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The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-06-05
FINANCIAL SITUATION.


Less Gold In the Treasury Now Than
Since January l, 1879.
WASHINGTON, June AT no time since
specie payments were resumed on Janu-
airy l, 1879, has the net gold in the Treas
ury of the United States been so low. The
amount is SS9,939,2l7. on January |, 1879,
it was Sll4, 1888 Since that period it
gradually increased, until on March l,
1883, it reached 900, which was
high-water mark, and since then the net
gold holdings of the Treasury have been
on the declining scale.
While no uneasiness is felt at the Treas
ury Department because of the continued
loss of gold, still Secretary Carlisle is not
unmindful of the fact that point NAV be
reached where the confidence reposed in
the Treasury by the people may be
shaken. How to replete the Treasury
with gold has been problem seriously
considered by the Administration for
some time. The issue of bonds is the
usual remedy suggested, but it is known
that the President is not in favor of this
alternative, except as last resource, and,
even if they are issued. the Treasury of
fieials are not by any means confident
that the Treasury gold repleted in this
way will long continue. 1t is contended.
in fact, that an enforced issue of bonds
simply means that the Government will
go into the market to borrow gold at in
terest for the purpose of purchasing sill
yer, with no assurance that the gold so
obtained will remain in the Treasury
longer than will be necessary for the
agencies now at work to take it out-and
so the Nation might go on borrowing gold
indefinitely and be only worse off in the
end.
The suggestion has been made that the
Secretary of the Treasury has power to
issue greenbacks in exchange for gold.
thus increasing the amount of gold and
increasing the value of greenbacks out
standing to the extent OF the gold thus
exchanged. The Treasury officials say
the idea is not new one, but has been
advanced at different periods in the past
ten days. There is no law on the statute
books more stringent than that relating
to greenbacks, and the Secretary of the
Treasury has no discretion either to in
crease or diminish their volume.
The star. in discussing the monetary
situation, says: sit is understood that
the question which will be discussed at
the special meeting of the Cabinet to be
held on Monday will be the condition of
the Treasury. At that meeting it is be-
leved that the Attorney General will
render an opinion on the question as to
the right of the Administration to issue
bonds without action by Congress. So
licitor-G General Aldrich drew up an opin-
ion on this question, which Attorney
General Miller adopted, deciding that
such course could be pursued, and it is
intimated that Mr.. Olney will also hold
to this Judgment. 1t would seem that
the agitation of the bond issue question
is to be resumed"
To-Day's Developments Awaited.
JOLIET (Ill.l, June 4-There was no
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Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN.


HoUsToN tTex.), June 4.-Spanish
Camp, in Wharton County, twenty miles
from the railroad, was struck by ter
rible cyclone on Friday night. A num-
Der of houses were unroofed and de-
stroyed. In The village Josh Wilkins
house was blown down and two children
killed. For three miles square every
thing was wrecked and ruined. Three
miles from town Mrs. Simmons was
killed, and Wash Jenkens. darby over
100 years old, was caught beneath the
ruins of his cabin and crushed to death
All residences land outhouses on the
Montgomery plantation were blown
away and several persons hurt. but none
killed. On G. Duncan's farm houses
were unroofed and two families of col
ored tenants badly injured, two fatally.
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Divine Anatus Sold Cheaply.

Aspiring young author-I have here a
few pastels in prose, which / venture to
think will create a sensation in the lit
erary world. l have tried to throw into
them the divine afflatus of petry, tinged
with the tragic pathos OF human life.
Editor OF the Literary VoTter (glancing
over the pages)-H'm! Afraid that sort
stuff won't go any more. Nothin it in
the first place, and done to death. Sorry,
but-tell you what, though, suppose you
let us print it in our funny column as a
burlesque on the prose pastel business!
It'll be the screamin'est thing we've had
in long time.
"What'u you pay?"
Three dollars"
"Cash DOWN."
Eyes"
GIVE me the money."-New York
Tribune.
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kansas Miners, Strike.

LEAvENwoRTH, (Kan.), June 4.-The
status of the miners strike here remains
unchanged, except that notice has been
posted by the operators of the Home
mine that the men must return to work
by next Tuesday morning in order to
receive the same pay they were getting
at the time they quit. The miners have
not yet intimated what position they will
take i'll the premises. Four mines in
Leavenworth are now closed.
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denounced the Presbyterians.

ALBANY IN. W. June REV. DR..
James Ecob, OF the Second Presbyterian
Church of this city, in his mornings ser
mon to-day renowned allegiance to the
Presbyterian denomination because of
the decision of the General Assembly in
the Briggs case. 1t is probable the church
will support his action and leave the de-
nomination with him.
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JAPs AND CHINESE.
They Control the FIshermen's Inter-
ests in British CoInmbla.

They Control the FIshermen's Inter-
ests in British Columbia.
New WEsTMIN sTER (B. c., June A
monster meeting of the Fishermen's AS
ISOLATION was held here to discuss the
wholesale naturalization of Japanese and
Chinese for the purpose Of getting a fish
ing license. Several speeches were made.
1t was pointed out that the fishermen
were gradually being crowded out by
Japs and Chinese. There are thirty-one
canneries on Fraser river, and although
the biggest pack on record is expected to
be made this season, not one white fisher
man has been employed so far by the can
neries, Japs and Cinnamon taking their
places. Native Indians are also being
supplanted by Japs. Resolutions were
passed asking the Dominion Government
to refuse to grant licenses to Japs and
Chinese, and to issue the same only to
whites and Indians. The meeting was
enthusiastic. Public sentiment is strongly
with the fishermen.
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day. but to-morrow's developments are
awaited. The men have decided to meet
in Lemont, and they will march along
the canal, forcing all men to quit where
ever at work. The contractors say the
men desiring work will be given full
protection. The strikers threaten
trouble if scabs are put to work or if the
militia and Deputy Sherifs are en-
ploved
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An Iron Company Assigns.

JOHNSON CITY (Tenn.), June 4.-Yes-
terday the Carnegie Land Company and
Carnegie Iron Company made an assign
ment to j. w. Cure. The liabilities, due
largely to Eastern and Northern parties.
are placed at sl25. 600 and the assets. con-
sisting of new blast furnace, hotel.
lands and town lots and notes, are esti-
mated at $500, 600.
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ALASKA BOUNDARY,
United States and Canadian Survey
Parties Under Way.


Parties Under Way.
OTTAWA, June 4.--Prof. W. T. King.
Canadian Commissioner in the Alaska
boundary question, arrived yesterday
from Vancouver. He reports that the
Canadian and United States survey par
ties are all under way. Professor Mem
denhall, United States Commissioner, was
not at the coast, but his assistant, Ogden,
superintendent the dispatch of the Ameri-
can parties.
The steamer Thistle has been sent up
the coast to give all the help possible and
carry the reserve provisions. Both the
Canadian and United States parties will
report in September, but they will prob
ably only be half through work by that
time.
Professors King and Mendenhau are
required to report to their respective
Governments within two years.
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a CALIFORNIAN KILLED.
Run Over by Truck While Crossing
a Street in Chicago.

Run Over by n Truck While Crossing
Street in Chicago.
CHICAGO, June 4.-Driver Jacobson of
the heavy truck which ran over J. II.
Burks, of Los Angeles, Cal, yesterday,
is still locked up, as the Coroner did not
hold an inquest to-day. 1t was about 3
o'clock in the afternoon when Mr.. Burks
attempted to cross Clark street at Mad
ison. Both thoroughfares were crowded
with pedestrians, horse-cars and all man
ner OF vehicles. In trying to pick his
way out of the mass of vehicles, he
slipped and fell directly under the wheels
of the truck. One of the wheels of the
truck passed over his body, crushing him
in frightful manner. When picked up
he was unconscious. Blood was flowing
from his mouth and his back was broken.
Nothing could be done for the injured
man, and he died in fifteen minutes. J.
D. Burks, his son, student at the Uni
versity of Chicago, viii accompany the
remains to Los Angeles.
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Big Strike Imminent.

CHICAGO, June 4.-There is every prob
ability that by tomorrow morning the
Standard Oil Company will have big
strike on its hands. The entire working
force Of $500 men at Whiting, Ind, has
decided to strike unless the company ac-
cedes to their demands for nine hours
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ItaIy,s National Fete.

CHICAGO, June 4.-His excellency, the
Marquis Enrici Ungaro. and the Italian
Commissioners to the Worlds Fair, gave
banquet tonight in honor OF Italy's
national fete. Over one hundred guests
were present, representing all the distin-
guished foreigners in official attendance
upon the fair.
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No friction is anticipated. Professor
King says the Commissioners and sur
veyors are all on the best of terms, and
prepared to give each other assistance if
need be- Still, they will be strictly loyal
to their respective interests, as the own
ership of valuable mining resources, in
Guiding, it is believed, considerable gold
fields, is to be decided by the location of
the boundary line.
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Fatal Powder EXPLOSION.

BERLIN, June A CARLOAD of gum
powder exploded this afternoon on the
street of kim, Rhenish Prussia, by
spark from pipe. Two men on the
cart were killed and thirteen other
persons injured, several so severely that
they will not recover. Thirty houses
were damaged by the explosion.
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OUR MINISTER TO GERMANY.
Theodore Runyon Presented to EN-
peror William.

Theodore Runyon Presented to EN-
peror William.
BERLIN, June 4.-William Walter
Phelps, the retiring United States Min
lister, was presented at the castle this
noon. Immediately afterward Freiherr
Marshall Won Bieherstein, Minister of
Foreign Affairs, introduced to the
Emperor Theodore Runyon, the new
United States Minister. Runyon wore
the uniform Off General. In presenting
his credentials he made felicitous
speech commenting on the amity be-
tween Germany and the United States.
In reply the Emperor said he recognized
with pleasure the friendliness of the re-
lations between Germany and the United
States, and was pleased to receive such a
conspicuous American citizen as Mr..
Runyon.' Afterward the Emperor and
Mr.. Runyon conversed privately on
American topics for fifteen minutes.
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Suicide of n san franciscan.

PHILADELPHIA, June 4.-John Nc
Quad, aged % years, who came here from
San Francisco in December last, blew ont
his brains at the home of his sister to-
day, He had been breeding over the
death Of his wife and the disappearance
Of his son. In the dead mans trunk was
found s. 900 in cash.
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A Banker Suicides.

CHICAGO, June 4..-The impression is
growing that the man who committed
suicide by jumping into the lake from
Lake View Friday was Herman Schaff-
ner, the missing banker. The principal
reason for this belief is that hat found
in the boat was identified as one worn by
Schaffner previous to his sudden disap-
pearance.
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day with ten hours pay. The men sub
mitted their demands two weeks ago, and
yesterday received refusal. The men
held a mass meeting to-day and decided
to walk out tomorrow unless the COM
pany gives in.
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international Rifle Shoot.

CHICAGO, June 4.-The International
Columbian Prize Shooting Contest began
this afternoon. The firing to-day was at
the 200-yard range. f. Toggenberger of
Chicago won the gold medal, scoring the
greatest number of bulPs-eyes and points.
The contest is to continue each Sunday
and Monday till September
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shake-up in the Kansas City Post
Friend of LaborIng Men Dead.

LONDON, June 4.-George Potter died
to-day. In all notable movements of or
gained labor in England during the last
thirty years he had been more or less
conspicuous for sympathy or co-opera-
ton with the working people. He wrote
much for the current periodicals on sub
jects related to social reform.
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Amount OF Plate and Moner stoler

AMOUNT OF Plate and Money Stolen.
ST. PETERSBURG, June At trans
pired yesterday that while the Gar was
in Moscow recently the church of the
Chudov Monastery, within kremlin, was
plundered of vast amount of plate and
money. The plate had just been used in
the ceremonies attendant upon the re-
ception of the Gar, and had not yet been
returned to the vaults, where it was
usually kept. The total loss is estimated
at between 2,500,000 and 100000 rubles.
The burglars are supposed to have
entered the monastery through the roof
They are believed to have been coached
previously by some of the priests. No
arrests have been made.
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New York, June 1.-The Columbus
caravels will start tomorrow on their
long journey up the coast to the mouth OF
the St. Lawrence River, through the
lakes to Chicago.
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Died from a Criminal Operation,

CHAUTAUQUA N. ", June Am
other account is given of the death of
Mrs. Cotton and the suicide of DR.. Elder
kin yesterday. 1t is to the effect that the
woman died while undergoing criminal
operation at the hands of DR.. Elderkin,
leave families
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Edward c. Potter. the sculptor, has
bought fine bay horse at Springfield,
Mass, for $500, which he viii use as a
model i'll his design for the equestrian
monument of General Grant to be erected
in Paramount Park, Philadelphia.
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WATERY GRAVES.
Man and His Wife Drowned in
Canal Near Bakersfield.
FOUR LITTLE CHILDREN LEFT AS
ORPHANS.

The Los Angeles Baseball Team Twice
Defeats the san Franciscos, Pugilist
Corbett Umpiring One of the Games
= British Columbia yyorlxIuomau
Protest Against the Naturalization
of Japs and Chinese,
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A TEXAS CYCLONE.
Wind UnrOOfs and Wrecks Many
Residences and 0uthouSes.
FOUR PERSONS KILLED AND MANY
OTHERS INJURED.

Five People Burned to Death In a
Tenement-House Fire at New York
- Two Men Killed, Thirteen Per-
sons Injured and Number of
Houses Damaged by the Explosion
of Carload of Powder at kim,
RHEIMS h Prussia.
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Ten ReyolutIonists killed.

MADRID, June 1.-The company of rev.
olutionists who made demonstrations
near Puente la Reina, Navarro, on Fri
day, were dispersed by the military. Ten
revolutionists were killed and two others
wounded severely.
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An old coin has been unearthed at
Moore's Hill, Ind. The find is said to
bear on its face the medallion oftwo heads.
encircled by the words, william ct
Maria, Del Gracia." Upon the opposite
MIA Rex ct Regina, 94.'5 The piece was
coined in 1904, in the reign OF William
and Mary.
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Death OF a Ne wspaper Man.

ROCHESTER IN. y, June 4.-Horatio
Peters, one of the principal stockholders
in the New York Clipper, died at his
home in this city this evening.
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An Old Clifton OF Shasta Passes Away.

SHASTA, June Judge Henry Jones,
well-known and respected citizen of
this county, died here yesterday at the
age Of nearly IS years. He was one Of
the early pioneers Of California, having
located at Lower Springs, this county, in
1910
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The President Keturns to Washington
California sheep Boycotted.

ST. PAUL (N1inn.), June A Pioneer
Press special from Helena, Mont, says:
No sheep can be imported into this State
from Oregon, California, Nevada, Wash
ington, Wyoming, Idaho, Ctah, Colorado
or New Mexico, except upon certificate
of the State Veterinarian that the sheep
have been inspected and found free of
any infectious or contagious disease.
Such is the purport of proclamation just
issued by Governor Richards.
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FRIGHTFUL DISASTER.
Fire Breaks Out in a Coal Mine
Near Eagle Pass, Texas.
TWENTY SIX MEN IMPRISONED Be
MEATH THE GROUND.

Theodore Runyon, the New American
Minister to Germany, Presented to
Emperor WIlliam-A Citizen of Los
Angeles Run Over and Killed by a
Heavy Truck While Crossing a
Street at Chicago.
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Stole a Countess, Jewels.

VIENNA, June A Belgian named
Fuller, who was arrested in Olmuetz last
night, has confessed that he helped to
steal the jewels of the Countess of
Flanders last February. His confession
duplicates London aristocrat and sew
eral of the Countess servants. Fuller
also told where the treasure was hidden.
The stolen jewels are valued at 1000, 900
francs. They were stolen from the pal
ace while the Count and Countess of
Flanders were attending court ball.
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Cholera Spreading in France.

MADRID, June 4.-Despite denials of
the French local authorities, the Spanish
Consuls in France continue to report the
spread of the cholera epidemic at several
ports. -Four fresh cases, they say, devel-
oped yesterday in Marseilles, two in Cette
and one case in Toulouse. Between May
I'D and June LIST there were fourteen cases
and eleven deaths in Marseilles.
Shake-up in the Kansas City Postoffice.
KANSAS CITY, June 4. -Government
officials arrived here last week, and have
been pushing the investigation into the
affairs Of the postoffice daily, since which
eight postotfice clerks and five carriers
have aIreadysbeen discharged for dupli-
eating and hypothecaLing their salaries
with money-lenders, and other dis
charges are expected to follow.
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venezueIa,s Now Constitution.

CARACAS, June 1.-THE Constitutional
Assembly has completed draft of the
new Constitution for Venezuela 1t au-
thorizes General Crespo to continue at
the head of the Provisional Government
until the Presidential election is held in
the coming autumn to fill the unexpired
term, and also declares him eligible, if
elected then, to serve the succeeding con-
stitutiOnal term of four years.
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sudden Death at a Marriage $,

Suduen Death at Marriage Service.
New YORK, June 4-Henry Vedder of
Jersey City, while in attendance upon
the marriage of his niece last night,
dropped to the floor dead. Vedder was
in the Southern navy during the Civil
war and was on board the Alabama in
her encounter with the Kearsarge The
Coroner viewed the body to-day and de-
cided that death was caused by heart
disease.
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BURNED TO A CRISP.
Five Lives Lost in New York Tene-
ment-HOuSe Fire.

Five Lives Lost In New York Tene-
ment- House Fire.
New YORK, June Five people were
burned to death at midnight last night in
tive-story tenement. They were Will
liam Bente and wife, Effie Bente, a sister,
Wetmore Bief and man named Pugsley.
who was boarder with the Bente family.
The fire started in the third fiat, which
was untenanted, and ran up the air shaft,
bursting into and spreading over the top
floor. Every inmate of the house was
wrapped in slumber, from which they
were aroused by sitting smoke and
threatening flames, which by this time
had gained considerable Roadway.
The terror-stricken occupants rushed
hither and thither through the halls, clad
only in their night clothing. seeking es-
cape from death. There were many hair
breadths escapes.
The tiremen tried to get upstairs, but
found the passage blocked by wall of
smoke and flames, and at the same time
persons appeared at the windows of the
fourth floor. The floor was occupied by
Mr. Bjorkell, Dane and his family, and
their shrieks for help and frenzied gestic-
ulations served to increase the horror.
Scaling ladders were hastily run up
against the blazing building, and in a
trice the nimble firemen were at the work
of rescue, and the whole family were
borne in safety to the street.
With sponges saturated with water in
their mouths to shut out the sitting
smoke the tiremen pushed their way
through to the front room of the top fiat,
and there in heap, as if they were hud-
died together in despair, were found five
those of the Bente family and Pugsley.
The pecuniary loss is not known to-
night.
BURNED IN THEIR BEDS.
New YORK. June 4. - Lying in the
undertaking establishment in East
Twenty eighth street are five blackened
and burned bodies Of the persons who
persisted in the fire last night in the flat
house at 1856 East Forty-third street.
Four of the persons who were killed, the
investigation showed, were burned in
their beds. 1t is generally believed the
fire was caused by hot ashes which were
sent down the dump. 1t was not long
after the streams of water began to play
on the flames before there was loud ex-
plosion from the Bente flat, where most
of the fire was. Until after the fire was
extinguished it was thought no one had
persisted. Then the firemen searched
through the place and found five bodies.
The loss by fire was about s., ZOO.
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CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT.
Wide Scope of the Recent Supreme
Court Decision.
INTERESTING COMPLICATIONS MAY
FOLLOW.

Gold in the Treasury Lower Than 1t
Has Been Since the First of Janu-
airy, 1879, the Reserve Fund Now
Being Below Ninety Millions of
Dollars-A New Issue of Bonds
Likely TO Be the Result.
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Mrs. Blaine sails For Europe.

NEW YORK, June Mrs. James G.
Blaine and Miss Blaine sailed yesterday
morning on the Paris for Southampton.
Accompanying them were Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Damrosch, child and nurse; Miss
Loring Blame and Connor Coppinger,
Mrs. Blaine's grandchildren, and nurse.
Don Cameron and wife and two daughters
were also of the party. Among the other
passengers of the Paris were Thomas A.
Bayard, ambassador from the United
States to Great Britain, and his wife; Mr..
and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie and Mrs. J.
w. Mackay and her son Clarence.