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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1899. REWARDS ARE OFFERED FOR THE LIVES OF ALL FOREIGNERS IN CHINA "MILES IS PERFECTLY CONTENT Court of Inquiry Is Just What He Wanted at This Time. PREDICTS ENORMOUS DEFICIENCY Cannon Sounds a Warning Against EBExtravagant Appropriations. Placed in Deadly Peril by the Success of the Rebels Who Hope to Expel the Present Dynasty. - TACOMA, Feb. 9.—The steamer Empress of Japan brings news that several Catholic priests and over 1000 native Christians have reached Ichang from Chang Yang and Lichuan, where their chapels were burned down and the houses of native Christians attacked and destroyed. The perpetrators of these outrages carry the flag of the arch rebel, Yumantze. Their flag bears the following inscription: “Destroy all foreigners and advance the Tsing dynasty.” . In both Szechuen and Shansi provinces the Yumantze rebels have offered a reward of 120 taels for the head of every male foreigner 1 ho is killed and 100 taels for every woman or child. This offer has created the great- est enthusiasm among the rebels, who declare they will kill every foreigner they find. This puts the mis- sionaries throughout Central China in the greatest danger. . At Changlo a native Christian has been killed. Even Ichang has been threatened, rendered safe by the presence of the British gunboat Esk. Says Neither the Ship Subsidy Nor Nicaragua Canal Bill Can Eagan Yet in Danger of Court- Martial and Dismissal though that city is From Service. NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—The W 21d telegraphs: me he had been informed of the the cha sue. In any honorable and just. “In appointing a court,” he said per judicial course. I had %. in Porto Rico and Cuba. & heard from. s returned with Instru sing docume It is because of the nec it w The report Eagan is now under su: LRuNNNuNRs WILL TRY THE | BEEF AND NOT GENERAL MILES That Is What the President’s Call for a Court of In- quiry Comes To. WASHINGTON, dent Feb. 8.—The Presi- has appointed a court of inquiry > into the charges touching t furnished during the war with and other matters involved in| charges made by General Miles| > administration of war ai- t, Adjutant General's hington, February 9. 18%9. r. ng order is published for the | guidance of all con- NT, WASHINGTON, | e with the instruc- | at of F llowin ion and on February 15, 1899, purt 1 Davis, United shington correspondent of the Her- When I saw General Miles this afternoon he told a complete investigation of the allegations made by him respecting cter of the beef furnished the army during the war. General Miles feels that there can be the court will find, notwithstanding the conclusion of the War Inves- tigation Commission, that the statements of thousands of soldiers that the beef and canned meat supplied to the army was unfit for use and that frozen beef was embalmed are correct. General Miles will not be represented by eem it advisable to seek legal advice a event it is his purpose to aid the court in every way in getting at all the facts, and in reaching a conclusion which will be I had received all the reports from the troops who served All but five of the One report from the Ninth Infantry the inclosures were missing, and as it was important to obtain them ions to forward copies at least of the represent a total of 22,000 men.” sity of giving the court such facts as he may have that General Eagan will remain in Washington. %2 officer of the army with whom I talked nsion, should the court find him responsible ng the army with bad b 1 dismissed from the servi 3, 1599, | fol. | 0 t | vpointes | members went over their work in a ames F. Wade, United | George B. Davis, advocate general United recorder. urt is hereby directed to investi- allegations of the major gen- mmanding the army in respect to »ss for issue of certain articl rnished by the subsiste troops in the in Cuba and Po , its findings of fact, | submit an_opinion upon « e, together with such | lations of further proceedings | e warranted by the facts devel- | e course of the inquiry. rs named will repair to this purposes herein_ indicated, adjournment of the court their proper stations. The d is necessary for the pub- | A ALGER. cretary of War. ary of War. | Adjutant General. | WILL REVOLUTIONIZE PRESENT TELEGRAPHY ‘ Incorporation of the Promoters of the “Sign Wave” System With a Capital of One Million. ELAND, The Crehoire- | n :, has been | apifal stock of | duct a telegraph business, | state they will adopt & ented by Messre. Crehofre and which will revolutionize teleg- ar w Jic the vel_en service By-order of tt H. C. pect to put up wires through the | " sald Colenel Albert inventors of tk ort time the e become a th 1 1S led sent by the about six months ago. words were sent at_that time. ving in prints the me = out on pape Tt is said the invention will greatly cation. Among 1 company is Harr the late Pres- the A dest son of G Y McCoy to Fight Choynski. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 9.—Kid McCoy, thé pugllist, to-day accepted an engage- ment to fight Joe Ch ski. Willlam A. s manager, wired ! from Mojave that he could get a | t with Choynski. - McCoy wired back | at he would fight any time after March McCoy expects to go into training He says he would rather fight han Sharkey, as he thinks Joe man of the two. | - Jordan on Imperial Democracy. | JODLAND, Feb. 9.—David Starr Jor- | lectuted here this evening on “Im- Democracy.” There was a very audience, and the speaker was at his best. His argument was on the same s ad article that he recently con- uted, to| The Call. ot ene AN Called to Oakland. WOODLAND, Feb. 9.—Rev. Guy Smith of the Chritian Church has resigned lo; i accept the pastorate of the First Chris- tian Church of Oakland. o , Corps of En- | my. | | W purpose of the President to make but one conclusion—that counsel, but he may to the course he should pur- to me, “the authorities have taken intended to advise such action as regiments have been was received, but An said that though General ef he can be court-martialed St s e o et en Rt ot enenonanenenenenangnenenos e RAURURRIVURRLNLK COMMISSION ATTACKS THE MILITIAMEN Apparently Only the Volun- teer Is to Suffer by the Late War Investigation. ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—The report of the War Investigation Commission is in the hands of the President, and the commission is dissolved. All of the members of the commission, including the secretary, Mr. Weightman, and the recorder, Colonel Davis, met by ap- pointment at the White House at 4:15 o’clock this afternoon and were at once shown into the Cabinet room, where they were received by the President. General Dodge, the chairman of the commission, presented the report, and in receiving it the President congratu- lated the Commissioners on the com- pletion of their task. Seated around the Cabinet table, the general way, and at the request of the President read portions of their report which covered certain points in which he had expressed an interest. The con- ference lasted about an hour and a half, and as the Commissioners were about to leave the President stated that he was satisfied that each member had done his whole duty. He himself had rendered them every assistance | possible, and said they could bear wit- ness that he had not sought to influence them in any mahner or in the slightest degree. In speaking of the report to-day a prudmmenl member of the commission said: The report does not whitewash. It criticizes, but not persons or things not warranted by the evidence before us. We started out with the assumption that the conduct of the all right and then we went ahead to hear and eall wit- nesses who said it was not. The report represents the honest opinion of every member of the commission. We were unanimous in adopting it. I say this and I am of the opposite political faith and don't expect and don‘t want anything from the Administration. 1 know that every line of the report rep- resents my individual view and if any | member tried harder than I did to get at and out all the facts 1 have yet to see him. There was no suppression or con- cealment and no point brought out in the evidence was evaded or glossed over. We | never met before hearing a witness and agreed not to examine him or to touch upon certaln matters that might turn out unfavorably. Everything that a man knew or thought he knew was the subject of inquiry, and I am satisfied, when the country gets our report in full, that there will be no complaint either as to our methods or results. The President never saw a line of our report before he received it officially; not a single word. Nor, indeed, has he ever talked with any of the commission about it. He has never in any way, by word or | action or messenger, évidenced a wish to anything but the truth have us develoj upon the matter of our or even touche e nave questioned more than 500 wit- nesses and 319 maljority of them had some complaint that they wanted to relate. In no instance can it be proved that we have omitted to call any witness who has been | brought to our attention as having im- | portant facts to disclose. But had we de- sired to “whitewash” the administration we could have had” & witnesses who | could truthfully tesll(fl that the conduct | of the war was all right. ! Of course, there were some evils, but | they were to be expected. The soldiers ! n the Civil War never had hospitals or medical attendance as good as was given them In the war with Spain. And their army ration then was not as eatable as | it is now. The men who complained the most of the food we found very generally the militiamen from the interiors of States and who had been allowed $2 per | head for_subsistence stores while they | were in State camps. When they went | into the active fighting they expected the | same sort of thing. these men nearly all con- In questionin, ! had_always ' re- fessed to us that they ceived the army ration. They had no right to expect any more. There were many Comp&lnte brought to us that on thelr face were foolish and false, but we went to every trouble and expense to in- quire into every genuine charge. Sharkey and Mitchell Matched. NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—Tom Sharkey and | Charley Mitchell have been matched to meet In a twenty-round bout at the Bo- lingbroke Club, London, for & purse of | Canadian medical missionary, Unterior of Thibet. anti-Christian disturbances. prison with his chief aids. organization. Pechili. L Aet e R e e el M e e f el He et e ul el ui b S b e ) has been stationed about the Roman Catholic premises. patched to Ichang, and that the Viceroy has ordered several hundred soldiers to proce~~ to the scene of the The Viceroy has issued a -roclamation declaring that Christians also have good parents and must therefore be protected and properly treated. Popular opinion throughout Shansi and Szecluen attributes these troubles to the Kolao Hui, a secret soclety which is endeavoring to stir up all China against foreigners. This society has grown very powerful during the past year, its members claiming that it numbers one-third of China’s population. ashamed to publicly own that they belong to the society. One Kolao Hui leader had several thousand men ready to march to Peking or anywhere else where they might drive out foreigners. He asked“the magistrate of San- yuan to lead them at once against the foreigners in that vicinity. One of their leaders claims that within a year The missionaries realize the danger they are in s ing protection from the Viceroys and Governors. A Peking dispatch dated January 18 says that Viceroy Sung of Hupeha, Manchu extraction, has been removed for his representations to the Empress in favor of reforms In the official Great excitement prevails among the people over the influx of Christian refugees, and a guard of soldiers It is reported that a native gunboat has been dis- There are indications that the Kolao Hui intends to follow Yumantze's example by turning into banditti. ey will be ruling China and will have every foreigner expelled. ce a reward has been offered for their heads, and are demand- The Empress of China has developed her scheme of defense until she proposes to surround Peking with a quarter of a million foreign equipped troops, who are to oppose-any invasion from Manchuria or the Gulf of The Empress has named Shanhaikuan as headquarters for this vast force, which is to be mobilized as rapidly as possible in corps of 20,000 men each. The magistrate replied by clapping him into Its members are no longer the foremost Chinese official of ONE WOMAN'S AWFUL JOURNEY Her Husband Killed by Robbers. IN THE WILDS OF THIBET SHE ACTS AS PHYSICIAN TO HIS MURDERERS. How a Brave Canadian Missionary Saved Her Life in the ‘Wilds of Central Asia. Special Dispatch to The Call. VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. 9.—Mail advices to hand by the Empress of China, which arrived from the Orient yesterday, tell of the terrible experience of Mrs. Peter Rijnhart, the well-known in the She arrived at Tachienlu, China, on the 26th of November last in a dying condition, being almost. worn to a shadow, after traveling by herself two months through a district infested with robbers. During this period she had only a few mouthfuls of rice daily to keep life in her. The lady is well known in the vicinity of Montreal, where she took a medical course with a view of doing missionary work in the Orient. Prior to leaving she married an educated Hollander, Peter Rijnhart. Her remarkable story, as told in the Chinese exchanges just at hand, is as follows: “My husband and I supported ourselves for three years by practicing medicine among the hill tribes of China and did missionary work as well. Last May we decided to make a journey into the heart of Thibet. We were denied a passport as the authorities said we would never return alive. However, we started out with our one-year-old baby, three servants, a caravan, two years’ provisions, stores and gospel books. ““About the end of August, at the foot of the Shihdaugia mountains, the baby died and left us grief stricken. When died and left us grief stricken. Whehn we reached Najachuka, robbers stole five of our horses. At the next town we applied to the Thibet officials for passes and were again refused. Our troubles culminated when we secured new guides, who did not know the way, and on the 21st of September we were lost in the terrible Gumba mountains. We encamped on the Nachu River, when on the second day we were sur- rounded by fully 2000 robbers, all armed and all desperate looking men. They seized the entire caravan, killed the natives and after terribly ill-treating my husband left us to starve. On the 26th of September my husband, sick and weak, walked to the robbers’ camp to ask for enough rice to keep us alive. 1 never saw him again. Next day I followed him and the robbers told me that if I would become one of the chief’s numerous wives my life would be saved. I refused, but told them I would act as doctor for the tribe. They gave me a trial on a fever patient and I was successful. I was then treated with the greatest respect, some of the tribe fairly worshiping me. “I managed to escape in the night to Tashi Gomba and received help and protection from a Thibetan abbot. I was given food and, almost alone, made the journey to Tachienlu. T had some marvelous escapes and twice nearly starved to death.” Death of a State Pioneer. SALINAS, Feb. 9.—Information has been received in this city of the death of Alonzo Brown, an early ploneer of the State and an early settler of this county, at San Ardo, a small place south of .his city. Mr. Brown was well known in San Francisco, as well as the southern part of the State. Originally he came from Ver. mont and settled in th north, but later came to this section and located on a ranch near San Ardo. Deceased was about 80 years of age. He leaves a large estate. Boy Accidentally Shot. SALINAS, Feb. 9.—Another case of chil- dren playing with firearms with bad re- sults has come to light here. Joseph Steer and Albert Elliott, two boys living at Spreckels, aged 11 and 12 years, respac. tively, took a revolver from their home and went out ostensibly to hunt. By care- lessness young Steer was badly shot in one leg. Both boys.clalm It was an acci- $11,000, on May 29, | dent. ORDERLY LAWSON WOUNDED AT MANILA The many friends of Laurin L. Washington Regiment, U. S. V., will be shocked to read his name among the wounded in the recent battle at Manila. Lawson, a private of the First His home is in La Crosse, ‘Wisconsin, but for some years he had been in business in Minneapolis, and would have volunteered with the Minnesota regiment only for the war break- ing out while he was in Seattle.. He joined the Washington regiment and came with thera to this city, where they were quartered for six months. Mr. Lawson would be noticeable in any gathering for his bright, hand- some face and graceful bearing, adding to this a charming, refined manner and a high order of intelligence. His soldierly carriage and exquisite neat- ness gained for him the coveted position of orderly to Colonel Wholley, which position he occupied at the time the regiment sailed for Manila. He made hosts of friends in regular army circles, and in society, who are hop- ing to hear soon that his wound will not prove serious. INSANITY S THE DEFENSE Trial of Colwell, the Highwayman. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN RAFAEL, Feb. 9.—If plenty of the most convincing evidence that could be offered cuts any figure Victor J. Colwell, the young highwayman who “held up” the stage plying between this city and Bolinas on September 9 last, will go to San Quentin for a good long term. The remaining seven jurors nec- essary to try the case were secured this morning and the prosecution did not rest its case until 4 p. m. Colwell was dressed in new clothing and sat with his mother, father, sister and brother. J. F. Cadogan, the first witness called, gave the details of the robbery and identified the watch taken frcm him at the time. ‘Wallace Sayers, the stage driver, not only identified the articles taken from himself, but swore that he instantly recognized Colwell as the bandit by his voice. Miss Annie Gordon, a passenger, posi- tively identified Colwell by his voice, his eyes, dress and manner. Ex-Sheriff Harrison told how Con- stable Louis Hughes, Deputy Sheriff Frank Farrell and himself overtook Colwell on the road leading to Green- brae and the circwmstances attending the arrest. All the money and articles taken from the passengers were found on Colwell's person. He freely admit.- | ted his guilt, but claimed that he was driven to the deed. Constable Hughes and Deputy Frank Farrell fully cor- roborated this evidence and Farrell offered additional testimony of a most damaging character. “‘One $10 gold coin Colwell claimed as his own,” said Farrell. “I asked why he committed robbery when he was not ‘broke,’ and he replied that he did not care to get down to his last ‘bean.’ " Sheriff Taylor, ex-Under Sheriff Colt- ingham and Fred Forse, a ticket agent in the employ of the California North- western Railway Company, furnished immaterial evidence, and then District Attorney Mclsaac, who is being as- sisted in the prosecution by Attorney | Ryan of San Francisco, asked until 9 a. m. to-morrow to have two more witnesses present. Attorney Cochrane, for the defense, was willing for a con- tinuance andl the case will close to- morrow. The defendant’s plea will be insanity. DARING BURGLARY AT POINT SAN PEDRO One Thousand Dollars’ Worth of Booty Secured and Bay Pirates ° Are Suspected. SAN RAFAEL, Feb. 9.—A daring bur- flary was committed at Point San Pedro ast night, wnen some person or persons unknown entered the warehouse of the McNear Company, while several persons were sleeping a short distance away, and secured booty valued at $1000. The bur- glars used only an auger to effect an en- trance, and bored enough holes to take out the board. Several valuable shotguns and a rifle, a large amount of cutlery and sev- eral cases of liquors were taken. R. T, Hoburg swore out a John Doe wairant in Justice Rodden’s court to-day for the arrest of the miscreant. It is believed that the work is that of bay pirates. The Hunter Murder Case. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 9.—The evidence in the Hunter murder case is now all in and the argument will begin to-morrow morning. It is expected that the case will reach :fie Jjury at noon, after having been rmucslly nfl-eed that only the interven- ng time shall be allowed for the pleas of counsel. / | | | | | | OLRORORNONVRORURURURORORORCORORORV R AR O OGRANAROROROLOROROR GRVU VARG RUROLARIGORG ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Chairman Cannon of the Appropriations Commlt- tee of the House, in the course of the general debate on the sundry civil bill to-day sounded a note of warning against extravagant appropriations and practically served notice that neither the ship subsidy bill nor the Nicaragua canal bill could be passed at this ses- sion. Although he specifically dis- claimed speaking for any one but him- self, the statements he made, coming from the chairman of the Appropria- tions Committee, caused great interest. Cannon made a general statement of the revenues and expenditures for the present fiscal year, increasing Secre- tary Gage's estimate of the deficiency in the revenues from $112,000,000 to $159,- paid to Spain under the provisions of the treaty of Paris. Grosvenor of Ohio, Hepburn of Towa and W. H. Smith of Michigan, although they did not enter into any lengthy discussion, took issue with Cannon, but he maintained that our revenue might be sufficient to meet our expenditures for the next two years if needless ex- penditure was not entered into. He in- dicated that it would be a close mar- gin and that new expenditures might mean a bond issue. Cannon’s speech was in .very way a notable one and doubtless will furnish- the text for a good deal of discussion during the re- mainder of the session. The House then went into committee f the whole (Mr. Sherman of New York in the chair), and took up the considera- tion of the sundry civil appropriation bill. Cannon (R.) of Tllinols, in cgarge of the {xlxeausl:xtfi, xraadleta. gerinera‘lfi_fl?slysls of what c ned. carries $62,928,101, 20,~ 000,000 is for R out the provisfon of the Paris treaty. Ex- clusive ‘of that the bill carries $8,095756 less than the estimates and $5,929,311 less than the current law. In connection with the bill Cannon made a general statement as to the con- dition of the revenues. The Secretary of the Treasury, in October last, Cannon sald, had estimated the deficiency of the revenues for the fiscal year endYng July 1, 1899, to be $112,000,000, or a monthly aver- age of $9.333,000. In his judgment, in the the first seven months thus estimated, the deficlency was much too low. The ac. tual deficiency up to February 1, 1899, was $93,15L,000, an average of $13,307,00 per month. At this rate the deficiericy for the | would not include the $20, llhe Paris treaty. “The cash balance in the treasury on February 1, including the $100,000,000 gold reserve, was . $274,000, Two hundred millions of that had been ut into the revenues by the war loan. | Deducting the monthly estimated deficien- | ey for the next five months there would, | he said, be in the treasury, July 1, $208,- 000,000. This was a conservative estimate, There would be, therefore, $108,000,000 to meet the ordinary expenses of the Gov- ernment on that date. ing fund. To care for it would require $53,000,000 additional. As Cannon proceeded the most intense the expenditures for the next fiscal year, exclusive of the sinking fund, he said, af $641,000,000 and the revenues at $610,000,000, | or a deficiency of $31,000,000. Yet, Cannon | continued, Secretary Gage could not pos- sibly have foreseen in his estimates for 1900 the changed conditions which followed the negotiation of the peace treaty, the expenditures which necessarily follow our light of the receipts and expenditures for | fiscal year would be $159,000,000. But this | 000,000 provided | | by the bill to carry out the provision of | These figures, he | continued, took no account of the sink-| interest was manifested in his statement. | The Secretary of the Treasury estimated | Pass This Session. Speclal Dispatch to The Call occupation of the Philippines and the obs ligations which we assumed in the peace treaty to discharge the claims against Spain, which claims, he understood, al- ready reached $25,000,000. Neither did the Secretary’s estimate, he said, take into consideration the increase of the navy. It estimated only the ordinary main- tenance of the navy. But the naval com- mittee would report in its bill a provision for from twelve to fifteen battle-ships and cruisers. We did not complain. It was a logical sequence. The army must be in- creased. It was, therefore, the part of wisdom and common prudence to fully realize the condition which confronted us. ‘With these enormous expenditures upon us, Cannon said, we must plant our foot- steps with care and see that no dollar goes out of the treasury except for an efficient public service. “Do_you take into account in your esti- mate,” interrupted Dockery (D.) of Mis- souri, “the Hanna-Payne subsidy bill?"" Cannon replied that he did not include in hi: 1 a f it 159, 000,000, exclusive of the $20,000,000 to be | 000,000 either the lepslatins Foron oHie 000,000 either the legislation for an efficient merchant marine or the construction of the Nicaragua canal, He favored the re- generation of the merchant marine (Re- publican applause) and the construction of the Nicaragua canal. (Republican ap- plause.) “But,” he added, with great em- phasis, “I am not willing to enter upon either of these great enterprises until we have given them full and proper consider- ation and we have provided the revenue to meet these expenditures. I insist that there shall go hand in hand with legisla- tion for these projects the legislation nec- essary to provide the revenues to meet their cost.” “Does the gentleman mean,” interposed Carmack (D.) of Tennessee, ‘“‘that owin to the responsibilities we have assumes abroad we must spend less money at home?” Cannon replied that nothing he had said could be distorted into such a statement. But he gave it as his opinion that the United tates could never again spend less than was spent in_the year prior to the war with Spain. He did not stand in his place seeking to cripple an efficlent public - service for a great and growing population, but he was op- raymem to Spain’to carry | Posed to entering upon new lines of ex- o | penditure until “there had been full con- sideration and real debate, and not then unless there was already on the statute books revenue legislation to meet ine expenditures.” Cannon proceeded to point out that all the time for the remaining three weeks of the session would be occupied, and that there would be no time to give these measures the intelligent and proper con- sideration they should have. The whole House was aroused by the statement. Grosvenor R.) of Ohio wanted to know whether Cannon assumed that one of the great committees of the House (the In- terstate and Forelgn Commerce Commit- tee) had been idle or derelict in_its duty. It was prepared to enlighten the House on the subject of the canal. Cannon insisted that nothing he had said reflected upon that committee. But it was simply an organ of the House. He was not charging it with dereliction, but if it could multiply itself tenfold in strength and wisdom there was no time in the next three weeks to place itself in touch with the measure so that the House could intelligently determine the legislation necessary for the inaugura- tion of that great work. Hepburn, chairman of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, asked Cannon to be more explicit. Coming from him a statement meant a great deal. He demanded to know whether Cannon was to be understood as saying that no op- portunity was to be given for the consid- eration of the Nicaraguan canal bill. Cannon disclaimed any purpose of speaking for any one but himself. “I am one member,” said he. “I speak only for myself. I voice only my own opinion. 1 do not reflect the sentiment others, but I do say candidly upon my own responsibility that it is absolutely impossible in the time remaining for us m“lnvtelllgemly consider either of these 72 CORNISH MUST CLEAR HIMSELF Subject to Indictment for Murder. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—Coroner Hart | began to-day an inquest into the death | of Mrs. Kate J. Adams, who died from poison on December 28. The most gen- | erally accepted theory has been that some person or perscns with a secret to hide had attempted to dispose of those having knowledge of the secret, and that Henry C. Barnet, a former member of the Knickerbocker Club, who died November 10, had fallen a victim to poiscn sent him anonymously in the mail. Harry Cornish was the first witness. Mr. Cornish told of receiving the bottle of medicine and a silver bottle-holder at the Knickerbocker Club on Decem- ber 24, and of preserving the wrapper, and subsequently taking the articles to the flat where he lived with Mrs. Adams and Mrs. Rogers. He narrated | the circumstances leading to the prep- araticn of a dose of the drug for Mrs. Adams, who, after drinking. it, re- marked that it was very bitter. Cornish said he drank what was left in the glass and said: “That’'s all right.” Then he sat down to read, but was startled by a call from Mrs. Rog- ers, “Come.and hold mamma.” He found Mrs. Adams apparently very ill in the bathroom, hurried the hallboy for a doctor and ran to a drug store for instructions. The druggist gave him sweet spirits of ammonia for her. No doctor having arrived Cornish ran for Dr. Hitcheock, and later, at Dr. Hitchcock’s request, fetched Dr. Potter. Mrs. Adams died, and the doctors told him the case must be reported to the Coromer. The witness said he went to- Assistant District Attorney Mclntyre, his per- sonal friend, and asked him to expe- dite the action of the Coroner. All this ) while, the witness said, he was ill. He went to the club about 4 p. m. (Mrs. Adams’ death having occurred during the forenocn), and there was taken sericusly ill. Dr. Phillips gave him treatment for over an hour, using a stomach pump. The witness could suggest no motive for the poisoning; he had no quarrel with any one and, so far as he knew. had no enemies. Subsequently he modi- fied this statement and admitted that he had had “differences,” one about eighteen months ago. Cornish was questioned about the illness and death of H. Barnet. the questioning bringing out the fact that the two men had not been on the best of terms. Cornish’s information re- garding Barnet's illness was obtained through Dr. Phillips, who attended him near the end, when Dr. Douglas was called in. “Did you have any idea who sent vou that box?"” asked Osborne, suddenly. “I have no idea. I was in no posi- tion to know.” “Did you not tell Captain MecClus- key,” reading from a typewritten state- ment, “It came over me in an instant when I thought of * Molineaux—that's just the fellow who sent that box to me”? Cornish replied that that must have been his impression when he made the statement to Mr. McCluskey. He could not think of any other man on earth with whom he had had any kind of quarrel that could leave a feeling of vindictiveness. Molineaux had tried to cause him to lose his position. When witness heard about the handwriting it struck him that the writing on the wrappers was like the writing of Moli- neaux. He had not the original of the wrapper, but the fac simile in the news- papers reminding him of Molineaux's writing. Adams was really the first man to put that thought into his mind. ‘Witness did not know of any disagrec- ment between Molineaux and Adams. Witness had never had a quarrel with Molineaux in his life. At this point Coroner Hart adjourned the inquiry until to-morrow. The ex- amination of Cornish will then be con- tinued. It was said that it was not at all sure that either Mr. or Mrs. Molineaux would be called to testify. After the adjournment District At- torney Gardner expressed dissatisfac- tion of Cornish’s evasion of aquestions and sald: “The fact that Cornish gave Mrs. Adams the poison is in evidence and it behooves him to clear his own skirts. Under the law his admission of giving the poison makes it possible to secure his indictment for murder. ‘Whether or not this will be done re- mains, of course, with the discretion of this office.” l"