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8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1898 WOULDN'T TAKE A BIG BRIBE Mayor Malster of Balti- more Refuses to Stay Out of the Fight. OPPOSES THE VAST INCREASE Minority Bill for Army Reorganization. FOR ONLY 30,000 REGULARS PROVISION FOR VOLUNTEERS FOR ALL EMERGENCIES. A Big Standing Force Not Required, Because the Future of New Possessions Is in Doubt. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. [+] NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—A Baltimore, Md., special to the Herald O © says: When Mayor William T. Malster announced himself as a can- © o ction at the meeting of the Columbian Club on & [+ he also made the statement that he had been of- | [x} get out of the fight-—$200,000 in stock and $50,000 in © 4] (4] [ Malster refused to say whence the offer came, but it is @ | © hinted that it came fi ion which has been taking a lively © (] st in Maryla fighting Mr. Gorman at every © ) The Mayo ition, adding that he © | [x) 1d not sell out the humblest of his supporters, be the offer what it Q | < o 4] nsation in this city. The Colum- (A} anization, made up of Ma o | [+ I ¢ le at a meeting when every 0 | < The Republicans of Baltimore are © | 4 led into two factions, one of which is the Columbian Club and © | © the other being the Union League Club, otherwise known as the Or- © O g ent. The latter has the backing of Senators © [+ 1d McComas and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. © ] t of the club is William F. Stone, Collector of the Port. © | o n who made public the episode of Tuesday night was © [+] Mason, R trar of Wills for Baltimore, and chairman of Q 2] can C Committee. He is a firm .uapporter of Mayor © ] [ [+] (2} [ CO0QQCQOQO00000000C0000000 COLLIER ABARENDA THE BADGER GAME GOES TO SAMOA' WORKED AGAIN President to Prepare forE Troubles of an Oregon| Emergencies. | Young Woman. | QOO0 00000 COAL PILE FOR PAGO-PAGO SETSALL NEW YORK TALKING | MAY MEAN A WARSHIP IS TO DENIES THAT SHE WAS ANY! FOLLOW. PARTY TO THE PLOT. { = S | The Vessel Will Leave San Francisco | Police of the Metropolis Think They and Carry Down a Shed in Have Made Out a Strong Which to Store the Case, Neverthe- less. Coal. NEW YORK, Dec. 2 evidence in the Moore, accu A Washington | Secretary Lieutenant The taking of case of Fayne Strahan d of robbery in the first special tc Long 1 1 0 Buford, command- | degree, was resumed to-day before Re- la, directing him | corder Goff. Three witnesses gave r a cruise to the | testimony confirming that of Martin It is proposed to em- | Mahon, the alleged victim of the bad- the double pur- | 8er game. Then Mrs. Fannie . cargo of coal | Son, who lives in West Fifty reet, where it is alleged Mahon took | . Moore, said she knew Mahon and coaling station d for showing in those waters. It the defendant, but did not know | may be partment will de- | William E. Moore. She testified that | e var to Sa- |She had asked Fayne Moore in the | moa n that th prospect of | Tombs why she did not turn State's | evidence. this rey Mrs. Johnson broke down at | point' and shed many tears. In to a question she said Fayne Moore said she would not turn State’s evidence because she was afraid Moore would kill her. The rest of her tes timony was given up questions more or le ral. sec coal upor " arr direction of Commander R. f of the bures gineer iring Under th have 1 prepare ded for the cor n this country of and they are ex r shipment n £ 1 from San cisco will be Civil Engineer Cham- rintend their con- | answering | irrelevant to the case, and then a waiter from the to Metropole, who served dinner to Mr. Mahon and the alleged Mrs. Moore, | Was put on the stand. This ended the case for the prosecu tion and Mr. Levy, the attorney for the will be able to carry | defense, moved for a dismissal of the mething like 3300 tons | complaint on the ground that the prosecution had failed to establish its| case. The motion was denied. Annie Fitzgerald, matron of the City on, was called as the next witness for the defi She denied having heard Mrs. Johnson advise Mrs. Moore to turn State’s evidence, and also de- | ¢ of the administration any trouble in the stence of Pago will enable the men-of-war to Apia | in the controversy slands pro- 1t A nied other parts of Mrs. Johnson's| - vyATEe & eyidence. At this point the court ad- RECOUNT OF VOTES rOR | journea. Later in the evening the court w again called to order and the time w. devoted to the continued testimony of Mrs. Fitzgerald. fter her came Rev. CONTESTED OFFICES | Good Government League of San Jose | 2 |'Ogden Homas, rector of St. Matthew Confident of Unearthing | Protestant Episcopal Church, in West | Frauds. | Eighty-fourth street, wno testified that | 3, Dec. 22.—A recount of the| on April 4, 1887, he performed a mar. riage ceremony between Willilam A. Moore and Fayne Strahan. He said the defendant was the woman. Moore was brought into court and Dr. Homas offices of Sheriff, Treasurer | stice commenced to-day Hyland and Kittredge, Thes inaug- | g in bank are br ! urated by the Good Go ague. | identified him as the man. kel ation o A hofie 0ot R.J.| Fayne Moore was then called to the Langford as Sheriff, L 2 nd and examined by Mr. Hill. She | James H. Lyndon d that she was born on February 23, r. with a majori 1271, Her father was Judge of the Su- ant, and J. W. Ga preme Court of Oregon when he died, W. was taken up in for the contestants pr ant to the petition as| Precinct be thrown ng to irre rities. Tt was de- count the vote of this city fi adjournment only th : had been cou City Justice— in July, 1887. She then removed to At- | ! lanta, Ga., and came to New York in| | the spring of 18 She came here, she said, with the intention of completing her musical studies. She w rope, returning in July, 1896, that she first met Mahon in August, 1896, on the occasion of a musicale at the Amsterdam Hotel. She .| Mahon had, uninvited, called upon her | when she was living at Gramercy Park. , she said, told her he w a , oW Lotz 70. aside to be Good Gove: when thes his wife. He frequently took her carriage rid- ing and to the theater. She then went to Atlanta, and, on returning, took a not would be unearthed in | and the Good Government|room at Mrs. Johnson's house at Il confident of winning all | Mahon’s suggestion. She said the last 5 time she seen Mahon previous to her marriage to Moore was in January, 1897. She told of her trips with Moore Plucky Miner Accidentally Shot. | Ken-| in this country and abroad. STOCKTON, Dec. ~Griffiths medy, a mining superintendent from|gaid that on the morning Nov Angels Camp, accidentally dropped a 44-| 4 she rm'ei\'od‘a um«yrhon’; rfifee\oéfrr%;: caliber revolver from his pocket to-day | Mahon asking her to take supper at near the Southern depot, just after ar-| the Metrcpole. The rest of her testi- riving on the noon train. The wmpuu}muny recounted the supper in the was discharged ‘and the bullet passed | rooms of the Grenoble, to which hote: | through his right leg, entering at the they had later gone, and the one in ankle and emerging from the fleshy of the leg under the knee. He retrieeq hig steps to the depot unassisted and con- tinued on to Oroviile on the 1:08 train, refusing medical aid. He declined to give his name or residence, though it iwas learned from other parties who knew | iim. i which Moore appeared and demanded money from Mahon. She also spoke of the scene between Moore and Detectives Cuff and McNaught, but denied know- ing that Mahon had given any money to Moore. When asked by Mr. Hill it she knew of any scheme of Moore's to extort money from Mahon, or whether she had entered into any conspiracy for the purpose, she answered emphatically in_the negative. Mr. Hill then announced that the de- fense rested. Recorder Goff announced that the case would be continued to- morrow, when Mr. McIntyre will cross examine Fayne Moore. 55K Survey Steamer for Porto Rico. BALTIMORE, Dec. 22—The coast and geodetic survey steamer Blake left Balti- more to-day for Porto Rican waters, Her departure marks the beginning of work by this Government in the new posses- sfons, this being the first expedition sent to any of these islands for the purpose of making surve Read the first Christm spent in Death Valley, by a woman survivor of the awful trip, in next Sunday’s Qall. EASILY EXPLAINED, “‘Goodness me! What do you think of a young man of twenty-two declaring tnat kissing games are wicked? ’ I think somebody has been taking ad- 1\~anm e of them to Kiss the young man's sweetheart.”—Indianapolis Journ: | infantry, 6000 cavalry, | ordnance and signal corns and general nt to Bu- | She said | said that | married man, but was not living with | She then | p WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—The bill for the increase of the regular army, Which the minority of the House Com- mittee on Military Affairs will cffer as a substitute for the Hull bill, was drawn up by Representatlve Hay of | Virginia and is now in the hands of the | | War Department, where an estimate is being made of the cost of such a mili- tary establishment as it suggests, bill, as drawn, provides for a {army of 30,000 men, 12,000 artiller and engineer, staff. To meet the existing exigency for troops in Porte Rico, Cuba, the Philippines, Hawaii and the Ladrones the bill provides that the President may ue his proclamation for 50,000 addi- tional volunte troops, to be enlisted for two years. These latter troops are to be commanded by officers appointed by the President. The organization is to be the same as in the regular army, the strength of the different arms of the service to be determined by the President. The present volunteers are to be mustered out within sixty d after the pa: ge of the act, but volun- teer organizations not in the service preference for enlistment v unteer army, if they so n fifteen day The bill pro- ides that no regular army officer who was in the army prior to the war with in shall be mustered out of the ser- vice. Mr. Hay will file the bill and the mi- nority report on the Hull bill to-mor- row with the clerk of the House. The main contention the report will make for the minority plan as against the Hull bill for a standing army of 100,000 men is that the future of the Philig pines and Cuba is yet undetermined, but that, if the standing army is in- creased to 100,000, it will be almost im- possible, no matter what may happen in the future, to reduce it. The report will say that a standing army of 100,000 men will cost the people of the United States $15,000,000. This, added to the $145,000,000 for pensicns, will bring the | cost of the military establishment up to | tv Make looking to the modification of | $310,000,000, the largest charge in the world for a military establishment. The naval establishment would bring the total up many millions more. Mr. Hay estimates that a standing army of 30,000, with 50,000 additional volunteers, would cost $100,000,000, but this charge might continue only for two years. The eation of a volunteer force for tempo- rary purposes would alwa keep it within the power of Congr to ad- just the strength of that force to the existing condition. AN IMPORTANT WINE TRANSACTION C. A. BUCKLEY OF LIVERMORE SELLS HIS STOCK. This Will Bring About the Fixin; Settled Prices for the Vintage. g of L 3 1897 and 1898 wines to Chevallier & Co. for prompt delivery, at 13% cents for red and 17 cents for white wines. The cellar ins about 175,000 gallons of red wine: about 22,000 gallons of white wines Part of the white wine had been already contracted for at 20 cents per gallon, and will be reserved from the sale. Those winemakers who were in opposi- tion to the Dealers’ Association have heretofore paid growers a certain amount in cash, generally $ per ton, but in Liv- ermore §7, with an agreement to pay thereafter $1 per tun extra for every cent a gallon that the wine was valued at. It was expected that the corporation | would fix the values on which settlements should be made in September last, but this has never been done. It is said the manager himself was a large debtor to grape growers, and that it proved more convenient to his inter- €sts to have the question open for private agreement. When the Livermore men demanded a valuation he threatened, it is said, to fix the price at $8 fo, s and $il for white grapes, advised them to make a settlement quietly. This advice was generally acted upon. to the disade vantage of the grape sellers, inasmuch as the white wine had sold at from 11 o 15 cents per gallon, In Sonoma County the wine-makers of the corporation paid $5 in cash with the additional promise, and the independents paid $12 ca. 7 They were quick to see the nrobable effects of the forthcoming short crop of “8, and made arrangements to settle with the grape-growers for the the basis of $6 per ton, while | $10 for the new croy The L. : grow ily caught offering them were not so So! settled on the ba the $7 already paid for black grapes. ith $2 additional’ for white grupvs,' Others held out on the ground that the wines had not been sol tion had not dec] sxtremi and that the corpora- red the prices. In this v Mr. Buckley came to the front as a benefactor. It is understood that an effort will made to induce the growe: the basis of $9 for black g for white grapes, but this tickle their fancy, since Mr. Buckley has given out to the dealers that the cor-. poration has for the first time since it promised to do so fixed the market price | for wines at $13 25 for red wines and $13 | for white wines. The growers will no | their right be TS to settle on pes and $11 not likely to doubt insist upon especlally as they say the | wine-maker ‘suffers noloss under his pres- ent contract of sale. ——— | Baron von Schroeder’s Barn. Baron von Schroeder has brought suit | in the United States Circtit Court against Mrs. M. B. Brittan to recover $2000 dam- ages, alleged to have been sustained by @ warehouse in this city belonging to the defendant bulging into the wall of his warehouse, which it adjoins. Mrs. Brit- tan contends that the damage, if any, cannot exceed $1000, and that therefore the Circuit Court has no jurisdiction in the matter. The point was submitted to Judge Morrow yesterday on argument. ————— ILLUSTRIOUS BARBERS. William Winstanley, to whom we are in- debted for the *“Lives of the English | Poets,”” hefian his career by soaping faces. Farr, who Introduced coffee into England; Dr. John Taylor, whose eloquent voice so | often sounded in St. Paul's; Jean Baptiste Belzoni, glant and _explorer; James Craggs, secretary of the South Sea Bub- le; Mr. Herbert Ingram of the Illus- trated London News; Allan Ramsay, the ‘“‘Gentle Shepherd”; Lord Chancellor Sug- den, Lord Tenterden, Jeremy Taylor, Bi- zet, the composer of the opera “Carmen,” were born and bred and were trained in barbers’ shops.—Notes and Querles, A. Buckley of Livermore has sold his | 97 _vintage on | GREAT BRITAIN. WILL GIVE WAY Clayton-Bulwer Treaty Doomed. :YIELDS RIGHTS TO AMERICA ;PAUNCEFOTE TO MOVE ABRO- | GATION OF CONV_NTION. Herald telegraphs: Why England Has Yielded After In- sisting Upon Old Rights for Nearly Fifty Years. eign settlement at Shanghal. Speci Dispatch to The Call. | NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—The Washing- | ton_correspondent of the Herald sends the following: All danger of further friction between the United States and Great Britain over the construction of the Nicaragua canal will shortly be re- moved by the abrogation of the Clay- ton-Bulwer treaty. 9 COOC000000C00000000 WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—The Washington correspondent of the Acting Secretary of State Hill has received a dis- patch from Minister Conger, stationed at Peking, th{:t t‘he French Government has requested an extension of its boundaries in the for- The matter is therefore under consid- eration at the State Department, but it is positively denied that any protest has been submitted to the Chinese Government by the Amer- ican Minister, as stated in press dispatches from Peking. From what I have been able to learn regarding the matter the French are desirous of extending their boundaries into the'American concession. The line they propose, if authorized by the Chinese Gov- ernment, will result in the placing of several American merchants and others under French jurisdiction, and the authorities here jio not intend to permit American interests to suffer in this manner. No rep- resentations will be made to the French Government direct, but it is expected the position of this Government = Peking, and from that point the French authorities will learn of ‘the objection of the United States to the extension it desires. 000000000000 0000C00000000000C00000 EXTENSION IS DULY OPPOSED French Government Will Not Be Permitted to ‘ A Crowd Americans. will be communicated to CO000000000C0000C0000 [} I am in a position to state authori- tatively that Sir Julian Pauncefote, British Embassador, has received or will receive within the next few days | positive i ructions to enter upon ne- gotiations with Secretary Hay for the abrogation of the convention referred THE STANDARD OIL BURNED ITS BOOKS Men Who Did the Work Tell Tales. to and the preparation of a new treaty guaranteeing the neutrality of the canal. This change in the attitude of the British Government from its old posi- tion of irn ng upon having a voice in the construction of the proposed canal is the result of representations made to Lord Salisbury by Henry | White, Charge d’Affaires of this Gov- ernment in London. It is the understanding of those who are aware of the change in the atti- tude of the British Government that ROCKEFELLER OUT OF SIGHT Lord Salisbury will suggest, through SERIOUS TROUBLE FOR THE BIG | Sir Julian, the advisability of the TRUST. | United States granting some conces- % | sions to his Government in return for | the relinquishment of the important | rights possessed by Great Britain in the | :mauer of the canal across the isthmus, | which for nearly fifty years have been | recognized by this Government in the | treaty negotiated by John M. Claytcn on the part of the United States and Lord Henry Lytton-Bulwer on the part of the British Government. Just what concessions will be asked are nct known, nor will they be until full and | final instructions have been received by | Sir Julian and communicated to Secre- Still There Is One Employe Who Says That No Books of Value ‘Wers Destroyed by the Company. Special Dispatch to The Call. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 22.—The taking of depositions by Attorney Gen- tary Ha It has been believed for|eral Monnett in the attempt to prove some time past by administration offi- | 1yat the Standard Oil Company had de- Is that the Salisbury Government | aese " v its books and papers a would lend a willing ear to any repre- | Stroved a lot of its sentations the President might desire | f€W days before the Supreme Court or- dered them produced as evidence in the investigation of the Standard Oil Com- pany, was resumed to-day. John McNierney testified that he had been in the employ of the Standard Oil Company for over two years. McNierney said that on Saturday morning, November 19, he was ordered to burn a lot of the Standard Oil Com- pany’s books. He burned them at about 8 o’clock in the furnace of the shops. Later in the day he said he was ordered to go to the Euclid-avenue offices and to get some boxes. The boxes were taken down from the fifth floor in the elevator, but some one objected to them being taken out of the front door. Thereupon they were taken back to the fifth floor. McNierney said that he remained around the Euclid-avenue office until & o’clock that afternoon and then the boxes were lowered by a rope and tackle from one of the windows. He was assisted by four other employes of the company. The boxes were taken to the company’s warehouse. They re- mained there until Monday. The witness said that about 10 o’clock Monday morning he and a man named Moran took the books out of the boxes and burned them in the furnaces. There were nine boxes of books and six sacks of papers. Some of the books were about twenty inches high and others were much smaller. McNierney said that the books that were burned on Saturday morning were taken from the Euclid- avenue office Friday night. He received his orders to get the boxes from George Fields, the carshop foreman. On cross-examination McNierney said that he and Moran burned the books that were destroyed Saturday morning. Moran helped open the boxes and took out the books and burned them. On Monday Fields gave him orders to go to the warehouse and get the boxes and to take them to the furnaces. At 4 o'clock the taking of testimony before Notary Mason was resumed. Charles C. Hogan, a foreman in the em. ploy of the Standard Oil Company, was the only witness examined. He has been in the employ of the company for twenty-one years. He said he gave or- lders, in accordance ;flth l}rllstructlons. | to George Fields, to burn the accounts | Pl O B and books In the boxes hauled from the | I | offices of the company to the Independ- Proceedings Probably Caused by a|ent-street warlehu;se. e ; i i | declared, contained a miscellaneous col- | Compll‘ncat?on Qve{;he fir;::'fing lection of papers and a few books which of Society as.I Found It. might have been letter-press books, | S stock books or order copybooks. He William . Chambliss, the once diadem | declared positively that no ledsers or |of San Francisco's little social world, | journals were burned. The burning of | wants his money back and damages, too. | this material, he said, was of no con- He 1 Walter N. Brunt to recover sequence and was according to custom. $281 money paid out and $5000 damages| In July, 1896, he said, a lot of similar for certain conditions surrounding the | material was burned and in 1898 more paying out of the $281. accounts and books were destroyed. Some time ago Chambliss gratified the| This last time a number of account world of letters and overjoyed society by | books were burned. Hogan aua o nad grinding out a volume with a title some- | been requested to look at the books be- thing like “Society as 1 Found It.” It the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, but careful | consideration of the subject induced | the administration to give instructions | to Mr. White to press Lord Salisbury to authorize Sir Julian to negotiate for its abrogation. Immeaiately upon their receipt Mr. | White communicated with Lord Salis- | bury, who was at his country residence, Hatfield House, Herefordshire, and re- | ceived an invitation to visit him there. | The invitation was accepted and on | Tuesday the American Charge d’Affaires | called upon Lord Salisbury and only | | returned to London to-day, bringing ith him, I am told here, the promise O the British Premier that negotia- | tions should immediately be begun for the abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. The abrogation of the Clayton-Bul- | wer treaty will mean that the United States as a government will be em- powered to construct the Nicaragua | canal if it sees fit to take such action. It is expected Great Britain will de- sire that the United States shall de- | clare the neutrality of the canal and permit its use by vessels of all nations | on an equality with its own, and will permit her men-of-war to be exempted from blockade detention or capture while traversing the cznal in case of war with this countyy. | But the main, fmportant end for which the adminjstration is working is | | the abrogation ol article I, which for- | bids the United States. as a govern- | ment to construct the canal. | It is believed here that the effect upon | the international situation of Great | Britain’s determination to abrogate the treaty will be very marked and will | show Europe more cleariy the extent of | the friendly relations which exist to- | day between the United States and | Great Britain. In fact, it is regarded lin diplomatic circles here as another genuine token of good will freely given by the British Government to the | United States and will. undoubtedly be | s0 looked upon in Europ CHAMBLISS WANTS | MONEY AND DAMAGES | ‘SUES WALTER N. BRUNT FOR | The boxes, he | fore destroying them and not burn any that were less than ten years old. He saved a few that were less than ten years old that had been set aside by mistake. The hearing before the notary will be resumed to-morrow morning. The regular Standard Oil inquiry, be- fore Special Master Commissioner Brinsmade, was not taken up to-day because Messrs. Rockefeller, Squire and Severance, who were wanted to testify, could not be found. Attorney General Monnett desired to proceed with the hearing and to subpena bookkeepers and other employes for the Standard. Attorney Kline, for the Standard, ob- jected and argued for more delay. Said Mr. Monnett: “We have been a year and two | months getting three days’ testimony. We have met with nothing but delays and the State is ready to go on.” Mr. Kline stated that, to the best of his knowledge, Secretary Squire would return to Cleveland January 4. He said Mr. Severance had been out of the city for several months and he did not know where Frank Rockefeller was. He fur- ther said that none of these gentlemen had left the city to prevent service be- ing served on them. After a debate of some length by the attorneys Master Commissioner Brins- made ordered the investigation post- poned until January 4 at 10 a. m. In his order he stated: ‘Notice of the pro- ceedings is hereby given the attorneys.” SAYS WE'VE OUTGROWN THE CONSTITUTION General Merritt Speaks at the An- nual Dinner of the New Eng- land Society. NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—Over 400 sons of New England sat down to-night at the ninety-third annual dinner of the New England Society of New York City at the ‘Waldorf - Astoria. President Howland presided, and above his chair was the seal of the society, flanked on either side by the American and English flags. The guests included many men prominent in public and private life, among them be- ing Brayton Ives, Elihu Root, J. P. Mor- | gan, Joseph H. Choate, General Hamilton S. Hawkins, General Willlam R. Shafter, Governor Elisha Dyer of Rhode Island, Admiral William T. Sampson, Governor Theodore Roosevelt, General Joseph ‘Wheeler, General Wesley Merritt, former Governor Roswell P. Flower, C. P. Hunt- ington and former Vice-President Levi P. Morton. “Forefathers’ Day” was responded to by Governor Dyer. Governor-elect Roose- velt was greeted with loud cheers when he rose to respond to '“The State of New York.” General Merritt, in the course of a short speech, said: “We have a great | work before us. What we have done and what the administration has done has been in the interests of the country. There is a great deal that approaches us from every side in the tropics. We can ex- tend our commerce there and we can ex- tend the trade of America, which is now three-fourths of it limited to the tropics, to an enormous extent. We have the English feeling with us when we are in the colonies of England. A great many people have insisted that the constitu- tion forbade it. To these I have said, ‘We have outgrown the constitution. It is not worth while to discuss it.” We are here and we are here to stay. ‘It is not worth while for me to ex- tend my remarks for the purpose of con- vincing you, gentlemen, that_everything is in our favor in the Far East. Our trade with China, the Philippines, Japan and all those things point to a result that we have to contemplate, that we have to accept. We could not do less. Admiral Dewey could not have withdrawn his fleet from Manila Bay after he had captured it on the 1st of May. The army that was sent there could not with- draw and leave the Spaniards in_com- mand. What may be the result I do .not care to prognosticate, but I am satisfied that Americans will find a solution for the matter, however difficult it may be.” General Shafter spoke on “The army, paying a warm tribute to the regular army. g Poverty and Attempted Suicide. SAN JOSE, Dec. 22.—Mrs. James Sut- cliff, aged 33, attempted to commit suicide to-night by shooting herself twice in the abdomen. , She is in a precarious condi- tion. Poverty is supposed to be the cause, Still Another Use for a Hairpin. Mrs. Ray, wife of City Clerk A. W Rax, says the Cincinnati Enquirer, found a dynamite cartridge on the dresser in her son’s room the other day and not knowing what it was took a hairpin and picked it. The cartridge exploded and three fingers were blown off one hand and two off another. She was unconscious for a short time, and when she recovered and was asked what caused the explosion she sa“l it was a hairpin and a woman’s curi. osity. was over the printing of this volume, it said, but it may be another master- plece that led up to the present legal con- | troversy which was launched yesterday by the filing of Chambliss’ complaint. Chambliss alleges as a cause of action that Brunt agreed to have 1000 copies of the work ready for distribution one month after certain half tones and manu- ript were furnished him. The material furnished, Chambliss alleges, but, 'y to contract, Brunt failed to print w | contrary | the 1000 copies as agreed. { . Chambliss demanded his money back, | but didn’t get it. Then he went after | | the manuscript with like result, so he has appealed to the court to force the return | of the money, and to compel Brunt to pay him an amount he believes sufficient to compensate him for the loss of his written thoughts of the smart set, or | something else, which is vulgarly termed | manuscript. | Five thousand dollars, he believes, is | sufficient compensatios i —_————— Weaver Is Still Fighting. Philip L. Weaver, who several years g0, was removed as superintendent of | the Almshouse, although once defeated in his effort to remove his successor, Pat- rick Reddy, has been granted leave by PHE P+t Pt r bt r bttt et Drugging is a_habit. stomach, liver, kidneys and nerves. for either sex, free. If possible, call and test th Stop it. | Judge Hunt to amend his petition for re- *—- - | instatement that the matter may again %%MJEAE‘DEN' x* | be heard and_finally adjudicated. 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STATEMENT —OF THE— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS —OF THE— Helvetia Swiss Fire INSURANCE COMPANY QF, ST, GALL, SWITZERLAND, ON THE 31st day of December, A. D, 1897, and for the year ending on that day, as made to the nce Commissioner of the State of Cali- fornla, Rursuant to the provisions of sections €10 and €11 of the Political Code, condensed as per blank furnished by the Commissioner. ASSETS. Cash market value of all stocks and bonds owned by company. $649,362 50 Cash in company’s office. 42 65 h in banks. 117,616 31 Interest due a stocks and loan Premiums in due ‘Total assets. P LIABILITE ES. Losses adjusted and unpaid. P X Losses in process of adjustment or in suspen 3 . nwo Losses resisted, & expenses.. 5318 % Gross premiums on fire risks run ning one vear or less, 750 28 reinsurance 50 per cenf 152,875 14 Gross premiums on fire risks run- ning more than one vear, $50,761 12; 5, reinsurance pro rata...... . 5T Due and accrued for salaries, rents, o s % 18 All other demands against the com- PADY ........ 8 Total liabilities........ $251,530 88 s INCOME. Net cash actually received for fire premiums .. $346,046 9 Received for Interest and dividends on bonds, stock all other sources loans and from Total income EXPENDITURES, paid, for fire losses (In- Net amount el\ldll;t $15,702 54, losses of previous years] ,622 38 Paid_or aiio brokerage 82,397 10 Paid for sal % charges for officérs, clerk: 2,650 Paid for State, national d TR <ondis coiia s d3x . 4B All_other payrients and expendi- s §203,564 11 2 Fire. Losses incurred during the year...... $120,263 Risks and Premiums. |FireRisks.[Premiums. Net amount of risks writ-| Total expenditures.. $46,867,203] $456,581 15 81,500,088 318,371 19 36,065,649 356,511 40 KENNEDY, 0 agers. Subscribed and sw. to bef me this 23 aay of February, 18, o oo ¢ F. FISHBECK, Notary Publie. sSyz & co., General Agents, 801 California Street. SAN FRANCISCO. Weekly Call $1.50 per Tear