The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 4, 1897, Page 3

T e T ——— THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1897. WILL NOT ESSAY 10 OFFER PROOF The Monarch of the Fakers Has Naught to Say of Bribery. Trying to Turn Aside the In- vestigation Begun by the Legislature, Will Attempt to Cover Its Dishonesty by Clouiing the Issue Before the Committee. SACRAMENTO, Can, March 3.—Fred Lawrence, brother of the managing editor of the Examiner, came up from San Fran- cisco last night with the Examiner corres- pondent who had made a flying trip to the Cily to receive instructions as to the man- ner in which the interests of the Exami- ner shou!d be guarded belfore committees appointed by both houses to investigate the faked libel recently published by that paper. Mr. Lawrence came flying into the Golden Eagle Hotel with what is known as “a fine front.”’ “xaminer is going to make a big matter,” he said. “It is not making any fight in editorials,”” was suggested. its “It appears 10 be retracting its criginal statement on the installment plan.” Lawrence's reply was an intimation t the apparent weakness of the Exami- rer was only on the surface. The correspondents and others on the Examiner’s payroll are making a big fight here, after the lives laid down by Mr. Caminetti the other day. tion is to cloua the issue and toswerve tbe investigation off in the direction of the merits of the bill. An attack will be made upon it. The statement will bs vrominently put forward that Alvinza Hayward is interested in the bill, and that Mr. Hayward is a millionaire, asis Mr. Hearst, who is interested in ths defeat of the bill. There will be elaborate argu- ments concerning the reason why the bill should not become alaw, but when the itnesses will be asked what Senators being bribed and Assemblymen ves at $150 each, they be as innocent and as ignorani as the be unborn. Only one of them will know his 0w owledge as to how le came to be published. wo stories in relation to the matter are rent here. One is that the chief of staff ceived from the editorial rooms of the ron Mission street a tip to send the story for the purpose of making tion and of preventing the approval nciseo for the pu ause of the fact that had been *'scooped” 80 often by £arL and Chronicte o _legislative THE néws fnatit was nieGessiry to maked Ping to the gallery in order to brace p its shattered reputation. t is reported also that agents of the ave witbdrawn from the tele- es all telegrams passing between aminer and its correspondents in relation to the bribery libel. If the article " en in this City thecorrespondent will raise the point that he cannot be com- ed to betray the secrets of his em- oyer and the paper will place him in the of a martyr. these tactics will be met by a few of the determined investigators in the only honest and direct way. The manager of tne paper will be asked to prove the charges of bribery against members of the Legislature. If he cannot do this, and odds of a thousand to one are offered that he cannot, the lie and the iake will be crowded down the throat of the Monarch of Fakers. The committees feel that this is the only ssue to be investigated. The merits of he bill have nothing to with the case. Did the Examiner tell the truth wheu it stated that legislators had been bribed? That is the only issue before the commit- tees. Mr. Caminetti and his friendsin both power to preventan investigation on these lines. Mr. Caminetti outlined that idea in his remarkson personal privilege, for he neither denied that members had been bribed nor did be address himself to that phase of the case at all. Both committees will meet to-morrow afternoon at 2 o’clock In separate apart- ments for the purpose of taking testi- mony. Each will devote its inquiry to the charge of bribery made against its own particular department of the Legislature, ] regard Assembiy bill 273 as a very meritorious one,” said J. D. Sullivan, ex- District Attorney of San Francisco. “There are many lawyers who would be glad if the biil became a law, because it would protect their clients i their rights | against biased and dictatorial Judges, of which there are more than one in the va- rious counties of this State.”” Andy Lawrence arrived on the train to-night and declined to be inter- viewed. Immediately after his arrival be went into consultation with A. J. Clunie and Garr McEnerney, the attorneys for the Examiner. It was learned to-night after Andy Lawrence’s arrival that the Examiner will attempt by a bold bluff to div rt the efforts of the Investigating Committee from ex- posing its fake story by demanding that the private books of those interested in the Hale & Norcross suit be brought into the case and tbat the owners of the books be also summoned as witnesses. Nothing more impudent and audacious was ever proposed to a court or any investigating bed After direct and specific charges of bribery have been made, and the strongest kind of suspicion cast upon scores of legis- lators, who were mentioned by name, it will now be sought by the manager of a newspaper to shield himself and his sheet from well deserved contempt and puni-h- ment by a still more cowardly expedient. The consensus of opinion to-night is that absolutely nothing will be developed to prove that bribery was resorted to in se- curing the passage of the Caminetti bill, and that the only result of the investiga- tion will be to prove once more that the Monarch of the Fakers cannot vet shake off the habit acquired and become second nafure by long years of vractice. Glore Contest Bill Defeated. SACRAMENTO, CAL., March 3.—Den- nery’s Assembly bill 787 allowing licensed and incorporated athleticclubs to conduct The plan of ac- | the bill by the Governor. The otlrer is thai the maiter was written | i al rooms of the Iate | glove contests with five ounce gloves {or' not more that twenty rounds was defeated inthe Assembly to-night. ST T ADJOURNMENT NOT IN SIGHT. hssembly Rsiuses to Concur in the Report F.xing March 13 as the Closing Day. SACRAMENTO, Cac., March 3.—Ad- journment is the question that leads ail others in interest just now in the Capitol, and no one appears to bave any definite idea when it is to come. For the past few days the Senate and Assembly have vainly endeavored to come to an understanding relative to the matter, but the two bodies are still at loggerheads. The differences b2tween the two houses arose over the proposition to abrogate joint rules 40, 48 and 49. Rule 40 provides that joint resolutions, constitutional amendments, deficiency bills, claims, the general appropriation bill and the tax levy bill shall be ccnsidered only during the last twelve days before adjournment. R ule 48 provides that no bill shall be pre- sented 10 the Governor for approval sub- sequent to the twelfth day preceaing the day of adjournment sine die, excepting revenue bills, deficiency bills and bills for claims against the State. Rule 49 pro- vides that adjournment sine die shall only be made by concurrent resolution, and that at least twelve days’ notice shall be given of adjournment sine die. The main objects aimed at in all these rules is the prevention of vicious legisia- tion during the nurly-burly of the last days of the session, and also the preven- tion of pocket vetoes by the Governor. During the session of the Legislature the Governor has ten days with which to his approval or disapprovalof a e, and shouid be fail to actatall on any bill, it becomes a law at_ihe ex- ation of the ten-day limit. But any bill presented to the Governor subsequent to the ten days preceding adjournment sine dine, must receive his signature to become a law. Should he fail to sign such a bll! within ten days after its receipt by him, it fails to become a law, without placing upon the Governor the responsi- bility of vetoing it. s the matter now stands both houses e agreed to abrogate these rules, but the members of the free conference com- mittee included in the report recommend- ing the suspension of these rules a resolu. tion providing for adjournment sine die on Saturday, March™ 13. The Senate adopted the report as a whole, but the Assembly refuses (0 concur in the resolu- tion to adjourn, The motive of the Assembly is said to be to force the Senate to adopt the gen- eral appropriation bill without amend- | | lower house until March 12, unless the | Senators who introduced ther. | in the hands of the Governor for his ac- houses may be relied on i0do all in their | ment, as passed by the Assembly. The Assembliy had this bill in charge for three weeks, and the Senate proposes to act on it with equal deliberation and to consider it with all the care that such an important measure deserves and demands, The leaders in the Assembly have given out the information that the question of adjournment will not be taken up in the general appropriution is rushed back from the Senate. While all the members are anxious to adjourn on March 13, many fear that the session will have to be extended tothe , as there are still a large number of ills to be considered, many of great im- | portance, which are likely to bring on long aebates. Among the latter are the general appro- priation bill; the county government bill, which has been extensivelv amended in the Assembly; the Bridgford bil!, whica makes radical and sweeping amendments to the Wright irrigation law; the bill pro- viding for a system of State roads, which appropriates about $287,000 aud is sure to lhealv:l to a Lot fight, aud the coyote scalp ill. Both houses have still plenty of busi- ness on their hands, and even if the session runs along until the many bills will aie on the fi The Senate has about forty bills on its third reading file, 225 on the second reading file and nearly 140 measures to be considered within the last twelve days, besides the consideration of Assembly bills. The Assembiy has about 100 measares ready for third read- ing, 340 for second reading and forty as special orders. 1n order to give the members an oppor- tunity to rescue their pet measures from the danger of being smothered to death under the heap of bills still on the fiies, a special urgency file was made up to-night. Each Senator will be allowed to select one of his bills and place it on this file, which | will be considered at the night sessions. The measures will be taken up in reverss alphabeticai order of the names of the — - T0 PROTECT GAME. Both Houses Pass the Measure Making Sweeping Changes in Existing Laws. SACRAMENTO, CAL., March 3.—After being shunted back and forth between the Senate and Assembly for more than a month, and amended thrice in the former body and twice in the latter, the new game bill was finally passed by the Sen- ate to-day and is now ready to be placed tion. existin, It makes sweeping changes in the & laws by repealing sections 626a, 51, 6262, 626f, 6263, 6261, 626i, d, and amending sec- the Penal Code. Section 626 under the new bill will read as follows: Every person who, between the first day of h and the first day of October in each &ll hunt, pursue, take, kill or destroy, in_nis possession any vailey quail, riridge, or any kind of wild duck v_person who, between the fif- February and the first day of mber in each year,shall hunt, pursue, , kil or destroy, or have in his possessiou, any mountain quail or grouse; every person who, betw he fifteenth day of February and 'the fifteenth day of July in each year, shall hunt, pursue, take, kill or destroy, or havein his possession,any aove or doves ; every person who shall take, gather or destroy the eggs or nest of any quail, bob-white, partridge, pheasant, grou: ove, robin, or any kind of wild duck or rail; every person wio, in the State of California, sha:l at any time hunt, shoot, shoot at, take, kill, or destroy, buy, sell, give away, or in his possession, except for the purpose of propagation, or for educa- tional or scientific purposes, any English sky- lark, rcbin, canary, humming-bird, thrush or mocking-bira, or any partof the skin, skins, or piumage thereof, or who shall rob the nests or iake or destroy, or offer for sale, the eggs of any of the said birds; every person who, be- fore the first dny of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, shail Nunt, pursue, take, kill, or desiroy, or have in his possession, every cold-siorage company. & cold-storage warehouse, tav- keeper, restaurant or eating- house keeper, warketman or other person who shell buy, seil, expose or offer for sale, or give away, or have in his pos-ession any quail, bob-white, partridge, robin, grouse, dove, pheasant, wild duck ag rail diring the time 1t ern or hotel shall be unlawful to kill such biris; every person who shall hunt, pursue, take, kill or have in his possession or des deer between the 15:h day of 15th day of July of the foll person who shall at y time ' huni, ursue, take, kill or destroy or have in is possession any female deer, or spotted fawn, or any antelope, €1k or mountain sheep: every person who shail atany time buy, sell, or offer for sale, tue hide or meatof any deer, elk, antelope Or mountain sheep; every person who shall buy, sell, offer, or expose for saie, transport or CArry, or have in his possession, the skin. hide or pelt of any deer from whieh the eyidence of sex has been: removed, isguilty of amisdemeanor; provided, however, thxt the right of possessioa for the purpose of pro- pagation snall first be obiained by a ermit in writing, from the Board of Fish Commissioners cf the State of California, Any bverson found guilty of a violafion of any of the provisions of this section, shull te fined in & sum not Jess than $20 or ‘more_than $500, or be imprisoned in the county jail in the county in which the convicuion shall be had not less than ten days be punished by both such fine and imprison- ment. Itshall be no defense in a prosecution 1or a violation of any of the provisions of this section thut the birds or animals were taken or killed outside this State; provided, how- | opposed to the bill. taken or killed in Alaska or any foreigm country. Section 627 now reads as follows: Every persou who shall use a shotgun of a larger caliber than that commonly known and designated as a number ten gauge shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The proof .of. the Possession of said gun in the feld or marsh, bay, 1ake or stream shall be prima facie evi- e of its 1llegal use. Every person who, upon any inciosed or cultivated grounds which are private property, and where signs are displayed forpidding such shooting, shall shoot any quail, bob-white, pheasant, part- ridge, grouse, dove, wild duck or deer withort permission first obtained from the owner or person in the possession of such ground, or who shall maliciously tear down, mutilate, or destroy any sign, signboard, or other notice forbidding: shooting on private roperty, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. railroad company, express company, tation compsany, or other common their officers, agents and servants, and every other person who shall transport, carry, or take out of this State, of whno shall receive for the purpose of transporting from the State any deer, deerskin, buck, doe or fawn, or any quail, partridge, - pheas- ant, grouse, prairie chicken, dove or wild dove, except ior purposes of propagation, or who 'shall transport, carry or take. from the State, or receive for the purpose oOf transporting from this State, any such animal or bird, shall be guilty of & misdemeanor; providel, that the right to transport for the purposes of propagation shall first be obtained Dy permit, in writing, from the Board of Fish Cowmissionersof the State of California. Any person found guilty of & violation of any of the provisions of this section shall be fined in a sum not less than $25 or more than $500, or be imprisoued in the county jail (in_the county) in which the conyiction shall be had, not less than ten days or more than 150 days, or be pumshed by both such fine and impris- onment. There is every reason to believe that the Governor will ‘at once attach his signa- ture to the measure. e et SENATOR BULLA’S VICTORY. Assembly Refuses to Reconsider Its Wote on His Land Transfer Registry Act. SACRAMENTO, CaL., March 3.—Sena- tor Bulla was happy this afternoon when the Assembly voted down Toland’s mo- tion to reconsider the vote by which his land transfer registry act had been finally passed on the day before. Toland made a great fizht against the bill and repeated all the stock objections against it. Mead ip reply said that he couid geta shrewd lawyer to prove that “‘the eleven com- mandments” were loosely drawn and un- constitutional. The matter had been fuily | discussed by the press during the last two years. Hill of Humboldt raised the point that the Supreme Court of Illinois had de- cided that the law was unconstitutional because it authorized the taking of private property without compensation and with- out due process of law. Valentine of Los Angeles contradicted the statement. The decision of the Illinois court was based upon the fact that the law in that Siate conferred jndicial authority upon the Registrar; but that objectionable feature had been eliminated trom the California law. There were 27 ayes and 42 noes on the motion to reconsider, an1 the bill was started on its way to the Governor. This bill was fougut by astrong lobby, headed by Thomas F. Barry ana ex-Mayor Ellert of San Frencisco, backed by makers of abstracts and searchers of records all over the State; but Senator Bulla, single handed, succeeded in showing the Senate and the Assembly that the objectio urged against the bill had no merit wha ever. BELSHAW'S —e BILL DISCUSSED. Exciting Debate Over the Appropriation to Pey Railroad Commissioners Experts. SACRAMENTO, Car., March 3.—There was an exciting discussion this evening in the Assembly over Assembly bill 320, introduced by Belshaw, to sppropriate $30,000 to pay the experts and the costs of litigation in the e of the Southern Pa- cific Company against the Kailroad Com- missioners. In the course of his remarks Austin of San Joaquin sa'd that the South- crn Pacitic Company had declared that it could not afford a reduction of 8 per cent, yet when the San Joaquin Valley road Inade a reduction of 30 to 50 per cent the Southern Pac.fic Company voluntarily made a simiiar reduction. Leavitt of Alameda informed the House that the proposition was to send East for experts, and for that reason he was He believed that there were a8 good experts in California as anywhere else, and he could not see why home talent should not be employed. Belshaw said that experts were being looked for in tae East, because there was nota competent expert in the State who was not in the serviceof the Southern Pacific Company. Cross objected to the bill, because the Attorney-General had 1nformed the Rail- road Commissioners that he was able to handle the case alone, but this did not suit the Commissioners and they ran up a $20,000 attorneys’ bi.l for some one else. The bill was ordered engrosszd and sent to third reacing. IN THE UPP K HOUSE. Review of the Day’s Proceedings in the California Senate. SACRAMENTO, Carn., March 3.—The Senate this morning was occupied with the discussion of the bill to exempt the Stanford University endowment from tax- ation. Btratton favored the bill. Simp- son said no legisiation could sffect the status of the institution. He suggested that if it was exempt from taxation, as had been said, then that it refuse to pay taxes, and so let the tribunals decide the question. Withington favored the bitl. He said he owed his own education to the fact that Massachusetts academies and Harvard University were exemptea from taxation. Dickinson said he could not vote for the measure, as it was clearly uncon- stitutional. Boyce favored the bill. He said the constitutional point was a false issue. Shippee opposed the bill; Voorheis favored it. It was defeated by a vote of 25 to 14. A bill was passed abolishing the otfico of attorney to the State Board of Health after July 1. Bulla of Los Angeles arose to a question of privilege. He said he had been mis- quoted by Judge Lamme of that city on Assembly bill 273. He said he thought it was a good measure and he had 1o apolo- gies to make. Bills were finally passed and now go to the Governor providing for the organiza- tion of drainage districts; reducing sala- ries of Supreme Court officers, and remov- ing girls from the Whittier Reform School to the ofd home for the feeble minded at Santa Clara. The new game law was passed. The following Assembly bills passed the Senate this afternoon: By Howard, relative to the recordine of certain instru- ments and validasing records heretofore made; repealing section 415 of the Political code, which provides for the translation of laws into Spanish and their distribu- tion; providiag for the dismissal of civil actions when summons 1s not issued within a year or returned within three years; appropriating $6000 for the im- provement .f the capitol grounds; provid- ing for the organization and government of drainage districts to drain !ands other than swamp lands; transferring the girls from Whittier to the Home for Feeble- minded Children in Santa Clara and con- stituting it as a reform school for girls. The Assembly bill relating to officers of the supreme Court and fixing their salary and that fixing the fish ani game laws were passed asamended. The Senate bill providing for the pur- chase of additional land for the use of Preston School of Industry at Ione was or more than one hundred and fifty days, or prassed. Gillette moved to reconsider the pilot bill, which was lost yesterday. Dickinson opposed, and the motion was lost by a vote of 17 to21. This effectually kills the ever, that nothing in this section shall be held to apply to the hide of any of said animals | measure. The Senate concurred in the Assembly amendments to the rock-crushing and Torrens land acts, thus disposing of two bilis which caused the hardest fighting of the session. 3 Tke resolution providing for the ad- journment on tha 13:h was reconsidered. Wolfe moved to take up the Assembly joint resolution opposing the appointment ot a commission by Congress to settle the funding bill question. Smith raised the point of order that the bill must under the rules go into the twelve days’ file. ASSEMBLY ROUTINE. Proceedings in the Lows:r House of the Leyistature. SACRAMENTO, CAu., March 3.—The Assembly this morning passed Senaté bill 57, regulating the operation of the rock- crushing plant at Fresno; Assembly bill 727, providing for the District Agricultural fairs throughout the State, and Assembly bill 559, permitting State officers to leave the confines of the State for indefinite periods. A committes of Omaha citizens made an address in favor of the appropriation for the trans-Mississippi Exposition. The House refused to pass the bill ragu- lating pawnbrokers. The bill atithorizing San Jose to build a High School on the Normal School grounds and the bill amending the act to enable school districts in cities of the fifth class toissue bonds for school purposes were passed. The Governor has approved the act do- ing away with charges by County Clerks Yor pension vouchers. To-morrow is pen- sion'day throughout the State and the law applies at once. This afterncon Toland’s motion to re- consider the Torrens land act was defeated by a vote of 27 ayes 10 42 noes. ‘When the general appropriati n act was taken up the amendments raising appro- | priations came in thick and fast. The following appropriations- were raised: For the support of the Home for Feeble- minded, Children, raised from_$147,762 to $160,000; Veterans’ Home at Yountville, from $60,000 to $90,000; Whittier State Schooi, from $180.000 to §200,000; to pur- chase books for W hittier Schocl, from $500 t0 $1000; for the support of the Preston School 'of Indusiry, from. $112500 to $125,000; for the State Normal School at San Jose, fr m $90,000 to $100,000; for the State Normal School at Los Angeles, from ,800 to $100,000; for the use of the library and museum of the State Normal School at Chico, from $1000 to $2000. The Assembly to-night passed the fol- lowing bills: " Appropriating $20,000 to furnish additional water supply and con- struct an electric plant for the Mendocino Insane Asylum; makingan appropriation to pay the claim of A. W. Rapelye against the State; to pay the claim of Ernest Weyland for money expended in foreclos- ure on State school lands in Colusa County ; defining mortgages; making an appropriation to pay the claim of Marion Pirkey for moneys advanced to the Na- tional Guard. Dennery’s bill licensing prize-fighting was lost. The Senate bill autherizing the govern- ine body of any incorporated city or town other than cities of the first class to. re- fund their indebtedness, to issue bonds therefore and to provide for the payment of the same was passed. Belshaw withdrew his bill making it | with | a capital offense to interfere train crews for the purpose of robbery and substituted, with the permission of the House, the bill appropriating $30,000 for the employment of experts in the cases of the Southern Pacific against the State in regard to the 8 per cent reduction of freight on wheat. The bill was taken up in the committee of the whole, amended and reported favorably. THE ufiwmuwus. IContinued from First Page.| elect. Covers were laid for twenty-six. The dining-room of the Hay residence wae “tastefully decorated, while the table was a superb affair from an artistic stand- point, Mr. McKinley sat at the right cf the host. The other guests were the mem- bers of Major McKinley’s Cabinet now in ‘Washington and a number of friends who accompanied the President-elect to W ington. Mark A. Hanna. Abner McKin- ley and John Addison Porter were among the gussts. After thedinner Major Mc- Kinley retnrned tojthe Ebbitt House ana at 11 o’clock retired. CORNELIUS BLISS’ CAREER. Has slways Been in Politios, but Has Aerver Held Office. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 3.—C neiius N. Bliss, who enabled Mr, Mc ley to complete his Cabinet by accepting a portfolio this afternoon, was born in Fall River, Mass., sixty years ago. Asa youth he clerked in a New Orleans store. Later he became a member of a Boston firm and in 1886 came to this city. He is now the senior partner in the firm of Bliss, Fabian & Co., owners of one of the largest wholesale dry goods houses in the country. Mr. Bliss was one of the founders of the Chamber of Commerce. He drifted into the banking business and is at presenta director of many of the financial institu- tions in this city. He married in 1859. As aclubman Mr. Bliss is a member of the Union League, Lotus, Players, Riding, Metropoiitan, Merchants’, Republican, Dunlap Society, Law Club, New England Society, National Academy of Design, Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Museum of Natural History and the American Geographical Society. always been in politics, but has never held office. He has been treasurer of the National Committee for many years and was always a big contributor. He could have been nominated for Governcr twice, but he declined. He took no part in local squabbles, but is generally classed as an anti-Platt man. McKINLEXY GIVEN A BADGE. Receives @ Gift From ths digma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 3.—An interesting ceremony took place this morning in the parlors of the Ebbitt House, by which President-elect McKin- ley was made the recipient of a beautiful diamond- set badge, the official emblem of the Sigma Alphs Epsilon fraternity. President-elect McKinley is a member of this Greek-letter college fraternity aud still takes great interest in it. When he was inaugurated Governor of Ohio he wore on the lapel of his coat a very pretty badge. and now, on his inauguration as President, he wiil again wear his college fraternity pin. This time, however, the badge, though similar .in general design, is more elaborate and costly, and is the gift of the fraternity at large. The National convention of the order at St. Louis in December last provided for the purchase and presentation of the badge, and itis probably the handsomest and most costly possessed by any mem- ber of -the fraternity. *Prominent among the presentation committee was Postmaster-General Wii- son. At a0 Bunce Leaves for hingto FORT MONROE, VA., March 3.—Ad- miral Bunce has chartered the steamer Norfolk, upon which some forty officers and about 600 blue-jackets left for Wash- ington to-night to participate in the in- augural parade. ———————— ADVANCES made on furniture and planos with or without removal. Noouan, 1017-1073 Misslon, He has | GREAT VICTORIES FOR THE CUBANS Over Six Hundred Spanish Soldiers Fall in an Engagemant. Gomez Going and Coming as H: Pleases—His Movemsnts Mysterious. Insurgent Ranks Constantly Increas- ing by Deserting Troopers and Pacificos. HAVANA, Cusa, March 3. — Advices received here show that the rebels have been displaying great activity ana in sev- eral recent encountors with the Spanish troops have obtained signal victories. Incomplete details received from Manza- nillo state that General Garcia with 3000 men and three pieces of artillery met Gen- eral Rey with 1300 men and three pieces of artillery at Costomado. A fierce fight re- sulted. Garcia routed the Spaniards, in- flicting heavy losses—estimated at 600. Another report comes from* Matanzas of asevere engagement on the 24th of Feb- ruary at Cayo, Billes, in which Majors Rodriguez and Carillo met General Molenas’ forces and obtained a complete victory. Gonzales, commanding the rebel forces in Bemedios, raided the fort protecting the estate of Dolores. The civil guards fled, abandoning arms and ammunition. the revels in Havana province, attacked two cavalry equadrons belonging to the Pizarro regiment and played havoc among the Spaniards. It is positively known that twenty-two were buried and others left on the field.* Many rumors are circulating regarding Gomez's whereabouts. No doubt exists that 6000 insurgents crossed near Lajas two weeks ago, marching west. They suc- ceeded in entering Matanzas province, and on its borders sustained the encounter re- ferred to above. This body of men, all cavalry, were commanded by Major Rod- riguez. Riveira has 5000 men, all well armed, though roughly munitioned and equipped, distributed in groups of 100 men or more throughout the province. His ranks are constantly increasing through desertions from the Spanish army and the terror-stricken pacificos who are seeking his protection. Many rumors are floating about as to Weyler's resignation on account uf San- guilly’s release. It is believed that he has been recalled on account of the clamor of the Spanish, who are enraged at his com- plete failure. RSN ANOTHER FRUITLESS CHASE. The Laurada Again Gels Away With Arms for Cuba. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 3.—The revenue cutter Manhattan, which left her pier last night on orders from Washing- fon for the purpose of overhauling & Cuban filibustering steamer which was re- ported to be off Barnegat, N. J., returned to this port this evening after a fruitless search for the vessel. The Manhattan proceeded as far as | Barnegat, but did not sight the suspicious steamer, which is supposed to be the Laurada. The Manhattan, while on her return trip, blew cut two of her boiler tubes and had to be towed to her pier. The famous filibuster Laurada, which the cutter was reported to be in search of, | cleared from Baitimore Friday last for | Philadelphia. She should have reached the latter port on Sunday, but at iast ac- | counts she bad not yet arrived there. | Early on Monday morning a barge, a | schooner and a tug were sighted lying-to off Barnegat. In the course of the day this little fleet was joined by a steamer, supposed to be | the Laurada. A large number of boxes, which probably contained armsand am- | munition, were quickly transferred to the steamer, and a number of men were also | seen to board her. This accomplished, the steamer turned her nose to the south- ward and sailed, presumably for Cuba. In Cuban circles here it is stated that Carlos Roloff, who recently forfeited his bail by not appearing for trial in Balti- more when his case was called, was in command of tae expedition. s s THE SAUCY FILIBUSTER. Jeers the Pinkertons While Taking on Hey Cargo. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 3.—1t was Qefinitely learned to-hight that the steamer which took aboard a cargo of arms and | ammunition off Barnegat was the Lau- rada. The news that the expedition was off the New Jersey coast was brought to port by two Pinkerton detectives, who were aboard the Philadelphia tug Protector. It was on their report that the Washing- ton authorities ordered the cutter Man- battan out. These facts leaked out to- night, and in aadition the statement is made that the filibusters on the Laurada bad fun with the Pinkerton men. The Laurada anchored ten miles dune east of Barnegat on Sunday evening. The brig Volunteer, with a schooner and barge, were transferring munitions of war to the steamship just as if Uncie Sam had nothing at all to say in the matter when the tug Protector, which had left Phila- delohia with the Pinkerton men on board hove in sight. There was much excite- ment on board of the Laurada before the character of the tug was made out, but when that was done the Cubans resumed work. The Protector steamed up and circled about the Laurada two or three times, while her officers got the name of the craft that had brought out thearms and ammu- nition. . In she meantime, 100 dark-visaged fili- busters crowded the Laurada’s deck and taunted the dete ctives with jeering re- marks that the Laurada was seven . miles out of the three-mile limit and that the Protector’s men had no authority to ar- rest those on board the vessel. Acsal pudi Two Hundred Spaniards Fall. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 3.—Dis- patches from Havana report an engage- ment between some of Generat Rodri- guez's forces and a large Spanish column last Thursday sixty miles south of Jaruco. The Cubans numbered 500 and the Spanish 700. The Cubans were at first victorious, but Spanish re-enforcemeats arrived from Casiqua and the Cubans withdrew into the woods. Nearly 200 Spanish wers killed. The Cubsns lost fifty kitled. ctor Wheatoroft Dead. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 3.—Nelson ‘Wheatcroft, the well-known actor, died at General Rodriguez, now commanding } | were gored to death. his residence on West Forty-sixth street shortly after 3 o’clock thisafternoon. Mr. Wheatcroft was second vice-president of the American Dramatists’ Club and also & member of the Lambs Club. s Al THE GALE STILL FURIOUS. Train Overturned by the Wind, Harbor Works Demolished and Wrecks on Englana’s Coasts. LONDON, ExG., March 3.—Details of the damage done by the gale continue to come in, but owing to the zeneral prostration of the wires, they are still meager. A train running between Brecon and Merthyr-Tydvil, Wales, was overturned by the force of the wind, but no lives were lost. Along the coast, and in the interior as well, miles upon miles of telegraph poles have been broken off, or literally torn from the ground. Weymouth Harbor is filled with wreck- age of all kinds, and all manner of craftin the harbor is adrift. The barbor works, which were in course of construction at Hastings, have been demolished, and a great quantity of valuable machinery and material carried away. 4 Scores of fi-hing boats have foundered at and off Lowestoft, but, in some in- stances, nobody was on board, and in othersthe crews were rescued by hard work on the part of the lifesavers. The pier at Framington has been crushed to pieces bv the tremendous seas, and a laree number of wrecks are re- ported on the Devonshire coast. The gale is still raging with no indica- tion of abatement in fury. Reports of havoe wrought by the gale are continually. being received. A dis patch from Cardiff says a_boat containing six workmen was wrecked 1n the harbor and its occupants drowned. A number of trees in a churchyard at Tiverton were torn up by the roots, dis- placing great quantities of earth and ex- posing 1o view several coflins which, from the inscliptions on the plaies, hsd re- mained in the cemetery for a century. The schooner Amaranth arrived at Cowes. Isle of Wight, to-day and reports that her captain was carried overboard and drowned by a heavy sea. Many sailing vessels are reported to be ashore on the south coast of England and a large number of deaths are said to have been caused throughout the country by falling trees and walls. There is a_pezceptible lessening of the violence of the gale this evening. ——-——— HORRIBLE RULL-FIGHTS. Four Men, Four Horses and Eight Angry Beasts Dead. TORREON, Mexico, March 3.—Arrivals here from Durango state’that the bull- fights which took place bere Sunday were the most horrible in the number of fatali- ties ever given in Mexico. The bulls were native mountain animals of the State of Durango and they fought with a ferocity that made the large crowd of spectators go wild with delight. The first buil which entered the arena gored one of the fighters to aeath. An- other man was killed by the second bull and the third capped the climax by killing twe more in quick succession, making in all four human lives that were sacrificed to the evident pieasure of the crowd of spectators. Eight bulis and four horses It was a rea letter day in the annals of bull-fighting in Durango. e lig i v Land Grants Approved. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 3.—Secre- tary Francis has approved clear list11, containing 11,074 acres in the Hailey and | Blackfoot districts, Idaho, listed on ac- count of the grant to the Central Pacific. These lands were sold to a bona fide pur- chaser. He has also approved a list of 2080 acres in Oregon City District, listed by the Oregon and California Company, a3 successor to the Oregon Central Rail- road Company, CHICAGD THIEF MAKES A RAUL Mme. Sicott, a Los Angeles Lady, the Unlucky Victim. Her Purse, Containing $1200 in Diamonds and Bills, Is Stolen. Was on the Way to th: tion, but the Trip Is Abandoned. Inaugura- Now CHICAGO, Irn., March 3.—Diamonds valued at $1000 and $200 in bills fell to the lot of a thief yesterday afternocon. Mme. Sicott of Los Angeles says she is the Joser, and as a result sne has abandoned a trip to Wul;ingwon to attend the inaugural ceremonies. Mme. Sicott arrived in Chicago on Febe ruary 20. She registered at the Audito- rium Annex. She left California in Jan- uary and went direct to Northern New York. She then visited Cincinnati, at- tending the sangerfest. She intended to remain in Chicago for a few weeks and go through to Calitornia. On Tuesday she caanged her plans and at ncon engaged apartmentson the “‘Blaze of Glory” train for Washington. Yester- day Mme. Sicott visited a downtown de- partment store to buy a telescope bag, to be used on the Eastern journey. She had the diamonds and several other valuabie pieces of jewelry in her purse with $200 in bills. Mme. Sicott says her purchases engaged her attention and she thought- lessly placed her purse on the counter, ‘When she turned to pick it upa few sec- - onds later it had disappeared. The police have a clew and they expect to make sev- eral arrests. Combine of Mashers. LOUISVILLE, KY., March 3.—A meet- ing of Kentucky distillers in connection with Eastern capitalists will be held here to-day. This will be followed by a gen- eral meeting on Thursday. 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