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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1897. (BICYCLISTS ARE [N POSSERSION Members of the L. A. W. Rally in Great Force at Philadelphia. One Feature of the Meeting Is the Number of Women Riders Present. Policem2n With Rad Lanterns En- forc> Regulations at the City cf Brotherly Love. PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. 5.—The racticaily in the possession of the League of American Whneelmen. Over | 17,000 visitors registered at the league's headquarters to-d the:e were rurs (o Valle West Fairmount Park and r y Country Club. Promi- 1t members and officials of the league e been arr | day. racing board held a Various matters | othing of impor- | The suggestion that 1¢ board consent low winners of mile ateur and profestional races to meet iturday and decide the question of th American championship it was thought d come up for action. Chairman | , bowever, says no action was taken | 1e question. | The continued absence of President | Elliott from the meeting is causing much | criticism. The most important feature of | the meet will be the races held tormorrow and Saturday at Willow Grove Park track. All tne crack professional and amateur | riders have arrived, and some of them in- | dulged in practice spins to-day. Bald, Kiser, Cooper and Gerdiner are favorites for professional championship honors. Bald 1s in better condition than the other | ess some of the men show , the Buftalo rider should | the but tance was given ont ing fo win the short-distance champioaship events hanail here are half a dozen speedy eurs representing the East i West who witl compete in the cham- | ss, and no one is con- ceded to hav dvantage. | One feature of the meet is the presence ‘ of the ereat number of whee.‘\\'umen.i Special prov have been made for | their entertainment. Several thousand nev embe: ve been enroiled in the | since the opening of the mEeL‘ e day leading officials of the 1king first in membership got | and as a result pol al con- hanged. A correspondent | vania, Massachusetts and | New Jersey divisions to minate and sup- D. Gideon for the presidency election. There is a general | seniiment among prominent members of | the league that the incumbent should | be cted. influentisl men. aled the ional keys and | hstrings will not be necessary at In- dianapolis if they got the next National | The walls of the city, he said, d be torn down for the occasion. aroused so much enthusiasm that he was | proposed and cheered as the next Gov- | ernor of India The mostrezular attendantsof L. A. W. meets agree that never before was such thorough, effective work done by a city anxicus to entertain the league. Broad e of the principal bicy- cle thorou of the city, was alive with rid o-night, and visitors note the city enforces peculiar regulations. Po- | ing. licemen a oned in the middle of streets with red lanterns forcing riders to | keep (o right and left under penalty | of arrest, FIFTEEN HUNDKED SLAIN. During Recent Fioting Kear Galcutta | Artillery Fires tpon a Mob of Mill Kands. The Evening a Calcu'ta volunteer reiterating the statement that during the recent rioting near there the artillery fired point blank ata mob of 5000 milhands, who were marching to join the | rioters, with the result that 1500 of the natives were killed. | All men in Calcutta, the writer says, | go about their daily duty with revolvers | in their pockets, not knowing what mo- | ment they w:ll bea ed; and houses | arc all equipped with revolvers, rifles and | bay onets. LONDON, News pu hos R | WOMEN BATHED DROWNED, Their Awimming-Tank Wached Away and Orer Une Hundred Lost. BERLIN, GErMANY, Aug. 5. —News has } been received here of a terrible disaster in the River Dusiper at the town of Krem. | entchug, dne to the unusually high water | in_the river. While a swimming bath anchored in the river was crowded with women bathers it suddenly broke loose and was swept away by the rapid current. It 1s estimated that there were fully 200 women in the bath when it was swept away. Of these not mcre than half were | saved, and the others, fully 100 in number, were drowned. R MILVER AT LOW LEVEL, Yhe Fall of the White Jetal Paralyzes the Mrxican Mariet. MEXICO CITY, Mexico, Auz. 5.—The unprecedented fall of silver to-day in New York and London created a sensation among business men hereand iora time | paralyzed the markets. Tae parity calls | tor a 129-per-cent go'd premium here, but | to-day’s quotations were 130 a1d 132 per | cen Aiternard the markeis wers easier | and it fell 1o 128. Merchants have ad- vanced all prices on exported goods 20and | 25 per cent. sgles o No Money for the Raid. LONDON, Exg., Aug. 5.—B. F. Hawkes- counse! jor Cecil Rhodes, in an inter- view to-day declared that the report cir- culated by the Morning Post of this city, that Mr. Rhodes and Alired Bell, the former a resident director at Cape Town of the British South African Company, bad personally raid the Transvaal Gov- ernment £250,600 as indemmity for the raid of Dr. eson and his followers » the Transvaal in December, 1895, is ‘all nonsense.”’ - Lost in the Fiood. Aug. 5.—The bridge in the Crimea weakened by the psed to-day, Thirty-eight per- Bons were drowneds He | 2 | in an interview: MUTSU HITO, THE AN \ \ who have sought to embarrass him in the placed by the turmoil of Japanese politics. Huru-Ko, a most charming and accomplished of the progressive mov The Emperor is bott tributed the st the ent which has do al and enlightene: 18 reprodu T oO%‘Dc{:f__@(&OO RULER OF JAPAN. 00 Mutsu Hito, Jap cror, acquires fresh interest to Americans now that the two | countries are bus; Qiplomatic way coucerning the Hawaiian Islands. The Mikado has managed the affairs of hisempirein a very discreet fashion during the past dozen years of change and war. He began to reign &t the tender ege of 17, and his rule has been wise and gentle. Although not always free from the chicanery of designing ministers, Mutsu Hito has been nble ard faithiul and honest servents of state, and punish the evil men whose infl >n thougn under (ha guise of reform, were not always for the best. Since the | ado constitutional government his conduct has won him preise even from those mely delicate positious in which he has been he jcror was married in 1863 to Princess ludy, who, like her husband, is warmly in favor much to bring Japan forward of late years , and to him as much as to any one is to be at ss which has marked the history of Japan since his accession to ced irom the Chicago Times-Herald. ARBITRATOR That Is the Selection Made by the Japa- nese Government. But Will Insist That This Country Assume a Contin- gent Responsibility. Diplomats of the Mikado’s Realm May Yet Cause a Naval Demon- stration at Hawail. YOKOMHMAMA, Japax, Aug. 5.—It ateda that Beigium be selected to act as arbitrator in disputs between Hawaii Japanese Government, NEW YORK, N. X., Aue. to the Herald A special from Washington says: | Japan will insist tnat the United States assume a contingent respousibility ir the matter of the arbitration of her differ- ences with Hawaii on the subject of im- migration and the tariff. It is understood ‘that this is one of the essential conditions upon which Japan will consent to arbitration, and that if this responsibility is not assumed by the United States Japan will break off nego- tiations looking to arbitration and back up her demands by a naval demonstration in Hawaiian waters, The State Department has not yet re- ceived any cificial communication from | the Japanese Government on this matter | and the administration has not indicated whether or not 1t will comp!y with the Japanese demand when maae. An official of the Japanese Legation said “I am not officially in- tormed concerning the limits of arbitra- tion, but that Japan should ask the United States to take recognition of it and as- sume an ultimate respoLsibility for the decisions of thz arbiter as regards Hawaii being carried out seems 10 be very nat- ural. “If the United States refuses to give us a guarantee it is probable that the arbi- tration proposition will fail. We prefer to entertain a grievance and to indemnity our subjects ourselves than to arbitraie after the indignity of the refusal by the United States of =o just a request. | Neither the United States nor the Ha-| walians can justly plead disinterested- ness. Frequently in the Hawaian- Japanese correspon lence of late the pend- ing annexation has figured as a factor in This should operate in the the situation. arbitration case as wel LONDON SCHOUL FINANCES. What It Costs Yearly to Teach the Young British Idea How to Shoot LCNDO NG., Aug. 5—It will take nearly $15,000,000 1o run the public schools in the control of the London Scheol Board for tue fiscal year ending August 1, 1898, This Is the estimate filed with the Educa- tion Department to-aay by Sir Jobn Key, chairman of the finance committee. _ Superintendents and teachers alone will Graw over six millions in salaries. Books and stationery, which are furnished free, will absorb anotber half million, while $400,000 is appropristed for the schools in which cooking, laundrywork and manual training aie nale a specialty. The esti- mate, wuich wiil be approved by the Gov- ernment, is $2,000,000 in excess of the annual outlay two years ago, this fact being due to the increased number of schools and heavy additions oi scholars to the old schools, involving a larger force or teachers and other auxiliaries. e (2 G. 4. R, WELCOME, Richmond Has Mo Hospitality for the Boldier in Blue, RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 5—In view of the action of the Young Men’s Business Association to-day in resolving to invite the Grand Army of the Republic to hold its 1899 encampment here Colonel Joan | Cussons, the Virginia State commander of the United Confelerate Veterans, has written a letter opposing the move on tne ground that the visitors would not receive the cordial welcome and the sincere hos pitality to which they are entitled, the Japanese Government has announced its desire that | I A BURNING ~ GRAIN ELEVATOR [Five Men Lose Their | Lives at a Fire in | Chicago. | | The Flames Burst Out After a Loud Explosion in the Building. | Forty or Fifty Cars and the Freight- House Were Also De- stroyed. CHICAGO, Iir., Aug. 5.—Five lives are known lo have been lost and about a dozen firemen injured ata fire which fol- lowed an explosion in the Northwestern clevator at 6 o’clock to-night. The known are: John Coogan, Jacob Schur, } dead | Jacob Stramen, all pipemen of Engine | Company No. 3. Thera are two unidenti- | fied men. Itis thought one man is pos- | sibly buried in the ruins. Assistant Chief | Fire Marshal Musham is among the in- jur d. | The eievator was situated at the junc- | tion of Grand avenue and the Northwest. | ern Railway tracks. | ture of inflammable material. | plosion sbook the entire northwestern | part of the city. Itwas first supposed to | bave been one of the boilers in the build- | ing, but this was impossible, as the boii- | | It was a large struc- The ex- ers were not in use. The theory of Fire Chief Swenie is, that it was a spontaneous cowmbustion of grain. Immediately following the explosion, flames burst out from the ruins, and what was left of the buiiding was practically destroyed. Every police ambulance in the city was sent for. The switching- passing the elevator at the time, and 1t is reported a number of trainmen were caught by the falling wall. As soon as the flames were sufficiently under controi a company of firemen pushed through the smoke. They discov- ered the bodies of two men, burned to a crisp. While the firemen were working on the river side of the building, the wall fell out, carrying with it three men. Later @heir bodies were recovered and re- moved to their homes. All the dead fire- men bad families. The freighihouse ot the Northwestern Railroad caught fire and with forty or more cars was destroyed. The elevator is owned by the railroad company and is a complete loss. The total loss is nearly 50,000, on which the insurance is less than half, e IHE BRIDEGEOOM DEAD, Four Persons Suffocated at a Drunken Wedding Frolic. CINCINNATI, Onmo, Aug. 3.—Three men and a woman died from suffocation since 3 o’clock in a frame dwelling con- sumed by fire on Eim street, opposite Charles. The names of the victims are: Ezra Rouse, Arthur Guth, Nellie Bennett, Roy Carr. The fire started from the explosion of a gasoline stove. The building was a two- story frame, Otto Adler kept an all-night restaurant in the lower story of the house. ‘Lhere | were veventeen men and women 1n one room in tke second story of this house. The occupants of the building refuse all information. None of the deal ‘were burned. They were suffocated irom the fire in the aajacent rooms. The only exit for escipe was blocked by a bathtiib set up on end at the head of the stairway. The smoke ¢ime from an ad- jacent room, where the fire was soon e: | tinguished. It seems that it was a we!- ding frolic, in which Guth, one of the dead men, was tne bridegroom and the daugnter of Landlord Adler was theb.ide. Sull there is some donbt about who was the bride, as this is about nearly all the particulars in the case. . The celebrants of the wedding used beer and cigarettes very fredly, and it is now supposed that c'garettes started the ‘fire and that beer caused the somnolence which, with the up-ended batbtub, was | the indirect cause of so much fatality. It seemsthat while four out of the seventeen in the room were suffocated fatally the other thirteen suffered but :lightly. Juy Cumming licinstated. WASHING1ON, D. C., Aug. 5—Jay Cumming of California bas been reinstated as a special agentof the Land Office. crew on the Northwestern Railway was | JORE MINERS | the Murraysville road. ARE JOINING Indiana Delvers for Coal Uniting Their Issues With Strikers. Debs and Dolan Address a Monster Meeting at Pittsburg. Leaders Denounce the Actlon of Courts in Trying to Prevent Free Speech. TERRE HAUTE, I~pn., Aug. 5—State Secretary Kennedy received the following this afternoon from State Vice-President Llewelyn, who is in charge of the march- ing movement on the mines in the scuth- ern part of the State, where the men have continued at work: ‘“Hartwell, Peters- burg, Littles, Ayrshire and Jackson all out. Booneville next.” This means that 400 miners came out last night and to-cay from the mines where there never before was a strike. At Booneville, Evansville and Newburg, per- baps 200 men are at work, but it is ex- pected that Booneville will be out to- morrow, and Evansville will join without being visited by the crusaders, National Secretary Pearce writes that G. W. Webb, a former member of the national board, had gone to Kentucky to assist President Knight of indiana in an effort to get 1000 St. Bernard miners out. fuffering from hunger has begun in this State. Relief fundsareexhausted. Local breweries and agents of outside breweries are giving flour and plain food products | ireely. Unlike all former strikes, they | are not giving any beer. | Herelofore they | sent wagon-loads of beer to the mining camps, PITTSBURG, PA., Aug. 5—One of the biggest labor meetings ever held in Pitts- burg occurred to-night on Allegheny wharf, where 4000 persons gathered to hear the miners’ strike discusfed by prom- inent labor leaders. Mayor Ford’s fear that there might be trouble proved un- founded. Most of those present were local workingmen, though two delegations of striking miners attended. Patrick Dolan, miners’ district presi- dent, referred to the statement of opera- tors before the strike that the miners would starve. “That was a month ago,’” said Dolan, “but thanks to our friends among the general public and organized labor we have not starved. In our fight for exist- ence we are not antagonized to the public or courts.” | President Garland of the Amalgamated Association of Ironworkers spoke briefly and was followed by Eugene V. Debs. “‘We come as law-abiding citizens,” said | Debs, “but if the courts persist in pervert- ing the law in favor of corporations then I am not a law-abiding citizen. Now is the time to fight cut the question of human rights if it must be fought out. In West Virginia I have been enjoined off the face of the earth, and I see Pennsyivania Judges following the examples set in West Virginia. In case of contest Iam perfect- ly willing to go to jail, eve 1 to the gailows. I will continue the fight though the stars may fall.” At the close of the meeting it wasan- | nounced that a newspaper had opened a subscription list for miners and a busi- ness-house had alreadv contributed $100. The striking miners and deputies met this morning at Plum Creek. A delega- tion of strikers had marched toward the | mine and were confronted by Samuel de | Armitt and twenty Deputy Sheriffs on De Armitt told them the road was vprivate property. They turned beck. Later they learned it | was a public road and returned. The | deputies barred the way, but the strikers | pushed through and marched past the | homes of the miners. The strikers and | the De Armitts still make conflicting assertions. The latter say the force at | Pium Creek is not materially depleted. The miners’ ofticials say about two-thirds of the men have struck. LEXINGTON, Ky., Aug. 5—The Cen- tral Labor Council to-night adopoted the following resolution: Resolved, That the Central Labor Council | hereby condemns as contrary to the principles | of American government the actions of the courts of West Virginia in denying to law- abiding citizens the right of free speech and lawful sssemblage, and we call uvon all liberty-loving citizens to join us in disapprov- ing any act on the part of the courts that will deprive any citizn of such right. WANTED 70 KILL DR. HALE. Arrest of an Insane 7heological Stu- dent Who Threatened the Koted Divine. PROVIDENCE, R. L, Aug. 5.—Thesus- pect in Kingston Jail on suspicion of committing the burglary at Dunmere at the resicence of R. G. Dun has been ident- itied as William Collier, a theological student from Memphis, Tenn. He is now held for an assault upon Detective J. T. | Northrup, who captured him on Mawunc B:ach. Collier was apprehended alfter a hard fight for liberty. It was also learned {o-day that young Collier had come all the way to Rhode Isl- Iand for the avowed purpose of assassinat- ing Rev. Edward Everett Hale. For sev- eral weeks Collier has bzen sending ureatening letters to Dr. Hale. He was | located in the woods in close proximity to Dr. Hale's cottage. Collier struck the of- ficer with a club and cut his scalp open. He declares now that he came here to kill Dr. Hale because **he had been teaching a false religion.” Collier says his father is & lawyer in Memphis, and that his family members | are all prominent people. e NEW BEDFOR1'S CELEBRATION, All New England Will Help Observe Her Half-Centennial Period. NEW BEDFORD, Mass,, Aug. 5.—New Bedford with its population of 50,000 is making arrangemen!s for her semi-cen- | tennial celebration in October on a scale that would do credit to Nsw York or Chicago with their millions. A score of committees are handling the various details and the bureau of pubticity and promotion, with George Hough as president, is working with a vigor that wili insure the presence ¢f tens of thous- ands of visitors from the outside. The Governors of all the New England States have promised to be on haud on Governors’ day, and invitations have been extended to the executives of the Central, Western and Southern States. The cele- bration is to entend over the entire week, which will be packed full of novelties, including parades; ra and banquets. Ex-Queen Lilinokalani of Hawaii has given a provisional promise to be present. The programme for the exercises for the principal day has not heen arranged, but the committee hopes to secure the attend- ance of President McKinley and the mem- bers of the Cabinet. eSS NEGRO OUTLAWS ARRESTED. Louisiana Authorities Have Traced Four Kurders and Robberies to Them. NEW ORLEANS, La, Aug. 5.—Last month Louis Seigler was robbed and mur- dered in St. Charies parish, twenty miles above New Orieans. The recovery of some of his property gave the St, Charles authorities a clew which has resulted in the discovery of a gang of negro outlaws who have been operating nine months. During this time the authorities know of four murders and robberies committed by the gang, and there may have been more. The victims were two negroes, an Italian peddler and Seigler. The murders were all committed within a radius of a mile, and the victim in each instance was killed the same way—the head crushed by an iron bar or ax. Antonio Pritchard was arrested yesterday as the leader of the gang and confessed. He implicated George Washington, William Morris and two women. All four were arrested, PSS CONCESSION FOR A MONOPOLY. Venezuela Gives an American Gom- pany the Right to Establish a Listilling Flant. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 5.—Venezuela has granted a concession giving a substan- tial monopoly for the establishment of the distilling industry in the republic, which, as announced in Wall street to- day was obtained in the interest of the American Spirits Manvfacturing Com- pany. Representatives of that company have paid a number of visits to Caracas in the last twelve months, and the company, since the granting of the concession, has sent one of its practical men to supervise the erection of a plant. Venezuelan sta- tistics show an annual consumption of 60,000,000 gallons of alcoholic beverages. The import duty is prohibitory, being | $3 80 a gallon. The concessior gives the right to bring in all the necessary plant and raw material free for six years. st e PUTTING ON WAR PAINT. Comanches and Kiowas Are Freparing for Kostilities, and a General Uprising Is Feared. PERRY, O. T., Aug. 5.—Horace Gibson, a stockman, just in from the Indian reser- vation at Fort Sill, reports that the Co- manches and Kiowas are putting on war veint, and a general uprising is feared. Itis now unsafe for whites to enter the reservation. There are between 8000 and 10,000 Indians on the reservation. They are pcorly armed, there being but one gun 1o a teepee of about thirty persons. - SELE-STARVATION, Spalding, the Conrictrd Ex-Banker, Now Jiefuies to lake Food. CHICAGO, ILL, Aug. 5.—Much alarm is felt here by the friends of Spalding, the ex-banker. turned, he has persistently refused to take nourishment. Not a particle of food has passed his lips since last Saturday ana he 1s becoming very weak. It is believed that the strain that he has | been oblived to stand for the past two months has affected his brain and that he is partly insane. Efforts have been made by his friends in every possible way to tempt him to eat, but he has steadily refused todoso. Itis feared that he may continue his fast until his life shall have been endangered. Unless he shall hav- vielded within the next few hours an attempt will probably ve made to feed him by force. Dhiss oy WITNESSED T1H MURDER, A4 Little Girl Saw James Frawley Kill Hi« Barkerper. CHICAGO, I, Aug. 5.—All doubts as ‘o the guiltof James Frawley, the wealthy North Clark street saloon-keever, accused of murdering his barkeeper, John Crom- mie, have been removed. It was thought that nobody saw the shooting, which oc- curred in Frawley’s saloon at midnight last night, but a 14-year-old girl—Fannie Baugh—testitied this afternoon that she saw Frawley commit the murder. The two men, she said, were quarreline and paid no attention to her. Suddenly Fraw- ley drew a revolver from his pocket and fired at Crommie. without bail. He is president of the North 8ide Liquor-dealers’ Association and prominent in politics. Skl iy TILL THE PKODISALS’ RETURN, The Chio Geld Demoorats Wilt Vote Therr Uwn Ticket. COLUMBUS, Onro, Aug. 5.—The Gold Damocrats of Ohio will place a full State ticket in the field. This was decided nupon at the meeting of the State Central Com- mittee to-day. When the committee met here a month ago there was a division of sentiment, manv believing that the party could be most effective in affiliating with the Republicans until the Bryan Demo- crats snould return to the true Demo- cratic faith, but the action of the commit- tee to-day was unanimous in favor of a separate ticket. The members say they cannot affiliate with the Republicans on account of the protective tariff measure. It was decided to hold a convention in this city Septem- ber 8and 9. ~ e Olirry E<capes With a Fine. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 5.—Jesse Scott O.iver, an ex-Deputy Sheriff of Los Angeles, Cal., indicted recently for ab- ducting Sarah E. Robb, a 15-year-old girl, whom he met at Coney Island, pleaded guiity before Judge McMahon to-day of an attempted assaulton tke girl. Oliver made two attempls to commit suicide after his arrest. Judge McMahon fined him $150; which he paid and then hurried out of court. ——— The Microscopical Convention. TOLEDO, Omro, Aug. 5—The annual convention of the American Microscopical Society, which hasamembership in every State of the Union, opened 1o-day in the | auditorium of the Central High School. The attendance is large and representa- tive. In connection with the convention there is an elaborate exhibition of slides and microscopes at the public library building. pie St The First Armor-Plate Bid. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 5—Chief O’Neill of the Bureau of Ordnance has received the first bid made on armor plate since Congress fixed the price at not to exceed 5305 per ton. The bid comes from the Cramps and is to furnish four aiago- ral armor plates for compartments on the battle-ship Alabama. The price charged is that tixed by the Government. —_——— A New Eridge-Jumper. CLINTON, Ixp., Aug. 5.—Hugh White, a coal-miner, on a banter made the peril- ous jump from a railroad bridge to tre water, 100 feet below. After the leap he swam 150 fest in his heavy clothing. climbea to the top of the bridge again and repeated his feat Since thne conclusion of his| last trial, when a verdict of guilty wasre- | Frawley will be held | WILL RETIRE AS A SENATOR Gorman of Maryland Has the Presidential Bee Buzzing. Wants to Be the Democratic | Standard-Bearer Three Years Hence. Politiclans In His Party Think He Would Command the Southern Followinz. WASHINGTON,D. C., Aug. 5.--*'Senator Gorman will not be a candiaate for re- election. He has determined to retire from the United States Senate at the ex- piration of his present term.” i This statement, says the Washington Post to-day, comes from one of the most prominent Democrats of Maryland, a man | who has held a high place in the party councils for more than twenty years and who is a devoted personal and political friend of the Senator. He says the truth of his statement will be confirmed within a few days. “This is not a sudden determination at all,” continued the Maryland Democrat, “‘as a matter of fact is but the enforcament of adetermination arrived at two vears ago by Senator Gorman.” The Post bas been the principal friena and defender of Senator Gorman tor a number of years since the pressof his own State thie v off his leacership, and itis the opinion that the announcement it makes to-day is authorized. The information is nothing short of a revelation to the politi- cians of both parties, who construed Sena- tor Gorman'’s presence ana activity at the recent Baltimore convention as an avowal of his candidacy for re-election to the Senate. The reason assigned for Senator Gor- man’s retirement is that he is satisfied with the honors he has already received and desires rest from official life. There is nodoubt that he is mas:er of the Demo- cratic situation in Maryland and could | command a re-election if he desired itin the event of his party being successful in the State. But there is believed to be a motive back of his declination—that he isto become a candidate for the Demo- cratic nomination for President in 1900 on a platform si r to the one adopted in Maryland. This belief is justified by cir- cumstances of the Chicago convention of 1892, when Senator Gorman stood ready to become a Presidential canaidate when- ever it appeared possible to defeat Mr. Cleveland. Wilitam J. Bryan’s chences for renom- ination have received a number of set- backs recently, but nome it is thought that compares with the prospects of Gor- man’s candidacy for President. The ae- sertion of Debs’ followers and the forma- tion of a “social democracy,” the disor- { ganized and disgruntled condition of the Populist allies and the waning of the free- silver sentiment have all materially less- ened Mr. Bryan’s chances. If Senator| Gorman should decide to become a candi- date it is the opinion of the leading poli- ticians that he would command almost the entire following of the Southern States, and the Eastern Democracy would be forced to accept him as the only man | with whom to defeat Bryan. There is undoubtedly a strong move- ment quietly among Democratic leaders | to bring about a reconcitiation of the fac- | tions of the party on more conservative lines in order to promote success in 1900, | and Senator Gorman is one of the in- struments to that end. By retiring from the Senate he avoids a factional fight in Maryland, the outcome of which would be doubtful, and by voluntarily retiring plays an unselfish part before the masses of Maryland’s Democracy and at the same time raises himself to a hizher plane than the political public generally has accorded | him as a leader of machine poilitics purely. TO MAKE AKMOK-PLATE. Preliminary Steps for the Establishment of @ Govsrnment Plant. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 5.—Acting Secretary Roosevslt to-day appointed a board of officers to estimate the cost and advise methods for carrying out the inten- tion of Congress to establish a Govern- ment plant for manufacturing armor- plate. The appointment of the board was contingent on the refusal of big ship- building concerns to undertake armor manufacture. Charles Cramp of Phila- delphia had a conference with Roosevelt and the chief of ordnance to-day. He told them his firm could not go into the armor business on a large scale. He was willing, bowever, to supply a small quantity of diagonal armor, which 1s usually built into the structure of a ship, in order to prevent a delay in the completion of ves- sels now in course of construction. Con- gress fixed $300 as the maximum price for armor. Cramp said his firm might be cble to make plates at that figure, The Union Iron Works of San Fran- cisco has alreaay declined to go into the armor 1ndustry, and it is expected the only other concern invited to supply the Government— the Newpert News Ship- building Company—will likewi<e decline, 50 there 18 nothing for the Navy Depart- ment to do except to direct ihe board to proceed with 1ts inquiry. The board will meet next Monday at the Navy De- partment to outline a plan of procedure. P R OF INTEREST TO 1HE COAST, A4 New Batch of California Postmasters Just Appointed, WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 5—The | following postmasters were appointed to- day in California: Ariington Piace, River- side County, W. B. Johnson, vice J. C. Cayot, r:moved; Black Diamond, Contra Costa Coun y, Nora Buc :anan, vice John Royce, removed ; Clerokee, Butte County, Maggie Herbert, vice H. F. Bader, re- moveda; Concow, Butte County, J. R. Sim- mons, vice C. Richerson, resigned; Eccles, Santa Cruz County, W. C. Forde, vice B. F. McLe!lan, resigned; Folsom City, Sacramento County, C. L. Ecklow, vice James P. Cox, removed; Kings City, Monterey County, J. N. Besse, vice L. B. Ulrey, resigned ; Legrand, Merced County, 8. W. Dickinson. vice M. J. Pettigrove, re- signed; Lordsbt Tz, Los Anceles County, A. A. Torray,vice W. G. Dougherty, removed ; Mooretown, Butte County, E. J. Whittier, vice J. H. Grubbs, removed ; Olive, Orange County, W. E. Robertson, vice A. B. Wil- liams, resign~d; Pieasant Valley, El Do- rado County, S. T. Long, vice C. F. Milier, removed ; Toluca, Los A%eles County, P: B. Compton, vice W. C. Weddington, re- moved. Fears the Tax Colleclor. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 5.—Wiiliam Rockefeller will sell his estate in Tarry- town for §350.000. He spent this sum in improvements. He will jose $125000 of the purchase price. He says that the | taxes are too bigh. 1 NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. Every Boy Has a Shovel But Me. Bring Your Shovels To Raphael’s. Assist wsin our great shovel- ing-out sale of pretty Reefer Swits, with deep reefer col- lars prettily braided, forthe Little ones, ages 3 to 10,and for the bigger boys in dowble- breasted style, ades 7 to 15. Friday and Saturday at Klondyke Nuggets, Every One of ’Em. Those celebrated Bannockburn Cheviots, the best all-wool knock- about suwit ever made; in all new fall patterns, cut in reefer style, for tots agdes 3to 10 ; and the swell double-breasted cut, agdes 9 to 15 years, elegantly tailored and fit par excellence; pretty tans, Oxford mixtures, blues included; valwes wp to 85 and $6. Shoveling ’em out -—-$2.50.—~ Young Men’s Dept. Friday and Saturday Only. Some 250 suits for boys, ades 12 to 19 years, long trousers, in pretty brown overplaids and fancy mixtures. Nugdets ab the price. —$3.50.— A Cut Into the Very Swellest Of Our Long Pants. Suwits for Boys, ages 12 to 19 years; the pret- tiest and best tailored Sar- ments ever made for those natty boys who are so particu- lar about their dress; valwes up to $10 and $12,inworsted overplaids, silk mixtures and rowgh Blue Twill Cheviots. Special in this great shovel- ing-out sale at —$6.50-- 9@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ® Friday and Saturday Will be banner days in our Juvenile Department. [S.SC.C0COCIDI000000C00I00000000] 9 11, 13 and 15 Kearny Street. The Largest Juvenile Depart- ment in the United States.