The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 9, 1896, Page 2

o . THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 1896. S ————————————— .S been mistaken for a great man. This elicited laughter and applause, and then to prove his assertion, he related how at a bizg meeting in New York, at which ~Chauncey Depew was to speak, a box had been set aside for Tom Reed of Maine; how he had occupied that box in the un- avoidable absence, and how he had been mistaken for that eminent statesman. , Having thus amused the audience for some minutes, Mr. Shortridge paid a passing tribute to Senator Allison, the favorite son of Towa, and remarked that while he was in hopes that this pacriotic and able statesman would secure the Pres- idential nomination at St. Louis, he was now heart and soul in the fight to secure victory for the grand Republican standard- bearer from Ohio. “I for one,’’ he said, ‘‘accept the verdict of my party with joy and gladness, and shall give to it whatever support I can, in order that this country may not disgrace itself by failing to elect the candidate of the Republican party to be the President of the United States.” The speaker referred to the place of his birth, which was on a farm about twelve miles from Des Moines, Iowa, and related a story of & hen which bad the setting habit. *“We called this fowl a Democratic hen,” he said, “The Democratic party has always pretended to want to do some- thing great and grand for this country. This hen pretended she wanted to set. She went to the carriage-house, on the floor of which there were a number of nice, round rocks, and she set on some of these until the feathers were all off the place where she sat [laughter], and still she sat. “Finally I tried to drive her out of the carriage-house and tried to break up that habit, but without success. She was so earnest, so persistent and so devoted to her business that I finally took pity on her, and one Sunday I went out and bought a dozen eggs and put these eggs under the hen. I putthem in a nice cor- ner, drove pickets around her and her eggs and built her a soft and cozy nest. I noted the day on which she came into power [laughter] and ‘commenced to do business at the old stand. *I followed her along for three long Varney W. Gaskill, a Well-Known Republican of Oakland. weeks, the same as we followed the Demo- crats for three years. Then I went over to hear the chirps of the chicks. But not a chirp did I hear. The hen with all her great and good intentions seemed unable to accomplish anything. I finally exam- ined her nest,and to my surprise found she had eaten every one of the eggs and had not even left a shell. [Laughter.] “So it is with the Democratic party, though they have left the ghell, and you know that if we had not stood by this shell this country would be even in worsecon- dition than itis. “] told this story to Sam Bishop, who has now gone to his reward, and he said that that was not a Democratic hen. He told of a turkey gobbler in San Jose who thought he would like to become the mother of a family [laughter], so be sat on a bag of shot, and he sat so'long he finally hatched out a lump of lead. . “I don’t know but Bishop was right, for all the long-haired and short-haired cranks appear to be taken under the wings of the Democratic party and are brought forward as the patriots of the cowntry. So they do sometimes hatch out something. : “I am pleased to be here to speak to the people of Ozkland, a city for which I have much admiration; which is the banner county of stalwart Republicanism, and which is, as has been well said by our loved and distinguished Senator, the Athens of the West. I am pleased and proud to be here, and I am pleased and proud of another privilege which has been given me-—that I am to speak a word in behalf of the Alliance; that I should present to the Alliance, through the hands of its Oakland mem- bers, the banner which your distinguished citizen, Eii Denison, has brought back as a party trophy from the great convention held at St. Louis by the Republicans of the country. I take the most heartfelt pleasure in presenting this banner to this distinguished and patriotic band of Re- publicans, asking them to place it along- side the likenesses of those other states- men and patriots who have led the Republican party to victory, glory and renown. Ladies and gentlemen, I trust you will all go from this meeting with pleasant thoughts and a determination to be loyal to the party and help it to elect its candidate President of the United States and place the name of McKinley alongside of the other great Republican Presidents who have lived and died that this country might remain one.” The banner is an elaborate piece of work and of no small intrinsic value. Its center is a fine steel engraving of Me- Kinley on a ground of white satin. Below the portrait are the red and white stripes of the American flag, while over it is a field of ultramarine velvet, spangled over with the requisite number of stars in glistening gold. George P. Morrow, the eloquent and popular president of the club, made a brief but graceful acknowledgment of the favor conferred upon the organiza- tion, and Mr. Denison spoke of the pleas- ure it gave him to have any part in the presentation of 8o noblea gift to so worthy 2 body of recipients. “And now,” cried ex-Governor Perkins, “letus before we close show where westand by giving three rousing cheers for Mc- Kinley and Hobart.” A mighty volume of sound rent the flower-scented air and its echoes bounded and rebounded from cornice to cornice of the spacious audi- torium, bats, handkerchief and bouquets being cast aloft in the exuberance of opular enthusiasm, And thus did the Allisnce Cluband its friends from both sides of the bay fire the first gun of Alameda County’s Republican campaign, ! ARE OVERCOME BY THE SCORE, An Appalling Death-Roll in the East Due to Hot Weather. '|OUTDOOR WORK STOPPED Dumb Apimals as Well as Human Beings' Succumb to the Heat. MORE FATALITIES EXPECTED. Unless the Promised Cool Wave Comes the Suffering Will B: Terrible. . CHICAGO, IrL., Aug. 8.—This was the hottest day of the scorching, deadly series of the week, and the list of victims was the largest. There were six deaths re- ported early, and the indications were that the number would be doubled as a result of the day’s heat. The temperature &t 8 A. M. was 84 deg., and it continued to rise steadily until 98 deg. were recorded at 3 o’clock. This record made it the hottest August day in the history of the Chicago Weather Bureau. The deaths so far reported to the police were: Mrs. Ella Tracey, Mrs. Laura H. Walton, Joseph H. Cassidy, Cornelius ‘Whitman, James A. Rice, J. Eckhart. Four other prostrated victims were re- moved to hospitals rdm the streets where they were working, or from stores, and their recovery is not expected. A score or more men and women were overcome, but nearly all of them are out of aanger. Horses drawing heavy loads dropped dead by the score in the streets from early morning till late at night. Outdoor labor was practically suspended for the day, ex- cept where it was absolutely necessary. Nearly all the 109 deaths reported to the Health Department for yesterday were traceable more or less directly to the heat. The awful record of deaths for the six days of this weak is 492. The average death- list for Chicago 1s fifty a day, which would make the deaths for the last six days 200 over the everage. Dispatches from Mascoutah, Ill., state that 106 in the shade was recorded there, and outdoor farm work has been stoped. There were two deaths yesterday at Evansville, Ind., on account of the heat, which registered 102 in the shade. The temperature to-day was about the same. The heat and hot winds throughout Kan- sas have discouraged the hopes of the farmers for a big corn crop. The beat in that .State has registered 111 at some points, ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 8.—This is the third successive day that St. Louis has been the hottest city in the United States. At 7 a. 20 the thermometers registered 84 degrees. The temperature at 3P.M. had reached 100, and at5 p. M. 103 was regis- tered. ‘There has been no cessation in the pros- trations. A number of victims who have been hovering between life and death for three days succumbed to-day. Many in- dustries are badly crippled by inroads made by the heat among their employes, The weather forecast holds out promise of coo]indg winds and rain for to-morrow, but should this fail the death roll among those already debilitated must be enormously increased. During the past three days 228 burial certificates. have been issued here, a large gnrt of the deaths being traceable to the eat’s effect. In addition to the ten deaths from sunstroke announced up to 7 P. M. last night there were eight others up to midnight. Beginning at that hour, the deatn rate to-day is as follows: Murtin Wall, Mrs, Eliza Johns, Eugene Young, John Baum- ley, Arthur. King, Carl ing, Richara Steinman, William Haggerty, Mrs. Sarah T. Holder, John D. Wynn, M. Ovens, Au- gust Weske, Clark Kohler, Mabel Baker. There were thirty-four prostrations treated at the City Dispensary up to 7 o’lock this evening. Besides these there were fully as many treated at homeby family physicians.” At 9 P. M. & brisk breeze has lowered the temperature some- what and there is hope that the promised rain will be forthcoming. PHILADELPHIA, Pai., Aug. 8.—Ten deaths from the heat were reported to-day and the prostrations number about sixty. The highest temperature reached by the Weather Bureau thermometer to-day was 95.5, within three-tentus of a degree of Thursday’s temperature, the hottest of the season. Tbe mercury on shady sidewalks ranged from three to four degrees higher than the Weather Bureau. CXCOLONIC HAILSTORM, MMillions of Bushels of Grain Destroyed in North Dakota. FARGO, N. D., Aug. 8.—Scattering tele- grams from the northwestern part of the State report the most destructive hail- storm in the history of the Northwest, The direction was from northwest to southwest, and it is said to have been most severe in Walsh, Grand Forks, Nel- son, Foster, Wells, Griggs, Kidder and Stuttman counties. It is impossible to verify the revorts, which declare that millions of bushels of grain have been laid low. The harvest had just begun, and the grain all over was flg‘e. and will be a total loss. ne special train of President Winters of the Northen Pacific Railroad wascaught mn the storm, and every window in the north side of ‘the cars was broken and great dents made in the woodwork. The trainmen declare that hailstones larger than egys hurled themselves through the car windows, The storm was almost cyclonic in char- acter. The worst damage seems to have been in the vicinity of Minto and Lari- more. No houses are reported blown down, but the damage by wind was con- siderable over a small strip of territory. The hailstorm covered a territory I l;ilss in width in the best section of the Late, SREARRE A PULLMAN PORTER SBOT DEAD. Grappled With Two Men Who Were Rob- bing Sleeping Passengers. OCALA, Fra., Aug. 8.—Shortly after 1 o‘clock this morning, when the south- bound Flurida Oentral and Peningula train was about a mile below here, Henry Greenway, the porter, discovered two men in the Iman car robbing the sleeping passengers. Greepway closed with the robbers, who drew pistols and shot the porter dead The robbers then {umpod from the train. A man who gives his name as Brown was arrested this afternoon on sus- Efinion of being one of the robbers. Brown 8 stranger 1n this section. P BSwicide of @ Wealthy Widow. PITTSBURG, Pa., Aug. 8,—Mrs. Emma Bell, aged about 50 years, widow of Arthur Bell; the banker, committed suicide this morning by shooting herself three times in the breast. One of the bullets sed through the heart. It is believed she was temporarily insene, as no other cause for the self-murder can beascribed. Mrs. Bell was very wealthy, and was a leader 1n Allegheny and Pittsburg social circles, AL SWINDLERS BEHIND BARS. Capture of the Principals in a Notorious Combination of Daring Operators. ’ CHICAGO, IrL, Aug. 8.—By the arrest to-night of the principals one of the worst combinations of swindlers that ever preyed on the American public and whose operations have extended over many years and involved many States has, it isconfi- dently believed, been broken up. Acting on information from Postal In- spector J. J. Larmour, who has been working on the case at New York for some time, that he had located two mem- bers of the compination and would arrest them at once, James F. McClure, William Thomas and J. I Taliiman were to-night taken into custody on the charge of using the mails for fraudulent purposes. Their New York confederates are William H. McClure and Dr. John Craig. For years these men have conducted fraudulent schemesof various kinds under different firm names, seldom remaining long in any one locality, and have filched, it is believed, fully $75,000 from their dupes. The earlier operations of the gang were in connection with a fake lottery at Kan=- sas City, Mo., and later on in pretended connection with the Louisiana lottery, in which enterprises they have reaped rich harvests. Lately they have been engaged in so-called ‘‘bucket shop” business in this city, using various aliases, among them being ‘‘Patterson & Co,” “Craig & Co.” and “Thomas & Co.” it st dlls SHOT AT MATANZAS. S Ricardo Barrio Robado, a Prisoner of War, Put to Death by the Spaniards. HAVANA, Cusa, Aug. 8.—Ricardo Bar- rio Robado, a prisonéerof war, was shot at Matanzas. A raid has been made by insurgents upon the town of Itabo. The stores in the place were sacked, and iwenty-five huts were set on fire by the rebelsand com- pletely destroyed. An attack has also been made upon Hato Neuvo, but after a fight lasting five hours the rebels were re- pulsed. Two of the attacking force were killed ana a number wounded. Advices from Canasia in the proviuce of Havana say that an unimportant engage- ment has taken place thefe. The advices also state that important expedition landed near Can: last month. IR G WOLSELEY PLEASED. Congratulates the Canadian Artillery- men Upon Their Success. LONDON, Enc., Aug. 8.—General Lord ‘Wolseley, commander-in-chief of the Brit- ish army, made an address to the volun- teers at Shoeburyness yesterday, in the course of which he expressed himself as especially pleased to see the Canadian ar- tillerymen who have taken part in the competition at'the camp. General Wolseley heartily congratulated the visitors upon their success. The Can- adians received a tremendous ovation when they were formally presented with the Queen’s prize, which they won on Au- gustd. SR BLOCKED WITH ICE. Bad Outlook for the Success of the Peary Expedition. _ ST. JOHNS, N. F., Aug. 8.—The Labra- dor mail steamer reached here yesterday. She reports that the whole coast wasg blocked with ice on July 28 and that no fish whatever were being taken. She also reports that nothing had been heard from the Peary expedition steamer Hope since she passed Battle Harbor on July 18. Navigators who have had experfence in the ice believe that the Hope will find it difficult 1f not impossible to reach far Northern widters this year, owing to the immense fields of ice. e b S WEYLER'S TERMS. No Truce, but Pardon to All Who Sur- render, NEW YORK, N. Y. Aug. 9.— The Herald prints the following this morning: HAVANA, Cubs, August 8. To the Editor of the Herald: There is no truce, but pardon is “offerea to all who surrender themselves with their arms. WEYLER, LTI 4 Wreath on Gordon’s Tomb. LONDON, Esa., Aug. 8~Li Haung Chang, who is now the guest of Great Britain, visited St. Paul’s Cathedral this morning and placed a wreath upon the tomb of General Charles George Gordon, who was killed by the Mahdists at Kbar- toum, in the Soudan, on January 23, 1885. Li Hung Chang and General Gordon were personal friegds. This evening Li attended a garden party given in his honor by Lord Salisbury at Hatfield House, the Prime Minister's seat in Hertfordshire. Among the guests were J. R. Roosevelt, secretary ot the United States Embassy; Lieutenant-Commander Cowles, naval attache of the American Embassy ; the officers of the United States cruiser Minneapolis, and many members of the aristocracy. B Aroused Armenian Wrath. LONDON, Exg., Aug. 8.—The Constan- tinople correspondent of the United Asso- ciated Presses telegraphs that the Porte’s action in dissolving the old Armenian lay council and illegally appointing a new council has aroused the wrath of the Ar. menians. The new council will meet to- day to elect a locum tenens for the Patri- arch, Matthew Iznirlian, who resigned the other day. The council will probably elect the Bishop of Jerusalem. The dis- ‘| patch adds that the Government has granted a pension of $260 to the late Patriarch. e A Andrae’s Aerial Yoyage. LONDON, Exe., Aug. 8,—A. dispatch to the United Associated Presses dated Vaazo, Norway, August 8, says the weather is cloudy, but that hopesare entertained that by to-morrow the atmospheric conditions will have become such as to allow the de- parture from Spitzbergen of Professor An- drae in his balloon on his trip in searth of the North Pole. e Defeat of the Matabeles. CAPE TOWN, Soure AFRICA, Aug. 8,— Interest continues unabated in the recent news'that 700 British troops under Colonel Plummer whipped 8000 Matabeles and killed 500 of the natives. The British rapid-fire s did great execution. The natives ehs::nd them again and n, but all to no purpose. Skombeo and Umlu- gulu commanded the natives. The Eng- lish lost one officer and thirty soldiers. / Tacoma’s Daring Sailors. TACOMA, Wasw., Aug. 8.—Billy Ryan and Jack Crowley, two well-known long- shoremen, wao desire to emulate the man who crossed the Atlantic in a building a 16-foot do‘a at Wi house in this city, with the intention of embarkin; Francisco. They ex- for pecnouaintludo. on A and to reach their ue:fln:avn amr s — . A Laundry Burned. At12:25 o’clock this box 295 rang for the fire in Sing Lee's , 906 Pacific. The building was gutted and considerable linen was burn The building is 8 two-story frame structure and is owned by Anton Leib, The damage will amount to about $250. are 's t- ter. | PERLS OF COAL HINERS Three Hundred Men Narrowly Escape Death at Clarke City, Il Thrilling Scenes While the Hoisting Works Burn—A'l Saved by the Air Shef:. ~ CLARKE CITY, Inn, Aug. 8.—The burning of the buildings of the Garner Wilmington Coal Company here caused intense excitement yesterday, and for a while it was feared that this place was to be the scene of another of those mine horrors which are unfortunately too fre- quent in the coal districts. When the fire started it was thought that it could be easily put out by the men in the building, but the flames spread so rapidly that before those on the surface realized it the escape of the men below ‘was cut off. At the time the fire took place a full force was at work in the mine. Not far from 300 men were below. The alarm was given to the men and they made their way to the main shaft, hoping to be raised to the surface, but they found when too late that all hope of escape in that way had been cut off. The hoisting works were in flames and the en- gineer had been driven from his post. Not only that, but soon burning wreckage began to fall into the mine and com- pletely blocked up the entrance. n the meantime the scene on the sur- face around the burning buildings was painful in the extreme. Many of the miners were married and had families and nsarly all had relatives. When the news spread that the mine was on fire an immense crowd gathered at the scene and the lamentations of those whe believed themselves bereaved were heartrending. Those familiar with the mine knew that there was one hope for the miners. If they could reach the air shaft they might be able to climb the long ladders placed in it and so make their escape. Volunteers were called for to enter the mine 1n the hope of reaching the miners and there was no lack of men who offered to risk their lives for their companions. Before the volunteers could descend one of the miners from below appeared at the top of the air shaft, and he was followed }zy others,”until all had reached the sur- ace. As each man made his ?pennnea he was greeted with a cheer, and the scene of mourning was quickly turned to one of re- joicing. LOS ANGELES SENSATION Witnesses Accuse the Late Don Manuel Coronel of For- gery.” Miguel Antunez Claims He Saw a Bozus Signature Attached to a Trust Deed. 28 SouTH BROADWAY, Los Axgeres, Cal., Aug. 8. The sensation of yesterday in the Yndart- Coronel snit was decidedly in favor of the defense. The yellow piece of foolscap paper on which francisco depends for the successt of his confest for a fortune has been very much in evidence during the trial, being frequently alluded to and han- dled. With its torn upper right-hand corner, from which a small piece 1s miss- ing, it has been the object of curious in- vestigation by all connected with the case. The defense yesterday produced a wit- ness whose testimony if sustained “knocks the hottom out” of the plaintiff’s case. Thi= witness was Miguel Antunez. “Do you know,” asked the attorney for the defense, ‘‘who wrote the signature ‘Antonio F. Coronel’ affixed to this docu- ment?’ handing Antumez the trust docu- ment upon which Francisco Ynardt's claim rests. “Yes, sir,” replied Antumez, quietly. “Who was it?” “Manuel Coronel.” “Did he copy it from memory or from something else?"” ‘‘Something else.” :‘;Vy:ut?"m i ket,” and ‘I have e papers in my pocket,” ant Antunez produced two slips of paper which had been carefully wrapped in a {inca of newspaper. They bore the signa- ure of Antonio F. Coronel. “Where did Manuel sign Antonio’s name to this document?” “In a room of a house upstairs where I lived in 1894, “How did he do it?” “Put it on top of another paper.” If these statements are established as the truth, then the trust conjured upand Manuel Coronel, whose whereabouts no one seems to know, evolved a most ingenuous plan to steal a big slice of the Coronel estate. It that theory be correct, it would explain the ab- sence of Mrs. Garfias, who claims to e had the document in her possession many years. Jose Sanchez; an aged Spaniard, testified to-day that he had been made a confi- dant” of by Manuel Coronel. After the alleged trust deea had been handed to the witness he said: *‘Don Manuel told me had a good busi- ness for me. He told me he wanted me to look for some good lawyer to bring a case ng-inst Anwn‘io Coronel's estate. ‘This will open the case,’ he't and he pulled Los ANGELES OFFICE OF THE CALL,} out this paper. But was not fin- ished yet. Anoth s, Guzman, had to sign, Isaw him: five or six days after that, Manuel 1bad seenany lawyers, He told m to teil any one about the document. He pulled it out, and there was Guzman’s signature. Isaw ita fourth time in February, 1895. Don Manuel still had it. When I first saw the paper it was in the same condition itis now; the piece on the corner was torn off.” Jose nis that his friendly relations con- tinued with Don Manuel until September last, when Manuel told him that all had been discovered. — PAID TUO LEAVE THE CITY. Startling Charge Made by a Witness Against George McDonald. LOS ANGELES, CaL., Aug. 8.—Several weeks ago the little daughter of Sarah Campbell, a colored woman -of this city, Teported to her mother that an attack had been made upon her by George Mec- Donald, son of a wealthy resident of this city, living on Adams street. McDonald’s arrest followed, and he was given his liberty after procaring a heayy bond. At his preliminary examination no witnesses could be produced by the jon and the case collapsed. Both the Campbell woman and her daughter had disappeared, no one knew where. Now the woman has returned and she s that she was paid $400 to absent berself and daugnter from the city until the case a; ‘young McDonald was dis- missed. uence the aul ren th'h:rooeo‘;l‘: = l]l‘:l: th a‘l: g e e criminal. - e - FINISR AT LONG BEACH. Close of tha Christian Women’s School of 3 I-OB ANGELES, Can., Aug. 8 —The School of Methods under the a of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union of Southern California at Long Beach | work of the suffrage camEaiE_x:l e document was | §: .| erect. Certain closed to-day. Yesterday was “‘suffrage day,” the institute being addressed by Mesdames Alice Moore cComas, Lulu Pile Little and Mila Tngper Maynard of this city. Mrs. Elmira Stephens made a special plea for help and over $43 was sub- scribed to the county campaign fund. Every lady present promised to hold a par- lor meeting as soon as shearrived home. Besides the addresses bearing on the Bisbee read a paper on *‘T. e Link’ and Miss Emmlpfinrrlmln on *‘How Shall We Make the Indifferent Different?”’ The subject of Mrs. Annie Arnold’s fi)naa.r was “Finance.” - Mesdames Mary E. Girbutt and Lulu Hall conducted the devotional exercises. ¥ To-day the State executive held a meet- ing of great interest' to the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. TUnion temperance and platform gospel meetings were held to-night. ¢ mhal SHCL S S SUES THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC Heavy Damages Demanded for the Mlaiming of a Switchman. LOS ANGELES, Can, Aug. 8.—David A. Madden, 43 years of age, has a hanker- ing after $40,000, and, though that is a big sum of money for a day laborer, it is doubtful if any one would accept it and go through the experience that has prompted Madden to claim this amount as damages from the Southern Pacific Company. Madden was a switchman at the River station, and in November of last vear, while in tne discharge of his duty, was caught between two cars. He was con- fined to the hospital for some time, and is now paralyzed, suffering from locomotor ataxia. In the complaint he has filed he alleges that in coupling the cabooses be- tween which he was jammed it was neces- sary to raise the coupling-pin, and yet so negligently had the cabooses been con- structed that they closed together, making it impossible for a man to occupy the posi- tion ordinarily taken in coupling cars. COMPLETED 10 FRESC Valley Road Graders Arrive at the Outskirts of the City. Further Progress Bocked by the Action of () and Diana Street Residents. FRESNO, CaL, Aug. 8.—Grading on the San Joaquin Valley Railway between San Joaguin River and Fresno was com- pleted this evening. On Monday teams will put on the finishing touches along the line and then the roadbed will be ready for the rails. Grading contracts covering a distance of ten miles between this city and the river were letin five sections. Grant Brothers had the section next to the river, and their contract was the heaviest one, as they had to build a high embankment for an ap- proach to the bridge, but they pushed matters from the beginning and, as prom- ised, had the work finished this afternoon. Hunt’s section, this side of Grant Broth- ers’, was finished yesterday afternoon. The nexttwo sections were completed a few days ago. McDougald’s, the fifth, was finishea this evening. McDougald had to build an embankment ten feet high for three miles across a swale. Hendricks had a contract for a short seciion at this end and he was through last evening. The grade stops at Belmont avenue, which runs along the north limit of the city additions. The grade of the railroad is exactly the same as that of the public highway, and it strikes Belmont avenue in line with Diana street, which begins on the other side of the avenne. The point where the grade stops is nearly a mile from the depot site of the new road on Q street. The completion of grading to the city is important news to Fresno, but the elation with which the event would have been re- ceived is dampened by the still deter- mined attitude of Q and Diana street property-owners, who demand what are considered very unreasonable damages for the passage of the road by their places. In fact in the disappointment over the action of these property-owners the importance of the completion of the grading is practically forgotten. Teams and tracklayers will stay in Fresno and wait to proceed into the city with the road. When this will be no one can tell, but it is likely that the trouble with the property-owners along Q and Diana streets will be settled in a few weeks. The committees which have in charge the securing of rights-of-way south of Fresno are making rapid J)mgnsa, and will be ready for the railroad as soon as it gets through the city. Attorney R. E. Rhodes, on behalf of the Valley road, to-day filed notice in the Su- perior Court that on Thursday next he would move for a new trial of the con- demnation case against D. Dismukes, who, a few days ago was awarded $3500 by a jury for property on the depot site in this city, which is considered to be worth only ———— Summoned to Rome. PHILADELPHIA, Px., Aug. 8.—Rev. Charles M. Driscoll, O. 8. A., provincial of the Augustinian order of America, has been summoned to Rome, and sails from New York to-day. The summons of Father Driscoll to Rome iedves no doubt that Mer. Satolli has been recalled and that Mgr. Sebastian Martinelli has been appointed Papal delegate to e.merica. gr. Martinelli is prior-general of the Augustinian order, and the only reason there can be for summoning Father Dris- coll is to assist in the election of a succes- sor to the prior-general. et 2 8ir John Millais Dying. LONDON, Exa., Aug. 8.—8ir John Mil- lais; who ever since undergoing the opera- tion of tracheotomy, some time ago, has been under medical treatment, is reported to be sinking. THE CELTIC UNION. Irish Soclieties, Through Delegates, Oonvene and Resume Organization of the League. A convention of delegates to the Celtic League was held last evening at K. R. B. Hall, on Mason street, near O’Farrell The delegates represented most of the Irish societies of the City, of which there are about thirty. Each society is entitled to a representation of fiye delegates, Saturday night made so many demands upon the time of delegates tha the meet- ing was not full. There wasa fair repre- sentation, but it was thought best that an aajournment should be taken. The con- vention will again meet at the same place one week from Tuesday pight. 4 The principal business to be transacted at that time will be the election of officers. A constitntion and set of by-laws have already adeopted by the representa- tives of the societies which are enrolled in the league. The outlook is that all Irish societies in the City will come in. ‘When the officers shall have been elected and the organization of the Celtic has been thereby the next important business will be the consideration and ption of plans for a large and handsome ball ‘which it is the purpose of the league to 'ri:n- have been submitted and have received some consideration, but nothing final has been effected in that direction. At last night’'s meeting of the “‘;“K“.J Colo bl'l‘homn&lhm an 5 acted as secretary. The discussion was an'Jr;nd all in the direction of g vigorously with the organization. \ IR C O, BROWS WA Finds Vent in Vigorous Denun- ciation of Mrs, Tunnell and Her Charges. Says She Lies for Money and Is One of the Gang Seeking to Bleed Him. CHICAGO, ILn, Aug. 8.—Rev. C. O. Brown, formerly of San Franciscoand who was recently mixed up inachurch scandal, in which Mattie Overman took a leading part, is now in Chicago. Mr. Brown, when seen by a reporter regarding the charges just made by Mrs. Tunnell, entered a most vigorous denial. He made a written state- ment, as follows: Mrs. Tunnell is herself one of the gang sdek- ing to bleed me. This was learned from Miss Overman before she leit our home on her sud- den departure for the southern part of Califor- nia. It was Mrs. Tunnell who went witn Miss Overman and waited outside while the former tried, according to her own testimony, to sella story to the Chronicle. Mrs. Tunnell’s story is full of falsehoods. Let the public recall that she herself, in re- ated interviews with the reporters of THE ALL and Examiner, said that she knew abso- lutely nothing sgainst my character. She said, also, that she did not leave San Fran- cisco at my suggestion to avoid testifying sgainst me, but solely on her own account, because she feared that her intimacy with Miss Overman would involve herin newspaper notoriety. These interviews she afterward confirmed, 8s Miss Overman wrote my wife. Her own ast life (twice married and twice divorced, Ksr last busband a mere boy of 19 years while she was nearly 50) reveals that she had ample reason to lvoé the reporters. Aside from her unhappy marital experiences there was an- other and more serious matter. Whep Mrs. Davidson was arrested Mrs, Tun- nell undoubtedly feared that her own con- nection with the attempt to blackmail me might lead to her arrest, Those were matters of which I was wnull% ignorant when Mrs. Tunnell left the City. There are good reasons to believe that she shared Mrs. Davidson’s plunder. “In the southern part of California she told some people that her name was ‘Mrs. Baker,’ others that it was ‘Mrs. Fowler,’ others that it was ‘Mrs. Flower.” There will be few so simple s to believe that such a person would go into hiaing for months to save me or my family, as she ciaims. We had barely met the woman, and at that time knew almost nothing of her. She went to save herself. She claims now to be actuated by a sense of duty in re-passing Mrs. Dayidson’s story. Who will believe that a woman who went away and persistently Hid berseli when her testimony was wanted before the council, who toid so many conflicting stories about her name and identity, is really at this late hour actuated by any high sense of duty in going into the news- p-gon% er story of what she alleges I said to her is plire fiction. The simple fact is that she, like the other plunderers, lied for money. The story that I sent_her money, other than the few dollars frankly admitted to the council and for the entirely innocent reason there set forth, is ab- solutely false. What. then, is the fact and what motive has promnted her at this late hour to lie through the newsnapers? The following brief statement will show very clearly: Just before Miss Overman’s return to San Francisco she wrote us that for a sufficient sum of money Mrs. Tunneil would make an ample affidavit in my favor; otherwise she would publish a story against me. She firmed that newspaper reporters were after them and that large offers were being made if they would only speak against me; but Mrs. Tunnell would swear for me if the money ‘were forthcoming. I refused that proposition absolutely. When Mrs. Tunnell and Miss Overman returned to San Francisco they tried repeatedly to get into communication with me, as my friend Deacon Morse knows, snd he also kuows that I refused absolutely either tosee or communicate with either of them. Mrs. Tunnell, failing to get money from me for an affidavit which she offered in my favor, has waited untillam more than miles away from her and has sold her lies to my enemies. She has done what she dared not do when I was there to defend myself. The thousands who know me in this part of the land will, I am sure, say that this nefarious scheme has-gone far enough; that the public should bave a rest from these sianders, and that those who have come into undue promi- nence by this attack on my character should be ailowed to retire. CHARLES O. BROWN. Suicide at Ponoma. POMONA, Car., Aug. 7.—Mrs. Maggie Baughman, wife of Chauncey Baugham, driver of a delivery wagon, committed suicide yesterday by taking a large dose of strychnine. 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