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VOLUME LXXIV— NO. 7.
BOOTH IS DEAD.
He Sank to His Rest
Peacefully.
HIS FAME CANNOT PERISH.
"Yea, From the Table of My Memory
I'll Wipe Away All Trivial
Fond Records."
Special to The Morn* Call,
New Yopk, Jnne 7.-— America's great
tragedian, Edwin Booth, who has b°en
hovering on the verge of shadowland so
many weary days, passed away at 1:15
o'clock this morning in his apartments in
the Plavt-rs' Club. The decline in his
physical condition has been very percepti
ble for several days, and as long ago as
Saturday night all hope of saving his life
was given up. All day to-day lis condi
tion grew steadily worse, and at 7 o'clock
this evening Dr. St. Clair Smith was has
tily summoned to the club.
Ater a brief examination of the dying
man, Dr. Smith prepared a bulletin, which
was posted in the hallway, to the effect
that it was doubtful if Mr." Booth survived
the night. Dr. Smith told one of the mem
bers of the club that the tragedian's pulse
was in the neighborhood of 100 and his
temperature over 105. Th re was nothing
that could be done except for the anxious
; iti
"v^y^i^fejSfes^ss& i^'i^iPissssi^s^
Edwin Booth.
watchers to sit by his bedside until the
feeble spark of life was finally extin
guished.
At 10 o'clock another serious change was
rioted and Dr. Smith was again summoned.
He did what he could to ease the dying
m"nie*ls of Mr. Booth, who. although
conri fetely unconscious, appeared to suffer
c/tUv for l». of air, it being appar
el*'/ extremely difficult for him to breathe,
r^vai this time until he expired the great
actor.gradually grew weaker, the restless
motion^ of his bands ceased, and life
finally passed away when bis breath had
died to almost an imperceptible flutter.
At the bedside were tiie aotnr's daughter
and ''er husband, Mr. Grossman; Booth's
brother-in-law, Mr. Magonigle; William
Bspiiam, an intimate friend, and Charles
Farryll.
AMERICA'S GREATEST ACTOR.
Brief Sketch of the Life of the Great
Tragedian.
Edwin Booth was born in Bel Air, Md.,
on the 13th of November. 1833. and, at the
time of his death was less than 63 years
old — an age at which many men find them
selves yet preserved of much physical
vigor and in the enjoyment of undimmeu
mental faculties. _F_f_
But for several years, as is well known,
the great actor, whose light has thus been
extinguished, had been afflicted with
physical ailments of serious charac
ter, and his many brilliant qualities
of fire and genius were in a more or
less degree affected by his sufferings.
The last immediate years of his dramatic
work were very unlike the complete and
most admirable record of his prime.
Booth made his first appearance on the
6tage when he was 16. William Winter, in
an article in Harper's Magazine a dozen
years ago, told the story ot that momen
tous occasion. It was at the Boston
Museum in 1849. Edwin was in attend
ance on his father as dresser, and had
been induced to take the small part of
Tr-s_.il In Colley Cibber's version of
"Richard III."
The elder Booth knew nothing about it
until he saw the boy's name on the play
bill. "Fool!" was all ha said. When the
night came and Edwin had dressed his
father for Gloster and himself for Tres^il,
the eccentric parent took a chair, lit a
cigar, and, viewing the youth with a criti
cal eye, mad* this inquiry : "Do you know
that you are supposed to have been riding
bard aud far? : '
"Yes, sir."
{"Where are your spurs?"
"I haven't any."
"lake mine"— holding, out one bootleg.
The boy took the spurs, and went on for
his little scene with Henry VI. vVhen he
returned his father was still sitting negli
gently to the chair and smoking his cigar.
"Give me my spurs." he said, again hold
ing out his leg; ami this was all the com
ment that Edwin Booth's first professional
appearance ever elicited from the parent
whom he idolized. He learned subse
quently, though, that his father had been
down at the win-: and had watched his
first effort with evident interest ana satis
faction, and then hastened back to his
nonchalant pose in the dressing-room.
-. It was only two years later that the
elder Booth was taken suddenly ill in
New Fork one night just before be was to
appear, and with scarcely any preparation
his place was taken by his 18-year-old
son, who thus for the first time in his life
enacted "Richard III." It is declared that
the effort was remarkably successful.
In the next three years Booth served his
flramatic apprenticeship in the '■■ far West.
appearing in this State with his father and
his oldest brother, Junius Brutus Jr.
Id 1852 the first great shadow fell on his
life in the death of his father, whom he
idolized, which was tlie result of improper
medical attention on a Mississippi River
steamboat.
While fulfilling an engagement in Rich
mond in 1808, under the management o:
Joseph Jefferson, Mr. Booth met Miss Mary
Devlin, the gentle and beautiful woman
The Morning Call.
who a little after became his wife. But
death soon ended their happy union.
While on his first visit to England, in
1861. his daughter, Edwina, now Mrs.
Grossman, was born. His wife died sud
denly, while Booth was fulfilling an en
gagement in New York.
Edwin Booth made his first metropolitan
success in 1860. when he appeared at the
inter Garden Theater as Hamlet. A
year or so later he played Hamlet to the
Ophelia of Mr*. Barrow. In 1863 he was
supported by Lawrence Barrett, and still
at the Winter Garden he appeared as
Hamlet, from November 24, 1864, until
March 25, 1865, 100 successive nights. This
was probably the longest run that any
tragedy had at that time enjoyed.
Just following this remarkable triumph
occurred an event which startled the civil
ized world and threw a cloud upon
the life of Edwin Booth wLich
no success however brilliant, no
public recognition, however generous or
enthusiastic, could remove — the assas
sination of President Lincoln in Ford's
Theater in the National Capital on April
15. 1865, by his brother, John Wilkes
Booth.
From that time to this Edwin Booth ha*
never been in Washington and has never
permitted the name of his brother to be
mentioned in his bearing. He retired
from the stage with the intention of never
appearing again before the public. It was
nearly a year before he could be prevailed
upon to change his mind.
Another disaster was waiting for Booth.
He wanted to build in New York the best-
equipped theater in the world.
about $200,000 in the bank and bad no
difficulty in finding friends who
wanted to spend it for him. They
told him the sort of house he want
ed could be built for $350,000. He said
"Go ahead ; I have 5200.000, and I can earn
the rest easy enough." They went ahead
and when the theater at the corner of
Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue was
completed it had cost $850,000 and left
Booth staggering under a load of debt. In
(be unlucky thirteen years which Booth's
Theater survived, play-mounting and
stage-setting were developed to a point
they bad never reached before, and have
not often attained since-
As an expert in dramatic matters re
marked: "You couldn't tell supers there
from Booth and Barrett until they be
gan to speak their lines, because they
were all dressed so well." What Mr.
Booth himself remarked, after four years
of management, was: "It appears
that it is possible to do a thing
too well." The house had opened
in 1860 with a magnificent presentation of
"Romeo and Juliet," Mr. Booth being
Romeo and Miss Mary McVicker Juliet.
The following year this lady became Mrs.
Booth. Her name was Runnlon and she
adapted the name of McVicker when her
mother married James H. McVicker, now
of Chicago.
When the financial failure of Booth's
Theater made Edwin Booth's load of debt
greater than he could carry, he was per
suaded to mate an assignment, and for a
time thereafter he did business in his
wife's name, turning over to her all his
receipts. Her. management was not
happy, and it was several years before
Booth succeeded in paying all of his credit
ors. Mrs. Booth died in 1881, and soon
afterward Booth's Theater was torn down.
Edwin Booth's last appearance on the
stage took place in Brooklyn a few weeks
after the death of Lawrence Barrett in
IS9I. His life for fifteen years had been a
round of triumphs. After Barrett's death
his health failed rat-idly.
AS A YOUNG MAN.
A Letter Characteristic of the Great
est of Actors.
John Jack played King Henry to Edwin
Booth's Richard 111 when the great tra
gedian made his first appearance in the
East at Richmond, Ya., on his return
from California in 1850. Richmond was
chosen because that was the scene of the
elder Booth's first triumph.
Mr. Jack has many mementos in the
shape of letters and photographs from
Edwin Booth. One of these letters writ
ten in Booth's impulsive manner is as
follows: ;
• New York. February 25. 1886.
"My Bear Jack Jack: To spate me the
labor of writing (wo. I detest), won't you
please say to Mr. Harcourt (whose inclosed
stamp I shall use to pay for this. N. B.—
You owe him 2 c'ts) that Mr. Barrett has
filled every crevice in the ranks of my
company for next season & that I can
offer him no encouragement.
"Why do actors want to come to me
when all the papers abuse my support so
persistently and unjustly? I should think
they would avoid me as a pestilence; the
best are abused when under my black flag.
"Thanks for your good wishes, and
believe me, I am right glad to wish them
back on you.
"Yours as of old when we went to hell
together— long years ago.
"Edwin Booth."
Mr. Jack, in speaking of Booth, said that
when he first met him and played with him
in the company at Richmond there were at
that first appearance of Booth in the East
some names in the cast which afterward
became well known. Edwin Adams
played Lord Tressle; Mary Devlin, who
afterward became Mrs. Booth, played
Lady Anne, and H. A. Langdon played
Buckingham. Mr. Jack said :
"As a young man then he was affable
but unassuming in bis manners, quiet and
gentlemanly. He was not regarded as a
student because his hard work was done
so unostentatiously. In bis acting all
through his career he went quietly
through his roles, depending on climaxes
where his genius, which was of a meteoric
description, could display itself with
electric flashes. On the night of Booth's
birth. November 13, 1833, the inhabitants
of Eastern Maryland were startled
by a great, display of lightning,
and the negroes and many of .the
superstitious whites often said after
ward that this had a great deal
to do with Booth's genius. His education
was in, a manner primitive, as far- as his
fining to school went, but then he was
greatly assisted by his father, who was a
man of. considerable education. Booth
was never demonstrative in his attention
to his studies while on the stage, and gave
many the idea that he was not a deep
student of the work he was in. Tet he
was unquestionably a deep student. He
mapped out a line that was peculiarly his
own."
Very Quietly flarried.
Chicago, June 6.— Mrs. Henry Field,
widow of a wealthy capitalist of ibis city,
was quietly married at no,.n to Thomas
Nelson Page, a well-known Southern
writer, at the residen c. of Hou. T B
B S_*, D * 5£ Elmhurst. . The future residence
will bo Washington.
SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 7, 1893 TWELVE PAGES.
JIM HILL'S SENSE.
He Will Go in Big for
Reciprocity.
HOW TO DEVELOP CANADA.
If the Custom-Houses Were Done
Away With Trade Would
Be Doubled.
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Special to The Morn*in*o Cali. •
St. Paul, Minn., June 6.— When the
delegates to the International Reciprocity
Convention cot together to-day the otli'-ers
selected last evening by the committee on
organization were elected. Letters of re
gret were read from Governor Russell of
Massachusetts," Hon. Wilfred Lauder of
Quebec aud other prominent men. £. V.
Small^y, chairman of the committee on
resolutions, read the report and spoke
briefly in its support.
The resolutions were substantially as
follows: We favor reciprocity, aDd
especially with Canada, which would, it
was held, be of great mutual advantage;
in favor of the improvement of waterways
from the Great Lakes to tidewater so as
to admit the passage of ocean steamers
and open competition between the rail
ways of both countries; and providing for
a committee of ten. five from the United
States and five from Canada, to lay mat
ters before the respective Governments
with the view of securing the enactment
of necessary laws to the ends sought.
He had
After addresses favoring the resolutions
by Hon. Joseph Martin and Hon. William
H. Springer of Illinois, the convention
took a recess.
At the afternoon session President James
J. Hill ol the Great Northern Railroad
spoke at some length. He said that if the
custom-houses along the .border were
abolished it would make a new geography,
commercially speaking, of the continent.
On both sides of the boundary the people
were engaged in practically the same oc
cupation. He saw no reason why the
commerce which now seeks an outlet at
Baltimore, New York and Boston should
not be divided with Montreal. Kates that
will let the farmers live, and prosper are
necessary for the development of tin-
Canadian Northwest, ami an arrangement
agreed upon between the two countries
would result in good to a portion of this
country and to all of Canada. He thought
it well rot to ask for so much that the peo
ple would feel that Canada was getting all
the advantage. If it were possible to build
a ship canal to the Hudson it would never
approach in effectiveness the natural high
way by the lakes and the St. Lawreuce if
the natural way were improved.
Dr. Orton, a former member of the
Canadian Parliament, J. A. Hawne of
Minneapolis, and Mr. flail of Brandon.
Manitoba, spoke on the platform, and S.
A. Thorn peon of Duluth spoke at length
on deep waterways to the sea. After some
further discussion tbe platform was unani
mously adopted. *
In the evening a mass-meeting was held
in the auditorium. Hon. William M.
Springer, chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee in the last House of
Representatives, delivered the chief ad
dress of the session.
Springer said, in part: The roost Im
portant feature in the union of States is
the absolute freedom of ' trade which the
constitution secures in all the States of
the republic. To this feature ot our in
stitutions can be attributed more of the
substantial growth of our country than to
any other cause. If this trade has been so
beneficial, what reason can we give, what
argument can we offer in favor of contin
uing this trade among our own Stales
which will not apply to the trade between
the Dominion of Canada and the United
States? That there has not been the same
freedom of trade between Canada and tho
United States seems almost a mystery to
one who can view the situation without
prejudice. This restricted trade between
the Dominion and the United Slates has
been brought about by the individual
selfishness of special interests. What is
needed is intelligent debate, discussions in
conventions of this kind, arguments in the
public press, and more unselfish auo patri
otic devotion to the interests of the masses
as distinguished from those of the favored
classes. How can we proceed to bring
about this result? I would favor confer
ring upon the President of the United
States authority to appoint an interna
tional commission on our part to treat
witb any like commission appointed by
the Dominion (or the purpose of submit
ting to the respective Governments a treaty
of reciprocity embodying as far as possible
the following points :
Provisions for tho free exchange of the
products of the soil, forest and mines of
the two countries and of the fisheries of
the Atlantic and Inland waters and the
free exchange of manufactured articles,
the component parts of which had been
produced in either country. Where arti
cles are subject to an Internal revenue tax
each country should impose a tariff equal
to that tax. There might be some excep
tion to the general rules which it would be
safe to submit to the judgment of an
international commission. The advantages
which would accrue to both countries
would greatly stimulate and promote their
commerce, would develop their growth
and resources and confer upon each the
inestimable advantages which have re
sulted from the perfect free trade between
the States of our Union. Every new
change would broaden and widen the sys
tem until there would be nothing left to
remind us of the folly of the past except
the records of the past Congresses. The
nearer the Dominion approaches to abso
lute free trade with tbe United States the
more satisfactory will that condition be to
Great Britain.* Under that system Eng
land has developed and brought to her
people a wealth which could not have been
done under any restriction to trade or
interference with the natural course of
business.
SUSTAINS THE DUBSITES.
Victory for the German Lutheran
Evangelical Bolters.
Beading, June 6— Judge Endlich has
handed, clown a decision in - the famous
Sixth-street Evangelical Church case, in
which he sustains the report of the master
in chancery, deciding in favor of the Dubs
ites and confirming Bight Bey. J. J. Shirey
and his supporters in the possession of the
church. Ho holds that the Indianapolis
general conference
illegal and void, for the reason that even
if the delegation of power to fix the place
of conference to the board of publication
had been legal, the participation of Bishops
Bowman and Esher in the deliberations of
that body vitiated and rendered nugatory
its action. The case will now go to the
Supreme Court.
Mind-Reading Could Give No Help in
a Case of This Sort.
Minneapolis. Jun^ 6 A special to the
Tribune from Hot Springs, S. D., says
that the guides who went into Wind Cave
to search for Mind-reader Johnstone, who
with several newspaper men and a guide
went into the cave to search for a hidden
article, has found, eighteen miles from the
mouth of the cave, a note written by one
of the newspaper correspondents, John
Moore, saving that the party had lost its
way in an unexplored portion of the cave
and calling for help, adding that they were
without food or water, and would surely
perish if not succored. Johnstone, the
note said, was almost delirious from a
wound on the head, caused by a fall in the
cay».
The people of Hot Springs are greatly
excited, and all who know anything of the
cave have joined in the search.
1
She Has the Feelings of a Woman,
Then, After All.
New Bedford, Mass., June 6.— The
trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of
her fatlrer stud stepmother in Fall River
begun this morning with a statement of the
case on behalf of the commonwealth by
Attorney Moo y, who rehearsed the de
tails of the crime as already told in these
dispatches, and related many instancss to
show ill will had long existed between
Lizzie and her stepmother.
Though Miss Borden gave no sign of
being affected by .he address she fainted
just as <lie speaker concluded. When she
revived the State put on as the first wit
ness Thomas Kiernan, a civil engineer.
He minutely described the Borden • house
and surroundings. Adjourned till tor-mor
row.
After the adjournment of the court the
jury went to Fall River and viewed the
scene of the murder.
RALLYING HIS CLANS.
Dr. Briggs Is Not Down Yet by
He Will Stay Right in the Presby
terian Church and Fight
to the End.
New York, June C.— The World will
say In the morning: The first accepted ex
pression of B^ipEs since he was suspended
forhoresy by Tf.fi General A; srn.bly of the
church is a letter which will be published
in to-morrow's New York Evangelist. In
this letter Briggs says that no one should
feel obliged to retire from the Presbyte
rian church on account of the decision of
the last assembly. He further says in
part:
The ministry of the church has violated
the constitution and overridden the safe
guards of Presbyterian law and precedent
The majority should rally and use eveiy
lawful method to undo the damage done
to the fair fame of Presbyterianism. Let
no one leave the ranks. Let the bugle
call resound from ocean to ocean; let
there be a rally in every presbytery of all
who will stand by the constitution and law
which have come down to us from our
fathers as a precious heritage. Let
each presbytery whose overtures
have been so suddenly brushed aside
and scornfully treated reassert its
position with greater determination before
tho next General Assembly. Let the
synod of New York assert its constitu
tional rights against the General Assem
bly, which has so greatly encreaclied upon
them. Let every presbytery and synod
which would maintain the graded system
of courts, which has until the present day
been the pride of Presbyterianism, over
ture the next assembly in the interests of
orderly procedure. Let the constitution
alists in every presbytery awake to their
duty and overcome those minorities which
have outvoted them during recent years
by scheming, planning and working to
gether for a predetermined purpose. It is
high time that all broad-minded men
should organize and work together for
their own safety as well as fertile honor
of Presbyterianism."
The Panama Directors Still Believe
Parrs, June 6.— A boisterous meeting
of Suez canal shareholders was held to
day. Darier, Peghoux, Wilson, Lamb and
Ferdinand and Charles do Lesseps, retir
ing directors, were re-elected. No effort
was mads to procure the removal of
Charles de Lesseps, now under sentence
to imprisonment for paying bribes to pub
lic officials from the Panama Canal Com
pany's treasury. M. Waddineton, recently
Embassador to Great Britain, -prince
Arenberg, Chevalier dcs Bricres and Ver
son Bey were elected to fill the places of
the directors who resigned.
L'Eolr.ir states the Court of Cassation,
to which Charles del,esseps and associates
appealed from the sentences passed upon
them for corruption in the management of
the affairs of the Panama Canal Company,
will annul the sentences and order the re
lease of the defendants. This statement
is in accord with reports current for some
time to the effect that grave errors, justify
ing the annulment of the sentences, have
developed in connection with the prosecu
tion of the Panama rases.'
Managua. June 6. — More than .300
prisoners, including four American citi
zens and a number of foreigners, have
been released. A number of prominent
persons have discussed . the question /of
asking President; Cleveland for a United
States protectorate. It was decided to
have the matter brought before Congress.
Cortnne, June 6.— This morning Charles
Hunt shot himself twice in the head. He
is an old farmer living three miles east of
town, and has been sick a long time. He
broke Ins Teg nearly three years ago and
was tired of the world. His wounds will
prove fatal; -'-He is about 6o . years old.
In February, 1691, was
LOST IN A CAVE.
LIZZIE BORDEN FAINTED.
a Long Shot.
Special to The Mornis-q Cali.
CONFIDENCE UNSHAKEN.
in the De Lesseps.
Considering a Protectorate.
Tired of the World.
HIS WILL IS LAW.
Cleveland Teaching an
Object Lesson.
RATHER A DANGEROUS GAME
Will Use the Gold Reserve to Com
pel the Repeal of th<i Sher
man Law.
Special to The Morning Call,
Washington, June 6.— The Star says:
"President Cleveland's statement as to
when he proposes to . call Congress to
gether and the reasons which will lead
him to do so is clearly interpretable as
indicating a determination on his part to
continue using the gold reserve to the ex
ten* necessary and not to issue bonds.
He desires that the full gravity of the sit
uation shall be apparent at the time of
the meeting ot Congress, so that the legis
lative branch of the Government shall
have the duty pressing upon it of correct
ing the laws and protecting the finances."
To-day the Treasury Department gained
nearly 51.000.000 in gold, offsetting the
amount taken yesterday for shipment.
This makes the net treasury gold about
000, 000.
New York, June 6.— The foreign ex
change, market became weaker as the day
advanced. In fact, rates were bo much
easier that the largest shippers ot gold say
it is almost certain no further exports are
likely before Saturday. The market has
been weakened by easier discounts in Lon
don. There is a belief the Bank' of Eng
land rate will be reduced. There are large
purchases of stocks for Loudon and the
appearance of some grain bills.
At the sub-treasury it is stated that the
movement of currency to the interior Is on
a very heavy scale. Tn-day $1,000,000 in
small notes was exchanged by banks for
large bills and shipped to Chicago. Cin
cinnati, Milwaukee and other Western
points. The indications are for a still
heavier movement. As a result, large
shipments of jail money worked closer,
and late in the day the rate moved up to
5 and 6.
Speaking of the general situation C. P.
Huntington says he is not so sure the re
peal of the present silver law will work
the benefits people claim. Europe is not
taking our gold without giving us some
thing for it, and every dollar in gold
Europe puts here is taken out in gold on
gold contracts.
St. Louis, June 6.— A circular to all
correspondents has been issued jointly by
all the State savings banks and trust com
panies in this city, urging immediate ac
tion to secure the repeal of tho Sherman
silver law. .-<-.-♦,
COAST GOSSIP.
Mrs. -•Hearst* 4 ;' Will Start West in a
'_, Few Days.
Washington. June 6.— Mrs. Hearst will
leave in a few days for California.
By direction of the Secretary of War,
First Lieutenant Charles E. B. Flagg,
assistant surgeon, is detailed as a member
of the examining board' convened at the
Presidio of San Francisco. First Lieu
tenant Charles Wilcox, assistant surgeon.
i-« relieved.
Pensions— California : Original— George
G. Clarke. Original widows— Juliet Mc-
Lellan, Anna F. Hinman. .
Pacific Coast p. tents: Hans C. Beher of
San Francisco, dynamo motor; James B.
Barrell and W. J. Doidge of Wrights, Cal.,
machine for picking prunes or plums;
Wilson Carr of Forest Hill. Cal., hand
punch ; Nathaniel M. P. Cloese of Tustin,
Cal., ' label -printing machine; Robert.
Franken, assignor of one-half to W. L.
Johnson of Pomona, Cal., hose fastener;
Frank Graham and J. E. Curtis of Easton,
Wash., convertible stool; Georce Greisle,
assignor of two-thirds to J. D. Case, de
ceased, (E. A. Case, administrator), and
Rudolph Hagen of San Francisco, faucet
attachment and faucet: Benjamin Holt of
Stockton. Cal., traveling thrasher and
traction engine; Joseph Jardine of San
Francisco, apparatus for treating or .re
ducing bituminous substances; Robert J.
Kennedy, assignor ot two-thirds to G. H.
Crafts of Redlands and G. Boalich
of Colton, Cal., hydraulic amalgamator;
Ferdinand yon Leicht of Mirabel, Cal.,
water-wheel bucket; Lemuel S. Manning
of Alessandro. Cal., car coupling; Charles
C. Morrill of Riverside. Cal., joint ; Charles
Palmlead of Seattle, Wash,, dish cleaner.
HEN IN OFFICE.
fir. Cleveland Sends in a New Batch
of Appointees.
Washington, uue . 6.— The, President
has made the following appointments:
Clinton C. Duncan of Georgia, Indian In
spector; Henry C. Lott of Salt Lake City,
member of the Board of Registration and
Election : in the Territory of Utah, vice
Alvin Saunders, resigned; Frank Flynt of
Georgia, Principal Clerk of Surveys in the
General Land Office.
John W. Hinds to-day filed bis appli
cation for appointment as Shipping Com
missioner at Port Townsend.
Has Presented His Credentials.
Washington, June 6.— The Hawaiian
Minister, Thurston, presented his creden
tials to the Department of State to-day.
SAN FRANCISCANS IN LUCK.
They Were Down on a Daring Crook's
List but Escaped.
New York. June 6.— Stolen silverware
and jewelry to the "value of several thou
sand dollars were found this afternoon in
a furnished room near Chatham square,
which was a portion of, many robberies
committed by Frank Davis,, who was ar
rested about a week ago on Fifth" avenue.
A slip of paper bearing the names ot many
distinguished ladies throughout the coun
try, whose houses the daring robbers in
tended to loot, was in the collection of re
covered- spoils. Among the names were
those of Mrs. Armour of Chicago and Mrs.
Charles Crocker and Mrs. Leland Stanford
oi San Fraucisco, XS_*3ggjg
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AN ELECTRICAL STORM.
Great Damage Done in New York
and Brooklyn. . ;x
New York, June 6— An electrical
storm of extraordinary violence passed
over • this : city and ? Brooklyn this after
noon. It was accompanied by a high wind
and a blinding rain, and much minor dam
age was done. One man was killed by
lightning in Brooklyn, and one of the
buildings of : the New York Warehouse
Company in that city was set on fire, en
tailing a loss of $100,000.
REBATES ON WHISKY.
The Trust Has Raised a Large Sum
to Pay Them. «
St. Louis, June 6. — A mortgage for
$8,000,000 was filed- this afternoon in the
Recorder's office. It is given by the Dis
tilling and Csttle-feeding Company of
New York and Peoria, 111., to the Control
Trust Company of ..New York City. The
company will issue 8000 bonds of 810,0.0
each at 6 per cent, payable semi-annually.
The money is to be used in the payment of
rebates authorized by the company.
MADE THEIR ESCAPE.
One of the Arkansas Bandits Has
Been Recognized.
Rogers. Ark., June 6.— The bandits who
successfully robbed the People's Bank at
Bentonville yesterday seem to have made
good their escape with their booty, amount
ing to $10,000. They also ribbed a store at
Decatur and had a running fight with a
Sheriff's posse. While at Decatur the
leader was recognized as one of the noto
rious Starr brothers. _ • /
. RUSSELL SAGE WINS.
Suit Against Him for the Dynamite
Explosion Damages Dismissed.
New York, June Russell Sage was
victorious this afternoon in the trial suit
brought against him by William R. Laid
law for $50,000 damages for injuries re
ceived in the financier's office at the time
of the dynamite explosion on December 4,
1891. The Judge dismissed the complaint
and discharged the jury.
CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER
The Watchman Who Allowed an
Engine to Run Wild.
Cortland. N. V., June 6— The New
York night express on the Delaware, Lack
awanna and Western Railway collided
with a runaway engine near this station.
Engineer Isaac Wallace was instantly
killed and Fireman Bert Sherwood died a
p. few hours later. The night watchman,
George Chaffee, was arrested and charged
with manslaughter.
PEACE FOR THE CZAR.
The New Extradition Treaty Has
Been Officially Promulgated.
One More Country in Which There
Will Be No Refuge Given "
to Nihilists.
Special to The Morning Call.
;; Washington. June 6.— The new Rus
sian -extradition- treaty, which - has been
the subject of negotiations between the
two contracting parties for more than six
years, which has been amended azain and
again, and which was threatened with de
feat in th-*- final stages, has at. last been
formally proclaimed and will henceforth
be the law of the land until It is super
seded by another treaty. Ratifications
were exchanged in St. Petersburg nearly
two months ago, but because it was neces
sary to observe extraordinary precautions
to secure the safe transmission of the doc
ument to the United States the treaty was
not received at the department until a late
day last week. The treaty is in the French
language, and it was necessary to trans
late the document into English and to
make a very careful comparison between
the translation and the original.
This work was completed yesterday,
and to-day the President saw the treaty for
the first time, when Secretary Gresham
carried it to the Cabinet meeting.
All that remained was the official proc
lamation, and that was done this after
noon. The proclamation was dated yester
day and simply recited the provisions of
the treaty, with the announcement that it
would go into effect twenty days from date,
that is to say, on June 24.
. Interest centered on the sections making
attempts upon the heads of the two gov
ernments, or aceessoryship to such at
tempts, extraditable. -
These sections in the treaty as officially
promulgated are precisely identical in
language with the sections published In
tbe Washington dispatches to the Associ
ated Press on April 22 last.
It is asserted in official quarters that in
spite of all that has been said about the
treaty it is similar in scope to all extradi
tion treaties negotiated by the United
States in recent years', although in prac
tice it may be that the administration of
its articles will have a different result in
view of the essential difference between
the judicial systems of the two countries,
which In this case ore supposed to be more
than usually divergent. _9S
WILLIAM'S HOPE.
Based Upon the Loyalty of Germans
to Germany.
Carlsrtjhe, June c. — The Cnrlsruhe
Zeitung states that the German Emperor
replied to a telegram irom the Grand Duke
Frederick and the congress of military
unions of Baden pledging support to him
as the military chief of the empire, in the
following language: "Your resolution of
self-sacrifice and loyal co-operation
strengthens the confident hope that where
the safety of the empire is at stake the
German people will, regardless of political
differences, -unite in a firm resolve to main
tain what was won in a memorable time
with the active co-operation of your royal
highness."
Northern Pacific Debt.
New York. June 6.— Officials of the
Northern Pacific say there is nothing new
regarding the plan for the readjustment of
the floating debt, beyond a statement that
the matter is progressing favorably and an
increase in the May earnings is only the
forerunner of an improvement for some
time to come.
Julius Baike Dead.
Cincinnati, June Julius Balke, a
pioneer in the billiard table manufacture,
died here to-day, aged 63 years. He was
one of the founders of : the f Bruuswick-
Balke-Collender Company.
Austria's New Currency.
Vienna,' June 6.— The Austrian and
Hungarian Ministers of Finance have de
elded upon January 1, 1895, as the date for
the introduction of the new currency.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
LOST HER MONEY.
The Same Old Story of
. Speculation.
WILTSE TRUSTED A SAILOR.
He Gained the Captain's Confidence
and Then Coolly Proceeded to
Swindle the Widow.
Special to The Mobxivq Call.
New York, June 6. —The misappropria
tion of over SII.OOO belonging to the widow
of Captain George C. Wiltse, who com
manded the Boston at the time of the
Hawaiian revolution, came to the public
knowledge to-day, when Julius Blanc
kensee was arrested. The prisoner is
fifty-five years old, but looks much younger.
Two indictments for grand larceny were
found against Blanckensee a month ago.
Captain Wiltse got acquainted with
Blanckensee, who is of English birth,
several years ago while In command of
the training ship Minnesota. Blancken
see was a seaman aijd his intelligence at
tracted the notice of the commanding
officer. When Wiltse was transferred to
the cruiser Boston he took this bright sea
man with him.
When Blanckensee's term of enlistment
expired Captain Wiltse employed him to
look after some property which he owned
in this city. Blanckensee had a wire and
child in Philadelphia] and he brought them
here to live on the upper part or Madison
avenue. Captain Wiltse owned several
apartment houses In First avenue, near
Eighty-second street, and some other
property. Blanckensee collected the rent
and took general charge of the business
affairs of Captain and Mrs. Wiltse, and he
won the confidence of both of them by his
faithfulness and integrity.
While the captain was on duty on the
Pacific Ocean Blanckensee began to tell Mrs.
Wiltse about the ease with which money
could be made in Wall street by specula,
tion. He told her that if she gave him
$500 he would increase it to 5800 in three
months. Mrs. Wiltse intrusted the sum to
him and he returned SSOO in the appointed
time.
Last December Blanckensee told Mrs.
Wiltse that she would make money by
buying the stock of tbe Consolidated Gas
Company of Brooklyn. She gave him a
check for $9150 and an order on I. & S.
Worraser, her bankers, for a note for
S7OOO dated August 1, 1887, another for
$5000 dated October 13. 1887, and one for
SGoOO dated May, 1883; also 12 shares of
the Security Bank of Minneapolis, worth
$160 per share, and a mortgage dated April
30. 1888, and satisfaction -piece dated
December 29. 1802. All of the paper*
except the last named had been deposited
by Captain Wiltse.
Binnckensee got the articles on Decem
ber 29, last. "•'•_" ■-'"'••' ■'■■••.
Instead of buying stock In the Gas Com
pany, the agent sold Beading, General
Electric, Chicago Gas, Burlington and
other securities short. The market went
against him and he soon lost the amount
of the Check and the money he raised by
pledging the bank stock. Mrs, Wiltse re
covered the other papers.
Blanckensee fled, and on April 6 wrote
her that he had lost his money in specula
tion. Early in May she went before the
Grand Jury and had him indicted. His
wife and child went to Philadelphia and
through them he was traced to Cleveland.
Detective Trainer intended to go to Albany
for exiraiiitiou papers this' afternoon. He
and Detective yon Gericbten, however, saw
Blanckensee going into the Register's of
fice and arrested him, and Judge Cowing
in General Sessions committed him to the
Tombs for trial. He said he had returned
to the city t> get a position in one of the
municipal departments through Register
Levy.
♦
Furniture-Store Burned.
Minneapolis, June 6.— A fire in the
mammoth furniture-store of the Bradstreet-
Tbirber Company, iv the Syndicate block,
in Nicollet avenue, to-night caused losses
aggregating 5160.000, partially insured.
Fell Through a Bridge.
Athens, Tex.. June 6— The local south
bound passenger train tell through bridge
hereto-night No one was killed, but a
number wore bndlv hurt.
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