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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 189T7. BULGARIAN [URDERERS - (ONVICTED Close of One of the Most Dramatic Trials Ever Held. BOITSCHEFF’S CRIME. CAPTAIN Aided by Police Officials, He Strangled a Girl Whom He Had Betrayed. PRINCE FERDINAND'S USED IN THE PLOT. NAME One of the Accomplicas Had a Hand in the Assasslnation of Ex-Premier Stambuioff. PHILIPPOPOLIS, Br1 Late GARIA, July iast evening there was co bere one of the most dramatic tri held in & court of law. Ii was the trial of Cantain Boitscheff, formerly aid-de-cemp to Prince Fer and his accomplice 1 of a young girl named The girl in the tragic d Anna Szimon. hands slic singer. She went from Br th in 1894, to Sofia, where she ) Boitsc The girl bec: s, and later the motier | 1is child. irdened with debts, Boitscheff en- althy heiress, ed, and caused a s to see Boitscheff in ber effo within scandal palace. Boitscheff became enraged and de- id of the girl by murder- tern T e summoned her to meet him s, protesting love. Having ns to lure the girl to her lled to his aid Novelic, prefect and a gendarme named Wassa- bointed at Marilza ieff and another efied her with Boitscheff then d the box of the vehicle and drove rt distance, when with the assistance of Nuvelie, he ¢ zged the insensible girl out of the carriage with his own hanas. tscheff placed the girl on the ground angled her to death, after which he hted the body with stonas and cast it the river. Nov d Wassalieff were soon after- ed. From their statements a number of others popo. zed oforn in a carriage. the girl and stuy and s v was unfolded in court. Boits- s wife was present at the trial ele- dressed. Boitscheff himself wore a ber of medals and insignia of orders. He was gay and witty, and frequently in- dulged in laughter. He denied all knowl- the girl’s whereabouts. Novelicand Vassali«ff coniessed, and adbered to their cheff alcne ff declared that gantl strangled Borts- Anna made a scandal at the palace and the P cannot allow 1t.”" c said Boitscheff had summoned palace and said: ‘“‘She must 1t is the Prince's command.” What was most horrible in the proceed- ings was the calm obedience of police of the commission of cold-blooded murder when told it was the Prince’s orcers. The jury found Boitscheff and Novalic guilty of murder, convicting Wassalieff as an accomplic is supposed to have had a n the murder of ex- Premier Stambuloff in 1895, Boitscheff and Novelic was each sentenced to death, but it was immedi- ately ahnounced that the sentence in each case would be comm nient with the deprivation of civii rights. Each of the prisoners was also condemned to pay 5000 francs to defrav the expenses ed to life imprison- of g the vicum’s child. W £a as sentenced to ears and eight months’ impris ent, o be fol- lowed by the deprivation of civil righis, Boitscheff collapsed whe Dtende was pronc d, sobbing c¢ sive His wife rushed to the dock, embraced and Eissed him, exclaiming that be was inno- ce ARMGE FOR BATTLE-SHIPS. Lecretary Long May Have to Arrange for a Government Plant. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 28.—The propositions of the Carnegie and Bethle- hem companies to furnish diagonal armor for the battle-ships Iilinois, Wiscons n and Alabama at a price to be hxed here- after have been rejected by Secretary Long, who hoids he has no authority for such an agreement. Diagonal or bulk- head armor is usually built intothe s'ruct- ure of u ship. The offers of the armor manufacturers were made to prevent de- lay pending a setilement of their contro- versy with the Government. The con- struction bureau has reported to Secre- tary Long that a failure to receive diago- n#l armor will cause no delay, as arrange- mints can te made for putting it into po- ®ition afier the battle-shipsare completed. Meariwhile the Secretary is waiting to from the Cramps and the Newport *ws Ship-building companies whether ¢ will undertake to establish armor rlants. A <milar question asked the Union Iron Works of San Francisco' has been answered in the negative. If both the Cramps and the Newport companies de- cline to attempt to manufacture armor the Secretary will go ahead with arrange- ments to establish a government plant. poLe e And the Band Will Play. SAN ANTONIO, 7Tex., July 29. — :mo Mariines, who. murdered his heart and her aged parents, will be hanged to-morrow ufternoon at Flores- Ville. At Martinez’s request a brass band from bhere will attend, turnishing lively music during the uanging. A large dele- ‘gation of Mexicans from here will partici- pate ln the festivities, s exceptionally | | the environments of the 1sed of the murder, and the whole | “The Prince knows all. | FOUR DISTINGUISHED MEN OF SCIENCE TITLED BY THE QUEEN. | SIR WILLAM MacCORMAC, Bart. Four distinguished men of science were In reality the Queen was honored by the a greater than any title or position in the po Mr. Crookes, who may now call hims the leading chemists of the world. the age. rays,” and it was for Professor Crookes the are called. He has discovered metals and known as “'Professor” Crookes,' despite the William Huggins, whom the Queen h winning thatall the crowned heads of Eurc an F. R. 8. E., a D. C. L. of Oxford, an LL. SIR SAMUEL WILKS, Bart. given titles by the Quesn at her recent jubilee—Wiliiam Crookes, Samuel Wilks, William Hugginsand William MacCormac. cceptance of her gifts, for these men are wer of Victoria to bestow. elf “Sir William’’ if he cares to, is one of His original researches have been the marvel of His *radiant matter”’ opened the way for Roentgen’s now famous “X | famous tubes used 1n “X ray’’ processes has established methods of sewerage and fertilization that will be great boons to humanity when men become civilized enough to use them. A short description of his work would fill a book. He will always be small title the Queen has given him. as made a G. C. B., has titles of his own ope could give no man. Heisan F. R. 8., D. of Cambridge, Edinburgh and Dublin SIR WILLIAM CROOKES, Kt. and St. Andrew’s, and a Ph.D. of Leyden. est phy-icist living. His fame is imbedded eries first that he had declined the ‘‘honor,” but gists of Europe, and is widely known to the writings. College of Surgeons of London. Heisan [ scientific societies that know only the royalty of intellect. from the ioremost scientific bodies of Europe and the United States. years old, and this royal recognition of his services comes rather late. It was said at SIR WILLIAM HUGGINS, G. C. B. He isa member of a dozen Continental Mr. Hugeins is the great- in the history of astronomy. His discov- incredible to the unscientific mind, have won him many medalsand deccrations He is now 75 th s report has not been verified. Samuel Wilks, who has become a baronet, was given a higher honor in virtue of his being a physician extraordinary to the Queen, College of Physicians, and is now 73 years old. He is one of the foremost patholo- He 1is the president of the Royal world of medicine and its sciences by his William MacCormac, made a knight by the Queen, is anything but that which that word indicates. He is an able surgeon—scientific—and is president of the Royal rishman. STRIKERS ARE YET MARCHING Men Who Continue to Work Terrified by | | | 1 | | | Their Visits. | Deputies Fire a Volley Over‘ the Heads of Members of | One Delegation. { | | Debs Addresses a Mseting and| Tells the Deivers They Are | Worse Than Slaves. PITTSBURG, Pa about 300 strikers , July 29.—Although hered in the neigh- borhood of De Armitt’s mine this morn- ing, there was no violence. For a few minutes it looked as if there might be a fight, but De Armitt’s miners preferred to | submit to robbery rather than resist, and | escaped injury. 1e strikers marched across the coun- try, beginning about midnight, to the Mc- Crea schoo'house, where a meeting was held laier in the day. Delegations were sent to Plum Creek, Sandy Creek and Turtle Creek mines and prepared to re- ceive the miners as they woula start to work. The authorities forbade one dele- | zation to march through the sireets of Turtle Creek, so the strikers stationed themselves on the township road. The steam whistle at the mine tried to drown | | tue notes of the band, and the company carried some of the miners to the coal pit over its private railroad. The Sandy Creek delegation of strikers listened to the reading of the injunction | and made no attempl to go on the com- 1y property. The strikers were partly successful here, as more than 100 of the Sanay C Creek miners later attended the meeting. The Plum Creek contingent of strikers | missed its way at first and traveled nine unnecessary miles. When they arrived at | the mines deputies fired a volley over their | beads as a warning, and the strikers’| | drum corps responded with a lively tattoo on the instruments, The strikers overtook miners going to work, but were unsuccessful in inducing them to stay out of the mines. They robbed the men of their dinner-buckets. | years | the treasury on fraud was expected, although the defense made a very strong fight. Beham married Miss Florence Tout, a 16-year-old Bvron girl, at Rochester on August 4, 1894 It was a runaway match, the parents of Miss Tout objecting strongly to the Union. The bride, in ad- dition to being young and raiher pretty, was an heiress to $37.000. Less than three later, on January 4, 1897, Mrs. Benham died under circumstances so sus- and charged with her murder The evidence showed that the wife's death was s0 suspiciously sudden that an | examination was made and the presence of prussic acid detecied. Some of the most famous chemical experis in the Unjted States were emplqyed und the critfcal point, the correctness of the anaiysis of the aead woman’s stomach, was fought most vigorou-ly. THOSE BENSON CONTRACTS. New Surveys to Ee Made After the Government Has Expended $1,000,000. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 29.—A special to the Herald from Washington says: The | Interior Department, under the direction of the new administration, has under- taken to dispose of the Benson contracts, which had their beginning in the seven years from 1878 to 1885 in Californis and other Western States. These disputes con- sisted in false surveys which cost the United States more than $1,000,000. Commissioner Lamoreaux first pre- pared an estimate to go into one of the | appropriation bills for $50,000 to satisfy all of the remaining claims in these fraudu- | lent surveys, but Secretary Francis would not approve the esiimate, and it was not submitted to Congress. When Binger H. Hermann succecded Lamoreaux as Commissioner of the Land Office he aiscovered that his predecessor had approved the accounts for the five re- maining “Benson surveys” and had sent them—in all amounting to $50,000. of which §35,000 were for surveys and $15,000 for othar claims—to the Treasury Depart- ment for payment as 800N as an appropri- ation might be available. This was also done aga.nst the protest of the inspector commissioner. Comm:ssioner Hermann caused the agants of the Interior Department to con- duct an investigation. Benson, with at- | torneys. nrged Commiss oner Hermann to let Commissioner Lamoreanx’s approval of the accounts stand. Benson finally proposed a compromise. This compro- mise Commissioner Hermanu entered into and by tue terms the surveys were to be made vver again and when aporoved by the agents of the Land Office wiil be paid for. Tne United States, for the time being, agrees not to prosecute civil suits to recover money which was paid out of nt claims. LY FANATICS. — SLAUGHIEKE News From Rio de Janeiro of a Most Sanguinary Battle. The workmen were so terrified that they | submitied meekly and then ran into the mines, The meeting at the McRea schoolhouse began at 11 A. M. Addresses were made by Eugene V. Debs, M. P. Carr of the | ainters’ and Decorators’ Union, Dolan | and Warner, the miners’ local officials. All blzmed De Armitt for being the cause of the strike. “I am not here,” said Debs, *'to incite | your passions, but [ appeal to your rea- | son. You are in the midst of the greatest | contest the werld has ever known. Vie- | | tory depends uvpon yourselves. To win | you must remain absolutely sober until this contest is ended. Whisky will make | youdo just what your enemies want you {to do, I want to say a few words to the men here who have not gone on a strike, | I you cause these men to lose the strike | you and the wen will have wages reduced. i The miner isa human ow! and has to | work like a machine. Now he has to live in a hovel which a respectable coyote would not own. . [ “‘Forty years ago a slave was worth | | from $300 to $4000. What personal value 1 do you possess? You are worse off than a slave. The true owner of a slave made bim work for nothing, but had an interest |in keeping him in working condition. When you are tired your master throws you away and hires another slave. Poli- ticians tell you you are soverign citizens. Instead you are slaves. Railroads would rather kill brakemen than hogs; they have to pav for a hog.” Later a separate meeting of the Sandy Creek miners was held, and resolutions were adopted agreeing to strike. The miners’ offi ‘ials claim that three-fourths of the Turtie Creek miners also attended a separate meeting, Debs leit to-night for Terre Haute, Ind. Other agitators went to Turtle Creek to hold a meeting. At the Turtle Creek meeting resolutions were adopted pledging the Turtie Creek miners to strike. CONVICITED OF WIFE-MURDER, Howard C. Benham’s Sensational Trial Ends at :avaria, M. ¥, BATAVIA, N. Y., July 20.—The trial of Howard C. Benham, accused of wife murder, ended to-day with a verdict of | guilty of murder in the first degree. The | trial has been of the most sensational that has ever occurred in this part of the State and lasted for more then four weeks, The courtroom was crowded during the entire time. The feeling was against | sides 1s more than 3000. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 20.—A dis- patch to the Herald from Rio de Janeiro 8ays city to the effect that more than 3000 sol- diers have Leen killed in a big batiie near the site of Canudos. The fanatics, num- bering more tnan armed, attacked the Government troops. Whole brigades of the soldiers were swept down and trampled under foot as the vic- ol triumph, passed over them. be told. Toere is no reasonable doubr, nowever, that the loss in kilied on both For miies the ground around Canudos 1s strewn with the dead and dying. The Government troops were compelled to leave their dead on the field and flee to save themseives from complete destruction by the ava- lanche of fanatics. reacned Rio de Janeiro it was considered by the President and Ministry, and it was decided to seud the Minister of War to the scene next week wiih 4000 meon, who are now gatbering. They wiil carry with them a great store of ummuanition, and will endeavor to dislodge the fanatics from the positions they now hold. Fighung has been in progress in Can- udos for several weeks. In the meantime, while the fanatics fought apparently with little beart, they have beeu gathering their forces from all directions.” The re- sult was the final attack on the Govern- ment troops, which led to such awful re- sults. P FUES OF ALCOHOL ASSEMBLE. Several Thousand Temperamce Workers Meet ar Ocean Groce, N. J. OCEAN GROVE, N. J., July 29.—Foes of alcoholic liquors to a total of several thousand assembled here this morning 1n the sixteenth annual convention of the National Temperance Society. Joshua A. Baily ot Philade!phia, the noted humani- tarian and philanthropist, called the con- vention to order in the Auditorium and responded to the address of welcome made by Rev. Dr. Peter Stryker in behalf of Ocean Grove. Afier the appointment of committees “and other routine business the Aud tor- jum was taken possession of by the Sun- day-school children oif Ocean Grove and Asbury Park, who were addressed by Professor Booker T. Washinzton of Tuske- gee, Ala., Rev. Dr. Chadwick of New Haven and KRev. Dr. Poul-on of New York. Prominent among the distin- gushed men from abroad in attendance are Rev. Drs. P. 8. Hensen of Chicago and O. P. Gifford of Buffalo, Colonel Georze W. Bamn of Kentucky and John G. Wooley, the temperance evangelist, e To Swu- All the Railroads. FRANKFORT, Ky. July 29. — The Benham from the start and the verdict State Board of Valuation and Assessment picious that her husband was arrested that information has reached that 10,000 men, all well | torious fanatics, with wild, hoarse shouts | The full extent of the loss of life cannot | When the report” of the awful battie | | jail, the negroes were at the height of | prison | were called on for service. | uptown. | the mob and saved the jail. | Kmght | partment bere. | which Hatfield bad r gained his liberty. is preparing to bring similar suits against every railroad n the State to the one to be filed against che Southern Pacific on the franchise tax. e i NEGRO MURDERERS GUARDED. State Troops and Folice Have a Lively 1ime at Mobile, Ala- bama. | Ara., July 29.—Following the | MOBILE. murder la night of Thomas Jones | by Isaia Davis, a negro, whom Jones foune trying to assault his sister, the negroes of this city broke loose. When a crowd of 2000 assembled around the city The police force on duty at the was doubled, and State troops frenzy. Bl Knight, a colorea desperado, shot and kiiled another negro named Dantzler This diverted the attention of In escaping mortally wounded Policeman | Tucker. The Siate troops under arms at the armory were paralyzed, and it is safe | to assert that not one would have lifted a finger against the mob. Their offic: rs be- | came apathetic after the second murder tc such an extent thatthe Muyor could | not find them. Barly this morning Knight was brought here by a seciion boss of the Louisville | and Nashvilie at Hurricane Bayou in an- swer to a telegram from the Detective De- All expected he would be taken to the central police station and over 1000 men assembled there. At Lip- scombe street, the northern city limit, the prisoner was taken from a special engine and hurried to the jail. While the crowd was hunting for Knight Davis was tuken to the County Jail in a patrol wagon filled with armed policemen. He was bound over without bail. He will be tried at a specially convened sitiing of the City Court on Monday next. —_—— “CAP” HATFIELD ESCAPES. The Kotorious Desperado, Assisted by | His Wife, Succeeds in Regaining His Liberty. WILLIAMSON, West Va., July 29— The notorious desperado, **Cap’’ Haufield, confined in the County Jail here and | awaiting trial on a charge of murder, es- caped at3 o'clock this morning. Shortly z.ter 2 o'clock the other prisoners gave an alarm which aroused the Sheriff. Inves- tigation revealed a hole in the back part of the second story of the jail through A hatchet, chisel and large pocket-knite, with which he bad made an ovpening through the fourteen-inch wall, were found. Hatfield had just finished a three months’ jail senience for kiliing three men at Matewan on election day and was being held on thecharge of murdering Dave Kinney on Beech Creek two years ago. gO:x Tuesday Hatfield’s wife was allowed to visit him witbout being searched, and it is thought she carried to him a large pistol with which he forced his fellow- prisoners to keep still untit he had gotten away. The hatchet, cnisel und knife are believed to have been passed through the bars by some one on the outside. Hutfield’s wife was arresied and held to-day on a charge of being an accessory to the escape. It is believed that Troy and Elias Hatfield, brothers of the *‘Cap,’” were near the jail with a horse for him. A rewsrd bas veen offered tor Hatfieid, dead or alive, and there is talk (o-night of organizing a strollg Pariy 1o go o the home of Hatfieid’s father, *‘Devil Anse,’’ where he 18 supposed to be in hiding, sur- rounded by a host of desperate kinsmen. —_—— MILLIONS INVOLVED. M NY The Question of Whether or Not Kaw Ca'fskins Are Fre- NEW YORK, N. Y., July 20.—The New York appraisers made a very important classification to-day in the matter of im- ported calf-kins. Leather merchants, shoe manufacturers and others have insisted ever since the schedule on hides and leather was decided by the conference committee on the Dingley bill that calf- skins do not come under section 437 of the law, but under section 6664, which reads: +Skins of ail kinds raw (except sheepskins with wool on) and hides not specifically provided for 1n tuis act, are free.” Collector Warren of Boston, who made the first ruling on raw calfskins, decided Monday that they are not hides but skins and can come ir free. The Collector at San Francisco on Tuesday ruled as aid the Coliector of the Port of Boston. The question did not come up here uniil Wednesday, when it was referred to the New York appraisers. Toey concluded that raw caliskins are hides of cattle ana must come under section 437 ana pay 15 per cent duty. This decision will be contested by all the leather merchants an: shoemaukers and referred to the Treasury Department. The question is one of the most important under the law, because a large percentage of all the hides imporied are calfskins aud a duty of 15 per cent means millions of dollars annually. England to Join the Conference. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 29.—The Herald’s Washington special says: Offi- cial information just received indicates that Great Britain will consent to join the internationul monetary conference in this city next winter. Thoush Great Britain | has not yet made the cfficial response to the proposition of the United States en- | shot was fired downward, voys, an intimation bas been given that England will soon consent. s NISS BARRETT ) STRANGE DEATH Startling Disclosures in Connection With the Mystery. There Is Fresh Reason to Be- lieve That the Bookkeeper Was Murdered. On the Day of Her Death One of Her Most Intimate Frisnds Also Disappeared. BOSTON, Mass, July 29.— To-day brought forth the most startling dis- closures yet in the strange mystery of the death of Alice Barrett. Murder is the theory to-day, and noc less a person than Fire Marshal Whitcomb, who is making the investigation, igresponsible for it. “There is a goodideal in the case that suggests murder,” he said to a reporter to-night. *‘It is a decidedly mysterious case. Take the wound, for instance. The muzzle of that revolver was held about at Miss Barrett’s collar-bone and the How could she have inflicted that wound? How she would bave had to cramp her arm. There was a way for the murderer to escape. He could have gotaway by the window. There are also indications pointing to suicide.” The disappearance of Miss Barrett's bunch of keys, whiie the single key to the office door was found, is & singular mys- | tery in itself and impossible of explana- tion asyet. A §$35 check, all stamped for deposit, is also missing. This is not nego- tiable in any way except to the credit of the firm, so she could not have embezzled it. “The girl was murdered,” said Mr. Cod- | man, her emvployer, to the Fire Marshal to-day. “The murderer took the money and escaped by the window.” The membvers of the girl’s family are also sure that she did not commit suicide. Ttisnow stated that a checkbook and a letter-book both appear to have been de- stroyed besides the cashier’s book already, mentioned. It is said at police headquar- ters that it is a peculiar circamstance that on the very afternoon of the girl's death one of her most intimate friends went away about 5 o’clock, and has not since been found at his regular place of employ- ment. He is Alfred E. Campbell, a clerk in the office of Auditor Keves, at the freighthouse of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. On Sat- urday he took a train for Wollaston, a suburb, and his acquaintances have lost sight of him since that hour. This wasa considerable time after the fate of Miss Barrett's death bad been known. At the Fire Marshal’s investigation to- day P. ). Collins, with an office at 130 Water street, Boston, proved a star wit- ness. Hesad: “Alice Barrelt had lost $5000 in sugar stocks within the last six weeks. She went short on sugar, contrary to my aa- vice. About eight months ago she told me about the $800. She told me she had given it to Fuss. On Thursday she and I went to dinner together. I decline to state where. We had some wine; she was all right, however. She said, ‘Can you let me have $1200?” Ididn’t have it, but I gave her §46” A FUGITIVE FEOM GERMANY. Otto Schoey Forced to Flight for De- nowncing the Kaiser’s Arrosance. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 29.—Otto Schoey, who has just arrived in America, fled from Germany to avoid arrest under an indictment that had just been found against him. Schoey's crime was speak- ing in disrespectful terms about the Emperor. He had made all his plans to build tive houses near the summer palace, but the Emperor jorbade the construction of the buildings. Then Schoey, smarting under the act of injustice, denounced the action of the Emperor as “infamous.” For this he was indicted and only escaped arrest by flight. S Erganites Soheming to turn Down Hill, NEW YORK, N. Y., Juiy 29.—There is avian to turn down Senator Hiil. He controls the State Committee and will not allow the general convention to meet. The Byran men will try and calla conven- tion to oust Hill — - Death of a Widely Known Manufacturer. BOSTON, Mass,, July 29.—John T. Lovell, bead of the big manufacturing firm, died to-day. The firm has a national reputation as manufacturers of firearms and bicycles. —_——— Ahocking Charge of a_hevivalist. VINITA, I T., July 29,—Rev. Mr, Crawford was brought here and jailed to-day. He is accused of assaulting a little girl, He was a successful revivalist. LL IAKE N0 PROTEST Hawaii Has No Use for the Little Palmyra Island. So It Is Used as a Station for the New Cable to Australia. Not Having Heard of Japan’s Ac- ceptance of Arbitration, Corre~ spondence Is Published. HONOLULU, Hawar, July 22.—H. B. M. 8. Penguin arrived in port yesterday morning, and is anchored in naval row alongside the U. 8. S. Marion. The Penguin is specially fitted up and classed as a survey ship. She has spent the last ithree months in surveying tue proposed route of the Australia-British Columbia cable, and will remain here aboat three weeks to take in coal and supplies. NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. purchaseri r[l&é’fllfi ”rp'/ There’s a lot of little fellows going to school Monday dressed in owr clothes, a lot of ’‘em dressed fashionably, a lot of ‘em dressed in fall and winter fashions. We're the first to show ’em. Everything on the second floor now is brand new— . The story of British possession of Pal- | nothing from spring at all. myra Island, recently related by Captain Ro:ehill of the schooner Norma, is con- firmed by the officers of the Penguin. They admit that the island was first claimed by the Hawaiian Government in 1862, but say that it was sold to a private individual here, who went into bankruptcy ard let it go. Afterward some San Fran- cisco parties got hold of the 1sland, but they, too, tired of the possession and gave it up. In 1889 the British cruiser Cormorant made a survey of the island and claimed itas a British possession. A flag was set up and a proclamation, written on a board, left on the island. The Penguin on her recent visit renewed the flag and the proclamation. It was probably evi- dence of tne recent visit of the Penguin that Captain Rosehill found. It is doubtiul whether the Hawaiian Government will take any steps to claim Paimyra Island, as it is valuless except for cable purposes. Minister King in- formed THE CALL correspondent that this Government has had undisputed right to the island for flity years past and that it has always been consiaered as belonging to Hawait. Ex-United States Consul-General Ellis Mills and wife leave on the Alameda, but there are strong probabilities that Mr. Mills may return in the fall to take up ihe practice of law. Mr. Mills reached Honolulu in March of 1893 in company witl Special Commissioner Blount., Im October of the same year he was appointed United States Consul-General, which posi- tion he held until the first of last month, when he surrendered it to President Mec- Kinley’s appointee, William Hay wood. Daring his recent visit to San ¥rancisco President C. L. Wight of the Wilder Steamsbip Company placed an order with the Union Iron Works for a new steamer to take the place of the Likelike, recently wrecked, The vessel will be built on the same lines as the lelene, brought dowa here not long since by Captain Georze C. Beckley. The commission of Henry E. Cooper as Minister of Finance, ad interim, having expired, by constitutional limitation, sixty days after his appointment, the President has appointed Theodore F. Lansing Minister of Finance. Upon the return of Mr. Damon, Mr. Lansing will protably resign the position and Mr. Da- mon resume his official duties. Mr. Lan- sing is a member of the w olesale dry- goods and clothing house of M. Puillips & Co., and is a practical, conservative, busi- ness man who 1s very popular here. Min- ister Damon is not expected back before the end of August. ¢ The news that the battle-ship Oregon has been ordered to Honclulu was re- ceived with general satisfaction by all classes. There is plenty of room in the harbor for the Oregon, according to Cap- tain King and other authorities. The basin that was dredged out for the Olym- pia still remains, and the water is deeper alongside the Philadelphia than any- where in the harbor. Yesterday afternoon Minister Cooper called the members of ths local press togetner, and for the first time gave out to the public a complete synopsis of the cor- respondence between Count Okuma and Minister Resident Shimamura and him- self over the Japanese controversy as far as it has gone. Minister Cooper was im- pelled to this for two reasons: Popular demand for more information on the sub- ject here and the knowledge that the Hawaiian side of the affair is freely given out by the Japanese Government. The fact that Hawaii had offered to arbitrate the matter was unkmown here except to a fe, but was given out both at Tokio and Washington. Important dispatches were received both by United Siates Minister Sewall and Admiral Beardslee by the Australia. They were evidently expected, for both officials came into town for their mail, and after glancingover it at the consulate went off to the flagship, where they held a conference lasting over two hours. Afterward Minister Sewall, who looked as though he had received joyful news, called on the President and Minister Cooper in- formally. The Government received no late dis- patches, its last letters from Minister Hatch being dated July 7. Since then nothing had been received. At the Japanese legation it was given out that nothing had been received from Minister Hoshi at Washington, but that important dispatches were expected from Count Okuma on the Belgic, due here on July 27. Timely Diccorery on the Normannia. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 20.—Just be- fore the steamer Normannia was ready to sall for England to-day a greal crack was discovered in the shaft of the vessel. The passengers will be transferred to the Columbia of the same line, which will sail on Saturday, and the shaft of the Normannia wiil be repaired. e Mormons Assailed by Whitecaps. COLUMBUS, 8. C., July 29.—Last night whitecappers assailed ' the Mormon’s bouses with revolvers. Eight more eiders are coming with re-enforcements, armed to fight. There will be war in Fairfield County. Glassworkers Arranging a Wage Soale. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 29.—Dele- gates representing the Wage Committee of the Window Glass- Workers’ Association of tie United States met here to-day to arrange the wage scale for the coming year. They say they have assurance that ibeir demand for an advance will be granted in the strength of additional tariff protection. 00 C 0000000 00CORIOOCO0CC) Shovels a Work! We're shoveling out. Want to send wmore boys to school with owr clothes on, so we're going to let you have some very pretty Reefer Swits, with deep sailor collar, prettily braided, for little hopefuls be- tween the ages of 3 and 10, and, some very pretty little Double- breasted Swits for lads between, the ages of 5 and 15. A Brownie. Luneh Basket with either style Friday and Saturday at --$1.65.-- The blues, those lovely blue twill cheviotsy with broad, deep generous sailor collar, in: the reefer fashion, with little buckle .at_the knee of trousers; $; values, including a Brownie Lunch Basket, for your litile man. : The same blue fabrics for boys between -the ages of 5 and 15, also including a -Brownis Lunch Basket. These at , —$1.95.~ This pretty little suit that you see in the picture opposite, awfulty sightly, with a vest. This is the popular fall and win- ter fashion, made from” fine all-wool Scotches, brand mew styles, for lads Fe- tween the ages of & and 16 ; nothing sweller in America at any price. The col~ orings are numerous, and each is entirely new. Values repre- sented up to §5 we're shoveling out. These * at --$5.00.-= Friday and Saturday are always interesting days at the big Kearny- street store, but this Friday and Sat- urday will be exceptionally interest- ing, especially for mothers that are going ‘to send” their little folks to - school Monday. Our clothing is the kind that lasts— it’s reputation makers. R THE FRISCO BOYS, g 11 13 15 Keary St 14,700 Square Feet Devoted to Juvenile Apparel Alone.