The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 20, 1896, Page 10

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1896 10 P DEMOCRATS WHO OPPOSE NEW GODS The Anti-Bryan Democracy of California Is Now Organized. THOUSANDS ARE IN LINE The Parent and the Directing Sound-Money Democratic Club. WILL MAKE THINGS LIVELY. “Election Laws May Prevent an Elec- toral Ticket, but They Will “Go a-Fishing.” The leading sound-money Democrats of San Francisco who are inclined to stand by the basic principies of the Democratic party, and who will not lend their support to Bryanism and the present Populistic | platiorm of the party, have started, under promising auspices, their organized effort | to express their political beliefs, and to | co-operate with the strong and widespread | sound-money and anti-Brvan movement | in the party, which will result in a Nu-| tional convention at Indianapolis in Sep- tember 2. The Sound-Money Democratic Club of San Francisco was organized day before yesterday at a conference held at the Pal- ace Hotel by thirty-two leading and influ- | ential;members of the Demdcratic party. | This form of organization was decided upon instead of that of a *“‘State Central | Committee” and the other forms of reguiar | party organization. This club will, how- ever, be the leading and directing power | in this political movement in California, | will actively enroll the many thousand conscientious and clear-headed Democrats | who are in sympathy with the movement, will encourage the formation of other sound-money Democratic clubs through- out the State, distribute campaign litera- ture extensively and generally co-operate | with the National Committee. This meeting was a voluntary getting together of representative men with a common purpose and a common political | conviction. The temporary organization of the club named was decided upon and Jdward R. Taylor was de temporary chairman, lliott McAllister temvorary | secretary ‘and A. A. Watkins temporary | treasurer. John P. Irish, who has been especially active in promoting the move- ment, T letters and telegrams from | leading Eastern Democrats asking and | urging an organizgtion in California. { Those who attended tiie meeting and | before adjournmen. signed the roll of the | new club were the following: Edward R. Taylor, Watkins, T. C. Van Ness, John Rosenfeld, Charles Page, Henry F. Fortmann, Charles Colman, R. M. Welch, | N. Goldtree, John Heenan, John P. Irish, J. W. McDonala, John J. O’Farrell, \\'.’ W. Armstrong, E. B. Pona, E. S. Heller, Robert Y. Hayne, William Thomas, H. Stephenson Smith, J. H. Meredith. T. B. | Berry, Jeremiah Lynch, R. T.Van Norden, | Curtis Hillyer, Charles P. Eells, M. F. | Michael, Colin' M. Smith, Walter Perry | Johnson, George Dayis. Boyd, Elliott Mc- | Allister, Alexander Boyd, Emil Pohli. | | ! The_constitution adopted for the club provides for the usual officers and an ex- ecutive committee of twenty-one mem- bers to be appointed by the president, said committee to be divided into sub- committees on headguarters, finance, lit- | erature, publication, distribution mld( membership, to be appointea by the chair- | man of the executive committee. Articles III, IV and V of the very brief | constitution are as follows: Membership—Any person who voted for the National Demoeratic ticket of 1892 may be- come a member u; i n posed to the free, unlimitea and independent coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. Objects—The objects of the club shall be: First, to purchase or print and circulate among the people of the State such literature as may in the opinion of the executive com- nuittee be useful in maintaining the cause of “sound money”’; second, to take such further steps to effect the same object as may be deter- | mined upon from time to time by the club. | The executive committee of the club will perform in a general way such duties | as would have devolved upon a State Cen- | tral Committee had such a form of party organization been decided upon. | ;lz‘ha main reason why a party organiza- | tion was not adopted was that under the election 1aws of this State nominees would | have to go on the ballots as independent | candidates backed by the necessary Peti- tions, as the heading, “Democratic,”,le- gally belongs to the Bryanend of the De- | mocracy. | This = complication, it is more than | likely, will prevent the nomination in tkis | State of sound-money electors in support | of General Bragg or whoever may become | the Presidential nominee of the National | Bound-money Convention. To get such electors on the official gen- eral ballot throuchout the State as inde- pendent State officers would require the filing at Sacramento of a petition signed by about 8500 voters. While there are | ! several times that number of Democrats in California who will not vote for Bryan, and who are in sympathy with the heroic stand of the best elements of the party in behalf of Jeffersonian party principles, it is yet doubtful whether or not there will be made the effort to get the necessary signatures to make an electoral ticket of ractical effect. When Secretary Elliott E{cAIli!wr was asked yesterday what the sound-money Democrats of ~ California would be able to do for the prospective sound-money Presidential candidate, he said: “We will probably go fishing for him.” ‘While the sound-money Democrats here and elsewhere expect to win nothing, their motives being purely patriotic ones, they promise to make an enormous hole in the Bryan vote in this State, and the ' party leaders are greatly alarmed at the rise of the organization, the strength ofthe movement and the certain effect on the Bryan campaign of the extensive literary and stump campaign work which will be done by the earnest sound-money Demo- srats. Thousands of the Democrats in this Btate will vote for McKinley and thon- sands more who put party principles and their consciences on a higher plane than :he temporary winning ot a few offices by ‘he allied Populists, will in effect vote wgainst Bryan by “‘going a-fishing” on slection day. Yesterday the circulation of blank mem- sership rolls by all members and friends »f the new club was begun, and the tatal mroliment promises to reach into the ‘housands. The club will meet again at the call of ~he chair on either Saturday or Monday zext. At this meeting permanent organ- zation will pe effected. Then or soon ‘hereaiter the executive committee will ‘e announced, and this executive com- nittee will at once decide on the plans, cope and methods of the campaign work ‘hat will be at once instituted. The most notable of the letters read at | methods of reducing ores, tend the meeting, gave his hearty support to thq movement and ably and vigorously expressed his opinions on the present-day position of his party and on the financial question. Mr. Doyle’s interesting letter was as follows: AUGUST 15, 1896. Democratic ' Club of Secretary Sound Mo : atlsco- o I shall be absent San Francisco—DEAR SIR: from the city on Tuesday, and cannot be pres- ent at your intended meeting, but I am thank- ful to Mr. Galpin for suggesting my name as & member of the proposed organization, as I am to any gentleman who affords me the oppor- tunity to testify my opposition to any kind of fiat money, of whatever material made, and to unite in an effort to avert from our country such & dire calamity as a change in our stand- ard of values would entail. My first earnest interest in politics, or in public affairs, was in the Presidential election of 1832, when “Old_Hickory” stood like a lion against the United States Bank on the issue of hard money, sgainst bank paper. Ever since that time the party that elected him has stood for hard money; that is, honest money, or moxey worth its face in value, the world over. The National Convention which lately assembled at Chicago has abandoned this car- dinal doctrie of the Democratic faith, and adopted a platform of brand-new principles subversive of those that have guided us for seventy years back, and which ignores the experience of all nations (including our own) on aquestion deeply affecting the interests of every man in the community, whether poor or rich, gentle or simple. Having abandoned the principles of Democracy it has no claim to the allegiance of Democrats. I for one spitit out, and refuse to accept this crazy fad of tree silver at a lying ratio of sixteen to one at the dictation of any body of men, however numer- ous or enthusiastic_ they may be. This aban- donment of principle is the more base, be- cause obviously made only to catch votes and obtain office and power. The abasement of the party was the price for the promise ot support from & horde of Adul- lamites of which Coxey’s army that marched to Washington & couple of years since was fairly representative. The demand for free silver originates with men who own silver mines nns want & customer for their wares, of which they are groducing more than the market will take and which have consequently fallen in price. The rank and file of their fol- lowers are, in part, ignorant people who, like their candidate, Mr. Bryan, believe that prices can be regulated by act of Congress,and in part of unthinking ones who accept blindly the political teachings of some clique or committee merely on the strength of its name. The coinage of the precious metals is abso- lutely nothing more nor less than the certifi- cate of the Government that the particular piece of money contains a particular quantity ot silver or gold of a certain fineness. The American gold dollar contains 25 8-10 grains of standard gold and our silver dollar 412 8-10 grains of standard silver, being just sixteen times as heavy as that made of gold. For vears after the foundation of the rnment the two metals bore to each other & value so nearly in this proportion (16 to1) that no inconvenience resulted from the two | dollars being called by the same name and in domestic and retail transactions they became | interchangeable. The relative value did, how- ever, vary from time to time, s is known to &1l who have had any oceasion tostudy the subject and in large transactions and in foreign trade their market yalue always controlled. As an instance of this, I may mention that in 1851 and 1852 I was in & position requiring me to use considerable sums of silver, amounting 1o between $200,000 and $300,000. I had to pay & premium of never less than 4 per cent | for every dollar of it, because at that time sil- ver was worth a littie more tnan one-sixteenth of its weight in gold. The discoveries in Washoe reversed this state of things, and the opening of the new mines in the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains, with improved has depreciaed silver so that it now tekes over thirty ounces of silver to buy one of gold, and we realize the istake of having called the two coins by the name without any legal term to distin- h them apart; for people are thusled to assume that there is some natural equality be- tween them, which has been improperly de- stroyed by_legislation. 1f one of them had been called by another name, as a peso, OF & piastre or & ducat, the case would have been uite different. 1f Congress would now enact that the gold dollar shall be stamped and named as such, aud the silver doliar stamped and named as a siiver one, and that contracts may be expressed and enforced in either sort of money at the option of the parties, there would be mno opposition on the pert of the advocates of sound money t0 the free and unlimited coinage of both metals. That would be real bimetallism; both silver and gold would be used for money, and contracting parties would be free to choose to suit themselves; their relative values would vary with that of the metals, but they would circulate side by side. But the bimetallists of the silver school will never agree to that. | What they want is to substitute a silver stand- ard for the present, which is confessedly a | gold one, and such substitution, wnile prob- ably profitable to the owners of silver mines, will certainly entail on the people an amount of financial suffering and ruin beyond any- thing that the country has ever yet experi- enced since the foundation of the Government. The limits of & letter forbid any adequate discussion of these results in detail, but let us take the case o1 depositors in savings banks as an example. The Commissioners’ official re- port shows that there are in our California savings banks over $130,000,000. These funds are the savings of the industrious oor. They represent the economies of aborious and frugal people, who are striving to lay up from the wages of honest toil some little provision for old age, or for dependent children or relatives. They are peculiarly sacrea sgainst spoliation, and the church ex- pressly denounces as ome of the sins that ery to heaven for vengeance that of ‘defrand- ing laborers of their wages.” These hunared and thirty millions are almost entirely the wages of labor, and the proposal to confiscate or depreciate them or to pay them in any money less valuable than gold is distinctly a proposal to defraud laborers of their wages They have been all deposited in those banks in gold coin. Any small sums that were in other currency had the promise of the United States Government behind them to redeem in gold and so were equal to it. These moneys had to be lent out, to estn interest for the depositors, and they are represent- ed by morigages on real property and by bonds of the Government and of municipal- ities and corporations. Twenty-four millions are invested in ‘‘stock s and bonds,” of which robably more than one-half are bonds of the United States, once deemed the best security in the world, now unhappily no longer so, What will be the effect on these securities of the election of Mr. Bryan on his free-silver latform? It is very easy to foresee. Ifelected e will take office on March 4. On the follow- ing 1st of April & quarter's interest on the United States five per cents will become due. Either he will be false to all his principles, to his party pledges and platiorm, and to his own manhood, or he will pay that interest in silver, and the United States bonds, which now sell &t 109, will go down immediately on his elec- tion in anticipation of such action, to some- where below 90. All other American stocks and securities will go with them, and by this tumble alone the depositors of California sav- ings banks will lose at a single blow from $6.000,000 to $10,000,000. This, however, will be but the smallest part of their losses; they have invested on mort- gages on real estate $102,000,000, all of which are doubtless promised in gold coin, as Lovell White’s card has informed us. But supposing this mongrel candidacy, begotten by Populism on Democracy, should succeed at the election, who can believe that the men who have 5o lit- tle National pride or regard for the honor of their country as to pay its debts in depreciated coin will have any more respect for private debts than tor those of the public? How can they justify insisting that the farmer shall be held ‘to pay in gold when the Government of the United States, administered by themselves, takes advantage of a quibble to pay in silver worth 53 cents on the dollar? Talk about specific contracts and decisions of the Supreme Court! Itwill not take those gentry, if they get control, three weeks to wipe them all out of the statute-book like so much mere rubbish. Are people wko talk of relying on specific-con- tract laws aware that they have already smug- gled on the statute-book of this State a law in- tended to frustrate our own specific-contract law, and which, if it has failed to accomplish its purpose, has only failea by reason of the ignorance of the people who got it up? ‘Laws 1880, page 8.) But euppose I am wrong in this forecast and that conservative men may able to avert any immediate change in our laws or in the organization of the courts, is that good fortune 80 plainly in sight that can expect prudent bankers like Lovell White and other gentle- men who for thirty years back have managed 80 wisely the savings banks of the City to trust to it and allow loans to run on_ unpaid and overdue, simply because they believe the gen- tlemen Populists who control the new party will not respond to the demands of their foi- lowers and %&l! any of the radical legislations demanded by them ? That would be to ask them 1o renounce the lessons of prudence and the honorable name which they have deserved by a lifetime of successful financial manage- ment. - And they will not do it. The an- nouncement of Mr. Bryan’s election will be the signal for the calling in of ioansand the foreclosnre of mortgages on a scale never before witnessed in California. No new loans will be made, for the same resson that very few are made now, viz.: thatno one knows what will be money a year hence. The property foreclosed on will go to sale, the banks will have to buy it for their own protection and until it can be again sold, which will not be until financial affairs are again restored to their equilibrium, they will have to postpone their depositors, dividing among them: the funds ss fast as realized, according to their contract. How, then, about the poor fellows whom this uncertainty as to the money of the country throws out of employment, and who have to fall back on their say- ings? They will have to go down among the he initial meetiuf) was a long one from Attorney John T. Doyle, in which he ex- ressed his regrets at not being able to at- harpies who prey on the fi‘;strened 00 sell their bank ey ous et. And what they get will be a minimum, or the usurer will tell them that he has no sort of certainty. but that the dividend, when it comes, will be in silver! . 1f you trace this business out to ultimate re- sults you will see that it leads directly to dis- tress and calamity to California deeper and worse than all the losses the State has sus- tained from all the destructive fires and floods of lhaJ)lst forty years put together. ‘All hon- estand all patriotic men should array them- selves against it. Yours truly, Jomx T. DoyLE. CHEATED A LOAN ASSOCIATION Cunning Scheme of a Husband Who Claimed to Be a Widower. The San Francisco Mutual Loan Asso- ciation has sued William Bowden and his wife,Caroline Bowden,foran accounting on certain promissory notes, secured by mort- gages on Hayes and Haven streets prop- erty. Itisclaimed that Bowden secured a loan on a homestead by representing that his wife had died, and that he was sole owner of the properiy. It seems that Bowden originally bor- rowed $1000 from the building association, and took several shares of its capital stock. He then borrowed $600 more, giv- ing as security mortgages on a homestead property on Hayes street. Mrs. Bowden joined him in giving the mortgage. Later owden borrowed $700 on the Haven- street real estate, He took out capital stock of the association equal to the amount of the loans. Bowden subsequently made payments which reduced the amount owing to the association to about $1400. He then rep- resented that his wife had died and had all his promissory notes and mortgages can- celed, received over$300 in money and gave the association a new mortgage for §1800 on the Hayes-street homestead. It now transpires that Mrs. Bowden is alive, and the property being a homestead, the mort- gage is valueless The association, there- WHER THE CLOCK STRIES TWELVE Garret McEnerney and Miss Hogan to Be Married To-Day. CATHEDRAL CEREMONY. A Love Story That Dates Away Back to Their Childhood Days. \ ' ACCOMPLISHED BRIDE. AN The Honeymoon to Be Spent Among the Orange Groves of Southern California. As the City clocks chime the hour of noon to-day Garret McEnerney, the prom- covery would revolutionize the metallurgi- cal world, and promised big returns to all who would buy tne stock of the proposed company. - The poor people about Martinez were fascinated with the prospects held ont and mortgaged their ‘mpeny and borrowed money to buy stock. Mrs. Kelly transferred her property out- right to Owens on a basis of a valuation of $20,000, receiving in return 55,240 shares of stock, worth just the value of the paper it was written on. ¥ Ten days afterward Owens transferred the property to his wife. An exposure soon followed and Mrs. Kelly sued to re- cover the proverty. She employed at first Judge Catlin of Sacramento. She won a verdict in the Superior Court, but the Supreme Court reversed the judg- ment and ordered a new trial. Again the lower court gave her judgment, and again it was appealed. It ‘was on this second appeal that the case came before the Su- preme Court, Mr. Delmas presenting it this time. Mrs. Kelly configently expects & confirmation of tge judgment of the lower court this time,” and that after twelve i{“" of failure and struggle her own will be returned to her. DEATH OF A PRINCIPAL James Dwyer, Head of the Horacs Mann Evening School, Passed Away on Tuesday. James Dwyer, principal of the Horace Mann Evening School, died on Tuesday evening at his home, 611 Buchanan street, after an illness lasting but two days. The deceased was one of the oldest and best known instructors in the School Depart- ment, having been connected with it since 1873, when he was elected a regular teacher. His aptitude for schoolteaching became at once apparent, and for the past twenty years he has held responsible posi- Miss Elizabeth Hogan and Garret McEnerney, Who Will Be Married at High Noon To-Day at St. Mary’s Cathedral by Archbishop Riordan. fore, sues to have the original notes and mortgages declared valid. SWEENEY HAS HIS INNING He Declares That in No Way Was the Jury Bribed. He Says He Did Not Meet J. L. Salomon Downtown After the Verdict Was Rendered. Judge Daingerfield occupied himself mainly yesterday in sifting out the truth in the story of jury bribing in the case of the Lombard Loan Company against R, L. ‘Whelan and others, Judah Boas being the “and others” on the side of the defense. The affidavits filed by Boas bolstering up his plea fora new trial were fully quoted in yesterday’s issue,of THE CALL. Foreman J. F. Sweeney of the jury called on Judge Daingerfield yesterday to make a voluntary statement which he sub- sequently made toa CALL reporter, relat- ing incidents that occurred in and out of the jury-room during the trialwhich go to disprove the story of bribes being offered or accepted. “I was one of those who voted for a ver- dict in favor of the plaintiff. I did it be- cause I regarded the incorporation papers of the Lombard Loan Company as being legal, and that the defendants had noright to attach the property on the supposition that it belonged to another institution owing them certain amounts. “At the dinner table, prior to rendering a verdict, Mr. Toboas and I sat apart from the others, and he certainly never hinted in any way that there was money in it for my vote, either on one side or another, as Mr. Dolan claims he spoke to him in the affidavit just filed. “When it came to avote Toboas was against a verdict, first and last. This is a fact, even if Dolan does say in his affidavit that he switched three or four times. Juror Baum and another both voted the same as Toboas, and Dolan voted as I and seven others did, in favor of the plaintiff. Idonot see, therefore, where any bribery could have tauken vlace. ‘Now, a8 to this man Crawford, he of the black mustache, who is said to have been hanging about the courtroom and the corridors during the trial, I do not know, nor do I remember seeing any such erson. There wasa photographer named . Isaacs, a friend of mine, with whom I do politics, who used to call ontand see me frequently. He has a dark mustache, and I really believe he is the man they call Crawford. His calls upon me were ;)urely out of friendship and for socia- bility’s sake; nothing more.” Mr. Sweeney’s attention was called to the affidavit made on the strength of a orivate detective’s report to the effect that after the $2000 verdict was rendered he met J. Salomon, one of the: parties benefited, in a cigar-store at Ellis and Market streets. This affidavit relates also that Crawfora and one of the attorneys for the plaintiff ware present. “This is absolutely false,” Mr. Sweeney stated. “I never met Mr. Saiomon before or after the verdict at this orany other cigar-store or saloon. In leaving the courtroom, in the corridor of the City Hall, Mr. Salomon thanked me for the verdict, and I told him there was no need of his thanks—I had done my duty, and tbat was all. No other words were passed between us, ana I never have spoken to him or seen him since.” Artist Hill Not Dying. The following communication from the son of Thomas Hill, the artist, is self-ex- planatory : Editor Call: Thomas Hill, the artist, re- ported by the Examiner to be dying, is in a 1air w? to recover from an attack of paralysis, that affected his right side and hand. He is able to walk and is being well cared for at his studio at Wawana. Yours truly. books for whatever they can | ROBERT R. HiLL, inent attorney, and Miss Elizabeth Hogan will be standing before the altar at St. Mary’s to be pronounced man and wife. Archbishop Riordan will officiate at the ceremony that is to unite *for better or for worse’’ the distinguished couple. The wedding of to-day will be the happy culmination of a romance begun in child- hood’s days. Itisan old story of childish friendship ripening into the mature love of man and woman. Mr. McEnerney is too well known in this community to need any comment as to his abilities as an_attorney, the brilliant qualities of his mind and the many ster- ling traits that make him a worthy citizen and valued friend. Miss Hogan is an accomplished young lady who has been wont to hide her many attainments. She is an admirable musi- cian, and has from time to time con- tributed charming little sketches to the newspapers and magazines. She is well read, and in every way worthy to be the partner of the distinguished lawyer. Miss Hogan is the daughter of the late J. 8. Hoean, one of the pioneer settlers of Napa. She is the sister of Mrs. J. B. Hop- kins and Mrs, Hilaire Belloc, wife of the well-known English lecturer on political economy. Henry Hogan, the attorney, of Napa, is her brother, and Walter Bartnett of the firm of Gunnison, Booth & Bart- nett, is a cousin of the lady. The cathedral on Van Ness avenue, where the ceremony isto be performed, will be elaborately decorated with flowers— white blossoms to prevail. Countless ta- pers are to illuminate the altar. The bride will be attended by Miss May Thomas. Thomas Flynn, the editor of the ‘Wasp, is to be the best man. The bride is 10 wear an exquisite gown of ciel-blue moire antique trimmed with chiffon and Roman pearis. She will wear no veil or orange blossoms, but fastened on the pretty, soft, golden hair will be a coronet of Roman pearis and tiny white beads. The maid of honor’s gown is of maize silk, ;m;l she will wear a large Gainesborough at, After the ceremony there is to be a breakfast 2t the new home Mr. McEner- ney has grepnred for his bride, 415 Shrader street. Covers will be laid for sixty. The hnpxy couple are going for a two weeks’ bridal trip to Southern California. TWELVE YEARS IN COURT A School-Teacher’s Struggle to Recover Her Prop erty. She Invests in a Patent That Was to Revo utioniz> the Metallurgi- cal World. After a twelve years’ struggle in the courts Mrs, H. 8, Kelly of Martinez will, in a few days, no doubt regain possession of a valuable tract of land which she was prevailed upon to deed away for no vaiu- able consideration. D. M. Delmas, in a telling argument, has presented the facts before the Supreme Court for the second time that the case has been there, E. M. Gibson, for the appellant, William Owens, executor of the estate of H. K. Owens, proposed to submit the matter on briefs; but Mr, Delmas opposed it. He wanted $0 tell the facts he said. About the beginning of the year 1834, he said, Mrs. H. S. Kelly, a widow, employed at teaching school, was the owner of three- quarters of a section of land in Contra Costa County. There lived in the neigh- borhood at the time two_indiyiduals, Dr. R. H. Lee and one H. K.Owens. They represented that Dr. Lee was the discov- erer and inventor of a new method of making a superior quality of fine steel and merchantable iron from pigiron or iron ore direct. They declared the dis- tions, being elected to the principalship of the Horace Mann Evening School as soon as the place was created. Mr. Dwyer was a native of Ireland, aged 52 years, and leaves, in addition to a wife and eight children, a large circle of friends to mourn his los: NAGLE AS A SLOGGER. The Heavy- Weight Lawyer Knocks Out A. R. Smith on Market Street. Difference of Opinion Led to the Un- pleasant Denouement of Calling a Man a Liar. Two “biffs’’ with the right hand, pro- pelled by the muscular power of Charles Grant Nagle, the attorney, had the effect of glueing the 6 feet high and the 220 pounds in weight of human flesh and bone of Adrian R. Smith, the late secretary of the Fodrth of July celebration, against the front ot the building at.632 Market street on last Friday afternoon. Not content with flattening the burly form of the handsome Smith against the wall, Nagle brought a stream of crimson fluid down his opponent’s face by cutting a gash over the left eye that required a few stitches of the surgeon’s needle to close. Nagle has not stood very high in the opinion of Smith for some time past, but they had not met in such close quarters as to perrait the late secretary of the Na- tion’s nnmvarur} to tell what he thought of him until Friday afternoon, when Nagle was engaged in conversation with his brother lawyer, Henry C. Schaertzer, on Market street in front of his (Nagle's) office, when the ponderous form of Smith hove in sight. It did not take long for Smith to teli Nagle that he was a liar, and it required less time for Nagle to send his right hand and arm against Smith’s head. second blov{ !oltlgw:g n;:hfim l'x; such rapid suc- cession that Smith saw the st S » stars over the In the meantime Schaertzer got between the two men and held Nagle back until other charitable friends interfered and took the late secretary off to a friendly drug store, where a patch of courtplaster was spread across the gap on the side of e fxhting at e ing attorney who objec being called a liar retired to his o’mc?dm‘: narrated the encounter to some friends whom he met. Since the unpleasantness the ex-secre- tary has not taken his usual afternoon walks on the fashionable promensdes of the City. CHILDREN EVICTED. A Compassionate Aunt Promises to Oare for Them and Takes Them From Their Mother’s Charge. A day or =0 ago Mrs. Mary McCarthy and her four children were evicted from their late lodgings at 26 Harriet street for sev, eral months’ non-payment of rent. The chiidren were taken in charge by a Mrs, Roach, a sister of Mrs. McCarthy’s de- ceased husband, who promises to care for their maintenance and education. Mrs. Roach, who lives at 1313 Minna street, seems to have an indifferent opinion of her sister-in-law, with whom shs has had no dealings foHelm The neighbors re- fer to Mrs. McCarthy as being unfit to have charge of her children, owing to her alleged fondness for low company. The woman’s present whereabouts is un- EKnown. e The Queen of Denmark is stone deaf, a throat malady being responsible for the affliction. The Princess of Wales inherits the same trouble. She is already so deaf that she can hi nothing unless it 1s shouted in her ear. AN ECCENTRIC SUMMER SHOWER, Visited All the Bay Cities, but Did Little Damage, IT STRUCK POINT LOBOS. The Flagpole Split and All the Telephone Wires Burned Out. NO ONE INJURED BY THE FLASH 1t Was a Local Visitation and the Shower Was a Wel- come One. A genuine summer sRower visited San Francisco, Oakiand and Alameda yester- day. It wasaccompanied by thunder and lightning, but in no instance was any seri- ous damage done. In Oakland and Alameda the rain came irom a clear sky. Early in the morning the clouds were heavy and a pall hung over the cities. Half an hour later, when everything was sunshiney and without a moment’s warning the rain began to fall in great big drops. There was one peal of thunder and a flash of lightning, but no one paid any ai- tention to them, and it was only when the ramn began to fall that anybody thought there was a summer shower in progress, and that the garden hose would not be re- quired for at least twenty-four hours. Out at Point Lobos the storm had full sway and John Hyslop, the Merchants’ Exchange observer, had a Narrow escape. The lightning struck the flagpole which adjoins the signal station and split it from cap to base. The electric :snrk'fiew along the guys and communicat with the ob- servatory. Hyslop was on watch, how- ever, and before any damage was done he had all the wires under control. His con- nections with the Merchants’ Exchange were all burnt out and it was late in tne evening before he could secure direct com- munication. The public did not suffer, however, as John made regular trips to the Cliff House and from that point sent in his dispatches. It was the hardest day’s work the clever observer has put in in years, but Hyslop doesn’t mind so long as the Exchange gets the news in time. The storm struck San Rafael, Tiburon and Sausalito also. Rain fell steadily in those places for ten minutes, but the elec- trical display was absent. In fact, the only point_at which the lightning struck was Point Lobos snd the only sufferer was John Hyslop and the Exchange. A Saloon-Keeper Robbed. 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