The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 31, 1899, Page 4

MYSTERIOUS CRAFT WILL NOW BE SOLD THE CUYAMACA Strange Story of the Scipio, Which Fell Into Uncle Sam’s Hands During the The Sci ST ST ORI A War. om nowhere, bound to old to the X Government. at the yard. The board will hip Niagara, which is by the Government from ic craft England being be pushed through— after the beginning of hostilities a to stern, with furnace fires burn- board, was found adrift off tha coast oddly enough. .and there was not modern affairs of and ott told—offi she was pickéd up O 2030 BGR OR ONRONANROROROLORONCR G RNNARHE NTTOOUST - THE DIRECTORS Wh Union Stockhoiders Are Very Active. AMERICANS NOT IN "DANGER. Because the Death Penalty Does Not Exist in Honduras. ed by Pre s Americans th or in peril there. not_exist. “BEAUPRE.” « from the United States reports that Ameri- in Honduras. i it 211 of the Sacramento. WOODLA h 30.—At Knights s fallen four inches At Sacra- ched thi; more wate due to the stem and_to t of the San Pears’ p the skin clean the cxeretion the. skin take 10 K¢ s from it of 8, care of itself inside, if not biccked outside. To wash it often and ‘clean, withcut doing any sort of violence to it, re- quires a most gentle:soap, "2 soap with no. free al- “kal in it : Pears’, the clears but not All sorts of stores scli it, especially druggists; ail sorts of people use it. soap that cxcariates. | informatian’ w: THE ROWENA LEE IS A TOTAL L0SS Details ~of Mississippi Disaster. MEMPHIS, Tenn., March received at Lee line to-day re- nature of the steamboat Mo., 30.—Definite eral offices of the garding the il ter is mi; £ Caruthersv. NOWN NEGRO WOMAN. ed back start e ‘as TRYING TO HOLD TWO OFFICES + But Auditor Morrison Will Have. to March 30.—Secretary | he foliowing March 30.—H | one of Resign as Police and Fire Commissioner. March 3.—Now that JOSE appeared for the fire departments. very pla provides ice Commissioner shail not be city, county or State office. s not vet declared his inten- gn. and the report is current even consulted an attorney to an not hold both places. There d to Police Commis- nce one exerts in the fire departments amounts to erable. Morrison undoubtedly sees -xample of this dual official iife in iff and School Trustee Langford. The r was a member of the city Board Education at the time of his election ot Langford fills both places = in his instance the law is not so plain. Morrison must resign from the Police and Fire Commission, or, it is said, steps will be taken to compel him to. ‘There are no less than a dozen being ureld by their friends for Police and Fire Commissioner. Two clergymen, Rev. Dr. Maclaren, a_Presbyterian. and Rev. H. M. Tenney, & Congregatfonalist, think they would make good Commissioners, and several influential men are making thelr fight. Clifford J. Owen, city editor of the Mercury; Ernest Lion. Al Col and Jesse Levy, prominent young business men, are among those prominently mentioned. and the four will_most ltkely be chosen. tes has city charter B T, yet police and WOODLAND NATIVE SONS. Elect Delegates to Grand Parlor and | | i Install Officers. et, which is the | | | [ | | i | | i 1 &rave doubts of March 30.—Woodland S. G. W., held z regular meeting In Hail Wednesday evening, at whi . Britt and M. Keefer were elected delegates - to the WOODLAND, Parlor No. 30, N. s | Grand Parlor, which convenes at Salinas in April. W, O. Kean and T. G: Hughes were selected as alternats The resigna- tion of President’ R.- M. Brown was ac- cepted. The other officers were advanced { one station_and instal! curréd as follow: m ~ Hyman; first vi . -Lampton; sec- ond vice president, J. B, Eakle; third vice -president, Will Browning; marshal, W, A, Anderson. . E SR MARKS AN INDIAN FIGHT. | Discovery of the Skeletons of Two Men Supposed- to Have ‘Been Soldiers. : CHICO, March 30.—Last evening wood- .choppers while grubbing ‘out an ‘old- oak tree near here found the skéletén of a ‘man buried face ddwnward, about two feet deep. This morning another bpdy was found in thé same locality skeleton was found a large brass button, also several bone buttons and 4 heavy er belt, such as were used by caval- 1y days. From the.fact that the bodles were very close fo the surface the spot is believed to be where an Indian fight occurred in early days. THROWN OVER THE BANK. | Freight Cars Wrecked and.a Gon- ductor Injured. _AUBURN, March 20.—Another accident has occurred near Clipper Gap. A freight train going west jumped the track-at mid- night last night and three cars and the caboose were thrown over thé bank. Con- ductor Charlie Cooper was _ badly bruised. The cars were loaded with green bides and the coutents completely blocked the South Yuba canal. Assessor Long Very Ill. VALLEJO, March 30.—County Assessor Long is so il at his home that there are his recovery. ‘With the last. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1899 PRUSSIC ACID IN San Diego. In a PARIS, March 30.—The Echo de dispatch from Copenhagen, saying a mother and M. Pobyedonotseeff, the i i » | | | MANY LIVES ENDANGERED FARMERS GET WATER FROM| TEHE FLUME. | and confide the government to his reactionary. i SORGRORONORON N . OROSOm The City Physician of th‘e Southern Town Starts to Make an In- i CONSPIRACY TO 'REMOVE THE CZAR Startling Discovery athiCbOlOS’ Mother and the Head of the Holy Synod Implicated cated, has been discovered, the object of the conspnratdrs being to take advantage of the state of the Czar’s health to remove him from power 230 SO Plot. Paris to-day publishes a sensational plot against the Czar, in wnich Lis head of the holy synod, are impli- uncle, who is classed as a notorious TETT WS SHMGHNED WHILE AT CALLAD Spectal Dispatch to The Call. SAN DIEGO, March 30.—The \\‘i;lel‘ supply in the Cuyamaca reservoir, | owned by the San Diego Flume Com e tuated fifty miles northeast | the summit of the Cuya. maca Mountains, is said to have been | puisoned. Recently a big cyanide plant Was erected at the Stonewall mine, near the reservoir, for the purpose of work- ing over the tailings of the mine, and there are fears that the waste water | from the plant, impregnated with prus- | sic acid,.are poisoning the water in the nt time the does not draw upon this supply, owing to the small quantity there, but ranch- ers along the flume line will be in gre: danger if they follow their usual cus- pany and Story of a Sailor From the Battleship lowa. Special Dispatch to The Call. 8. March 30.—John H. Abel, a young man about 22 years of age, Is anxious to be placed under arrest as a deserter. He alleges that | he has been a member of the battle- ship Iowa's crew for four years and | S | tom and the water for domestic |that he was shanghaied at Callao, purposes. Peru, in January last. He says that h | "City Physician Stockton yesterday |has passed through the Santiago cam- paign on board the Iowa, and met with | misfortune while the ship was making the voyage from New York to San Francisco. Abel’s story is to the effect that when the Iowa was at Callao, January 2, he and several of his mates had a forty- { eight hours’ shore leave. They imm diately started in to enjoy the sights | and for a time drank deep of the pleas- ures of this Peruvian port. As is cus- tomary they finally ended up at a sail- or boarding-house. Here Abel says he was given knockout drops in a drink of whisky by the keeper, whose sur- ved .a gal of water from the | having sent for a sample, and | by analysis makes the startling discov- | ery that the water contains between | isxxly and sixty-five grains of prussic | rec | reservoir, v drops would be sufficient n being. |acid. A fe to kill a hu Without wastin in the matter | Dr. Stockton left for Cuyamaca this ascertain whether the water from the cyanide plant is actu- ally running into the re: . “He ds personally acquainted with the topog- | raphy cf the ground in the vicinity of the tailings and the reservoir and to-| 2 faze ooy oW Wi name is Aleck. He was relieved of all | said that he does not see how waste | o s possessions, and when he | gained his senses found himself on board the Italian bark Altcar, bound for Vancouver, B. C. It is a serious ion of things | said Dr. Stockton d I shall inve For about two months Abel per- gate it- thorough It formed service on_ board the Altcar, poison is running into the reservoir an Which arrived ‘at Vancouyer l,“a"h - oo / | At that port the kidnaped sailor, in | e et company with several of the crew, left | }’““-“ to prevent the flume compa the bark because the captain refused { disposing of any of the cont to pay them money until they returned | | reser Ranchers, I bel to Callao. Abel soon cut loose fmm_"n:i | companions and made his way 3 the Canadian line into Northern Was ington. He secured work in a sawmill at Deming and wrote a letter to the commander of the lowa, reciting the story which he rehearsed at polic headquarters this afternoon. | ceived in reply a letter from Captain Terry a ing him to give himself up | as a deserter. Abel then made his way to Seattle and eonsulted the police as to the pro- per method of delivering himself, wish- ng to get back to the battleship. He | was referred to Assistant Quarterma . W. Robinson and United States Attorney Gay, who will likely | 3 with the San Francisco | estic suppl ng along the cannot be endangered. e water in the r impregnated with ume line—and their I caanot have notified the flume company that | T intena to investigate tie conditions, | e superintendent of the company. ompany I voir to- [LITTLE ROCK AND NEW ORLEANS RACES | !B!ue Dan, a Good Thing, Causes the Bookies to Lose Quite Heavily. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 3).—Blue in the sixth race, was the good t at the opening day of the Little Rock Joc spring meeting. - He | was backed at from 20 to 10 to 1, | and won handily. There was a e 1o the rese WHIPPED TO DEATH BY TORRES’ ORDER Revolting Details of the Punishment Inflicted Upon a Rebel at Bluefields. NEW YORK, March . cans special to the Tribune A pri- | letter received in this city from Biuefields, Nicaragua, gives the revolting i ew Or- very strong tip out on him and the books lost o details of death under the penal lash | = fourth event on the |of a young native of the Mosquitc .m.nxii ure o Who had fallen under the displ ard, furnished one of the hottest fi i e of the day. The attendance was | General Torres, President Zela grand | large and the weather the after- inquisitor. The laws of Nicaragua do not admit of the death penalty in theo and orning. Track fin er a clou m Four furlongs—The Rush won, Red |simply condemned to be flogged, and e | Cross second, Special Notice third; | W \ ing was kept up till the youth fell | time, 51%. dA-:}l at the ge(;t_‘o%lhls f:.}prutmneln i S it s—Gen Magrude vO! He received 25l ows from a bamboo Six furiongs_—General Magruder wob. | od before life was extinct. The crime Thanksgiving second, Granby third; time, 1:17%. F | of which Quadra was guilty was in warn- ing General Reyes of a plot to assassinate him that was being hatched at the time ir furlongs—Unsightly won, Lizaie | third; arthy second, Benita Brush | time, 51%. when Rey was still at the head of his D aniss Derby, one mile—Prince Me- | revolutionary —operations at Bluefield Clurg, 112, (Van Dusen). coupled w th | But for Quadra Reyes would Bave been Hardee Pardee, 2 1o 5, and Leo Planter, | assassinated and as & anc‘;;ll)::ir Reyes | Evere 5 heat; A made the o | 119, (Everet) 8 to 5, dead heat Hardee D it e T Pardee, 115, (T. Burns), third; time, 1:4 3 Mona B also ran. | more’ than 2 « Six furiongs—Horseshoe Tobacco won, | post is now a regular estal Braw Lad second, DeBlaise third; time, the district. : 1:18%. | Fosdat Sl Seven furlongs—Blue Dan won, Honig second, Ransom third; time NEW ORLEANS, March 30.—Weather showery, track fasf. Results: Selling, six furlongs—Cottonplant won, | Command second, McAlbert third; time, | 1:14%5. ; | Five turlongs—True Fit won, Myrtle Gebauer second, J. Lucille third; iime, | persons, and the whipping blishment in | Tony | 1:30. Eastern Trunk Lines Will Recognize the 0. R. and N. Co. PORTLAND, Or., March 30.—Hereafter the trunk lines will quote the same rates to Puget Sound points by way of Ogden, Huntington and Portland that they do now by way of St. Paul. General Pas- ‘Eelling. one_mile and three-sixteenths g?_rlljll‘rié4_n‘?;l\g,zfi§'n‘f;drnnger second, Friskal | copoor A‘egl\Hu{Xbu{! 3' i (zrefinn e T onEs =W, | Railway and Navigation Company to-day pooYe “:,r];"gsj'?n?mrfi;s;svE‘;D“‘”g;’éd.,recel\'vztl the news that at a meeting in | R dm ¢ i | New York the trunk lines had agreed to | Selling, one mile and twenty yards—| '{;rou h “.rams to Puget Sound Salvarse won, Climacus ond, Caslin | points via Huntington. s | third; time, 1345 . - 0 | "'For several years the trunk lines and | i won, | the New England, Association have de- Selling. seven furlongs—Scriviner. frough rates and sell nird; | clined to quote t Nann 4 Bec s nc f Indla 3:;;’, 1:3‘2. PR | tickets to Puget Sound points through (.“uat Ogden gateway, basing their refusal on | the statement that the Oresun Railway | and -Navigation Company had not a com- | plete line through to the sound, and being | LITTLE CHILD. DESERTED i " “BY TITLED RELATIVES influenced by the objection of the ? s | Puget Sound liges to allowing the Oregon Niece' of the Baromess de Burem, jipriientation T Disiness to these points Relative of the Late Empress of . | via Portland. That objedtion has now " Austria; Needs Assistance. | been overcome. ‘\ | LONDON, March %.—A woman accom- 1 SPIDER KELLY WINS. | panied by a-pretty 3-vear-old girl appiied | % { the Bow Street-Police Court to-day for | Easily Outfights Bob Thompson at ssistance. She said that three years ago Los Angeles. 3 the Baroness de Buren, alleged to be a| 103 ANGELES, March %.—Spider rélative of the late Empress of Austria,| gelly won the decision to-night in a | broight to the applicant’s home a young | feieen-round bout with Bob Thompson | woman.16 years of age, Who the Baroness | (colored) of this city. Kelly outpointed said was her sister. Later the latter was | tpe colored man from start to finish of confined and remained three months with | {he fight, Thompson was hit repeatedly, ‘the nurse. The girl's mother and sisters, | and in the thirteenth round was badly | who, according to the applicant, were liv- | punished, but he pluckily stayed to the ing {n an expensive house in the west end | end. of London, refused to take the child, and |, The men fought at catch weights before | told the nurse to send it to a foundling | the Los Angeles Athletic Club of this hospital,.or do what she liked with it. The | ¢ity. John Brink was referee. The col- applicant. however, was not willing to | oréd man attempted to rusi the fight in e the child a pauper, and kept it. But | its earlier stages, but later on devoted his Tow the nurse was in such straitened cir- | talents to staying the fight out. —Kelly | cumstances that she was unable to keep | %28 in fine form, though slightly over- | Theé applicant also said that when the sdenai] e e, baby was a year old the family went to | colored man. C ' 2 eral occasions when the colored man de- | San Francisco, where the applicant knew | jivered kidney blows, but the claims were | o not allowed. (The Judge advised e T idota ite | There was an interesting preliminary between Ben Lewis (colored) of San | tify them that if they did not support it | 57 Ay e e L ot woakiorssit | Franclsco and Dummy Rowen of Tilinols, | SeAE e Which was declared a draw. ; i it it xg(];l ls:‘xfl:en:) (o Wugon:d Observances at Santiago. CHICO, March 3).—At noon to-day 6- P A o AEnEAbIS WAsM IR Ty Tl | O R e e ing between the rear wheel and body of a | the interval from 10 o'clock on the morr- | heavily loaded wagon. After falling to|ing of Holy Thursday until Easter Mon- | the ground' the child walked about sixty | gay was invariably a government holiday. feet, when he fell unconscious, dying im-| This year there is, as usual, a general mediately. An examination by a physi- | suspension of business, and the railway clan revealed the fact that the neck was | lines will not be in operation. To-morrow broken, The driver of the wagon was ex- | the cable office will close at noon, not to | enaratad -fram blama lxcanan until the next g i | ing together of many prominent | arching of | a friend greeted him at the depot. Af- ter a visit to his law offices the Gover- nor retired to his Downey ranch. He | wished Burns to inspect the Red Rov- | er mine. | leaders believe that i | of the Republican machine and the { at this end of the | be resolutions pledging the delegation | death. [Eight natives are reported killed. | meeting of the Grand Parlor on April 24: former years, under the Spanish regime, | 3 GOVERNOR GAGE AND DAN BURNS They Have Journeyed to the Southland. Epecial Dispatch to The Call LOS ANGELES, March 30.—The com- Re- publicans in the home city of Governor Gage has caused a lifting of ears and The first to ar- rive was Collector John C. Lynch. who insists his Federal position has not lost | him his residence in the Southland. and deferred going north as he knew the Governor would reach here. Judge N. Blackstock follow and announced | the policy of the Railroad Commission. | To-day Governor Gage arrivgd. and g0 quietly has he moved about that not | he has come ‘home for ten days’ from office cares say vacation to get aw and office seckers. It has leaked out inadvertently that Dan Burns came down with Gage in company with expert Hamilton. and is | examining the Red Rover gold mine a Acton owned by Senator White, Judge Ross, G. J. Governor Ga This property has never been experted. and Burns w ked by Gage to make a special trip at this time, so that the Governor and a s could be defi- | nitely informed ether or not the bricks coming from the property are the real thing. Politicians shake their heads when canvassing the information that .the visit of the Governor and Burns is due olely to the fact that the executive The shrewdest Republican Colonel Burns down with Governor Gage slate of new appointees would undoubtedly be canvassed before Burns leaves Los | Angeles. The cheek by jowl attitude | Re- publican executive causes many of the faithful to think that Burns will be | able to speak by card when he returns north. A pretty contest in Democratic poli- tics is being mapped out. If success- ful, the plans will tend to the realign- ment of several factions of the party Lat On one side +he Virginia colonel led by Stephen M. White, with George S. Pat- ton, W. R. Burke and John T. Gaffey as lieutenants in the field. In opposi- tion will be the faction led by Abbott Kinney, with the leaders of the old line directing operations in the trenches. The prize contested for is to be the United States Senatorship, providing the Governor does not call the Legis- lature together to fill the vacanc Senator White's friends have alwa contended that he is the M who has in recent years led the party to victory in this vicini . Kinney and friends will next vear seek control of delegates from Los An- geles to the State convention. where the contest will be whether there shall from California to vote at the national convention for William J. Bryan and 16 to 1. Kinney, while never exacily a 16 to 1 man on the silver question. has always supported Bryan and the Chicago tform. FIGHT BETWEEN THE SAILCRS AND NATIVES Two Men of the Indiana Killed by Jamaicans and Others Badly Injured. KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 30.—Dur- ing the fight between American sailors and native boatmen on Tuesday at the wharf the casualties we: Indiana—Two Kkilled—O'Grady and an- other—and several wounded. Texas—James Darcy. oiler, concussion of brain, and F. R. McMahon. fractured knee; are going morth on the Supply. Thres men from the Texas are in hos- plital.One, named Green. a water.tender, 5 years old, may die from stab wounds, The other sailors were Injured in the clubbing affair on the Supply. That ship’s Whaleboat crew, being stoned by the na- tives, were forced overboard to. escape The Newark arrived this morning. Dewey Wants the McCulloch. VALLEJO, March 30.—It is the general bellef among naval officers that the cut- ter McCulloch, now at Mare Island, will be ordéred back to Manila after giving her a_battery of four-inch guns. When the McCulloch was detached from atic fleet and ordered to San Fran- cisco Admiral Dewey said to Captain Hooper, | the McCulloch’s -commander, that he ‘could better afford to let ‘the Ralelgh go than the-McCulloch. The lat- ter, owing to her light draft and handy qualities, appeared to Dewey the most efficient ‘type of craft for shoal water’ work. - Native Sons’ Delegates. SALINAS, March 30.—The following del- egates have been elected by Santa Lucia Parlor No. 97, Native Sons, to attend the P. E. Zabala, L. U. Grant, with Mr. Mer. ritt and B. J. Harris as alternates. Great preparations are now under way to re- ceive the visiting delegates and others by the local -parlor. e New York Police Assessed. ALBANY, March 3).—Governor Roose- velt has received from several members | of the police force of New York City com- munications to the effect that an assess-. ment has been levied on that department for some unknown purpose. The Governor made a statement to that effect to-night. He refused to divulge the names of his correspondents or to permit the contents of their communications to be published. To Box Twenty Rounds. MENMPHIS, March 30.—Dan Creedon of Australia and Jack Root of Chicago have been matched to box twenty rounds for a 500 purse before the South Memphis Athletic Club Friday, April 17.. The Ten- nessee Derby will be run on that date. P S e Princeton’s Team Beaten. BALTIMORE, March 30.—Princeton's baseball team to-day vanquished Johns 3"5’.““ University representatives, 12 | been deliberately | ward killed the child, UMAN FIEND DULY HANGED Man of Many Murders Pays the Penalty. WENT WITHOUT A STRUGGLE |REFUSED TO HAVE SPIRITUAL CONSOLERS. | Fitting Close of the Career of E. Bates Soper, Who Killed His Father, Wife and Children. Special Dispatch to The Call HARRISONVILLE, Mo., March 30.— E. Bates Soper was hanged at 0 this morning. He refused to have any spirituai consolers. He fell a distance of seven fcct, breaking his meck and dying without a struggle. -The execu- tion was private, being witnessed by only forty persons. E. Bates Soper was one of the most cruel and most unusual of murderers. The crime for which he was executed was the murder at their home at Archie, near here, of his wife and two daughters, the latter aged four and six years respectively. The murder had y planned and was re- volting. Soper ran a butcher shop. One | day in April, 1891, he announced that | he had learned that there was a “blind tiger,” or an illicit saloon in town and that he could not live in a place so wicked. He soid his shop and 4! - peared. Four days later neighbors broke into the Soper home and found the mother and children dead in bed. The heads of all had been crushed with and blood and brains we Soper had left a no e could net properiy support his fam- ily and he believed they would be better off dead. Soper went to Portland, Or., taking the name of Prentice, married a 8| widow. In April, 1897, he erted his second wife, taking their two-year-old child with him. He after- hoking it into | insensibility and burying it alive’ | Later Soper, under the name of | er Lee, leased and worked a small fruit farm near Ashland, Cal.,, where he was captured June 11, 18 After being landed in jail here Soper con- fessed not only the killing of his wife and two children in Missouri and his | child in Oregon, but admitted the mur- der in 1880 of his father. According to own story, on t evening of the -named murder per started to at- tend a literary society. On the way he met his father and shot and killed him. Throwing his revolver away, he pro- ceeded to the society and took part in the exercises as if nothing had hap- pened. H. S Sire to Son on the Scaffold. KANSAS CITY, March 30.—James Reed, aged years, colored, was hanged in the jail yard at the County Jail at 10:50 o’clock to-day. Reed shot M Susie Blakesley to death in her home in a fit of jealousy. Martin Reed, died in 1894 for the mur- der of his wife, Jim Reed’s mother. MRS. BANNING'S BITTER RANCH EXPERIENCE An Experiment That Has Resulted in Many Years of Litiga- tion. LOS ANGELES, March 20.—Mrs. Mar, H. Banning, the present head of the il lustrious southern California family, is the plaintiff in a suit which has been | dragging wearily for seven yea: S seeks to obtain possession of liv including one bull calf, heifers, mares, a | pony plow and a lawn mower. The live | stock during these years of litigation has grown to maturity, while the implements are out of date and useless with r The suit is the outgrowth of Mrs. B: ning’s venture in r: with Dr. Joseph H known for twenty yea. B to purchase the Tejauta rancho near Compton for $31,500 in 1%57. The doctor, | who posed as a rich man, pay $10.00 cash and _both notes of $10,50 each. The first ranch paid, but the following deficit of from 33000 to $60% was incurred. The doctor one day confessed that he| could mot meet the obligations, as belongings were all mortgaged, which caused the plaintiff to pay off the debt and take possession. In the spring of 1891 Dr. Hannon went back to the ranch under an agreement | to farm on shares. He was to have the | use stock and machiners i this period the monetary storms surge about the physician-farmer encom- passed his financial The proper n. described was attached, his creditors be- leving that the chattels belonged to him. Mrs. Banning ha s been trying for | se. years to prove othe icascludiecy DESIRELLO DULY CHARGED. ! Information Filed for His Brutal | Murder of Young Johnston. | REDWOOD CITY, March 30.—An infor- | mation was filed this morning in the Su- perior Court by District Attorney Bul lock against Fred Desirello, the Deputy Constable,- charging him with the mur- der of James Johnston, who was Kkilled | at Colma on the 17th inst. The defendant | was present in court with his attorneys and the information read to him. Next Monday morning has been set by -the court as the time at whicli he shall ap- pear and’plead. . 0dd Fellow ‘Delegates. WOODLAND, March 30.—H. C. Howarad, | A. L. Ludden and F. B. Ferguson have | been elected delegates 1o .represent Wood- | Jand Lodge No. 111 at the Grand Lodge I. 0. 0. F., which convenes in San Francis- ¢o on the second Tuesday in May. . Mrs, A’ L. Ludden.and Mrs. D. E. Jacobs have béen chosen to, represent Sylvan’ Rebekah Degree Lodge No. 108 at the grand assem- | bly at the same timé ard place. every- | saying | and, | He died on | the same scaffold on which his father; | | apprentices | Scandia to the Bru | the Baneroft to the | the aid of restoratives. | a devout Catholic and ha: | $600 worth of jewelry. CISSIE LOFTUS SEEKS DIVORC Mrs. Justin H. McCarthy Files a Suit. THE HUSBAND IN ENGLAND WHILE THE WIFE, AN ACTRESS, R_MAINS HERE. The Defendant, Who Is an Ex-Mem- ber of Parliament and Son of the Irisa Leader, Will the Separation. Epecial Dispatch to The NEW YORK, March 30.—Ciss tus McCarthy, an actress, ha suit in the Supreme Court in for an absolute divorce band, Justin Hunley McCarthy, the famous independent political 1 and author. He has filed an answer her complaint denying her charges, b it is understood this action is mere formal and intended to prevent ths trial of the suit in open court, in 2 cordance with the provision of the law relating to undefended cases. Mr. McCarthy returned to England a week ago Wednesday, leaving his in- terests in charge of former Judge Koch. He was served with the papers in the case before his departure. Abraham Hummel of Howe & Hum- mel, will act .for Mrs. McCarthy. . Mrs. McCarthy’s complaint is based statutory grounds. Her husband in hi answer makes no counter charges. prominent names aside from those of the principals are mentioned in the pa- - It is expected the case will Be nt to a referee and the divorce wil | be granted without difficulty. Mrs. McCarthy #s how playing in Philadelphia in “A Dangerous Maid.” in Sam Bérnard’'s company. Her mar- riage to'Mr. McCarthy created a seén- sation. ‘in England. They eloped to. ted on Augus Edinburgh, and were marr: . 1894, by the Sheriff. Mr. was then engaged to ‘Aida Jenou other actress, to whom he had been at- tentive for a year. - He had. been en- gaged previously ‘to John L. Toole's daughter, but she died and he dedicated to her memory a volume of poems ex- pressing his grief. He sat in Parlia- ment for Newry for several years. and was noted as the youngest member of that body. He retired in 1892 and de- voted_ himself to writing. JAPANESE SCHOONEP " REACHES HONOLULU Going -After Sharks, the Vessel Is Driven by Storms to a Port of Safety. HONOLULU, March 21.—There arrived here to-day. abolit two hours previous to the depariure of the Australia, the ! <ted Japanese schooner Riusiu Maru, er, eighty-one days from our from Wake Island. port in distress, having s carried away, in an aw- Wake Island. She was the mercy of the storm and was driv. long :for six days. At the end of weather ‘abated and some v ails were made. With these the Riusiu made Honolulu, where the captain intends o have repairs made. The little forty-ton schooner went' to | Wake Isiand after sharks, which abound ¢ is well known, of course, that panese and Chinese are very fond . and that very profitabls McCart re, an- She ad all her s ful gale near Tuises are The Riusiu Maru is the frst Japaness schooner that has called at this po She | has seventeen Japanese and.four Euro- Of the former three ars learning navigation. The Riusfu Maru is owned by a Japanese lieus tenant in the Mikado's navy. - - LATEST NAVAL ORDERS. Transfers and Promotiens at Mare Island Yard. VALLEJO, March 3.—The foljowing are the latest naval orders: Surgeon C. T. Hibbett, transferred from the Glacier on her arrival at Maniia' to the Baltimore. Chief Engineer H. R. Stanford, detached ordered to from the Boston Navy Yard. - duty as superintenc<ni of comstruction of the Hospital at Mare I peans aboard. the d. Safford, from tha Lieutenant George Richards ha been ap| major and assistant master TUnited States Marine Corps. Past Assistant Engineer A. Moritz, from ewark. Chief Engineer A. J. Kiersted, ordered home. Naval Cadet Y. S. villiams, detached from the Massachusetts and ordered to the Aberanda. Gunner C. B. Babson has been detached from the Brutus and ordered to the Pen- sacola. Constructor Baxter left for Portland, Or., yesterday on business connected with the building of torpedo boats. Assistant Engineer D. M. Garrison has been detached from the Iowa and ordered to the Nero. MRS, OEI;ICHS FAINTED. Suffers From Over Exertion, but Soon point in Revives. NEW YORK, March 3.—Mrs. Herman Oelrichs went shopping yester: with her sister, Miss Fair, and aft reached her home, on Fiftle and Fifty-seventh street, overexertion. She quickl M QOelrichs is been carrying out Lenten obligations religiously. e — Valuable Jewelry Stolen. VALLEJO, March 3.—J. R. Andrews, a Jeweler, was robbed Wednesday night of He left it in his house while he went to the theater. Upon returning he saw a man in his room, who ran away. Three men were arrested | on suspicion, but released. o-0-0-0— is t 10 S Habl In duying an Electric ways of placing yourselt ts_depicted on our left The first is to allow yoursel worth more than 3, and has cost the d st adout $1 Now the RIGIT way o do when you want T B dhe I X establishy years. Com us, o : cents in atamps for “Booklet Ne. 2. Ad- o ADVERTISEMENTS. 0000 ELECTRIC . BELTS! | on c the gentieman whose open countenance o be persuaded 0 o %50 in ex- ait, sctually not second_method re and Electric t that 35 at wholesale. o stumble into a drug st to §20 for some so-called 00D Electrie Beit le firm that MAX to look up some re- N Well, we make and have been PIERCE ELECTRIC CO,, 620 MARKET STREET ©eponte Palace Note), S.F. &