The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 1, 1896, Page 4

4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY,: DECEMBER - 1, 1896. 4 e o R e R e e e N e e e ——— OLD GLORY WS TRAMPLED UIPON Doubts Cast in Reference to Olney’s Recent Assertion. Evidence That the American Flag Was Torn Down and Houses Looted at Hisdeny. Spencer Trask Willing to Bslieve the Statements Made by Dr. Grace Kimballl NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 30.—B. Hago- pian, a prominent American citizen who lives at 80 Ninety-second street, this city, has made a statement casting doubts upon assertions of Turkish respect for the American flag. He 1s a native of Turkey, having been born in Hisdeny, which is a few miles distant from Constantinople. “It is surprising,” said Hagopian, “to see Secretary Olney denying that insults were committed by’ the Turks on the American flag at the recent massacre at Haskeny. The trath is that an American house was lcoted and the American flag was torn down and trampled under foot.” He received a letter from Miss M. J. Logan, the American Jady whose house s looted, which is as follows: “Your sister and her two datighters are safe. Haskeny wasthe point that suffered mostly. The place is utterly deserted, and I am trying to help the poor people, but it is an endiess undertaking; they are 80 destitute of everything, and it is most pitiful to ses them, they are so afraid. I am ashamed that England and America stand by and let such dreadful deeds of cruelty be done when they could stop it if they would. Our house was looted of everything and our flag torn down and trampled under foot. Iam sure this can- not go on much loager. Sincerel “M. J. Gu > continued Hago- “Secretary Olney,” pian, “is re; can women were not attacked in Co tinople. That is true; the Turks bad orders not to attack women in t city. They not spare them, however, in Armen My was looted. It near Miss Gleason’s, and she and her two daughters fled to Miss G n's house for protection. My nieces sought shelter under the American flag, and that flag was torn down and trampled under foot, while the house it should have protected was looted.” Spencer Trask, who is chairman of the executive committee of the National Armenian Relief Committee, says that he had every confidence in the word of Dr. Grace Kimpall, whose statement regard- ing the Turkish treatment of the Ameri- can flag has recently been called to ac- count by Secretary Olne, “I am willing to ba Dr. Washburn and all those American missionaries in they have said,”’ he added. “They have noi spoken one whit more strongly than the facts justify. I am willing to take Dr. Kimball's word against any one’s. Itisa fact that no re- dress has peen made for the losses of the missionaries in Turkey, which amount to more than $100,000. Although constant demands have been made on the Turkish Government, notbing whatever has been accomplished, nor do I believe it will be under the present Minister for Turkey, I do not think our Government has taken the right position in the matter. It has been very weak. Furthermore, I think that Terrell is not the proper person for the place. In faet, our country has not been properly represented. It we had had a different sort of a man in Constanti- nople I think that many of these griev- ances would have been prevented. As to the actual state of things, I think Dr. Hamlin, who founded Robert College and bas lived there for nearly forty years, is certainly more competent to express an opinion on the subject than any one who has never been there.” “ BUCKET - SHOP’ up Dr. Kimball, MEN GUILTY. Successfully Frosecuted at Chicago Through Their Violation of the Fostal Laws. CHICAGO, I.yn., Nov. 30.—The first case in this city in which *“bucket-shop’ pro- prietors have been successfully prosecuted by means of the postal laws came up be- fore Judge Grosscup in the United States District Court to-day. Williama Me- Clure, Dr. James Craig, James F. Mec- Clure, John L Talmaun and William A. Thomas, who were indicted this term at the instance of the Civic Federation for using the mails to promotefa scheme to defraud, appeared in court with their at- torney, ex-Judge Scott, and entered a plea of guilty. The men were arrested last July, after doing a profitable business, and others were caught in the same net by Postoffice Inspector Stuart. The indictments were based on a letter to customers. Attorney Scott admitted that the trade had not been made on the Board of Trade, but it was a bucket-shop trade. District Attorney Black, for the Govern- ment, recommended a fine of $1000 in each case, and said he was satisfied that the men, if they had at one time ‘made money, were now poor. In another court the defendants said they had not continued iheir business after their arrest. The District Attorney informed the court there were other similar cases to be called next month, and he recommended a fine of $1000 in each case. The Judge will pronounce sefitence to-morrow morning. e GARROTED ON A STREET CAR. Peter Brosseau Relieved of a Wallet Con- taining Notes and Mones Amount- ing 1o $3000. CHICAGO, lLL., Nov. 30.—Peter Bros- seau, a commission merchant at 150 Ex- ckange building, Union Stock-yards, was Leld up and robbed of $3000 on a Halstead- street electric car at Twenty-ninth street this morning. Charles Mathusek, who stole the wallet containing the' money, was arrested after a severe struggie and was locked up at the Thirty-tifth-street station, but two companions who aided bim snatched the pocket-book while Mathusek was struggling #:th his’captors, jumped from the car and escaped. The pocket-book contained $2500 in checks, nearly one-half of which are made pay- able to bearer, and $400 in cash. Bros- seau was on his way downtown for the purpose of -depositing the money. At Twenty-ninth street the three robbers crowded him against the door and Mathu- sek put his hand into his victim’s inside vest pocket and puiled out the wallet. At the same time one of the robbers held his arm across Brossau's throat and prevented him from moving or making an outery. The conductor realizing what was going on rushed at Mathusek and threw him on the floor, One of the other two then snatched the wvocket-book from Mathu- sek’s hand and both escaped. Mathusek was taken before Justice Hall at the Thir- ty-fifth-street station and held to theGrand Jury. D T0 TAP GOLD FIELDS. Canada Expects to Construct a System of Railroads. ST. PAUL, Mi~sx, Nov. 30.—L. H. Davies, Canadian Minister of Fisheries and Marine, passed through the city yesterday on his way to Vancouver, where the Bering Sea Commission session isnow in progress. He was accompanied by A. G. Blair, Minister of Railways and Canals, and others. 5 All but Blair take part in the Bering sea proceedings. Blair gces to Leth- bridge, N. W. T, to inspect the proposed route forming an extension of the Can- adian Pacific to Orow’s Nest Pass and 1nto the mining territory of Canada. His mis- sion is connected with the discovery of immense gold fieldsin British Columbia, which has induced the Canadian goyern. ment to undertaké an extensiye investi- gation of that country. This investigation comprehends the tap- ping of the great gold fields of Southern British Columbia by a complete system of railway lines in one of the most tortuous regions for railroad building in the world, The new lines will connect directiy with the Canadian Pacific Railway and will put the gold mines and the hundreds of thou- sands of acres of rich bituminous coal lands in direct 2o ction with the great Northwestern trunk lines. The under- taking involves an expenditure of some $8,000,000. FIGURES ON BULL-FIGHTING, Immense Sums Earned by the Torea- doves During the Past Season. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 30.—The Sun’s Madrid correspondent sends the following: The newspapers devoted to bullsfighting publish some interesting de- tails in reference to the past season. Guerita is the king of the toreadores. He earned $61,200 during the season from 30. April 5 to October Next after his came Reverte, with '00; Mazzantini, $26,600; Bembita, with $75,000; Alzabeno, with $23,000; Fuentes, with $19,500; Mi- nuto, with §15,600, and Villita, with . As omparison, Premier Cano- alary is E here were during the season 438 per- formances, in which 1218 bulls, worth $300,000, ‘were killed. Over 6000 horses perished in the fights. These ‘figures in- clude only the high-class bull-fighting at the most important cities, In eacn of the smaller towns they have every year one or two fights in which the number of persons killed or crippled always exceeds that of the bulls fought. BELUOW THE RESERVE. Failure o @ Missouri Bank Because of Short Fund, KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 30.—The Missouri National Bank, one of the larg- est banks in this city, closed"its doors to- day and is in charge of H. A. Foreman, National Examiner. The failure was due to the money on hand running below the reserve required under the banking laws and the papers among the assets being given a lower value by Examiner Fore- man than by the bank officiais. The o fli- cers of the institution say ‘they wiil pay depositors in full. The failure.created great surprise, as the bank was generally understood to be in a sound condition. ~The last statement, made October 6, ' showed résources of $1.675,587 24. The capitalis $250,000. Ex- aminer Foreman says the condition of the bank is practically the same to-day as on October 6. The only difference is in the value of some of its assets. No trouble is antleipated at any of the other Kensas City banks. NO BULLETS S0 There Is Mystery Surrounding the Burning of Perkins’ Store. CHARLESTON, 8. C., Nov. 30.—Early this morning a fruitsiore belonging to Charles Perkins was discovered to be on fire. The firemen found Perkins inside the place with five wounds in his head and in an unconscious condition. The shop was totally destroyed. Perkins re- gained consciousness during the day and said that twq men entered his shop while he was asleep and one of them shot bim with buckshot and then robbed him. No shot was beard by the neighbors and the money had not been touched in the cash- dvawer. The physicians have found no builets or buckshot in Perkins’ head. Tha case is surrounded in mystery, and many people believe that a Roman candle. or one of the skyrockets, many of which were in the shop, must have gone off, hitting Perkins in the head ana setting the place on fire. WERE FOUND, e L L I0WA’S GROWING DEFICIT. For the First Time Since the War Iowa Will Issue Bonds. DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. 30.—The State of Towa has a deficit of $500,000 in sight. By the end of the present biennial period it is liable to reach nearer to $1,000,~ 000, and it seems altogether probable the State will have to issue bonds for the first time since the war. Members of the Legisiature have re- cently beld conferences with State officers, and the result is that an earnest effort will be made at the special session’in January to bring the revenue laws before the Legis- lature ‘or a general revision. The present system is so inequitable, and some coun- ties pay twice as much tax per acre on land as others, although the markec value 1s the same. Personal property almost entirely escapes taxation, State institue tions are seriously embarrassed and the situation is getting worse constantly. AR e SHOT»BY X0 ASSASSINS. After Farmer Huichins Fell the Rufiians Looted His House. ' SILVER CREEK, Nepe, Nov. 30.— Owen Hutchins, a well-to-do farmer, was fatally shot from ambush by two Bohe- mian %oys named Zsenfeldt, aged 16 and 19, last night. Hatchins was doing his evening chores and received the charge of a shotgun in his neck. Leaving their vic- tim for dead, the young ruffians engered the house and assaulted Mrs. Hutchins, knocking her down and kicking her bru- tally. Sbe managed to escape, when they looted the house and fled. Hutchins was found ayinz where he fell two hours later. The doctor says he cannot recover. The boys bave not yet been captured, but a posse is after them. , ST A SOUSA WILL NOT LEAD, But He fFill Start on a Six Months’ Con- cert Tour. NEW YORK, N. Y., Now. 30.—It has been reported from time to time that John Philip Sousa, the well-known bandmaster and composer of march music, would be- come leader of the Seventh Regiment band. Frank Christianer, who iooks after Sousa’s business affairs, said that no such arrangement bad been made, and tnat none would be made, adding: “Mr. Sousa will start on a six months’ concert tour, opening in Philadelphia in January, and he will go as far west as California, south to New Orlcans and north to Prince Ed- ward Island. He has a great mass of business on band besides this. He has just about completed a march, and iy working on a new opera. He could not give the time to the regiment that would be demanded.” SERIOUS SPREAD OF THE STORMS Northern Pacific Trains Are Stuck in the Snow Drifts. Small Towns in the North Cut Off From Supplies and Dis- tress Will Ensue. There Is Much Apprehension in Reé- gard to the Cattle Iniustry in Montana. * FARGO, N. Dak., Nov. 30.—Fuller re- ports of the late storm show it to have been far more serious than was at first supposed. The drifts in cuts are six' to ‘fourteen feet deep and are frozen hke ice mixed with sand. Dynamite is being used to loosen up the snow. The south- western branch of the Northern Pacific to Lisbon and Edgley is still frozen up and people in the towns along the line are out of wood and coal and there seems no prospeet of opening the roads for three or four days. Small towns along the main line of -the Northern Pacific are out of fuel. In a wreck of a snowplow this morning, John Taliman, a fireman, had a leg broken, his head scalded and received serious internal Injuries. BISMARCK, N. Dak., aNov. 30.—The Northern Pacific is still blockaded. Its train which should have reached Minne- apolis on Thursday is stuck in a snow- drart forty miles west of here and cannot move until & snow plow clears the track. In some deep cuts the snow is drifted on the track to a depth of fiity feet. A coal famine prevails here snd there will be much suffering unless relief is afforded at once. HELENA, Moxt, Nov. 30.— There is much apprehension inregard to the cattle industry this winter. The severity of the weather for the past four .ays and the fact that there is considerable snow on the ranges are ominous for future lossers. STEPHEN, Mixy., Nov. 30.—Passenger trains have been stuck in snowdriits in the late storm. Engineers and firemen have had to shovel snow all night in the worst blizzard experienced here for years in order to keep the engines alive. Al- though but a short distance from the water-tank they were unable to reach 1t. Engineer Winney's engine ran down to the tank for water and fuel with. the cars only 1000 feet away. The storm filled the track behind them and engineer and fire- man were compelled to stay at the tank. No one dares trust himself in the weather and during the entire night the two men shoveled snow into tire tender in the Hope of getting back. In ten hours they suc- ceeded in getting back. They suffered greatly from the cold. CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis., Nov. 30.— The Chippewa River is backing up on to the streets in the lower section of ‘the city. Its rise is due to a largejice zorge formed eight miles below, near Eau Claire. = All basements on River and Spring streets are filled with water, and residents and occupants of business places on River street are moving out. The ice gorge is four miles long and twenty feet high. Five hundred men are at work with dynamite endeavoring to break 1t. The intense cold retards the work and new ice is forming rapidly. Un- fess the gorge is broken inside of twenty- four hours great disaster is feared. MOOREHEAD, Mixxn., Nov. 30.—The body of Thomas Anderson, wiio perished in Thursday’s storm, was found this morn- ing haif a mile northeast of the home of Miss Daniels, whom he escorted home from work Thanksgiving night. His coat was missing. Anderson was 16 years old. It was on his return home he lost his life. BARNESVILLE, Minx,, Nov: 30.—Traf- fic west of here has been completely stopped’ for two days. An engine and snowplow left here Sunday to opengthe line to Grand Forks, A large number of freight and passenger trains are stalled here, and in consequence the hotels are reaping quite a harvest. A Ry COMING 10 C«LIFORN1a. Great Rush of Chicago People to Reach This Balmy Climate. CHICAGO, Irr, Nov. 30.—The cold weather has had a perceptible effect on California travel. Ingquiries at the offices of all the leading lines to-day developed the fact that hundreds of Chicago people are leaving for the palmy climate of the Pacific Coast. Two lines say that all the berths on two different trains were en- gaged for to-night and reservations were being received fast. Some of the roads are running tourist sleepers once a week, while others send a car of that description through seven days a week. 5 A man whose business it is to accom- pany California excursions says coast travel began much earlier than usual this year. Some of it in September. There was a rush immediately after the election, many citizens waiting to cast their ballots before leaving. There were people at all the ticket offices to-day lined up at the counter buying tickets and reserving berths. % 4 The competition .among the different lines is lively, some of them exhibiting photogranhbs of the inside of their tourist cars. This seems to be meeting with gen- eral favor on account of the cheaper but substantial accommodations offered. GLASS MANUFACTUREKS MEET, The Association to Be Enlarged by Taking More Factories Into Its Trust. IFDIANAPOLIS, Ixp., Nov. 30.—The Glass Manufacturers’ Association met here to-day. Forty - nine factories through Indiana, Ohio and Pennsyivania were rep- resented. H. H. Seilers McKee of Pitts- - burg, president of the association, said empbatically that the glass trusts have not collapsed. He said: “All of these rumors that the association had gone to pieces are false. We are here to make ar- rangements for renewing our agreement. The wage scale has been arranged. We will renew our agreement and the factories will start up December 15.” It was decided to reorganize the associa- tion on head lines. More factories will be taken into the trust. It was also believed that the prices of window glass will be materially increased. Pt SR L Forming a Gas Combine, CHICAGO, Iun, Nov. 30.—The four companies composing what is known as the gas trust of Chicugo have prepared a bill for presentation to the Legislature at its session next year granting them per- mission to consolidate. There is a statute’ at present in the way and that wouid have i tobu-e%ulod. It was upcn this statute that Attorney-General Maloney resisied the attempt of the companies some time ago to.become one cop oration legally. The Ogden and Mutuai Fuel Gas com- panies are the only independent concerns, and they: will remain out of the combina- tion. The Ogden Company expects to start operations the first of the year with a capacity of 2,000,000 cubic feet. it KIOT 1IN 4 SPIRIT TEMPLE. Disdeliorers Make a Raid and Cause a Lively Fight. BOSTON, Mass, Nov. 30.—O. L. Con- cannon, a materializing mediut, caused a riot at the First Spiritnal Temple yester- day. The lights were turned down and a figure stalked forth. At that moment a dozen young men jumped on the platform, tore down the curtains and the cabinet and revealed the medium. There arose a shout from thie helievers to attack the raiders. A lively fight was already in progress on the platform, and from the audience several scores of men rushed forward to the assistance of those who had disturbed the performance. Wigs: whiskers, white silk robes and other para- phernaiia. were found in the cabinet and carried off by the raiders, whose grogre!s toward the lobby was fought inch by inch, Mr. Concannon was hustled through a rear door. The crowd howled as the row progressed and sides were taken in the fight. One man was kicked in the back and others of the raiding party, which, it was later ascertaned, numbered twenty- five, suffered blackened eyes and bruises. Fifteen policemen, in response to a call, cleared the church. At the evening ser- vice fifty policemen ‘were on duty inside the temple to preserve order. ——; MME, NORDICA’S FOUR. Looks Forward With FPleasure to Her Visit in California. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 30.—Mme. Nordica, who'is at the Waldorf, has de- termined that there is no likelibood of her singingin opera before her return to Bu- rope. She admits that Colonel Mapleson has been in communication with her, but says she has too many concert engage- ments to consider any proposition 10 ap- pear with his company. “When I leave here next Saturday,” she said, “I go on my Western tour. I will sing in most of tie large cities. In Chi- cago I appear with Thomas' orchestra, and, by the way, I am going to sing in the big Mormon temple in Salt Lake City. 1 am on the programme for the ‘¢ Inflamma- tus,’ I think, with a chorus of. 500 Latter- day Saints, “'I am looking forward to my visit to the Pacific Slope, as my tour includes San Francisco and Los Angeles. When I leave America in the spring I will go direct to Paris, I have been asked to sing at the Grand Opera there, and may appear in *Lohengrin’ or ‘Les Hugu-nots.’ JITE ot ZORTURED BY BURGLARS. Fiends Apply Fire to the Feet of an Aged Woman. CHICAGO, IrL, Nov. 30.—Four masked men entered the cottage of Mr, and Mrs. C. Jacobsen, 1106 Florence avenue, Evanston, this morning at 2 o’clock, cruelly beat and ill treated the two aged occupants and finally, by torture, endeavored to extract from the feeble old woman a confession of the hiding-place which held the savings of the housebold. Unable.even by the fiend:sh method of fire applied to the bottom of her bare feet to force Mrs, Jacobson to divulge the secret, the robbers bound her and her husband, both of whom were bleeding from brutaily in- flicted wounds, and cast them roughly into a corner. where for two ours they endured the horror of lying under the menacing gaze of a pair of ruffians while the other two ransacked every nook and.corner of the hovel in search of gold supposed to be concealed within its waiis. The robbers found only a small amount of money. R B DEATH ENDS 4 ROMANCE. Who Was Passing of Sadie MecDonald, Betrothed to a Lovd. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 30.—A sensa- tion that woula have shocked and scan- dalized the English nobility and pene- trated even to the circle of rovalty was averted by the sudden death in Australia last Sunday of Sadie McDonald. Advices have been received from Mel- bourne to the effect that no less a person- age than the Earl of Shaftesbury had be- come epamoured of the frolicsome sou- brette, who for several months had been starring in the colonies in Hoyt's “A Trip to Chinatown.” The announcement of their engagement had been made at the clubs and in theat- rical circles, it was said, and color hal been given to the story, according to the ramor, by the fact that tie Earl had pre- sented her with diamond ornaments ag- gregating in value $50,000. e ) - To Upen the Distilleries. CHICAGO, 1iL., Nov. 30.—Sam Rice, president of the American Spirits Dis- tilling Company, who arrived in Chicago to-day, declined to talk for publication about the proposed trade agreement among the distillers of the country. He stated that one of the objects of his visit West was to open a number. of the com- pany’s distilleries, which have been closed for several months. The Manhattan, at Peoria, was started this morning, and sey- eral more at that and other points will be opened in a short time. A meeting of distillers is expected to be held in this city this week to get all the concerns in line if possible. It is said all the Cincin- nati houses, with possibly one exception, have consented to join the pool. SO Bodies Found Under the Ice. DES MOINES, iowa, Nov. 30.—The bodies of George Edwin Dean, aged 12 years, and John Sinclair, aged 9, were taken from the Des Moines River to-day. They were drowned Saturday afternoon, but the fact was not certainly known until the bodies were found to-day. They were skating and nobody saw them go through the ice. When they failed to come home Baturday night search was begun, and men worked day and night until noon to-day, when the bodies were found under the ice. s el b Jieading Reorganization. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 80.—The receivers of the old Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company ‘formally turned over ail the property and franchises of the.company to the reorganization com- mittee at midnight to-night. Notires were issued to the neadsof departments informing them of the change and in- structions sent out stating that all em: ployes holding positions prior to November 30 will be retained in their respective positions. o Ll iy Speeial Agents Meet. 4 NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 30.—W. B. Howell, spacial employe of -tbe treasury: J. J. Crowley, chiet of special agents, and John M. Comstock, chief of the customs division, arrived from Washington to-day, having been designated by Secretary Car- lisie 1o meet for the purpose of discussing the customs regulations now existing on. the Canadian frontier and the formulat- ing of amendments looking to the better- ment of the service there. P S Disappeared Witn the Money. DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. 30.—Bert Caldwell of the Van Ginkel mine has dis- appeared. He was last seen Saturday noon, when he had drawn about $2500 to pay the men in the mine, of which he was manager. His. family are ¢onvinced that he was held up and murdered for the _ He was.a sober, industrious and orking man about ‘40 years old. | in dispute exceeding $5000 under the same CHAPMAN MUST SERVE SENTENCE Decision of the Supreme Court in a Celebrated - Case. Penalty for chlinifig to Answer the Questions of a Senate Committee. Other Contumacious Witnesses in the Notorious Sugar Scandal Will Be Tried. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 30.—By its unanimous decision to-day, announced by Chief Justice Fuller, the Supreme Court of the United States practicaily affirmed the judgment of the Court of Ap- peals of the District of Columbia in the case of Elverton R. Chapman, the stock- broker who declines to answer certain questions propounded by the Senate com- mittee investigating the famous sugar trust rumors in connection with the con- sideration of the tariff bill in 1893. . The effect of the decision is that Mr. | Chapman must surrender himself to serve a term of thirty days’ imprisonment, ad- judged against him upon conviction in the District Court, and pay a fine of $100. A collateral effect is that Messrs, Have- meyer and Searles of the su.ar trust and Messrs. Edward and Snriver, the newspa- per correspondents, who also declined to answer the questions propounded by the Senate committe, will have to submit themselves for trial in the District Courts upon indictments similar to that in the Chapman case. The fistory of the case is familiar, hav- ihg been irequently narrated in these dis- patches. - Cnapman was’ conviéted under section 102, Revised Statutes, which pro- vides punis. ment for faiiure to answer questions asked by a committee of Con- gress, the court overruling all suggestions that the section was unconstitutional. He sued out a writ of error to have the case reviewed by the United States Supreme | Court and the Government moved to dis- miss the writ on tie ground that the Sa- | préme Court had no jurisdiction to review the judgment of the District Courts in criminal cases. The appellant, the Chief Justice said, rested on an act of Congress and a proper construction of the act of 1893 by the Dis- trict Court of Appeals was o be arrived at in the light of previous decisions upon similar statutory provisions. In the case of the Unied States vs. Moore (decided in 1805), Chief Justice Marshali held that the | Supreme Court of the Uuited States had no jurisdiction. “Marshall said the words ‘in dispute’ seem appropriate to civil cases when the subject in contest has a value-by the sum mentioned in the act. But in criminal cases the qnesliondjs guilt or innocence of ine accused. And although he may be fined upward of $100, yet thatis, in the eye of the law, a ‘punishment for the offense committed and not the particuiar | object of the suit.” This construction of the law was carried forward under subse- quent legislation and was affirmed in sev- eral decisions as to laws of March 8, 1891, and February 6, 1839. The eighth section, of February 9, 1898, and being the Court of Appeals for the rict of Columbia, provides for the review by the Supreme Court of the United States of any ma:ter regulation as heretotore provided forin writs of error or appeals from decrees rendered in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia; and also in cases withoutsregard to the sum in dispute wherein is involved the validity of any patent or copyright, or of a treaty or stat- ute of or an authority exercised by the United States. This act and that of 1885, the Chjef Jus- tice said, the court regarded as the shme in their meaning and legal effect. The suggestion that oecause a fine of $100 was involved the case could be reviewed by the Supreme Court of the United States- was disposed of by the language of Chief Jus- tice Marshall in the United States vs. Moore. There was notbing, the opinion continued, in the eighth section quoted to justify its expansion so as ¥ make the provisions of the act of 1889, involving the constitutionality of any statute of the Uni.ed States may be brought to the Su- preme Court from any district or circuit in the Uniled States apply to the courts of the District of Columbia. No mention was made in that act of the District Court. The conclusion was that the writ of error must be dismissed, and it was so ordered. [ There yet remains to Chapman, bow- ever, the right to apply for his reiease after he sball have been placed in the custody of the Marshal under the sen- tence of the District Court upcn a writ of habeas corpus, and the whole case will then come up for review. He may file his petition in the District Court, but, inas- much as that court has already practicalty decided against him, he will be more likely to go to the >upreme Court of the United States with an originar action. FIRE CLAINS A HERO. Army Chaplain Blaine Perishes in an Attempt to Save His Daughter From Fiames. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 30.—A tel- egram was received ai the War Depart- ment to-day from Major Burk, stationed at Fort Ringgold, Tex., stating that last night the quarters of the chaplain, Mal- ‘colm C. Blaine, were burned. The chaplain and his daughter were burned to death. Chaplain Blaine, after the fire had made some headway, missed his danghter and entered the building to rescue her, He' was overcome by the smoke and perished with his child. His wife escaped without serious injury. The circumstances surrounding the death of the brave chaplain were very sad. Before he entered the burning building some bystanders tried to hold him. He resisted, and said that he must save his child's life. They reasoned with him, showing him that. it was death to enter the building. The man would not hear them and, breaking away in a frenzy of excitement, he rushed through the flames into the house. His charred remains were found near the entrance of the building. Chaplain Blaine was born in Kentucky and enlisted as a private in Company H with the Kentucky infantry in 1864, He was discharzed the next year and ap- pointed as post chaplain from Pennsylva- nia in June, 1880. © —— IN TIME OF WAR. France Prepares Strict Rules EKelating i to Shipping. = WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 36.-Sec- retary Herbert has published a decree of the Government of France prescribing regulations for theentrance and sojourn of vessels in the sea ports of that country in time of war. Their enactment proclaims Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. | elaborate preparation vanced. | i itting no detail in her e ng for the conflict t bas long deemed issued by In brief the which that Governmen inevitable. The decree was President g‘um June 12 last. reads: : “‘?;:’fimo of war, between sunrise nnd! sunset, no French merchant vessel, 110' any foreign vessel, whether & mnn-o(.-;l.l or a merchantman, shail approach witl n: Jess toan three miles of the French cn;s before having been authorized so to 'b"’: Between sunset and sunrise the prohibl tion to approach within less than three iles is absolute. ml“';isez:r:cn sunrise and sunset all vessels that are at such a distance from land that their colors can be distinguished there< from shall carry their national colors. “No small craft, or other than those belonging to French men-of-war, shall go and come in the fortified roads and har- bors without special authorization anc without having received from the mari- time authorities the means of making ves known. . 2 m‘e‘i‘l‘zullh;.e of war vessels authorized 10 enter French roadsteads and hnrbon‘muiifi take the anchorage which will be assigne them by the local authorities and copxom; to the instructions of eyery kind issue these authorities. G W“No vessel shall get under weigh either to change anchorage or to leave the harbor without having been authorized so to do by the local authorities.” —rlye REPORT OF THE HYDROGRAPHER i Accomplished in Establish- ing Nawtical Charts. WASHINGTON, D. ©., Nov. 30.—The annual report of the hydrographer of thes Navy Department for the past fiscal year has been issued by the deparvment. He says: “The work of constructing nautical charts has advanced to such a stage that I am able to report that the set of general ocean charts is complete, the set of gen- eral charts of t.e Western Hemisphere is practically complete, the general _coast charts of China and Japan are practically complete, and work is in progress on the coast charts of Southern and Eastern Alrica. ‘¢ An increase of $130,000 a year for pve years would enable the office to compiete its set of charts, after which the expense of supplying the Government and mari- time community with the latest editions would be comparatively slight.”” E The new method of filing and averaging meteorological matter in-the meteorologi- cal division has not been put on a working. basis owing to discouragements of various kinds, but it is believed that that there are no difficulties in the way that cannot be easily surmounted. At the request of the Government of Guatemala surveys were made during the first months of 1896 by cfficers of the Much Wo | United States ship Dolphin of Santo Tomas and the aporoaches to Puerto Berrios, of Port Livingston, and of the Guif of Honduras in Guatemala, 8iso of Puerto Cortes, Honduras. The charts of Port Livingston, Hospital Bight, Santo Tomas Bey an. Puerto Cortes are advanc- ing rapidly toward completion, while the replotting of the data in counection with the chart of Honduras Bay is well ad- —_——— The Isswance of Bonds. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 30.— United Siates Registrar Tillman of the treasary in his annual report states that during the year there were 1ssued 143476 bonds of the value of $258,595,350, and during the same period there were canceled 64,5679 bonds ol the value of $186,941,450. ‘The number of bonds issued during the last year shows an increase over the previous year of 63,114, IS O Short Line Foreclosed. SALT LAKE, Uran, Nov. 30.—Judge Sanborn of the Bighth Circuit Court was to have heard arguments in the applica- cation for foreclosure of the Short Line system to-day, but the matter bas been postponed until to-morrow on account on the court waiting to comply with the quest of the attorneys as to definite mode of procedure. Judge Sanborn was busy all day in chambers formulating his decree as to method. NEW TO-DAY] MESMERIZED. Bad Habits Make a Man Aot Like He Was Under a Spell. A man will try to convince himself by arguments so poorly founded that if they were presented by another they would be treated with contempt. As an instance: He may be ailing from the heavy poison of tobacco, or the lighter poison of coffee, the weakened condition will show some- where in the body: eyes, head, stomach, heart, liver, bowels or somewhere. His doctor tells him to stop the habit, but each day the thought comes, *“Oh, coffee and tobacco don’t hurt me; it's my stomach that is at fault; I'll have that cured and evetything will be all right.” So he keeps on with his habits and goes to drugging a poor old stomach that would do its work beautifully if the master would furnish enough vitalify to run it, but he poisons his nervous system and robs the members of strength to carry on their work. When a man wakes up to what he is doing, exchanging his health and chance to succeed in this world for a paltry habit or two, he quits them ana follows nature’s wise laws. It is easy to give up coffee if one can have Postum, the food drink, whichk is a facsimile in looks of fine Mocha coffee. In 1aste it retains a little pungency with coffee, but has a distinct flavor of its own. It is made entirely of pure grains and has- the ability to make red blood quickly. Tobacco, morphine, whiskey, strychnine and coffee each contain much the same roisonous alkaloids, but vary in strength. Postum is a aelicious breakfast drink. It is fattening and nourishing, for it is made of the grains intended by the Creator for man’s natural use and scientifically pre- Enred by tbe Postum Cereal Co., Lim., of attle Creek, Mich. Beware of the fraudulent imitations of the original Postum Cereal grain coffee. Insist on Postum. DR. COOK Makes X-RAY examinations, and guarantees a perfect cure of every case he undertakes. LOST MANHOOD, weakness of sexual or- gaus, nervous debility, night emissions, ex-. hausting drains which impair both body and brain and absolutely unfit one for study, busi- ness or marriage, treated with never isiling success. Get cured and be a man. ‘PRIVATE, Urinary and kidney ailmen female complaints, blood and skin dieases; constitutional and internal troubies, rheuma- tism, rupture, piles, varicocele and hydrocele | «Bouth Afrios. Pimles. 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PACIFIC COAST NTEAMSHIP (€0 TEAMERS LEAVE BROADWAY ‘whart, San Francisco, as foilows: For Mars Island, Loring, Wrang lisnoo end Sitka (Alaska), at 9 A. . For Victoria and Vaucouver (B. send, Seaitle, Tacpma, Everett. Anscortes and New Wiatcom (Bellincham Bay, Wash.), 9 4. . Dec. -5, 10, 15, 20,26, 30, and e very ftih day there after, connect:ng at Vancouver with the C. P. R R., at Tacoma wih N. P. R. R., at Seatue with G. N. Ry, at Port Townsend with Aiaska steamers. ¥or Jiurekn, Arca'a and Fields Lend‘ng (Hum. holdt Bay), &ir. Pomona 2 P. M., Dec. 3 7,11, 15, 19, 23, 27, 31, and every fourih day tiqreatter. Tor Santa Cruz. Monterey, San Simedh, Cayucos, Port Harford (San i uls Obispo), Gaviota, Sant. Barbara, Venturs, Hueneme, »an Pedro, East Saa Pedro (Los Angeles) and Newport, at 9 A M Dec: 1, 5,9, 13, 17, 21, 26, 29, and every fourth day thereatter. For San Diego, stopping only at Port Harord (San Luis Obispo), ~anta Barbars, Port Los An- peles, Redondo (Los Angeles) and Newport, 11 A, Dec.8, 7, 11,15, 19, 24, 27, 51, and every fourth day thereafters . ‘or Ensenada, San Jose del Cabo. Mazatlaw La Paz and Guaymas (Mexico), steamer Orizaba, 10 4.3 25th of each month. ‘tLie Company reserves right to change steamers or sulling dates. Ticket office—Palace Hotel, 4 New Montgomery street. 00DALL, PERKINS & CO., Gen'l Agents, 4 10 Market st., San Francisco. THE O.R. & N. CO. DISPATCH FAST STEAMERS TO PORTLAND From Spearstreet Whart, at 10 A { {812 First-clas Inecludi: FARE {35 scconacctans vertn & masis SCHEDULE OF SAILINGS: Nov. 29, Dec. 9,19, 20 ...Dec. 4, 14, 24 Through tickets and through baggage to all Eas:ern points. Rates and foiders upon spplics- ten t0 F. F. CONNOR, General Agent. 30 M. L 8: 'Ket street. GOODALL PKREINS & CO.. Superintendeszs CEANIC S.S. CO0. Juneaun, Kil- Dec. 10, ¢ DAYS TO HONOLULY By I $.5. AUSTRALIA. . AUSIRALILA for HONOLULU only, 5 December 5. 8510 4. 3. Special party rates. 5. 8. ALAMEDA sails via HONOLULY ana AUCKLAND for SYDNEY, Thursday, ber 10,88 2 P. . Lineto COOLG ARDIE, Aust.,and CAPETOWS, J. D. SPRECKELS & BROS. O, Agents, y 4 Montgome Freight Office, 327 Market ste Sap F rincises” CONPAGNIE 6ENERAL TRANSATLANTIQUE French Line to Havres. OMPANY'S PIER(NEW),42 NORTH River, foot of Morton st. “Iravelers by 1Bis 1ine avold both iransic hy Engiish rail way and the discomiort 0f crossing the channel ina small boat. New York 1o Alexandris, Egyph Vit Paria first-class §16u; secund-ciass, $116, LA BRETAGNE Jan. 9 A &0r uzther particulars "’8‘{ w0 FORGET, A A No. 3, Bowling Green, New Y. 3. 7. FUGAZI & COv 4 goncs lnn::tn‘ _ WHITE STAR LIVE. Unfted States and Rogal Mail Steamers N York, Q e t‘“ & ew Yorl ueenstown & Liverpool, SALLANG BVERY Whsie Do ABIN, $50 AND UPWARD, ACCORD- ing t0 steamer and accommodations selected : sccond cabin, 342 50 and 847 50; educ and Teutonic. S Tickets from England, Ire- Scotl S Norw: d Denmark ing dates and cabin pians m: from W. H. AVERY, Pacific Mail G Oflice of the Ce al Otlice o Company, 613 Market stxooy - Coas VALLEJO AND U. S. NAVY-YARD. ,STEAMER “MONTICELLO,’” Landing Mission-stree: Dock, lephone Black 26 *Excursion trip, giving 6 hours at Navy-Yard, STOCKTON Leave Pler No. 8, Washl e, At 6 P. M, Daily. ecel & wixam‘ - e 3 odations Reserved by Telephons. 153 only line I'n;;llll ‘through rates om Vallep T. C. Walker, 3D e Garratt, City of Stoo) quickly cured without pain or detention from business. 2 WRITE atonce if living away from the city. Thousands eured at home.” Office hours—9 (o 12 4. M. and 2 10 5.a1d 7 t0 8 P. ). Bunday, 10 t012 A. & only, Address m'mn ca 85 MARKET S&EET. y San Francisco, ” Teleplione Maln 803. Cai Nav. and Imoe, g A : \ et e A 6L 500; to San Sc. 4 'ivu. ki Clay s, Pier L a": e