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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-12-31
EMBARRASSED FIRMS.
Disappearance of Toronto Merchant-The
North River Bank.

Disappearance of Toronto Merchant-The
North River Bank.
TORONTO (ODtario), Dec. SOW. c. Muir
ray, merchant tailor, has suddenly left the
city. His business affairs are said to be EN-
barrassed. His liabilities are about S3O, 200.
New YORK, Dec. 30.-The statement of
Receiver Higgins of the North River Bank
shows an excess of liabilities over assets of
$4,000.
The schedule of the assignment of Col
bron, Chauncsy & Co., brokers, show liza
bilities 500, 900, nominal assets $1,000 and
actual assets $4,000. The difference be-
tween the nominal and actual assets is due
to the depreciation in the value of securities
and worthless accounts.
NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-The Tribune this
morning says Bateman & Co., the we'll
known bankers, will make an assignment
to-day because of the failure of debtors to
meet obligations. Commodore Bateman will
also make an individual assignment. No
statement is obtainable yet
Charles e. Coon, ex-Assistaut Secretary
OF the United States Treasury, was one of
the members Of the firm. He issued state
ment tonight to the effect that Commodore
Batemen had been very ill for several
months past, and recently returned home from
Europe 10 gradually lquidate his business
This has been to large extent ACCOMPLISHED.
and the business of the firm has been gradti-
ally contracted. The assignment was pre-
cipitated by the failure of people upon
whom they relied to meet their obligations.
Most OF the creditors are substantially Sc
cured. The Tribune says the assignment
VIII surprise Wall street. Douglass Green,
who ran away to Europe with Mrs. McCrea,
was formerly q member of the firm.
LONDON. Dec. 30.-There is a heavy de-
mand for money for the approaching settle
ment at to per cent.
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,-%GRADOALLY SINKING.
Alexander: w. Kinglake, the Historian, Re
= q Il: ported: to Be DYING 2. :

Alexander Kinglake, the Historian, Re
I'll. .@..... ported to Be Dying s: ! :-.< +.
LONDON, Dec. Alexander William
Kfnglake, the historian, is dying. He is a
son: of :tlre late AiaIn Kinglake, Esl.3of
J Wilton Honse, near Taunton, and was born.
in the. yearlsfl. He was educated at :Eto1l
and Trinity College,; Cambridge, where
hegraduated b. a. in 1882. He was called to
the bar at Lincoln Inh in 1887. but
retired from the law In 1856. He is we'll
known as tile author of :. .Eothen,,,' an ac-
count of his experiences in Eastern travel,
published IN S44. He was returned as one
Of the. mel eInbeTs:in the. Liberal interest in
March, =1s5I 4, fnT !: Bird gewater. In 1858 he
moved the; fifst endment against the Con
spfTacys BIZ, aills= in the same year brought
forward the question, of the sc ag gliari" and
in 1855. that of the. Charles ct Georges,
In 1860 9-he took: an aetiye part in denouneiug
the ANNEXATION of Savoy and Nice to
the French. Empire. His :" Invasion of
the Crlmea,D being the first portion of a
history of the. Russian war. of 1886, a
work upon wi ldclr HE had been for some time
engaged, app afetl in 1863. and some pass
sages gave great effen Sc at the court of the
Tuileries.#.Ihe saIe of the book was pro-
hibited in: France; during: the empire. The
J fifth volume appeared in 1875 and the sixth a
few years, later. At the general election in
1858 Mr.. Kjnglake was again returned for
: Bridgewater (which borough has since been
. disfranchised)i but on petition was unseated.
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A DESPERATE BURGLAR,
He Wounds an Offcer After Being Under
Arrest.

He Wounds an Ofacer After Being Under
Arrest.
John Carr, alias Smith, member of a
gang Of toughs who have recently COM
mitted many larcenies and petty thefts along
the water front. was arrested last night by
Officer j. K. Cleary Of the Southern Station
and charged with burglary.
When surprised at his abode, rookery on
Stanley place, and placed under arrest he
made a stubborn resistance. During the
struggle that followed he struck the officer
over the head with club and inflicted an
ugly scalp wound. He was finally over
powered and taken to the station.
The prisoner is one of the trio which re-
Gently broke into the warehouse of Haslett
& Bayley at the corner of Sansome and
Greenwich streets, and rolled off cask of
brandy which was buried in the dumps near
by. On the following night two of the
thieves were arrested while unearthing the
liquor, but Smith then escaped and was not
located until last night
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RAW AS BEEF-STEAK
Raby's Fearful Suffering From Skin
Disc ase Covering Entire Body.
Cured by cut:cura.

My baby taken very sick when he was threo
months old. and in few days began BREAKING out
We employed both of the home doctors, and they
could do nothing for him. Then sent for the
best doctor in Eaton Rapids Mich and he -doctored
him for TWO weeks, and he got all the time;
and then L took him TO Jacxson, to doctor wn
attends especially to skin diseases, and tn got
worse than ever. He got poor so fast and soon got
SO weak that he could not hold his head up nor open
his eyes, and then we stopped doctoring him en-
ureiy For about month we got so awful.y>dis-
couraged we thought every day ne would not'live
until the next. Then l told my husband we had
better try the CuTIcURA RENEDIEs any way; did
not have any idea they would do any good, but in
less than two months from the time we beganIgiy-
ing them to him he was entirely we'll. aud not a
spot on him. His ha;r began growing right off, and
thought he would always be baid.neadel
Everybody that him said that ii was rhe worst,
case they ever saw. There was q spot on his
whole body, face and head, only his nose and eyes
but what was rs raw as beetsteak., So poor there
not anything but bones, and so weak he could
raise neither hand nor head.
Mrs. FRANK BARRETT
WiunaiI Mich
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.LOND0N'S 0 DANGER.
Threatened for a Time With a
Great Fire. s.
Numerous Warehouses and Wholesale Stores
s: Are Destroyed.
a High Wind Renders the Work Of the Fire
J men Extremely zDitncult-Ths Loss
Placed ats2,OO0 OOo.

Special 10 THE MoRNrN,a CALL

s. = e =
LONDON, Dec: .3o:=.A serious con1agration
broke out at 2o,clock, this aftern oon
The scene. of the fire is at Queen Victoria
and Thames Streets, near: Blackfriars
Bridge. Numerous: warehouses were ig-
nited, and for a.. time London seemed des-
tined to suffer one Of the largest and most
/: destructive fires In its history of recent years
Z. Fourteen fire engines were soon upon the
spot. The fremen* did their utmost, but
with little success, to. check the course of
the flames. =. ,.:.::.- :
:. high wind was blowing, which materi-
ally. added to theflry:of the flames, while
hindering the frenlen in their efforts to:save
property, and terrible sheets of flame and
clouds of hot;smoke frequently whirled dan
gerousiy near then.:=; =: =
The large Wholesale fur mauufactory of
Revillion Freres, I27:to ;l41 Queen Victoria
street. as+foomed after the fire had gained
headway. Following this: was large cop
per warehouse Al: :numberof fancy goods
stores, and the: Gulcher Electric Light and
Power Company's building were also q
complete preyt0 the flames.
The fire spread as rapidly on all sides as
NJ ere were no. fireinen or ire-engines
present IL. (:
Immense croWds of people gathered on
the bridges over the Thames and in the
streets running downto the river, where
good view of the contlagration could be had.
Many expressed the belief that this disas-
ter would at list bring about reform Of the
London Fire Brigade. +
As the fire progressed 1t spread to the
quarters of The: Salvation Army. The SAL
yationists worked. like beavers in their
efforts to place the records and other pro-
perty Of the aEiny*in q plaeeof safety.
At O'Clock. the; fire was rapidly spread-
ing in all. *diIGctions. All the buildings
from BennetssH Alto e135 Queen Victori a
street wereSeithsr. blazing fercely or else
sm oldering In ruins =.
:. The fire orig mated In the building Of c.
Davidson & sons, paper manufacture RS and
ag-makers:. .at. ll9 Queen Victoria street.
This building. large structure. was COM
pleted gntted; as was also that Of Adolph.
Frankan.a 0:. mani nufacturers of pipes ani
Importers Of :tebacc0. =
AT 4 80 O clock, what would be termed in
New York four large blocks" of buildings
were N ffames. and burning steadily. Half
an hour later st. Benet's Church caught
IRE. 'Ibe; hremen managed to save: the
hfadquarteTs:of the Salvation Army, and it
: was then. ann euncsd that the fire was under
An texamination=:of the burnt district
shows = that. st. Benet's: Church, the old
worshipin g. place, was. not entirely de-:
:; stroyed; "a was at first thought. r.. :. =:
Besides the high wind, the. weather was
extremely cold, water freezing over the fire
of life and lew accidents among the fremen4
: The total loss IS S2C0OO00 : =: -, = =:
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The Apportioument Rill

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3O.-It is the inten-
tion Of Chairman Hale of the Senate Com
mitlee on the Census to call the committee
together next week and begin consideration
Of the Apportionment Bill passed by the
House. The Chairman says that the prob
abilities are that the committee will fix the
number of Representatives at 356 as agreed
upon by the House, or at 359, which would
give additional Representatives to New
York. Arkansas and Minnesota, these States
having large unrepresented fractions upon
the basis OF the membership of 356 proposed
in the House.
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FAITH IN MAULIFFE.
Fox Is Willing to Back the Californian
Against Corbett or Kilraiu.

New YORK, Dec. So.-Richard K Fox re-
turned from Europe to-day. He still has
faith in McAuliffe, and thinks he can whip
Kilrain. Cor6ett, Godfrey, Smith or any OF
the heavyweights, with the exception of
Sullivan and Slayin. He said that Nc
Aulffe is on his way here and that he will
back the Pacific Slope man against Kilrain
or Corbett tor 5000 or less. He thinks that
II McAuliffe had been in better condition
and had adopted different tactics the result
of. his fight with Slavin would have been
different.
LONDON, Dec. 3O-Joe McAuliffe sailed
for New York to-day ON the Britannia,
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A SOLE. SURVIVOR.
Loss Of a Schooner IN a Severe Storm
: OF The New Jersey Coast.

PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 80. 3 The schooner
Lamson brought in sa-dsy Charles Wallen;.
berger, the sole survivor Of Tie crew OF tne
schooner Potter. which was capsized Sum
day in terrible storm off :Barnegat Five
men were drowned at.once. Captain Evans.
Wallenberger and another man managed to
secure themselves to the wreckags and
drifted about for ten hours. with the seas
dashing over them; a cold wind adding to
their misery. = The crew of the:sLamson
managed with the UTMOST difficulty to get to
tain Evans and .Wallenberger. nearly So
Captain Evans died in half an hour after,
but Wallenbergar, while in: a terrible condi-
tion from exposure, will probably recover
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mia, who. it says, claims that he drew Sec
tions AZ to 40 Of the Mckinley bill The
Post declares critical examination ofthese
sections disc!oses blnnder. or a series of
nugatory. The Post says the blunders con-
sist in references to sections not dealing
with wines or wine spirit. The editorial
concludes: In short, the bill has been so
blundered in this particular that it is very
doubtful whether II can be interpreted at
all. If McKenna drew it he has not much
to boast of. Probably when the blundering
clauses left his hands the numbering of the
sections was right, but when they got into
possession OF the Conference Committee
the latter played biindman's buff with them
tiOn.
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p THE AMERICA CUP.


Lieutenant HEM Is Anxious to Arrange an
international Yacht-Race.
New YoRK, Dec. 30.-Lieutenant William
Heun, Royal Navy, and his wife arrived
here on the Umbria to-day. He hopes to be
the means of arranging an international
yachtTace for next fall He has been en-
ployed by the highest yachting authorities
on the other side to say to the New York
Yacht Club that challenge will be sent at
once, If only the Objectionable clause in the
deed OF gift of the America cup as to meas
nrement is removed. Hem says that Eall
Dunraven's Vallkyrie will be equal to any
sevenfy-foot yacht in this country. but still
she was no match for the Volunteer.
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SMITHS SUCCESSOR.
Colonel cadman's Rapid Promotion in the Sal
= vation Army.


:;.,:.:: = walton Army.
- New YORK, Dec 3O.-Staff Captain Mar
shall, commenting ON the reported appoint
: nlent OF Colonel Cadman to succeed CON-
missioner Smith in the Salvation Army,
says:. We have many queer character IN
the Salvation Army, but there is only one
!: Cadman." Gadman was the first COM
nlissioned officer: in the new army. He
was given the rank of Captain, but it was
: not long before he had become Staff Cap
tain. Major and Colonel. For some time
after he was; recalled to London lie had
general: charge of the prison work and he
organized system under which discharged
prisoners are met at the jals and well
coined, and taken to the barracks, where
they are fed and locked after. He was sent
to Canada as a special commissioner, and
while there he built up the Canadian section
of the army. About two months ago he
passed through New York on his way 10
London. He is about As years old.
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I VICTORIOUS GERMANS.
Emin Pasha's Forces. Twice Defeat Native
-. =. Tribes in Africa.

Emln Pasha' s: FORCES. Twice Defeat Native
-. ':... = Tribes in Africa.
BERLIN Dec. -3o.-1he Tageblatt has a
letter from a correspondent in Zanzibar
stating that Emin Pasha recently sent Lieu
tenants Lam sfeld: and Buelow at the head
of a body Of troops to Urambo, where they
fought a battle with tile. Watuta tribe, de-
Watutas subsequently joined force. with
another. tribe: and attacked the Germans.
Their allies did not stick to them well, how
ever, and they: were again badly defeated.
The Germans had three killed and nine
wounded. Commander Stuhlmann recently
captured; a slayer's- camp near Victoria
Nyanza,; killing: many Arabs and releasing
q large numbered, Slaves. ..
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FRENCH KID.
Petition of New England Leather Workers 70,
Removal of a Tariff

: LYNN (Mass.) Dec. 30-A committee rep
resenting the morocco leather-workers
throughout New England has been ap-
pointed to appear before Congress with
petition to remove the tariff on French kid.
The committee is well supplied with funds,
and if it fails to succeed with the present
Congress it will petition the next one The
members of the committee will be instructed
in their visit to Washington to represent The
trade of the country, which claims that a
competition between the French article and
the American article would generally benefit
the working classes. as the wOrkmen now
claim that the duty on French kid is solely
10 the benefit of the manufacturers. The lat
ter emphaticalIy threaten to lower wages if
the duty is repealed.
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Killed byan Eleetric.Light Wire,

PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 33e..- Samuel Kerns,
a young man. was killed this morning by a
current of electricity from an electric-light
wire passing through his body. He was en-
ployed in repairing the roof of the Baldwin
Locomotive Works, when he grasped the
electrc-light wire which passed over the
building, and fell to the roof and died al
most instantly. His face was burned and
disco ored. and the sleeve of his coat was
ripped and torn from the arm which came
in contact with the wire
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Proposed Restitution.

BERLIN, Dec. 30.-The VoIks Zeitung of
Cologne asserts that bill will be SUBJ
mitted to the German Imperial Parliament
next year providing for the restitution to the
Catholic Church of the entire accumulated
cal ital formed by priests salaries. which
were eonfiscated during the anti Catholic
agitation.
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A Settlers RIGHTS.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-Secretary Noble,
in response to an inquiry from the
local land Office at Oregon City. Oregon,
holds that an applicant who prior to the
act Of August 3oth last had perfected title to
800 acres or more, under the general land
laws. may under that act acquire title to 800
acres more. That is to say, the act is not
retroactive, and hence the limitation applies
only to the amount which may be acquired
after the passage of the act.
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No Chance for Silver.

New YORK. Dec. 3O-A Washington
special says: A Senator who. favors the
free coinage of silver stated in conversation
to-day his opinion that the Senate would
pass Free-coinage. Bill, pure and simple,
but he had no hope of such bill becoming
q law, because 1t was pretty certain the
House would not be given an opportunity to
consider it, and IL it did, and it should pass,
it would be by so small majority that ii
could not be passed over the veto, which is
sure on the bill reaching the White House.
The impression is gaining ground daily
among the Senators and members that there
can be no financial legislation the present
session,
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SEArTE. Dec. 3l.-The furniture store Of
w. z. Powers and the secondhand store of
E. c. Beckford were burned at o clock this
morning. The loss is $4,000 and the insur-
ance $1,000.
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Not Likely to Pass.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3d. Considerable dis
cussion took place among the members Of
the House to-day regarding the Elections
Bill. One prominent Republican says he
does not think it will pass the Senate. but
II It does 1t cannot get through the House
Is almost impossible to secure at the present
session.
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The Weather.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3O-Generally fair
weather prevails in all the districts except
the Lower Mississippi Valley, where the
weather IS cloudy and a light rain has fallen
There has been a decided rise in the temper.
ature except in the Lower Lake Region.
where it has fallen 100 to 2Oo. The copdi-
tons are favorable for fair weather in the
Eastern portion Of the country, with warmer
weather Wednesday.
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A Safe Harbor.

The San Francisco Woman's Christian
Temperance Union will give New Years
reception to all seamen in port, on New
Years day. from 10 O'clock in the morning
to 10 o'clock in the evening, in the Coast
Seamen's Hall, corner Mission and East
streets. Seamen from all kinds of craft are
very cordially urged TO make themselves at
home in the hall during those nours
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Narhtte Factorv Burned

LONDON, Dec 3O.-A naphtha refinery in
the suburb of Hackney was burned to-
night The explosion of the tanks of spirits
was heard for miles. The less is very
heavy. One: or two men are seriously in.
jured.
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suicided While insane.

BELFAST. Dec. 3o.-At the Coroner's in
quest in the case Of the wife Of Mcdowell,
the rich diamond miner, who: was found
dead in ditch yesterday, the jury returned
a verdict that Mrs. Mcdowell committed
suicide while temporarily insane, as the re-
suit of her husbands drunkenness and
neglect
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Marriage of James r. Garfeld.

CHICAGO, Dec. 30.--Miss Helen Newell,
daughter of President Newell of the Lake
Shore road, and James R. Garfield, son of
the late President Garfield, were married to-
night.
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SEVERE WEATHER.

Intense Cold Prevailing AL Over the Euro
pean Continent.
LONDON, Dec 3O.--The weather now pre-
yaiing throughout England is the snverest
experienced: since 1913. The river Humber
Is completely frozen over and the Thames is
partly so. On the Continent nearly ;:all
points report the weather equally severe.
In, Frankfort seven persons were found
frozen 90 death in the streets.
BERLIN, Dec. 30.-W ork has been sus-
$ pended on the Government factory at Span
dau. The water in the reservoirs is frozen
up as the result of the intensely cold
weather prevailing.
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THE INDIAN. CONGRESS.
Action Of the Bengal Authorities Condemned
- -: =: =; ON ALI Sides

CALcUTTA Dee.s30. - The delegates to the
National. In dian; Congress are indignant at
the action Of Il he authorities Of Bengal in
forbidding officials:0f the Indian Govern
ment TO attend tile conference, even at spec
tators. This action is condemned as un-
worthy Of Engli shmen Delegates who spoke
upon the subject. said this would probably
prove to be the. blunder Of some subord-
nate, otherwise, they. SAY, the order was a
piece of gratuitous. insOlence. The confer.
ence has decided 10 send 100 native delegates
to hold a conference in London, with the
object OF proving before: the English public
the fitness OF the natives of India to- be
treated as fellow:cItizens by the British.
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"A: DUAL LIFE.

The Leader Of q Gang of Robbers Discovered
in Resident of Dresden.
DRESDEN. Dec. 30.-A man named Simon,
who has been living In great style near
here, has been arrested, it having been
i, learned that he was at the head of & band of
lTobbers operating in all the large European
cities. Their thefts have been many and
daring
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California Yearliues for the East.

NEW YORK. Dec. 3o.-Next month La
Siesta stoek-farm, in California, will ship
thirty-four yearlings to New York, the San
Mate0 farm fifty and Palo Alto 100. The
latter will be the first to arrive. The auc-
tioneers' commissions on the sales of Cali
fornia horses last year amounted to $4,000
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A Check to Brazilian Immieration

BERLIN. Dec. 30.--The movement among
the Polish inhabitants of Posen in the direc-
tion of founding colonies in Brazil is In
creasing. The magistrates in Posen have
issued notice that the North German Lloyds
Company will convey no more German SUBJ
jectS to Brazil.
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against Russia's persecution of the Jews
that was adopted at recent meeting at the
GuildhalL. The idea Of sending the protest
to Russia in charge of depntation headed
by Lord Meath was abandoned, owing to the
receipt of a communication intimating that
she interests of the Jews would be better
served if the memorial was sent BY post.
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j. Macdonougb. coal merchant, has sued
to enjoin the Pacific Telephone and Tele-
graph Company from publishing in the
telephone directory the firm name Of j.
Macdonough & Co., alleging that j. c.
Wilson and G. A. O'Brien have illegally as
sumed the name of said firm.
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Threatened Reduction Of Wages.

PrrrsBURe, Dec. S0-At conference of
the officials of the Amalgamated Associa-
tion and Carnegie, Phipps & Co., of the
Homestead Steel Works, the selling price of
billets for the ensuing three months was
fixed at S2z per ton. Under the sliding
scale adopted two years ago this will reduce
the wages of the 1000 employees at the Home
stead Mills over 10 per cent.