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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1900. MISS METLAR LEADS IN MAY QUEEN CONTEST Special Dispatch to The Call HUNTINGTON AND SPEYER DISAGREE P ? . z House Unable to Takea Vote : When the Hour Was Differ Over the Management| 4 )¢ Ronind - . : ® eacned. of Southern Pacific Rail- |3 t w ° | way Stock. bt 7| All Labor Contracts in the Islands | & I Are to Be Annulled and the 1 vl\ DLIID \FT \T (TI(\ ¢ Amount of Land Held by \\ 1Ll l'\ \& [ 04 1 \ : Corporations Limited. + e S He D Plan ¢ the Speyers| , WASHINGTON, April 5—The House - tions. of Bonik - § did not finish the Dbill to provide Terri- FS Qu of South- | ¢ : torial government for Hawaii to-day. orn Pati | & When the hour fixed for taking a vote, = d 9 | 4 o'clock, arrived, 1 than half the bill 4 4 | had been covered, and o many amend- | - ¢ ¢ |ments T ned that it was agreed to + 3 | conclude the consideratlon of the bill un- y & -minute rule until it was fi . »: eral important amendments ¢ agreed (o to-day, among them the | ! ywing: To nuilify all labor contracts in the isl- ; to extend the alien contract labor islands; to prohibit the sale of I t it liquorS In saloons; to limit the land holdings of corporations to 1000 | @ | acres, and to substitute for the House rovislon relating to the appointment of 4 | Judges and other officers of theislands the . & | Senate provision. The House provision St 4 |lodged the appolnting power in the Go - ? | the Senate placed it in the Presi- @ | de [ | Pugh of Kentucky moved to strike out ® | the provision requiring that voters should PR ablatto speak, read and write the Eng- . L % Haw ge. It was lost & % | Underwood n.;um ica pe ® th their incor o - g + @ S . afroth of Colorado. th ! 8 n hflmnu the appointment 3 ¢ ind other officers in the P ad of the Governor was 3 for the House provi ston, - bt @ he bill the House, o . I + OSMAN PASHA, HERO $ MISS MILLIE METLAR 1 OF PLEVNA, IS DEAD bei e e e et et et e eiedede® Was Reported to Have Died a Fort- | of approaching night Ago, but the Announce- S carnival. ment Was Premature. « m vario I;Wl“‘": CONSTANTINOPLE, April 5.—Ghazt Fre S far eas an Nubar Pasha, the hero of Plevna, Nev (nvlh ate that thou- sterday evening, although the re- ws rs will come to Sacra- cent improvement in his condition led to y ol | ik April 3 and May b, the r opes of his recovery. He was born in . A and the city will make £ el iestE St b e Osman —— — n placed | Fasha was reported dead a fortnight ago, oS o s illness at that time having beco: C HABEAS CORPUS WRIT " commit- | cerlous some of his attendants were | res of the car-|led to belleve his life ended. Later ho TO RELEASE KIDNAPERS n \at beautiful en- | seemed to be Progressing toward. recov. fair and carnival | ery. but the hopes then entertained were : the strects run- | evidently not justified. Claims That s tol Park, covering = o Ailianily: poa ol Lk wiels ORORORO% ROROROYS B aeewa o Gertrude Atherton’s new _____| & mnovel “Senator North” is to . g — : — | © be published in America. on ¢ wons | CLUB WOULD ABOLISH 2:. May 1. Read the review of s it in next Sunday’s Call. £ « GAMING AND POOLS CONGRATULATE HIS ESCAPE Crowned Heads of Europe # - : Regret Attempt Upen His Life. M -ssrs. French Papers Unite in Denouncing ‘ n: x the Daring Deed of the Young 3 N - Anarchist Who Fired Y OFFICERS CONVICTED. tho Shots. Pt L g Stoien Rus- COPENHAGEN, April 5.—The Prince of party arrived here at 8§ his Jean ho Baptiste attempted Prince of W »mitted to any further examin- His attitude is dejected and rs very tired, He d no Kee rock when it fell No interview allowed for some will day dors The Patriot sa premedita prisoner that he person tol or fra “Investigation proves The interrogation of the nd it shows n unknown buy a pis. et for three this person nt on Tuesday to a meeting in h Theater and then to the Mai- where they had drinks. to a wine shop, where ying he had ob- . He then went to the and asked the hour of the train. ~ Later he entered a 1 loaded his revolver Sipido refused to give who, he said, g man some years older than After Sipido was locked up the went to the house of his ERNALEE] - SLNIVIdW0) Sipido W the Flemis son du Peuple, Then they went Sipido wrote railway st arrival of neighboring c in the lavator) the name of his companion, was 2 youn, elf. I According to the FEtoile Belge, Sipido explained his motive as follows: “For a long time I have thought that the ambi tious men who are unchaining war sacri- fice 5o many human lives that they serve to be punished. Those men | suffer the penalty of retaliation. When I learned by the papers that the Prince was going to pass through Brussels I im- mediately resolved to become the avenger of humanity and to Kill this assassin. On Sunday 1 went to the Old Market and bought a_second-hand revolver and car- tridges. 1 had then made up my mind to carry out my project. I regret that I have not accomplished it as I desired.” PARIS, April 5.—President Loubet has sent an officer of his household to the British Embassador, Sir Bdmund J. Mon. on, to express his keen indignation at the attempt on the life of the Prince of Wales and to ask the Embassador to transmit to the Prince the President's congratulations on the happy escape of his Royal Highness. The French papers unanimously de- HE SUFFEHED "' E"TY YEA“S nounce Sipido’s attempt on the life of the 1 @ | Prince of Wales as a detestable crime and © declare Englishmen must not hold “Eu- = ozon 1 i o e wi i i rope's feeling of indignation against Great Electrozone cured him. I:lect.rozon will cure vou. Get it s ST K i By e P s this day. All drugstores sell Electrozone. John Campbell @bl fflhf, the cowardly act of a demented anarchis writes: 8 LONDOX ‘._Ap}r‘fl f};Cflngr{at‘l{l‘:‘i}lon: on - he escape of the nece o es from E e:rrclzonz lEu'ed me of stomach trouble anrf rheumatism after 20 death dlp;he l;la;l}ds nrlsmmouzhe would- years’ suffering. lectrozone is a remsdy with merit. be assassin at Brussels, continue to ar- . | rive in numbers at Marlborough Hous JOHN CAMPBELL, Lancaster, Cal.” @ Frooy il quarters of the globeg ATl the crowned heads and chiefs of states have wired expressions of sympathy. O+ 0+ 0e 09090904090 +0+0+0+O 00+ 0e0+0+0Q | les vesterday, having had little regret for his sted permission to see between them | amining mag- | To-morrow, April 7, 0 t0 8,535 trcided to contront Sipido vith pis 233 Keamny steel and et a B o R i oo o e free sample bottle of Elec- ;’i.lAjllxzv‘ s app 1s, maintaining his previous trozone, the wor}d's great : 1 sthe\sens m ‘medicine. A positive /cure ig | 2l taumsien 2 thentest on thelize for Rheumatism, Stomach “I give thanks to heaven that the heir Tr and Bladder Ailments, Catarrh and 8| i of an trresponaivie boser o ¢ P2 o [ruf‘n ’mpure blood_ grt{,!jfi,d":‘;;‘;z‘:"x‘r,;;‘us;_hu President were - The Pr 2 de Smet de Nayer, in- IMPORTANT AMENDMENTS T0 HAWAIIAN BILL RG0S Engineers at Del Monte. Call fal Dicpatch to The +» MONTE bring w. While of the hotel Cruz. Members of 1thusiastic in their Del Monte and its environs, the seventeen-mile drive, PASSENGERS BURNED TO DEATH IN A WRECK Terrible Catastrophe Occurs on the Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad Near Magenta, Texas. Engineer McNelll, slightly injured. Fireman Dubbs, slightly injured. | At the time of the accident the train | | was running at full speed when it struck | a defect in _the track caused by a partial | washout. The entire train was ditched, | the cars being piled in a heap. To add to| the horrors of the wreck fire sfarted in | | FORT WORTH, Tex., April 5.—One of | the most serlous wrecks in the history of the Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad occurred this morning at a point just south of Magenta, 376 miles north of this city. As a result two men are known to be dead and several others injured. dead | the debris, consuming the entire mass of F. NE, mall clerk, of Denver. | wrecked cars. Many passengers who man J. KUNTZ, passenger, residence | aged to extricate themselves were badl | unknown. | burned. Malil Clerk John F. Dane of Denver was buried beneath the mass of wreckage and was burned to death. John J. Kuntz, a passenger. also lost his life. It was reported that Express Messenger J. B. Chapman was killed, but later re- | ports say he is safe. The loss to the railroad company will be heavy, as the entire train was burned. The injured: A. M. Scroggan, slightly. | *'¥fink Lane, Fort Worth, face cut, not | | seriously. | James French, injuries unknown. Herbert Bonebrake, brakeman, El Reno, | 0. T., fractured ribs. Independence, Towa, B SEATING OF -~ QUAY WOULD SET ~ BAD PRECEDENT formal amendments were about to be pro- ceeded with when on motion of Pettus of Alabama the Senate at 4:45 p. m. ad- journed. WASHINGTON REPUBLICANS INDORSE. ADMINISTRATON Delegates Electejlmto the National Convention and Instructed to Vote for McKinley. ELLENSBURG, Wash., April 5—The L Republican State Convention met to and elected eight d s to the N Gulllnger Makes a 0ng| oy Republican Convention, instructing them to vote for Willlam McKinley for Argument Before the President, adopted a platform and ad- | Journed after a two hours’ session ventlon were chosen by acclamation as | follows: Levi Ank Walla Walla: Dr. i | Platt, Speaking as Chairman, Says|L. M. Simms, Cowlitz County kk L‘}\?‘»K- - 3 felder, King County; J. H. Baker the Cubmas GencrNly Faye U itat County: J. M. Ashton, Pierce County; most Confidence in the E Coffman, Lewls Cou - Con- 5 it County: . Whit- United States. | e Sounty Bacn, N <e Adams WASHINGTON, April 5—During m-‘s Meirs, Ferry Colnty: 8. G. Cosgrove comparatively brief open session of | Garfleld Countyy F. Baumeister. Asotin | the Senate Galllnger of Ohio presented an - CTab ol County. | argument against the seating of M. 8.]™rpe platform indorses in its entirety Quay as a Senator from Pen nia. He | the administration of President MeKir | devoted himself almost entirely to the|ley, the course in_Congress of Washir constitutional phases of the question.|ton's Republican Senator, A. G. Foster and the two Representatives, |and F. W. Cushman. Continuing, platform say We Indorse the action of Congress in having enacted w the existing gold standard and ge of silver. . | Most of the day was spent in executive session. Platt of Connectlcut, speaking as chair- man of the Senate Committee on Cuba, said that there was nobody so far as he the knew who proposed to break faith with | & the Cubans. *“And I do not belleve,” he added, “there are many Cubans who be- he United States will not keep its Of course there gitators In among the Cubans nerally utmost confidence in the to time enact. We favor v Hampshire then pre- t of such n stitutional argument against : of Quay. He maintained that f yivania ought to journed wi o Fon Cwoulq be i viola CHINA’S EMPEROR IS ili‘fi\E\i‘-:‘.’\:i'\ff:]fi‘:_'fijh-{;';'vif";““ BEING SLOWLY POISONED of Senators in an the Legislature election, had Belief Expressed That He Is Con- stantly Being Kept Under the | Influence of Drugs. VICTORIA, B. C., April 5.—Coples -d relin- voluntarily | quished a part of its representation in_the } without because it would introduc stitutions a Pandora’s box, | confusion in Legislatures of | of the 3 the China Mall, received by to-day's Ori- The te then passed a bill to extend | ental mail, contain the following telegram the act governing the Immediate transpor- | from Peking: tation of dutiable merchandise without mperor is very {l. It {s common h\ll-‘f that he is continually under the in- fluence of drugs, administered by his arch enemy, the Em ss Dowager, which will before long take him out of the disturbed arena of his country’'s politics.” ement to the ports of Laredo, » Pass and El Paso, after which at Senate went into executiv. s . when the Alaskan C | Code bill was laid before the Senate. Some | STORY OF THE THOMAS MURDER T0LD IN COURT Miss Silvey, the Defendant, Faints During the Trial. | Witnesses for the People Are All Heard and the Defense Will Make a Strong Plea of Temporary Insanity. Spectal Dispat MERCED \1r H xrx'1~i oy MONTGOMERY HANDICAP IS WON BY LAUREATE Streamer, the Favorite, Runs Second, While Duke of Baden Merely Shows. Tenn., MEMPHIS, 5.—The historio Ap Montgomery handicap, at a mile and a s by George C. 1 time of te, was second, hird position. wi ] 33000 to the winner. e, Joe Frey, In ul. Results: La Josephine the s Six f Gran: 1 Met W;stlake Held. 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