von Hammerstein-Loxten, Minister of Agriculture, Domains and Forests, and Herr Nieberding, Imperial Minister of Justice, left the city for their holidays on Thursday. Count Posadowsky-Wehner, Minister of the Imperial Treasury, started for the Tyrol on Thursday, and Dr. Bosse, Minister of Ecolesiast ical Af- fairs, Instroction and Medicinal Affairs, has gone to Carisbad. TheXoreign Em- ‘bassadors and Ministers are also gener- ally taking their holiday. ‘The Wagnerian festival at Bayreuth has attracted many of the most distingunished Germans and foreigners. Among those ‘Who are sojourning at Bayreuth are the Prince and Princess of Saxe-Meiningen, Prince von Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Duke and Duchess Albrecht oi Mecklenburg- Schwerin, Princess Vera of Wurtemburg, Prince and Princess von Leiningen, Count von Wedel-Piesdorf and Dr. Schweninger, Prince Bismarck’s physician. Among the crowds of Americans at Bay- reutb are J. B. Jackson, first secretary of the United States Embassy, and Mrs. Jackson, the Misces Butler, Louise Dana and Natalie Curtis of New York, Mesdames H. R. Chamberlain, Patterson T. Williams and Lowry of New York, Messrs. J. Douglass and J. Speyer of New York, Mrs. and the Misses Sprouer of Bos- ton, Mesdames T. Harris, Shawley, Brock- enbrough and I, Harris of Louisville, Ky., Mr. Stern and wife of San Francisco, Mr. Baldwin of Washington and Mrs. Ponson- by Shaw of Philadelphia. The dates of the Czar’s proposed visits to the principal Continental capitals, if in- deed they have been fixed, are being kept very dark. Recent announcements have been made that his trip is becoming more uncertain daily, and nihilism seems to be the specter which is standing in his Majes- ty’s way. All that is now known of his intentions is that it is his purpose to visit Vienna and Berlin and probably Paris, but when the visits will take place itis impossible to say. The Emperor’s visit to Ninjhi-Novgorod, which he made on Saturday, was accom- panied by the usual precautions, so far as railway travel was concerned. The raii- Wways over which he traveled were guarded by troops throughout, but wher his Majesty was within the limits of the city of Ninjhi-Novgorod, the usual lines of police guarding the streets throuzh which he passed were dispensed with. The Mayor of the city issued a manifesto to the people urging them to maintain order themselves and to keep the streets clear of crowds. The Mayor’s confidence that the citizens would preserve order was not misplaced, as there was no trouble whatever. The case of M. Herbette, formerly French Embassador to Germany, who was recently recalled from Berlin by his Government on acconnt the imperial social disfavor here, 1s paralleled by the case of M. Loze, French Embassador to Austria. M. Loze owed his appointment to the post in Vienna to his knowledge of secrets which seriously affected members of the French Ministry, which information he acquired while holding the office of Preféct of Police. These secrets relate to the Reinach scan- dals in the Panama canal case, which the Ministry suppressed by the appointment of M. Loze to 1epresent France at the Austrian court.” His career as an attor- ney’s clerk and a poiice official, which be- came known in Vienna, injured his chances of being accepted in society at the very outset, and his defective manners ex- posed him to no end of ridicule. Mme. Loze, his wife, was greatly more refined than he and made a social success, but Austrian aristocracy, which is extremely exclusive, would not tolerate M. Loze. He made a complete failure as a diplomat and has now been recalled. ‘ The German authorities have arrested Herr Schweder, the agent of the German East Africa Company on the Pangani River, upon charges of extreme cruelty to natives, especially toward the women, many of whom bhe is accused of having agsaulted. Herr Schweder has been trans- ported in chains to Tanga. Herr Eugene Wollfe, the African explorer, has written to the Tageblatt, in which he speaks very bighly of Schweder, who, he says, was liked by everybody, including Baron ‘Wissmann, the German Governor. An agentof the Venezuelan Government is here endeavoring to negotiate with the Disconto-Gesellschaft a loan of $50,000.000. Up to the present time he has not been successfal. Dr. Luetgenan, the Socialist Deputy in the Reichstag, in a speech delivered to the Socialists of Essen yesterday, declared that the Socialisis had no definite pro- gramme, their primary object being to destroy the existing society and govern- ment. When the downfall of these insti- tutions had been achieved then the Social- ists would formulate a platform upon which they would build. ¢ The Vorwaerts declared that the dele- gates comprising the coming international Socialist congress in London will stead- fastly refuse to admit anarchists into the congress. The Neuste Nachrichten de- clares that this declaration of the Vor- waerts is mere hypocrisy. The Socialists and anarchists, the Nachrichten declares, are brothers, only the latter are the more impatient about attaining their aims. If the barriers of society should ever be thrown down, the Nachrichten adds, the anarchists would reap what the Socialists have sown. The Emperor has accepted the invita- tion of Prince Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, to review the Bavarian army corps at Wurzburg on September 18. This is regarded as a counter-blast against the particularistagitation in Bavaria and other South German States, BALRDAD OFFIIL Shot Wounded by a Candidate for the Legislature Whom He Had Defeated. The Assailant, Who Surrendered, Says Unfair Means Were Used Against Him. ORLANDO, Fra., July 26.—Captain.W. Bailey Tucker, general manager of the Tavares, Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, and local manager of the Florida Central and Peninsula Railroad, was shot to-night by Alfred St. Clair Abrams, prosecuting at- torney of Lake County. Abrams was lately the anti-railroad candidate for the Legislature in Lake County. He was de- feated, and charged that Tucker brought itabout by unfair means. Abram’s wife was spending the summer here, and he came up from Tavares last night. Tucker and Abrams met to-night at the former’s home, and the shooting resulted. Abrams immediately surrendered. Abrams is the only sop of Major Alex 8t. Clair Abrams, who was formerly asso- ciated with Henry W. Grady on the At- lanta Herald. Major Abrams came to Florida several years ago, and in politics bas been one of the anti-railroad leaders. Tucker will recov: A General Batchelder’s Retirement. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., July 26.—Hay- ing reached the age limit, General Rich- ard N. Batchelder, Quartermaster-General of the regular army, will be retired to- morrow. Amdng the more prominent officers who are spoken of as his successor are Colonels G. H. Weeks, James M. Moore, Charles (. Sawtelle and Marshall T. Ludington. EDITORS INVADE CATALINA ISLAND The Southern California Association Meets at Avalon. NEW MEMBERS LISTED. Baumgartner of the Riverside Reflex Is Chosen for President, ARE CLEVERLY ENTERTAINED. Yacht Voyages and Coaching Trips Planned for the Visitors' Amuscment. AVALON, CatauiNa Ispaxp, July 26.— The Editorial Association of Southern California, now in session here, held a business meeting last evening in the par- lors of the Island Viila Hotel, with Presi- dent E. W. Hilmes of the Riverside Press in the chair. After the reading and adop- tion of annual reports the following offi- cers were elocted for the ensuing year: President, J. P. Baumgartner of the Riverside Reflex; first vice-president, R. A. Dague of the Santa Paula Chronicle; second vice-president, W. 8. Melick of the Lancaster Gazette; third vice-president, Mary Lyndecraig of the Redlands Citro- graph; secretary, Charles H. Smith of the Los Angeles Hotel Gazette; financial sec- retary, J. W. Harvey of the Monrovia Messenger; treasurer, E. S. Wallace of the Santa Ana Herald: executive committee— Scipio Craig of the Redlands Citrograph, H. Z. Osborne of the Los Angeles Ex- press, C. A, Gardner of the Pasadena Star, E. P. Clarke of the Riverside Press and Thomas J. Hammer of the Los Angeles Hotel Gazette. The following new members were re- ceived: William G. Moore of the Red- lands Facts, I. Willis of the Fresno County Enterprise, Messrs. Matthews of the Co- vina Argus, Editor Lawrence of the Los Angeles Builder and Contractor and the editor of the University Courier. Papers were read by Scipio Craig on ‘‘Legal Advertising” and J. P. Baum- gartner on “What Constitutes a Legal Newspaper,”. each followed by a general discussion. The chairman of the asso- ciation was authorized to appoint a com- mittee of tiree to act in conjunction with the State association committee to formu- late a plan for legislation in regard to the libel laws now in force in California. The members of the association will be treated to a voyage down the coast of the island in a special yacht supplied by the Wilmington Transportation Company to- morrow, and on Tuesday the editors will return to their respective sanctums re- freshed by the outing. Among those pres- ent, in addition to those hereinbefore mentioned, are: Warren Wilson of tae Los Angeles Daily Court Journal; Kne per of the Santa Barbara Preéss; Edgar Johnson of the Fuilerton Tribune; H. C. Foster of the Covina Courier; R. G. Cur- ran of the News Clipping Agency, Los Angeles; W. B. Thomas of the California Cultivator, Los Angeles; W. 8. Gilmore of the Pasadena Town Talk; Miss Hattie M. Baker of the Santa Ana Standard and Miss Sadie M. Case of the Winchester Re- corder. 2 Most of the editors are accompanied by their wives. On Saturday quite a number of the visiting editors -njoyed the stage ride across the island in a six-horse coach. STOCKTON BOXS SCALDED. Children Overturn a Boiler Filled With Botling Water. STOCKTON, Car., July 26.—Two sons of W. 8. Reynor, who lives on East South street, in this city, came near being scalded to death last night. The boys are aged 9 and 14 years. The younger may die from the effects of the terrible burns received. Mrs. Reynor had placed a boiler full of water over a gasoline stove, and the water had heated to the boiling poiat, when the boys, who were playing in the room, knocked the stove over. The scaldin| water fell directly on the children, an their screams brought Reynor and his wife to the rescue. The younger child was the more seriously burned, and Dr. Lanthurn was at once summoned to attend to his injuries. He found the younger very baaly burned about the abdomen and thighs, and the other scalded on the left arm and shoulder. To-day the children were rest- ing easily, but there is still danger that tue little fellow will die. — i SAN DIEGO LIBEL SUIT. Dr. Hearne Awarded Damages Against M. H. de Young and J. F. Blunt. SAN DIEGO, Car., July 36.—The jury in the case of Dr. J. C. Hearne vs. M. H. de Young and J. F. Blunt, in which tae plaintiff sued for $100,000 damages for alleged libel, returned a veraict at noon to-day allowing Dr. Hearne damages in the sum of $10,000 and costs. The jury was out about twenty hours. Counsel for the defendants as! the court to grant a stay of p! ings for ten days in order to allow time to move for a new trial and the request was granted. Unless a new trial is secured the case will be' taken to the Supreme Court. This suit resulted from the publication in,the San Francisco Chronicle on August 26, 1894, of an article alleged to have im- licated Hearne in the killing of Amos J. ;;léwnll at Hannibal, Mo., in December, 1 —_— PACIFIC GROVE RETREAT. Leaders in Religious Work Gather in Conference. PACIFIC GROVE, Cawn., July 2.—The annual sammer encampment under the auspices of the Pacific Grove Retreat Association convened to-day. This en- campment has brought together those who are giving the best thought of their ligves to great religious movements of the day. Each day some of these men will lecture. The Retreat Association hag se- cured specialists in each line. The sub- jects to be di : “How to Reach the Masses,” W to Use the Best Talent in the Church,” “The Deaconess’ Work,"’ ‘“*Religions Preparation for To-day,” *“The Higher Christian Life.”” John' Coyle, D.D., presiding elder for Ban Frno{uo dish'fct. has charge of the work. —_——— Governor Budd at San Jose. SAN JOSE, Car., July 26.—Gevernor Jamee H. Budd arrived in this city this evening and will attend the annual meet- ing of the trustees of the State Normal School. In an interview he stated that the election of teachers might result i several changes, but added that he did not' consider himself at liberty to mention the names of ble unfortunates. The ob- jection made by the people of this city to the present condition of the Normal will be considered atthe mesting, and the Governor predicts the appoint- ent of a committee to confer with repre- sentatives of the Board of Trade and Com- mon Council to arrange all differences. PRI S DEOWNED AT LONG BEACH. Rancher Jasper Gee of Downey Porishes in the Surf. LOS ANGELES, Car., July 26.—Jasper Gee, a rancher of Downey, 51 years of age, was drowned to-day in the surf at pong Beach while bathing. Gee went in with a party of friends, two of whom came near sharing his untimely fate. J.B. Wstf:n of the party had a rope thrown to him and wss tgwed to shore. N.G. Hughes had to struegle for life, but reached the shore without assistance. The drowning was caused by a treacher- ous undertow which came so near enguli- ing the whole party that no assistance could be given to Gee. A sad feature of the tragedy was that Gee's wife and three daughters witnessed hisstruggles with the waves and heard his piteous outery for help. The body had not been recovered at a late hour to-night. e o S San Joagquin Grain in Demand. STOCKTON, CaL., July 26.—Grain is not coming in to the warehouses here as fast as it did at this season last year. There are several reasons for this, and some of tkesé reasons the warehousemen of Stockton do not fancy. Three firms are fighting for the warehousa business along the lines of the Valley road ana the Southern Pacific Company. This is work- ing against the Stockton warehouses tem- Eorarily‘ but the damage to the local grain andlers can only be temporary, as the ‘‘freeze out” game that the three concerns are now playing cannot last very long, While 1t does last, the farmers of the Valley are gainers, The Carmelito Pipe Line. PACIFIC GROVE, CAL., July 26.—Work on the Carmelito pipe line is again being pashed and will be completed soon. The water is to be brought from San Jose Creek, a distance of twelve miles. Car- melity is on the coast road and six miles south of Monterey. It embraces within its limits Point Lobos Park, one of the main points of interest to all tourists who visit Del Monte. Carmelito is owned by San Francisco capitalists, who have al- ready expended over $80,000 in trying to develop a coal mine situated there. s s Stolen Bullion Found Near Reno. RENO, Ngv., July 26.—A quantity of stolen bullion is reported to have been found in this neighborhood. Those in possession of the facts are guarding them with the utmost secrecy. It is claimed the bullion was found by two men re- cently released from State prison and is now in the possession of the Sheriff. Where it was stolen from, its value and the persons suspected of the theft cannot be learned. ON EASTERN DIAMONDS. Standing' of the Clubs and Scores of the Games in the National League Yesterday. CLuss. Per Won.| Lost. | cote. Cincinnati.. CINCINNATI, pitching was too much for Cleveland to-day and they narrowly escaped a shutout. The brilliant fielding and base-runningof the home team and Hoy’s batting were the features. At Onto, July 26.—Foreman's tendance 10,000. Scors: Cincinnatis 10, 16, 0; Clevelands 1, 7, 3. Batteries—Foreman and Peits, Young and Zimmer. Umpire— P | Laily. CHICAGO, !L‘ July 26.—Griffith pitched great ball against the Bridegrooms to-day and Tecelved gilt-edged support. The visitors out- batted the Ansonites, but the latter bunched their bitsand did better blle—runniu%. At- tendance 7500. Score: Chicagos 4. 10, 0; Brooklyns 1, 11, 3. Batteries—Griffith 'and Kittr xS, Harper and Grim. Umpire—0'Day. LOUISVILLE, Kv., July 26.—Loulsville out- batted and outplayed Washington at every point to-day. Tie feature of the game was a trlplt‘)hy in the first inning by Crooks, Dex- ter, Clingmanand Rogers. Attendance 5000. Score: Louisvilles, 8, 13, 2; Washingtons, 6, 9, 1. Batteries—Hiil and Dexter, Mercer and Me- Guire. Umpire—Betts. ST, LOUIS, Mo., July 26.—Breitenstein went o pieces 1n the seventh inning to-day and the Baltimores secured five runs and the game. The bleachers overrun the foul line and stopped play for ten minutes in the eighth inning. Attendance 15,000. Score: St, Louis, 6, 12, 1; Baltimores, 9, 12, 1. Batteries— Breitenstein and McFarland, Hemming and Clark. Umpire—Emslie. S Santa Cruz Team Beaten. SANTA CRUZ, CaL., July 26.—Ong of the series of ball games for che Exam- iner’s trophy was played at Vue de I’Eau Park to-day between the Hollister and Santa Oruz teams. The Hollister team won by a score of 14 to 5, and did it easily. The victors have won one game from the Gilroy team and one from the Watsonville team and will go to Monterey next Sun- day to play the team there. s Visalia Beats Bakersfield. VISALIA, CaL., July 25.—The most in- teresting and exciting game of ball ever elnyed in Visalia was that to-duy between Visalia and Bakersfield for the champion- ship of Tulare and Kern Counties. The heavy batting of the Visalias won the game. Score, 16 to 6. Be Sure Your blood is pure, rich and nourishing. 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