anaheim-gazette 1896-06-04

Anaheim VOLUME XXVI. PROFESSIONAL CARDS DR. S. S. TWOMBLY, D. V. S. Veterinary Surgeon Graduate from the Faculty of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Late Professor of Chemistry and Veterinary Medicine at Agricultural College of Utah. Office—Center street, one door east of Harker's real estate agency, Anaheim. Residence, 1 mile east of Fullerton, on Placentia road. DR. CHARLES E. LEE (Successor to Dr. Bullard.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office and Residence—Corner Hermine and Chartress Streets, Anaheim. Office Hours—7 to 9 a.m.; 1 to 3 p.m.; 7 to 8. Medical College of Ohio. New York Post-Graduate. Physician, Surgeon and Accoucheur. Dr. J. A. Champion Office and residence; on Center street, near Clementina. Calls Promptly Attended Day or Night. Paul A. Derge. Graduate in Pharmacy. DRUGS, MEDICINES, Perfumes and Toilet Articles. BEST 5-CENT CIGAR IN TOWN MEDICAL HALL, KOLL BLOCK. PUBLIC TELEPHONE OFFICE. DR. F. G. FLOURNOY PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Calls Promptly Attended to at all hours. Closing Out Sale THE SAN FRANCISCO CHEAP CASH STORE Calls the attention of the public to their success in disposing of one-third of their stock of Clothing The balance of stock of Clothing will be sold out at Great Sacrifice. We also call the attention of the public to the fact that our stock of Dry and Fancy Goods, Boots and Shoes, Clothing and Hat are all new and fresh, and not shelf worn or full of holes from moths our competitors are trying to dispose of such goods and make you believe you are getting great bargains. Particular attention is called to the fact that those who have made purchases of us have acknowledged that our prices are lower than Santa Ana and Los Angeles prices. GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES Men's suits, $2 50. Boys' suits, 65c. Men's undershirts & drawers, 20c. Men's over shirts, 20c. Men's working shoes, $1 25. Unbleached muslin, 36 in. wide, 5c Cotton Flannel, $5 a yd. Coats' cotton, 7 spools 25c. Outing flannel, 5c. Wash ginghams, 5c. Table Linen, 60 in. wide, 25c. Table oil cloth, 15c. Challies, 5c. Ladies' percale waists, 40c each. Ladies' ribbed vests, 10c each. Ladies' black hose, 5c. Ladies' muslin chemise, 30c. Ladies' straw hats, 20c. Ladies' Dongola kid shoes, $1 25 Ladies' Dongola Kid ties, $1. Children's Dongola kid shoes, 75c Children's pebble goat, 75c Infants' Shoes, 15c. OUR STORE IS LOCATED IN Graduate in Pharmacy. DRUGS, MEDICINES, Perfumes and Toilet Articles. BEST 5-CENT CIGAR IN TOWN MEDICAL HALL, KOLL BLOCK. PUBLIC TELEPHONE OFFICE. DR. F. G. FLOURNOY PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Calls Promptly Attended to at all hours. The Whisky Habit cured by the Butler Plan of Treatment. One of the best treatments known in the world. A permanent cure guaranteed. Office—At Hotel Del Campo. CHAS. S. ROGERS Civil Engineer. Irrigation and Hydraulic Work a Specialty. Surveys and Estimates made at Reasonable Rates. OFFICE—East of Santa Fe Depot, Anaheim H. W. CHYNOWETH, Attorney-At-Law. Helmsen Building, Center street. NOTARY PUBLIC. Real Property Law a Specialty. ANAHEIM, CA RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Center street, Anaheim, Cal Special attention given to PROBATE matters. L. NEMETZ, Carriage Painting & Trimming SIGN WRITING Shop on Center street, near the opera-house. Anaheim, Cal. H. A. McWilliams. Contractor AND Builder. Office, first door east of City Hall. ap111f GRAY BROTHERS & WARD Cement Contractors Shillinger Patent. Contracts for RESERVOIRS, IRRIGATION DITCHES, Cellar and Stable Floors, Sidewalks, Etc. OFFICES—No. 125 N. Broadway, Los Angeles, Cal., Telephone—236. No. 316 Montgomery St., San Francisco, Cal. H. P. LARSEN, CONTRACTOR & BUILDER. Men's suits, $2 50. Boys' suits, 65c. Men's undershirts & drawers, 20c. Men's over shirts, 20c. Men's working shoes, $1 25. Unbleached muslin, 36 in. wide, 5c Cotton Flannel, 5c a yd. Coats' cotton, 7 spools 25c. Outing flannel, 5c. Wash ginghams, 5c. Table Linen, 60 in. wide, 25c. Table oil cloth, 15c. OUR STORE IS LOCATED IN ODD FELLOWS' BUILDING, LOS ANGELES St., ANAHEIM E. B. MERRITT & CO., DEALERS IN FURNITURE AND A COMPLELE LINE OF House Furnishing Goods. Heath and Muliigan's best prepared Paints for all kinds of work. Wall Paper---Latest Designs. Pure, Raw and Boiled Linseed Oil, Varnish, etc. Agent for The Majestic Steel and Malleable Iron Range, the best on the market. The war is over; get our prices; you will find them right. Center Street, Opposite Postoffice, - - - Anaheim, Cal H. A. DICKEL DEALER IN GROCERIES, HARDWARE CROCKERY SETS. Just Received a New Line of FINE GROCERIES ALL GOODS GUARANTEED. GRAY BROTHERS & WARD Cement Contractors Shillinger Patent. Contracts for RESERVOIRS, IRRIGATION DITCHES, Cellar and Stable Floors, Sidewalks, Ete. OFFICES—No. 125 N. Broadway, Los Angeles, Cal. Telephone—236. No. 316 Montgomery St., San Francisco, Cal. H. P. LARSEN, CONTRACTOR & BUILDER. Estimates given, Contracts made and do a general jobbing Business. CENTER STREET — ANAHEIM. L. GUNTHER. PIONEER BOOT & SHOE MAKER. Corner Adele and Los Angeles Streets. 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 GO TO THE Oak Barber Shop FOR A FIRST-CLASS SHAVE OR HAIR CUT. TWO DOORS WEST OF BANK. HUSMANN BROS. J.M. Griffith Company A CORPORATION LUMBER DEALERS Near Railroad Depot ANAHEIM. Keep constantly on hand Doors, Blinds, Windows, MOULDINGS. Posts, Shakes, Shingles, LATH, HAIR, PLASTER OF PARIS ANAHEIM GRIST MILLS OPERATING ON Wednesdays and Saturdays of each week. Grain, Feed, Meal, Etc. of all varieties. Cornilled and shipped. Just Received a New Line of FINE GROCERIES ALL GOODS GUARANTEED. Call for Snowflake Canned Goods Mrs. G. Davis Groceries and Seeds! Informs her customers and the general public that she is prepared to sell goods at the smallest margin possible. She buys for cash and therefore can sell for a very small profit, giving her customers the benefit of low prices. No charge for showing goods or answering questions. Come one, Come all! All Kinds of Produce and Poultry Taken in Exchange BENTZ & BAILEY Wholesale and Retail Butchers Anaheim, Cal. Dealers in Beef, Pork, Mutton, Veal, Sausages and Lard Of Our Own Make. Highest Market price Paid for Live Stock! This Paper not to be taken from the Library. ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1896. ET SALE AP CASH STORE The public to their third of their stock be sold out at Great Sacrificio to the fact that our shoes, Clothing and Hats full of holes from moths; goods and make you be fact that those who have our prices are lower than IN PRICES 5c. percale waists, 40c each. ribbed vests, 10c each. black hose, 5c. muslin chemise, 30c. straw hats, 20c. Dongola kid shoes, $1 25. Dongola Kid ties, $1. 's Dongola kid shoes, 75c. 's pebble goat, 75c. Shoes, 15c. THE SUGAR BOUNTY. THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES REVERSES COMPTROLLER BOWLER. WASHINGTON, May 26. — The Supreme Court sustained the validity of the appropriation to carry out the sugar-bounty features of the McKinley and Wilson tariff act by unanimous opinion affirming the decision of the Circuit Court of the Eastern District of Louisiana, and reversing the action of Comptroller of the Treasury Bowler, who refused to permit the payment of bounties, on the ground that the act was unconstitutional. The cases involved were those of the United States, plaintiff in error, vs. the Realty Company and Andrew H. Gay, respectively. The opinion of the court was delivered by Justice Peckham. Both were test cases. The Realty Company was one of a class coming under the terms of the appropriation to those who had manufactured a certain class of sugar previous to the 28th day of August, 1894, and upon which no bounty had previously been paid. The repeal of the bounty clause in the act of 1890 by the act which took effect on the 28th of August, 1894, and prohibited the payment of bounties thereafter, prevented the company from obtaining the money on the warrant which of the United States and that the claims in these cases are of the nature which that body might rightfully decide to constitute a debt payable by the United States upon considerations of justice, and we think the right of Congress making provisions for the payment of such claims was valid without reference to the question of the validity or invalidity of the original act providing for the payment of bounties to manufacturers of sugar, as contained in the Tariff Act of 1890. The judgments on these cases are right, irrespective of how that question might be decided or any conclusion that might be reached upon other questions suggested at the bar." WASHINGTON, May 25. — Mr. Bowler, Comptroller of the Treasury, has taken prompt measures to comply with the decision to-day of the Supreme Court in the sugar bounty cases. In a letter to the Auditor of the Treasury department he states that the claims of the Realty Company of New Orleans and the Oxnard Beet Sugar Company, under the act of March 2, 1895, are now approved for payment, and recommends that the Oxnard claim be withdrawn from the Court of Claims. Bowler recognizes that to-day's decision in these tests applies to all properly authenticated claims under the act of March 2, 1895, and will proceed at once to pass them for payment. The amount which will be required to pay the cane and beet sugar claims will be about $5,237,000, which if all are paid before July 1, will increase the deficiency of the fiscal year to $30,000,000. NO DECISION. WRIGHT IRRIGATION CASE REMAINS UNDECIDED—SUPREME COURT ADJOURNS UNTIL OCTOBER. WASHINGTON, May 25. — The Supreme Court adjourned until next October. There was no decision rendered in the Wright irrigation case and none will be transmitted by the appellate tribunal until that time. Telegrams have been pouring in from all over the country asking about the decision of the court in this case. There are over $20,000 involved and the court is going rather slow timbers, cut by shattered glass, by the network of wires, humanity in ways innumerable. Smokestack chimneys toppled over, walls were thrown thousands of windows smashed, new telegraph and telephone wires left in work on the ground, and the Connell Hall was partly unroofed. The street impassable. They were covered in with debris ten feet deep. Along the levee front hawks snapped boats were sent adrift, some to go ashore on the eastern bank loss of life which might have taken place this point was averted by the hour after the tornado came. A little later theySION steamers would have been gone None of them had left the wharves river passenger boats had gone an hour before, and although not board from probably passed beyond the path storm. Perhaps the most impressive avoidance of the storm cloud's force is seen in the east end of the eastern basin tornado dealt with stone and mud It tore off and tumbled down tons up of masonry. Beginning with the big pier and extending to the foot of the tornado out off the upper part of the ture as if it had been a flimsy trestle of a structure of world-famed masonry. Fire added much to the loss account alarm system was paralyzed and appere were blockaded. Fire added at least 000 to the losses by the storm. Such a night of terror in St. Louis never known before. The hurricane when the business center of the city began gun to send its workers to their home vice on almost all the street railway suddenly suspended. When night soon after the premature darkening by the tornado, no electric lamps blast Many thousands of men and women homeward through the drenobing rain. THE GLORY OF RUSSE SIR EDWIN ARNOLD UPON THE CRING OF CZAR NICHOLAS. LONDON, May 27. — Sir Edwin Arnold his dispatch to the Daily Telegraph scribes the Cathedral of the Assumption which the coronation of the Czar took INED IN GELES St., ANAHEIM. & CO. NE OF Goods. for all kinds of work. Designs. urnish, etc, alleable Iron Range, the will find them right. - Anaheim, Cal BCKEL NEW Line of CERIES. ANTEED. THE GLORY OF RUSSELL SIR EDWIN ARNOLD UPON THE CITY OF CZAR NICHOLAS. London, May 27.—Sir Edwin Arnais his dispatch to the Daily Telegraph scribes the Cathedral of the Assumption which the coronation of the Czar took. "The edifice itself is minute, but its glories and sanctities are such that you as if you were standing at the heart of jewed caverns of dreamland. To feel ever, as the devout Russian feels in astonishing place, you must know some of the overwhelmingly hallowed assoc clustering around it. The most important moment was when all, including the Politan, were prostrate on their knee Prayer, for the protection and guidance of the Czar. He alone remained stand lonely figure in the longed cathedral lonely figure in his empire. For at tense moment all the empire is praised on its knees for him before the thieves heaven. One can hardly bear to look his face at this prodigious instant, hundred million hearts concentrate thoughts and supplications upon that head. Imperial, lofty, confident, peril; but how isolated; how solitary alone. "Now commences the striking feast the ceremony which fills the mind expressible sympathy and almost with passion—the melting of loyalty to family passion characteristic of the With an exquisite softness of voice ature, the Emperor called to him his press. A passing tremor seemed to the fair form which arose in obedience summous. But with all dignity and she falls upon her knee before her lord—a sight as touching as it is majestic her long hair loose upon her white neck splendid garments trailing in a sheen her ungloved hands meekly clasped-in a queen, though not yet crowned. Dr. Dillon of the Daily Telegraph scribes the lighting of the Kremlin lowes: "At 9 o'clock in the evening Emperor appeared upon a balcony palae wreathed in smiles, his figure with medals and ribbons. He adorned with a graceful bowt and offered the Czar a curious bouquet. Directly the Czar touched the nosegay every flow bud took fire and at the same moment whole of the Kremlin burst into flame lowed by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snatches of song and shriek delight by snATCHES OF SUGAR FROM SUGAR CANE AND FROM SOURGUM AND BEETS HAD BECOME AT THE TIME OF THE PASSAGE OF THE ACT, FIRST RECEIVED ON THE 28TH OF August OF that year, WAS CONTINUALLY GOING ON IN CONGRESS AND THROUGH THE PUBLIC PRINTS OF THE COUNTRY. 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The decision is on appeal from that of Judge E.M.Ross of the Southern California Circuit. He declared the Wright irrigation law of California unconstitutional, and therefore all bonds are invalidated. Many of the territories and Western States are awaiting a decision, as they intend in the event of its being declared constitutional to model laws after the Wright irrigation act of California. Some of the most distinguished lawyers have argued the case before the Supreme Court. The court is divided, and it is said that the judges favoring an affirmation of Ross's decision insist on further deliberation and consideration. DEATH-DEALING TORNADO HUNDREDDS OF PEOPLE KILLED AND MILLIONS OF PROPERTY DESTROYED BY A HURRICANE AT ST. LOUIS. Upwards of four hundred people were killed in St. Louis and East St. Louis by a cyclone that passed over those cities on Wednesday afternoon last, three thousand wounded people are in the hospitals, and property to the extent of $10,000,000 in the first named city and $1,000,000 in the latter was destroyed. The cyclone was the most disastrous in the history of the country. Rain fell in torrents, and many fires were caused by the lightning, vessels in the river were wrecked, and the great Eads bridge over the Mississippi was partly wrenched. For a time it was feared that entire city would be wiped out of existence. All the electric and telegraph lines in the cities were wrecked, and the places were in utter darkness during the night. The work of recovering and identifying the dead continued during several days, and many dead bodies still remain unidentified. When the sun rose on Thursday morning it showed a scene on terrible rain and disaster. Wind, rain and fire had combined in a mission of destruction. Hundreds of lives were lost in St.Louis,and as many more in East St.Louis, while thousands were injured,many so severely they cannot recover.The exact number will not be known for days,p perhaps never,for the debris of ruined buildings all over the city covered hundreds of human beings.The damage and destruction to property will aggregate many millions,but the exact amount cannot be estimated with any degree of certainty. The terrible tornado that caused this destruction struck the city at 5:15 o'clock in the afternoon and all parts of the city and East St.Louis felt its effects.The greatest damage on the east side of the river was inflicted within a three-mile strip along the mighty stream.Many buildings totally collapsed and others were unroofed,while very few in the city escaped injury.Hours of sultriness,pulse of wind coming by turns from all points of the compass,the flying hither and thither of light,mist-like formations across dull,dark-colored masses—these were the characteristics ofthe afternoon which brought to St.Louis the most disastrous storm in the city's history.Fore hours the currents of air shifted and blew hot and cold and the storm center developed. In addition to the acts of clemenoy a noted,the Cesar's amnesty has been given also to the German preachers ofthe province who were imprisoned for offence against the Russian church laws.The were celebrated with the greatest splendid garments trailing in a sheeny her ungloved hands meekly clasped-in a queen,though not yet crowned. Dr.Dillon of The Daily Telegraph scribes the lighting of the Kremlin lowes: "At 9 o'clock in the evening Emperor appeared upon a baloony palace wreathed in smiles,his figure with medals and ribbons.He added with a graceful bowt and offeredthe Cesar a curious bouquet.Directlythe Cesar touched the nosegay every flow bud took fire and atthe same moment whole ofthe Kremlin burst into flame lowed by snatches of歌和shrife delight by snatches of歌andshrife delight by snatches of歌andshrife delight by snatches of歌andshrife delight by snches-of歌andshrife delight by snches-of歌andshrife delight by snches-of歌andshrife delight by snches-of歌andshrife delight by snches-of歌andshrife delight by snches-of歌andshrife delight by snches-of歌andshrife delight by snches-of歌andshrife delight by snches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshrife delightbysnches-of歌andshriffe delightbysnches-of歌andshriffe delightbysnches-of歌andshriffe delightbysnches-of歌andshriffe delightbysnches-of歌andshriffe delightbysnches-of歌andhive derived from sugar cane or cornmeal. CHASED BY GUNBOA NARROW ESCAPE OF THE BERMUD HER RECENT TRIP. NEW YORK, May 24.-News reached to-day from Puerto Cortez,Honduras,the steamship Bermuda with a large numberof filibusters and a cargoof ammunitionthroughoutduringthe periodcommencingAugust14tha French officers visiting Sebastopolgivena splendid reception. CHASED BY GUNBOA NARROW ESCAPE OF THE BERMUD HER RECENT TRIP. NEW YORK, May 24.-News reached to-day from Puerto Cortez,Honduras,the steamship Bermuda with a large numberof filibusters and a cargoof ammunitionthroughoutduringthe periodcommencingAugust14tha French officers visiting Sebastopolgivena splendid reception. CHASED BY GUNBOA new Line of CERIES enned Goods Davis Seeds! public that she is prepared She buys for cash and gives her customers the benoods or answering questions in Exchange TAILEY Butchers Sausages and Lard ake. for Live Stock! The court says there can be no question of the good faith of the plaintiffs. The question of the constitutionality of the sugar bounty in the act of 1890 is entirely immaterial. It is a question of equitable consideration and the court says: "The plaintiffs acquired claims on the ground of an equitably moral or honorary nature." "In regard to the question whether the facts existing in any given case bring it within the description of that class of claims which Congress can and ought to recognize as founded upon equitable and moral considerations and grounded upon principles of right and justice, we think that generally such question must, in its nature, be one for Congress to decide for itself. Its decision recognizing such a claim and appropriating money for its payment can rarely if ever be the subject of review by the judicial branch of the government. Upon the general principle, therefore, that the government of the United States through Congress has the right to pay debts The terrible tornado that caused this destruction struck the city at 5:15 o'clock in the afternoon and all parts of the city and East St. Louis felt its effects. The greatest damage on the east side of the river was inflicted within a three-mile strip along the mighty stream. Many buildings totally collapsed and others were unroofed, while very few in the city escaped injury. Hours of sultriness, puff of wind coming by turns from all points of the compass, the flying hither and thither of light, mist-like formations across dull, dark-colored masses—these were the characteristics of the afternoon which brought to St. Louis the most disastrous storm in the city's history. For hours the currents of air shifted and blew hot and cold and the storm center developed. The fury of the elements was borne within the city limits. In the west a thunder storm developed. The early mutterings indicated nothing more alarming than a downpour, with the ordinary electrical accompaniments. This rain cloud came up slowly at first from the west, beyond Forrest Park. As its black rim mounted higher above the horizon, its arc embraced more territory to the north and south. A strong wind from the east began to blow right in the face of the storm. It was a lower current. Suddenly the wind stopped blowing from the east and there swept from the northwest a terrific gale, which made the best-built structures tremble. With the hurricane, for that was the first form of the storm took when it blew over the western part of the city, came the deluge. In the southwest there came into existence a storm cloud with the essential features of a tornado, tunnel-shaped. This second storm burst upon the city from the southwest. It came in on South Lafayette Park, struck the City Hospital, and from there torre its way through the city to the river by a northeasterly course. It wrought havoc that will leave traces in that part of the city which lies east of Seventh street and north of Cerre street to Eads bridge. Boats were torn from their moorings and capazized or went adrift. The cloud crossed the river, demolished the upper work at the east end of the bridge, then wreaked its furry on East St. Louis. Shortly after 6 o'clock, with the sun more than an hour above the western horizon, there settled upon the city clouds so dense that daylight quickly gave place to the darkness of midnight. That was the precursor of the tornado from the southwest. The hurricane from the northwest gave the western portion of the city a severe shaking up. The tornado from the southwest, which is responsible for the loss of life and destruction in the levee district and East St. Louis, followed the hurricane by about half an hour. Health Commissioner Strakloff, two hours after the tornado passed, sent word that the deaths would reach 200, and that no fewer than 1000 persons had sustained serious injuries. By midnight reporters had visited all the stricken portions of the city and suburbs. The list of dead discovered fell far below the first estimates, but it was long enough to be appalling. Crushed beneath falling walls, hurled against the sides of buildings, struck by fly- CHASED BY GUNBOAT NARROW ESCAPE OF THE BERMUD HER RECENT TRIP. New York, May 24.—News reached to-day from Puerto Cortez, Honduras; the steamship Bermuda with a large number of filibusters and a cargo of ammunition and provisions had a narrow escape from captured by the Spanish war ships last cruise to Cuba. This was the Bermuda second successful trip. She creased St. John's river bar on April 17th. Tenant-Colonel Leidavidal was in charge of the expedition and the steamer was in hand of Captain E.G. Reilly. The muda hove to at a place on the north coast of Cuba, some ten miles east of Denas, and at once began to lower her. It was said to-day by one in authority; the first boat captain being overloaded that five men were drowned, among them de Gardenas, a brother of Colonel Nile Gardenae, one of the insurgent leaders. The cargo was all landed, when one boats got adrift. Some of the party shouting. Suddenly the flash of an eagle light was seen directly over the ship's head. The shouts of the men had been heard by a Spanish war ship. Was a flash and a roar and a solid shot about 300 feet astern of the steamer Captain Reilly headed his ship westward was soon pulling away from the Spanish very quickly. A few minutes after a shot was fired and went wide. Then it discovered that two Spanish gunboats in pursuit. The race between the war and the filibusters was an exciting one on the Bermuda had no trouble in showing Spanials her heels. When day did nothing could be seen of the gunboats. CHANGES IN THE ORIGINAL GON. IT WILL TAKE A MONTH AND A DAY TO COMPLETE THEM—SEEKING CREW. Washington, May 29.—The Naval partment has received a dispatch from Naval Constructor stationed at New Iron Works announcing that the battle Oregon will be ready to go into commute within forty-five days. This time necessary in order to make alteration changes recommended by the Board spection and Survey. Orders have been used by the Department directing that be pushed, as it is desired to put them in commission as early in July as possible. Some difficulty is being experienced 1896. Gazette. NUMBER 32 timbers, cut by shattered glass, shocked the network of wires, humanity suffered ways innumerable. Smokestacks andneys toppled over, walls were leveled, thousands of windows smashed, miles ofgraph and telephone wires left in a net on the ground, and the Convention was partly unroofed. The streets were disables. They were covered in places debris ten feet deep. long the levee front hawksers snapped and were sent adrift, some to go down, to go ashore on the eastern bank. The life which might have taken place at point was averted by the hour at which tornado came. A little later the exorcism steamers would have been going out. Of them had left the wharves. Other passenger boats had gone an hour behind, although not board from, hadably passed beyond the path of the storm. Perhaps the most impressive evidence of storm cloud's force is seen in the wrench on the eastern end of the Kada bridge. There tornado dealt with stone and masonry, are off and tumbled down tons upon tons masonry. Beginning with the big eastern and extending to the foot of the incline, cloud out off the upper part of the strucures if it had been a filmsy trestle instead structure of world-famed masonry. Added much to the loss account. The system was paralyzed and approaches blocked. Fire added at least $500, to the losses by the storm. On a night of terror in St. Louis was known before. The hurricane came to the business center of the city had be-come its workers to their homes. Service almost all the street railways was only suspended. When night came, after the premature darkening brought the tornado, no electric lamps blazed up. Thousands of men and women toiled toward through the drenobing rain. THE GLORY OF RUSSIA. EDWIN ARNOLD UPON THE CROWNING OF CZAR NICHOLAS. WEDNESDAY MAY 27.—Sir Edwin Arnold, in dispatch to the Daily Telegraph, deserves the Cathedral of the Assumption in the coronation of the Czar took place getting enough men to form the crew of the Oregon. At the Department it is doubted if there will be sufficient men on hand when the Oregon is ready to go into commission, and there is talk of putting the Monterey out of commission and laying her up in ordinary. By this means the Department would have her crew at its disposal. Secretary Herbert hopes, however, that he will not have to adopt this course, as he desires to retain the Monterey in commission, for the present at least. The several bureaus of the Navy Department are entirely out of money, and all work will have to cease in the navy yards until the Naval Appropriation bill passes, when the Bureau of Construction and Repair will have some money at its disposal and the Construction Departments at the yards will be able to keep open. The other Departments at the yards will have to close until July 1st. Under the appropriation bill an appropriation of $350,000 is made immediately available for the continuance of repair work. A portion of this will be utilized for some of the repair work in progress on the Pacific Coast. THE TOBACCO EDICT. THREE WAYS IN WHICH IT UNFAVORABLY AFFECTS THE UNITED STATES. WASHINGTON, May 29.—Whatever the object of General Weyler's order prohibiting the exportation of tobacco from Cuba after May 26th, its execution will obviously injure our country and its people. Some of our cigarmakers insist that the real object of the order is to hurt them, by turning them out of employment, and so to stop the contributions they make from their weekly earnings to the patriot cause. Its ostensible basis is, however, that the destruction of the tobacco fields by the insurgents has so out down the supply of the material that the Cuban tactories will have to shut down for the lack of it, unless the export is stopped. This plea is likely to be made also against the granting of two months' delay in the execution of the order, SNAP SHOTS AT THE NEWS The census of London, just taken, shows a population of 4,411,271, an increase of 200,-528 since 1891. By the plunging of an electric car through a bridge at Victoria, B. C., on Tuesday last, seventy-one people were drowned. A panic among the peasants at Moscow resulting from the great crush of people at the popular feast in honor of the coronation of the Czar caused the trampling to death of two thousand people, including a woman delivered of a child during the excitement. The Senate began the week on Monday with the intention of making it the last of the session if possible. Some Senators set the day of adjournment as early as Thursday, but others think it will be impossible to conclude the session before next week. It leaks out that when Senator Quay visited Canton recently he informed Major McKinley that when the name of Pennsylvania is called in the Republican National Convention he will move to make McKinley's nomination unanimous. Such a coup de theatre would knock the bottom out of all other booms. The President vetoed the River and Harbor Appropriation bill, making appropriations of $30,000,000 for river and harbor improvements, including that contemplated at San Pedro. The House and Senate will make an attempt to pass it over the veto, when Congress will adjourn, probably this week. At the village of Campbell, near San Jose, on Wednesday morning last, James C. Durham killed six people with and axe and pistol — his wife, father-in-law, mother-in-law, their son, and two servants, one a hired man and the other a domestic. His wife was strangled, and a little two-months-old babe lying in its mother's arms is the only survivor of the butchery. The murderer escaped. Gov. Budd has offered a reward of $1,000 for his arrest. A novel petition was presented to the Probate Court in San Francisco some days ago by Jane L. Stanford, widow of the late Senator Leland Stanford. Ever since the death of her husband Mrs. Stanford has under an order of court, been drawing a family allowance of $10,000 a month. At her request THE GLORY OF RUSSIA. DEDWIN ARNOLD UPON THE CROWNING OF CZAR NICHOLAS. LINDON, May 27.—Sir Edwin Arnold, in dispatch to the Daily Telegraph, deserves the Cathedral of the Assumption in the coronation of the Czar took place: the edifice itself is minute, but its inner walls and sanitities are such that you feel you were standing at the heart of some sacred cavern of dreamland. To feel, how has the devout Russian feels in this washing place, you must know something overwhelmingly hallowed associations around it. The most impressive event was when all, including the Metro-North, were prostrate on their knees in front, for the protection and guidance of Czar. He alone remained standing—a figure in the thronged cathedral—a figure in his empire. For at this moment all the empire is practically his knees for him before the throne of Czar. One can hardly bear to look upon it as this prodigious instant, when a great million hearts concentrate their rights and supplications upon that single Imperial, lofty, confident, perhaps he did not isolated; how solitary; how now commences the striking feature of tremor which fills the mind with insinable sympathy and almost with commotion—the melting of loyalty into the my passion characteristic of the Slav. An exquisite softness of voice and gesture of the Emperor called to him his Empress. A passing tremor seemed to shake air form which arose in obedience to the monks. But with all dignity and grace falls upon her knee before her august sight as touching as it is majestic—long hair loose upon her white neck, her old garments trailing in a sheen glory; engaged hands meekly clasped—every queen, though not yet crowned." Dillon of the Daily Telegraph describes the lighting of the Kremlin as fol- "At 9 o'clock in the evening the error appeared upon a balcony of the wreathed in smiles, his figure adorned medals and ribbons. He advanced a graceful bow and offered the (Czarina)ous bouquet. Directly the Czarina's touched the nosegay every flower and book fire and at the same moment the of the Kremlin burst into flame. The hour of 10,000 voices rent the skies, followed by snatches of song and shrieks of it as the various figures in fire came right, mingled with howls of pain as person was ornated and disabled by the seas crowd." Addition to the acts of clemenoy already the Czar's amnesty has been granted by the German preachers of the Baltic state who were imprisoned for offending at the Russian church laws. The fetes celebrated with the greatest splendor about the south of Russia, and it was a general holiday all over the empire. With officers visiting Sebastopol were a splendid reception. BASED BY GUNBOATS HOW ESCAPE OF THE BERMUDA ON HER RECENT TRIP. NEW YORK, May 24.—News reached here from Puerto Cortez, Honduras, that steamship Bermuda with a large party busters and a cargo of ammunition. Some of our cigarmakers insist that the real object of the order is to hurt them, by turning them out of employment, and so to stop the contributions they make from their weekly earnings to the patriot cause. Its ostensible basis is, however, that the destruction of the tobacco fields by the insurgents has so out down the supply of the material that the Cuban taftories will have to shut down for the lack of it, unless the export is stopped. This plea is likely to be made also against the granting of two months' delay in the execution of the order, as so much tobacco might be sent to the United States during the period thus granted. In fact, we already hear one ship being hurried off, since the publication of the order, with tobacco for this country, and other shipments may be heard of before it takes effect. But apart from other considerations, American buyers of leaf tobacco have already put millions into it as it now hangs drying in the curing houses, and is could not be got away without injury within the short time which Gen. Weyler's order prescribes. Hence it is only just that at least this purchased material should have time for its proper removal and if Gen. Weyler insists that his order is justifiable as a war measure, and is not to be put as purely commercial legislation, Congress can find retaliatory legislation that will probably bring him to terms, even though the reciprocity agreements were abolished by the present Tariff law. There are also other injuries menaced to the United States by this order in its present form. One already alluded to, that of throwing some of our cigarmakers out of employment cannot be passed ever. It is true that Minister Dapuy de Lome disclaims any such purpose in the order, and says that it comes from the Madrid Government, that it was long delayed, and that it was finally resorted to only because 15,000 cigarmakers in Cuba would otherwise be thrown out of work, with their families dependent upon them. Since the destruction of the crops was an act of the insurgents, it only remained for the Government to protect its own people. The Spanish Minister does not deny that it has been urged to take this step in order to hurt allies of the insurgents in the United States, but it persists that its real motive is the protection of the Havana cigarmakers from threatened disaster, and it relies on the principle that allows a country to prohibit the exporting of horses or of food supplies in time of war. How far would this order really operate to throw our cigarmakers out of employment? It is known that hundreds of bales of Cuban tobacco are now in our bonded warehouses, not only in Florida but in northern seaports, having been stored months ago, when it became likely that the destruction of the crops by insurgents would be carried on to a great extent. Some authorities say that there are supplies sufficient for a long time to come. The current rush to import more tobacco and the available supplies both of foreign and domestic tobacco, former notably including Mexican, will furnish material for manufacturers of cigars. Still, the facties at some places will undoubtedly suffer. Another point for consideration is the loss of revenue thus involved. Nearly all the imported filtter tobacco comes from Cuba, and although this pays less than one fourth the duty of wrapper tobacco, there is nearly four times as much of it. While Florida is making much stir about Weyler's order, the fact is that several times as much tobacco goes directly from Cuba to New York, and hence the cigarmakers of the latter city may suffer, unless they should be able to substitute some other source of supply. But if it should be an adequate reply that Spain must consider first the interests of her own cigarmakers and of her own revenue, the point in regard to the exportation of American material already bought before the week. At the village of Campbell, near San Jose, on Wednesday morning last, James C. Durham killed six people with aid and pistol — his wife, father-in-law, mother in-law, their son, and two servants, one a hired man and the other a domestic. His wife was strangled, and a little two-months-old babe lying in its mother's arms is the only survivor of the butchery. The murderer escaped. Gov. Budd has offered a reward of $1,000 for his arrest. A novel petition was presented to the Probate Court in San Francisco some days ago by Jane L. Stanford, widow of the late Senator Le兰斯坦 Stanford. Ever since the death of her busband Mrs. Stanford has, under an order of court, been drawing a family allowance of $10,000 a month. At her request Judge Coffey reduced this allowance to $2,-500 a month pending further order of the court. Mrs. Stanford considered a reduction of her allowance necessary because of the present condition of the estate. Los Angeles county recently recovered from the bondsmen ex-Tax Collector Hammon of that county $21,000 of taxes for 1886, for which he was short in his accounts. The Deputy State Controller at Sacramento made a note of him and wrote to Auditor Bicknell that he thought Los Angeles county owed the State about $5000 for that year. Further correspondence and comparison of notes showed that, deducting double assessments, etc., the amount due the State was $3,834 71, to which the accrued interest amounts to $2,426 88, making a total of $6,261 59, and that amount will be paid into The State Treasury when Los Angeles settles her second installment of taxes. Lallian Nordica, the celebrated prima donna, was quietly married in Indianapolis last Wednesday evening to Herr Zollan Doeme. Doeme is a young Polish tenor, who for a year has been with his Grand Opera of Paris. He is a handsome man, and about twelve years the junior Of Mme. Nordica. She announced their engagement more than a year ago, but he wedding was postponed. When he bought the wedding ring they indulged in a little argument, Mme. Nordica begging that the marriage be postponed until June. Doeme pleaded that it take place at once. The ceremony was performed at St Paul's Episcopal Church in the presence of a few friends, the bride's sister Mrs. Walker of New York, and her husband. The marriage recalls the romance of Mme Nordica's life. Her former husband Frederick Gower, made a considerable fortune as an electrician, and about ten years ago attempted to cross The English Channel in a balloon and was never heard again. He may be flying yet. Those who knew William T. Shield, the San Luis Obispo pioneer, recognized in himthe sternest of old bachelors and an incorrigible woman later. When he came to California years ago he laid claim to bachelorhood,and his claim was never disputed.Hew wasofa very secretive nature,and no one could ever induce him to say anythingof his past life.He prospered,a accumulating large land holdings and becoming an influential citizen.A year ago he died intestate,and his estate passed intothe courts.Beforehis death letters reached him from Texas purportingto come from Mrs.S.T.Wall,iquiringfor himasher long-lostfather.Hebdenounced them,brandingthemaslie uponhis death-bed.Mrs.WallheardofhisdeathandsentJudgeGeorgeMcCallofWeathersford,Tex.,toclaimthec Estatewhichisnowvaluedat$50,000.McCallisfortifiedwithaffidavitsshowingthatShieldmarriedSarahJ.CrosswellinArkansasandthatMrs.Wallwastheonlychild,hersmaidennamehavingbeenMaryJ.Shield.Sheisnowpoorandaninvalid.Iitisbelievedshewillgettheestate. A case outofthe usualorderwasdecidedintheVernonCircuitCourtinMissourirecentlybywhichwife'stitleto140acordoflanddeededtoherinananteuptialcontractbyherhusbandwasconfirmedtoher.Mrs.A.C.Meeks,ahandsomewindowofSt.Joseph,thelastJanuaryweddedJudgeCharlesFord,awell-to-do farmer.The BASED BY GUNBOATS HOW ESCAPE OF THE BERMUDA ON HER RECENT TRIP. NEW YORK, May 24.—News reached here from Puerto Cortez, Honduras, that steamship Bermuda with a large party of buccasters and a cargo of ammunition provisions had a narrow escape from beacon the Spanish war ships on her cruise to Cuba. This was the Bermuda's first successful trip. She crossed the Johns river bar on April 17th. Lieutenant-Colonel Leidavidal was in charge of expedition and the steamer was in Commodore Captain E. G. Reilly. The Berkshire to at a place on the northern of Cuba, some ten miles east of Caracas, at once began to lower her boats, said to-day by one in authority that boat capsized, being overloaded, and five men were drowned, among them N. Ordenas, a brother of Colonel Nicholas Ordenas, one of the insurgent leaders. The cargo was all landed, when one of the got adrift. Some of the party began sinking. Suddenly the flash of an electric was seen directly over the ship's mast. The shouts of the men in the boat been heard by a Spanish war ship. There flashed a roar and a solid shot passed 300 feet astern of the steamship. On Reilly headed his ship westward and soon pulling away from the Spaniards quickly. A few minutes after a second fire and went wide. Then it was discovered that two Spanish gunboats were built. The race between the war ships the filibusters was an exciting one, but Bermuda had no trouble in showing the cards her heels. When day dawned could be seen of the gunboats. CHANGES IN THEOREGON. WILL TAKE A MONTH AND A HALF TO COMPLETE THEM—SEEKING A CORRECTION. WASHINGTON, May 29.—The Navy Department has received a dispatch from the Constructor stationed at the Union Works announcing that the battleship will be ready to go into commission forty-five days. This time will be necessary in order to make alterations and is recommended by the Board of Inland Survey. Orders have been issued by the Department directing that work be carried, as it is desired to put the vessel commission as early in July as possible. The difficulty is being experienced in manufacture of cigars. Still, the factories at some places will undoubtedly suffer. Another point for consideration is the loss of revenue thus involved. Nearly all the imported filler tobacco comes from Cuba, and although this pays less than one fourth the duty of wrapper tobacco, there is nearly four times as much of it. While Florida is making much stir about Weyler's order, the fact is that several times as much tobacco goes directly from Cuba to New York, and hence the cigarmakers of the latter city may suffer, unless they should be able to substitute some other source of supply. But if it should be an adequate reply that Spain must consider first the interests of her own cigarmakers and of her own revenue, the point in regard to the exportation of American material already bought before the promulgation of the order seems to be well taken, and on this our Government is likely to insist. THE SOVEREIGNS OF EUROPE. MANY MONARCHS WHO YET RULE AT A RIPE OLD AGE. Sunday, May 24th, was the seventy-seventh anniversary of the birth of Queen Victoria, the oldest female sovereign who ever sat on the throne of England. The Queen is afflicted with rheumatism or gout, but her doctors take the best care of her health, so that she may yet have years of life. The oldest King of Europe is Christian IX. of Denmark, who last month entered upon the seventy-ninth year of his age. He has worn the crown for thirty-three years. The King of Norway and Sweden, Oscar II., is in the sixty-seventh year of his age, and has wielded the sceptre since the year 1872. The Emperor of Austria, Francis Joseph I., will be sixty-six years old in August next, and he has sat on his throne for forty-eight years. The King of the Belgians, Leopold II., is in the sixty-second year of his age, and in the thirty-first year of his reign. The King of Saxony is in his sixty-ninth year. The King of Italy, Humbert I., is in the fifty-third year of his life, and in the seventeenth year of his reign. The King of the Hellenes, George I., is fifty-one years old, and has ruled Greece for thirty-three years. The Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid II., is fifty-four, and has been ruler of the Turkish empire for twenty years. The King of Romania, Charles I., is in the fifty-eighth year of his age. These are the more elderly of the imperial or royal sovereigns of Europe. Among the younger European sovereigns are the Emperor of Germany, 37; the King of Portugal, 33; the Czar of Russia, 28; the King of Servia, 20; the Queen of the Netherlands, 17, and the King of Spain, 10. In the Netherlands there is a queen regent, and also in Spain. Pope Leo XIII., who is not a temporal ruler, is in the eighty-seventh year of his age, born March 2, 1810. He denounced them, branding them as lies upon his death-bed. Mrs. Wall heard of his death and sent Judge George McCall of Weathersford, Tex., to claim the estate, which is now valued at $50,000. McCall is fortified with affidavits showing that Shield married Sarah J. Cresswell in Arkansas and that Mrs. Wall was their only child, her maiden name having been Mary J. Shield. She is now poor and an invalid. It is believed she will get the catale. A case out of the usual order was decided in the Vernon Circuit Court in Missouri recently by which a wife's title to 140 acres of land deeded to her in an ante-nuptial contract by her husband was confirmed to her. Mrs. A. C. Meeks, a handsome widow of St. Joseph, last January wedded Judge Charles Ford, a well-to-do farmer. The wedding was to be conditional upon Judge Ford deeding her a certain part of his land. He gave her a deed, which was duly recorded. The marriage license was granted and the ceremony performed which made Judge Ford and Mrs. Meeks man and wife. The couple went to the Judge's farm, but only lived together a few months, the wife returning to her former home in St. Joseph. Then came the contention over the deed. It called for 140 acres of land, but Judge Ford claimed she had agreed to marry him for 100 acres, and brought suit to reform the deed. The wife opposed the action, and the case was decided in her favor, giving her (the 140 acres as set forth by the deed). The evidence developed that Judge Ford was in the habit of sleeping with a butcher knife under his pillow, but it was not shown that this was the entire cause of his wife's leaving him. He is nearly 74 years of age, while she is 43. In an interview Governor Budd says he intends to stick to his intention of procuring from the banks a statement as to their financial standing on the 2d day of last March. The Governor said he was dumbfounded that he met any opposition to a request for a statement from the banks, and was surprised when he saw bankers rushing into print and accusing him of harassing capital or driving it out of the State. The Governor believes that the request which he has made would be to the best interests of the banks as well as others concerned. He made the request, he said, because he thought it was his duty. The Governor says further: "I believe under article 5, section 6, of the Constitution of this State, that I, as Governor, have a right at any time to require information in writing from officers of the executive department of the State upon any subject relating to the duties of their offices. It is their duty to ascertain the financial condition of the banks of this State. I have written to them requesting that they inform me as to how they stand on the first Monday in March of this year, and I am convinced that it is the duty of the Bank Commissioners to furnish me with the information which I require." "I am taking my fourth bottle of Hood's Sarasaparilla and I have gained ten pounds in weight and my stomach and bowels are better condition than they have been for years."—T.E.Hiatt, Healdaburg Cal. Hood's Pills cure sick headache.