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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-02

ing. He landed in the mud and fioundered
about until rescued by Officers Mahoney
and and Horrigan. Curran was taken to the
lily Prison, where charge of drunken
mes" ness was entered against him. A hose was
coating of mud.
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A NEW YEARS BLAZE.
Oae OF the Handsomest Residences in Was
inpton Badlv Damared

ington Badly Damaged.
> Il sHINGToN, Jan. IA fire startad in n
house owned by Secretary Blaine, and occu-
pied by Letter, of Chicago, shortly before
noon. The fire department soon got the
flames under control.
The Leister House was one of the most
handsomely furnished in the city. The
damage, which is mostly by water, will
reach $4,000.
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Gold Discovered in Illinoia

CHICAGO, Jan. 1.-The News Danville
QlL) special says: Gold has been discov-
cred near here i'll the sands of the north
fork. a company Of Danville business men
is purchasing all the adjoining land
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CALAIS (Maine), Jan. 1.-The schooner
Mortlight of Calais, which sailed for Port
land December Goth, has been given up for
lost. She had crew Of six besides the
captain.
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DOORS CLOSED.

Suspension Announced Of the Wallace County
Bank in Kansas.
ABILENE (Kans.), Jan. 1.-The Wallace
County Bank closed to-day. The liabilities
are about $751; and the assets nominally
$50, 600, but almost entirely in Western lands
and equities. A Large line Of rediscounts on
Western mortgages guaranteed to Illinois
and Pennsylvania investors caused the fail
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-02
NAvIGATED BY a WOMAN.
A Captains Wife Takes Charge of His Ship
for Four DAYS

TACOMA. Jan. Mrs. Wilson. the wife
of Captain Wilson of the ship Primrose
Hill. which arrived here few days ago,
took charge of the ship for seventy-two
hours while off Cape Horn. Soon after the
vessel left Janero the smallpox broke out
and the captain and two officers were taken
down. Mrs, Wilson, being the only navi-
gator left, took charge of the ship for four
dayS,
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POISONOUS PIES.

Two Members of Virginia Family Die, and
the Others Are Dangerously Ill.
LURAY Va.), Jan. 1.-The family of Ben
jamin SoIrS were poisoned to-day by eating
pumpk n pies. which are supposed TO have
contained rat poison. Mr.. Sours and one
child have died, and the others are danger
n1Islu Ill
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: WANT ANNEXATION.
Hawaiian Sugar Planters Anxious to Regain

Hawaiian Sugar Planters Anxious to Regain
-. Their Lost Privileges.
CHICAGO, Jan. Ia special dispatch from
OTTAWA, Ont, says: Colonel Ashford, Com
mander Of the Hawaiian Army, admits that
he would NOT be surprised to see the Islands
t;atnnexed to she United States in the near
The placing Of sugar on the free
'nder the Mckinley bill, deprived
: pt the reciprocity advantages which
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Sale of a summer Residsnss

NEWPORT Or. IL, Jaia. I.--Yiee-P Resident
Morton has sold his suInmer residences
(Falrlawn) to Isaac Towusend Baraen of
New York for $3.50. 00o,
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WokKs SHUT DOWN.

Fifteen Hundred Men Thrown Out Of Employ
ment in Ch icago.
CHICAGO, Jan. 1.-The shops of the Hi
nois Steel Works, except the blast furnaces.
shut down last night, throwing 1900 men out
Of employment. The officers of the COM
pany are reticent in regard to the length of
time the mills will rem ,in closed. The en-
ployes. believe work will be resumed in
March, if not sooner.
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PRISON FIRE.
Portions of state Institution Destroyed, In.
vclving a Heavy Loss

~ avis " - 'i'S AH9'Asu1.OA Oeoti VJeo, IL
vclving Heavy Loss
PLATTsBURG IN. ", Jan IA fire broke
out in the kitchen department of the Clifton
Prison about u O'Clock last night. The new
portion of the prison, the kitchen. hospital,
store-regms, State shop and machine shop,
were destroyed. Tie new portion Of the
prison contained $40 prisoners, who made a
stampede to escape, hut the panic was soon
checked and the prisoners transferred to
the old prison. The loss will reach S200, 900.
All OF the provisions were burned. The
thermometer is 10 degrees below zero.
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HOPE FOR LEPERS.

Satisfactory Result of Experiments on G. Pa
tient in New York.
NEW YORK, Jan. IA physician who
has been using the Koch lymph says that a
leper In town has been treated for more than
week. Tho patient is a young man
and the son of very wealthy parents. The
disease seems to yield slightly to the lymph
treatment There are over one hundred
lepers here who are receiving treatment
privately. Ii the disease should yield to
Koch's lymph treatment. all the lepers in
turn will be inoculated.
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Had n Mud Bath.

While suffering from an overdose OF New
Years stimulants. Michael Curran, la
borer, fell off the railroad bridge near
Fourth and Berry streets, yesterday even
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ELECTRIC LIGHT SUITS.

Contracts Awarded by the City Council of San
Jose Sustained
REDWOOD CITY, Jan. Judge Fitzpatrick
has decided two San Jose electric light suits
tried in this county, owing to the Santa
Clara Judges being disqualified. The suits
were brought to annul contracts let to the
Electric improvement Company, new cor
poration, on the ground of collusion and
fraud on the part of the City Council. The
decisions uphold the integrity of the CT ty
Council Plaintiffs attorneys state that
they will anneaI the nasa
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-02
BIG. BUFFERS.

.slavin and Mitchell Talk Loud About Meeting
l. .::--: ::- Sullivan.
f QUEENSTOWN, Jan. Joe McAuliffe
and Billy Madden left here to-day on
the =. Britannia Madden said he was
* commissioned by Arthur Cockburn, a
well known. English sport, to bet
from $1,000 to $1,000 that Slayin would knock
out Sullivan IN three rounds Madden was
'also.asked by Mitchell to match him against
Sullivan in ring. as small as twelve feet,
.wlth*SkIn gloves or bare knuckles, to fight
In a Anlerica fnr SEnnn
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a Wholesale Firm Burned Out.

MONTREAL, Jan. 1.-Bauchemin &
Alain's block, with its contents, were
burned to-day. The loss is S1OO, COO The
firm were whole.ale booksellers and sta
TONERS
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Colorado Mine Products

DENVER, Jan. 1.-During 1850 the Colo
RADIO mines produced S29,s31, 1884, divided as
follows: Silver, $40, 259,9O6; gold. S4,572,-
196; lead, $4,749, ,852; copper, $3.50,
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An OId .Mill Burned.

PROVIDENCE Or. ~, Jan 1.-The OLD VII
kinson &c Green cotton-mli, oulit III lolo'
was burned last night. The loss is S125,00o.
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A FACTION FIGHT.
Several Persons Reported Killed in a Riot in
an Alabama Town

an Alabama Town.
UNIoNTowN (Ala.), Jan. There was a
riet at Catharine Station on the Mobile and
Birmingham Railroad Tuesday night, and
it is reported that several people were killed
The difficulty arose out of a factional fight
The colored Postmaster was ordered to
leave town, which he did. The excitement
coatinued unabated and application has
been made TO the Governor for the militia
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Hearst is Imgrovilig.

WASHINGTON, ar. 1.-Senator He7sst
had a comfortable night, ana IS reported 70
he better to-day.
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Taxable Propertv in Oregon,

SALEM, Jan. 1.-The total taxable prop
erty of the State, as shown by county as
sessment rolls just completed, is Sf14,277,-
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SHREVEPORT La.), Jan. 1.-At 2 o'clock
this morning a cyclone struck Keachie, q
small town in De Soto Parish The Masonic
Hall and postOffice and several stores were
demolished and the Spencer House and a
number of dwellings damaged. No lives
were lost.
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THE SCORES,
IL o'clock the score was as follows:
At II o'clock the score was as follows:

Dean was injured by running into Oofty
Goofty and was obliged to retire.
The first fifty miles was covered by Snow
den in hours, minutes and y seconds.
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they for years have enjoyed, and the plan
tationOwners are raising the cry of annexa-
ton, so that they may. regain what they
have lost.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-13
PITTsBURG, MONDAY, APR. Is, 1891
A DECIDED DISTINCTION.

4 correspondent, in another column, ap-
proves the remarks of THE DISPATCH and
the argument of Mr.. b. c. Lea Oh the i'm
policy OF burdening capital and enterprise
by onerous taxation, and the good effect, on
the value of land, of the opposite course.
Having done so, he proceeds to develop his
idea that this is an argument in favor of the
single tax theory.
This argument might have some force if
il were not for the very marked distinction
which our correspondent fails to recognize,
between retaining from the burdensome
taxation of capital and enterprise. for the
purpose of enhancing the value of land, and
that of levving burdensome taxation .exclu-
sively on land for the avowed purpose of
taking away its value. The two ideas are
as wide apart as the poles, and cannot be
Joined together, as our correspondent at
tempts, without logical violence.
As to our correspondents assertion that
the single tax on land in the city would sup
port all the expenses of government, it is
only necessary to remark that if the single
tax policy was applied, of exempting all
improvements on land, including street and
sewer assessments, a2d the taxes paid for a
long course of years in supporting the city
government, with interest thereon, it is
doubtful if the rental value of the remain
der would support q single fire engine.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-13
LEGAL LIGHT GONE,

Death is busy in removing prominent
men among our citizens lately. The press
and the banking interests have each lost
leading representatives lately, and now, in
the death of John Hampton, the bar OF
Allegheny county loses one of it's members
who for many years occupied an almost un-
disputed place at. its head. Forensic abili-
ties were hereditary in Mr.. Hampton's case,
but he raised the standard of legal talent
even higher than his eminent and learned
father. During the memory of the present
generation Mr.. Hampton's pre-eminence, es-
pecially in the mazes of corporation law,
was practically undisputed. That he did
not take leading place in politics was
doubtless due to his preference for the law,
as his great abilities and unquestioned in.
fiuenee would doubtless have won him
prominence if he had chosen to enter the
political field. The entire community will
honor his memory as one whose name has
for many years been typical for the leader
ship in culture, ability and legal powers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-13
TIE PAST NOT IN IT.

The anti-Blaine sentiments of the es-
teemed Buffalo Express lead it to cast cold
water on the talk in favor of Secretary
Blaine with the following appeal to the his
tory Of the past:
Such talk was very common-and cheap-at
Chicago in lSSS The Pacific delegates daily
bade us hold our breaths for the blaine rush"
But the rush never came. The reason why was
that there was no rush to come
1t is correct that the rush did not come,
but the reason given tor its failure to put in
an appearance is not the correct one. 1t did
not come because the majority of the con-
vention-outside of the Blaine boomers, who
were determined to run him willy-nllly-
finally became convinced that when Mr..
Blaine said that he would net permit his
name to be used he meant it. 1t took sew
eral kilograms from him to settle that point,
but it was finally settled.
It is too soon TO nominate candidates for
1892, but it is nevertheless worth while to
recognize that if Secretary Blaine's promi-
nence in the Republican party con-
tinues till 1892, it will not be on account
of any sentiments from former times, but
simply on account of that leaders position
in the present. Mr.. Blaine's strength
simply lies in the fact that he has shown
himself capable of broader and more far
seeing policy than any other leader.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-13
THE WORK OF CHARITY,

That the winter Just closed was q hard
season for the poor was manifest to anyone
who gave thought to it; though, as it was
preceded by a busy season, it would seem
that there should not have been much desti-
tuition except among those unable to work.
Nevertheless, the facts of great deal of
steady cold weather, considerable idleness
at the factories. the suspension Of work in
the line of street Improvements, and wide
prevalence of sickness made 1t undoubtedly
a season of difficulty for all of INDECENT cir
cumstances. This gives the statement OF the
operations of the Department of Charities,
published elsewhere, good deal of interest.
The most prominent reflection on reading
the figures on the work done by the depart
ment, is that, considering the exceptional
nature of the season. they prove the self
reliant character and independent eondi-
tion of the people of Pittsb burg. In a sea-
son when the vast majority of the families
in Pittsburg were visited by sickness in one
form or another, total of ZOO physicians
visits and 5000 prescriptions, paid for by
public charity, is not large. Two thousand
five hundred applicants for relief at the
Office, and 1900 outdoor cases investigated.
is only one and one-quarter per cent Of the
total population; though if we reason that
each of these cases represented family 1t
is probable that they may reach five or six
per cent The supplying of 800 families
with 20, 900 bushels of coal indicates that
about one family in sixty received that re-
lief which is most generally given.
In short, the figures quoted show that
in a season. the severe character Of
which is stated as an antecedent, about five
per cent of the population applied for pub
lie aid, about 12s per cent got it in the form
of coal, and. supposing each physicians
visit to have been to different family, the
total of medical relief, in season of epi-
demic, was only ~ per cent. This is on
the basis Of five persons to each family, and
with allowance for the fact that many
families must have had two or three physi-
clans visits, and that some may have made
several applications, it testifes volumes for
the self-sustaining character of Pittsburg's
working population.
The old issue as to the relative merits of
public relief and charitable organizations
appears in the statements of the Depart
ment of Charities. 1t is rather more than
hunted that the relief societies encourage
pauperism rather than cure it. Beyond
question close investigation is needed to
prevent extending aid to impostors; but
when the department states that it has ex-
tended aid to three generations of applicants
who can work and do not, it is hardly enti-
tied to impeach the other instrumentalities
of charity for making similar mistakes.
A complete system of public charity
which would provide those who can work
with employment. and fully care for those
unable to work, should make private chari-
ties unnecessary. But, with the doubt
whether every need for charitable aid is met
by the public system, we cannot afford to
cut off any of the unofficial attempts to help
the unfortunate or destitute.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-13
NOTES ABOUT NOTABLEs.

EMPEROR WILLIAM will make tour Of
the fortresses in Alsace Lorraine at the end of
the month. The prefecture of Metz is prepar-
ing to give him a reception.
MRS. FRANK LESLIE won fame MS a
writer before she married her late husband 1t
was as contributor to his periodicals that she
became personally acquainted with Mr.. Leslie.
EMPRESS FREDERICK has agreed to open
the International Art Exhibition at Berlin.
Despite the Paris incident, several leading
French artists will send studies to the exfibi
tion.
SIR Provo WILLIAM PARRY WALLIS,
the father of the royal navy" was 100 years
old yesterday. IL was he who won the famous
victory over the brave Captain Lawrence, of the
American navy, whose last words were: Don't
give up the ship!'
THE late King Kalakaua held a 5000
membership in an American life insurance fra
ternal order, and many a lodge member
throughout Ohio and other States, therefore,
received official notice of the monarch's de-
mise. The notice gave his occupation as
king" and his residence as Honolulu.
CAPTAIN HoRE thinks an incorrect i'm
preston exists with regard to Tippu Tib, the
great Arab leader in Central Africa. He sayS
that Tippu Tib never has been a large slave
raider but that on account of his power and
influence many natives have voluntarily placed
themselves under his care and are voluntarily
his servants.
ONE of the most noted women in England,
Mrs. Annie Besant, who has a worldwide
reputation as a social. religious and political
reformer. has just arrived in this country Her
long association with Charles Bradlaugh in the
English secularist movement and her works
upon social relations first brought her into
prominence.
Mr.. EDISON made no claims to being an
electrician, it is said. He says that the experts
in electrical science who are associated with
him discover certain force, or the need of a
certain force or property, and he tries to make
a machine or instrument to utilize or produce
such a force. 81 am a mechanician, not an
electrician" he said, land have no wish to
claim the credit due to the gentlemen asso-
ciated with me. am an inventor, not an elec-
trician.n
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-13
A GOOD CROP PROSPECT.

There is an encouraging aspect for the
crop year, in the April report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, that winter wheat at
present shows better condition than at any
time since 1882. or course it is too soon to
regard any crop reports as decisive with re-
gard to the ultimate condition; but it is
satisfactory to know that so far as the season
has progressed ii is favorable to nearly all
crops. The latenesS OF the spring has car
ried us nearly to the middle of April with
out any premature growth that would be
blighted by frost. The winter was such
that none of the crops then in the ground
were winter-killed. All kinds of agricul-
tural production have still to run the
gauntlet comprised between excessive rains
and general drought. But while We may
grumble at the late unreasonable weather
we should remember that it brings us to the
Opening of the spring in a manner that
makes the disasters of last year improbable
and permits the hope of large agricultural
Yields and consequent activity in general
business
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THE EXPECTATION OF FLYING.

Promises of aerial navigation are multi
plying with such rapidlty that all that is
necessary to inspire definite hopes of seeing,
within the present generation, aerial navies
flying through the blue, is an ounce or two
of performance. The Western flying ma
chine companies have given US glowing
statements Of what they are going to do; but
up to date their most imposing achievement
has been the creation of immensely capital
lied companies on the expectations of the
future. A more convincing indication that
we may be near the solution of the great
problem was given at the close of paper
by Octave Charute. President of the Ameri-
can Society of Civil Engineers, read at the
patent centennial last week.
Mr.. Charute states that he knows eight or
ten perfectly sane men who are studying
this question and experimenting in flying
machines. They are not trying to produce
dirigible balloons, with which a measure of
success has already been accomplished, "but
real flying machines dependent like the
birds upon the sustained reactions of the
air for support" Among these, and prob
ably the best equipped, is Maxim. the in
ventor of the electric light and the auto
matte machine gun. He has reached the
stage where he concludes that 1873 pounds
can be sustained in the air by the expendl-
ture of one-horse power, and has made a
machine which will develop one-horse power
for every six pounds of weight. This, Mr..
Charute thinks, points to the realization at
an early day of flying machines that will
miles per hour, or even reach that of the
snipe or martin, which is said to fash
through the air at the rate of 200 miles per
hour.
This raises the expectation for exceedingly
interesting developments in the future, ex-
cept for one thing-the testimony of exper-
ience that foreseen and expected discoveries,
like the philosophers stone, the elixir of
life, and other dreams of scientific progress,
never come to pass. The great in
yentions of the past century were those
that were unexpected before their discovery.
The .f1ving machine is almost as old dream
as the elixir of life. A century ago it might
have been thought possible that one or the
other would be discovered. But no one
would have admitted the possibility that
message could be transmitted instantaneously
ten thousand miles, or that the sound OF a
mans voice could be carried fifty miles.
The latter things have been done; the former
have not yet been achieved. We may be
nearer aerial navigation than we were then;
but if it is attained it will be the first in
stance on record in which invention has
first fixed its objective point and succeeded
in attaining it.
Of course it will be great change in hu-
man conditions when the city worker can
leave his work and In twenty minutes reach
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-13
INCONSISTENCY ALL AROUND.

There is little incongruity on both sides
in the remarks on the reported scheme OF the
Kansas Farmers Alliance to build trunk
line across that State, under State control,
as affording a relief from railroad charges.
The proposition and the comments on it
from corporate quarters betrav certain de-
gree Of inconsistency with the assertions
which each side has made heretofore.
In the first place, the plan of inducing the
State of Kansas to build 3OO-mile trunk
line across the State, raises doubt whether
that State is quite SO poverty stricken as
some pictures have represented. If the
people of that State can stand the taxes re-
quired for the construction of the State rail-
roads, we may be pardoned for doubling
whether their farms are SO completely eaten
up By mortgages as has been alleged. This
is a very mild inconsistency beside the at
titude which the railroads take toward the
proposition. They declare through the
mouth of one general agent that "the
railroads would make determined fight and
no road in the State would make any money
for the reason that rates would be cut to the
lowest possible notch" But the railroads
Nave been already making national outcry
yer the fact that they cannot make any
money out OF present rates on Kansas traffic.
Why should they cut rates on Kansas traffic
then? Is it possible that when they have in
the first instance no profit from a given
traffic, they would actually throw away their
capital in order to prevent State road from
taking a proftless traffic away from them.
The Kansas project is crude and useless
one; but it has served to bring out another
illustration of the facility with which the ad-
vocates of corporate ideas, as soon as new
situation presents itself. throw overheard