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The morning call., 1891-04-16
The Whist PLAYERS

MILWAUKEE, April Representatives
to the American Whist Congress were in
creased to-day by the arrival Of additional
players. A letter from F. b. Trist, the
NewlOrleans authority, recommended Caven-
dish as the best authority in getting up
an American text work for whist. There
was lively discussion as to the possibility
of ascertainlng the comparative strength of
individual players, Foster of New York
being almost alone in supporting the
affirmative side of the question.
The morning call., 1891-04-16
ECCLEsIAsTICAL COUNCIL.
The Pope in Favor of Holding Conference Of
Rishops in South America

ROME, April 15.-The Vatican has just
completed its labors in connection with the
reorganization Of tie Catholic Church in
Brazil. That country will henceforth be
divided into two ecclesiastical provinces.
The new province will be at Rio de Janeiro.
The number of dioceses is increased from
twelve to sixteen.
Very important negotiations have taken
place between the Vatican ana the Bishops
OF South America. The Pope requested each
Bishop to give his opinion as TO the dvisa-
bility of holding grand South American
Ecclesiastical Council on the model of the
one recently held in Baltimore. The ma iority
of the Bishops gave a decision in favor of
the proposition and the council will accord :
ingly be held shortly. Its aim will be the
entire reorganization of the American
churches. The Vatican also decided to i'll
crease the number of Mexican Bishops and
a Provincial or National Council will soon
be cOnyoke d.
The morning call., 1891-04-16

ging rifie-pits and in other ways preparing
to give the British warm reception.
General Graham was last reported as ad-
vancing via Tamu, and General Collett as
advancing from Nigriting. The sending to
the front of such large force of British
troops, shows how serious the situation is,
and the British authorities recognize the
fact that crushing blow must be struck
against the Manipuris in order to restore the
lost prestige to British arms.
The morning call., 1891-04-16
MYsTIFIED BY GOULD.
Railroad Officers Unable to Explain 4
Ahsenna Frnrn Chinan On.

Railroad Officers Unable to Explain His
Absence From Chicago.
NEW YORK, April 15.-The officers of all
the railroads represented at the meet
ing of the Western Traffic Associa-
tion are mystified at the action of Jay
Gould, Russell Sage and c. P. Huntington
in ignoring the meeting Of the Advisory
Board yesterday in Chicago.
Russell Sage, when sp1ken to this morn
ing about the absence of the Gould repre-
sentatiyes, said II do not know anything
about the meeting" Representatives of the
Vanderbilt interests and of DreXel, Morgan
81 Co. professed themselves puzzled to ac-
count for Jay Gould'S action. 1t is said
that Chauncey Depew and Cornelius Van
derbilt are now on their way TO Chicago to
take some steps to preserve the integrity Of
the Presidents Association, but there
seems to be nothing for them to do but %
revive the old Northwestern Association G.
else take steps at once to continue the -
Paul ana Northwestern in one company and
try to live through the conflict for supremacy
i'm the NorthNast
The morning call., 1891-04-16
QUARRELING LADY MANAGERS.
Secretary Phoebe Couzins Flatly Refuses to
Recognize the Subcommittee.

Recognize the Subcommittee.
CHICAGO, April 15.-The war between the
Executive Committee of the lady managers
of the Worlds Fair and Secretary Phoebe
Couzins was brought to climax to-day by
the positive refusal of Miss Couzins to recOg-
nize the authority of the ubeommit-
tee headed by Mrs. Potter Palmer.
Miss COuZins said she would neither
retire nor appear before the committee :;
that she was legally member of the Board
of Lady Managers and was not amenable to
discipline from the Executive Committee.
She also declared thutif this committee un-
dertoOk to depose her she should appeal to
the courts. The fear was quite generally
expressed this evening that the feud may
entirely disrupt the Board of Lady Man
ayers, as Mrs. Palmer, it is pointed out, is
woman of great ability and determination
of character, and Miss CouZins has legal
education and a remarkable record as
plueky and successful fighter.
The morning call., 1891-04-16
Memnhis Races.

MEMPHIS, April 15--At the races to-day
the track was heavy.
First race, half mile, two-year-olds-
Gray Goose won, Dolie Mobiles second,
Freddy p third. Time, 50 seconds.
Second race, three-quarters of a mile
Doxey won, Lanlithgow second, j. third.
Time, :19h.
Wightman won, German second. Huron
third. Time, 51A seconds.
Fourth race, one mile and sixteenth
Fayette won, Alphonse second, Bankrupt
third. Time, 1:52H.
Fifth race, one mile-Bartha won, Willow
second, RedStone third. Time, l 80.
The morning call., 1891-04-16
Sexton and HeaIy Quarrel.

DUBLIN, April 15.-It is stated in we'll
informed quarters that Messrs. Sexton and
Healy are having serious quarrel in re-
gard to the editorial management of the
National Press, the organ of the Mccarthy
party. Mr.. Sexton, it is said. objects 10 Mr..
Healy praising himself in letters that are
unsigned or bearing fictitious signatures,
and there are other matters in dispute be-
tween the two men.
The morning call., 1891-04-16
Wholesale Evictions.

SCoTTDALE (Pa.l April 15.-The many
breaks in the ranks of the workers are hav-
ing a most dishearteniug effect on the men.
A number of peaceful evctions took place,
tonight, and the deputies teegraphed they
were in fear cf their lives. The Sheriff
wired them to hold off until tomorrow,
when he will appear with reinforeements
and the eyictions will begin by wholesale.
The morning call., 1891-04-16
Land Decisions.

WASHINGTON. April 14.-In the case Of
NJ. E. Olmstead vs.. Alice NJ. Milligan, in
volving land in the Humboldt District. the
decision of the Commissioner is affirmed
In the case of Ross f. Ludlow VS.. Ashbel
p. Osborn, involving land in the Visalia
District, tile decision of the Commissioner
is affirmed. In the case of Silas M. Epps
VS.. William II. Newcomb, involving land in
the Humboldt District, the decision of the
Commissioner is reversed.
The morning call., 1891-04-16
California Patents.

WASHINGTON, April 14.-Patents have
been granted to the following Californians:
Fred Borneman, San Francisco, child's fold
ing carriage; George r. Duval, assignor to
Benicia Agricultural Works, Benicia, trac
tion wheel; Charles w. Harvey, Los An
geles, and c. J. Root, Bristol, Conn.,, said
Root assignor to said Harvey, door spring;
Charles S. Jones, Redding, ore-mill; John
c. Schrader of Dover. n. j., assgnor to
Repanno Chemical Company, Wilmington,
Del, and Atlantic Dynamite Company of
San Francisco, apparatus for making dope
for explosives; Gilbert Tompkins, San Le-
andro foot-rasp for horses.
The morning call., 1891-04-16
FALSE SHIPPING WEIGHTS.
The Head of Wealthy Lumber Firm Arrested
BY the Federal Authorities

by the Federal Authorities.
CHICAGO, April 15.-It transpires that R.
Howells, head of the wealthy firm of How
ellis & Co., dealers in lumber. with head
quarters in this city and branches at Omaha
and Atchison, Kans., was secretly arrested
by the Federal authorities yesterday and
brought before the United States Commits
sioner and held in $1,000 for his future ap-
pearance. Its said warrants for the arrest
of two Of his brothers, one at Atchs on and
the other at Omaha, are also out. 1t is
stated there is evidence in the possession Of
the Interstate Commerce Commission which
will prove the Howells have systematically
bribed certain weigh-masters of the Western
Railway Weighing Association at Missouri
River points to record false shipping
weights. The weigh-masters in question
will also be arrested and proceeded against
by the commission,
The morning call., 1891-04-16
CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS.
The War Department Acquiring Land for
Coast Defense

Coast Defense.
NEW YORK, April 15.-The War Depart
ment is taking steps to secure more ground
in tue vicinity of New YORK City for coast
defenses. Condemnation proceedings are
now being instituted through the Depart
ment of Justice to secure title for the Gov
eminent Secretary Proctor said yesterday:
owe want Plumb Island and more land at
Forts Hamilton and Wadsw0rth for addi-
tiOnal protection to New York harbOr.
The Government is taking steps to secure
land for sea-coast forts wherever needed.
Title to the land will be acquired as speed
lily as possible There is an appropriation
of S750,000 available tor the purpose of adj
ditional sites for coast and mortar batteries
for the defense of the harb0rs of New
York. Boston, San Francisco, Hampton
Roads and Washington. The bulk Of this
amount will be utilized for the purchase Of
land at the three points mentioned near New
York"
The morning call., 1891-04-16
A Friehtful Fall.

PoTTsv1LLE Pa.), April 15.-While nine
men were ascending a shaft in the Philadel-
phia ard Reading Colliery to-day the rope
to the car broke, letting six of them to the
bottom OF the pit, distance of 300 feet.
The other three jumped off uninjured at the
first landing The six men who fell to the
two will die.
The morning call., 1891-04-16
AN INsURGENT VICTORY.
Three Thousand Government Troops Defeated
et Conieno Chile

at Copiapo, Chile.
PARIS, April 15-Dispatches from Chile
state that desperate battle, resulting in a
victory for the Chilean insurgents, was
fought recently at Copiapo. the capital of
the Province of Atacama. Only meager de-
tails are given The dispatches say the in
surgents, after long and determined
struggle, defeated:with he avy loss a force
of 5000 of President Balmaceda's troops
The dispatches, which are supposed to
have originated from insurgent sources, add
that the insUrgent army is increasing
steadily in strength, and intends shortly to
march upon the capital, Santiago de Chile,
and Valparaiso.
lQUIQUE. April 15-The action of Sails
bury in notifying the Bamaceda Govern
ment that the British Admiral will protect
the interests of British merchants and that
England will not recognize the double ex-
action OF duties on nitrates, will tend to
stimulate shipments from this and other
ports Vessels are loading as usual. Tee-
graphic communication with the interior
towns north of Antofagasta has been estab-
lished.
The morning call., 1891-04-16

Senator Stewart, In his letter, says he Is In full
sympathy with the Western States Commercial
Congress, and realized The necessity for the
united action OF the West and South to resis. the
absorbing avarice Of The gold cOntraetions OF the
commercial centers of Europe and the United
States IL was admitted that enterprise must
langulsh, business be curtailed, and prog
ress and DEVELOPMENT stayed by adherence
TO gold monometallism. But such was
the policy dictated TO our Government
by the money changers. Silver had been
The morning call., 1891-04-16
REPUBLICAN VETERANS.
A Reunion in Commemoration of the Organ
iZation of the PARTY

lzatlon OF the Party.
Boston, April ia reunion OF Veteran
Republicans was held at fremont Ten-
pie to day. The occasion commem-
crates the twenty-sixth anniversary of
the death of Abraham Lincoln and
the thirty-seventh anniversary of the FORM
alton and naming OF the Republican party.
A resolution was adopted that an impera-
tive necessity of the immediate future OF the
Republican party is united action on the
part of its members for the complete over
throw of the traffic in intoxicating liquors In
both State and nation.
The morning call., 1891-04-16
The Olsen Case,

MERGED, April 15.-The prosecution In the
Olsen case Is fast drawing to close. The line OF
examination to-day was as to the bloody clothes,
who found them, who had them 10 possession
Since the finding of them, aud also trying to
prove 10 whom the clothes belonged.
The morning call., 1891-04-16
Tranv,s Civil seruics scheme.

WASHINGTON, April 15.-Seeretary Tracy
issued an order to-day in furtherauce Of
Civil Service reform In the navy-yards.
He declares all positions of foremen and
master mechanics in the New York yard
vacant after June 1st and conYenes the
Board of Naval Officers there ON May 1st,
to hold an examination on May 11th of ali
applicants for the vacated places.
The morning call., 1891-04-16
The Canadian Tariff.

OTTAWA, April 15.-It is officially stated
that the Government has decided not to
amend the tariff at the coming session. 1t
is possible that something may be done with
the sugar duties, but the change, if any,
cannot be determined until the Customs
Department determines the working of the
sugar clauses of the Mckinley bill and their
effect upon Canada.
The morning call., 1891-04-16
A Heavy Racing Purse.

HARTFORD, April 15.-The Directors Of
the Charter Oak Driving Park have decided
to offer purse of $4,000 for trotting foals
of 1891. to be trotted for at the Grand Cir
cult meeting in 1894, the total entrance to be
~ per cent The purse has been named
"Nufmep Futurityo
The morning call., 1891-04-16
California Pensions.

WASHINGTON, April 15.-The following
Calfornians have been granted pensions:
John d. Barr, Joseph Johaninzneir, John
ii. Cotton. Francis Hall, John Marshall,
William Ii. Carpenter, Charles Canblich,
Catlett c. Spikes, Rosna, widow Of Jacob
Raalia
The morning call., 1891-04-16
WAR Is INEVITABLE.

The Russian Government Continues It's Prep
arations for Conflict.
ST. PETERSBURG, April 15.-ln spite of
the peaceful utterances of Government
officials in Europe everybody knows that
Russia is making extensive preparations for
war. and that her riva Is are, ON their side.
making counter prepare tons for. great
struggle, which must sooner or later take
place. Russia has been expending enormous
sums in the construction of strategic rail-
roads, and in this and other ways arrange
mepts for the transportation of large bodies
of Russian troops to the Austro-German
frontier are almost completed.
The morning call., 1891-04-16
WAsHNGToS. April ?, 1891.

III is proper, however. TO add that two years
IaleI congress III recognition of certain magnani.
nous conduct on the part Of the Oueen OF Spain
IN paroons bestowed upon Americans VINO had
un1ustliiaby Invaded the island Of Cuba, enacted
sui and other Spanish subjects for te losses aus.
tained. II was held however not to contravene
tie original position OF Webster. which was
shared also by President Fillmore. The light
TO judicial remedy which Webster assured 10
Spanish subjects is likewise assured to Italian
subjects. This right Is specially guaranteed In
Tie second section OF the third article Of tue Con-
BliiuIOn aud as Webster points out. a resident
alien has privilege which is denied to tie cit
iZen. The widows and children of lhe citizens
who lost their lives by mob violence may sue the
leaders ana members Of the mob only In the
cOurls OF The State Of Louisiana, while the
widows and children Of the italian subjects who
suffered death have the right to sue each mem
Der OF he mob, not only In the state courts. but
also before the Federal tribunals for the district
The morning call., 1891-04-16
A Texas Cyclone.

CLAUDE (Tex.), April ia terrific
cyclone passed two miles west of here THU
afternoon. One man was killed and another
badly hurt. The extent Of the damage ID
not vet known,
The morning call., 1891-04-16
GROULIsH WORK.

Physician and Pccr-Farm Superintendent
Charged With Grave Robbery.
WHEELING (W.Va.), April 15.-Dr. Pipes,
one of the most prominent physicians in the
city, and Taylor Foreman, Superintendent
of the County Poor Farm, have been ar
rested on warrant charging them with
grave robbery. Grave-robbing has been
flOurishng industry in this vicinity recently,
and the arrest of these prominent citizens
has caused a sensation.
The morning call., 1891-04-16
Mexicap.euatemalan Claims.

CITY OF MEXICO, April 15.-The Mexican
Guatemalan Claims Commission is finishing
its labors The Guatemalans presented
claims for 81. 13s, 379, and the Mexicans for
S1.557.232. The claims disalIowed are:
1927, 727 for Guatemala, and S449, 799 for
Mexico. The time allowed for presenting
more claims has been extended.
The morning call., 1891-04-16
Going to Alaska

WASHINGTON, April 15.-Geo. X. Tingle
superintendent of the business of the North
American Commercial Company left To-day
for San Francisco, where he will remain
some days, then 60 to Alaska to guard the
interests Of the Company
The morning call., 1891-04-16
Mary Anderson Becomes a Mother

LONDON, April ia dispatch just re-
ceived from BournemOuth states that Mary
Anderson Navarro gave birth to a ch i'd, sex
not stated, on Monday night at the Metro
pole Hotel, West Cliffe BournemO nth, where
she has been staying for several weeks.
The morning call., 1891-04-16
NO LIQUOR ON SUNDAYS.

The Bill Closing Public Houses in ireland
Passes the Second Reading.
LONDON, April 15.--ln the House of Com
mons to-day the bin making permanent the
closing of public houses in Ireland on Sum
days, and including in its scope the cities Of
Dublin, Cork, Belfast, Waterford and LAM
erlck, passed to second reading by vote of
248 TO 94
The morning call., 1891-04-16
The Los Angeles Doc Show.

Los ANGELES, April 15.-1he third annual
bench show OF the Southern California Kennel
Club opened to-day, with the best and largest
list Of entries in IT'S history. number OF San
Francisco dogs are entered. Tue attendance to-
day was very large,
The morning call., 1891-04-16
AM Advance in Window.alass.

CHICAGO, April 15.-At a meeting Of th(
window-glass manufacturers of Pittsburs
and the West held in this city to-day 1t wal
! decided to advance prices 10 TO 10 per cent
| Immediately.
The morning call., 1891-04-16
CHARGES REFUTED.

Superintendent of Census Porter Positively
Denies Serious Allegations,
WASHINGTON, April 15.-Some days ago
Superintendent of Census Porter received
from S. McLallin, editor Of the Advocate, a
Farmers Alliance newspaper published at
Topeka, Kans., letter criticizing the work
of the bureau in its farm-mortgage investi-
CATION, alleging, among other things, that
it was being conducted for party pur-
intendent has written to McLallin
that there 10 no evidence. not is it
The morning call., 1891-04-16
A DESPERATE BATTLE.
Three Men Killed in Riot Between Soldiers
and Police in Posen

and Police in Posen.
LONDON. April 15.-A terrible riot is re-
ported to have occurred at Budsing, Posen,
between the military reserves going on duty
and the police. The trouble appears to have
originated in some rudeness on the part of
the police toward the military. The latter
resented and bloody fight ensued, both
police and soldiers using their weapons
freely. The police got the best of the strug-
gle and three of the reserve men were
killed.
The morning call., 1891-04-16

LONDON, April 15.-Intluenza is raging in
all epidemic form in Hull. The death rate
which is usually 16 per 1000. has reached 46
per 1000.
The morning call., 1891-04-16

Three ardent wheelmen went from San
Diego to La Jolla and return last Sunday in
two hours and thirty-six minutes. The dis
cYclometerS.
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designation of the Portuguese Cabinet.

LISBON, April 15.-The entire Cabinet has
resigned. The King will announce mis-
action in the matter tomorrow.
The morning call., 1891-04-16
NOT A SUCCESS.
Failure of Argentine Capitalists 20 Raise
Funds for the Provincial Bank.

Funds for the Provincial Bank
BUENos AYREs, April 15.-The efforts
which have been made by number of capt.
talists in order to enable the Provincial
Bank to resume business with capital of
S100, 100000 have not met with success
This, combined with the split in the Union
Civioa, and the continued opposition to
General Roca, Minister of the Interior, who
resigned yesterday, has considerably aggra-
waited the political and financial situation
and created an increased feeling of distrust
In the future
The morning call., 1891-04-16
AFFAIRS IN INDIA.
The Manipuris Preparing to Resist the Ad-
vance of British Troops

CALCUTTA, April 15.-More serious fight
ing is looked forward to in the near future
between the British troops and insurgent
Mauipuris. Profting by the delay Of the
British troops in advancing to the front. the
Manipuris are erecting stone stockades, dig
The morning call., 1891-04-16
An Aching Void F!

There is an aching void in the "Help Wanted" 1"
columns of THE CALLS contemporaries.
HELP WANTED ADS IN TUESDAYS CALI" lZ5
IN BOTH THE CHRONICLE AND EXAMINER. 100
THE CALL Is The ONLY WANT SIEDIUHIi
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-06-04
SINCE LAST WE MET.

AN Albany (Kan.) paper publishes
the following item: John Thompson's
dogs are all dead but twelve"
A TRANSFORMING relic is being adver-
tised in Kansas as ''the woman Henry
M. Stanley was stuck on fifteen or
twenty years ago"
A LOT of land in Cincinnati thirty-nine
by ninety feet in dimensions, once
bought for four dollars, recently sold
for ninety thousand dollars in cash.
CANNIBALIsM is evidently on the in
crease in Washington. An ADVERTISE
mcnt in one of the papers reads:
"Wanted-A white girl for cooking"
TIE merchants of Sturgeon, Mo-,
have entered INTO an lronclad agree
ment to enforce the cash system in that
town. "Anyone caught selling goods
on credit forfeits all his outstanding ac-
counts"
A BED quilt consisting of %, ,223 pieces,
has just been completed by maiden
lady of Quakcrtown, N. j. 1t is two
yards wide, and two and quarter
yards in length, and over two years
were spent in making it.
HENS ana chickens worth two thou
sand dollars apiece attracted curious
sightsccrs at the poultry show in New
York, while domestic fowls, worth each
only few hundreds, were so common
that they hardly won any notice.
A MAN knows as "Buffalo" Jones
lately furnished the novelty of sale
of herd of buffalo Mt public auction
in Garden City, Ia. There was a mort
gage on the herd which Mr.. Jones could
not lift, and the sheriff did the rest.
MR. WELLS, of Batting Hollow, L. l.,
is now nearly eighty years of age, and
he has kept an account of the number
of cords Of wood cut during his life,
and reports it as 1871. About thirty
years ago, on a wager, he cut, but did
not pile, ten cords of pine wood between
sunrise and sunset.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-06-04
PLEASANT PARAGRAPHS.

A. (To bachelor friend)-"Do come
and see me some day, old chap; mind
you, my daughters are all of them en-
gaged"
BJINKs-"I've invented an ink bottle
which will make my fortune" Biones
-"What kind is it?" Biinks - "It
sounds an alarm at the approach of a
mucilage brush"
BETWEEN Good Friends.-"See that
poor Mrs. x! Her teeth grow blacker and
blacker" Goodness! Don't you know
that is because there has been so much
mourning in the family this winterI'
AT ball an adoring admirer ap-
preached a young girl who was dressed
in black. MAY 1 ask you to dance?'
he asked. "Yes," she replied, ssbut
please dance very slowly. am not yet
out of mourning"
AN intoxicated man on a Ninth street
Philadelphia car kept gazing anxiously
ut the fare register. Finally, turning
to the other only passenger on the car,
he said: "Shay! 1 gottcr (hic) ketch
train. Eat clock amt right, ish it?"
SHE-"No; papa has no positive objec-
tion to you. He merely thinks you a
little too-too indolent, as it were. He
says you seem to have no object in life,
SO to speak" He-"No object in life?
He surely doesn't take you into consid-
Grafton ut all"
"HELLo, old fellow, going to hrnt?'
eyes, to-day for the first time. The
first rabbit shoot is for my wife, the
second belongs to my daughter, and the
third mean to give to you" "That is
very kind of you, but would you mind
shooting the third rabbit first"
LITERARY Note.-'I see that in the
preface of your book you state that it is
written to fill n long felt want. What
do you mean by that?" What do l
mean by that! Why, I've been needing
square meal for the last eighteen
months. Don't you call that long felt
want?"
A LITTLE Washington boy who had
been initiating his papa SO as to be ga
man." coaxed his father for roller
skates and got them. One evening his
father came from the office, and for the
sake of teasing the little man, said:
''That's nice, isn't it? The idea of a
man playing like that. What would you
think Of papa were he to como home on
skates?" "Well," said the youngster
after a thoughtful silence, mamma
saws YOU do"