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The papers of all delinquent mail subscribers to the Los Angeles Daily Heralb will be hereafter No papers wtUbe"sent to subscribers by mail unless the lasts have been paid for In advance This rule Ayebs A Lynch. HATCH DAT, JCLT 7, 1888. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET. FOR PRESIDENT— GBOVEH CLEVELAN»,of New Ifork. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT— ALLEN «• THUHMAN, of Ohio. To enforce frugality in puldic expendi ture, and abolish unnecessary taxation. FOR CONGRESS, SIXTH DISTRICT HEEL B. TEBRi, of Fresno. A Marked Contrast. The great drawback with nearly all the Republican aspirants for the Presidency was the tendency they had shown to make official station an agency for ac quiring great wealth. John Sherman was a notable instance of this kind of statesman in which the G. 0. P. is so prolific. Jim Blame himself was an other. In fact, every Republican who had a chance for the Presidential nomi nation was either rich or bad acquired riches by prostituting public trusts to purposes of private emolument. The principal arraignment of the head of the Republican ticket lies in the fact that he has been the tool, creature and executive agent of great corporations, and that he has effusively and actively sympathized with tbe interests he gladly championed lor a fee. At the present writ ing we know of no case in which Gen. Harrison prostituted a public trust to his personal emolument, although, being a Republican politician, and compulsorily a statesman, as that range of goods go, from his present ex alted status, such developments are liable to be chronicled at any time. But as to Levi P. Morton the case is entirely different. As to this manifold million aire paragraphs are floating around which show that he reproduces in his person the worst phases of the regulation politician of the Blame and Jobn Sher man type. We encounter in our ex changes passages which speak of Levi P. Mortou's connection with the "So ciete Generale de Credit Industriel et Commercial" while he was the United States Minister to France, and the testi mony taken by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Chili-Peruvian investigation in 1882, is now being care fully studied for campaign uses. Mr. Morton need not be surprised, therefore, if he finds the Democrats making use of the fact that while he was Minister to France he became, as a member of the firm of Morton, Bliss & Co., interested in a contract with the Credit Industriel for the sale of Peruvian guano and nitrates in the United States, and that this contract was contingent upon the intervention of the United States Gov ernment in the troubles between Chili, Peru and Bolivia, by which the conces sions claimed by the Credit Industriel were to be recognized and secured. It will be remembered that Blame himself, during his brief "Jingo" ser vice as President Garfield's Secretary of State, of the United States, figured very discreditably in his attempts at in tervention in the dispute between Chili and Peru, and that the incident formed an inglorious episode in the diplomatic history of this country. Chili, in terms not mentionable to ears polite, told the United States to go to sheol. Morton appears to have been fully mixed up with this inglorious escapade, which al most rivaled. Blame's surrender of Amer ican citizens of Irish birth who were im mured in British prisons. It is a very regrettable circumstance that you can scarcely ever strike a distinguished Re publican official who is not imbued with that fine instinct of the Lorse leech's daughter, which impelled her to look to ths practical usufruct of ordinary affairs, and which in her case was embodied in the damnable iteration of "give, give." "Now look upon this picture and then upon that." Contrast the clean and pure record of Allen G. Thurman, a man as poor, and honest, and as noble in pur pose as Cincinnatus himself, with that of a man who, representing his country abroad, seeks to use exalted station for private gain 1 And for a private pecun iary end, in which the name and honor 'of the United States are smirched, and for which its armies and navies might ultimately be engaged, with bloodshed galore and all other digraceful in cidents, the tail of the Republican ticket was content to sink his noble official function I An occasional trip through Los Ange las county is really beneficial, both to the stranger within our gates and to our peo ple themselves. There has been no time in the history of this county when the strong m arks of development have been greater than they are to-day. This is a some what strong statement, when regard is had to the fact that nearly ninety rail way trains arrive and depart daily now,' THE LOS ANGELES DAILY HERALD: SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 7, 1888. as against five or six stage coaches when the writer first saw the City of the Angels. But it is true, all the same. Go where one will in Los Angeles county, and the work of development is absolutely be wildering in its magnitude and activity. While there have been a number of ill considered and premature townsite pro jects, which have been healthfully arrest ed, oven they, csnsider'ng the settlement and progress on every hand, will bo fine candidates for public favor in a short time. The healthy towns, like Pasadena, Monrovia, Santa Ana, Anaheim, and a score of other charming centers of devel opment and progress, are in capital state, and ready to make the plunge forward which the circumstances justify. Los Angeles county the coming Fall, Winter and Spring, will be in a condition to sell climate and land conjoined, and at prices which will give the investor a heavy margin of profit. There will be no time in the next hundred years in which climate will not enter into the value of the choice lands of Southern California; and as this somewhat limited section gets inconveniently crowded high fancy val ues will undoubtedly prevail. But the fact remains that at present values are now unduly low as they were un duly high six months ago, the immigra tion in splendid volume, is ready, and the circumstances favor the buyer. The inevitable result in increased prosperity is at hand, as we have both climate, rail way and geographical and transconti nental values to exchange for the money of the thronging incomers. We may con fidently look, from this time forward, for a conservative and legitimate growth—a growth which means profit for the in vestor and an unheard of development for the section. It is an old story that '"Aggers" don't lie. The saw itself is a lie, because they can be used more deceptively than even figures of speech. There can be a true as well as a false presentation of figures. When it comes to the way ex-Senator Joe McDonald presents them as to the issue in Indiana it is bard to resist their force. No one knows more about the politics of the Hoosier State than this old Democratic war-horse. In a recent interview at Indianapolis with a corre spondent of the New York World Sen ator McDonald gave some peculiar fig ures as to the probable result in that State. "Harrison," said McDonald, "is "a good man. He is certainly a repre sentative Republican, but he can't car "ry Indiana. Here's the way I figure "it," and the Senator drew a slip of pa per, on which he had been making some calculations, and resumed, "there are "about 500,000 voters in the State, 240, --"000 Democrats and 235,000 Republicans, "and 25,000 of what may be called a "floating vote, made up of labor, green back and prohibition. Ten thousand of "these are greenbackers, against whom "General Harrison is pronounced. One "of them said to me to-day, 'Any body "but Harrison. He called us idiots and "said the number of asylums ought to be "increased to accommodate us.' This is "a fair indication of the feeling of the "greenbackers towards Harrison. Of "the 10,000 greenback votes I am confi "dent he can't get over 1009. Of the "25,000 floating votes he must get 5000 "more than we do to beat us, and I don't "think he can do it." The foregoing embodies substantially what most in telligent people think of the outcome in Indiana. There can be no question about Mr. McDonald's reliability in an estimate of the vote in his own State. Every township in it is an open book to him. Very rarely indeed do we think it necessary to notice a bank statement in the editorial columns of the Herald, but as Los Angeles has been held up as a "busted" community, we think it well to call attention to the statement of the condition of the Farmers and Merchant's Bank of Los Angeles, which appears in our advertising columns this morning. As against deposits of $4,122,076.49 this sterling institution has cash on hand to the amount of $1,499,858.17 —or in round numbers a million and a half dollars —to- gether with cash on call, and with bankets in S*n Francisco, Chicago, New York, liOndon, Paris and Berlin, to the amount of $964,467.15, making the astonishing total available cash of $2,494,325.52. Nor is this all of one of the most attractive bank exhibits ever made. The paid up capital, surplus and undivided profits of this bank amount to $1,218,600.42, with loans and discounts which foot up $2,441,989. --21. Any one experienced in finance will at once realize the significance of such an exhibit. It is probably not surpassed by the statement of any bank in the United States, and if it be an exception, the Bank of .California will prove to be the only exception to the broad state ment that the proportion of cash on hand to deposits is greater than that of any bank on tbe Pacific Coast. This state ment is alone and of itself the answer to any arraignment of the stability and prosperity of this section. We cannot for bear congratulating Mr. L W. Hellman and his associates on this splendid ex hibit. The Chicago Convention very conven iently saw fit to ignore the demand of the Republican masses and of the Re publican National Convention of 1884 for a reduction in the war tariff. The mem bers of the grand old party were just as clamorous in 1883 and 1884 as the Demo crats for some relief from these exhorbi tant tributes. While the leaders have found it convenient to betray their pleO t -"s a»d disappoint public expectation by raising a lying howl about the Demo cratic party and free trade, the masses of the Republican party feel now as they did then. Governor McGill, AY. R. Merriam and Albert Schaffer, the Repub lican aspirants for the nomination for Governor of Minnesota, are all in favor of a low tariff, and the whole people of that State, irrespective of party, feel the same way. They do not like the declara tions in the Republican National platform a particle, and would gladly have had them of the tenor of the document of 1884. The methods of the majority of the Police Commissioners to destroy the efficiency of the force will be illustrated to-day in the forced resignation of six officers against whom no charge has been preferred and who have, according to Chief Cuddy, approved themselves excellent men. These tried officers are to be retired and their places filled by "extra" men of little or no experience. Of course the object is plain. The Mayor and Mr. Humphreys may succeed in harrassing Chief Cuddy into resignation; but they will never succeed in convincing the people of this city that the public good animates an action which is making their power over the police force a dis turbing and demoralizing element in the department. AMUSEMENTS. "Tne Old Homestead" at tne Grand Opera House. 1 his morning Frank W. Conant, Treas urer of the Grand Opera House, will open the sale of seats for the first per formance in the remodeled Grand, at Bartlett's music store. It was expected that the new box office would be ready in time, but the work on this has bjen somewhat delayed, and Frank will not occupy his new quarters until Monday. Denman Thompson's The Old Homestead, which has attracted everywhere, will be the opening play, and it is not likely that there will be any vacant seats in the house during the week. "n. M. S. Pinafore." There was a good audience to greet the second performance of Pinafore at the the Pavilion last night, and everything went "as smoothly as a millpond." The members of the company are all well up in the piece. As the "Silent Marine," Mrs. Clark provides a good deal of merriment, and his make-up would be hard to beat for grotesqueness. There is no change in the programme either for the matinee or the performance to-night. A. O. f. Entertainment. The members of Court Los Angeles, No. 7,590, A. 0. F., held their second social conceit and hop last night at Good Templars' Hall, No. 108 North Main street, which was largely attended. A well selected programme was very acceptably rendered throughout. After tbe conclusion of this enjoyable enter tainment, the floor was cleared and dancing, ice cream and refreshments of various kinds were intermingled in such a manner as to overwhelm the commit tee, Messrs. W. D. S. Harrington, W. A. Peabody, J. A. Galbraith, A. W. Darwall and Dr. A. E. Greaham, with the enco miums of the delighted guests. foreign Flashes. Russia has signed the convention for the abolition of sugar bounties. Emperor William will visit Italy at the end of August, and will have .an -inter view with King Humbert. The Pan Presbyterian Council, at Lon don, decided to hold the next meeting at Toronto. Several interesting addresses were made on Friday. In the Commons last night, Charles Fenwick, (Liberal), introduced a resolu tion in favor of the payment of salaries to members. The resolution was sup ported by Gladstone, and wasjrejected. King Milan has abandoned his attempt to procure a divorce from Queen Natalie, on condition that should be granted a separation, the Queen will reside abroad until the Crown Prince, who will remain with his father, attains his fciajority, The treaty between the Holy See and the United States of Columbia regarding religious matters, has been ratified. The Pope intends to invite the co-operation of Catholic and other governments in de termined efforts to bring about the total suppression of slave dealing wherever it prevails. In the House of Commons, Justice McCarthy followed Parnell with an explanation of the statement that he had given Byrne a check for one hundred pounds. He acknowledged he gave a check to Byrne, but said he never sus pected Byrne to, be anything but a hard working servrnt of the societies devoted to winning home rule for Ireland. Well informed persons at Vienna deny that an understanding has beeu arrived at between Russia and Austria regarding {he Eastern question. The Russians continue to erect Military stores near the frontier, and are building steam mills and bakeries for the army around War saw, which place has been transformed into a first-class fortress. Russian forces on the frontier are being increased. General Sherldau. New York, July 6.—The United States steamer Swatara, with General Sheridan on board, came up the harbor and an chored off Liberty Island at 8:10 p. m. Captain McGowan, of the Swatara, says General Sheridan is much better. The following bulletin was given the Asso ciated Press: New' York Harbor, 8 p. m.—General Sheridan rested well last night. He slept rather more than usual through the day. His respiration is less interrupted. He coughs but little. Amateur Press. Chicago, July 7.—At a meeting of the National Amateur Press Association to day the following officials were elected: President, Albert A, Barker, of Chicago; vice-presidents, Truman J. Spencer, Hart ford, Conn.; Miss Helen C. Phillips, New Bedford, Mass.; and Louis C. Bige low, Dowagiac, Mich,; recording secre tary, M. M. Black; corresponding secre tary, C. W. Dodd, New Jersey; treasurer, John S. Tomlinson, Chicago. Loudon Wool Sales. London, July o.—At the wool sales to day good spirit was displaced in bidding, although the attendance was rather mod erate, prices were one-half pence better. 14,000 balas were offered, including very food lots of Australian and Cape of Gocd [ope and Natal. The latter was espe cially strongly competed for; 17,000 bales remain. In consequence of the magni tude of the daily offerings, it has been decided to close the series of sales on the 18th instant. Overdoing the Matter: Fond Mother— "I do hope that George has studied hard at college. I have tried to impress upon his mind the value of a liberal educa tion." Father—"l am afraid, my dear, that you have rather overdone the mat ter. I had to send him a check for an extra $200 to-day."—[Life. Aunt Dinah (reading the paper)—"l sees, Rastus, by de papah, dat poultry am quoted as wery quiet." Uncle Rastus—"Well, I'se glad ob dat, an' I reckon I'd better negotiate to' some dis ebenin'. Dar chicken we had las' Sun day, ole 'ooman, made noise 'nough ter rouse de hull neighborhood."—[Sew York Sau. COAST ITEMS. An Oregon Murderer Meets His Doom. THE VOYAGE OF THE CORONET. The Yachts yi Port at San Diego. Mysterious Disappearance from Anaheim. ! Atsoi intra Press Dispatches to the Herald.] Portland, July 6. —Wm. Landretb was hanged at Dallas, to-day, for the muider of his step-daughter, at Inde pendence, January 29th. He was con fined in prison at Salem until this morn ing, when the Sheriff of Polk county arrived with a wagon to take him to Dallas. He had displayed little or no concern at his fate until just before reaching Dallas, when he wept profusely. At Dallas Rev. T. T. Royal remained about fifteen minutes with the prisoner, praying earnestly for him. At 10:30 the Sheriff began dressing the prisoner for execution, and offered him some brandy, of which he drank considerable. In re sponse to inquiries he repeated his form er assertions, that he killed the girl be cause she ruined him in the estimation of his neighbors. He denied having im proper rekt ons with her, but confessed he was suspicious of her conduct with others. At 12:20 Landreth was led from the cell so weak he could hardly stand. He painfully as cended the scaffold steps and took a chair on the trap where he sat with pallid countenance, closed eyes and chattering teeth, his lips moving as if in prayer and his fingers nervously clutch ing a white handkerchief, while the Sheriff read the death warrant. Turning to the quivering murderer, Sheriff Smith asked him if he had anything to say, and he answered almost inaudibly, "No, nothing." At 12:27 Landreth was as sisted to his feet, the chair removed and his arms firmly strapped from behind, and his feet bound closely together. His face was turned and the black cap drawn over his head. ■ The noose was adjusted and drawn tight with the knot under the right ear. Landreth meantime was weakly swaying to and fro, and had to be supported by his exe cutioner while preparations were mak ing. Sheriff Smith thea asked, "Are you ready ?" and being answered by si lence gave the signal to Sheriff Croisan, who sprung the trap at 1 o'clock, and Landreth was swung into eternity. His neck was broken instantly. His pulse beat 85, at four minutes 120. atsix minutes 140, and thereafter intermittent and then ceased entirely. The body remained motionless during the whole time, there being no exterior evidence whatever that life was not extinct from the first. After having remained suspended twenty min utes the physicians pronounced anima tion gone. The body was taken down and placed in a plain coffin. The crowd, which had remained waiting patiently waiting on the outside during the whole time was now permitted to view the re mains. Women and men crowded around the coffin and viewed the features, which were very placid and natural in expres sion. The body was immediately removed to the cemetery for interment. None of Landreth's relatives were present in Dal las at the time of the execution. It is noteworthy that to-day is the anniversary of the lynching of Kelly, who killed his wife at McCoy. The scene of the lynch ing was but a few yards north of that of the execution. A LONQ VOYAGE. Tne Coronet Arrives at San Diego In 105 Days. San Diego, Jhljt 7. —The yacht Cor onet, 105 days from New York, on her trip around Cape Horn waa sighted south of Coronado Island at Ba. m. She fired her gun at 9:30 and anchored in San Diego bay at 10 o'clock. K. T. Bush, of New York, owner of the Coronet, and several friends immediately went aboard. The vessel is in an excellent condition and met with no mishap during the long voyage. She left New York March 22nd, and reached the equator in 17 days and four hours, having sailed 4,000 miles, making from 280 to 300 miles a day. From the equator to 23 degrees south she sailed with the southeast trades, but at 49 degrees south struck contrary baffling winds. On may 4th she struck a gale which lasted twenty four hours, but did no damage. It afterwards increased to a hurricane, ho never, blowing from northwest to west and southwest, and for twelve hours the yacht was in great danger. The Captain, in order to break the sea, threw overboard five barrels of fish-oil and allowed a cask of kerosene to run over the decks. The entrance to the straits of Magdalen was sighted May Bth, in dead winter weather,the mercury being being down to thirty-eight and forty three degrees. She sighted Cape Horn, May 9th, and came around on the 13th. She met frequent gales and sailed against a strong head wind from the north nearly all the way through the Pacific; from June Ist to June 12th, met baffling winds and crossed the equator on the 18th; only spoke one vessel on the entire voyage and sailed 25,000 miles. Captain Crosby, who sailed her out, reports an exceedingly fine trip, although encountering some heavy weather, and making the run without the loss of a spar or breaking a rope. For the past thirty six hours she had been becalmed, about forty miles off to sea, the only time that the log failed to register progress on the trip. Dr. Hubbard was the Coronet's only passenger. a" salute ot' three guns was fired on her arrival, with the dipping of the colors on the Lurline, Aggie, La Paloma and other yachts in the port. The yacht will be overhauled here,and before long Mr. Bush and a party of friends will start on a ten month's trip. The route will be via Honolulu, Yoko hama, Bombay, Suez Canal and the Mediterranean to New York, when the cratt will have completed the circuit of the world. The crews of the yachts Aggie and Lurline Were entertained at the Hotel Coronado last night. Disappeared From Anaheim. Anaheim, July 6. —Considerable anx iety is felt here regarding the mysterious disappearance of Wm. Morrow, who* has been acting strangely of late. On Wed nesday he was seen about four miles from town, walking towards the hills north of here*. He lately had the hallu cination that his friends were plotting against him, and fears are entertained that he has committed suicide. Parties have been scouring the country for him without success. He was a harness maker, about 28 years of age and much liked. SAILORS' STRIKE. siilp Owners Insist ,Ou Cutting Wages. San Francisco, July C—The trouble about wages between coasting seamen and the Ship Owners' Association took a more decided turn to-day. The Ship Owners' Association issued a circular to day stating that a $5 cut would be made in the wages of sailors running on their vessels. The sailors say they will hold out against the proposed reduc tion. Mr. Blake, who has charge of the Association's affairs, says the re duction is due to the few charters and law freight rates, and that it is the sense of the body which he represents to tie the vessels up rather than pay high wages at losing rates for freight. "If they refuse onr terms, the ships will be beached, that's all. If the ves sels are once tied up there ought to be a further reduction of $5, as the owners will tie up for $10 as well as $5 reduc tion." ANSCHLAG. DOOMED. Tne Governor will Not Intervene ln His Behalf. San Francisco, July 7.—Fritz An schlag, now in the Los Angeles county jail under sentence of death for the mur der of Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock, of Garden Grove, in order to ob tain possession of their farm, recently wrote to the Governor to interest himself to get the prisoner a new trial, but the Governor disclaiming the right to meddle with the court to-day, notified the mur derer that any appeal for commutation of his sentence or pardon will be in V .in. Change of Venue Refused. San Francisco, July 6.—ln the suit brought by Mrs. Leonide H. Burlingame against Frank J. Newlands and Fred Sharon, executors of the Sharon estate, to recover $500,000, which she alleged was paid to Sharon in trust for her hus band, defendants asked for a change of venue to San Mateo connty on the ground that their residence was there; subse quently they notified the Court they had moved" to New York. Judge Wilson now refuses to grant a change of venue on the ground tbat at the time the suit was brought they were to all intents and pur poses residents of this city. Victoria malls. Victoria, B. C. July 6.—Temporary arrangements have been made for car rying the mails between this port and San Francisco by the Pacific Coast Com pany's steamers. Investigation will be made by the Canadian authorities into the extremely irregular mail carriage. Overland letters frequently take from one to three weeks to arrive from San Francisco. Coast Culling!. A band of eight buffaloes was seen a few days ago near Fort Miles, Mont., northwest of the Popular River. The Indians are greatly excited at the news. The Assessor completed the assess ment rolls of Fresno county weich shows that the total taxable property amounts to $38,225,267, an increase of $21,302,671 over last year. At a special committee meeting of the American party at San Francisco an ad dress was adopted embodying the fun damental principles of the party, which, will soon be printed and distributed throughout the State. Company C, of the Second Cavalry regiment, stationed at the Presidio, has been ordered from Fort Bidwell to pro ceed to the Klamath reservation in Ore gon, where the command will be engaged to eject squatters from Indian lands. President Wetmore, of the Viticultural Commission, whp just returned from a tour of inspection, says the grape crop is very promising. There has been no mil dew or grasshoppers to interfere with the crop. Should the vineyards escape dry north winds the yield will probably reach from twenty to twenty-five mil lions. At Fresno, about 2 o'clock Friday morning, while the barkeeper of the Fountain saloon was making up his cash preparatory to closing up for the night, two masked men sprang in from the rear of the saloon and at the point of pistols compelled him to give up the contents of the safe, some $300. The robbers es caped. In the roundhouse at Winslow, Arizona. Thursday evening, a fireman named Snyder had a few words with a night watchman about some oil, and the latter shot Snyder twice. The latter died in ten minutes. The murderer narrowly es caped lynching by a mob, and was taken to St. Johns for safe-keeping. Three San Francisco Chinese highbind ers fired at Yee Lock, a member of a rival highbinder society, on Clay street, in the Chinese quarters, Friday after noon, one shot taking effect in Lock's hand. Three detectives who had wit nessed the attack started in pursuit of the assailants and captured them all af ter a hard chase. Over 500,000 cocoons have arrived at the headquarters of the State Board of Silk Culture, from various counties in Cali fornia. These cocoons have been spun by worms reared from eggs sent out by the Board in the months of May and June, of the present year. Several hun dred thousand more cocoons are arriving in daily installments of six or seven thous and. Operators will be engaged in reel ing silk until the beginning of next sea son. National Promulgator* of Song. Chicago, July 6. —The announcement that this would be children's day at the Music Teachers' Convention attracted an immense crowd to Central Music Hall. A large number of children under 13 years of age were brought forward und sang withra, self-possession thai elicited rounds of applause. A discussion on aids in music took up the balance of the forenoon, and the much talked of "Tonic Sol Fa" system was the main bone of contention. A recess was then taken nntil after noon, At the afternoon session Willard Burr, of Boston, read the report of the Commit tee on Terminology. An address o i the question of a musical encyclopedia was given by Waldo T. Pratt. The report of the Secretary and Treasurer was read and a new constitution adopted. W. H. Dana, of Ohio, was elected Treasurer, after which tbe Convention adjourned. A fflonarchlal Document. Paris, July 6.—The police have seized at the house oi M. Duiuell, director of the Orleanist press, copies of a letter written by Count De Paris to the Conservative Mayors of France, in which he says: "You have to protect municipal liberties against an extravagant and tyrannical ad ministration which is the willing tool of a party which composes' the Republic, and which will cause its downfall. The day is near when we must all unite to reconstruct and establish the government of France upon a durable basis. The Republic has not given the Communes the liberty it promises them. A mon archy alone can restore to you your lib erties and establish order in the Com munes and in the State, HAIL THE CHIEFS! Behold the Conquering He- roes Come. RETURN OF WHITE AND ENGLISH. President and Mrs. Cleveland Will Visit the Coast—The Old Roman Also. I Associated Press Dispatches to the Herald. J' San Francisco, July 6.—William D. English, chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, and Lieutenant- Governor Stephen M. White, returned to-day after a six weeks' visit to the East. They came over the Northern Pacific, by way of Portland. White left for Los Angeles this afternoon. Mr. English, in upeaking on personal and political matters, said: "Tbe Presi dent told me that he takes great interest in the affairs of California, and assured me that he and Mrs. Cleveland would visit tbe State next year. As you know, we went to Columbus on the 28th prox., to notify Judge Thurman of his nomina tion ;he told me after the official busi ness was over, that he felt as though he belonged to California, and if possible would visit the State during the cam paign, if for no other purpose than to visit our State fair and see the breeds of horses and cattle for which he heard the State is famous. I think I can safely say tbat the old Roman will be here tbis fall. NOT CAUGHT WITH CHAFF. Mayor Hewitt Declines to Play tbe Hole of a Fool. New York, July 6. —Mayor Hewitt was to-day shown a dispatch from San Francisco, stating that the American Party Convention of California endorsed him as a candidate for the Presidency of the United States. He said: "I would not accept any nomination for the Presi dency under any circumstances. lam 05 years of age and have made a fool of myself a great many times daring thai long period, but I am not going to make such a fool of myself as to accept a nomi nation for the Presidency." MARINE INTELLIGENCE. The CUT of Rome Damaged ln a Storm—Seamen Injured. New York, July o.—The City of Rome which sailed from Liverpool, June 27th, arrived at the bar at 6:30 o'clock last evening. She had 231 cabin and 501 steerage passengers. It was reported by her officers that at noon, June Ist, in Latitude 47 degrees, Longitude 38 de grees 22 minutes, during a heavy head sea, the vessel shipped a heavy huge wave which carried away her bowsprit and stove the forward bridge. Some of the seamen on duty there were seriously injured. London, July 6. —Advices from Queens town report the wreck of a large wooden vessel, believed to he the American ship Farragut, which was passed recently fifteen hundred miles from Calcutta. Tha Farragut left Calcutta January 20th for New V ork. CIRCUS CARS WRECKED. Some of Forepaufrh'a Fine Horse* Killed. Fall River, Mass., July 6.—As Fore paugh's stock train was leaving here this morning at about 2 o'clock, for Newport, and had just cleared the tunnel on the Old Colony road, the central wheel of the third car from the engine broke, and overturned the car and the next one, and tore up the track. In the three cars were four men and eight horses, three of the men got out unhurt, but one, who had to be dug out through the top of the car, was severely fnjured. Four of the horses were injured so much that they had to be shot. One of them was the famous trapeze pony, Eclipse, and one of the black stallions. The educated horse Blondin was killed outright by the acci dent. Afraid of Being- Kidnapped. New York, July 6.—Louis Frasheim, the confidential clerk of the wholesale jewelry firm of S. H. Meehr & Sons, of Philadelphia and this city, went to police headquarters to-night and asked for the services of a -detective to go to Long Branch. Joseph Meehr,' one of the sons of the firm is stopping there. He telegrpahed from his cottage at West End Avenue, Long Branch, to the clerk: "Send Heidelberg or an able-bod ied man here at once; danger. Signed, Joseph Meehr." The clerk explained that Meehr was worth $250,000 and that some people had formed a plot to kidnap him under the pretext of insanity and get control of his property. It was hinted that Meehr 'a wife and mother-in-law knew something about the matter. As it was out of local jurisdiction nothing could be done and the clerk hurried to Long Branch with a private detective. A midnight Blase. New York, July 6. —Shortly before 1 o'clock this morning fire broke out in the top floor of the six story building extend ing from 38 to 48 East Eighteenth street and running through to Seventeenth street. The names started in the book binding establishment of Geo. W. Alex ander on that floor and extended through the inner part of the building. After doing damage of $150,000, the fire was under control at 1:30 a. m. The whole upper floor extending from street to Btreet was burned out. The rest of the building, including all of the fifth floor, which was occupied by'the "Cen tury Magazine," was deluged with water. Almost all of the 100 guests of the Everett House left the building after hurried dressing and took to other quarters. Mr. Wilson in coming down the fire escape with his wife and child fractured his leg. There was no other casualty. Baseball. Indianapolis, July 6.—The Hoosiers came out victors in an eleven-inning con test to-day, by hard play. Score: In dianapolis 0, Philadelphia 8. Batteries: Boyle and Buckley for Indianapolis ; Casey and Sanders, pitchers; Clements, catcher for Philadelphia. Pittsburg, July 6.—The home team won by a scratch to-day. Knell, the new California man, pitched his first game for .tbem, and he was quite wild with his work. He pleased those who saw him, and a brilliant future is al ready predicted for him. Score: Pitts burg 3, Washington 8. Batteries: Knell and Carroll for Pittsburg, Whitney and Mack for Washington. Cincinnati, Jnly 6.—Cincinnati 9, Athletics 8. . Louisville, Jnly 6.—Louisville 6, Cleveland 3. „ Kansas City, July 6.—Kansas City 6, Baltimore 3. St. Louis, July 6.—St. Louis 2, Brook lyn 6.