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o “« THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1896. e — e ———————— vaign.. “It would show that the crisis at hand is so serious that men will abandon party ties in order to save the Nation from ruin, Such organizations would also have the effect of demonstrating to our people how grave the situation is and increase their vigilance. I believe steps will be taken in that direction ina short time.,” A telegram was received to-day from Mr. Hanna, stating that he would be in Chicago Monday. Other members of the National Republican executive commit- tee will be here, and it is thought a meet- ing witl be held. SERrgar i To Call Upon Mr. Hanna. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 3L.—Frank Wetherbee of Yort Henry, member of the State committee, waited upon I. C. Platt to-day, bearing a letter from Chairman Hanna. The letter contained an invita- tion for Mr. Platt from Mr. Hanna, re- questing the former to call upon the National chairman at his convenience. Mr. Platt replied at once, accepting the invitation and suggested that Mr. Hackett, chairman of the New York State Committee, and Mr. Lauterbach, chair- man of the County Committee, should Bear him company when he went to pay his respects to Mr. Hanna. The National chairman sent an answer saying that it would afford him pleasure to see Mr. Hackett and Mr. Lauterbach along with Mr. Platt. It was said this evening that they were preparing to call on Mr. Hanna at the National headquarters to-morrow. P S L What Sewall Has to Say. BATH, Mk, July 31.—Mr. Sewall said to-day: “The silver ranks are growing daily stronger in Maine. The only issue of this campaign is silver. The Republi- cans have orders to force the tariff to the front, but cannot. It is a secondary issue that the people arenot talking about. The trouble is not there. They want prosper- ity, which is having every man at work and all wheels moving. They want to get Tid of paralysis of business, They have tried & high and low tariff, and matters have been continually growing worse. The Democratic party has decided that the trouble lies in the financial system, and that the remedy is remonetization of sil- ver.” e PSS Democrats Scent Defeat. BOSTON, Mass., July 31.—Euclid Martin of Omaha, chairman of the gold Demo- cratic State Committee of Nebraska, passed | through this city to-day on his way to New York. “I think McKinley will be elecied next {all,” be said, “if the Republicanscarry on the fight where and as they ought to. By this condition I mean the great contest | will be in West Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Nebracka and some of the States near these. I believe most if not all of them are certain to go for McKinley if the Republicans carry on the right sortofa campaign.” - Call to Democrats. .OTTUMWA, Iowa, July 31.—Secretary ‘Walsh of the Democratic National Com- - .mittee sent ont a call for a meeting of the National Democratic Committee at the Fifth-avenue Hotel, New York, on Au- gust 11. A1R-PROPELLED STREETCARS, Satisfactory Test of a Coach Driven by Compressed Atmosphere. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 31.—One of the new air-motor cars recently received by the Third-avenue Railroad Company | in this city, which, 1t was promised, would revolutionize surface traction, was pri- vately tested yesterday with the most satisfactory results. The car was run twice over the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street road from the North River to the Harlem River. It was run at the will of the motorman at a speed of from four to fif- leen miles brake, with which it is fitted, acted with great promptness and efficiency. Each car is supplied with a sandbox which dumps a quantity of sand on the track when an emergency requires that the car be stopped witb more than. usual quickness. - The sandbox was tried when the car was moving at the rate of twelve miles an ‘hour, and the car was stopped in = littie more than its length. The wm‘pressed-air reservoir had a pressure of 2000 pounds to the square inch when the car started on the trip. The })ressure was reduced a half when the car had completed its journey of eight miles. It is estimated that the reservoir will hold enough air to propel the car a distance of fifteen miles, AR ATTEMPTED EXPRESS ROBBE RY Cripple Creek’s Output Sought by Colo- rado Springs Bandits, COLORADOBPRINGS, Coro., July 3L.— ‘What looks like an attempt to rob the safe ot the Wells-Fargo express office in this city was made about 9:30 to-night. The accidental discharge of a revolver evi- dently frightened the would-be robbers away. The front and side doorsof the ex- press office were found open and the Jights out when the police arrived on the scene & tew moments after the gunshot was bheard. Local officers of the Well-Fargo Company refuse to talk beyond denyin, that anything1s missing. It isunder‘loos that large sums of money are in transit between thais city and Cripple Creek, and this may have been what the robbbers were after. —_——— KILLED BY A ROUBBER. Deathof a Cincinnati Saloon-Keeper Who Hesisted a Hold- Up. CINCINNATI, Omro, July 3L.—George Hetzter's saloon, located at 1209 West Bixth street, was the scene of a hold-up late thisevening. Hetzterrefused to hand over his money to two masked men who demanded it, and was shot four times and killed outright. He, however, shot at the men before he fell, hitting one of them in the right eye. This man, who says his name is Thomas Carter, claims that he en- tered the saloon on hearing the shooting and received the ball in the eve. He ciaims to come from Cripple Creek, Col. The second man escaped. R Cleveland’s Celsbration. CLEVELAND, Onro, July 3L.—Western Reserve day of the series of Cleveland’s celebrations brought an immense crowd to the city. Senators Sherman and Brice had promised to be present, but at the last moment each telegraphed that he could not come. In the afternoon a monster parade was held. It was made up of the regullrs and militia and floats, many of which were elaborate. The whole caleu- lated to show the Emgresn of the century. During the march many of the soldiers were overcome by the intense heat, but there were no fatalities. e 7 Grand Army Man Drowned. MILLVILLE, N. J., July 3L—Lewis Stanton of Paulsboro, a prominent officer in Grand Army circlesin South Jersey, was drowned in the Chebansey River op- posite Fairton yesterday morning. Stan- ton, with an assistant, had been fishing. With their boat loaded to the water's edge they were going home, when the swell of a pusinf tug filled the boat, which immediately sank. Stanton was drowned. His assistant got ashore. ——— 5 Heavy Failure in New York. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 31.—Dreyfus, Kohn & Co., importers of silks, velvets, ribbons and millinery goods, assigned to- day to Levi L. Gans and Oscar E. Rosen- heim. The business has been a very 11&5« one, with a claimea capital of $4,000,000. It was started twenty-five years ago, The liabilities are estimated at $350,000. The firm has a foreign office at Lyons, France, d is also chief owner of the Paragon Bilk :inflls, Paterson, N. J- an hour, and the McPherson | | | | SENATOR WOLCOTT YET A BEPUBLICAN Issues a Statement to the Voters of Colorado State. MKINLEY THE LEADER. Uader His Banuer Only Can the People of the Nation Be- come Prosperous. PROTECTION THE FIRST ISSUE. There Should Be No Sectional Fesl- ing, Says the Senator, in the Coming Struggle. DENVER, Coro., July 3L.—Senator Wol- cott, whose friends yesterday succeeded in carrying the Republican State Committee in opposition to Benator Teller and the strong silver element, to-night issued the following statement to the voters of this commonwealth: The people of Colorado are entitled to know atsuch a juncture as this the views ot their representatives at Washington. Among the greatest privileges we enjoy under Republican institutions are freedom of conscience end freedom of speech, and if Ishould hesitate on this, or on any other proper occasion, to de- clare any belief and my convictions on any public question, I should despise myself even more than I despise those incendiary news- papers and hysterical individuals who assume that threats and vituperation can choke the utterances of any self-respecting citizen in Colorado who has an opinion to expressora principle to declare. The silver question is most vital. Interna- tional bimetallism at the former ratio would, of course, be the most desirable method of re- storing silver as a money metal, because the disturbance of values which might follow the inauguration of free coinage by the United States alone would be ayided, and the ques- tion as to the exportation or hoarding of gold would be eliminated. In my opinion, how- ever, the Unitea States alone could, under wise and conservative guidance—such guidance as should deserve and receive the confidence of all classes of our people—open its mints to the unlimited coinage of silver and successfully maintain that metal at a parity with gold at the ratio of 16 to 1, independently of the other nations of the world. During the seven years of my public service in the Senate I have al- ways held this view. My vote on all questions affecting the currency has been identical with that of the other Senators usually known as silver Senators, snd while my utterances on the siiver question may not have been as fre- quent or as long as those of others whose views 1 share, nevertheless my record on this subject is clear and consistent, and the views I hold I expect always to maintain. The financial plank of the National Repub- lican platiorm is, in my opinion, far from satisfactory, and those members of the party who believe as I believe will struggle ear- nestly and hopefully for the full and complete recognition and adoption by the Republican party of the humane principles of bimetal- lism, animated by the belief that the party which on every other great question involy- ing human freedom and the welfare of man- kind, hasstood for all thgt was uplifting and ennobling, will yet reslizéi that a continuance of the gold standard means only further im- poverishment and suffering. The platform contains, however, a most important state- ment, pledging the party to the fartherance of bimetallism by International agreement. To the good faith of this pledge the history of the party on other questions requires the full est credence; the overshadowing importance of the silver question makes it certain to my mind that every effort will be earnestly made by the Republican party to secure to this coun- try the blessings of bimetallism, and itis my sincere conviction tnat silver will again be restored to its place money metal at the present ratio, and that when this restoration comes 1t will be accomplished through the ac- tion and efforts of the Republican party. Except on the money question no man in Colorado, who believes in the protaction of American labor and American products and American industries and who loves his conn- try, can read the platform without hearty ap- proval, and no men doubts that Major McKin- ley will oring to his hign office every quality needed by & President of this great people. Mr. Bryan has been nominated for the Presi- dency on three separate platforms, by the Democratic party, the Populist party and the Silver party. The last-named party (the Silver party) does not deserve serious consideration. Most of its members were present at its recent convention in St.Louis,and the newspapers report the convention hall as being less than half fall. The Democratic party nominated Mr. Bryan upon a platform, the financial portion of which was everything that could be desirea and the test of it everythiug that is,in my opinion, undesirable and hostile to the inter- ests of our country. Idecline tostand upon this platform and vote for this candidate even with the alluring free-coinage plank. I cam- not doit. Iam a believer in protection, and shall not abandon that belief. The Supreme Court of the United States is a pure and able tribunal, the highest judicial tribunal in the world. I will not help smirch it. This Government must be enabled to pay its running expenses, and whenever my vote is needed for that purpose and I fail to vote it supplies to keep it alive I shall congider tnat Iviolate my oath as Senetor. The ‘recent Re- publican Congresses” have been neither wasteful nor extravagant, and I must deciine to certify to a statement I know to be untrue. When, some months 8go, the great railway strike at Chicago grew beyond control and in- nocent lives were being sacrificed and millions of dollars’ worth of properiy was being de- stroyed by lawless men; when the Sheriff was powerless and the Governor failed to perform his duty, the President of the United States, with Federal troops, under sanction .of law, saved further bloodshed and destruction and thereby deserved the thanks of every man who values our liberties and believes that the rights guaranteed us by . the constitution oughtto be sacredly guarded against every form of lawless ness. ‘The tecent travesty at St. Louis, the Popu- list convention, has but illustrated the ele- ments which naturally gravitate toward the candidacy of Mr. Bryan. Every cranky quirk, every incongruous and ludicrous and mis. shapen idea which the wheels in the brains of men could evolve, buzzed and whirled through days of talk, but the mnet result was Bryan. Government ownership of railroads, telegraph and telephone lines,initixtive and referendum, silver money and more money, had their advo- cates, and at the end, on sssurances that all who voted for Bryan would be equally recog- nized, Mr. Bryan was almost the unanimous choice of the convention. Because, therefore, I believe that free coin- age will come through the efforts of the Repub- lican party, and because the Democratic and Populist platforms, except on the money ques- tions, are odious and hostile to the welfare of our country, I shall not cast my vote for Mr. Brysn. I hold my commission from the Re- publican party. Many of its members, includ- ing some of its leaders, in the exercise of their judment have anounced their tntention of leaving the party. Ishallstay. My loyslty to the party which has honored me is entirely consistent with my loyaity to the highest and best interests of the State I represent in the Senate of the United States, and I know no reason why I should abandon my party or desert its colors. There is to my mind no reason why it was not as much our duty to vole for Weaver four years ago as for Bryan to-day. The Omsha platform declared for free coinage end was no more objectiog- able than the Chieago platform; and Bryan is vouched for by leading Populists as being “\s good a Populist as lives.” The Populists have not chenged in the past four years. Itiswe who are expected 1o join their aggregation. Others may find it wise or expedient, but I won’tdo it. Whenever:the course of events could make it possible that I should speak from the same platform as Tillman or Waite, or Ignatius Donnelly, in_advocacy of the same Presidential candidate, I know there must be something wrong with me. What we need in Colorado is less hysterics and more common sense. We have glorious resources yet in the in- fancy of their development; we are suffering | from the imposition of a mistaken financial policy, which it is our natural and proper de- sire to see overthrown as speedily as possible. We are one of forty-six States in the Union, each iree and sovereign. Within our borders live about one one-hundred-and-fiftieth of the people of the United States. Wellve ina re- public where the majority rules. The vast majority of the people of the United States are honest and of high average intelligence and devoted to the perpetuity of iree institutions. Our great desire is to induce a majority of the people of the United States to believe as we be- lieve. The wey to the accomplishment of this result is not by vituperation and abuse. The press of the country, East as well as West, is largely responsible for the bitter sectional {feeling now sought to be invoked. It is for us who do not own or control ne ws- papers, and are not in the business of throw- ing mud, to remember that of the millio) f people who will cast their pallots this fall nearly all are as patriotic as we are, and, with us, equally desirous that this Republic shall live and not die. The people of the East are our brothers, we sprung from the same loins, we haye a common country, & common faith and the same dear flag. This gospel of hate which is now being preached should find no followers among sane men, no welcome among good citizens. We who believe in the free coinage of both gold and silver at our mints, at the ratio here- tofore existing, will secare the adoption of our views when we are able to induce the majority of our fellow-citizens to share our belief, when people who do not agree with us shall be led to agree with us, not alone because of our ar- guments on finance, but because our views on other great questions entitle us to public con- fidence and respect. Free colnage will never come, in my opinion, out of the jumble and folly of the Chicago platform, nor will it be heralded by the cap and bells of Populist. EpwARD 0. WOLCOTT. FLOAT HAWAIIAN BONDS, Efforts to Negotiate a Loan of $3,330,000 in the United States. General News of the Islands That Is of Interest to California Readers. HONOLULU, Hawam, July 23.—The Government has completed the details of arrangements with Peter C. Jones of Hon- olulu, who reptesents a California syndi- cate, for floating the new Hawaiian loan of $3,330,000. - The loan is to run twenty-five years at 4 per cent with the privilege of fifty years at the same rate. 1t is learned from Government sources that it is the desire of the Cabinet to have this loan placed in the United States if possible in preference to taking it to Eng- land, where it must otherwise go. Mr. Jonpes will leave for California in about a month, ana the statement is made upon is authority that, in hopes of having the loan taken up in the United States, the Hawaiian Government has authorized him to offer the bonds there at85. The Min- ister of ¥inance has lately made a public statement which shows the finances of the islands to be in the best condition. The court-martial trial of Captain John Good for inciting sedition and for behavior unbecoming an officer and gentleman is going slowly forward, and will probably not be concluded for over a week. The prosecution has yet seven witnesses, and twelve or more will be introduced for the defense. Nothing new has developed, and sympathy remains with Captain Good. Some who claim inside knowledge declare that in case a conviction is reached the Government will demand the resignations of both Captain Good and Colonel Mec- Lane, who is urging the charges against the former. This morning the Advertiser published the following extract, received here by the Australia, written to Thomas G. Thrum by his son, D. F. Thrum. The Hammonda referred to is the San Francisco agent of the American Biole Society: “Mr. Hammond, in talking with me on island affairs, said that within one year Hawaii would probably be annexed, as he had just returned from the East, and while there had a personal interview with his intimate friend, Major McKinley, who said that the islands ought to be annexed, or words to that effect.” Mr. Hammond is spoken of here by those who claim to know as the warm per- sonal friend of McKinley, and one to whom he would be likely to siate candidly his attitude toward the islands and annexa- tion in case of his election. Early this morning the dry-goods store of B. Elhers & Co., on Fort street, was de- stroyed by fire. The loss is $40,000; sured for :20. The building was in- sured for $4000. The risks were held by the Transatlantic and North German Lloyd companies. The Belgic is due to-morrow from Japan with another shipment of plantation laborers. ST Cheered as the Ship Went Down. BERLIN, GErMANY, July 3L.—Emperor William to-day received M. Burchard, the French Naval Attache at Kiel, who ex- Y)reased to his Majesty the sympathy of resiGent’ Faure of France over the sink- g of the German gunboat Iltis, which was lost in a ty;]phnon off the Bhantung promontory on July 18, A dispatch from Chefoo says vhe commander and crew of the [itis cheered for Emperor William as the ship went down. —_— Cholera in Egypt. CAIRO, Ecver, July 3L.—The returns received by the authorities for July 80 show that there were reportad from ail snu of Egypt 216 cases of cholera and 180 eaths from the disease. The disease is increasing except at Wady Halfa and south of that place, where it has been vir- tually stamped out. e Tt i Died From Injuries. VIENNA, AvstriA, July 8l.—Five more of those persons injured by yesterday’s explosion at Fuenikirschen have died from their injuries. i TGS, To Break a Trust. : DETROIT, Mrica., July 3L—The Im- proved Match Company has begun, in the ‘Wayne Circuit Court, suit for $150,000 damages against the Diamond Match Company. The bill sets up that the Dia- mond Company is a trust and used im- smp«r methods of competition and has amaged the Improved Company that amount by these methods. ——— e Manufacturers dssign. CHICAGO, Iin., July 81.—The Staver & Abbott Manufacturing Company as- signed to-day to Henry C. Stever for the benefit of their creditors. The assets are scheduled at $300,000 and the liabilities at $400,000. General depression in business is given as the cause of the faill —————— READ W) the thieving Supervisors in to-day’s Star. Editor Barry has to say about (UBAN BEBELS *PUT T0 FLIGHT, Spanish Troops Report a Victory Over Insur- " gents. HEAVY LOSS SUSTAINED Three Political Prisoners Are Convicted and One Is Doomed to Die. SPAIN'S PECULIAR TACTICS. Madrid Authorities Make an Adverse Communication in Reply to Damages Demanded. HAVANA, Cusk, July 3L—News has been received from Santiago da Cuba to the effect that an engagement has taken place between ‘the command of Colonel Seguera and a party of insurgents under the leader, Rabi, near Bayamo. De- taile of the fight are not now obtainable, but it is said that the rebel loss was heavy, while that of the Government troops was slight, Three political priscners—Alfredo Adan, Alberico Varona and Nunez—have been found guilty by a court-martial at Puerto Principe of the charges against them and Adan and Verona have been sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment in chains and Nunes is condemued to be shot. In the skirmish between Spanish troops and rebels near Gabriel, Havana province, yesterday, the killed. included besides Juan Bruno Sayas, the other leaders of the party, Perpinan and Captain Julio Planos, and a lawyer named Navarret. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 3L—A Her- ald special from Washington says: The State Department has just received an ad- verse communication from the Madrid authorities in answer to the demand made on them for an immediate settlement of the claim preserred against the Spanish Government by Dr. Jose Delgado, an American citizen who Was outrageously treated by the Spanish troops on his estate near Havana, Cuba. In its note containing the demand the department sets forth evidence to prove the justice of the claim, layirg particular stress upon the statement and action of Captain-General Weyler after the outrage had been committeed. The reply which has been received from Spain goes into the details respecting the visit of the Spanish troops to the Delgado plantation and to their subsequent actions whilé there. Immediately after the receipt of the demand from the United States the Mad- rid authorities ordered that an investi- gation be 'made jnto the' occurrence, and the report ‘of this investigation was for- warded on completion-'to the Spanish capital. ‘The report sustains the action of the Spanish forces ana attempts to explain the outrage committed on Dr. Delgado. The claim that the department is press- ingis that for personal injuries sustained by Dr. Delgado. The damage to his prop- erty has been assessed and forwarded to Spain as a separate claim. It will be con- sidered in conjunction with many others which have been filed and submitted to the Madrid authorities by a joint commis- sion, which wiil be appointed by the two Governments at the close of the Cuban rebellion. In reply to Spain’s note that the de- partment is preparing a reiteration of the demand will be made and the weak points in Spain’s case will be pointed out. Senors Hector de Saavedra and Fer- nando de Feraraye Andrade, the former a prominent lawyer and political writer and the latter a former mem- ber of the bench in Spain, were commissioned by the Cuban junta in Paris a short time ago to bring to this city and place at the disposal of the Cuban delegation here a fully equipped battery of French mitrailleuses, manned by French veteran artillerymen. The battery con- sists of four mitrailleuses and seyenteen men. The guns and four gunners have arrived here, The others will come in pairs, and in fifteen days the entire bat- tery will be here. The men and pieces will then be sent to Cuba by the Cuban delegation in this city. AMATEUR KOWING REGATTA. Events Enlivened by the Sinking of the Detroit Shell. TRENTON, Micn., July 8L — The twenty-eighth annual regatta of the North- western Amateur Rowing Association opened here this afternoon. There wasa strong breeze blowing down the river, which made the water quite rough an: the row up stream very hard. All five events on to-day’s programme were jun- ior events. The course was one and a half milys with a turn. Of the shell events the Detroit Boat Club captured the double-sculls and pair- oar with ease. C, T. Harris of the same club ana N. T. Langley of Wyandotte gn-dg a pretty race rn ":' 'tm e sculls, eeping ether thioughou e race, Langle; mning by a length. In the four. oared shell event the Detroit crew fouled the Ecorwe crew just after turning the buoy. The Detroit shell sank, but the crew was picked up by a launch. The canoe event was uninteresting. s v WHEELMEN WAX WEALTHY. Plethorio Condition of the National Bi- cycling Organization’s Ireasury. NEW YORK, N. Y;, July 8L.—A meet- ing of the executive committes of the League of American Wheelman was held m this city yesterday, at which a number of facts of general interest came to the surface. On July 1 there was a balance on hand of $14,455,which is more than double the amount previously contained by the national treasury at any one time. The receipts from July business will consider- ably raise this amount. ————— Elopers Arrested. HOBOKEN, N. J.,, July 3L —Deputy United States Marshal Berhardt boarded the Bremen line steamship Lahn upon her arrival at Hoboken last evening by order of the Consul, and ordered the de- tention of Josepn Kempel, 33 years of age, a son of the German banker, and Lena Unger, 16 years.of age, an elapinfi couple, Wwho came over in the steerage. They were ISD: to Ellis Island to be returned to Ger- many. 5 UG R _ Suicides at Bulte. 5 BUTTE, Mox., July 21.—Abe Hymann, 8 young man who came to Butte receritly from Chicazo. attempted seli-destruction to-day with boho because he had bnn' discarded by bis sweetheart, who is also h Gardner, a 14-year-old girl, shot and killed herself also on account of a love affair, and Michael Griffin, 8 young man whose relatives also live in Chicago, killed him- self with poison this morning. He was just recovering from the effects of a long debauch. HOT EASTERN WEATHER. No Abatement of Sunstrokes and Pros- trations in Many Sections of the Country. 8T. LOUIS, Moi, July 31.—There was no sbatement this morning of the terrible heat of the past four days. At 8 A. M. the Government thermometer registered 88 degrees, at noon it was 91 and at 4 . M. 96. These are the figures registered on the top of the custom-house. Street thermome- ters ranged about four degrees higher. At 5 p. M. the promised stormcloua ap- peared, butin such threatening munner as to almost create a panic. With the memory of the recent tornado still fresh people noted with alarm the approach of a cloud from the southwest which was a mass of black in the center and shaded off to a dull copper color. High wind came with the cloud and the fear deepened. At the fair grounds race track a panic occurred and the 3000 people fled to the open field in the center. A deluge of rain feil for five minutes and the storm was over. At8 p. M, thermometers registered 78 degrees. The fatal sunstroke cases to-day num- bered seven, among them bteing Hon. John Coppedge, member of the State Legislature ot St. James, Mo, s o SWANBERG WAITING. His Game Is Doubtful in Chicago and Also in Sacramento. CHICAGO, Iir., July 31.—C. L. Swan- berg, who was arrested yesterday by the Central Police Station police, charged with being a fugitive from justice and wanted at San Francisco on a charge of perjury, was arraiened in Justice Rich- ardson’s court to-day. The case was set for hearing August 8, by which time it is expectea that all the necessary papers to take him back to Cali- fornia will be ready. Swanberg was a wealthy merchant in San Francisco, where he lived for many years, being president of the California Cold-Storage Company and an extensive land owner in Sweden. John C. King took the case before Judge Gibbons later in the morning on a writ of habeas corpus asking release from the custody of the Police Department. The defendant told Judge Gibbons that he was not guilty of any crime or of any offense to his knowledge, and explainea that he was on his way to Sweden, where he has farming interests, when he was arrested. City Prosecutor Tatge said he was holding Swanberg on a fugitive warrant issued on receipt of the telegram. The hearing was continued until Monday. SACRAMENTO, OCar., July 3L—Gov- ernor Budd did not hear arguments to- night against the application for a requi- sition for the return of Charles O. Swan- burg from Chicago. The parties arrived here on a late train, and the Governor postponed the matter tili to-morrow morn- ing. COMBINE OF STEEL MIEN Meeting of the Manufacturers Who Ectared the Scheme to Raise Prices. Various Liftle Matters That Caused Controversy Are Finally Straight. ened Out. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 81.—The first quarterly meeting of the steel manufac- turers who formed a combination some months ago for the purpose of protecting and equalizing the price of steel billets was held to-day at the Holland House. It was an important gathering in one re- speect, viz.: that it settled the permanency of the organization. The conference of committees showed that the working principles of the com- bine had largely benefited the manufac- turers of iron and steel billets. That is all any one concerned in the gathering would say. In connection with this meeting a rumor went the rounds that there was trouble in the combination, which is the strongest in the iron and steel trade ever organized. It was said that there was considerable dissatisfaction among the smaller tirms, who, it was alleged, charged the Carnegie Company of Pittsburg and the Illinois Steel Company of Chicago with having grabbed the greater share of the business done in the trade since the organization of the pool at the Waldorf Hotel on Apail 5 last. It was also said that threats of secession had been made by the alleged dissatisfied manufacturers, and that to-day's meeting had been specially called to smooth mat- ters over. The price of billets was discussed at length and arranged according to the location of the mills, ; One price that was definitely set is that of $20 25 per ton for the Pittsburg district, which is by far the most important of any in the country. Of the twenty-seven com- panies which make up the combination twenty were represented at to-day’s meet- ing. b Very Bapid Crew Transportation. ‘WABHINGTON, D. C., July 31L.—Word was received at the Naval Department to- day that the special train carrying 100 men of the crew of the Charleston from Mare Island, Cal., to Norfolk had arrived at the latter point, making the trip by the southern route in four days and twenty- three hours, breaking all previous records for transcontinental journeys. Until re- cently enlisted men' “wete exchanged be- tween the Pacific and Atlantic coasts by way of Panama, consuming an average of thirty-five days, during which time the men’s services were iost to the navy, al- though their pay and subsistence went on. The advantages of the new transit system would be very great in time of sudden hos- tilities. & G R ST 18 Will Not Combine. WASHINGTON, D.C., July 3L—At a conference this morning between Senators Stewart of the Silver committee and Faulk- nez of the Democratic Congressional com- m:ttze it was decided that while the two committees would work in harmony they would not be merged, for the reason that the Silver committee would know best the needs of its own people. Silver headquar- ters will accordingly be opened in this city. Itis thought George P. Keeney of California, who has long been connected with the silver movement, will be placed in charge. g Internal Revenue Receipts. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., July 3L.—A pre- liminary report submitted by John S. Miller, Commissiener of Internal Revenue, to_Secretary Carlisle, shows that the re- ceipts from all sources of internal revenue for the year aggregated $146,830,615, bein, an increase of $3,584,537 over the last nmi FOR PERMANENT " ORGANIZATION, Important Action Taken by the Congress of the Socialists. SINCERITY QUESTIONED. Statesmen Criticized in Regard to Establishing a Court of Arbitration. WINSTORE CAUSES A BREFZE. Adoption of Resolutions Favoring Abo- lition of Standing Armiss and Against Secret Treaties. LONDON, Exeraxp, July 31.—The In- ternational Bocialists’ Congress to-day decided upon the creation of a per- manent international committee with headquarters in London. In a speech on the arbitration resolu- tion Lucien Sanian of New York called in question the sincerity of so-called statesmen who are negotiating for the establishment of a court of arbitration, and said that unless it was for the advan- tage of the middle class arbitration was never resorted to. Mr. Winstone of New York insisted upon being allowed to speak, and, mount- ing a chair, shouted that the people of America were not unanimous on the ar- bitration question by a long ways. Amid the din which arose other dele- gates were heard yelling: “Who sent Winstone to the congress?”’ The attitude assumed by his opponents became so menacing that Mr. Winstone left the meeting, and the troable thus ended. Resolutions favoring the abolition of standjng armies, against secret treaties and ih favor of socialization of industry were adopted. A ROMANCE OF 49, Reunion of @ Miner and His Wife, Sep- arated 47 Years. SPRINGFIELD, IrL., July 31.—In 1849, when the California gola fever was at its height, John F. Robinson of Illopolis, a village ten miles east of here, left his wife ana young son and went to the coast to make his fortune. After three years’ ab- sence indefinite rumors came to Mrs. Rob- inson that he had been killed in a fight with Indians. To be on the safe side she secured a divorce on the ground of deser- tion, and was subsequently married to a man nemed Berry, who died about two years ago, Some time ago Robinson, who was_stili in his California home, heard of a John Robinson in Decatur and wondered if it might. not be his so He addressed a letter to the Decatur man, and ‘was in- formed by the latter that he wasanother Robinson and that the old man’s son qu dead.' He was further told by the Decatur. correspondent that Mrs. Berry, Robinson’s former wife, was still living. A correspondence was begun with her, "and the result is that the old man arrived here from California on Sunday, had a joyous meeting with Mrs. Berry, secured a marriage license and will marry her the second time to-morrow. Robinson says he wrote several letters home after he went to California, but receiving no response to them he supposed his wife and her son were both dead. il St PN RECOVERED HEAVY DAMAGES. A New York Man Pays $50,000 for Breach of Promise of Marriage. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 31..—At last the celebrated breach-of-promise suit brought' by Esther Jacobs against Henry B. Sire is at an end. Yesterday a satisfac- tion of judgment for $52,128 90 was filed in the office of the County Clerk. Miss Jacobs sued in the Superior Court for $50,000 damages. In the first trial a juror dropped dead, which ended the suit temporarily. The second trial resuited in a vardict for $25,000 in Miss Jacobs’ favor. Sire appealed to the general term and got a reversal of the verdict and a new tral. The third trial was adjourned on several occasions, and when Judge Freedman re- fused any further postponement the de- fendant did not appear and a verdict was given fgr the plaintiff for the full amount claimed. The satisfaction filed yesterday is for Miss Jacobs’ judgment, with interest to date. It is not known whether the full amount was paid to her. TR TT S, Seizea on an Attachment. BUFFALO, N. Y., July 31.—The Queen City Oycle Works at Idlewild, near this city, were seized last night by Deputy Sheriff Sloan on an attachment of 3& ———e Bicycle Company Fails. NEW YORK, N.Y., July 3L—John R. figflin 8;.1 lpg:mud ,ree;i‘nrl h’l%i:ih. Tl cle mpany. s es are :ybuuz $200,000 and assets about $187,000. O TR Resume the Strike. CLEVELAND, Omro, July 31.— The strike is on again at the Brown Hoisting Works. To-night all the union men who bhad gone back under the agreement entered into Monday were called out. The men olaim they were deceived by the way in which the agreement was construed to them. To-morrow night there will be a mass-meeting of iron workers, when the question of a general sympathetic strike will be decided. Sl gl Vanderbilt - Wilson Wedding. NEWPORT, R. I, July 31.—The Van- derbilt-Wilson wedding is not likely to oc- cur here, since to-nignt Mrs. R. T. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. M. Orma Wilson and Robert Goelet left for New York. It will not be surprising to people to hear if it occurs there to-morrow. . TR IS Tpeasury Gold Reserve. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 31. —The treasury gold reserve at the close of busi- ness to-day stood at $110,070,597. Tbhe day’s withdrawals were $225,100. SACRAMENTO WHEELMEN. Hot Races at the Indoor Blue-Ribbon Bioyele Meet. SACRAMENTO, Cav., July 31.—Some of the races of the indoor blue-ribbon author- ized bicycle meet to-night were hot ones, but in the main the local talent were not killing themselves. 0. Osen, O. C., went against time and smashed three of the world's records—at least, he smashed two and claims the third. The first record he lowered was the fourth of a mile, flying start, unpaced, held by E. E. Languetin, B. C. W., 29 seconds. Osen rode in :28 2-5. He rode the halt mile, flying start in 1:01 1-5, and claims the half mile unpaced standing start, which he rode in 1:05. But the real winner of honors to-night was six- year-old Willie Mc¢Donald, who rode an eighth of & mile in :24 1-5, using a 43 gear. Captain Readman, C. C. W., established a word’s record for three-fourths of & mile, riding in 1:40. Following is the summary: Quarter mile, scratch, amateur—First heat won by Waiter Leach, C. C. W.; time, Second hest won by Harry Tenbosh, C. C. time, 180, Thtrd W at won by Jacob Hirsh, . C: W, , 34 2.5. Final won by dJ. Hirsh; time, :35. Half-mile handicap, amateur—First heat won by L. A. Payen, C. C. W., 50 yards; time, 1:03. Second heat won by L. A. Young, C. C. W., 16 yards; time, 1:05. Third heat won by Jacob Hirsh, scratch: time, 1:06. Final won by J. Hirsh; 'time, 1:02 3-5. ‘One-mile handicap, amateur—First heat won by L. A. Young, C. C. W., 25 yards; time, 2:39. Becond heat won by L. Payen, C.C.W., 6 ards; time, 2:22, Third heai won by T. elch, 50 yerds; time, 2:18 3-5. Final won by L. Payen; time, 2:20. HAS WALKED FOR A YEAR How a Pennsylvania Watch- maker Conquered Nervous Prostration. A Tramp of ths Character He De. scribes Is Warranted to Bring Relief. TACOMA, Wash., July 3L—J. A. Shoe- maker has found a new cure for nervous prostration. His is a simple remedy and consists in walking. Since he undertook his own cure, July 11, 1895, he has walked 18,087 miles. His cure has been effected, but he has grown interested in the treat- ment and keeps it up. Mr. Shoemaker is a jeweler and watchmaker. He arrived in the city yesterday on foot and left to-day for Seattle on the same conveyance. He is well dressed for a pedestrian tourist, is is well educated and a picture of rugged Health. He carries his tools and with them makes a living as he trudges along. Shoemaker’'s home is York, Penn. He left there over & year ago, Dervous prostra- tion compelling him to stop work. This is the thirty-first State he has visited and he has been thirty-seven miles south of the City of Mexico. He has been in four- teen Mexican States and four Canadian provinces. His ambition is to have trav- eled once around, twice across and three times beyond the borders of this country. He keeps & record of every mile traveled and the means by which it wes traveled. ‘When he started he was a physical wreck. Gradually he became interested in walk- ing, hie nervousness ceased and then he began gaining flesh. He recommends walking to all afflicted with the same malady. S i Postm asters Arrested for Embezsloment. TACOMA, Wass., July 31.—H. H. 8tarr, postmaster at Orting, Pierce County, this State, and bis son, Hal Starr, were ar- rested to-night by Deputy United States Marshal Bridges and brought to this city. ‘They are charged by Postoffice Inspector J. C. ¥. Gordon with the embezzlement of $285 of Uncle Sam's funds. The inspector made a sudden descent on the office early in the week, checked up the books, and discovered the shortage. Starr confessed that the money had been used. 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