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2 he has illegaliy killed another does mot help the dead, but the intention and effect of it is 10 restrain others from committing a similar erime, the doing of which they see entailsa similar penalty. This is the only reason why I would have any man punished. I have never known any individual who was entirely good, nor found one who was thoroughly bad. Men most generally are controlled by their en- vironments and the circumstances which sur- round them, and I believe that by kind and thoughtful treatment wnd extending & heip- ing hana to those who are morally decrenit, almost any man can be brought on 1o a higher level and made to realize the enormity of what he may have done, 50 &s to be no longer dangerous to the community at large. Ishould favor, on the whole, the exercise of « this clemency to Worden, believing that if there is any real question of doubt as to his condition of mind and mental capacity at the time of the commission of the crime, he should by all means be given the benefitof that doubt; and if this claim is not suffi- ciently established, I hope that the Governor, in his wisdom and through his knowledge of ihe facts and of the temper of the people, will find it consistent with proper regard for the safety of society to grant jthe executive clem- ency asked for. Very truiy, C. P. HUNTINGTON. In speaking on the subject Governor Budd said to a Caru representative to- day: *I will granta reprieve in this matter simply because I deem it my duty to fully ascertain whether Salter D. Worden is reaily entitled to a commutation from death to life imprisonment, owing to the fact that he may have been mentally irre- sponsible for bis sct in wrecking this train and causing the loss of innocent lives. *‘I shall appoint an agent in the East to gather all the testimony procurable on the subject from revutable peopie who knew the condemned man during his life pre- vious to his coming to this State. I shall procure all the testimony possible in this State, submit it to an expert commission, and if that commission decides that Sulter D. Worden is mentally irresponsible I shall commute his sentence to life im- prisonment. If, on the other hand the commission declares Saiter 8. Worden to have been in the full possession of his senses, not all the influence that can be brought to bear will save the man who hurled innocent men into eternity with- out an instant’'s warning from_expiating that crime upon the gallows. If Worden is declared sane he will hang. ““‘Again, 1 have prepared a bill, which will be presented to the coming Legisla- ture, which will provide that any person who has had his sentence commuted from death to life imprisonment will not be eligible to pardon unless his petition for such pardon be signed by the majority of the members of the Supreme Court, and if this bill be passed I will eign it.” CANADIANS PREPARE FOR WAR. With the Assistance of Ergland They Will Be Able to Hoid Their Own Against Uncle Sam. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 20.—A Sun special from Montreal says: The military preparations going on here in Canada are of a character to prove that England is not making ready merely for the defense of Canada against possible attacks by the fleets or armies of any European power or combination of powers. They are of such a nature that it is every day more evident that England is creating in Cana- da a great place of arms agaiust the American Republic. So little attention is given by the Ameri- can press to Canada and the inwardness of the policy pursued by the party that has been in power here for over thirty years that it may come as a surprise to them to learn that it is seriously be- lieved here that not only can Canada hold her own against the United States, with the help of England, but that it is only a question of time as to when a large part of the New England Stetes and a portion of the State of New York will be asking for admission into the Canadian confed- eration. Re-enforcements for the regiments in garrison at Halifax and Bermuda are on their way out from England, which will Taise them to their full war strength. In connectidn with the warlike preparations Enpgland is making in Canada it is note- worthy that some of the papers that have been most insuiting in language toward the United States now deprecate the idea that there can be anything in the prepara- tions directed against them. They say that they are oniy intended for a possible war with Russia and France. What the preparations going on for arming vessels on the upper lakes has to do with Russia or France requires an imperialist mind to discern. According to a cablegram received here the Pacitic cable conierence now sitting in London will no longer issue reports of its proceedings. The reason given for this is the jealousy which the movement excites in other countries, notably, says the cable- gram, in France and the United States, The Canadian commissioners, it seems, assured the conference that the idea that has been entertained that the new Cana- dian Government was lukewarimn toward the scheme is an entire mistake; that on the contrary they have definite instruc- tions to co-operate in the heartiest manner “‘because of the high imperial ends 10 be served by the cable.} GENERAL ‘ TON WEDS. Secures a Beautiful New Orleans Girl for His Bride. NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 20.—Miss Ballie Reeves Hewes, daughter of Edson Hewes of this city, was married yesterday to General Frederick Hampden Winston of Chicago in Trinity Church, which was crowded with society people. General and Mrs. Winston left for New York last night, where they will remain until November 28. They will then sail for North Africa, re- turning in about three months to Chicago. The bride is a noted beauty. She is about 23 years of age, and is as lovely in disposi- tion as she is beautiful in person. She ‘was Queen of Momus, one of the promi- nent Mardi Gras societies in 1892, and also maid of honor at the Atlanteans’ ball the same year. General Winston acknowl- edges to 63 years, but is as hearty and well reserved as a man of 40. He is a mil- ionaire several times over. He was at oneé time Minister to Persig, and is a law- yer by profession. S aa FOE A4 SYMPATHETIC STRIKE. Colorado Miners Preparing to Inaugu- vate a Big Walkout. LEADVILLE, Coro., Nov. 20. — The statement, that the Governor has decided to adopt rigorous measures to suppress further violence at the mines here and to bring the strike to an end has, it is re- ported, caused the officers of the Miners’ Union, backed by the Western Federation of Miners, to decide upon a plan to inaug- urate a sympathetic strike in all the active mines of the State. Cripple Creek and Telluride are to lead and other unions will follow in quick succession. Itissaid the mine-owners of Montana have decided to reduce the wases of their mirers 50 cents a day soon, which is expected to start a strike of the biggest union in the country. Itis believed a sympathetic strike would force the mine managers here to terms Wwith the strikers, T HKentucky’s Ioll-Gate War. FRANKFORT, Kv., Nov. 20.—The toll- gate war in Franklin County is serious. Having torn away the toll-gates ot the county, the raiders have turned cheir at- tention to punishing owners of turnpike stock by destroying private property. Three times in the past two dgynpemll phone connection between this city and Farmdale has been cut off. The last time the wires were not only cut, but a mile and @ half of wire had been cut down and car- ried away. Mr. Farmer, the telephone agent at Farmdale, is a heavy owner of turnpike stock, and the raiders evidently believe that he is interested in the tele- phone.. CHARGES OF FRAUD ARE NOW ADMITTED Inventor Harrison Tells How His Company Was Wrecked. Rich Men Purioined the Stock and Conspired to De- fraud Investors. Sensational Revelations Made by the Te!ephone Man, Who C aims to Be a Victim of Schemers. CHICAGO, ILL., Nov. 20.—Edward M. Harrison, the telephone inventor who was made a defendant in the suit for are- ceiver of the Harrison International Tele- vhone Company brought by two stock- holdets in the Federal court, flied in court to-day a long answer practically admitting all the charges of fraud and wrecking and saying that he was also a victim of the schemes of President L. E. Ingalls and his associates on the board of directors. Among them are United States Senator Elkins, ex-Secretary of the Treasury Cnharles Foster, George R. Peck, general counsel of the St. Paul railroad; Congress- man Warner, R. C. Kerens, Republican National Commttteeman from Missouri, and Patrick Egan, ex-Minister to Chile. Harrison alleges thatthe company is in- solvent, its funds have been squandered by officers and directors, who voted large salaries to themselves and money for mythical expenses. He joins in the peti- tion to have the business wound up and that the men who fraudulently secured stock be ord:red to pay for it. He says all the assets have been ab- sorbed in the interests of the officers and the stockholders defrauded. He asserts that the contract of May 1 last was not adopted at the annual meeting then trans- ferring the telephone pioperty to the International Construction Company, and he asks that it be set aside. The charge is made that after his retirement from the directory 45,000 shares of stock were ex- changed for 610 shares of construction stock, the latter being placed in tbe hanas of R. C. Kerens, Pairick Egan and C. M. Ferree for the benefit of the telephone company. Harrison says the big men who were made directors were to receive 2500 shares at 20 cents a share for the use of their names, as part of a scheme to entice the public to invest in the $50,000,000 of capi- tal stock, but as soon as they were elected directors they donated to themselves $2,- 000,000 each of the $50,000,000 stock and voted stock to Ingalls without consid- eration. He states he was induced by false repre- sentations of Ferree and Stone, the pro- moters of the corporation, to transfer to them a two-thirds interest in his patents, and claims Ingalls was aware that the patents were worth only $300,000 when the company was incorporated with $80,000,000 capital on pretense that a lot of money would be necessary to fight the Bell Com- pany, but really to delude the public into believing that vast sums of money had been invested by the directors. The assertion is made that P. C. Han- ford, who was the Standard Oil repre- sentative in Chicago, killed himsell when he learned that he had invested $40,000 in worthless shares of the company. Har. rison charges Ingalls with falsifying the minutes of the May annual meeting, jority of shares. BAITERIES AND SEAKCHLIGHTS. Owners of the Isles of Shoals Group Plan Fortifications. PORTSMOUTH, N, H,, Nov. 20.— Leighton Bros., who own the Isles of Bhoals group, have been in consultation this week with United States engincers with reference to establishing disappear- ing batteries on the Star and Appledore islands, The Messrs. Leighton are dis] clined to talk about the matter, butitis known that plans for the batteries were fuily discussed, and their location, should the engineers’ report to the War Depart- ment be accepted, has been agreed upon. It1s intended thatone of the batteries ! shall be built on Star Island, on an ele- vation back of the hotel, in tae vicinity of the site of the John Smith monument. No better location could be selected, as it commands the approaches to the coast from Cape Neddick to Ipswich Bay, as well as ten miles of ocean front. The bat- tery on Appledore will be located near the weatber signal-station, on the southerly front of theisland. The fortification wiil be circular in form and armed with two ten-inch disappearing guns baving arange of twelve miles. Itisalso designed to establish search. lights on the island, and. thus render im- possible the efforts of hostile ships to run by and land under cover of darkness. e BESIEGED BY WHITE RUVFIANS, A4 Negro’s Houwse Burned and He Is Also Seriously Wounded, COLUMBUS, Miss., Nov. 20.—An out- rageous crime was committed about five miles north of this city Wednesday night, when the bouse of Sanders Swarringen, a peaceable negro, was surrounded by a mob of white men, who set fire to the barn where his cotton was stored and then fired his house. In the meantime members of the mob began shooting Swarringen, who tried to defend himsel! with a shotgun, The gun failed to work, however, and Swarringen ran to the house o7 Thomas Blewett, a white man, living near by. Blewett's daughters were so frightened by the shots and tvesight of the fleeing negro that they ran to the woods in their night- clothes. Henry Fenderberg, his son Charles and Seth Cule were the ringleaders g, and one of them is now in A party of citizens is in pur- suit of the rest of the zang. The reason the parties give for the at- tack is that the negro kilied a dog belong- ing to one of Fenderberg’s boys some time ago. Swarringen will prahabli recover, his wounds being oi a serious though not necessarily fatal nature. —_—— IRRIGATION IN NEBRASK A; stembers of the Convention Pleased With the Decision on the Wright Law, LEXINGTON, Nepr, Nov. 20.—The fourth annual convention of the Nebraska Irrigation Association began to-day with a gratifying attendance. The report of President Wolfenbarger, submitted this morning, was exhaustive, treating of the sronen made during the year in this tate and urging renewed efforts on the art of the members in the enterprise. he decision of the United BStates Su- preme Court sustaining the constitution- ality of t.e Wright law, after which the Nebraska law is patterned. was also a source of congratulation. To-day’s ses- ] which he controlled by holding a big ma- | 'THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1896. m sion was taken up with reports of officers and the reading and discussion of papers on irrigation topics. The convention will continue ail day to-morrow. —_———— GETS ONE HUMNDRED DOLLARS. Small Amount Awarded a Widow on a Big Life Insurance Policy. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 20.—The fourth trial of the suit of Josephine What- lawh against the New York Fidelity and Casualty Company for the recovery of $10,000, the amount of a policy on her hus- band’s life, in the Supreme Court in Brooklyn, yesterday resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff for $100 only. There was a provision in the policy that it should be void to the extent of $100 in case Whitlatch shoud commit suicide. ‘Whitlatch was a mining prospector and was found dead in a botel in San Francisco a few years ago. There was a bullet in ‘his head and a revolver by his side. The question at issue at the various trials of the case was as to whether he had com- mitted suicide, been murdered or killed himself accidentally. Mrs. Whitlatch will probably abandon the protracted litiga tion, on which sue has spent several thou- sand dollars, e Christian Temperance Women. 8T. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 20.—The general officers of tbe Woman’s Christian Tem- perance Upion were unable to reach a decision to-day on the city in which the next convention will be held, and it was decided to defer the selection until the officers held another meeting next Janu- ary. All the invitations were rejected ex- cept those of Detroit, Mich. During the discussion Buffalo put in an invitation. The cause of rejecting most of the invita- tions is that the officers thought it wouid be wise to select some place near Toronto, where the world’s convention will be held right after the National convention, thus giving delegates an opportunity to attend both gatherings. State Fair Managers Meet. CHICAGO, IrL., Nov. 20.—At the fourth annual meeting of the American Associa- tion of State Fair and Exposition Mana- gers, officers were elected as follows: President, R. W. Furnoss, Nebraska; vice- president, A. J. Lovejoy, Illinois; secre- tary, T. J. Fleming, Wisconsin ; treasurer, W. M. Leggitt, Minnesota. Dates forfairs in 1897 were fixed as follows: New York, August 23-27; Ohio, August 30-September 4; Michigan and Minnesota, September 6- 11; Indiana and lowa, September 13-18; Missouri and Nebraska, Sepiember 20-25; Illinois, Sentember 27-October 2; Missouri, October 4-9; South Dakota, October 11-16. —— Baltimore and Ohio Affairs. BALTIMORE, Mp., Nov. 20.—John K. Cowen and Oscar G. Murray, receivers of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, to-day asked permission of the United States court to issue $960,000 in certificates of in- debtedness, which would be a lien on the property of the Maryland Construction Company, and to apply the proceeds to paying debts of that company now due to the extent of $465,000, to pay $391,000 for the electric plant, which they say will be self-supporting, and to apply §100,000 1o the construction of trainsheds at Camden station. g National Hardware Association. PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Nov. 20.—The Nutional Hardware Association of the United States to-day elected the following | officers: President, William W. Supplee, Philadelphia; first vice-president, H. H. Bishop, Cleveland; second vice-president, John Alling, Chicago. Executive com- mittee—For three years: John Bindley, Pittsburg; William Chbamberlain, Port. land, Me. For two years: F. H. Strong, St. Paul; Theodore D. Buhl, Detroit. -For one year: Bruce Bayden, SBan Francisco; Colonel Norris B. Belknap, Louisville. e Sioux City’s Defunct Bank, SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Nov. 20.—Bank Examiner Blanding to-day took charge of the defunct First National Bank, The officers have received offers of assistance and may be able to reopen soon. The fol- lowing statement of the condition of the Sioux City Savings Bank, for which a re- ceiver was appointed yesterday, was made to-day: Assets, bilis receivable, $118,- 588 68; real estate, $34,514 88; cash on hand and stocks and bonds, $3456 48; liabilities, stocks and surplus, $55,463 97; deposits, $106,136 07. —_— Murdered by a Negro. STARKVILLE, Miss., Nov. 20.—Eugene Ballington, a prominent young white man of this place, was shot and seriously wounded this morning by a negro. The shooting was entirely unprovoked, and the negro at once made for the woods. There bave been forty men with dogs on his track all evening, but at last accounts they were an hour behind him. Excite- ment is high, and if the negro iscaught there may be a lynching, as tnisis the third assault to murder by negroes on whites within a week at this place. S Carpst Mills Close, YONKERS, N. Y., Nov. 20.—Owing to a large sarplus of carpets on hand, the big tapestry mill of the Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Company closed down to-day. It is rumored that the shutting down of other mills operated by the company will shortly follow, To-day’s shutdown throws from 3000 to 4000 hands out of em- ployment. 1t is stated that if the rumors of closing down of other mills prove true, there wil! be 7000 hands out of employ- ment. The Smith Carpet Mills are the largest in the world. Acquittal of a Slayer. HOT SPRINGS, Axk., Nov. 20.—Mayor ‘W. W. Waters was acquitted last night of killing Harry Martin, a hotel drummer, Jast May. The jury was out buta short time when it returned a verdict of not guilty. Waters killed Martin in a street fight caused by an assault upon the former on account of an accusation tisat he had violated his promise to protect the drum- me mayoralty, PESERLIE 11l Bealth and Suicide, ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 20.—Harry Sher- wood, manager of the title department of the 8t. Louis Trust Company, blew out bis brains this afternoon at his home, 4611 Morean street. - Sherwood is n of Judge Sherwood of the Supreme Court. No cause is known for the self-destruction, but Sherwood has been in ill health lately. It is stated that his accounts at the Trust Company are all right. L Dr. Conaty to Succeed Keane. BALTIMORE, Mp., Nov. 20.—The an- nouncement is made here that the Holy Father has appointed Rev. Dr. Thomas Conaty of Worcester, Mass., to succeed Bishop Keane as rector of the Catholic University at Washington. Dr. Conaty is 40, and was born in Irelund. He was reared and educated in America. B His Body Found in the Lake. CLEVELAND, Onmo, Nov. 20.— The body of William Cody, who recently came to Cleveland from Omaha, has been found in the lake. He was employed as a clerk in the New England Hotel, and was stricken with typhoid fever. It is thought that he drowned himself in a fit of temporary insanity. S Work Resumed at a Mine. ISPHEMING, Micu., Nov, 20.—Two pumps of the Angeline iron mine were started to-day and the mine willresume full work Monday. Six hundred men will be put to work within a week as rap- idly as places can be found for them by the unwatering of the mine. ApMIsSION free. Lecture on our Lord’s dom- ing, 0dd Fellows' Hall, Sunday night. * in the event of his election to the | BLUE AGAINST THE ORAKGE AND BLACK Princeton and Yale Boys Ready for the Big Battle. Will the Sons of O!d Eli Beat the Historic Students of Nassau ? Both Teams Ready to Put Up a Great Game cf Football To-Day on Manhattan Field. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 20.—With the last finishing touches which were applied this morning at New Haven and at Princeton, the work of the great army of coachers and trainers is done, and the re- sult of the twenty-first annual struzgle for the football champioaship between the elevens of Yaleand Princeton lies in the brawn and sinew of the men who will bear the blue of old Eli and the orange and black of historic Nassau. Whether Yale’s winning streak of the past two years will be added to to-morrow, or whether Prince- ton’s eleven will score the lucky “odd number,” are the questions thatare upper- most of thousands. It has been more or less the cusiom heretofore to prophesy on the morning of the Yale-Princeton gams that the crowd would be greater than was ever seen at the game before. Whatever the case in pre- vious years there is absolutely no doubt, provided the weather is suitable, the at- tendance at Manhattan field to-morrow will far surpass anything before recorded. Both teams and substitutes arrived in the city thisevening. The Yale contin- gent are at the Piaza, as usual, and the Tigers at the Murray Hill. The followers of the crange and black seem to think that the chances ara in their favor, and slight odds were obtain- able at the Stock Exchange to-day that Princeton would win, But the bulk of the betting was at even money, for while Princeton’s showing through the season entitled them to a degree of favoritism, the knowing ones kept in mind the well- remembered New Haven “hard-luck” stories which have been always floated before the eventful hour, but which some- how have, with just as much pertinacity, failed tc materiaily affect the playing of old Eli’s sons at the critical moment. The gates will open atnoon and play will be cailed at 2 o'ciock. Paul Dashiel of Lehigh will again referee the contest. The line-up will probably be as follows: ON THE EAMTERN TEKACKS. ey Winners of Events at Latonia, Nath- ville, New Orieans and Beunings. LATONIA, KY., Nov. 20.—Six furlongs, Yel- low Rose won, Mother of Pearl second, Partisan third. Time, 1:17. 8ix furlongs, Earth won, Kennsha second, Est Ne Regina third. Time, 1:163{. One mile, Reprieve won, Basso second, ABC third, Time, 1:42. Five and a half iurlongs, Tonto won, Fallax second, Alvin E third, T1ime, 1:093{, One mile, Lucy Lee won, Rasper second, Tancred third. Time, 1:423; NASHVILLE, TENN., Nov. 20.—Six furlongs, Julie d’Or won. Pat Gore second, Neilie Osborne third. Time, 1:16. Five and a half furlongs, Kiss Me won, Trav- eler second, Merry Saiut third, Time, 1:10. Fiveand a half furlongs, Eton Jacket won, Bhuttlecock second, 1 third. Time, 1:08. Beven furiongs, Charley Weber won, Gus Straussecond, Nover third. Time, 1:25. One mile, F M B won, Alto June second, Paramount thi; Time, 1:421¢. NEW ORLEANS, La.. Nov. 20.—S8ix furlongs, Ozark Jr. won, Issis O second, Billy Jordan thira. Time, 1:15. Six furlongs, Steekholm won, Bnngno 1I sec- ond, John Conroy third. Time, 1:15}{. One and & quarter miles, Constant won, Sea- brooke second, Squire G third, Time, 2:093; 8ix furiongs, Albert 8§ wou, Little Billy scc- ond, Belle of Fordham third. Time, 1:15%. Six furlongs, Sir John won, Nicholas second, Judith C third. Time, 1:15}. BENNINGS, Nov. 20.—Oune mile, Lament won, Find Out second, Navahoe third. Time, 1:47 35, Five furlongs, Mohawk Prince won, Eu- phemia L secona, Snapshot third. Time, 1:04. One and a sixtcenth miles, Forget' won, Maurice second, Volley third. Time, 1:52, Seven furlongs, L B won, Convention second, Tyrant third. Time, 1:42. Five furiongs, Lida Woodlands won, Brils liaucy second, Taric third, Time, 1:06. PR CORBETT READY TO FIGHT, Signs an Agreement to Meet Bob Filz- simmons in New York, BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 20.—James J. Cor- bett to-night signed articles of agreement with the Greater New York Athletic Club of Brooklyn for a glove contest between himself and Bob Fitzsimmons under the auspices of the clubin Brookiyn on the J4'h day of January next for a purse of $:6,000, winner to take all, with the under- | standing that if possible the contest shall take place before January 1. The contest will consist of twenty or more round- with five-ounce gloves. George Silerof Chicago is named as referee. Fitzsimmons telegraphs he wants until November 23 before signing. s e ) ZLasagesse Wins the Derby Cup. LONDON, Exg., Nov, 20.—At the Derby to-day the Derby cup of 2000 sovereigns, a bandicap for three-year-olds and upward, one mile, was won by Bir J. Miller'’s bay filly Lasagesse, four years old.* Lord W. Beresford's Chislane, five years old, was second and P. Lorillard’s Diakka, three years old, third. The betting was 17 to 1 azainst Lasagesse and 20 to 1 each against Chislane and Diakka. Lo Baker's Seconds Threw Up the Sponge. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 20.—The ini- tial boxing exhibition of the Gotham Ath- letic Club of Harlem took place this even- ing pefore a crowd of about 2500 specta- tors. The event of the night was the twelve-round bout between the heavy- weights Henry Baker of Chicago and Chariey Strong of Newark, N. J. In the tenth round Baker’s seconds threw up :he sponge. e Crowds at the Poultry show, SAN JOSE, Car., Nov. 20.—The attend- ance at the poultry show increases, and the exhibit is the most successful ever held on the coast. To-morrow a large delega- tion of fanciers from Petaluma and Santa Rosa will visit the show. P ot ON THE 4SIATIC 5:A4TION. 4dmiral MoNair’s squadron to Be In- creased by the Petrel. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 20.- -Ad- miral McNair's Asiatic squadron is to be increased by the gddition of the cruiser Petrel, now upfl. at the navy-yard, Mare Island, Cal. Orders bave been is- i sued to place that vessel in commission December 16 with Lieutenant-Commander Edward P. Wood in command. This offi- cer is at present attached 10 Admiral Ram- ny‘uug in the Bureau of Navigation, havinz been for the past two years in charee of the enlisted men of the navy. The crew of the Petrel wiil be obtained largely from the Adams, which is ex- pected home from Honolulu in a couple of weeks. The Petrel, on account of her small size, is especially adapted to ascend- ing the Chinese rivers, and her last duty was on the Asiatic station, where she spent the winter belore last frozen at New hwang, near Port Arthur. R ks MUST NOT UFVERCHARGE. Naval Officers Try to Cinoh the Govern- ment on an Expense Bill. WASHINGTON, D. C.,, Nov. 20.—The Navy Department,in order to deter officers from aovercharging their traveling ex- penses, has permitted to leak out a few details of a small scandal that might have led to a s rious court-martial. | Upon the occasion of their recent return from Nagasaki, Japan, to Seattle, Wash., two officers of the navy who had pur- chased passage tickets at a reduced rate, £25, the regular first-class priceof a ticket being £31, made claim for reimbursement in the latter sum. The matter was brought to the attention of the department, and the officers bave been informed that they should have been aware that by traveling expenses, the one providing for mileage at 8 cents a mile within the United States, whether it is actually spent or not, and the other for actual expenses outside the United States, they could not be reimbursed for any larger sum than that actuaily expended by them. Buuinasmuch as it did not ap- pear that there was any intention or their part to defraud, no further action was considered necessary, 6 T £ MILLIONS sRE INVOLVED, Ezx-Governor Durkee’s Executors and. the Buit Against the Government, WASHINGTON, D. C. Nov. 20.— Messrs. J. C. Biaisdell of Indianapolis and J. A. Kuykendall of Salt Lake City are in ‘Washington. The former is attorney for the late Charles Durkee aud the latter ex- ecutor for the same. They are here on business connected with a suit brought on behalf of the heirs of the late Charles Durkee, ex-Governor of Utah, who died in 1870. The amount reaches into the mil- lions, and equals the entire subsidy of the Union, Central and the other Pacific rail- roads, whose first mortgage bonds Gov- ernor Durkee came into possession of and afterward assigned to the Government for preservation and keeping until matur- ity for the benefit of his heirs. These bonds came to maturity in 1894, Mr. Blaisdell expiained to a reporter that the suit was brought iu the Court of Claims in May, 1893, and that what the heirs wanted was an accounting from the Government, with leave to make applica- tion for a sinking fund in liquidation of the first mortgage indebtedness of the corporations, held to be a lien prior and ‘paramount to that of the United States. e Of Interest to the Coast, WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 20.—W. K. Forward was to-day appointed Postmas. ter at Macum, Tehama County, Cal., vice E. P. Hart resigned. Pensions have been granted as follows: California: Original—George Armstrong, Sacramento; Henry C. F. Wehr, Veterans’ Home, Napa. Reissue—Eben Hill, Nor- wa.k. Reissue and increased — Asa D. BStarkweather, Ban Diego. Original widows—Mary F. Gale, Sutter Creek. ; Oregon: Original—Peter Levins, Port- and. Washington: Increased — Charles G. Robbins, Tacoma. Grand Chiefs in Session. CHICAGO, ItL, Nov. 20.—P. M. Arthur, P. H. Morrisey, E. E. Clark, F. P, Sargent and F. V. Powell, grand chiefs of the five Railroad Brotherhoods, are in session at the Sherman House to-day. Every year the heads of these brotherhoods meet to outline the policy for the future. There will be nothing of a sensational nature at this meeting, as the brotherhoods are en- joying peace at present all over the coun- try. Sioiel To Pay the Death Penalty, MIDDLESBORO, Ky., Nov. 20.—The date of the execution of Mariell Hatfield has been set for December 16, at Sneed- ville, He is only 19 years of age, and isa descendant of the noted Hatfields, the terrors of Eastern Kentucky. The murder which young Hatfiela will expiate with his life was that of a moonshiner, Jonas Trait, who kept a blind tiger near Sneed- ville. e E Gas Companies Form a Trust. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 20.—All the leading gas companies of this city, em- bracing the Consolidated, the New York and East River, the Equitable and the Standard companies, are reported to have conciuded to form a trust. The combined capital is something in the neighborhood of $60,000,000. fLElumii b Fire Follows an Explosion. CLEVELAND, O=io, Nov. 20.—The big Superior street block occupied by W. H, Luektemyer & Sons, wholesale hardware, was destroyed by fire this morning. The building was valued at $75,000 and the stock at $100,000. Both were totally lost. The fire was caused by the explosion of furnace gas. e Power From Miagara. BUFFALQ, N. Y., Nov. 20.—The experi- mental test made by the Buffalo Street Railway Company on two of its lines of the electric power from the Niagara Power Company has proved so successful thrat the power will be graduaily extended to the other lines of the system. e To Succeed Judge Parker. LITTLE ROCK, Agk., Nov. 20.—A tele- gram was received in this city to-night that President Cleveland would very likely appoint Juage E. H. Rose of this city or Judge John H. Rogers of Fort Bmith to succeed Judge Yarker, who died at Fort Smith Monday. LN Probably an Earthquake. WILMINGTON, Der., Nov. 20.—This afternoon this city was shaken by what was supposed to have been an explosion at the Dupont Powder Works. No explo- sion occurred, however, and the shock is now believed to have been an earthquake. ezl Nre. Cleveland’s Return. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 20.—Mrs. Cleveland, who has been enjoying a brief visit in New Jersey, arrived home to-night in Vice-President Thompson’s private car, which she boarded at Princeion Junction on her return to Washington. RO 5 g Killed at a Crossing. VANCEBURG, Ky., Nov. 20. — Three people were killed by the Chesapeake and Obio train striking a bugg{ at the cross- ing at Concord last night. The victims are ‘W. Pollitt, aged 20, and Lizzie and Lulu Linss, aged 16 and 28. : A w{_ahhtung mt;th an An:tr:x!lhn ir-r- ity. ere is & gla: space on the wings crossed with ribs. Wyhen the moth wants to whistle it strikes these ribs with its an- tenng, which have a knob at the end. The sound 13 & love-call from the male to the female, A German inventor has hit upon a method of putti: stone soles on boots and shoes. He mixes a water-proof glue with a suitable quantity of clean quariz and spreads it over _the leather sole used as a foundation. These quartz soles are said to be flexible and practically inde- structible, ASTHMA core tecd, Dr. Gordon's Chocolate Emuision. 221 Davis, S,F. $1 abot., 6-$5, smpl e 1and in FOUR SUSPECTS N THE DRAGNET Accused of Having Drugged and Robbed Frank P. Arbuckle. Gotham’s Police Now Believe the Coloradc Man Was Mur- dered for His Money. Clews That Point to Ome or All of the Quartet Now Held in Custcdy. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 20.—Four men with shady reputations are prisoners at the police station on West One Hun- dred and Fifty-second street, suspected of drugging and robbing Frank P. Arbuckle, the prominent politician and mining man of Denver, Colo., who was found dying at Eighth avenue and One Hundred and Fifty-second street early Thursdsy morn- ing. They are George W. Stephens, a profes- slonal gambler; James Davidson,a stenog- rapher; Fred K. Menger, a barkeeper, and Samuel Stewart, a racetrack tout, all of this city. The seeming clew to the murder points toone or all of the quartet. One of the men when confronted with the body made aremark which threw suspicion upon the others. All four men are now in the custody of the precinct commander in whose district the dying man was found, and it is hoped before another day closes to have traced Arbuckle's movements to the hour he was discovered and removed to the hospital, on the way to which he breathed his last. Developments in the Arbuckle case lead to the belief that he was the victim of a diabolical plot to rob him. Itis now the conviction of the police that Arbuckie was lured uptown, drugged, robbed and then left to die on the sidewalk in the unfre- quented region where he was found. Frederick Menger, Joseph Davidson and George W. Stevens, who were arrested on suspicion that they were concerned in the robbery and possible murder of Arbuckle, were arraigned at the Harlem court this morning, and at the request of the detectives were remanded to give further time for investigation. Davidson, according to the police, met Arbuckle at a saloon after having made an arrangement with Menger and Stevens to entice Arbuckle to some unfrequented place and rob him. Davidson said he met Arbuckle according to appointment and introduced him to Menger, Stevens and a man named Stewart, who is at large. The police believe that Arbuckle was first drugged and then placed in a cab somewhere downtown and taken to Brad- hurst avenue and One Hundred and Fifty- second street, robbed and then carried to the sidewalk on Eighth avenue and leit todie. The best sleuths on the police force are now engaged on the case and sur- prising developments may be made public at any moment. EMBASSADOR BAYARD TALKS. Mo Cause for Difference Between the United States and England. LONDON, ExG., Nov. 20.—At a meeting to-night of the Burnley Mechanics’ Insti- tute the Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, the American Embassador, presented to the winners the prizes that had been awarded to them by the institute. Among those present were Lord and Lady Monksweil, Lady O’Hagan, the Right Hon. Sir W, J. Kay-Shuttleworth, M. P,, and Hon. Philip J. Stanhope, M. P. The corporation of Burnley presented an address of welcome to Mr. Bayard, to which Mr. Bayard said he representea his country as afriend of Great Britain. There was no imaginable cause, just or reasona- ble, for difference between the peoples of Great Britain and the United States. The same principles were the basis of both governments, i n S Ordered His Release. LONDON, Exe., Nov. 20.—Tbe Daily News will say to-morrow that in response to the demand of BSir Philip Currie, the British Embassador at Constantinople, for an explanation from the Porte regard- ing the arrest of Rev. Mr. McCallum, a British clergyman, the Porte has ordered that he be immediately released. e g UL Sir Edward Horndy Dead. LONDON, Exa., Nov. 20.—The death is announced here to-day of Sir Edward Hornby at Rapallo, Italy. Sir Edward was an acknowledged authority on inter- ional law. He was married three times, his third wile being a Miss Roberts of New York. el d AT Teory Commatted for Trial, LONDON, Exa., Nov. 20.—Edward J. Ivory, alias Bell, the alleged Irish-Ameri- can dynamiter, was brought before the Bow-street police magistrate this morning and formally committed for trial in the eriminal court, Oid Bailey. Sl S Revolution in Jamaics Feared. KINGSTON, Jamaica, Nov. 20.—Mail advices received here confirm the rumors which have reached here of the existence of political trouble in Hayti, emanating from financial scandals, and a revolution is feared as the result, ety G5 N, The Prussian Landtag. BERLIN, GERMAXNY, Nov, 20,—The ses- sion of the Prussian Landtaz opened to- day. The crown speech was read by Prince Hobenlohe, the Imperial Chan- cellor, and was devoid of general interest. e Treaty Between Italy and Brasil, ROME, Itany, Nov. 20.—The Govern- ment officially confirms that the treaty between Italy and Brazil has been signed by both of the parties thereta. g > The Revolt on the Philippines. MADRID, Srary, Nov.20.—Advices re- ceived from Manilla say the uprising in the Philippines is extending to all B inces of the island. ~ % 1 prox LR ORI Death of Prince Otto, BERLIN, GerMaxy, Nov. 20.—Prince Otto of Stolberz-Wernigerode died I nligh: at Wernigerode, ’;I(e wndfio ye:r!: old. ———— Death of Moel Parfait. PARIS, Fraxce, Nov. 20.—Noel Parfait, the French politician and anthor, is dead. — ———— How the Pion “Mr. s Went to a Ball. Samuel Huntington came to Cleve- the year 1801 and build a hewed log house near the bank of the Cuyahoga R:i':’\-; r:boynn‘fim;l_: md; ao‘nhou:ts of the eyor’s cabin. ilman t attended the Fourth o(l July bul.i"nnng waited on Miss Doan, who had just arrived at the corners, four miles east of town. I was then 17 years of age" and Miss Doan was about 4. "I was dressed in the then style — a gingham _suit, my bair queued with one and a hali yards of black Tibbon. about as long and as thick as 8 Sorncob, with a little tuft at the lower end, and for want of a pomatam I had a piece of candle rubbed in my hair, and then as much floursprinkled on as could stay with- out falling off. | had a pair of brogans lh-t' would help to play ‘Fisher’'s Horn- g}P‘ When I danced. %}Vhen I went for iss Doan I took an old horse. When she Wasready I rode up to a stump near the ;nb\n; she mounted the stump and spread °r under petticoat on Old Tio benind me, secured her calico dress to keep it clean, and then mounted i ” —Cine cinnati Leader, O e I wa PUBLIO SPEAKERY' BLUNDERS. Joseph Malins Points Out Some Humor- ©ous Instances of the Fact. Joseph Malins, himself a well-known public speaker, gives the Woman’s Signal some amusing instances of the humors of public speaking. It is, he thinks, a lack of fluency that causes the speaker so often to blunder. Mr. Malins has listened to a temperance orator deploring the fact that a triend resorts to *‘the frequent use of the daily glass.” He heard a notable lady speaker speak of slum children “brought into the world with no more idea of home comfort than the children of negroes in Africa.’. One speaker said: *'I riseemphatically,” and another said, *I stand prostrate with astonishment.” ~ Yet another feelingly told his audience that it was ‘not the platform speaker, but the honse-to-house visitation, and the utterance of the silent word by the caller, which did the most good.” "The statements that ‘‘the pre- vious speaker’s suggestions were very sug- gestive,” and that another speaker’s re. marks were ‘“miscalculated to mislead, Mr. Malins also mentions. ‘Then there is the speaker who always misplaces his **H’s,” and who prays “that we mjght be brought to the halter.” There was a flight of fancy when the speaker asked. *‘Suppose if a modern balloon dropped upon an uninhabited island what would the natives say?” The scien- tific lecturer said of his coming experi- ment that *‘all depends upon the present condition of the body about to be created.” A town councilor spoke of “‘the rivers and streams that abut _on the borough boun- daries.” Among Mr. Malins’ other ex- amples is the speaker who began with saying, “The proper study of mankind in general is the—the study of mankind in general,” whereupon an urchin in the audience cried out, “You're a-goin’in at the same hole you came out at.’” No less embarrassed was the old gentle- man who, stumbling through an after- dinner speech, said: “I—I have no more to say, and so—and so—I’ll make a few more remarks.” The builder frankly de- clared he was *‘more fitted for the scaf- fold than the platform.” Sometimes the chairman errs in welcoming the speaker. A chairman was heard to welcome a speaker as one ‘‘who is always with us, and we wish he would come oftener.” Kind was the announcement that “there will be two more opportunities to hear the lecturer once more.”” It was when the meeting was ended that the chairman asked the audience to ‘'close by singing just one verse of the Doxology.”” ————————— In thejjungles of Sumatra the largest spiders are found. Some of the larger specimens measure eight inches across the back and have seventeen inches of leg spread. Only A step from catarrh to consumption and thoue sands are unconsciously teking the fatal step, Avoid danger by curing catarrh at once witly Hood's . Sarsaparilla The best—in fact the One True Blood Purifier, easy to buy, easy to take, Hood’s Pills &3 {2 bivemyto Shirt Gomfort depends upon how a ‘shirt is made—how it fits, how it holds together—NOT on appearance, “Standard” shirts— mades well—fit well— | hold together well, Made here —in California. 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