The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 16, 1898, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 1898. [7ED " 10 MEDDLE POLITICS Aim of Los Angeles’| League for Better | other directors elected at this time was L. E. Mosher. who is the first lieu- tenant of H. G. Otis in the manage- ment of the Times. While Mr. Wil- lard’s name does not avpear in the present board of directors of the ieague, he is still one of its most ac- tive spirits. directors the Times 1s represented by Harry Chandler. a son-in-law of H. G. Otis, and the superintendent of the cir- culation of the Times, while the Her- ald newspaper is represented by T. E. Gibbon. { In both the old board and in the new the three corporations which are look- ed upon by the taxpayers of this city being most inimical to their inter- ests are well and numerously repre- sented. These corporations are the Los Government. | Conducted in the Interest| of a Trio of Cor- porations. Its Mission to Antagonize the | Regular Republicans of the City. GANG RULE ITS POLICY. Membership Has Fallen From Four Thousand to Less Than Two Hundred. Angeles Electric Company i1 Angeles City Water Company, the Los Angeles Lighting Company and the Los Incidental- be noted the significant fact may | that nearly every officer of the water | company was a vice-president at the mass meeting held in this city under the auspices of the League for Better City Government in reference to School Board scandal. to the league is that four of its leading spirits—T. E. Gibbon, C. D. Willard, man—are Democrats, while most of the other prominent men in the league are what are known as “Otis Republicans.” The Otis wing of the Republican party of this sectfon of the State is but a very small minority. What local strength it has lies in this city. In the interior Otis men are nearly as scarce as hen's teeth. It is the unquali- | fled opinion of the Republicans allied with the regular organization of that party that the league Is nothing more than an instrument to be used by this unholy alliance of Democrats and pseudo Republicans to disintegrate the local Republican party and to bring Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGE Jan. 15.—Under the cloak of a 1.ame which appeals strong- ly to every fair-minded and. patriotic citizen, the League for Better City Government in Los Angeles has und- ertaken to do things that would have bre ht down the sever condemna- tion upon any organization that had not succeeded in deluding the general public as this has done. Organized ostensibly for the purpose of bringing about better conditions in Los An- geles, its name is now used for the self-advancement of certain individ- uals in the interest of a few corpora- tions and as a means of splitting the Republican party in the interests of the local Democracy. The movement for better city govern- ment was instituted under the aus- pices of the league about eightees months ago. Its membership increased rapidly, and just be e munici- pal election held in December of 1896 there were m than 4000 names on hip roll in which the league con- gn in this election and ue affairs small clique ation interests, combination concentrated r Republican the membership to an extent that there are than 200 members in . and possibly less than umber. e bylaws adopted by contrclled by embe the a of director: y-three members. d follows: han 0. P. Cla Gibbon, J. M. Grif- Howard, Lee A. Mc- McGarry, Robert Me- M. H. New- Ferd. K. Rule, W. L. Valentine, J. V. Wadleigh, T. S. Wads- ¥ M h, J. R. Woolwine. in connection with garding the School been giving all the giving them fairly as they it has aroused the league to facts and develop, It was not so much that ubiished unprejudiced re- sessions of the Board of Education which w hearing the Webhb but the t that this paper called attention to e felonious action of another member of the Board of Ed- ucation, who is also a member of the league, that caused the league by for- mal 1 to set up a howl against 1 in unison with the | yelping and barking of the three news- | he Times, the Herald and the T —that run the paper, or are| run by the league’s inner clique. | At a cowardly ret s ion a hand- | ful of men—a bare quorum of the board | of director of the league—passed a | get of solutions which has not nnei fair or truthful statement in it, and which smacks strongly of the charac- hinings of a hypocrite ex-| These olutions are as fol- | | solv Re but whil ed the f forces at to_the detri Resolved, City Government, an organization which has for its obiccf a_business administra- tlon of the city’s affairs, without regard ch has persiste misrepresent- f: s to the disac ntage of the ork for municipal 1eform and to party, her the San Francisco Call for its impudent d baseless attacks on respectable citi- ) ns and its attempted defense of boo- At the meeting at which these reso- lutions were passed there were present out of the twenty-three-directors here- tofore named only eight, as follows: S. A. Butler, Lee A. Connell, Robert Mc- Garvin, W. L. Valentine, J. V. Wachtel, G. H. Wadleigh, T. S. Wadsworth and W. D. Woolwine. These men repre- sented in spirit if not in facts those persons and interests which have been forcing the prosecution against Walter L. Webb, against whom no adverse tes- timony has been brought out except that given by two self-confessed per- Jurers. These same persons and inter- ests have set their forces to the work to shield and pretect J. H. Braly, a member of the Board of Education, a member of the League for Better City Government and the president of the Southern California Savings Bank. This attitude of defense on behalf of Braly has been assumed in the face of documentary evidence of an incontro- vertible character that has been shown to exist against Braly, and which shows him to have been guilty of 4 felonious act and to have involved his | bank in transactions frbidden by law in order to protect savings bank de- positors. Among the eight members present and participating in the star chamber proceedings of last Tuesday night will be noticed the name of W. D. Wool- wine. Mr. Woolwine is the cachier of the Southern California Savings Bank, of which Mr. Braly is president. A brief history of the League for Better City Government throws con- siderable light upon the ulterior ends for which it was organized and in jvhose interests it is and has been used. ' It was incubated and hatched in the os Angeles Chamber of Commerce by C. D. Willard. then secretary of that body and now manager of the Los victory to the local Democratic ticket. It is asserted that with the city gov- ernment in control of Democrats it would be a comparatively easy thing, to secure control of the county office: Among the best citiz the opinion is freely expre: a league ticket is elected | | sed that if and such a a ticket would he energetically supported by the syndicated press, sting of the Times, Herald and Express—the people would be delivered over to the mercies of the three corporations pre- usly named. There is no question but that there are still a large number of disinterest- ed and well meaning citizens who are members of the league, but this class of people has been withdrawing more and more rapidly as it became more and more apparent that the league was a delusion and a snare, and that the good people In it were simply being used as figureheads to subserve the vicious ends of the conspirators who instituted, who have shaped the course of and now absolutely control the mis- named league for better eclty gov- ernment. WIISKY URGED M T0 SH00T An Intoxicated Man’s Reckless Handling of a Shotgun at Fresno. Fires Seven Charges Through | Walls of His House Before He | Is Restrained. the Special Dispatch to Th® Call FRESNO, Jan. 15.—F. C. Cretser, while | drunk early vesterday morning, proceed- | ®d to shoot his house ti- pieces. With a 10 shotgun he fired seven shots through the dwelling, tearing big holes in portions of the house and shooting the doors down. The firihg attracted all the neighbors in the vicinity of his home, at In the existing board of the | | Another significant fact in reference Henry W. O'Melveny and Charles For- | ens of the city | DEATIT FOR THE SLAYER OF ANDREWS Winters Found Guilty by a Redwood City Jury. | First Degree Murder With ' No Recommendation of Clemency. Unanimous Verdict Reached on the Taking of the First Ballot. FORSAKEN BY HIS NERVE. The Convicted Man Checked in an Excited Attempt to Revile His Exposers. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. REDWOOD CITY, Jan. 15. ‘Gullty | of murder in the first degree.” | Such was the verdict rendered this afternoon by the jury Impaneled to | try Harry Winters for the murder of Charles A. Andrews in the Grand | Hotel at Baden last November. ‘When the case was given to the jury it was evident to every one present in the courtroom that the twelve men would certainly convict the prisoner, but it was thought, after the jury had | | retired, that imprisonment for Ilife | | would be the punishment, instead of death. During the short time the jury were | ship of 2438. deliberating the defendant appeared | nervous and excited, and a Deputy | Sheriff was at his side continually. When the foreman announced the ver- | dict Winters jumped to his feet and | began to address the jury, but was | silenced by the court and Sheriff. He looked pale and haggard. When court adjourned yesterday af- ternoon Winters was on the stand. This morning Attorney Nagle further questioned him with respect to the clothes he wore on the 16th and 17th of November. A number of people at Baden who identified him said he wore | a black Fedora hat. He denied this morning that he ever wore such a hat, and denied that the hat found in the hall of the Grand Hotel was his. He said that on the 16th he wore a stiff | | Derby hat and on the morning of the 17th he changed it for a light slouch | hat given to him by James L. Nagle, the brother of his attorney. He dld‘ not have a blue Melton overcoat on the day he was in Baden, as testified | to by Witness Riley. Upon cross-examination it was | shown clearly that his whole story given in direct examination was fabri- | cation. He made many contradictory | statements, which greatly prejudiced | 3 3 f is ca itted that he knew 3% Fresno street. When the shooting his case. He adm A had ceased they gathered around the Raymond and knew _x_nmh\;ell, b:(‘ u‘::; house, thinking that a tragedy had been | he was acquainted with him under committed, had t as Cr Wi wife different at ser was known to have name of Samuel Moore. His acquaintance with Raymond times. Tinally several men ventured in| dated back a number of years, and as and f “Tetser, his brother and a | faymond has been confined in State's T T e Prison for a long period and until very o Ao h sitene that Tecently, it must be that the acquaint- It was almost a miracle that the freak y, - R of the drunken man had not resulted in anceship was formed there. e ad- the loss of several lives, as a charge of mitted that he had been convicted of a the shot entered the home of William felony, but of what felony the court Shepp. acro: the street Some of the | yweqyld not permit to be shown. His shot fell on the roof, while one charge entered through a window of a room, but had spent its force. All three of the men in the house were sted this morning by Constable Shaw. It was learned that:Creston had been deserted by his wife a few days ago. and he proceeded to drown his sorrow. under the influence of whisky mined to shoot their home full of holes. He succeeded well in his undertaking. While he deter- appearance and everyaction betoken t! criminal. Especially was this notic able yesterday, when he was shown tha revolver taken from him in the Grand Hotel and the one taken from Ray- | mond on the morning of the 17th, when he was captured. He took them and handled them as no one could who was | not very familiar with such weapons. | sas City, Denver, | March 17. He gave it as his opinion that pistols such as those could be purchased for $1 90 each. James L. Nagle was called as a wit- | ness for defendant. He identifled a| hat shown him, and testified that he | gave it to Winters on the 17th of No- vember. He had given the defendant the suit of clothes he was wearing. | ‘Winters, he said, had been doing odd jobs about the office for him for some | time past, and he had seen him every day from the 17th to the 24th of No- The three men were charged with disturb- ing the peace. PRINCE COLLONNA TO WED A BEAUTIFUL HEIRESS. Fell in Love With a Photograph of Miss | Moran and Now Society Reports That They Are Engaged. NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—A Richmond dis- | in soctety patch to the Herald says: It is rumored here that Prince Fabian Col- lonna of Paris is engaged to a beautiful vember, on which latter date he was arrested. On the 17th he noticed noth- ing unusnal in the appearance of Win- atically coridemns | 2 dlers. % | ters. He bore no marks of a conflict of any kind such as would have attract- ed his attention. This completed the defendant’s case, | and in rebuttal District Attorney Walker called John Nelson, who testi- | fled that he was night watchman at| the Salvation Army quarters on New Montgomery street in San Francisco. | He said he knew Winters, and had seen | him at the Salvation Army pla:e on | several occasions, thus contradicting Winters, who said he was never there Moran is an helress. She Is a famous | before the night of the 16th of Novem. | beauty and was a reigning belle at White | ber. He further testified. th, Sulphur Springs, Narragansett and other | n ' 3 AR watering placea agansett and other | cean him there with Raymond. . aras Moore,. and also with a man by the CLAY'S YOUNG WIFE name of Willett. Willett is wanted for 1S WALKING HOMm, Virginta heiress, Miss Eleanor Beeger Moran. The Prince recently dedicated a poem to Miss Moran, and it was pub- | lished in Paris. Miss Moran, with her | sister and mother, will sail for Europe in | the spring, it is said, to meet the Prince. ince Collonna is said to be a friend o several of Mrs. Moran-s friend tory is that he fell in love wit >- graph of the Southern beauty and asked permission to dedicate a poem to her, which was granted by the mother. Soci- ety now declares that the two have be- come engaged. It is well known that Miss this same murder, and for his arrest a | reward of $250 has been offered. }h (,:onlstab(;e Deserello was called in re- uttal and testified that soo No One Would Lend Her a Horse Because ' crime had been committed :els:;(":; They Were Afraid of the Vengeance San Francisco and stationed himself at the entrance to the bullding in of Her Brother Clell. ! which Mr. Nagle had his office. He NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—A Valley View, | t00k this position about 7:30 o’clock in Ky.. special to the Herald says: Generai | the morning and remained there all Casstus M. Clay’s wife, Dora, started to | 38¥. With the exception of about an walk to Whitehall, his home, this after- | hOur for lunch; for four or five days noon. She tried all the morning to get a | Watching for Winters, but saw him horse, but nobody would lend or hire one | 1Y Once in all that time. to her for fear of her brother, Clell, who | At 11:30 the District Attorney began shot at her vesterday. The girl wept bit- | his opening argument to the jury, fin- terly when ‘all her neighbors refused to | ishing at noon. At 1 o'clock Attorney aid her, but soon dried her tears and said | N: she would walk the distance, no matter | !\“,f“'.""",k',’ll", behalf of the defendant | how bad the roads were. {and was followed by the closing argu- | General Clay learned of her latest trou- | Tent from the District Attorney. The ble with her brother about noon and said | COUrt then instructed the jury and at he was not surprised. He feared Clell | 2:30 o’clock it retired. While the Jury Richardson would kill her. He says Rich- ardson has used her money and kept her under the influence of drugs untjl her mind has become unsettled. Richardson, it is said, still threatens to kill Dora and his brothers if they interfere with him. e CORITA TEMPLE INSTITUTED. Organization of Rathbone Sisters Formed at Santa Rosa. SANTA ROSA, Jan. 15.—Past Grand Chief Mrs. Lily Samuels of Oakland in- stituted Corita Temple of Rathbone Sis- ters at Hahman Hall this evening. The temple has 100 charter members—the larg- est list in the State. The degree work was done by the Oakiand team. Many prom- inent meml of Calanthe Temple of Oakland and the East Oakland temple Angeles Express. Willard was also a member of the first board of directors elected after the league was incorpo- rated, in May of last year. Among the were present. The affair closed with a banquet. — e Advances made on furniture and planos, with or without removal.J. Noonan, 1017-1023 Mission. was out the defendant tried to a unconcerned, but failed utterly. ppAe::" | when the jury returned he half started from his seat, seeming to expect the worst. The jury was out only about twenty-five minutes before it reached | its verdict. But two ballots were cast, and each of these was unanimous. The first ballot was as to whether the de- fendant was gullty or not guilty, and the second was as to the punishment to be inflicted. The result was mur- der in the first degree, without fixing the punishment. This means that un- less the Supreme Court grants a new trial Winters will be hanged for the murder of C. A. Andrews. ‘When the foreman had announced the verdict Winters Jjumped to his feet and addressed the jurors. He said: “Gentlemen of the jury, T don't blame you for what you have done, but T do blame these liars, perjurers, bribers and murderers.” \ | BOOTH 15 AGAIN'IN AMERICA The Arrival of the General in New York: Will Make an Extended|Urgent Need of Better Tour in Canada and This Country. Plans to Meet His Son Balling- ton and His Sick Wife. TALKS OF HIS CHILDREN. Great Good WIll Result From the Visit of the Chief of the Sal- vation Army. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. .NEW YORK, Jan.. 15.—General Booth, the head of the Salvation Army, reached this city to-day on board the steamer St. Paul from Southampton. In honor of his visit to America twelve new shelters for the homeless poor and three new rescue homes for women will be simultaneously opened in the coun- try. The general, now in his sixty- ninth year, made his first trip to this | country in 1894, holding 200 meetings within three months. Since then the army shows an Increase of member- The colonization scheme, the pet project of General Booth, will be pushed during his stay. The general was met down the bay by Commander Booth-Tucker. On the pler a large delegation of headquarters Salvationists were awalting their chief, and he was glven a warm re- ception. “The said Commander Booth-Tucker, “will stay at my house in Fordham until Monday, when he will leave for Canada, where he will be met by his daughter, Miss Eva Booth, who is in charge of the Salvation Army there. He will remain three weeks in Canada, inspecting the work of the army, and will then return to the United States. He will begin his Amer- ican tour on February 10 in Washing- ton. After that he will visit Pittsburg, Columbus, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Kan- Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Spo- kane, at which last place he will be on The general then will cross again over into Canada and visit Vic- toria, Vancouver and Winniveg. On March 19 he will be in Minneapolis and St. Paul. From March 20 to 21 he will be in Chicago. From then until April 14 he will visit successively Cleveland, Buffalo, Boston and Philadeiphia. Gen- eral Booth will conclude his American visit with a series of meetings and demonstrations _in New York from April 14 to 19. On April 20 he will sail for England. “General Booth's idea is not alone to look over the work and progress of the Salvation Army in the United States and Canada, but in traveling through these countries he will confer with a number of the citizens of the leading cities concerning his schemes for the arsistance of the poor. He will inspect and sugest improvements in the social institutions which we have established in this country, which now have ac- commodation for 4000 persons.” During the day General Booth made a detailed statement of his plans to the newspaper reporters. Incidentally, he spoke of his relations with his son, Bal- lington Booth. Upon this subject he said that full explanations of the cause of separation were given at the time of the disagreement, and to these he was unable to add anything. “As to the present condition of my | daughter-in-law,” he went on, “I have already expresséd my deep sympathy with my son, both by cable and by let- ter. With respect to the causes that have led up to this illness, I am to- tally in the dark. Commander Booth- Tucker and my daughter, the Consul, | have, I believe, already denied all blameworthiness on the part of the leaders of the Salvation Army here for this painful affliction. “Of my daughter, who is known to every Christian throughout the length and breadth of the world, I need not say anything, while my long and inti- mate acquaintance with Cammander Booth-Tucker and personal knowledge of the honorable career he has sacri- ficed in the Indian service to become a worker with me, gave me the highest | confidence in the wisdom of his admin- | istration and the correctness of all statements he may have made on this | or any other phase of the subject. “A great deal of curiosity has been manifested, I am Informed, as to whether I am going to have an inter- view with my son. To that I reply that T have already asked for an inter- view on the occasion of my present visit. Whether it will be granted to me in the form I have asked for—that is, without the interference of any other person—remains to be seen.” Commander Ballington Booth, of the Volunteers of America, was asked if he would be willing to meet his father. He: said: “Most assuredly. my father under the following condi- tions which have been drawn by the Rev. Josiah Strong: “First—That there shall be arranged an interview between General Willilam Booth and Commander Ballington Booth at as early a date as possible. “Second—That they meet not in their official capacity. but as father and son. “Third—That Rev. Josiah Strong of the Evangelical Society be invited to be present as a witness, and that Dr. Strong shall give the result of such an interview to the public.” SUED BY A MOTHER. Oakland Woman Accused of Obtaining Property Fraudulently. SANTA CRUZ, Jan. 15—Sult was brought to-day by Catherine Gallagher of Watsonville against her daughter, Jane Klee of Oakland, to set aside a deed to property valued at $27,000. Two years ago Mrs. Gallagher executed a deed to her daughter, with the understanding that it was not to be recorded until after her death. This was done so as to aviod probate proceedings. The deed was kept in a tin box in the bank. that neither should remove it mxu-' (hed other‘;:w was ; ew days Mrs. surprised to );urn that the l!eo‘;‘hfi P recorded. She charges that the defend- ant . sui tiou: the deed from the box without her consent. &:.lm.lfl'l entire income i# derived property. The from I will meet | It was+ [HAMPERED BY A LACK OF DOCKS |How the Navy Would Fare in Case of W ar. Facilities Cannot Be Overlooked. Construction and Ra;;airs That Should Not Be Longer Delayed. STARTLING FACTS STATED. Only One Dry-Dock on the Pacific Coast Which Would Hold a Large Battleship. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. i NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—The Herald’s ‘Washington correspondent sends the following: In the event of war ope- rations the United States navy would be seriously hampered by a lack of docks; this is particularly true of the North Atlantic squadron. Secre- tary Long-declares that the most urg- ent need of the navy is an increase of docking facilities. Of eleven Govern- ment docks—nine on the Atlantic and two on the Pacific Coast—three were designed to accommodate battle-ships of the first class, one at New York, one at Port Royal, S. C., and one at Brem- erton, Washington, on Puget Sound. | | | | DR. SCHENK'S DISCOVERY DISCUSSED Attention Given Laws Regulating the Sexes. Professors Speak of Some Experiments Made With. Insects. Food an Important Factor in Determining the Problem. CASE OF THE BEES CITED: Starvation Known to Have Produced Males and Good Feeding Females. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. BOSTON, Jan. 15.—Dr. Schenk’s re- cently announced discovery of the law regulating the sexes has been received with a great deal of attention at Har- vard, especially among the biologists, who lock upon the theory with kindly eyes, being of the opinion that the doc- tor is possibly right. In the meantime, the professors are discussing the sub- ject with much interest. Professor C. B. Davenport of the de- partment says on the subject: “It is probably possible to contrcl the sexes. Experiments have been made with in- sects, butterflies and even other groups, with more or less succe: There has been a theory prevalent for some time that the sex can be determined by the Civil Engineer M. T. Endicott, Who | ;. unt of nutrition taken by the moth- returned to-day from the Brooklyn navy-yard, where he has been in con- sultation with Naval Constructor Bowles in regard to making repairs to dry dock No. 3, informed Secretary Long that there is grave danger that the key wall will give way. It is not believed that the dock will be ready for &ervice until the entrance has been rebuilt, and at least six months and probably longer will be required to do this. There is not only an insufficiency of water at the entrance to Port Royal dry dock, but the cross section of the dock is too small to admit battle-ships with bilge keels. There is only one dock on the Pacific Coast of sufficient size to dock modern battle-ships. 900 miles from San Francisco. Ac cess to it is through a narrow channel twenty miles long, one side of which is in possession of a forcign Government. This is on Puget Sound, The battle-ships Indiana and Massa- | the former at Halifax and the latter in dry dock No. 3, just before the Brooklyn structure developed the de- fects. It is recognized by Naval au- thorities that Great Britain in case of war would not per- mit United States men-of-war to {use Canadian or English docks, and this Government would consequently be thrown on its own resources. At the present time the department has been informed that the hulls of the battie- ships Jowa. Indiana and Massachusetts are foul and their speed has been ma- terially decreased. Even should Naval Constructor Bowles be successful in making repairs, some of the officials of the department say that the dry dock might be found to be too weak to ac- commodate a ship of 11,000 tons dis placement. One of these gentlemen pointed out to-day that the dry dock is built on soil of a quicksand character. “Constant driving of sheet piling,” he said, “has undoubtedly resulted in loosening the soil. You will recall that | on January 7 the earth back of the wing wall on the easterly side of the dock settled, carrying with it the crane Water and fine sand entered the pit between the calsson and the | dam, and the flow finally resulted in a | cave-in. That illustrates the weakness | of the dock. The department will not | trust one of its costly battleships in a | structure of this character until small- | er vessels sufficiently strong to stand | tumbling about have tested f{ts strength.” When I saw Mr. Endicott to-day he | declined to discuss the Brooklyn dry- | dock question, but from another official | who knows what Mr. Endicott did | while at the navy-yard, I learned that his investigation shows that there i grave danger of the collapse of the en. tire entrance to the dock. | In his reports to the Senate and | | House Naval Committee, Secretary | Long urged that docks be constructed at Boston, Portsmouth, N. H., and Mare Island, Cal.: that dry-dock No. 2 at the New York navy-yard be fitted with a concrete entrance and widened sufficiently to accommodate our largest battleships: that the present timber dry-dock at League Island be widened and provided with a concrete entrance, i and that at Norfolk dry-dock b:‘ lengthened 150 feet, which will enable | it to accommodate all except the very largest ships. A sub-committee of the House Naval Committee is considering the naval appropriation bill, and the Secretary belleves that the sub-com- mittee and committee. recognizing the | timperative needs of docks. will make provision for their construction, as he recommended. | SHOT BY HER SON. Accident That May Cause the Death of g Pheenix Woman. PHOENIX. Ariz., Jan. 15.—Mrs. J. C. Rigdon. aged 38 years, is dying at her home, four-miles east of Phoenix, from the effects of a gunshot wound accident- | ally received through the carelessness of | her 12-year-old son. The lad was clean- | ing his shotgun this evening, finishing by | | loading the weapon with duck shot. One | | of the hammers was tripped in some way, | and the load was discharged into his | mother’s knee. she being distant but three | feet. wound is fatal. more through the shock received than the loss of blood that en- sued before medical assistance could be secured. PO A SUGAR AND WOOL IMPORTS. Interesting Advance Reports Made by the Bureau of Statistics. WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—The advance reports of the Bureau of Statistics show that during December last the imports of wool at the three leading ports amount- ed to 17,768,246 pounds, valued at $1.908, This is an increase as compared with December returns for 189 for the same ports ot over 7,600,000 pounds and $880,000 n_valuation. tracks. 974, the The sugar imports at Boston, » New York, Philadelpl Baltimore and San Francisco during December last, exclu- sive of Hawalian sugar (free), amounted to 100,132,148 pounds, valued at $1,923.793. chusetts were docked some months ago, | ANy experiments Attending physiclans say that the | This is a_decrease over November. 1867, of about 23,275,000 pounds. er during the embryonic stage. The idea that excessive feeding may fix the sex is in consequence nothing new, and the idea was the fcundation of Geddes and Thomson's ‘Evolution of Sex.” “The problem of sex revolves about the idea as to whether the sex is deter- mined before fertilization, during it or after fertilization. The general belief has been that it was determined subse- quently, and that the food of the moth- er had some influence in the deter- mination. Dr. Schenk’s theory then is new only in regard to the method he employed, and, as he does not say what that method is, I cannot be expected to make any extended remarks upon it. But he may be on the right track. It is quite possible that he has solved the question.” Professor Parker has the following to say: “The trouble about this whole matter of the determination of the sex is that very little is authoritatively known on the subject. There have been upon insects in which starvation brought on males, and feeding resulted in females. Undoubt- edly food has much to do with sex, but it is not the only thing, and any the- ory depending upon that alcne is one- sided and does not answer every case. The case of bees which is so often cit- ed, it must be remembered, is a fer- tilization. The diffculty with this the- ory of Dr. Schenk is it explains a cer- but not all of of sex will in- clude every kind of stimulus which is known to influence sex at all. By stim- ulus I mean natural cause. This stim- ulus may be made up of factors, some cases it may be fertilization, others it may be food. In short. think that feeding is one of the factors, but not the only one.” Dr. Henry P. Bowditoh of the Har- vard Medical School said: “I have made this prcblem of sex a study at one time, and Dr. Schenk has at dif- ferent times sent me coples of some of his papers. From what has been pub- lished of the solution which Dr. Schenk has found I am able to say very little, still T see no reason w some law should not be found which will deter- mine the sex of a child. It is a great problem, and the man who solves it will gain everlasting fame. Lord Douglas of Hawick. NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—Lord Douglas of Hawick, eldest son of the Marquis of Queensberry, was a passenger on the American line steamer St. Paul, which arrived here to-day from Southampton. He is on his v to Sault Ste. Marie, Canada, where he will s for ix months at least, with Lady Douglas and his two child siderable proper NEW TO-DAY. B | When a man falls out of a ten-story window you’d tally sa; is a m:ul|‘. We‘lll, erhaps he K'and then again, per- haps not. Something may save him. There may be a friendly awn- ing that will let him down easy, so he may be sound and well to- morrow. You never know what may save a man who seems to be as good as dead. 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