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J THE AN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 1903. C 37 ASPIRANTS BEGIN PULLING STAINGS Much . Interest in the Political Game in Oakland. Who Would Fill the Various Offices Are Be- coming Active. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 18 Broadway, June 20 fairly seething with f Supervisors is go- ter of disturbance, tronage and much connection with the Supervisor H. D. his fences very nicely in will have little trouble in self. In fact, no candidate nst Mr. Rowe, though two opposed to John member of the who goes out of of- xh;' more than S0 mear comple- to be a free-for-all fight John J. Alien, in- nced that he will not Mattos a candidate for nator G. R. Lukens 7 that he will be a it is al- the up- se once more. Assemb! ation is a little un. there is to be a United or elected by the next Legis- will be candidates enough. ——— LL INVITE VETERANS TO VISIT OAKLAND m of Various Grand Army Organizations. June 20.—An effort is being to have what will “Oakland day" nt of the Grand which is next of th see the beauties the hospitality o st. He e: At an early e matter of giv- comrades of fonal En- present me st rwell and ASKES DISTRIBUTION UNDER WILL TRUST Late Chauncey Taylor Heirs to Share Property. r —Suit in equity was ? of Mrs. Sarah J. uted a trust fund he heirs under the will Chauncey_Taylor. for her dur- :ave the rents when she died the es i her share goes to her ha Foote Jackson, 8. Foote, W. Emma Foote. as given the right, 1f she te the fund during her ————— FREIGHT CARS DIVE INTO FERRY SLIP e Was Heavily Loaded With Tin Plate and the Other Car- ried Berries. p this morning and plunged The lowering of the ng of the tide caused ake the dive. The fr hfare was unable to land en the wrecking crew suc- sing the cars from the slip. the tin plate is still submerged. ———————————— Explosion Victim Buried. i in OAKLAND, June 20.—George S. Conk- who was scalded to death at San ro Thursday by the bursting of a boiler tube on which he w s employed, was buried this rgreen Cemetery. vears of age, the son of Deceas Mrs. C. W. Olan brother of Miss Lottie M. Conklin. The fu was from the home of the y of the deceased. —_————————— Mystery Is Cleared Away. OAKLAND, June 20.—Insufficiency of valves of the heart, together with snuscular @egeneration of that organ, und by a Coroner’s jury to-day to n the cause of the death of Gill, a well-to-do San Leandro about whose demise considerable had been thrown. No evidence yught out tify the suspicion her Marriage Licenses. AKLAND, June 20.—The following riage lcenses were issued to-day: ; Kaley, and Marse Nicolet, 21, -1 of St. Louis; Jorgen C. Svane, 37, San .Francisco, and Lena Rasmussen, 23, ton; Edward F. Beach, 21, and vert J. Boyer, over 21, and Mary over 15, both of Oakland. ———————— Drowned Boy’s Body Found. AMEDA., June 20. — While riding the Park-street bridge of the tidal Dr, J. Emmett Clark this evening v e remains of little Robert C. k. who was drowned Thursday, mov- ng with the current just below the e. The body was recovered and to the local branch Morgue, where sest will be held Monday at 5 p. m. v Married men live longer than bachel- In other words, conjugal life cms a necessary condition of longev- r ity cites thé cases of fifty centenarians, not one of whom is'a achelor. A curious fact, too, is that ese fifty centeparians were all wid- oWers. Olney Regquests the Co-opera- | during | to be | veterans to | their threé chil- | now proposes doing. | the dredger Olympia, on | Seminary Park, and | Tamplin, 19, both of San Fran- | EOITORS' PENS WAITE CARNAGE Two of the Ink-Stained Men Retire From Field. | Alameda-Berkeley Standard | Lets Its Hated Rival Do the Work. | Berkeley Office San Francisco Call, | 2148 Center Street, June 20. | There were not so many newspapers | printed in Berkeley to-day as there were vesterday. There was a Berkeley edition of the Berkeley Daily Standard, but there was no Alameda edtion of the Berkeley Daily Standard. The lull in the storm that was raised by the editors furnished the reading population of the city with a breathing spell, and it is relieved for the | time being of the delicate operation of de- termining around which Standard it will rally Wilson R. Ellis, one of the series of ed- lameda Berkeley Standard, out an Alameda edition so long as the rival editors were publishing a Berke- ley Standard. The main purpose in pub- lishing at all, he said, is to keep alive the act with the city for the official ad- sing, for if the paper lapsed a day it forfeit the contract he other fellows are making a hulla- o about us stealing the form: s said, “but that's all foolishness, be- se they couldn’t publish a paper with tied up by a Sheriff’s lock.” ntecilla, S. N. Wyckoft h published the Berke- | ley with the aild of Editor Friend W. Richardson of the Berkeley Gazette, as they did yesterday. They are bent 1 F. Ellis and Wilson R. Ellis, and an editors’ | carnival of carmine hue is the resuit. @ IWAKES BEREFT OF IS SENSES Goes to Bed Singing and ; Arises a Raving Maniac. - | Oakland Office San Francisco Call, | 1118 Broadway, June 20. | P. C. McLaughlin, the tourist who went | insane on the overland train on the way | | | \ from Chicago to this coast, was com- | mitted to the State Hospital for the In- sane at Stockton by Judge Ogden to-da; known of the man's family . but he is taciturn and cross and the hospital attendants have not the | proper facilities for handling such pa- | tients, =0 it was deemed advisable to send hing is | He is apparently about 25 years of age, | | | | IN MERRY MONTH OF JUNE Homes in Cities of Alameda County A re Scenes of Nuptials, Those of Miss Eva M. Woolley and C. H. Jameson and of Miss Flora Forrest and C. E. Anderson' Being Among Important Events ad s IR AKLAND, June 20.—Standing be- neath a beautiful floral horse- shoe, Miss Eva M. Woolley and Charles H. Jameson were joined in wedlock Thursday evening at at the home of the bride’s brother- in-law, W. F. Woods, 1261 ¥ourth avenue. The Rev. R. C. Brooks of the Second Congregational Church officiated. Miss Dollle Kanable attended the bride as maid of honor and Harry E. Crandell sup- ported the groom as best man. W. H. Woolley gave the bride Into the keeping of the groom. Her dress was of white organdie trimmed with lace, en traine, and her bouquet was of maidenhair fern tied with tuile. Miss Kanable's gown was of blve organdie trimmed with point d'esprit, and her bouquet a shower one of 8:30, | white roses. | and bhad a tourist ticket from Ogden to | Los Angeles in his pocket. A telegram has been sent to the Chicago police to see if any of his family can be located. On the lapel of his coat he wears a but- ton with the photographs of a young wc man and two children, which are sup- | posed to be those of nis family. Conductor A. J. Martin told the story of the man’s actions on the train in court to-day. He stated that McLaughlin had a fairly good voice and was singing with some people the night before and went to bed, seemingly in the best of spirits, and awoke in the middle of the night a raving maniac. From Saecramento to this city the conductor had to be with him con- stantly. He could not take him on the boat very well, so turned him over to the authorities on this side of the bay. —_——————————— | BLOODY RECORD OF MURDERED RULERS | Eighteen in Nineteenth Century and Twentieth Starts Off With a Larger Proportion. The present century, in its record of assassinations, has begun worse than its predecessor. Since 1900 four rulers, con- | | | 2 Queen have been killed. One King was Humbert of Italy, who was shot by Bresci, in July, 19. The President wa William McKinley, who was shot by 6, 1901, and who died on September 14, 1901 King Alexander and Queen Draga of Servia are the last victims. In the nineteenth century ten Presi | dents, two Czars, two Princes, two Sul- | tans, one Shah and one Empress perished at the hands of assassins. | The first victim was the Czar Paul T of | Russia, strangled by nobles at St. P=- tersburg in the night of March 23-24, 1801. He was followed by Sultan Selim | 111, who, after being deposed, was | thrown into prison and by order of Mus- tapha IV also strangled on May 8, 1808, In 1831 Count Capo d'Istria, President of Greece, was assassinated, and in 1854 the Duke Charles of Parma was murdered. Danilo I, first Prince of Montenegro, had occupied the throne only a week when he fell a victim to blood vengeance on Au- gust 13, 1860, On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States, :was shot by the actor, John Wilkes Booth, at Ford's Theater, Washington, | and died the following day. Three years later, in 1868, Michael Obre- novitch, Prince of Servia, was murdered near Belgrade. The year 1870 recorded the assassination of the President of Hayti, | S8alnave, and the year 1878, that of the | President of Ecuador, Dr. Garcia Moreno. The thirty-second Sultan, Abdul-Aziz- | Chan, after being forced to abdicate in | favor of his nephew, Mahomet Burad, | died in prison on June 4, 1876, presumably | a natural death, but an investigation in- stituted in 1831 against several of the highest officials proved, by the hands of ass=assins. Garfield, the twentieth President of the United States, was shot by Guiteau at A hington on July 2, 1881, and died from his wounds at Elberon, J., on Sep- tember 19 of the same year. Alexander 11 of Russia, after many attacks against his life, was finally killed by the explo- sion of a bomb thrown by a nihilist, who himself was killed at St. Petersburg on March 13, 1881. In 1890 President Meren- dez of San Salvador was murdered, and |on July 24, 1894, President Carnot was stabbed mortally by the Italian anarch- ist, Caserfo Santo. Nasr-ed-Din, S8hah of Persia, was killed May 1, 18%. General Borda, President of Uruguay, killed August 26, 1897. President | Barrios of Guatemala, killed February 9, ! 188. The anarchist Luccheni stabbed the Empress Elizabeth of Austria at Geneva on September 10, 18%. President Heureaux of San Domingo was assassinated on i July 26, 1899, ew York Tribune. ——ee——— Brown—So you lost your lawsuit with Smith? Jones—Yes; but it's a satisfaction to know that Smith didn’t win anything. “But didn’t yod have to pay him $1000 damages?” “Yes; but his lawyer got that.”—Phila- delphia Record. sisting of one President, two Kings and | Leon Czolgosz, at Buffalo, on September | As the bridal party entered the parlor where the marriage ceremony was per- formed Lohengrin’'s *“Wedding March” was rendered on the plano by Miss Jennie Frazier. White, pink and green were the prevailing colors in the-decorations of evergreens, palms and roses. Following the marriage there was a reception and wedding supper, during which two vocal numbers—""To My Betrothed” and a selec- tion from Faust—were given by Mrs. Frank Van Ness Cox. Many presents were received by the young couple, the groom's gift to his bride being an elégant piano. Mr. and Mrs. Jameson will spend their honeymoon at Santa Cruz and Monterey, and after their return will make their home at 1261 Fourth avenue, this city. The bride is an accomplished musician and talented with the brush and pencil. The groom is 2 prominent and popular Alamedan, who has been connected With the circulation department of a San Francisco paper in the island city. Among thosé invited to witness the wedding were the following: Mr, and Mrs. Woods, Misses Lou and Ada Wykoff, Mr. and Mrs. Griffin, Mr. and Mrs. Coulter, the Rev. Mr. Brooses, Mr. and Miss Woodward, Miss L. Foard, W. H. Woolley, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Anderson, Miss Lottle Woolley, Mrs. Kanable, H. E. Crandell, Misses Dol- lie and Gertrude Kanable, Miss H. Cran- dell, E. C. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. rank Van Ness Cox, Miss Jennie Fra- zier, Clair Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. ut, .urs. Dickenson, Miss Sula Faut, Miss Rosie Gallagher, Hugh C. Galla- gher, Mr. and Mrs. Bertrand Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Faut, Mr. and Mrs. Reissier, Mr. and Mrs. Willie, Mr. Theo- dore Martenize, L. Woolley, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Jameson, Mr. and Mrs. Ose- man, Mr. and. Mrs. Lorenzen, Mr. and Mrs. J. 8. McCowen, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Peterson, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Rowe, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thomas, Mrs. Armstead, the Rev. Mr. Trudgin, Mr. Otis Coffman, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Rowell, Miss Alice Perkins, Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Bissell, Miss Marcia Fénton, Mr. and Mrs. Greeley, Mr. and Mrs. Lichtig, Dr. and Mrs. Thomp- son, Mr. and Mrs. Conger, Mr. and Mrs. 8. Cadjew, George anu Robert Cadjew and Fred Blssell.- The marriage of Miss Flora Forrest and Charles E. Anderson was solemnized this evening at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. J. W. Stevens, on Webster street, in the presence of the immediate friends and relatives only. The groom's tather, Rev. J. E. Anderson of San Lean- dro, was the officiating clergyman. The residence was elaborately deco- rated, the color scheme being white and green. Great white popples, against a background of bamboo, were artistically arranged in the reception rooms, where the ceremony took place in a bower of popples and bamboo. White gladiolas and ferns were mingled in the hall decoration and the same stately flower bloomed in the dining-room against an effective back- ground of oak leaves. The bridal gown was a very becoming creation of white chiffon over silk, a wide collar of point lace ornamenting the bodice. A shoper of Bride roses and the conventional veil completed a very pretty costume. Miss Bessie Forrest was the bride’'s only attendant and wore a dainty gown of green and white chiffon, her bouquet being a shower of maidenhair fern. Newell 8. Forrest attended the groom. After the ceremony an elaborate supper was served in the banquet hall. The tables were decorated with baskets of white sweet peas and maidenhair fern. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, after a brief honeymoon, will reside in San Francisco, where he is engaged in business. Both young people are well known in Oakland, where they were educated, both being graduates of the Oakland High School. Mr. Anderson also attended the University of California and Is a mem- ber of the Sigma Nu fraternity. The bride is an accomplished girl, being a musician of considerable ability. P Theo Schaub has returned to Oakland from his former home at Placerville, bringing with him his bride, who was Miss Emma McConnell. The couple have taken up. their home at the Hotel Tour- aine until the home that is belng pre- 0NN < r SOME CHARMING YOUNG MATRONS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY WHO ARE AMONG THE MANY WHO CHOSE EVER POPULAR JUNE AS THEIR BRIDAL MONTH. o AT R T pared for them is finished. The wedding took place in Placerville on Wednesday at the home of the bride’s mother, Mrs. A. McConnell. Father Horgan-of that place officiated. Mr. Schaub was for eight years the proprietor of the Ohio House, the leading hotel of Placerville. Some months ago he came to Oakland. Mr. Schaub was formerly in business in Oak- land, where he made many friends. Mrs. Schaub was one of the most popular young women in her home city. S5i9i g The wedding of Miss Estelle Lundy and Edward C. Price in East Oakland on Thursday evening was one of the most brilliant of the many June weddings. P Miss Lydia Armstrong Baker Furniss were quietlY married in this city on Wednesday last. Cards are out announcing this event and that the young couple are at home to their friends at 814 Fourteenth street. . . BERKELEY, June 20.—The wedding of Miss Ruth Ashland and John H. Paul- son took place Thursday evening, June 11, at the home of the bride’s mother, Mrs. Sarah J. Ashland, of 19&2 Fran- cisco street. The ceremony Wwas per- formed. by the Rev. C. K. Jenness, pastor of the Trinity Methodist Church. Miss Winifred Woodruff was the maid of honor and Edward Paulson, brother ot the groom, the best man. Pink and white geranfums were used largely in the-deco- rations and a great canopy of those flowers marked the spot. where the wed- ding vows were exchanged. The ceremony was witnessed by fifty friends of the bride and groom. Afterward congratula- tions weré extended and a supper enjoyed in the large drawing-rooms of the Ash- land home. ’md George ¥ The wedding of Miss Mary A. Jones and Douglas T. Smith was solemnized Wednesday evening at the residence of the groom, 3140 Ellis street. The Rev. W. H. Scudder of the Park Congregational Church officlated. The bridesmald was Miss Gladys Jones, sister of the bride, and the best man was Robert Edwards. A re- ception followed the ceremony, at which some fifty guests were present. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are co-workers in church work and Mr. Smith is president of the Berke- ley Union Endeavor Society and secre- tary of the Park Congregational Sunday- school. .« .. Reuben 8. Smith and Miss Bessie Foster ‘were married Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. M. E. Wyckoff, 1812 Fair- view street. It was a very quiet affair, that was attended only by relatives of the bride and groom. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. W. H. Scudder of the Park Congregational Church. T ] BUILDING OPERATIONS * WILL PROBABLY CEASE Strike Situation in Alameda County Shows Little Hope of Imme- diate Settlement. OAKLAND, June 20.—The strike confer- ence was resumed to-night by the execu- tive board of the Master Bullders’ Asso- clation. After several hours’ discussion definite action was postponed until the regular meeting of the association next Tuesday evening. The conference com- mittee has not as yet been able to come to any agreement and the situation is daily becoming more lous, as neither the Bullding Trades Council, the District | Counefl nor the District Council of Car- penters and Joiners secms likely to yield. Secretary Frank J. Wilson of the Mas- ter Builders' Assoclation said to-night: “We have so far been unable to reach any agreement and have postponed defi- nite action until the next regular meet- ing of the association. At that time a proposition for a complete tie-up of the building industry of Alameda County will be ted, and from present indica- tions will probably be carried. This means that if we cannot effect a settle- ment before Tuesday the work in this county will be brought to a complete standstill.” | and rural trolley roads. e AUTOMOBILE RIVALS TROLLEY Horseless Stage Is Prov- ing Popular With Light Travel. Automobile stage line have recently sprung into a popularity that threatens to make them a formidable rival to suburban So far the auto- mobile stage has been established along routes well out in the country, where it would scarcely pay to build trolley lines and yet where there is no small amount of business to be picked up. At present there are no fewer than 200 such horseless stages running, and these are scattered all over the United States, literally from Maine to California and from the lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, with not more than three stages to any one line. It is quite possible short automobile stage routes will come to be even more common than electric cars are to-day. The auto stage has slipped in where the trolley cars find it will not pay them to follow. Such a line can be formed on very small capital and yet be a well-pay- ing affair. It is within the limits of pos- sibility to establish a line with but a sin- gle vehicle. pensive, there is no road to equip, no rails to lay, no power-house to install. One employe would probably be sufficient for a line h but a single stage, and a traffic that even a little trolley company would go into bankruptcy upon could easily be ample for an automoblle vehicle line. Lines are now in regular operation in Denver, Colo.; in San Jose, Cal.; in Los Angeles; in Griffins Corners, N. Y.; in Hartford, Conn.; in St. Louis; in South Bend, Ind., and in Westerly, R. I. The Westerly and the Boston stages are very similar in type, and a carriage that the experts say is fairly certain to be gener- ally adopted for service of this sort. In some parts of the West, however, the open type of stage is much liked. SOME NOTABLE LINES. Some lines of special interest to travel- ers are planned. One of these is to be along Massachusetts’ north shore, a line from Gloucester through Magnolia, Man- chester, Beverly and back, a route of six- teen to twenty miles and an especially fine trip. Another line of automobile stages, with four vehicles comprising its service, is to be established at Old Point Comfort, to run to varlous points of interest on fixed routes. Malone, N. Y., is to have an- other. From Yonkers north to Tarrytown there is to be an auto stage route. It will be remembered that the trolleys from New York passing through Yonkers go no farther north than Hastings. Thus this auto line will supplement the trolley. Al- ready during the past summer or two an automobile service has existed between New York and Phillips Manor. But this is a long ride (for a fare of $2), hence Is rather out of the category of short auto- moblile stage routes.for popular travel. New Bedford, Mass., is to have a stage line of this modern sort. A New York manufacturer has just shipped a steam stage out to Walla Walla, Washington. It is an interesting point to mention here that practically all the auto stages are steam driven. Electric public stages do not seem to have come into use yet. Be- tween Tullahoma and Lynchburg, in Moore County, Tenn., an automobile passenger line has been planned. Green Bay, Wis., is thinking of one, connecting that place with a popular summer resort twelve miles away. Montpelier, Idaho, has sent to New York for two vehicles, for a stage line fifty miles long. There is a projected auto stage line along the Great South road of Long Island, over a route of twenty miles, to run from Babylon to Patchogue, passing The vehicle itself is not ex- | 'EIGHT COUPLES ARE WEDDED [SH(T INCREASES PAGE OF THIEF Escapiné Sack Stealer Ignores Bullet Fired by Officer. Police Have Busy Time With People Who Take Others’ Goods. e it and a grain sack thief gave the local-po- lice something to do to-day, 'but the sleuths had little to show for their labors. Detective George Brown succeeded in ar- resting the sack thief, but the latter suc- ceeded in escaping, not slackening his pace even after a pistol bullet had plowed | up the dust near his heels. The stealer of sacks was Walter Burns, an Oakland youth, who entered the stables of P. F. Kellogg, a local expressman, and was making away with all the grain bags he could carry when Detective Brown cap- tured him. The officer was nearing the City Hall with his prisonér when Burns broke and ran down Oak street toward the tidal canal. Brown raced after the speedy youth, and when the latter was going strong and cpening up a wider gap between himself and his pursuer the de- tective drew his revolver and fired, but Burns sprinted all the faster. He finally street bridge. Mrs. J. S. Dodge of 1832 Pacific street, reported to the police that thieves had entered her residence last evening when no one was at home and carried away jewelry valued at $609, including one dia- mond ring, two pearl rings, one large gold | neck chain, one gold chain with heart and | pin attached and one jeweled bracelet. No trace of the thieves has yet been discov- ered. L e e e ] DELEATE WALKS IGHNST ST Schmidt Brothers Pum- mel Representative { of Association. Berkeley Office San Franclsco Call, i 2148 Center street, June 20. | Neither School Director William J. | Schmidt nor his brother, Edward Schmidt, like walking delegates, so when J. J. Burke, president of the Laborers’ Protec- tive Association, attempted to get their at Sacramento and Cedar streets they set | upon him with their fists and gave him a | severe beating. Burke had the two Schmidts arrested for battery as a matter of revenge, and | this afternoon they took pleasure in plead- | ing guilty to the charge in Justice Ed- | gar's court. The Schmidts wanted to be sentenced right away, but Justice Edgar said that he preferred to wait until next Monday afternoon before performing that office. Burke and the Schmidts have been at each other for a week. Burke tried to call | the men off the grading that the Schmidts | Emeryville last week, but he was ordered away. This morning he tried his hand again on the Schmidt laborers at West | Berkeley. He was ordered away two or | three times, but did not heed the warn- | ing. Finally the brothers became angry and went at Burke in windmill fashion, with the police court sequel. e MURDERER WALKIREZ RETAINS TWO ATTORNEYS Arouses Himself Sufficiently to Take Steps Toward Saving His Neck From Noose. OAKLAND, June 20.—Walkirez, the strangler, aroused himself sufficiently to- day to telephone to Chief of Police Hodg- kins and ask leave to employ attorneys to defend him at his coming trial. given permission and retained Attorneys Pearson, colored, and Herald, who will jmmediately take steps to frame up a de- fense for their client. It is expected that they will rely on his war record and the fact of his being an eplipetic to save his neck from the noose. Walkirez is also trying to see If he cannot demonstrate to the Chief of Police that his former con- sort, Anna Ross, is as guilty as he. It was denied at the jail to-day that the Ross woman was trying to starve herself, as reported. It was stated that she sulked at some of. the food given her, but ate heartily if given what she asked for. through Bay - Shore, 1slip, Oakdale and Sayville. In Ohio there has been incorporated a company with a capital stock of $25,000, the “People’'s Auto Transit Company,” it is called, “to establish automobile lines in the vicinity of Oberlin end Vermillion not already traversed by trolley cars.” Brainerd, Minn., is to have an auto stage line. CAPACITY AND COST. It is calculated that a stage system can be installed at a cost of just one-tenth that of an electric car system. The popu- lar stage costs $3000, though a very good stage can be had for $2000. The expense of running one is but $4 to $ a day, in- cluding operator and wear and tear. Stages of this type are twelve horse- power, they can travel from twelve to fif- teen miles an hour, and they hold twelve people, five on each of the cross seats inside and two in front with the driver. The Westerly stages carry fifteen pas- sengers inside and three more on the cross seat with the driver. P These vehicles have an entertaining lit- tle history. They were not originally built for Rhode Island traffic, but for Porto Rico, and they were in that country for some time, serving as a stage line across the island, from San Juan on the east to Ponce on the west. It was anticipated that a stage line between these two cities would do a paying business. The oid stage fare across was $18, and these wagons covered the eighty miles for $7 50. They were very far from being a success, however, and were finally brought back to Providence, where they had been built.— Brooklyn Eagle. Run Down by a Warship. The United States District Court of New York has given a decision that the United States Government is responsible for damages to the British steamship Foscolia, which was run down by the United States cruiser Columbia off Fire Island, New York, in July, 1888. The Co- lumbia had all lights out. The damages are estimated at $228,880.—Washington | Star. —— et — Editor—Yes, I am a great believer in preserving the forests. I want you to run in “Woodman, Spare That Tree.” Assistant Editor—But it is too long for the column. chop it down.—Chicago Editor—Well, News. ALAMEDA, June 2.—Diamond thieves | eluded the detective by crossing the Park | | workmen to quit their jobs this morning are doing for the Transit Company at| He was | WOMEN WORKING FOR STREET FAIR Charity Booths Are Re- ceiving Attention of Fair Sex. Various Organizations Pre- paring to Increase Their Fuuds. . — Oakland Office San Francisca Call, 1118 Broadway, June 20. The various booths at the street fair are rapidly assuming an attractive ap- | bearance, the ladies in charge of the con- cessions for charity having been hard at work all day. As one enters the fair grounds and | turns to the right the attention is al- most immediately attracted by the patri- | otic red, white and blue draperies of he Appomattox Relief Corps’ booth, where coffee and doughnuts, b--ns and brown bread will be dispensed by Mrs. Ada M. Brown and her assistants. Toward Tenth street the Maccabees, Oakland Hive No. 14, have erected a large booth that will be rooted with green and decorated with the coiors of the or- | der, red, white and black Here Ice- | cream, oyster cocktails and coffee and sandwiches will be sold. An attractive feature at this booth will be the dresses of the ladies in attendance. They will wear black skirts, white waists and “fetching” little red aprons, while on the head they will wear their “‘guard’s caps,” very much like the college mortar board. Mrs. J. H. Macartney is chairman of the Maccabees’ booth. SOUTHERN KITCHEN. In the shadow of the “Gateway to Con- stantinople” the colored people will con- duct an old-fashioned “Southern Kitchen™ that promises to be one of the popular places on the fair grounds. 'The proceeds will be devoted to the Home for Aged Colored Men and Women. Mrs. Julla Shorey will be in charge. A little farther along the line on Alice street the Royal Itanan Marionettes’ The- ater presents a very imposing front, and Misses Ethel Moore and Annle Sessions, who will direct it, will without doubt | gather a fine harvest of small change for the West Oakland Social Settlement. Around the cormer from the Marion- ettes the Catholic Ladies’ Aid Society will have a very pretty little booth. It is to be decorated In scarlet, and a tree which grows just inside the entrance will glow with innumerable small red lanterns. All sorts of quaint little fancy articles are to be sold in this booth, including balancing brownies, rough rider match safes, Cin- | derella dolls and pretty leis. Mrs. T. P. | Hogan, the chairman, will have an at- tentive corps of assistants, who will be distinguished by white aprons and chie white Alsatian bows in the hair. FABIOLA HOSPITAL BOOTH. The Oakland Club will dispense coffes and chocolate and dainty edibles. Mrs, C. S. Chamberlain is in charge and will be assisted by a number of society girls as well as by members of the club. Near the Oakland Club the Young Women's Christian Asosciation will seil miscellaneous articles for the bemefit of its various charitable branches. Mrs. R. | B. Thompson is chairman. | The Fabiela booth, adjoining the Elks® | parlor, is more roomy than it was last { year and the managers will therefore be | better able to accommodate the crowds | that always attend the Fabiola under- | takings. The French doughnuts that be- came so famous at the fair last 'year will undoubtedly repeat their success, orders | for dozens having already been given by | people anxious to once more obtain this rare delicacy. Mrs. J. H. P. Dunn is | chairman and Willard Barton will “spiel” | again for the booth. | The West Oakland Home also has a | booth on Eleventh street, where the ladies in charge will be prepared to furnish the .| public with the delicious coffee that was so mueh in demand last year. Other good | things to eat and drink will also be su | plied. Miss Grace Trevor is in charge and she will be assisted by the ladies | who made the West Ockland Home booth | one of the most successful concessions of | the last fair. —_————— Rohans Are Divorced. | OAKLAND, June 20.—John Rohan, a | coal merchant and Stxth Ward politician, was granted a divorce to-day from Flor- jence Rohan on :he ground of extreme cruelty. Mrs. Rohan did not contest the divorce. Rohan gets the custody of the | two children and most of the community property. —_————— Modern Hawking All the hawking on Salisbury Plain this year has been done with “haggards.” It is a change from Shakespeare's time. A haggard is a wild hawk taken for use when in its adult plumage, a bird of much superior flight to the hand-reared eyas or nestling which mostly served Eliza- bethan falconers.—London Aeademy. THE SLANG DEVELOPED BY OUR EXPOSITIONS Each Occasion Has Brought Out Words and Phrases of Pe- culiar Aptness. When once you make up your mind to 80 out to the big St. Louis fair next year you must begin at once to drill yourseif in the proper use of “exposition slang.” In anticipation of the opening of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition out there, says a St. Louls newspaper man, the town has been burnishing up some of the re- cent slang of the Mississippl Valley, and some of the items may be obtalned from advance sheets so to speak. What is called Herein New York a “dead one” and in Chicago a “sleeper” is in St. }Louls a “crape.” What 1s called-in Ne York a “coon” is in St. Louis a “shine.” The St. Louis version of the New York expression “the real thing'” for a pretty girl is “a swell doll.” “erown guy” is i a policeman, a “gitney” is a nickel, and “mug's landing” is the union station. St. Louis is farther west than Chicago, and, moreover, it has a much larger Southern and “Southwestern populatign. The uthwest has, In recent years, superseded the West very generally as the starting place of most American slang, and St. Louis has some geographi- cal advantages in this respect that are not likely to be obscured by the action of any of its up-to-date citizens. It will easily be recalled that one of the enduring effects of the Chicago Fair of 1893 was the amount of sla originated there. There are many persons whose best recollection of the Chicago Exposition is founded either on the Turkish melody of the Midway or the singing of “After the Ball,” the street anthem of Chicago at that particular period. The Philadelphia Centennial is indis- solubly connected in the minds of many persons with the disappearance of Charley Ross, and from that exhibition dates, practically_ the host of jokes that have 1 flooded magazines and enlivened the stage , on the slothfulness of Philadeiphia and Philadelphians. gz SRR The chief desire of the municipality of Baro, in Chile, is to nave the town known as a second , and within the last decade much money has been t to make it an exact replica of the have Dbeen pen iritish capital. The streets laid down and named after those ia |