The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 29, 1897, Page 3

r ) A THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY N MAY 29 3 TILLMAN - STIRS THE SENAT Creates a Breeze by His Talk About the Sugar Schedule. ASKS FOR A BRAND NEW INVESTIGATION. The South Carolina Statesman | Says Some People Think There Is Corruption. ALDRICH PUTS A QUIETUS ON | THE HARANGUE. Deciares That No One Interested In | ! Sugar Stocks Knew Anything About the Schedule. WASHINGTON, D. C.,, May 28, —Till- man started a sensatiofi in the Senate to- ay by rising to a question of privilege and offering a resolution providing for an- other sugar investigation. Tue resolution recites the resolution adopted May 17. 1894, for the investiga- tion of charges tnen made that Senators were specula gin sugar stocks. Italso Tecites the fact that certain witnesses re- fused to answer, and one is now in jail for refusa i that another was acquit- ted yesterday under technicalities; also, within t.e last thirty days, newspaper correspondents ed that Senators ad cha; ugar stocks. It the appointment of were speculat therefore provides fo a co! ee five charges, with power to send for persons papers. The Senator Wi lowed to proceed r the question whether the matter was ivileged was raise., because there was ome when the Senate could no 1f the Senators had been speculating in stock, with the knowledge of the ts, the Senate ought to tind out rge itself, or if the newspaper cor- ndents were lying ‘against the Sena- tors to the press tbe gallery oug.t to be of all dishonest and dishohorable spondents, and the men who slan- the Senate be punished. The Sena- d not afford tu lie back on their cor dered v and say it was beneath them to | gate such charges. Half of the American people ana more believe there was 1 ess and corruption among the leaders of the Democratic party in 1892, Justso half the pepple believed some. t was rotien in Denmark now. Both ere involved, one being as deep ud as the otherin the mire. point Pettus of Alabama, in se- e tones, asked Tillman not to dea! in “If," said he, “the Senator es to put a mark uporf a Senator on floor I demand Le shall mark him— not indicate the S nate generally.’” 1 can only mark a man,” Tilman re- by baving witnesses inst a man or men tell Tiilman then contin- d a lengthy characteristic invective. When Aldrich rose to reply there wasa marked contrast in the manner of the two mee. While Tillman had been boil- i ov with excitement Aldrich the Senate in calm tones and in 1+ most dignified manner. Hesaid: ‘Tae task of the Senator who has charge the tariff scheaule isa most difficult 2d ungracious one. Heenters upon that the full knowledge that cer- 1 portions of the press tiroughout the United States are bound to charge un- worthy motives upon him, whatever he may do. In v of what the Serator from South Carolina nes said and the ex- tracts he had caused to be read, perhaps I ought to make a statement in regard to the question of dutieson sugarand how y came to be propcsed. It is insinu- cd in various articies that the suga sche ule as presente by the committee i in some manner influenced or demandea by -refining company. Isay to the Senator from South Carolina, and to every other Senator and 10 every person in the United States that no person connec ed with the sugar trust or with any other re- fining company and mo oth-r person whateser suggested or. dictated any schedule or any rates on sugar to mem- bers of the Finance Commiitee at any time or in any place. I desireto make this statement as broad as it is possivle ve generalities. des for the English Janguags to make ir. 1| desire 1o say further tnat the Republican members of the commitiee ars solely re- sponsible lor this scnedule, and no one else, and no person knew what that schedule was to be or what the rates were to be until 1t was prepared, less than two days before it was reported to the Senate, The oniy other person wuo knew. it be- fore it was reported was the Senator from Nevada (Jones). It was submitted to him for his approval or for his suggestion about thirty-six hours before reported to the Senate. timation what the schedule was to be, not aliving person, and any man who says contrary or intimates anything of the sort deserves to be denounced in a way that would not be parlinmentary to de- nounce him here, but he dught to be de- nounced.”’ Tiliman asked if A'drich was willing to allow the pavers to prove their charges. “So far asI am concerned,” Atdrich re- | plied, with perfect equanimity, “and I think 1 can speak for every member of the sub-committee, I say we not only wish but court the miost searching invesiiga- tion into every single act of ours in reia- tion to the sugar schedule or any other schedule. Oueof these newspapers brings in a gentleman named White. knew White and never heard of him. 1 have no more knowledze of White than an inhabitant of the F.j Islands who never came to the United States. 1 any such man exists I never heard of him. It iscertain that no such man came to the committee-room, and no information went out of the committee-room. 1 never bought a share of sugar stock, directly or indirect'y, in my life, or any other stock for speculation.” The pres.ding offticer said the resolution to examine the | speaking excitedly, said the | mger afford to be under the accusation. | No one else knew or had any in- | 1 neve® had gone, under the rule, to the Commi | tee on Contingent Expensss, and tius braught the incident to a ciose. During the whole scene there was the | appearance of pent-up rage ard indigna- | tion among the Senators on both sides of | the champer. The Senate immediately | afterward resumed the consideration of the taniff bill. — e —— MIKING GOuUD PKOGRESS. Additional Paragraphs in the Tariff Bill Ave dopted, WASHINGTON, D. C., May 28.—The tariff bill was taken up in the Senate at 11:30 ». @ to-day. The remaining para- | grapns on schedule A (chemicals, oils and | paints) were finished, except those which | have been reserved, and schedule B | (earths, earthenware and glassware) was | tsken up. Several paragrapos in tnis | schedule were reserved, and in others, down to 99 (cylinder and crown giass, volished). all committee amendments | were rgreed to and all independent amendments for a reduction of duties | voted down. The first paragraph was G4 (medical preparations containing lcohol, | 55 ceats youna), which was agreed toafter | several D:mocrats had objected to an in- | crease from 50 cents. | Paragraph 7434 (soda ash, % of a cent | per pound) provoked an extended dis- | cussion. The House bill fixed the rate at | 1; of a cent, the same as the Wilson and McKinley acts. Vest said this article was used in the manufacture of soap, and pre- sented a protest signed by nearly all the | sonp manufacturers of the United States | against the increase. This increase, he | said, was made in the interestsof a few | concerns in Nevada engaged in soda ash cturing. Referring Lo the increase rax, Vestsaid it was put in the bill against the best judgment of the Senate upon demand of Jones of Nevada. Aldrich said the United Alkali Gom- | pany, which controlled the output of soda ash in Great Britain, sold the article in this country for half the price it did in agland for the purpose of breaking down the few American factories which were springing up all over the country and would soon be able to supply the entire demana. The item was agreed to, but subsequently, at the request of Gray, re- | consiaered. | Paragraph 81 (vanillin, last of chemical | schedule) was passed and schedule B | | (earths, earthenware and glassware) was proceeded with. In paragraph 84 (Roman, Portland and | bydraulic cements) Aldrich offered an amendment increasing the rates of Scents ver 100 pounds in barrels and 7 cents in buk as under the House bill, and the present law to 11 cents_and 10 cents, res- pect Vest, Caffery, White and Bacon entered vigorous protests. The amendment was adopted, 30 to 108. Wuen, the bill was laid aside Vest re- arked as a historical fact that more | progress was made in three days tban in the last tariff bill in three weeks. Notice | was given by Cullom of two amendments, one to strike out the paragraph on beer and insert a paragraph making the tax on whisky, inciuding whisky in bond, 70 cents a gallon, and the other to make the tax on wood napiitha the same. THE WINITEKoTEEN CASE. | | i i ! | Damaging Eeidence in Procf of a Con- | spiracy to Wreck a Hous | BLOOMSBERG, Pa, May 28.—The trial {o! Lioys 8. Wintersteen for conspiracy to | | | | | | i wreck E. L. Waller’s house with dynamite is now well under way. Waller, the first witness called Wednesday, gave details of the explosion at the house and of his subsequent efforts to geta clew to the him under a board pile in Mrs. Knorr’s 101, as described by Knorr in the conlession | before a magistrate. { P. G. Miller, a coal dealer, testifi:d that | in the spring of 1594, Wintersteen said in | | his (Miiler's) house that he would “serve | twenty years ip the penitentiary to put a | ball througn Levi Waller.” Joan Srnt- wine, a laborer, testified that in Winter- steen’s office in 1894, the defendant had <aid he would “be wiling to serve twenty | years ol my life in the Eastern peniten- | tiary to have the privilege of putting a | buiet through Levi Waller's heart. 1| have laid in wait for him, but he never | came my way. Icould draw his blood as easily as not.”’ Kate Davis, employed by Wintersteen 1s a domestic, te-tified tha' she heard Wintersteen exclaim: *“Levi Waller is a | scoundrel. I could blow bim up if it asn't for her” (indicating his wife). There was a craniog of necks when lifton Knorr, who yesterday pleaded | guilty, was called. - Knorr testified: “ln July, 1885, at Reading, I walked out with Wiurtersieen end I ingu:red how I could get some money. He replied tbat if my mother would conveaiently die he would le in good shape and could get | §4600 or $5000 for me. At Reading, on August 27, in an ups:airs room, Winter- steen saw a knife lying open in a drawer. He picked 1t up and flourished it, and said he would like to run it through Waller because Le had hurt him in Itigation. He said he wished there was some way of getting somebody toput Waller out of the way or throw vitriol in his face. He said | something had to be done to remove Wal- er, as the case had been going on long | enough and he had been compelled to lose | too much money already. Wintersteen said if they continued the suit much longer, and he con:inued to lose money, ke would hire somebody to kill both Wal- lerand Mrs. Knorr."" MOLLIE GIBsON GOES AWAYXY UP. rxcitoment 4n Denver, DENVER, Coro., May 28.—There has been u big boom in mining ~hares during the last lew days, and the sceme around the pit of the Mining Stock Exchange resembles the days of 1895 when every- boly went wild over stocks. The most noticeable advance was in Mollie G.bson. Gibson was a drug on the | market last Saturiay at 13 cents. Last | night it closed stiong at 55 cents, and | | | | | | l“w Revival in Mining Stocks Causes | 1 | | | | some curb sales were ai 63 cents. Ar- ceatum Juniaia, anotber Aspen stock of | the sume class, has advanced from 11 to | 32eanis since Monday. Anaconda, Isabella | | and other golu stocks of Cripple Creek, | which have been on bedrock for a month, ware in great dcmand. The improvement is caused by the dis- covery of a vein of four feet of siiver ore between the first and second level of the Mollie Gibson, which runs nearly 20, ounces to the ton. - This is supposed to be | the lost vein from which the mine several | years 3o paid over $4.000,000 in dividends. ———— Aew York's Swenr-Boct Industry. BINGHAMTON,N. Y., May 28.—Charles A.Wisting, State Commissioner of Agricul- | ture, was in the city yesierday to estab- lish an experimental station here for the | cultivation of neet sugar. The State has | | appropriated $25.000 to stimulate the in- dus:ry, and 10 per cent of this sum will be devoted to paving tne cost of the experi- ments. Agr.cu (urists are very much in- terested in the vaicome. Experimental stations will be located at Binghamton, Buffulo, Brockvort, Rochester, Syracuse &nd other points. Sleager iy iayard Weary of Gfficial Life. BOSTON, Mass, May 98, hope I will have no further official duties,” said ex-Embassador Bayard in an interview this aiternoon. His term of public life, be +aid, had been long and he had served hix country at the expense of personal affairs. = BP0 1 | Mo Tranefer: of Trospe This Year. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 28.—Secre- tary Alger has decided not to make any transfers of troops this year. The con- templated changes would cost $72,000, and it uxs been decided that in these times of retrenchment the expendliture would not be autlorized. perpetrator of the crime, offering in evi- | dence five sticks of dynamite found by | SECRETARY GAGE'S BRIGHT PREDICTION Republicans Will Carry Out the Promises Made in November. Prosperity to Be Restored by the Administration of McKinley. | The Leglislative Branch May Be Trusted to Enact a Wise Revenue Law. CINCINNATI, Onro, May 28,—At a banquet winding up the reunion of the commercial clubs of Boston, Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati to-night, Secretary of the Treasury Gage made the principal address, He saias pon & settlement of the tariff and financial questions enterprise wait< and industry languishes. Over fifty times I bave been asked when the tariff discus- sion would end and a final vote formulate the measure into law. Over fifty times more I have been asked if the financial reforms for which the people struggled in November have been forgotten. Now, it is not to be wondered at that you who have 80 long borne the burden of anxiety and fear, who so long waited and watched for the restoration of conditions upon which some secure estimate of to-morrow can be made, should grow nervous and impatient over every act or word which secms to suggest doubt or delay in the establishment of such conditions. I have thought on this cceasion I could do no better service than to give you the needed reassurance and hope. “As to the great fabric now before Con- gress known as the tariff bill, I have noth- ing to say in detail. I want to bear testi- mony, however, to the zeal and good faith of those in both houses having the meas- ure in charge. They are fuiiy conscious of their great responsibilities, and are working faithfully to discharge them. | Nor do I think the opponents of these measures are likely to oppose with willfal and unjust obstructions the course of legislation. Protest there will b>. Kenc- ing for position must be expected. But having now come into contact with many representatives of the people in both houses, [ deem it my duty to bear witness to the honorable and patriotic motives in- spiring the minds of the great majority, whether on one side of the house or the other, and I prophesy an early result in the National councils to which this great commerciai question is now committed. “I make these remarks not to defend a body for whom I hold no commission to | speak, but to correc. in one direction the operation of injurious sentiment, which {is sowing evil seedsin many directions. | It is dividing classes, destroying unity ana breeding hatreds. The only word for that sentiment is distrust. Faith and courage lead to conquest and victory. Distrust paralyzes and destioys. As to the finan- | cial question I must content myseif with a few words. 1am glad they may be words of zssurance. If any of you harbor the suspicion that ths administration but just now installed has forgotten or is likely to forget the mandate of the people whose voicy in behalf of honest money and sound finances rang out loud and clear in November last, put that suspicion aside. Itis unjust and unfounded. “In good timz and in the proper order affirmative evidences of my declaration will appear. 1In the meantime, my friends, do your part to help those char ed with the legislative and adminis- trative duti Don't let inertia, en- gendered by fear and distrast, creep over you. We have been passing through a period of great trial and nobly we have endured the strain. The future is not dark with forebodings. It is illuminea with rational hope, “The revival of industry is near, and with the establishment of a reveaue law sufficient to bring into the treasury an amount adequste to meet the reasonable needs of our Government and with the establishment of our finances on a sound and enduring basis nothing now foreseen can delay the recovery of past losses and the inauguration of a new forward move- ment along tue lines of material advance- ment and social progress, which we may humbly trust is in the bemevolent mind of God to bestow upon the American people.’” WO BOY¥S LOCKED 1IN A HOUSE. Frantic Parents Endure the Sight of Their Cremation. BILOXT, Miss,, May 28.—A very pitiful and awful calamity occurred near here to- day. Mr. and Mrs. Lodmer left their home this morning to visit some neigh- bors. Their two boys, aged 8 and 13, re- | svectively, begged to accompany them, | but their parents refused, and asa fur- | ther punishment locked them wp in a room 1in the top of the house. in some way the house caught fire, it is supposea through the boys playing with maiches, | The house was built of wood and us dry, as | tinder. As soon as the fire was well start- ed the boys began to scream and try to beat down the door in order to get out. The father and mother, who were near by, heard t..em scresming. They rushed to the house as fast as possible and ured every means in their power to save the little fedows, but it was all in vain. The flam=s spread 8o rapidly that it was im- posaible for any one i0 enter the building. The unfortunate parents :ad to endure the awiul sight of seeing their two chil dren burned to death before their very eyes. Awful —_————— ASSASNINATED AT NIGHT. Twn Young Aissourians ot Down on a Lonely Load. FORSYTHE, Mo., May 23.—News has been received of the assassination of Nathan O'Neal and tne serious wounding of a youih named Shaefer on Wednesday evening. O'Neal and Shaef'r were driv- ing along a lonely road and were near the house of a farmer named Robinson when an unkaown ailant fired from a brush- pile, killing O'Neal and wound.ng Sh.fer. Tne ussassin escaped. Heis believed to be a farmer named Long. Both victims were boys having no enemies. An (xamination of the ambuscade shows great premeditation. A blind of cedar- tops and brush had been care.ully pre- pared and rests constructed for a gun to rest upon in taking aim. The police bs- lieve that the shots were iutended for a farmer namned Robinson, who was ex- pected to pass that point late the same evening, and between whom and Long a gradge of long standing exists. —_——— Tare Down the Pictures. ALTOONA, Pa., May 28.—Four hundrea workmen employed by the Westinghouse Air-brake Company at Wilmerding were suspended yesterday because of a lack ot orders. The men heid a hurried consulta- tien in the workshop, and finally about 200 ran up the stairs to an apartment where McKinley’s picture and the picture of a smoking factory were hanging. Ina trice both victures ®were torn down and smashed to pieces. The men then dis- persed. yo SO GLAE “MOODE EBEVIVAL MEETINGS. Etaborate Preparations in Progress at Nopthfield, Mass. NORTHFIELD, Mass., May 28. —Unusu- ally eiaborate preparations are in progress for the Nortnfield summer conventions, which will be inaugurated about the mid- dle of June under the personal supervision of Dwignt L. Moody. Among the potable gatherings this year will be the Worid's Student Conference, whizh of recent years has been a potent factor in the promotion of Christian liv- ing and work among college men; the Y. M. C. A. encampment, the Young Women’s Christian Association confer- ence, the General Conference of Christian Workers, at which are presenied the ma- jor Curistian doctrines by able Bibie stu- dents, and the Northfield Summer School for Bible Study. Hundreds of inquiries have already been received by A. G. Moody, who has the preliminaries in charge, and who prophesies that the 1897 meetings will in point of numbers and enthusiasm surpass those of any previous years. — SAFED BY A DREAM." Miraculous Escape From Death of a Young Church B-llringer. WICHITA, Kaxs., May 28.—Friday cight voung John O.iphant of Pauls Valley, Ind. T., whose duty it has been for vome $:me 1o ring the bell as the Methodist church, dreamed that the clapper was go- ing tofall and seriously if not fatally hurt him unless he took the precaution 1o pro- tect himseli. The dream so impressed itself upon the mind of the boy that he spoke of it to his family and friends, ail o1 whom scoffed at1t; but on Sunday even- ing when time came to ring t.e bell he took a chair and placing it from directly under the bell and standing in the cnair began to ring. Very soon the clapper fell with terrible force, but as ne had vrepared himself ior it no injury resuited to nim. 1f he had been standing in his accustomed position nothing short of a miracie could have saved him from injury and perhaps death. Such a possibility as the clapper falling had not even been thought o be- fore by any one. Siate Suffragists of Illinois. WAUKEGAN, ILL, May 28.—About 100 prominent representatives of the equal suffrage movement from all parts of the State gathered here to-day, the occasion being the annual State Equal Suffrage Convention. Among those present were: Mary E. Holmes, Rena Michaels Atchison, Rev. Ida C. Hulton, Ca lerine Waugh McCulloch, Professor Charles Nightinguale and a number oi other 1a lles and gentie- men of equal prominence in sympathy | with the movement. SombRgit bl Business 1s Improving. NEW Y ORK, N. Y., May 28.—Vice President C.G. Warner of the Missouri Puac.fic, who came here to attend the for- mation of the BSouthwestern Freight Bureau, which will supersede the South- western Traflic Association, left for the Southwest. He gave encoura -ing reports of the condition of the country contribu- tory to the Missouri Pacific line: He said the crop prospects were very good and business improving, and ne looked for a steady increase of business. QL N The Kio Grands Is Lampart. SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 28.—The International Water Boundary Commis- sion in session here received to-day dis- patches from several points along the Rio Grande that the present unpreceaented rise in the river threatens to cut off large tracts of land from both the United States and Mexico. Inseveral places an entirely new channel will be formed. Tne flood is doing grent damage on both sides of the river below El Paso. < T No'orious Mexican Bandit Executed. CULICAN, MEexico, May 28 —Yesterday the notorious bandii, Manuel Rodriguez, was shot for the assassination ot Santos Vega, a rich miner of Cosalo. Rodriguez was the head of a band of highwaymen that have terrorized the State of Sinaloa for years. Many prominent men were so indirectly connected with him that for vears his execution has been delayed. Vega was & man of education and popular in the community where he lived, being particularly a benefac or of the poor. OF INTEKEST ) 1HE COAST. Colonel William M. Graham Promoted 0 Be Brigadier-General. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 28.—The friends of Colone! William M. Graham of the Fifth Artillery, formerly stationed at the Presidio, are greatly pleased with his promotion as brigadier-general. Senator Perkius and Representative Loud were active in his behaif. Colonel Grabam’s nomination was predicted in THe CALL's di<patches. ‘The postoffice at Lena, Tehama County, Cal., has been discontinued, Mail here. a(lttr should be addressed to Lyons- vitle. Leonard M. Sears was yesterday com- mis ioned Postmaster at Labonda, Cal. Attorney-General Wilson of Arizona ar- rived 10-night to o} pose the confirmation of McCord s Governor of the Territory. MecCord will be contirmed, Pensions have bren granted as follows: California: Original—Isaiah C. Jepson, Sespe; Iner Lamb, Soldiers' Home, Lo Angeles; Eiijih Everitt, San Jose. In- cresse—James Tippetr, Veierans’ Home, Nanra. Oregon: Original — William Emken, Portland; Lewis C. Rav, Portland. Origi- nal widows, etc.—Ifsab:lla Emken, Port- land; Augusta E. Stevens, Oakland. Washington: Or ginal widows, ete.— Mary J. Williams, Seattle, — White Talics Pos'affice Stone. WASHING1ION, D. C.; May 28.—Sena- tor ' White, in conversation with THE CALL correspondent lasr night. expressed the opinion that the sandstone from K1 agstaff, Lriz., or from the Sespe (Ventura County ) quarry, wouid be saitable for the constrac- tion of the Ban Krancisco Postoffice build- ing. He is not taking any part in the rivalry that is going on between the stone men who are after the contract. Lhi Pl Fire Division Chirfs Reinstated. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 28.—Kive chiefs of divisions dismissed from the Treasury Department by Becretary Car- lisle were reinstated to-day. SANTA ROSA P 1510: KESIGNS. Rev." Thomas 4. Atxinson Changes His | Church Relations, SANTA ROSA, CAn, May 28,—Rev. Thomas A. Atkinson has resigned his pastorate and withdrawn from the M. E. church South 1o enter the M, E, church. Mr. Atkingon is one of the most abie and eioquent preachers in this section and has been pastor of the church he is about to leave for seven years. The news of his resignation and withdrawal from the de. nominatign he has served so long was a profound surprise to the people of this city and has aroused much comment. Mr. Atkinson gives his reasons for the sudden change asfollows: The grounds of my change of church rela- tions are as follows: First, [ am more in har- mony with the discipliue 'and polity of the M. E. church than with the discipline and polity of ihs M. E. church South; second, 1 conscientiously believe that there is greater Iiberty within the laws and expediencies of the M. E.church than within the laws and expedieaces of the M. E. church South; third 1 take this action honestly and in the fear of God, hoping and praying to be more useful in the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ. T. A. ATKINSON. FOUND HANGING I A WOODSHED Mysterious Fate of Mrs. George Gehrig of Nevada City. Had Contemplated Suicide, but the Evidence Indi- cates Foul Flay. Left Home on Wednesday After a Quarrel With Her Husband. NEVADA CITY, CAL, May 28.—Sus- pendea by the neck to a small rope fastened to a nail in the wall, the body of a woman was found this morning in a woodshed in the rear of the National Hotel. The unfortunate was Mrs. George Genrig of this city, who had registered at the hotel as Mrs. Francis Zeitler on Wednesday, after a quarrel with her hus- band. Thereis evidence to prove that the woman contemplated suicide, but this is outweighed by the marks of cruel blows and scattered pools of blood, which be- speak foul play. The mystery isa deep one, and the authorities have as yet been unable to solve it. The Gehrigs have raised a family of six children, but though prospering finan- cially their life has not been a bappy one. On Wednesday they had trouble, and late thatday Mrs.Gehrig left home, g)ing to the hotel under an assumed name. Gehrig had been searching in vain for her until he saw the bruised and blood-bedraggled corpse to-day. He feels certain that his wife killed herself, but many of the officers and citizens believe she was mur- dered. The woman’s body was discovered at about 6 o’clock this morning by Officer W. G. Carr. It was suspended by the neck from a stout wire nail in the south wall of the woodshed. Toe nail was about six feet from the ground and the body was suspended by a short viece of small rope, such as is used for clothes- lines. The rope reducad the distznce to the ground to about four feet, and the woman not only had her feet on the ground but had her knees bent, so that il she died in that position it must have been by slow strangulation. Her face was turned toward the wall and both hands were raised and resting on a cross timber, as though she had ciutched at it betore death, Deputy Sheriff Nagle cut down the body. Coroner Hocking soon arrived and the officers began an investig-tion. On the ground at the edge of tne woodpile and about forty feet from where the body hung was a pool of blood. The shed is a Iarge one, about 40 bv 80 feet in size, be- ing used for a wagon shed also. It-basan earth floor and the dust is deep, but the officers found no traces in it of a body having bern dragged about, yet blood was spatiered from one end of the shed to the other. . Near the largest pool lay an ax, its handle dyed rea, but the blade unstained. | It was evident that the ax was not used, but that a stick of oak stove wood which lay in the large pool was the bludgeon with which the woman had been beaten over the head. The cuts on ner head were not deep, but her skull had been frac- tured. Later another stick was foumd covered with blood and hair. Mrw. Gehrig a few days ago wrote in German a disconnected ana rambling let- ter, which was not interpreted until to- day, and by some this letter is offered as proof that she killed herself. In itisa sentence to the effect that “if he knew what a loving wife and good mother I have been he would not treat me so.” Another was: *I thank God that there are still many good and virtuous women in California.’” An inquest will be held to-morrow nizht and the funeral will be held on Sun- day, under the auspices of Milo Temple, Rathbone Sisters. FRESNOITES WEDDED AT RENO. Gy Trustee Spinney and Mrs. Arbuckle Evade the New Diorce Low. FRESNO, Can., May 23.—City Trustee Joseph Spinney was married to Mrs, Arbuckle at Reno, Nev., last Tuesday, and Iast night the groom and bride returned to their home in Fresuo. Mr. Spinney represents the Fifth Ward on the Board of City Trustees, and wields considerable influence as a politician. He is a native of Spain. While unable ty read or write, lie has amassed considerable property, be- sides hoistine_himself prominently into the political affuirs of the conntry. About two months ago Mrs. Spinney sued the Trustee for a divorce, on the ground that he had been unfaitniul to her and was too intimate with other women. Spinney did not resist the suit, and the decree was granted. Mrs. Arbuckle was also divorced from her husband, Theodore Arbuckle, a short time ago. She has of late been conduct- |ing a lodging-house in this city. With his,usual dipiomacy, the Trustee succeed- ed 'in evading the new law of this State, prohibiting the marriage of persons for a year after they have been divorced, by going 1o Nevada. WEALTH FOR A UK14AH ROMAN. Large Foriune Inherited by & Foor Peddler of Fegetablss, UKIAH, Car., May 28 —Mrs. Catherine Hughes, who has since the death of her husband three years ago eked out a pre- carious existence by peddling vegetables about town, has just received advlices from attorneys in the City of Mexico that, with her sister, she is the joinu heir to two go!d mines and other property in Mexico yield- ing $1000 a month. The estate descends to Mrs. Hughes from her uncle, Frank Hughes, a wealthy mine-owner of the southern countr: Fire at San Diego: SAN DIEGO, €aLn, May 28.—A con- flagration caused by a pot of glue catch- ing fire this afternoon destroyed a row of small frame buildings on the southwest corner of Fifth and G streets. The buiid- ings belonged to A. Ormed, whose loss is about $1000. The corner store was occu- pied by J. Peterson, whose furniturc and upholstery stock, valued at $30J0, was in- sured for $1500. The other losses are: Ouo Kru' ailor, §530; G. Nicolay, plumber, $500; A. P. Duil, picture irames and moldings, $300. Total, §5200, with insurance on one-balf. Lot R Tallejo High Schoo! Gradwa VALLEJO, CaL., May 28 —The quarter- centennial exercises of the Vallejo High School will take place a: Farragut Hall on Tuesdsy evening next. The following young ladies and gentlemen comprise the graduating ciass of '97: George Austin Brew, Lewis Eugene Carpenter, Mzude Josephine Cleveland, Rauhael Hilborn Finnell, M. Lesley Fraser, Jessica Rue Greenwood, Cecille L. Haas, Maude Fran- celia Harvey. Mary Mevarry, Jessio V. Roney, Frank Earl Toors, Ells Nancy Thomas, Agnes Augusta Van Dorn, Leila E. Warren. ——————— Army and Navy Notes Are complete 1n to-day’s News Letter. BERNHARDT TESTIRIES. Declares Her Health Benefited by Paine’s T he enthusiasm and curiosity provoked | by Mme. Sarah Bernhardt has never been eqnaled in the history of the stage. One ta.ks vaguely ol genius, temperament, quick inteliigence, passion, nervous mobility, grace, smile, voice, charm, poeiry—Mme, Sarah Bernhardt has them. | all Bernhardt is to-day as enthusiastic inj ber profession as though her career were | before her. 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LOCKED A CHILD N A HOT OVEN “Salvation’” Donnelly Is Convicted of Wan- ton Cruelty. Horrible Practices of the Head of a Strange Sect in Arizona. Rejolcing at Tombstone Over a Verdict Against the Inhuman Hypocrite. TOMBSTONE, Ariz., May 28.—A jury in the District Court has just convicted the notorious “‘Ealvation” Donnelly of wanton cruelty to children. Doanelly calis himself “the Right Reverend,’’ and is the leader of a peculiar and mysterious religious sect which has estadlished a camp in the Huachuca Mountains, near here. Thers have been many complaints of his inhuman treatment of children, among them the case of a lad who was imprisoned in the big baker's oven and a fire started under it, the child being almost roasted to death before liberated. The charge upon which Donnelly was convicted was that of *‘ducking’” a six- year-old bov in an ice-cold pond, after stripping off his clothing, and then flog- ging him with a carringe whip until un- conscious, the child’s mother being made to bold nim while Donnelly plied the whip. Mrs. Warrington, the mother, and little Joe, the vietim, as well as other members of the camp, testified as to this, Some of the women tried to shield Don- neily, and testified that they bhad given him auihority to punish their children. Dounelly is looked upon us a pubtic pest by those who donot owe ailegiance to him and his fanatical religious views. Ris camp is notorious as the “'hornet’s nest, ’ and the probabilities are that a public movement wili.soon be made to wipe it out of existence. Daring the trial Judge Bradley testified that the mother of Joe Warrinrgton bad apvealed to him once to place her child beyond the Donnelly cruelties, but afrer- ward Donnelly overcame her maternal feel- ings and shesaid she did not want tobring disrepute upon the camp. There is great rejoicing over the verdict ine with the announcement that while on the Sound engaged in summer target prac- tice this city wiil be its headquarters, and not Port Angeles, as at fir-t intended. Captain Barker chanwed his arrange- rents after going to Port Angeles and finding tne merchants there unpreparea to fill such orders for supplies as are fieeded by the crew. ———— SONOMA . COPPER MINES. Large Ledge . Found i Pena Canyor Turnels Which Were Abandoned Years Ago. HEALDSBURG, CaL, May 28.—The Gr.zzly Copper Mining Company has or- gan:zed in this city, with William Peters, C. Brumfield, ¥. O. Brandt, O. Misnes and C. Reinars as stockholders. For months past prospecting has been going on in Pena -Canyon, which open: into the Dry Creek Valley, about ter miles north of this city, and not a little interest was taken in the outcome of the work. Hunters in that region have ofter come upon two tunnels which had piercec the north side of the mountain, but whict had lons since been abandoned and repre sented the hopes and energy of pioneer miners who bad given up the lead many years ago. Brumfield found croppings of copper and succeeded in interesting the othe: gentlemen named, with the result tha: the ola tunnels were reopened and a rick ledge of copper sixteen feet wide exposed The rock is worth $I2 to $14a ton, ane t .e mine will be opened and worked or an’ extensive scale. XEW TO-DATY. GOLD - FREE WATCH Boys, Girls Young Ladies —AT— (sreat American Jmporting Tea (a PURE FOOD STORES. EVERY WATCH is a perfect time piece ; 15-year guaranteed case. E REAL GEMS. DCN'T MISS THIS Opportunity to secure one FREE . of these pretty watches CALL AND ASK ABOUT IT The Uregon at Port Townsend. PORT TOWNSEND, WasH.. May 28.— The battle-ship Orezon arrived this even: STORES EVERYWHERE. 100 IN OPERATION.