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VOLUME LXXVIII.— NO. 99.
WILL DEFENDER WIN ?
Herreshoff's Creation Is
Now Decidedly the
Favorite.
BOTH BOATS MEASURED.
Valkyrie 111 Will Have to Give
a Time Allowance of
29 1-10 Seconds.
BRISK WEATHER PREDICTED.
Opinions of Experts on the Various
Chances of the Aspirants
for the Cup.
NEW YOEK, N. V., Sept. 6.— A1l is
ready for the battle royal between the
Valkyrie 111, Great Britain's pride, and
the Yankee combination of aluminum
and bronze, the Defender, which all
patriots hope will keep the cup on this
side of the Atlantic one more year.
The final preparations for the first of the
international races have been made. Both
ships are anchored in the Horseshoe ready
for action to-morrow. The veil of mystery
which has kept the public in ignorance of
the actuai dimensions of the competing
yachts was raised to-day. Honest John
Hyslop, official measurer of the New York
Yacht Club, passed his steel tape from bow
to stern, from deck to masthead and along
boom and bowsprit of both crafts, and the
Tesult is that the Valkyrie 111 allows the
Defender 29 1-10 seconds. This is less
than yachting sharps have guessed.
The appearance of the Valkyrie and the
calculations which have been made cred
ited her with an excess of water-line and
sail area over the American boat, which
would allow the latter from Ito 2 min
utes over a thirty-mile course. The cut
ting away of the after body of the Val
kyrie and the light steel boom which was
recently substituted have undoubtodly
given her a saving on Joad-water line,
which reduced the time allowance to less
than half a minute. Both boats are less
than 89 feet on the load-water line instead
cf being close to 90 feet and the Valkyrie is
two-eighths of a foot longer than the De
fender. Her sail area is greater, but the
Defender lias a boom 116 feet long, while
that of the other boat is only 10G feet.
The prospect of seeing the Valkyrie and
Defender together before the great race
was an attraction which drew crowds to
the Erie Basin. They began to arrive at
the break of day, many taking in the sight
before going to breakfast. The numbers
increased, till at 11 o'clock felly 3000
people swarmed about the dock, and during |
the afternoon it was estimated that 8000
were present at one time. During the day
nearly 20.000 persons must have visited the
boats. They were of all conditions, and
there were many women. Yacht caps
bearing devices showed that the yachting
world was well represented, and there was
many a bronzed-faced English shipmaster
or seaman, who talked yachts as glibly as
any freshwater sailor.
Measurer Hysiop arrived before noon,
and shortly after 12 o'clock went aboard
the Valkyrie. He began the work of
measuring just as the tall mast of the De
fender was seen over the great storehouse
r.ear the entrance to the basin.
As the Defender was towed into the
basin by the tug Wallace B. Flint the
crowd rushed to the end of the neighbor
ing pier?, and climbed up the sides of
big ships and into their rigging, and surged
over into the tugs at the wharves. Small
boats crept around from all directions, and
then from the crowd of spectators, grouped
as for a picture on some festal occasion, a
mighty shout went up for the American
boat. Captain Haff responded by taking
off his cap. .Mr. Iselin was at once taken
aboard the Defender, and the absence flag,
floating from the starboard spreader, was
hauled down. As the yachts were brought
near together the greater weight of the
YaJkyrie's spars and rigging was apparent.
The Defender's rig was more graceful and
trim than her rival's, as her underbody
was also. The light-blue paint on her top
sides did not show up favorably, however,
with the immaculate white of her oppo
nent's, nor did the unbleached color of the
ramie-cloth mainsail, in its furls, look as
natty as the Valkyrie's white duck.
An inspection of the Defender showed
that with her change of booms, gaffs and
sails, and the removal of her water tanks
and other fixtures dispensed with in the
races, she floated pretty light. It was,
therefore, decided that she could stand
some more ballast, and accordingly about
a ton of lead in pigs, which had earlier
been placed on the tender, was passed over
on to her and stowed below. Then the
measuring wa3 proceeded with, the sale
area being taken last. >
Mr. Watson said: "We hope to win,
but are prepared to lose," and he looked as
though the hope fathered a thought.
Mi. Iselin would say nothing of the pros
pects, but he looked as though satisfied.
It was generally believed in yachting
circles that the difference in time allow
ance in favor of the Defender would be
anywhere from one-half to two minutes,
and consequently there was some disap
pointment when the announcement was
made.
On the eve of the battle betting has be
come quite brisk. English and Canadian
money has been held back for better odds
then have been offered. Small bets were
made at odds of 3 to 2on the Defender,
but in large amounts the odds were 6 to 5
and 10 to 7. The latter was the latest
figure at the New York Yacht Club and
the hotels.
On the Stock Exchange to day it was
said on good authority that $36,000 was
placed. F. T. Adams placed $7000 on the
Valkyrie at odds of 7to 10. The wager was
laid for an English client. The betting
opened and closed 7 to 10 with wagers in
the interim at Bto 10. The Valkyrie end
of the betting has been taken principally
by Canadians.
The weather outlook for to-morrow
favora the American rather than the
British boat. Local Forecaster Dunn,
after carefully going over his reports to
day, said* '"Taking all in all, the con
ditions most likely to prevail to-morrow
will be favorable for the contest. There
will be a briak wind of from twelve to
The San Francisco Call.
eighteen miles an hour. It will come at
first from the northeast, shifting to a south
easterly quarter. It is bound to be an on
shore wind. The indications are that the
sky will be overcast nearly all day. ; There
may possibly be light showers. It is not
likely that there will be any heavy rain."
The hotels are full of people from a
distance, and New Yorkers have made an
early return from summer resorts in order
to witness the struggle for the blue ribbon
of the seas.
It is estimated that fully 30,000 persons
will witness to-morrow's race.
Mr, Hy slop's officialreport is as follows:
Valkyrie 111, Defender.
length onload water line., "88.85 88.45
Length from out end of main
boom to forward point, of
measurement. 186.03 181.75
Length from foreside of fore
mast to forward point of
measurement 78.94 73.55
Length extreme of sjinnaker
boom 78.94 73.36
length of topmast.. 55.98 1-5 44.78
Height uppersideof main boom
. to topsail halyard block 129.80 125.48
Square foot of sail are as per
rule 114.14 112.26
Sailing lensrth as per ru1e. . ... 101.49 100.36
Time allowance, li 9 1-10 sec.
WHICH ONE*WILL WIN?
An Expert'g Review of the Strong
Sailing Point* of the Defender
and Valkyrie.
NEW YORK, X.Y., Sept. 6.-The Tri
bune to-morrow will publish the following
summary of .the best characteristics of the
Valkyrie 111 and the Defender. The con
trast is made by an expert. Now that the
international yacht races are at hand a
statement of the possibilities in favor of
each boat will aid intelligent interest.
These reasons for victory contrasted are
given for the purpose of illustrating the
ideas of those who pin their faith to cer
tain beliefs. The grounds upon which
success is hoped for here are catalogued as
the opinions which are current among
yachting men, more or less expert, and
they probably set forth the best that can
be said for both vessels. "Why the De
fender should win:
First— A model that is easier in the water.
The Defender is several feet narrower than the
Valkyrie 111, and when going to the windward
in a plunging sea is expected to proceed with
an easier movement. Her bows, not spreading
out to the same width as the Valkyrie's, have
less of bluffness, which tends to reduce a
yacht's headway as she buries in an oncoming
sea. This point is. not of so much import
ance now as in earlier days, when the width of
the hull was extended, down further into the
water. The upper hull portions of the present
models, being so much shallower, have to deal
with the water at the surface, which is
more easily displaced than at a greater
depth, where the pressure's densities and
resistances are according to the theory.
The model of the Defender is neater, cleaner,
more refined than that of the Valkyrie. It is
the so far best realization of the traditionally
English aims, which, from time beyond the
memory of present yachting men, have sought
to produce a craft that would cleave the water
on such scientific and refined lines that she
would need a minimum area of canvas to drive
her at her best speed. ,In this way the De
fender will undoubtedly be at her best with a
smaller sail plant than the Valkyrie's. Mr.
j Herreshoff has shown great- judgment and
I skill in producing the Defender as an im
provement on the Britannia, which until this
year was the best all-round boat in the world.
This is more fully explained In the second
reason. • . ." . . ' ■; . V
Second— Because of less displacement. In
giving the Defender the same beam as the
HriUnnia, though apparently not all her bal
last, Mr. Herreshoff secured for her a great
deal of the Britannia's phenomenal stability,
while at the same time he has improved the
model under water by largely reducing the
bulk of the sunken portion of the hull. As to
this point the Valkyrie 111 is also an improve
ment on the Britannia in the lessening of the
depth of the hull (meaning that upper portion
of the hull which is not the k»el), but not to so
great an extent as the Defender. The Ameri
can representative has a finer middle body
than the Valkyrie. It is not sunk so low in the
water and consequently will not offer so much
resistance to it.
If the Defender -wins it will be chiefly and
perhaps entirely on this point, which is most
important, for the Valkyrie is not so lean in
this region. The sailing of the two boats has
already shown this, and, whereag the Defender
can go through the water at almost top speed
and disturb.it very little, the Valkyrie leaves a
big wave rolling out from her wake. This
always means that water is being disturbed in
some way that the best .science seeks to avoid,
and it always advocates the presence of some
obstacle which assists toward slowness rather
than speed. Since her arrival, the sail
ing of the Valkyrie has already shown,
although she has not been pressed
to top speed, that the judgment regarding
her middle body as expressed by the Tribune
when she showed herself in the drydock was
correct. It does not, however, necessarily sug
gest defeat, as there are other counterbalancing
items to be considered, more especially since it
is a fact that many wave-rolling yachts have
proven winners. But this difference in the
two boats can be confidently declared to show
an important advantage for the Defender, no
matter what other powers may intervene to
nullify the gain here made. If aluminum has
been the metal used, it may be taken for
granted that a great saving of weight in the
upper works has been obtained and that an
advantage is here gained in comparison with
the Valkyrie, whose upper structures are of
wood and steel. Part of the advantage here
secured seemed to have been indicated in
the races with the Vigilant. The Defender
is a very quick starter. As soon as her sails
are filled sh« goes like a rocket. She is the
quickest starter ever built; far quicker than
the Britannia. Here the Defender has quite
an advantage over the Valkyrie, which will
always be valuable so long as there are no
breakages. The wind resistance is also min
imized by this general lightness. So far as the
general "sit" of the canvas is concerned there
•will probably be little to choose between the
two competitors. It is true tfiat the Defender
has now taken on a new and untried mainsail,
but there is no reason to suppose that it will
sit any less well than the previous ones. Yet
the Defender has one sail that the Valkyrie
apparently does not possess. It proved of
great value to her in the last race
but one with the Vigilant. It is a
jib topsail, which extends from the bowsprit
end to the topmast head and is valuable for
beating to windward in dry light winds. It
has no great reach aft, and it sits as close to
the wind as is necessary. Balloon jib topsails
will not sit "by" the wind, and small ones are
of little use, but the sail referred to, which on
the Defender is of silk, is of much value. Dur
ing the light airs of the race mentioned it
lifted the Defender so far to windward and
ahead of the Vigilant that the gap thus cre
ated was one almost impossible to close up in
subsequent heavier winds. A distinguishing
quality in American yacht-racing has always
been the carrying of tremendous head can
vas whenever the chance offered. Until
lately this has never been the custom in Eng
land. On their narrow cutters when reaching
or running, the Englishmen carried a balloon
foresail and a larger jib topsail, but not until
after the Americans had used their enormous
areas of balloon jib for certainly twenty-five
years did these find favor in England. Even
as late as the sailing here of Valkyrie II Cran
field showed that he did not understand or re
fused the use of the balloon jib at the proper
time, and when he did use it he did not trim
it riffhtly nor did he set it rightly. Xow, these
points are of great importance to the Defender
because her people understand aU there is
known about the used of the huge Ameri
can head canvases, and there is at present
little ground for supposing that Cranlieid
SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1895.
knows much more about them than he did two
years ago, and that was not a great deal. In
the second (triangular) race with the Vigilant
he lost at least three miles by hanging up a
miserable, narrow and incompetent English
jib topsail when the Vigilant was literally run
ning out of sight with the proper big headsail
on her. Of all the advantages which may be
catalogued as being probably in the Defender's
lavor this may come first. It is an undeniable
fact that the Americans do "everlastingly
stack it on" when they get the chance, and
this has been a necessity in former years, when
great beam required much shoving. When it
is seen, therefore, tnat the present Valkyrie is
possessed of an American beam the fact be
comes apparent that she must be driven
through in the American way if she wants to
win.
Why Valkyrie 111 should win. It is a curious
fact that-the present Valkyrie appeals much
more to the traditional yachting ideas of Amer
icans than the United States representative.
The Valkyrie has all that bcampower and ini
tial stability which for forty years has been
peculiarly American. Never before has there
been such a complete mix up as at present,
Watson going over body and bones to the
American beam and HerreshofT: pursuing the
English ideal of slim, scientific treatment. As
to the result of this, so far rs shape of hull is
concerned, the Defender's main reasons for win
ning are English, and so far as broad beam is
concerned the Valkyrie's reasons for winning are
American. 1 here never has been a time when
splenetic prejudices and loud backing of na
tional types have received so amusing a quietus.
Those who claim that the Valkyrie should win
because of the great sail-carrying power which
she develops in her wide bilges are merely re
peating the Amtrican argument, of the last
forty years and we have yet to learn there is
anything wrong about that argument. It
stands as well to-day as it did in the triumphs
of forty years ago. It means the development
of what the English call "brute force," when
it was opposed to what they call the more scien
tific modeling of their fine drawn hulls. The
international contests have been compared to
duels fought with bludgeon against rapier.
Very good, but the bludgeon always came out
on top, and the scientific weakling invariably
took a back seat. It will be difficult, then, for
some Americans to avoid The idea that the
Valkyrie should win, though If Herreschoff
succeeds, he will be really beating the English
at their own game, and at the first try.
In the trial race of August 29 the Valkyrie
came down from three or four miles behind
and almost caught the two competing yachts.
At that time there was no breeze perceptible
on the surface of the water. The Valkyrie was
passing large schooner yachts that were be
calmed. The iact that her lofty spars could
reach up into and use high planes of moving
air which other boats could only point at was
made apparent. In extremely light weather
this superiority in high reach must be ranked
as an advantage, because a rig of this kind will
often sneak away slowly in almost a calm and
open a gap which cannot afterward be closed
when good breezes spring up.
The strength of sails is a point to which the
Valkyrie people have given much consid
eration and preparation. Every effort
has been made to give her mainsail
extraordinary strength, and not only in the
material itsplf. While one is not able at close
range to tell where each cloth ends and the
other begins it can be seen that extra strength
is given by running two and perhaps three
sewn tucks down the entire length of each
cloth and between the joints at the edges.
This, together with the doubling at the join
ing of the strips, gives a sail that is literally
ribbed with its own folds until its tensile
strength must be very great. This advantage
will not appear in light winds, but when it
comes to lower canvas breezes or to reefing,
these Ratz»ey sails, which ere the admiration
of the nautical world, may be expected to
hold together. The new mainsail of the De
fender, made of ramie cloth, is as to strength
an unknown quantity, and it is a pity that
more time could not be had to test it, because
Ratzsey's sails are not unknown quantities.
The ramie material mtiy, however, prove per
fect and the alleged advantage for the Valkyrie
under this head may be thus nullified. It is
only mentioned here because it is claimed by
the Valkyrie's friends, and because it is the
well-established finding of the yachting world,
that it is always an advantage to have Ratz
6ey'z sails. The Valkyrie had a huge headsail
of silk on her when she made the peculiar
catch up in the race of August 29, and in the
upper cart at least it filled out to rotundity
and moved the yacht, when in apparently the
same airs all other headsails hung flat and al
most useless; and to repeat, it is what a boat
steals during the light airs that often wins
races. The Defender has not so far shown a
silk balloon jib, but she may bring it out to
day. At present an advantage on this ground
is claimed for the challenger.
Captain Bush, the skipper of the
schooner-yacht Crusader sails on the
Vigilant as one of the expert crew, having
been formerly an English professional
yachtsman. He probably knows the dif
ference between the workings of different
crews, and he puts it this way: "The Val
kyrie's crew are lifetime yachtsmen. Dur
ing every season they pass their life in
yacht-racing. They never stop it, except
in winter, and then some go to the Med
iterranean racing. Now, it is not to be
expected that you can go along this coast
and pick up a crew from a fishing village
that will learn yachting and do their work
like the lifetime men. It's impossible."
Captain Bush is a believer in the prob
able success of the Defender, it is under
stood, but he mentions this exception as a
drawback to her chances. Coming from
one of the very few men who understand
the yacht racing of both countries, this
opinion is not to be ignored when the
Valkyrie's chances are being catalogued.
The fact that the Valkyrie steers with a
tiller is greatly in her favor. As we ap
proach the period of equinoctial winds
the advantage which is claimed for the
Valkyrie in her crew's experience of rough
weather and reefing may or may not be
come apparent. Possibly it is entitled to
be noticed here. It is the custom during
hard weather in English races to reef the
bowsprit and house the topmast. If this
becomes nesessary in the international
races (hardly, certainly, to be expected),
the English crew will be at their regular
work. But it is doubtful whether the De
fenders crew has ever reefed her mainsail,
or has even reefed a bowsprit. As to this
point the advantage is here catalogued for
either boat because their staying abilities
seem about equally rapid.
GUESTS OF MR. MACKAY.
Correspondents of "The Cnll" to Have
a Favored Position for Witness
ing the Great Race.
NEW YORK. N. V., Sept. 6.— The spe
cial correspondents of The Call have been
invited by John W. Mackay and James
Gordon Bennett on board the steamer
Mackay-Bennett to-morrow in order to
witness the yacht race between the De
fender and the Valkyrie. The steamer
will be telegraphically connected with the
New York office of the Postal Telegraph
Company by means of a submarine cable.
This will admit of sending specials to Thk
Call every minute if nccsssary to explain
the progress of this great international
yacht race. The Call will therefore be
able to supply the public with instanta
neous and continuous information in re
gard to the prospects of the- contest and to
give the earliest possible announcement of
the result. j
CHEATED THE GIBBET.
Suicide of a Man Who
Committed Two
Murders.
AN AX WAS HIS WEAPON.
I
Killed His Wife's Father and
Brother in a Cowardly
Manner.
LURED THEM TO THEIR DEATHS.
When Surrounded by the Angry
Avengers the Wretch Sent a
Bullet Through His Brain.
SULLIVAN", Ind., Sept. 6.— James Ward
murdered Aaron Hunter, his father-in
law, and John Hunter, his brother-in
law, near here last night by splitting their
heads open with an ax, and committed
suicide by shooting when he was sur
rounded by a posse determined to lynch
him. The double murderer lured his vic
tims to their death. A domestic quarrel
led to the horrible tragedy.
Last night at 11 o'clock Ward and Aaron
Hunter were in town and Lad apparently
patched up a disagreement between them.
Ward insisted, however, upon the old man
going to the woods for the purpose of
hunting coons. While the hunt was in
progress and Hunter was sitting on a
stump Ward hit him on the head with an
ax. His head was split wide open.
When Hunter fell Ward struck the pros
trate body again and cut off the head.
The ax sank into the ground. The mur
derer then proceeded to kick the head of
his victim about. He then went home,
awoke his wife and told her to call her
brother, as he and the old man had treed a
coon, and ask him to como and help fell
the tree.
The younser Hunter got tip and went out
into the yard, when Ward, with a stroke
of the ax, felled him to the ground.
Youne: Hunter died almost instantly with
his head split open.
Ward then told his wife to keep quiet
about the whole affair, that if she did not
sbe would suffer the same fate as her
father and brother. Ward then went
about half a mile down the road and
stopped at the Breckels home. He told
Mrs. Breckels that he had killed both the
Hunters. Before many hours the crime
was generally known, and a posse consist
ing of miners and farmers started on the
hunt for Ward, armed with various
weapons-
Ward had two revolvers, and this fact
was known by his pursuers. The posse
became enraged, and when the old man's
body was found the mob became more de
termined than ever to hang Ward if caught.
Just as the posse had located Ward and
surrounded the field in which he had been
hiding a single shot was heard. The
posse closed in on the spot whence the
sound had come and found Ward on his
back on the ground, with a revolver in
each hand and a bullet wound under the
left ear. He was dead.
MURDER OF MISSIONARIES
Dr. Reid of Shanghai Com
plains of Minister Den by's
Tardiness.
Had the Representative of Uncle
Sam Acted Promptly the Out
rages Would Have Ceased.
LEXINGTON, Kt., Sept. 6.— A vigorous
letter relative to the recent outrages on
missionaries at Kucheng, China, was re
ceived to-day by E. P. Pearce, president of
the Kentucky Wesleyan College, Win
chester, from Dr. C. F. Reid of Shanghai,
who is presiding elder of the Methodist
Church in that district and an American
citizen. Writing of the massacre he says:
'•Had our Minister acted promptly and
adequately in the first case the second
would probably not have occurred, and we
should have been spared the spectacle of
eight young and consecrated women being
dragged from their beds and brutally mas
sacred, helpless infants hacked to death and
a faithful servant of God burned to death
in his bed. I wish I could put my copy in the
hands of every editor, every Congressman
and every other man who has any interest
in the weifare of the church or the honor
of nis country. We don't seek revenge,
but we do ask for justice and the protec
tion which every American has the right
to demand. Foreigners in China are
unanimous in the belief that a little
prompt and vigorous action would at once
put an end to these things. We have lost
all hope of help from the legation in Pe
king and now appeal directly to Washing
ton."
LONDON, Eng.. Sept. 6.— A dispatch to
the Pall Mall Gazette says that the leader
in the Kucheng massacre has been cap
tured by the authorities. The total num
ber thus far arrested for participation in
thfl outrages at Kucheng is 130, of whom
twenty-three have been convicted.
WILL ASK FOR A PEXBIOX.
Letter-Carriers Bare a Bill for Presenta
tion to Congress .
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 6.— The
consideration of the pension bill was con
tinued at the session of the annual conven
tion of the National Association of Letter
carriers to-day. After each section had
been passed upon separately, the bill
was adopted as a whole amid great cheers.
Many delegates rushed up to Delegate
Hogan of Chicago, who introduced the bill,
and congratulated him upon his success.
The measure, which will be presented to
the next session of Congress, provides ior
the payment of a pension to all carriers
who are injured in the service, and the
retirement on half pay after 20 years'
service. The money is to be obtained by
deducting 2 per cent from the pay of the
retired carriers.
A n Error of Judgment.
BROOKLYN, N. V., Sept. 6.— After the
examination of witnesses in the court
martial of Captain Sumner, for iiuprocerly
docking the cruiser Columbia at fcouth
ampton, a statement by Captain Sumner
in his own defense was read, after which
the court was adjourned until to-morrow.
The captain in his statement admitted
that he was partly reprehensible for the
charges acainst him — culpable inefficiency
in the performance of his duty. There is
no law, ne said, specifying what a cap
tain's duty was under these circumstances,
and his duty was therefore a matter of
judgment, lie therefore pleaded that the
damage to the Columbia was the result of
an error cf judgment, and did not rise to
the gravity of the charge.
CAUGHT A. CLEVER ROGUE.
Chicago Detectives Arrested, the Prince of
Modern For a. .
CHICAGO, 111., Sept. 6.— Central sta
tion detectives made a sensational capture
in this city to-day in the person of Howard
Castle, alias Castello, alias Raymond. He
is believed to be the most dangerous of
modern check-forgers and there are now
rewards offered for his arrest by police de
partments of three cities. Castle began
his career in Detroit about ten years ago
by forging the name of his millionaire
uncle to a check for $5000 and getting the
cash for it. This act landed him in the
lonia penitentiary for two years. It is
said the forger's father represents a district
of one of the great Western States in Con
gress and has paid out many thousands of
dollars in squaring up forgeries committed
by bis. wayward heir. He has been all
over . the country and it is .believed is
wanted for forgery in no less than a dozen
States. ,"■■'" .'"-:■■;•'.'■
WASHED BY THE RAIN.
Baltimore Visited by the
Heaviest Downpour in
Many Years.
Foundations Were Undermined and
Several Dwellings Were
Swept Away.
BALTIMORE, Md m Sept. 6.— Baltimore
was visited to-day by the heaviest down
pour of rain in twenty-five years. Starting
at 2 o'clock this morning, there was little
cessation until 6 o'clock to-night. There
was little wind and no thunder or light
ning.
The most serious accident occurred on
Greenmount avenue, near North. The
quantity of water that dashed down the
surrounding inclines soon overflowed the
sewer and caused it to cave in. The over
flow flooded the cellars of 1812, 1814 and
1816 Greenmount avenue.
The rushing torrent undermined the
foundations and the buildings collapsed,
the occupants thereof barely escaping with
their lives. The material and furniture
was carried away piecemeal by the angry
waters, and to-night a big yawning hole in
the ground marks the place where the
three dwellings stood. A frame house at
1822 Greenmount avenue was also badly
wrecked.
Fremont avenue, between Baltimore and
Lexington streets, wb-erein a sewer is be
ing enlartred, was bai^y washed. It is
feared that the foundations of a number of
houses that line the thoroughfare have
been damaged.
One death, the result of the storm, was
reported late to-night. Mrs. Annie O.
Smith and her son were washed off the
footbridge that spans Jones Falls at Mount
Washington. The young man succeeded
in reaching the shore, but his mother was
carried toward the city on the turbulent
stream and drowned.
I'ZJETHOSA. OF DOMESTIC WOES.
Love at First Sight Ended in a Fight and
. .; '■■'■' 1 - ; i Desertion.' % ;\. : ' >
TARRYTOWN, N. V., Sept. 6.— William
J. Lovett, now 75 years old, several years
ago married a Mrs. Harris of Astor, lowa.
It was a case of love at first sight. Lovett
bought a cottage on Beekman avenue, in
which they began housekeeping, and dur
ing the first few months their married 1 life
was blissful. A few weeks ago rumors
came to Lovett that his wife had another
husband; with whom she was correspond
ing. .
Mrs. Harris is the mother of a daughter
25 years old and a son of 19. The son lived
with her. During Wednesday evening he
got into a quarrel with Lovett about feed
ing the horses. Loyett threatened to
throw them all out of the house.
The son threw a pail of hot water over
the old man. Lovett tried to stab the
vounc man : with his pocket-knife. Mrs
Lovett interfered, and he made a lunge at
her. Then he picked up his wife and
threw her out of the window and kicked
the boy out of the backdoor. He.threw
their belongings out and. forbade them to
re-enter. ' . . v; "
While Lorett was at work yesterday
afternoon Mrs. Lovett and her daughter
forced an entrance and took out several
articles which she claimed are her own.
Lovett, on learning of it, followed them
to the railway station, where he requested
a policeman to arrest them. The police
man refused and the couple left for the
West. Lovett last evening was excited
and threatened to kill himself. He told a
reporter that it was not the loss of his
wife that he was moaning about, but the
articles she had stolen. He says he has
authentic proof that she has a husband
and several children in lowa. Lovett pre
sented a sorry appearance, though he is
said to own bonds and gold to the amount
of $50,000.
jLYXCIIISG IX XJSITXJESSEE.
A Brutal Xegro Taken From Jail and
Hanged.
NASHVILLE, Tknn., Sept. 6.— While
Charles Jones, a highly respected citizen of
Lincoln County, was in Fayetteville on
Monday night attending his lodge, a negro
broke into his residence in the country,
where his wife and her sister were staying,
ana attacked his wife. The sister ran
away to secure aid.
Both the women recognized the negro,
Dock King, a farm hand, as the assailant.
King's arrest followed next day. He was
found to have marks on his arm which
was injured while he was forcing his way
into the house. Both women visited King
in jail yesterday and further identified
him.
This morning early a mob of 200 men
took King from* jail and hanged him.
F BAKER IS IDENTIFIED.
So Longer Any Doubt That the Insured
Man I irr*.
RICHMOND, Mo., Sept. 6.— The county
jail at this place was visited yesterday by
many old friends and acquaintances of Dr.
George W. Fraker, who is under arrest for
swindling life insurance companies. There
is not the slightest doubt of his identity.
He was recognized by over a dozen promi
nent people, whose acquaintance extended
over a period of ten years. Between rive and
six hundred people were admitted to the
jail during the day, and he talked freely
and pleasantly to all, and when ladies
called to see him he thanked them. No
arrangements have yet been made for bis i
preliminary hearing. Several of Dr. Fra
ker's friends here and at Excelsior Springs
are making an effort to secure his release
on bail, but it is not believed their efforts
will be successful.
comix a ] with oxje EXGISE.
An Accident Said to Have Delayed the
Xortnannia,
NEW YORK, N. V., Sept. 6.— Samuel
Morrill, the captain of the immigrant
transport steamer George Starr, which
took a party down the bay
this morning to meet the in
coming Hamburg-American steamship
Nnrmannia, reports that the Lucania
brought news of having passed
the Normannia on the 4th inst. on the
eastern edge of the banks, broken down
and proceeding to port under one engine.
Accoraing to Captain Morrill, this infor
mation was received from the doctor's boat
at quarantine and from officers on the Lu
cania. No detailed account of the injury
of the Normannia was obtainable, and in
shipping circles it is hardly credited.
The vessel left Hamburg on August 30
and was due at this port this morning.
Her cabin and steerage quarters are tilled
with returning tourists. The officers of
the Lucania reported that they sighted the
Normannia on Wednesday afternoon, when
her captain signaled that the port engine
was disabled and that they were using the
starboard engine. He expected to make
port to-day.
CATTGMT IX A STORM.
TJirilling Experience of Passengers on a
River Packet.
CLINTON, lowa, Sept. 6.— The steam
boat Verne Swain, running between here
and Davenport, was caught in the storm
last night and nearly went to the bottom.
The wind was terrific and the lightning
was expected momentarily to strike the
boat, which is a large packet, and the pas
sengers were completely panic-stricken,
running wildly about and expecting to be
drowned. The vessel at last drifted toward
some rocks, and the mate, Stephen Church,
went out alone in a small boat to cast the
anchor in hopes of saving her. His boat
capsized and he was drowned in full
view of the crew and passsengers. The
boat went, on the rocks and narrowly es
caped being wrecked. She was gotten off
to-day with some bad injuries.
JPAWyjSE BILL'S SHOW WRECKED.
An Accident on the Rail in Which Six
Men Were Injured.
PINE BLUFF, Ark., Sept. 6.— The train
of Pawnee Bill's Wild West show was
crashed into at this place this morning by
a car which was uncoupled and ran down
a steep grade. The injured are: John
Ross, trainman, foot crushed; John Mc-
Lean, trainman, back badly injured ; Mike
Ryan, shoulder dislocated; Frank Smith,
hip and feet injured; John Beans, Arab
acrobat, ankle sprained.
An Indian, whose name could not be
learned, was also badly injured. The
wounds of the injured were attended to
and the train pulled out for Little Rock.
ARMED MES OS A TSAIS.
They Were Looking for Desperadoes Wlio
Did Sot Appear.
FORT WORTH, Tex., Sept. 6.— The
Forth "Worth and Denver train this after
noon brough in a lot of heavily armed
rangers and deputy sheriffs headed by
Captain W. J. Macdonald of the rangers
and Sheriff Coffer of Hardeman County.
The party went out on the northbound
Rock Island train to-night to prevent an
expected hold-up on that road by the
noted Christian gang, who murdered a
deputy marshal near Guthrie several days
ago, and who is now believed to be m
Texas. The railroad officials are reticent
about the affair, but it is believed that
some definite information of the immedi
ate plans of the gang have been received.
TOPICS OF THE DOCTORS.
interesting Papers Before the
Medico-Legal Con
gress.
Statistics Show That Those In
Higher Walks Mostly Use
Antimony for Poison.
NEW YORK, N. V., Sept 6.— The third
day's session ot the Medico-legal Congress
began this morning. The Hon. Rastus S.
Ransom presided. Tne business began by
the reading of a paper on "The Brutality
of Capital Punishment" by Gustavßoehm.
In the absence of Mr. Boehm the paper
was read by Clark Bell.
Mrs. C. L. Morehouse of New York read
a paper on "Compulsory Vaccination and
Its Errors." She said that when our fore
fathers fought for the liberty of thi3 coun
try they did not imagine their descendants
would be subject to the tyranny of com
pulsory vaccination.
The subject of chemistry was then
reached and Professor Doremus read an
interesting paper on milk adulteration.
Then Professor Doremus read an interest
ing paper on "Two remarkable cases of
chronic antimonial poisonine." He dwelt
with the case of Rev. G. J. Vosburg, pastor
of the Baptist church, Bergen, Jersey City,
charged with attempting to poison his
wife with antimony, and the case of Dr.
Henry Meyer, who was tried for poisoning
Ludwig Brandt with antimony. Voßburg
was acquitted and Dr. Meyer was con
victed.
Dr. Doremus gave a minute history of
the trials of Vosburg and Meyer, both of
which were celebrated cases, and especially
the latter one. He said that antimonial
poisoning, as the records showed, was re
sorted to by people in the better walks of
life.
Albert Bach, in the discussion which
followed Dr. Doremus' paper, as a lawyer
denounced the system of paying the pub
lic prosecutor by the convictions secured.
The section of bacteriology being reached
Dr. Paul Gibier spoke on "What May Be
the Part of Bacteriology in Forensic Medi
cine."
Clarkson .V.i»n'» Allison.
PITTSBURG, Pa., Sept. 6.-General
James S. Clarkson, the lowa member of
the Republican National Committee,
stopped over in Pittsburg to attend to
some private business to-day. Mr. Clark
son, of course, believes that Senator Allison
of lowa is the logical candidate of the Re
publican party for President. Me said that
McKinley was formerly the favorite
of the Republicans of Pennsylvania that
Thomas B. Reed had been gradually gain
ing in strength and would probably have
the Pennsylvania delegation at the Na
tional convention. The tariff, he said,
would certainly be the issue in the next
campaign. The money question had worn
itself out.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
HELD UP BY A BOY
A High School Youth of
Los Angeles Turns
Outlaw.
VADIM DEMENS' GRIMES.
The Bold Cucamonga Robber
a Son of an Angels
City Capitalist.
CAPTURED THROUGH STRATGY.
__________
Full Confession Made When Placed
Behind the Bars at San
Bernardino.
SAN BERNARDINO, Cat,., Sept. 6— A
Los Angeles High School boy, 18 years old,
began a career as a highwayman last Sat
urday at the west end of this county, and
ended it to-day behind the bars of the
County Jail. His name isVadim Demena.
He is 6 feet 2, an athlete and the stai
player of the Lo« Angeles High School
football team. His father is worth a half
million dollars. He was for many years sec
ond vice-president and general manager of
the Orange Belt Railway in Florida, owned
by the Drexels of New York. Fear of the
yellow fever drove him to Southern Cali
fornia a few years ago and he got rich in
real estate.
The boy is wild and had come under his
father's displeasure. School closed the
first week in June and he was sent to work
on his father's fruit ranch at North Cuca
monga in this county. He kept at it until
last week, when he was seized by a desire
to visit Florida and determined to get the
money to travel on by robbery.
Saturday night, having stoien a revolver,
young Demens held up D. Kilgore, the
Santa Fe agent at North Cucamonga. The
agent was called to the door of his office
about 9:30 o'clock, and as he opened the
door and stepped outside he was con
fronted by Demens, who, holding a big
revolver at the agent's head, ordered him
to throw up his hands. Kilgore was so
badly frightened that instead of doing so
he turned and ran, meantime yelling at
the top of his voice. Demens fired as the
agent turned, the bullet whizzing past
Kilgore's head and goins; through a win
dow. The robber himself was frightened
at the outcry and disappeared in the dark
ness.
Tuesday morning Demens held up a
grocery-store at loamosa, a village four
miles from this scene of his former opera
tion. The storekeeper, William Johns,
was awakened about 6 o'clock by some one
pounding at the back door of his store and
calling upon him to get up and sell some
groceries. Johns at once got up, and after
hastily dressing went to the back door
and opened it, to be confronted by
a tall man wearing a mask and holding
a revolver almost against the grocery
man's face. The order was given for him
to throw up his hands, and at the same
time a shot was fired, the bullet passing so
close to John's face that the powder burned
it. But instead of throwing up his hands
John fell forward and Demens grappled
with him, beating him over the head with
the revolver and inflicting some very seri
ous injuries. Again he was frightened
away, and left without booty.
By as clever a strategy as has been per
formed in Southern California for somo
time, Fred Pourade of this city, a special
officer of the Santa Fe, ran Demens down
in Los Angeles and secured the revolver,
the clothing, hat and mask which the
young desperado had worn during the
hold-ups.
Late this afternoon Demens made a full
confession to the District Attorney. He
hopes to get off with a sentence to the Re
form School. After his arrest he sent the
following message to .his father:
My Dear Father: I have done a great wrong.
I suppose you have heard about the hold-ups
at Cucumonga. lam in the hands of the San
Bernardino officers. Why did I have a quarrel
with you! Ido not care what becomes of me.
It is the shame on all you folks. Why did I
not behave myself! Come immediately to Sail
Bernardino. Vadim.
MARISriLLE BOMBS SOLD.
Worh on Ihe yew Sewerage System to
Commence at Once.
MARYSVILLE, Cal m Sept. 6.— The
bonds of the city of Marysville, voted at
the Bpecial election held on the 18th of
June last, were sold to San Francisco par
ties last night. The bonds are for $40,000,
bear interest at 5 per cent, and are payable
in ten equal yearly installments, commenc-
ing with November 1, 1596. The money is
to be used in the extension and improve
ment of the sewerage system of the city,
and in filling the slough. The City Coun
cil will meet to-morrow night, close up
with the contractors, and preparations for
actual work will commence at once.
Tor an Improved Water Supply.
SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Sept. 6.— The
City Council to-day decided to act with the
Board of Trade in investigating the best
method of furnishing Santa Barbara with
an ample and permanent water supply.
To this end it appointed a committee of
three to take such measures as it may see
fit in regard to tlie matter, subject to the
orders of the joint committee of the Coun
cil and Board of Trade. On this executive
committee Mayor Halloway appointed E.
S. Sheffield, cashier of the First National
Bank; Councilman N. D. Smith and City
Engineer J. K. Harrington.
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