The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 23, 1898, Page 9

THE SAN FRA NCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1898. CAMPAIGY | OPENED BY REPUBLICAXS Primary Elections to Be Called. CONVENTION DATE PROPOSED STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE WILL MEET TO-DAY. The Projected Apportionment Calls| for Seven Hundred and Fifty- One Delegates Based on Number of Votes. “FRANK MILLER CAME UP TO STAY AWHILE S0 BROUGHT HIS LUNCH were spent in the discussion of | all those present | sub-commit- | > the call and nt this afterncon | tate Central Com- « THE INFANT PRODIGY OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE | HARRY N GRAY . lin of Oroville, and a | wed that the following | nt: F. P. Flint, Los | George, Sacramento Al- | L Rosa; F. A. Miller, Osborne, Los Angel Los Angeles; James ¥ H ES SOME YO RRESPOND NG o » * Rea, San Jose; E. K. Taylor, Alameda, and John D. Spreckels, 1. N. Cray, M Higgins, Paris Kilburn, Charles W. Mai . Ruef and W. W. Shannon of yaring, A n Francisco. | he first business taken up for con- #ideration wes the manner of selecting | to recommend that primaries be held in | ley, who headed the list of Presidential | | less than 100 votes will be allowed one | mittee. The delegates to the St 111 or electing the delegates to the State con- vention. 3 Some of the committeemen favored the appointment of delegates by the several county committees, “while “others were strongly opposed to such a course. It was argued on the one side that REA REACHES THE PALACF ONTIME e » o v primary elections should be held to allow | the voters an opportunity of expressing | their choice of representatives. Against | the primary plan was urged the fact that | in some of the counties of the State it would be impossible to hold primaries, as the voters were so located that a central | election place could not be selected. After a lengthy debate it was decided all counties embracing three or more As- sembly districts. %‘m; means that | primaries will be held in San_Francisco, | Los Angeles, Santa Clara, Sacramento and Alameda counties. in the other counties the manner of selecting the dele- | gates will be left to the discretion of the county central committees, but none of the delegates are to he appointed. | The apportionment of delegates to each | county .was next .taken up, and it was decided to recommend that the apportion- | ment be made on the basis of one delegate for each 200 votes cast for D. H. McKin- ! lectors in the last Presidential paign, and one delegate for eve: of 100 votes and over., Count cam- fraction s, having delegate. Alpine County will come under | this provision. The committee decided to recommend | protecting hers :gons of the hour, with music between imes. The array of speakers is a formidable one. Among those who have been in- vited to speak are: Senator Perkins, M. M. Estee, George A. Knight, Samuel Shortridge, Charles J. King, R. B. Car- penter, Tirey L. Ford, A, L. Hart, M. J. Waldheimer, Merton C. Allen, Julius Kahn, J. C. Campbell, H. C. Dibble and E. 1. Wolf. 1. J. Truman will preside over the meet- ing, which is expected to prove an inter- esting one. —_————— TOOK ROUGH ON RATS. E. J. Nelson Ends His Life With No Apparent Cause for the Act. E. J. Nelson, a peddler of laundry sup- plies, committed suicide yesterday even- ing by taking a dose of rough on rats at his home, 8{7 Florida street. His wife says that the relations between herself and husband were amicable and that she can think of no reason for his act. Nelson was out in a buggy with his 7-year-old son all afternoon and the two made a number of purchases. Nelson went into a drugstore and on his return to the buggy the boy asked him what he bought. Nelson replied that he had purchased some poison. The boy thought nothing of this until on their return home his father called him into a room and told him he had taken the poison. The little fellow ran to his grandmother, Mrs. Dingle, who lives next door to the Nelsons, and informed her of his father's action. Dr. Lagan was summoned, but the man died before he could do any- thing for him. At the request of the widow Deputy Corener Tyrell did not take the body to the Morgue, but turned it over to the undertakers. The deceased was 40 years old, a mem- ber of Mission Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West, and leaves a widow and three children. —_— e This Week’s Wasp. The crack New York Regiment of Volunteers is the special illustrated feature of the Wasp | this week. Colonel Barber, Lieutenant Colonel Stacpole, the fleld offieers and a number of the members of that regiment were photographed especially for the Wasp. A flashlight picture of the scene in the Pavilion on the morning of the New Yorkers' reception there was also taken by the Wasp's enterprising photographer. The fourth Philippine expedition and the trans- port Pennsylvania are other interesting sub- jects of illustration. The harrowing scenes of the damage done by the explosion at the pow- der works in Melrose, Alameda County, are fully shown, the o ng from actual tographs, of the al of transports at Honolulu and some ctures taken in Cuba artoon features Dewey calling down the i the Philippines; Uncle Sam re- patriot and the Populist turning the table on the Democratic political direction. The literary features are varied and inte; usual high standard. MAIDENS FIGHT OVER A YOUNG MAN'S HAND LAUNDRY GIRLS WHO WERE JEALOUS OF EACK OTHER. g and up to the Wasp's One Is Lacerated With a Hatpin and the Other Severely Cut About the Face With a Knife. May Murphy, who resides at 370 Eighth street, and who earns a livelihood as an employe in the Empire Laundry, is in- dignant and adso severely cut. Both in- juries were the result of a disagreement with a lady friend over the hand of a blushing youth who works in the same establishment. Like the fickle lover that he is he estranged two fast friends by bestowing his affections on both, much to their dissatisfaction. This state of things continued for a time, and while both la- dies were presumably friends yet they were jealous of each other. The youth unaware of the trouble that was brew- ing, continued uneven course until the sparks of jealousy in the one time friends burst into flames. Some few nights ago, while Miss Mur- was leaving the laundry, she was to task by her rival and a ensued. Both girls forgot the al governing such contests d everything within reach. In If from injury Miss Mur- phy pulled her hatpin out and allowed her all around her. She then made ! and us MCLAUGHLIN FILLS R OF THE EXECUTINE | EE TO OVER FLOWING MAJOR THE CHAI COMMITT that the State convention meet at 1 p. m. on August 23. The place of holding the convention will be left to the State Com- convention in addition to nominati the regular also nominate Railroad Com- foners and members of the Board of ualization. If the recommendations of the executive committee are accepted, ate tic “TAYLOR OF ALAMEDA. MADE HIMSEJF COMEQRTABLE o« there will be a separate set of delegates elected to nominate Congressmen. A. B. Lemmon of Santa Rosa, H. Z. Osborne of Los Angeles. A. Ruef of San Francisco and M. R. Higgins of San Fran- cisco were ted bcommittee to | draft a_call, containing the recommenda-* tions of the committee, and present it to | the executive committee at a meeting to be held at 11 o'clock to-day. | an co.amittee had ad- of the State Dem id that the conve n- would be held either 1 on the 2d or 9th of August. | He %aid _he kr this was the pro-| gramme of his party. It would be fol- | lowed out, and the Democrats would have | the advantage of placing their platform and candidates first in the field, | James H. Barry, the editor of the Star, has announced himself as a candidate for | Congress on _the Populist-Democratic | ticket in the Fourth District, to succeed Maguire. REPUBLICANS WILL OPEN THE CAMPAIGN A Mass-Meeting to Be Held in Met- ropolitan Temple This Evening. Prominent Speakers to Attend. The opening of the forthcoming cam- paign will be signalized to-night by the Republicans at Metropolitan Temple. The meeting will be under the direction of the Central Republican League. There will be the usual addresses on the ques- | met again 1 her foe and sucaseded a laceration of the eye. ted the combatants and hos rsed for_the time being. They night and in the fight that followed Miss Murphy sustained a deep 1sh across the chin and a cut beneath the right eye. Accom nied by the cause of all th trouble she visited the Receiving Hospi tal, where Dr. F. Timothy Fitzgibbon pal. lantly repaired the damage, winning the everlasting gratitude of the wounded neaiden. What the outcome of the trouble will ba is hard to say Miss Murphy, by her rmfu] condition, T gained a strong hold on the yout affections. le refuses to give the name of her as- sailant. ————————————— “Well Done! Do It Again” is the title of Editor James H. Barry's leading edi- torial in to-da Star. Read it. G ENGLISH DEATH DUES. The fa ness of the English national purse is largely owing to the increase of the death duties, which has exceeded all expectation. The part of the act re- lating to the death duties came into op- | eration on the expiration of the 1st day of August, 1884, in the middle of a financial vear, and the experience of the second half of the year 18%4-95 was insufficient to PREFERRED DEATH TO DISGRACE Dramatic End of Fred Adams. ACCUSED OF A GRAVE CRIME TRAGIC SCENE IN A THIRD STREET BARBER-SHOP. Stepped to a Closet to Get His Coat and Before He Could Be Pre- vented Sent a Bullet Into His Brain. A tragic scene occurred in a barber shop at 260 Third street, near Folsom vesterday afternoon, Fred Adams, grace of being arrested on a serious charge. Several men and boys were mixed up in a scandal in connection with five | young girls, whose ages ranged from 12 | to 15 years. Officer McMurray of the Society for the the proprietor, preferring death to the dis- | The case was intrusted to | you had better put on your hat and coat and come along with me."” “All right,”” said Adams, as he rose from the chair, and pulling off his linen jacket went to a closet as if to get his coat and hat. He was standing with his left hand toward the officers, and in an instant they were startled by the report of ‘a shot, followed by the collapse of Adams on the floor. He had a revolver clutched in his right hand and blood was pouring from a gaping wound in his right temple. McMurray rang for the ambulance and Adams was taken to the Receiving Hos- pital, where Drs. Bunnell and Maher found that the bullet had penetrated the brain and death was only a question of minutes. He died shortly before 6 o’clock and his body was removed to the Morgue. The_coolness with which Adams delib- erated before sending a bullet through his brain was marvelous, and is best told by Z. Lewton, who has been lL.s helper for the past three years. Lewton was seated In one corner of the shop honing a nlxzor, when the officers walked into the place. “‘Adams was seated in one of the barber chairs,” said Lewton, “when Officer Mc- Murray asked him his name. He told him frankly, and when iniormed of the charge he said there must be some mis- take. He did not seem moved. He asked what the bail was, and when told $2000 expressed no surprise. “The officer then told him to put on his hat and coat. Adams unconcernedly walked to a clothes closet at the rear of the room and after disappearing from view we heard a shar{) report of a pistol. When we reached him he was leaning against the wall and bloou was flowing porfusely from a wound near the right temple. We laid him on the floor and he was afterward removed to the Receiving Hospital. The shooting occurred at about * Ddmms was a married man, about 62 | vears of age. His wife is an Invalid, and | they residea at 21 Ritch street. He came | from the East many years ago, and claimed to be a down East Yankee. He | was a drinking man, and so far as known never accumulated any property or wealth. Those who are best acquainted | with him express surprise at his being | charged with a heinous crime. He was | always neatly attired, and is spoken of as of a kindly and generous disposition in_general. TRAGEDY IN A % 9 % % Y \FRED ADAMS, Proprietor of a Third-Street Shaving | Parlor, Shot Himselt When an Officer Came | to Arrest Him. Suppression of Vice, and he made sev- eral arrests. He learned about two weeks ago that an old man who was a barber was concerned in the scandal, and on | July 8 Katie Tracey, one of the girls, swore to a warrant for his arrest on the charge of criminal assault. | but yesterday Officer McMurray was in- | formed by Tessie Bartelson that he had | a barber shop at 260 Third street. About | 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon McMurray | accompanied by Tessie went to Adams’ | shop. They passed the door and the lit- tle girl pointed to Adams, who was seat- ed in a chair in the shop. | McMurray met Policeman Chase and | asked him to go with him while he served | the warrant. They went inside and Mec- Murray, approaching Adams, sald: * have a warrant for your arrest,” and he pulled the warrant out of his pocket. ““What am I charged with?" asked Adams, and McMurray told him. give any clear indication of the financial effects of the changes which it intro- | duced. The increased revenue from all the death duties during that period was £1,138,000, and it is estimated that £960,- 000 of that sum was new act. The financial year 1895-96 was the first complete year during which the statute was in force; the net gain to the ex- chequer was £2,885,000, compared with and £4,023000 as compared with 4, the last year before the passing of act. Thus, in hteen months, in- there were real- ized the anticipations of Sir William Har- court that the ultimate net gain to the revenue from the provisions of the act would be about £4,000,000. n July, 1895, the finance act of 18% came into opera- tion. It contained certain clauses relat- ing to the death duties, the objects of which were not to depart from the prin- ciples of the act of 194, but to remove some cases of hardship which had be- come manifest in the working of the original act. Owing to the alleviations introduced by those clauses the death duties fell slight- 96-97, vielding £13,963,000, 14,088,605 in the pre- vious year; they, nevertheless, exceeded the Chancellor of the E mate for the year. been £15.328,000, an increase of £1,365,000, and £1,400,000 above the estimate.—Cham- bers’ Journal. —_—————— THEE REVOLUTIONARY FURY. Theroigne de Mericourt, dressed in a riding habit of the color of blood, a sword by her side and two pistols in her belt, was the first who broke open the gates of the Invalides. She was one of the fi to attack the Bastile, and as a re- ward a saber d’'homme was voted her on the breach by the victors. She, on horse- back, led the women of Paris to Ver- saill She brought back the King to Pari In proportion as the Revolution became more bloody, she plunged deeper and deeper into it. But the end of the beautiful creature was awful in the ex- treme. When she sought to stay the progress of the Revolution, the women called the “Furies of the Guillotine"” re- sented her conduct, stripped her of her attire and publicly flogged her on the ter- race of the Tuileries on May 31, 1793. This punishment, more terrible than death, turned her brain, and she was placed in a madhouse, where she Illved twenty vears. Alphonse de Lamartine, in his “History of the Girondists,” says: “‘Shameless and bloodthirsty in her de- lirium, she refused to wear any garments, as a souvenir of the outrage she had u dergone. She dragged herself, only cov- ered by her long, white hair, along the flags of her cell, or clung with her wasted hands to the bars of the window, whence she addressed an imaginary people, and demanded the blood of BSuleau.”—Notes and Queries. attributable to the the stead of in several years, In 1897-98 the yield has ' The girls did not know Adams’ address, | fore, and it is intimated that he had but | lately provided himself with the 32-caliber © | revoiver, which he concealed in an over- | coat at the shop. The Tyrone’s Picnic. The Tyrone, Fermanagh and Donegal Benevolent Society will hold its eighth | annual picnic at Shell Mound Park Sun- |day, August 2. The committee of ar- QOOO00CC0000000000 | rangements held a large meeting at B'nal | B'rith Hall last evening, B. Gorman in | the chair and P. J. Tinney acting as secretary. The committee on music, P. J. Healéy chairman, reported that it had | secured Tim McCarty, the celebrated | Trish piper, and Professor McMahon, the | fiddler, also_the Hibernian band, for the | event. G. Lewis of the committee on | prizes said he had collected $113 cash, | also _several valuable prizes. The commit- tee decided to give horseraces and bicycle | races. John Curry said $150 had been | given by the socléty, also a $100 bicycle |and a $33 gold watch had been purchased | and would be given away among the gate “That" idiculous,” coolly replied | prizes. 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