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The herald., 1894-09-07
A TERRIBLE WEAPON,
Tho Mannlichor Rifles Wondsrful Pen
curative Qualities.


Tho Mannlichor Rifles wonderfui Pen.
curative Qualities.
A very interesting test OF the strength
of the new German government rife,
the Msnnlioher, WAS made yesterday
afternoon at East Los Angeles by Osp-
tain Dick Falkenbsrg, who is something
OF a rife expert.
Mr.. Alderman, the representative oil
the Buffalo Brewing company, whose
headquarters are ct Sacramento, has
had the gun sent to him from Gsrmsny,
at a cost of nearly 800. His purpose
was merely to satisfy himself OF its su-
perior strength.
The statement has been made that
this rife would send bullet through
the bodies of 10 men in a row and then
through an Is inch piece of green oak.
Captain Dick doubted the assertion; so
yesterday he agreed to make q test. A
quarter-inch thick piece of sheet iron
was procured and also q fve-sighths-
inch piece Of steel plate of the very
finest spring steel. These were set up
as q target.
man, who is an expert rifle shot him
in the 58-inch steel plate. and came
within one-eighth of an inca of going
through, causing bump on the back of
the plate and cutting hole about one
inch in diameter, or twice the size OF
the bullet itself.
The second shot fred by Captain Dick
at the z-inch iron target plowsd
through the iron like it might have
done through piece of paper, and dis
appeared in the ground beyond.
A shot fired at tree two feet in thick
ness went through clean and slick, go
that ramrod could bs passed through
the hole after it. This was all at dis
lance of 60 yards.
Finally Captain Dick placed the iron
plate in front OF the steel plate, and the
steel bullet cut q clean hole through the
iron plate, and though it struck tho
steel plate edgewise, buried itself three
eighths of an inch in the solid steel.
The cartridge is almost three inohea
long, and the bullet ! = inches, pro-
truding from the shell nearly l I inches.
The shell contains 35 grains oil smoke
less powder, which ia not tightly
packed, but only fills the major part
of it.
The plates used in the tests yesterday
and the rife itself can be seen today at
Schetterbeck's window, on Main street.
The rife holds magazine Of six cart
ridges, and looks like an old muakst,
but the real barrel 10 inessed in q light
outer tube, and the space between IL
filled with asbestos.
Captain Dick gays it is the best rife
he has ever handled. which is saying
considerable, for he has used nearly eli
the European makes and all Of the
American. The captain says the Ger
mans may be little Glow, and the Ger
man emperor somewhat peculiar, bat
when they take held of anything for
warfare it ia the most practical and best
to be had.
The herald., 1894-09-07
WILL SOON BE DEAD.

Joss Ledssma. tho Burglar, IL Slowly
Dying.
Jose Ledesma's days are numbered.
He is the Mexican burglar whona Annie
Gull of 654 South Main street found
providing around her window, and in
Whose head she put bullet. The sur
geons have given up all hope OF saving
his life, and he will ere long be dead.
He seems to suffer great pain, and 10 be.
coming SO weak that he may die OF any
moment. He has half bullet in his
head which the surgeons cannot find,
and which will eventually cause bic
death. There is hole in Ledesma's
skull into which Q hens egg could
easily DO showed, caused by the removal
Of fractured bone where the bullet en-
tered.
The herald., 1894-09-07

at the N. E. church. illustrated by stere-
opticon views.
Mr.. Francis Warde has left for Nor
walk to accept petition in the grocery
Of Dtlley & Son.
A good game of polo was played on
Wednesday by the Southern California
Polo club.
Col. A. B. Campbell has returned
from his Ventura visit.
Mr.. ]. 81. Sullivan is out again.
The herald., 1894-09-07

Senator Caffrey of Louisiana has an
'ism-he will not shake hands. He
thinks it ia senselees thing and refuses
to practice it. When q stranger IL intro
duced to Caffrey he, OF course. stretchss
out his hand in greeting, but the Louisi-
ana pays no attention to ID and the man
has to draw it back. For years he has
observed this custom and maintains it
even in the senate, the paradise Of
handwriting.
The herald., 1894-09-07

Ecxert Hopf are now ready to cater to the
public at their old pavilion and their new res
taurant in the North Beach bath house.
Santa Monica Fish Market. Fresh fish and
shell ilsh OF all kinds delivered free. Third
The herald., 1894-09-07

Mosher's eon-inlsw, p. w. Walker.
had lust moved his household goode,
was entered and his trunks ritied OF $4o
worth OF the same kind of property.
The herald., 1894-09-07

DR.. Kelley of Dwight has just given a
marble frp of Chicago an order for 800
busts of himself. His business ordinari-
ly, however, is destroying busts.
The herald., 1894-09-07

Some people make trouble, some give trouble
others borrow trouble. but Old Dominion Cigar
rettes simply give delight. You need not bor-
row knife-you can get one.
The herald., 1894-09-07

$50 envelopes o0c tsr writing paper, Csc.
Ala VI. Second. Hoilenbeck hotel
The herald., 1894-09-07

USE eERmAs FAMlIs SOAR.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-07
HOLLANDS TRAMPS.
Instead of Herding Them Together the
GENTRY Are Scattered Over Farms.

Instead of Herding Them Together the
Gentry Are Scattered Over Farms.
The growth of the tramp industry in
this country and the consequently in
creasing demands made upon the chart
ty of our large cities forces to the front
the question of pauperism. What shall
the country do with those who want
work and cannot get it, and with
those who might get it and won't do
it? These questions seem to be handled
more successfully in Holland than in
any other country of the civilized
world. In most other countries these
people are herded together in vast
pOorhOuses or fed in common soup
kitchens, but the Holland idea is to
scatter them as widelyas possible and to
make all who are able to do it earn
their own living.
The state has a tract of land contain
ing about five thousand acres divided
into six farms, and every person apply
ing for relief is sent to one of these. If
he be willing to work and voluntarily
serves until he has gained some idea of
agriculture he is allowed to rent q
small farm for himself and to be what
is called a free farmer" This is q
very practical method of dealing with
the veXed problem, and one that is
especially adapted to this country.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-07
INDIANS DIE IN PRISON.
Apaches Yield to Consumption In COnfine-
ment at Yuma


1t is remarkab bic fact, though one
easily accounted for, that imprison-
ment at Yuma for any term of not less
than five years of an Apache or any
mountain Indian is equivalent to i'm
prisonment for life, and the cause of
death is invariably consumption.
This is disease, says an Arizona ex-
change, almost unknown among the
Apaches under normal conditions Of
climate and habit. The change. how
ever, from the high attitudes of the
mountains and the bracing mountain
air to the lower level of Yuma, with its
more than semi-tropical heat, wears
away what mountain storms and ex-
posure cannot even indent.
On March % Of this year Say-es, q
Tonic Apache, died at Yuma. He was
a member of the Kids band, and was
one of the murdeTers of Sheriff Rev-
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-07
A DUCK HUNTERS RESORT.
The Odd Business Methods of Southern
StOrckePpCr.

Duck night at Ewell's store. down on
the Virginia coast near the North Caro-
lima line, is locally famous in the duck
ing season as the special night in the
week when the storelleeper is at home
TO the duck hunters of the region.
Ewell, saws the New York Sun. buys
ducks of the hunters, paying for the
game in goods from his store, and ship
ping his purchases to an up-coast life
saving station, whence they find their
way to the markets of Baltimore,
Philadelphia and New York. As Ewell
waits behind his counter with a lantern,
the duckers, rude-looking fellows Of
the beach-comber type, drop in one by
one and sit around in the gloom. Ewell
hangs the game in a cold room at the
rear of the store and credits each
QUICKER with the agreed value of his
ducks. As each transaction is made the
QUICKER recalls something that he needs
from the merchants stock. and when
he has received the article the price is
debited against his credit. The QUICKER
then relapses to the nearest barrel or
box and waits until some other needed
article shall occur to his mind. He
then makes the new demand upon the
merchant, has a new debit placed
against his credit, and again sinks back
into the gloom. After fully two hours
of this sort of thing, those who wish
the balance of their credit paid in cash
receive their dues, and everybody eau
tiously repairs to a hollow tree hard by,
where moonshiners from over the North
Carolina line are waiting with a fiery
article of untaXed liquor, and the heart
of the QUICKER is made glad.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-07
COWBOY APPRENTICESHIP.
A Calling That Is Fraught with Much
Mental Anguish.

Mental Anguish
"If young men who have the cowboy
fever had any idea of the apprentice
ship they are likely to serve before
becoming full-fledged cowboys, most of
them would be cured without the eX-
pense of trip thousand miles west"
says Elias Miller, of Hutchinson, Kan,
to the st. Louis Globe-DemOcrat re-
Gently. 1T is nearly twenty years
since | had the fever and went out to
be cured. My first work was watching
the line between Wyoming and Da-
kOta. Line or fence watching is an as
signment frequently given to new
conner, and the duties consist in riding
up and down the line and preventing
cattle from straying over it. Several
men have lost their reason in this
work, and | came very near doing so
myself. All the glory and adventure
we read of in books is absent, and the
solitude is terrible. / could cover my
distance in about two days, and did
nothing else but ride up and down the
line watching for the stray cattle,
which never Strayed my way. Sheep
hcrding is said to be the most terribly
mOnotonous work a man can be put to,
but there are few cowboys in the west
who have not an acute recollection of
the sutferings they endured when do
ing such work as | describe. There are
hundreds of men doing it to-day, but
each of them is looking forward to OBJ
tanning new job with almost the
eagerness of a convict who knows that
his sentence has nearly expired"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-07

nOlus ana MS deputy, who were guaru-
ing them on journey to Yuma. The
murderers, along with the Kid, es-
capped. Say-es alone was afterwards
recaptured, and all the rest of the band
except the Kid have since been killed.
Say-es was sentenced for life from Pinal
county.
Two months before the death of
Say-es DIR. Cotter pronounced his case
hopeless and recommended his pardon
on account of the danger of infection.
The governor decided to grant the
pardon. but vigorous protests came up
from Pinal, Graham and ella counties.
The pardon was not granted, and Say-es
died two months l.+or
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-07
necidcd Convenience.

People walking about in a great city,
temporarily i'll, have often felt the
need of place where they could step
in until refreshed. A shoemaker has
made move in the right direction by
announcing on card in his window:
ANY respectable man, woman or child
oan have a fit in this storsl"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-16
TILE NEWS IN THIS CITY.

MISS RROOKYN'S DEATH MAKES 1T POSSIBLE TO
EXPLAIN =. A. LOvECRAFT's WILL.
The news of Miss Brookyns death reaching
upper Broadway late at night caused "A widespread
sensation among those members of the profession
who were still In the neghborhood. Various causes
were assigned for the suicide. but among those
who were in the best possible position to know the
suicide OF l.. \. Lovecraft generally accepted
as the probable incentive. The attachment between
the two had long been the occasion of comment
and when Mr.. Lovecraft committed suicide those
who were familiar with Miss Brookyn's sentiments
predicted that she would follow him.
The peculiar Will by which Mr.. Lovecraft left the
whole of his property Colonel kearney is now ex-
plained In this way: Mr.. Lovecraft wished to make
provision for Miss Brooklyn, but for reasons well
Understood he designed that the terms OF the be-
quest should not be publicly known IT has been as
serted on the highest authority that the estate WAS
left to Colonel kcarney merely In trust Tor MISS
brooklyn. the colonel being empowered To make
the necessary provision.
well known to the New York public. with whom
she was always popular In the technical parlance
OF the procession she was one OF the pest ieaulns
women In the country: For some years she mas
company. but In all probability her first distinct
metropolitan success was achieved in the season
OF 1899 when she supported the elder
"OthellO" and OF Deah in Samson" won much
praise from the critics and the public On the hrst
tour of f.. = Willard in this country she was one
and her admirable performance Of Miss Jopp. the
professors sister in Judah" added TO her repu-
tatiOn. As a member or the regular stock company
she made decided hit In the part of Mrs. Paige IN
any note was her Mrs. Erlynne in Lady Winder-
meres Fan" In which again she achieved triumph
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-16
SUICIDE or NAY BROOK Wv
SAD DEATH OF A WELL-KNOWN AND
POPULAR ACTRESS.
RpooDrNG OVER THE DEATH OF TREASURER
IovEcRAFT TO WHOM SHE HAD BEEN
FNGAGED-sIE DRINKS CARBoLlC
ACID At HER HOTEL IN
SAN FRANCISCO.
rrr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRiBuyE.)


San Francisco Feb. 15.-Just as members OF
Tho Palmer Company. Of New-York. were gathering
a, tho baldwin Theatre this evening TO play III
d" "Naban,a" news came that May brooklyn the
loading woman who had made so great MT as
Mrs Paige all over the country. had committeu
s,ic,de bv drinking carbolic acid at her rooms IN
tho Tanpham House No could give any rea-
SON for her act but an intimate friend SAID that
she had never been the same woman since the
s,,c,de of dear friend in New-York last year to
whom she thought May engaged. This friend
took carhonc acid and ever since the actress hau
dyoIt moro or less the topic OF suicide She nan
r.,iiod his death recently and had run over all the
',,,,,.rts in favor of the act that she committed
-, ,nighf Her uudcrstudy Jennie tustis, LOON
t,r r,rt this evening. but the audience dldh
learn of the death until after the play was over
rhs dead actress had been received warmly py
san Francisco audiences. She made q hlt III oScdr
,\.rrv mart ahe took she had scored a success. IN
fact she received more praise than any one III 'he
company. :, .,,.o. ., p,i,rer.a
Theatre to whom May Brooklyn was engassI anu M
,rrnse suicide affected her deeply. She left no
letter in her room and it will require search or her
effects to snow any cause. She eNpeclei d @ lvIe-
gram from New York for several days ana IL came
,rs.nr'l1v II seemed TO depress her. but what was
H. nature cannot he learned. one OF her frlends
s,id that II was no doubt. her love for Lovecraft
,vhich Induced the act. She left orders AZ the
Iangham House To b- wakened at O'CLOCK Al
tEat hour sh. was called but as there was no re-
enorsn the proprietor went up and opened the door
and found her lying the floor. with carboc acld
oIzirg from her mouth. She was not dead, but she
died before a doctor could be summoned she lett
a note beqleathi all her effects 10 Buttons.
presumably her maid. whom she LETT IN Ne"-horA'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-16
NINGLED BY THE GORILLAS.
CHICO AND HIS NATE ATTACK THEIR
KEEPER
BITE HIM SEVERELY BEFORE HELP
REACHES HIM

/ Tho gorllas Chico and Johanna made n saw
age attack on their keeper. William Goss. last
evening in their quarters in the Arsenal I'm Cen
/ tral Park Sergeant Milholland. Of the Park Po-
Ice was At the desk in the Arsenal about b
o'clock apd heard more than monkey sounds
coming from the room which Is given mp to the
simians on the floor above him. He sent mp two
Of his men who so'S came back saying that
there was a man in trouble above. The Ser
gcant at once sent up six II his men. two 81
them armed with pitchforks and they rescued
Goss. who told the following tale:
lie had heard Chico calling q he thought for
food and taking bunch ~ bananas In his
hands. walked between the glass partition ana
the iron rails that keep the public from the
| monkey Johanna reached out her arm IA he
passed and grabbed him by the leg. Goss Is an
old hand with animals. and has been an intimate
| friend Of thcsc monkeys since their Portuguese
imporfer wen, away Johannas grab threw
! him to the floor. but he thought II only one OF
her playful pokes. and began to raise himself by
his arms. expecting the next minute to make
! matters soiiar. with her. chico. however, here
! ,n,l hand I'm the game His long, hairy arm
| was thrust through the bars ana EIappihS loss
| hv his ripht arm which was the only on" sup
/ porting him on the ground, he drew MN low
/ ard th. cage. Both monkeys worked IN mar
! uonv and soon the unfortunate Keeper was
! pinioned against the bars 81 the smiahS cage
! hv the strongest monkey arms In America
The man then rcaliz i his danger ana ycl"h
/ for help lie was the only man on the moor
,rbor. these monkeys have their home, but his
| cries were luckily heard by those below ser
! grant Mnholland sent up men not one
| moment too soon 10 rescue IN" man TWO
/ nitchfnrlfs were luckily handy. and these were
/ freely used 10 get the man away from the Spr-
/ ulas and drive the now infuriaied beasts into
/ The far corners of their cage, where they GID
| bcreI with savage rage.
| The man. who was badly bitten In the left leg
/ bv johanna and had all the fingers OF his right
! hand bitten off by chico. was removed to the
/ Presbyterian Hospital
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-16
DIsAFFECTION IN $40 PAULO

pARANA HELD BY THE NsURGENTs-FIGHTING
IN ALAGoAs-MELLO CRUISING OFF SANTOS
Buenos Ayres, Feb. l5--Advices reached here from
Rio Janeiro to-day confirming the report that
General Galvao Assistant Minister or war. had
resigned because of differences between nimsell
and President Pexoto regarding the treatment OF
Insurgents who had been captured by the Govern
ment forces 1t is further said that General Ma
cedo. commanding at Fort Santa Cruz, has been
arrested on suspicion that he was acting as SPY
for the insurgents
The insurgents hold the State of Parana' and
there are signs that dsaffection IS beginning to
snread in the State Of Sac Paulo The authorities
fearing that the garrisons IN the cities OF sac
Paulo and Santos, in the state oi sac l'aulo "Ouid
Join the Insurgents, have withdrawn them ana re-
placed them with other troops Inc uelehceS oi
those places have been increased.
A battle along the boundary line between Parana
and Sac Paulo Is imminent. conflict mas occurred
between the troops and the inhabitants OF Adsoas,
in the State of that name, in the northeaserh part
of Brazil Many Of the citizens were Killed Inc
foreign Journals in Sac Pauo have been SUPPRESSED
The manager of . German newspaper publishel
there has been arrested. The banks are closed ana
husiness generally is al a standstiH. -
Admiral de Mello is reported 10 be cruising on
Santos in the Republica. Dynamite torpedo o-Doa' ;
are protecting the port against an attack: me
population of Santos said to favor SENIOR
Moraes for the Presidency.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-16
SLAIN BY HIS OWN EXPLOSIVE
A YOUNG ANARCHISTS TRAGIC DEATH
AT GREENWICH
BELIEF THAT HE HAD PLANNED TO BLOW UP
THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PAPERS
FOUND ON HIS BODY-A MEMBER
OF AN ACTIVE ANARCHIST
CLUB IN LONDON.

CLUB IN LONDON
London Feb ia loud explosion was heard just
after nightfall by the keepers OF Greenwich Park.
about six miles from London Bridge. \ hasty
search led To the discovery OF man, mutilated
and groaning with pain. the hilltop near the
Observatory His legs were shattered one arm
had been blown from his body and he had been al
most completely disembowelled. As soon he be
came conscious of the keepers presence ne begged
them to help him or kill him He became insensible
within five minutes. and ten minutes after being
carried to the Seamens Hospital he died.
English and French papers found in the man 5
pockets showed that he was Martial Bourdin. a
foreign Anarchist. peculiar powder in package
which ne had carried with him was not recognized
by the police and it has been sent to Government
experts for analysis Bourdin apparently was about
twenty-five years old. His clothes were OF fine
texture and he had nS in gold in his pockets. A
paper found on him indicates that he last came TO
London carly in this month.
A hurried investigation of Bourdin's life in Lon
don goes TO show that he was a member OF a
dangerous Anarchist conspiracy. lie and his Gol
in Cirafton-st., Tottonham Court Road. and there.
ii is supposed. they matched the plot which Honriln
was to help them execute by his contemplated
act in Greenwich. The occupants of this house
have been recently in constant communiGalon
with Anarchists on the Continent; Ein.S hnnry y
who threw the bomb I'm the Gaze Of IN" Hotel
Terminus. has visited them within the last year.
and he is believed to have obtained from then tlc
explosives which he used in his bomb on Monday
night
This afternoon a detective Bourlin and
another lOdger enter the house together and come
out half IN hour later. The unidentified loiger
hurried off alone and Bourdin took a train FOR
Greenwich He carried with him undoubtedly the
eXnlosives which caused his death rourlin's cx-
act intention in making his trip to Greenwich has
not been ascertaned The papers In his pockets
was that he intended to blow up the Observatory.
but was prevented from doing 1t by the premature
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-16

tho me tier Of tho introduction OF evideuce' nut
M this Iolnt Judge Bartlett. in his crisp. manly
and judicis' way. said that it was his purpose
tina, the trial should be conducted In such man
ncr that ~ a verdict were obtained against the
defendant there should BE- no reasonable GROUNDS
for a reversal II the case came before the court
Of Appeals
Too much honor cannot he given 10 Judge
bartlett with respect 20 his conduct OF the case
against McKane. lie has steadily held the
balances So that they should not drop In favor
II the one side or the other: indeed, there has
been real eloquence in the mute display of justice
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-16

Rio Janeiro. Feb. ia launch belonging TO
he limited States cruiser Newark took ashore
rom that vessel on Tuesday night several sail
ors who had been attacked by yellow fever. The
men were taken to the yellow fever hospital, and
the launch returned 10 the Newark. On her way
hack her course took her close to the anchorage
If the merchant fleet Lying among the mer-
.hantmen was the insurgent steamer Marie.
The latter fired three shots at the launch, but
all three went wild, doing no damage
The representative Of the United Press asked
he captain of the Marie yesterday why he had
ired on the American boat. The captain de-
rlared that he did not know that the launch was
American This statement. however, Is not
worthy of belief. the launches belonging 10
ne American warshipS are easily dlsungulshaple
rom those belonging to the other warshlps ana
from the other boats which ply about the hdrbor.
After landing her invalid sailors, the Newark
under orders fror: Rear-Admiral Benham me
commander of the American squadron sailed 10Y
Nontevidec. where she will be dislniected.
IL is the opinion of those who know What Sorl
II a place the bay is during the yellow feVer
,eason that the fleet of warships ought to anchor
off Copacabana, outside the harbor. Ihere Is no
fever at that place. which is easy OF commuhi-
cation from the city.