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TOWNE'S PLEA
FOR SILVER
The Eloquent Minne
sotan Addresses a
Crowded House.
He Learned to Revere
Lincoln, but He Cannot
Tolerate Hanna.
Says Goldbugs Prevented Rec
ognition of Cuban
Patriots.
FEELS SURE OF VICTORY.
Firmly Announces That Silver Forces
Ara Certain to Win Their
Battles.
Ex-Congressman Charles A. Towne
of Minnesota spoke to a large and en
thusiastic audience at Metropolitan
Temple last night, his theme being the
silver campaign and its purposes.
Mr. Towne is a man of far more than
average ability as an orator. His man
ner is largely that of a well-trained
actor, his voice has great compass and
power, and his conclusions are an
nounced with firmness and dignity.
Though his speech lasted for more
than two hours, few people left the
house, and he was interrupted by fre
quent bursts of applause.
"This sliver campaign has only just
begun," was the way he opened. This
statement at once showed that he was
a fighter, for he followed the asser
tion with the declaration that Bryan
had really come out of the campaign
triumphant and that the defeated
members of the great silver party,
nearly 7,000,000 in number, had the air
of victors rather than of men who had
lost a cause. They were beginning
again, he said, to fight for human free
dom.
The speaker held that the great
trouble with MeKinley is that he is a
goldbug. "He appointed a goldbug for
his Secretary of the Treasury," said
the speaker, "then recommended to
Congress the plans of the Gold Demo
crats of Indianapolis. Does this look
like bimetallism? In fact, there is
nothing in all the conduct of the Re
publican party to remind one of its
glorious past. I learned to revere Lin
coln and they now give me a Mark
Hanna as a model. This degeneration
shows the extent of the degeneration
of the party. I am getting along all
right and I have lost no sleep because
I was defeated for Congress, for I ex
pect yet to be one of the great throng
that will help to escort to the White
H<>use the greatest Democrat the
country has produced since Abraham
Lincoln. I can well call Lincoln a
Democrat and Bryan a Republican, for
both were, like Washington and Jef
ferson, men who had faith in the peo
ple and whose doctrines are consist
ent with the ideas of a government of
thp people, for the people and by the
people."
A large part of the arguments of the
?vening were the well-known assump
:irms of the silver men that the appre
ciation of gold is steadily making a
race of slaves of all who are not the
owners of bonds.
A striking part of the address was
that wherein the speaker narrated his
experiences as a member of Congress
at the time the Cuban question was
before the House. He held that there
was a time two years ago when the
rr.untry could have done a great deal
to settle the question consistently with
peace and honor, but the gold power
that owns the bonds interfered, as in
th«> case of the Turks and Armenians,
and prevented the recognition of the
belligerents.
"I do not hesitate to say," stated the
orator, "that some sort of a deal is now
on. as reported by the newspapers,
whereby Mark Hanna is negotiating
for peace in some way that will be
agreeable to the owners of Cuban
, bonds. It 1s said that the bonds are to
be indorsed by the United States Gov
ernment."
It was then attempted to show that
there is every reason to believe that
the steady depreciation of the products
of human industry, by reason of the
gold standard, will reach a point that
the people will not endure. He said it
was, according to great economists, not
a question of gold or silver, but merely
a' • question- of how much the people
would suffer from the inequalities of
the. old standard before they would re
volt. •
At the conclusion of the address there
waa prolonged applause and much
cheering. The Democratic Central
Clute attended as a body, dressed in
white ducking.
DESPOILED WITH A
GUN AT HIS HEAD
•;rrving Marshal Held Up and
Robbed on Stockton
Street.
Two Men With Masks Go Through
. . Him in Regulation Bandit
" o Fashion.
Irving Marshal, the Janitor at the Bald-
Kir) Th«-atfr. had an adventure with two
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day night and started up Stockton street
toward Pine. When he arrived at the
stone wall surrounding the old Buckley
place, between gutter and Bush streets,
two men suddenly stepped out from the
shadows and one, presenting a pistol at
his head, commanded him to throw up
his hands.
Marshal obeyed, and the fellow's com
panion, who was armed with a black
jack, went through him, taking a purse
containing^ a small sum of money and
the other above-mentioned articles.
The matter was reported to the police.
BURGLARS ARE BUSY.
The Police Are Able to Make Several
Arrests.
Thomas Btanton and Thomas Roach,
two boys, broke into the grocery of L.
W. Schneider, Twenty-sixth and Valencia
streets, about 2 o'clock on Friday morn
rng. Mrs. Schneider heard them and be
gan to scream. They rushed out of the
place into the arms of Policemen King
and Young, who arrested them on a
charge of burglary.
Knutt Frass was discovered at an early
hour yesterday morning by Policeman
Feld trying t,o force open the lock on the
door of W. A. Weldon's carpet-beating
.establishment. 2400 Geary street, with a I
knife. He was sent to the City Prison j
and booked on a charge of attempt?!
burglary. He acted so queerly in ihe
prison that he was sent before the In
sanity Commissioners by Judge Joachim -
Ben, and they tit-flared that he was per
fectly sane. }lo was returned to the
prison.
Four "water rats," Orezzi Salvini. 17 j
year^ of age; Fred Brown, 18; John Leoni,
12; and Louis Delreovy, 12. were arrested
early yesterday, morning by Policeman
Kills, and charjres of burglary were
booked against Salvini and Brown, and
the two others were booked for a public
institution. Since Sunday night they
twice broke into the Sonoma Packing 1 I
Company's warehouse at 1240 Battery
street, stole a lot of stuff an-1 destroyed I
a considerable quantity more. They also i
broke into a butcher-shop at Sansome
and Vallejo strec-ts. Salvini is the leader
of the gang, and has been twice arrested
for robbery.
THEY WERE AFTER
GROOM'S SCALP
Ryan and Green Claim That
National Clubmen Have
"Welched."
Money Said to Have Been Brought
Back at the Point of a Revolver.
Everybody Talking, i
If the words of an eyewitness are to
be taken as true and there seems no
legitimate reason to doubt them,
"Fight Promoter Groom of the Na
tional Club had a very close call yester
day when he came to settle up finan
ces with Ryan and Green, the welter
weights who put up so game a battle
at Woodward's Pavilion the night be
fore. In fact, it is claimed that as a re- j
i
suit of the wrangling and an attempt of
Groom to evade paymerjt he was made
to come to terms at a revolver's muz
zle.
It seems that the articles of agree
ment provided that the two men
should have 60 per cent of the gross
gate receipts, but should be guaran
teed the sum of 54000. The receipts
were said to figure only $4800, and the
two men demanded the $4000 instead of
60 per cent of this sum when they
went into Groom's hat store in com
pany with Al Smith, Ryan's mana
ger.
A hot wrangle ensued, according to
the tale told by George Harting, the
club's timekeeper at the fight, and one
of the fighters grabbed up a sackful
of silver, whereupon Groom laid hold of
a sack of gold coin and started for the
door, but was forced to return at the
revolver's point. It is further stated
that the men were finally forced to take
the 60 per cent.
Smith denies that revolvers w^re
drawn, but admits that there was a
good deal of trouble over the money
question. He adds that Ryan is will
ing to fight Green again under the aus
pices of the Empire Club, but will never
again let the National Club men have
charge of a fight in which he engages.
Groom admits also that there was a
war of words, but asserts that the $4000
was only a paper agreement, and that
it was understood by both men that 60
per cent of the gross gate receipts were
to go in any case.
"I heard there were some wild stories
going round about Ryan and myself
having trouble with Groom and Gibbs,"
said Green last night, "but there is no
truth In them. There was no attempt
on Groom's part to leave the store with
a bag of money, nor were there any
pistols drawn.
"I simply went to the store to get
what was due me as a participant in
the fight and while there met Ryan.
Groom stated to us that owing to the
smallness of the house he could not
live up to his original agreement with
out loss to himself and partner. He
therefore offered us 60 per cent of
$4800, the amount realized. We ob
jected to his going back on his con
tract and told him so. Arguments
were of no avail, however, and seeing
we could do no better, we took the per
centage, amounting to a little over
$2800, eacb taking $1400.
"1 am a friend of both Groom and
Gibbs, and dislike to talk about the
matter, but as long as you are familiar
with the details I do so. I think that
they should have stood by their agree
ment, even though they did not realize
a large sum. Had they done so they
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1898.
would • have made a name among the
fraternity and gained the confidence
of the people. I took the amount of
fered, as that was all there was in
sight. I do not intend to take legal
steps, as the law gives us no redress."
Smith denies that Ryan will ever
fight Walcott. as the welter-weight
draws the color line. T t is admitted by
all local sports, count out or not, that
Green was a beaten man.
FIREMEN SACRIFICE
THEIR LIVES TO DUTY.
An Explosion During a Conflagra
tion Causes the Death of
Six Men.
KALAMAZOO, Mich., Feb. 27.— Fire
broke out in Hall Bros.' laboratory at
10 o'clock to-night. While the firemen
were trying to extinguish the flames
in the second story, a. terrific explo
sion took place, blowing up the entire
side of the building. The first explo
sion was followed by two others. Fire
men on the ladders were hurled in
every direction by the fearful concus
sion. The flames shot high into the
air, and it looked for a moment as
though there would be an awful con
flagration. The crowd was dazed by
the explosion. Horses were thrown
down and windows in the vicinity shat
tered.
The work of rescue began at once
and the building was left to its doom.
Intense excitement prevailed until
1 a. m.
The dead are:
P. H. M'HUGH, fireman.
JAMES QUIGLEY, fireman.
Ex-Congressman Chart: s A. Towns and Sorre of Tho:e Who
Heard Kirn Plead for Silver at Metropolitan Temple
Last Night.
GEORGE HOLLIDAY. fireman.
CHARLES WHITING, fireman.
JOHN HASTINGS, drayman.
WILLIAM WAGER, fireman.
The injured are: L. L. Hollo way.
druggist, both leps broken and back
broken, injured internal'y, will die; Al
bert Labon, concussion of the brain;
John McAllister, legs' broken; Eugene
Dole, injured about .he head. Several
others, whose names cannot be obtained
at this hc-ur, were injured.
DR. SANARELLI CURES
YELLOW FEVER PATIENTS.
Copyrighted. ISSS, by James Gordon Beniiett.
BUENOS AYRES, Feb. 26.— 1 am ad
vised by the Herald's correspondent in
Rio Janeiro, Brazil, that Dr. Sanarelli has
effected six cures out of ten yellow fever
cases which were considered fatal by lo
cal physicians. Dr. Sanarelli has for
some months past been experimenting
with his new cure on yellow fever pa
tients in Sao Paulo, where there is an
epidemic of the disease.
NAPLES— Arrive! Feb 2<i-Stmr California,
from Now York.
QUEEN STOWX— Arrived Feb 26— Stmr Etru
rla, from New York.
ST MICHAELS— mailed Feb 26— Stmr Penln
su.at, for Mew York.
RAG TIME HOGAN
WAS ROBBED
Black Patti's Leading Man
Lost His Dia
mond.
Prize Fighter Tom Lansing and
His Friend Arrested on
Suspicion-
Rigid Search Failed to Reveal the
Whereabouts of the Lost
Gem.
Ernest Hogan, author of "All Coons
: Look Alike to Me," lost a $750 diamond
solitaire stud yesterday at the matinee
jof the Black Patti Company at the
: California Theater. He values the pin
highly, because he says he paid the
; price named to the widow of W. J.
Scanlan, the Irish comedian, when he
bought from her $15,000 worth of the
jewelry of the dead actor.
Hogan's story is that, while he was
waiting to go on the stage for the mat
inee at. the California Theater yester
day he was visited in his dressing room
by Sandy Sanborn, a friend of his, and
Tom Lansing, a prize fighter from Ken
tucky. There was present at the time
a colored man named Thomas Trice,
who sat on a trunk at the end of thp
room. Sanborn cam*' with his friend
for the purpose of hearing the Black
Patti and his friend Hogan sing and
went to Hogan's room, in order to get
seats for the performance. Hogan went
out to do his turn, and in the interim
had some one sh<r\v his visitors some
unoccupied seats in the dress circle.
When he came back he found that the |
diamond stud which he had left in the
bosom of his shirt hanging on a hook
was missing.
He at once raised an outcry in rag
time, and Police Officer Thomas R.
Flinn of the California Street Station j
responded. Hogan pointed out Lansing j
and Sanborn in the dress circle. Flinn j
called upon them to throw up their j
hands, and they complied. Then the i
officer searched the seats and the vicin- !
ity, after having first satisfied himself
that the diamond was not on the per- I
sons of the suspects. He then took the I
men to the California Street Station, ;
where they were obliged to strip and
submit to a more rigorous search in the \
presence of Lieutenant Esola. Nothing
but $1 50 in silver coin and a few love !
letters were found on the men. and the !
police generously refrained from perus- i
ing the letters.
The men's names were placed upon j
the small book, and they will be de
tained pending further investigation. I
When Hogan came into the station he ;
was confronted by Lansing:
"You're a nice fellow," remarked
Lansing, with a sneer.
"What's the matter?" Inquired Ho
gan, in evident trepidation.
"Why didn't you arrest the coon '
that was in the room when you went
nut?"
Mr. Hogan rolled his eyes for awliile,
and then replied: "He was searched."
Then he retired to another part of the
st^t|on and sat down near an officer.
"I've been here only a few months,"
remarked Lansing to a Call reporter,
"and I have put two men on my prize
ring record. If I ever meet that coon
in a dark alley he'll be the third man
on my record of knockouts."
After this episode Hogan was visibly
nervous. "I don't charge nobody," he
said. "All I want is to get my pin
back."
Hogan leaves the city to-day for the
southern part of the State, and he ex
pressed his regret that he could nat
stay to prosecute the case. When asked
why he did not procure the arrest of
Tom Trice, he replied that Trice was
an old-time friend of his; that he had
intrusted hundreds of dollars to Trice,
and had never found him unfaithful.
The men were released late last night,
as the evidence did not seem sufficient
to warrant their being held.
BAYS FOR A
BELOVED BARD
Dr. Friedrich K. Castelhun
Agreeably Surprised by
His Friends.
De Frieclrich Karl Castelhun, whose
seventieth birthday was so enthusiastic
ally celebrated last night by a large num
ber of German-American citizens in the
hall of the Sehlaraffia Club, 411 Bush
street, was born February 27, 1828, in
Nordheim, near the ancient city of
Worms on the Rhine, Germany. At the
age of IS he graduated from the Gym
nasium of Benshcim, where he received a
thorough classical education, and in 1847
came with his parents to the United
States. Here young Castelhun took up
the study of medicine and completed af
terward his medical education at the Uni
versities of Wurzburg, Vienna, Prague
and Berlin. After his return to America
ho settled in St. Louis, Mo., and became
soon a prominent physician. In 1575-76 he
lived in San Francisco, but returned to
St. Louis. In 18.55 he came again to San
Francisco and has ever since lived here.
Dr. Castelhun is one of the foremost
German-American poets of the United
States, and his poems appeared last year
in their second edition. There is much of
the grace, clearness and power of Schil
ler and Goethe in his verses, and to read
his splendid hexameters means to admire
them. Professor M. D. Learned, at the
head of the department of Germanic lan
guages in the University of Pennsylvania,
recently wrote of the distichs of Dr. Cas
telhun: "What makes them particularly
agreeable to my ear is the admirable co
incidence of rhetoric and metrical pause
at the caesura. I have been reading and
comparing some of Castelhun's distichs
with classical German examples and I
must bestow upon him the laurel."
Dr. Castelhun is essentially a politica.l
poet, or knight valiant in the service or'
religious, political and social liberties.
His poems are full of the best features of
the German character, the proverbial
honesty, the sincerity and reliability of
character, the deep love for the family,
the home, the old and the new country.
However, many of his choicest produc
tions could never be published in the
Fatherland, they being altogether too
democratic to suit those in power, ami
for this reason the collection of poems, a
handsome volume of 260 pages, had to be
printed in Switzerland.
The committee in charge of the ban
quet consisted of Professor Ad. Horbst,
president; Professor Julius Goebel of
Palo Alto; M. Greenblatt, editor of the
Daily German Demokrat; Dr. A. Wil
helm. E. C. Priber, Dr. Schulz and Pro
lessor W. Zimmermann.
During the evening a beautiful album,
with his picture, was distributed as a
souvenir among the guests, containing
original contributions of Messrs. Goebel,
Herbst.Greenblatt, Glauch, Priber, Bund
schu and others. Among the official
toasts were the following: Address of wr.i
come. Professor A. lierbst; "Castelhun
and German Poetry," Professor Goebel
"Dr. Castelhun, the Patriot of Two
Worlds," W. Zimmermann; "Dr. Castel
hun and the German-American Press,"
M. Greenblatt; "Castelhun, the Physi
cian," Drs. Wilhelm and Behr; "Dr. Cas
telhun and His Relations to the German-
Amiricans," Dr. May Magnus; "Dr. Cas
telhun of St. Louis." E. C. Priber- "Dr
Castelhun and His Family," Chris Bund
schu.
A brother of the doctor, Fritz J., and
his oldest son, F. K. Castelhun Jr., are
well-known lawyers of this city; a sister,
Miss Mary Castelhun, has been for over
twenty-live years principal of the Hum
boldt Primary School,, and the two
daughters of the septuagenarian are both
graduates of our State University.
THE OLD FRIENDS.
Last "Wednesday night the recently
elected officers of the Society of Old
Friends were installed by ex-President
Robert Ferral. after which Dr. P. F.
Lord, the retiring president, was pre
sented with a gold badge on behalf of
the society. the evening there
was read a letter from President llc-
Kinley, acknowledging his election as an
honorary member of the society. Judge
Campbell, the new president, presided at
a. high jinks that furnished entertainment
for the many who crowded the hall.
DAUGHTERS OF ST. GEORGE.
Britannia Lodge of the Daughters of St.
George, at its last held meeting adopted
resolutions expressive of their "deep and
heartfelt sympathy for the mothers,
widows and relatives of the brave men
who recently lost their lives on the
Maine."
It has be?n decided to give the old Eng
lish tea party under the auspices of this
order in St. George's Hall on the 24th of
March.
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A GRAND INVESTMENT.
N. W. cor. Polk and Grove sts.— Stores and
flats: rental value, $525 per month; within 2
blocks of Market st. and 1 block of City Hall;
size of lot, 137V4 feet on Polk st. by 170 feet on
Grove St.
This property has a grand future.
Property of Estate of E. L. Moxley.
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