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Your druKEisi wllj refund -money if <p«zo
Ointment. falls to cure you in C to 1* days. 59s'
VICTORIA." B.-C. Jan. 22.— A letter from
Valdez : tetls of Russian -priests , itominatin? . a
large . portion .- of the population of Western
Alaska, fjrblddtnc the *trac nine of the- Eng
lish language'to t ho?* under th«-lr control'nnd
Kcnera;ly enticnvortna: -to Russianize the "na
tives of that section of Alaska.
Japanese Railways.
The Japanese state railways are to
become a joint stock company. The
departments of finance and of com
munications have decided on the plan
of converting the Government rail
ways into a joint undertaking of the
Government and the general public.
All the existing Government railways
and the properties attached to them
will be assessed and the Government
will ' hold the shares representing
them, while the public will be invited
to subscribe the cost required for re
pairs to existing lines and for the con
struction of new ones, a sum estimat
ed at about $21.. 000, 000, out of a cap
ital of $140,000.000. — New York
Press.
JAPAN IS INDEPENDENT.
Mikado Asks Xo Mediation From Any
-.£;: -::¦¦>: Foreign Power.
LONDON, Jan. 22.— The Associated
Press is. officially informed that the
Japanese Government will not accept
the mediation of any of the , foreign
powers. > ; .^V
¦ ? : —
Russian Squadron Sails.
SUEZ, Jaii. 22.— The Russian squad
ron, consisting of the battleship Dmitri
Donskoi, the cruiser Orel and six tor
pedo-boat destroyers, sailed, to-day for
the Far East. One Russian torpedo
boat destroyer, which is disabled, will
remain here. - . - -¦¦•- •=- - N
WIDOWS.
2,720,000 in the Xation.
105,000. of Them In Xew York City
A Chicago mathematician announces
that Chicago, with 60,396 widows, has
a larger number than any other com
munity in the country. It is added that
the number of widowers in the city is
only 23.0U7. .
As a matter of fact, the State in
which widows are the most numerous
is New York, in which they number
320,000. The city in which they are
most numerous is the city of New York,
where there are 103,000.
There were by the last Federal cen
sus 2,720,000 widows in the whole United
States, of whom, it is worthy to re
mark. 88,000 were in Indiana and only
6000 in Utah.
There were 128,000 in Massachusetts,
less than the total number in the two
States of Alabama and Mississippi,
though the view pretty generally pre
vails that the number of widows is dis
proportionately large throughout New
England. -
There are nearly 2000 in Hawaii and
1700 In Alaska, a proportionately larger
number than in the city of Chicago.
CABIXKT MKETS TWICE.
'Morning and Afternoon Sessions, But
Little of Importance Done.
WASHINGTON, Jan, 22.— Morning
and afternoon session* of the Cabinet
were held to-dav. In the absence of
Secretaries Hay and Moody, no matters
concerning the State or Navy depart
ments were conaldered. It can be said
on authority that no action of serious
importance was taken. It is likely dur
ing the session of Congress that the
President, on account of pressing en
gagements in the early part of the day,
frequently will have tne Cabinet meet
ings 4n the afternoon.
Lost NeuspajKT Man Turns Vp,
LA PORTE, Ind.. Jan. 22. — Cyrus
R. McCartney, a newspaper man, who
disappeared several years ago ar.d was
supposed to have been murdered, has
been heard from in a telegram from
him at Dawson, Alaska. McCartney
says he is well and rich. The last in
formation about him was that his
clothing and papers had been found
in a forest near Ashland, Or.
Sixth Y. M. C. A. Concert.
There was genuine approval of the
concert given last evening as the
sixth number of the Y. M. C. A. star
course. The Blanchard & Venter
Concert Company furnished the en
tertainment, which consisted of solos
by Waldemar Lind, violinist; Carrie
Brown Dexter, soprano; Estelle Rey
nolds Drummond, pianist, and J. F.
Veaco, tenor, and readings by Carrie
Fross Snyder. The next entertain
ment of the series is announced for
February 5, when Russell H. Conwell,
the Philadelphia orator, will speak.
World's Fair Airship Contests to Be
Known as "Aeronautic Con
course of 1901."
"The Aeronautic Concourse of 1904"
is the. official name for the airship con
tests to be held in connection with the
World's Fair. Complete organization
for the events was effected recently at
a meeting of the exposition's commit
tee on aeronautics.
Willard A. Smith, chief of the depart
ment of transportation exhibits, will
continue to have direct management.
Octave Chanute, past president of the
American Society of Engineers, who is
considered a leading authority on aer
onautics, was appointed consulting en
gineer.
Carl E. Meyer of the "Balloon Farm"
of Frankfort, N. Y., was appointed su
perintendent of the aeronautic grounds
and buildings. He will "report for duty
February 1. Mr. Meyer is classed
among the leading balloon manufac
tures and '¦¦- practical aeronauts, of the
Unite'd States.
Among Mr. Meyer's duties will be the
establishment of a balloon shop on the
fair grounds for making repairs to air
ships. He will make and operate the
signal balloons used for marking, the
course of the grand races, will have
charge of the hydrogen gas plant, and,
in a general way, will direct the con
tests'.under the direction of the in
ternational jury. V /;•
The aeronautic grounds are on the
level plateau of the Washington Uni
versity, campus, direfctly west of the
Hall of C°ng resses - They will be sur
rounded by. a board fence twelve feet
high.' At the , southern and western
sides the fence will be raised to thirty
feet to act as a windbreak., , , .
. Pipes and valves for inflating the bal
loonswill be installed in the inclosurc.
A wooden structure eighty feet high
will be erected as a testing station for
airships. AH contestants will have full
use of all the facilities installed by the
exposition.— St. . Louis S Republic.
OFFICIAL DESIGNATION
OF AERIAL RACES
Big Fire in Chicago.
CHICAGO, Jan. 22. — The plant of the
Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, 4 42
Wabash avenue, was destroyed by fire
to-night and from this building the
flames were communicated to the
seven-story factory and apartment
building of the Buck'en Medical Com
pany, just east of the building of the
Ulass company. A number of families
who lived in the Bucklen building
were compelled to make hasty exits,
but all escaped unharmed. Loss,
$300,000.
BLOODHOUNDS TO SEEK ; ,
TRAIL OF A MURDERER
Body of a High School Teacher In
an Indiana Town Is Found
in a Shed.
BEDFORD, Ind., Jan. 22. — The
body of Miss Sarah Schaefer, teacher
of Latin in the Bedford High School,
was found in a carriage-house to-day.
She had been and robbed.
The appearance of the shed indicated
a struggle with h.er assailant.
Miss Schaefer came here from Elk
hart, Ind., a year ago and was much
admired. There is great excitement
over the murder and bloodhounds will
be given the scent.
Californiniis In New York.
NEW YORK, Jan. 22: — The follow
ing Calif ornians are here:
From San Francisco — I. Conn, W.
R. Conn,, at the Hotel Spalding; C. A.
Hawkins at the Hoffman, M. Lowen
stein at the Hotel Savoy, M. Mac-
Dowell at the .Bartholdi. ' Miss M.
Nathan at the Wellington. H. G.
Sherdeman at the Imperial, Mrs. M.
Spencer at the Murray Hill, J. E.
Freeman, Miss M. L.. Payne at the
Holland, H. M. Abrams at the Herald
Square. ; ¦
From Los Angeles — A. J. Condee at
the Sinclair. ;
PUBLIC TENSION' GROWING;
Russia's l)elay and Japan's Stoic At
l tltudc Ara Cfciisiclered Foreboding.
ST. -PETERSBURG, Jan. 22.— The
Czar • has not" yet called the council to
consider the Japanese reply, but it is
said at the Foreign Office that the sum
mons may b6 issued any day. .The de
lay, coupled'with d>rpatches from'To
kio saying that Japan is' armed and
grimly awaiting, has' caused a slight
renewal of public nervousness, which
was reflected by' the weakness on the
Bourse to-day. This alarm is seeming
ly not shared in the higher Government
circles, where it is insisted that the
Czar's pacific declarations were not
idle words. The worst that is now an
ticipated .is the breakdown of the ne
gotiations in the event of Russia's re
sponse being unacceptable to Japan. '
The papers to-day publish prominent
ly the statement "that - the United
States'.: Asiatic squadron will remain In
Philippine waters. The Gazette, in
pointing out the mischief caused by er
roneous statements that Admiral Evans'
destination was Yongampho, Korea,- in
stead of Olongapo, Subig Bay, near Ma
nila,' welcomes'" the correction as evi
dence that the United States will not
meddle fn the quarrel.
Riverside Oflicial Is Indicted.
RIVERSIDE. Jan. 22. — Two indict
ments were brought in this afternoon
ugainFt J. \V. Carroll, supervisor of
construction on the new county court
house, both on the charge of embez
zlement, one in the sum of $61 45, in
connection with the purchase of ma
terials for the County Hospital, and the
other for $67 4 7. in connection with
the improvements on the West River
side bridge. Carroll was arrested and
admitted to bail in the sum of 51000
on each indictment.
SMALLPOX IS KPIDKMIC
AT JEFFERSON BARRACKS
Soldiers Stationed at St. Louis Arc
Required to Be. Vaccinated and •
Arc Quarantined.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 22. — :The presence
of smallpox among the troops at Jef
ferson Barracks has resulted in the
vaccination of ¦all ..the men In the
Fourth and Eighth Regiments of cav
alry and it has been decided to post
pone a ball scheduled for to-morrow
evening. Lieutenant Frank E. Davis
has been removed to the county quar
antine station suffering with the dis
ease and Lieutenants Cox, Watson and
iveller, who were exposed, have been
quarantined in their quarters.
SAN JOSE, Jan. 22. — Mrs. Drusilla
Apperson, mother of Mrs. Phoebe
Hearst, died at her home, at Lawrence
Station, eight miles west of here, at
a late hour last night. She was the
widow of Randolph W. Apperson, was
87 years of age and a native of South
Carolina.
Mrs. Apperson was, before her mar
riage in 1840. Miss Drusilla Whitmire,
daughter of Henry Whitmire of Frank
lin County, Mo. She came to California
with her husband in 1S63, and almost
immediately they took up their home
at Lawrence Station. For forty years
she had resided"- at that place. Her
husband died several years ago.
Mrs. Apperson was well" known in
this county and had many friends
among the early residents of the val
ley. She had been in ill health for some
time. •
She was a prominent member of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church of
this city, and her funeral will take
place from that church next Sunday
afternoon.
Elbert Clark Apperson, a son of the
deceased, resides at Lawrence Station.
Death of Civil War Nurse.
OAKLAND, Jan. 22.— Mrs. Maria
Virginia Storm, aged 71 years, died at
her home, 1940 Poplar street, last
night. Deceased was an army nurse
during the Civil War and was a mem
ber of Lyon • Relief Cc ?, G. A. R.
She leaves a husband and one son.
Mrs. R. J. Prescott, a former resi
dent of this city, died to-day at her
home in San Francisco.
John R. Walker, nged SO years, died
latt night j at his home, 812 Lewis
street. Deceased has resided in Oak
land for thirty-one years.
Mrs. J. O. Olsen died to-day at her
home in this city, aged 64 years. De
ceased leaves a husband and one
daughter, Mrs. Carrie J. Jensen.
Mrs. T. J. Armstrong died yesterday
at her home in Fruitvale.
Banker's Wife Dies."
Mrs. Clara Meyer, wife of D.uiicl
Meyer, the well-known banker, passed
away at her residence on California
street yesterday after a long: illness.
Mrs. Meyer was a native of Sulzburg,
Germany. She is survived by her hus
band and a sister, Mrs. Julia Meyer.
The funeral will be private, . .
Episcopal Bishop Passes Away.
NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-Episcopal
Bishop Thomas Underwood Dudley of
Louisville, Ky., died here to-day of
heart disease.
I. 'n reclaimed IVat I.antl- Sold.
STOCKTON, Jan. 22. — Frederick
llindge and associates of Los Angeles,
represented here by Lee A. Phillips,
to-day bought R000 acres of unre
claimed r*eat lands from the Ross Sar
pent estate, making- the peat land
holdings of these Los Angeles capital
ists in San Joaquin County 25.000
acres, all thoroughly reclaimed except
to-day's purchase. Seven dredgers
will be- put on the new reclamation at
once. The purchase price was about
J200.000.
MRS. APPERSON
PASSES AWAY
AT SAN JOSE
PERSOXAL.
' C. B. Jillson, a fruit man of Xapa,
is at the Grand.
Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Stitt of Vaca
ville are -at the Palace.
J. T. Roberts, the well-known banker
of Madcra, is registered at the Palace.
Judge M. B. Koon and C. S. Gillette,
prominent attorneys of Minneapolis,
-Minn., are at the Palace Hotel.
• V. von Grot of St. Petersburg, who
is interested- in several large .mining
concessions in Siberia, is at the Pal
ace.
F. Sontag, president of the Grand Pa
cific Hotel Company of Chicago, is a
guest at the Palace Hotel, and is ac
companied by" his wife and daughter.
State Senator George T. Myers of
Oregon and his son, George T. Myers
Jr., superintendent of Oregon's fish
eries and game exhibit et the St.
Louis Exposition, arrived from Port
land yesterday and are registered at
the Occidental.
E. A. Ashcroft, a noted metallurgist
of London, who, with Professor James
Swinljurne, head of the Mining In
stitute of England, has inaugurated a
new process for the reduction of ores
that promises to revolutionize the
present art -f metallurgy and that
has been causing much comment in
the British scientific journals, is reg
istered at the Palace.. He has been
examining ' mining properties in Brit
ish Columbia.
FRESXO IIODCAHH1ERS QUIT
WORK OX A NEW BUILDING
Refuse to Permit the Employment of
a Man Who \Vw> Rejected
by Their Union.'
FRESNO, Jan. 22.— Because W. S.
Scott, the brick contractor on the new
Forsyth building, which will be Fres
no's finest business block, continues 'to
employ Frank Norton, whom the hod
carriers have refused to elect to mem
bership in Jheir organization, the hod
carriers all walked. off the job to-day.
It was stated to-night that there will
be a general strike among .the build
ing trades employed o-n the structure.
Norton when put to work by Scott
promptly sent in his application to the
union. The hodcarriers struck the first
day he went on because he was not
then a member, but went to work again
at the direction of the Building Trades
Council. But at their meetine Wed
nesday night they refused to elect Nor
ton to membership, and when Scott re
fused to discharge him they struck.
Special Dispatch to The Call
I SAN LUIS OBISPO, Jan. 22.— Officers
i and detectives worked dilligently all
; day on new clews looking to the appre-
I hension of the thief, or thieves, who
! stole Wells, Fargo & Co.'s safe from
I Southern Pacific train No. 9, near this
| city, yesterday morning. The officers
\ will say little to-night, but they appear
I to be satisfied with the result of their
j work. The ground between San Luis
j Obispo and tunnel No. 1, twelve miles
j of heavy grade, was thoroughly gone
j over again to-day.
* The man who tried to board the
I southbound train yesterday and who
j had bought a new. hat, after purchasing
! an old one trom tramps a short time
i before, still refuses to talk. The Sheriff
| declines to allow the suspect to be in
' tervlewed. Three tramps who occupied
j a shack near Serrano and who sold the
i suspect a hat. are still under surveil
! lance. It is believed here that the mys
tery surrounding the robbery will soon
; be solved.
Three Tramps, Who Sold an Old
Hat to Prisoner, Are Being*
Closely Watched, by Sheriff
SUSPECT STILL IX JAIL
Special Pis-patch to The Call.
SALT LAKE, Utah. Jan. 22. — Ru
mors that negotiations were pending
for the sale of two of the biggest pro
ducing mines in Utah to the Federal
Mining and Smelting Company were
confirmed to-nisrht. It is now ac
knowledged that within a short time u
sale is probable of the Silver King and
the Daly West, both of Park City and
both heavy producers of silver lead
ore. If the sale is effected, as now ap
pears to be certain, it will be one of
the largest mining transactions ever
recorded in the West. Exactly what
figures are being considered is not
stated, but it is understood that the
consideration is close to $17,000,000.
Confirmation of the negotiations
comes from Charles Sweeny, presi
dent of the Federal Mining and
Smelting Company and the man who
amalgamated, the big silver lead mines
of the Coour d'Alenes last fall. Sweeny
now admits that negotiations looking
lo the purchase of the famous Park
City mines have been under way for
some time. He states that the mines
have been examined by his experts and
that from their reports he has formed
a very hijrh opinion of the properties.
The ore bodies have been carefully ex
amined and found to contain an enor
mous reserve. The Silver Kins: mine
now pays regular monthly dividends
of $100,000 and the Daly West con
tributes Jllf.000 a month m dividends.
Owners of the properties would not
consider a proposition to sell at an
enormous figure a. year ago and it is
stated that they are held with a valua
tion of $10,000,000 for the Silver King
and $7,000,000 for the Daly West.
Expect to Soon Solve Mystery
Surrounding Theft of Safe
From Southern Pacific Train
President Sweeny of the
Federal Jlining and Smelt
ing Company Is the Promoter
DELAY. CAUSES APPREHENSION.
Likelihood or a Compromise. -Between
the Nations.Not Likely. ' -
LONDON, Jan^23^-The delay in the
Russian reply, r to-- the" latest note> from
Japan is causing" -the "customary- crop
of sensational,.; statements •' pointing - to
tlte imminence^' of-; war -Iri the' Far East.
The Daily Graphic this morning says jt
understands HEcat there is rib; likelihood
of a compromise, owing 'to the unyield
ing attitude .'of/" Japaii i on \ f Ithe Map.
churian ques't«fn, r and the fact" that In
her last nq't^to,.RussJa,.Jajiair_struck
out the whole article in the draft of
the treaty relating (to. the .demand ..of
Russia for a neutral zone. - •', . - - ' '
The correspondent:' of • the "' Morning.
Post at Chefiphas v sent in ;anValarmV
ing report thafcil^jDOO 'Japanese . troops,
have landed ¦at 'Masampho, lit, 'Southern
Korea, and. ythtj^'PorV Arthur corre
spondent - of (¦?the^P.aris 1 '" edition' of the
New York ; Herald^ ajso.refexs,.in. a;dis-..
patch, to the' fact. that, the news^f.th^e
occupation of •Masampho i&-being-re
ceived calmlyi "i : ;i.; # . \ « .,' ;'.'. -. '(:- . ; ' - j,/.
Special dispatches- from Seoul? Vsay
the Emperor :bf:.!:KoTea\'has . appointed
a new Cabinetj'^with- Yi.- Yon T Gik y; as
Minister of WarV^aHd^ Finance. -Yi 'Ton
Gik has- ordered';. 10,000 rifles for the
army. •. x ~?.\? *-. ' \ • .• .'.¦*•'•¦'. -^ / vr 1 '
Reports have been-Aent in.from Che-,
foo that quantities"!; o£ dynamie ' have .
been fund under the bridges;. o,f,;.< r the
Manchurian line above Port' Arth'ur.
The supposed intention was to blow
up the bridges as soon as hostilities
began.
The Tokio correspondent of the Daily
Mail sends the following dispatch:
"The Jiji Shimpo says that on the
day following the ratification of the
Chinese-American treaty Russia noti
fied Japan that it was useless to nego
tiate a neutral zone on the Yalu, .as
the ratification of both treaties showed
that Manchuria was Chinese domain."
Cabling from Shanghai the corre
spondent there of the Daily Mail de
clares the Chinese Government has
learned that Russia is sending a large
force to Chinese Turkestan. The St.
Petersburg correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph .cables to his paper as fol
lows: 1
"I learn ' that difficulty has arisen
through reluctance to grant the same
freedom of immigration into Manchu
ria to the Japanese as to other foreign
ers, for fear that the Japanese would
eoon overrun the proyince. Whatever
concessions,' however, Russia offers re
garding Manchuria will probably be of
fered in* the first Instance to the United
States."
Three • Convicts Forfeit Credits and
Are Consigned to Dark Cells
; ' " % by ¦Sheriff Curtis.
. ..^hree j desperate prisoners serving
time in the v ' County Jail made an at
tempt to;*-esicape -. from the institution
early yesterday morning by' sawing
through' the steel bars of a window,
but were foiled by the prompt action of
Guard Charles; Stryker. The men who
tried ; to break jail are^i E. H. Leroy,
Andrew Metzinger and Thomas Kelly,
aljas: Frank , Callaghan. :<
By slipping' small pieces of wood
irijo the locks of their cells the latter
were., prevented from • being firmly
locked .Thursday evening and later
that night, Metzihger- opened his cell
door- and : then released Leroy and
Kelly. .The prisoners then quietly pro
ceeded . to the end of . ; the corridor,
where" Kelly lifted Metzinger up to
a the, bars of which the last
named began to cut with a saw. He
was in the midst .at his work when
de.tected by Guai;d. Stryker and a hur
ried"-investigation 'exposed the whole
plot. Leroy is/supposed to have re
ceived the saws from a woman who
is thought, to be his wife and who fre
quently visits him. 'He gave them to
hl$ -pals,; who had entered into the plot
with him.' .The' prisoners have been
deprived of their credits and confined
in' daVk cells by order of Sheriff Cur
tis:; >¦¦>• H:*i T '% '.-¦'-
THE PKICE IS $17,000,000
OFFICERS WORK
ON NEW CLEWS
OREGON* RAILROAD MEN
FOUND TO BE CARELESS
Assistant Trainmaster of the Northern
Pacific Learns That They Do
Not Heed Signals.
PORTLAND, Jan. 22.— To determine
the efficiency of the employes and to
learn to what extent the rules are
obeyed a series of secret tests are be
ing made over the entire system of
the Northern Pacific Railroad. Several
nights ago Assistant Trainmaster Coyle
of the Pacific division came to Portland
and watched the men running out of
Portland. He stationed Himself at
Scappoose, to ascertain v.-hat attention
the trainmen paid to the signal lights.
His investigation resulted in showing
that the carelessness that had been
demonstrated by similar tests on the
Eastern roads also existed in the West.
Running' out of Portland on the Pacific
division are some of the oldest and
most careful conductors and engineers
on the road, but the majority of them
violated the rules applying to the sig
nals. ' Where a white light is displayed
at a station the track is clear. Where
a red light' is in sight or where no light
shows it is the duty of the trainmen to
await for a clearance". The only train
that obeyed the signal was the north
coast limited.
his duties as Secretary of War on Feb
ruary 1.
GUARD. FOILS PRISONERS'
ATTEMPT TO BREAK JAIL
Xegotiations Now On for Sale
of Two Biggest Silver and
Load Producers in Utah
BIG MINE DEAL
IS PROJECTED
SAN JOSE. Jan. 22.— A decision of particu
lar Interest to orchardlat* was rendered In the
Superior Court thle mornlnjr by Judge Tuttle.
who Rriinted a perpetual Injunction restraining
the Kimball Brick Company from burning an r
thracite or bituminous coal. anJ from the use
in such business of any oth«r kinds of fuel
which will be Injuilous to adjoining orchards.
Made Paper of His Scalp.
To have a portion of his scalp torn
oft! ar.d worked into the texture of a
sheet ci\ white uaoer was the. expe
rience of Irvan McNutt at the Hamil
ton Paper Mills, Lafayette. Young
McNutt prided himself in a shock of
Ions hair, and to this was due his ac
cident. His locks caught in the cal
enders of the paper-maklnj? machine
and his head was drawn to the rapidly
revolving rolls: but the scalp gave way.
and though he was painfully Injured,
his life was saved. The skin and hank
of hair passed through the\ machine,
and when' the latter was stopped the
human hair and cuticle formed a novel
"watermark," which was cut out for a
keepsake for McNutt. — Philadelphia
Record.
SITUATION' IS BRIGHTER.
Fall of Temperature Lessens Danger
of Brenk in Cuynhoga River.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 22. — The
flood situation in - Cleveland and
vicinity is brighter at midnight Friday,
because of a fall in the temperature,
which will lessen the probability of a
dangerous gorge about ten miles up the
Cuyahoga River breaking and letting
loose a great mass of water held in
check by it. The Cuyahoga River Is
flowing about fifteen miles. an hour and
is slightly lower than during the day.
Three great lake vessels that broke
loose from' their moorings' to-day are
still wedged tightly together, and there
is no possibility of them breaking away
or of them being moved until the flood
of water has ceased running Into the
lake.
The entire loss in Cleveland is esti
mated at $500,000.
fYouns Hebrews to Entertain.'
The Young Men's Hebrew Associa'
tion has arranged for a book night to*
morrow evening at its clubrooms, 191*
Page street. The entertainment will
be for the benefit of the association's
library, and it in expected that a larss
ccllectlcn of books will be donated
during the evening.
SXOW FOLLOWS RAIN".
Trains Delayed and Traffic Prostrated
in New York and Canada.
BUFFALO, N. Y., Jan. 22.— With a
continuous fall of rain for nearly
twenty-four hours, the immense quan
tity of snow throughout the western
part of New York was rapidly turned
into water, which soon, to-night, sent
the rivers swirling out of bounds, flood
ing great areas.
In Northern New York and places in
Canada, where the temperature was
lower, the rain turned into sleet and
snow, prostrating telegraph and tele
phone lines and demoralizing railroad
traffic. Trains on the Grand Trunk and
Canadian Pacific to-night are reported
at from twelve to twenty-four hours
late. The Chicago express, on the
Grand Trunk, arrived at Toronto
twenty-four hours late, after spending
fifteen hours in a snowbank. Another
train is stalled in the anow somewhere
between" Montreal arid Toronto, and
snowplows have been sent out. to rescue
the train.
Widow of the Late George Grannis Is
Awarded Only $20,000 of
$175,000 Estate.
Harriet G. Center is entitled to the
major part of the $175,000 tate left by
George W. Grannis according to a de
cision rendered by the Supreme Court
yesterday. The widow will get only
$20,000. The grandson will get deced
ent's gold watch and jewelry. The es
tate will be distributed exactly as
Grannis intended.
The deceased left a will in which he
gave his wife $20,000 and his daughter.
Mrs. Center, the remainder of his prop
erty. A codicil was added . l.h
it was directed that his grandson,
Alexander, should receive hi3 watch
and jewelry.
Mrs. Grannis thought she should
have more than had been give,n her
and contested the decree oi distribu
tion accordingly. The Supreme Court
finds that deceased had accumulated
the greater part of his fortune before
his second marriage and that therefore
he was entitled to dispose of it as he
wished.
SUPREME .COURT DECIDES
IN FAVOR OF DAUGHTER
gheny stood at 29.6 feet at Perris Isl
and and was rising at the rate of six
tenths of a foot an hour; the Monon
gahela'at the wharf stood at 27.2, ris
ing eight-tenths of a foot per hour;
the Ohio at Davis Island dam stood at
25.1 and rising four-tenths of a foot
per hour.
The worst fears of the manufactur
ers along the PIttsburg side of the Al
legheny River from the Sharpsburg
bridge down, were realized shortly af
ter midnight, when the water swept
over the banks in many places and in
undated the surrounding districts.
Every mill and factory between the
Allegheny Valley Railroad tracks and
the river is more or less flooded and
it Is estimated that in the neighbor
hood of 25,000 men will be forced to
lay idle until Monday or Tuesday.
Continued From Page 1, Column 7.
FAMILIES RUN FROM FLOOD,
PARIS,' Jan. 22. — The Chamber of
Deputies was the scene of much ex
citement to-day in connection with the
case of Father Delsor. the Alsatian
priest who -was expelled from France
recently on the ground that he was
a foreigner seeking 1 to foment agita
tion against the Government. His ex
pulsion has revived the animosity
growing out of the Franco-Prussian
war, a considerable element of the
press and public asserting that the ex
pulsion of Delsor as a foreigner
marked the final abandonment of Al
sace to Germany. Premier Combes
declared the agitation had' the same
theatrical character as Boulangerism.
After a long and heated discussion
Premier Combes Intimated that he
would accept a motion made by SI.
Sarrlen as the order of the day pure
and simple, with the understanding
this should be taken to imply approval
of the Government's action.
The division resulted in a Ministerial
victory, the vote being 259 to 243.
During the sitting of the chamber
there was a noisy pro-Alsatian demon
stration in the Place de la Concorde,
which resulted in the arrest of about
sixty persons. Order was restored la
ter and the persons arrested were re
leased.
MINISTERS WIN * ON VOTE
—_i-
Police Break Up a Demon
stration on Street and Ar
rest About Sixty Persons
LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 22.— Chief Jus
tice Holcomb of the Nebraska Supreme
Court to-day granted the request of
Deputy State Auditor Pierce for a tem
porary receiver for the Bankers' Union
of the World, an insurance order with
headquarters in Omaha, and Sheriff
Powers of Omaha was appointed. The
Deputy Auditor alleges that the order
Is insolvent; that all the liabilities
have not been reported; that the
amount due policy-holders and unpaid
is $30,000, and that the assets are only
$2437. E. C. Spinney of Omaha Is pres
ident of the union and his wife is vice
president.
OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 22.— The Bank
ers* Union of the World, for which the
Supreme Court to-day granted a tem
porary receiver, was originated five
years Pgo by Dr. E. C. Spinney, who
has been its president since the charter
was granted; Judge E. P. Holmes oi
Lincoln is* vice president; Elmer II.
Packard, secretary, and M. T. Swartz,
banker. The company has been doing
business in twenty-five States and has
in force about $25,000,000 of insurance.
Its sross receipts for 1S03, according to
a statement just issued, were $135,3S7,
and the claims paid during the same
period amounted to $32,000.
President Spinney stated that the re
ceivership came as an entire surprise
to him, although he admitted that
there had been some difficulty between
the State officers and the company, as
a result, he said, of his declining t<»
pay certain" alleged excessive charges
for examination.
He says that on January 1(> the con
cern had $12,000 in cash on hand and
owned other assets worth $35,000. The
allegation that the State Auditor
makes, he said, that $20,000 was paid
him for salary for 1003 was untrue. Re
stated that his salary had been $6000;
that he had been paid about $7000 com
missions, which represented five per
cent allowed him but never drawn on
business for three former years; $1000
paid his wife as salary for editing th*
official paper, and $3000 in stock which
he had placed in the treasury and
which was returned to him by order of
the directors.
The headquarters of the Bankers'
Union occupy a large suite of rooms
in a downtown office building and em
ploy a large force of clerks.
Sheriff Tower, the temporary re
ceiver of the union, took possession of
the offices of the concern late to-day» ,
Recent Expulsion of Alsatian
Priest Cause of Bitter De
bate in Chamber of Deputies
State Auditor Declares the
Concern Is Unstable and
True Report Is Not Given
OLD ISSUES
ROUSE FRENCH
AFFAIRS IN BAD SHAPE
Nebraska State Supreme Court
Grants Receiver for the Bank
ers' Union of the World
OMAHA ORDER
IS IN TROUBLE
THE SAN FRANCISCO GALL,;' SATURDAY; JANUARY 23, 1004.
Continued From Page 1, Column 5.
THOUSANDS OF THE TROOPS OF THE CZAR INVADE CITY OF NEWCHWANG,
AND CHINESE MERCHANTS ARE COMPELLED TO DISPLAY COLORS OF RUSSIA
Foreign Shipping; In British Port?.
The inroads on British commerce
that are being made by foreign ship
ping can be seen in the reports of
tonnage from the great South Waies
docks of London. In 1897 at five of
these docks there arrived 10,122 Brit
ish ships with a tonnage of 10,741,000
tons, and 2640 foreign ships with an
aggregate of 1,875,400 tons. Thus the
Uritish tonage >vas about 85 per cent
of the whole. In 1902 the correspond
ing figures were 13,969 British ships
of 9,745,200 tons, , and* 4017 foreign
ships of 3,607,500 tons. Thus the-
British tonnage was about 73 per
cent of the' total. \The foreign* ton
nage had increased ' 92 per cent and
the British decreased 9 per cent. —
New York Commercial.
To Prevent the Grip.
I-axativo , Bromo ..Quinine removes th* cause.
To get the'genulnv call far the full name. 25c. *
Goodman Gonrong— We don't git
nbthln' at, that house. I asked' the
woman fur some cold vittles, a cup o*
cawfey. some clothin', an' a place to
sleep in' the barn' an", by gum, she
said I was dbmin* it a little too strong,
and'.shaiset the door in my face!
. Tuff old Knutt— That's . wot yet git,
ye blame , fool, fur puttin* all yer begs
in onVask it."— Chicago Tribune.
' ,My mother's sight has failed so that
threading a needle is. a task almost.be
yond her.' After "an absence from home
I .learned 1 ' that a young, friend having
eeVn her difficulty, had helped her over
this little obstacle by threading her
: needles. ; She 'simply took' the spool of
thread and paper of needles, and, with
•out breaking 'the thread, threaded the.
whole paper of needles : as one would
string beads. When , a needleful of
thread was' desired all * that was neces
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off as long a thread as desired, fasten
'¦ the outside needle- to the spool and
I leave ; It -ready ": for next ' time.— Good
Housekeeping. -. ¦ '¦ •:"¦
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