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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1898. accept autonomy. After entering the insurgent lines his proffer of auton- omy was rejected and he was executed by order of the insurgent commander. This case has not been taken up in Congress before, and it is said that the®inquiry will put the transaction in a new light. Although several of the members insisted that the Cuban topic had not been touched upon, except in this resolution, others attached consid- erable significance to inquiries by one of the Republican members, Smith of Michigan, as to what the Cuba sub- committee had done in the Morgan Tend | Senate resolution recognizing Cuban > | belligerency. Adams, chairman ol e Appearances Tend to | Cuban committee, explained that in- i S i quiries were being made of the State Indicate Serenity |8 W be e T kg such A\ at Havana SOMETHING SERIOLS 13 EXPECTED | action as was appropriate. The line | of inquiry by Smith led to the impres- | sion that he and some other Republi- can members of the committee desired action on the belligerency subject. Williams, author of the Rulz reso- [ tlon, says the inquiry is for the pur- pose of correcting a public misappre- hension as to the facts in the execu- And Regulars Are Sent Back to the Country ri tion of Colonel Ruiz. The latter, Wil- | Bl aiE, liams says, never had the right to | claim immunity under a flag of truce, = | as he had been warned by the insur- | | gent commander, Aranguren, that he But for Some Reason the| would be amenable to the chrpps;l 0}5 Rxiety | the insurgent government, one of whic Anxiety Has Not Yet Been was that any person entering the in- Allayed. | surgent camp and proposing autonomy | should be treated as a spy. Willlams | says there is authority for stating that | Colonel Ruiz entered Arangul;en's t‘:(ar:lp 7 | with this understanding, and tool s WARSHIPSFROMGERMANY 0,5 &) accordingly. He said also that | he urged autonomy and suggested that specific benefits would be conferred up- on the insurgent leaders if they ac- Evidently the American Not the Only | cepted the proposition. One of Aran- Interests Now Threatened | guren’s associates demanded that he do c his duty in accordance with the de- in Cuba. | crees of the insurgent government, whereupon Ruiz was shot. ! e by James Gordon Bennett. | REV. DR. ELDRIDGE MADE A CO-RESPONDENT. HAVANA, Jan. 21.—Judging from rd appearances quiet has been etely restored in Havana, the ex- guards have all been withdrawn d the greater part of the troops have Congregation of the Waugh M. E. Church. sent back to the country. The SEC R wce authorities confidently assert NEW YORK, Jan. 21.—A Herald special y shington s the Divorce proceed- District Court to-day that all danger is past, but for some n the anxiety here has not yet in r have stirred up the congregation of the been allayed. Waugh Method Episcopal Church on Everybody expects that something 1 Hill . E. Olin Eldridge, pas- ' = t named as co- serious is going to happen and regrets , sent back ¥ Robertsc inant is George T. a commission merchant. He ts to-day I | alleges that Hev.' Dr. Eldridge and_ a * nt printing office employe have R i his wife and that because of s , and three. lost to him forever. ; were in full uniform, which is not ge was seen to-night el ao.ning -parade | he -dented legations and said_ he morning PAtat® | knew nothing of the charges. Mr. Rob. and they oster on de d to discuss the affair. The d cartridge belts well papers w s raised filed late this evening. iridge is one of the most promi- ¥ s church, st and situated in center of one of the most fashionable ions on Capitol Hill, and but a stone lightest throw from the Capitol, has numbered robably ed alto- | among its worshipers many of the most gether. > not al- | prominent persons of the city. | wed to publish anything that is from —only to publish from Madrid. -war Charlotte is t Havana on Sun- Consul announced also arrive two WANTS T0 GET An eisenau will the E East state that Pa i 1 fortifying Canto enable regular supplies to be 1d to garrisoned towns. Thus y convoy sent up the river has btured by the rebels and the forces are in a deplorable con- - cane fields are still burn- province. The rebels are ass so that the Span- ot fodder for their Why the Inter Ocean Seeks to Enjoin the Associated Press. One Chicago Newspaper Claims the Right to Obtain Dispatches From All Sources. es just received from Ymonas, 2d town in Matanzas province, at the rebels have ambushed a illa force, killing all but £ al small towns have been \cked and plundered. e Herald correspondent in Santi- > Cuba writes that the filibuster- t recently captured near Por- the Spanish gunboat Galicia n taken to Santiago de Cuba, en found aboard were put in account states that the boat ut five tons and owned at when captured was loaded state th Spectal Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, Jan. Se —By agreement be- of the inter Ocean Publishing Compadfy against the Associated Press to prevent the latter from discontinuing its news service to the Inter Ocean was continued vesterday in Judge Dunne’s court. The argument for the injunction was set for Wednesday, February 2. The ant obtained leave and filed amendments to its bill. One amendment is the inser- Divorce Proceedings in Washington Stir the | JUDGE McKENNA IS CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE ‘Allen of Nebraska Stands Alone in Opposition to the Advance- ment of the Californian to the Supreme Bench. Call Office, Riggs House, ‘Washington, Jan. 21. Mr. Justice McKenna is to-night receiving the congratulations of his friends all over the country upon his confirmation as Associate Jus- tice of the Supreme Court of the United Stat He was confirmed by the Senate to-day, with only one dissenting vote against him. That came from Senator Allen, the Populist from Nebraska, whose hand seems to be against all men who do not belleve in his peculiar doc- trines. His opposition to any proposition brought forward in the Sen- ate Is generally regarded as the highest recommendation a measure can receive, and the result s usually against the person or thing Allen advocates. It has been contended all along in these dispatches that Judge McKenna would be confirmed, and the result of to-day’s vote is very gratifying to him and to those who have faithfully and loyally sup- ported him in this contest. It was understood that a vote would be taken on Judge McKenna's nomination to-day, consequently there was a large attendance of Sen- ators. Allen insisted upon reading to the empty seats and the dozing officers, who could not escape from their posts of duty, the A. P. A. and other protests against Judge McKenna, so fully considered by the Judiclary Committee. Several attempts were made to check the Ne- braskan, but he persisted in talking, so the Senators retired to the cloak room until he quit, when they return:d to the chamber and pro- ceeded to confirm Judge McKenna without the formality of a roll call. It was practically a unanimous vote, for Senator Allen alone said “Nay” when the presiding officer put the question. Mr. Justice McKenna will receive his commission at once and take his seat on the Supreme Bench without delay. He has already pro- cured a black silk gown, such as is worn in the preme Court, and all the preliminaries have been arranged to facilitate his immediate ALL THE NEWS tween the attorneys, the injunction syit | mplain- | 1 provisions for the insurgents. No s and ammunition were found on The members of the crew say supplies were taken aboard at a Anna, Jamalca, whence the sailed on January 9. When near- the Cuban coast the boat became and was overtaken by the aylight the following morn- ere transferred to the gun- laced in irons, and tortured e them to divulge thelr *ity with the insur- als believe that the transferred to a ng in the vicinity capture was made and with which the fillbuster was thought to have communication. Although nothing appears to be »wn on the subject at Spanish head arters, tent rumors were in cir- y to the effect that Gen- alixto Garcia, the famous insur- gent leader, had been killed in a re- cent gagement with the Spanish troops. VEW YORK, Jan. 21.—The Sun’s Ha- | na cable says: The Spanish have | failed In an attempt to take the seat | of the Cuban Government in a battle | of the La Esperanza forces of General | Castellanos, numbering, according to | the Spanish official report, 2200 infan- | trymen, 400 cavalrymen and a com- | pany of artillery with two field pleces. The insurgents were about 2000, almost all cavalry, but with artillery also. President Masso personally led one of the Cuban wings, though the military commander of the whole Cuban army was General Lope Recio. The fighting | continued without cessation from Jan- | ! uary 12 in the afternoon to January 14 in the evening, when General Jiminez Castellanos gave up and retired to Puerto Principe. The Cuban losses did not amount to 100. | AN INQUIRY INTO THE KILLING OF COLONEL RUIZ. | | | | | House Committee on Foreign Affairs Agrees to Make a Favorable Report on the Williams Resolution. | WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—The House | Committee on Foreign Affairs to-day agreed to make a favorable report on | the resolution of Williams of Missouri, | asking the State Department for infor- | mation on the Ruiz case. The resolution is as follows: “Resolved, that the Secretary of| State be directed, if in his opinion com- | patible with the public interest, to send to the House the reports made to the department by Consul-General Lee, | and other reports made to the depart- | ment by Consuls or commercial agents of the United States on the subject of the execution of Colonel Ruiz by the Cuban military authorities.” . | There was no division over the reso- « lution, and the vote was unaninwus in | favor of reporting it. Beyond thtsl‘ there was no reference to the Cuban | question except in the reference to the | subcommittee of the various Cuban res- olutions introduced recently. The Ruiz referred to in the resolution is not Dr. Ruiz, killed at a suburb of | Havana, whose case has attracted | much attention, but is Colonel Ruiz, the | Spanish officer at Havana, who is said | to have gone under a flag of truce to meet the Insurgents and urge them to | The court which tlon of a paragraph setting up that the | defendant association has telegraph and telephone lines in 1llinois and other States for the dissemination of news to patrons. Another amendment alleges that the pub- lishers of the Chicago Tribune and Chi- cago Times-Herald obtain news in the shape of cables and special dispatches from corporations and persons other than the Associated Pre leg tracts with the Tribune, Journal, Times and World of New York for the publica- tion of cable dispatches, e Chi- cago Times-Herald has an arrangement with the New York Herald to do the same thing. It is alleged that these contracts prevent the complainants from procuring cable news and special dispatches, es- pecially from the New York Sun Cc pany. The complainant finally declares while t that an illegal by-law of the defendant complalnant | asociation prevents the from receiving news from the Sun, and if enforced will prevent the complalnant from recefving cable news and special dis- patches from any source except the de- fendant. WEBSTER WILL NOT BE PROMOTED AT PRESENT. | Showing of His Bad Record Has Caused the President to Withdraw His Nomination for Paymaster. NEW YORK, Jan. 21.—A Washington special to the Herald says: President Mc- , In withdrawing the nomination ed Assistants Paymasters Edwin B. Webster and G. W. Simpson, to be pay- masters in the navy, acted on the sug-| gestion in the cablegram recelved a few days ago from Captain C. Chester, commanding the South Atlantic station, n which that officer announced, I was told to-day, that Webster had been found morally unfit for promotion. Mr. Simp- son has already qualified for promotion by examination, but of course his promo- tion cannot take place until Mr. Web. ster’s case has been disposed of. Webster was court-martialed at the Asiatic station a few years ago on charges growing out of his fallure to re. port his acount, and was sentenced to three months’ confinement to his ship and to be reprimanded. Upon his return to Mare Island he was charged with having failed to return a bond amounting to $2500 given him by a clerk whom he employed. tried him on these charges found him guilty and sentenced him to dismissal, but the department in examining the record found that a great deal of hearsay evidence had been ad- mitted and consequently disapproved the findings and directed that Webster be re- stored to duty. - RANDSBURG WILL HAVE AMPLE FIRE PROTECTION. Water System to Be Supplied by a Reser- voir Located on Gold Hill Divide. RANDSBURG, Jan. 21.—Randsburg will soon have ample protection from fire. A movement is now on foot to erect a reser- voir on Gold Hill divide. It will con- tain 100,000 gallons of water, giving a fall of 150 feet. A four-inch main will run through the principal streets, connecting with thirty fire plug!. each plug to have at least 200 feet of hose and an Inch and a quarter nozzle. The Randsburg and Kramer Railroad will follow the generous example of the Valiey road, when the latter donated ove 100 cars of dirt to fill in the low thorough. fares of the city of Visalia, by supplying the required amount of water. In a few hours to-day John C. Quinn and the citi- | zens' committee collected over $2000 from the business men alone. being erected in the Many buildings are Every man that can burn district. handle & saw and hammer has been pressed into service. he amendment al- | that_the Chicago Tribune has con- | FEEEEPEEEEEEEEEEEE R EE AL EE R R entry upon his new judicial duties. court, he takes his seat on the ext Associate Justice to cast the first v court. A number of important case awaiting a full bench, hence the co expedite action on these cases. = nuunLuNuNNNuNN “LITILE BOB'S” [AST ROBBERY Bully of Bisbee Shot to Death by a Deputy Sheriff. % % Had Entered a Saloon and . Taken a Monte-Dealer’s Sack of Coin. Followed From the Place by the Officer and Slain W hile Mount- ing His Horse. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. BISBEE, Ariz., Jan. 21.—Robert Spar- | ring, a cowboy, better known in this vicinity as ‘“Little Bob,” has rounded up his last bunch of range stock and committed his last crime. Incidentally he will never again make a tenderfoot dance by speeding bullets in the direc- tion of the stranger’s pedal extremi- ties. “Little Bob” was the bully of Bisbee, and a desperado of the real Western sort. His career came to a | sudden ending at an early hour th morning, and to Deputy Sheriff Gra ham is given the credit for ridding the Territory of this undesirable character. Bob walked into the Turf saloon at this place at 1:30 o’clock this morning. There were a few stragglers in the re- | sort, tryin® their luck at the monte game that was running in one corner. Sparring, drawing a revolver, stepped up to J. Davison, the dealer, and pointed the weapon toward him. “Pack up the coin and hand it over,” he ordered. Davison lost no time in complying. gamblers still in the saloon did nét at- tempt to draw. Sparring took the sack of cash, about $600 in all, backed out of the place and then ran for his | horse, which stood about 100 feet dis- | tant. One of the inmates of the Turf was Deputy Sheriff Graham. When “Little | Bob” left the place Graham started in ‘pursult. He overtook the desperado | Just as the latter was about to mount | his horse. | “Halt!” shouted the officer. | By way of reply, Sparring reached for his revolver. There was a report, but it did not come from the robber's wea- |pon. Graham had fired first, and the desperado fell, shot through the heart. | The money was returned to the | monte dealer, and the game went on | undisturbed for the balance of the night. BABE OVERTURNS A LAMP AND STARTS A FIRE. Home of a Monterey Merchant Destroyed, Together With All of Its Contents. MONTEREY, Jan. 21.—The residence of David Donelson, a leading shoe-dealer of MMonterey, caught fire about 7 o'clock from an overturned lamp and was al- most consumed before anything could be done toward saving it. The {nfant daughter of Donelson pulled at the cloth | of the table on which the lamp was | standing. The lamp was thrown to the floor and exploded, the flames quickly reaching every inflammable substance near by. The entire interior portion of the house and several thousand dollars’ worth of furniture were destroyed. There was no insurance on the house or con- tents. The loss is estimated at about AL, FIRE AT VENTURA. Two Buildings in the Business Center of the Town Burned. VENTURA. Jan. 21.—Fire broke out in Mrs. R. H. McDonald’s milinery store in | the business center of town to-night, and the structure, together with its contents, | was destroyed. The Chicago Clothing | Company’s store to the west, owned by 8. W. Wineman, was damaged to some extent by fire and water. . Adjoining the millinery store on the east was 5 . Hood’s harness shop, which was de- | stroyed. The burned buildings were of | wood and were owned by E. M. Jones, ;Thnt of the clothing company was of brick. B R Catholic Home for Fresno. FRESNO, Jan. 21.—Bishop Montgomery the bench and in the consultation room. Little Bob” had the drop, and the few | A rding to the custom of the reme left of Chief Justice Fuller on It is customary for the junior ote in reaching a decision by the EEREEEE AL EL AR AR R A R R A AR R s are now vending in the court nfirmation Judge McKenna will R RAAR AR AR R AR R R R DEMOCRATS T0 BEGIN EARLY Purposes of the Coming State Committee Meeting. Plans for the Next Campaign ‘Will Be Taken Up and Discussed. Primary Election Law One of the Principal Topics to Receive Attention. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. VISALIA, Jan. 21.—Hon. Willlam H. | Alford, chairman of the Democratic | State Central Committee, was inter- | viewed to-day by The Call correspond- ent concerning the coming meeting of | the committ When asked as to the purposes of and the business to be | mittee on January | “There will be a number of things {to do. In the first place the new law governing primary elections will be | considered. This law is somewhat | complex. and the machinery it pro- | vides is very cumbersome. But if it is upheld by the Supreme Court—and the | probabilities are that it will be—it must | be applied In every voting precinct in | this State. There are many things in | connection with its application that | must be consldered by the committee. For instance, the matter of preparing and distributing circulars of instruc- tion and the manner of providing the | ballots required at the primaries, are among the many problems presented by | the new law. “The time and place of holding the | next State convention will be consid- | ered and probably decided. Some ques- tions of party policy preliminary to the opening of the next campaign will be presented. , he sald: | tees generally meet, but the conditions | are peculiar and I consider early action important, as we do not propose to leave anything undone that can be done by the committee to further the interests of Democracy and the prin- | ciples of the Chicago platform between now and the assembling of the next State convention. “You ask if the members of the com- mittee who did not pay their assess- ments will be expelled. I have no idea what the disposition of the committee will be upon that subject, and, there- fore, will not presume to say. I will say, however, that this question is not a serfous one; that it can and will be settled without causing the ‘disturb- ance’ in the party so much hoped for by our opponents. There can be no question, however, of the power of the State Committee to expel a member and to fill the vecancy caused by such expulsion. That power is inherent from a parliamentary standpoint in every such body. To deprive it of this power would be to deprive it of the power to govern itself. T presume it will not be disputed that the conven- tion which elected the State Central Committee had the power to remove any member at pleasure. It follows upon the authority of an unbroken line of precedents that upon the adjourn- ment of the convention all power that it possessed pasged to the State Commit- tee, which is its only representative. ““There is no disposition on the part of the committee to Interfere in San Francisco local politics. Individually I should much regret the necessity of such interference. I have faith In the Democratic principle of each commun- ity controlling its own affairs in party management, as in all other matters. T believe the new primary law will ob- viate the necessity for any Interfer- ence.” Luetgert Cries in Court. CHICAGO, Jan. 21.—Adolph L. Luetgert went on the witness-stand to-day and told the jury the story of the doings in his sausage factory on the night of May 1, in an endeavor to explain the mystery surroundin, the disap; ance of his wife, for whose murder he is being tried. An immense crowd i:!hered around the criminal court long before the case was called, but the police allowed only those to enter who had tickets of admission. Judge Gary’'s courtroom was packed, and has purchased a lot at the corner of R and Mari, streets from Miss Jones of Sonora. ere & home wiil be erected for the Sisters of the Holy Cross. there was an unusual number of women resent. Luetgert broke down and cried flll(te a child :fizm he spoke of his first wife. transacted at the meeting of the com- | WORK OF SPIES AND TELEPHONES H. H. Boyce Watched at a Cincinnati Hotel. Tab Closely Kept on All Long-Distance Con- versation. Interesting Testimony in the Senatorial Bribery Charges. THREATS MADE BY WIRE. Those Listening at the "Phone Claimed to Have Heard Boyce Say He ‘Would Kill Otis. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. CINCINNATI, Jan. 21.—The legisla- tive committee investigating the charges of bribery in the recent elec- tion of a United States Senator at Co- lumbus held a session here to-night | and will continue its sittings here to- morrow. All members of the committee were present, together with quite a del- egation from Columbus and others from different parts of the State. Three | members of the House committee on the Otis investigation were present— Rutan, Spellmyer and Kenny. Spell- myer and Kenny are Democrats, and Rutan, chairman of the House commit- tee, is one of the Republicans who voted against Hanna. The other two members of the House ~ommittee, Box- well and Rankin, of Fayette, who voted for Hanna were not present. The committee was given quite a tel- ephone exhibition before it assembled. The Great Southern Hotel at Colum- bus, which was the headquarters of the anti-Hanna men during the recent con- test, was called up, and while the com- mittee was talking in the private office of the Gibson House with parties in Columbus, Jerry Bliss and his steno- grapher were at the telephone down- | stairs in the hotel office, taking off all | that was said. This was done to show how all of the conversations of Boyce with certain parties in Columbus was taken down while Boyce was here and the Senatorial contest was going on at the State capital. It is alleged that all of the conversations were taken down and are a matter of record without any wire-tapping, as the different tele- phones in the Gibson House are all on | the same circuit. Horace B. Dunbar, proprietor and manager of the Gibson House, was the only witness examined to-night. The clerks and others at the hotel will be examined to-morrow. Mr. Dunbar pro- duced his hotel register, showing that Henry H. Boyce of New York occupied room 226 from January 6 to January 10. Mr. Dunbar testified to having his sus- picions aroused and set the clerks to | watching Boyce. | Allen O. Meyers Jr., one of the day clerks, arranged for a stenographer’s report of the conversations Boyce had over the telephone during the day. Russell Pryor, the night clerk, took down the conversations at night. Boyce was given the key to the pri- vate office on the second floor when- ever he wanted it, and the arrange- ments down stalrs were always com- SOCIALISM SEETHING [N FRANCE iEven Premier Meline Sees Great Peril Ahead. Says Clerical Matters Are Put Forward to Divert Attention. Attempt to Denounce the Con- cordant With the Vatican Defeated. FRESH RIOTS IN STREETS. Mobs W earing Tri-Color Cockades of Conscripts Charged by the Police. Special Dispatch to The Call. PARIS, Jan. 21.—The Latin quarter | was disorderly to-day. The police have cion. Three experts in handwriting, whom Emile Zola charged with mak- | ing false reports at the court-martial | of Major Count Esterhazy, will, it is | announced, sue the novelist for 100,000 fMancs damages. Taking advantage of the fact that this was the day for the balloting of conscripts in the fifth district, a mob of people wearing the conscripts’ tri- colored cockades paraded the Latin ‘they were severely handled and dis- persed by a strong detachment of po- lice. Forty of the participants in the demonstration were arrested. During the debate in the Chamber of Deputies to-day on the estimates of the Department of Public Worship, M. Gerrard denounced the “dangers of clericalism.” The Premier, M. Meline, declared there was no ground for such fears. Continuing, he denied that the Govern- ment was composed of clericals, or that it was under pontificial direction, add- ing that the so-called clerical peril was only put forward to divert attention from the socialist and revolutionary peril. Ex-Minister Goblet then moved the separation of (hurch and state, which was defeated by 319 to 192 votes. Several members denounced the in- terference of Chief Rabbi Zaddockan in the Esterhazy affair, whereupon M. Melard replied that if the chief rabbi had acted improperly he could be de- prived of his salary. M. De Mahy called attention to the propaganda of English and German pastors in various parts of France, de- nouncing them amid applause as “sples,” and as being a “veritable peril to the existence of the fatherland.” The estimates were then adopted. M. Dutrieux moved the denunciation of the concordant (or understanding between the French Government and the Vatican). The motion was defeat- ed by a vote of 316 to 171. The President of the Chamber of Deputies, M. Brisson, announced that the interpellation of ex-Minister Cavi- agnac, introduced on January 17, de- manding a discussion of the semi-offi- cial note issued that day, in which the Government declined arrested about fifty persons on suspi- | quarter, uttering the usual cries, but | JAPAN TS PREPARED FOR WAR Fir’st Authentic News Since the Eastern Troubles Began. The Mikado Sends a Strong Fleet to Wei- Hai-Wei. Little Doubt in London of the Purpose of This Move- ment. PRESERVETHESTATUSQUO Russia Nor Russia’s Allies Will Be Allowed to Make Changes in Present Conditions. Special Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, Jan. 21.—The St. Gazette this afternoon, commenting upon the dispaich from Yokohama saying that a fleet of nine Japanese warships will leave Japan in the course of a week for Chinese waters, says: “Japan is prepared for war. That James | in a nutshell is the news from Yoko- | hama to-day, and it is really the first news from Japan since the beginning of the Chinese crisis. It was obvious that the Japanese Government had stopped telegraphic communication, which it never does except when mo- bilizing the army or navy. That is preceisely what it has been doing. It is understood that the destination of the fleet is Wei-Hai-Wei, and there is no doubt the movement means that the status quo in China, so far as Man- churia and Korea are concerned, shall not be altered by Russia, nor any com- bination of Russia’s allies in defiance of Great Britain and Japan. So long as the defenders’ policy is equality of opportunity in China, they are in a po- sition to enforce their claims.” PARIS, Jan. 21.—Orders have been received at Cherbourg and Toulon re- spectively to immediately prepare the battleships Bruix and Vauban to re- enforce the French squadron in the far East, and the ships will sail Jan- uary 24. Admiral Debaumont has been appointed commander in chief of the French squadron, and will hoist his flag on board the Vauban. The Brulx is a steel vessel of 4754 tons displacement and 9048 indicated horsepower. She has an armored belt about 4 inches thick, carries two 7- inch guns, sixty 5.5-inch quick-firing guns, four 2.5-inch guns, four 1.8-inch guns and six l.4-inch rapid-firing guns. The Vauban is a steel vessel of 6208 tons and 4560 indicated horsepower. She has an armored belt 10 inches in thickness, carries four 9.4-inch guns, one 7.4-inch gun, six 5.5-inch guns and twelve rapid-fire guns. BERLIN, Jan. 21.—The Berlin Neuste Nachrichten announces that the Ger- man warships are still sounding Kiao- chau Bay, adding that the exact site of the port is not yet fixed, and that the Government intends the construction of the commercial port shall be borne by private companies. It is further sald that one company has already been formed to construct the docks. to make public the alleged confession made by Alfred Dreyfus to Captain Le Brun-Renaud, the officer who had charge of him when MR. SHORTRIDGE ON THE “This is earller than State commit- | plete for reports of whatever went he was court-martialed, would be dis- over the telephone wires when Boyce cussed to-morrow. | was using the private office. The| M. Varvoort, editor of Le Jour, and | stenographer, who has a desk in the | M. Adjalbert, a_writer for Les Froits | office, was called Into requisition |de lI'Homme, fought a duel with whenever Boyce called any one up. Mr. Dunbar recited many of these | conversations over the long distance swords on account of the dispute aris- ing out of the Dreyfus case. M. Var- Vvoort sustained three flesh wounds and phone. In one of them the major was | M. Adjalbert was wounded in the fore- called up at Columbus and said:|a&rm. The seconds stopped the fight. | “Shane and the President will ar- HAVRE, Jan. 21.—Red placards were | range things on Saturday.” Boyce re- | plied: “Have seen one of the party. | Wants money. How can I handle | him?” | The reply from Columbus was: | “Suppose O betravs you, what then?" | Mr. Dunbar said that Boyce repli- led: “No danger. I would kill him. | Dead men tell no tales.” | Mr. Dunbar testified that Allen O.| Meyers Jr., who was in Columbus as| | one of the managers against Hanna, | was called upon Friday, January 7, by | Jerry Bliss, and told of the situation | the year these offices are hotly contested, {here and what Boyce was doing. Mey- | $3,'% |17 {18 semester that the princi- | | pal class hops, in which the presidents | ers advised Bliss that a man named | shine, take place. | Hollenbeck would leave Columbus for | McDowell hails from Ashland, Ohio, and | Cincinnati that night with money and | has his major in economics. At présent | to have him watched. The next morn- | he Is assis:inmb]reglstmr. and he is both | ing the Miller Detective Agency was | p?.‘g’;%‘;..‘”l';u:‘e& ek e employed to watch Boyce and keep | prowess on the football field. His home track of Hollenbeck on his arrival. On | [s in San Jose. He Is a student of law. January 8, H. H. Hollenbeck of Char- don, Ohlo, registered at the Gibson posted here to-day denouncing the Dreyfusians and inscribed with the usual cries against the Jews and in fa- vor of the army and the republic. STANFORD CLASS ELE CTIONS. PALO ALTO, Jan. 2L—Two important class elections took place to-day. The junior class elected John Ezra McDowell president. and the sophomore class hon- ored Willlam Wesley Burnett, the big center of the Varsity. At this season of ROAD TO RECOVERY. SAN JOSE, Jan. 21.—Dr. J. R. Curnow, the family physician of C. M. Shortridge and who has been attending the sick man at Gliroy Hot Springs, is in the city, and gives the first intelligent statement com- ing from the bedside. “T believe,” said the doctor, “that Mr. Shortridge will recover, unless there should arise some unforeseen complica- tions. There have been many foolish re- ports in circulation. In_the first place, Mr. Shortridge has no Bright's disease and no heart trouble. He is simply in a condition of extreme nervous prostration, with slight symptoms of typhoid fever. While he has been and is a very sick man, there is in my mind nothing to war- rant a belief that he will not fully re- cover. The prostration is so complete that T can say Mr. Shortridge has been very close to the grave, but I am more than hopeful of his recovery.” This report, coming from an official source, must set at rest the flying rumors of other nature. Reports from Gilroy Hot Springs evening state that Charles M. Short- ridge’s condition is more favorable than it has been for a week. There has been a steady improvement for the past thirty-six hours. His temperature is normal and his pulse is regular. His physician now entertains strong hopes of this his recovery. first. He had a room assigned to| him, but was seen to communicate with Boyce. The next name on the regis- ter to that of Hollenbeck was E. H.| Archer, Columbus, Ohio, Deputy Rail- road Commissioner. x Mr. Dunbar showed the registers to | the committee with all those names and stated that Mr. T. J. Mulvihill, one of the leading Democratic mana- | gers of this city, pointed Hollenbeck | out to the detectives. ~They watched | all the movements of Hollenbeck and traced him to the Unilon Trust and Savings Bank, of which J. G. Schmidt- lapp was president. He was then | traced to the different places of meet- | ing as charged by Representative Otis. ‘While Hollenbeck did not remain in Cincinnati, Boyce was here on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. At the suggestion of Jerry Bliss, Mr. Dunbar had the housekeeper and chambermaids watch the movements around room 226. On Sunday night Boyce told Dunbar he had been here representing the Presi- dent and complained about detectives being put onto him and about others watching him, and especially about the parties in room 215. After paying his bill on Monday and before departing. 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