anaheim-gazette 1895-01-03

Anaheim VOLUME XXV. PROFESSIONAL CARDS Wm. H. PERDOMO, M.A., M.D. Office and Residence near Opera-house Block, Anaheim. Consultation Hours— Until 9 A.M. From 3 to 4 P.M. English, German, French, Spanish and Italian spoken. DR. J. H. BULLARD A. R., M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. (Harvard University, Boston, Mass.) Office and Residence, corner Hermine and Chartres Streets, Anaheim. OFFICE HOURS 7 to 8:30 a.m.; 12 to 1:30; and 6 to 7:20 p.m. DR. GEORGE McMURRAY. VETERINARY SURGEON & DENTIST Dental work a Specialty. All Diseases of the Horse successfully treated. Headquarters at Lewis Stables. dec13-tf H. W. CHYNOWETH, Attorney-At-Law. Helmsen Building, Center street. NOTARY PUBLIC. Real Property Law a Specialty. ANAHEIM, CAL. RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Center street, Anaheim, Cal Special attention given to PROBATE matters. A. D. Porter. H. A. McWilliams. PORTER & McWILLIAMS. Orange County Nurseria FULLERTON, CAL. ESTABLISHED 1889. One Hundred Acres! Half-Million Trees Complete Assortment of Fruit and Nut Bearing Trees, Ornate Trees, Shrubs, Roses, Etc. Everything Home-grown and Acclimating The Largest Nurseries in Southern California. All Trees, Etc. Own "ORANGE COUNTY PLANTERS" at WHOLESALE PRICES! CATALOGUE FREE. P. A. SCHUMACHER PROPRIETARY M. H. CHEESEMAN'S (WEST-END GROCER) Groceries and Provisioning Dry Goods Clothing NOTARY PUBLIC. Real Property Law a Specialty. ANAHEIM, CAL. RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Center street, Anaheim, Cal. Special attention given to PROBATE matters. A. D. Porter. H. A. McWilliams. PORTER & McWILLIAMS. CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. Shop and Office—In Old Fellows' building. Los Angeles street, Anaheim. CHAS. SCHINDLER, CONTRACTOR and BUILDER. ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA. L. NEMETZ, Carriage Painting & Trimming SIGN WRITING Shop on Center street, near the opera-house. Anaheim, Cal. L. GUNTHER. PIONEER BOOT & SHOE MAKER. Corner Adele and Los Angeles treets. GEORGE BAUER. BOOT AND SHOE MAKER. Center street... Anaheim. Making and repairing at the lowest cash price. All orders promptly attended to. All work guaranteed CHAS. ALBRECHT Contractor & Builder Estimates Given. Fine Workmanship. Agent for the Pomona win mill. First North street, Anaheim, Cal H. P. LARSEN, CONTRACTOR & BUILDER. Estimates given, Contracts made and do a general jobbing Business. CENTER STREET, ANAHEIM. PALACE. Shaving Parlor (WEST-END GROCER) Groceries and Provision Dry Goods, Clothing, BOOTS AND SHOES, ET A Complete Stock Always on Hand T. J. F. BOEGH Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Wines, Liquors and Cigars KEEPS ALWAYS ON HAND A COMPLETE STOCK Of the Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars. WINES AND LIQUORS BY THE KEG, GALLON OR BOTTLE. Orders by Mail Promptly Attended to. GOODS DELIVERED FREE OF CHARGE. Opp. S.. P. Depot, ANAHEIM, CAL Commercial Hotel. (Corner Center and Lemon Streets) J. J. EVERHARTY, - PROPRIETOR First-class Accommodations for Families & Tourists THE COMMERCIAL FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE ANAHEIM Hotel, has been thoroughly renovated, and will be conduit in first-class style. A share of the public patronage is respectfully solicited. SAMPLE ROOMS ATTACHED TO HOTEL. The Finest of Wines, Liquors and Cigars DUBLIN STOUT, PALE ALE, HALF-AND-HALF. Fashion Livery Stables in connection with Hotel. First-class turn-furnished with or without drivers. Horses bought and sold. WOODWARD ROPE GRADE H. P. LARSEN, CONTRACTOR & BUILDER. Estimates given, Contracts made and do a general jobbing business. CENTER STREET, Anaheim. PALACE. Shaving Parlor Pool and Billiard Room, Cigars & Tobacco. Hot and Cold Baths. Office of Santa Ana Steam Laundry. Leave Wash on or before Mondays. Delivered on Fridays. New Tables and Everything in First-Class Style. Frantz & Cooper — PROPRIETORS — Four Doors east of Postoffice. FRANK FOX. City Barber Shop. FOR A FIRST-CLASS SHAVE! Ruddock & Case. PLUMBING, TINNING, Pump Work! Agents for Woodmanse, Galvanized Steel Geared Windmill. Write or call on us for estimates. ct25tf Anaheim, Cal. THE COMMERCIAL FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE Anaheim Hotel, has been thoroughly renovated, and will be conduit in first-class style. A share of the public patronage is respectfully solicited. SAMPLE ROOMS ATTACHED TO HOTEL. The Finest of Wines, Liquors and Cigars DUBLIN STOUT, PALE ALE, HALF-AND-HALF. Fashion Livery Stables in connection with Hotel. First-class turn-furnished with or without drivers. Horses bought and sold. WOODWARD ROPE GRADE FOR FRUITS AND NUTS. Only Authorized Agents for California and Mexico. E. B. MERRITT & CO., Anaheim, Correspondence Solicited. JUST RECEIVED WINTER GOODS! Of latest styles and fabrics, to which the tention of the citizens of Anaheim and vicinia is directed. Suits to order from $25 u Pants to order from $6 u An invitation is cordially extended to public to call and examine this stock. F. CRIST, MERCHANT TAILLO ANAHEIM. CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1895. FRESNO IS WITH US FOR A NEW STATE. Fresno, Cal., Dec. 29. The letters sent out by representative citizens, inviting Merced, Madera, Tulare, Kings and Kern counties to discuss the matter of state division and a competing railroad in all its phases and to join in sending a delegation to San Francisco have aroused the greatest interest in this section. This delegation is to ascertain if there is enough evidence to warrant the belief that the traffic association road will be constructed to make it worth while longer to consider San Francisco as the outlet for the products of this county in the future, or whether they must look to Los Angeles and its eastern railroad connections to save them. The letters sent are not identical, but the points made are as follows: What Fresno wants is an equal opportunity with Los Angeles to get its products to the market. The citizens want affiliation with the enterprising people of Southern California who have made that part of the State known throughout the world. The fruit productions of Fresno county are the same as those of Southern California, and in addition it has great wheat and other fruit crops. Fresno county's citrus fruits come into market a month earlier than those of Los varies from twelve to eighteen years. These girls are expected to cultivate their good looks, their mental brightness, their spirit of independence, and nothing else. Their sisters, if they have any, and their entire family, wait upon them, sacrifice everything in their favor, accustom them to rich attire, relieve them from the necessity of privation, if privation is ever a portion of the family menage, and in every way create in these particularly fortunate maidens the impression that they are superior to the ordinary run of women, and that something great is in store for their future. When the time comes that they are to be disposed of they are taken down either to Constantinople, to Cario or to some other of the great centers and are there put up for sale. Frequently they are sold by the family to some dealer who makes a tour of the country picking up bargains in this line, and in that case they are added to a number of others and the entire party is put up at auction eventually. This, in fact, is the usual method of procedure, as it very seldom happens that the father of the family cares to go to the expense and trouble of personally taking his daughter into town and disposing of her. A much better price can usually be had through a recognized dealer, and the same advantage prevails in this as in any other occupation, that the man who makes his profession is much more successful than the man who goes into it as an amateur. When it comes to the sale the girls are seated around the court of the house on Turkish pillows and are clothed in a single garment, somewhat like the much maligned Mother Hubbard. The prospective purchasers make a tour of the open place and select those that they prefer. It is very seldom, if ever, that these Circassian girls are exposed without any covering whatever. They have been brought up in comparative luxury and absolute indolence, and have their own ideas of modesty. The position of a slave does not convey to them the same degrading sentiment that it does to the European. They are taught that this is a perfectly legitimate and creditable end to their ambitions. Their only anxiety is that they shall be purchased by a man who is sufficiently well-to-do to permit them to continue the mode of life to which they are accustomed. When they fall into the possession of an owner who has simply sufficient to buy them, and requires them to do serious hard work thereafter, their life is not a pleasant one. But the most striking that her husband was in the house she could save him if she counted her combination. The first time she failed, owing to her great error. The next time, realizing that her life depended upon her coolness, more successful, and the big iron vault slowly swung open. Stofen was found on the floor of unconscious. The safe door was most of the money gone. Stofen, as soon as he revived, said opened up the office as usual about As he was carrying out the trays wrought into the door of the vault uplifted dagger in his right hand to drop the trays, which he did. As he over to lay the trays down the robber him, a powerful blow on the back rendered him unconscious, for how could not tell. He says that the tail and wore chin whiskers, and may gained admittance to the office night and waited for him to open thiefs. Officers are scouring the country robber, but not a trace has been found. FLORIDA ORANGES ERK JACKCONVILLE (Fla.), Dec. 30. by wire from fifty-one correspondent orange districts of the State indicated least 1,810,000 boxes of unpicked or spoiled, and more than 300,000 box angles in the warehouse or lying preparatory to picking, are frozen; tees, cabbage, beans, peas and all veins in the northern half of the State are except pineapple plantations, which much injured. Day before yesterday half of the great orange crop of 5,000,000 boxes on the trees. The tail of the northward switched around through the peninsula and within the space of hours Florida had sustained a loss estimated in cash, would reach into itsions. The destruction will be felt years indirectly or directly, by all people of the State. Previous to this coldest weather known was in 1886 there is no record to show how cold then. Reports from the interior of this show that the cold weather has been GROCER) Provisions Clothing, HOES, ETC. Always on Hand E STOCK! LIQUORS IN OR BOTTLE. Fully Attended to. REE OF CHARGE! AHEIM, CAL. 1 Hotel. (on Streets) PROPRIETOR. For Families & Tourists KNOWN AS THE ANAovated, and will be conducted patronage is respectfully tACHED TO HOTEL. HALF-AND-HALF. Hotel. First-class turn-outs Horses bought and sold. FOR STATE DIVISION. FRESNO, Dec. 29.—Considerable indignation is expressed here by citizens at the course taken by San Francisco papers toward the proposed road to Los Angeles. The most outspoken was F. G. Berry. Berry says he was a member of the Traffic Association at one time and worked for success, until a short time ago, when he says he satisfied himself that the association could not raise the money. He says it is no longer use for the people of Fresno county to look to San Francisco for aid for a competing road through the valley. In 'the course of an interview published to day Berry said: "When I heard of the postponement of the time for taking subscriptions, it seemed like an indefinite postponement and I concluded that we had better look to the southern country, which is reaching into this valley for trade. People there have shown a disposition to advertise us as belonging to their section of the State. Learning that a division of the State was mooted, I concluded that, if the State was to be divided, we would prefer to cast our lot with the south." What Fresno wants is an equal opportunity with Los Angeles to get its products to the market. The citizens want affiliation with the enterprising people of Southern California who have made that part of the State known throughout the world. The fruit productions of Fresno county are the same as those of Southern California, and in addition it has great wheat and other fruit crops. Fresno county's citrus fruits come into market a month earlier than those of Los Angeles county. This fact is demonstrated every month at Poterville, in Tulare county. The same belt of land and climate extends through this county. It would be a big thing if it were established that Fresno and Tulare and Kings counties were part and parcel of Southern California, and that or ange groves can be grown on land here to be had from $40 to $75 per acre. Such an verticiment would bring in a rush of people from Eastern States. Fresno county, in order to get the benefit of all this, must have the same access to markets that Southern California now has. It needs competing railroad connection with the outside world. Only those sections of the country ever get competing railroad rates that are in a position to demand them, rather than to supplicate for them. The constitution prohibits the people of the valley from doing anything for themselves. After the people had been led by voting to bond counties and cities to aid the Central Pacific road and the railroad people had received all the aid they could get from the people and the people were tired of paying these bonds, a provision was inserted in the constitution making it impossible for the people ever to tax themselves to build roads that would release them from the dominion of a railroad monopoly. One proposition is that representatives in the legislature be urged to work for a proposed amendment to permit counties and cities to issue bonds to help a connecting road. Fresno county could afford to pay greatly increased taxes if the farmers and vineyardists could be guaranteed freight rates according to the cost of service rather than according to the practice of charging all the traffic will bear. Fresno county could afford to bond itself for a million dollars to secure the natural right, which can never be expected until railroad competition is so cured. A prominent citizen said: "Nothing should stand in the way of our allying ourselves with Southern California, whose interests are identical with ours. I would rather have it said that Fresno is a part of that section of the State, so that we can be with them in governmental, geographical and industrial relations, than to have any other thing happen that we could obtain either from the State or national government." FOR STATE DIVISION. FRESNO, Dec. 29.—Considerable indignation is expressed here by citizens at the course taken by San Francisco papers toward the proposed road to Los Angeles. The most outspoken was F. G. Berry. Berry says he was a member of the Traffic Association at one time and worked for success, until a short time ago, when he says he satisfied himself that the association could not raise the money. He says it is no longer use for the people of Fresno county to look to San Francisco for aid for a competing road through the valley. In 'the course of an interview published to day Berry said: "When I heard of the postponement of the time for taking subscriptions, it seemed like an indefinite postponement and I concluded that we had better look to the southern country, which is reaching into this valley for trade. People there have shown a disposition to advertise us as belonging to their section of the State. Learning that a division of the State was mooted, I concluded that, if the State was to be divided, we would prefer to cast our lot with the south." What Fresno wants is an equal opportunity with Los Angeles to get its products to the market. The citizens want affiliation with the enterprising people of Southern California who have made that part of the State known throughout the world. The fruit productions of Fresno county are the same as those of Southern California, and in addition it has great wheat and other fruit crops. Fresno county, in order to get the benefit of all this, must have the same access to markets that Southern California now has. It needs competing railroad connection with the outside world. Only those sections of the country ever get competing railroad rates that are in a position to demand them, rather than to supplicate for them. The constitution prohibits the people of the valley from doing anything for themselves. After the people had been led by voting to bond counties and cities to aid the Central Pacific road and the railroad people had received all the aid they could get from the people and the people were tired of paying these bonds, a provision was inserted in the constitution making it impossible for the people ever to tax themselves to build roads that would release them from the dominion of a railroad monopoly. One proposition is that representatives in the legislature be urged to work for a proposed amendment to permit counties and cities to issue bonds to help a connecting road. Fresno county could afford to pay greatly increased taxes if the farmers and vineyardists could be guaranteed freight rates according to the cost of service rather than according to the practice of charging all the traffic will bear. Fresno county could afford to bond itself for a million dollars to secure the natural right, which can never be expected until railroad competition is so cured. A prominent citizen said: "Nothing should stand in the way of our allying ourselves with Southern California, whose interests are identical with ours. I would rather have it said that Fresno is a part of that section of the State, so that we can be with them in governmental, geographical and industrial relations, than to have any other thing happen that we could obtain either from the State or national government." KNOWN AS THE ANAOVATED, and will be conducted the patronage is respectfully TACHED TO HOTEL. HALF-AND-HALF. Hotel. First-class turn-outs Horses bought and sold. PE GRADER. D NUTS. CALIFORNIA and MEXICO. Anahelm, C al. policited. IVED OODS! to which the ataheim and vicinity is, totally extended the this stock. NT TAILOR. SAYS he was a member of the Traffic Association at one time and worked for success, until a short time ago, when he says he satisfied himself that the association could not raise the money. He says it is no longer use for the people of Freano county to look to San Francisco for aid for a competing road through the valley. In the course of an interview published to day Berry said: "When I heard of the postponement of the time for taking subscriptions, it seemed like an indefinite postponement and I concluded that we had better look to the southern country, which is reaching into this valley for trade. People there have shown a disposition to advertise us as belonging to their section of the State. Learning that a division of the State was mooted, I concluded that, if the State was to be divided, we would prefer to cast our lot with the southern half. We would rather be the tail of a live body than be the main part of a corpse. I agree with the Traffic Association that San Francisco is the natural outlet for us, but what have they done for us?" Marble Work. Go to H. L. Talbott, the marble cutter of the Orange County Marble Works on Main street, between Third and Fourth streets, Santa Ana, where you will find him to give you prices on monuments and all kinds of cemetery work cheaper than the cheapest. I refer to work done in the W. T. Brown, Bennerscheinid, Hart, Reid and other lots in the Anaheim cemetery done by my own band. nov29-tf THE SLAVE TRADE AT CAIRO. The trial has just been concluded at Cairo of two pashas and some others for the sale of female slaves, six girls having been smuggled in according to the statement put forth by the prosecuting side, and being purchased by the pashas, who were acquitted. The action of the English authorities in forcing this matter to a public trial is criticised with a great deal of derision because it is generally understood that the slave trade exists in undiminished vigor, and that the outburst of ophemeral virtue upon this particular occasion has some political or social end in view very far removed from the purification of Egyptian morals or the salvation of the marketable maidens. The trade in slaves exists at this moment not only in Egypt, but in Turkey and in very many of the English colonies, to the same extent that it did twenty-five years ago. Possibly the sale of absolute and healthy working men may be somewhat restricted. The male element in this slave trade may have been partly eliminated from the business by the efforts of the English and French reformers, but the education of girls for the sole purpose of being put up in a public market and sold, and the kidnapping of women from the interior of Africa and other countries for the purpose of barter is to-day just as popular as it has been for the past quarter of a century. Throughout Circa-sia it is a recognized social condition that certain daughters of this family shall be brought up to the idea that they are to be sold as slaves when they reach the proper age, and that proper age The trial lay down to Oakland. The man lay where he had fallen, his face downward in the adobe mud. Some women residing in the neighborhood heard the man crying for help. They notified Policeman Powers. The careful guardian of the law made an investigation and discovered: First, that the man was drank; second, that he was unable to move; third, that the line dividing Oakland from Pay District, crossed over the body of the dranken man and that his legs were within the jurisdiction of Oakland police department, but his head and torso subject to the law of Emeryville. The policeman mounted his horse and rode away, leaving the Italian to his complication of misfortunes. People in the neighborhood hunted up Powers again and demonstrated with him, but he declared that he was unable to decide how to act. To arrest a drunken man was his duty, but how could he take the man to jail, when only the fellow's legs were amenable to the laws of the municipality? The subject was equally puzzling to the constables, and all the while Ruffini lay sinking into the mire. Finally a machinist employed at the Judson Works got some boards and helped the fellow out of the mud. Carlton Cornwell, foreman of the Gate Middletown, N.J., believes that Chamberlain's Cough Remedy should be in every home. He used it for a cold and it effected a speedy cure. He says: "It is indeed a grand remedy, I can recommend it to all. I have also seen it used for whooping cough, with the best result." 50 cent bottles for sale by Jessen & Derge. ROBBED AND LOCKED IN THE VAULT. SANTA ROSA, Dec. 29.—Santa Rosa has the biggest sensation in its history. The county treasury was robbed of nearly $8,000, and County Treasurer Stofen was left insensitive in the vault to suffocate by the robbers, who locked the door of the vault on him. The robbery occurred about 9 o'clock this morning, but it was not discovered until about 5 o'clock this afternoon. All this time Treasurer Stofen lay on the floor gasping for breath, fearing every moment during conscious intervals that it would be his last. Had it not been for the timely arrival of his wife, the only person in town who knew the combination, he must have died. She had been at Cloverdale, and on her return here about 4 o'clock learned that the treasurer had not been home to dinner. The children said that they had taken his dinner up to him and left it in front of the office, but that they could not get in. Mrs. Stofen suspecting something wrong, rushed down to the office. The door was locked, but by the aid of the janitor she opened the door. Between the front part of the office and Treasurer Stofen's front office is a wicket gate. This was also locked. Once inside Mrs. Stofen found her fears realized. On one of the desks was her husband's coat and hat. On the floor in confusion were money trays in which the Treasurer carried money from the vault, which is in a rear office, to his desk in the front room. A faint knocking was heard from inside the vault. Mrs. Stofen cried out Cholly—Did you hear we ah going pel Cawley from the club? Choppie—What law? Cholly—He pahmitted the little M lightly to sit on his knee. Choppie—Good Gwacious! Cholly—So I should say! It took cwease out of his twousers. Harry Jessen, the old reliable cutter of Santa Ana, will not be out quality of work or prices by any Southern California. JARY 3, 1895. SNAP SHOTS AT THE NEWS Florida has had a freeze. The damage to the orange and fruit crop is estimated at $5,000,000. Senator Fair died in San Francisco Friday night at midnight. He was the richest man on the coast, being worth forty millions. Arrangements are being made in Fresno to call a meeting of the business men of Kera, Tulare, Kings, Fresno, Madera and Merced counties to discuss the project of state division and a competing railway. The matter is creating general interest throughout the southern part of the State. A Supreme Court Commissioner is soon to be chosen to succeed Judge Jackson Temple, who has been elected to the Supreme bench. The new Commissioner will probably be a Democrat, it being the custom to keep the commission as evenly balanced politically as possible. Among the dozen or more aspirants for the position the name of Hon. V. Montgomery of Santa Ana appears. Owing to the vote favoring the adoption of a constitutional amendment for bidding the alien ownership of lands in California, a British syndicate, which had sent over half a million of dollars to invest in land here, has cabled their San Francisco agent to stop. The constitutional amendment has settled them. It will settle many more such investors. California does a good many fool things, but this time she broke the record. Two women in San Francisco are prosecuted at the probable foundering of the Keweenaw and the Montserrat. Archie Kollock, the second assistant engineer of the Keweenaw, was to be married soon to Miss Dora Tuchson, who is so prostrated at her fiancée's fate that her reason is in danger. Miss Mamie Shields now claims to have been married by contract four years ago to Timothy Linehan, engineer of the Montserrat, and will claim his insurance policies. Linehan's relatives deny the marriage. *A letter was received in Bordentown, N.J., dated Michigan Base, Sacramento county, Cal., asking whether Mr. and Mrs. Joel Blakesley, an aged couple living at White Hill, were still alive. The letter was from their son, William Blakesley, who had been absent for thirty years, and whom his parents had given up for dead. The aged couple coiling and wall. It started from a defective blue, and when the flames found a vent there was a rush and a roar of fire that could not be controlled. A sharp, steady breeze from the northeast drove the flames and smoke directly across the Seal rocks. As the wind stiffened, the flames spread oceanswards in a horizontal line and the sparks fell in a continuous shower on the breakers and the rocks. The seals hastily betook themselves from the rocks and sought refuge in the sea. Sutro's magnificent baths, the finest in the world, adjoin the Cliff House and it was feared they too would be destroyed. Fortunately the wind was in the opposite direction and the baths were saved. Officer Morgan shot and killed a tramp whom he was chasing for having committed burglary at Santa Ana last Wednesday afternoon, and who turned upon him and ordered him to throw up his hands, leveling a rifle at the officer which he had taken from a deputy constable who had attempted to arrest him a short time before. As Morgan came upon him, between Santa Ana and Tustin just before dark, the trump raised the rifle to his shoulder, calling upon him to throw up his hands, when Morgan shot him in the breast, and the man sank down, calling to the officer not to shoot again, saying "You've got me, officer, don't shoot again." He died without being identified in about fifteen minutes. The stolen articles taken from the burglarized premises were recovered. The man's "pal" was arrested, but said he did not know his partner's name. The fellow is thought to be a criminal from the East. Morgan was exonerated. As a result of months of domestic unhappiness ex-Alderman Charles F. Johnson of Galesburg, Ill., was shot by his wife, Ida E. Johnson, in the office of Attorney John Malley, and is in a critical condition. The two were married in June, 1893. Last November Mrs. Johnson left her husband on account of his alleged brutality and intemperate habits, and had begun separate maintenance proceedings. Attorney Malley got them together to effect a reconciliation. While in the consultation room the woman drew a revolver and fired two shots, one taking effect in Johnson's body and the other going through his coat sleeve. The attorney threw the door open and seized the revolver before she could shoot again, while Johnson sprang from the corner in which he was carrying what her husband was in the vault, and she could save him if she could remember the combination. The first time she tried the fallow, owing to her great excitement. The next time she realized that her husband's life depended upon her coolness, she was more successful, and the big iron doors of the vault allowly swung open. Treasurer Stofen was found on the floor of the vault noonconscious. The safe door was open and most of the money gone. Stofen, as soon as he revived, said that he opened up the office as usual about 9 o'clock. As he was carrying out the trays with money from the vault a tall man in stocking-fest stepped into the door of the vault and with philted dagger in his right hand told him to drop the trays, which he did. As he stooped over to lay the trays down the robber struck him a powerful blow on the back which rendered him unconscious, for how long he could not tell. He says that the man was ill and wore chin whiskors, and must have admitted admittance to the office during the night and waited for him to open the safe. Officers areSOURcingthe country for the robber, but not a trace has been found. LORIDA ORANGES EROZEN. JACKCONVILLE (Fla.), Dec. 30.-Reports wire from fifty-one correspondents in the range districts of the State indicate that at least 1,810,000 boxes of unpicked oranges are oiled, and more than 300,000 boxes of oranges in the warehouse or lying in bulk separatory to picking are frozen. Tomaes, cabbage beans, peas and all vegetables in northern half of the State are ruined except pineapple plantations, which are not much injured. Day before yesterday half of the season's fast orange crop of 5,000,000 boxes was still in the trees. The tail of the northern blizzard switched around through the Florida minnsula and within the space of a few hours Florida had sustained a loss that estimated in cash, would reach into the millinsula. The destruction will be felt for many years indirectly or directly by all the people of the State. Previous to this time the oldest weather known was in 1885, but there is no record to show how cold it was. Reports fromthe interior ofthe State show thatthe coldweatherhasbeengeneral Day before yesterday half of the season's heat orange crop of 5,000,000 boxes was still in the trees. The tail of the northern blizzard switched around through the Florida peninsula and within the space of a few hours Florida had sustained a loss that, estimated in cash, would reach into the millions. The destruction will be felt for many indiscretely or directly, by all the peo of the State. Previous to this time the latest weather known was in 1885, but there is no record to show how cold it was. Reports from the interior of the State now that the cold weather has been general, and has extended from one side of the peninsula to the other. The lowest temperature Tampa was 18 deg., and the same was re-timed from Titusville. At Cedar Key it said to be as low as 16 deg. The cold weather played havoc with the plumbing and water supply in Jacksonville. Many people and their water pipes frozen. The occurrence was so unusual that it was some time more than residents could realize that the latter had actually frozen in the pipes. There was ice in shallow places, however, and there were icicles everywhere. The latter was modern to-day and the cold fall is now broken. At 8 p.m. the temperature was 40 deg. OL. BRECKINRIDGE ON HIS TRAVELS. W. C. P. Breckinridge delivered the first series of lectures at the opera-house in Charleston, W. V., to 178 people, six of whom being women. His topic was: "Eras American Development and Their Great Work." Breckinridge and his wife arrived on Washington late in the afternoon. His purpose aroused no particular interest. The ornery for Madeline Pollard contemplate bowing Congressman Breckinridge on his tour throughout the country, in an effort to subject the receipts to the payment Miss Pollard's verdict for breach of promise. This will be done by filing a script at each place the Colonel lectures, basing a creditor's bill upon that. The Man's Council and the Nineteenth Century Club, embracing a membership of 4,000 men of Memphis, passed a resolution to Scott Breckinridge when he appears there a week. INCINNATI, December 27.—The box at Pike's Opera House, where Colonel Breckinridge lectured to-night, was the scene an exciting fight. Attorney Gus Meyer represented Madeline Pollard in tak depositions here previously to the Washington trial, had a bill of $45 against Colonel Breckinridge. This afternoon he secured a lot of attachment from Squire Cushman, who instructed Constables Kinney and Baker to serve it. There had been rumors of attempted attachment and the box office barricaded. Infinite, a few minutes after 8 o'clock, set up to the window as if to purchase a ticket. At that instant Volker gave him a weared Kinney was propelled clearthrough, kicking down the ticket-seller, overturning cash register and breaking a picture on wall. Then began an exciting struggle for possession of the money which had been from the broken register. Kinney urged to pick up $60. The struggle attached Breckinridge's friends and about him rushed in. Kinney was knocked out and kicked, his lips being split and crushed. The ticket taker received a severe shock on the hand, probably from flying glass. Just as quiet was restored Colonel Breckinidge and his son Desha rushed in. Both greatly excited. You robbing——," shouted the Colonel, De Sha struggled to hit the constable, was restrained by friends. You come down to the Grand Hotel torow," yelled Desha, "and give me satisfaction." Infinite declined the invitation to a duel, after counting the money he had seized earned $13 to Manager Ballenberg. While struggle was in progress two other coin women in San Francisco are prostrated at the probable founder of the Keweenaw and the Montserrat. Archie Kollock, the second assistant engineer of the Keweenaw, and Dora Kuchson were to have married in San Francisco four days before Christmas. The one is now supposed to be at the bottom of the storm-swept seas and the other is bereft of reason. The gale that sent the Keweenaw to the ocean depths, with every soul on board, shattered the hopes and wrecked the life of one of the gentlest girls in San Francisco. It is three weeks since all hope of the Keweenaw was given up by everybody. Several days previously, however, Miss Tuchson, whose thoughts were ever with her intended on the steamer, had made up her mind that she would never see him again. She was as sure of it as if the news of the going down of the East. Morgan was exonerated. As a result of months of domestic unhappiness ex-Alderman Charles F. Johnson of Galesburg, Ill., was shot by his wife, Ida E. Johnson, in the office of Attorney John Malley, and is in a critical condition. The two were married in June, 1893. Last November Mrs. Johnson left her husband on account of his alleged brutality and intemperate habits, and had begun separate maintenance proceedings. Attorney Malley got them together to effect a reconciliation. While in the consultation room the woman drew a revolver and fired two shots, one taking effect in Johnson's body and the other going through his coat sleeve. The attorney throw the door open and seized the revolver before she could shoot again, while Johnson sprang from the corner in which he was cowering and ran into a doctor's office. Mr. Johnson gave herself up. Among the reasons for the almost uninterrupted success of Japan in prosecuting the present war with China is the spirit of sacrifice and generosity exhibited by her people. Voluntary contributions amounting to almost $15,000,000 have been received by the government. The Bank of the Nobility, which has given $1,000,000 outright, has also placed $15,230,000 interest fee; at the disposal of the authorities. The noblemen and wealthy merchants have been most patriotic, and a number of them have contributed more than $100,000 each. Victory under such conditions is comparatively easy and certain. Public spirit in China with reference to the unfortunate conflict presents a melancholy contrast, and Admiral Ting himself reports that seven of his ships remained concealed during the fight on the Yalu. James Ogilvie, an old man who sold his property at Alpens, Mich., eight years ago for $2,500 and went to Rockford, Ill., with his wife to spend the balance of his life in luxury at Schweinfurth's "Heaven," turning his cash over to the bogus "Lord," quit the place for good, although his wife refuses to go with him. Ogilvie tells startling stories of the life the thirty or more "angels" at the "Heaven" lead. He complains that in his case, as well as with twenty other men discrimination is made in their food, barely enough being given them to subsist on, while Schweinfurth and a few favored live on the fat of land. Ogilvie holds Schweinfurth's note for $1,500, given two years ago, and is now looking for his cash, the pretender having promised to hold a conference with him to-morrow. Ogilvie will carry his case into court. A horrible holocaust occurred at Silvor Lake, Lake county, Oregon on Christmas Eve, in which forty-one people were burned to death and sixteen badly injured, five of whom will die. A large crowd had assembled to attend a Christmas tree. While the festivities were at their height some one climbed on a bench, from which point he expected to get a better view of what was going on. In doing so he head struck a lamp hanging from the ceiling, overturning it. The oil immediately caught fire and everything in the room being dry and of an inflammable nature, the room was soon a mass of flames. Some one shouted: "Shut the door and keep quiet; it can be put out." By this time the confusion was so great that people began scrambling in a wild endeavor to reach the door. Women and children were trampled under foot and as there was only one door to the hall and the fire being between the majority of the crowd and the door, many people rushed headlong into the flames. Archie Kollock, second assistant engineer of the Keweenaw, and Dora Kuchson were to have married in San Francisco four days before Christmas. The one is now supposed to be at the bottom of the storm-swept seas and the other is bereft of reason. The gale that sent the Keweenaw to the ocean depths, with every soul on board, shattered the hopes and wrecked the life of one of the gentlest girls in San Francisco. It is three weeks since all hope of the Keweenaw was given up by everybody. Miss Tuchson, whose thoughts were ever with her intended on the steamer, had made up her mind that she would never see him again. She was as sure of it as if the news of the going down of the East. Morgan was exonerated. As a result of months of domestic unhappiness ex-Alderman Charles F. Johnson of Galesburg, Ill., was shot by his wife, Ida E. Johnson, in the office of Attorney John Malley, and is in a critical condition. The two were married in June, 1893. Last November Mrs. Johnson left her husband on account of his alleged brutality and intemperate habits, and had begun separate maintenance proceedings. Attorney Malley got them together to effect a reconciliation. While in the consultation room the woman drew a revolver and fired two shots, one taking effect in Johnson's body and the other going through his coat sleeve. The attorney throw the door open and seized the revolver before she could shoot again, while Johnson sprang from the corner in which he was cowering and ran into a doctor's office. Mr. Johnson gave herself up. Among the reasons for the almost uninterrupted success of Japan in prosecuting the present war with China is the spirit of sacrifice and generosity exhibited by her people. Voluntary contributions amounting to almost $15,000,000 have been received bythe government.The BankoftheNobilitywhichhasgiven$1，000，000outright,hastheplaced$15，230，000interestfee;atthedisposaloftheauthorities.Thenoblemenandwealthmerchantshavebeenmostpatriotic,andanumberofthemhavecontributedmorethan$100，000each.Victoryundersuchconditionsiscomparativelyeasyandcertain.PublicspiritinhChinawithreferencetotheunfortunateconflictpresentsthemelancholycontrast,andAdmiralTinghimselfreportsthatsevenofhisshipsremainedconcealedduringthefightontheYalu. James Ogilvie,nolomanwhosoledhispropertyatAlpens,Mich.,eightyearsagofor$2，500andwenttoRockford,Ll.,withhiswifetospendthebalanceofhislifeinluxuryatSchweinfurth's"Heaven",turninghis Cashovertothebogus"Lord",quittheplaceforgood,andalthoughhiswifefreedomwithhimto-morrow.Ogilviewillcarryhiscaseintocourt. A horrible holocaust occurred at Silvor Lake,Lake county,Gregon on Christmas Eve,在which forty-onepeoplewereburnedtodeathandsixteenbadlyinjured,五ofwhomwilldie.AlargecrophadassembledtowatchaChristmastree.WilliamwinslowShearmanandherdaughter.Mrs.Clinton,hasscausedgreatexcitementthere.HisappearancecorrespondswiththedescriptionoftheimageofthemanseeninMrs.Shearman'seyeasifstandingina stoopingposition.Thediscussionoverthepossessionidentifyingtheinurderbyanimageleftontheretinaoftheeyehasrevivedwithinterest.Theimagewasblurredbythe removaloftheeyefromthesocketThoseremovingitremembertheimagesowellthattheycouldidentifythemanfromthegeneraloutline.Beforetheremovaloftheeyetheimagewassharplydefined.Eventhewrinklesintheclotheswereplainlyseenbytheaidofthemicroscope. Archie Kollock,sound assistant engineeroftheKeweenaw,andDoraKuchsonweretohavemarriedinSanFranciscofourdaysbeforeChristmas.Theoneisnowsupposedtobeatbottomofthestream-sweptseasandtheotherisbereftofreason.ThegalethatsenttheKeweenawtotheoceandepths,andeverysoulonboard.shatteredthehopeandwreckedthelifeofoneofthegentlestgirlsinSanFrancisco.itthreeweekssinceallhopeoftheKeweenawwasgivenupbyeverybody.MissTuchsonwhosethoughtswereverwithherintendedonthesteamer,hadmadeuphermindthatshewouldneverseehimagain.ShewasasureofitasifthenewsofthegoingdownoftheEast.Morganwasexonerated. As a result of months of domestic unhappiness ex-Alderman Charles F. JohnsonofGalesburg，Ill.,wasshotbyhiswife,iidaE.Johnson.intheofficeofAttorneyJohnMalley,andisinacriticalcondition.ThewomenwishedtospendthepresentwarwithChinaisthespiritofsacrificeandgenerosityexhibitedbyherpeople.Voluntarycontributionsamountingtothemost$15，000，000havebeenreceivedbythegovernment.TheBankoftheNobilitywhichhasgiven$1，000，000outright,hastheplaced$15，230，000interestfee;atthedisposaloftheauthorities.Thenoblemenandwealthmerchantshavebeenmostpatriotic,andanumberofthemhavecontributedmorethan$100，000each.Victoryundersuchconditionsiscomparativelyeasyandcertain.PublicspiritinhChinawithreferencetotheunfortunateconflictpresentsthemelancholycontrast,andAdmiralTinghimselfreportsthatsevenofhisshipsremainedconcealedduringthefightontheYalu. James Ogilvie,nolomanwhosoledhispropertyatAlpens,Mich.,eightyearsagofor$2，500andwenttoRockford,Ll.,withhiswifetospendthepresentwarwithChinaisthespiritofsacrificeandgenerosityexhibitedbyherpeople.Voluntarycontributionsamountingtothemost$15，000，000havebeenreceivedbythegovernment.TheBankoftheNobilitywhichhasgiven$1，000，000outright,hastheplaced$15，230，000interestfee;atthedisposaloftheauthorities.Thenoblemenandwealthmerchantshavebeenmostpatriotic,andanumberofthemhavecontributedmorethan$100，000each.Victoryundersuchconditionsiscomparativelyeasyandcertain.PublicspiritinhChinawithreferencetotheunfortunateconflictpresentsthemelancholycontrast,andAdmiralTinghimselfreports thatsevenofhisshipsremainedconcealedduringthefightontheYalu. Archie Kollock,sound assistant engineeroftheKeweenaw,andDoraKuchsonweretohavemarriedinSanFranciscofourdaysbeforeChristmas.Theoneisnowsupposedtobeatbottomofthestream-sweptseasandtheotherisbereftofreason.ThegalethatSenttheKeweenawtoTheoceandepths,andeverysoulonboard.shatteredthehopeandwreckedthelifeofoneofthegentlestgirlsinSanFrancisco.itthreeweekssinceallhopeoftheKeweenawwasgivenupbyeverybody.MissTuchsonwhosethoughtswereverwithherintendedonthesteamer,hadmadeuphermindthatshewouldneverseehimagain.ShewasasureofitasifthenewsofthegoingdownofTheEast.Morganwasexonerated. As a result of months of domestic unhappiness ex-Alderman Charles F. JohnsonofGalesburg，Ill.,wasshotbyhiswife,iidaE.Johnson.in.theofficeofAttorneyJohnMalley,andisincapitalcondition.ThewomenwishedtospendthepresentwarwithChinaisthespiritofsacrifice和generosityexhibitedbyherpeople.Voluntarycontributionsamountingtothemost$15，000，000havebeenreceivedbythegovernment.TheBankoftheNobilitywhichhasgiven$1，000，000outright,hastheplaced$15，230，000interestfee;atthedisposaloftheauthorities.Thenoblemenandwealthmerchantshavebeenmostpatriotic,andanumberofthem havecontributedmorethan$100，000each.Victoryundersuchconditionsiscomparativelyeasyandcertain.PublicspiritinhChinawithreferencetotheunfortunateconflictpresentsthemelancholycontrast,andAdmiralTinghimselfreports thatsevenofhisshipsremainedconcealedduringthefightontheYalu. James Ogilvie,nolomanwhosoledhispropertyatAlpens,Mich.,eightyearsagofor$2，500andwenttoRockford,Ll.,withhiswifetospendthepresentwarwithChinaisthespiritofsacrifice和generosityexhibitedbyherpeople.Voluntarycontributionsamountingtothemost$15，0... A RUNAWAY LOVER. Mr. Louis, Dec. 29.—John W. Morton of Brooklyn, N.Y., accompanied by his daughter Miss Ella, arrived in this city in search of the mysteriously disappeared from his account haunts in Chicago about a week ago. He was a clerk there in a wholesale store, and by judicious investments had accumulated a little fortune of $5,000. He engaged to marry Miss Morton on Christmas day, and had notified her that he would leave Chicago for Brooklyn on the outset of December 20th. He failed to go that date, but on December 22d announced his intention of going East, and got getting a check of considerable size when he disappeared. The case promised become an unfathomable mystery, when a program was received from the missing man his brother-in-law, Edwin Guise, in Chicago, which read: "I am well. Don't worry out me." This was on Christmas day. Miss Morton immediately notified, and with her older went on to Chicago. Hill had come to this city, where he was found. He was an interview with his fiance and her mother, after which the trio left the city, supposedly for the East. Morton W. Morton is said to be a wealthy influential citizen of the City of Charmes, and seems to regard the late adoration of his prospective son-in-law as a bit breakishness consequent upon the young boy losing the bulk of his savings in an fortunate speculation. Hill says he lost the owned, and determined to go where was not known and begin life anew. Quite Likely. Cholly—Did you hear we sh going to ex-Cawley from the club? Choppie—What faw? Cholly—He pahmitted the little Miss Goody to sit on his knee. Choppie—Good Gwacious! Cholly—So I should say! It took all the case out of his twousers. Harry Jessen, the old reliable marble maker of Santa Ana, will not be outdone in city of work or prices by any firm in northern California. The arrest of George W. Depow at James-town, N.Y., on suspicion of being the murderer of Mrs. Winslow Shearman and her daughter, Mrs. Clinton, has caused great excitement there. His appearance corresponds with the description of the image of the man seen in Mrs. Shearman's eye as if standing in a stooping position. The discussion over the possibility of identifying the murderer by an image left on the retina of the eye has revived with interest. The image was blurred by the removal of the eye from the socket. Those removing it remember the image so well that they could identify the man from the general outline. Before the removal of the eye the image was sharply defined. Even the wrinkles in the clothes were plainly seen by the aid of the microscope. William Leavitt of Shelbyville, Ind., accompanied by Miss Susie Maple and Miss Mary Mitchell, started Thursday night for Bengal, ten miles distant, to attend an entertainment. Just after they had started a snowstorm began, but they continued their journey. Leavitt was unacquainted with the country, and in the blinding storm became lost. The next morning at 2 o'clock Henry Oltman was awakened by a knocking at his door. On opening it Leavitt was found, almost senseless and hardly able to give an account of himself. Oltman carried him and the rigid form of the young women into the house. They were unsconscious but will recover. Amputation of the limbs will be necessary. They had driven to another part of the country, thirty miles from their intended destination, and narrowly escaped death. The Lydicks and Todds, two prominent families of Montgomery county, Ind., are armed and threatening dire things, while the Sheriff is after James Todd with a writ of habeas corpus to force Todd to give his own daughter to Robert Lydick, her husband. Two years ago Robert Lydick of Brown's Valley married Miss Todd of Waveland, and all was lovely until he had a dispute with her over the sale of a farm. Six months ago Mrs. Lydick went for a short visit to her parents, and her husband was dumfounded two days later to learn that suit for divorce had been entered in her name. He visited Waveland, but was not allowed to see his wife, her father and brothers threatening his life if he stepped on the farm. The Todds held a family reunion near Brown's Valley, and while at dinner the door hurts open and Lydick sprang in. His wife ran toward him, but was seized by her relatives while Lydick was thrown from the house. As he was dragged out she called that she was imprisoned against her will, and would kill herself and baby if longer kept from her husband. She was quickly placed in a carriage and driven to Waveland. Some of the Lydicks pursued, but were warned off. Two tottering chimneys, the carved lion which stood guard at the stairway descending to the lower floor, charred timbers and ashes are all that remain of the Cliff House. The remainder is a reminiscence, for the Cliff House is a thing of the past. A million dollar structure of steel and stone will be erected on its site. Fire destroyed everything except a few souvenirs, the mirrors, and easily moveable furniture, the silverware, choice vintages and liquors and a part of the bar fixtures. The fire was a hidden one between between the majority of the crowd and the door, many people rushed headlong into the flames. Archio Kollock, second assistant engineer of the Keweenaw, and Dora Kuchson were to have married in San Francisco four days before Christmas. The one is now supposed to be at the bottom of the storm-swept seas and the other is bereft of reason. The gala that sent the Keweenaw to the ocean depths, with every soul on board, shattered the hopes and wrecked the life of one of the gentlest girls in San Francisco. It is three weeks since all hope of the Keweenaw was given up by everybody. Several days previously, however, Miss Tuchson, whose thoughts were ever with her intended on the steamer, had made up her mind that she would never see him again. She was as sure of it as if the news of the going down of the ship had been verified. She felt as sensitive women feel about such things, and she had been told by her lover that the vessel was not safe. She brooded over the loss of her lover until her mind gave way, and now she has to be constantly watched. The residence of Colonel S. M.B. Young, commanding officer of the cavalry at the Presidio, was destroyed by fire at an early hour last Wednesday morning. The fire was caused by a spark flying from an open grate and igniting the lace curtains. All of the colonel's family being out visiting in the garrison, the fire was not discovered until it had made rapid headway. All furniture and household utensils were removed, but were greatly damaged by water and careless handling. While the conflagration was at its highest pitch a report was circulated that Colonel Young was asleep in one of the upper rooms. Lieutenant Smedberg immediately tied a wet towel over his face and head, and made his way into the dense smoke and flame in an attempt to rescue his superior officer, and was nearly smothered in the smoke. Colonel Young was afterward discovered in one of the rocus fighting the fire like a veteran. The little town of Wesley, Minnesota, is sorely afflicted with a scourge of diphtheria. Since Nov. 28 fifty-four deaths have occurred. The disease is not confined to the village alone, but has spread all over the surrounding country and fifty deaths have occurred at a settlement three miles west. Aside from this there are sixty critical cases, and worst of all there is no doctor in the place nor is there a board of health. The graveyard is too small. A surveyor has been employed to lay out a new one. Two men are engaged to dig graves, as on an average two deaths occur daily, while twice as many new cases appear. The village has a population of 300, of whom not more than a dozen people speak English. All are Bohemians. There is a Catholic church, but no funerals are allowed in it. Services are held in a field some distance away. The priest is incapacitated for duty much of the time. Two or three bodies are thrown into a pit like dead sheep. Instead of a doctor the priest is called in and prayer is offered in place of medicine. There is no drugstore and disinfectants are unknown. Dozens of sick people lay for days without attendance of any kind until they die. In some instances five or six members of a family have died. No precautions have been taken to check the ravages of the disease.