The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 11, 1896, Page 1

" VOLUME LXXX._NO. 103. HANNA TALKS OF BRYAN'S LETTER An Appeal to the Poor to Battle Against the Rich. IT IS A FALSE POLICY. And With It No Candidate for President Has Ever Been Successful. REPUBLICANS GAIN HEADWAY From Many Sections Come Assurances That Meajor McKinley Will Be Elected. CHICAGO, Iin., Sept. 10.—Chairman Hanna is still directing the “details of or- ganization’ at Republican headguarters. He is kept busy eight hours a day talking to and being talked to by scores of . politi- cians and business men. He will devote most of his time until election day to the ‘West, where he acknowledges there is much hard work vet to be done to make success a sure quantity. Mr. Hanna said to-day to a reporter for the United Associated Presses that the re- ports which he had received since he had arrived last Saturday showed the Republi- cans were getting most of what he termed the uncertain element among the electors, and the party was steadily recovering lost ground. He declared the best and most numerous element of organized labor was friendly to McKinley, and agitators like Debs were against the Republican party because it was composed of men who bhad been successful. Mr. Hanna took up the subject of Mr. Bryan’s letter of acceptance, and comment- ing on the brief reference to free coinage said: “Mr. Bryan admits the failure of his arguments for free silver and he gives rotice in his letter that henceforth he will deal with the rest of the Chicago platform. He will appeal to the masses to array themselves ageainst the classes, the poor against the rich. He intends to appeal to the passions and prejudices of men. He sadly mistakes the .intelligence of the American workingman if he thinks they will support him. No candidate for Presi- dent Eas ever suceeeded with such a policy.” John M. Ewing, secretary of the Wiscon- sin committee, called and asserted his old allegiance and reports that Wisconsin will give 50,000 majority for McKinley, the Germans being almost solid for him. The resignation of Sterling H. Holt, chairman of the Indiana Democratic com- mittee, was regarded at headquarters as an indication that the gold Democrats of the State intended to make a fight against the Bryan followers and 15,000 tec 20,000 votes go to McKinley. J. D. Elliott, chairman of the South Dakota committee, wrote to Chief Hahn of the speakers’ bureau: ‘“We have them on the run in this State. We are making a schoolbouse campaign and the reports which I receive daily show that the silver voters ere enrolling themselves with the McKinley cinbs. ‘South Dakota will surely go Republican. I have made one hundred assignments for speakersin the last three days.” Hon. Roswell G. Horr of New York wrote from Kansas to Mr. Hahn that he had never in his political campaign ex- perience had such large meetings to ad- dress. When the halls and tents were filled there was always an overflow meet- ing to address. He said Kansas was ablaze and the Republicans working har- moniously. Mr. Hahn to-day assigned Hon. Ben Buiterworth of Ohio and F. X. Schoon- maker of Iilinois, among other speakers, to make a tour of the Pacific Coast States, speaking in Minnesota, Nebraska and ‘Wyoming first. This is the first time a National committee has attempted to sup- ply speakers for the Coast States. Terence V. Powderly, the labor leader, has been engaged by the National Com- mittee to make & speaking tour through the West especially for workingmen, be- ginning about Septem ber 25. e e T GREETINGS FiiOM GOVERNORS. Lippitt of Rhode Istand and Bushnell of Ohio to Call on McKinley. CANTON, v=HIo, Sept. 11.—Governor Lip- pitt of Rhode Island telegraphed Major McKinley this evening that he would cal! on him to-morrow afternoon. Governor Bushnell will be here with his staff some time Friday, and three delegates are sche- duled to arrive during the day. Hon. W. A. Lynch, one of the most widely known Democratic lawyers in Eastern Ohio, addressed the Railroad Men’s Sound Money Club at the Taber- nacle this evening. The great auditorium was crowded to the doors. Mr. Lynch made a stirring sound-money speech, and has carried with him a largec number of Democrats who have never voted the Re- publican ticket, but who propose to do so this year. Mr. Lynch is the man who was chieflly responsible for Major McKinley’s defeat when he ran for Congress six vears ago. POISONED AT A WEDDING. Seventy-Five Guests Suffer Severely After Partaking Liberally of Chicken Pie. DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 10.—At the weading of J. C. Tombs and Miss Emma Henderson at Bondurant yesterday a wholesale poisoning occurred. lmme- diately after the wedding, which was at noon, a dinner was served to about seventy-five guests. Nearly all of them were poisoned by something they had eaten, supposed to bave been chicken-pie, cooked in copper vessels. A number quickiy recovered, but about twenty were in a dangerous condition until to-day. Most of these nre now out of danger. Those who were most seriously iil were: il Tiaborers 4 Whid's that, Bl Bivas »” Miss Love Daly, Miss Rose Daly, Mrs. Reaa Henderson, Mrs. and Mrs. Clarence Thorpe, Mrs. B. F. Rothrock, Read Hen- derson, Mrs. Margaret Henderson (mother of Read Henderson), Mrs. C. W. Cheney, Frank Scott, Edward Austin, Maggie Austin, Cora Long, James O'Brien and wife, Nellie Bondurant. It is now re- ported tnat all will recover. eyt GREAT MILITARY MANEUVERS. Eighty Thousand German Soldiers Engage in Sham Encounters at Goerlitz. BERLIN, GERMAKY, Sept. 10.—The mili- tary maneuvers were resumed at Goerlitz to-day, both armies beginning to move at 6 o'clock in the morning. The right wing of the Prussians pressed the Eighth Saxon Division back upon Schaffberg, whereupon the Thirty-second Saxon Division came to tno aid of the Eighth Diviston and stayed the advance of the Prussians. In the meantime the right wing of the Saxon troops drove a wedge into the Prus- sian Bixth Corps, while the extreme right of the Saxons outflanked the Sixtn Corps of Prussians, geiting the latter under a cross fire at Kopschuetz. At this junciure the Emperor called a halt, and the Sixth Prussian Corps then re-formed and the operations were re- opened. At 11 o'clock in the forenoon the Prussian Sixth Corps had driven back the Saxons’ left win : on the bases of the Jenk- witz and Kaina. Eighty thousand men, 440 guns and 7000 horses were in action along a line reaching several miles. DEATH OF ACTOR LEWS, Few Members of the Theatrical Profession Were More Beloved. For Nearly Twenty Years He Ap- peared With Mrs. Gilbert in Daly’s Productions. NEW YORK, N. Y., Bept. 10.—James Lewis, the well-known actor, died sud- denly at West Hampton, L. L, this morn- ing from heart failure. The news of his death was telephoned fo his manager, Augustin Daly, shortly before 9 o'clock and within half an hour the news was known all along the Rialto. Expressions of regret were heard on every side, for there are few members of the profession who were more beloved. Next to Mrs. Gilbert, who has just cele- brated her seventy-sixth birthday, Mr. Lewis was the oldest member of the Daly company. He was born in Troy, N. Y., 58 years ago, and for a number of years was engaged in mercantile work. His adopting the stage as a profession was an accident. A friend of his who was acting in a small stock company fell ill, and Lewis at thelast moment was persuaded to goon in his part. He made a hit, and was 80 delighted with the stage that he took to it permanently. In the annals of the American stage Lewis’ name will also be indelibly associated in an artistic sense witih Mrs. Giloert. For nearly twenty years these two have been playing opposite parts in the Daly productions, “*Nancy and Company,” “A Night Off,”” *The Railroad of Love,” *“The Taming of the Shrew,” and a thousand and one other productions which have seen the lignt at Daly’s ana have been foreotten. In London Lewis was, if anything, even a greater favorite than in New York. Years ago when the Daly company was at the zenith of its success, the London critics used to refer to them affectionately as the great four—Reban, Drew, Giibert and Lewis. LIl Pardoned by the Governor. PITTSBURG, Pa., Sept. 10. — Robert Beatty of Pittsburg, who was serving seven years in the peaitentiary jor complicity with Dempsey, the Knights of Labor leader, in an alleged conspiracy to poison non-union workmen in the Carnegie mills during the strike at Homestead in 1892, left the peniientiary this morning, having been pardoned by Governor Hastings. st <L Importation of Gold. NEW YORK, N. Y. Sept. 10.—The steamer Columbia, leaving Europe this week, will have §1,750,000 in gold on board consigned to Lazari. Freres, which will make the total amount imported thus far by this firm $8,600,000. COLLAPSE OF THE MUTUAL NATIONAL One More Bank at New Orleans Compelled to Suspend. DUE TO HEAVY DRAINS. and Mad: a Run That Causes the Failure. MORE MONEY COULD NOT BE HAD Now All Clearing House Banks Will Only Pay One Hundred Dollars on Checks. NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 10.—The Mutual National Bank closed its doors this morning. The effect of this suspen- sion has been discounted as it was well known to be in a bad way. Shortly after the American National Bank failed a run was made on the Mutual and the collapse of the bank at that time appeared inevit- able. Luckily the run was started on Saturday shortly before noon, and Saturday being a lezal half holiday in New Orleans, fortune was on the side of the pressed institution. By Monday morning it had a chance to recuperate. The clearing-house bheld a meeting, and the other banks of the city, fearing a panic, came to the rescue and advanced money enough to meet all de- mands on Monday. Large sums of money came here from various sources, and the United Btates sub-treasury was paying out the sugar bounty as fast as possible. Before noon of the day the run ceased and all looked favorable. The president states that a steady drain has been made by depositors taking out their money. The unexvected faiiure of the Union National Weduesday aroused the suspicions of depositors and another rush was made on the Mutual. The clearing-house banks had advanced the Mutual $100,000, a little more than $17,000 of which had been repaid. Last night the Mutual tendered the clearing- house another lot of collaterals, and asked for further assistance to the extent of $25,~ 000. This the clearing-house refused, and the suspension of the Mutual followed this morninz. The president says: “The bank owes depositors $92,993 72, which we have ample assets to pay dollar for dollar.” President Baldwin of theclearing-house says: “The officers of the bank foresaw what was coming, and, as is customary in such cases, called on the other banks to come once more to their assistance. A bank in distress is exvected to hypothecate securi- ties that will justify other banks in lend- ing the assistance.. The security offered by the Mutual was not considered 'the vroper quality of paper to justify the clearing-house in making the loan and the assistance was refused.” The bank was organized in 1871 witha capital of $100.00. In Janusry, 1895, the Mutual absorbed the Traders’ Bank and most of the stockholders of the Traders’ Bank became interested in the Mutual. Ata meeting of the clearing-house the financial situation was discussed and the following resolution was adopted : Resolved, That for the present the clearing- hous : banks shall not pay out on checks more than $100 to any one depositor in one day=—ail other payments shall be made by certification of ehecks, which shall be received upon de- posit by the clearing-house banks. This step was necessary as a precaution. Employers of labor will Be supplied with money to meet their payrolis. It was also agreed to adopt a system of clearing- house certificates similar to that used in New York during the crisis of 1893. The savings banks also took steps to prevent a run by posting the sixty-day rule. There are no new developments in the case of the Union National. President Chalaron is bitterly criticized to-day for his precipitate action in closing the bank without consulting the directors. He is in seclusion and will see no one. Bank Examiner Johnson, temporarily in charge of the Union Bank, was formerly confidential bookkeeper and agent for A. and V. Meyer, whose failure seriously af- fected the bank. This fact has caused much comment. To-day another Bank Examiner bas been ordered to take his place, a protest having been wired to Comptrolier Eckels against Mr. Johnson coniinuing in charge. SHOT IN THE CABANA FORTRESS. s Mirtiinx. Pupda_ Dedlh by the Spanish for Alleged Rebellion and Incendiarism. HAVANA, Cusa, Sept, 10.—Luis Mar- tinez, one of the men who took part in the expedition landed by the filibustering vessel Three Friends, was shot in the Ca- bana fortress to-day, for the crime of re- bellion and incendiarism. The rebels placed dynamite cartridges on the railway tracks near Ramblazo, in the Puerto Principe district. The engzine of a military train, when it passed over the cartridge, caused an ex- losion, which blew it from the track and adly damaged the cars. The engineer, conductor and two passengers, an officer and a private were injured. Four thousand troops arrived here from Spain to-day. The steamer Alfonzo XII will carry on her outward passage twelve culprits, who have been sentenced to the mwilitary prisons on the Ceuta and Saffarin 1slands. ITLE OF LIKE ER: Its Anniversary Observed by an Interesting Celebration at Cleveland. One of the Participants a Dauzhter of Ben Fl:ming, a Gunner on the Lawrence. CLEVELAND, Osro, Bept. 10.—The anniversary of the battle of Lake Erie was a hohday for the city. The majority of the shops and factories closed, and the city put on a gala dress for the occasion. Commodore Perry’s monument in Wade Park was covered with flags and flowers. Great numbers of visitors from Northern Ohio came to the city. Governor Bushnell of Ohio presided at the morning exercises. He stggested that Congress or the State ought to ap- propriate money to erect a monument on Put-in-Bay Island to the memory of the men killed in the battle of Lake Erie. He then introduced Governor Warren Lippitt of Rhode Island, the orator of the day, who delivered A stirring address. Ex-Senator M, C. Butler of South Caro- lina, a nephew, and Oliver Hazard Perry of Elmhurst, N. Y., a grandson of the commodore, were introduced and made re- marks. . One of the most interesting incidents of the morning meeting was the intro- duction of Mrs. Elizabeth- McPete1s. She is a daughter of Ben Fleming, one of the gunners on the Lawrence. She 1s now an inmate of the City Infirmary. General Axline sprang to his feet and moved that steps be taken to take her from the insti- tution and give her a comfortable home. L. E. Hclden promised that she would be removed. Rev. C. E. Manchester, a cousin of Com- modore Perry, delivered the closing prayer. An imposing civic and industrial parade took place this afternoon, the streets through which the procession moved be- ing thronged with people, The battle of Lake KErie was reproduced on the lake front this evening, closing the celebration. The display was a success and witnessed by immense crowd. R © A Slight 'Earthquake. PADUCAH, Ky., Sept. 10.—A slignt earthquake shock was felt here at 6:28 o’clock this morning. GRAND TOWER, Irr, Sept. 10.—A slight shock of earthquuke was felt here at 6:25 o'clock this morning. It came from a northwesterly direction and lasted thirty seconds, PRICE FIVE CENTS. PARIS 1S SWEPT BY A CYCLONE Great Havoc at the French Capital During the Storm. ANTICS OF THE WIND. Several Persons Killed and the Roofs of Big Buildings Carried Away. VEHICLES CRUSHED TO PIECES, Many Pedestrians Are Caught Up and Ruthlessly Hurled Into the River Seine. LONDON, Exa., Sept. 10.—A dispatch to a news agency says that a cyclone from the southwest passed over Paris at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon, doing much dam- age. A number of vehicles were blown over and young trees torn up by the roots. The windows of the Palace of Justice were blown in, compelling a suspension of the sittings of the courts. The rain feil in torrents. The Paris correspondeut of the Tele- graph says that several persons were killed in the storm. The roofs of the Tribunal of Commerce and the Prefecture of Police were torn off. PARIS, Fraxce, Sept, 6.—Traffic in the streets was stopped for two hoursby a severe wind and rain storm that passed over this city to-day. The wind blew with hurticane force ana the downpour of rain was torrential. Much damage was done and severat persons were injured by being struck by flying debris. Two hours before the storm broke the atmosphere gave indications of its coming. It was dark and sultry and the clouds had a peculiarly lowering appearance. Among the buildings that stood in the pathway of the cyclone was the Opera Comigque, tt.e roof of which was blown in. Most of the persons injured were cab- drivers. A reporter of the Temps, who witnessed the cyclone from the top of an omnibus, says that it did not last more than a minute. He suddenly saw what appeared to be a tall pillar of smoke advaacing, and imagined that there was a large fire. But almost immediately he saw the branches of trees snapped off and countless chimney pots huried to the ground. Then the storm immediately passed away. Those on the omnibus were untouched. The west end of the city wholly escaped the fury of the storm, but eastward along the river much destruction was caused. Between the Pont St. Michael and Pont Neuf forty large irees were torn out of the ground and blown into the Seine. Many persons who were crossing the bridges or along the river front were caught up by the wind and thrown into the river, but so far as known all these were rescued. Some of those in the path of the sturm were dashed against houses and injured. Many cabs were literally blown to pieces, so vio- lent was the force of the wind. MAY REMOVE THE SULTAN. Rumors That the Powers Are Considering the Question of Deposing the Ruler Are Confirmed. LONDON, Exa., Sept. 10.—It is reported that a private dispatch arrived here to- night from Constantinogple confirming the rumors that the powers are seriously con- sidering the question of deposing the Sul- tan. Itisadded ‘that important develop- ments are expected from the probable ac- tion of the Sheikh-ul-Islam, whose fiat is necessary for the legal removal of the Caliph. A few days ago Mr. Gladstone was re- quested to address a mass-meeting to be held at Liverpool for the purpose of con- demning the Sultan of Turkey for permit- ting the massacres of Armenians. In reply to the request, Mr. Gladstone has written a letter in which be says: “My opinions of the disgrace the European powers have allowed him to bring upon them are well known to my countrymen, but I do not think that benefit would accrue from my taking -part -in-meetings, however valu- able and even obligatory such meetings may be for those still engaged in the active duties.of public life.” ATHENS, Greece, Sept. 10.—In conse- quence of the receipt of a peremptory British note, the Sultan of Turkey has is- sued an irade ordering that the expulsion of Armenians from Constantinople be stopped. John Young Brown’s Mishap. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 10.—Ex-Gov- ernor John Young Brown, while trying to board a Fourth-aveuue streetcar at the Louisville Southern crossing early to- night, slipped and fell to the ground, breaking his right leg, right arm and collarbone. His condition is critical. PROVIDENCE, R. L, Sept. 10.—Five vessels were wrecked at Point Judith dur- ing the storm yesterday and last night, but it is believed that all hands were saved. The wind at one time reached a velocity of eighty miles an hour at Point Judith. NATIVE SONS LEAVE STOCKTON End of the Admission Day Festivities at the Mill City. TROPHY LAUNCH RACE. The Camanche Wins the Cup Offered by California’s Governor. PECULIAR TIME ALLOCWANCE. Difficuit Exp'anations That Must Be Made by Marine Computer Hartmsn. BTOCKTON, CaL., Sept. 10.—Stockton is playing a thinking part to-night. It is a real pleasure too, for it is the first oc- casion this week on which the residents of the Mill City have had either the time or inclination to do so. The visiting Native Sons and Daughters have gone, their ac- companying friends have vanished, the blare of bands is no longer heard in the street; the marchers, the holiday enthu- siasm, the crowds, are missing; nothtng of the Admission day festivities are left to Stockton’s people but the memory and the decorations, The flags, the streamers, the bunting, float gayly in the breeze; the red and blue and white and yellow lights blink owl-like in the darkness, and the lonesome resident waiks the street, his hands deep in his trousers pockets—and thinks. He thinks that he would that there were 365 Admission days per year and that they were all celebrated in Stockton. ,To-morrow he will resume his usual idea—that his town is the gateway to the San Joaquin Valley, and that it is time to go back to work. After the carnival last night the crowds of visitors began to depart. At2o'clock this morning two trainioads of Natives started for San Francisco and a little later the boats left for the same place. The Sacramento delegation departed early this morning and at 12:10 and 3:40 o’clock this afternoon the last of the Bay City vis- itors journeyed homeward. The final number on the programme of the entertainment committee was carried out this morning. It was the race for the Governor’s cup, Governor Budd having of- fered a challenge trophy to be raced fof annually by launches. The executive and his party were present to see the event. But six aspirants showed up at the ap- pointed time, two of which, because of their small size, seemed to have no chance. It was agreed that the launches should be brought as near together as possible by arranging & time allowance. The length over all of each contestant was measured, and the Dirigo, the longest, was made to allow each of her shorter competitors fifteen seconds per mile for each foot she outmeasured them; that is, as the course was over a distance of four and a half miles, each boat larger than another al- lowed the shorter one 6714 seconds a foot. Few spectators were present when the boats lined up for the race, which was run in two heats. The Dirigo finished first in the initial trial, her actual time being 30 min. 55 sec. Favorita was second in 32:33 and the Naval Reserve launch Camanche third in 83:04. In the second heat Nor-