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2 administration," he said, "the people is sued a new appeal through the ballot-box with an energy and far-sweeping result that I trust the President of the United, States in his official acts will not disre gard, though he entirely ignored it in his message. •'Thirteen representatives of this great Democratic party in thirty States of this Union are all that can speak for that party jn those States on this floor to-day. One of them must speak for all New England. One of them must speak for the Pacific Coast. The remaining eleven speak for the remaining States which lie north of the Mason and Dixie line. But, on the other hand, thirty-two members sit upon this floor to speak for the lion-hearted, in domitable Republican party of the hereto fore solid Democratic South. Is this com mand of the people of no consequence? What was tried in the election of 1894? The Democrats say that the election of 1892 was a condemnation of the McKinley bill. "Solid Republican delegates are here now from a greater number of States than ever before. Something broupht them. If it was not a condemnation by the people of your legislation then it was a con demnation of the Democratic party, and that is what 1 think it was. They were on trial in the last election. For it did not make any difference what kind of a Dem ocrat it was, whether a zealous advocate of ttiis new policy, or a lukewarm advocate, or a man who had opposed it, the cyclone swept them away all alike. Before the election the Democratic party proclaimed that their present policy was only a step in the ri^ht direction, which they pro posed to continue as soon as the highway was open. The command of a people comes up to-day, 'Not anothei step in that direction.' It is for this new departure that the new command of the American people has gone forth; and I trust the President when he has leisure to attend CO public affairs will respect it." Laughter and applause.] At the conclusion of Grow's remarks the committee rose and at 1:25 o'clock on motion of Pingley- (K.) of Maine the House adjourned until Monday next. SES&IOX Or THE &I.K ATE. Introduction of It ill a Relating to Debts of Pacific Roads. WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. 12.— After a two hours' session to-day the Senate ad journed until Monday next. Two bills to secure the payment of the indebtedness of the Pacific railroads to the Government were introduced — one by Frye (R.) of Maine almost identical with the one in- duced by him in the last Congress, and one by Thurston (R.) of Nebraska. Thurs ton's bill provides for a sale to the highest bidder of the Government claim at not Jess than 50 per cent of the amount, the purchaser to become possessed of all the right, title, interest and lien of the United State?, including the right of foreclosure, poss°-sion and operation of the roads. Call (D.) of Florida made a short speech in support of his resolution relative to the massacres of Armenians in the Turkish empire, and the resolution was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Then Peffer (Pop.) of Kansas made a speech, supported by figures, on his bill for the proper disposition of the remains of Senator? and Representatives who die in the capital during a session of Conaress. No action was taken on the bill. Mjlst hills i\troduci:d. Senate and House Flooded With Measures of Importance. WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 12.— Among the numerous bills introduced in the Sen ate during the morning hour was one by Prye (R.) of Maine to provide for the set tlement of the Pacific railroad indebted ness to the Government; also one by Thurston (R.) of Nebraska on the same subjects. Thurston also introduced a bill to increase pensions. Thurston's Pacific railroad bill directs the United States Treasurer to compute the amount due the United States on July 1, 1895, from each of the Pacific railroad companies by reason of the issuance of United States bonds to aid in their con struction, and directs that the entire in terest of the United States be offered at public sale, provided the highest bid is not less than 50 per cent of the claim of the United States. Among other bills introduced in the Senate to-day were the following: By Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska— For pub lic buildings at Hastings and Norfolk, Nebr.. at a cost of $30,000 each. By Thnrston (R.) of Nebraska— To estab lish and maintain a National school of forestry ; also to transfer the Fort Omaha military reservation to the State of Nebraska; also increasing by 25 per cent all pensions heretofore or hereafter allowed to all officers, solriiew and sailors and all widows and dependent relatives, and directing the immediate revision and correction of the lists and records, bo as to provide for such increase without fur ther proof, such increase not to apply to any pension granted by special act of Con gress: also providing for a public building at Grand Island, Nebr., at a cost of $130,000. By Call (D.) of Florida— Providing that passenger transportation on all railroads engaged in interstate commerce shall not exceed 1 cent per mile; it is made lawful for railway companies to have separate cars for different races, nationalities and kinds of people; sleeping-car charges are reduced to $1 for each twenty-four hours of occupancy; freight charges are ordered to be reduced to an amount not exceeding that necessary to t>ay the interest (not ex ceeding 5 per cent) on the present value of the roads engaged in interstate commerce, estimated upon the basis of the cost at which such railroads could be duplicated to-day; a fine of $1000 for each violation is provided, half of which is to be paid the informer, or by imprisonment for not more than one year. Among bills introduced in the House to day were the following: By Hepburn (R.)of lowa— Appropriating $100,000 for a public building at Creston, I owa. By Loud (R.) of California— Appropriat ing $100,000 for a naval training statio: on Yerba Buena Island, San Francisc harbor. By Hilborn (R.) of California — Appropri ating $200,000 for a public building at Ala meda, Cal.; $500,000 for a public building at Oakland, Cal., and $1,000,000 for the equipment of a gun factory at Benicia, Cal. By Cummings (D.) of New York— For a popular loan by the issue of 3 per cent bonds, redeemable at tbe pleasure of tbe United States after ten years from issue. SI'AIX'S CABINET CRISIS. The Entire Ministry Has lie solved to Resign. MADRID, Spain, Dec. 12.— With a view to facilitates solution of the crisis the en tire Ministry has resolved to resign. This decision will be recorded at a meeting of the Cabinet to be held to-morrow. It is believed that the Queen Regent will charge Senor Canoyas del Castillo, the present Prime Minister, with the task of forming another Cabinet, the first step of which will be to dissolve the Cortes. HARMONY WAS URGED Important Matters Before the Federation of Labor. TROUBLES AT CHICAGO. These Said to Be Due to Law yers Who Seek Gain Out of Strife. AN ADDRESS MADE BY SARGENT. In the Near Future He Hopes to See Firemen and Engineers in the Order. NEW YORK, N. V., Dec. 12.— At this morning's session of the American Federa tion of Labor a communication was read from the Trade and Labor Assembly of Chicago, to the effect that ttie lacfc of har mony among the trades unions of Chicago was due to the interference of lawyers and others who sought to make capital out of the labor movement and requesting that the incoming executive council of the fed eration appoint a committee to establish the labor movement in Chicago upon a sound basis. This was referred to a special committee. A resolution, submitted by the com mittee on rules, approving of the present barbers' Sunday closing-law in this State, and asking the executive council of the federation to aid in extending the law to other States, was adopted. A request from the caretakers of type setting machines, calling themselves "Type-setting Engineers," that they be given a separate charter, gave rise to a lengthy discussion. The request was re ferred back to the committee on organiza tion. F. E. Sargent, chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, was introduced. He paid high tribute to the work and pur poses of the American Federation of Labor and expressed the hope that iv the near future representative men of the Brother hood of Locomotive Firemen would repre sent it in the federation, lie urged increased trades union effort and aggressiveness in the interest of organized labor and that labor see to it that it has liberal representa tion in tha councils of the State ana | .Nation. He paid high tribute to the work and pur- poses of the American Federation of Labor and expressed the hope that in the near future representative men of the Brother- hood of Locomotive Firemen would repre- sent it in the federation, lie urged increased trades union effort and aggressiveness in the interest of organized labor and that labor see to it that it has liberal representa- tion in the councils of the State and | .Nation. I A rising vote of thanks was given Mr. A rising vote of thanks was given Mr. Sargent and in reply he expressed the hope that at the next convention the loco motive engineers would be represented in th^ federation. Samuel Gompers read a report of the proceeding of the Twenty-eighth Congress of British Trades Unions at Cardiff, Wale?, in September last, after which a recess was taken. At the opening of the afternoon session Mrs. Mary Burt, president of the Women' 3 Christian Temperance Union of New York, and Mrs. W. B. Stuckenbure of Cambridge, Mass.*, National superintend- ent of the Department of Temperance and Labor; Mrs. E. J. Martin, Mrs. E. Francis Lord and Mrs. Francis J. Barnes, frater nal W. C. T. U. delegates, were escorted ty the platform and introduced to the con vention. Mrs. Burt, in addressing the assemblage, said they came to bring the greeting of Miss Frances E. Willard, presi dent of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union. The committee appointed to bring about a settlement of the differences between the Trade and Labor Assembly and the Labor Congress of Chicago recommended that a committee, consisting of two members of the executive council for the federation, go to Chicago to investigate ana settle the differences. The report was adopted. A number of resolutions were referred to appropriate committees, among others one providing for a petition to Congress in favor of the recognition of the belligerent rights of Cuba, and another protesting against any legislation that will open the way to Sunday labor. , Adjourned until to-morrow. JUDGETHURMAN DEAD Continued from First Page. out of a cent." Perhaps nothing illustrates the man's character better than thet simple re mark. In fact, honesty and justice have been religion to him. The creeds of the churches never greatly bothered him. He has read and studied the Bible as he studied all he deemed worthy of an earnest man's attention in litera ture, but he never professed a religious beliet. His wife was a Universalist in belief, a woman of many Christian virtues. The Judge, how ever, rarely discussed the subject. His father had been a Bapist preacher, and the son always speaks of the life and creed of bis parent with the greatest respect. Further than this he never went. His mother was a follower of Swedenborg, and her views doubt less influenced her son greatly. A sister of the late Governor William Allen, she is described as a very talented woman from whom her son in herited the greater part of his ability. Her memory be religiously revered. The Thurman family, coming from Virginia in 1819, were always recognized as among the best people, in a social way. in Chillicothe. Young Allen G. was prevented from going to college by the condition of the family finances, but his earnestnesses a e tudent overcame the lack of classical training in good part. L&te hours over his books was the rule rather than the exception, and the habit was one that clung to him all his life. Ever since his retire ment from public duties he has persisted in reading till far into the early morning. Since his eyesight has failed him bo he cannot read, the long hours of the night are very lonely to him. His memory, once a tower of strength, gradually lost its former power and fre.sb.ncss. Another writer said : The v.orkinirmen. and especially the 20,000 coal miners of Ohio, who have votes to cast, have ample cause to love and respect Allen G. Thurman. He it was who secured them a large measure of their rights and broke the shackles of their oppressors. A few years ago the mine-owners of the State, by concerted ac tion, set about reducing their employes to such a state of slavery as disgraces and dishonors the coal regions of Eastern Pennsylvania. Tbe miners refused to succumb and a long and disastrous strike ensued and thousands of women and children were driven to the verge of starvation and had to depend upon charity for a bare subsistence. Finally arbitration was proposed. A representative of the miners and of the mine-owners met to adjust the trouble, and, of course, they disagreed. Then Allen G. Thurman was called upon to decide the matters in dispute. He devoted weeks of patient labor to the task. He first heard the workingmen them selves and familiarized himself with all their grievances, and drew from them just what they claimed as their dues. Next the mine owners were heard, and next Senator Thurman required them to bring their books. These he THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1895. went through patierrtly, and judicially he as certained thecostof mining and transporting coal to the market— what it cost the operator to lay it down in the mnrkut, what he sold it for and what the profit was per ton. Theu he compared this profit per ton with the price Daid por ton for mining it, and he was ready to give judgment. It was in favor of the miners' cleim. and their compensation was advanced. Senator Thurman pointed out that by their own books the operators showed that they were able and should pay better wages, leaving them still a good margin for profits. That ended the strike. The mine-owners suc cumbed, aud since then the miners of Ohio have been receiving nearer a just compensation for their labor, nor have they been compelled since the strike to maintain their rights. No single act of any man in Ohio has ever been so full of beneficence ana good results to a vast body of workingmen. struggling for their rights against their oppressors, as that decision of Allen G. Thurman. Is it to be wondered at then that tbe 30,000 miner* of Ohio felt dis posed to snpport their champion, their friend and their defender? WRECKED AT A SWITCH. A Coach on the Colorado Mid/and Over turned and Seven Passenctrs Injured. COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo., Dec. 12.- Passenger train No. 5 of the Colorado Mid land, which left here westbound at 11 o'clock this morning, was partly wrecked at Woodland Park, about three hours later. The two engines and the mail and ex press car passed safely over a switch, but the wheels of the forward truck of the day coach were caught in the switch points, overturning the coach. Fortunately the train was running slowly, and but seven persons, all residents of Colorado Springs. were more or less bruised, the most serious being 0. E. Henry, who was brought back to this city on a special train. The remaining six continued on their journey to Cripple Creek. MR. HARRIS SUSPENDED. Debarred From the Chicago Board of Trade for Two Years. Convicted of Carrying on Outside Business With Illegitimate Traders. CHICAGO, 111., Dec. 12.— J. F. Harris, who under the name of J. F. Harris & Co. conducts the extensive grain business of Kennett, Hopkins & Co., was to-night sus pemled from the Chicago Board of Trade for two years on the charge of carrying on an outside business with illegitimate traders, contrary to the rules of the board, His suspension leaves the iirm without a representative on the Chicago board, and places them in a somewhat precarious prs dicament. It is claimed by good authority that the firm can still do business in the Chicago pits by taking in another member who shall be also a member of the Board of Trade. There is a rule of the board which would seem to prevent other members from helping those who have been put under the ban. It declares that any mem ber suspended shall not be allowed the use of the clearing-house settlement or deliv ery-room and that he shall not be per mitted to trade upon the floor of the exchange, either through an employe or a broker. It further provides that any member of the association trading or offer- ing to trade, giving the name of a sus pended member, shall be liable for dis cipline at the hands of the board of directors. The taking of the evidence occupied but a short time, Harris conducting his own case, but offering no evidence. The prose- cuting committee made a hard fight to get Harris' sentence fixed at five years, the time given Mr. Kennctt, but the board took into consideration the fact that the former was the junior member of the firm and in a certain degree not responsible for its actions to the same extent as the older members and insisted on the two years' sentence. Commission houses were badly scared to day and one of the best known on the board this morning took out two bucket-shop wires and will not replace them until the scare blows orer. Others will do the same thine to-morrow it is understood. It is said this will not deter tlie prosecuting committee from carrying out its crusade against the offenders and that it has enough evidence now to convict them. CHAMPION OF FREE SILVER. Harvey Addresses the Populists and Out lines the Plan of Campaign for White Metal Men, CHICAGO, 111., Dec. 12.— W. H. Har vey, the champion of free silver coinage, who has just returned from a campaign tour West and South, addressed a large meeting of Populists to-night at the head nuarters of the People's Omaha Club. He spoke of his cordial reception at meetings of Republicans and Democrats and how 2000 of the latter at Nashville insisted that he should "score Cleveland," but he was not in the habit of abusing people. He was afraid the advocates of silver were going to be disorganized during the 1896 campaign, but he urged them* not to talk or think of revolution against the consti tuted authority, which invariably failed. The successful plan was to get the people toeether, educate them and teach them that the fight which was coming, although bitter, must be won at the ballot-box. This was a critical period in the history of the republic. Despotism had its throt tling hand on the people, but the fires of patriotism were only smoldering. The sources of strength for the PeoDle's party in 1896 were the small subscriptions of millions and the voluntary free services of the people in campaign work. CAPTURE Of COVXTERFEITERB. Two Members of a Xoted Gang Run Down, by Officers. PITTSBURG, Pa., Dec. 12.-A gang of clever counterfeiters have been run down here by tbe United States authorities. Two of them, George Goodman and Jose Balkelis, had a hearing before United States Commissioner McCandless to-day and were each held in the sum of $1000 bail for court. Thomas Juscoviski and Joseph Ludanovitz, who made the spuri ous coin, are also under arrest and will have a hearing to-morrow. Letters found on the men indicate they are members of the same gang tried and convicted in' Judge Butler's branch of the United States court in Philadelphia last Friday. When the verdict in that case was announced about 300 Polish sympathizers of the victims, who were in the court house, started a riot, which was suppressed with great difficulty. In a valise owned by Ludanovitz were found 382 counterfeit silver dollars and 137 bad halves. The coins were excellent like nesses and would deceive any one. When arrested the men were preparing for flight. FIGHTS IN FORMOSA. Japanese Met Defeat in One of the Important Battles. AMBUSHED BY NATIVES. In Other Engagements, However' the Slaughter of Chinese Was Terrible. FRAUD DISCOVERED AT TOKIO. Defective Home-Manufactured Pipes Used in the Public Water System. TOKIO, Japan, Nov. 2b\— Japan ha? hitherto been happily free from serious railway accidents, but the record has been broken by a collision that occurred on the 19th of November between a train and an electric tramcar. The place of the inci dent was about five miles from Kioto, on the Nara Railway, and the time 6 p. m. Owing to the darkness the drivers failed to perceive the danger in time to prevent the collision, and though the brakes were applied in both cases tne locomotive struck the tramcar right in the center and threw it thirty or forty feet off the line. Three persons were killed on the spot and forty wounded. The Imperial Guards, decimated by diseases indigenous to Formosa and by casualties in the field, have returned to Tokio and received an enthusiastic wel come from the citizens. The last few days of the Formosan cam paign, from November f> to November 19, were marked by severe fighting and heavy loss of Jife, but the Japanese nation has be come so accustomed to such incidents that very little attention has been directed to the Formosan record. Two events are specially worthy of note. One occurred on November 19, when a Jap anese force surrounded the village of Hhoi lan, where 3000 Chinese troops were quar tere. The affair differed from the general fashion of encounters between Japanese and Chinese, in the fact that no road of escape was left open for the latter. The lighting was consequently of a desperate character, the Chinese losing about 1000 of their number and the Japanese thirty. The Japanese, on the other band, met with something very like v disaster at a place called Tangkoisui on the 14th of No vember, when a reconnoitering party, con sisting of two companies of infantry, marched into an ambush of five or six hun dred Chinese posted well under cover. The Japanese lost IH men in killed and wound ed and had- to tight for several hours before they succeeded in dislodging their enemies, who left only 30 corpses on the field. On no other occasion during the war did the Japanese casualties exceed the Chinese. The two companies did not muster more than 260 men, so fully one man in every three was put hors de combat. Altogether, in the interval of fifteen days (from the sth to 19th of November, inclusive) the two Japanese columns, one advancing from the north, the other from the sea, fought fifteen engagements, large and small, and had a list of casualties ag gregating 255, while the Chinese losses in the samfi time aggregated 2300. During the Japanese occupation of Liao tung and other parts of Manchuria, about 4000 Chinese became naturalized Japanese subjects, and it was, of course, a serious question what kind of treatment these persons would receive at the hands ot the Chinese local authorities aft«r the rendi tion of the occupied territory. A clause providing that they sliould not be sub jected to any ill treatment was inserted in the convention relating to the evacuation of the territory, but as there is no possible security for the observance of such a con dition, it is probable that the Japanese Government will offer to these people the option of emigrating to Hokkaido, where suitable grants of land could be made to them. A fraud of large dimensions has been discovered in connection with the Tokio Water Works. For 250 years the City of Tokio has possessed a water supply drawn from the head-waters of a river twenty miles away. The water is excellent in quality and in quantity it doubles the amount flowing into London. But being distributed through the streets in wooden pipes it becomes more or lesa impure be fore reaching the consumers, and there is, of course, no head of water for hydrants and such purposes. After long delay and much discussion of projects the citizens decided two years ago to replace the wooden pipes by iron, to construct proper filter-beds, together with elevated reser voirs. At that time the nation was suffering from a temporary mania of independence. Instead of procuring good pipes at reason able prices from abroad the Municipal Council accepted the proposals of a Japa nese company, who undertook to manu facture the pipes in loco, although no fa cilities for doing so existed. An enter prise undertaken so rashly could only re sult in failure. The iron foundry com pany, sinking deeper and deeper into diffi culties, had recourse to fraud. They filed off the numbers cast upon pipes that had successfully resisted the prescribed tests, soldered these numbers on greatly inferior pines, and putting fresh numbers on the good pines, submitted them again for ex amination. By this process one set of good pipes enabled the company to deliver thousands of defective castings, and these being immediately sunk into their places, the fraud might have remained undiscov ered for years had not an employe of the company given information. Twenty-eight persons have been ar rested, and it is computed that the loss to city will be over a million dollars, the com pletion of the much-needed water works being also delayed for nearl y two years. A strange story is in circulation with reference to the' little British schooner called the Saipan, that sailed from Yoko hama early in October. Ostensibly her purpose was shark fishing, but there is lit tle doubt that fur seals were her real quarry. Reaching Robben Island— a place that has been the scene of many stirring adventures— on October 29, she landed seventeen of her crew and sailed away, promising to return in eight days, by which time the men on shore were doubt less expected to collect a handsome tale of sealskins. But when the schooner came back the seventeen men had disappeared, leaving no trace whatever. In all proba bility they had been discovered by a Rus sian man-of-war <md carried to Vladivo stock, and it is not unlikely that they will spend the next few years in the Saghalien penal settlement. Ratifications of the supplementary tariff convention provided for in the revised Anglo-Japanese treaty of July 16, 189-1, were exchanged in Tokio on November 21. The object of this convention is to convert into specific duties the ad valorem duties contained in the new tariff accompanying the treaty, the basis of conversion being tne medium prices, as shown by the Japa nese customs return during the six calen dar months preceding the date of the treaty, together with charges for insurance, transport, etc. The convention should have been concluded by January 16 of the current year, but its preparation having been delayed by the war it did not receive the signatures of the plenipotentiaries until July. Great Britain, which used to be counted the obstacle in the path of treaty revision, now enjoys the credit of having been first among the nations to bring the whole question to a final settlement. Intelligence from Korea is to the effect that the leaders of the Mm faction— the relatives and partisans of the late Queen are busily devising plans to avenge her Majesty's murder and drive their enemies out of office. Japanese correspondents confidently allege that several of the con spirators are concealed in the Russian le gation, and that their programme is to gain possession of the King's person in the first place, after which an anti-pro gressive Cabinet, the members of which are already fixed, will place the present Ministry. It does not appear that the Mm faction lias any power to put such a scheme into execution, for the present at all events. Meanwhile the foreign representatives, speaking through the United States Min ister, have made an official intimation that, in their opinion, the duty of pre serving order devolves at present on the Japanese, and that the Korean guards, now in charge of the palace, should be re placed by Japanese troops. The list of punishments meted out to the Whasang murderers seems to have now attained its full dimensions. The no torious ringleader, "Butterfly," who was said to have committed suicide, fell into the hands of the authorities so soon as a reward of 500 tls. was offered for his appre hension. He was executed, together wi-jh the four other ringleaders, at the public execution ground of Foochow on the 4th of November. Thus the number of men executed totals twenty-six, and of the others convicted six were banished to Manchuria for life, eleven for shorter terms, twenty-seven were sentenced to ten years' imprisonment and four — the blacksmiths that forged the spears and swords— were condemned to be chained to a stone for three years. The Yellow River is working its usual annual devastations. It has broken its banks near Ch'itung City in Shantung, and hundreds of square miles of country are under water. The gap is said to be two-thirds of a mile in width and a heavy stream is steadily pouring from it. COMPLAINTS OF GODFREY. It Looks as Though He Would Not Receive Satisfaction From Hawaii. Reasons Why Six Political Prisoners Were Not Released by the Dole Regims. HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 6.— United States Minister Willis made an official call upon ±'oreien Minister Cooper on the morning of the 4th, in relation to the com plaints of Prank Godfrey to the American Government. Godfrey's tirst complaint was on account of detention at the cholera hospital twenty-four hours over the time a convalescent or suspect is usually held. This complaint was not sent on to Washington, the matter being considered as properly within the discretion of the local health authorities. Godfrey's sec ond complaint was on account of being tarred and featnered by several men in September last, as shown by a number of atlidavits. Some of the names of his as sailants he professes to kijow. He claims $50,000 damages from this Government. Mr. Willis informed Mr. Cooper that Secretary Olney declined to support God frey's case on the ground that he had not appealed to the local courts, where his proper remedy lay. There was some question about Godfrey's American cit izenship, which Mr. Olney did not deem it necessary to consider. Godfrey had taken out letters of denization, qualifying him to vote, but expressly reserving his al legiance to the United States. As reported at the time, very serious distrust was felt last August by this Gov ernment in connection with the course of the administration and Mr. Willis in the Dureell case. The executive now express themselves as being well satisfied with the course of Minister Willis. Out of twenty six claims presented to the American Gov ernment against Hawaii, not more than six remain open to any possible further action. Relations with the United States Minister are entirely cordial. In reference to Gulick, Seward and the four other political prisoners not released on Thanksgiving day, the executive have allowed the fact to be published that they did not submit the cases of those six men to the Council of State for the reason that there was no satisfactory evidence of any relenting in their hostile sentiment to ward the Government. '- HVXTISGTON HEARD FROM. .In Addreat to Congrest on Santa Monica Harbor. WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 12.-Collis P. Huntington has addressed to the Senate and House of Representatives, submitting therewith the report of the engineer of the Southern Pacific, Hood, who has exam ined the harbor at Santa Monica, and re ported that it is much better adapted for improvement and for the reception of deep draught ocean vessels than the harbor at San Pedro. Engineer Hood recom mended that a seawall or breakwater be constructed of sandstone for the substruc ture and granite for the superstructure. The old fight between Santa Monica and San Pedro as rival cities for a Pacific Coast deep harbor is reopened, but as Speaker Reed intimated to a delegation of Calif or nians who called on him yesterday, "this is to be an economical Congress," so it is altogether improbable that any appro priation will be made for either ot the places. Great Cures Proved by ' the voluntary ; statements of thousands of men and women, show that Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies and enriches the blood; and cures catarrh, rheumatism, scrofula and all blood diseases. Hood's SarsapariHa Is the One True Blood Purifier. $1 ; 6 for $5. Hood's Pills eMy to bu *•■* to tftk * UUUU & flllb May to operate. 2sc, WARNED BY BONACUM Catholics Cautioned Against Attending Rev. Mur phy's Church. THE SISKS THEY RUN. Members of the Flock Will Be Excommunicated if They Do Not Desist. CHRISTIAN BURIAL DENIED. Ruling of the Bishop May Cause the Laity to Be Most Seriously Concerned. LINCOLN. Nebr., Dec. 12.— The dispute between Bishop Bonacum and the two al leged rebellious priests whom he has sus pended, Father Murphy of Tecmuseh and Father Fitzgerald of Auburn, baa reached that point where the laity of the church may be seriously concerned. Following the suspension and excommu nication of Father Murphy at Tecumseh the priest retained possession of the church, and in a civil suit to oust him the Bishop was defeated. Father Murphy con tinues to hold services despite the fact that his successor has been installed, and the Catholics of the town with few exceptions attend hia church. In a circular letter to Father Carraher, Murphy's successor, made public to-day, Bishop Bonacum warns the Catholics of Tecumseh of the risks they run in attending Murphy's church. He Bays in part: "It is my wish that you again notify the Catholic worshipers at Tecumseh that I have suspended from the sacred ministry and excommunicated from the church the aforementioned priests, Murphy and Fitzgerald. This notice having been duly brought to the.ir attention, if any Catholics shall thereafter knowingly and willfully hold communion in things spiritual with the said Murphy and Fitzgerald such Catholics are excommunicated from the church while living, and when dead shall be deprived of Christian burial. I re serve absolution from this censure to myself." The Bishop then Quotes from a letter of Ifgr. Satolli, in which the Archbishop sus tains him at every point. LORD UUXRAVEN JtETURyS. Will Make a A'ew Arrangement Relative to Coming Over. LONDON, Em., Dec. 12.— Lord Dun raven, who was a passenger on the White Star steamer Germanic, which yesterday ran into and sank the steamer Cumbrae, near the Mersey, and was compelled to put back to Liverpool, ha 3 returned to London. The Liverpool correspondent of the Central News says that Lord Dun raven will make a new arrangement with the New York Yacht Club relative to his presence ac the inquiry into the charges made by him against the Defender syndi cate. APPEAL VROM ABMESIAHB. One Hundred Thousand Said to Have Been Slain. LONDON, E>g., Dec. 12.— The following telegram from Constantinople, signed by a number of Armenians, has been re ceived : "Armenia is in her last gasp. The work of extermination continues. "The massacred people number 100.000. The survivors have taken refuge in the forests and mountains, feeding upon herbs and roots. Hunger and cold have begun to ravage them greatly. In the name of humanity and Christianity save us." NEW YORK, N. V.. Dec. 12.— The Her ald's dispatches from Vienna state that it is the belief theretnat war will not result from the Turkish situation, as the powers are exercising great care to avoid a quar rel, but the situation will remain danger ous until the promised reforms are real ized, something hardiy to be expected un der the present Sultan. ATHENS, Greece, Dec. 12.— A strong NEW TO-DAT. 7S. ft s feylk OUR STANDARD. We sell all-right Clothing cheap— bat to particular dressers we talk high quality and style. Brokaw Brothers and Rogers, Peet & Co.'s goods are not cheap as compared with the average ready-made clothing — but they shame the product of our best tailors and cost one-third less. We are exclusive Pacific Coast agents. Business, Dress and Evening Suits — Overcoats, Ulsters. Tuxedos, Inverness Top Coats. > *^ ■ ■ "J ** ■,'■ ... : J With our catalogue, samples and rulaa for self-measurement you can order by mail. a Dr. Gibbon's Dispensary, ■ ®25ltl3A»SrT*T. 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