The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 5, 1896, Page 1

VOLUME LXXX.—NO 7. RESULTS ONLY IN A FLAT FAILURE What Correspondent Curtis Says About Bryan’s Tour in New York. DIDN’T WIN ONE COUNTY. One Big Bet to Show How the Straws Are Blowing in the East. CALLERS HEADED FOR CANTON. Business Men of Broadway Unfurl the Flag of Protection and Prosperity. CHICAGO, Irr., Sept. 4.— Chairman Hsnna aid not arrive in Chicago this morning as had been expected. The an- nouncement was made at the National Republican headquarters that Mr. Hanna had stopped off at Cleveland and would reach here next Tuesday. W. E. Curtis, the well known newspaper | writer, who has just arrived from New | York, was quoted at National headguar- ters as saying that Bryan’s tour through that State which was expected to be ef- 1 fective among the farmers, has been so flat | a failure that a bet of $1000 was made that | Bryan would not carry a single county in the State. It has not been taken, they | say. John D. McVey of Lake City, Towa, | called at headquarters to-da: He said | that Iowa will give 50,000 to 75,000 major- ity for McKinley., Mr. McVey is an ex- member of the State Senate and is presi- dent of the McKinley Calhoun County League. General R. A. Alger of Michigan came over from that State to-day and spent | some time in conferring with leaders at headquarters. Many other visitors from | the central part of the country were | greeted. CANTON, Oxnro, Sept. 4.—The delega- tionsfrom Pennsylvania promise to beso | large to-morrow that Major McKinley | bas decided to make two speeches instead of one, as it was at first contemplated do- ing. The first speech will be made in the morning to the delegation from Beaver County. The second speech will be in the afternoon to the Pittsburg labor delega- tion. This evening two more delegations wired Major McKinley, asking him if he could receive them. The commercial | travelers of Pittsburg and vicinity bave asked to come on September 19, and the Republicen clubs of New Albany have notified Major McKinley that they have arranged to come that day. An effort wili be made to arrange another date for the | traveling men so that they may have the | day to themselves. Among Major McKinley’s callers to-day was Colonel W. A. Stambaugh of Kansas, who is making a few Republican speeches in that State. Colonel Stambaugh says the Republicans and sound money Demo- crats have a hard fight on in Kansas, but that if they work diligently and intelli- gently they will carry the State for Me- Kinley by more than 10,000. Editor L. ¥. Hunt of Mankato, Minn., was another caller. He recognized the fact that the Republicans have no walk- over in Minnesota, but assured McKinley that the sound money sentiment was gain- ®sorn, - Ih ik N ch EAsT RO!I/MILIA T b > Sy | PHILIPPOLLS N S 3 | Hanna said in answer to the demand of ing ground every day and that it would prevail. The following dispatch received this af- ternoon was read with satisfaction by Major McKinley: NEw YORE, N. Y., Sept. 4. Hon. William McKinley: The business menof Broadway from Seventeenth street to Twenty- third street will unfurl to-day an American flag bearing the names of McKinley and Hobart on every block. We wish you could honor the event with your presence. Accept our best wishes for your election by an overwhelming majority. WiLLTAM P. MONTAGUE. L WILL HELP McKINLEY. That Js Chairman Hanna’s Idea of the Indianapolss Nominations. CLEVELAND, Osro, Sept. 4—M. A. Hanna, chairman of the National Repub- lican executive committee, spent to-day in this city. Askea his views of the ticket nominated by the sound-money Demo- crats at Indianapolis, Mr. Hanna said: “I think the action of the convention will be of assistance to us. Senator Pal- mer is a strong, reliable man, and has a heavy following among the Democrats of Iilinois. His nomination, following that of a gold-standard Democrat for Governor in that State, will weaken the forces of the other Democrats in Illinois very mate- rially.” Mr. Hanna thought the nomination of General Buckner would also help the Re- publicans. Regarding the Vermont elec- tion Mr. Hanna said it indicated that the people as a whole wiil repudiate the Chi- cago olatform. Speaking of the fight in California be- tween Colonel Otis of the Los Angeles Times and the Typographical Union, Mr. the union that Otis be given no recogni- tion by the Republican executive commit- tee, said: “I have not recognized Colonel Otis in any way since the St. Louis con- vention. Iappointed Mr. Lindley to take care of our interests in Southern Califor- nia, because I knew he represented the labor interests of that section. I refused to make Colonel Otis conspicuous in the support of Mr. McKinley because of his antagonism to labor unions. I want to say that the stamp of the Typographical Union is placed on every piece of cam- paign literature that we have sent out.” | FAILURE OF A MONTANA BANK. The First National of Helena Suspends, but Promises to Pay Depositors in Full. HELENA, MoxT., Sept. 4—The First National Bank of this city failed to open to-day. A notice posted on the door said that heavy withdrawals had caused the suspension, and that the depositors would be paid in full. The bank bas a capital stock of $1,000,000, and was reorganized afier the panic of 1893, when it was forced to close. Among the heavy depositors is the State of Montana with $200,000, but 1t is secured by an indemnity bond. President 8. T. Hauser of the bank isin New York, but Manager E. D. Edgerton says it will pay all depositors in fuil and a dividend to stockbolders. The suspen- sion caused little excitement. There wag no run on the other banks, and they did only an -ordinary business, The state- ment of the bank issued July 11 showed liabilities of $3,500,000 and assets of $4,100,- 000. The Comptroller of the Currency has notified the officers that an examiner is on nis way to take charge of the affairs of the institution. The failure was not a surprise to all, for it was current talk on the streets last night that the bank would not open to-day. The officials had tried to suppress the rumors, hoping that the bank might open, and if 1t did they wanted to avoid a run. The A.J. Davis estate, famous for the litigation over the millions left by. Davis, whose possession of the stock was a tew weeks ago allowed by the claimants after a long fight, was coming from Butte with the cash to tide the bank over. Davis came, but the bank did not open. I S S Professor Wilcox Dead. ATLANTA, GA., Bept. 4.—Professor Cyprian Wilcox of the University of Georgia died to-day at Athens. He was 84 vears old and has been a member of the WRECKED BY LI faculty many years. . A DEMOCRATIC HOLD-UP. BEHIAD THE BAR Dr. Gallagher Returns to New York With Mind a Blank. MET IN DEEP SORROW Relatives Go toReceive the Ex- | ile, but He Does Not Know Any of Them. BITTER TEARS FREELY SHED. Instead of Speech-Making and Jollifi- cation There Is Pathetic Dis- appointment. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 4.—Dr. Thomas Gallagher was a passenger on the 8t. Paul, which arrived to-day from South- ampton. Dr. Gallazher is much broken in spirits and his mind is totallv unbal- anced. His health, however, is fairly good, and he appears to have much vigor. He was welcomed at quarantine by a number of his old friends, who had come down in the special boat Annex, but he {ailed to recognize them. General 0’Beirne and O'Donovan Rossa were among those on hand to greet Dr. Gallagher. Among those who met him were Dr. Gallagher’s two brothers, James and Daniel, his sisters Agnes and Rose of Buf- falo and other members of the family. They were on board the Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s ferry-boat Annex 4, which was lent for the occssion. A band was also on board and it was intended to take Dr. Gallagher off at quarantine and bring him up in the Annex, where speech- making and general jollification were to have taken'place. However, owing to the rumor that Dr. Gallagher’s mind had been seriously affected by his imprisonment it was thought advisable that his brothers.and General O’Beirne should go on board the St. Paul and find out if Dr. Gallagher was able to meet the people who had gathered to welcome him. The three men were taken on board the St. Puul by the Health Officer’s boat, while the Anrex lay to 4t Querantine dock. Tt was a sad scene when Daniel Gallagher returned in the Health Officer’s boat without his brother. Those on board at once guessed that the rumors as to to the doctor’s mental condi- tion were well founded. His sister and other female relatives broke down under the strain and Daniel Gallagher sat down and cried bitterly. The band played very softly “The Last Rose of Summer,” and, to its mournful strains the party who had started in the .morning full of jor and hope slowly steamed up after the St. Paul. The Annex overtook the steamship be- fore she was docked, but under the circum- stances the party was not allowed to land until General O'Beirne and Daniel Gal- lagher had taken the doctor off the ship. He was placed in a closed carriage and driven off to a hotel to get some rest. Ar- rangements have been made to have the doctor taken to a sanitarium on Long Island, where his friends hope to see him restored to health. STRUGELE FOR THE STARS Strife Among Iowa Guardsmen Over the Election of a Brigadier. Adjutant - General Wright Displays Peculiar Tactics to Favor His Candidate. DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 4.— The Iowa Naticnal Guard is torn up by the latest developments in the Prime-Guest brigadier contest. . Last spring an election was held by the First Brigade, and John R. Prime was on the face of the returns elected brigadier. d Adjutani-General Wright had favored James A. Guest for the place and declared - there had been fraud in the election. He ordered another, and again Prime was elected. Wright refused to issue the com- mission, and Prime brought action in mandamus to compel the issue of the commission. This is still pending in the courts, and to-day it is announced that ‘Wright will to-morrow issue the commis- sion of Guest. If this isdone it will pro- duce a huge row, and Prime and his friends will carry the case to the courts and fight it to the last resort. - It wa< developed after the first election that Wright had telegraphed to several companies to vote solid for Guest and had otherwise used his influence against Prime. SCENE OF TROUBLES m TURXEY IN EUROIE iy AND THE APPROACHES BY SEA 70 CONSTANTINOPLE ana SMYRNA IN ASIA MINOR OWES OVER FOUR MILLIONS. Receivers Appointed for the J. B. Watkins Land and Mortgage Company of Kansas. TOPEKA, Kaxs., Sept. 4 —United States District Judge to-day upon the applica- tion of the Girard Life Insurance and Annuity Trust Company of Philadelphia placed the J. B. Watkins Land ana Mort- gage Company of Lawrence, Kans., in the hands of M. Summerfie!ld and J. B. Wat- kins of Lawrence and John F. Switger of Topeka as receivers., The liabilities are $4,500,000, consisting chiefly of debenture mortgages on Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Texas farms. The .particular ciaim upon which suit was in- stituted was for $88,000 debenture bonds, upon which the interest has been defaulted THE RENDEZVOU'S OF AMERICAN EDITERRRANEAN PLERT :ana 187‘5. ?;m Bishop of Lawrencs, at- rney for € company, says the assets will very nearly cover the u.iumu. BOMBS THROWN ON THE TROOPS Armenian Anarchists Kill Turkish Soldiers in Galata. TRIALS ARE COMMENCED Forty-Three Indictments Azainst Thoese Connected With Recent Riots. SEVERE PUNISHMENT AHEAD, Constantinople Police Will Also Be Prosecuted for Not Checking Murder and Pillage. CONSTANTINOPLE, TurkEy, Sept. 4— The Porte has informed the various for- eign representatives that the trials of the revolutionists arrested in connection with were committed and order throughout the empire.” LONDON, E~a., Sept. 4.—The Daily News to-morrow will publish a Paris dis- patch saying it is expected that the Armenian revolutionists will arrive in Marseilles to-day and will be embarked for New York. MARSEILLES, FRANCE, Sept. 4.—Seven- teen Arfenian revplutionists who took part in the recent rioting in Constanti- nople, including Garo who threw the first bomb at the Ottoman Bank, were landed at Marseilles to-day. They will be de- tained in the St. Pierre prison, pending orders from the Government regarding their disposal. The Turkish Government has made a demand upon the French authorities for the extradition of the prisoners, but it is not likely that it will be granted. The refugees declare that they only left Con- stantinople upon receiving safe conduct out of the country. It is their desire to prevails emigrate. to the United States or some | other foreign land. California Fruit Sale in London. LONDON, Exa., Sept. 4 —Five thousand half cases of California fruit were sold at Covent Garden market to-day. The con- signment generally was in good order, and the average of prices was 2s higher than the last sale, though this advance was mainly due to the scarcity of fruit in the market. A lot of Clairgeau pears were included in the consignment, but as they were small and hard they fetched only 3s 3d. Peaches realized 4s 6d to 5s 6d; | piums, 7s 3d and pears 3s 9d to 5s 6d. L E L Italy’s Quarrel With Brazil. VIENNA, Avstria, Sept. 4 —In re- sponse to inquiries made at the Brazilian embassy to-day a representative of the ABDUL , SULTAN OF TURKEY. the recent disturbance upon charges of pillage and killing peaceful peovole will be begun without delay, and that the most severe penalties will be imposed. ‘The court met for the first time to-day. One hundred and forty-three indictments have been found, the indictea persons in- cluding both Moslems and Armenians. The police will receive exemplary punish- ment for failing to put a stop to the mas- sacres and pillaging. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 4—The | Turkish legation has received under yes- terday’s date the following dispatch fromr the Sublime Porte: “The imperial authoritiés handed to the Government attorneys all documents in connection with criminal acts of both Christians and Mussuimans. “The Armenian anarchists threw bombs on the troops ng through Galata. One officer and a few soldiers were killed. ‘“‘Bince then, however, no criminal acts United Associated Presses was informed that Signor de Martino, a former Minister to Brazil, whom the Italian Government bas arranged to send to Rio de Janeiro to demand satisfaction of the claims made by Italy, will not be the bearer of an uitima- tum, but will make further efforts to ef- fect a peaceable settlement of the Italian claims. 3 S e ORI 5 No News of Dreyfus’ Escape. PARIS, Fraxce, Sept.4—No informa- tion has reached the French Government regarding the report of the escape of Cap- tain Dreyfus, formerly of the French army, who was publicly degraded and sen- tenced to life imprisonment in a fortress upon conviction of having sold to a foreign government War Department secrets. In response to im;nlries provoked by the report of Dreyfus’ escape the Colonial Office has reea(v.d a cablegram from the Governor of French Guiana, saying, “No change in position of Dreyfus.” PRICE FIVE CENTS. LI HUNG CHANG AT THE CAPITAL Wonders of Washington Are Displayed to the Diplomat. IGNORANCE OF HISTORY. It Causes the Viceroy to Ask Why Grant Was Not at Burgoyne’s Surrender. TALKS WITH MANY OFFICIALS Courtesies of An Eventful Day Fol- lowed by an Eiaborate Dinner at Night. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 4—After breakfast this morning Li Hung Chang announced that he did not feel like hang- ing around his superv apartments all morning recerving officials, an had been mapped out in the programme, but would liks to see the Capitol if he had time be- fore keeping his appointment at the Chi- nese Legation. Carriages were ordered and the party drove to the Capitol. The entire Capitol was undergoing its summer renovation; the new floors and ventilating system was being put down in the Senate chamber, and a visit would have been more impressive at another season, but the Viceroy too.. a deep inter- est in everything, His first question was | asked 1n the President’s room, which was unusually bare of furniture. He wanted to know whether the Presicent was there every day, and was much astonished when told that the President used it but once for a few hours annually. He left his chair and went around examining the his- torical paintings minutely. He became deeply interested in the story of Pocahontas, which had to be re- lated to him in full. The first military subject he happened to strike was the sur- render of Burgoyne, which led him to ask if Grant was in it, and when told that he was not he wanted to know where Grant was at the time. In the library he viewed the stacks of books with evident interest, and when introduced to Librarian Spof- ford took a great fancy to him. He asked him how old he was. “Seventy,” replied the librarian. “You must have many books in your head,” declared the Viceroy. “‘But many more out of it,” the librarian replied. “But you must be a very wise man,” pesisted Li. “No, I know comparatively little.” The chair was moved out on the Capitol portico, where the magnificent panorama of Washington was spread out, The Vice~ roy was charmed with the scene. Pres- ently he began asking about the monu- ment—what it cost, how they built it, how did it compare with the other high structures and ended by declaring that he should go up to the top to-morrow ana see for himself if all that was told him was true. After he had a smoke the party was lec through Statuary Hall, whers the statues of distinguished Americans did not interest the Viceroy aiter he founa Grant’s was not there. He wondered why there was no statue of Grant anywhere in Washington, but when told there wasa fine painting of bim at the White House he said he would not go away without seeing it. In the House of Representatives the gorgeous gallery over the Speaker’s desk attractea his attention, and when told it was reserved for the press he laughed and said that it was finer than those of the President and diplomatie corps. He was asked if he wanted to go over to the li- brary, which was probably the finest building in the country, but when he found that it was unfinished and had only 600 Chinese books in it he said he was too old to learn to read English, and thought he had better go to the Legation, where he was due. Atter transacting a certain amount of business, and partaking of an elaborate Chinese luncheon at the legation, the statesman returned to the hotel. At 3 o’clock he had an appointment to go to the top of the Washington monu- ment, but at that hour Major-General Miles, General . Beck, General Ruggles, General Greely and others called to pay their respects. The Viceroy asked General Miles how old he was, and when the gen. eral told him he had served with Grang, the Viceroy became deeply interested and asked numerous questions about Grant's army life. After this interview, ex-Secra- tary Foster took the Viceroy, Lord Li and Dr. Mark to call on Secretary Carlisle at the latter’s residence. The visit turned out to be the most important of the day, and resulted in the complete demolition of the afternoon programme. The Vice- roy spent over an hour in a discussion of finance and tariff with Secretary Carlisle. He was amazed with the Secretary’s knowledge of the Chinese system, ard the firm grasp and clear perception he had of different subjects. When the discussion had continued until 4:30 o’clock, the Vice. roy drove to Secretary Lamont’s, where he left his card, repeating this courtesy at the residence of General Miles and Secretary Francis. At 7 o’clock he sat down to an elaborate dinner, tendered by ex-Secretary Foster, Besides the host and the Viceroy the fol- lowing guests Were present: His Excel. lency Li Ching Fong, first son of the Viceroy; Secretary Lo Fung Luh; Li Chang Sou, second son of the Viceroy; Dr. Irwin and Dr. Mark, medical attend. ants; the Chinese Minister, Yang Yu; the Mexican Minister, Senor Romero; Secre- tary Carlisle, Secretary Lamont, Sec. retary Francis, Justice Harlan, Gov- ernor Lowndes of Maryland, General Miles, Genersl Ruger, Assistant Secre- tary Rockhill, E. B. Drew, General James H. Wilson of New York, Dr. W. W. Johnston of Washington. During the repast the United States Marine band gave aserenade. At the con- clusion of the dinner General Foster mad¢