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September.
Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
LONDON, April 27.-The Pail 1fdU Ga
zette contains sensational article under
big headlines declaring an attempt was
made to shoot Gladstone at midnight last
night as he was walking through st.
James Park on his way home. Many in
quiries were received from various parts
OF the country as to the accuracy of the
report. Its truthfulness is not thorough
ly credited. A man is now under arrest
on the charge of firing a revolver in
public thoroughfare. When arrested he
was found to have in a pocket book con-
tanning entries detailing the recent move
ments of Gladstone. His object is un-
known. Gladstone was going home from
dinner party when the revolver was
fired, but he saw nothing of the occur
renee. When the shooter was arraigned
in the Police Court this morning the
testimony elected seemed to indicate that
he tried to shoot a policeman. His note
book contained mass of rawlings against
the Irish home rule and a suggestion that
the murder of Gladstone would be iusti-
fable.
-NOth tAlc ludG
Gladstone is in no danger of being shot,
and that no Importance is attached to the
affair, there is growing suspicion that
Gladstone was nearer imminent danger
than his friends are willing to admit.
The man under arrest is named Will
lam Townsend, 50 years old, resident of
Sheffield.
The officer who arrested him saw him
mount the steps of Gladstone's residence
shortly after Gladstone entered When
the policeman ordered him to descend he
fired at him, and desperately resisted ar
rest.
Tounsend says the discharge of the re-
volver was accidental.
Following is from his notebook: "The
Irish home rule bill passed its second
reading by full majority, including
Saunderson. Talking does not convert.
Now is the time for action. 1 might will
fully murder you. Would nothing of the
kind be justified? Now to prove it. What
says Sir Henry James? See Gladstone's
speech last night. What says Saunder-
SOM"
The magistrate instructed the jailer to
guard the prisoner with the utmost care.
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THE GOLD SITUATION.
1t Apparently Grows Easier as Eac
Day Passes.

1t Apparently Grows Easier as Each
Day Passes.
WASHINGTON, April 27.-The gold stu
alton apparently grows easier each day.
and the furry the pasL week has entirely
subsidized. The New York bankers called
for definite statement from the Admin
istration, on the ground that it would set
tie the atmosphere, and the statement of
President Cleveland seems to have had
that effect. The position which the New
York bankers occupy is being severely
criticised. The evident desire of the
South and West to assist the Treasury is
contrasted with the position of
New York, which can Immediately
relieve the Government, but re-
fuses TO do so unless on terms
advantageous to its own pocket-b book.
The outcome of the visit of Carlisle to
New York is awaited with considerable
interest. At the Treasury Department
to-day everything was unusually quiet
Small offers of gold continue to be made
and accepted.
NO BONDS TO BE ISSUED.
NEW YORK, April 27.-When Secretary
Carlisle landed with the Presidential
party this afternoon, he was driven to the
home of President Geo. C. Williams of
the Chemical Bank, and Chairman of the
Clearing house Association, where the
bank Presidents of the city were wait
ing to greet him and discuss
the financial situation. After in
Productions and cordial greetings.
the Secretary said the issue of
bonds at this time might be an effective
remedy, but it would only be temporary.
and would be followed by disturbances
in the money market and in the end re-
tsrd the determination of the Admins
tration to repeal the Sherman Silver law.
The Secretary said positively that there
would be no bond issue except as last
resort.
The Secretary went over the currency
laws of the country and said thew we're
in bad shape and needed revision. He
said the revision should start with the
Sherman law, There is determination
also to show the miners of silver the evil
effects of the Sherman law on their for
tunes. Missionary work in that direc-
ton was started by number of bankers
in the solid communities of the East and
Middle States.
The bank Presidents, replying to Sec
retary Carlisle, cordially informed him
that they would be ready at all times to
cooperate with him in the successful
administration of the financial policy of
the Government
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A Novel Accusation.

The novel charge of stealing a house
and the furniture it contained. together
with sheep corral, load of hay and
other sundries, and carting the whole
business away, was preferred against
man in Walla Walla, Wash, the other
day. He was formerly resident of that
town, and a year ago he took up ranch
adjoining sheep farm in Yakima
County. The owner of the farm alleges
that during the absence of his men the
accused tore down the house and the
sheep corral and removed them, together
with the household furniture, ton of
hay and other things, to his farm, on
which he rebuilt the house, putting the
furniture into it. The accused says it is
plot to get him out OF the country, the
sheepmen wanting the water on his farm.
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RIoTING IN TURKEY.
Sanguinary Conflict Between Turks
and Armenians.

sanguinary Conflict Between Turks
and Armenians.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, April 27.-More con-
fiicts are reported between the Turks and
Armenians. While an Armenian funeral
procession was on its way through the
streets of Kaisareey-Eh, mob of Mus
sulmen began throwing stones at the pro-
cession. The mourners deposited the
coffin in the roadway and proceeded to
attack the..Mussulmans who were assail-
ing them. The fight between the Turks
and Armenians was long and sanguinary,
and only terminated by the interference
of the Turkish military, who dispersed
the combatants. Five Armenians and
many Turks were wounded in the en-
counter.
At Seevas, Asiatic Turkey, serious riot
ing also occurred, the trouble having
been engendered by ceremonies attend
ing the celebration of Easter. In the
fighting between the Armenian Chris
tians and the Turks several persons were
killed and a number injured.
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ormidable vessels in the world were

formidable vessels in the world were
there.
The quaintest part of the days pro-
ceedings was that of the post of honor at
the head of the review, which was given
to the Columbus caravals, which with in
finite care had been towed from Cadiz to
Cuba by United States war vessel and
from Cuba to Hampton Roads and New
York by Spanish war-ships. These
pigmy boats were anchored opposite
Ninety-third street, and formed practi-
cally the turning-point of the review.
The contrast of four centuries of naval
development could not have been more
strongly and picturesquely marked.
The line of vessels reviewed was over
three miles in length, stretching in two
columns from Twenty-third street to
Ninety-ffth.
An incident of the parade happened as
the reviewing ships were passing up the
river. Just as the Monmouth was abreast
OF the Brazilian cruiser Republica, the
concussion from the discharge of one of
her guns broke nearly every. piece of
glass in the windows of the Monmouth's s
starboard side. Fortunately no one was
injured, and beyond momentary scare
nothing happened.
ELECTRICAL SEARCHLIGHT DISPLAY.
NEW YORK, April 27.-Inky darkness
yeiled the Columbian fleet at o'clock to-
night, and not a sound was heard by the
landsmen from the anchored battle ships.
Suddenly ray of light shot upward from
the Philadelphia. 1t was long and daz-
zling, and seemed to pierce the sky. For
moment it remained stationary, and
then disappeared. This was the signal
for the scheduled display of the electrical
searchlights with which the war vessels
are provided. Quickly following the
Philadelphia's lead the Americans
showed the many ways in which the
lights are used in active warfare.
Following this came another signal,
and simultaneously every light in the
fleet was turned toward the zenith.
Slowly the rays were converged, until
they formed the apex of brilliant silvery
pyramid OF incalculable hight Experts
say it could have been seen seventy-five
miles in any direction. 1t was never
before seen, and never to be forgotten by
land lubbers.
In conclusion the operators gave some
examples of high art in ray project
ing, and described various figures on the
heavens.
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MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE.
Henry Bentley Gets a Life Sentence in
the Penitentiary.

Henry Bentley Gets a Life Sentence in
the Penitentiary.
Los ANGELES, April 27.-After being
out sixty-eight minutes the jury, in the
case of Henry Bentley, charged with
murder in the first degree for the killing
of his wife, Mrs. Nordholt Bentley, by
administering poison (strychnine),
brought in verdict of guilty of mur-
der in the first degree. The jury fixed
his punishment at imprisonment for life
in the State Penitentiary.
The case has been on trial for the past
two weeks, and has been of most absorb
ing interest. Mrs. Nordholt was a
wealthy Spanish woman. Bentley was
poor German with desire, according to
the evidence, to marry a rich woman.
The marriage of Bentley and Mrs Nord-
holt was much opposed by the sons of
the woman. A few days after Mrs.
Nordholt died, and the sons caused her
body to be exhumed and an examina-
ton to be made. Strychnine was found
in large quantities in her stomach.
1t was shown in the trial that Bentley
administered the medicine she took dur
ing her illness. Bentley says the white
crystals he administered were purgative
salts. The prosecution showed that a
bottle was found in Bentley's trunk
afterward containing strychnine. The
evidence was all circumstantial.
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a Pistol.
Special to the RrcoRD-uS1oS.

~
OGDEN (Utah), April 27.-The Califor.
MA river resolution and the San Diego.
Los Angeles and Oakland harbor reso-
lutlons were adopted by the Trans
mississippi Congress to-day, except that
on the National Harbor Commission.
lIhese resolutions appeared in full in
yesterdays RECORD UNIoN.1
The delegates from Yole, Sutter. Cblusa
and 1uba Counties filed protest against
the hydraulic mining resolutions.
The congress adopted many resolu-
tions-one to admit to the Union Arizona
and New Mexico. On the resolution to
admit to the Union Utah there was a hot
tight and an intensely dramatic scene for
hours. There was one of the most brill
lant and intense debates for Utah admis-
sion by Colonel Irish of California, Frank
cannon (son OF George @. Cannon, the
great Mormon leader, Mr.. Richards, Mr..
Evans, Governor Thomas of Utah and
others. Against admission were arrayed
Mayor Baskin of Salt Lake. Judge c. C.
Goodwin and others. 1t opened up the
Whole Mormon question, polygamy and
the bitterness between the Liberals and
Mormons.
Irish held that a refusal to admit was
religious persecution, and that persecu-
ton never abated an evil; that four -fifths
of the people of Utah demand admission,
and ought to be recognized as American
ireemen fully; that polygamy never
could be revived, because the people of
the Nation would amend the Constitution
if it were tried
The whole range of the Mormon ques-
ton, morals and divine revelation, were
gone over, amidst intense excitement. A
large class of delegates fought to table
the resolution. The admissionists claim
that it would be condemnation of them,
and wrong; that polygamy was as dead
as Is slavery, and that the young men of
Utah, now to the 'front.' were never polyg-
amists.
Patterson of Colorado elouuently
poured oil OF the waters, by declaring
that the debate served the highest pur-
pose, having given the delegates infor-
nation of, and higher and better esti-
mate of the Mormons and Gentiles and
their character than was ever before en-
tertained. After a brilliant tribute to
both he declared in favor of admission,
and again the excitement was painfully
deep, but without particle of disorder.
On roll-call of States, made under the
greatest uproar, California voted fifteen
and a half for admission and fourteen
and a half against. The resolution was
adopted by large majority, the vote
standing 162 to II.
The silver resolution was passed by
vote of go for free coinage to 40 against,
the opposition coming largely from Cali
fornia and Missouri.
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BLoODHoRsE RACES.
Winners of Yesterdays Events at tn
BaY District Races

Winners of Yesterdays Events at the
Bay District Races.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 27.-The card
this afternoon was fairly good one, and
notable mainly for the fact that two or
three of the horses that are expected to
start in the Pacific Derby next Saturday
sported silk in the different events. The
attendance, as usual. was good.
Five-eighths of mile, Seaside won,
Rosalie second, Relampago third. Time,
1;O31.
Five-eighths of mile, Tigress won,
Motto second, Quarterstaff third. Time,
1:2S4.
One and one-eighth miles, Cadmus
won, Hermitage second, Rector third.
Time, 1:561.
One and one-eighth miles, ST. Croix
won, Martinez second, Little Esperanza
third. Time, 1862.
Five and one-half furlongs, Lodi won,
but was disqualified for foul, and the
race given to Morton, Ida Glen second,
Mt. Carlos third. Time, l:09!.
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AssEMBLYMAN LARUE DEAD.
He Passes Away at stockton After a
Short Illness.

STOCKTON, April 21-John NJ. LaRue,
Assemblyman from the Stockton Dis
trict in the last Legislature. died at his
home in this city tonight, after an illness
of five days. He was attacked by cry
sipelas last Sunday, which soon settled in
his brain, and he had laid unconscious
for several days, slowly dying. He was
prominent member of the Masons and
Workmen, and was well and favorably
known by horsemen throughout the
State, having held the position of Secre-
tary of the San Joaquin Valley Agricult-
ural Society for many years. He leaves
wife and three children.
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when he arrived half an hour before mid
night, but was met at the entrance by AN
escort of honor. At his appearance the
bands played Hail to the Chief" the
only piece played in honor of any guest,
and Mayor Gilroy ad sanced to meet him.
After formal reception the President
and party was escorted to his box.
The programme of dances was very
simple one. There were no distinctive
figure dances during the evening.
The buffet supper for invited guests
was served in the concert hall.
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GOUNOD.
Some Interesting Facts About the Great
Composer and His Work.


Composer and His Work.
Charles Gounod, the great composer, is
a white-haired, stoop-shouldered man.
with smiling blue eyes and a full beard
OF old gold copiously streaked with gray,
and is much addicted to sealskin cap
and huge fur collar. He is somewhat
given to posing on occasions, and there is
just the slightest suspicion of atfectation
in his manner, which is profoundly sym-
pathetic, but this dissolves on acquaint-
ance, and he has a horror of anything
cold or stiff. He is fond of sandwiching
his talk with poetic metaphors, and is
altogether of an intensely religious and
sentimental turn of mind. He is now
four and seventy, and lives, like Verdi,
in complete seclusion save when compos-
ing some opera or oratorio, when
he hurries to the privacy of an
old cathedral town and hires
lodging in its very quietest cor
ner, subsequently obtaining from the
cure an order to work in the Cathedral,
which permission is never refused, so
that it is quite a common thing in the
churches of Amiens or Rouen to see him
seated in the center of the choir, flourish
ing his arms, or else pacing to and fro, oc-
casionally penning notes in frantic haste.
Few composers who have risen to emf
nance have had more failures at the out
set of their career than the author of
Faust" 1t is now four and thirty years
since this most successful of modern
operas took the musical world by storm
and placed Gounod at the head of operatic
composers. This success was more re-
markable seeing that though Goethe's
masterpiece had been previously set to
music almost hundred times, not one of
these efforts was considered worthy ofthe
theme.-Lippincotts
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Lookin. for His Fnther.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 27.-John Fos-
ter of Capay, Yolo County, is in the city
looking for his father, George Foster,
aged 50, who started from Pittsfeld, ILL.,,
April 10th, to join his son in California.
The old gentleman was in the company
of family named Collins, bound for
Pasadena. They wrote John Foster that
they had lost trace Of his father at Salt
Lake. Foul play is feared.
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BLEW HIS BRAINS our.

A Wealthy Citizen of San Bernardino
County Commits Suicide.
SAN BERNARDINo. April CIV. J.
Norris, wealthy citizen of East High
land, living about ten miles from this
city, committed suicide last evening by
shooting himself with revolver. The
bullet penetrated his brain just above the
right ear, carrying away large part of
the skull and scattering the brains about
his bedroom, in which the act was COM
mitted. The deceased was 81 years old,
and had been in low spirits, superin-
duced by poor financial investments.
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AN EXTRA SESSION.
Cleveland VIII Call Congress Together
Early in SeDtember

Early In september.
WASHINGTON, April 27.-Before leav-
ing Washington President Cleveland
practically set at rest the rumors that he
would call an extra session of Congress
to consider the financial situation. Dur
ing conversation with Cleveland Repre-
sentative Kilgore inquired regarding the
intentions of the President as to az extra
session. Kilgore explained that he wished
to bring his family to this city before
the opening of the session, and for this
reason was anxious to learn what would
probably be done. in order that he could
make his plans accordingly. In effect
the reply of the President was that he
would not call an extra session until
September, unless unforeseen circum-
stances which are not now anticipated
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Defaulter Royce,

SAN FRANCISCO, April 27.-The Board
of Directors of the Veterans Home AS
sociation, at meeting tonight, passed a
resolution calling Chief Crowley's atten-
tion to the fact that ex-Treasurer Royce
is defaulter, and suggesting that
action be taken in accordance with the
facts. This is practically calling on the
Chief to arrest Royce. and it will prob
ably be done.
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Renegade Kid Kills Another Man.

PHOENIX, April 27.-A special to the
Republican from Bisbee, this evening,
announces that Kid, the renegade Apache,
killed Jake Bowman, a Deputy Sheriff
of Cochise County, in the Guadalupe Can
yon. Bowman was well-known through
out Arizona as one of the most efficient
officers in the Territory.
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WHOLE NO. 16,O79.
COMMERCIAL CONFERENCE.
The California River and HarbOr
Resolutions Adopted.
HOT FIGHT OVER THE QUESTION OF
UTAH STATEHOOD.

Inc congress, After q Heated Debate,
Sustains the Admissionists by a
Large Majority-Free Coinage Ad-
yocates Secure the Passage of Their
SILVER ResolutioA-A Wealthy Resi-
cent of East Highland, San Rernar-
dino County, Commits Suicide With
q Pistol.
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The Epworth League.

SANTA Rosa, April 27.-There was a
spirited contest in the State Convention
of the Epworth League to-day over the
place of holding the next annual conven-
tion. The places which wanted it were
Willows, Los Angeles, Fresno, Ukiah
and Selma. Fresno was selected, and
the convention adjourned.
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A sheepherder Shot and Killed

Los BANos, April 27.-Thomas Langan,
shipman near Panoche. shot and killed
Antonio Campiglio, an Italian herder.
this afternoon. The killing was done in
self-defense, and Langan surrendered to
the officers
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A CASE OF SUICIDE.
McMullin's Death Due to Poison Adj
nlinIstered by Himself.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 27.-The death of
James McMullin, the dry goods mer-
chant, in a lodging-house, from poison
doubt the result of a deliberate attempt at
suicide. II ttranspires that McMullin was
gambler and an inebriate. Last Novem-
ber he made an attempt a. suicide by
turning on six gas jets in his room, but
was discovered. At another time he
broached to friend proposition to burn
his store for the insusance. A Coroner's
inquest will be held tomorrow.
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The correct thing now is to seal ones
letters with redisealing wax if you will.
but preferably blue, green or cinnamon.
colored. and seal with your crest or coat
of arms if you choose, but more correctly
still with emblems. such as the good old
sentimental ones our grandmothers loved:
Forget Me Not,p True Friendship. y
"With My Hand and Sele."
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THE NAVAL REVIEW.
One of the Grandest Spectacles
Ever Witnessed in the World.
LINE OF VESSELS OVER THREE
MILES IN LENGTH

Downpour of Rain-The Post of
Honor Given to the Columbus Cara
vels-The Dolphin, With President
Cleveland Aboard, Received With
Thunderous Tones of Cannon as
She Passed Through the Columns
A Grand Ball Terminates the Not
able Event.
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In regard to the decision of Vermont
Judge that when a maiden discards her
lover she must return the engagement
ring he has given her, 1t is recalled that
the ruling of an English court is that an
engagement ring is not recoverable in
any circumstances.
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Insane Through Despair.

LONDON, April 27.-The wife of Captain
Roberts, of the White Star steamship Ma
ronic, which has been missing since
February llth, when the vessel sailed
from Liverpool for New York, and the
wife of Chief Officer Wright, second in
command, have gone insane through
despair caused by the loss of their hus-
bands, and both have been placed in an
asylum.
Emperor William and King Humbert.
ROME, April 27.-The German Emperor
and Empress and the King and Queen of
Italy, the royal princes and others in at
tendance upon their majesties, started to-
day for Naples. The streets, windows
and house tops were thronged with peo-
pie. The enthusiasm was great.
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The silver mine at Przibram, in Bohes
mia, is more than j, 300 feet deep, and the
temperature at that great depth was
found to be about 760 Fahrenheit, little
lower than the temperature at the sur
face.
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GLADSTONE'S PERIL.
An Attempt Made to Assassinate
Great Britain'S Premier.
SHOT AT WHILE RETURNING FROM
A DINNER PARTY.

The Gold Situation Growing Easier
Each Day-The Position Which the
New York Bankers Occupy Being
Severely Critfcised-The President
Sets at Rest the Extra Session Ru-
mors by Announcing That He VIII
Call Congress Together Early in
September.
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Jewish Emancipation BI11.

VIENNA, April 27.-The Hungarian
Minister of Public Worship has intro
duced Jewish emancipation bill in the
Hungarian Reichstag. The measure is
conceived in the most liberal spirit. 1t
declares the Israelite religion shall be
legally recognized; that existing facilities
for Christianizing the Jews be abolished
without conditions, and that the CONVEX
sion of Christians:to Judaism, which has
hitherto been impossible in Hungary,
shall be legally sanctioned.
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made such course necessary. He stated
that call would be made for the assem-
bling of Congress between the 1st and
18th of September.
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Mrs. Cleveland Taken Ill.

New YORK, April 27.-Mrs. Cleveland
left suddenly for Washington this after
noon. She was taken i'll on the Dolphin
while the Presidential boat was making
the reviewing tour. AS soon as the Dol
phin anchored at Ninty-sixth street, Mrs.
Cleveland, Postmaster General Bissell
and Mrs. Bissell and Secretary Thurber
were taken ashore and driven to the Vic
toria Hotel. She is not seriously i'll, but
it was deemed best to go back to Wash
ington.
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Dissension in Alexander,s Cabinet.

LONDON, April 27.-A private dispatch
from Belgrade states that dissension pre-
walls in the new Cabinet of King Alex
ander, formed under his direction after
the coup PetGt of two weeks ago. The
King, it is stated, has declined to accept
the resignation of Franassovics, Minister
of War, and Djurecs, exMinister of War,
has gone on a confidential mission to
Queen Natalie