The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 10, 1897, Page 9

.. Y THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1897. NEWTOWN MINER BRUTALLY SLAIN Killed Because He Refused Liquor to Intoxicated Visitors. Beaten and Tortured Before His Life Is Cut Short by His Tormentors. Two Men Whose Guilt Is Almost Certain Captured by Shasta’s Sheriff. REDDING, Car cold-blooded murder in the Shasta County crimes was comn ght at u spot one m nall mining town located north of Redding, in tk trict. Serafino Genignani, years of ave, was the vict Genignani was & miner and by ha labor had succeeded in laying by a consid- erable store of worldly goods. Besides his | muning he had a small vineyard | and carried on wine-making on a small scale. Theincome be derived from the | sale of his w ent {o afford him a good livin his mining opera- | tions enabled him to add to his hoard | each month. He was frugal, industrious | and peaceable, and was respecied as 2 good citizen in his neighborhood. Two of Genignani's neighbors who were in the habit of whiling away their even- ing hours at his home, called at his place at 9 o'clock last night, and as they en- tered the door a horrible sight met their gaze. The floor was besmirched with blood. A knife lay in one corner and there were other evidences of a desperate struggle. These neighbors—0. C. Alex- ander and John Roland—began to investi- gate. They could see by the aid of a lantern the footprints of two meu leading from the house, and accompanyiug them a broader trail, as though a body had been drgaged. Following this for about seventy-five feet, they came to a panel | fence, and there, in a pool of his life blood, lay poor Geniznani, cold in death. His whiskers had been roughly cut off, as | if with a knife, his throat was cut irom | ear to ear, there was a deep gash over his right eye and another across the back of his head and & deep cut or stab just above the center of the breastbone. The searchers left the body at the fence and proceeded back to the house, where they picked up the knife with which the irder had been committed. They then t word to officers in this city. ‘Their sage reached here about 1 o'clock this ng. Sbortiy thereafter Sheriff Hous- a deputy left for the +cene and at | 7 o’clock Coroner Earnest and Dr. Mitchell | went out. | A clew was obtained and at 2 o’clock to- March 9 —The most nals of cay the Sheriff returned with (wo prison- | ers against whom the strongest kind of evidence has been obtamed. They are | Alexander an ex-convict, and | Lewis Richar. hey were Lo ‘ged 1n the | y Jail pending an examination. e details of the murder, as far as the Shenff was able to learn, are that Miller anda Richards, in company witha 1 ad named Young, had been at s place early in the evenir e and having a generally good They left the Italian's house and sceeded to Newtown, where they drank quor. about 80'clock they re- to Genignani's and asked ior more he Italian refused their request. They | knocked him to the floor, beat him, cut hi- whiskers off and finally killed him. They then dragged his body from \he‘i | | house sud as far as the fence, where it | was found. There they left it and pro- ceeded to the house of Miller. At this house the two were arrested. They of- fered no resistance. Their clothing and shoes were blood-stained, and other facts | roint directly to their guilt. The lad | Young was also brought in as a witness. For some months past Genignani had | been troubled by persons who parsistently | tried to force an entrance to his house at ht, and time and again he has app 16 courts for warrans for the arrest ol the disturbers, but not being able to iden- tify them could :0 nothi A RENT NOT A LAND QUESTION. J. Reynolds so Defined the Single Tax Last Night, The Single Tax Society sustained a dis- appointment Sunday night in the unavoid- able absence of J. A. Herre, who was to | have been present to deliver an audress. Among the speakers of the evening were the president, L. M. Manzer, Vice- President Pleace, Mr. Lynch, Dr. Brown, Rev. Mr. David, J. Reynolds and Joseph Leggett. President Manzer tersely conveyed the gospel of his party in the words: “We know what we want and we know how to get it. We don’t want much; we only want the earth.” Mr. Pleace explained the iniquities of the mortgage system from a sin le-tax | standpoint, and commented on the stu- | pidity of piacing obstacles in the pathway of those who seek to develop the resources of nature. Mr. Reynolds presented a verval report of the progress of the campaign in Sacra- mento, ana afterward corrected a few mis- conceptions as to the meaning ot single tax, “Single tax,” he said, “‘is not a land but a rent question, and what 1s 2 more equitable distribution of the rents arising trom land values.” Incidentally he referred to the present distress in San Krancisco, and in th - same counection said: **The Spring Vailey Water Works and Mr, Sutro must derive a good dealof amusement from the spec.a- cle of our business men paying for the privilege of improving their property. In the name of sweet charity, we are going to give the unemployed a dollar a day to build a boulevard through Mr. Sutro’s and the company’s tarren sandhills to en- bance their value. And this is charity.” Mr. Leggett spoke in fuvor of completer freedom and denounced ihe protective spirit. “A little competition,” said he, “in the shepe of the Valley road, did more to reduce freight rates than all the railway commissions could ever do.” “THE TUB.” A New Albauny Cofporation and Its Or.gin. Among the organizations recently in- corporated at Albany was one which bears the oad name, “The Tub,” and to those who do not live in that city, or who have rot passed a winter there, the name must seem most strange. But to him who has climbea the hills of Albany daring the time when ice and snow make the occupa- tion more exhilarating than pleasant, in the months when the meeting of the Leg- Ilature increases the population of Cap- ftol Hill ana adds new life to the board- ing-houses which manage toexist between sessions, to him the name *‘Tub’ suggests * the bathing establishment in State street | the messenger boys moving. | of fun. | have you teach him how to swim. Do you | and said that he *supposed the dog could | | swim. | pil of “Garry” Bensen. | with the historical department of the | | Corntossel, whose wife had ventured to where residents of Albany take Turkish and Russian baths, and where members of the Legislature have been known to re- tire for rest and refreshment aiter hard work which was not of a strictly legis- lative character, In Albany everybody knows tue proprietor of the establishment. “Garry” Bensen has served bis time as 8 swimming teacher, as a renter of boats in the “*basin’’; he has won distinction as a life-saver, and when the boy became a man he developed into a politician with aspirations toward office in the Legislature during the months when the staid and sedate atmosphere became impregnated with the wit and wisdom which go with the average legislator. His ambition bas been rewarded, and “Garry’’ Bensen, who is known to his townspeople as the man who tanght Grover Cleveland and many others how to swim, is known to the vis- itor as the Senatorial sergeant-at-armsand the keeper of ihe “Tub.” His “Tub,” from which the new associ- ation takes its name, is not on the water’s edge, as its name might suggest, but on the broad street which leads to th~ Capi- tol, and was once one of the fashionable resuiences of the city. Besides the vari- ous kinds of baths the place contains bachelor apartments, in which scenes have been enacted when they were occu- pied by newspaper men and clerks con- nected with the various departments which would bave given the writer of roaring farces much good working ma- terial There men have gome to write their : “stories” because it wasa guiet placeand | The unemployed realized about $150 because they could write there undis- | last night trom their theatrical entertain- turbed, and there, after their work was | ment in the Auditorium. done, they would go to bed, only to be | The house was not very large, but a very dragged out by a self-apvointed cOm- | pice class of people was present and there mittee on Indian affairs and forced 10| Lot ino except the remarkable num- take a plunge bath, despite their assur- | ng. e2 7 s ances that they could worry along until | ber and diversity of acts presented to morning, at least, without immersion. dicate that there was anything unusual One of the characters of the institution | about the occasion or the purpcse of the is a yellow dog, said to be from the ken- | shoy, nels of Senator 1-;v1\:g[rd _},[u}rlnh)n ldig It was a variety performance made np Bupas b te i e s1an?® | of as many variations as there were par- round knowingly when the regular | " ® 5 s trots o boarders take their morning plunge and | ticipants. There was everything, fr he follows the inmates to the Capitol, | clever acrobatic feat along through songs, where he takes it upon himself to keep | dances and recitations to things that were s When be | gimpiy interesting because they were sur- e :"l‘“-’f“‘;f jumps a 113 | prisingly inane. There were some good heels, ana un ets of t 4 Yench the messenser is likely to move | acts. some tolerable acts, and some that quickly. ¥ | would not have been endured elsewhere. A recent story about Bensen shows that | But everything went and everything was maturity has 1ot robbed him of his spirit | applauded, from the efforts of the pretty Among other sources of income | baby girl dancers to the men made up as irom the Tubis that which comes from |imrossible tramps or Indians, bathing dos. A woman came to theplace | Following is the complete programme: a short time azo with a pet poodle. “The | yindsley brothers on the triple horizontal, dog is young,’ she said, “but I want to | bars; Miss Wainright, » bailad; Julius Korto; walkine the glabe: Miss Deatt, recitation Adis, tenor soloj Professor Anderson, sleight-of-hand tricks; Babr Laramie, song; ] Mrs. Crose, dramatic reading: Thornhill, Terms were agreed upon and | ;. aet; 'Dan Dougherty, black-face mono- Professor J. Lombar- THE: UNEMPLOYED AS ENTERTAINERS A Successful Performance at the Auditorium Last Night. Songs, Dances, Athletics, Reci- tations and Feats of Legerdemain. They Cleared Over a Hundred and Fifty Dollars on the Scheme. think he wiil learn?”’ Garry looked wise | Tom be taught.” | the dog came for his first lesson the next | {ogud’ and baton drill; day. He was thrown 1nto a bathtub with | dero's stringed quartet; Senorita Matildita, no more ceremony than a committee Would | castanet dance: Nelson = and Wiilisma show toward a too temperate or a too in- | humorous knockavout and bexing act; duotrions companion, and a Teport was | Baby Lewis, dance: Melchodie, Indian act: bt asith i) and'‘among others i De-viere, musical a ent to the woman that her dog was doing w“;;fxf{of‘kvpgnwm R Y L icely, and with so and so many audi- | faly Srothers, Lorrance Sisters, Matt Keff tional lessons at a certain amount for | Professor Galando, W.T.Baker. Mise Adis, each lesson he would certainly learn to | Ewald Andow, Mme. Andow. Russell Hell- And now the poodle to her friends as the successful pus | A7 v o | man, Capiain’ Beach, Jobhn Payne, Jobnson woman shows the | P i} don, Willard brothers, Miss { lton, D ile and DE!xnnk,!)( One of the organizers of the new club, | Bors Johnaon, Chaties Ky, “The Tub,” is prominently connected | B. Barton and Ethel Graham. 7 ; 5 end of the performance C. H. Bise ol e n, O EK | DaAvtie:h:ice-presiuencgl the unemployed not formed for the pursuil of historical re- | S atone ot tha well-appearing men who Semch New e e | composed the corps of attendants and e ushers, appeared before the footlizhts and THE OLDEST POSTMASTER. made an address in which he told briefly e of the object and the inception of the Joseph Strode Has Handled Letters for | benelit for the unemployed and |hp_ relief Fifty-Six Years, | and the generosity they have met with. The oldest postmaster in continuous | In the folrex)oyl"olaerfr:“ls l-hr);-ur;ge':; service in the Unitea States Jives in Cen- | ;3;?.,‘1?5;720"3;:6“ s onrad A tral Pennsylvania. His name is Joseph | PGSR (OVC OUS 510" Shject being by Strode, and he lives at Strodes Mills, & [ moans of appropriate banners to adver- pretty village in Mifflin County. | tise the evening’s entertainment. This old pioneer postmaster, says the | The boulevara fund yesterday passed Cresson Record, has held the one position | the $5000 x;;_nr_k. thrg’ ‘,:,":;1.“‘.,2’;:‘5 zow since 1845, and still holds it at the present | f;"f&fs“"‘:i““ni V;fl-wd e time, although he is now in his eighty- | oon 0% e iade. In two or three days first year. As a recognition of his long |gome men may be put to work and faithful service for the Government, (on the job, ex-Mayor Sutro hav- the Postoffice Department at Washington | ing yesterday given a right of way had his_pictare on exhibition at the | under specified conditions through his World’s Fair, and it was consicered one of | proverty, and the commitiee having the most interesting features of that great | agreed to the conaitions which state that department. | l!lal houlevnrdmmx::‘td b,:;o ':;r:'mrpllor;eud“ l’): 3 Is i i - i hteen months Sirodes Mills is & quaint, old-fashioned | eighteen months anf no sew s Pi6sf, 09 village siiuated in the heart of Mifflin t : county. Th country surrounding it is | years. The deedsare in escrow. g rich in farming lands and valuable ore | Several new casesof distress and sick- and sand mines. Although the place is | Dess have been reported to the unem- over a century old its inhabitants only | ployed headquarters. The men there number 200. The people are mostly well- | have supplies enough on hand after the to-do, and ever since the establishment of | contributions of rice from Chinatown to the village the lands have passed down |lastanother day. from one generation to another, and very | Adolph Sutro yesterday told thegtreet seldom has jt been that these handed- | Committee of the Board of Supervisors down properties have gone out of the fam- | that he would have a deed prepareq with- ily possession. They are a happy race of | out any conditions included for the strip people, contented with their lot, and sej- | of land through his possessions for the dom if ever bothering the outside world. | boulevard. He said that he did not wish They are in reality & world to themselves, | 10 make a gift which should entail npon andas such but little is ever heard of | him any great expense. He would give them outside of their village limits. | an unconditional deed, trusting to the In 1839 Arthur Strode received the ap- | Board of Bupervisors not to compel him ment of pustmasier, during Martin | to construct a sewer. n Buren’s administration and contin- TR T RN RED MEN TO HELP. ued in office until his death in Angust, 1845. Joseph Strode, the present post- WIill Glve a Lecture In Ald of the Unemployed Men. master, was made his assistant in 1840, and at his death recetved the appolnt- ment, through Cave Johnson, Postmaster- p General under President Polk. For the | The committee of the Red Men of the Jact ton years his son, Amor A. Sirode, | Improved Orderappointed to devise means has been his assistant.—Pittsburg Dis- | to assist the Citizens’ Committee in raising Fatob: funds for the relief of the unemployed met in 1he Alcazar building on Tuesday night, and it was reported that 3000 tickets had been printed and that 2100 had neea dis- tributed to the various tribes. These are for admission to a lectire on the ‘‘Abor- igines of America,” to be delivered on the 24:h inst. ia Metropolitan Hall by Prof sor Frank J. Polley of Btanford Univer- e Standing Up for His Country. “They’s one thing sure,” said Farmer express an opinion on National topi “an’ ye kin note it down in yer dairy write it in the back of yer cookbook, so’s ter mind yerself of it once in a while,” *What is it, Hiram ?"’ *This here administration ain’t sfraid of Span.” *‘Well, mebbe 'tain’t, but—"" “I'hey ain’t no but about it. This ad- ministration ain't afraid of Spain. An’ whut's more, it ain’t a-goin’ ter take no chances gettin’ afraid of her.’—Boston Traveler. sity. lyt was also reported that the committee on talent had been on the trail of several well-known glee clubs and that there is reason to believe that they will volunteer their services for the occasion. i The Boulevard Deeds. Mayor Phelan, Attorney Liogd and the ) MOLLIE SAIDEE BLOOM. Miss Mollie Saidee Bloom, to whom will fall the bonor of being the only grad- uate in mathematics from Stanford this vear, isa remarkably bright young lady who resides in San Jose. Every morning for the last four years she has traveled the distance from San Jose to Stanford, and s great deal of ber studying is done on the train. To her mathematics is a pleasure and sheis #o far ahead of her class that a six months’ term after graduation will give her a doctor's degres, In a class in engineering of three hundred Miss Bloom is the only girl. ‘When but 13 ste graduated from the grammar school, and at 16 from the Ban Jose High School. She was one of the youngest to enter Stanford, Street Committee discussed the matter. Mr. Lioyd said that Mr. Sutro would put the deed in escrow in the Nevada Bank and that he was willing to extend the time for the completion of the work to five years. Whenever, in the judgment of the Mayor, the boulevard shall be com- pleted the deed may be placed on record. He also desired that red rock should be used upon the part of the boulevard do- nated by him, and offered to give the rock nec ssary for the macadamizing free of cost. The boulevard must be 100 feet wide. This proposition met with the approval of the Street Committre, of Mayor Phelan and City and County Attorney Creswell. The deed will be prepared at once and will be submitted to Mr. Creswell, who will report upon it to the Street Commit- tee. Very likely the deed will be ap- proved this week, when the last obstacle in the way of beginning work will been removed. The Order of Druids, The event of the weex tn Druld circles was the tnstallation of Aurora Grove in Mangels Hall last Wednesday by Noble Grand Arch J. A. Devoto, assisted by Past Arch G. Pattarga of Concordia Grove of Stockton, Past Arches G. Musso, J. Silva, F.J. Rosst and J. Cordans, of Galileo, and G. Raggl of L. de Camoens Grove. The followlng named were installed #s officers of the new grove, which was started with twirty-five members: Dr. E. N. Borello, P. A.: C. Gugllenoni, N. A.; G. Fon- tana, V. A.: F. Wochl, F. 8.1 resets, R 8.; L. Vaulsang radiani, 0. 6. at down At 10 2 fine banauet. Oukirnd Grove initiated three candidates at its last held meeting and conferred the second de- gree. Vasco de Gama Grove initlated four canal- da.es and received three appiications. Ma zanlia Grove had several 1nftiations. This grove wiil in future meet every Thursday in Druids’ Hall. On the 15th 1n3t. the g and officers will officiai visit to Norma and Templar Groves. During the next two months groves wili be in- 8.liuted at Mart nez, Calistoga and San Francisco. Past Arch F. Lewis of Pleasanton, who was in this City Ias: week. reports the grove in his d - tr.ct in fine conditlo: ———————— Woodworkers’ Union. An enthusiastic meeting of the Amalga- mated Woodworkers’ Union No. 15 was held last eveniug. A request was received from the General Secretary at Chicago for a list of speakers who will be called upon t0 orgauize the coast. The 1ist will be forwarded and the work of or- ganizing the workmen of the entire coast will be made very soon SWED:S ARE CHAMPIONS, Winners of the Great Pavilion Tug-of-War Tourna- ment. an The Unemployed Fund Will Be In. creased by Over On: Hun. dred Dollars. Quite & large pumber of ladies and gen- tlemen witnessed the final contests of the tug-of-war last evening in Mechanics’ Pa- vilion, and the betting on the pulls was very lively. The first pull was between Canada and Sweden. The betting was $10 to $3 in favor of Bweden. The Swedes won in 17 minutes 5434 seconds. The French and Itslian teams came next and the betting was 5 to 2 in favor of the Italians. This was another first-class struggle and was won by the Italians in 28 min. 55 sec. A special match pull between the Nor- wegian and German teams was exciting and spirited. The betting was in favor of the Norwegian team at $8 to $10. The Germans lost in 25 min. 27 sec. Nelson of the Swedish team pulled sin- gle-handed against Fink, who holds the lightweight champiopship. The con was won by Fink in twenty-four minutes ana 12 2-5 seconds. The excitement was at fever heat when the Swedish and United States teams made their appearance on the cieated platform. The Swedes at first objected to meet the Americans, as they had already engaged in a hara pull, but after some | discus-ion they agreed to go ahead and take a chance. The betting was even and ths Swedes won the pull and the international cham- pionship 1n 5 min. 82 1-5 sec. A special pull beiween the Norwegian and Italian teams was won by the Italians in 12 min, 5134 se The last event of the tournament was a contest between the Canadian Ameri- can teams lor second place, and Canada Time, won & hard and sharp struggle. 3 minutes 334 seconds. SUMMARY OF PULLS. Sweden defeated Canadx. Italians defeated French In a special mutch pull the wegian team beat the Ger- 25 min. 27 see. 5 min. 32 1-5 sec. P 2 min. 5134 sec. Canaaa beat Un ates..... 4 min. 334 sec The amount taken in last evening was $462 and from this $115 50 will go to the unemployed fund. —— ALL THE WAY FROM KENTUOKY. Wonderful Tale Related by a Citizen of the Blue-Grass Region. Lexington has a citizen who must be trying to beat the record of Baron Mun- chausen as a prevaricator. His name 1s Jerome B. Frazier, and here is a sample of his soaring fancy taken from the Lexing- ton Argonaut: “Iam very fond of domestic animals and fowls, and the possesor of a fine intel- ligent fox-terrier, who answers to the name of Fanny. Iattended a sale some months ago and bought a Poland duck. I brought her home and put her among the other poultry in the yard. In a few days Inoticed that Fanny and Miss Poland were on good terms with each other, and in a few weeks they were inseparable, Fin- ally Miss Poland thought she had loafed long enough and went to setting. Fanny made regular visits to her and seemed to take great interest in the proceed- ing. The duck rarely left her nest. After setting for about a week she sickened and died. Fanny seemed almost hearibroken over the untimely death of her friend. The evening of hor death I missed Fanny from her accus- tomed place in_the yard and began a search for her. I found herin theduck’s nest with the ez s underneath her. The next morning I visited the poultry-house end found Fanny still covering the eg, Lconcluded not to disturb her, but await results, This continued for some weeks, and at the end of the usual time allowed for incubation I found that six lively little ducks had become citizens of the pouitry yard. Fanny seemed very proud of her success as an incubator. Tte lit- tle ducks followed her, and seemed to know no difference between Fanny and a barnyard fowl. The strangest part of this story yet remains to be told. Fanny is a remarkable ratter, and these little ducks developed into the finest rat-killers that I ever saw. Iam willing to match these six duck+ against six ter- riers for from $100 to $1000 a side in a rat- killing contest, and I will win the match.” —Louisville Courier-Journal. —————— Regulating Fliriation in Missouri. Representative Hood of Barry County hasintroduced a bill in the Missouri Legis- Iature, at Jefferson City, which is designed to restrict flirtarion. It prohibits railroad conductors, brakemen and other em- ployes from ‘‘intruding attention and con- versation upon female passengers on any pretext whatever.” The penalty pre- scribed is $25 foreach offense, one-half of which is to go to the informer and the other half to the county in which the offense is committed. Hood is s Populist and schoolteacher. He is in dead earnest in the matter and declares that the habit which ratlroad conductors and brakemen mans in ... ... Sweden beat United Stai beat Norway in speclal have of flirting with lady passengers must pe stopped.—Cincinnati Enquirer. HAS RETURNED FROM ROSSLAND S. F. Loughborough on the Richness and Singular Order of the Camp. Nobody Is Allowed to Carry Weapons and There Are No Homicides. He Predicts That in Five Years There Will B» Several Towns as Large as Butte. 8. F. Loughborough of this City, who was for years a member of the Texas rangers and afterward Sheriff of one of the border counties in New Mexico, has arrived here, after three months' absence at Rossland, B. C., where he has for some time past been interested in mining. He is part owner in six properties there, and of these three are shipping ore and more than paying expenses. Mr. Loughborough believes that in five vears there will be a number of towns in that part of British Columbia, any one of which will sorpass Butte, Montana, in populaticn. Of these, Rossland, New Denver and Trail City are a few. He says the mineral is widely distributed and is sorich as to surprise him, thouzh for years he has been familiar with mining. Another thing that has won his greatest admiration is the way the law is observed in that part of the country. Although Rossland has some 8000 inhabitants there is but one man to preserve order. He is the Chief of Police, Constable, Shenif and Town Marshal, all in one. Nobody ques- tions his power. I: is absolute. No revolver or other weapon is allowed to be carried by any one. There are no homicides. Ladies may walkaboutatany time unaccompanied by escorts and never hear a word directly or indirectly that might offend or even seem harsh. There is no profanity among the miners or others when on the streets. It is the mostor- deriy camp he ever saw. “When w all this,” said Mr. Lough- borough—‘'saw how sdmirably the laws were executed and reflected that the city ‘was but three years old and was in a great stretch of new country filled by men from all parts of the giobe—it seemed to me phenomenal. I could not help but havea high opinion of British justice and Brit- ish law when I thouzht how different it was in similar places in the United States and in San Francisco. I felt like becom- ing a citizen of Great Britain much as I had hitherto depreciated thatcountry. “I don’t know but I will do it yet. It made my biood boil and made me feel ashamed of my country when as 1 came away from Rossland on the stage and had reacned Northport (on the American side, only seven miles away) the first thing I saw wasa man chasiug another one with a gun. “The country is one of the richest I ever saw. 1 was surprised at the nnmber of paying properties. There is nointem- perance. Everything is carried on in or- der and with entire safety to everybody.” Mr. Loughborough will probably be here several weeks. He is at the Grand. DEATH OF A GREAT HUNTER. A slayer of Tigers and Elephants Suc- cumbs in Cochin-China. A great hunter has just died in Cochin- China, where he lived for the past twenty- seven years. His name was Wetzel. He was an Alsatian. Duringthe war of 1870 he served in a French regiment of cuiras- siers, and at the close of the war he asked to be sent to Cochiu-China. His request was granted, and he was employed in that country as gamekeeper. Soon he became famous by his exploits. His hunting record, which he used to show with pride, foots up 89 elephants, 30 tigers, 21 panth- ers, 5 rkinoceroses, about 20 wild buffaloes and an immense number of bears, deers, etc. The natives held him in great ven- eration on account of the services which he rendered to them. At onetime two tigers carried away some personsin the neighborhood of Tay- ninh.” On being notified ot thefact by the authorities Weizel set out in the night to_hunt them. Concealing himself in one of the haunts of the beasts he shot them down one after the other. He never used any stratagems; all his hunt- ing was donein a bold and daring fash- ion, and more than once he came near losing his life. One day while hunting buffaloes he was cuarged by a bull. The natives are more afraid of a bull buffalo than they are of a tiger. Weizel was knocked down and pawed by the brute, He pretended to be dead. His rifle escaped from his hand as he fell. Slowlv he dragged himself up to it. To seize it, shoulder it and lodge a bullet in the head of his adversary was the matter of an in- stant. He was confined to his bed for a long time after that adventure. On an- other occasion & wounded tiger bounded upon him and struck him with her claws in the face, inflicing a serious wound, but he killed the beast. The traces of the wound could be plainly seen on his face. In a rongh-and-tumble fight with a pan- ther his leit shoulder was badly lacerated, but he managed to plunge his hunting- knife into the panther’s heart. His death was the result of sunstroke. His pumerous friends are about to erect a monument to him, which will recall his ex?loits as a soldier, an elephant-hunter, a tiger-hunter and an all-round man with a gun.—Courrier des Etats-Unis. ——————— America’s Richest Woman, A woman past 50, who has had her share of youthful good looks, may, if she keeps ber health, retain that essential part of her attractiveness which consists in character and expression. Such is the case with Hetty Green. Time has touched her gently, withal. Her hair is not yelL quite gray, nor her face wrinkled. Bne has keen blue-gray eyes, a clear com- plexion, and strongly marked Ieatures that indicate truly the force and determi- nation behind them. In repose, her ex- pression becomes softened, and she looks like the home-loving and domestic woman that she is at heart. Mrs. Green has the reputation, not altogether unde- served of being a bad dresser. This appears to be rather an affectation, perhaps with a purpose on her part rather than a deficiency of femi- nine taste. Her ordinary street attire of rich but plain black, with a vioiet- trimmed bobnet, has nothing outre about it. Her manner in talking about her battles with courts and financiers is fuil of aggressive animation, and gives the impression that fighting suits ber temperament. A peculiar picturesque- ness is imparted to her speech by the traces of New England Quakerism™ that cling to it. In moments of forgetfulness she says “yaas’ almost as_broadly as the characters a Yankee dialect story.— Leslie’s Weekly. CASTORIA For Infants and Children, 'lll'-shlr M——- isen siguat i Y77 s e NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. ATRAGRDINARY OPPORTUNITY LADIES’ DL ISLE DNDRRVEAR SILK, AND LADIES' LISLE AND ALL-WOOL HOSIERY LESS THAN % COST OF IMPORTATION TO MAKE ROOM FOR OUR MAMMOTH NEW IMPORTATIONS NOW ARRIVING, we will hold a Grand Closing-Out Sale of the following choice lines of LADIES’ SILK and LISLE UNDERWEAR and LADIES’ SILK, LISLE AND ALL-WOOL HOSIERY, which we have marked down REGARDLESS OF SACRIFICE T0 FORCE THEM OUT IMMEDIATELY LADIES’ SILK AND LISLE UNDERWEAR 50¢ lalaiier ] % $1.00 LADIES’ SWISS RIBBED SILK VESTS, size 4, in cream only, former price $2 00 $3, will be offered at . o LADIES’ SWISS RIBBED SILK VESTS, low neck and sleeveless, assorted colors, former price $150, will be offered at. neck and short LADIES’ SWISS RIBBED SILK VESTS, hish sorted colors, former price $2, will be offere ADIES' SWISS RIBBED SILK VESTS, high neck and long sleeves, L in black only, former price $2 50 and $2 75, will be offered at. LADIES’ SWISS RIBBED SILK VESTS, size 5, in pink and cream, former $9 50 price $3 50, will be offered at... : RO 1 LADIES' SPUN SILK VESTS, high neck and long sleeves, ze and cream, former price $4, will be offered at.. % LADIES’ SWISS RIBBED SILK VESTS, ze 3, in cream, pink and black, $1 00 former price $2, will be offered at... 3 o LADIES' VESTS, sizes 3 and 4, extra fine silk, former price $250, shades SI 50 salmon, cream and pink, will be offered at. e 0 LADIES' PLAITED SILK VESTS, sizes 4 and 5, regular price $1 50, will be $l 00 offered at. .. . % VS LADIES’ BLACK SWISS RIBBED VESTS, warranied pure silk, former $l 00 price $2 50, will be offered at.... A LATDIES’' 6 AND 9 THREAD PURE SILK VESTS, size 32 and 34, regular $5 00 price $8 and $9, will be closed out at. o LADIES' SPUN SILK VESTS, price $3, will be offered at.. high neck and short sleeves, size 30, former $l 00 . LADIES' PURE SILK VESTS AND DRAWERS, sizes 28 and 30, former $2 50 price $6 50, will be closed out at... " LADIES' WHITE CASHMERE VESTS AND DR. S, ult i $2 50, will be offered at AWER n‘A ." LESi 31-50 LADIES’ HOSIERY DEPARTMENT. $2.00 Pair $1.00 Pair i ES' SPUN SILK HOSE, f ice $2 50, marked . st b " $1.00 Pair 150 pairs LADIES' PURE SILK HOSE. former price $4, marked down to....... 185 pairs LADIES’ RIBBED SILK HOSE, former price $2, marked ownito., S5zt 0ahe . 80 pairs LADIES’ PURE SILK HOSE, shade eminence only, former $2 00 Pair price $3 50, marked down to... §3.50 Pair 50¢ Pair 110 pairs LADIES' ALL-WOOL CASHMERE HOSE, in brown, navy 50 Pai and cardinal, former price $1, marked dOWN t0u..ccvuvessssnseeens ar 50¢ Pair 35¢ Pair 50¢ Pair 60 pairs LADIES' EMBROIDERED SILK HOSE, former price $9, marked down to......... . 95 pairs LADIES’ WHITE CASHMERE HOSE, former price $1, will be offered at. : 60 pairs LADIES’ LISLE THREAD HOSE, in opera shades, former price §1, marked down to........ 1:0 pairs LADIES' LISLE THREAD HOSE, in gray only, former price 75¢c, marked down to....... . 70 pairs LADIES’ BLACK OPERA HOSE, former price $1 25, marked down t0..........eeeuinnn e T ey TWO EXTRA SPECIALS IN RIBBONS. No. 40—314-INCH ALL-SILK BLACK AND COLORED SATIN AND GROS l' GRAIN RIBBON, assorted colors, vaiue 25¢, will be placed on sals at...... 96 No. 60—4-INCH ALL-SILK COLORED AND BLA(K SATIN AND GROS 15 GRAIN RIBBONS, asorted colors, value 35¢, will be placed on sale at..... 190 MURPHY BUILDING, Market Street, Corner of Jones San Francisoo.