The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 21, 1896, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1896. WHERE NEWS 1§ HARD TO GATHER Journalists Not Admitted to the Parliamentary Dinner. One Venturesome Scribe Uses a Clever Ruse, but Is Soon Expelled. Consequently the Details of the Con- versation Between Hohenlohe and William Are Meager. [Copyright, 1896, by the United Associated Presses] BERLIN, GerMANY, Dec. 20.—The Par- liamentary dinner given on Wednesday last by the Imperia! Chancellor, Prince von Ho! lohe, did not attract the at- the press, as has been the rule upon the cccasion of this ction, and consequently less than usual is known of what actually took vlace there. The reason for this is the act that representatives of the press were excluded from the banquet-hall, hitherto they have been es- y invited to be present. While the r was in progress one journalist anaged to get into the banquet-hall is presentation of a blank invita- was soon discovered and of the Emperor’s con- ion at the banguet agree that his ¥'s sympathy is entirely with the barg employers, and he is represented g that the employers are wholly | in their sense of the importance | ng a general coalition of em- | ployers against the unions of the working- | Emperor’s reason for his action, one of whicl is that the Kaiser favors Brusewitz and hopes that the inquiry will resuit to his advantage. Another report, however, ascribes the course taken by the Emperor to his Majesty’s belief tuat the military tribunal which condemned Brusewitz was altogether too lenient with him. The long pending suit of Captain von Straubeck against the Brothers Otto and Hugo Dammarch for having made false accusations against him has been settied. The case grew out of remarks made by Herr Bebel, the Socialist leader, in a speech in the Reich:tag in 1895, in which he mentioned the case of brutality on the part of the military officers toward their solaigrs and asserted that the conduct of Captain von Straubeck furnished an ex- ample of such brutality in his having fre- quently struck soldiers with his fists, kicked them until they were incapacitated from duty or struck them with the flat of bis sword. In the course of his speech Herr Bebel quoted the Brothers Dam- march as authority for the assertions he had made. : z Captain von Straubeck publicly denied the charges made against him and caused warrants to be issued for the arrest of the vammarch brothers. Otto fled when he heard of the issuance of the warrants, but Hugo remained and stood trial and was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment. The drift of the evidence taken at the trial showed that "although Captain Straubeck was a martinet, he had not struck his men. The Berliner Bank has decided to in- crease its capital irom 7,500,000 marks to 20,000,000 marks. In consequence of the new bourse law, which goes into opera- tion on January 1, the Berlin and other bourses are discussing the question of the dissolution of exchange institutions and condugting business after the new law goes into effect as free associations with- out any formal external organization. The Produce Exchange, at Halle, has al- ready dissolved in accordance with this scheme. Herr Heartling, former director of the Berlin Mortgage Bank, who was recently sentenced to penal servitude for forgery, has committed suicide in his cell in prison. W. 8. Carroll, United States Consul- General at Dresden, gave a grand recep- tion at his residence in that city to-day. It is reported that Herr Otio Floors- heim, the Berlin critic of the New York Musical World, has been given an honor- ary professorship upon the occasion of ihe coming birthday of the Emperor, which occurs on January 27. Jnited States Consul-General Charles de Kay had a narrow escape from a fatal accident through the collision of his car- riage with another vehicle, while going from his office to his house, on the night of his recent official reception. The shaft of the colliding cab passed through Mr. de «ing the co-operation of the . English and other employers in ¢ 2 scheme of an international ission upon the conditions of trade ch would benefit not only the em- but the employe as well. rd to the Hamburg strike it may that all of the prospects of the success of the strikers are extremely gloomy. The dispatches which have been cabled during the past week, while giving | a general outline of the situation, really t nothing of the sctual condition of af- The fact is that the strikers P eir families are suffering terribly for lack of food, clothing, shelter, etc., and it is reported the amounts contributed by cription from various sources to the nd for the support of the strikers have er not been paid at all or have been ry injudiciously distributed. In conse- quence of this state of things the men are ng heart and many of them are seeking atement, but the masters remain ob- and refuse to permit any of them the strike is finally ended. ginning of the strike the em- t of twelve hours, including meal but the strikers demanded 5 shil- th overtime. The employers atring the offer together with ence oi matters in dispute to their ry suggested by the Hamburg Senate tling disputes by negotiations beiween the employers and employes, and it is prob- able that despite the fact that at the ballot- | y ay’s meeting some of the kers voted in favor of continuing the the offer will be acceoted in the part of this week. The Emperor at Prince Hohenlohe's dinner on Wednesday conversed for some time with Herr von Levetzow, formerly ident of the Reichstag, and it is sup- d that the subject of the conversation the matter of acceptance by Herr von zow of the presidency of the Prus- Upper House, which has been de- lined by Prince Solms Hohensolms Lich ound of ill heal The Prince cted to the office, he positively refused to serve. The scandals which resuited in the ar- rest of Ma, Baron von Tausch, chief of the political police,for forgery and perjury, upon which charges he is now in jail awalting trial, are still being generally discussed in the newspapers and in the as the home of one now turns daily de: r to demonstra F zn Office and . the at one time st ults in an en- loyalty to the emently denounces bsed connection of Tausch with Prin smarck and Count Herbert Bismarck as the grossest cal- umny against the ex-Chancellor and his son. The Tageblatt, the H other newspapers inspired from a com- mon source are conducting an agitation with the object of obtaining the arrest of Normaun Scl ann, slias Mundt, wno was for a long time an active agent of Tausch and the same ume an occa- al correspondent of a New York news- per and a secret agent of the Porte, undt maintains a villa on Lake Lucerne Switzerland, and bas long enjoyed the confidence of the German embassies in Rome and Constantinople. He has reaped a rich harvest s a secret agent all around and has been able to effect the expuision of foreign journalists from Berlin if they became obnoxious tohim. Mundt has not yet been arrested, and it is reported that he has fled from Lucerne to Canstanti- nopl ut his presence is likely to be de- manded in Berlin upon the occasion of the coming trial of Tausch. The event of the American colony in Berlin in the last week was the charity concert of the Grail Lodge of the Ameri- can Theosophical Society in Berlin, which was held in the Hotel Eome last evening. United States Embassador Unl, Mrs. Uh Miss Alice Unl, Marshall Uhl, Con: General de Kay, Mrs. de Kay and Vice- Consui-General Zimmerman were present. The artists were Miss Mary Howel Avins, Miss Leonora Jackson and Ernest Jack- son. After the concert there was a supper, and Mrs. Ukl distributed to a number of poor girls the material contributions, the object - of the concert, consisting of dresses, hats, boots, under-garments, etc. The situation in regard to_Cuba created by the action of the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate in agreeing to a resolution recognizing the pendence of the island caused the Berlin and Frankfort bourses to open weak yesterday, and greatly checked the transaction of business in American se- curities until adyices were received from London showing that confidence was practically unshaken there. This news bad the effect to restore confidence here and in Frankfort, and prices recovered, but closed a fraction lower on the day. Atthe request of the Emperor the mili- tary court will reopen the inquiry in the case of Lieutenant Baron von Brusewitz, who was sentenced to four years’ confine- ment in a fortress for killing an artisan named Siebman in a cafe in Carisrube a short time ago becaunse Siebman refused to apologize for an insult to Brusewitz which be declared he had not offered to him, and the Emperor will postpone bis condemnation of the sentence pendingthe inquiry. There are conflicting reports as to the nover Courier ana offered to pay 4 shillings 6 pence | Kay's carriageand missed his besd by only about an inch. Had the shaft struck | him he certainly would have been killed. PUT TO DEA.H BY WHIIES. George Finley, a Negro Desperado the Victim of a Mob. MAYFIELD, Ky., Dec. 20.—A mob of white men broke into the cabin of George Finley, a negro, near here late Friday night and the leader fired two charges of buckshot into the negro’s stomach as he jumped from bed. He died after five hours of terrible agony. William Haley, a white man, had ac- | cused Finley of stealing his corn. The negro went to the home of his accuser and attacked him with a knile, inflicting a | slight wound. Haley then shot the negro |in the Jeg. When the news spread a mob | of masked men was formed and they went | at once to Finley’s cabin. el e Death of Captain Watson. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 20.—James Watson, a retired sea captain, is dead. When 15 years old Watson went on his first voyage as cabin boy on ‘the Havre packet ship Courier. This was in 1814, and J. Fenimore Cooper and George W. Blunt, the latter afterward noted as a hy- drographer and nautical publisher in this city, were cabin boys on the same ship. He commanded the packet ship Albanyin 1832, and in 1837 was made captain of the fine new Hayre packet Virginian. The Virginian was chosen by the Government to bring the French indemnity money to this country of generations ago. About fifty years ago Captain Watson retired | from business and went to live with his | family on the ancestral estate in West- chester. The old gentleman had a clear recollection of the war of 1812. | Escape of a Woman From Lynching. LEXINGTON, Ky., Dec. 20.—Hainey Jordan, the woman whe assisted Marie! Hatfield 1n the murder of Jonas Trail, for which crime Hatfieldl was hanged last week, barely escaped lynching Friday | night. She was stopping 1n a cabin near Cold’s store. A number of Trail’s friends surrounded the cabin, intending to lynch her for the part she played in killing Trail. She dressed nerself in men’s clothes and boldly walked out at the back door. While the men were waiting for her to appear she climbed up the mountain and escaped. —————— Eadical Eeduction of Expenses. TERRE HAUTE, Ixp, Dec. 20. — v | Receiver Maltot of the Vandalia Railroad + | system has issued orders for a radical re- duction of expenses, and the. first result is | the abolition of the position of general | superintendent, now occupied by H. I. | Miller, son of General Superintendent Miller of the Pennsylvania system west of | Pittsburg. Salaries of officials and clerks have been reduced from 15to 334 per cent, |and a number have been let” out. The | receiver says the train service men will | not be affected. e g Death of Silas A. Budson, | BURLINGTON, Iowa, Dec. 20.—Silas A, | Hudson, first cousin of General U. 8. Grant, died last night, aged 81 years. He was a coworker with Greeley on the New | York Tribune and with George D. Pren- | tice on the Louisville Journal, and with | both assisted in bringing about the nomi- nation and election of Abraham Lincoln, with whom he was on terms of intimacy. He was appointed by President Grant in 1869 Minister to Central America. He re- signed in 1879 and has since led a retired life in Buriington. In Danger of Being Lynched. MAYFIELD, Ky., Dec. 20.—Jim Stone, the negro charged with assaulting Mrs. J. M. R. Green of this city, was brought here to-day from Louisville, where he was taken when arrested to prevent a lynch- ing. His examining trial is to take place | Tuesday, but he may be lynched before that time. ETEA S May 6o Into Liguidation. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 20.—It ie re- ported that the German Looking-glass Plate Company, which has controlled the American market in German looking- glass plate since its organization, in July, 1890, has decided to go into liquidation. None of the officers of the company can be found to confirm or deny the report. i gt i An Insurance Agent Arrested. BOSTON, Mass., December 20.—Alonzo Z. 8Bmuck, a well known insurance agent of this city, has been arrested on a charge of doing insurance business for a corpora- tion not registered to do business in this State. - The claim is that he representea the Life Insurance of St. Paul in placing an insurance policy for $2000. e Murdercd During & Brawi. OSKALOOSA, ITowa, Dec. 20.—George Golightly, the crack live-pigeon shot of Iowa, was murdered in a saloon brawi last night. No arrests have been made. ———— For Friends Abroad. There is no more delightful souvenir to send to friends abroad than the Christmas News Lotter, out to-day. Of all news- dealers. Office 5)¢ Kearny strect. Eighty- eight pages, 15 cents. E This is the first time in our career that we have been compelled to take such a step and make such a ruthless cut, but we have a sur- plus and we wuse the means of a low price to reduce that surplus. | : : 3 3 NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. There are times in the history of a mercantile institution that the visi- tation of @ big loss eventually means a profit—that is, whenever there is a big surplus on one particular class of goods—a condition which we find owr- selves,placed in now. This surplus exists principally in our $25, $24, $22 and $20 goods. We have an awfully big surplus in that rande of prices—a little too larde when we take into consideration that the season for such high-class doods is nearing an end. We will take the bull by the horns and take our medicine and suffer the loss for the next four days. Beginning Monday we invite yow to inspect these high-class darments. They exist both in Swits and Overcoats. They're placed on exhibit in our big corner window and for these four days, in order to turn these doods out of the howse in that limited period, we say for pick of ’em, $81<4.00 P % We will be glad if youw will kindly take a look into owr big cor- ner window, where the |8 true values of the gar- ments we spealk of in this advertisement spealk out more loudly, more eloquently, more | convincingly than we have words at owr com- mand. : ; 2 : g | : Qrmnmmwmzmna E E E E : | R An open confession is Yood, for the soul. ’Tis human to err. We made a mistake this season in making wup too many fine gdoods. We admit it, but we propose torid ourselves of the surplus of these high-class Garments, and, therefore offer yow the pick from some of the cleverest $25, $24, $22 and $20 Suits and Overcoats ever shown in this city at the tiny price of $14.00 ES 20000200200000202000000000202000022020R8292020202292. /TS A ©ED, SwasGER SALE The Suits presented in this offer consist exclusively of high-class im- ported fabrics—Suits that we had created especially for our Holiday trade. The colorinds are all dressy, principally in blues and blacks, in Cutaways, Double-breasted Sacks and Single-breasted Sacks, sarments that no tailor, even thowgdh he charde yow $75 for a Suii, can surpass. Also Prince Albert Suwits among ’em, and some of the Suits are silk-lined throughout. They were $25, $2.4, $§22 and $§20 Suits. Monday they’ll be $81<4.00 Picture a very high-class Blue and Black Overcoat, lined throushout with satin, suaranteed to last two seasons, and there yow have the Overcoats. Those very high-class English Whipcords in Tan, such Sar- ments that yow are at all times willing to pay $25 for ; those very clever Meltons, those high-class Beavers in Blue and Black. We have made a Seneral round-up of our high-class Overcoats and are anxious to unload ‘em. They’re $25, $24 and $22-garments. Bedinning Monday and for four days only will they be sold at the. price, - which is ;s 4514.00 " RAPHAEL'S INCORPOR ATED), 9,11,18 and 15 BKearny Street. KING PINS FOR OVERCOATS. We have too much money tied up in high- class goods, too much money entirely in $25, $24, $22 and $20 Suits and Overcoats. In order to rid our- selves of this big sur- plus of high -class goods, we'll take $14 for any of these Suits Our the and Overcoats. spealks window