The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 9, 1901, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1901. < SUTTOM LINDS UNDER WATER Banks of the Tuolumne| River Are Strewn With Wreckage. | Impossible to Make a Definite Estim- ate of the Damage, but Btreams Are Rapidly Subsiding. s MODESTO, Jan. 8.-The water in the | ng to- Yesterday and r ghest twenty washed away, but wiands by the washing uitivated land will be | sat Nine b of J | cows were washed from the river | McMahon out of a band of iise ard of 300 acres, the River, is com- ud the damage will e full exteni cannot be e waler subsides Last £ evee broke at the and bulkheads put to have withstood river wreckage iamagh to alfalia of roots will be damage from aigh and no Raulroad travel topped yesterday — DROWNED IN SWOLLEN STREAM. Martin of Petaluma Meets with a com- o 80 and d the with them in a wild wagon was imals we found, but t been re- of Petaluma eived with nent member and the - 1 the search t of Canada A widow sur- cidence in the affair was e et oeotofeeofece BONOSMEN ARE | DISSATISHED Jockey Devin’s Guardian| Must Furnish New Se- | curity. young Superior Court to-day der directing that Boyle ve & new bond as guardian $10,000, and that his power uspended pending the ren- unt. The Fidelity Sure for release from res ¢'# future acts as guard- resenting the relatives »osed the request and it pen _court by counsel peared from his place nd that & defal- tted. Boyle, it is ccount for $400) key's earnings. he best known s granted let- | le ed of the boy as a was named De- key took his related to Su- Super- for herself | - visor Bates offered to . a little boy, a home, | the young jockey nd Devin families and custody of Boyle, under ship he earned large sums § E ;. \ D CITY, Jan. 8—The suicide | were discovered through | sus letter directed to Coroner s Crowe was identified this morning | r of deceased, who resides in | The man's name was Jo- | iE He was 32 years oid and a | f Bwitzerland. By ocoupation he dairyman and of late had been £ for John Daley, near Colma. Registration at Stanford. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Jan. istration for the second semester ford this evening with 1010 nts enrolled. This exceeds last year's stration bv tweniv-five. Regi 5 closed a1 Stan - | sas, | Botkin brought the news from Frank Frairi of Oakland, Who Has Lived in Three Centuries. 'ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD AND STILL AN ACTIVE MAN THE OAKLAND CENTENARIAN, BUT CARRIES HIS STILL IN HIS PRIME. WHO DOES NOT LOOK THE PART, | GREAT AGE AS GRACEFULLY AS THOUGH AKLAND, Jan. 8.—Frank Frairi n the street last in what was supposed to be an epi- ptic it and was taken to the Receiving , where he was kept over night. He was allowed to go sto-day. Tt was while at the hospital that Frairi an- vas 104 years of age, that he centuries go and two cen- turfes come and that he had lived in three centuries, He is undoubtedly a man of gr but his general physical agility and his ghtness Sulty cgused the s t to_be doubted by tHe officlals. Later, when fiis children and the hospital to ascer- the old man they BURLE IS ADOPTED California Will Acquire One More Congressman Thereby. il WASHINGTON, Jan. 8—By a vote of 165 to 106 the House to-day accepted the reapportionment plan proposed by the Burleigh bill, which increases the mem- bership of the House during the next de- cade from 357, the present membership, and the membership proposed by the com- mittee in the Hopkins bill, to 386. The result was largely brought about by the influence of certain Senators from several . the larger Northern States, who threw the weight of their influence in the scale in favor of larger membership. When it became apparent that these factors were at work against his bill, Mr. Hopkins attempted to compromise by giv- ing an additional Representative each to North Dakota, Col his adversaries used compromise after complete victory was assured. The Crumpacker proposition to recommit the bill for the purpose of ascertaining what States abridged the right to vote to an ex- tent which would entail reduced represen- tation was defeated, 130 to 110. There w.s no rollcall on thig vote, but a number of Republicans voted with the Democrats TUnder the bill as passed to-day no State oses a Representative and the following make gains: Illinois, New York and Texas, tnree each; Minnesota, New Jerse: and Pennsylvania, two each, and Arkan- California, Colorado, 'Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts, Missis sippl, Missouri, North Carolina, North Da- kota, Washington, West Virgina and Wis- consin, one each. The bill provides that whenever a new State is admitted the Representative as- signed to it shall be in addition to the number provided by the bill a provision never hitherto incorporated in a reapport Congressional distriets, in addition to b & “‘contiguous” shall also be “compact ich are allowed additional Rep- resentatives by the bill shall, by its terms, élect them at large until the Legislature shall redistrict the State. UNITED STATES EXAMINER TO TEST HAWAIIAN SKIPPERS | All Will Be Required to Pass the Ex- aminations Provided For by the Maritime Laws. HONOLULU, Jan. 1—United Btates Judge Estee yesterday notified some of the loc teamship captains that the time is approaching when the interisiand steamers will be required to have mas- ters who d the United States ex- aminatic pers. The court took occasion in announcing his decision in a steamship case to inform the local mariners that a United States examiner will be here shortly, and that he will ex- t to find everything up to the standard. [awall has a very large fleet of inter- island vessels, the masters of which un- der the Hawalian law were only required o know how to rum over the seas thelr vessels traversed. They are now study- ing navigation to prepare for expected exam'nations. RTINS Tillamook Located. TACOMA, Jan. 8—The steamship Tilla- mook, forty-five days overdue from Alas- ka, has been located. News brought back on the steamship Bertha says the vessel is in Saldova Bay, in the Cooks Inlet country, hemmed In by floating ice, with no chance of escaping until spring. J. Valdes to Secretary Elmer of the Cooks Inlet Coal Company, who in turn notified the steam- ship company officials. An Indan carrier brought the news to Valdes just before the Bertha left the north. Agent Chil- borg, who went north to_investigate the fate of the vessel, is at Juneau. Aboard the Tillamook are fl!{{ passengers who are walting for aid. e steamship Bere tha will probably be sent to their r&ld Bt i Accidentally Shot. PACIFIC GROVE, Jan. 8—Former Postmaster E. B. Daingerfleld of this city was accidentally shot by Stanley Gosbey of Sacramento while two were .out pigeon shooting. The entered Dain- gerfield’s face and neck, but did not inflict serious wounds. mment biu, to the effect that | o has lived in three centu- . began his third century by to the Oakland Hospital for treat- | ado and Florida, but | | parents Ir the United It also adds | d | City Prison early this morning which re- —3 repeated his assertion as to his age and added that he was 104 years three months and two days old. Frairi is a native of the Azores Islands and is a member of the large Portuguese colony of this county. He has lived in Oakland for a number of years and has a large family of children, grand- children, nephews and grand-nephews. He was'born In the Western Islands not a great many years after the thirteén colontes had become a country, and long before California had been heard of save by a few hardy navigators. He spent the greater portion of his life in_ his native islands, until his family declded to join the throng that was coming to California some twenty vears ago. Frair's wife died about elght years ago, but there are many children, with whom the old man lives at 611 Madison street. | He is cared for carefully by them, but occasionally gets away from the house and wanders about. LEGISLATION OF BACLUSION ACT Bill Introduced Is Designe to Correct Existing Abuses. e WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 —Representative Jenkins of Wisconsin to-day reported to the House a bill agreed upon by the Ju- diciary Committee designed to correct some of the abuses existing under the Chinese exclusion act. The legislation proposed was favored by the Attorney General and is the outgrowth of condi- tions which have prevailed in Northern New York, as a result of which many Chinese have succeeded in unlawfully en- tering the United States. The Chinese are made up of two cl the first return- ing merchantseend laborers, who have a lawful right to enter the United States and who come through the custom-houses | and are admitted without trouble; the | other class has no right to enter. They are either smuggled across the border or come openly across the border, to be taken befu; United States Commission- er for trial. Since the Supreme Court de- | cision that persons born of Chinese ates are citizens and entitied to re-enter without certifi- cates the number coming under the pre- tense of baving been born here has con- stantly increased. The courts have held | that the decision of the customs officers | on the question of citizenship are not con- | clusive, and more than 300 (“llnamen have crossed the border into Franklin County since Janvary and have been taken be- fore Commissioner Paddock at Malone for trial. The Government, however, has falled to secure any deportations to speak of llr(\ the trials before Commissioner Pad- ock. George H. Curtis, District Attorney for the Northern District of New York, in a | letter submitted to the committee, reviews these conditions and says it is highly im- portant that the Government be clothed with power to direct that these prosecu- tions be instituted before such gomml!- sioner in the district as it may elect, and one of the amendments proposed by the bill has this object in view. The District Attorney further says: ““The efforts of the Government are be- ing circumventec h" the Sheriff, his dep- uties gnd by the United States Commis. sioner at Malone. While we are endeav- oring to get the cases before other Com- | missioners I have been informed that par- | ties who are steering the Chinamen in no- | tify the Sheriff of Franklin County at | what polnt upon the border they can be | found, and he cr his deputies go to the | border and recelve them, and then insti- tute complaint before Commissioner Pad- | dock.™ . { Another amendment confines the war- | rants of arrest issved by United States Commiesioners for alleged violations of | the law to complaints made by Govern- | ment officers, except in certain instances. FIVE PRISONERS BATTLE SERGEANT MORIARTY Offer mxmmée at City Prison and Beat Officer Badly Before Help Arrives. Sergeant J. J. Moriarty had a rough and tumble fight with five prisoners at the sulted in his being badly beaten about the head, and his hand being severely cut. The five men, of whom one was Louis Enrith, employed in a warehouse on Clay street, were being unloaded from the pa- tfol wagon, when Enrith made a vicous attack on Moriarty. The other four took a hand, and before assistance came Mor- iarty was badly beaten. His injuries were attended to in the Receiving Hospital. His assailants were finally locked up and charged with battery and drunkenness. — e ————— Strauss Becomes Ill DENVER, Jan. 8.—A special to -the Republican from Albuquerque, N. M.. says that Eduard Strauss, the noted musician. arrived there.from California yesterday suffering from gallstones and Was unable to appear with his company last night. After treatment by a local physician "the patient was. pronounced | president of the Board of Police Commis- | to put Mr. Devery where he is at the be- c | which | York: LANDIS ON TRIAL much better to-day and was ablé to leave for the north. CORRUPTION AND PUBLIC ViICE Former President Moss of the Polics Board Talks Very Plainly. Epecial Privileges That Breed Boodle- | ism Are Winked At by the ‘White-Livered Mzn of New York. TR NEW YORK, Jan. 8 ~Frank Moss, ex- sloners, speaking last night at the Uni- | versal Thought Salon at Winterburn Hall on the topic, “Things in General,” blamed | the men who buy speciul privileges for municipal misrule in New York. He sa.d, among other things: “This unanimous pointing to poor Sen- ator Sullivan, Martin Engel, Percy Nagle and Devery is suspiclous. It is suspicidus that all the newspapers agree In attack- Ing vice. It is suspicious that Tammany | itself points.to the particular vices of gambling and disorderly houses. Inclined to look behind and see what greater evil is shielded. The men who might start an organization to overthrow Tammany are themselves guilty of doing practically the same thing. The men who have been building up this system of cor- ruption know that the men who are in control in New York life are buying priv- fleges and are fattening upon the fruits of special purchase privileges. “Devery is bad enough, but he is a mere creature, a-mere product. The Commis- sioners are as guilty as Devery, yet they talk of taking one of them to be the sin- gle head of the department. He is the very man who broke his faith with a Chief with whom he had no fault to find | 1 am! hest of politicians and gamblers. There has been all this discussion about vice, but he has done nothing. There has not been a single trial, but he is not the ulti- | mate criminal. He is the creature of a system. ‘roker is certainly an object against | which we have to turn our baiteries, but 1 don’'t know that he is the worst ones There are men in New York who are great financial powers and who have. been furnishing the brains for Tammany Hall for years and profiting by it, and they have been using the rough man who is the nominal head to control the masses, and they have given him the rough man'’s price.” VMr. Moss described the enormous value of the subwa s an_illustration of the | special privileges which he said a certain few men were interested in, and he sald | that it was to protect In the enjoyment | of that monopoly that they maintained | Tammany and through Tammany pre- | vented a construction of the pipe galleries | which would rry wires in competition | » condition. yet the misera- ble public is amazed over dives and gamb- ling dens, and the holders of special priv- ileges slyly say, ‘We'll see if we can get | the reformers to put in nomination for | Mayor some man who won't interfere | with our spectal privileges.’ “One of the biggest builders in New York said to me: °‘If T were to tell you me of my experiences 1t would turn ‘the city upside down.’ | ““Why don’t you tell me?' I sald. ! «*Oh, it would end me,’ was the reply. | “What white-livered men we are in New York. I have seen men turn pale when I suggested that they speak out. Though vice is bad, it is not the worst thing. If it was not for corruption in business life there would not be so much in politics. One can be a railroad wrecker or an ab- sorber of corporations and We considered respectable. The strife that is now on will go on until a force of men who have patriotism and civic pride will redeem the | city.” To Purify Philadelphia. It Jocal leaders can be found to carry | on the fight, Bishop Potter will assist in | launching an anti-vice crusade in Phila- | delphia and will speak at a mass meeting at the Academy of Muslc in that city to| be held to-morrow night. | “I understand that Philadelphia is in as deplorable a condition in regard to its mu- | nicipal government as is the city of New York Said the Bishop. ~and what 18 more, Philadelphia is a Republican city. | It would seem, therefore, that municipal | corruption may flourish under the aus- pi of either party. This is a truth | both Republicans and Democrats | are bound to admit. “A delegation of prominent citizens from Philadelphia called on me some day ago and asked me to speak in that cit They told me that the city was in sad | need of an awakening of popular sent!- ment and of reform in municipal affairs. 1 said that I would gladly assist in any | movement which had for its end the ex- termination of vice and corruption, Rut I | declined to take an active part until I knew that there would be local leaders to carry on the fight. I expect to hear to- morrow if satisfactory arrangements have | been made.” Californians in New York. | The following Californians are in New | From San Franc Brown is at the Savoy: L. Herald Square; N. E. Hall Netherland; Avenue; A. Gambler is at the Herald | Square; A. W. Pike Is at the Imperial; E. | Cricher is at the Herald Square. From Los Angeles—L. R. Russell {s at the Grand Unfon. L e e e b ) s at D. 'McKenzie is at the Park the FOR KIS LIFE Slew His Wife +nd Consta- ble -Clydesdale at Rocklin. PR et Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. AUBURN, Jan. §—The trial ot Russell | Landis for the killing of his wife Lizze | at Rocklin, Cal., on the night of October | 3, 1000, was commenced in the Superior Court of this county this morning. It will be remembered that young Landis not only killed his wife with a shotgun on this occasion but directly afterward re- aired to the house of Constable W. J. “lydesdale and shot the latter while he lay reading in bed. Clydesdale died a few days later at the Sacramento Hospital, ‘he prosecution is represented by Dis- trict Attorney Wright, Assistant J. E. Marks and Fred P. Tuttle, assistant coun- sel; the defense by L. L. Chamberlain and C. A, Tuttle. To-day the selection of a jury was completed and opening state- ments made by respective counsel. Intense interest is manifested in Placer County in the outcome of the trial and the case will be fought bitterly. The de- fense occughd over two hours in the opening an claims that the horrible acts of killing were committed by Landis un- der the belief that his wife was intimate with Clydesdale and while he was tem- porarily insane. The prosecution majn- tains that it was nothing but a cofd- blooded, heartless murder. Seventy-five jurymen were drawn, dxhti ‘Wwitnesses have been subpenaed and the town is crowded with onlookers. PRESIDENT’S COLD HAS DEVELOPED INTO GRIP Physicians Say There Are No Com- plications and Everything Is Progressin, WASHINGTON. Jan. 8.—At 5 o’clock this evening Secretary Cortelyou said con- cerning the President’s iliness: “The Pres- ident’s cold has developed into a well de- fined case of grip. The phgllchn states that there are no complications and that everything i§ progressing favorably. The | the country. MANAGER SAM THALL NOW PILOTS BI G ATTRACTIONS He Is Back in Town Receiving the Wel- come of Old Friends. ENIAL Sam Thall, the well known theatrical manager, is once more in the city, and his right hand is aching from the many cordial greetings he has re- ceived from his legion of San Francisco friends.” Thall is a San Francisco boy. Twenty years ago Thall began his theatrical career with Joe Grismer and Fred Bert at the old Cali- fornia Theater, and the training he received there has stood him in good stead. Imbibing thoroughly thé business | and practical detalls of theatrical work from Grismer and Bert, young. Thall started out on the road with Grismer and for eight years piloted the ventures of this actor ail over the country. Both ‘Lhall and Grismer boast that during the eight years they were connected they never closed a season with less than $20,- 00 profit. Thall’s record was watched closely by W. A. Brady, another San Francisco boy, and a good offer from Erady took Thall to New York. This was shortly after the time of the defeat of Sullivan by Corbett, who was under Brady's management. Thall managed Corbett’s theatrical company for Brady and money simply piled into the coffers of the firm. In fact, when any of Brady's companies were ‘“off color” Thall was hurried on to join the company, for he had the record of making a poor attrac- tion a paying one. With the increase of Brady's ventures Thall was advanced until he became the general representative for booking and routing the shows. ~Brady looked on Thall as his “mascot” in all of his pusi- listic ventures, and says that if Thall had Leen present at the Corbett-Fitzsimmons encounter at Carson the result would have been different. Up to three years ago Thall remained with Brady and then started in business for himself. “Yon Yonson™ came under his management, and last year cleared $20,000 profit. This year Thall has two attractions on the road— Hanlon's “Voyage en Suisse,’’ which was successfully revived last year, and “A Stranger in a_Strange Land,” which will be Been at the Alhambra Tnext Sunday afterncon. Next season Thall will put + POPU; THEATRICAL MAN- AGER WHO IS BACK AMONG HIS FRIENDS, 4 out “Yon Yonson, “Voyage en Suisse” and a new plav, “The ughter of the Milllon.” which is to have its first pro- duction shortly at the Central Theater this city, thus getting ahead of York. No matter whether Thall has busi- ness in this city or not, he always makes it a point to “run out to Frisco’” each year in order to visit_his relatives and meet his old friends. Prosperity has not changed Thall in the least, and he is still the same “Genfal Sam."” L R N S o R i i i e ] BEPORT DI THE HATING CASES Military Qourt Finds That the Charges of Booz Were False. — Speclal Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1468 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—The mili- tary court of inquiry which investigated the charges brought by the parents of Cadets Oscar L. Booz and John Breth, deceased, has made its report. The court finds that while Booz was hazed when a cadet at the Military Academy, his death was caused by tuberculosis, and the treatment he underwent was not re- sponsible for the diseasd. The charges made by the boy to his parents were un- true. Neither is there any foundation for the allegation that Cadet John Breth's death was due to hazing. The court specifically finds that hazing has occurred at the military academy, but that it was not so brutal as has been observed in civil institutions throughout In view of the fact that the statute of limitations applies to the cadets who participated in the hazing of Booz, and because of the further fact that the cadets who gave testimony dam- ss1n5 to themselves could not be prose- cuted on such testimony, a recommenda- tion is included in the findings that there be no further proceedings. Sl e UNCONSCIOUS FROM HAZING. Cadet John Breth Exercised at West Point Until His Senses Left Him. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 8.—The Congres- sional committee which is investigating the hazing of fourth-class cadets at West Point military academy resumed the tak- ing of testimony to-day. Harry Breth of Altooua, an elder broth- er of John Breth, whose death is also un- der investigation, told of a visit he and is sister pald his brother at West Point in August, 18%, a few months after his ad- mission to the academy. John said he had been exercised until he was rendered unconscious and was revived with whis- ky. Harry said that hazing had become 80 severe that extra guards had beem put | on duty, and John sald that such a pro- ceeding was unusuai. When the cader returned home after having been found deficient in certain studies in . La seemed unwell and never was in good health after that. Lucien Alexander, secretary of board of examiners for the admission of law students to the Philadelphia bar, who yesterda, Oscar Booz's examination upon tha ground that he would be .n contempt of the courts under a rule of the court, saiud Jhe had applied to the Court of Common Pleas and the court had granted a rule permitting him to make answer. He then testified that Oscar Booz fatled in the 2x- amination, having a 50. Mr. Alexander said he attributed his bad showing to Booz's poor eyesight. Harry Breth was again called and ex- hibited the letters written by his brother when he was a cadei at West Point. [n one of the letters John sald he had re- he sald, was not the result of careless- ness. The rules were very strict In re- ard to tidiness, but he had little time (o fieep his belongings in proper order, as he would be compelled tc neglect his duties by reason of his h.v"‘% to attend soirees, which was one of the forms of hazing in vogue at the academy. Another letter statea that one nigh “gome of the worst fellows in C compan! took John And three otliers to a tent and forced them to undergo excessive exercis. ing. John was made (o “brace,” “eagl “wooden-willie,”” put on a rain coat, and, with a cap covering lis head, hold out dumbbells. Mr. Breth, the father of John, said it was his firm conviction that the excessive hazing .his son underwent made him chronically nervous, broke his heaith and reduced his vitality to Such an extent that the young man was unable to fight the typhoid germs. he committee adjourned to meet at West Point to-morrow. After hearing testimony at the military academy, the committee will return to Washin where other witnesses will be heard. Don’t t: to put on too many airs; it may mlk:yyour friends cold. tha | refused to give the result of | 5en9rn.l average of | celved a large number of demerits. This, | gton, | ARMY DFFICERS N THE LOBY Work Actively in Support of Increasing the En- listment. Speclal Dispatch to The Cail. NEW YORK, Jan. $.—The Herald pub- lishes the following from George H. Hep- worth at Washington: | “There is no doubt whatever that the majority of American people are In favor of a small rather than a large standing army. If a speclal force Is needed in an | emergency the American people are quite willing to give the President authority to call for it, but when the emergency goes the special force shouid go with it. “This is the opinion I have heard ex- pressed and I have reason to believe that it prevails In all parts ol the country a among all classes of tlunking men, except | those who are interested in an increase of the army because they will be benefited thereby. Discusston of the army bill now before the Senate consists very largely of | special pleadings. During discussions of the bill in committee and on the floor of the Senate, the committee room and tha corridor have been crowded with army ol- ficers acting in their own interests. It has not been a spectacle which could be contemplated with any satisfaction. The army is all right on the fleld, but officers should not be invited to the noor of the Senate or be permittea to lobby for legis- lation” which will benefit ally. ““These are not pleasant facfs to relate, but they are facts which the public ought to know. If the army bill goes througn and the standing army Is increased as tha bill provides, it will be because the Demo- crats did not have the courage of their convictions and because the army officers have lobbied for its support. | "The War Department is very much con- cerned over the effect in theé Philippines of the delay by the Senate in passing the army bill. It is declared that the grav- est_conditions_threaten the Government. Yesterday it was said the delay will in- volve an additional expense to the Gov- ernment of $1500,000. To-day the officials say the expense Is of minor Importance | compared with the necessity of replacing | the volunteers to be withdrawn. Secretary Root does not belleve that the first regiment to go to the Philippines to relieve the volunteers can leave the | United States before the first of May. Officers in charge of the recruiting work for the army declare it will take six months to increase the army along the lines of the bill now before Congress. Gen- eral MacArthur continues to urge upon the Secretary of War the importance of keeping the Philippine force up to 60,000 men. The act of Congress which au- thorized 35,000 volunteers compels thef discharge not later than June 30. will necessitate the reduction of General MacArthur's force to about 35,000 men by the first of May, when the first regiment to leave the United States will be ready. Unless some arrangements be made for sending regular army troops, now orga-. nized in this country, MacArthur may be compelled to police the Philippines for at least a month with an army reduced 50 per_cent over its present strength. War Department officlals. They declars Congress has already placed the War De- partment in a serious predicament, which | grows more dangerous with each day's delay. FOUR LIVES LOST IN A TENEMENT FIE ll Entire Family Asphyxiated and Their Bodies Found by the Firemem. | 'NEW YORK, Jan. 8.—Four lives were |lost in a fire in the fivestory brick tene- | ment house at 357 East One Hundred, and Thirteenth_street, occupted by Itallans, to-night. The dead: | TANTONETTE MOARA, 2 years old. MRS. DONATO MOARA. | LOUIS DONATA MOARA, the three- | year-ola son. | " FRANCISCO MOARA. the ten-months- | 01a_daughter of the dead woman. FRANCISCO MOARA, 32 years old, wifa | of Joseph Moara, a barber. | ‘The Moara family lived on the fifth floor and the bodies were found by the firemen ! after the flames had been extinguished. | They had been suffocated. ‘Water in cases of Obstinate Constipation among all Aperient Waters." affection and obesity.” -Always Ask For disease must run its lar course, and the President therefore is not likely to be out of his roomn for some days.” ' the Full Name, | Professor D. Lambl, Warsaw, Russia, Protessor of Clinical Medicine at the University, writes: “ Hunyadi Janos Bitter ‘Water, besides being an excellent general Aperient, has proved specially efcacions in the treatment of chronic constipation, vemous obstruction and congestion, ‘hemorrhoidal VALUABLE TESTIMONIALS, A few of over One Thousand, from Famous Physicians: Professor Von Mosetig-Moorhof, Vienna, Austria, Professor of Surgery, Imp. University, writes: ‘I have employed Hunyadi Janos with excellent and immediate effect.’ Professor Lomikowski, Charkow, Russia, Professor in Therapeutics at the University, writes: Hunyadl Janos stands first . No Medicine in the World can compare with « Hunyadi-Janos.”” in New | them person- | ir ‘This | This is the situation pointed out by the | TRAINS SNOWED UP, STEAMERS MISSING Severe Winter Being Expe- rienced in Southern Russia. Railways Completely Buried and Ten Thousand Laborers Have Been Dispatched to Clear the Tracks. PP Jan. 8.—A special from Dozens of trains are snowed up on the southern railways and some are completely burfed. Ten thousand laborers ! have been dispatched to clear the tracks. ‘Sr\'er:ll Russian st ers are missing. Sebastopol Is full of vessels, which have taken shelter in the harbor from the gales. The snowfall in the three days has been so heavy that no mails have arrived here. The Diet Is Reopened. A Berlin special sayst opened to-day in the name of Emperor Willlam, who is suffering from a slight cold, by the Imperial Chancellor, Count von Bulow, who read the speech from the throne. The principal point in this was the announcement of the presentation of an_extended canal bill, comprising not only the Rhine and Elbe scheme but also the construction of a waterway for largs ships between Berlin and Stettin, a more practicable waterway between the Oder and the Vistula and improvements in ths | Wartha, Lower Oder, Lower Havel and | Spree. e speech referred to the contin- | ued satisfactory financial situation, say- | ing a_considerable surplus had been ob- tained in 1889 and that equally favorable | results were expected for 190, while the budget for 191 showed a marked increass | in revenue, and the }rrnfl(s from the state railroads were satisfactory. It was pro- | posed, the speech adds, to introduce bills | dealing with the reform of the local gov- | ernment of Berlin, the relief of provincial finances, the housing problem, etc. > speech concludes with an appeal for the ‘rumonc labor of the members of the et and with a reference to the bi-cen- tenary of the kingdom of Prussia. ch Parliament. A Paris special says: Parliament reas- sembled to-day. sreat animation was manifested on the floor of the Chamber of Deputies and the tribunes were crowded. M. Paul Deschanel, who has been Presi- dent of the Chamber since the beginnin; of the present Parliament, was re-electec The Diet was President. e Senate adjourned to-day _until Thursday for the election of bureaux. After an Inauguration speech by M. Wal- ter, the doyen of the House, M. Walter and M. Rauline, who spoke as doyen in the Chamber of Deputies, appealed for a union of the Republicans and the_closing of the fratricidal hatreds between French- men. Soudan Not Foundered. A PBrussels speclal says: There is no- truth in the report of the foundering of the-steamer Soudan, which left Antwerp early in December to undertake river ser- | vice in the Congo Free State. and which | was sald to have gone down during the | 1ast days of December, drowning ten of her crew. The first report was due to a change In the steamer's destination, Products of Germany. A Berlin special says: The Secretgry of State for the Interior, Count von Posa- dowsky-Wehner, opened the commereial | congress to-day. In welcoming the dele- ates the Secretary warned them that | German commerce and industry will have to struggle harder than ever before to d | find outlets abroad owing to the marked tendency of the civilized states to become self-sufficing. He, however, expressed the Lopinion that the excellency of her products would enable Germany to hold her own in all the markets of the world, as well as within new fields. | Wireless Telegraphy at Sea. A special from Toulon says: The recent experiments with wireless telegraphy in connection with the French flest have been so satisfactory that it has been de- cided to provide the entire Mediterranean squadron with wireless apparatus, which will be subjected to decisive tests during the coming cruise of the squadron. The | recent experiments showed that dis- patches can be exchanged reliably at dis- tances of from eighteen to twenty miles by the new system. o e ENDS HIS LIFE WITH THE CENTURY Suicide of Horace Wright, a Honolulu Lawyer and Newspaper Man. | HONOLULU, Jan. 1—W. Horace | Wright, journalist, lawyer and leader among the forces of the royalist party in | Hawail, ended his life with the end of the nineteenth century, committing sui- cide on the last night of the old year by | taking carbolic acid. He was found dead on New Year's morning in his editorial | chair in the office of the Independent, of which he was associate editor. The sulcide was evidently deliberate. Duripg the afterncon of the Sist Wright purchased two small bottles of the poison that killed him, giving the excuse to the salesmen at the drug stores that he wanted the stuff for cleaning. In the | evening he retired to his office alone and he was not seen alive again. When he was found this momlnz a flask half full of whisky was beside him. He had ap- parently sat at his old working desk, re- | solved to end his life with the cenfury, and while others round him were cele- brating the new year he took a terrible dose of the burning fluid. For over a year he had been drinking very heavily and of late he had been despondent. It is thought that he deliberately chose the end of the century as a fitting time to close his career. The deceased journalist was a man of a | good deal of prominence in revolutionary | §avs here. He was highly educated and an able writer. He was born in England and was an English barrister. He was employed in the Foreign Office here for a time. For several years he has been associate editor of the Independent, the paper which has always opposed and fought against annex- ation. Horace Wright leaves no relatives here, and nothing is known of his early life. REGULATING VALUE OF A CHILD'S LIFE Schlesinger to Introduce a Bill Re- lating to Damages for Personal uries. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 8.—Bert Schlesinger of San Francisco will prepare and introduce in the Assembly a bill amending the section of the Civil Code reiating to damages for refloml injuries. Supreme Court has nterpreted the law to be that a parent of a echild killed through the carelessness of the employes of a raliroad, for in- stance, may recover damages to the amount only that the child’s services Eh e h B X e purpose of propos i will g: to make the award of damages | for the mental anguish suffered discre- tionary with the jury. Theé present stat- Supreme Court decisions ‘based upon it have been generally by the poogo as ly unjust and tend- ing to estimate the value of human life on a purely material basis, and the meas- ure probably will prove a popular one. Tack Causes Death. SANTA CKUZ, Jan. 8.—Hermann F. Langermann is dead at his home near Aptos. Several weeks ago he ran a tack Into the "nn toe of his rlci foot, which caused blood pohonh;f. was years old. a native of Germany and ‘The body will be cremated.